movies _didn't_ catch on before TV.. you can find a torrent for almost any tv show (but mostly fiction and reality crap) every week. 4 years ago it used to be mostly people from europe who didn't get the shows on their tv, downloading from IRC (or southamerican, in my case).. Now, with the widescreen episodes captured from HDTV on nice fast torrents, who knows?
I'd say that having juries full of self-styled experts based on TV knowledge ain't great. But it's better than it was in the 90's,
And speaking of the 90's, people were going to lawyer schoo after watching 'ally macbeal' or whatever then, so this 'boom in foresic science' doesn't sound too bad.
On a good day, a popular tv show (for example yesterday's 'Lost') will get no more than 50000 downloads.. This is nothing compared to the viewers they from broadcasting (wich are measured in millons). If done right (put up torrents of their interestingshows in at least NTSC (or PAL;) quality), it will get a lot of eyeballs on their codec.
Really, they're getting it all wrong.. They're supposed to try to use it for the good of man kind, untill it falls on the hands of some evil scientist bent of dentroying the world.. You don't just start building weapons with it!!
Unfortunately, you'll never be able to crack it, because you don't know what the key was.
But where do you store this key? do you XOR it with something else? (and what do you do with that something else?) If you use any other more sophisticated method to hide it, why not just use that for the password in the first place? Also, in this case you alredy know what the password is (after all, it's _your_ JumpDrive, whatever that is), so you can xor it and get the 'secret key'. With that, it should be easy to find out what happens to it (even if it's random).
linux (or some other open environment where I can write my own drivers/apps for any external USB device I want to attach)
cheap:) (~$200 is cool)
They can keep all the other non-standard connectors/ports. There's no point in having a 200+mhz computer and depend on some company to build whatever the device I want that uses whatever propietary connector the PDA has.
Alas, the only options I've seen that come close to this are from indian companies, not yet available, and come attached with some weird marketing filosophy: the Simputer and the 'Smart Handheld', wich seems to be only blueprints.
Is there a keyboard with _NO_ windows keys, and no hotkeys? I just want a 1-key hole between my alt and ctrl keys. Removing them is OK, but the right alt is a bit to the left, that's annoying sometimes.
this is nice, but are there any plans to add a USB Host port? There's not really much point (in my opinion) to use one of this things with 200mhz+ CPUs, wich could easily replace a computer for many tasks, and not be able to attach other portable devices with USB to it, like a camera, one of those memory pen sticks thingies, etc.
The 'simputer' looks nice for this, but sadly it's still not available on _my_ side of the 3rd world.
When the finger is slipped into the ear canal, those vibrations turn into voice.
This is actually one of the coolest designs for cell phones I've ever seen, and the worst thing is that they've been reporting this for years now (the oldest mention of it I can remember is from before 2000), and still no sign of it on this side of the pacific (or at least not on this side of the ecuador).
I can't wait for them to arrive here, so I can finally have an excuse to get a cell phone, and join in on the annoyance.
Actually, most "pitates" (especially the anime fansubs, wich seem the produce the bigger ammount of data every week) switched from DCC to bittorrent a couple of years ago..
This announcement looks interesting since dcc was never intended as a pirate protocol, but it became the default for several years.. Now that it's obsolete again, they announce a new version.. Of course, it wouldn't make sense to just build a bittorrent client/tracker on the irc clients and call it 'dcc2'.. DCC is mostly used to send files to your buddies, or pictures for "cybersex", so bittorrent would be too much overkill for that.. It sounds like they're just trying to fix the NAT problems, encryption, etc.
Not that I'm trying to "defend DSS's good name"; I used to get all my pirated anime and other goods using dcc, and I'm very grateful for all the years of copyright infringement it gave me.
With piracy so rampant, game developers NEVER see royalties
You cannot assume that people who download games would automatically buy them if they weren't available as warez.. Especially if the games suck. Unless you're trying to lure them into buying them with some overhyped marketing campaing and high budged crap like "motion capture" or "pixel shaders" or whatever, only to find out that they spent money on a boring game. fancy features != good game
and its harder and harder to scrape togeother enough cash to make a good game nowadays.
shows that Linux accounts for 61% of the defacements
I'd hate to be regarded as one of the thousands of people in denial posting on this article (I actually thought it was a very good topic), but I wouldn't place too much value on those statistics..
Suppose we have 10 linux servers, and 2 windows. 3 servers get defaced: 2 linux and 1 windows. So we have 66% linux and 33% windows.. but we also have that 20% of the 10 linux servers got hacked, while 50% of the 2 windows machines got hacked. Again, I'm not trying to add to the denial, I'm just pointing out that statistics need to be handled with care (or not at all).
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movies _didn't_ catch on before TV.. you can find a torrent for almost any tv show (but mostly fiction and reality crap) every week. 4 years ago it used to be mostly people from europe who didn't get the shows on their tv, downloading from IRC (or southamerican, in my case).. Now, with the widescreen episodes captured from HDTV on nice fast torrents, who knows?
