Considering they lose money on every Xbox sold, you'd be doing the opposite of supporting them (until you buy your first game, that is).
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Read the article. You would've seen this "In a strict seven-bit code this would give 128 permutations (two to the power of seven) but Professor Urton said because there were 24 possible colours that could be used in khipu construction, the actual permutations are 1,536 (or two to the power of six, multiplied by 24)."
It is indeed a silly premise. Unless they happen to hook it up to the net, all the data is there, as pointed out by a lot of people. With sector level harddrive encryption (Safeguard, safeboot, drivecrypt etc etc have your pick) they won't get to that data. Period. And the only hassle to the regular user is having to provide a passphrase on boot-up. Well, and in some cases a crypto token, depending on the solution.
I have a hard time seeing how anybody with half a brain would consider buying the Phoenix solution over strong harddrive crypto with pre booth authentication. I'm having an even harder time imagining how daft the Phoenix R&D and managers must be to even propose and then spend money developing such a solution.
Noticed in the cdfreaks forums that there's already a version of daemon tools able to simulate it. At the time I read it (about a week ago I guess) you still needed an extra lil program to extract the info, as no current image creator does it, but after that no worries mounting it as a virtual cd.
That means it's no big deal for the pros to figure out what it does (if one's done it, more will/have), and it won't even delay a game a day longer than current protection does, before someone's ripped it out of the.exe and repackaged it.
Full Throttle was kickass, indeed. Too bad it was all over in a single very very short evening.. Unless the next one has a bit more value for money (if it costs 5 times what a movie costs, it damn well better last me longer than one) or I ain't gonna buy it:/
1) Remove TV license. They're stupidity on a platter. I'm so pissed of at having to pay a whopping $160 a bloody year to NOT watch the total crap they send on our government paid channels. But they don't care if you watch it or not, the price is to pay for the privilege of having paid $1500 for a TV set in order to watch DVDs like they're meant to be watched.
2) Make all channels pay channels. Want to watch it? Then pay the monthly/quarterly/yearly fee to do so.
3) Result? Channels sending what people actually want to watch for the people willing to pay to watch it. No more having to pay for the 10 people in an isolated part of your country getting x% of the total programming dubbed into their language and crap like that.
Does it work? I don't see the movie channels going bankrupt (not sure about the rest of the world, but over here movie channels are 100% ad free).
Well... Flip the coin. The only way to have any chance at speeding up adoption of encryption, is to offer a basic version free. Once people realize it's rather nice to feel free of eavesdroppers, they'll likely realize the benefit of, say, file encryption as well. And there's your profit right there..
So.. Why not just install XP then PGP? I've been using PGP 6.5.8 since XP release and it works just dandy. The OE plugin is a bit shaky but it does work. Encrypted volumes (mounted files) works flawless.
"The two assessors are responsible for the final selection of the technology savvy judge."
I'm assuming this is as ironic as the rest of the statements, but just in case someone takes it seriously.
The assessors are normally picked at random by a computer. The resource pool being a number of people who's in the pool for 2 years each. The pool's made up of people randomly picked based on age bracket etc, supposed to offer a realistic representation of "your peers". In order to find a tech savy two people, and keep the integrity of the court, they'd have to call in 2 people, question them, call in another two etc until they find two with enough know-how. Considering the majority of the population are still searching for the "any key", I can see how this would take a few years.
Ironically, I served 3 times consecutively, but finally got out of the loop at about the same time as this case hit the press. I would've loved to have been on this case.
There is no DMCA here yet. That means we, countrary to the US, still retain some fair use rights. What they're gonna try to convince that jury of is that he did this to earn money. Or (although legally it's not a problem) that his deeds cost the MPAA a trillion billion solarsystems worth of cash (which, of course, is utter bs). Thus trying to get a conviction for breaking the law, or for doing something that's a bit nasty, even if it wasn't really against the law. I even seem to remember there's a law *protecting* our right to reverse engineer if we need to do so in order to make the product fit our needs.
