Yes, originally DeCSS only worked because Xing didn't encrypt their player key, but there are now dvd decoders on the net that work by brute forcing a player key from the DVd you have in the drive. DeCSS was just the first step..
I think people are a bit concerned about who stands to loose if there were to be massive dvd piracy caused by decss. This is not like the napster case, where individual starving recording artists stand to loose a little bit (whilst the riaa looses big, but thats another story). The people that stand to loose money are the huge movie companies. Not the actors/writers/directors.. they're all paid up front (with maybe small kickbacks from movie sales). The people who make money on the DVD sales are the fatcats like Jack Valenti.
So if some 13 yearold in bumsville idaho wants to download a crappy looking divx rip of some crappilly written hollywood blockbuster, is it really worth anybodys time to weep a single tear for the movie monarchs?
How many divx rips have you seen of films from indie directors, films in which the directors only chance to recoup some money is on the dvd... not many.
I hope this was posted as joke... Is that even emmanuel? The man in the photo doesn't look as old, nor does he have the same skin/hair tone. Also, I dont think any Hope2k hats have been printed... and why would somebody selling dvds been in the street.. they're always on the sidewalk side.
The message he recieved may be a hoax, but if you follow the link to the Tos/aup/whatever on ICQs page, it states that you have to be over 13 blah blah blah, so, even if the contact from UIN#1 was fake, the information behind it is not.
It doesn't seem that unreasonable, considering that hes not planning to actually go into orbit or anything. He wont have to worry about heat shielding or the problems with reentry that a typical orbital capsual would. If he can get the engines to work without exploding into a big ball of flaming death, I'm sure he'll be ok. Plus, I'm sure he can computer model all of this.. think what the apollo missions were able to do without the assistance of an Athlon..
Heres what I'm wondering.. Now that we're at the point where when you purchase a cd for, say win98, you do not actually own it. However.. you still own the physical media that the data is stamped on (at least, I hope). So, is it still piracy if I make a copy of that media and give it out to my friends? None of them would own it, but since I dont either, where is the problem? Microsoft didn't sell me the data on it, they sold me the right to use it. My friends may not have the right to use the data on the disc, but can't I still give them the cds, assuming they never actually use it?
When I saw it, the seats in the movie theater were nice and padded.
At least I wasn't forced to watch it while standing on a bed of hot coals or something.. although that may have been more appropriate (get it... hell... battlefield earth...both bad... hahaha im so funny)
The section towards the bottom about purchasing songs by the track online really frightened me. Sony has thrown out $2-$3 *per track* as a possible price.
$2per track * 12 tracks per cd = $24 for a few files... you dont even get any physical media.
Since when you're just letting people download the music there is virtually no distribution cost (a virtual web account somewhere..), and there is no middleman in the form of cd stores, they would be making huge amounts of money off this 'service' that is us consumers supposedly 'want'.
Lets say I'm a musician that has released a cd. It is fully copywrited to me and such. What is preventing me from then suing the manufactures of CDR devices, on the grounds that they make a device that has only one purpose (to make perfect digital copies of a cd so it can be played back later on a different device), and that one purpose can obviously be used to infringe on my copywrite. Or perhaps I should sue Adaptec for making the EasyCD software package, which even includes a CDCopier program! Its designed to copy cds, why does this not fall under the DMCA?
I can understand that video tape may not be included since they will degrade with copies, but CDR's do not suffer the same problem. What keeps the major cd-r manufacturers safe?
yeah, when you use localtime it gives you that back.. Most of the matts script archive code does that. The message board program even has a reference to "19$year" - not a good idea anymore. $year = $year + 1900; will take care of things..
Perhaps you have never played quake3? When you go to initialize an internet game, it gets a list of available servers to play on from a server at id. When you connect to a server, your connection is authorized via a server at id (so that cd keys can be checked once the retail is out). Deal with it or dont play the game. This privacy stuff has gotten way out of hand, and if people dont start cooling down they're going to see counter suits based on defamation. If you're game playing habits are so disturbing that you think nobody should know, perhaps you should not be playing games? And dont dare go out in public, somebody might find out your name.. and see what you look like.. maybe even *gasp* hear your voice. What is it about the internet that has made us so frightened of other people knowing who we are?
We're talking about making a connection and exchanging some basic information. Is anybody really that paranoid, that they are worried that a software company might know what video card they use? Hey everyone, I have a voodoo3 on a pentiumII/300, with 128mb of ram. Oh no! Now everybody knows! Whatever will I do? If having id know that I run a voodoo3 means that I will get better support for my video card, where is the problem? This privacy advocation crap has gotten way out of hand. The blizzard issue was different because they were gathering registry inof that they didn't have any need to know. Quake3 needs to know what kind of video card you have. Real was different because it was your own personal preferences. The IPV6 stuff is different because it can be tied back to you. Thank you.
