Actually, it could be done, but -only- at the expence of tossing out everything they have done so far and starting with a blank slate. Somehow, I think M$ is not willing to do that.
Air Force could always look into Linux. Actually being able to have the source code handy and being able to fool around with it would be a benefit to them. Same goes for the other branches of the armed forces as well. Perhaps the NSA could help them there with hier "Security Enhanced Linux".
Also be a great way for geeks to serve thier country as well.
What is to prevent some hardware type from hacking a high-end CD player by tapping into the data stream as it leaves the error-corrector and enters the DAC? Just record the corrected data stream and go.
"Anonymous Coward" wrote: "Telling people it's okay to break the DMCA fosters the same exact disrespect, and its consequence on society cannot be understated."
Actually, what cannot be overstated is that a great many (informed) members of society (not all of whom are/. readers) -do- have a great deal of disrespect for the DMCA, the legislators who voted on it without understanding the implications of the law, and the recording industry lawyers/lobbyists who promulgated the whole thing to begin with.
More and more people are starting to figure out that we are moving in the direction of a "pay per play" regime and they simply do not like that. People are simply sick and tired of being squeezed for all they are worth and then some.
So all I can say is count on more and more violations of the DCMA being committed in the future. I guess they will have to start releasing some of the drug users in jail to make room for all the coyright violators.
Only in an area that is not properly ventilated. Hydrogen, being the lightest gas, also diffuses in air the most rapidly. With ventilation, you would have to have a really serious leak to build up an explosive concentration of H2. Nobody with any brains would store flammable materials in an unventilated area anyway.
First, I would imagine that a ADC would be built into the guitar so that the digitisation takes place right at the pickup. This would reduce defects in the signal to the absolute minimum. In addition, the various knobs and switches on the typical electric guitar would probably be attached to thier own, slower speed ADC to transmit the settings to the mixing console.
Second, I seriously doubt that the DCMA applies in this case.
I've been thinking about these crippled CDs that can only play on a standard domestic audio player, and the following idea occurred to me: (This would take some -hardware- hacking of course, but it strikes me as being doable.)
Somewhere along the line, you have a plaintext bitstream being sent to a DAC to produce the analogue audio. Why not simply tap off this plaintext bitstream and record it? It will have already gone through the entire error detection and correction process, and providing that the original bitstream (as recorded on the CD) wasn't -too- severely corrupted, you would then have a perfect copy of the music to do with as you wish.
Of course, this will merely cause out illustrious so-called christinsane "leadership" to suspect that the Japanese will be breeding "Humanimal" (human-animal hybrid) terrorist ninjas to sicc on us as revenge for getting atom-bombed at the end of WWII. Which will give said illustrious christinsane "leadership" cause to nuke Japan yet another time.
All engines, regardless of design, are constrained by the laws of thermodynamics to a certain maximum theoretical efficiency which can be calculated from the difference in temperature between the hot side of the engine and its cold side. This was worked out by Sadi Carnot almost 200 years ago and this maximally efficient conversion cycle bears his name.
In the case of an internal combustion engine burning fuel at 1100 C, and discharging its exhaust to a 25 C ambient environment, 30 percent is about tops. Add engine losses from friction, accessories, the cooling system, etc, and practical efficiencies are in the ball park of 10..15 percent. Turbine engines are more efficient (Up to 40 percent) because they burn thier fuel hotter and there is no cooling system in the sense of a car engine's cooling system. They are also more expensive to make and require exotic high temperature materials, which is why we don't see them in cars today, not because someone is "suppressing" them.
Fuel cells are still basically under development, with the main problems being fabrication, a suitable fuel infrastructure (how many gas stations sell hydrogen?), durability and size. We -will- start seeing them in cars, but not on the government's timetable, but on the car maker's timetable which will be dictated by simple economics.
After having read all the commentary, I get the impression that many people did not bother to read the article. Some of the objections to penny per page websites were addressed in the article -- NEAR IT'S END -- where it appears our dear readers feared to tread.
