California signs up for nutty law banning camcorders from cinemas

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California lawmakers OK bill banning
offshoring by state contractors

California lawmakers OK bill banning
offshoring by state contractors 05/27/2004 10:42 PM
SiliconValley.com May 28 2004 2:25AM GMT

MedValue, the Leading Provider of
Medical Claims Processing Services Signs
up two California-based Management
Services Organizations (MSO) as New
Clients

MedValue, the Leading Provider of
Medical Claims Processing Services Signs
up two California-based Management
Services Organizations (MSO) as New
Clients 06/17/2005 03:42 PM
MedValue’s Paper Claims to EDI Conversion service saves clients’ between 30% to 40% of their existing costs of processing paper claims. The word is getting out and MSOs are transitioning the front-end of their paper claims processing to MedValue at a rapid pace every month. [PRWEB Jun 15, 2005]

JVC's Mystery Hard Drive Camcorders
Revealed: They're Hard Drive Camcorders

JVC's Mystery Hard Drive Camcorders
Revealed: They're Hard Drive Camcorders 09/14/2004 11:18 AM

Oops, I almost forgot about these new cameras announced from JVC - the ones they've been hyping up to no end as their big "mystery product." Basically, they're camcorders with hard drives in them - a 4GB microdrive, to be exact. They look pretty cool and everything, but they're really most interesting because they are the first consumer camcorder with a built-in hard drive, not because they do anything particularly unique. That being said, I fully support this idea, and think most consumer recording technology should move to hard drives as soon as possible (I'll be waiting until you can get something with a bigger hard drive than 4GB for less than $1,500, though).

Both models (the GZ-MC100 and the GZ-MC200) can record up to 9Mbps in MPEG2, though, which is DVD quality.

Read - Press Release (Japanese) [VictorJP via SorobanGeeks]< /p>

David "SD8957" Chait has a less cynical take on the new camcorders, along with more stats and pictures.
Read - JVC Intros Everio Digital Camera with 4GB Microdrive [Chait]

"these nutty pictures"

"these nutty pictures" 08/17/2004 09:24 PM

Gollum going a bit nutty with one of his
orc buddies

Gollum going a bit nutty with one of his
orc buddies 12/04/2003 08:26 AM
The towers are the playas, yo .. flash movie of Gollum rapping .. Stupid Gollum thing .. LotRs Gangsta Rap .. met rappen .. Smiegel-G .. Gollum .. rappen .. Rap

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Malle's work: Nutty on the outside,
sweet on the inside (USATODAY.com)

Malle's work: Nutty on the outside,
sweet on the inside (USATODAY.com) 04/12/2005 05:58 AM
USATODAY.com - The utter wackiness of Viva Mari´a!, out on DVD today, reminds us that the late Louis Malle's filmography was among the most eclectic: Phantom India;Murmur of the Heart;Goodbye, Children- none on DVD. But two that are, along with Mari´a!, illustrate what a tough director he was to classify:

"Nutty video of some guy's fingers doing
tricks with a 2 1/2 inch skateboard"

"Nutty video of some guy's fingers doing
tricks with a 2 1/2 inch skateboard" 12/30/2004 04:30 AM

Nutty social network tool/dating service
with funny-ass copyright warning

Nutty social network tool/dating service
with funny-ass copyright warning 05/05/2004 02:07 PM
Clay Shirky has just blogged an high-larious deconstruction of SocalGrid, a FOAF-meets-dating-service social networking tool where users rate their physical attributes (5'10" blonde with "model looks") and the social attributes of their ideal mate and the service does the rest. The service commits every socially retarded gaffe imaginable, has attracted 9 men for every woman who's signed up, but the very best part is the "warning to copycats:"

SocialGrid has retained one of the top intellectual property law firms in America. Everything on this site is copyrighted and trademarked, including our search and coding system. Our patent application claims coverage on searches for all complex objects using Internet search engines. Our goal is to ensure a search system that will be free to our members and keep individuals and corporations from profiting by charging for searches. We will marginalize every profit margin. There is no money to made in creating another ID coding system. The world needs only one system. If necessary, we will give SocialGrid and the patent to Google to insure one standardized coding system. Any copycats and clones will have to answer to Google. Please be advised that any copyright, trademark, and patent infringement will result in legal action.

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Irish cinemas go all-digital

Irish cinemas go all-digital 03/23/2005 04:47 AM
World first etc.

UK cinemas to get digital screens

UK cinemas to get digital screens 05/17/2004 07:35 AM
British cinemas are to get 250 digital screens thanks to a Ł13m lottery grant from the UK Film Council.

Cinemas seek out Potter pirates

Cinemas seek out Potter pirates 05/31/2004 08:36 AM
A cinema chain equips staff with night vision goggles to prevent the new Harry Potter film being recorded.

