Right, is that why you can find movies that are 10+ years old being released on dvd with css encryption? Or Region Coding?
Big Corporations are, have been and will always abuse any power given to them under any system. When Digital Radio comes out (and it will) they will lobby (make someone in gov't very rich) for encryption so that noone can record certain songs. Ie, brand new songs that have just come out.. but then they will turn around and use it everywhere except for commercials and the dj talking.. Intellectual Property my ass. I hope they're happy with the world that they've created when they die. They act as tho they are the only ones allowed to own "intellectual Property". Bastards. -since when did 'MTV' stand for Real World Television instead of MUSIC television?
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They are, where I work they have very stringent QA checks on these discs (even more so than gdroms).
All we make (of dvd's) is old stuff like some b&w movies that some yahoo place (who still owns the copyrights and stuff on this old material) decided it would be a good idea to bring their 50 year old movies into the 21st century.. so I can't proudly say that we produce matrix discs:P (dvd's/used/ to be so strict that we/used/ to check every disc for even the tiniest thing)
No, I won't say where I work either, I'll narrow it down for ya tho, I work and live in the US:P
-since when did 'MTV' stand for Real World Television instead of MUSIC television?
ah, but you don't need decss.. go find a copy of powerripper and cyberlink powerdvd..
IIRC, powerripper will capture any video played thru powerdvd... kinda like a software video capture card using your monitor as the source (well, technically using your video card's frame buffer, but it's easier to thing of it the other way) -since when did 'MTV' stand for Real World Television instead of MUSIC television?
who is clueless here?
Napster's servers (notice whose servers those are.. not the ones running on users computers..) did not deal in pirated material! All they did was store and forward data on who's online and searchs. AFAIK, they didn't even store the list of contents of stuff that you were sharing, they simply forwarded the search command to you and then each individual server replied directly to the person who requested it.
Not only is there no way they could know what was being shared, there is no easy way they could selectivly find, single out, and block connections from people who are serving specific material. Even if you had a bunch of metallica mp3's being shared, who's to say that those aren't just noise with a metallica name?
Of course, since linking is now illegal(and free speech is basically not gauranteed online), they might as well make it illegal for Napster to do the same in their own proprietary way.
Another example of corps using gov power to shut down a small business instead of actually trying to go after the users who are exploiting it. (easy solution to complex problem means more money for RIAA, nevermind ethics) -since when did 'MTV' stand for Real World Television instead of MUSIC television?
this is one of the funniest things I've seen on here:P
of course they wouldn't do that would they?
not even so it sends it's barcode jibberish
(as;dkjdfklajsdkfjf) and one line at the end (shutdown -r now^m) lol:P
scan something at the prompt, your computer shuts down:P
I hate to point out one little nagging point.. but you can find out what the barcode is before you even scan it (and you can find out what it is after it goes thru their software).. using this someone may be able to figure out what it is in between still..
Alright, while we're at it, I'm going to make a few movies..
One of them will be called "Home"
hrm.. Another will be called "Doctor"
and the third one will be called "Unreal".
I will have massive commercial campaigns around these. Any use of the titles of these movies (which are a series) will entail the usual 'review fee' of $10 per use of the word.
athome, here I come!
(All ideas expressed in this post are Patent Pending #03470703125, all rights not expressly stated to the poster are not expressly denied.
void where prohibited. Indiana residences please add 10% bs tax. Copywrite 2000. This post is a registered Trademark to the poster. I 0wn j00)
Erm, Leds are not that power hungery, neither are pic chips, which is what this thing appears to have.. and while you're hacking one onto your palm, ya might as well do a good job and have a pair of AAA's for it and have a direct hotsync cable spliced into the ps/2 cable..
I believe there are hackmaster extensions that will read ps/2 data off of the hotsync port?
Of course you would need a db app that could transform the codes and do lookups for ya.
Ah hell, why am I writing this anyways?:P not like ppl routinely look at posts from more than a week (or a few hours, for that matter) in the past!
I, like several other people on slashdot, believe the general stereotype about aol users (slack jawed, knuckle draggers, idiot druggies, rednecks, take your pick).
