This was FM at the time (Freakin Magic). I'm all against patents, I think they only stifle innovation and erode standards making things worse for everybody. That said, when TiVo and ReplayTV were out at CES showing what a "recorder" could do, the technology was pretty far out there. I remember being in their booth and them having to go over the features several times before I even got it.
It wasn't obvious at the time. There wasn't a computer-based parallel. It was Freakin Magic. I love my TiVo's and I hope the knock offs have to step up and pay homage to TiVo for bringing them the idea in the first place. At least in this case the patent system is doing some good.
Download the.kml file and check it out. You can see the "box canyon" he likely flew into. Planes do a crappy job of out flying terrain (I'm a private pilot, I've seen this first hand). His luck may have simply run out.
I'm sorry, the songs have all been BROADCAST! They have been on the radio, you can record them and play them back at your leisure. The Internet just makes this easier on a massive scale.
The recording industry and musicians have NOT tried to keep their songs secret. Back in the day when the only way to listen to a song whenever you wanted to was to buy the LP, selling LP's made sense. Now selling/leasing/licensing songs doesn't make sense. I can transfer a song from here to Australia for no incremental cost in my broadband. No one had to burn a CD, ship something, carry inventory, or anything else for this to happen... so why do they expect to make a margin on it?
If the musician comes to my town maybe I'll plunk down $120 for two tix to see him live, $50 for a t-shirt. If I really like him then maybe I'll buy a CD so I can get a quality lossless copy and album cover, or a poster for my room. But this stuff that has already been broadcast on the airwaves for free? I'm not paying for it.
Is Yahoo! better? Google's? Does it matter who hosts the hub, or do we have to have our own IM servers out there to communicate completely securely?
I see things like X-IM (http://x-im.net/protocol.asp), but is anyone checking the source to ensure client-to-client comm is secure as advertised? No back doors?
1) get WAN IP of computer being used at thief's house(e.g. 66.245.54.53)
2) do reverse DNS IP lookup, see that it belongs to Earthlink or whatever ISP
3a) if it's a fixed IP then we're done, have the Police ask the ISP to whom they assigned the IP (or get a warrant if we're good monkeys)
3b) if it's a dynamic IP then the ISP has to check their logs to see to whom they gave the IP at the time, but they should have that
4) Police show up at the door as above.
Why do you need to be able to remote login and wait for the thief to type his address? I guess the webcam could be useful because you can get a picture of the guy actually using it (instead of the police showing up and the guy saying "I have an open wifi access point, so the real thief must have logged onto my router, which has no logging enabled, w/o my knowledge with the stolen laptop"). But, seriously, shouldn't the WAN IP be enough?
Not that *I* would ever install it on every windows desktop around, but I'm told (wink wink) that it runs great, can be torrent'd from about anywhere, is, uhm "free", and has the best of both XP and Vista in it.
I don't think so. If a creationist asks a scientist "Where did we come from" the scientist will go into evolution, the history of the earth, the history of our solar system, how stars are formed and how their death creates the heavier elements and how we think it all came from a big bang. When asked "where did the big bang come from?" the scientist should reply "we're working on it, here's what we know and think so far..."
This is very different from someone asking a creationist "where did we come from?" and he says "adam, eve, 7 days and nights, all from god." When asked where god came from he says "er, always been here, I guess"
god is often just used as a big logical dumping ground for everything that can't be explained. This is unfortunate, because it keeps (some of) us from working on the hard problems.
If the questions is: where did we come from? And the answer is "god created us", then aren't we just moving the problem around? Unless you answer where god came from then I don't think you have answered anything.
Myspace? Really? That's what Stephenson thinks is the closest thing we have to the Metaverse? This must be the idea of some tool at the publishing company, this can't be Neal's... can it?
Oh, and hat video was so bad I think it gave me cancer. Super let down from the Snow Crash Universe with cars with enough potential energy to put a pound of bacon in the asteroid belt and side-car nukes and dual samurai swords and dentanas...
For those who haven't seen it, it was pretty great. I went on it when it first opened on a company event (General Magic) while at a trade-show and went back on my own a couple more times over the next several years. It went something like this:
1) After you buy your ticket you get in line to get in. The line winds around a kind of museum that goes through the time-line of the Star Trek Universe. It's kinda like reading a big comic book summary of all the different shows and movies.
