Hmmm. Why don't you put up a link to somebody with a rare disease that stem cell research could help? Isn't it equally selfish to prevent research that could help others live?
There are 600k+ users. Show me the page containing the hacked codec.
> Besides, you don't have to attack the codec or > encryption; its easier to jack it just as its > converted to analog. There are several ways to do > that, some of them even shareware!
Yes, but they require me to do something! That's pretty much my point...if there is DRM available that just makes it annoying to copy, we'll be at status quo and the RIAA won't care.
> You're paying $120 a year for digital radio that > you have to use at a computer. Why don't the > rest of us understand that value equation?
Because you're paying $1/song? For how many songs? I have playlists longer than your collection, and I'm paying $9.95/month. I don't understand your value equation.
> (rolling eyes). You don't understand how > computers work. That's all.
> technology that essentially gives me what I used > to have, with less utility.
You used to be able to instantly listen to any song from a library of 370k albums?
> Ending the ability to be able to permanently > own a piece of music, listen to it whenever I > damn well feel like it, do with it what I want, > on any device, at any time, anywhere...
You can still do that. Just rip it off using http://www.totalrecorder.com (thanks to whomever showed me that in another thread).
> How is it bullshit when you just proved his > point? He didn't say that the method for > cracking had to be easy, he just said it was > possible, for anything.
Ahhh...this is what the story says:
> We have Ph.D.s here who know the stuff cold, and > we don't believe it's possible to protect > digital content.
and I'm saying it's possible to protect digital content. I didn't say it's not hackable, in fact I pointed out it's very possible to get at the content.
Why does software copy protection still exist? Even though you can usually get a key or crack, it's still around. There must be enough people out there who buy the original because of some additional value, or because they can't just burn a copy, to make copy protection worth the effort.
> Try taking your head out of your ass for a few > seconds
TotalRecorder, eh?:) I'll have to check it out. I thought about seeing if DirectX audio would let me siphon audio data into a file, but...
Remember people have been able to record from tapes and CDs for years. The CD copy protection schemes have been pretty half-hearted so far, and RIAA hasn't sued anybody for burning CDs.
The RIAA started freaking out when people started getting stuff for free w/o any effort whatsoever.
Even if there's a way to record an audio stream, how does it know when a song starts/stops? How does it know the song title? Recording artist? What, I have to type all that crap in?
The difference is with copy protected content like Rhapsody, you have to jump through some interesting hoops to get at the raw content.
Saying copy protection for audio is inherently flawed and therefore will never succeed isn't really true. Just because there are ways to circumvent the protection mechanism doesn't mean everybody will, so the protection will never go away.
> The subscription model of buying music is > bankrupt. I think you could make available the > Second Coming in a subscription model, and it > might not be successful.
Rhapsody streamed 11 million songs to users in June (http://www.listen.com/about.jsp?sect=press&subsec t=release&page=rhap11millstreams070103).
Here's the thing. I like Rhapsody because I pay $9.95/month and get unlimited streaming to work and home. I don't use portable devices. It doesn't make sense for me to pay 0.99 a song when I can get unlimited music for $9.95/month...I'll never switch to iTunes unless (knock on wood) Rhapsody goes away.
Steve doesn't like it because he has to compete with it. He can talk about it going away, but for a lot of people it makes a LOT more sense than his service.
Plus, his talk of PhDs and protection is complete BS. Rhapsody uses a proprietary codec so I can't access the content w/o using their client...I've googled for hacks, haven't found any. Maybe I could hook my audio out into my audio in and record songs as I stream them, but that's about as easy as...making audio cassettes! Steve just wants to dodge the whole copy protection aspect entirely since under his model, it doesn't really exist once you download the media.
This interview is just Steve marketing his view of internet music...it's more FUD, but from Apple.
> We need a top down approach: what are we trying > to teach? How best to implement the lesson plan?
The ONE place I've seen applied technology in the classroom that worked was in my Physics class at UMass. We had handhelds that students or groups of students would use to answer multiple choice questions.