The whole penny per page notion is based on the FIRST visit to a page.
Objections raised include, but not limited to:
[1] Autoreload pages: No extra charge.
[2] Popups: No charge.
[3] Charge accounting would most likely be done by uour ISP who -already- has your credit into.
[4] Hitting "back" button -- no charge.
Let's remember one thing: Bible humpers are a small minority of people in this country. They are also the most _vocal_ minority in this country which means that you will see more of these kinds of proposed legislation.
There is an extreme radical fringe version of christianity called "Theonomy" or "Christian Reconstructionism" which seeks to replace the Constitution of the United States with law based on the Old Testament model. The scariest part of this proposal is that they plan to (and are) using _entirely legal_ means to gain thier ends.
Look at the constituency of the White House and Congress and you'll see what I mean. I feel that the only hope of saving this country will come with the 2002 Congressional elections so dammit, get out and vote for someone who really gives a damn about this country as opposed to serving some corporate or religious agenda.
And yes, as a christian mother, you could probably sue claiming your 8yo was "harmed" by exposure to another religious belief. Or by exposure to evolutionary theory or anything else for that matter.
This is just another way for people to try to silence voices they don't want to hear and they are using the feelings evoked by 11th Sep as a smoke screen.
And NO, I definitely DO NOT want a Christian Taliban running this country, because I know that as an atheist, I would be one of the first people marked for "re-education" or extermination.
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I have one main objection to this new format, which has nothing to to with "content protection", technological merits/demerits, or any of the other matters commonly discussed here.
The article carped constantly about gathering data on the customer, indeed, making it a virtual -requirement- that you enter all manner of personal information about yourself. My life is my own personal business; the record producers should be god-damned grateful that people even buy thier product.
If the marketroids really want that much personal information, they can earn thier salaries and go dig it up themselves. It's already out there, let them work for it.
Another thing I found amusing about the website is this "building brand loyalty" thing. Fuck that, if a seller screws me around for any reson (bad service, bad product, etc.), then I just take my business elsewhere.
As far as content protection and all that other bullshit, it's going to be broken sooner or later anyway, no matter what. The skills and willingness to do so are already too widespread for this not to happen. Harsh and repressive laws will not change this, look at the "war on drugs". It has been 30+ years going and there's more, cheaper, and more dangerous drugs in this country than there ever were before.
This is all well, fine and dandy for the judges. My question is simply this: If the judges no longer have to suffer under internet censorship and surveillance, what about the rest of us ordinary folk? Does this decision apply strictly to the judiciary or will it's effects trickle down to the likes of us who are routinely spied on by our employers while at work? I personally couldn't care less if my employer looks over my shoulder or not, his concern (in my case anyway) is that my internet usage (mostly checking up on/. ) might get in the way of my productivity as an employee.
All right, AC. Please tell the crowd here just how -you- personally have altered your lifestyle in order to minimise the impact on the environment. I hope that you do not drive a car, live in a house with lights and air conditioning, use a computer or eat food that you have not grown and processed yourself, because if you do, you are impacting the environment.
Actually, a smart terrorist/rogue government would go after the food supply rather than the population. A fast spreading plant virus or blight would either seriously damage or even wipe out the food supply in one growing season. And if the government sponsoring the terrorist were smart, they would have already engineered thier own crops to be resistant to the blight.
Then there's anthrax, hoof-and-mouth disease, and sever other animal pathogens that could be used to take care of ranchers and dairy farmers.
Unlike going after the population directly, which would be clear evidence of hostile intent on someone's part, plant and animal diseases would be looked at as epidemics that got out of control (like the European bout with mad cow disease) before they are looked as acts of terrorism.
As far as I am concerned, these eco-arsonists are nothing but terrorists who should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, even if that means life without possibility of parole.
This is nothing but marketing hype. Direct Sound Digital is nothing more than Pulse Width Modulation, which has been used for years in everything from power supplies to -ta da!- audio amplifiers. Nothing new here.
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Actually, it could be done, but -only- at the expence of tossing out everything they have done so far and starting with a blank slate. Somehow, I think M$ is not willing to do that.