2) Then you get together for a shuttle simulation ride. But before you can get on the ride, while watching a safety video, you get accidentally beamed aboard the Enterprise (Next Generation vintage).
3) Then you are put on a "real" shuttle and go on a crazy ride involving battle with Klingons before you're brought back to your own time through a wormhole or whatnot.
4) After the ride you can go hang out and Quark's bar and stuff like that. At the bar there's usually at least one Klingon in character with a working knowledge of Klingon (at least the three or four things I'm geeky-enough to know). I hear more recently that there was a Borg-related ride added on as well.
And that junior developer was probably employed by a large military contractor who know all the right people in Washington to get a huge and massively expensive contract to create this database, then they spent 0.01% of the contract amount to hire the junior programmer, whom they fired as soon as he submitted a something that compiled and passed a simple delivery demo, and the rest of the money went to lavish offices, private jet rides, and bags of paper money to make sure they get the next contract...
Security cameras don't usually have high resolutions and are easily avoided.
Actually, security cameras can have very high resolution and are unavoidable when properly installed.
We run a Video Surveillance system in a SAAS model (video data is pumped offsite to us, where we store it so its safe from theft/destruction/etc.), so we see a LOT of cameras and a lot of video busts. When we first started there were a mostly 320x240 crappy cameras with pin-hole lenses on the market -- these only worked if you framed the subject right in front of the camera and were in broad daylight. Now you can get a 1600x1200 pixel camera with enough light gathering ability to see clearly in sub-candlelight, and in complete darkness if you have an IR illuminator (e.g. Axis 223M).
Another poster mentioned putting at least one camera at a bottleneck entrance and then others on the gear. That's the perfect strategy, and SOP for the security industry. This way you get at least one really good face shot of each attendee when they walk in. Now it doesn't matter that the cameras that are covering the gear can't get a good forensic face shot -- as long as the recording is good enough to match the person doing the stealing with the video of him or her at the bottleneck, you've got enough for a bust.
Even if you don't get the perfect face shot, if you get video of someone grabbing someone else's tower case or 28" LCD monitor, just e-mail the footage to all the attendees... someone will know who it was.
Wouldn't it be better for an ISP to accept all the inbound traffic from the host's ISP, again and again, rather than cache-it locally? My understanding of the relationship between ISP's is that the more data an ISP takes from another ISP the more data they can send back eventually.
Wait, which "original" Wolfenstein gameplay are we talking about? RTCW-ET (Return to Castle Wolfenstien, Enemy Territory), the latest one of the series, if you don't include ET4-Quake Wars, is *still* one of the best gameplays out there.
Multiple Character classes (Soldier, Medic, Engineer, Field Ops, Covert Ops)
Each class with its own set of weapons and abilities
Multiple classes needed to complete any given map (which makes online multi-player gameplay actually compelling)
All of which creates the need to coordinate with strangers over the internet in real time to be able to win...
There is nothing like going covert-op, grabbing a uniform, and taking an engineer with you through the tunnel to blow the Fuel Dump while everyone else is still trying to construct the bridge and move the tank. It's better than sex (not that I know what sex is, being on Slashdot and all...). In any case, it's nothing like a generic shooter, it's nothing like identical looking mazes.
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This was FM at the time (Freakin Magic). I'm all against patents, I think they only stifle innovation and erode standards making things worse for everybody. That said, when TiVo and ReplayTV were out at CES showing what a "recorder" could do, the technology was pretty far out there. I remember being in their booth and them having to go over the features several times before I even got it.
It wasn't obvious at the time. There wasn't a computer-based parallel. It was Freakin Magic. I love my TiVo's and I hope the knock offs have to step up and pay homage to TiVo for bringing them the idea in the first place. At least in this case the patent system is doing some good.
boxcover and links here: http://www.activeboard.com/forum.spark?forumID=9318&p=3&topicID=11841579&commentPage=0
http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2008/10/location_of_plane_wreck_of_steve_fo.html
.kml file and check it out. You can see the "box canyon" he likely flew into. Planes do a crappy job of out flying terrain (I'm a private pilot, I've seen this first hand). His luck may have simply run out.
