This is way wrong. As soon as they figured out what Xing's key was, they were able to figure out many other keys by just trial and error. Now it is even more advanced than that. There are DVD decrypters that will find a new DVD key on the fly in a couple seconds. If they could yank the Xing key, it wouldn't do any good at all. Most de-cryption has gone beyond that.
Plasma displays are terrible about burn-in. I think this is a horrible idea. If you want a high resolution image of a famous painting, just get one on paper. It would probably look better too.
To me this means that the FBI is having trouble proving their case. When Adrian surrendered to the FBI he wasn't so stupid as to bring any electronic equipment with him. He said he left his laptop and other personal belongings in a 'safe place'. Without his laptop and given the fact that he is "homless" and accessed the internet through many and unknown public access points I bet they are having trouble connected him and his alleged actions with any computer logs that they may have. They cannot at this point connect Adrian with any action in the server logs because they have no idea where he was, or have any of the equipment he may have used to do it. They are hoping to find a smoking gun confession that he made to a reporter, and/or track his movements and find out where he hacked from or where his computer is. I hope he has a good public defender.
This means that those of you who ordered your G5 early and expected to get one in early September, you are SOL. Your machine is goint VT. You have to wait another month before you get your machine.
Of course you have to have to obligitory Monty Python reference:
Vicar: It's about this letter you sent me regarding my insurance claim. Devious: Oh, yeah, yeah - well, you see, it's just that we're not...as yet...totally satisfied with the grounds of your claim. Vicar: But it says something about filling my mouth in with cement. Devious: Oh well, that's just insurance jargon, you know. Vicar: But my car was hit by a lorry while standing in the garage and you refuse to pay my claim. Devious: (rising and crossing to a filing cabinet) Oh well, reverend Morrison...in your policy...in your policy...(he open the drawer of the filing cabinet and takes out a shabby old sports jacket; he feels in the pocket and pulls out a crumbled dog-eared piece of paper then puts the coat back and shuts the filing cabinet)...here we are. It states quite clearly that no claim you make will be paid. Vicar: Oh dear. Devious: You see, you unfortunately plumped for our 'Neverpay' policy, which, you know, if you never claim is very worthwhile...but you had to claim, and, well, there it is. Vicar: Oh dear, oh dear. Devious: Still, never mind - could be worse. How's the nude lady? Vicar: Oh, she's fine. (he begins to sob)
"Honest policyholders will have nothing to fear and combating fraud will make things better for them anyway by helping to keep premium costs down."
Yeah, right. Honest policyholders do have something to fear; the fear that when this flim-flam pseudoscience piece of crap system randomly flags them as a liar!
Actually, the insurance company will probably use this like the police do. The insurance company will use the voice analysis technology against people who they already think are trying to defraud the company. They know it doesn't work worth a damn, but use people's ignorance of technology against them to get them to confess to faking a claim. The police do the same thing, they tell a suspect that they have failed a voice analysis test and use that as extra leverage to try to get that person to confess. It only works if the person is gullible enough to believe that the technology works.
Hmm, works fine for me. Firebird 0.6 regular release.
-Matt
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why show the movie to 3000 people? Limit the number of pre-release screenings and just release the movie when you schedule it to be released. Bruce Springsteen did not have a problem of his new album getting pirated. Why? He didn't sent it to anyone.
When I install a software package I want to EXACTLY what software is being installed on my computer and I want to know this upfront.
In the case of TurboTax it didn't just install TurboTax, it installed this other third party program to enforce it's licensing system. I don't object to Intuit installing this piece of software, but I want to KNOW that it is being installed. I don't want myserious directories appearing on my system. I don't want data placed in hidden sectors on my hard drive. I don't want icons NOT related to the software I am installing appearing on my desktop (AOL). If a software package is going to do any of these things is should be disclosed up front. I also want real penalties if these rules are violated.
"Rimmer, there's nothing out there, you know. There's nobody out there. No alien monsters, no Zargon warships, no beautiful blondes with beehive hairdos who say, "Show me some more of this Earth thing called kissing." There's just you, me, the Cat, and a lot of floating smegging rocks. That's it. Finito."
Okay, imagine this. Invent a DVD player into which you could download edit information, alternate sound tracks, etc. into and then use that to play the movie. You would still need the original DVD, but it could be programmed to play whatever edit you want.
