A hardware player isn't a general purpose computer.
Actually, it is. Toshiba's first HD-DVD players are, in fact, Pentium 4 computers.
(I used to own a DVD player which was "upgraded" by downloading a patch, burning it onto a CD, and putting that in the machine, but I don't know if every DVD player supports that.)
Not ALL, but the vast majority of DVD players can be flashed in the same manner.
The problem with that is then on every disc each key needs to be encoded.
No, it doesn't. Mathematics isn't nearly that primitive. You absolutely don't have to, nor does AACS store every individual key on a disk. It's called "broadcast encryption" and it existed before AACS. Each player doesn't have a single, globally unique key. It has several keys which, in combination, are globally unique. See: http://web.archive.org/web/20060604054302/http://w ww.lotspiech.com/AACS/
Sorry, it just won't work.
Sorry, you know nothing about cryptography. That is, in fact, how AACS works. Your ignorance of it doesn't change reality.
once you put in a disc which says "Hey, you're supposed to be revoked" that player will stop working until you get an upgrade.
This myth appears to have originated simply by a reporter from The Register misunderstanding an out-of-context quote, from someone who didn't entirely understand AACS to begin with.
Reading about AACS from the source, I didn't see anything like this at all. So please stop spreading bullshit myths.
And don't drink coke while you're eating pop rocks, or your stomach will explode, and you'll die.
there is *no way* to make "unbreakable" DRM. None. At all.
There's no way to make DRM unbreakable IN SOFTWARE. However, even there, there are numerous ways to make it so ridiculously difficult to find the key, that it would either require millions of dollars in equipment and thousands of man-hours for each key (which can be trivially revoked) or perhaps waiting many years until technology improves, until they don't really care anymore if the DRM is broken.
In hardware, however, DRM can be absolutely impossible to break, though the cost in doing so would be prohibitive, currently.
dolphins have an iq roughly equal to goofy rednecks, or any other portion of the human society that is not "intellectually gifted", this becomes a genocide. You're assigning humanity to non-human animals. That is entirely your own (baseless) opinion, and one many people in the world do not share.
I'd very much like to see a dolphin IQ test, because they certainly couldn't take it in any form I've seen. Perhaps it's some multiple choice grid, where just by pure odds they'll have a non-zero IQ?
And even if you can accurately judge IQ in animals, why does a higher IQ make one better food than another? Would it therefore be BETTER to eat a mentally retarded human child, than an intellectual adult? Would eating 10 chickens, with 1/10th the IQ of a Dolphin, be equivalent?
If instead you want to talk about cultural taboos, killing cattle is a horrendous act in Hinduism.
If you want to talk about animal intelligence, scientists say pigs are among the very smartest animals in the world... Too bad they're so tasty, eh? When was the last time you had a piece of bacon, sausage, ham, pork chop, etc.? Can you taste the intelligence?
You are absolutely right except the "behind the truck bit". I would not do that as I may end up "between the trucks".
Obviously you wouldn't want to do that if there is another truck immediately behind the first... Provided you are alert, it should be extremely safe. Your small vehicle can stop MUCH faster than a large truck.
As a result if you deccelerate early the one bihind you may end up smashing into you
That is COMPLETELY untrue. You'd have to be a horrible driver to believe that.
Accidents are caused by large speed differentials, that means someone stopping suddenly has a good chance of causing an accident. Someone who takes their foot off the gas, and just gradually slows down has NO chance of causing an accident... The speed differential will be 1MPH at a time, and the driver will have a very long time to notice he is gaining on you, even if he's not paying very much attention.
That's the same way to handle tailgaiters... Naturally decelerate until the guy either backs off, or you're both going so slow that he's now at a safe distance. Hitting your breaks is dangerous driving, slowly decelerating is as safe as it gets.
our regular turbodiesel Skoda (a European car) gets 70-80 mpg even if you not trying.
Diesel fuel isn't remotely comparable to gasoline.
You might as well say your fission powered car gets 10,000,000 MPG (eg. on Uranium), or your electric car gets infinite MPG.
It seems so wasteful to be dragging around two tons of metal to transport one person.
First: smaller cars are around 1 ton (half that). Second: Is there some physical law I don't know about, that makes it possible to be safe in an 80MPH collision, without 1 ton of metal surrounding you?
But the riots were a public act. Wolf taped them as anyone - including the cops - could have.
The real question here is: should a journalist should be allowed to take something that is public and make it private, and then claim protection under privacy laws?
