How about the RAZR? You can just ignore the features you don't use. (You'll never find a phone that meets that whole list, because that market is too small.)
But what about TV shows? How about 99 [cents] for an episode, $9.99 for a season?
Are you kidding? A season of a TV show costs $30-50 on DVD (except the HBO ones, which are $100 for 12 episodes!). Steve's Reality Distortion Field is powerful, but I don't think it can get us a 3-5x discount on TV shows.
You can legally rip HD-DVDs, but not DVDs (?)
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Here's something I've been wondering the last week. In the flurry of HD-DVD vs. Blu-ray bickering in the press, "managed copy" keeps coming up. To make a managed copy of an HD-DVD, a computer rips it, strips off the AACS DRM, and wraps on a new DRM layer (MS will use Windows Media DRM, of course, and you'd expect other companies to use their own DRM layers). This is all legal and approved. So the studios will let us rip HD-DVDs (with conditions), and the studios believe that HD is much more valuable than SD. So why can't the computer industry convince the DVD CCA to amend their rules to allow managed copy for regular DVDs?
The whole point of RSS is so that aggregators can spindle, fold, mutilate, and (gasp) read it. If you want to force people to come to your site, just don't have RSS, or have a feed with only headlines.
As for creative graphic design, the Web isn't print.
Aggregators show whatever is in the feed. If a feed contains complete posts, then that's what readers will see. Unless you have ads it really doesn't matter.
No, it doesn't work like that at all. Peers independently decide what data is good and bad (since they already have the hashes). The only data that peers send to the tracker is how much they have uploaded/downloaded (which is assumed to be bogus anyway).
All the embedded Linux companies have non-open-source tools and documentation; that's really what they're selling (since the kernel and userland are free).
Without managed copy, HD-DVD and Blu-ray movies are protected by AACS, and AACS is either cracked or it isn't.
But managed copy allows movies to be trans-DRMed into Windows Media DRM (and possibly others, like FairPlay), thus introducing an OR into the attack tree. To access the content, you only have to break AACS or WMDRM (or FairPlay or whatever). This makes the overall system much weaker (which is good or bad, depending on your viewpoint).
And BTW, why isn't Intel lobbying the DVD Forum/DVD CCA to allow managed copy for regular DVDs? It'll be a curious world where you're legally allowed to copy HD-DVDs but not "inferior" DVDs.
When Ms. Andersen contacted Settlement Support Center, she was advised that her personal home computer had been secretly entered by the record companies' agents, MediaSentry.
Minimum-wage call center employees don't have any idea what they're talking about; film at 11!
Is contravening an electronic security measure not illegal under the DMCA?
The DMCA only applies to mechanisms that effectively control access to copyrighted works (i.e. DRM). There are separate laws for computer trespass.
(I have to wonder where the/. obsession with the DMCA comes from. There are a whole universe of laws, and yet around here it's DMCA this, DMCA that.)
Couldn't that be construed as a violation of DMCA?
Breaking into computers in order to spy on people is not a violation of the DMCA; it's a violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (as it says right in the article).
And while we're at it, who gave MediaSentry the authority to conduct an electronic wiretap?
There's no evidence that they conducted anything resembling a wiretap, nor is there evidence that they broke into any computer. That's not how these P2P monitoring companies generally work (since it's so obviously illegal). They just observe which IP addresses are sharing which files. That's not a wiretap.
The RIAA's lawsuits are bad, but this countersuit appears to be overreaching in the opposite direction.
"In the case of CAPP, an EAL4 evaluation tells you everything you need to know. It tells you that Microsoft (Red Hat) spent millions of dollars producing documentation that shows that Windows 2000 (RHEL 5) meets an inadequate set of requirements, and that you can have reasonably strong confidence that this is the case."
Granted, RHEL is being evaluated for LSPP as well, but EAL4 is still weak.
All the comments about OpenBSD are missing the point: Common Criteria isn't about actual security; it's about security documentation. It's also about certain government purchasing requirements. Nothing to see here.
All those TVs have HDCP, because all HDTVs made in the last year have it.
I hate to say this, but HDCP in TVs is good. Consider the two possible cases: If your TV does not support HDCP, then you can watch "legacy" content, but no "new" (HD-DVD/Blu-ray) content. If your TV supports HDCP, you can watch everything.
The Mac mini is not powerful enough to decode HD video, and it has no S/PDIF or remote control. Something like a KISS DP-700 would be a much better choice (can you say AirPort Express HD? Maybe.)
WiMax will be 10-20 Mbps... shared by hundreds of people. Forget about downloading HD movies over that.
I actually think variable pricing would be OK -- if it went the other way. Make some songs 99c and some less. After all, music is part of the computer world now, and in the computer industry prices only go down.:-)
As for wanting a share of the music player revenue stream and needing to "monetize their product", what's wrong with the ~75c per song of pure profit that they're making now? Music labels didn't get a cut of Walkman or Discman sales; why should anything change now?
Macrovision (and its evil brother CGMS-A) aren't encodings; they're just flags, which means if you ignore them then they just go away. And since flags aren't an "effective access control mechanism", then legally you don't have to obey them. So I contend that TiVo could have totally ignored Macrovision and still been able to legally record premium content.
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What will melt down are the share prices of certain companies that are totally dependent on DNS. :-)
That no single organization runs it? That destroying pieces of it will not disrupt the rest?
Yes, and then DNS was invented.
This phone is not really aimed at the American market. (AFAIK no US carriers sold the P800, P900, or P910, so why should they change now?)
UMTS is coming to the US eventually, but it's not here yet. Today all we have is EV-DO.
How about the RAZR? You can just ignore the features you don't use. (You'll never find a phone that meets that whole list, because that market is too small.)
