and my iPod *is* an MP3 player, in common parlance.
Only among the hard disk players selling for over $300. Mine is not an over $300 player. It's less than $60 and holds about 700 meg on a shiny disk. I can fit about 12 CD's of stuff in it which is fine for my commute and a day at the office. I don't have to carry a CD case. In raw numbers, I think the CD MP3 players may outnumber iPods simply because they are more affordable. I know of one person at work that has the apple player, however I know 6 that have CD MP3 players. If one is going to get stolen, dropped or otherwise abused in a work environment, I'd rather lose the $50 player, not a $400 player.
If I want it on my home disc player or car disc player I burn a CD.
The shiny disk that fits the portable works in my car, my PC, my laptop, and in my living room DVD player. Why burn a disk that may run for maybe an hour when you can burn a disk that plays everywhere and is good for all day?
MP3's just work. DRM does not. All my public domain old time radio is already in MP3 format.
Did I miss something? I have iTMS and an iPod. if I want it in my stereo, I use a $4 cable or a $100 AP Express.
Why climb behing the cabinet to jocky cables, or buy another player just to play another format in the living room that won't play in my car or portable? It's easier to simply avoid incompatable formats.
Did you buy the Circuit City crippled format player so you could play the non-return rental DVD's? Neither did I. I didn't spend the money to buy DRM enabled players, so I'm not interested in DRM content.
I only bought a DVD player after it was here long enough to be firmly established. I didn't buy any of the $600 DVD players or $40 movies. I have bought a $60 player and some sub $10 movies. I know the movies will play on my next DVD player when mine dies.
Will your music play on your next audio player when your iPod and/or PC dies? My MP3's will work fine on my next MP3 CD player. That's why I support the format and don't support a DRM format. Your gullability to follow the DRM trail disturbes me. Are you thinking ahead, or just for the here and now?
Why would I bother with this when I already have an alternative that is free of charge, more secure, and has more content?
These people forget that the DRM'ed content is incompatible with my living room DVD player, my car CD player and my portable MP3 player.
I gathered from the article that a dealer could forward a copy and the reciepient could then buy it. It sounds like buying the DRM key to unlock it to me. My hardware can't use that content. Get a clue guys.. Use a universaly accepted standard.
This is as useful to me as if you came in to my store and only had Lyra and not dollars. I'd send you away to get it exchanged into something accepted here. DRM music has the same problem. I won't take it. I can't use it. Calling it music doesn't make it playable any more than calling Lyra in the US money makes it good for buying things here.
Just because I can use it somewhere doesn't make it universal in my location.
I really wouldn't mind giving money to more charities. I just wish that they could see it as a kind, benevolent act, and be thankful for it without pestering me for the rest of my life.
Change the name from charities to magazines, and you've hit the biggest reason I won't consider getting another magazine subscription, even for free.
I'd rather pick up a magazine once in a while at the supermarket that interests me than submit to the telemarketing via a subscription.
I'm not getting publishers clearinghouse sweepstakes offers any more. I quit my subscription and moved twice to do it.
I am afraid something doesn't fit in your statement.
The large suburban population of soccer moms that don't want their kids to go to war is a larger group than those who work in tall buildings. The threat is greater their precious kid will be killed in action than the threat that hubby will be killed in the office. That's why large urban areas voted for Kerry. The other population is those on heavy government handouts that don't want their entitlement money going to buy bombs instead of food stamps or pills. These demographics are both concentrated in urban areas and Kerry voters.
My comment on tall buildings was meant as a joke, but since reasons for voting patterns are being questioned, look at what demographic is mostly covered in diffrent areas.
Urban is the family, the down and out, the dependant on governmant assistance and enjoy the impact of government spending on care, food, housing, transportation, police,.. Democrat.
Country dwellers as a rule are self motivated, self reliant and understand working for a living and feel the impact of heavy taxation to help build trains, bridges, parks, etc. in places far away and face excessive government restrictions... Republican.
