2- People that steal cars are NOT going to wear anti-laser or welding helmets. Talk about not looking cool and making yourself conspicuous.
We are not talking about a car thief. We are talking about terrorists. Having a gasmask or IED in a backpack until they reach their destination is SOP. They come prepared for action. If I were on the bad side (I'm not) and I knew what I had to defeat, and could carry a small portable device that would render it useless and ineffective.....
People who try to crash a military guard gate defended with a laser may carry the tools to get past the gate. Recently the press hotel in Bagdad was attacked. They brought the tools to get through a concrete barrier (car bomb) so they could get past to deliver a cement truck bomb to the building. It almost worked. They got past the concrete barrier with the cement truck. They didn't reach the building because they didn't get past the entangelment wire.
A couple guards with a bright light are not going to stop most of these guys. The guards are going to need something else in addition to the front line defense.
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It's a laser rifle, and it halts them with a bright flash;-)
Stop by your local welding supply store and pick up an arc welders helment with the fast response LCD lens. If it's a green laser, pick up a pair of laser safety goggles from your industrial safety supply.
Sometimes not telling how it works is an advantage. You need to be a step ahead, not fill the public in on the details. Remember the riots of the 1960's. Many rioters came with gas masks. Teargas was just part of the scene.
Lets not tell them what to expect ahead of time, just like the cruise ship with the sonic defense. That was a suprise and as such it was effective. Now the cat's out of the bag. Next attack may come with motorcycle helments with proper hearing protection...
Aliasing is what allows sonic frequences to be created from two supersonic frequencies.
Alisaing is a sampeling artifact. Sampeling a high frequency by taking samples near the signal frequency produces results far removed from the original waveform. This is not the same result as mixing 2 high frequencies in a linear transducer (Quality speaker)which results in 2 undistorted frequencies. IF they are near each other in frequencies, they appear as a AM modulated sound of the frequency (beat frequency volume modulated) not the two frequencies and a bass note (3 notes of steady volume). They do not produce a low note unless there is non-linear mixing somewhere (speaker or amplifier clipping).
In about 10 years, I would expect to see a plethora of audiophile-quality speakers that consist of an incredibly tiny flat square panel tranducer, coupled with a reflecting device that reflects the sound in a radial pattern.
Don't expect a small flat square transducer to replace your 200 watt subwoofer anytime soon and rattle the dishes in the dish cabinet. Non-linear mixing also produces Sum frequencies in addition to the originals and Difference.
Non-linear is generaly a bad thing in High-Fidelity.
You wouldn't actually need to have a physical reflecting device, since you can just use an array of speakers to form a beam.
This is true at long wavelengths where the array can combine into a single wavefront. At short wavelengths, diffraction lobes steal power from the main beam. A reflector is more effecient with fewer lobes. With an array on the other hand each transducer would require less power and has the advantage of being scaliable to high power and steerable by phase changes so it can point multiple targets quickly as well as correct for wind turbulance. (crosswind can carry the beam off target) The back end for an array raises it's cost considerably over a dish.
I am interested in your research. Are you using individual mic amplifiers and ccd delays before a summing network so aim and focus can be adjusted?
That still doesn't sound like it has anything to do with air behaving non-linearly. Any two tones at any intensity will produce a beat frequency between them.
The difference in this system and tuning up instruments is related to linear and non-linear mixing. When tuning a couple flutes 1 octave above middle a (440 Hz) and this system is the results. When tuning two flutes and one is 1 Hz off, you would have simply 880 and 881 Hz. You do not get 1 Hz and 1761 Hz. What about the beat? It is there, but simply as a modulation of amplitude of the combined sound. It does not make the walls vibrate at 1 Hz. Ask the sound guy with the analizer. The subsonics in a room are due to the building air handler, not due to a few flutes and violins. At low sound pressure levels air is quite linear.
