Saturday, November 1, 2008
Blue Rabbit
Today the Girl that Got her Hair Cut Off morphed into a Blue Rabbit. This is practice video focusing on movement and color consistency.
With cheap cameras you will have really slow reaction to the color balance. I'm working with a XBox360Live. You really need to wait about 3-5 seconds once your hands have left the 'stage' for the camera to have enough time to adjust the coloring. This was an unpredicted piece of knowledge I get to share today. Can't wait to write it into a lesson plan!
Friday, October 31, 2008
First attempt at Claymation:
Girl Realizing her Hair got Cut Off
This is my first attempt at making a Claymation video with iStopMotion. Its a little out of focused and the environment isn't so well planned, but the short is fun.
Sunday, October 26, 2008
Ethical Issues pertaining to DRM
The governing of society requires laws to clarify the right from the wrong for both businesses and individual members of the society. These laws are made to protect the rights of consumers, individuals, businesses, and anyone else affects.
Shortly after the Olympics ended, China made the news with their milk scandal. Milk powder containing Melamine, a toxic chemical found in plastics and fertilizers, had been the cause of 432 kidney stones in Chinese infants. Milk provides essential nutrients to infants, and poisoning it with Melamine in order to stretch out the baby formula is considered wrong. Prior to Food and Drug Administration laws were in place within the US, thinning out milk had been occurring here too. While this may not be as sever as the addition of Melamine, thinning the milk required infants to consume much more in order to receive the nutrients they need. Having laws in place on a national level AND enforcing them places companies responsible for their own wrong doing.
In John Lewis's book Computer Science Illuminated an article addressing ethical issues and digital rights management (DRM). One controversy addressed within this article illustrated Sony BMG's applying rootkit programs to their products. As defined by Wikipedia, rootkit "is malware which consists of a program designed to take fundamental control of a computer system, without authorization by the system's owners and legitimate managers." One of the primary reasons behind Sony's action had been the increase in pirated materials through Internet exchange (i.e. bit-torrent sites like Napster and Piratebay). Owning a CD or movie provides the owner with rights to that particular copy. However, uploading it to share with others takes away profit from the companies that developed the materials. This had been what Sony was reacting to.
Were the methods they applied as a solution right? No. Just as milk contamination placed infants in danger of death, Sony exposed their consumers to a security hole that could have caused a lot of damage via identity theft, etc. However, companies in ownership of intellectual property should have some governmental forces protecting them. This would require an entity to take charge of the Internet, as it is a nearly governless force. Until this happens many online theft will continue through sites like Piratebay.org.
Shortly after the Olympics ended, China made the news with their milk scandal. Milk powder containing Melamine, a toxic chemical found in plastics and fertilizers, had been the cause of 432 kidney stones in Chinese infants. Milk provides essential nutrients to infants, and poisoning it with Melamine in order to stretch out the baby formula is considered wrong. Prior to Food and Drug Administration laws were in place within the US, thinning out milk had been occurring here too. While this may not be as sever as the addition of Melamine, thinning the milk required infants to consume much more in order to receive the nutrients they need. Having laws in place on a national level AND enforcing them places companies responsible for their own wrong doing.
In John Lewis's book Computer Science Illuminated an article addressing ethical issues and digital rights management (DRM). One controversy addressed within this article illustrated Sony BMG's applying rootkit programs to their products. As defined by Wikipedia, rootkit "is malware which consists of a program designed to take fundamental control of a computer system, without authorization by the system's owners and legitimate managers." One of the primary reasons behind Sony's action had been the increase in pirated materials through Internet exchange (i.e. bit-torrent sites like Napster and Piratebay). Owning a CD or movie provides the owner with rights to that particular copy. However, uploading it to share with others takes away profit from the companies that developed the materials. This had been what Sony was reacting to.
Were the methods they applied as a solution right? No. Just as milk contamination placed infants in danger of death, Sony exposed their consumers to a security hole that could have caused a lot of damage via identity theft, etc. However, companies in ownership of intellectual property should have some governmental forces protecting them. This would require an entity to take charge of the Internet, as it is a nearly governless force. Until this happens many online theft will continue through sites like Piratebay.org.
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