The "can't copy a copy" restriction is referred to as SCMS (Serial Copy Management System) and was AFAIK (I ain't american) introduced as a compromise after the AHRA was brought in. It also affects DAT and Minidisc devices and the SCMS Generation info (original, copy of original, or 'free for all') follows tracks around, even out of devices via digital-I/O. I'm just guessing now, but maybe that's what the "protection" property on audio-cd tracks means when burning stuff out to redbook in Nero.
Of course, you can copy via analog but that isn't good. Or buy an SCMS Stripper which "improves" the digital stream so it'll copy happily:-)
cheap "my program" plug at this point - windows users can get this sort of behaviour and more in a lovely browser-agnostic and browser-independant (as in "don't have to change to your browser to start searching") way with Flarp!Bar.
It's free-as-in-beer (come off it, do you really want to read my dodgy VB source? no, you're just going to flame me for using my favourite language <G>) and hugely configurable. Due another release with improvements to the help file in a few days, but should be good enough for/.ers as it is currently.
oh yes, oh god yes! fluxx is one of the most enjoyable little moments of madness going. A very fun game to play "in the background" while relaxing and talking with friends. into the wee small hours of the morning. Fluxx is superbly fun. this page describes it nicely.
£99 isn't too bad - everywhere I've seen it (try Argos' website) it comes with 3 games (Jet Grind somethingorother, Virtua Fighter 3tb and MSR) and a VMU as well as standard pad, modem+software, blah. Not bad really as you could say that it's 3 games at £20 each, the VMU for £20, and the console for £20:-)
I'm going to pick one up then start collecting cheap games, and try some homebrew dev on it, probably under KallistiOS.
Here in the uk, my mostly technophobic mother is in regular contact with one of her friends who is out in Uganda by SMS messaging. She's still amazed that it costs her the same to txt me across the country as her friend around the world.
What exactly stops them forking a new project called Ad-pache (apache+this ad-mandating stuff). Sure they'd have to open-source it (share and share alike), but they can quite easily "build such nonsense in". Whether they will or not is another matter.
fine, then don't contribute to their hosting bills either. Don't visit their website and read their content.
Your ISP bill pays for your bandwidth, not mine or anyone else's. I don't run banners on my site because I'm hardly denting my monthly bandwidth quota - if by some miracle my site got mad-popular, I'd run banners (unless people gave me enough money to cover my bandwidth cost).
... and learn something about Windows too. Get a grasp on both apache on linux/bsd and something (maybe not even IIS - Sambar Server is fairly nifty) on Windows. Then make an informed decision - yeah you'll probably decide that you'll run your site on windows over your dead body, but at least you can honestly say you considered any alternatives before saying "sod it" and breaking out your personal favourite linux/bsd distro:o)
My own site started life hosted for free on a friend's WinNT4/Sambar server, now it's hosted cheaply on a linux box. Yes, I'm more happy being served by linux, but no I don't intend to run linux on my desktop (might set up dualboot to fiddle round with gcc and bits though).
Everyone who writes windows-platform apps for free (-speech or -beer) should bundle a little utility which searches for (and kills) Gator - heck, maybe eZula/TopText too, then hide the fact that you're doing this way in the middle of the smallprint in the same way the Leechware people do it.
I'll look properly into doing this in the next week or two when I get my hands on Visual Studio 6 (cheap student license deal, and as I'm a happy VB5 addict already *braces for linux zealot attack*, might as well take cheap upgrade and learn C) - if anyone wants to assist in this or wants me to let them know if I make a "finished item", email me. (hint - I don't use the old bbx.org.uk domain any more - follow the spamprotection!)
picky git time - only the 3" CDRWs are 200mb - the normal writables are 180. no, I don't know how this works out, but yes it's true. I have some of CDR-By-Mail's fine 3" CDSs and business card CDRs on my desk (try their "small media" sample pack, when they open the web shop up again in a week or so)...
Exactly the same system (Tegic's T9 Predictive Text Entry) is appearing in newer cellphones (my Nokia 3210 has it) for typing SMS messages. It works very well, and once you get used to it you can almost touchtype. It's a heck of a lot easier than normal cellphone text entry, which to my mind looks like you're playing Track + Field as you hammer at the buttons to cycle round letters:)
bollocks to that, pick your own key pair and re-sign your haxx0r3d code and hack the Public key into the software. Just because the public key in the software lets it verify its hashes, doesn't mean its their original key set!