I'll be very surprised, and disappointed, if he gets convicted. But I'm sure either way it'll end up in supreme court before we've heard the last of it.
"too many ways into London, can't put tolls on all of them"
That's BS.. There's tons of roads going in and out of "my own" capital (Oslo). They just put up a ring of booths all around it. The cost of a booth should be made up in a single day worth of tolls, I would imagine. Granted, London is a billion times larger, but then again that means a lot more cars so it should scale.
The trick is to not toll the road, the toll is for entering/polluting the city. It's a traffic control measure, not a "pay for the road you're driving on" kinda thing.
Also, it doesn't do jack diddley squat for the amount of traffic so all it ends up being is extra money for the govt to use on anything but roads and car related issues.
What's this bs about it not being compatible with XP? I'm using my old 6.5.8 (the last version I saw before the price jumped way up) just fine in XP. There are some minor niggles but those were present in W2K as well (which, according to the documentation, is supported by 6.5.8).
That's *expensive*. I have the same drive, bought here in Europe, except it's the scsi-3 version. I paid $180 for it.. TG "our price" for the scsi version is 279.99 so I guess the IDE version is equally overpriced.
To anybody with worthwhile brainfunctions this is rather blatantly obvious. That they've done research on it so you can back it up is nice. But honestly, if your boss believes getting interrupted all the time *doesn't* degrade your productivity....Get a new job cause a nobrain boss can only be bad for you in the long run.
This strikes me as somewhat odd.... The press release is from nov '99. I have for some time now noticed online stores in my country listing "CD/DVD recorders" as a separate option. I just now popped by one site and it shows a Toshiba SCSI DVD RAM for less than 2000 NOK. This equates to somewhat below USD 250 and is about the same price as IDE CD-R units. Empty 5.2GB discs runs at around $60. This seems to be old old old news, not suitable for anything but the Slashdot archives. Then again the webstores around here could have stoned or drunk updaters, what do I know. -- Mas
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Considering they lose money on every Xbox sold, you'd be doing the opposite of supporting them (until you buy your first game, that is).
Read the article. You would've seen this "In a strict seven-bit code this would give 128 permutations (two to the power of seven) but Professor Urton said because there were 24 possible colours that could be used in khipu construction, the actual permutations are 1,536 (or two to the power of six, multiplied by 24)."
It is indeed a silly premise. Unless they happen to hook it up to the net, all the data is there, as pointed out by a lot of people. With sector level harddrive encryption (Safeguard, safeboot, drivecrypt etc etc have your pick) they won't get to that data. Period. And the only hassle to the regular user is having to provide a passphrase on boot-up. Well, and in some cases a crypto token, depending on the solution.
I have a hard time seeing how anybody with half a brain would consider buying the Phoenix solution over strong harddrive crypto with pre booth authentication. I'm having an even harder time imagining how daft the Phoenix R&D and managers must be to even propose and then spend money developing such a solution.
Noticed in the cdfreaks forums that there's already a version of daemon tools able to simulate it. At the time I read it (about a week ago I guess) you still needed an extra lil program to extract the info, as no current image creator does it, but after that no worries mounting it as a virtual cd.
.exe and repackaged it.
That means it's no big deal for the pros to figure out what it does (if one's done it, more will/have), and it won't even delay a game a day longer than current protection does, before someone's ripped it out of the
Full Throttle was kickass, indeed. Too bad it was all over in a single very very short evening.. Unless the next one has a bit more value for money (if it costs 5 times what a movie costs, it damn well better last me longer than one) or I ain't gonna buy it :/
1) Remove TV license. They're stupidity on a platter. I'm so pissed of at having to pay a whopping $160 a bloody year to NOT watch the total crap they send on our government paid channels. But they don't care if you watch it or not, the price is to pay for the privilege of having paid $1500 for a TV set in order to watch DVDs like they're meant to be watched.
2) Make all channels pay channels. Want to watch it? Then pay the monthly/quarterly/yearly fee to do so.
3) Result? Channels sending what people actually want to watch for the people willing to pay to watch it. No more having to pay for the 10 people in an isolated part of your country getting x% of the total programming dubbed into their language and crap like that.
