The worst part about this is that all of the HD compatible televisions peoople bought, the ones that had stickers on them claiming they were HDTV ready, will be obsolete.
They all have component inputs and the new systems will make sure that all connections are DVI( I think that is the acronim ). So people will have a TV cabable of displaying a 1080I RGB signal but all of the decoder boxes will only be allowed to have this DVI connector.
Where I saw this happen was not with a few PCs, but with some high end database work on a big multi cpu machine. I can not remember the brand anymore this was 10 years ago.
It has nothing to do with Socialism. It is all capitalism.. If I have to pay for something then I want the product that I payed for.
Every year the govt takes money for me to pay for education and research. If research is done on my $ I should have access to it since I payed for its development. A corporation should not be able to underwrite 1% of the cost and then get 100% of the research.
I knew a grad student who developed a really cool way to do database joins. He should have gotten somthing for the idea. Since ??? "donated" the hardware he was surprised that they suddenly owned his work because it was done on that hardware.
I hate the idea that a large company goes into a University and "donates" some equipment but to use it the school must sign away the rights to work done on the equipment.
So you have Billons public $$ going to support the infrastructure of the university and then with a small( think million $$ ) donation some company reaping potentially huge rewards.
I am not sure how to deal with your situation, but I have been there before and know it sucks.
I worked at a small company that ended up being very successfully. I was one of 3 people that built the technology and staff to handle the IT functions of the business. Since this was a tech company that amounted to about 90% of the workforce.
About 2 years before their IPO the 3 of us were told "we need to put an older face on IT for the IPO roadshow". That would have been OK if the first 3 tries at filling the CIO role didn't completely SUCK. The average CIO lasts for 16mos before they get fired.
I ended up leaving the company because I got tiered of trying to prove myself to another stupid CIO candidate that probably wouldn't last for a year.
I guess I would tell you to do the same thing. Chalk it up to life experience. If the top dog can not trust you because of your age find someone who will.
I have always thought that one of these combined with the international kernel patch would make a great security tool.
Put the key for your encrypted filesystem on the usb drive and you cant even tell someone our password. All you have to do is destroy the usb drive and you can't even get to your data.
The thing I always thought was funny about this is that if I do this then sony and creative have made a "circumvention device" which I think means that they are in violation of the DMCA.
Do implied warranties apply to software? I have always been confused about this, but I assume that they do not apply since you are not buying the software, just licensing it.
The bizar thing is tat you could have your.exe open notpad with some bogus content after you had infected the computer. Then no one would have any clue that they had been infected.
The idea that choosing what happens to the work that I do is the same as committing murder is the sort of over the top attitude that makes RMS comical.
If I can not choose what happens to my work I will not do any. But, then I suppose you would advocate some software labor camps to make sure I produce for the collective.
I used dig the FSF and GNU. But, Now that they don't think it is my right to choose whatever license I want for the work I do they seem to have slipped into insanity.
I've virtually eliminated more of my co-workers than anyone else I know!
But, hey we get together for less violent social interaction to. I feal bad for the spouses/s.o.'s though. We are always talking about sci/tech and they just sort of glaze over.
My local kinko's has large format color printer that looks like it is about 4' wide. I just had a 26" wide ps file printed there and it looked great.
If you can get a postscript file of the fractal there are tones of programs out there that will tile the output.
Since postscript is just a programming language you could actually find the location/formula of the fractal you want by exploring in some quick lowres interactive program and then write a Postscript program to do the same thing calculating what you need for each page. You would then be able to print some huge image with what probably amounts to an 8-10k file.
If you want to use it do if you do not then don't.
If we are talking about ISP users who do not do their own sendmail setup that might be a diferent matter, but the ISP could simply offer each user a choice when they sign them up:
1) We will try to filter spam from your email
2) We leave your email compleatly unfiltered
As long as people have a choice what is the problem. And if ISPs don't give the choice then the problem is with the ISP not MAPS and friends.
That is the problem. Sometimes stego can be detected because it is more random than the surrounding data.
If you have an image and you store the encrypted message in the low order bits of the image then they will look too random when compared to typical images.
Actually the audiotron has a digital output which lets you use your expensive DAC( Reciever ) to get great sound from it.
I use it to have my cds stored away and not fumble with a changer. I also have 2 which means that my music is available to me in the familyroom and basement(playroom for the kids ).
I chalenge anyone to tell the difference between a cd and a high bitrate mp3 on a good sound system using the audiotrons digital output.
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The worst part about this is that all of the HD compatible televisions peoople bought, the ones that had stickers on them claiming they were HDTV ready, will be obsolete.
They all have component inputs and the new systems will make sure that all connections are DVI( I think that is the acronim ). So people will have a TV cabable of displaying a 1080I RGB signal but all of the decoder boxes will only be allowed to have this DVI connector.
I acutally had the problem of a co-worker taking a bunch of work I had done to the boss and claiming he did the work.
The funny thing is the guy was so stupid he didn't understand that there would be backups that would show who created the files and when.
Where I saw this happen was not with a few PCs, but with some high end database work on a big multi cpu machine. I can not remember the brand anymore this was 10 years ago.
