does anyone realize the only actualy classified or beyond is not even accessible from the internet?
Oh, damnit, there you go again, interjecting facts into this. You don't understand. This is slashdot. We don't need facts! We need sensationalism and sheer, unadulterated panic. That's why it's called "News for Nerds". The news gives us panicky, psychotic bullshit. Slashdot also gives us panicky, psychotic bullshit, but panicky, psychotic bullshit for nerds. Also, it's duped as often as you see stories duped on CNN Headline News. How sad. What you say may be true, the slashdot community may be made up of snarky thrill seeking no-lifers with a taste for sensational bulshit. But that is totally separate from the simple fact that the Rules may dictate that classified data has no access to the internet, but users are notorious for ignoring and being ignorant of the rules.
Remember the stolen laptops with classified military personnel records on them that were recovered in 2006? The ones with active email clients on them? That would be.... ummmmm...... Classified Data with an internet connection...... Wow.... And you said it couldn't happen and we were all just sensationalist.... Oh, well.....
Raise a pan galactic gargle blaster to the late Douglas Adams for 30 years of bizarre geek humor. I agree, besides, I haven't been hit in the head with a lemon peel wrapped brick in ages......
IANAL. It would seem to me that if you are going to sue someone for causing you harm, you would need to sue everyone involved. In this case, that would mean sueing almost everyone in the world. It's not fair to target one small group just because they have money. IANAL. It seems to me that it's going to be difficult to assess damages.
They're going to have to prove to what degree they contributed to the damage, I'd think...
I obviously don't know, but there can't be a statutory damage for Global Warming like the RIAA is trying to pull off on copyright.... Can there?
Neither format really had a real reason to choose one over the other. Oh, I dunno - sounds like Warner had about 400 million reasons that blu-ray was better... And, at least on paper, It's a better format, more capacity and faster....
Your assurances that no hydrazine can survive to poison people on the ground are worthless as a hydrazine tank from Challenger made it with some hydrazine still in it. I don't believe the Hydrazine tanks survived the Challenger explosion. Even if they did, it would have no bearing on a reentry survival rate for the satellite. Perhaps you were thinking of Columbia, which broke up during reentry? If so, as has been pointed out numerous times, the hydrazine tanks on Colmbia are assumed to have been much better protected on a machine designed for reentry as opposed to a satellite designed NOT to survive.
I'm pretty sure that site is a joke. At least, I hope it's a joke.
What's with all the offtopic mods lately?
Ummm - Tell you what, take your credit card out and try to buy one.... heh.... they've been in a battle with James Randi for a while now, and P.T. Barnum is trying to get reincarnated to get in on the AudioPhile action...
You Americans always have to talk about god somewhere. Even when talking about computers. Well either "She's important to us", "Pasta is universally applicable in technical conversation", or "The Computer IS god, you infidel"
$100 Billion is an inconceivable sum. How much will is cost to NOT upgrade the system? Information flow is now related to monetary flow, as more services are presented, more people telecommute, etceteras...
I wonder how many politicians understand the impact the internets have now.... Maybe with the economic impact of the massive outage we saw today, politicians will "get it".
And how exactly do you live if you don't work? Well, you don't... No one is forced to breath either.... If you choose not to, then that's your choice. Just like choosing not to work, and starving yourself, and those in your care.... Apparently the parent doesn't think that having to make a choice between starving and working is being "Forced."
Sort of like when I have a gun to your head, you don't HAVE to give me your wallet, you have a choice.....
So you'd rather have employees hold a company hostage and bleed it of all it's money until the company goes out of business? If your are on salary, you aren't ENTITLED to overtime.
This isn't China, Comrade. If you don't like your job, you are free to quit and find another without being shot in the head. Whether or not a salaried individual is entitled to OT is dependent on the employment contract, so that's true in same cases, and not in others. So EVERY company with a union shop has been bled dry, and is now out of business? Or, perhaps, those companies that were "Bled Dry" were mismanaged and the unions blamed? Bad managers have a habit of blaming the workers, which I've always found funny, since it the managers job to make sure the employees are doing what needs to be done for the company to survive.
Back to unions, I surely miss all those unionized companies who are no longer with us. AT&T, US made trucks and cars, Domestic Beer (Not really, I drink imports when I drink beer), Professional sporting events, Movie and TV shows, just to name a few union businesses that, by your comments are now bled dry, out of business, and just a memory.
Unions allow the workers to effectively bargain for the best they can get for their work. If a company doesn't like it, comrade, they can buy workers elsewhere, just like Your problem is that you don't like the idea that the worker can wield the same power against a company that the same company wields against it's customers, many of whom are the same employees.