I envision it to be like a diff file. Play this track from x time to y time, etc. Use this home grown soundtrack instead of the original. This way you are not modifying the movie at all, but you still get to watch the Phantom Edit, or whatever in the privacy of your own home.
Legally I don't see how the MPAA could have a problem with it because you are not really modifying the movie, the DVD player is doing it on the fly.
I own a TI Microlaser Pro and it is insane the protections they have built into the the thing. In this particular printer there is an imaging cartridge as well as toner. You are supposed to replace the imaging piece every 10,000 prints, but those things still look good at 30,000 prints and up. But they have a little fuze in them that will get tripped when the print count gets that high. Plus there is an internal counter on the toner and the imager that if not reset properly will turn off the printer. Luckily the TI division was bought out by HP and they don't make that printer anymore and so they have released the secret reset codes for the TI. But it was a pain in the ass to get the thing reset the counters and allow me to continue printing.
It wouldn't be so bad if the card could be used for verification, and not identification. If the cards could answer specific questions, yes or no would be sufficient instead of divulging all sorts of other information that I would not necessarily want divulged.
For example, there are bars now that at the door have a magnetic strip reader which is used for verification purposes. This makes it easy for the bar to make sure a patron is 21 or over by swiping the person's driver's license. It does verify that the person is over 21, but also records their birth date, DL number, address, height, weight, eye color, and driver restrictions which the bar uses for marketing purposes.
In the same situation I would want a smart card to just answer two simple questions; Does this person belong to this card? (yes/no) and Is this person 21 years of age or over? (yes/no). And nothing else.
For airline checkpoints, does this person belong with this ticket, yes or no? Does this person belong with this baggage? This way everything is on the card and your personal information is not tracked all over the place. Of course the government doesn't want this because they can't track anyone this way.
Unfortunately, you have fallen into the trap that the entertainment industry wants you to fall into. Fundamentally the industry has a business problem, not a legal problem. Look at what they are trying to compete against. Digital music can be:
-Aggregated in large numbers (create a digital jukebox with a large number of recordings) -Carried with you, easily (portable MP3 players) -Traded with friends -Easily downloaded. Any song, any group in full. -Easily searched, locally and on the net. -Organized. By group, genre, etc.
Let's face it. Digital music is damn convenient for the customer and it is becoming even more popular by the day as computers get faster and with larger hard drives. Do the record companies have anything than can compete with this? No. Have they tried? No.
The home computer was designed to be general purpose. Process any information regardless of content. The internet was designed to transmit information, regardless of content. Period. The genie is already out of the bottle and there is no way to put it back in. Technology keeps rolling on, and companies who keep up with it will stay in business, companies who don't won't survive. Trying to roll back the clock will never work and laws to put block on computers or the internet are destined to fail.
Yes, I can't wait for Final Fantasy the movie. It can join all the amazing other movies that are based on a video game like:
Wing Commander
Super Mario Bros.
Street Fighter
Double Dragon
Mortal Combat
Mortal Combat II
What do these movies have in common? THEY ALL SUCKED! The golden rule is: if the movie is based off of a video game, it will suck. I am going to go out on a limb here and say that both Tomb Raider and Final Fantasy movies will also suck.
This information is available from http://www.dslreports.com. It has bandwidth information based on provider provided by actual users, but a wealth of other information including installation experiences and tips about network achitechture. Very cool, check it out.
He did it the hard way. In those days Sun did not password protect the magic "Go To PROM" keystroke CTRL-ALT-L1. If you are on the console, you can edit the memory location where your user id is stored directly, like to zero. And then the fun starts, especially if the machine is trusted.:-)
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This is way wrong. As soon as they figured out what Xing's key was, they were able to figure out many other keys by just trial and error. Now it is even more advanced than that. There are DVD decrypters that will find a new DVD key on the fly in a couple seconds. If they could yank the Xing key, it wouldn't do any good at all. Most de-cryption has gone beyond that.
-Matt
would be a device that would break all the windows in a specific area thus making a fortune for glass manufacturers in the US.
-Matt
Plasma displays are terrible about burn-in. I think this is a horrible idea. If you want a high resolution image of a famous painting, just get one on paper. It would probably look better too.
