"But most of the audience thought it was filmed live - so that was mission accomplished."
Sorry, their intent was to deceive the audience all along. Besides, regardless of what the announcers may have attempted to convey the Chinese television feed did not have any caption indicating the images were simulated.
Whether or not the cat was let out of the bag after the fact, the deception was in poor taste. It reflects on China as a host nation and can only perpetuate the reservations many hold against the Chinese government.
The worst part is, I don't understand the need for the deception in the first place...
Combine this with the new "iMFamous" and you're set. The "iMFamous" app mimics numerous beautiful people, a-list celebrities, movers, and shakers calling and texting your iPhone to invite you to events, ask you if you caught the new piece of gossip, or just to tell you you are special. How cool will you be when you show your friends that Paris Hilton just texted you to ask you to an all-night rave?
There is a lot of truth in that, but then again there always has been a shortage of true innovators in this industry. But there is more to it than just innovation...
A co-worker brought up a point the other day that "IT has become part of the cost of doing business." The more and more I think about it, the more I realize he is spot-on. IT has become a commodity for most businesses, such that their goal is to minimize risk and maximize profit. Many businesses cannot afford to take on an experimental IT project using an unproven technology and risk failure of what has become a core business application.
Take a bank, for example. Gone are the days when fully-functional, fully-featured online account management was a competitive advantage, now it is a customer expectation and a core part of the banking service.
The increasing cost and complexity of IT projects, coupled with the increased reliance of IT on the success of the business, have forced many companies to change the way they view IT. The level of acceptable risk has decreased dramatically.
Not necessarily. The reason why Apple has been successful is because behind the clever marketing lies a solid product. Marketing can generate interest in a product and give it a competitive advantage over similar products, but at the end of the day the product must be able to stand on its own. Right now, Microsoft's Vista simply cannot. "It's like putting pearls on swine: you can dress up a pig, but it's still a pig." - Henry Rollins
Ok, they have found an exploit that can lead to any malicious code being run on a host machine. That is pretty bad. The fact that this hole can be exploited using something as simple as JavaScript, even worse. However, I don't think this is exploit is something that cannot be defended against.
Anything run on the client side must be loaded on the client first, which means you do have a chance to catch it before it is loaded. Granted, on pre-compiled objects this does present more of a challenge, but scripting exploits should be easily filtered out. It would certainly slow down page rendering, but I am sure most browsers will come up with a message allowing you to bypass any pre-rendering checks...
"The page you requested contains code which, when loaded, may prove to bring your Vista operating system to it's knees. Do you wish to continue?"
If the United States is that concerned about human rights violations, would we (as a country) not have done more before these search engines' censorship garnered national media attention? It seems to me that the cart is being placed well before the horse. Regulating a tricky enterprise like e-commerce should be the last phase in such a policy, not the catalyst for initiating one.
How can the United States support the Beijing Olympics in 2008 if human rights violations are such a concern in China?
EBay has made considerable effort to try and postulate themselves as an unbiased conduit for the transfer of goods. Yet, they openly admit to having a "prefered" relationship with some retailers which somehow gives them the ability to call EBay and get items pulled? How exactly is that unbiased? If EBay wants to be "hands-off" then fine, make sure you go the full monty. Don't pigeon-hole Joe Average Seller's complaints while you're off catering to the big boys.
...is the one that gets the attention.
This goes against the commonly held view by the courts that the creator should not be held liable for the deliberate misuse of their product. That is the reason why every automobile maker, gun manufacturer, and alcohol producer is not completely bankrupt. I cannot buy the argument of intent: Samuel Colt knew when he designed the revolver what it would be used for. And advertising? Please. Look at any beer commercial and tell me the advertising has a completely benign intent.
The entertainment industry has made it their plight and they are not going to stop until every "sharing" program is history. I believe it was the OJ Simpson trial that taught me justice is not blind...if you have the financial backing to unbalance the scales.