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Air Force could always look into Linux. Actually being able to have the source code handy and being able to fool around with it would be a benefit to them. Same goes for the other branches of the armed forces as well. Perhaps the NSA could help them there with hier "Security Enhanced Linux".
Also be a great way for geeks to serve thier country as well.
What is to prevent some hardware type from hacking a high-end CD player by tapping into the data stream as it leaves the error-corrector and enters the DAC? Just record the corrected data stream and go.
"Anonymous Coward" wrote: "Telling people it's okay to break the DMCA fosters the same exact disrespect, and its consequence on society cannot be understated."
/. readers) -do- have a great deal of disrespect for the DMCA, the legislators who voted on it without understanding the implications of the law, and the recording industry lawyers/lobbyists who promulgated the whole thing to begin with.
Actually, what cannot be overstated is that a great many (informed) members of society (not all of whom are
More and more people are starting to figure out that we are moving in the direction of a "pay per play" regime and they simply do not like that. People are simply sick and tired of being squeezed for all they are worth and then some.
So all I can say is count on more and more violations of the DCMA being committed in the future. I guess they will have to start releasing some of the drug users in jail to make room for all the coyright violators.
Only in an area that is not properly ventilated. Hydrogen, being the lightest gas, also diffuses in air the most rapidly. With ventilation, you would have to have a really serious leak to build up an explosive concentration of H2. Nobody with any brains would store flammable materials in an unventilated area anyway.
First, I would imagine that a ADC would be built into the guitar so that the digitisation takes place right at the pickup. This would reduce defects in the signal to the absolute minimum. In addition, the various knobs and switches on the typical electric guitar would probably be attached to thier own, slower speed ADC to transmit the settings to the mixing console.
Second, I seriously doubt that the DCMA applies in this case.
I've been thinking about these crippled CDs that can only play on a standard domestic audio player, and the following idea occurred to me: (This would take some -hardware- hacking of course, but it strikes me as being doable.)
Somewhere along the line, you have a plaintext bitstream being sent to a DAC to produce the analogue audio. Why not simply tap off this plaintext bitstream and record it? It will have already gone through the entire error detection and correction process, and providing that the original bitstream (as recorded on the CD) wasn't -too- severely corrupted, you would then have a perfect copy of the music to do with as you wish.
Comments anyone?
Of course, this will merely cause out illustrious so-called christinsane "leadership" to suspect that the Japanese will be breeding "Humanimal" (human-animal hybrid) terrorist ninjas to sicc on us as revenge for getting atom-bombed at the end of WWII. Which will give said illustrious christinsane "leadership" cause to nuke Japan yet another time.
There are no "secret super-engines".
All engines, regardless of design, are constrained by the laws of thermodynamics to a certain maximum theoretical efficiency which can be calculated from the difference in temperature between the hot side of the engine and its cold side. This was worked out by Sadi Carnot almost 200 years ago and this maximally efficient conversion cycle bears his name.
In the case of an internal combustion engine burning fuel at 1100 C, and discharging its exhaust to a 25 C ambient environment, 30 percent is about tops. Add engine losses from friction, accessories, the cooling system, etc, and practical efficiencies are in the ball park of 10..15 percent. Turbine engines are more efficient (Up to 40 percent) because they burn thier fuel hotter and there is no cooling system in the sense of a car engine's cooling system. They are also more expensive to make and require exotic high temperature materials, which is why we don't see them in cars today, not because someone is "suppressing" them.
Fuel cells are still basically under development, with the main problems being fabrication, a suitable fuel infrastructure (how many gas stations sell hydrogen?), durability and size. We -will- start seeing them in cars, but not on the government's timetable, but on the car maker's timetable which will be dictated by simple economics.
After having read all the commentary, I get the impression that many people did not bother to read the article. Some of the objections to penny per page websites were addressed in the article -- NEAR IT'S END -- where it appears our dear readers feared to tread.
The whole penny per page notion is based on the FIRST visit to a page.