If they can bring it together in a well done, usable fashion, it'll be an awfully hand resource. The only concern I would have is that it will either be lacking in total content, or it will thrust too much info at users. Having a central site for info is also a great way to combat the fud that says there is no good place to turn for linux support. We'll see..
Over the summer I began talking via aolim (mm.. gaim..) to a girl from my school who I hadn't know real well. By getting to know each toher better over the net, we eventually hooked up in real life . Conversing online allows you to say things that you may have trouble saying in real life, although important issues should still be discussed face to face in my opinion.
I've gotta agree. I got through 3 years of high school with no real desire to have a girlfriend, until this summer. I started hanging out with a girl who I'd always considered a friend, but we had never been real close. After we started hanging out, I fell deeply in love with her, and its been so great for the last 3 months, I can' imagine being apart from her.
I do agree with Roblimos points about not trying to find a geek girl. It doesn't work. I used to think how cool it would be to have a girlfriend who knew linux and perl and all that cool stuff, but I realized that the point of a relationship is not to find somebody just like you, but to instead find someone who can open up your mind to new things.
I think what he is specifically looking for is a way to basically mount the camcorder via the firewire interface, and move data to it to be stored completely digitally. With the solutions mentioned thus far, they are basically taking the digital data, making it into an analog picture and letting the digital camcorder recapture it. Data integrity is *probably* not a big issue with a system like that, since the ones i've seen using VCr's have redundant data and such, but that is besides the point. I think it would be very neat to be able to do mount/dev/camcorder/backup -t minidv and then just copy files right out to the camcorder. As far as I know, this isn't possible right now, but I dont know why it shouldn't be eventually, since I dont believe digital camcorders do much to the signal coming in off firewire other than write it to the tape. Recovery might be a bit more difficult, but not impossible.
I chose not to talk about Stalin because without Hitler/WWii causing a dramatic arms buildup to begin, the cold war may never have begun. World War II also left europe desimated which allowed for stalin/ussr to move in and create the iron curtain. Think about the disputes over eastern/western germany - it became a major focal point in the 'war against the commies'. Without Hitler leaving Germany weakened and unstable, germany would never have been partitioned up and the USSR would not have power there.
Stalin was a very important person in the century, but it took Hitler to bring him to our attention.
Just take a minute to think about the impact of Hitler/WWII on everyday life. It changed the face of the world, created the cold war which in turn lead to the space race, the arms race, the increased rate of developement of new technology and uncountable other things. Hilter was not a nice fellow, and by no means should this poll be seen as supporting him, but what he did has had a bigger influence on our present day lives than anybody else this century. Of course, we can't know what things would have been like without him (well, not until I get this time machine working anyway) but its a pretty safe bet that things would be rather different.
I was checking out this weeks ComputerWorld mag. and on the back cover is an add for kingston ram claiming that it will improve your NT server performance by up to 540%. Thinking this to be a rather odd claim, I checked out the fine print - guess who conducted the testing that proved that kingston ram would speed up an nt machine by 540%? You got it! Mindcraft! sigh. I'm going to pay them to "prove" that my 1993 Subaru sedan is faster than a ferrari.
Thin speakers aren't a new concept, but this is a pretty good price for a set (assuming they're not a POS). That type of speaker has excellent high end response, but very little in the way of low end response, so people putting them in a hometheater type setup generally have a seperate powered sub sitting somewhere in the room (since placement of the sub doesn't matter all that much). You can actually buy fairly large speakers in this style, I've seen 5 feet+ tall super-thin speakers, and they sound excellent.
So, they take a line of luggage that they already had, randomly applied words that are usually associated with computers and now its HackerGear? I think i'm missing something here. Yay, i can get a spam backback.. but, why would I want one? Should I walk up to my friends and say "hey, check this bag out, its a spam". I think somebody in the design department of this company wasn't thinking when this line was designed. We're past the point where anything related to computers will sell (notice the decline in computer related movies since 1995). If you're going to make a line of "hacker" clothing, at least make it semi-useful to computer users - otherwise I'll just buy a $15 backpack at walmart.
Are there any countries that have decent net links and also dont have deals with the US to let the RIAA come in and boss them around? We could just put up an uber-server there and host lyrics/olga on it. Theres gotta be somewhere that the RIAA can't just step in and yell.
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Yes, originally DeCSS only worked because Xing didn't encrypt their player key, but there are now dvd decoders on the net that work by brute forcing a player key from the DVd you have in the drive. DeCSS was just the first step..
I think people are a bit concerned about who stands to loose if there were to be massive dvd piracy caused by decss. This is not like the napster case, where individual starving recording artists stand to loose a little bit (whilst the riaa looses big, but thats another story). The people that stand to loose money are the huge movie companies. Not the actors/writers/directors.. they're all paid up front (with maybe small kickbacks from movie sales). The people who make money on the DVD sales are the fatcats like Jack Valenti.