Kill Bill 2 reigns at UK cinemas

Kill Bill 2 reigns at UK cinemas 05/04/2004 12:16 PM
Kill Bill: Volume 2 tops the UK box office chart, holding off Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

Digital technology for Irish cinemas

Digital technology for Irish cinemas 03/22/2005 04:51 PM
CNN Mar 21 2005 8:50PM GMT

States Outlaw Digital Taping in Cinemas

States Outlaw Digital Taping in Cinemas 01/03/2004 05:38 PM
San Jose Mercury News Jan 3 2004 5:02PM ET

Will LOTR:ROTK Extended Edition Hit
Cinemas?

Will LOTR:ROTK Extended Edition Hit
Cinemas? 07/07/2004 06:13 PM

Hitler movie leads German cinemas

Hitler movie leads German cinemas 09/21/2004 05:04 AM
A movie which depicts Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler's softer side tops the German box office chart.

Irish Cinemas Switch to Digital
Projection (AP)

Irish Cinemas Switch to Digital
Projection (AP) 03/24/2005 04:26 PM
AP - While digital projectors have been slow in making their entrance into American movie theater, Ireland is forging ahead to become the first country to convert all its movie theaters to digital projection.

Harry Potter cinemas outfitted with
night-scopes

Harry Potter cinemas outfitted with
night-scopes 05/31/2004 04:03 AM
The new Harry Potter movie is out in the UK and the cinemas are filled with minimum-wage ushers with night-scopes to hunt-and-destroy people videotaping the flick. I'm seeing it this morning at Leicester Square, and I plan on taking a flas h photo of the copyright warning, as is my wont. Wonder if they'll deport me?

Staff at the Vue will be "very discreet" with their potentially frightening cyclopean attachments, Mr Graham said, but action against offenders would be swift.

Much like the battered young wizards on screen, who are constantly being whirled about by baddies, pirates will be "hauled out of their seats and reported straight away to the police".

Link (Thanks, Diane!)

Sony Projector May Speed Launch of
Digital Cinemas (Reuters)

Sony Projector May Speed Launch of
Digital Cinemas (Reuters) 06/03/2004 12:34 AM
Reuters - Sony Electronics plans to unveil on Thursday a new digital projection system for movie theaters, using a microchip it says will advance the industry and rival Texas Instruments Inc's market-leading product.

On Mars, Signs of Water Don't
Necessarily Mean Signs of Life

On Mars, Signs of Water Don't
Necessarily Mean Signs of Life 03/08/2004 11:24 PM
Following the news from Mars, people might think it was the story of scientists who cried "Water!" over and over.

New DVD camcorders from Hitachi

New DVD camcorders from Hitachi 01/16/2004 10:57 AM
A couple of new DVD camcorders from Hitachi. Both the DZ-MV550A and DZ-MV580A can record in widescreen format and use USB 2.0 for transferring video...

Report: Camcorders

Report: Camcorders 07/06/2004 09:54 AM
problems using FireWire camcorder while booted from FireWire drive

Canon's new DV camcorders

Canon's new DV camcorders 03/20/2003 08:30 AM

Two new DV camcorders from Canon that double as 1.33 megapixel digital still cameras. Both the Optura 10 and Optura 20 have 16x optical zoom lenses, Firewire for transferring video to a PC, and slots for saving still images to MMC and SD memory cards.
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10% off Camcorders for .Mac Subscribers

10% off Camcorders for .Mac Subscribers 02/19/2004 10:17 AM
Apple contiunes to add benefits for .Mac subscribers. The latest promotion offers 10% off Camcorders at Apple Retail stores. We're making filmmaki...

Banning By Keyword?

Banning By Keyword? 08/09/2004 03:09 PM
It's well known that China blocks out certain websites, but their latest move to stop people from accessing content the government considers harmful is to have certain local search engines ban keywords. Apparently, popular Chinese search engine Baidu has a list of about 40,000 banned keywords. It's not entirely clear what happens if someone does search on a banned keyword (0 search results? told you've searched on banned words? immediately told to report to the local prison?), but with so many banned keywords there must be an awful lot of collateral damage in terms of perfectly reasonable websites that can't be found. Of course, it's been clear for a while that the Chinese government really isn't too concerned with "false positives" in their efforts to ban anything they consider to be "harmful" online.

"Banning Smokers"

"Banning Smokers" 01/05/2004 04:16 PM

Why IP banning is useless

Why IP banning is useless 02/10/2004 02:38 PM

Many proposals for eliminating comment spam are focused on banning or throttling comments from the IP address of the spammer. This is fundamentally flawed because it assumes IP addresses are both unique and hard to come by.

Banning an IP address can have severe consequences. Many ISPs (including AOL) and companies use a proxy server that makes it appear as if all users are coming from a single (or a handful) if IP addresses. By blocking an IP address, you might be preventing a substantial portion of AOL users from commenting. Depending on your point of view, eliminating AOL may not be a great loss; however the same thing would happen to millions of users behind other proxy servers.