Does it work? I don't see the movie channels going bankrupt (not sure about the rest of the world, but over here movie channels are 100% ad free).
Well... Flip the coin. The only way to have any chance at speeding up adoption of encryption, is to offer a basic version free. Once people realize it's rather nice to feel free of eavesdroppers, they'll likely realize the benefit of, say, file encryption as well. And there's your profit right there..
So.. Why not just install XP then PGP? I've been using PGP 6.5.8 since XP release and it works just dandy. The OE plugin is a bit shaky but it does work. Encrypted volumes (mounted files) works flawless.
Hmm, virtually all my region 2 DVDs pops up a country selector at the start and just shows the copyright notice in the language of the country I pick.
"The two assessors are responsible for the final selection of the technology savvy judge."
I'm assuming this is as ironic as the rest of the statements, but just in case someone takes it seriously.
The assessors are normally picked at random by a computer. The resource pool being a number of people who's in the pool for 2 years each. The pool's made up of people randomly picked based on age bracket etc, supposed to offer a realistic representation of "your peers". In order to find a tech savy two people, and keep the integrity of the court, they'd have to call in 2 people, question them, call in another two etc until they find two with enough know-how. Considering the majority of the population are still searching for the "any key", I can see how this would take a few years.
Ironically, I served 3 times consecutively, but finally got out of the loop at about the same time as this case hit the press. I would've loved to have been on this case.
There is no DMCA here yet. That means we, countrary to the US, still retain some fair use rights. What they're gonna try to convince that jury of is that he did this to earn money. Or (although legally it's not a problem) that his deeds cost the MPAA a trillion billion solarsystems worth of cash (which, of course, is utter bs). Thus trying to get a conviction for breaking the law, or for doing something that's a bit nasty, even if it wasn't really against the law. I even seem to remember there's a law *protecting* our right to reverse engineer if we need to do so in order to make the product fit our needs.
I'll be very surprised, and disappointed, if he gets convicted. But I'm sure either way it'll end up in supreme court before we've heard the last of it.
"too many ways into London, can't put tolls on all of them"
That's BS.. There's tons of roads going in and out of "my own" capital (Oslo). They just put up a ring of booths all around it. The cost of a booth should be made up in a single day worth of tolls, I would imagine. Granted, London is a billion times larger, but then again that means a lot more cars so it should scale.
The trick is to not toll the road, the toll is for entering/polluting the city. It's a traffic control measure, not a "pay for the road you're driving on" kinda thing.
Also, it doesn't do jack diddley squat for the amount of traffic so all it ends up being is extra money for the govt to use on anything but roads and car related issues.
What's this bs about it not being compatible with XP? I'm using my old 6.5.8 (the last version I saw before the price jumped way up) just fine in XP. There are some minor niggles but those were present in W2K as well (which, according to the documentation, is supported by 6.5.8).
That's *expensive*. I have the same drive, bought here in Europe, except it's the scsi-3 version. I paid $180 for it.. TG "our price" for the scsi version is 279.99 so I guess the IDE version is equally overpriced.
To anybody with worthwhile brainfunctions this is rather blatantly obvious. That they've done research on it so you can back it up is nice. But honestly, if your boss believes getting interrupted all the time *doesn't* degrade your productivity....Get a new job cause a nobrain boss can only be bad for you in the long run.
This strikes me as somewhat odd.... The press release is from nov '99. I have for some time now noticed online stores in my country listing "CD/DVD recorders" as a separate option. I just now popped by one site and it shows a Toshiba SCSI DVD RAM for less than 2000 NOK. This equates to somewhat below USD 250 and is about the same price as IDE CD-R units. Empty 5.2GB discs runs at around $60. This seems to be old old old news, not suitable for anything but the Slashdot archives. Then again the webstores around here could have stoned or drunk updaters, what do I know. -- Mas
This seems to apply to all Fox sites, btw. www.foxnews.com is now Opera browseable too :) -- Mas