But I'm willing to see this on both sides. AOL has a subscriber base of how many million users? 20-30? (or so they claim at least) With such a large user base, one of two things will happen..
1) Many users install linux, if even on a second machine and have a good time with it and keep it installed, and post good comments on forums
This people will of course want all their games and major programs ported over to 'this awesome new os!'
2) Some or Many (there will always be someone who can't get this to work) people will post negative comments on forums saying this and that about 'that geeky antisocial linux program'
These people will rant and rave about how hard it is to setup or that there are no games for it and that they deleted their bin folder 'to get rid of all those files in that garbage Bin' and complain that they can't run any of their programs and their computer crashed and now they can't get it back, etc
All I'm saying is be extra polite and helpful on the forums and the linux community may end up twice the size with many new games being developed for linux as well as that other os.
And remember, people don't want to think for themselves... so rtfm won't work:P
I don't share the same opinion that music should be free. but your analog is flawed.. Napster users take music that they would otherwise have to pay for..
users of this web site pay for material which they could otherwise get for free from the original owners..
If I wrote a thesis and it showed up on their site for sell I would be mad because they are basically claiming that they wrote it.
this is not true on Napster..
People ma be distrobuting mp3's on napster but noone claims to actually be the person who came up with the music
I know, lets get about a million small time "pirates" to get together and lobby to make this database law apply to cd database.. That way people can compile a large array of stolen programs and not get busted for it!!!
sigh, I hate america.. Only here can someone get sued for making a program to share music or other files over the internet while other companies can appropriate other peoples work (these thesis') while making a law to make it illegal to use your own work.
Has everyone in this fucking country lost their minds? How, exactly, do these people go home at night and justify their actions to their families?
I can see it now..
"Well son, I had a long day at the office today, I had to bribe a lot of politions to get a law passed to make it illegal for you to use your own thesis after someone compiles it into their database.. I have a longer day tomorrow, I'm getting a law tacked onto an unknown bill that is so obscure that half of congress doesn't know what it is to make it illegal to tax anyone who makes more than half a million each year.. In fact I'll make it so rich people like us can tax the government!. Oh and sorry junior, It's also illegal now to sell anything you own after you buy it.. make any cars you buy last as long as you can, you can't sell them."
Rigght, when we get that far I'm moving to a country that "Gets It".
Or for that matter, if you're a m$ fan (I don't want to know why..) and you have a windows machine then you can always use their free windows media tools that you can d/l (roughly 4mb) which you can use to encode your tv into mpeg 4 video and stream it to yourself.. Altho if you do that, you're limited to watching it on a windows machine using windows media player..
(note: to change channels you will have to use your favorite tv tuner program)
No I'm not a Microsoft advocate, I hate their guts actually, I would prefer a more benevolent corp. than the current Borg like corp.
I'm not surprised much by this.. I remember when remarq was new and basically a clone of dejanews.. at least then you could find a newsgroup on there (comp.pda) but since about a year or two ago they revamped their web site... I absolutely hate flashy web sites like remarq because you can never get anything done! Remarq is basically just a glorified forum now.. They shot themselves in the foot, people don't want to navigate their mess of a web site (at least I don't).
At least dejanews still provides the service that they started out providing, it is easy to navigate or type in your fav newsgroup there.. and there are bunches.. like ones for your fav pda or newsgroups for your fav game, etc
-since when did 'MTV' stand for Real World Television instead of MUSIC television?
I'm sure that when widescreen digital tv's come down in price and start becoming popular here in a few years that you would get an appropriate tv tuner card just so you can watch all your old 4:3 tv shows, but of course you're going to have to stretch them to fit in the full 16:9 space, otherwise you would have wasted space, I mean really! Who cares if the picture is distorted as long as you are using your whole tv screen!
You miss action when you switch from widescreen to pan-scan, this is almost as stupid as a friend of mine who bought a dvd player for his tv and wanted all of his movies in 4:3.. geez
Be careful about your boldness..