Now back to the defense weapon.. Very high sound pressure levels are used. When they strike an object, the reflection creates standing pressure waves putting the air sound pressure levels into non-linear range. Non-linear mixing results in the area. New sum and difference frequencies are generated. This is where the 1Khz sound comes from in the above example. The 1Khz sound originates at the surface where the signals combine be it the target boat or the target persons head. From there it propogates like a 1Khz sound, not like a 30 Khz sound that delivered it.
This weapon does not just result in a 30Khz signal AM modulated at 1Khz. 1Khz is generated as a result of the sound pressure levels causing non-linear mixing. This is why it is limited in range to about 300 Meters. Beyound that, the SPL drops out of non-linear range.
Sending a 1Khz tone a long distance would require a large reflector to produce a relatively tight beam. Sending a 30 KHZ tone requires a much smaller reflector to deliver the acoustic power the same distance. The small dish sends high power signals. For example if we sent 30Khz and 31Khz, they would both travel in a well defined beam as a ~30Khz signal. Unfortunately we can't hear 30 Khz ultrasonic signals (except for a few audiophiles;-). ) Air at high volume is not linear. For example you can compress air to several atmospheres. The reverse is not true. You can not draw several atmospheres of vacuum. You are limited by the hard limit of pure vacuum. Air compressing and expanding is non-linear.
Now enter a couple very high intensity sound waves of two frequencies. Now you have non-linear mixing. In non linear mixing (just like in a radio reciever) you get out the 2 original frequencies + the sum and the difference. Therefore 30Khz + 31 Khz is 30Khz, 31Khz, 61Khz and 1Khz. Now you have delivered a very loud and painful 1Khz sound using the tight beam delivery of 30Khz with a small dish.
Vote with your cash, buy non-DRM encumbered CDs or else just steal it.
Bzzt.. Wrong
First part is right Vote with your cash, buy non-DRM encumbered CDs.
Second part or else just steal it.
is wrong. It should be.. do without.
Showing a title is popular by keeping the torrents busy with it is not the answer. Hitting the blogs with I ain't touching that because... is the answer. Let the artists and lables know why you are not interested. Then let the law of a free market fix the problem. If nobody ever bought a DRM'ed CD, we would not be having this discussion. Think about it. There were enough who voted for this to enable it. That's the real problem. Publicity is the fix. Make sure the masses know of the evil things this DRM does to break your Windows computer.
The installer list has iTunes Pro on it, that comes as a bit of a surprise to me. iTunes Pro is the app used by Apple to add music to the iTMS. Sony wants to prevent consumers from running this app or to prevent Apple from adding those CD's to the iTMS? What would the point of this be?
Itunes permits ripping and burning unprotected CD's that can later be ripped. They are fixing the hole by preventing burning ripped tracks to an unprotected CD. If you can't rip it, you can't burn it and rip it unprotected.
Trying to install Linux on a laptop with nocdrom or Ethernet but DLINK usb wi-fi. I NEED HELP!
If you are trying to install Linux without a CD or Ethernet, then I agree. You need help.;-)
Seriously, Pick up a PCMCIA Ethernet card. They are not expensive. Check where you work. Someplaces are tossing 802.11b cards in the upgrade to 802.11g. I picked up one from the trash. Works fine. Used it on my last trip.
They don't show that anyway. Your MAC address never leaves the local LAN. It's not part of the IP packet, but rather the lower-level frame that is used to carry the IP packet from one point on the LAN to another.
Which is why I like to mess with those phishers that ask for my IP address. I tell them. 192.168.23.43. Strange how many of them just learned what an IP address was and don't know about local NAT addresses.
anyways, the purpose of the interferometer is to measure the differential gravitational strain between two remote masses. as a gravity wave passes (supposedly), two masses will be driven to oscillate in quadrature with one another. that means that relative to some fixed point, one mass will be drawn closer, and at a right angle another mass will be pushed further away. IIRC.
