I can see it now... the ships land at the UN and...
Alien: Greetings. We come in peace.
UN: Where do you come from?
Alien: A distant galaxy nearly 10 billion light years away. Our
world has no crime, no disease, no wars; we value learning as the pinnacle
of achievement. We have been waiting 2,000 of your years for the moment
when Humanity is ready for contact. We feel the time is right.
UN: Why are you here?
Alien: We came to be baptized. Praise Jesus!
My thinking is that some Chinese company will release a basic pass-through HDMI-HDMI adapter with a USB port. The USB could be used to flash an ASIC with HDCP stripping code.
Think of how Free to Air receivers worked out of the box for, well, free satellite. You need to download code to get the cracked stuff.
- Cable providers will start disabling non-HDCP devices from recording HD shows - HD shows still appear on the net. - Intel goes after teh philthy pirates with DMCA - People lose homes and/or go to jail over distribution of Jersey Shore and other tripe.
The
Parliament had a portcullis made from the finest iron! The swine poured
boiling oil on my mates from the battlements! But the archers... blast ye
archers! The air was a maelstrom of quills and death!
I may be in the minority, but I really don't notice the lack of flash on our iPad (or iPhones). It seems like this stuff is a solution in search of a real problem.
Another example of why I take network news no more seriously than I do blogs,/., BoingBoing, etc.
Everything on/. is true.
I've been reading/. for longer than I care to remember and/. has yet to steer me wrong. From the fascinating stories that seem to run every April 1st to insightful commentary about the original iPod ("No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.") to incredible links which, oddly, get modded down.
Nay, and I mean this with all due respect, you, good sir, have the problem, not slashdot.
Just like a normal wireless AP picks up wireless traffic and routes it onto a wired network, these femtocells pick up cell phone traffic and route it onto the Internet.
If I recall correctly, AT&T counts your internet-routed voice traffic on your 3G cell plan. Pretty silly if this is the case.
I'm against this with every fiber of my being and hope it dies.
The odd thing about this is it works in a very similar way to the
good old bricks-and-mortar library. While a title is out on loan, it's
unavailable to others to borrow (unless the library has purchased multiple
copies)
Sony has devised a system of
artificially restricting access to books, effectively a short-term, no
end-user-cost license. This is different than libraries buying
X copies of a book for loan, it's DRM for books.
yxplayer works fairly well - prepare your right nut!
Too late, I shipped my right nut to Apple in 1983 when they released the Apple IIe with lower case capability!. In hindsight, that may have been a bit extreme.
Slashdot Mirror
Don't think that his pal Ellison isn't making it up to him.
Remember "Unbreakable Oracle" or whatever it was called a few years ago?
Same shit, different pile.
I can see it now... the ships land at the UN and...
Alien: Greetings. We come in peace.
UN: Where do you come from?
Alien: A distant galaxy nearly 10 billion light years away. Our world has no crime, no disease, no wars; we value learning as the pinnacle of achievement. We have been waiting 2,000 of your years for the moment when Humanity is ready for contact. We feel the time is right.
UN: Why are you here?
Alien: We came to be baptized. Praise Jesus!
or not...
My thinking is that some Chinese company will release a basic pass-through HDMI-HDMI adapter with a USB port. The USB could be used to flash an ASIC with HDCP stripping code.
Think of how Free to Air receivers worked out of the box for, well, free satellite. You need to download code to get the cracked stuff.
- Cable providers will start disabling non-HDCP devices from recording HD shows
- HD shows still appear on the net.
- Intel goes after teh philthy pirates with DMCA
- People lose homes and/or go to jail over distribution of Jersey Shore and other tripe.
Swedish Pirate Party Fails To Enter Parliament
Arrrrrr!
The Parliament had a portcullis made from the finest iron! The swine poured boiling oil on my mates from the battlements! But the archers... blast ye archers! The air was a maelstrom of quills and death!
Arrrrrrr!
I don't know that I've ever gone there.
Like I said, I may be in the minority but Flash isn't missed. Double that for the Flash ads.
I may be in the minority, but I really don't notice the lack of flash on our iPad (or iPhones). It seems like this stuff is a solution in search of a real problem.
$300K would buy a lot of RealDolls...
Hm.
It's good but the system is useless when people's opinions overrule common sense.
Take comments about evolution/creationism/god/no-god. In those cases people often moderate based on their agendas, not common sense.
Peer Review Highly Sensitive To Poor Refereeing
Much like
I think "it it plans to auction off most of its Unix assets" means they plan to sell off their O'Reilly books on eBay.
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Sheesh, the mods have short memories and/or no sense of humour.
130,000 registered users spending an average of $28/month is $3,640,000/month.
This doesn't work for them? Granted there are development costs and what not but that's a nice chunk of change.
Another example of why I take network news no more seriously than I do blogs,
Everything on
I've been reading
From the fascinating stories that seem to run every April 1st to insightful commentary about the original iPod ("No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.") to incredible links which, oddly, get modded down.
Nay, and I mean this with all due respect, you, good sir, have the problem, not slashdot.
oops missed "liberal" there...
Good luck getting a liberal arts major to build a working bomb...
and give up their day-jobs waiting tables?
In case of tl&dr, here's the summary:
Ubuntu wins by 3.04.
Go back to your Cheetos and WoW.
...the question is: what's his
Just like a normal wireless AP picks up wireless traffic and routes it onto a wired network, these femtocells pick up cell phone traffic and route it onto the Internet.
If I recall correctly, AT&T counts your internet-routed voice traffic on your 3G cell plan. Pretty silly if this is the case.
I have HDMI on my TV but no BluRay or PS3. Funny enough, it plays 1080p MKV files great off our Popcornhour box :)
This just proves people have caught on, and aren't buying overpriced locked-down crap anymore.
I don't recall ever hearing of someone not buying a device because of HDCP.
I'm against this with every fiber of my being and hope it dies.
The odd thing about this is it works in a very similar way to the good old bricks-and-mortar library. While a title is out on loan, it's unavailable to others to borrow (unless the library has purchased multiple copies)
Sony has devised a system of artificially restricting access to books, effectively a short-term, no end-user-cost license. This is different than libraries buying X copies of a book for loan, it's DRM for books.
.
yxplayer works fairly well - prepare your right nut!
Too late, I shipped my right nut to Apple in 1983 when they released the Apple IIe with lower case capability!
In hindsight, that may have been a bit extreme.
I can partially blame the status of my hair on broadcom wireless cards.
Broadcom wireless cards made you get a Brazilian wax? Weird.
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