If the results showed the majority of the class knew the material, the teacher moved on. Otherwise, he'd work on it until he knew we knew it.
That actually worked. Of course, there are tons of people that claim you need high-speed, 30fps video, blah blah blah. Don't listen to 'em. Give the kids a way to give feedback to the teacher.
> and do you feel that excessive testing hurts > the development process at all?
No. What the original poster described doesn't sound like excessive testing. At one of my former jobs we did unit testing and automated black box (compared output with diff, crude but it worked) and white box (tested C API w/C test harness) testing. It was a lot, and kept three or four folks really busy, but it kept defects reasonably low for the amount of hacking that was going on.
I don't think excessive testing means you miss defects. I think high numbers of defects reported by QA means you're doing something wrong on the development side of things, and high numbers of defects reported by users means you're doing something wrong in QA - maybe not testing like a user would.
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> It's amazing how much code some object oriented > systems can use to do a simple task, and do it > poorly.
No kidding. Use some PHP with FastTemplates that let you cache dynamic content (oh baby)...it's nice to be able to separate your code and template. Why use JSP? It's as messy as ASP, only it's not MSFT. Seriously, why go with something MORE complicated to solve a simple problem?
The class id for the control (1.1 anyway) is D6526FE0-E651-11CF-99CB-00C04FD64497, so:
#include
1. Open regedit (Windows key-R, "regedit", ). 2. "Edit...Find" or CTRL-F. 3. Put D6526FE0-E651-11CF-99CB-00C04FD64497 in the the text box and hit "Find Next."
To remove:
1. It's not installed on my box, so regedit couldn't find it. If it's there, the name of the DLL or OCX control should be there somewhere. 2. Find where the control lives on your box. 3. Open a DOS prompt, cd to that directory, and do regsvr32/u to remove it from the registry. 4. Delete the control.
Oh, I believe you...just linking to your page to illustrate the power of suggestion - during that time, the story was you could use a Palm to just "grab IR out of the air" and steal cars...kinda like the suggestive headlines and story here.:)
OmniRemote was cool, but made me wish my IR was stronger (remote not quite as effective when you have to stand next to tv).
These aren't really downsides, just things to remember while you're using it:
* it's not inherently threadsafe - remember to lock if necessary! * as somebody else as pointed out, choose your templates carefully for maximum performance (Meyers' book is good for this) * if you're doing cross-platform stuff, build on the target platforms on a regular basis so you find differences early and have to change a minimum amount of code
Stroustrup's Third Edition has some STL stuff...Meyer's book is good if you know the basics and want to expand your knowledge (kinda along the lines of his C++ books).
> I'd hate to see a port of WinCE on a cash > register
The last time I bought a ticket at Vail, they were using NT for ticketing...when I got to the window, something caused a BSOD and the ticket person had to power cycle the terminal.
> In an american city, built from the ground up > for cars, it would work quite a bit worse.
Considering most American cities were built from the ground up for cows, not cars, not sure that holds true. I don't know WHAT would happen if they took mass transit (not just the T, but commuter rail and such) away from Boston. I have relatives who have worked in Boston/NYC for years and don't own a car. My gf lived in SF for six months without a car.
Just because a city is a little more modern and has a grid pattern doesn't mean traffic volume can't overwhelm the layout, and it doesn't mean mass transit is undesirable for commuters.
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Hmmm. Why don't you put up a link to somebody with a rare disease that stem cell research could help? Isn't it equally selfish to prevent research that could help others live?
> Guess the network needs to cash in on such a hyped
> up event!
Guess you need to put some cash towards a Tivo!
Yeah, I was wondering too...if I had a phone capable of playing the audio, I'd give it a shot.
There are 600k+ users. Show me the page containing the hacked codec.
> Besides, you don't have to attack the codec or
> encryption; its easier to jack it just as its
> converted to analog. There are several ways to do
> that, some of them even shareware!
Yes, but they require me to do something! That's pretty much my point...if there is DRM available that just makes it annoying to copy, we'll be at status quo and the RIAA won't care.