Republicans are the ones that have to deal with the urban passed regulations that make no sense. Try this one..
Livestock may drink from a stream but must be prevented from relieving themselves in it.
I understand it, but who is going to explain it to the cattle?
the cable has to be twice the length of geosynchronous orbit
I would agree if the cable was the same mass the entire length and did not have a large mass tied on the end. I would think a length greater than geosyncronous but less than 2 X geosyncronous would work if the weight force above was enough to counter the gravity force on the section below geosyncronous. The force would have to include not just the ribbon, but the elevator and contents. You wouldn't want to yank the weight down to have it land somewhere within 30K miles of the anchor point.
Besides, there is no jury that would believe you downloaded that movie.
In all honesty, I would belive you downloaded it instead of renting or buying it.
Here are my reasons for the belief.
1 It's well known it's a junk movie and not worth spending money on.
2 Due to the buzz about it, if it could be previewed for free just to see what all the discussion is about, then downloading it is about the only way you would consider seeing it.
So absolutely I would believe that it gets downloaded. I would have a hard time believing you kept it on the hard drive after watching it.
It's like the time I borrowed a bootleg copy of the Rocky Horror Picture Show. It was just to see what the fuss was about. There is no way I'd be interested in buying it.
What I want to know is how the program knows the diffrence between tha latest Britney single and my collection of public domain Amos and Andy shows. They are both MP3's. Does it prompt? Does it do massive collateral dammage without prompting. How about the MP3's from my albums? How about the president's state of the union address?
So far the software looks like search and destroy without prompting. Since it "kills P-P" programs, will it kill my teleconferencing software? It can P-P share files.
I'm waiting for independant reviews of the software before I even consider running this trojan package.
Just a few people who work in large buildings... that are still standing.
Some remember 9-11 was the second attempt to bring down the building. Putting down the attackers is why Bush got a second term. We no longer react with a police report an pass more resolutions when we get atacked. We made them think it might not be a good idea to stir us up agin anytime soon. The war on terror isn't going to be won by just passing resolutions.
Somehow blaming the FCC's action directly on Bush is a little miss-placed. I haven't seen anything to indicate this went through the house and congress and was signed into law by Bush. Not everything takes that route.
The blog indicates this content control applies to Digital TV broadcasts and computers with Tuner Cards.
As far as I'm concerned, the content providers can have it their way.. It will be up to the advertisers and content providers to figure out how to get eyeballs. If you can't TVIO it, watch it (time shifters out and watch one channel while recording one are SOL...) can't internet it (bad reception) etc. Can't hype it to your friends because you can't send the hot clip..
End result, advertisers go away, content providers go away, internet and subscription take over. Over the air TV and it's infastructure simply dies..
I wonder if the FCC has any plans to preventing it's death. They've done plenty to make sure nobody wants to buy reception equipment.
From the way I see it, after reading the blog, you should be fine as long as your PC does not have a tuner.
The FCC is frustrated at the slow adoption rate of digital television..
On one side of the coin, Content providers don't want to put out content unless it's protected to prevent sharing on the internet. The television stations have made the investment to broadcast digital television signals. The infastrusture is in place.
On the other hand the content is scarce and locked down to be useles and expensive. Therefore the adoption rate is very poor by consumers. The transmitters are there, but the home receivers are not. Nobody is watching. Nobody is even interested. It's expensive and the content is mostly worthless. Why bother. Nobody will be interested until the local electronics stores show real (not a demo loop) off air DTV reception. (the closest to a real demo I've seen is dish network subscription satelite TV, not over the air local TV)
It's the chicken and egg complicated by a Mexican Standoff. Providers won't provide content because of no viewers. Viewers won't switch due to cost, restrictions, and lack of content in roughly that order. The biggie is of course cost. For those with smaller spaces, finding an affordable TV is the problem. There are some home theatre type TV's that actualy contain a tuner, but the number of under $400 sets with the tuner for college students, basement dwellers, dorm dwellers, etc just doesn't exitst yet. My biggest TV is 20 inch. There are lots of monitors that are digital ready, but the lack of complete TV's is disturbing. Price, selection and content are the biggest showstoppers to digital TV rollout.