Now if we can only get rid of the strong local influances such as the sun and moon, then we might get some sensitivity.
The influence of these make detecting very weak waves difficult. It is like detecting the change in sea level due to a rain storm or evaporation. Local wind caused waves and tides make detecting these minute changes difficult.
Very little on TV will be worth watching. If you don't get cable or satelite, then with analog over the air gone, the old tv will be just a monitor for old DVD rentals and the console video games. Not many are going to drop the cash for an over the air tuner for the junk on over the air TV. The money will go to a new game console or better computer and monitor instead.
After all, Sonic and Crash are still fun for the next generation.
Also consider inflation, and you will see the actual price of a CD has indeed come down quite a bit over the years.
That's a no brainer. The quality has come down quite a bit. There were DDD Red Book Compact Disks. Now you get compressed stuff to just sound loud.
Natural sound, quality, and compatibility are gone. It's no wonder the price has fallen. I don't buy them any more. They may harm my system and be incompatible in addition to sounding bad.
Show me a recent red book Compact Disk recorded Digital Direct to Disk...
Simply put, if that had happened to me, I would have bought a new hard drive, reinstalled everything and then copied the data that I needed over, and then filed a product liability suit. I would claimed everything from illegal computer trespass, product liability, vandalism, and anything else that might have sounded half-way reasonable.
To prevent a loophole they may be able to wiggle through, I still stick to my simple principle. Look for the Compact Disk logo. No logo, no sale. Philips standard Compact Disks tm. do not have executible code.
The downside is unless you shop used music shops, there isn't much in the way of Compact Disks tm for sale anymore.
On the other hand the internet has consolidated access to alternative media which is a good thing and can lead to a more informed populace. Of course the internet is full of the same slanted and opinionated crap that you see everywhere else so it can lead to an utterly mis-informed populace.
This consolidation means I can drill down to more detail and opinions than are in a print version which has to be limited simply by the size of the edition. I just voted by mail. You get paid opinion placement in the voter pamphlet and the liberal view in the print edition of the newspaper. Online I can go beyond the paid opinions and find a discussion of the issues and weigh the validity of the points myself. The glossy overview tends to gloss right over the real issues. The discussions pick it apart exposing the gritty detals and their impact.
It's like hitting Amazon and seeing the latest review of the DRM'ed Sony BMG release. The review is of the band and the fact the DRM permits 3 copies to be made.
Hit slashdot and you get into the gritty stuff of the rootkit and hidden drivers and application with no remove option and the impact to processor performance.
It's the Slashdot discussion I value. My local newspaper won't make an issue on the Sony BMG DRM until the online community makes it an issue.
Our robots have a built in weakness. Several big red EMO buttons cause an immediate demise of rebelious ways. It keeps our robots in line. There is no negotiations for power. We control the button.
It's definitely Russian-made electromagnetic generators operated by the Yakuza.
From the article;
The generators emit a soundwave between three and 30 megahertz and Stevens claims the Russians invented the storm-creating technology back in 1976 and sold it to others in the late 1980s.
HF shortwave radio anyone? I seriously doubt you can spawn a storm with a shortwave radio.
Not only did they bounce microwaves off glass-- they had the hutzpah to give the US ambassador a honorary plaque, which he hung on his office wall. Unbeknownst to us, there was a little diaphragm inside the plaque, just the right wavelength to reflect K-band microwavesm, which vibrated very nicely to every word spoken in his office. Look it up.
I looked it up. 330 MHZ is not K-Band microwaves. It's UHF. HF is from 3-30Mhz VHF is from 30-300...
The bugged seal had a resonant quarterwave antenna tuned to 330 MHZ. This used 1946 technology, not K band microwaves. K band is near 20 GHZ. There wasn't much in the 1 GHZ and up band then. Vacuum tubes just didn't work that high.