> You're paying $120 a year for digital radio that
> you have to use at a computer. Why don't the
> rest of us understand that value equation?
Because you're paying $1/song? For how many songs? I have playlists longer than your collection, and I'm paying $9.95/month. I don't understand your value equation.
> (rolling eyes). You don't understand how
> computers work. That's all.
Enlighten me, oh wise one.
> technology that essentially gives me what I used
> to have, with less utility.
You used to be able to instantly listen to any song from a library of 370k albums?
> Ending the ability to be able to permanently
> own a piece of music, listen to it whenever I
> damn well feel like it, do with it what I want,
> on any device, at any time, anywhere...
You can still do that. Just rip it off using http://www.totalrecorder.com (thanks to whomever showed me that in another thread).
> How is it bullshit when you just proved his
> point? He didn't say that the method for
> cracking had to be easy, he just said it was
> possible, for anything.
Ahhh...this is what the story says:
> We have Ph.D.s here who know the stuff cold, and
> we don't believe it's possible to protect
> digital content.
and I'm saying it's possible to protect digital content. I didn't say it's not hackable, in fact I pointed out it's very possible to get at the content.
Why does software copy protection still exist? Even though you can usually get a key or crack, it's still around. There must be enough people out there who buy the original because of some additional value, or because they can't just burn a copy, to make copy protection worth the effort.
> Try taking your head out of your ass for a few
> seconds
Follow your own advice.
Check this out: http://www.listen.com/wireless.jsp?sect=main
TotalRecorder, eh? :) I'll have to check it out. I thought about seeing if DirectX audio would let me siphon audio data into a file, but...
Remember people have been able to record from tapes and CDs for years. The CD copy protection schemes have been pretty half-hearted so far, and RIAA hasn't sued anybody for burning CDs.
The RIAA started freaking out when people started getting stuff for free w/o any effort whatsoever.
Even if there's a way to record an audio stream, how does it know when a song starts/stops? How does it know the song title? Recording artist? What, I have to type all that crap in?
The difference is with copy protected content like Rhapsody, you have to jump through some interesting hoops to get at the raw content.
Saying copy protection for audio is inherently flawed and therefore will never succeed isn't really true. Just because there are ways to circumvent the protection mechanism doesn't mean everybody will, so the protection will never go away.
> The subscription model of buying music is
c t=release&page=rhap11millstreams070103).
> bankrupt. I think you could make available the
> Second Coming in a subscription model, and it
> might not be successful.
Rhapsody streamed 11 million songs to users in June (http://www.listen.com/about.jsp?sect=press&subse
Here's the thing. I like Rhapsody because I pay $9.95/month and get unlimited streaming to work and home. I don't use portable devices. It doesn't make sense for me to pay 0.99 a song when I can get unlimited music for $9.95/month...I'll never switch to iTunes unless (knock on wood) Rhapsody goes away.
Steve doesn't like it because he has to compete with it. He can talk about it going away, but for a lot of people it makes a LOT more sense than his service.
Plus, his talk of PhDs and protection is complete BS. Rhapsody uses a proprietary codec so I can't access the content w/o using their client...I've googled for hacks, haven't found any. Maybe I could hook my audio out into my audio in and record songs as I stream them, but that's about as easy as...making audio cassettes! Steve just wants to dodge the whole copy protection aspect entirely since under his model, it doesn't really exist once you download the media.
This interview is just Steve marketing his view of internet music...it's more FUD, but from Apple.
BTW, once my LCD (EIZO) was properly configured, there is zero blurring...and it's hooked up to two machines via a switch.
We all got LCD screens at work. At first, I was highly skeptical. Now, I want one for home.
Considering Sprint doesn't give me PCS coverage at my house or place of employment, I'm going to doubt he has coverage in the Andes.
> If they don't, welll, they're still a 100 times
> more secure than 95% of the market
"Mac OS X Server also includes...the most reliable releases of Apache"
Well, maybe 50 times.
> We need a top down approach: what are we trying
> to teach? How best to implement the lesson plan?
