Valenti Fades to Black as Movie Booster
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M&M's Candy Fades to Black and White
(Reuters)
M&M's Candy Fades to Black and White
(Reuters)
12/30/2003 09:46 AMReuters - M&M's, the colorful button-shaped
candies, are about to go off color for the first time in 60
years, but it remains to be seen whether their fans love or
hate the change.
Jack Black to star in movie adaptation
of Rudy Rucker novel
Jack Black to star in movie adaptation
of Rudy Rucker novel
05/27/2004 03:34 PMVariety reports that Rudy Rucker's fantastic 1984 novel,
Master of Space and Time (you can
buy it used on Amazon for $0.01), is
going to adapted into a movie. It'll be directed by Michel Gondry, who
directed
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and will star
Jack Black.
Link (subscription required)
Youth moves on as Faliraki fades
Youth moves on as Faliraki fades
05/10/2004 11:52 AMHoliday companies targeting the youth market make an exit from
Faliraki as demand moves elsewhere.
Dimmer fades on desk-lamp iMac
Dimmer fades on desk-lamp iMac
07/02/2004 02:52 PMIt may have been "flat-out cool," but "flat" had also begun to
describe sales of the just-discontinued second-generation iMac.
Dial-up fades away as broadband pulls
ahead
Dial-up fades away as broadband pulls
ahead
06/03/2004 12:07 PMZDNet UK Jun 3 2004 4:05PM GMT
B-school "hacking" incident finally
fades from the news
B-school "hacking" incident finally
fades from the news
04/14/2005 10:13 PMNo reporters have called in the last couple of weeks to ask about
the
Harvard Business School "hacking" incident, in which applicants
who edited URLs could discover whether or not they'd been
admitted. I had a tough time understanding why the story had
such long legs when, after all, quite a few Web sites over the past 15
years have had similar vulnerabilities. What was unusual about
the business schools is that they blamed their Web site users.
Every other publisher has secretly spanked its programmers, patched
the hole, and tried to pretend that it never happened. The
B-schools, however, somehow came up with the innovative idea of
blaming everything on the cut-and-pasters out there in the wider world
rather than on the dazed-by-donuts coders who couldn't get the
authorizations right for various pages. That's what made the
story different and what attracted so much press.
[This was not
actually the first time that HBS had trouble with the world of
commercial junkware. They outsourced their placement office
interview scheduling a few years back and the system managed to screw
up students desperate for jobs in a down economy.
The student newspaper ran a cartoon lampooning the administrators
responsible and the deans decided to fix the problem by
threatening to expel the editor of the newspaper for violating
Harvard's speech code (see
http://ww
w.thefire.org/index.php/article/4909.html).]Hope Fades for UK Iraq Hostage as U.S.
Stands Firm
Hope Fades for UK Iraq Hostage as U.S.
Stands Firm
09/22/2004 02:53 PMReuters via Wired News Sep 22 2004 6:18PM GMT
Poll: eMac Attraction Fades As Educators
Turn To Portables
Poll: eMac Attraction Fades As Educators
Turn To Portables
03/14/2005 05:51 PMApple CFO Peter Oppenheimer revealed that independent third party
research group Student Monitor had found that in education sphere
intention to buy Mac -- particularly portable Macs -- is way up. By
Karen Haslam, Macworld UK
Polls Show Nov. 2 Race Even as Bush
Bounce Fades (Reuters)
Polls Show Nov. 2 Race Even as Bush
Bounce Fades (Reuters)
09/16/2004 05:02 PMReuters - Two national polls on Thursday
showed the race between President Bush and Democrat John Kerry
deadlocked again as Bush's convention bounce faded, although
the president has made headway in key swing states.
Booster Bag
Booster Bag
06/17/2005 06:10 PM
While we do not condone the
theft of anything -- from a pack of gum to the Hope Diamond -- we
do condone the use of technology to point out how
disgustingly silly most security systems are. The Booster Bag, made of
RF-blocking foil, allows would-be educators to make off with lots of
free stuff and school the purveyors of security systems in the
manifold ways of the illusion of security.
No, don't ask us where to find these things. We don't know. I do
know that a backpack lined with this stuff and a Hallmark store would
make me the happiest Hummel collector in the world.
