What about those perverts that like anal searches? They might just trigger the voice software on purpose, get their probe, and be on their way.
Oh, and what about all those used car salesmen that might be terrorists? I bet it can't pick up on their lies.
Some people just sound untrustworthy. Especially if they talk with hesitation, which may be caused by some disability. I hope it doesn't always screen out people with Down's Syndrome...that could piss of disabled people getting singled out like that.
I know if they ask me anything, I'm just gonna yell as loud as I can into the mic, hopefully the attendant is wearing headphones!
Everybody is missing the point here. The point is not that they are fighting piracy, but changing the way feature films have always been made and shown. If anybody has even taken a film history class, you would realize the effect film has on the audience, compared to ordinary digital. If you are going for a certain effect, you will use film. Film is far superior to watch than digital.
The real issue here is the industry is cutting costs, while making us think it is better. We will all remember the days when we used to use real 35mm prints and how much better it was. A film projector projects nothing more then it projects a picture. Most of the time, black is on the screen rather than a picture. Digital projectors don't do this.
Film is expensive, it is hard to work with, and it becomes costly to edit and reproduce and distribute. But we don't care about that. We should be concerned with the inferior replacement of film by digital. That's the difference between going to a theater and popping in a DVD at home. The film experience.
I read the article, but why do we need to do surgeries in space? I would estimate that no more than 10 people are ever in orbit at one time, and usually we don't send up people to space in need of surgery.
The government could make personal encryption illegal with the excuse that it means you have something to hide. (in their eyes)
And they could go even further and make all software have a back door, so even though you have a SSH tunnel, the law enforcement can use their back door and login to your application layer, or maybe even go as far as even the operating system layer.
Technically, because they make the laws, they could require full access into the hardware level of the computer. If they want to see what you are sending, they can just look at the actual bits read from the hard drive, or the pixels displayed by the graphics card.
There is no way around it, our rights are going down the toilet. Combined with the lawsuits from the big businesses nowadays, all they have to say is he stole from me, and then they get a tap warrant and you don't even know that they are monitoring you.
Thats the worst kind of security breech out there, the kind that is totally invisible to you...until it is too late.
I already know that my university network isn't secure from fellow students, so basically what this does is allow law enforcement to sit on their asses from work and see what us kiddos are doing...when all they needed to do was walk their laptop over here and plug into the wall and they can do the same.
The solution is simple, and I do it myself. I SSH Tunnel all of my traffic out of my university to my off-site server so that I don't have to worry about an insecure network. I don't have any control over their policies and sniffing is very simple, even on a switched network.
When your ISP (the university) doesn't have your security in mind, then why should I trust them? And I have even more reason to now.
And I am not forgetting that the off-site server will soon have a similar back door made by my ISP. And when that happens, I might as well look for a server in NL.
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What about those perverts that like anal searches? They might just trigger the voice software on purpose, get their probe, and be on their way. Oh, and what about all those used car salesmen that might be terrorists? I bet it can't pick up on their lies. Some people just sound untrustworthy. Especially if they talk with hesitation, which may be caused by some disability. I hope it doesn't always screen out people with Down's Syndrome...that could piss of disabled people getting singled out like that. I know if they ask me anything, I'm just gonna yell as loud as I can into the mic, hopefully the attendant is wearing headphones!
Comon? Isn't there any DRM that can protect US from MICROSOFT?!?
Only X dollars? I probably couldn't even get a kid to mow my lawn for 10 dollars! :P
If I could download feature films in the theater I might trade in my 4G 20GB iPod for a new iPod with video.
Everybody is missing the point here. The point is not that they are fighting piracy, but changing the way feature films have always been made and shown. If anybody has even taken a film history class, you would realize the effect film has on the audience, compared to ordinary digital. If you are going for a certain effect, you will use film. Film is far superior to watch than digital.
The real issue here is the industry is cutting costs, while making us think it is better. We will all remember the days when we used to use real 35mm prints and how much better it was. A film projector projects nothing more then it projects a picture. Most of the time, black is on the screen rather than a picture. Digital projectors don't do this.
Film is expensive, it is hard to work with, and it becomes costly to edit and reproduce and distribute. But we don't care about that. We should be concerned with the inferior replacement of film by digital. That's the difference between going to a theater and popping in a DVD at home. The film experience.
I read the article, but why do we need to do surgeries in space? I would estimate that no more than 10 people are ever in orbit at one time, and usually we don't send up people to space in need of surgery.
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The government could make personal encryption illegal with the excuse that it means you have something to hide. (in their eyes) And they could go even further and make all software have a back door, so even though you have a SSH tunnel, the law enforcement can use their back door and login to your application layer, or maybe even go as far as even the operating system layer. Technically, because they make the laws, they could require full access into the hardware level of the computer. If they want to see what you are sending, they can just look at the actual bits read from the hard drive, or the pixels displayed by the graphics card. There is no way around it, our rights are going down the toilet. Combined with the lawsuits from the big businesses nowadays, all they have to say is he stole from me, and then they get a tap warrant and you don't even know that they are monitoring you. Thats the worst kind of security breech out there, the kind that is totally invisible to you...until it is too late.
I already know that my university network isn't secure from fellow students, so basically what this does is allow law enforcement to sit on their asses from work and see what us kiddos are doing...when all they needed to do was walk their laptop over here and plug into the wall and they can do the same.
The solution is simple, and I do it myself. I SSH Tunnel all of my traffic out of my university to my off-site server so that I don't have to worry about an insecure network. I don't have any control over their policies and sniffing is very simple, even on a switched network.
When your ISP (the university) doesn't have your security in mind, then why should I trust them? And I have even more reason to now.
And I am not forgetting that the off-site server will soon have a similar back door made by my ISP. And when that happens, I might as well look for a server in NL.
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Got Teeth?
http://www.doctorgallagher.com/