-Matt
To me this means that the FBI is having trouble proving their case. When Adrian surrendered to the FBI he wasn't so stupid as to bring any electronic equipment with him. He said he left his laptop and other personal belongings in a 'safe place'. Without his laptop and given the fact that he is "homless" and accessed the internet through many and unknown public access points I bet they are having trouble connected him and his alleged actions with any computer logs that they may have. They cannot at this point connect Adrian with any action in the server logs because they have no idea where he was, or have any of the equipment he may have used to do it. They are hoping to find a smoking gun confession that he made to a reporter, and/or track his movements and find out where he hacked from or where his computer is. I hope he has a good public defender.
-Matt
This means that those of you who ordered your G5 early and expected to get one in early September, you are SOL. Your machine is goint VT. You have to wait another month before you get your machine.
-Matt
Of course you have to have to obligitory Monty Python reference:
Vicar: It's about this letter you sent me regarding my insurance claim.
Devious: Oh, yeah, yeah - well, you see, it's just that we're not...as yet...totally satisfied with the grounds of your claim.
Vicar: But it says something about filling my mouth in with cement.
Devious: Oh well, that's just insurance jargon, you know.
Vicar: But my car was hit by a lorry while standing in the garage and you refuse to pay my claim.
Devious: (rising and crossing to a filing cabinet) Oh well, reverend Morrison...in your policy...in your policy...(he open the drawer of the filing cabinet and takes out a shabby old sports jacket; he feels in the pocket and pulls out a crumbled dog-eared piece of paper then puts the coat back and shuts the filing cabinet)...here we are. It states quite clearly that no claim you make will be paid.
Vicar: Oh dear.
Devious: You see, you unfortunately plumped for our 'Neverpay' policy, which, you know, if you never claim is very worthwhile...but you had to claim, and, well, there it is.
Vicar: Oh dear, oh dear.
Devious: Still, never mind - could be worse. How's the nude lady?
Vicar: Oh, she's fine. (he begins to sob)
-Matt
"Honest policyholders will have nothing to fear and combating fraud will make things better for them anyway by helping to keep premium costs down."
Yeah, right. Honest policyholders do have something to fear; the fear that when this flim-flam pseudoscience piece of crap system randomly flags them as a liar!
Actually, the insurance company will probably use this like the police do. The insurance company will use the voice analysis technology against people who they already think are trying to defraud the company. They know it doesn't work worth a damn, but use people's ignorance of technology against them to get them to confess to faking a claim. The police do the same thing, they tell a suspect that they have failed a voice analysis test and use that as extra leverage to try to get that person to confess. It only works if the person is gullible enough to believe that the technology works.
-Matt
Hmm, works fine for me. Firebird 0.6 regular release.
-Matt
why show the movie to 3000 people? Limit the number of pre-release screenings and just release the movie when you schedule it to be released. Bruce Springsteen did not have a problem of his new album getting pirated. Why? He didn't sent it to anyone.
-Matt
When I clicked into this story the ad on the page just happened to be for VS .Net. Try it today!
/. smart enough to do that on purpose?
Is
Still laughing...
-Matt
When I install a software package I want to EXACTLY what software is being installed on my computer and I want to know this upfront.
In the case of TurboTax it didn't just install TurboTax, it installed this other third party program to enforce it's licensing system. I don't object to Intuit installing this piece of software, but I want to KNOW that it is being installed. I don't want myserious directories appearing on my system. I don't want data placed in hidden sectors on my hard drive. I don't want icons NOT related to the software I am installing appearing on my desktop (AOL). If a software package is going to do any of these things is should be disclosed up front. I also want real penalties if these rules are violated.
-Matt
"Rimmer, there's nothing out there, you know. There's nobody out there. No alien monsters, no Zargon warships, no beautiful blondes with beehive hairdos who say, "Show me some more of this Earth thing called kissing." There's just you, me, the Cat, and a lot of floating smegging rocks. That's it. Finito."
-Lister from Red Dwarf
No, no. You have to add 'WITH REMAINING EYE'. If you want to do the joke, do it right.
-Matt
Did you encrypt your hard drive? Why or why not?