Booster Bags Use
Foil to Foil Any Store’s Anti-Shoplifting Machines
[RealTechNews]
IE Booster v2.13
IE Booster v2.13
12/11/2003 05:02 PMIE Booster is a collection of tools to extend the functionality of
Internet Explorer (Version 5.5 and up, V6 recommended). These tools
help you to dig into the technology behind a website, to analyze the
HTML and script code being used, to comfortably copy content from a
webpage and to use various online resources to check and analyze a
webpage. [Shareware $29.95 30 Days 2.544 MB]
OCZ DDR Booster
OCZ DDR Booster
08/14/2004 06:39 AMMemory Booster v14.12.03
Memory Booster v14.12.03
12/20/2003 01:24 PMFrees RAM memory of unused sectors so that your applications run
better. Whenever your computer runs low on resources consider
optimizing your memory using Memory Optimizer. It can free your memory
to up to 60%. [Shareware $22.50 884 KB]
Light Booster
Light Booster
08/27/2004 05:41 PMDirect and Related Links for 'Light Booster'
“A new device designed by Garrett Cole and Qi Chen at the
University of California, Santa Barbara, could help bring fiber-optic
connections—and the massive doses of bandwidth they provide—to home
Internet users. The device is an inexpensive amplifier that could be
used to boost data signals in the critical “last mile” of fiber-optic
cable running between a home or neighborhood and the telecom backbone.
One of the major hurdles in telecommunications has been the
cost…
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OCZ DDR Booster Review
09/27/2004 07:09 AMV for victory, Valenti
V for victory, Valenti
06/17/2004 01:45 AMUSA Today Jun 17 2004 6:32AM GMT
Exit Valenti
Exit Valenti
08/02/2004 07:00 PMJack Valenti says goodbye in the LA Times today, rating his career
"AE--always exciting." A few better and less-well known Valentisms
from the King-Kong of lobbyists: On the nascent cable industry, in
1974 "[Cable will become] a huge parasite in the marketplace, feeding
and fattening itself off of local television...
PeopleSoft's confidence booster
PeopleSoft's confidence booster
09/27/2004 07:02 AMComputer Business Review Sep 27 2004 11:10AM GMT
Web Booster 2.691 (Default branch)
Web Booster 2.691 (Default branch)
04/11/2005 03:51 AM
Web Booster is a Web accelerator and load balancer
that dramatically improves the content delivery of
Web servers.
Changes:
Server I/O performance improvements, changes to the caching algorithm
for better performance, and a change to the caching logic to make it
not buffer large uncacheable files.
Babies may get meningitis booster
Babies may get meningitis booster
07/22/2004 08:02 PMChildren may get an extra dose of meningitis C vaccine after research
show waning immunity.
Linux's Proprietary Booster
Linux's Proprietary Booster
02/03/2003 10:14 AMLinux Magazine talks toLarry Ellison."LM: But more realistically, do
you think that Oracle's had to cede the lower end of the database
market to MySQL to concentrate on the enterprise, or is that a
customer base you wouldn't reach anyway?ELLISON: No. It's a little bit
like asking if we are worried about people who pirate Oracle. The
people who pirate Oracle are not the people who would buy our
database. The people who use MySQL are not the people who would buy
our database. They don't have
Gefen releases DVI Booster
Gefen releases DVI Booster
03/25/2005 04:04 PMGefen has released the DVI Booster, a unit that helps you extend the
length of a Digital Visual Interface (DVI) connection between your Mac
and its display. Normally DVI connections are limited to about 15 feet
because of video signal degradation. The DVI Booster corrects such
degradation so you can extend out a DVI connection from 30 to 50 more
feet, according to Gefen. The DVI Booster costs US$249.
MIT and Jack Valenti have a chat
MIT and Jack Valenti have a chat
04/29/2004 12:32 AM
MIT's The Tech newspaper
recently sat down with Motion Picture Association of America head Jack
Valenti for
an interview about digital rights. The writer, a MIT engineering
student, probes (perhaps a bit too tenaciously) the bad side of the
DMCA, namely DVD encryption and playback on Linux, which is currently
illegal. In the end it's a nice short piece on two opposing viewpoints
coming together and trying to see each other's point of view,
something that's often lacking in digital rights debates.
