I don't see how it can be good. The clips I have seen stunk and I'm sure it will be dumbed down. The real question is why the original cartoon went off the air -- it was great! My favorite was the "Ants in Pants" episode -- they'll never have a live action episode like that. Those bastards!
As long as the players will load MP3 and Vorbis I'm sure people won't care one way or the other. Nobody really cares much these days if they get an MP2 because what difference does it make.
Mind you, I am sure everything anyone gets online for free will be referred to as an MP3 for the foreseeable future, no matter what it is.
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Caveat: I used to work on OCR Engines for Caere / Scansoft The available OSS engines are what you might call 'research quality'. They have some good ideas but with OCR "the devil is in the details" and there are alot of details. This is why you will probably not see any good OSS engines in the foreseable future -- there is a very iterative process between the algorithm development and testing and the cost of doing this is significant. The software that comes with scanners is cut back (big suprise) to get you to buy the real version. 100% accuracy on clean documents is not uncommon. Usually the document formatting (which is a much harder problem) is where things break down. Just one guys opinion...
Sun just (Feb 20th) released a fixed version of JavaMail that doesn't throw exceptions if you try to send mail on Feb 29th. Thanks for the advance notice! The really annoying part is, if you look in the bug database, they knew about it in March of last year! Bastards!
in 90% of cases the final editorial control will rest with Rob Malda
So what happens in the other 10% of cases? The Men in black get to decide. Isn't it the 10% that really matters anyway? I don't have a problem with the merger per se but your not giving me the warm fuzzies...
It's somewhat suprising that the top 5 web sites all seem to have been hit now EXCEPT for Microsoft.com? And Bill Gates just happens to have a lot of free time on his hands? Coincidence?
If I was behind all this, MSNBC would have been the first target as their "Hacker" coverage truly sucks.
First, credit card abuses are far more common on the net than in the real world because it's easier to minimize the risk of using the card. Software.net which sold software electronically over the Web, claimed that 50% of the purchases they sold were later disputed. Especially in cases where the fufillment side is all electronic (and now that most merchants will ship to address other than the billing address) the risk for the theif is much lower.
Now, is this any less secure than catalog shopping? No. But certain economies of scale make it a better value proposition. Instead of maxing out one card, you can charge $30 to a thousand cards.
The other (more serious) problem was that these idiots had there entire customer databases available (don't these people know what a firewall is?) so identity fraud is a real issue.
In cases where the charge is disputed either the credit card company pays or the merchant does. So sooner or later, Visa is going to lean on merchants to get there act together. But really, credit card #'s are just a symptom of a much larger problem.
The point is that the encrypted form can be cached anywhere along the route -- at routers, firewalls, etc. The underlying deniability comes from the encryption. Care to disclose what is being used? Also, how is the key transferred to my mail client? SSL? How do I know disappearing will destroy the key correctly?
In PGP the time stamp is encoded in the key and it compares against the system clock to see if the key should be used. Obviously this will stop no one -- I am not exactly sure what the point of the exercise is in the first place.
The "deletion" of this can be no stronger than the underlying encryption since I can always keep a copy of it on the client side -- Disappearing Inc. never specifies what algorithm they use. This is just another web based email encryption service using a half understood knowledge of Public Key encryption to float an IPO. The only thing "revolutionary" about this is that they managed to get the Disappearing.com domain name. Disappearing by name, disappearing by nature...
See "The Stegonographic File System" Anderson, Needham and Shamir in Information Hiding Second International Workshop, IH '98 Portland Oregon, USA, April 1998 Proceedings
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I don't see how it can be good. The clips I have seen stunk and I'm sure it will be dumbed down. The real question is why the original cartoon went off the air -- it was great! My favorite was the "Ants in Pants" episode -- they'll never have a live action episode like that. Those bastards!
Apart from the name, this is the best tool I found for C++ / IDL / C. Better than Javadoc!
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As long as the players will load MP3 and Vorbis I'm sure people won't care one way or the other. Nobody really cares much these days if they get an MP2 because what difference does it make.
Mind you, I am sure everything anyone gets online for free will be referred to as an MP3 for the foreseeable future, no matter what it is.
Caveat: I used to work on OCR Engines for Caere / Scansoft The available OSS engines are what you might call 'research quality'. They have some good ideas but with OCR "the devil is in the details" and there are alot of details. This is why you will probably not see any good OSS engines in the foreseable future -- there is a very iterative process between the algorithm development and testing and the cost of doing this is significant. The software that comes with scanners is cut back (big suprise) to get you to buy the real version. 100% accuracy on clean documents is not uncommon. Usually the document formatting (which is a much harder problem) is where things break down. Just one guys opinion...
Sun just (Feb 20th) released a fixed version of JavaMail that doesn't throw exceptions if you try to send mail on Feb 29th. Thanks for the advance notice! The really annoying part is, if you look in the bug database, they knew about it in March of last year! Bastards!
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in 90% of cases the final editorial control will rest with Rob Malda
So what happens in the other 10% of cases? The Men in black get to decide. Isn't it the 10% that really matters anyway?
I don't have a problem with the merger per se but your not giving me the warm fuzzies...
It's somewhat suprising that the top 5 web sites all seem to have been hit now EXCEPT for Microsoft.com? And Bill Gates just happens to have a lot of free time on his hands? Coincidence?
If I was behind all this, MSNBC would have been the first target as their "Hacker" coverage truly sucks.
There are several problems with this argument.
First, credit card abuses are far more common on the net than in the real world because it's easier to minimize the risk of using the card. Software.net which sold software electronically over the Web, claimed that 50% of the purchases they sold were later disputed. Especially in cases where the fufillment side is all electronic (and now that most merchants will ship to address other than the billing address) the risk for the theif is much lower.
Now, is this any less secure than catalog shopping? No. But certain economies of scale make it a better value proposition. Instead of maxing out one card, you can charge $30 to a thousand cards.
The other (more serious) problem was that these idiots had there entire customer databases available (don't these people know what a firewall is?) so identity fraud is a real issue.
In cases where the charge is disputed either the credit card company pays or the merchant does. So sooner or later, Visa is going to lean on merchants to get there act together. But really, credit card #'s are just a symptom of a much larger problem.
The point is that the encrypted form can be cached anywhere along the route -- at routers, firewalls, etc. The underlying deniability comes from the encryption. Care to disclose what is being used? Also, how is the key transferred to my mail client? SSL? How do I know disappearing will destroy the key correctly?
In PGP the time stamp is encoded in the key and it compares against the system clock to see if the key should be used. Obviously this will stop no one -- I am not exactly sure what the point of the exercise is in the first place.
The "deletion" of this can be no stronger than the underlying encryption since I can always keep a copy of it on the client side -- Disappearing Inc. never specifies what algorithm they use. This is just another web based email encryption service using a half understood knowledge of Public Key encryption to float an IPO. The only thing "revolutionary" about this is that they managed to get the Disappearing.com domain name. Disappearing by name, disappearing by nature...
See "The Stegonographic File System" Anderson, Needham and Shamir in Information Hiding Second International Workshop, IH '98 Portland Oregon, USA, April 1998 Proceedings