The other problem is that IP addresses are very easy to get or fake for spammers who care about such things. There are hundreds of thousands of open proxies that will let anyone direct Web traffic through them. When I’m using an open proxy, my IP address is effectively masked. And I can use simple software to switch to a different open proxy (and thus a different IP address) every few minutes. So my spamming activity isn’t tied to a specific IP address.

Hypothetically speaking, if the problem of open proxies were to disappear overnight, there are two other mechanisms that provide a limitless set of IP addresses to spammers: dialup and spoofing.

Most dialup ISPs provide a different IP address each time you dial in. If a spammer were to find that their IP address had been banned, they could simply disconnect and redial. It would be trivial to automate the process of dialing in, spamming, disconnecting, and dialing back in.

IP addresses are easy to fake as well. The design principles of TCP/IP allows the sender of a packet to specify its IP address. The message will still be routed to its destination using the fake origin address. Return packets would be mis-routed, however, because TCP/IP would send responses to the true location of the IP address rather than where it actually came from. This means that IP spoofing is ineffective in situations where you need to interact with a remote server, but very effective in a one-way conversation. I can’t retrieve a Web page using a spoofed IP address because I need to make the request and then have the server send me the page. But I can send requests all day long if I don’t care about the response.

Posting a comment (or TrackBack) doesn’t require interaction. I can send a comment in a POST or GET message and not worry about the response if I don’t care about receiving acknowledgment that it was successful.

Theaters vs. Camcorders, Round 27

Theaters vs. Camcorders, Round 27 06/04/2004 05:28 PM

.Mac users get 10 percent off camcorders

.Mac users get 10 percent off camcorders 02/19/2004 11:33 AM
Subscribers to Apple's .Mac service can get 10 percent off the purchase of a camcorder at Apple Retail Stores, according to a promotion recently published on the .Mac home page.

Some camcorders record directly to DVD

Some camcorders record directly to DVD 12/17/2003 09:33 PM
Boston Globe Dec 17 2003 8:51PM ET

10% off digital camcorders for .Mac
members

10% off digital camcorders for .Mac
members 02/19/2004 10:11 AM
Apple has added yet another exclusive offer for .Mac members—10 percent off digital camcorders at Apple retail stores...

Brought to you by MacMinute

Some Camcorders Record Directly to DVD

Some Camcorders Record Directly to DVD 12/17/2003 09:33 PM
AP via Newsday Dec 17 2003 8:42PM ET

Reviews for Digital Camcorders?

Reviews for Digital Camcorders? 02/10/2004 06:48 PM

Hitachi debuts new DVD camcorders at CES

Hitachi debuts new DVD camcorders at CES 01/09/2004 10:08 PM
Hitachi today introduced the company's fourth generation DVD camcorders at the 2004 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas...

New software for camcorders, schools

New software for camcorders, schools 04/20/2004 10:15 PM
Sunday Times South Africa Apr 21 2004 2:40AM GMT

368 Small Businesses Sold in Northern &
Southern California Last Week, According
to California Businesses For Sale's
www.bizben.com - Business Opportunities,
Commercial Real Estate, & Franchises
Sales

368 Small Businesses Sold in Northern &
Southern California Last Week, According
to California Businesses For Sale's
www.bizben.com - Business Opportunities,
Commercial Real Estate, & Franchises
Sales 07/21/2004 02:45 AM
368 Small Businesses Sold in Northern & Southern California Last Week, According To California Businesses For Sale's www.bizben.com - Business Opportunities, Commercial Real Estate, & Franchises Sales. These businesses were sold by business owners, business brokers, & real estate agents for the week of July 12, 2004 thru July 18, 2004. [PRWEB Jul 21, 2004]

Parents Banning Children From The Web

Parents Banning Children From The Web 04/14/2004 02:26 PM
Parents are still struggling to figure out how to let their children on the internet without putting them at risk. A new study says that some parents (8%) have resorted to banning the internet completely. This seems likely to guarantee that the kids run over to their friends' homes to access the internet instead - without any supervision. Nearly 40% of parents aren't worried at all, with another 30% saying that they only allow their kids online with supervision - which sounds like the smart way to teach kids how to be responsible online. 40% also use tools to protect their kids, though the study doesn't suggest how (in)effective these tools are.

Banning Emailed Executables

Banning Emailed Executables 11/14/2003 05:14 PM
The latest tactic in stopping emailed virus attacks is to stop letting a mail server pass on emailed executables. MIT is apparently rejecting all such messages. Of course, the virus writers will quickly figure out a social engineering trick around this, and will try to get people to download the executable from somewhere else. Besides, there certainly are cases where it does make sense to email an executable, and suddenly people are going to need to figure out a way around that block.

Banning the Bible to Get Out the Vote

Banning the Bible to Get Out the Vote 09/24/2004 12:04 PM
There have been some rumors floating around lately about an RNC ad that is being sent to people living in the Bible Belt about how 'liberals' want to "ban the Bible" (what that really means, I don't know, but there you have it). It ain't a rumor folks, this is U.S. Presidential Campaign 2004, at its finest.
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