Chinese Movie Industry Recognizes Movie
Watching Is A Social Experience
Chinese Movie Industry Recognizes Movie
Watching Is A Social Experience
03/22/2005 05:03 PMYesterday we noted that the MPAA and movie theater owners were
whini
ng about how much people coming in an taping movies was hurting
their business. The obvious response, we pointed out, is to recognize
that going to the movies is a
social experience. It's not just
about the content (though, that is important), but the overall
experience. If they improved that, then people would want to go --
even if they could score the same movie off the internet or a cheap
DVD bought off the street. While the folks in Hollywood refuse to
entertain this idea, someone (anonymously) in the comments to that
story pointed to an article in China noting that
this is exactly what Chinese movie theaters have done.
After years of declining attendance, they finally shaped up and made
going to the movies cool again. They improved the overall experience,
putting in better equipment and more comfortable seats. They improved
the sound and the lighting as well. It sounds like they also made
some theaters to be more like bars, to help attract young adults away
from traditional bars. Yet the supposedly "creative" movie people in
Hollywood insist "nothing can be done" to get people into the theater.
Wi-Fi Booster Goes to Market At Retail
Stores
Wi-Fi Booster Goes to Market At Retail
Stores
09/02/2004 09:41 PMTechWeb Sep 3 2004 2:21AM GMT
A booster shot for phones, iPods
A booster shot for phones, iPods
04/17/2005 07:00 PMChicago Tribune Apr 17 2005 7:15PM GMT
OCZ Announces DDR Booster Diagnostic
Tool
OCZ Announces DDR Booster Diagnostic
Tool
06/16/2004 05:57 PMJack Valenti: The Exit Interview
Jack Valenti: The Exit Interview
08/31/2004 06:27 AMInterview in The Tech with Jack Valenti
Interview in The Tech with Jack Valenti
04/30/2004 04:52 AMThere's a
short interview in MIT's The Tech newpaper with Jack Valenti about
DMCA. I'm glad that Jack is still willing to have discussions like
this. This is what I meant when I said that I think Jack should be respected. Even if you
don't agree with him, he's still willing to try to discuss his
position with you.
via Creative Commons
weblog
Jack Valenti wrong, but charmingly so
Jack Valenti wrong, but charmingly so
04/09/2004 03:59 PMSiliconValley.com Mar 28 2004 11:30AM GMT
MIT makes Jack Valenti look like an
idiot
MIT makes Jack Valenti look like an
idiot
04/30/2004 08:34 PMMIT's The Tech interviews the MPAA's outgoing spokesmonster Jack
Valenti, with hilarious results. It's not often that a slickster as
teflon coated as Jack gets made to look an utter fool (though I'd
welcome a round onstage with him in front of a university audience) so
bravo and bravo again to The Tech's Keith J. Winstein, who ran circles
around Valenti.
TT: Indeed, but are you doing that when you rent a movie from
Blockbuster and you watch it at home? ... I run Linux on my computer.
There’s no product I can buy that’s licensed to watch
[DVDs]. If I go to Blockbuster and rent a movie and watch it, am I a
bad person? Is that bad?
JV: No, you’re not a bad person. But you don’t have any
right.
TT: But I rented the movie. Why should it be illegal?
JV: Well then, you have to get a machine that’s licensed to show
it.
TT: Here’s one of these machines; it’s just not licensed.
[Winstein shows Valenti his six-line “qrpff” DVD
descrambler.]
TT: If you type that in, it’ll let you watch movies.
JV: You designed this?
TT: Yes.
JV: Un-fucking-believable.
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Judge Tells Valenti To Allow DVD
Screeners
Judge Tells Valenti To Allow DVD
Screeners
12/08/2003 04:41 AMWell, the latest word in Jack Valenti's effort to ban studios from
sending DVD screeners to awards voters is that, sorry, but it's not
the MPAA's call. A judge has said that the studios
can not be blocked from sending screeners if they want to.
This means that independent studios can still send out the screeners,
though, I imagine it could lead to some backlash in relationships they
hold with the major studios. Meanwhile, Jack Valenti says that the
MPAA is going to appeal. Am I the only one who's a little confused
about this one? If a studio wants to send out a DVD to the award
voters, what's to stop them legally, no matter what Valenti says? The
real threat is that they'll be somehow blackballed by Hollywood - and
that's going to happen no matter what the courts say.