Objections raised include, but not limited to:
[1] Autoreload pages: No extra charge.
[2] Popups: No charge.
[3] Charge accounting would most likely be done by uour ISP who -already- has your credit into.
[4] Hitting "back" button -- no charge.
So kiddies, go back and read the WHOLE article.
The problem with the far religious right is that they tend to confuse themselves -with- god.
Let's remember one thing: Bible humpers are a small minority of people in this country. They are also the most _vocal_ minority in this country which means that you will see more of these kinds of proposed legislation.
There is an extreme radical fringe version of christianity called "Theonomy" or "Christian Reconstructionism" which seeks to replace the Constitution of the United States with law based on the Old Testament model. The scariest part of this proposal is that they plan to (and are) using _entirely legal_ means to gain thier ends.
Look at the constituency of the White House and Congress and you'll see what I mean. I feel that the only hope of saving this country will come with the 2002 Congressional elections so dammit, get out and vote for someone who really gives a damn about this country as opposed to serving some corporate or religious agenda.
And yes, as a christian mother, you could probably sue claiming your 8yo was "harmed" by exposure to another religious belief. Or by exposure to evolutionary theory or anything else for that matter.
This is just another way for people to try to silence voices they don't want to hear and they are using the feelings evoked by 11th Sep as a smoke screen.
And NO, I definitely DO NOT want a Christian Taliban running this country, because I know that as an atheist, I would be one of the first people marked for "re-education" or extermination.
I have one main objection to this new format, which has nothing to to with "content protection", technological merits/demerits, or any of the other matters commonly discussed here.
The article carped constantly about gathering data on the customer, indeed, making it a virtual -requirement- that you enter all manner of personal information about yourself. My life is my own personal business; the record producers should be god-damned grateful that people even buy thier product.
If the marketroids really want that much personal information, they can earn thier salaries and go dig it up themselves. It's already out there, let them work for it.
Another thing I found amusing about the website is this "building brand loyalty" thing. Fuck that, if a seller screws me around for any reson (bad service, bad product, etc.), then I just take my business elsewhere.
As far as content protection and all that other bullshit, it's going to be broken sooner or later anyway, no matter what. The skills and willingness to do so are already too widespread for this not to happen. Harsh and repressive laws will not change this, look at the "war on drugs". It has been 30+ years going and there's more, cheaper, and more dangerous drugs in this country than there ever were before.
This is all well, fine and dandy for the judges. My question is simply this: If the judges no longer have to suffer under internet censorship and surveillance, what about the rest of us ordinary folk? Does this decision apply strictly to the judiciary or will it's effects trickle down to the likes of us who are routinely spied on by our employers while at work? I personally couldn't care less if my employer looks over my shoulder or not, his concern (in my case anyway) is that my internet usage (mostly checking up on /. ) might get in the way of my productivity as an employee.
All right, AC. Please tell the crowd here just how -you- personally have altered your lifestyle in order to minimise the impact on the environment. I hope that you do not drive a car, live in a house with lights and air conditioning, use a computer or eat food that you have not grown and processed yourself, because if you do, you are impacting the environment.
Actually, a smart terrorist/rogue government would go after the food supply rather than the population. A fast spreading plant virus or blight would either seriously damage or even wipe out the food supply in one growing season. And if the government sponsoring the terrorist were smart, they would have already engineered thier own crops to be resistant to the blight.
Then there's anthrax, hoof-and-mouth disease, and sever other animal pathogens that could be used to take care of ranchers and dairy farmers.
Unlike going after the population directly, which would be clear evidence of hostile intent on someone's part, plant and animal diseases would be looked at as epidemics that got out of control (like the European bout with mad cow disease) before they are looked as acts of terrorism.
As far as I am concerned, these eco-arsonists are nothing but terrorists who should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, even if that means life without possibility of parole.
This is nothing but marketing hype. Direct Sound Digital is nothing more than Pulse Width Modulation, which has been used for years in everything from power supplies to -ta da!- audio amplifiers. Nothing new here.