A wodden copy of the Great Seal of the United States was bugged. Part of the seal was used as a diaphram and was used as a passive resonant reflector. This would pass most bug sweeps as the device was not active, but passive. When painted with a 330 Mhz signal, it would modulate it.
The only update in the article is now they use microwaves and common materials already in a room.
So what keeps people from recording the output and distributing that?
I presume the output from the beast contains your machine identity. A pirate copy would have a tracable name, address, phone number, etc. The studio would know which player and which disk was compromised. Think it as a personalized version of the movie with the screener brown dots. The dots would not just be print copy number. It would be everything that says arrest John Doe at 1212 Main street for making this pirate copy.
I've seen these least common denominator programs bundled with cameras and PC's. Most of them are little more than a teaser to buy the full version.
I bought a camera that came with a program from Arc-Soft. It's not photoshop and it's not megabucks in price.
It does do all the simpler items needed for common photo editing and is not complicated. Red eye reduction, croping, changing size, changing resolution, adjusting contrast, brightness, saturation, etc are all not difficult. Stitching several photos together and adding text are also not difficult. Compressing for e-mail is also not hard.
The program does not have advanced bells and whistles such as adding lens flare and beveled edges for web buttons, but this might be in line of the simple but not dummed down software he is looking for.
This lack of participation is a Very Bad Thing for anyone who likes to buy digital music easily online.
Personaly I think this is a good thing. A line has been drawn in the sand. Now artists have a choice. CD's only, or CD's and online sales. When Sony BMG can't sign up new artists becaus they went elsewhere, the market will take care of itself.
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2- People that steal cars are NOT going to wear anti-laser or welding helmets. Talk about not looking cool and making yourself conspicuous.
We are not talking about a car thief. We are talking about terrorists. Having a gasmask or IED in a backpack until they reach their destination is SOP. They come prepared for action. If I were on the bad side (I'm not) and I knew what I had to defeat, and could carry a small portable device that would render it useless and ineffective.....
People who try to crash a military guard gate defended with a laser may carry the tools to get past the gate. Recently the press hotel in Bagdad was attacked. They brought the tools to get through a concrete barrier (car bomb) so they could get past to deliver a cement truck bomb to the building. It almost worked. They got past the concrete barrier with the cement truck. They didn't reach the building because they didn't get past the entangelment wire.
A couple guards with a bright light are not going to stop most of these guys. The guards are going to need something else in addition to the front line defense.
It's a laser rifle, and it halts them with a bright flash ;-)
Stop by your local welding supply store and pick up an arc welders helment with the fast response LCD lens. If it's a green laser, pick up a pair of laser safety goggles from your industrial safety supply.
Sometimes not telling how it works is an advantage. You need to be a step ahead, not fill the public in on the details. Remember the riots of the 1960's. Many rioters came with gas masks. Teargas was just part of the scene.
Lets not tell them what to expect ahead of time, just like the cruise ship with the sonic defense. That was a suprise and as such it was effective. Now the cat's out of the bag. Next attack may come with motorcycle helments with proper hearing protection...
Why warn them ahead of time?
Aliasing is what allows sonic frequences to be created from two supersonic frequencies.
Alisaing is a sampeling artifact. Sampeling a high frequency by taking samples near the signal frequency produces results far removed from the original waveform. This is not the same result as mixing 2 high frequencies in a linear transducer (Quality speaker)which results in 2 undistorted frequencies. IF they are near each other in frequencies, they appear as a AM modulated sound of the frequency (beat frequency volume modulated) not the two frequencies and a bass note (3 notes of steady volume). They do not produce a low note unless there is non-linear mixing somewhere (speaker or amplifier clipping).
In about 10 years, I would expect to see a plethora of audiophile-quality speakers that consist of an incredibly tiny flat square panel tranducer, coupled with a reflecting device that reflects the sound in a radial pattern.
Don't expect a small flat square transducer to replace your 200 watt subwoofer anytime soon and rattle the dishes in the dish cabinet. Non-linear mixing also produces Sum frequencies in addition to the originals and Difference.
