Episode31

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Mac BootCamp

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Reasons to love Open Source DRM

  • Sun Microsystems has proposed, with its DReaM initiative open source DRM.
  • Central idea is to assign rights to users not devices, hence rights can follow user across devices allowing access to DRMed media from a multitude of devices.
  • Lawrence Lessig approved Sun's plan apparrently because they have with the Creative Commons to support their licences.
  • However: Sun's DReaM "Usage Scenarios" document says that its fair-use mechanism is purely optional for rights holders.
  • No obligation on copyright holders to support fair use.
  • who would certify the players, and what would block the non-certified players from playing DReaM-protected content, that is still not clear.
  • Not all are happy with Sun's scheme: 'I wish Sun would figure out a way to let me do less with my music and movies,'" Cory Doctorow.
  • EFF makes the point that "open" and "royalty-free" DRM doesn't make it any less capable of restricting the public's rights under copyright.
  • Link: Wired
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Laser Eye Surgery for the Home!

  • LASIK@Home was founded in 2004 by Dr. Amir Khadim, M.D., Ph.D.
  • Key to the system is the Scal-Pal™ Scanning Adjusting Laparascopic Personal Laser.
  • Contains two lasers: first laser cuts a small flap in the cornea of your eye. Then the second laser vaporizes a tiny section of the lens without damaging the surrounding tissue.
  • Claim that "LASIK@Home is 100% safe" is a little hard to believe, especially for what it does.
  • Normally such surgery costs thousands of dollars and is carried out by trained professional who have years of experience. Would you trust yourself and a piece of plastic and electronics to do as good a job?
  • Risks of Lasik surgery include: loss of vision
  • Link [1]
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Comment Tracking

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Short Stories

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Listen to this NSA

  • Phil Zimmermann's (creator of PGP)newest encryption software, Zfone.
  • The fruit of 10 years trying give the world easy-to-use software to cloak internet phone calls.
  • Open source, currently in Beta.
  • uses the industry standard SIP protocol, so it will work with a number of clients.
  • It has been submitted to IETF for approval as an internet standard, and rumours exist that it is indeed good enough to beat the acres of computers under Fort Meade.
  • Question is whether it will be adopted widely or will Skype continue to dominate.
  • Skype uses their own closed-source, own proprietary protocols.
  • may end up being used by the paranoids and geeks.
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Face Recognition

  • riya - http://riya.com
    • launched publically a week ago after months of valley hype
    • recognizes common faces in your photos
      • You upload all your photos
      • it finds the faces automatically
      • then you train it by telling it who's who
      • eventually it learns to recognize people and label them
      • you can search for other people's photos of yourself (or whoever)
    • They employ lots of vision processing guys and plan to expand into more areas of image recognition
    • You can't import all your photos from flickr yet
    • looks cool but haven't used it yet
  • Can this level of technology beat the cutest kitten test? http://www.thepcspy.com/articles/security/the_cutest_humantest_kittenauth
    • better have a good supply of kitten photos and other animals to stop a brute force attack
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Media Pimp

Rowan

Francis

  • Greg Apodaca's Digital Portfolio
    • If you ever wondered how much photoshopping is used in glamour magazines then take a look at this... the skill of this guy is unbelievable! Nottie to hottie with a wave of his mouse!
    • Link: bikini_nottie_to_hottie
  • How to pull an all-nighter
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