Download the
I'm sorry, the songs have all been BROADCAST! They have been on the radio, you can record them and play them back at your leisure. The Internet just makes this easier on a massive scale.
... so why do they expect to make a margin on it?
The recording industry and musicians have NOT tried to keep their songs secret. Back in the day when the only way to listen to a song whenever you wanted to was to buy the LP, selling LP's made sense. Now selling/leasing/licensing songs doesn't make sense. I can transfer a song from here to Australia for no incremental cost in my broadband. No one had to burn a CD, ship something, carry inventory, or anything else for this to happen
If the musician comes to my town maybe I'll plunk down $120 for two tix to see him live, $50 for a t-shirt. If I really like him then maybe I'll buy a CD so I can get a quality lossless copy and album cover, or a poster for my room. But this stuff that has already been broadcast on the airwaves for free? I'm not paying for it.
Is Yahoo! better? Google's? Does it matter who hosts the hub, or do we have to have our own IM servers out there to communicate completely securely?
I see things like X-IM (http://x-im.net/protocol.asp), but is anyone checking the source to ensure client-to-client comm is secure as advertised? No back doors?
Does anybody have a run down?
Wait, shouldn't it go like this:
1) get WAN IP of computer being used at thief's house(e.g. 66.245.54.53)
2) do reverse DNS IP lookup, see that it belongs to Earthlink or whatever ISP
3a) if it's a fixed IP then we're done, have the Police ask the ISP to whom they assigned the IP (or get a warrant if we're good monkeys)
3b) if it's a dynamic IP then the ISP has to check their logs to see to whom they gave the IP at the time, but they should have that
4) Police show up at the door as above.
Why do you need to be able to remote login and wait for the thief to type his address? I guess the webcam could be useful because you can get a picture of the guy actually using it (instead of the police showing up and the guy saying "I have an open wifi access point, so the real thief must have logged onto my router, which has no logging enabled, w/o my knowledge with the stolen laptop"). But, seriously, shouldn't the WAN IP be enough?
You guys have power in Georgia? Whodathunkit...
No, it's "Windows XP Ultimate Edition, by Johnny". If you don't know what it is then google it http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=1G1GGLQ_ENUS239&=&q=windows+xp+ultimate+by+johnny&btnG=Google+Search, it's Windows XP with a Vista-like interface ... that doesn't require an activation key.
Not that *I* would ever install it on every windows desktop around, but I'm told (wink wink) that it runs great, can be torrent'd from about anywhere, is, uhm "free", and has the best of both XP and Vista in it.
I'm just sayin...
> Like, who gives a crap?
shitheads.
It's a fascinating story: http://www.autoblog.com/2007/04/25/toyota-engineers-convicted-of-stealing-secrets-from-ferrari/
I don't think so. If a creationist asks a scientist "Where did we come from" the scientist will go into evolution, the history of the earth, the history of our solar system, how stars are formed and how their death creates the heavier elements and how we think it all came from a big bang. When asked "where did the big bang come from?" the scientist should reply "we're working on it, here's what we know and think so far..."
This is very different from someone asking a creationist "where did we come from?" and he says "adam, eve, 7 days and nights, all from god." When asked where god came from he says "er, always been here, I guess"
god is often just used as a big logical dumping ground for everything that can't be explained. This is unfortunate, because it keeps (some of) us from working on the hard problems.
Just curious: who created god?
If the questions is: where did we come from? And the answer is "god created us", then aren't we just moving the problem around? Unless you answer where god came from then I don't think you have answered anything.
I'll tell you what's present-proof ... Duke Nukem Forever ... that's present-proof.
there, fixed that for you.
Myspace? Really? That's what Stephenson thinks is the closest thing we have to the Metaverse? This must be the idea of some tool at the publishing company, this can't be Neal's ... can it?
Oh, and hat video was so bad I think it gave me cancer. Super let down from the Snow Crash Universe with cars with enough potential energy to put a pound of bacon in the asteroid belt and side-car nukes and dual samurai swords and dentanas...
I've never heard of this Stevenson guy
...dude, how many free minutes do you have left on your AOL account?