Non-linear is generaly a bad thing in High-Fidelity.
You wouldn't actually need to have a physical reflecting device, since you can just use an array of speakers to form a beam.
This is true at long wavelengths where the array can combine into a single wavefront. At short wavelengths, diffraction lobes steal power from the main beam. A reflector is more effecient with fewer lobes. With an array on the other hand each transducer would require less power and has the advantage of being scaliable to high power and steerable by phase changes so it can point multiple targets quickly as well as correct for wind turbulance. (crosswind can carry the beam off target) The back end for an array raises it's cost considerably over a dish.
I am interested in your research. Are you using individual mic amplifiers and ccd delays before a summing network so aim and focus can be adjusted?
That still doesn't sound like it has anything to do with air behaving non-linearly. Any two tones at any intensity will produce a beat frequency between them.
The difference in this system and tuning up instruments is related to linear and non-linear mixing. When tuning a couple flutes 1 octave above middle a (440 Hz) and this system is the results. When tuning two flutes and one is 1 Hz off, you would have simply 880 and 881 Hz. You do not get 1 Hz and 1761 Hz. What about the beat? It is there, but simply as a modulation of amplitude of the combined sound. It does not make the walls vibrate at 1 Hz. Ask the sound guy with the analizer. The subsonics in a room are due to the building air handler, not due to a few flutes and violins. At low sound pressure levels air is quite linear.
Now back to the defense weapon.. Very high sound pressure levels are used. When they strike an object, the reflection creates standing pressure waves putting the air sound pressure levels into non-linear range. Non-linear mixing results in the area. New sum and difference frequencies are generated. This is where the 1Khz sound comes from in the above example. The 1Khz sound originates at the surface where the signals combine be it the target boat or the target persons head. From there it propogates like a 1Khz sound, not like a 30 Khz sound that delivered it.
This weapon does not just result in a 30Khz signal AM modulated at 1Khz. 1Khz is generated as a result of the sound pressure levels causing non-linear mixing. This is why it is limited in range to about 300 Meters. Beyound that, the SPL drops out of non-linear range.
Can you elaborate?
;-). ) Air at high volume is not linear. For example you can compress air to several atmospheres. The reverse is not true. You can not draw several atmospheres of vacuum. You are limited by the hard limit of pure vacuum. Air compressing and expanding is non-linear.
Yes.
Sending a 1Khz tone a long distance would require a large reflector to produce a relatively tight beam. Sending a 30 KHZ tone requires a much smaller reflector to deliver the acoustic power the same distance. The small dish sends high power signals. For example if we sent 30Khz and 31Khz, they would both travel in a well defined beam as a ~30Khz signal. Unfortunately we can't hear 30 Khz ultrasonic signals (except for a few audiophiles
Now enter a couple very high intensity sound waves of two frequencies. Now you have non-linear mixing. In non linear mixing (just like in a radio reciever) you get out the 2 original frequencies + the sum and the difference. Therefore 30Khz + 31 Khz is 30Khz, 31Khz, 61Khz and 1Khz. Now you have delivered a very loud and painful 1Khz sound using the tight beam delivery of 30Khz with a small dish.
Vote with your cash, buy non-DRM encumbered CDs or else just steal it.
Bzzt.. Wrong
First part is right Vote with your cash, buy non-DRM encumbered CDs.
Second part or else just steal it.
is wrong. It should be.. do without.
Showing a title is popular by keeping the torrents busy with it is not the answer. Hitting the blogs with I ain't touching that because... is the answer. Let the artists and lables know why you are not interested. Then let the law of a free market fix the problem. If nobody ever bought a DRM'ed CD, we would not be having this discussion. Think about it. There were enough who voted for this to enable it. That's the real problem. Publicity is the fix. Make sure the masses know of the evil things this DRM does to break your Windows computer.
