buy black market gas more, and generally, find ways around the tax.
It's already happening. Check out Google for alternate fuel. There are a few French Fry oil cars on the road. There is some Biodiesel cars and trucks on the road.
People that are willing to cram themselves into a Metro to save money should sure as hell be allowed that choice!
And some people cram themselves into a midsize Prius which gets better millage, has more room, has better performance, and has better emissions. I test drove a Metro. I couldn't stand the road noise.
Betch fewer than 25% of Prius owners are Republicans.
Care to share your source if information? I guess I'm in the 25%. Anyway I thought the conservitave party was into conservation (free choice and market forces) while the libral party was into entitlements and subsidies (legislation and micromanagement of commerce and trade).
Please share your source of data. I find the assumption reasoning flawed.
There is no clue about the frequency his coil effectively produces, but simply the fact that there are at least some 50.000 volts wouldnt want me to have this device active, unless in a controller environment. (read: laboratory)
Due to the number of turns and length of the coil, the self resonant frequency is usualy well below 1 Megahertz. Read up on TC's for the facts. It's not like it's a bunch of power at UHF or Microwave frequencies.
At these long wavelengths, skin effect is strong keeping current mostly outside the body. People can take several hundred mA at these frequencies. Just Remove all metal and avoid a direct arc to prevent RF burns. They are nasty. The long wavelength keeps biometric heating to a minimum. I'd be worried if he was dinking with a magnatron outside a cavity.
You just HAD to have your fucking "Matrix" DVD, didn't you? Nevermind all the problems with DVD--look at DIVX! HAH what fools! Right.
Actualy I bought a Laserdisk. It broadcast standard NTSC with no copy protection. When they came out, they came with the promise they would become cheaper then VHS because they could be mass stamped.
Hollywood simply tried to rook the laserdisk with outrageous royalties because of the longevity of the format and the higher quality.
It never met it's promise. Instead it became a geek toy and never became mainstream. I bought the occasional movie on VHS because they were $10-$15 instead of $35-$95 per movie.
RCA came out with the cheap version with the capacitive stylus disk. It was a mechanical nightmare.
Then they came out with DVD's.
I still have my Laserdisk player. Unfortunately my laserdisk library is still under 10 titles. The local video store does not rent them.
The only reason many of us bought into the DVD thing is they finaly became under $100 for a player and many movies are under $10. It's a replacement for VHS which also has the evil macrovision that keeps popping up VIDEO 1 on my TV screen everytime the AGC twitches. I'm about to buy a stabelizer just to kill the on screen display the Macrovision signal triggers on my TV.
If a competitive alternative to DVD movies existed, it would get used. Currently if you want the Matrix, it's not offered in many other formats other than DVD.
The DVD format is restricted. The restrictions carry a legal liability. I understand that. It reduces it's value. That's why I don't buy any title over $16. Most I do buy are under $10. They had to cut the price to get me to buy into it the restrictive format. At least the copy protection doesn't glue the DVD to a single player like I-Tunes songs does. When I am done with a movie, I can sell the DVD to my neighbor and it will play on his DVD player, unlike i-Tunes songs.
I'm buying DVD's instead of CD's. They haven't figured out how to sweeten the pot to sell the product yet. I don't buy CD's over $6. Most CD's under $6 are crap. My CD collection isn't growing at all. Legal music downloads that tie the tune to the device have no re-sale value as they break on transfer. I factor this poor value into the purchase value. There is no way I'm paying a buck a song for that.
4. Free calling to/from a student's home town.(this would need a DID in student's home area code)
That's why I'm considering Vontage. I can set up the number in any areacode. Outgoing calls to US and Canada are free in the $25 plan. My only hangup is finding an affordable broadband provider that doesn't rook you for not subscribing to their other services (POTS, Cable TV, whatever)
How about my damned cable company (or phone company) that charges me an extra $10 a month because I just want a highspeed internet connection but don't want their cable offerings or long distance plan?
I'm in that boat. I don't have broadband because of it.