It's a good thing Woodward and Bernstein weren't filming their conversations with Deep Throat... After all, it was a public parking garage, and, presumably, the police potentially could have been recording that, in some way.
How is it that the right to protect sources, and not being compelled to turn over sources, doesn't apply when video is involved?
they didn't manufacture another 5 million to sell for cheap.
The only problem with that assumption is that they were on sale for MONTHS, not just a week or two to clear a few units out.
Maybe there were large wherehouses full, or perhaps they had to finish out their contract with the company manufacturing them. Whatever the reason, there were a lot of Dreamcasts going for $50 and less.
Just because there was an ad on craigs list, doesn't absolve people from breaking and entering, stealing property, etc. This doesn't lie entirely on the shoulders of the instigator. You could do the same thing just as easily by putting up a sign, or standing outside of a random (empty) house and telling people to take everything.
Yeah, but that was mainly because they were marked down to nearly free for the last 6 months of its life...
When the PS2 hype was sucking the marrow from Dreamcast, and widespread piracy methods were worked out, they decided to give them away, since they knew no new games were possibly going to appear.
In terms of gaming fun I had with the system, it was a huge success.
I'm sure that will make Sega's stock holders feel much better about the ridiculous amounts of money sunk into it.
Personally, I'd think the Sega Saturn would have qualified as a much bigger flop. It was the Saturn that sent Sega towards the cliff.
If you are using Linux, you must make sure that you can use HDPARM on your drives.
Not at all. hdparm was needed to enable DMA in the past, but since latter versions of 2.4, and with all 2.6 kernels, DMA is enabled by default, if at all possible.
You can run hdparm to enable 32bit transfers as well, but that's not going to make a significant difference, unlike DMA.
If someone invites you to hit them, "go on then, hit me!", you are free to do so. I believe this is the case in the US too. I don't really know.
Not as such. It's just that, in the US, someone has to opt to press charges. If someone steals your car, but you decide not to press charges (presumably because they were friends/family), nothing illegal happened. Same goes for fighting, and other minor private disputes.
If someone invites you to hit them, or perhaps to use their car, then presses charges... well, judges and/or juries aren't stupid, so I wouldn't worry about it. Hopefully there will be a witness around.
there's a culture where people get out of their tiny minds on alcohol and drugs and then beat the crap out of each other and innocent passers by. The cameras help to catch and prosecute the idiots engaged in this kind of behaviour.
Good idea! Prosecute them. That will make you feel better, as you're being beaten. Knowing that all the police in the city are behind a desk, somewhere, watching, makes the beatings worthwhile.
What if you got rid of all of the CCTV cameras and doubled the number of police patrolling the streets instead? How would it be different?
For one thing, the police wouldn't be standing around, filming you for 15 minutes, as you got beat/stabbed to death in the street...
For another, human beings don't remember every detail, of everything going on, every second of every day... So actual police aren't going to send out tickets for every trivial little infraction, like jaywalking in the middle of the night... Police aren't going to remember exactly who you were associating with, on every single day, for years.
There's an overwhelming difference between human and electronic surveillance, and I can't understand in the slightly why so many people play dumb, or even worse, actually believe it's remotely the same.
they have these in place already. People are starting to complain about them though.
This is where that "right to bear arms" thing comes in handy...
All it takes is one person, who gets really pissed off, to walk around town at night with a riffle, to entirely eliminate the problem, and destroy several thousand dollars of surveillance equipment in the process.
Then use whatever capture card you can find that works well with whichever distro you're using.
Congratulations on spending $2,000 on equipment, only to end up recording noisy crap...
Most popular TV capture cards are low S/N, and very noisy. That applies to any BTTV cards.
I would, at the very least, suggest getting an SAA71xx card, because the quality will be much better, and it's one of really the only 2 non-BTTV card well supported under Linux. (The other being Zoran)
Mencoder is really all you need on the software side.
No, it shouldn't matter. AGP is backwards compatibile, so it should just be slower.
If you want to try less expensive options, and don't need fast 3D, an (OEM) TNT2, GeForce2, or R128 card should be pretty good too. At this point, they're so low power that they don't even include a heatsink.
The C7, while requiring a fan for the highest CPU speeds, goes up to 2.0GHz and uses 20W at full tilt, max.
That 2.0GHz, isn't remotely comparable with an Intel or AMD 2GHz CPU. Indeed, I'd expect it to perform less than half as fast as you might expect from that rating... Much worse than even a 2.0GHz Pentium 4...