It has nothing to do with Socialism. It is all capitalism.. If I have to pay for something then I want the product that I payed for.
Every year the govt takes money for me to pay for education and research. If research is done on my $ I should have access to it since I payed for its development. A corporation should not be able to underwrite 1% of the cost and then get 100% of the research.
I knew a grad student who developed a really cool way to do database joins. He should have gotten somthing for the idea. Since ??? "donated" the hardware he was surprised that they suddenly owned his work because it was done on that hardware.
I seem to recal that the govt can use this publically funded research free of charge even if a business owns the patent.
If it is good enough for uncle sam it should be good enough for me.
I hate the idea that a large company goes into a University and "donates" some equipment but to use it the school must sign away the rights to work done on the equipment.
So you have Billons public $$ going to support the infrastructure of the university and then with a small( think million $$ ) donation some company reaping potentially huge rewards.
When I install vmware the kernel modules build from source.
They may comunicate with a binary module, but the source is there for the kernel modules.
I am not sure how to deal with your situation, but I have been there before and know it sucks.
I worked at a small company that ended up being very successfully. I was one of 3 people that built the technology and staff to handle the IT functions of the business. Since this was a tech company that amounted to about 90% of the workforce.
About 2 years before their IPO the 3 of us were told "we need to put an older face on IT for the IPO roadshow". That would have been OK if the first 3 tries at filling the CIO role didn't completely SUCK. The average CIO lasts for 16mos before they get fired.
I ended up leaving the company because I got tiered of trying to prove myself to another stupid CIO candidate that probably wouldn't last for a year.
I guess I would tell you to do the same thing. Chalk it up to life experience. If the top dog can not trust you because of your age find someone who will.
I have always thought that one of these combined with the international kernel patch would make a great security tool.
Put the key for your encrypted filesystem on the usb drive and you cant even tell someone our password. All you have to do is destroy the usb drive and you can't even get to your data.
The thing I always thought was funny about this is that if I do this then sony and creative have made a "circumvention device" which I think means that they are in violation of the DMCA.
:-)
Breaking the law that they bought
Do implied warranties apply to software? I have always been confused about this, but I assume that they do not apply since you are not buying the software, just licensing it.
IMHO THAT BITES!
The bizar thing is tat you could have your .exe open notpad with some bogus content after you had infected the computer. Then no one would have any clue that they had been infected.
Just to add to #2 above. We work more hours now with our information society than we did in the 50s without it.
I have to say that I have had really good luck with the last 3 realeases of the nvidia drivers for Linux - X.
I would prefer they were open sourced. But, I am not going to slam drivers that have worked well for me just because they are not.
151 works well
I'm not sure how to say this, but -30 is way to F'ing cold to be ridding one of those things arround.
I don't think I will be able to give up my car for one of these. At least until global warming fixes our Minnesota climate.
You are nuts!
The idea that choosing what happens to the work that I do is the same as committing murder is the sort of over the top attitude that makes RMS comical.
If I can not choose what happens to my work I will not do any. But, then I suppose you would advocate some software labor camps to make sure I produce for the collective.
I used dig the FSF and GNU. But, Now that they don't think it is my right to choose whatever license I want for the work I do they seem to have slipped into insanity.
I just can not take him seriously anymore.
I've virtually eliminated more of my co-workers than anyone else I know!
But, hey we get together for less violent social interaction to. I feal bad for the spouses/s.o.'s though. We are always talking about sci/tech and they just sort of glaze over.
My local kinko's has large format color printer that looks like it is about 4' wide. I just had a 26" wide ps file printed there and it looked great.
If you can get a postscript file of the fractal there are tones of programs out there that will tile the output.
Since postscript is just a programming language you could actually find the location/formula of the fractal you want by exploring in some quick lowres interactive program and then write a Postscript program to do the same thing calculating what you need for each page. You would then be able to print some huge image with what probably amounts to an 8-10k file.
If you want to use it do if you do not then don't.
If we are talking about ISP users who do not do their own sendmail setup that might be a diferent matter, but the ISP could simply offer each user a choice when they sign them up:
1) We will try to filter spam from your email
2) We leave your email compleatly unfiltered
As long as people have a choice what is the problem. And if ISPs don't give the choice then the problem is with the ISP not MAPS and friends.
That is the problem. Sometimes stego can be detected because it is more random than the surrounding data.
If you have an image and you store the encrypted message in the low order bits of the image then they will look too random when compared to typical images.
I see you need a life to, or is that too oh shit I'll just say also.
:-)
I wish English was my first language so I could be a member of the Slashdot grammer police
Actually the audiotron has a digital output which lets you use your expensive DAC( Reciever ) to get great sound from it.
I use it to have my cds stored away and not fumble with a changer. I also have 2 which means that my music is available to me in the familyroom and basement(playroom for the kids ).
I chalenge anyone to tell the difference between a cd and a high bitrate mp3 on a good sound system using the audiotrons digital output.
They really make this a first rate product. Turtle beach has been great about user requests on the mailing list and new fetures are added constantly.