Somebody needs to do something to break the standoff if digital TV is going to get adopted. In the meantime, broadband Internet and it's wide selection of content is making a quick end run past the standoff. I speak for myself. I spend way more online time in a week than I spend watching TV in a year. Why spend the money to upgrade? The content is ad ridden junk aimed at the lowest common denominator.
I know they would like us to be like the Simpsons and rush for the sofa to watch their over the air content. It's just not happening. Drive the neighborhood. Count the VHF and UHF antennas.. It's not like it was in the '60's and '70's. Now almost nobody is watching.
And some of the blockbusters have lots of PP. When PP was in it's infancy, the movie industry wanted to get a slice of the advertising dollars. They tried to get Mars as a client for ET. They wanted to have M&M's placement in ET, but Mars wouldn't meet the asking price. M&M's were in the original script and they asked Mars if they wanted to pay for the placement. Do you remember the candy used to lure out the ET? The success of the name and it's association with the ET began the PP advertising as we know it today.
When did anyone invent an RFID reader capable of reading passive RFID tags at a range greater than 3 yards, let alone the 75 feet from the street to your medicine cabinet?
You forgot to mention the tags are inside a metal cabinet in many homes. Somehow I think there is some attenuation involved..
I wish you hadn't mentioned that as just a story. Treat it as history. Those who don't learn from history are condemmed to repeat it.
Other than lightly touching on a very valid point, I think you have something profound here. How much are we going to invest in each little bit of IP until the market falls apart from the weight? It looks like the 17th century Tulip market you mentioned.
For those who haven't any idea what we are talking about.. Don't take my word for it. Look it up.
Plug this into Google.. Dutch tulip market collapse
I see our IP land grab saddles with the same fate.
request list - allow people to broadcast requested files to friends and friends of friends. A requested CD, for example, could be ripped and then shared.
If it only mentioned personal home made content and not a rip of a possibly copyrighted work, they may have been able to use the "it's not a piracy tool" arguement. However mentioning in serious future upgrades, A requested CD, for example, could be ripped and then shared. makes the status of the entire project stand on unstable legal ground.
But it's a passive reaction, not a broadcast that says "I'm here!"
Cover up your cameras IR emitter (either autofocus or blinking activity LED).
Please read the article and the link to the site.
They use a bank of LED's and look for reflections from the lense of the camera. This makes it an active, not passive system. There is even specs on the pulse rate of the IR lED's. Unless you use a carbon base die in your IR emitter cover, it will to little good. IR passes through most dye based black pigments.
They claim it can even find a pinhole camera by it's lens.
Be bold and roll it back uphill. I know there is a trashy law now that allows anybody to treat your landline as a credit card. You need to treat them back like a credit card company and ask your local phone provider to remove and chargeback the invalid charges. If they don't, plan on going cable and VOIP instead of landline. The landline company will feel the pinch as more and more flee the hole in the credit protection laws. Government will also notice as all the 9-11 and other taxes are tied to the landline service. Advertise loudly (write the editor of the local newspaper) to let them know how AOL and the local phone company forced your loss of local phone service and loss of 9-11 services (think of the elderly and children that need 9-11 service but don't have it.
If direct billing your land line by 3rd parties isn't percieved as a threat to local phone service, it won't get fixed. Make it obvious it's a problem. Your phone line is not a credit card to be billed by 3rd parties.
A low-level, visible light "illuminator" is utilized. The illuminator produces collimated light from an LED array in short duration pulses of approximately 4 ms
PirateEye(TM) does not utlize LASER technology.
