Did they honestly expect that no one would get a hold of the key, reverse engineer it, or even just brute force it - when will they realize that locks only keep honest and unmotivated people out.
Correction: locks only keep honest and unmotivated paying customers annoyed and inconvenienced.
So this doesn't allow _you_ to backup your Blu ray discs. It will allow some rather sophisticated pirate organisation to pirate Blu ray discs, and they will produce Blu ray discs that again you cannot copy. So you as the end user won't gain anything from this.
At the very least, we won't have to watch unskippable copyright warnings, previews, and menus on the pirate versions.
DHCP is used to protect the digital signal which flows over HDMI between the Blu-Ray player and the TV or other monitor.
I just want to point out that we use checksums and the like for protection (from corruption). Here HDCP is being used to restrict things (what's being protected is the artificial scarcity such restriction creates, and the profits that come with it).
to force device manufacturers to use its technology rather than that of Skyhook, to terminate contractual obligations with Skyhook, and to otherwise force device manufacturers
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
People like to solve well-defined problems, or improve existing solutions, rather than real-world problems with all their complexity. Calculating pi farther than anyone has so far is enjoyable for some. In doing so, new techniques are developed that benefit other areas. In other words, the somewhat pointless drive to do these things gets harnessed to give some useful side effects.
Well, blue color blindness is rare and red/blue color blindness even more so. I have the red/green variety and 3D tinted glasses never seem to work very well for me.
They don't work very well for anyone, colorblind or not.
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Imagine a metal that 'remembers' its original, cold-forged shape, and can return to that shape when exposed to heat or a magnetic pulse. Like magic out of a Harry Potter novel, such a metal could contract on command, or swing back and forth like a pendulum.
"That person is violent." versus "That game is violent."
In the first, actual violence is occurring. People getting struck, etc. In the second, it's just flashing images on a TV screen depicting violence. Nobody gets physically struck. Yet both are called violent.
Kids get a lot of hit points these days thanks to the sugars and fatty foods. They'll be fine.;)
A word of warning: don't keep your HP at maximum all the time. I did that for too long and now my walking speed is greatly decreased, and I can't run for very long. The video games lied to me.
Yeah, it's stupid because they're working on the same thing! And the thing isn't scarce like a physical good, so it doesn't matter who is contributing more, or if most people aren't contributing anything, since their use doesn't deplete the resource as would happen in a tragedy of the commons.
A sheet of glass like in a picture frame (2mm) or like in an Aquarium (Several cm's). Maybe, being Microsoft, it starts out as thick as the picture frame glass, but it rapidly expands to be as thick as Aquarium glass. Then it breaks.
And spills a blue-tinted substance all over the place.
Wired had a big write up how Steve doesn't put plates on his car
That's a myth. The fact is that his reality distortion field interacts with the reflective material in the license plate to make it look like it's not there. Simple mistake, really.
Oh, come on, there's no way they have technology that advanced yet. Separating http requests based on hosts etc.? No way. Next you'll be telling me there's a way to sort the files in a folder on my PC by the type of file. You'd need a supercomputer to do that!
Bah, the search engine of a true believer would be to type in a random IP address and rely on the hand of God to ensure it's the very one you're looking for.
Maybe I'm just out of touch, but I thought the purpose of school was to teach students who are there to learn. If a student is there to learn, he won't cheat. If he's not there to learn, get rid of him, or at least ensure that he doesn't disrupt others who want to learn.
If I were a student, I'd not put up with being required to jump through any hoops like this. You think I'm there just to waste my time cheating? That's your problem. As long as I'm not disrupting other students, deal with it, perhaps by talking to me so that you can see that you're wrong. If I'm not disrupting anyone else and yet you still require me to jump through hoops, you're disrupting my education.
But I know that my view on this is very unpopular here, because apparently school is about something very different. Probably one reason I'm not in it.
Maybe there'll be a storm of reporters quitting in a similar fashion, which will cause a storm of news, allowing them to get their jobs back and have things to report on. It's like government stimulus!
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Correction: locks only keep honest and unmotivated paying customers annoyed and inconvenienced.
At the very least, we won't have to watch unskippable copyright warnings, previews, and menus on the pirate versions.
I just want to point out that we use checksums and the like for protection (from corruption). Here HDCP is being used to restrict things (what's being protected is the artificial scarcity such restriction creates, and the profits that come with it).
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
No need to suggest outlandish things like immortality to explain this; it could merely be someone with a time travel machine.
People like to solve well-defined problems, or improve existing solutions, rather than real-world problems with all their complexity. Calculating pi farther than anyone has so far is enjoyable for some. In doing so, new techniques are developed that benefit other areas. In other words, the somewhat pointless drive to do these things gets harnessed to give some useful side effects.
I bet the TSA agents never bother asking you to unlock your luggage during security screening.
If "node-sized" was the only part of the summary you found unclear, I commend you.
And the plane wouldn't have to be anywhere near Japan either.
Looks like you've Slashdotted a Wikipedia page. Bravo! Either that or they're now being hosted on Real's servers.
They don't work very well for anyone, colorblind or not.
Harry Potter isn't exactly came to mind first while reading the above.
No, filesystems should be doing this. Then you get the benefits regardless of which hardware you want to put on the botton.
In the first, actual violence is occurring. People getting struck, etc. In the second, it's just flashing images on a TV screen depicting violence. Nobody gets physically struck. Yet both are called violent.
Except that you now need what was then a supercomputer just to run Hello, world.
A word of warning: don't keep your HP at maximum all the time. I did that for too long and now my walking speed is greatly decreased, and I can't run for very long. The video games lied to me.
Yeah, it's stupid because they're working on the same thing! And the thing isn't scarce like a physical good, so it doesn't matter who is contributing more, or if most people aren't contributing anything, since their use doesn't deplete the resource as would happen in a tragedy of the commons.
And spills a blue-tinted substance all over the place.
That's a myth. The fact is that his reality distortion field interacts with the reflective material in the license plate to make it look like it's not there. Simple mistake, really.
Oh, come on, there's no way they have technology that advanced yet. Separating http requests based on hosts etc.? No way. Next you'll be telling me there's a way to sort the files in a folder on my PC by the type of file. You'd need a supercomputer to do that!
Bah, the search engine of a true believer would be to type in a random IP address and rely on the hand of God to ensure it's the very one you're looking for.
Maybe I'm just out of touch, but I thought the purpose of school was to teach students who are there to learn. If a student is there to learn, he won't cheat. If he's not there to learn, get rid of him, or at least ensure that he doesn't disrupt others who want to learn.
If I were a student, I'd not put up with being required to jump through any hoops like this. You think I'm there just to waste my time cheating? That's your problem. As long as I'm not disrupting other students, deal with it, perhaps by talking to me so that you can see that you're wrong. If I'm not disrupting anyone else and yet you still require me to jump through hoops, you're disrupting my education.
But I know that my view on this is very unpopular here, because apparently school is about something very different. Probably one reason I'm not in it.
I'd be worried if I were you. Don't you have something better than to put down random people on the Internet?
You're suggesting my reading news sites might be causing them to become stupid? That seems far-fetched.
Maybe there'll be a storm of reporters quitting in a similar fashion, which will cause a storm of news, allowing them to get their jobs back and have things to report on. It's like government stimulus!