The reasoning with cable TV is they get away with it because they can play the broadband card to pull people away from satelite TV. In my area Comcast's penalty is $15, not $10 with a promise to increase soon. The phone company uses it to pull people from Vontage or other VOIP services. The city lets them get away with it because in the case of the phone company, the POTS line pays the city coffers for 911 services. I imagine there are other tie in's for the cable company so the city will protect their monopoly. Since I have POTS and don't include a long distance plan, they have an incentive to try to keep me from dropping POTS when I get broadband which I would certanly do in a heartbeat. My long distance is currently all on a cell phone. It's much better rates. If I got Vontage, then I could drop POTS entirely and use a lower cost cell plan. The phone company knows that and are trying hard to keep it from happening. So at the moment I'm stuck on Dial-up and will remain so for the near future. I'm looking at increasing the bang for the buck, not simply shifting services to a higher cost package.
Unitl they think outside the box to get me to become a subscriber to broadband, I stick with dial-up and leaching a nearby WAP when I need a large file.
Someday someone without a tie in to another service will simply offer broadband and make a killing. There is a market for just broadband.
At $15-100 per click-through,/. might do quite a bit of damage to some lawyer's wallet.
Playing the numbers game, would you make more having a $15-$100 click-through on Asbestos or would you make more having a $0.15 click-through on the word Erotic.
There is a reason some keywords have high rates for click-through.
I superglued a piece of 3" PVC pipe to my case fan
I'm suprised nobody pointed out that a CPU fan does not remove heat from the case. It simply spreads it out to the sourounding area. Then some gets moved out by the case fan.
Using a duct to the outside (either in or out) keeps the problem of recirculating the warm area air back into the CPU fan. This non-recirculating duct does wonders by design. It is designed not to suck in from it's own heat exhaust. It's better to blow 70 degree F room air on the heatsink than re-circulated 100 degree case air.
Thanks for trying. It just means that Microsoft's new offerings simply are not suitable for my applications and I will have to use something else. Thank goodness someone else was listening to what the consumer wanted. It's MS's loss and SUSE's gain.
Set up a honney pot to see if the US Gov is sniffing...
I have a Cat5 crimp tool. It's easy to leave one pair out of a connector. It's funny how a LAN card can only receive packets, but not send any. You can detect this cable and sniffing LAN card how?
The government doesn't always do an active attack by connecting to your honeypot. They may just watch the packets go by without announcing their presence. Your users may reveal all they need to know about your system without having to send any packets of their own.
Why weren't you locating the amplifiers near the speakers? Damping factor is very important.
An amplifier with a damping factor of 80 has an output impedance of 0.0125 ohms. 100 feet of 14 awg extension cord has a resistance of.00297 per foot per conductor (200 feet total round trip) or 0.594 ohms. This length changes the damping factor at the speakers from near 80 to about 2. If your using this 100 foot extension in addition to your regular wire, the situation is even worse. Ouch.. So much for good crisp sound.
I try to run sound from the mixer board out shielded wires terminated into about 100 ohms. This gives me a resistive load without any of the complexities of damping of a speaker. It also closly matches the charistic impedance of my wire so I have minimal losses to wire capacitance and inductance. Then I feed amplifiers located at the speakers. Most speaker wires are less than 10 feet, just long enough to get from the amp up to the speaker on it's stand.
An added bonus is I no longer have to run miles of large wire from the board to the speakers. I can use shorter extension cords to power the amplifiers near their locations. A sweep test and pulse test usualy provide good results with little system tweaking needed.
Every now-and-then I'd get to a gig and find out I was missing a speaker cable or not have a long enough speaker cable to get to the speakers they owner wanted outside on the deck,etcEvery now-and-then I'd get to a gig and find out I was missing a speaker cable or not have a long enough speaker cable to get to the speakers they owner wanted outside on the deck,etc
A bonus of having an extra amp to feed other location speakers is the easy ability to set it's gain as needed seprately from the rest of the system. A small signal wire to the amp is easier to gaff tape out of the way than a monster speaker cable. I usualy use 24 gauge shielded signal wire. It's about the same size as a Cat 5 cable.
You actually don't need more than 16 guage unless you're pushing serious wattage (>150 RMS).
Power does not affect the damping factor. If you need to long haul speaker power, may I recommend a set of transformers? That's what 70 volt systems were made for. Long haul speaker runs. Remote amps near the speakers are even better.
A bit of resistance is ok - it'll just reduce the ammount of power reaching your speakers,
Bzzzt! wrong!
Speakers being an electrical mechanical device has to deal with the physics of mass in motion. This creates complex impedance curves. A speaker is not just a resistive load.