For a high-performance system, I'd suggest a Turion... $80 on newegg for a 25W MAX, 2.0GHz AMD CPU, that will work in many cheap and available socket 754 motherboards. Not to mention that Cool'n'Quiet should give much lower idle power usage than anything VIA has to offer.
For miniITX systems, look for Geode CPUs. I see several on eBay regularly, and occasionally a few on pricewatch. For $200, you can get everything but the case, PSU, and HDD, and with a Geode NX CPU, that will smoke the fastest VIA CPUs, and still be lower power. Older "Mobile Athlons" will also work quite well, but expect the Geodes to be lower power, easier to get, and inexpensive.
More expensive, but equally good, are Intel's low power "ULV" CPUs, but good luck finding a miniITX motherboard for any of them.
France is the largest country in western Europe, and significantly larger than any single American state.
"WTF" doesn't even remotely begin to cover that one!!! Did you perhaps learn geography in 1844?
Alaska:1,717,855 km Texas: 678,051 km France: 674,843 km
The real reason why Americans don't have a decent inter-city rail system is that you simply can't do that without planning and initial funding from a central government authority, and as we all know that's anti-American.
OR could it be that the terrain in many parts of the US, particularly California, is among the harshest in the world, and because of that, as well as larger distances between most common destinations, and simple speed, air travel is infinitely more suitable?
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Actually, it is. Toshiba's first HD-DVD players are, in fact, Pentium 4 computers.
Not ALL, but the vast majority of DVD players can be flashed in the same manner.
No, it doesn't. Mathematics isn't nearly that primitive. You absolutely don't have to, nor does AACS store every individual key on a disk. It's called "broadcast encryption" and it existed before AACS. Each player doesn't have a single, globally unique key. It has several keys which, in combination, are globally unique. See: http://web.archive.org/web/20060604054302/http://
Sorry, you know nothing about cryptography. That is, in fact, how AACS works. Your ignorance of it doesn't change reality.
Fastest mod-up ever? I just reload the comment I finished posting, and it's at +3...
This myth appears to have originated simply by a reporter from The Register misunderstanding an out-of-context quote, from someone who didn't entirely understand AACS to begin with.
Reading about AACS from the source, I didn't see anything like this at all. So please stop spreading bullshit myths.
And don't drink coke while you're eating pop rocks, or your stomach will explode, and you'll die.
There's no way to make DRM unbreakable IN SOFTWARE. However, even there, there are numerous ways to make it so ridiculously difficult to find the key, that it would either require millions of dollars in equipment and thousands of man-hours for each key (which can be trivially revoked) or perhaps waiting many years until technology improves, until they don't really care anymore if the DRM is broken.
In hardware, however, DRM can be absolutely impossible to break, though the cost in doing so would be prohibitive, currently.
Of course that is only if you don't ever exceed 40MPH, which is the maximum speed for the electric motor in the Prius.
Obviously you wouldn't want to do that if there is another truck immediately behind the first... Provided you are alert, it should be extremely safe. Your small vehicle can stop MUCH faster than a large truck.
That is COMPLETELY untrue. You'd have to be a horrible driver to believe that.
Accidents are caused by large speed differentials, that means someone stopping suddenly has a good chance of causing an accident. Someone who takes their foot off the gas, and just gradually slows down has NO chance of causing an accident... The speed differential will be 1MPH at a time, and the driver will have a very long time to notice he is gaining on you, even if he's not paying very much attention.
That's the same way to handle tailgaiters... Naturally decelerate until the guy either backs off, or you're both going so slow that he's now at a safe distance. Hitting your breaks is dangerous driving, slowly decelerating is as safe as it gets.
Diesel fuel isn't remotely comparable to gasoline.
You might as well say your fission powered car gets 10,000,000 MPG (eg. on Uranium), or your electric car gets infinite MPG.
First: smaller cars are around 1 ton (half that).
Second: Is there some physical law I don't know about, that makes it possible to be safe in an 80MPH collision, without 1 ton of metal surrounding you?
It's a good thing Woodward and Bernstein weren't filming their conversations with Deep Throat... After all, it was a public parking garage, and, presumably, the police potentially could have been recording that, in some way.
How is it that the right to protect sources, and not being compelled to turn over sources, doesn't apply when video is involved?
The only problem with that assumption is that they were on sale for MONTHS, not just a week or two to clear a few units out.
Maybe there were large wherehouses full, or perhaps they had to finish out their contract with the company manufacturing them. Whatever the reason, there were a lot of Dreamcasts going for $50 and less.