Religion/does/ have it's purpose, sure it may lie and cheat people and make people believe something that they shouldn't.. so what? Polititions do that and I see noone saying that polititions shouldn't exist.. our government nor would anyone's government be worth much without polititions, same with Religion. Go read "The Scarlet Letter" sometime and compare what goes on in it to what goes on now.
It used to take a conscious decision to be evil, now it's more or less a fact of life.
I'm not arguing whether we should have religion or not, but we need some kind of moral guidance. Whether from fantasy, science, music, or what have you.
For one thing, if you don't like it and you're still posting under the subject, then you're a troll, go zark off.
For another I consider anime is an art form. You actually have a consistant story. I don't know what you like to watch, but cartoons like Bugs Bunny and Ed, Edd and Eddy are probably more suited to/your/ intelligence level. Indeed, if you don't like any cartoons then I'm sure Road Rules, Jerry Springer and Cops would suit you fine. If you don't live in the US, then I would expect you to have more class, but if you don't then I invite you to watch the equivolent shows in your area. Find something that you can understand and stay out of the anime section of/.
Really, what crime is it to watch my dvd on linux or windows? How do you think it is stealing? If you are referring to the Rediculous claims by the MPAA then you can stop now. DVD-R media costs $40 a pop so unless someone has a couple of million dollars to buy a factory and machines which can actually press the dvd's then they aren't going to be copied... Oh wait! That's happening in Asian, my bad... still doesn't have anything to do with Decss.
Bah, I hate not being able to check back on these things to reply to posts, allways soo late that noone really notices..
Basically, a few years ago when I was big into ham radio (and talked all the time on it), You had to open the radio and hook 9600 baud packet modems directly to the output of the radio (*before* it got to the audio circuit and got distorted by it)..
Then 9600baud capable radios came out that already brought that certain connection out to a port that could be plugged directly into.
I can assume that this would make it easier to connect 56k packet modems up to it.
I know this.. I'm a licensed ham, n9xlc.
also, your idea that TNC's control what freq's a radio is on is hogwash, unless you're talking about 9600baud TNC's.. which I don't know much about. My AEA PK-12 (1200baud) required you to set the radio to the desired freq BEFORE you tried to connect to whatever station. This is not comparable to a modem dialing.
BTW, if you see a reasonably intelligent post about ham radio (like my post above).. You can most likely assume that the poster is a ham radio operator. I do not need told what my equipment is or does. -since when did 'MTV' stand for Real World Television instead of MUSIC television?
Unfortunately packet radio isn't very fast.
The most common mode that you find is 1200 baud.. after that is 9600baud.. It's sad, but I think the popularity of the Internet killed many things.. Telco bbs' and packet radio, for the most part.
Of course I've been hearing about 56 or 64k connections for several years now.. but they are still rare. Noone likes to build their own equipment anymore and even if you buy them somewhere.. well, you have to open your radio to make a mod for a 9600baud packet modem.. unless it already has a connection, I'm pretty sure that no radio has support for more than 9600baud tho..
I wouldn't mind seeing some kind of commercial, unlicensed, 64k or 128k (plus encrypted), semi-long range (10-50miles), packet modem.. and it would be cheap (HA!, I should ask for peace on earth while I'm at it)
The current marriage of coperations and government will prevent anything of the sort from happening.. Anything that would slightly upset the balance quo like that would be veto'd pretty fast. -since when did 'MTV' stand for Real World Television instead of MUSIC television?
Yeah dammit.. They don't want to *work* for the radio freq, or even share it with the citizens.. they'd rather the government make the freqs common only to the companies who work for the gov (ie, pay the gov money)
After all, if the freqs were given to the communist consumer.. then we'd prolly have a 'tragedy of the commons' type situation..
(sarcasm! Read it again and think about it)
-since when did 'MTV' stand for Real World Television instead of MUSIC television?