The installer list has iTunes Pro on it, that comes as a bit of a surprise to me. iTunes Pro is the app used by Apple to add music to the iTMS. Sony wants to prevent consumers from running this app or to prevent Apple from adding those CD's to the iTMS? What would the point of this be?
Itunes permits ripping and burning unprotected CD's that can later be ripped. They are fixing the hole by preventing burning ripped tracks to an unprotected CD. If you can't rip it, you can't burn it and rip it unprotected.
Trying to install Linux on a laptop with nocdrom or Ethernet but DLINK usb wi-fi. I NEED HELP!
;-)
If you are trying to install Linux without a CD or Ethernet, then I agree. You need help.
Seriously, Pick up a PCMCIA Ethernet card. They are not expensive. Check where you work. Someplaces are tossing 802.11b cards in the upgrade to 802.11g. I picked up one from the trash. Works fine. Used it on my last trip.
They don't show that anyway. Your MAC address never leaves the local LAN. It's not part of the IP packet, but rather the lower-level frame that is used to carry the IP packet from one point on the LAN to another.
Which is why I like to mess with those phishers that ask for my IP address. I tell them. 192.168.23.43. Strange how many of them just learned what an IP address was and don't know about local NAT addresses.
anyways, the purpose of the interferometer is to measure the differential gravitational strain between two remote masses. as a gravity wave passes (supposedly), two masses will be driven to oscillate in quadrature with one another. that means that relative to some fixed point, one mass will be drawn closer, and at a right angle another mass will be pushed further away. IIRC.
Now if we can only get rid of the strong local influances such as the sun and moon, then we might get some sensitivity.
The influence of these make detecting very weak waves difficult. It is like detecting the change in sea level due to a rain storm or evaporation. Local wind caused waves and tides make detecting these minute changes difficult.
What will we occupy our kids with?
Mom & Dad's oldie moldie DVD and game collection.
Very little on TV will be worth watching. If you don't get cable or satelite, then with analog over the air gone, the old tv will be just a monitor for old DVD rentals and the console video games. Not many are going to drop the cash for an over the air tuner for the junk on over the air TV. The money will go to a new game console or better computer and monitor instead.
After all, Sonic and Crash are still fun for the next generation.
Also consider inflation, and you will see the actual price of a CD has indeed come down quite a bit over the years.
That's a no brainer. The quality has come down quite a bit. There were DDD Red Book Compact Disks. Now you get compressed stuff to just sound loud.
Natural sound, quality, and compatibility are gone. It's no wonder the price has fallen. I don't buy them any more. They may harm my system and be incompatible in addition to sounding bad.
Show me a recent red book Compact Disk recorded Digital Direct to Disk...
return this CD by mail to SONY BMG in a thousand tiny pieces, but not before I copy it and distribute out of sheer spite.
Never admit that publicly. DMCA, RIAA, Evidence, I hope you weren't serious. These are not nice guys to deal with.
If you admit it, do it from a public terminal as an AC.
Simply put, if that had happened to me, I would have bought a new hard drive, reinstalled everything and then copied the data that I needed over, and then filed a product liability suit. I would claimed everything from illegal computer trespass, product liability, vandalism, and anything else that might have sounded half-way reasonable.
To prevent a loophole they may be able to wiggle through, I still stick to my simple principle. Look for the Compact Disk logo. No logo, no sale. Philips standard Compact Disks tm. do not have executible code.
The downside is unless you shop used music shops, there isn't much in the way of Compact Disks tm for sale anymore.
On the other hand the internet has consolidated access to alternative media which is a good thing and can lead to a more informed populace. Of course the internet is full of the same slanted and opinionated crap that you see everywhere else so it can lead to an utterly mis-informed populace.