Just because there was an ad on craigs list, doesn't absolve people from breaking and entering, stealing property, etc. This doesn't lie entirely on the shoulders of the instigator. You could do the same thing just as easily by putting up a sign, or standing outside of a random (empty) house and telling people to take everything.
That tends be even far less popular than *real* government transgressions. In other words, they're not likely to do that.
I can only see that as a good thing. If police response was better, they wouldn't NEED the cameras.
Laptops.
In a couple years, iPods.
Yeah, but that was mainly because they were marked down to nearly free for the last 6 months of its life...
When the PS2 hype was sucking the marrow from Dreamcast, and widespread piracy methods were worked out, they decided to give them away, since they knew no new games were possibly going to appear.
I'm sure that will make Sega's stock holders feel much better about the ridiculous amounts of money sunk into it.
Personally, I'd think the Sega Saturn would have qualified as a much bigger flop. It was the Saturn that sent Sega towards the cliff.
Not at all. hdparm was needed to enable DMA in the past, but since latter versions of 2.4, and with all 2.6 kernels, DMA is enabled by default, if at all possible.
You can run hdparm to enable 32bit transfers as well, but that's not going to make a significant difference, unlike DMA.
Not as such. It's just that, in the US, someone has to opt to press charges. If someone steals your car, but you decide not to press charges (presumably because they were friends/family), nothing illegal happened. Same goes for fighting, and other minor private disputes.
If someone invites you to hit them, or perhaps to use their car, then presses charges... well, judges and/or juries aren't stupid, so I wouldn't worry about it. Hopefully there will be a witness around.
Good idea! Prosecute them. That will make you feel better, as you're being beaten. Knowing that all the police in the city are behind a desk, somewhere, watching, makes the beatings worthwhile.
You know if Bush had put up the cameras, there'd be rioting in the street.
For one thing, the police wouldn't be standing around, filming you for 15 minutes, as you got beat/stabbed to death in the street...
For another, human beings don't remember every detail, of everything going on, every second of every day... So actual police aren't going to send out tickets for every trivial little infraction, like jaywalking in the middle of the night... Police aren't going to remember exactly who you were associating with, on every single day, for years.
There's an overwhelming difference between human and electronic surveillance, and I can't understand in the slightly why so many people play dumb, or even worse, actually believe it's remotely the same.
This is where that "right to bear arms" thing comes in handy...
All it takes is one person, who gets really pissed off, to walk around town at night with a riffle, to entirely eliminate the problem, and destroy several thousand dollars of surveillance equipment in the process.
Congratulations on spending $2,000 on equipment, only to end up recording noisy crap...
Most popular TV capture cards are low S/N, and very noisy. That applies to any BTTV cards.
I would, at the very least, suggest getting an SAA71xx card, because the quality will be much better, and it's one of really the only 2 non-BTTV card well supported under Linux. (The other being Zoran)
Mencoder is really all you need on the software side.
No, it shouldn't matter. AGP is backwards compatibile, so it should just be slower.
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If you want to try less expensive options, and don't need fast 3D, an (OEM) TNT2, GeForce2, or R128 card should be pretty good too. At this point, they're so low power that they don't even include a heatsink.
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That 2.0GHz, isn't remotely comparable with an Intel or AMD 2GHz CPU. Indeed, I'd expect it to perform less than half as fast as you might expect from that rating... Much worse than even a 2.0GHz Pentium 4...
For a high-performance system, I'd suggest a Turion... $80 on newegg for a 25W MAX, 2.0GHz AMD CPU, that will work in many cheap and available socket 754 motherboards. Not to mention that Cool'n'Quiet should give much lower idle power usage than anything VIA has to offer.
For miniITX systems, look for Geode CPUs. I see several on eBay regularly, and occasionally a few on pricewatch. For $200, you can get everything but the case, PSU, and HDD, and with a Geode NX CPU, that will smoke the fastest VIA CPUs, and still be lower power. Older "Mobile Athlons" will also work quite well, but expect the Geodes to be lower power, easier to get, and inexpensive.
More expensive, but equally good, are Intel's low power "ULV" CPUs, but good luck finding a miniITX motherboard for any of them.
"WTF" doesn't even remotely begin to cover that one!!! Did you perhaps learn geography in 1844?
Alaska:1,717,855 km
Texas: 678,051 km
France: 674,843 km
OR could it be that the terrain in many parts of the US, particularly California, is among the harshest in the world, and because of that, as well as larger distances between most common destinations, and simple speed, air travel is infinitely more suitable?