Unions can abuse their power, just like any other segment can. But when you get right down to it, the unions don't bleed companies dry (which is sort sighted and counterproductive) but they create situations where larger amounts of the profit go into the hands of the profit generator (the hands creating the goods and services) and less into the shareholder / investor. Arguably this is much better for the economy since a lot of lower income peoples spend far more money than those same dollars in the hands of a few, and economies are healthy when more dollars are moving around, than when those dollars sit idle in an asset.
Apparently it's simply more important to protect ??AA profits than it is to have an open and freethinking educational system. Signs of this are all over the place, from both parties. Evolution, anyone? Anyone wonder how soon teaching that the universe is older than 6000 years will be challenged, or Galileo will rejoin the ranks of heretics?
We're on the road! Okay, did you skip contemporary history in school? There is very little going on in the manipulation of Colleges and universitys that isn't the same as was being done 35-40 years ago, in America. Hell some of the topics are even the same.
Seriously, does anyone believe this kind of discovery would ever be casually announced, if made public at all? well... no..... "They" would never let that get out... "They" would kill Mel Gibson with an earthquake first, just to distract everyone, before "They" wiped the data.
blocking a port is somewhat different from packet sniffing and insertion.
In the port 25 case, they ISP isn't really blocking it, just blocking out of network access - port 25 is reserved for the ISP
s email servers. There is some justification for it, convenience of their users (the vast majority of whom use the ISP's mail servers) and some basic spam blocking. For the minority, it's trivial to open up a different port (587 or 2525 maybe?) for email and use that - it's done all the time.
Inserting/blocking and falsifying packets is something else entirely. The only justification is that the ISP wants to throttle back traffic, that isn't in favor of an in-network service that most of the ISP's clients would prefer to use, and, since Comcast enjoys monopoly status in some areas, there isn't a way for the client to vote with their feet.
It's either binary or it's not. So you're saying you can't have.25 (somewhat) binary nor.84 (mostly) binary, just 0 (not at all) binary or 1 (completely) binary? heh..... There is either an intentional whoosh here or there is not.
Well, we didn't actually do to war with them, or with Cuba, but it was a close thing. Panama and Granada don't count as neighbors, I suppose.
We did, however go to war by proxie with the USSR, and they are how close to Alaska? Their neighbors, aren't they?
The telecoms are certainly within their rights to refuse service for non-payment, but what kind of a dysfunctional organization can't even pay their phone-bill on time? If my company's phone service was terminated, heads would roll. Umm - maybe - I did a service call on a modem that wasn't functioning in a graphics department, about 12 years ago. The modem was fine, but the line it was connected to was dead.... After checking, the modem line had been disconnected for non-payment. It was just an over site. The only reason it stuck in my mind, was because of the company - it was Bell South, they'd cut themselves off... it was good for a laugh, still is, actually.
Mistakes do happen, failure to pay a phone bill isn't dysfunctional.... There are OTHER reasons, however, to use that label. I don't blame the Law Enforcers (FBI). I blame the people they have to work under that cause those kinds of problems by issuing contradictory or confusing orders designed to do nothing more than promote the administrations objectives while covering their own assess.
Another aspect of the wiretap thing comes to mind. If it's legal, the way the Administration maintained it was, why so much CYA now? Why does there need to be immunity granted for the past?
I suspect, coming back onto the subject at hand, that the reason the payments weren't made, was that someone needed to find a way to pay for them without culpability i.e. If I write a check, do I get prosecuted for rights violations, since I'll be tied to that wiretap....
A motorcycle driver *knows* that he will very likely die if he crashes at high speed. Car drivers typically don't tend to exercise the same amount of caution.
Then please explain the raging idiots here that ride their crotch rockets like they are stunt-men? racing the shoulder at 90+mph to get around the guy that dares to do only 85mph. driving BETWEEN cars on the highway, cutting people off, etc.... Cripes I saw one moron riding one wheel down the highway yesterday just because the roads were clear, yet there was black ice under the bridges. There is no explanation - because the Parent is indulging in wishful thinking. There are good riders, there are bad riders. Through good fortune (on their part) and some better than average reflexes, bad riders survive sometimes. There are good and bad drivers as well. My personal observation is that you end up with MORE bad riders than bad drivers (percentage-wise, rather than shear numbers) - my speculation is that motorcycles tend to attract more adrenalin junkies - and that adrenalin junkies make for poor riders....
In most cases with pictures and video the watermark will be gone after converting to another format.
e.g.: psd -> jpg or wmv -> mpg.
This is the reason they want to restrict you in watching as well as copying.
When you see the picture or video on screen then it has been copied at least 2 times, first to memory then to your graphics card frame buffer.
