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CD Copy Protection Head Speaks

Vonatar sent us an interview with the guy who is running the company that designed the copy protection being used in CDs that nobody really buys, and preventing people from playing CDs in their computers and DVD players. The article also mentions the first lawsuit about the record label not providing notice on the package. Anyway check it out if you're interested. There are some interesting bits.

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  1. goddammit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    why doesn't xdmcp work? oh, and frist ps0t.

    1. Re:goddammit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      yeah, but w2k also had another offering that "actually worked:" remote control of company desktops by virus writers. i'd rather spend one day making xdmcp my bitch than the rest of my life deleting viruses and applying patches.

  2. TRoLLaXoR's problems... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You notice that TRoLLaXoR is not posting any more on these threads. This is because he has been admitted to rehab to help him get over a chronic masturbation habit. In the recent weeks he has lost his house, gotten fired from his job, and had his credit card revoked because of this sad addiction. Gaysex.com wouldn't even take his money anymore because of fear of liability issues. Friends (and former lovers) from Geekazoid held an intervention last night to get him the help he needs so badly.

    His long-time companion, Motherfuckin' Spork, sent me the sad news late this afternoon. TRoLLaXoR finally admitted he had a problem. He has had problems posting because he can no longer get his hand out of a balled fist. Motherfuckin' Spork also said he was quite peeved because TRoLLaXoR kept calling his right hand "Eric," perhaps because of his lasting fixation on the private life of Eric Raymond.

    At some point and time, TRoLLaXoR has had a crush on every member of the Slashdot staff. When they could not longer take the constant harassment and notes on their cars, they finally got court orders put in place. But it couldn't stop him from making up horrible stories and posting in each and every slashdot thread. TRoLLaXoR was especially hurt by the rejection of Raymond, who turned him down flat when asked if he would like to go on a date to the local Jack in the Box.

    This isn't the first time that TRoLLaXoR has been in rehab, all for various sexual additions and psychological problems that cause him to get fixated on the sexual habits of others. He has also been hospitalized on a number of occasions for dehydration... apparently because he spilled way too much of his precious bodily fluids. He is well known by local E.R. staff, and there is even a collection of items removed from forced anal trauma.

    Let us all pray for TRoLLaXor, because if he can fall can we be far behind?

    1. Re:TRoLLaXoR's problems... by Guns+n'+Roses+Troll · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      I will include him in my bedtime prayers to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. I love the prayer closet.

    2. Re:TRoLLaXoR's problems... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Gee thanks for the bug report.. that'll be fixed on the next version.

      That's why open source works!

      (Actually.. I will probably change it so that cyborg monkey is the S.O... that works SOOOO much better.)

  3. Re:Who? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    God damn it!

    Leonard Cohen, you fuckhead!

    And ANY plane of existance would be happy to have him...

  4. Re:Who? by Guns+n'+Roses+Troll · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Oh. Well you still didn't tell me who he is.

  5. Re:Who? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    look here

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  6. Re:When good muslims go bad.. by Tweeked+Dustrabbit · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    all ironic since they dont care anything about you....time to step back and think

    --
    Sometimes the caffiene simply doesnt help.
  7. assembly woes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    I have been using tasm+tlink for a DOS app that I am writing but it turned out i needed MMX support and that forced
    me to change my assembler. I chose nasm because I have been using it before in my other programs. I am still linking
    everything with tlink.

    The problem is: Everything compiles and links without warnings and usually runs but I can't link the debug version
    correctly - if I do: nasm16 -f obj -g myfile.asm tlink /zi myfile.obj I get some messages
    about wrong segment offsets and don't get any executable (if I exclude -g and use tlink /x everything is fine)

    Other thing I found out is that the code mov ax,seg variable mov ds,ax mov di,var loads ds:di with different (however
    valid) segment and offset than equivalent tasm code. My question is: what should I do to make nasm produce object
    files that exactly match ones produced with tasm, so that I can link debug executable and don't get these segment/offset
    differences?