Part of a good amplifier's job is to stop unwanted speaker cone motion. It does this by providing a very low source impedance to the speaker. The speaker may have a nominal impedance of about 8 ohms, but the output impedance (not recommended load impedance) is much less than one ohm. If you have a good amplifier, look up in the specifications the amplifier's Damping Factor. This number is the inverse of it's output impedance. A damping factor of 80 idicates an output impedance of 0.0125 ohms. Putting in a length of small guage wire will easly half or more the damping factor as the wire can easly have this much resistance or more.
Here is a quick test. Disconnect your speaker from you stereo. Drum your fingers on the speaker cone. Notice it moves easly and makes a great drumming sound. Now short the speaker terminal at the speaker. Repeat the test. Notice that now the cone is highly damped. Putting a long high resitance wire between the speaker and the amplifier reduces the ability of the amplifier to dampen unwanted cone ringing.
If you do get wire from the hardware store, don't use the small stuff. If you want to replace Monster wire and get the same performance, use the same wire size.
A mechanical analogy would be a golf ball on a dowel. Using a stiff 1/2 inch dowel gives good position control of a golf ball. Putting the golf ball on a coat hanger wire would give you poor positioning acuracy. Which would you rather use for a game of whack a mole. Position accuracy is important in a good sound system. Don't kill it with a length of high resistance wire between the amp and speakers. Just as important as large guage wire is short length. Get your amp as close to your speakers as possible. Length X ohms/foot = total resistance. Reducing length and resistance/foot are both important.
Tools -> Folder Options -> View -> Unlick "Enable Simple File Sharing (Reccomended)". (If its not there, you need to download a registry patch so it shows up.)
Thanks, I'll try it when I get home.
Damn annoying, but we've all been there. I'm in the process of upgrading to a linux home server right now, actually.
How MS thought enabling some LAN connected infected machine to infect all the files shared on an XP box improves security is beyond me. It just means to me I had to have another box to be the server for the games and other install files. The installation files should never be in a read/write LAN share. What were they thinking? One infected machine on the LAN can make the shared files infected. Not a smart default setting.
"Yeah, stability, we aren't really keen on that right at the moment, actually that's way down the list."
I've noticed. On old versions of Windows, you can turn on sharing and share a directory. You can set passwords for the directories. It works at home just fine to keep the kids out of my download collection.
The wife got an XP box. I can turn on sharing and share a directory. Somehow I can't find anyplace to set a password for read or write privilages. It looks like security has taken a step down. It's a little better for multiple users on a single machine, but a lot worse for sharing on a LAN.
Is that someting they decided to leave out of the XP home version. Is it included in the XP Pro version?
Now I only share directories on a SAMBA share and a 98 SE box because they are the ones I can share and write protect, unlike XP home.
It will end when either the defense or the offense runs out of money. They will chase anybody and anything that had any contact with Linux in any way do drag out the proceedings until the money runs out.
From what I see, this was never intended to be a quick case. I just wonder who the heck is funding this new round of SCO legal action and how long can they keep it up.
And last but not least, the "Broadcast Flag" is going to be a total and complete failure.. just like the "V-Chip."
Just like Macrovision on all VHS and DVD releases.. When it's mandated, we will have it. The video stabelizer for it will just cost more and be harder to find, but the broadcast flag will be there. You won't have the option of using it like with the V chip, just like you don't have the option of buying a consumer VCR with a manual gain control. (Macrovision screws with the Automatic Gain Control AGC)
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buy black market gas more, and generally, find ways around the tax.
It's already happening. Check out Google for alternate fuel. There are a few French Fry oil cars on the road. There is some Biodiesel cars and trucks on the road.
For information see;
http://www.biodiesel.org/
Now...any takers on that actually happening?
Umm yes. Check out the tax break for buying a Hybrid. It used to be $2K. I think it's $1.5K now in the US.
Why do they on one hand want to give a tax break and on the other hand give them more taxes?
People that are willing to cram themselves into a Metro to save money should sure as hell be allowed that choice!
And some people cram themselves into a midsize Prius which gets better millage, has more room, has better performance, and has better emissions.
I test drove a Metro. I couldn't stand the road noise.
Betch fewer than 25% of Prius owners are Republicans.
Care to share your source if information? I guess I'm in the 25%. Anyway I thought the conservitave party was into conservation (free choice and market forces) while the libral party was into entitlements and subsidies (legislation and micromanagement of commerce and trade).