So if some 13 yearold in bumsville idaho wants to download a crappy looking divx rip of some crappilly written hollywood blockbuster, is it really worth anybodys time to weep a single tear for the movie monarchs?
How many divx rips have you seen of films from indie directors, films in which the directors only chance to recoup some money is on the dvd... not many.
I just can't feel sorry for the mpaa...
I hope this was posted as joke... Is that even emmanuel? The man in the photo doesn't look as old, nor does he have the same skin/hair tone. Also, I dont think any Hope2k hats have been printed... and why would somebody selling dvds been in the street.. they're always on the sidewalk side.
The message he recieved may be a hoax, but if you follow the link to the Tos/aup/whatever on ICQs page, it states that you have to be over 13 blah blah blah, so, even if the contact from UIN#1 was fake, the information behind it is not.
It doesn't seem that unreasonable, considering that hes not planning to actually go into orbit or anything. He wont have to worry about heat shielding or the problems with reentry that a typical orbital capsual would. If he can get the engines to work without exploding into a big ball of flaming death, I'm sure he'll be ok. Plus, I'm sure he can computer model all of this.. think what the apollo missions were able to do without the assistance of an Athlon..
Heres what I'm wondering.. Now that we're at the point where when you purchase a cd for, say win98, you do not actually own it. However.. you still own the physical media that the data is stamped on (at least, I hope). So, is it still piracy if I make a copy of that media and give it out to my friends? None of them would own it, but since I dont either, where is the problem? Microsoft didn't sell me the data on it, they sold me the right to use it. My friends may not have the right to use the data on the disc, but can't I still give them the cds, assuming they never actually use it?
When I saw it, the seats in the movie theater were nice and padded.
At least I wasn't forced to watch it while standing on a bed of hot coals or something.. although that may have been more appropriate (get it... hell... battlefield earth...both bad... hahaha im so funny)
The section towards the bottom about purchasing songs by the track online really frightened me. Sony has thrown out $2-$3 *per track* as a possible price.
$2per track * 12 tracks per cd = $24 for a few files... you dont even get any physical media.
Since when you're just letting people download the music there is virtually no distribution cost (a virtual web account somewhere..), and there is no middleman in the form of cd stores, they would be making huge amounts of money off this 'service' that is us consumers supposedly 'want'.
sigh...
I may be off base on this but..
Lets say I'm a musician that has released a cd. It is fully copywrited to me and such. What is preventing me from then suing the manufactures of CDR devices, on the grounds that they make a device that has only one purpose (to make perfect digital copies of a cd so it can be played back later on a different device), and that one purpose can obviously be used to infringe on my copywrite. Or perhaps I should sue Adaptec for making the EasyCD software package, which even includes a CDCopier program! Its designed to copy cds, why does this not fall under the DMCA?
I can understand that video tape may not be included since they will degrade with copies, but CDR's do not suffer the same problem. What keeps the major cd-r manufacturers safe?
yeah, when you use localtime it gives you that back.. Most of the matts script archive code does that. The message board program even has a reference to "19$year" - not a good idea anymore. $year = $year + 1900; will take care of things..
Perhaps you have never played quake3? When you go to initialize an internet game, it gets a list of available servers to play on from a server at id. When you connect to a server, your connection is authorized via a server at id (so that cd keys can be checked once the retail is out). Deal with it or dont play the game. This privacy stuff has gotten way out of hand, and if people dont start cooling down they're going to see counter suits based on defamation. If you're game playing habits are so disturbing that you think nobody should know, perhaps you should not be playing games? And dont dare go out in public, somebody might find out your name.. and see what you look like.. maybe even *gasp* hear your voice. What is it about the internet that has made us so frightened of other people knowing who we are?
We're talking about making a connection and exchanging some basic information. Is anybody really that paranoid, that they are worried that a software company might know what video card they use?
Hey everyone, I have a voodoo3 on a pentiumII/300, with 128mb of ram. Oh no! Now everybody knows! Whatever will I do?
If having id know that I run a voodoo3 means that I will get better support for my video card, where is the problem?
This privacy advocation crap has gotten way out of hand. The blizzard issue was different because they were gathering registry inof that they didn't have any need to know. Quake3 needs to know what kind of video card you have.
Real was different because it was your own personal preferences.
The IPV6 stuff is different because it can be tied back to you.
Thank you.
If they can bring it together in a well done, usable fashion, it'll be an awfully hand resource.
The only concern I would have is that it will either be lacking in total content, or it will thrust too much info at users.
Having a central site for info is also a great way to combat the fud that says there is no good place to turn for linux support. We'll see..
