As long as employers list "require X years of language/environment Y, doing thing Z", they'll get shitty applicants and shitty employees hired on the basis of worthless certifications.
When you hire a tech person, the first two weeks should be spent:
3 days of the usual bullshit: Getting all paper work done. Getting a set of keys / an id card, getting an office / cube set up, learning where the fucking break room is. Introducing the new hire to the whole office. Getting the paper work done, for real this time. Oh and by the way when there's a fire we all meet out by the Davidson courtyard on the East Quad. You know where that is? No? Let me point to where I think it is, despite the fact that I'm in a room with no windows, and have no idea where I'm actually pointing. Don't worry, you'll find it.
About a week of figuring shit out: Who is the existing tech team, if any. What is my job? Who do I report to? What is your network setup? What development environment do you use? What exactly do you want me to do? Why are you doing it this way? Does anyone remember the former guy's password?
A couple days of learning: Oh, I've never worked with this environment, language, software, etc. Let me google that and read a few paragraphs while I peruse the existing source code.
Someone with 0 experience should be able to function competently after a few days of looking over existing shit with existing people, regardless of whatever you're setup / needs are.
1: By what logical, legal, or moral reasoning does that make it an "unjust law".
2: By what logical, legal, or moral reasoning does an unjust law demand to be ignored?
2a: Are you willing to accept the legal consequences when you get caught ignoring said unjust law?
2ai: When ignoring said unjust law, do you do it openly, or do you hide it, and in discussions cower behind "piracy != theft", "information wants to be free", and other bullshit lines that the pirates trot out?
2b: Why do you advocate ignoring an unjust law instead of trying to get it changed?
2bi: Do you not realize that ignoring laws and the procedures for creating, modifying, and removing them is also unjust?
2bi.1: Do you not realize that encouraging people to engage in said behavior is hypocritical?
What interests me is the stuff that isn't being discussed:
* Will it allow companies to bring cheaper devices to market by signing their own device keys rather than pay consortium fees? * Will it allow blu-ray discs to brick an entire home theatre by sending a fake "legitimate" revocation list for genuine manufacturer keys?
Are we about to see an age of "blu-ray warfare" with devices and discs disabling other products? Is HDCP about to see the first wave of hardware "viruses"?
No, because it is illegal to do so. You'll get Chinese pieces of shit that do this, of course, but no major company will engage in said behavior - they'll be sued hard and fast.
No, HDCP does not revoke keys in that manner. Newer HDCP chips can block prior keys (I don't know if they ever have), but there is no mechanism that would result in a disc updating a the HDCP hardware in the player, television, etc.
AnyDVD HD from Slysoft has been removing Blu-ray encryption and HDCP for a couple of years now.
AnyDVD HD doesn't even touch HDCP. HDCP simply never comes into the picture because you get access to the unencrypted m2ts streams.
Whenever a new title is released that blacklists a new set of keys, they scramble to download the latest WinDVD and hack away until they can they key.
AACS and BD+ are NOT broken. If Slysoft goes under (or is sued out of existence), the updates will stop and any discs after that point will not be handled by AnyDVD HD.
Hint: the DMCA exception clauses allow for bypassing restrictions for the purpose of interoperability, which is exactly what you're doing. Your actions are 100% legal, per the DMCA itself.:)
W R O N G ! Hey, fucktard, how about you fucking read the fucking DMCA? The exceptions to the laws against circumventing copy protection schemes ONLY apply when there is no longer any viable method of getting shit to work. Since you can readily BUY HDCP-compliant hardware, the exceptions do NOT apply. The exceptions MIGHT apply in 30 years IF nobody makes HDCP-complaint shit anymore.
It'll also stop the monitor on my other PC flashing every time I switch inputs on this monitor as the HDCP syncs up.
No, it won't. This doesn't allow you to remove HDCP. It allows you to add HDCP to unsanctioned devices, and do whatever you want with the resulting stream.
You are an idiot. No HDCP-sanctioned device does what you describe. All non-HDCPd streams are intentionally fucked in terms of quality - typically lower resolution.
> but the manufacturers also have the "right" to put encryption on media. Cool. We have the right to try to break it, and to succeed.
No, you do NOT. Read the fucking DMCA. You may not like it, but the law is 100% clear: It is a violation of the DMCA to circumvent any copy-protection schemes.
I had once formulated a somewhat bizarre proof that showed that the "infitieth" digit of pi was 5, based on the distribution of digits among fractions with non-terminating decimal representations.
I once made up some bullshit, too. I got modded +5, insightful. Good luck on that.
They were not primarily aimed at copying movies, rather you can capture footage from games consoles or other protected sources.
Please stop making things up. They are NOT intended to capture footage from game consoles or other "protected" devices.