Please share your source of data. I find the assumption reasoning flawed.
There is no clue about the frequency his coil effectively produces, but simply the fact that there are at least some 50.000 volts wouldnt want me to have this device active, unless in a controller environment. (read: laboratory)
Due to the number of turns and length of the coil, the self resonant frequency is usualy well below 1 Megahertz. Read up on TC's for the facts. It's not like it's a bunch of power at UHF or Microwave frequencies.
At these long wavelengths, skin effect is strong keeping current mostly outside the body. People can take several hundred mA at these frequencies. Just Remove all metal and avoid a direct arc to prevent RF burns. They are nasty. The long wavelength keeps biometric heating to a minimum. I'd be worried if he was dinking with a magnatron outside a cavity.
Disclaimer.. I built a tesla coil.
but is there actually any use for Tesla coils in one's own home.
Dude! Read the article. When he runs the coil, the sprinkler system comes on. It's a geeks dream. You don't have to leave the house!
He go the parts dumpster diving.. Ummm Nevermind the part about not leaving the house.
OK I'll feed the troll.
You just HAD to have your fucking "Matrix" DVD, didn't you? Nevermind all the problems with DVD--look at DIVX! HAH what fools! Right.
Actualy I bought a Laserdisk. It broadcast standard NTSC with no copy protection. When they came out, they came with the promise they would become cheaper then VHS because they could be mass stamped.
Hollywood simply tried to rook the laserdisk with outrageous royalties because of the longevity of the format and the higher quality.
It never met it's promise. Instead it became a geek toy and never became mainstream. I bought the occasional movie on VHS because they were $10-$15 instead of $35-$95 per movie.
RCA came out with the cheap version with the capacitive stylus disk. It was a mechanical nightmare.
Then they came out with DVD's.
I still have my Laserdisk player. Unfortunately my laserdisk library is still under 10 titles. The local video store does not rent them.
The only reason many of us bought into the DVD thing is they finaly became under $100 for a player and many movies are under $10. It's a replacement for VHS which also has the evil macrovision that keeps popping up VIDEO 1 on my TV screen everytime the AGC twitches. I'm about to buy a stabelizer just to kill the on screen display the Macrovision signal triggers on my TV.
If a competitive alternative to DVD movies existed, it would get used. Currently if you want the Matrix, it's not offered in many other formats other than DVD.
The DVD format is restricted. The restrictions carry a legal liability. I understand that. It reduces it's value. That's why I don't buy any title over $16. Most I do buy are under $10. They had to cut the price to get me to buy into it the restrictive format. At least the copy protection doesn't glue the DVD to a single player like I-Tunes songs does. When I am done with a movie, I can sell the DVD to my neighbor and it will play on his DVD player, unlike i-Tunes songs.
I'm buying DVD's instead of CD's. They haven't figured out how to sweeten the pot to sell the product yet. I don't buy CD's over $6. Most CD's under $6 are crap. My CD collection isn't growing at all. Legal music downloads that tie the tune to the device have no re-sale value as they break on transfer. I factor this poor value into the purchase value. There is no way I'm paying a buck a song for that.
PETA announces a spin-off group, PETDA, People for the Ethical Treatment of Digital Animals.
Don't tell them about Neopets! They may get upset if they find the battle arena.
4. Free calling to/from a student's home town.(this would need a DID in student's home area code)
That's why I'm considering Vontage. I can set up the number in any areacode. Outgoing calls to US and Canada are free in the $25 plan. My only hangup is finding an affordable broadband provider that doesn't rook you for not subscribing to their other services (POTS, Cable TV, whatever)
How about my damned cable company (or phone company) that charges me an extra $10 a month because I just want a highspeed internet connection but don't want their cable offerings or long distance plan?
I'm in that boat. I don't have broadband because of it.
The reasoning with cable TV is they get away with it because they can play the broadband card to pull people away from satelite TV. In my area Comcast's penalty is $15, not $10 with a promise to increase soon. The phone company uses it to pull people from Vontage or other VOIP services. The city lets them get away with it because in the case of the phone company, the POTS line pays the city coffers for 911 services. I imagine there are other tie in's for the cable company so the city will protect their monopoly. Since I have POTS and don't include a long distance plan, they have an incentive to try to keep me from dropping POTS when I get broadband which I would certanly do in a heartbeat. My long distance is currently all on a cell phone. It's much better rates. If I got Vontage, then I could drop POTS entirely and use a lower cost cell plan. The phone company knows that and are trying hard to keep it from happening. So at the moment I'm stuck on Dial-up and will remain so for the near future. I'm looking at increasing the bang for the buck, not simply shifting services to a higher cost package.