And speaking of the 90's, people were going to lawyer schoo after watching 'ally macbeal' or whatever then, so this 'boom in foresic science' doesn't sound too bad.
in short? where's the 'long' explanation? I assume this is considered a bug, not just 'the way things work', correct?
I guess "slashdot effect" is the new "dog ate my homework"..
Release some content for it.
On a good day, a popular tv show (for example yesterday's 'Lost') will get no more than 50000 downloads.. This is nothing compared to the viewers they from broadcasting (wich are measured in millons). If done right (put up torrents of their interesting shows in at least NTSC (or PAL ;) quality), it will get a lot of eyeballs on their codec.
Really, they're getting it all wrong.. They're supposed to try to use it for the good of man kind, untill it falls on the hands of some evil scientist bent of dentroying the world.. You don't just start building weapons with it!!
But where do you store this key? do you XOR it with something else? (and what do you do with that something else?) If you use any other more sophisticated method to hide it, why not just use that for the password in the first place? Also, in this case you alredy know what the password is (after all, it's _your_ JumpDrive, whatever that is), so you can xor it and get the 'secret key'. With that, it should be easy to find out what happens to it (even if it's random).
Maybe they can reverse the polarity of the probes' guidance system.
color display
sound
a USB host port
linux (or some other open environment where I can write my own drivers/apps for any external USB device I want to attach)
cheap :) (~$200 is cool)
They can keep all the other non-standard connectors/ports. There's no point in having a 200+mhz computer and depend on some company to build whatever the device I want that uses whatever propietary connector the PDA has.
Alas, the only options I've seen that come close to this are from indian companies, not yet available, and come attached with some weird marketing filosophy: the Simputer and the 'Smart Handheld', wich seems to be only blueprints.
Is there a keyboard with _NO_ windows keys, and no hotkeys? I just want a 1-key hole between my alt and ctrl keys. Removing them is OK, but the right alt is a bit to the left, that's annoying sometimes.
The 'simputer' looks nice for this, but sadly it's still not available on _my_ side of the 3rd world.
who the hell reads playboy for the articles anyway?
Actually the only 'base' unit is the meter (hence the name). 1kg of water = 1 litre = 1000cm^3, etc. There are no 'conversions' really.
This is actually one of the coolest designs for cell phones I've ever seen, and the worst thing is that they've been reporting this for years now (the oldest mention of it I can remember is from before 2000), and still no sign of it on this side of the pacific (or at least not on this side of the ecuador).
I can't wait for them to arrive here, so I can finally have an excuse to get a cell phone, and join in on the annoyance.
I smell a GLAAD award !!
Chris Behrens, an I.R.C. software developer in Arizona known online as Comstud, said: [...]
A "/whois Comstud" on efnet gives:
So it's all true!! it's nothing but child pr0n and communism!!
What he meant to say is "I'm like the ice cream man, only instead of ice cream, I bring pr0n". I think it's a perfect analogy.
This announcement looks interesting since dcc was never intended as a pirate protocol, but it became the default for several years.. Now that it's obsolete again, they announce a new version.. Of course, it wouldn't make sense to just build a bittorrent client/tracker on the irc clients and call it 'dcc2'.. DCC is mostly used to send files to your buddies, or pictures for "cybersex", so bittorrent would be too much overkill for that.. It sounds like they're just trying to fix the NAT problems, encryption, etc.
Not that I'm trying to "defend DSS's good name"; I used to get all my pirated anime and other goods using dcc, and I'm very grateful for all the years of copyright infringement it gave me.
You cannot assume that people who download games would automatically buy them if they weren't available as warez.. Especially if the games suck. Unless you're trying to lure them into buying them with some overhyped marketing campaing and high budged crap like "motion capture" or "pixel shaders" or whatever, only to find out that they spent money on a boring game. fancy features != good game
and its harder and harder to scrape togeother enough cash to make a good game nowadays.
Nevermind then..
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307 Temporary Redirect for the most 'adventurous' ones.
Don't you watch NYPD Blues??? :p
I think that was kind of implied since it is, after all, a post on an internet site.
I agree with AC; it seems to work with spanish (wich by the way, it's very much written how it's pronounced, and vice versa).
I'd hate to be regarded as one of the thousands of people in denial posting on this article (I actually thought it was a very good topic), but I wouldn't place too much value on those statistics..
Suppose we have 10 linux servers, and 2 windows. 3 servers get defaced: 2 linux and 1 windows. So we have 66% linux and 33% windows.. but we also have that 20% of the 10 linux servers got hacked, while 50% of the 2 windows machines got hacked. Again, I'm not trying to add to the denial, I'm just pointing out that statistics need to be handled with care (or not at all).
The word 'native' has a latin root. (something about being born.. it's the same word used for 'navidad', spanish for christmas).