For those who haven't seen it, it was pretty great. I went on it when it first opened on a company event (General Magic) while at a trade-show and went back on my own a couple more times over the next several years. It went something like this:
1) After you buy your ticket you get in line to get in. The line winds around a kind of museum that goes through the time-line of the Star Trek Universe. It's kinda like reading a big comic book summary of all the different shows and movies.
2) Then you get together for a shuttle simulation ride. But before you can get on the ride, while watching a safety video, you get accidentally beamed aboard the Enterprise (Next Generation vintage).
3) Then you are put on a "real" shuttle and go on a crazy ride involving battle with Klingons before you're brought back to your own time through a wormhole or whatnot.
4) After the ride you can go hang out and Quark's bar and stuff like that. At the bar there's usually at least one Klingon in character with a working knowledge of Klingon (at least the three or four things I'm geeky-enough to know). I hear more recently that there was a Borg-related ride added on as well.
Wikipedia has all the details here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_The_Experience
Anyway, it wasn't geek nirvana but it was kinda close. I can only hope that the Genesis Planet that is Vegas produces a new better one someday...
And that junior developer was probably employed by a large military contractor who know all the right people in Washington to get a huge and massively expensive contract to create this database, then they spent 0.01% of the contract amount to hire the junior programmer, whom they fired as soon as he submitted a something that compiled and passed a simple delivery demo, and the rest of the money went to lavish offices, private jet rides, and bags of paper money to make sure they get the next contract...
that explains my lack of hard disk space...
Security cameras don't usually have high resolutions and are easily avoided.
Actually, security cameras can have very high resolution and are unavoidable when properly installed.
... someone will know who it was.
We run a Video Surveillance system in a SAAS model (video data is pumped offsite to us, where we store it so its safe from theft/destruction/etc.), so we see a LOT of cameras and a lot of video busts. When we first started there were a mostly 320x240 crappy cameras with pin-hole lenses on the market -- these only worked if you framed the subject right in front of the camera and were in broad daylight. Now you can get a 1600x1200 pixel camera with enough light gathering ability to see clearly in sub-candlelight, and in complete darkness if you have an IR illuminator (e.g. Axis 223M).
Another poster mentioned putting at least one camera at a bottleneck entrance and then others on the gear. That's the perfect strategy, and SOP for the security industry. This way you get at least one really good face shot of each attendee when they walk in. Now it doesn't matter that the cameras that are covering the gear can't get a good forensic face shot -- as long as the recording is good enough to match the person doing the stealing with the video of him or her at the bottleneck, you've got enough for a bust.
Even if you don't get the perfect face shot, if you get video of someone grabbing someone else's tower case or 28" LCD monitor, just e-mail the footage to all the attendees
Man, I can't wait for the CIAA (Cow Industry Association of America) to come after her as well.
I mean, if a 99cent song is worth $150k in damages, think how much an actual milk crate is worth!
So ... what happened? Is it up or down on Youtube?
Or did everyone wander off and forget about this already?
Wait, what about peering relationships?
Wouldn't it be better for an ISP to accept all the inbound traffic from the host's ISP, again and again, rather than cache-it locally? My understanding of the relationship between ISP's is that the more data an ISP takes from another ISP the more data they can send back eventually.
Wait, which "original" Wolfenstein gameplay are we talking about? RTCW-ET (Return to Castle Wolfenstien, Enemy Territory), the latest one of the series, if you don't include ET4-Quake Wars, is *still* one of the best gameplays out there.
Multiple Character classes (Soldier, Medic, Engineer, Field Ops, Covert Ops)
Each class with its own set of weapons and abilities
Multiple classes needed to complete any given map (which makes online multi-player gameplay actually compelling)
All of which creates the need to coordinate with strangers over the internet in real time to be able to win...
There is nothing like going covert-op, grabbing a uniform, and taking an engineer with you through the tunnel to blow the Fuel Dump while everyone else is still trying to construct the bridge and move the tank. It's better than sex (not that I know what sex is, being on Slashdot and all...). In any case, it's nothing like a generic shooter, it's nothing like identical looking mazes.
except your an idiot...
wait, who has an idiot?
Sorry, my little brother wrote that. But can you post more than 2 e-mails?