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Right, is that why you can find movies that are 10+ years old being released on dvd with css encryption? Or Region Coding? Big Corporations are, have been and will always abuse any power given to them under any system. When Digital Radio comes out (and it will) they will lobby (make someone in gov't very rich) for encryption so that noone can record certain songs. Ie, brand new songs that have just come out.. but then they will turn around and use it everywhere except for commercials and the dj talking.. Intellectual Property my ass. I hope they're happy with the world that they've created when they die. They act as tho they are the only ones allowed to own "intellectual Property". Bastards.
-since when did 'MTV' stand for Real World Television instead of MUSIC television?
They are, where I work they have very stringent QA checks on these discs (even more so than gdroms). :P (dvd's /used/ to be so strict that we /used/ to check every disc for even the tiniest thing)
:P
All we make (of dvd's) is old stuff like some b&w movies that some yahoo place (who still owns the copyrights and stuff on this old material) decided it would be a good idea to bring their 50 year old movies into the 21st century.. so I can't proudly say that we produce matrix discs
No, I won't say where I work either, I'll narrow it down for ya tho, I work and live in the US
-since when did 'MTV' stand for Real World Television instead of MUSIC television?
ah, but you don't need decss.. go find a copy of powerripper and cyberlink powerdvd..
IIRC, powerripper will capture any video played thru powerdvd... kinda like a software video capture card using your monitor as the source (well, technically using your video card's frame buffer, but it's easier to thing of it the other way)
-since when did 'MTV' stand for Real World Television instead of MUSIC television?
who is clueless here?
Napster's servers (notice whose servers those are.. not the ones running on users computers..) did not deal in pirated material! All they did was store and forward data on who's online and searchs. AFAIK, they didn't even store the list of contents of stuff that you were sharing, they simply forwarded the search command to you and then each individual server replied directly to the person who requested it.
Not only is there no way they could know what was being shared, there is no easy way they could selectivly find, single out, and block connections from people who are serving specific material. Even if you had a bunch of metallica mp3's being shared, who's to say that those aren't just noise with a metallica name?
Of course, since linking is now illegal(and free speech is basically not gauranteed online), they might as well make it illegal for Napster to do the same in their own proprietary way.
Another example of corps using gov power to shut down a small business instead of actually trying to go after the users who are exploiting it. (easy solution to complex problem means more money for RIAA, nevermind ethics)
-since when did 'MTV' stand for Real World Television instead of MUSIC television?
this is one of the funniest things I've seen on here :P
:P
:P
of course they wouldn't do that would they?
not even so it sends it's barcode jibberish
(as;dkjdfklajsdkfjf) and one line at the end (shutdown -r now^m) lol
scan something at the prompt, your computer shuts down
I hate to point out one little nagging point.. but you can find out what the barcode is before you even scan it (and you can find out what it is after it goes thru their software).. using this someone may be able to figure out what it is in between still..
Alright, while we're at it, I'm going to make a few movies..
One of them will be called "Home"
hrm.. Another will be called "Doctor"
and the third one will be called "Unreal".
I will have massive commercial campaigns around these. Any use of the titles of these movies (which are a series) will entail the usual 'review fee' of $10 per use of the word.
athome, here I come!
(All ideas expressed in this post are Patent Pending #03470703125, all rights not expressly stated to the poster are not expressly denied.
void where prohibited. Indiana residences please add 10% bs tax. Copywrite 2000. This post is a registered Trademark to the poster. I 0wn j00)
Erm, Leds are not that power hungery, neither are pic chips, which is what this thing appears to have.. and while you're hacking one onto your palm, ya might as well do a good job and have a pair of AAA's for it and have a direct hotsync cable spliced into the ps/2 cable..
:P not like ppl routinely look at posts from more than a week (or a few hours, for that matter) in the past!
I believe there are hackmaster extensions that will read ps/2 data off of the hotsync port?
Of course you would need a db app that could transform the codes and do lookups for ya.
Ah hell, why am I writing this anyways?
I can bounce morse code off the moon.. Does this count? lol
n9xlc
I, like several other people on slashdot, believe the general stereotype about aol users (slack jawed, knuckle draggers, idiot druggies, rednecks, take your pick).