But what about TV shows? How about 99 [cents] for an episode, $9.99 for a season?
Are you kidding? A season of a TV show costs $30-50 on DVD (except the HBO ones, which are $100 for 12 episodes!). Steve's Reality Distortion Field is powerful, but I don't think it can get us a 3-5x discount on TV shows.
Here's something I've been wondering the last week. In the flurry of HD-DVD vs. Blu-ray bickering in the press, "managed copy" keeps coming up. To make a managed copy of an HD-DVD, a computer rips it, strips off the AACS DRM, and wraps on a new DRM layer (MS will use Windows Media DRM, of course, and you'd expect other companies to use their own DRM layers). This is all legal and approved. So the studios will let us rip HD-DVDs (with conditions), and the studios believe that HD is much more valuable than SD. So why can't the computer industry convince the DVD CCA to amend their rules to allow managed copy for regular DVDs?
The whole point of RSS is so that aggregators can spindle, fold, mutilate, and (gasp) read it. If you want to force people to come to your site, just don't have RSS, or have a feed with only headlines.
As for creative graphic design, the Web isn't print.
Aggregators show whatever is in the feed. If a feed contains complete posts, then that's what readers will see. Unless you have ads it really doesn't matter.
No, it doesn't work like that at all. Peers independently decide what data is good and bad (since they already have the hashes). The only data that peers send to the tracker is how much they have uploaded/downloaded (which is assumed to be bogus anyway).
Wow, piggybacking a sales pitch on an outage notification; that's classy.
All the embedded Linux companies have non-open-source tools and documentation; that's really what they're selling (since the kernel and userland are free).
Without managed copy, HD-DVD and Blu-ray movies are protected by AACS, and AACS is either cracked or it isn't.
But managed copy allows movies to be trans-DRMed into Windows Media DRM (and possibly others, like FairPlay), thus introducing an OR into the attack tree. To access the content, you only have to break AACS or WMDRM (or FairPlay or whatever). This makes the overall system much weaker (which is good or bad, depending on your viewpoint).
And BTW, why isn't Intel lobbying the DVD Forum/DVD CCA to allow managed copy for regular DVDs? It'll be a curious world where you're legally allowed to copy HD-DVDs but not "inferior" DVDs.
When Ms. Andersen contacted Settlement Support Center, she was advised that her personal home computer had been secretly entered by the record companies' agents, MediaSentry.
/. obsession with the DMCA comes from. There are a whole universe of laws, and yet around here it's DMCA this, DMCA that.)
Minimum-wage call center employees don't have any idea what they're talking about; film at 11!
Is contravening an electronic security measure not illegal under the DMCA?
The DMCA only applies to mechanisms that effectively control access to copyrighted works (i.e. DRM). There are separate laws for computer trespass.
(I have to wonder where the
Couldn't that be construed as a violation of DMCA?
Breaking into computers in order to spy on people is not a violation of the DMCA; it's a violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (as it says right in the article).
And while we're at it, who gave MediaSentry the authority to conduct an electronic wiretap?
There's no evidence that they conducted anything resembling a wiretap, nor is there evidence that they broke into any computer. That's not how these P2P monitoring companies generally work (since it's so obviously illegal). They just observe which IP addresses are sharing which files. That's not a wiretap.
The RIAA's lawsuits are bad, but this countersuit appears to be overreaching in the opposite direction.
Last-mile providers cannot move out of the country, and that's where they want to do the wiretapping.
Not unless the feds can get a forged cert. (They probably can, but I just wanted to point out that it's not trivial.)
Looks like it's time to trot out this link again:
Jonathan S. Shapiro, Ph.D: Understanding the Windows (and Red Hat) EAL4 Evaluation.
"In the case of CAPP, an EAL4 evaluation tells you everything you need to know. It tells you that Microsoft (Red Hat) spent millions of dollars producing documentation that shows that Windows 2000 (RHEL 5) meets an inadequate set of requirements, and that you can have reasonably strong confidence that this is the case."
Granted, RHEL is being evaluated for LSPP as well, but EAL4 is still weak.
All the comments about OpenBSD are missing the point: Common Criteria isn't about actual security; it's about security documentation. It's also about certain government purchasing requirements. Nothing to see here.
Yes, standard x86 machines run Linux.
Neither format uses catridges! How many times does this need to be said?
All those TVs have HDCP, because all HDTVs made in the last year have it.
I hate to say this, but HDCP in TVs is good. Consider the two possible cases:
If your TV does not support HDCP, then you can watch "legacy" content, but no "new" (HD-DVD/Blu-ray) content.
If your TV supports HDCP, you can watch everything.
Try the Sony DHG-HDD250. It actually replaces your cable box.
Indeed, which makes them mostly useless.
The Mac mini is not powerful enough to decode HD video, and it has no S/PDIF or remote control. Something like a KISS DP-700 would be a much better choice (can you say AirPort Express HD? Maybe.)
WiMax will be 10-20 Mbps... shared by hundreds of people. Forget about downloading HD movies over that.
I actually think variable pricing would be OK -- if it went the other way. Make some songs 99c and some less. After all, music is part of the computer world now, and in the computer industry prices only go down. :-)
As for wanting a share of the music player revenue stream and needing to "monetize their product", what's wrong with the ~75c per song of pure profit that they're making now? Music labels didn't get a cut of Walkman or Discman sales; why should anything change now?
Macrovision (and its evil brother CGMS-A) aren't encodings; they're just flags, which means if you ignore them then they just go away. And since flags aren't an "effective access control mechanism", then legally you don't have to obey them. So I contend that TiVo could have totally ignored Macrovision and still been able to legally record premium content.