1: Devices using HDCP do so in order to prevent the full resolution, digital stream from being copied. Preventing people from capturing footage from "protected" devices is exactly what HDCP is designed to PREVENT, thus any device doing this would not be sanctioned. Devices do exist that strip HDCP and give you a digital output (either via a file or via a live signal), but these devices are degrading the signal - through compression or resizing (down). Again, these devices do not "beat" HDCP in any fashion. These devices are also pointless, because you get the same exact quality stream via component cables!
2: All game consoles to date that are HDCP capable do NOT use HDCP for games. They are HDCP compliant for their various media modes, but they do NOT wrap their output stream with HDCP when playing games.
It's a shitty myth shitty people tell shitty kids to make them feel less shitty about being so shitty at math.
There are plenty of fucking things you have to commit to memory.
Long-term memory has a much larger storage space than short-term memory. If you decided you could "look everything up" you would never solve any problems on any test.
Why, you have to commit a basic vocabulary to memory just to be able to look things up.
Planet 1 starts broadcasting shit. Planet 2 hears it a long time later.
Planet 2 may not be able to communicate with planet 1 now, but they now know of Planet 1's intelligent civilization, and will continue to listen and observe.
Planet 2 will then figure out when Planet 1 will start hearing things from them based on the distance between the two planets, and will maintain all majorly-different communication methods capable of reaching Planet 1 for at least the amount of time of a round trip.
Planet 1 will do the same upon discovering Planet 2's transmissions, and they will be able to communicate (with a serious delay).
You're suggesting that the entire civilization / solar system may be wiped out before a round trip after the first signal is received. This is possible, but before then, listening in without being able to talk back is still extremely valuable.
A simple bit of logic on the part of both planets will lead to the obvious conclusion: If you want to talk to someone, you'll need to listen for their response.
Last I checked, we still know how to send and receive basic radio transmissions and there's no sign that the laws of physics will make this impossible.
Your pathetic whining is the equivalent of saying that you'll throw away your mail box if it takes more than 3 days to get a response from your prison lover, who had a daily stream of letters going to you with 10 days of lead time (because the prison screens the mail, causing the average trip time to be 10 days).
> VHS movies took a long time to copy, the blank tapes were fairly expensive and > you had to pay to rent or know someone with a movie collection. not like BT > where it's like the Quest TV ad from 10 years ago. "we have every movie ever made > in every language"
VHS movies took as long to copy as to watch them.
Blank tapes were infact CHEAP.
The only person you had to know for a source of tapes was BLOCKBUSTER.
All of your arguments are completely bogus and a weak attempt to try and make it like anything has really changed. NOTHING HAS CHANGED.
Media still costs money. It still takes time to copy it.
Perhaps the collections are a little more absurd now (or not). However, this should more than anything a good clue that perhaps the pirating situation doesn't actually reflect real demand and that it's time for publishers to stop stroking their egos over some kid with a free copy.
There is nothing to be gained from preventing the kid his big pile o media.
Letting granny do the iTunes thing with DVDs might be of some benefit though.
Blank tapes were cheap if you wanted shit quality.
You had to know BLOCKBUSTER and a guy who could make the copy not be a mess of green noise (macrovision protection).
While it takes time to copy things, they can be copies with no loss, with no effort, and with no need to physically acquire an original.
Things are different than they were 30 years ago, despite your retarded attempts to downplay piracy.
It only takes one person to rip and encode to distribute millions of copies. It took millions of people with two VHS players to "rip" a million copies of a movie on VHS...and they had to be local to the original source.
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As long as employers list "require X years of language/environment Y, doing thing Z", they'll get shitty applicants and shitty employees hired on the basis of worthless certifications.
When you hire a tech person, the first two weeks should be spent:
3 days of the usual bullshit:
Getting all paper work done.
Getting a set of keys / an id card, getting an office / cube set up, learning where the fucking break room is.
Introducing the new hire to the whole office.
Getting the paper work done, for real this time.
Oh and by the way when there's a fire we all meet out by the Davidson courtyard on the East Quad. You know where that is? No? Let me point to where I think it is, despite the fact that I'm in a room with no windows, and have no idea where I'm actually pointing. Don't worry, you'll find it.
About a week of figuring shit out:
Who is the existing tech team, if any.
What is my job?
Who do I report to?
What is your network setup?
What development environment do you use?
What exactly do you want me to do?
Why are you doing it this way?
Does anyone remember the former guy's password?
A couple days of learning:
Oh, I've never worked with this environment, language, software, etc.
Let me google that and read a few paragraphs while I peruse the existing source code.
Someone with 0 experience should be able to function competently after a few days of looking over existing shit with existing people, regardless of whatever you're setup / needs are.