Unitl they think outside the box to get me to become a subscriber to broadband, I stick with dial-up and leaching a nearby WAP when I need a large file.
Someday someone without a tie in to another service will simply offer broadband and make a killing. There is a market for just broadband.
The problem are not the URLs but websites behind such URLs that copy the original site.
Bzzt.. It's the advertisers that support these sleaseballs. If the advertisers refused these sites, they would go away except for the phising sites.
Maybe they are doing us a favor by snatching up the domains to serve ads so phishers do not register them for phishing instead.
I think we need a new section for these stories. I propose we call it 'Flamebait'.
We do already. It's the icon of a bare foot.
when the machine is turned off.
So how is a Windows machine turned off more secure than a Linux machine turned off?
Oh, Oh.. I get it. If you use a boot disk, you can get into a Linux partition, but it's harder to get into a NTFS directroy!
Ducks...
At $15-100 per click-through, /. might do quite a bit of damage to some lawyer's wallet.
Playing the numbers game, would you make more having a $15-$100 click-through on Asbestos or would you make more having a $0.15 click-through on the word Erotic.
There is a reason some keywords have high rates for click-through.
I superglued a piece of 3" PVC pipe to my case fan
I'm suprised nobody pointed out that a CPU fan does not remove heat from the case. It simply spreads it out to the sourounding area. Then some gets moved out by the case fan.
Using a duct to the outside (either in or out) keeps the problem of recirculating the warm area air back into the CPU fan. This non-recirculating duct does wonders by design. It is designed not to suck in from it's own heat exhaust. It's better to blow 70 degree F room air on the heatsink than re-circulated 100 degree case air.
MS claims the security tab is disabled in XP Home
Thanks for trying. It just means that Microsoft's new offerings simply are not suitable for my applications and I will have to use something else. Thank goodness someone else was listening to what the consumer wanted. It's MS's loss and SUSE's gain.
Set up a honney pot to see if the US Gov is sniffing...
I have a Cat5 crimp tool. It's easy to leave one pair out of a connector. It's funny how a LAN card can only receive packets, but not send any. You can detect this cable and sniffing LAN card how?
The government doesn't always do an active attack by connecting to your honeypot. They may just watch the packets go by without announcing their presence. Your users may reveal all they need to know about your system without having to send any packets of their own.
you mean there's someone out there still using Kazaa?
Yes, check for the list of the new KaZaa users at the RIAA website. In a few months there will be a new batch and they will be listed next time.
I use to run a pro-sound company
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Why weren't you locating the amplifiers near the speakers? Damping factor is very important.
An amplifier with a damping factor of 80 has an output impedance of 0.0125 ohms. 100 feet of 14 awg extension cord has a resistance of
per foot per conductor (200 feet total round trip) or 0.594 ohms. This length changes the damping factor at the speakers from near 80 to about 2. If your using this 100 foot extension in addition to your regular wire, the situation is even worse. Ouch.. So much for good crisp sound.
I try to run sound from the mixer board out shielded wires terminated into about 100 ohms. This gives me a resistive load without any of the complexities of damping of a speaker. It also closly matches the charistic impedance of my wire so I have minimal losses to wire capacitance and inductance. Then I feed amplifiers located at the speakers. Most speaker wires are less than 10 feet, just long enough to get from the amp up to the speaker on it's stand.
An added bonus is I no longer have to run miles of large wire from the board to the speakers. I can use shorter extension cords to power the amplifiers near their locations. A sweep test and pulse test usualy provide good results with little system tweaking needed.
Every now-and-then I'd get to a gig and find out I was missing a speaker cable or not have a long enough speaker cable to get to the speakers they owner wanted outside on the deck,etcEvery now-and-then I'd get to a gig and find out I was missing a speaker cable or not have a long enough speaker cable to get to the speakers they owner wanted outside on the deck,etc
A bonus of having an extra amp to feed other location speakers is the easy ability to set it's gain as needed seprately from the rest of the system. A small signal wire to the amp is easier to gaff tape out of the way than a monster speaker cable. I usualy use 24 gauge shielded signal wire. It's about the same size as a Cat 5 cable.