If I ever get my current piece of Comp Sci coursework finished I'll have a crack at doing it in Miranda (grade-A hyperfreaky functional lang, we use it on Solaris boxen via old mono xterms).
OK so it'll only be able to handle VOBs of a couple of frames before collapsing in a stack overflow (Miranda lazy-evaluates, which with something recursive can produce huge statements to be reduced at runtime), and OK it won't stream at all, but dammit it's the principle of the thing!
Then after that I'll try something massively harder still - implement it in GamesFactory - anyone who's ever played with klik+play, TGF, etc. will know why this is an insane task:o)
I'm surprised no-one else has run out the stock replies to the stock questions, but I'm here and I'm not busy, so:
AFAIK, at the time DeCSS was started, there was no linux support for the filesystem on DVDs - hence to get some DVD video data to work on under linux, you'd have to get it onto disc under windows, then swap to linux.
Linux hackers (of the MIT-esque, not "moron media", use of the word) who have Windows available may not have a Windows platform compiler.
I think I've just indicated why they were following the stated purpose
I'm not American, so the whole "we/us" stuff and concerns about the DMCA being [un]constitutional are so not my problem
If Kaplan had noted some of the important points (bit-for-bit copies, other ways to rip DVD, the win32 issue), he may have decided the other way
aah yes, the RIP bill... Also known as "lets sneak this in so if people ever care about ECHELON it'll be too late because we'll have already enshrined our use of it in law"...
Read the controversial segment of the RIP text (@ stand) and see if that doesn't sooo nicely tie in with ECHELON (a system which no doubt gives Jack Straw many a wet dream)... First they spy on you, then when you use any form of crypto they take this as "evidence" that you're doing something wrong, and buttfuck you either way.
(plz read in the infinitive tense - this isn't personal towards qstyk)
yup - keep in your thoughts the really sobering concept that although its hard to reduce your probability of some other moron doing you harm, it doesn't mean you shouldn't take simple steps to not do harm to others.
Keeping something like this in your thoughts might just be a reminder to one person to not D & D, thus maybe stopping one more incident like this happening to one more person who is going to be someone's son, daugher, wife or husband. Shed a tear for those you don't know, and remember they're people too.
We're thinking of you lots and lots So little we can do. But we're sending loads of happy thoughts And friendly vibes to you
sorry its not very inspiring but just to pass on the heartfelt sympathies of another generic slashdotter ( who's sitting here trying not to burst into tears because I am, by all accounts, a sentimental old softie ).
brilliant - I'll write my encrypted data to it and by the time the pigs^H^H^H^Hfine upstanding law enforcement officers manage to get me to hand over my key (damn this RIP shite my govt wants to force on us, its crap and they know it), the data will have degraded beyond recovery.
hmm, does this mean that if I create my own modified version of a crypto algo, compile a binary then kill the source, we can throw lawsuits against any consultancy brought in by the pigs (sorry, law enforcement) to try to forcably break said crypto? just a thought
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Of course, you can copy via analog but that isn't good. Or buy an SCMS Stripper which "improves" the digital stream so it'll copy happily :-)
*sob*
*sniff*
It's free-as-in-beer (come off it, do you really want to read my dodgy VB source? no, you're just going to flame me for using my favourite language <G>) and hugely configurable. Due another release with improvements to the help file in a few days, but should be good enough for /.ers as it is currently.
oh yes, oh god yes! fluxx is one of the most enjoyable little moments of madness going. A very fun game to play "in the background" while relaxing and talking with friends. into the wee small hours of the morning. Fluxx is superbly fun. this page describes it nicely.
I'm going to pick one up then start collecting cheap games, and try some homebrew dev on it, probably under KallistiOS.
Here in the uk, my mostly technophobic mother is in regular contact with one of her friends who is out in Uganda by SMS messaging. She's still amazed that it costs her the same to txt me across the country as her friend around the world.