In case of a picture it's a single copy and a video is a constant stream of copies. I'm misunderstanding you, or you are misinformed: There is a difference between copy, and encoding. When you encode a Jpeg image, there is a loss in the process. However, you can then COPY it a thousand times... with no additional loss. The only additiobnal loss is if you opened it, and then encoded it again.
If the watermark is destroyed when encoding takes place (the first time), you'd be correct (jpeg or Mpeg) however, useful watermarks are robust enough to survive the initial encoding. Some will survive several Jpeg encodings. I'm not as well versed in watermarking video, so I don't know that to be true, except that there is a lot more space in a video stream to bury a watermark, across the stream and over time, so that seems to imply that a more robust watermark is possible. But, as has been pointed out in other comments, watermarking isn't even remotely secure. Once you identify it, it's going to be fairly easy to obscure, remove, or falsify the watermark.....
So I go to the site, and it is slashdoted, really no suprise there, but one of their 'tips' for decreasing server load is.
'Using static.html documents instead of painful.php scripts will practically eliminate CPU usage.'
I know using static html is faster, but is php really painful? begin php sucks anyway flamewar! No, it's not painful, and finding ways to Cache a PHP generated pages, or parts of pages is fairly easy, with plenty of prewritten code, modules, snippets, or documented techniques available when you need to reduce that load. PHP's only real problem is that it's easy to learn, and anyone can write a php script with about 10 minutes worth of experimenting.... Leading to a host of php based sites that are poorly written....
And then you have the people that have a class of visual basic and / or C# under their belt, and think they can write good code cause "It works, doesn't it?"
" I know of a graphics shop in town that swore by dreamweaver and switched to GoLive this year, just prior to starting a major web project...."
When you say "this year", are you sure you didn't mean "the year before last"? Why would anyone switch from Dreamweaver to GoLive in the year Adobe announced to ditch GoLive for Dreamweaver? GL isn't even included in CS3 anymore, and Adobe heartily reccomends switching to DW.
Now, switching from GL to DW probably wouldn't be such a hot idea just prior to a big project, but from DW to GL? Now? That sounds insane. Heh, when I said "This year" I meant 2007, and yes, it was insane for a number of reasons....
So/. just takes the word from some blogger that "claims" to have worked on the show?
How much you want to bet if this blogger said it ran on Linux,/. would have demanded more proof or conveniently forgotten about that blog? More Proof?
How about this:
The New tears Seattle show was produced and directed by Pyro Spectaculars. who list the Seattle shows as well as the Olympics, and a number of other very well known fireworks shows as events they've managed. They do not, however, list the software they use on their website.
On the Infinity Visions website we find news items listing the same shows as being managed by the software they market, including the 2005 Seattle show. The software is windows only (it is vista compatible, now, the website says)
In addition, though I don't have a screen shot for you, The discovery channel special on the new fireworks extraviganza's (Featuring Pyro Spectaculars) does show how they layout the show on a computer (a windows interface, beyond question). The bloggers comment that they used a Windows based system in the past (as recently as Summer of 2006 is provable.) can readily be confirmed.
Pyro Spectacular may have switched to a non-windows based system since the Olympics, After using a solid product that they've depended on for years to handle explosives is conceivable but it seems unlikely. It does happen, after all; I know of a graphics shop in town that swore by dreamweaver and switched to GoLive this year, just prior to starting a major web project.... With the obvious results (cost overruns, missed deadlines, and such) I'm not hammering GoLive, I use it by preference, in fact, but a major switch before a big job is stupid, and yet companies still do it. So it's POSSIBLE the production shop switched in the last 18 months, but it's ratehr unlikely.
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no points for brevity, I guess...... heh.
AOL still has a butt load of clueless subscribers, and AIM is the only IM they know anything about....
What's with all the offtopic mods lately?
Ummm - Tell you what, take your credit card out and try to buy one.... heh.... they've been in a battle with James Randi for a while now, and P.T. Barnum is trying to get reincarnated to get in on the AudioPhile action...This isn't China, Comrade. If you don't like your job, you are free to quit and find another without being shot in the head. Whether or not a salaried individual is entitled to OT is dependent on the employment contract, so that's true in same cases, and not in others. So EVERY company with a union shop has been bled dry, and is now out of business? Or, perhaps, those companies that were "Bled Dry" were mismanaged and the unions blamed? Bad managers have a habit of blaming the workers, which I've always found funny, since it the managers job to make sure the employees are doing what needs to be done for the company to survive. Back to unions, I surely miss all those unionized companies who are no longer with us. AT&T, US made trucks and cars, Domestic Beer (Not really, I drink imports when I drink beer), Professional sporting events, Movie and TV shows, just to name a few union businesses that, by your comments are now bled dry, out of business, and just a memory. Unions allow the workers to effectively bargain for the best they can get for their work. If a company doesn't like it, comrade, they can buy workers elsewhere, just like Your problem is that you don't like the idea that the worker can wield the same power against a company that the same company wields against it's customers, many of whom are the same employees. Unions can abuse their power, just like any other segment can. But when you get right down to it, the unions don't bleed companies dry (which is sort sighted and counterproductive) but they create situations where larger amounts of the profit go into the hands of the profit generator (the hands creating the goods and services) and less into the shareholder / investor. Arguably this is much better for the economy since a lot of lower income peoples spend far more money than those same dollars in the hands of a few, and economies are healthy when more dollars are moving around, than when those dollars sit idle in an asset.