-Matt
Of course everyone will forget about the NexLisa. ;-)
-Matt
Okay, imagine this. Invent a DVD player into which you could download edit information, alternate sound tracks, etc. into and then use that to play the movie. You would still need the original DVD, but it could be programmed to play whatever edit you want.
I envision it to be like a diff file. Play this track from x time to y time, etc. Use this home grown soundtrack instead of the original. This way you are not modifying the movie at all, but you still get to watch the Phantom Edit, or whatever in the privacy of your own home.
Legally I don't see how the MPAA could have a problem with it because you are not really modifying the movie, the DVD player is doing it on the fly.
Any DVD hackers want to take this on?
-Matt
I own a TI Microlaser Pro and it is insane the protections they have built into the the thing. In this particular printer there is an imaging cartridge as well as toner. You are supposed to replace the imaging piece every 10,000 prints, but those things still look good at 30,000 prints and up. But they have a little fuze in them that will get tripped when the print count gets that high. Plus there is an internal counter on the toner and the imager that if not reset properly will turn off the printer. Luckily the TI division was bought out by HP and they don't make that printer anymore and so they have released the secret reset codes for the TI. But it was a pain in the ass to get the thing reset the counters and allow me to continue printing.
-Matt
It wouldn't be so bad if the card could be used for verification, and not identification. If the cards could answer specific questions, yes or no would be sufficient instead of divulging all sorts of other information that I would not necessarily want divulged.
For example, there are bars now that at the door have a magnetic strip reader which is used for verification purposes. This makes it easy for the bar to make sure a patron is 21 or over by swiping the person's driver's license. It does verify that the person is over 21, but also records their birth date, DL number, address, height, weight, eye color, and driver restrictions which the bar uses for marketing purposes.
In the same situation I would want a smart card to just answer two simple questions; Does this person belong to this card? (yes/no) and Is this person 21 years of age or over? (yes/no). And nothing else.
For airline checkpoints, does this person belong with this ticket, yes or no? Does this person belong with this baggage? This way everything is on the card and your personal information is not tracked all over the place. Of course the government doesn't want this because they can't track anyone this way.
-Matt
Unfortunately, you have fallen into the trap that the entertainment industry wants you to fall into. Fundamentally the industry has a business problem, not a legal problem. Look at what they are trying to compete against. Digital music can be:
-Aggregated in large numbers (create a digital jukebox with a large number of recordings)
-Carried with you, easily (portable MP3 players)
-Traded with friends
-Easily downloaded. Any song, any group in full.
-Easily searched, locally and on the net.
-Organized. By group, genre, etc.
Let's face it. Digital music is damn convenient for the customer and it is becoming even more popular by the day as computers get faster and with larger hard drives. Do the record companies have anything than can compete with this? No. Have they tried? No.
The home computer was designed to be general purpose. Process any information regardless of content. The internet was designed to transmit information, regardless of content. Period. The genie is already out of the bottle and there is no way to put it back in. Technology keeps rolling on, and companies who keep up with it will stay in business, companies who don't won't survive. Trying to roll back the clock will never work and laws to put block on computers or the internet are destined to fail.
Sounds good to me:
Step 1: Create Linux Distribution.
Step 2:
Step 3: Profits!
-Matt
Read all about it here. It is extremely funny.
-Matt
Yes, I can't wait for Final Fantasy the movie. It can join all the amazing other movies that are based on a video game like:
Wing Commander
Super Mario Bros.
Street Fighter
Double Dragon
Mortal Combat
Mortal Combat II
What do these movies have in common? THEY ALL SUCKED! The golden rule is: if the movie is based off of a video game, it will suck. I am going to go out on a limb here and say that both Tomb Raider and Final Fantasy movies will also suck.
-Matt
This information is available from http://www.dslreports.com. It has bandwidth information based on provider provided by actual users, but a wealth of other information including installation experiences and tips about network achitechture. Very cool, check it out.
-Matt
He did it the hard way. In those days Sun did not password protect the magic "Go To PROM" keystroke CTRL-ALT-L1. If you are on the console, you can edit the memory location where your user id is stored directly, like to zero. And then the fun starts, especially if the machine is trusted. :-)
-Matt
I seem to remember X-Windows interfaces to the old Archie FTP database. That might fit all the requirements you listed.
-Matt