You actually don't need more than 16 guage unless you're pushing serious wattage (>150 RMS).
Power does not affect the damping factor. If you need to long haul speaker power, may I recommend a set of transformers? That's what 70 volt systems were made for. Long haul speaker runs. Remote amps near the speakers are even better.
A bit of resistance is ok - it'll just reduce the ammount of power reaching your speakers,
Bzzzt! wrong!
Speakers being an electrical mechanical device has to deal with the physics of mass in motion. This creates complex impedance curves. A speaker is not just a resistive load.
Part of a good amplifier's job is to stop unwanted speaker cone motion. It does this by providing a very low source impedance to the speaker. The speaker may have a nominal impedance of about 8 ohms, but the output impedance (not recommended load impedance) is much less than one ohm. If you have a good amplifier, look up in the specifications the amplifier's Damping Factor. This number is the inverse of it's output impedance. A damping factor of 80 idicates an output impedance of 0.0125 ohms. Putting in a length of small guage wire will easly half or more the damping factor as the wire can easly have this much resistance or more.
Here is a quick test. Disconnect your speaker from you stereo. Drum your fingers on the speaker cone. Notice it moves easly and makes a great drumming sound. Now short the speaker terminal at the speaker. Repeat the test. Notice that now the cone is highly damped. Putting a long high resitance wire between the speaker and the amplifier reduces the ability of the amplifier to dampen unwanted cone ringing.
If you do get wire from the hardware store, don't use the small stuff. If you want to replace Monster wire and get the same performance, use the same wire size.
A mechanical analogy would be a golf ball on a dowel. Using a stiff 1/2 inch dowel gives good position control of a golf ball. Putting the golf ball on a coat hanger wire would give you poor positioning acuracy. Which would you rather use for a game of whack a mole. Position accuracy is important in a good sound system. Don't kill it with a length of high resistance wire between the amp and speakers. Just as important as large guage wire is short length. Get your amp as close to your speakers as possible. Length X ohms/foot = total resistance. Reducing length and resistance/foot are both important.
(If its not there, you need to download a registry patch so it shows up.)
It's not there in the Dell XP Home. Where can the registry patch be located?
Tools -> Folder Options -> View -> Unlick "Enable Simple File Sharing (Reccomended)". (If its not there, you need to download a registry patch so it shows up.)
Thanks, I'll try it when I get home.
Damn annoying, but we've all been there. I'm in the process of upgrading to a linux home server right now, actually.
How MS thought enabling some LAN connected infected machine to infect all the files shared on an XP box improves security is beyond me. It just means to me I had to have another box to be the server for the games and other install files. The installation files should never be in a read/write LAN share. What were they thinking? One infected machine on the LAN can make the shared files infected. Not a smart default setting.
"Yeah, stability, we aren't really keen on that right at the moment, actually that's way down the list."
I've noticed. On old versions of Windows, you can turn on sharing and share a directory. You can set passwords for the directories. It works at home just fine to keep the kids out of my download collection.
The wife got an XP box. I can turn on sharing and share a directory. Somehow I can't find anyplace to set a password for read or write privilages. It looks like security has taken a step down. It's a little better for multiple users on a single machine, but a lot worse for sharing on a LAN.
Is that someting they decided to leave out of the XP home version. Is it included in the XP Pro version?
Now I only share directories on a SAMBA share and a 98 SE box because they are the ones I can share and write protect, unlike XP home.
When will it end?
It will end when either the defense or the offense runs out of money. They will chase anybody and anything that had any contact with Linux in any way do drag out the proceedings until the money runs out.
From what I see, this was never intended to be a quick case. I just wonder who the heck is funding this new round of SCO legal action and how long can they keep it up.
Follow the money if you can.
And last but not least, the "Broadcast Flag" is going to be a total and complete failure.. just like the "V-Chip."
Just like Macrovision on all VHS and DVD releases.. When it's mandated, we will have it. The video stabelizer for it will just cost more and be harder to find, but the broadcast flag will be there. You won't have the option of using it like with the V chip, just like you don't have the option of buying a consumer VCR with a manual gain control. (Macrovision screws with the Automatic Gain Control AGC)