On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 4:51 AM, Keith Medcalf <kmedc...@dessus.com> wrote: > > There is video hosting web sites on the intertubes? > > Now where would those be found, I wonder. All I have ever seen is > macro-streaming that is fraudulently labeled and advertised as video -- the > worst being something called FlashVirus, which was written by a company > called MacroVirus Media or something like that, and currently owned and > flogged by Adobe along with their "Proprietary Document Format" (the latest > versions of which boast UVTD technology -- Unstoppable Virus Transport and > Distribution). > > If the so-called video contains arbitrary executable code (or can run > arbitrary executable code), or requires the use of a specific application to > "play" (or infect the target), then it should not be described as "video". > It is a streaming-macro. >
Is H.264 Turing-complete ? Is Ogg-Vorbis ? (It seems like those are the two reasonable open standard choices.)) Regards Marshall > Microsoft was the first OS vendor to add the "Execute Payload" header to IP > which saved much time and effort in the distribution of malicious code via > the internet. Unfortunatly, Adobe and several other vendors have patents on > what is called the method of "Executable Data" and made Microsoft remove > their wonderous invention under pain of patent lawsuits. > > Of course, maybe whats meant is File hosting, where the File being hosted > just happens to contain video data in standard data format (preferably a > pure-data format that does not embed execution macros of any type). > > ;) > > --- > () ascii ribbon campaign against html e-mail > /\ www.asciiribbon.org > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Christopher Morrow [mailto:morrowc.li...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Wednesday, 04 January, 2012 20:47 >> To: Michael K. Smith - Adhost >> Cc: bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com; Wessels, Duane; nanog@nanog.org >> Subject: Re: Trouble accessing www.nanog.org >> >> On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 10:41 PM, Michael K. Smith - Adhost >> <mksm...@adhost.com> wrote: >> >> >> Err, while we're talking about video files and nanog, why is the video >> >> content still served off (stored content I mean) nanog.org servers? >> >> Why not use one of the many video serving services? some of which are >> >> free even :) >> >> (that part's not a troll, a real question, even!) >> >> -chris >> > >> > >> > The website work hasn't yet begun, so that is certainly still on the >> table. If you would like to volunteer some of your time... >> >> I'm sure we could arrange some process to ingest videos to some form >> of video-hosting-website... a videotubes site let's say. >> >> who should I chat with? > > > > >
