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First, you dont have to actively encrypt your MPEG2 files for them to be usable in a DVD player (at least, not in any way that i know off)

You take your videomaterial, and then run it through an MPEG2 encoder (Ligos, for example, or Darim Vision) and then you master your DVD in some authoring software, the only one i know of i Daikins Scenarist NT, which by the pictures i've seen from it should be very graphical, and thus very easy to work with.

You use Scenarist to create your fancy-schmanzy menu system (based on TIFF/TGA images, which you can create in eg. Photoshop, 3DS Max, Lightwave, Paintshop Pro or wherever), and then finally write it down to VOB files. (It might be that Scenarist actually encodes the files at this point, using the CSS algorithm, but to be honest, i dont really know)

Then you ship it to your DVD printing facility, and let them make your final glass master, and press a couple'o these babies out, and youre good to go. :-)

http://come.to/freezy3000 has a interesting article about creating a MiniDVD (DVD on a CDR).

As a first step, I have a grammar-sensitive JavaScript compressor which I'm releasing into open source.

This distinction was built into early legal precedent. Merely discovering a mechanism in nature does not entitle one to a patent of invention on that mechanism. Departure from that precedent leaves us in a land of selective enforcement and bogus arguments against patentability such as "it must be public domain for the common good".

Note this is distinct from the other major abuse of patent law these days, exhibited primarily by software patents, which is patenting techniques that are obvious to those skilled in the art.

Damn, re-reading that brought back a lot of laughs. Of particular note - look for the lawyer falling for the "FTP site at 127.0.0.1" troll, as well as the "ARSCC" troll.

The ARSCC troll is particularly amusing. Those of you who read news.admin.net-abuse.email and and have heard about the Lumber Cartel (TINLC) - imagine being questioned about "who runs the Lumber Cartel" in a deposition. The ARSCC started out the same way - another ficticious organization cooked up by netizens to troll a group so deeply in denial that they already believed that "since so many people on the 'net disagree with us, they must all be part of the same large conspiracy against us", fell for it hook, line, and sinker.

In both n.a.n-a.e and a.r.s., the conspiracy meme was already fully expressed amongst the lams and the spammers, respectively. All the 'netizens had to do was give the Conspiracy a name, and watch its opponents go nuts trying to find out who, in meatspace, was part of it. When properly executed, such a troll leads the opponent into executing a meatspace distributed denial-of-service attack against himself by seeing conspirators wherever he goes.

I'm not at all surprised that many spammers fell for the Lumber Cartel (spammers are, if dogshit will forgive me, dumber 'n dogshit), but the clams fell for the mythical ARSCC even more easily!

The cult's falling for the ARSCC troll indicates another bit of defective memetic programming; by sekrit skripture, they're trained to ask "who are you working for?" whenever anyone questions them, because the notion of "activist" (in the sense of "someone who acts independently and takes personal risk to challenge big organizations when they're misbehaving") simply didn't exist in the 1950s-and-60s memetic environment out of which the cult formed. To the cult, there can be no independent objectors to its practices; anyone who criticizes it is a priori assumed to be part of an organized conspiracy against the cult.

(Any coercive organization generally needs an "enemy" on which it can fixate its members' emotions. Another 50s-and-60s memetic bug either introduced by this, or reinforced by it, in the CO$, is the fact that the cult exists in a universe composed of large organizations battling on roughly equal footings, like superpowers in the WWII and the Cold War. An army defeated because it was "nibbled to death by ducks" was simply inconceivable until after Vietnam, by which time Cult doctrine had been frozen. Oops.)

It's only recently that trolling has become a weapon of memetic warfare per se - fabricating organizations and watching conspiracy-minded loons run around in circles looking for them is, of course, a grand 'net tradition, going as far back as the original USENET Cabal. TINC. The Cabal told me so.

I saw a man upon a stair, a little man who wasn't there
I saw the man again today. Gee I wish he'd go away.

See my congressional testimony for some background on this space commercialization legislation.

Both of these laws were drafted, promoted and passed by citizen activists without "old boy network" lobbyists.

As evidenced by his long-term actions as well as his words, Goldin's idea of space commercialization is essentially the national socialist model of "free enterprise": The government works in partnership with elite private companies toward national goals.

There is a better way.

In the early 60's, NASA was prohibited from exactly one space technology: communication satellites.

Commerce has developed in exactly one technology: communication satellites.

You don't have to be a rocket scientist to understand that risk management is most properly done without government underwriting since such underwriting is inevitably targeted toward those with the most political clout -- a feature which is negatively correlated with technical ability.

To my mind, however, this is the absolute wrong way to go about it. If your child is screwed up enough that they cannot handle fringe concepts and information, then you need to put blinkers on your child...not bulldoze anything in the world that might bother you or your miscreant.

No matter what way you look at it, it's all a monument to human stupidity. Removing information about illegal activity as a means of reducing those activities strikes me as a form of Security Through Obscurity, and we all know how well that works. (I.e: Not at all.)

strange - my Cyberstorm 604e PPC 233MHz with 68060 50MHz amiga seems pretty real. Think before you write something. Dolt. Look where team amiga are in the RC5-64 decryption tables. Yep. Hovering about sixth or seventh. Not bad, for such a minority eh? PPCs kick x86 butt.
Incidentally, I dual boot AmigaOS 3.1 and LinuxPPC (APUS is the name of the Amiga ppc linux port - it's on sunsite.auc.dk). I have an 8MByte Permedia 2 gfx card, 128Mbyte ram, and ultra-wide scsi 3 4.3 gig HD.

No, it's not a top of the range spec, but I'd say it's not bad.

Makers of the amiga PPC hardware ->
www.phase5.de

Makers of the PPC-side kernel favoured by the majority of PPC amiga users, and the Warp3D Amiga OpenGL API->
www.haage-partner.de

Claim to be developing an amiga G3 card ->
www.escena.de

amiga ppc news->
come.to/amigappc

Amiga ->
www.amiga.com

QNX ->

www.qnx.com

Yes, most decent amiga stuff comes out of the UK and germany, and this is a US site, so some ignorance among the readership of this site is to be expected, I guess.

PS. I suppose my machine isn't a "desktop" - It's in a tower case...