What exactly stops them forking a new project called Ad-pache (apache+this ad-mandating stuff). Sure they'd have to open-source it (share and share alike), but they can quite easily "build such nonsense in". Whether they will or not is another matter.
Your ISP bill pays for your bandwidth, not mine or anyone else's. I don't run banners on my site because I'm hardly denting my monthly bandwidth quota - if by some miracle my site got mad-popular, I'd run banners (unless people gave me enough money to cover my bandwidth cost).
My own site started life hosted for free on a friend's WinNT4/Sambar server, now it's hosted cheaply on a linux box. Yes, I'm more happy being served by linux, but no I don't intend to run linux on my desktop (might set up dualboot to fiddle round with gcc and bits though).
"shouting down the porcelain megaphone" is the best euphamism I've heard for it :o)
I'll look properly into doing this in the next week or two when I get my hands on Visual Studio 6 (cheap student license deal, and as I'm a happy VB5 addict already *braces for linux zealot attack*, might as well take cheap upgrade and learn C) - if anyone wants to assist in this or wants me to let them know if I make a "finished item", email me. (hint - I don't use the old bbx.org.uk domain any more - follow the spamprotection!)
picky git time - only the 3" CDRWs are 200mb - the normal writables are 180. no, I don't know how this works out, but yes it's true. I have some of CDR-By-Mail's fine 3" CDSs and business card CDRs on my desk (try their "small media" sample pack, when they open the web shop up again in a week or so)...
Exactly the same system (Tegic's T9 Predictive Text Entry) is appearing in newer cellphones (my Nokia 3210 has it) for typing SMS messages. It works very well, and once you get used to it you can almost touchtype. It's a heck of a lot easier than normal cellphone text entry, which to my mind looks like you're playing Track + Field as you hammer at the buttons to cycle round letters :)
bollocks to that, pick your own key pair and re-sign your haxx0r3d code and hack the Public key into the software. Just because the public key in the software lets it verify its hashes, doesn't mean its their original key set!
If I ever get my current piece of Comp Sci coursework finished I'll have a crack at doing it in Miranda (grade-A hyperfreaky functional lang, we use it on Solaris boxen via old mono xterms).
:o)
OK so it'll only be able to handle VOBs of a couple of frames before collapsing in a stack overflow (Miranda lazy-evaluates, which with something recursive can produce huge statements to be reduced at runtime), and OK it won't stream at all, but dammit it's the principle of the thing!
Then after that I'll try something massively harder still - implement it in GamesFactory - anyone who's ever played with klik+play, TGF, etc. will know why this is an insane task
and the company can charge you each and every time you demand a copy of the tape, up to a maximum of somewhere around £10 or so...
If Kaplan had noted some of the important points (bit-for-bit copies, other ways to rip DVD, the win32 issue), he may have decided the other way
come on guys, is a little basing of Altavista (OK, Raging) really so beyond us?
Read the controversial segment of the RIP text (@ stand) and see if that doesn't sooo nicely tie in with ECHELON (a system which no doubt gives Jack Straw many a wet dream)... First they spy on you, then when you use any form of crypto they take this as "evidence" that you're doing something wrong, and buttfuck you either way.
Any other UKnerds up for a march on London?
yup - keep in your thoughts the really sobering concept that although its hard to reduce your probability of some other moron doing you harm, it doesn't mean you shouldn't take simple steps to not do harm to others.
Keeping something like this in your thoughts might just be a reminder to one person to not D & D, thus maybe stopping one more incident like this happening to one more person who is going to be someone's son, daugher, wife or husband. Shed a tear for those you don't know, and remember they're people too.
We're thinking of you lots and lots
So little we can do.
But we're sending loads of happy thoughts
And friendly vibes to you
sorry its not very inspiring but just to pass on the heartfelt sympathies of another generic slashdotter ( who's sitting here trying not to burst into tears because I am, by all accounts, a sentimental old softie ).
brilliant - I'll write my encrypted data to it and by the time the pigs^H^H^H^Hfine upstanding law enforcement officers manage to get me to hand over my key (damn this RIP shite my govt wants to force on us, its crap and they know it), the data will have degraded beyond recovery.
What'll happen next, RC4 t-shirts? :o)
or you could break the habit of a lifetime and use the 8mb ps2 memory card which comes with your lovely new device.