This consolidation means I can drill down to more detail and opinions than are in a print version which has to be limited simply by the size of the edition. I just voted by mail. You get paid opinion placement in the voter pamphlet and the liberal view in the print edition of the newspaper. Online I can go beyond the paid opinions and find a discussion of the issues and weigh the validity of the points myself. The glossy overview tends to gloss right over the real issues. The discussions pick it apart exposing the gritty detals and their impact.
It's like hitting Amazon and seeing the latest review of the DRM'ed Sony BMG release. The review is of the band and the fact the DRM permits 3 copies to be made.
Hit slashdot and you get into the gritty stuff of the rootkit and hidden drivers and application with no remove option and the impact to processor performance.
It's the Slashdot discussion I value. My local newspaper won't make an issue on the Sony BMG DRM until the online community makes it an issue.
I wonder if the start would be caused by some hacker in Korea trying to expand his bot-net, but not knowing what he really got into.
Our robots have a built in weakness. Several big red EMO buttons cause an immediate demise of rebelious ways. It keeps our robots in line. There is no negotiations for power. We control the button.
By 1960 there were K-band magnetrons and klystrons capable of kilowatts of CW output power.
True, but the bugged seal was delivered in the 1940's, not the 1960's.
It's definitely Russian-made electromagnetic generators operated by the Yakuza.
From the article;
The generators emit a soundwave between three and 30 megahertz and Stevens claims the Russians invented the storm-creating technology back in 1976 and sold it to others in the late 1980s.
HF shortwave radio anyone? I seriously doubt you can spawn a storm with a shortwave radio.
Not only did they bounce microwaves off glass-- they had the hutzpah to give the US ambassador a honorary plaque, which he hung on his office wall. Unbeknownst to us, there was a little diaphragm inside the plaque, just the right wavelength to reflect K-band microwavesm, which vibrated very nicely to every word spoken in his office. Look it up.
I looked it up. 330 MHZ is not K-Band microwaves. It's UHF. HF is from 3-30Mhz VHF is from 30-300...
The bugged seal had a resonant quarterwave antenna tuned to 330 MHZ. This used 1946 technology, not K band microwaves. K band is near 20 GHZ. There wasn't much in the 1 GHZ and up band then. Vacuum tubes just didn't work that high.
A wodden copy of the Great Seal of the United States was bugged. Part of the seal was used as a diaphram and was used as a passive resonant reflector. This would pass most bug sweeps as the device was not active, but passive. When painted with a 330 Mhz signal, it would modulate it.
The only update in the article is now they use microwaves and common materials already in a room.
Details here;
http://www.spybusters.com/Great_Seal_Bug.html
This bug is was delivered in 1946 and discovered in 1952.
So what keeps people from recording the output and distributing that?
I presume the output from the beast contains your machine identity. A pirate copy would have a tracable name, address, phone number, etc. The studio would know which player and which disk was compromised. Think it as a personalized version of the movie with the screener brown dots. The dots would not just be print copy number. It would be everything that says arrest John Doe at 1212 Main street for making this pirate copy.
I've seen these least common denominator programs bundled with cameras and PC's. Most of them are little more than a teaser to buy the full version.
I bought a camera that came with a program from Arc-Soft. It's not photoshop and it's not megabucks in price.
It does do all the simpler items needed for common photo editing and is not complicated. Red eye reduction, croping, changing size, changing resolution, adjusting contrast, brightness, saturation, etc are all not difficult. Stitching several photos together and adding text are also not difficult. Compressing for e-mail is also not hard.
The program does not have advanced bells and whistles such as adding lens flare and beveled edges for web buttons, but this might be in line of the simple but not dummed down software he is looking for.
It came bundled with my old Ricoh 3MP camera.
This lack of participation is a Very Bad Thing for anyone who likes to buy digital music easily online.
Personaly I think this is a good thing. A line has been drawn in the sand. Now artists have a choice. CD's only, or CD's and online sales. When Sony BMG can't sign up new artists becaus they went elsewhere, the market will take care of itself.
Sony-BMG will do or die.