:P
But I'm willing to see this on both sides. AOL has a subscriber base of how many million users? 20-30? (or so they claim at least) With such a large user base, one of two things will happen..
1) Many users install linux, if even on a second machine and have a good time with it and keep it installed, and post good comments on forums
This people will of course want all their games and major programs ported over to 'this awesome new os!'
2) Some or Many (there will always be someone who can't get this to work) people will post negative comments on forums saying this and that about 'that geeky antisocial linux program'
These people will rant and rave about how hard it is to setup or that there are no games for it and that they deleted their bin folder 'to get rid of all those files in that garbage Bin' and complain that they can't run any of their programs and their computer crashed and now they can't get it back, etc
All I'm saying is be extra polite and helpful on the forums and the linux community may end up twice the size with many new games being developed for linux as well as that other os.
And remember, people don't want to think for themselves... so rtfm won't work
I don't share the same opinion that music should be free. but your analog is flawed.. Napster users take music that they would otherwise have to pay for..
users of this web site pay for material which they could otherwise get for free from the original owners..
If I wrote a thesis and it showed up on their site for sell I would be mad because they are basically claiming that they wrote it.
this is not true on Napster..
People ma be distrobuting mp3's on napster but noone claims to actually be the person who came up with the music
I know, lets get about a million small time "pirates" to get together and lobby to make this database law apply to cd database.. That way people can compile a large array of stolen programs and not get busted for it!!!
sigh, I hate america.. Only here can someone get sued for making a program to share music or other files over the internet while other companies can appropriate other peoples work (these thesis') while making a law to make it illegal to use your own work.
Has everyone in this fucking country lost their minds? How, exactly, do these people go home at night and justify their actions to their families?
I can see it now..
"Well son, I had a long day at the office today, I had to bribe a lot of politions to get a law passed to make it illegal for you to use your own thesis after someone compiles it into their database.. I have a longer day tomorrow, I'm getting a law tacked onto an unknown bill that is so obscure that half of congress doesn't know what it is to make it illegal to tax anyone who makes more than half a million each year.. In fact I'll make it so rich people like us can tax the government!. Oh and sorry junior, It's also illegal now to sell anything you own after you buy it.. make any cars you buy last as long as you can, you can't sell them."
Rigght, when we get that far I'm moving to a country that "Gets It".
Or for that matter, if you're a m$ fan (I don't want to know why..) and you have a windows machine then you can always use their free windows media tools that you can d/l (roughly 4mb) which you can use to encode your tv into mpeg 4 video and stream it to yourself.. Altho if you do that, you're limited to watching it on a windows machine using windows media player..
(note: to change channels you will have to use your favorite tv tuner program)
No I'm not a Microsoft advocate, I hate their guts actually, I would prefer a more benevolent corp. than the current Borg like corp.
I'm not surprised much by this.. I remember when remarq was new and basically a clone of dejanews.. at least then you could find a newsgroup on there (comp.pda) but since about a year or two ago they revamped their web site... I absolutely hate flashy web sites like remarq because you can never get anything done! Remarq is basically just a glorified forum now.. They shot themselves in the foot, people don't want to navigate their mess of a web site (at least I don't).
At least dejanews still provides the service that they started out providing, it is easy to navigate or type in your fav newsgroup there.. and there are bunches.. like ones for your fav pda or newsgroups for your fav game, etc
-since when did 'MTV' stand for Real World Television instead of MUSIC television?
I'm sure that when widescreen digital tv's come down in price and start becoming popular here in a few years that you would get an appropriate tv tuner card just so you can watch all your old 4:3 tv shows, but of course you're going to have to stretch them to fit in the full 16:9 space, otherwise you would have wasted space, I mean really! Who cares if the picture is distorted as long as you are using your whole tv screen!
You miss action when you switch from widescreen to pan-scan, this is almost as stupid as a friend of mine who bought a dvd player for his tv and wanted all of his movies in 4:3.. geez
geez. I would really be impressed if every word was a different link...
