This is also an interesting development because Costis achieved the same goal as the decapping of the original GameBoy CPU, but with vastly cheaper equipment (< $100) and probably in less time (< 1 week).
Glitching is a neat technology; it's most famously used by "card unloopers" for smartcard hacking, and is also used by modern Wii modchips. Travis Goodspeed gave a neat presentation at DefCon 2009 about glitching, and has released some open-source hardware which will eventually support glitching target microcontrollers. Given the right software, that board alone would probably have been enough to perform this hack.
Can someone put a figure on the cost of equipment involved? This would be very useful for folks on large farms where radio (read Walkie-talkies) do not cut it.
The setup seems to be:
two BTS with two TRX each - Each BTS is a surplus Siemens BS-11, which they are selling for 300 Euro. (I almost bought one at 25C3, until I realized they were almost 46 Kg each)
two antennas -- included in the purchase price of the BS11
E1-to-PCI interface card - 350 EUR
So, I'd call that about 1000 EUR, not including the Linux PC driving the whole setup.
get a LOAD of that BULLSHIT. what kind of twisted system is american legal system that, a judge can DENY a legal move by any of the parties. hey ! i have evidence ! but i cant use it - why ? because IT IS DENIED BY APPLICATION OF THE OTHER PARTY.
The judge made a deadline for each lawyer to submit "motions" - letters that say "this case is invalid, because [xxx]". These letters are very common, since there isn't much to lose by trying.
The judge then extended that deadline to later. The defendant sent a letter to the judge objecting to the RIAA's motion, after the first deadline, before the second.
The RIAA then sent a third letter to the judge, pointing out to the judge that the second letter was "too late" (because it was after the first deadline). That's silly, because there was a second deadline, but that's all the letter was. The American legal system may be twisted in other ways, but this is just some asshole lawyer writing a letter to a judge to try to confuse them. There's no "evidence" being denied, and the judge will hopefully ignore the letter.
This sounds like a great boon to all mankind - a single judge gets to decide something that basically means the term of copyright is now three years. Right?
Wrong. The defendant's lawyer (not a judge) is arguing that the statute of limitations on the alleged infringement (not the term of copyright) is three years.
The issue is not "How long does copyright last?". It is "How long can you wait to accuse someone of a crime?"
How about a collision-detection bug turned in to an easter-egg?
In some cases, the collision detection is broken in Katamari Damacy, and you can end up falling through objects. (The easiest way I've seen this happen is if you're moving and some other object pushes you through a wall, but there's a video on YouTube with a simpler way to trigger it.)
When it happens, the screen fades to black and the King of All Cosmos apologizes for the inconvenience and uses the "Royal Warp" to put you back on the playfield. Looks like they caught a bug right before they had to ship and didn't have time to fix it, so they turned it in to an easter egg.
Hell, this kind of market for virtual goods exists explicitly for Second Life. They even have a list of suggested businesses and a real-time currency exchange.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. I, too, was coding for both the Apple II and Mac platforms in the late eighties, and I don't remember any such requirement.
In fact, public-key cryptosystems were really rare at that point; the only example I know from that time period was the Atari 7800, which had Atari signing every cartridge; see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_7800#Lockout_features
Can you please provide some more details so that someone could verify your claims? Otherwise, this is just a FOAF story.
It's a reference to RMS (or his PGP^H^H^HGPG key):
"The name originated as Gnusiance as a reference to RMS's GPG key, but was later changed to gNewSense by bbrazil and ompaul to also capture the New Sense of the distribution and as a pun on GNU."
So, what the FSF has done here is take Ubuntu and delete some drivers (and other files), right? Effectively, this will narrow the hardware compatibility of this distro, and the idea is that this will encourage people to buy hardware for which Free Drivers are available, right?
Well, how the hell am I supposed to do that if I don't know know what hardware that is? Trial and error? Come on, FSF, go the extra mile here.
The m33 firmware for PSP has been able to do this for a while. Or at least it was that way last time I used it. Firmware development for the PSP is much easier because it can be fully recovered if you brick it, using fairly cheap hardware (Pandora battery). This is completely different than the situation for the Wii -- see http://hackmii.com/2008/06/your-wii-is-not-a-psp/
Homebrewers need to start hacking the server side first. By setting up their own servers, they can filter out problems like this, and still maintain the networking capabilities of their devices. Setting up the servers is easy. Redirecting the Wiis to point to them is harder, but still doable. The hard part is creating safely-patched updates to push down the pipe, because there is absolutely no recovery mechanism on a Wii.
Steil and Domke (tmbinc) were nice enough to lend me a few minutes part of their Xbox360 presentation -- it served as a footnote to their discussion of the importance of memory protection.