The ONE place I've seen applied technology in the classroom that worked was in my Physics class at UMass. We had handhelds that students or groups of students would use to answer multiple choice questions.
If the results showed the majority of the class knew the material, the teacher moved on. Otherwise, he'd work on it until he knew we knew it.
That actually worked. Of course, there are tons of people that claim you need high-speed, 30fps video, blah blah blah. Don't listen to 'em. Give the kids a way to give feedback to the teacher.
> and do you feel that excessive testing hurts
> the development process at all?
No. What the original poster described doesn't sound like excessive testing. At one of my former jobs we did unit testing and automated black box (compared output with diff, crude but it worked) and white box (tested C API w/C test harness) testing. It was a lot, and kept three or four folks really busy, but it kept defects reasonably low for the amount of hacking that was going on.
I don't think excessive testing means you miss defects. I think high numbers of defects reported by QA means you're doing something wrong on the development side of things, and high numbers of defects reported by users means you're doing something wrong in QA - maybe not testing like a user would.
> It's amazing how much code some object oriented
> systems can use to do a simple task, and do it
> poorly.
No kidding. Use some PHP with FastTemplates that let you cache dynamic content (oh baby)...it's nice to be able to separate your code and template. Why use JSP? It's as messy as ASP, only it's not MSFT. Seriously, why go with something MORE complicated to solve a simple problem?
The class id for the control (1.1 anyway) is D6526FE0-E651-11CF-99CB-00C04FD64497, so:
/u to remove it from the registry.
#include
1. Open regedit (Windows key-R, "regedit", ).
2. "Edit...Find" or CTRL-F.
3. Put D6526FE0-E651-11CF-99CB-00C04FD64497 in the the text box and hit "Find Next."
To remove:
1. It's not installed on my box, so regedit couldn't find it. If it's there, the name of the DLL or OCX control should be there somewhere.
2. Find where the control lives on your box.
3. Open a DOS prompt, cd to that directory, and do regsvr32
4. Delete the control.
So do we also think all ages should be able to watch R-rated movies?
are we sitting in front/back of whilst we write about this?
Oh, I believe you...just linking to your page to illustrate the power of suggestion - during that time, the story was you could use a Palm to just "grab IR out of the air" and steal cars...kinda like the suggestive headlines and story here. :)
OmniRemote was cool, but made me wish my IR was stronger (remote not quite as effective when you have to stand next to tv).
The article makes no mention of people actually grabbing cleartext passwds out of the ether, just:
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"But several computer hackers contacted by MSNBC.com said they had spied credit card data in among the wireless traffic they'd captured."
Uh huh. And I can use my PalmPilot to grab IR signals out of thin air and steal cars.
http://www.monkey.org/geeks/archive/9812/msg000
If they didn't make all the rollovers on their shiny page load the image every time I put my mouse over them...
> what are the downsides to the STL?
These aren't really downsides, just things to remember while you're using it:
* it's not inherently threadsafe - remember to lock if necessary!
* as somebody else as pointed out, choose your templates carefully for maximum performance (Meyers' book is good for this)
* if you're doing cross-platform stuff, build on the target platforms on a regular basis so you find differences early and have to change a minimum amount of code
Stroustrup's Third Edition has some STL stuff...Meyer's book is good if you know the basics and want to expand your knowledge (kinda along the lines of his C++ books).
> I'd hate to see a port of WinCE on a cash
> register
The last time I bought a ticket at Vail, they were using NT for ticketing...when I got to the window, something caused a BSOD and the ticket person had to power cycle the terminal.
> In an american city, built from the ground up
> for cars, it would work quite a bit worse.
Considering most American cities were built from the ground up for cows, not cars, not sure that holds true. I don't know WHAT would happen if they took mass transit (not just the T, but commuter rail and such) away from Boston. I have relatives who have worked in Boston/NYC for years and don't own a car. My gf lived in SF for six months without a car.
Just because a city is a little more modern and has a grid pattern doesn't mean traffic volume can't overwhelm the layout, and it doesn't mean mass transit is undesirable for commuters.