So basically, "Boohoo, I want to pirate shit."?
Dipshit.
Yet they're going to be used for your boarding pass:
http://www.google.com/search?q=phone+boarding+pass
How about, fuck you?
They sure as hell won't be used for my boarding pass.
1: By what logical, legal, or moral reasoning does that make it an "unjust law".
2: By what logical, legal, or moral reasoning does an unjust law demand to be ignored?
2a: Are you willing to accept the legal consequences when you get caught ignoring said unjust law?
2ai: When ignoring said unjust law, do you do it openly, or do you hide it, and in discussions cower behind "piracy != theft", "information wants to be free", and other bullshit lines that the pirates trot out?
2b: Why do you advocate ignoring an unjust law instead of trying to get it changed?
2bi: Do you not realize that ignoring laws and the procedures for creating, modifying, and removing them is also unjust?
2bi.1: Do you not realize that encouraging people to engage in said behavior is hypocritical?
Said device takes the DEGRADED stream and upconverts it.
Derp!
You are 100% wrong in everything you ever say.
What interests me is the stuff that isn't being discussed:
* Will it allow companies to bring cheaper devices to market by signing their own device keys rather than pay consortium fees?
* Will it allow blu-ray discs to brick an entire home theatre by sending a fake "legitimate" revocation list for genuine manufacturer keys?
Are we about to see an age of "blu-ray warfare" with devices and discs disabling other products? Is HDCP about to see the first wave of hardware "viruses"?
No, because it is illegal to do so. You'll get Chinese pieces of shit that do this, of course, but no major company will engage in said behavior - they'll be sued hard and fast.
No, HDCP does not revoke keys in that manner. Newer HDCP chips can block prior keys (I don't know if they ever have), but there is no mechanism that would result in a disc updating a the HDCP hardware in the player, television, etc.
They've got more bullets than we have computer chips...er, brains.
Hot Rod: They've got more Sharkticons than we've got photon charges!
Kup: Then lets hold a demolition derby.
AnyDVD HD from Slysoft has been removing Blu-ray encryption and HDCP for a couple of years now.
AnyDVD HD doesn't even touch HDCP.
HDCP simply never comes into the picture because you get access to the unencrypted m2ts streams.
Whenever a new title is released that blacklists a new set of keys, they scramble to download the latest WinDVD and hack away until they can they key.
AACS and BD+ are NOT broken.
If Slysoft goes under (or is sued out of existence), the updates will stop and any discs after that point will not be handled by AnyDVD HD.
Hint: the DMCA exception clauses allow for bypassing restrictions for the purpose of interoperability, which is exactly what you're doing. Your actions are 100% legal, per the DMCA itself. :)
W R O N G !
Hey, fucktard, how about you fucking read the fucking DMCA? The exceptions to the laws against circumventing copy protection schemes ONLY apply when there is no longer any viable method of getting shit to work. Since you can readily BUY HDCP-compliant hardware, the exceptions do NOT apply. The exceptions MIGHT apply in 30 years IF nobody makes HDCP-complaint shit anymore.
It'll also stop the monitor on my other PC flashing every time I switch inputs on this monitor
as the HDCP syncs up.
No, it won't.
This doesn't allow you to remove HDCP.
It allows you to add HDCP to unsanctioned devices, and do whatever you want with the resulting stream.
The HDCP handshake still occurs.
You are an idiot.
No HDCP-sanctioned device does what you describe.
All non-HDCPd streams are intentionally fucked in terms of quality - typically lower resolution.
> but the manufacturers also have the "right" to put encryption on media.
Cool. We have the right to try to break it, and to succeed.
No, you do NOT.
Read the fucking DMCA.
You may not like it, but the law is 100% clear: It is a violation of the DMCA to circumvent any copy-protection schemes.
the digit — when expressed in binary — is 0.
Jeez, what are the odds of that?
What are the odds given that the previous digit was calculated on a Tuesday?
(STILL 1 IN 2. IT'S ALWAYS 1 IN 2! Sons. Binary Digits. Guys who gets with twins. 1 IN 2.)
Are you sure? 0, for large values of 0, approaches 1, for small values of 1.
No, no it doesn't.
0 = 0 and 1 = 1.
Integers don't approach things, and there are no "large values of..." integers.
Modern mathematicians make me want to shit in my own fucking shoes with the bullshit they trot out.
And before you even try - 0 is even, by DEFINITION
An integer n is even if there exists an integer m such that n = 2m, and odd if n+1 is even.
I had once formulated a somewhat bizarre proof that showed that the "infitieth" digit of pi was 5, based on the distribution of digits among fractions with non-terminating decimal representations.
I once made up some bullshit, too.