Jack Valenti Actually Gets A Question He
Can't Answer
Jack Valenti Actually Gets A Question He
Can't Answer
04/28/2004 02:31 PMOne of my complaints concerning most interviews with Jack Valenti
concerning his views on copy protection is that most interviewers
don't ask any of the tougher questions that Valenti should answer.
Now,
Slashdot is pointing to
an
interview of Valenti by an MIT student, where the student
confronts Valenti about why he can't watch legally purchased or rented
DVDs on a Linux machines, and actually shows Valenti some "illegal"
DVD descrambling code, which apparently gets a curse out of Valenti.
While it is amusing to see Valenti get flustered, it doesn't seem like
the most productive interview. Rather than focus in on such a tiny
aspect (why you can't watch DVDs on a Linux machine) it would have
been more interesting to get at some of the bigger questions
concerning the MPAA's views on intellectual property - such as how
things like the VCR (which Valenti called "the Boston Strangler of the
movie industry") actually saved the industry.
MIT Student Grills Valenti on Fair Use
MIT Student Grills Valenti on Fair Use
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01/28/2004 06:54 AM"Jack Valenti Interview with an
intelligent journalist"
"Jack Valenti Interview with an
intelligent journalist"
04/29/2004 09:09 AMJack Valenti... Misunderstanding The
Digital World Right Up Until The End
Jack Valenti... Misunderstanding The
Digital World Right Up Until The End
08/30/2004 03:19 PMJack Valenti is getting ready to
retire, but that hasn't stopped him from continuing to give interviews
where he says stuff that are clearly false or purposely
misleading. My biggest complaint with the interview isn't with
Valenti, actually. It's that the interviewer, JD Lasica, who
definitely
knows better, didn't challenge Valenti on any of his
ridiculous answers. Not once does he say anything. Even when Valenti
trots out his ridiculous excuses for why you should never be able to
back up a DVD, where, in a single answer Valenti confuses the
different between digital and tangible items and then insists that
there should be no reason to back up digital items because they last
forever. Of course, they only last forever... um... if you can back
them up. So, there's a bit of a disconnect there, and it should have
been hammered home. Also, Valenti continues to insist that there's no
such thing as fair use. Or rather, he makes a series of contradictory
statements about fair use, none of which fully make sense. He first
seems to say that you can only use fair use on content that belongs to
you, in which case you wouldn't need fair use (it already belongs to
you!). Next, he claims that if someone fast forwards through
something in classroom,
that is fair use, but follows it up by
saying the law doesn't recognize fair use (which is simply false).
These are all things he's said before, so there's nothing that new in
the interview, but how could the interviewer, especially someone who
has written a new book about these things, let Valenti get away with
them? That's why he continues to think he's right -- because no one
tells him to his face that he's wrong when he spouts this stuff.
Watch Jack Valenti Try To Rewrite
History
Watch Jack Valenti Try To Rewrite
History
06/21/2004 03:59 PMNews.com is running an interview with Jack Valenti where they actually
ask him the question that many interviewers have skipped over, about
his famous "Boston strangler" quote about how the VCR will kill the
movie industry. Valenti, in his usual manner, tries to
rewrite history by making
two claims. First, he says he was never actually against the VCR,
but was just worried about the piracy aspect. Second, he says he's
been vindicated in those views because of all the VCR related piracy
that's out there. He's wrong on both points, but the News.com
interviewer doesn't challenge him. First, it's pretty clear that if
you say that the VCR is the Boston Strangler to the film producer,
that you expect it to kill off the film industry. Instead, the VCR
completely revived and revitalized the industry. Second, his claim on
vindication is because of incredibly misleading stats that he throws
out (twice!) claiming that the industry is "losing" $3.5 billion a
year to piracy -- not considering the fact that the vast majority of
people who end up with pirated films were unlikely to buy the full
cost version. Compare this to another interview today by the Harvard
professor who did that study a few months ago suggesting that file
sharing does not damage sales. In that interview, the professor
admits what the entertainment industry refuses to believe:
there are multiple factors related to file sharing that impact
entertainment sales. Some of it is as a substitution (people will
download instead of buy) and some of it is as a promotion (people will
use the free downloadable content to make a decision on what to buy).
These two factors can compete. The professor wants to find out what
the actual impact of these competing factors will be, while the
industry refuses to believe that anyone could possibly use these tools
for promotional value. It's a dangerous blindness to reality that
doesn't bode well for them.
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