I am the one talking for about five minutes in the YouTube video; although I wrote the software that actually modified the disc image to run unsigned code, I had a considerable amount of help over the past several months from tmbinc, Sii, Costis, and adhs. (tmbinc was the only other one who attended the conference, and he had his own presentation to give, so I got to get up there on stage and hope it actually worked!)
My first successful test ran about 30 minutes before the Xbox360 presentation started, so I didn't have much time for polish -- in fact, I had intended to show a version with greets, but I ran out of DVDs (after burning about 40) and had to run across the street to buy more. I ended up with a bad burn, and had to show an earlier version. Here's the screenshot I'd hoped people would see:
One thing that lots of the places seemed to bitch about was the tracking of the listeners. Now, I know that they wanted it to be retroactive to the DMCA and that's just stupid, but from say now on, what's the big deal? Can't a log parser do this in no time? Just track unique hosts or something like that. If they just needed numbers it should be a no brainer, even something like webalizer can give you those numbers if you set it up right.
That's just it. The reporting requirements are the worst part. At our radio station, the extra fees would "only" add up to several hundred dollars per year -- not fun, but it wouldn't sink the station.
We play an eclectic range of material -- much of which comes in the mail, unsolicited, directly from the artist, and some of which is brought in by the DJs. We have no sort of centralized tracking system for our 10,000+ records/CDs... many of which were never actually published through traditional channels, and hence can't easily be cataloged according to the CARP recomendations.
To even begin to comply, we would have to locate and key in information for each and every one of those albums. Then, we'd have to track what's played -- but as we're not a top-40s station with a small playlist, individual DJs have quite a free hand in choosing what they play, and we're only now beginning to move from pencil and paper to a computerized database to record track titles and artist names; even that is fraught with problems.
To comply with the law as proposed, our only option would be to stop streaming while we tried to pay someone to implement all of the above -- which likely would never happen, and we'd lose literally thousands of regular listeners.
Ok, I for one am fully in favor of this lawsuit, but please don't make the mistake of saying that $.30 is all it takes to make a CD. A professional album costs upwards of $100,000 to record. Plus advertisements, plus distribution, plus the amount of money the industry "eats" for all the bands that don't sell. Don't forget for every Spice girls there are 100 bands that get printed, promoted and distributed and never sell crap. CD's should be cheaper, that is for sure, but your argument just doesn't cut it here.
According to all of the artists that I've seen discuss this, production and promotion costs get deducted out of the artist's royalties, so shouldn't factor into the CD price.
> I am not sure why anybody would think that this is shocking. > You have to be 17 (legally) to see and R rated movie.
That is NOT true. Moviemakers "voluntarily" submit their movies to the ratings board (because most theaters won't show unrated movies), and then movie theaters voluntarily turn minors away from strongly rated movies. (Of course, they do that just to stave off government intervention, but that's another story altogether.)
Distributed.net is running through CSC at about 120 Mkeys/sec. Does anyone know where to get a total keyrate from Dcypher.net, and how to convert their "Mbytes/sec" to a keyrate?
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This is also an interesting development because Costis achieved the same goal as the decapping of the original GameBoy CPU, but with vastly cheaper equipment (< $100) and probably in less time (< 1 week).
Glitching is a neat technology; it's most famously used by "card unloopers" for smartcard hacking, and is also used by modern Wii modchips. Travis Goodspeed gave a neat presentation at DefCon 2009 about glitching, and has released some open-source hardware which will eventually support glitching target microcontrollers. Given the right software, that board alone would probably have been enough to perform this hack.
Apple keeps 29 cents per song, which may be why they're a bit miffed.
Even at that, they shouldn't be. After subtracting out costs, Apple's estimated profit per song is more like 10 cents.
Can someone put a figure on the cost of equipment involved? This would be very useful for folks on large farms where radio (read Walkie-talkies) do not cut it.
The setup seems to be:
So, I'd call that about 1000 EUR, not including the Linux PC driving the whole setup.
get a LOAD of that BULLSHIT. what kind of twisted system is american legal system that, a judge can DENY a legal move by any of the parties. hey ! i have evidence ! but i cant use it - why ? because IT IS DENIED BY APPLICATION OF THE OTHER PARTY.
The judge made a deadline for each lawyer to submit "motions" - letters that say "this case is invalid, because [xxx]". These letters are very common, since there isn't much to lose by trying.
The judge then extended that deadline to later. The defendant sent a letter to the judge objecting to the RIAA's motion, after the first deadline, before the second.
The RIAA then sent a third letter to the judge, pointing out to the judge that the second letter was "too late" (because it was after the first deadline). That's silly, because there was a second deadline, but that's all the letter was. The American legal system may be twisted in other ways, but this is just some asshole lawyer writing a letter to a judge to try to confuse them. There's no "evidence" being denied, and the judge will hopefully ignore the letter.