I got modded +5, insightful. Good luck on that.
Well, the 243,000,500,000,000,000,002th digit of pi is "4".
Go on, prove me wrong.
The digits of pi do not repeat, and as we all know (and you will be able to verify), the 243,000,500,000,000,000,001st digit is 4.
Again, you're making things up.
The devices you claim to exist do NOT exist, in any quantity other than "lol, I took apart my monitor and broke it".
Game consoles do not use HDCP in game mode.
You are a liar, and you have been called out as such. Accept it.
They were not primarily aimed at copying movies, rather you can capture footage from games consoles or other protected sources.
Please stop making things up.
They are NOT intended to capture footage from game consoles or other "protected" devices.
1: Devices using HDCP do so in order to prevent the full resolution, digital stream from being copied. Preventing people from capturing footage from "protected" devices is exactly what HDCP is designed to PREVENT, thus any device doing this would not be sanctioned.
Devices do exist that strip HDCP and give you a digital output (either via a file or via a live signal), but these devices are degrading the signal - through compression or resizing (down). Again, these devices do not "beat" HDCP in any fashion. These devices are also pointless, because you get the same exact quality stream via component cables!
2: All game consoles to date that are HDCP capable do NOT use HDCP for games. They are HDCP compliant for their various media modes, but they do NOT wrap their output stream with HDCP when playing games.
The devices you are thinking of do not output the original stream. This is useless to anyone wanting to illicitly copy something.
The devices are fully HDCP compliant and legit.
Simply make the inside of the cage reflect the signal back. Too much noise!
No loss there, Asian chicks usually have small tits anyway.
Small, perky, firm, and shapely > large, droopy, soft, and amorphous.
Yo, retard.
Einstein never failed math.
It's a shitty myth shitty people tell shitty kids to make them feel less shitty about being so shitty at math.
There are plenty of fucking things you have to commit to memory.
Long-term memory has a much larger storage space than short-term memory. If you decided you could "look everything up" you would never solve any problems on any test.
Why, you have to commit a basic vocabulary to memory just to be able to look things up.
See heap vs stack.
Derp - you're an idiot.
Planet 1 starts broadcasting shit.
Planet 2 hears it a long time later.
Planet 2 may not be able to communicate with planet 1 now, but they now know of Planet 1's intelligent civilization, and will continue to listen and observe.
Planet 2 will then figure out when Planet 1 will start hearing things from them based on the distance between the two planets, and will maintain all majorly-different communication methods capable of reaching Planet 1 for at least the amount of time of a round trip.
Planet 1 will do the same upon discovering Planet 2's transmissions, and they will be able to communicate (with a serious delay).
You're suggesting that the entire civilization / solar system may be wiped out before a round trip after the first signal is received. This is possible, but before then, listening in without being able to talk back is still extremely valuable.
A simple bit of logic on the part of both planets will lead to the obvious conclusion: If you want to talk to someone, you'll need to listen for their response.
Last I checked, we still know how to send and receive basic radio transmissions and there's no sign that the laws of physics will make this impossible.
Your pathetic whining is the equivalent of saying that you'll throw away your mail box if it takes more than 3 days to get a response from your prison lover, who had a daily stream of letters going to you with 10 days of lead time (because the prison screens the mail, causing the average trip time to be 10 days).
> VHS movies took a long time to copy, the blank tapes were fairly expensive and
> you had to pay to rent or know someone with a movie collection. not like BT
> where it's like the Quest TV ad from 10 years ago. "we have every movie ever made
> in every language"
VHS movies took as long to copy as to watch them.
Blank tapes were infact CHEAP.
The only person you had to know for a source of tapes was BLOCKBUSTER.
All of your arguments are completely bogus and a weak attempt to try and make it like anything has really changed. NOTHING HAS CHANGED.
Media still costs money. It still takes time to copy it.
Perhaps the collections are a little more absurd now (or not). However, this should more than anything a good clue that perhaps the pirating situation doesn't actually reflect real demand and that it's time for publishers to stop stroking their egos over some kid with a free copy.
There is nothing to be gained from preventing the kid his big pile o media.
Letting granny do the iTunes thing with DVDs might be of some benefit though.
Blank tapes were cheap if you wanted shit quality.
You had to know BLOCKBUSTER and a guy who could make the copy not be a mess of green noise (macrovision protection).
While it takes time to copy things, they can be copies with no loss, with no effort, and with no need to physically acquire an original.
Things are different than they were 30 years ago, despite your retarded attempts to downplay piracy.
It only takes one person to rip and encode to distribute millions of copies. It took millions of people with two VHS players to "rip" a million copies of a movie on VHS...and they had to be local to the original source.
And each copy degraded the quality considerably!