Be careful about your boldness.. /does/ have it's purpose, sure it may lie and cheat people and make people believe something that they shouldn't.. so what? Polititions do that and I see noone saying that polititions shouldn't exist.. our government nor would anyone's government be worth much without polititions, same with Religion. Go read "The Scarlet Letter" sometime and compare what goes on in it to what goes on now.
Religion
It used to take a conscious decision to be evil, now it's more or less a fact of life.
I'm not arguing whether we should have religion or not, but we need some kind of moral guidance. Whether from fantasy, science, music, or what have you.
BTW, I intentionally Logged in..
/your/ intelligence level. Indeed, if you don't like any cartoons then I'm sure Road Rules, Jerry Springer and Cops would suit you fine. If you don't live in the US, then I would expect you to have more class, but if you don't then I invite you to watch the equivolent shows in your area. Find something that you can understand and stay out of the anime section of /.
For one thing, if you don't like it and you're still posting under the subject, then you're a troll, go zark off.
For another I consider anime is an art form. You actually have a consistant story. I don't know what you like to watch, but cartoons like Bugs Bunny and Ed, Edd and Eddy are probably more suited to
heh, that's what I paid for my almost complete athlon 750 system not even a month ago! (cpu, mobo, case, ps, memory, I had everything else already)
Really, what crime is it to watch my dvd on linux or windows? How do you think it is stealing? If you are referring to the Rediculous claims by the MPAA then you can stop now. DVD-R media costs $40 a pop so unless someone has a couple of million dollars to buy a factory and machines which can actually press the dvd's then they aren't going to be copied... Oh wait! That's happening in Asian, my bad... still doesn't have anything to do with Decss.
Bah, I hate not being able to check back on these things to reply to posts, allways soo late that noone really notices..
Basically, a few years ago when I was big into ham radio (and talked all the time on it), You had to open the radio and hook 9600 baud packet modems directly to the output of the radio (*before* it got to the audio circuit and got distorted by it)..
Then 9600baud capable radios came out that already brought that certain connection out to a port that could be plugged directly into.
I can assume that this would make it easier to connect 56k packet modems up to it.
I know this.. I'm a licensed ham, n9xlc.
also, your idea that TNC's control what freq's a radio is on is hogwash, unless you're talking about 9600baud TNC's.. which I don't know much about. My AEA PK-12 (1200baud) required you to set the radio to the desired freq BEFORE you tried to connect to whatever station. This is not comparable to a modem dialing.
BTW, if you see a reasonably intelligent post about ham radio (like my post above).. You can most likely assume that the poster is a ham radio operator. I do not need told what my equipment is or does.
-since when did 'MTV' stand for Real World Television instead of MUSIC television?
Unfortunately packet radio isn't very fast.
The most common mode that you find is 1200 baud.. after that is 9600baud.. It's sad, but I think the popularity of the Internet killed many things.. Telco bbs' and packet radio, for the most part.
Of course I've been hearing about 56 or 64k connections for several years now.. but they are still rare. Noone likes to build their own equipment anymore and even if you buy them somewhere.. well, you have to open your radio to make a mod for a 9600baud packet modem.. unless it already has a connection, I'm pretty sure that no radio has support for more than 9600baud tho..
I wouldn't mind seeing some kind of commercial, unlicensed, 64k or 128k (plus encrypted), semi-long range (10-50miles), packet modem.. and it would be cheap (HA!, I should ask for peace on earth while I'm at it)
The current marriage of coperations and government will prevent anything of the sort from happening.. Anything that would slightly upset the balance quo like that would be veto'd pretty fast.
-since when did 'MTV' stand for Real World Television instead of MUSIC television?
Its a free country.. now pay for your freqs
-since when did 'MTV' stand for Real World Television instead of MUSIC television?
Yeah dammit.. They don't want to *work* for the radio freq, or even share it with the citizens.. they'd rather the government make the freqs common only to the companies who work for the gov (ie, pay the gov money)
After all, if the freqs were given to the communist consumer.. then we'd prolly have a 'tragedy of the commons' type situation..
(sarcasm! Read it again and think about it)
-since when did 'MTV' stand for Real World Television instead of MUSIC television?