Over the summer I began talking via aolim (mm.. gaim..) to a girl from my school who I hadn't know real well. By getting to know each toher better over the net, we eventually hooked up in real life . Conversing online allows you to say things that you may have trouble saying in real life, although important issues should still be discussed face to face in my opinion.
The MDK is the tag that mandrake adds to their RPM files.
I've gotta agree. I got through 3 years of high school with no real desire to have a girlfriend, until this summer. I started hanging out with a girl who I'd always considered a friend, but we had never been real close. After we started hanging out, I fell deeply in love with her, and its been so great for the last 3 months, I can' imagine being apart from her.
I do agree with Roblimos points about not trying to find a geek girl. It doesn't work. I used to think how cool it would be to have a girlfriend who knew linux and perl and all that cool stuff, but I realized that the point of a relationship is not to find somebody just like you, but to instead find someone who can open up your mind to new things.
I think what he is specifically looking for is a way to basically mount the camcorder via the firewire interface, and move data to it to be stored completely digitally. With the solutions mentioned thus far, they are basically taking the digital data, making it into an analog picture and letting the digital camcorder recapture it. Data integrity is *probably* not a big issue with a system like that, since the ones i've seen using VCr's have redundant data and such, but that is besides the point. I think it would be very neat to be able to do mount /dev/camcorder /backup -t minidv and then just copy files right out to the camcorder. As far as I know, this isn't possible right now, but I dont know why it shouldn't be eventually, since I dont believe digital camcorders do much to the signal coming in off firewire other than write it to the tape. Recovery might be a bit more difficult, but not impossible.
I chose not to talk about Stalin because without Hitler/WWii causing a dramatic arms buildup to begin, the cold war may never have begun. World War II also left europe desimated which allowed for stalin/ussr to move in and create the iron curtain. Think about the disputes over eastern/western germany - it became a major focal point in the 'war against the commies'. Without Hitler leaving Germany weakened and unstable, germany would never have been partitioned up and the USSR would not have power there.
Stalin was a very important person in the century, but it took Hitler to bring him to our attention.
Just take a minute to think about the impact of Hitler/WWII on everyday life. It changed the face of the world, created the cold war which in turn lead to the space race, the arms race, the increased rate of developement of new technology and uncountable other things. Hilter was not a nice fellow, and by no means should this poll be seen as supporting him, but what he did has had a bigger influence on our present day lives than anybody else this century. Of course, we can't know what things would have been like without him (well, not until I get this time machine working anyway) but its a pretty safe bet that things would be rather different.
I was checking out this weeks ComputerWorld mag. and on the back cover is an add for kingston ram claiming that it will improve your NT server performance by up to 540%. Thinking this to be a rather odd claim, I checked out the fine print - guess who conducted the testing that proved that kingston ram would speed up an nt machine by 540%? You got it! Mindcraft!
sigh. I'm going to pay them to "prove" that my 1993 Subaru sedan is faster than a ferrari.
Thin speakers aren't a new concept, but this is a pretty good price for a set (assuming they're not a POS). That type of speaker has excellent high end response, but very little in the way of low end response, so people putting them in a hometheater type setup generally have a seperate powered sub sitting somewhere in the room (since placement of the sub doesn't matter all that much). You can actually buy fairly large speakers in this style, I've seen 5 feet+ tall super-thin speakers, and they sound excellent.
So, they take a line of luggage that they already had, randomly applied words that are usually associated with computers and now its HackerGear? I think i'm missing something here. Yay, i can get a spam backback.. but, why would I want one? Should I walk up to my friends and say "hey, check this bag out, its a spam". I think somebody in the design department of this company wasn't thinking when this line was designed. We're past the point where anything related to computers will sell (notice the decline in computer related movies since 1995). If you're going to make a line of "hacker" clothing, at least make it semi-useful to computer users - otherwise I'll just buy a $15 backpack at walmart.
Whe compiling 2.2.0 on a slackware 3.6 system, I get:
ake[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.0.35/arch/i386/lib'
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.0.35/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -
fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -fno-strength-reduce -m486 -malign-loops=2 -malign-jum
ps=2 -malign-functions=2 -DCPU=586 -c -o checksum.o checksum.c
checksum.c:200: redefinition of `csum_partial_copy'
checksum.c:105: `csum_partial_copy' previously defined here
{standard input}: Assembler messages:
{standard input}:188: Fatal error: Symbol csum_partial_copy already defined.
make[2]: *** [checksum.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.0.35/arch/i386/lib'
make[1]: *** [first_rule] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.0.35/arch/i386/lib'
make: *** [_dir_arch/i386/lib] Error 2
Anybody have any ideas why?
Are there any countries that have decent net links and also dont have deals with the US to let the RIAA come in and boss them around? We could just put up an uber-server there and host lyrics/olga on it. Theres gotta be somewhere that the RIAA can't just step in and yell.