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"But most of the audience thought it was filmed live - so that was mission accomplished."
Sorry, their intent was to deceive the audience all along. Besides, regardless of what the announcers may have attempted to convey the Chinese television feed did not have any caption indicating the images were simulated.
Whether or not the cat was let out of the bag after the fact, the deception was in poor taste. It reflects on China as a host nation and can only perpetuate the reservations many hold against the Chinese government.
The worst part is, I don't understand the need for the deception in the first place...
Combine this with the new "iMFamous" and you're set. The "iMFamous" app mimics numerous beautiful people, a-list celebrities, movers, and shakers calling and texting your iPhone to invite you to events, ask you if you caught the new piece of gossip, or just to tell you you are special. How cool will you be when you show your friends that Paris Hilton just texted you to ask you to an all-night rave?
There is a lot of truth in that, but then again there always has been a shortage of true innovators in this industry. But there is more to it than just innovation...
A co-worker brought up a point the other day that "IT has become part of the cost of doing business." The more and more I think about it, the more I realize he is spot-on. IT has become a commodity for most businesses, such that their goal is to minimize risk and maximize profit. Many businesses cannot afford to take on an experimental IT project using an unproven technology and risk failure of what has become a core business application.
Take a bank, for example. Gone are the days when fully-functional, fully-featured online account management was a competitive advantage, now it is a customer expectation and a core part of the banking service.
The increasing cost and complexity of IT projects, coupled with the increased reliance of IT on the success of the business, have forced many companies to change the way they view IT. The level of acceptable risk has decreased dramatically.
Not necessarily. The reason why Apple has been successful is because behind the clever marketing lies a solid product. Marketing can generate interest in a product and give it a competitive advantage over similar products, but at the end of the day the product must be able to stand on its own. Right now, Microsoft's Vista simply cannot. "It's like putting pearls on swine: you can dress up a pig, but it's still a pig." - Henry Rollins
Ok, they have found an exploit that can lead to any malicious code being run on a host machine. That is pretty bad. The fact that this hole can be exploited using something as simple as JavaScript, even worse. However, I don't think this is exploit is something that cannot be defended against. Anything run on the client side must be loaded on the client first, which means you do have a chance to catch it before it is loaded. Granted, on pre-compiled objects this does present more of a challenge, but scripting exploits should be easily filtered out. It would certainly slow down page rendering, but I am sure most browsers will come up with a message allowing you to bypass any pre-rendering checks... "The page you requested contains code which, when loaded, may prove to bring your Vista operating system to it's knees. Do you wish to continue?"
If the United States is that concerned about human rights violations, would we (as a country) not have done more before these search engines' censorship garnered national media attention? It seems to me that the cart is being placed well before the horse. Regulating a tricky enterprise like e-commerce should be the last phase in such a policy, not the catalyst for initiating one. How can the United States support the Beijing Olympics in 2008 if human rights violations are such a concern in China?
EBay has made considerable effort to try and postulate themselves as an unbiased conduit for the transfer of goods. Yet, they openly admit to having a "prefered" relationship with some retailers which somehow gives them the ability to call EBay and get items pulled? How exactly is that unbiased? If EBay wants to be "hands-off" then fine, make sure you go the full monty. Don't pigeon-hole Joe Average Seller's complaints while you're off catering to the big boys.
...is the one that gets the attention. This goes against the commonly held view by the courts that the creator should not be held liable for the deliberate misuse of their product. That is the reason why every automobile maker, gun manufacturer, and alcohol producer is not completely bankrupt. I cannot buy the argument of intent: Samuel Colt knew when he designed the revolver what it would be used for. And advertising? Please. Look at any beer commercial and tell me the advertising has a completely benign intent. The entertainment industry has made it their plight and they are not going to stop until every "sharing" program is history. I believe it was the OJ Simpson trial that taught me justice is not blind...if you have the financial backing to unbalance the scales.