We're on the road! Okay, did you skip contemporary history in school? There is very little going on in the manipulation of Colleges and universitys that isn't the same as was being done 35-40 years ago, in America. Hell some of the topics are even the same.
...or timely cover-up?Seriously, does anyone believe this kind of discovery would ever be casually announced, if made public at all? well... no..... "They" would never let that get out... "They" would kill Mel Gibson with an earthquake first, just to distract everyone, before "They" wiped the data.
blocking a port is somewhat different from packet sniffing and insertion. In the port 25 case, they ISP isn't really blocking it, just blocking out of network access - port 25 is reserved for the ISP s email servers. There is some justification for it, convenience of their users (the vast majority of whom use the ISP's mail servers) and some basic spam blocking. For the minority, it's trivial to open up a different port (587 or 2525 maybe?) for email and use that - it's done all the time. Inserting/blocking and falsifying packets is something else entirely. The only justification is that the ISP wants to throttle back traffic, that isn't in favor of an in-network service that most of the ISP's clients would prefer to use, and, since Comcast enjoys monopoly status in some areas, there isn't a way for the client to vote with their feet.
There is either an intentional whoosh here or there is not.
Well, we didn't actually do to war with them, or with Cuba, but it was a close thing. Panama and Granada don't count as neighbors, I suppose. We did, however go to war by proxie with the USSR, and they are how close to Alaska? Their neighbors, aren't they?
HA! Such a funny AC and you typed all that one handed! !
'Using static
I know using static html is faster, but is php really painful? begin php sucks anyway flamewar! No, it's not painful, and finding ways to Cache a PHP generated pages, or parts of pages is fairly easy, with plenty of prewritten code, modules, snippets, or documented techniques available when you need to reduce that load. PHP's only real problem is that it's easy to learn, and anyone can write a php script with about 10 minutes worth of experimenting.... Leading to a host of php based sites that are poorly written....
And then you have the people that have a class of visual basic and / or C# under their belt, and think they can write good code cause "It works, doesn't it?"
When you say "this year", are you sure you didn't mean "the year before last"? Why would anyone switch from Dreamweaver to GoLive in the year Adobe announced to ditch GoLive for Dreamweaver? GL isn't even included in CS3 anymore, and Adobe heartily reccomends switching to DW.
Now, switching from GL to DW probably wouldn't be such a hot idea just prior to a big project, but from DW to GL? Now? That sounds insane. Heh, when I said "This year" I meant 2007, and yes, it was insane for a number of reasons....
An Article on another crappy year.... Of Dvorak tech articles.
How much you want to bet if this blogger said it ran on Linux,
How about this:
The New tears Seattle show was produced and directed by Pyro Spectaculars. who list the Seattle shows as well as the Olympics, and a number of other very well known fireworks shows as events they've managed. They do not, however, list the software they use on their website.
On the Infinity Visions website we find news items listing the same shows as being managed by the software they market, including the 2005 Seattle show. The software is windows only (it is vista compatible, now, the website says)
In addition, though I don't have a screen shot for you, The discovery channel special on the new fireworks extraviganza's (Featuring Pyro Spectaculars) does show how they layout the show on a computer (a windows interface, beyond question). The bloggers comment that they used a Windows based system in the past (as recently as Summer of 2006 is provable.) can readily be confirmed.
Pyro Spectacular may have switched to a non-windows based system since the Olympics, After using a solid product that they've depended on for years to handle explosives is conceivable but it seems unlikely. It does happen, after all; I know of a graphics shop in town that swore by dreamweaver and switched to GoLive this year, just prior to starting a major web project.... With the obvious results (cost overruns, missed deadlines, and such) I'm not hammering GoLive, I use it by preference, in fact, but a major switch before a big job is stupid, and yet companies still do it. So it's POSSIBLE the production shop switched in the last 18 months, but it's ratehr unlikely.