This sounds like a great boon to all mankind - a single judge gets to decide something that basically means the term of copyright is now three years. Right?
Wrong. The defendant's lawyer (not a judge) is arguing that the statute of limitations on the alleged infringement (not the term of copyright) is three years.
The issue is not "How long does copyright last?". It is "How long can you wait to accuse someone of a crime?"
How about a collision-detection bug turned in to an easter-egg?
In some cases, the collision detection is broken in Katamari Damacy, and you can end up falling through objects. (The easiest way I've seen this happen is if you're moving and some other object pushes you through a wall, but there's a video on YouTube with a simpler way to trigger it.)
When it happens, the screen fades to black and the King of All Cosmos apologizes for the inconvenience and uses the "Royal Warp" to put you back on the playfield. Looks like they caught a bug right before they had to ship and didn't have time to fix it, so they turned it in to an easter egg.
Hell, this kind of market for virtual goods exists explicitly for Second Life. They even have a list of suggested businesses and a real-time currency exchange.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. I, too, was coding for both the Apple II and Mac platforms in the late eighties, and I don't remember any such requirement.
In fact, public-key cryptosystems were really rare at that point; the only example I know from that time period was the Atari 7800, which had Atari signing every cartridge; see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_7800#Lockout_features
Can you please provide some more details so that someone could verify your claims? Otherwise, this is just a FOAF story.
I have stated multiple times on Slashdot and have multiple times be called a troll...
THIS is EXACTLY the same behavior Apple exhibited with the Apple and their token program!
What "token program"? You've been called a troll before for making this assertion and refusing to support it.
Who is this supposed to be a nuisance to?
It's a reference to RMS (or his PGP^H^H^HGPG key):
"The name originated as Gnusiance as a reference to RMS's GPG key, but was later changed to gNewSense by bbrazil and ompaul to also capture the New Sense of the distribution and as a pun on GNU."
http://www.gnewsense.org/index.php?n=FAQ.FAQ#toc4
So, what the FSF has done here is take Ubuntu and delete some drivers (and other files), right? Effectively, this will narrow the hardware compatibility of this distro, and the idea is that this will encourage people to buy hardware for which Free Drivers are available, right?
Well, how the hell am I supposed to do that if I don't know know what hardware that is? Trial and error? Come on, FSF, go the extra mile here.
Why hasn't there been any news on that? Because we'd rather people use this hack. Nothing to see here, move along.
Steil and Domke (tmbinc) were nice enough to lend me a few minutes part of their Xbox360 presentation -- it served as a footnote to their discussion of the importance of memory protection.
I am the one talking for about five minutes in the YouTube video; although I wrote the software that actually modified the disc image to run unsigned code, I had a considerable amount of help over the past several months from tmbinc, Sii, Costis, and adhs. (tmbinc was the only other one who attended the conference, and he had his own presentation to give, so I got to get up there on stage and hope it actually worked!)
My first successful test ran about 30 minutes before the Xbox360 presentation started, so I didn't have much time for polish -- in fact, I had intended to show a version with greets, but I ran out of DVDs (after burning about 40) and had to run across the street to buy more. I ended up with a bad burn, and had to show an earlier version. Here's the screenshot I'd hoped people would see:
http://bushing.mm.st/wii-props.jpg
We play an eclectic range of material -- much of which comes in the mail, unsolicited, directly from the artist, and some of which is brought in by the DJs. We have no sort of centralized tracking system for our 10,000+ records/CDs... many of which were never actually published through traditional channels, and hence can't easily be cataloged according to the CARP recomendations.
To even begin to comply, we would have to locate and key in information for each and every one of those albums. Then, we'd have to track what's played -- but as we're not a top-40s station with a small playlist, individual DJs have quite a free hand in choosing what they play, and we're only now beginning to move from pencil and paper to a computerized database to record track titles and artist names; even that is fraught with problems.
To comply with the law as proposed, our only option would be to stop streaming while we tried to pay someone to implement all of the above -- which likely would never happen, and we'd lose literally thousands of regular listeners.
According to all of the artists that I've seen discuss this, production and promotion costs get deducted out of the artist's royalties, so shouldn't factor into the CD price.
> You have to be 17 (legally) to see and R rated movie.
That is NOT true.
Moviemakers "voluntarily" submit their movies to the ratings board (because most theaters won't show unrated movies), and then movie theaters voluntarily turn minors away from strongly rated movies. (Of course, they do that just to stave off government intervention, but that's another story altogether.)
This is outright government intervention.
I've just received word that Rice can be added to the list of universities blocking napster...
*sigh*
Distributed.net is running through CSC at about 120 Mkeys/sec. Does anyone know where to get a total keyrate from Dcypher.net, and how to convert their "Mbytes/sec" to a keyrate?