If it's realy visible, then finding a theatre without it would be simple. The system is not invisible to the patrons. A simple lens cap should be used. If the system is detected, leave the cap on. Making a "lasar radar" detector for the movie theatre should not be difficult.
You can bet a company like this is angling to position itself to be EVERYWHERE, much like Macrovision - and then, one wonders if "offending" theaters will be punished by, say, having new releases withheld?
Instalation costs would be a big hindrance. Expect it first in screening rooms. There is the need for an class 2 electrician to wire it to the local codes. Video, signal, and power has to be routed to the install location.
The install location must be unobtrusive, but have full view of the audiance from near the screen. The instalation may have problems with the masking for the screen in many locations. The system has to interface with the projection sound system for the audio watermarking. It needs to connect to a central location to connect to a communications point, probably broadband. This is not a trivial installation for the local alarm company.
Since the video is looking for the retro reflection from the lens and they claim; An "IR Camera / Sensor " captures retro-reflections from camcorders while scanning and imaging the entire theater by section(s),
and claim The system is unaffected by lens filtering I have enough information to know reflections can be eliminated by the use of a circular polarizer. If they work in the IR, I don't know. Take one and place it on a mirror to see the reflection in a mirror can be eliminated. Placed over a lens it would have the same result.
They still have some value left, and even if the company was going completely under could recoup some small value by selling it.
Personally, I would rather have options. It's OK to get 100 options at $64/share and have the current price at $20. It makes me feel much better than the stock I bought at a 20% employee discount at $64/share and now are worth $20. Now if they would only give me real shares for free instead of offering them at a discount...
But employee stock purchase plans vs free options... I'll take the options and invest the money is something more secure.
you have seen the default set ? yahoo, amazon, ebay etc etc
Yes, AOL, MSN, ESPN, Disney store..
Most of it is media outlets, Media previews, search engines (Lycos, Ask, etc.), and shopping sites. Yahoo happens to be all 3 sections bundled into one.
If you only have 12 billion, you'll be at nearly a 6 to 1 disadvantage
1 I assume they won't burn all their assets on one case.
2 I assume they won't spend more than the original poster mentioned for selling it back to them.
That's where I got the 12 billion figure. It's true they might spend 65 billion to defend against a 12 billion website takeover, but I doubt it would require that much to squash you.
Since it'll probably end up being default start-up page in IE, lots.
You mean the same people who use the default favorites? I looked at the default list once, then deleted it. It looked like a paid list from the yellow pages of the travel and media sections in the phone book.
I think it should be "Even if you play, you probably won't win"
Remember the rules. Buy low, sell high. My $18 options were great when the stock peaked over $60. Options granted two years ago however are worthless... maybe, probably. Options I get now are in the slumps. They might be useful in 10 years.. I'll hang on to them and see. Maybe the market will spike again before then. I like dips in the market.. Buy low... Sell high. It's just discouraging sometimes that the time between buy low and sell high are so far apart.
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and my iPod *is* an MP3 player, in common parlance.
Only among the hard disk players selling for over $300. Mine is not an over $300 player. It's less than $60 and holds about 700 meg on a shiny disk. I can fit about 12 CD's of stuff in it which is fine for my commute and a day at the office. I don't have to carry a CD case. In raw numbers, I think the CD MP3 players may outnumber iPods simply because they are more affordable. I know of one person at work that has the apple player, however I know 6 that have CD MP3 players. If one is going to get stolen, dropped or otherwise abused in a work environment, I'd rather lose the $50 player, not a $400 player.
If I want it on my home disc player or car disc player I burn a CD.
The shiny disk that fits the portable works in my car, my PC, my laptop, and in my living room DVD player. Why burn a disk that may run for maybe an hour when you can burn a disk that plays everywhere and is good for all day?
MP3's just work. DRM does not. All my public domain old time radio is already in MP3 format.
Did I miss something? I have iTMS and an iPod. if I want it in my stereo, I use a $4 cable or a $100 AP Express.
Why climb behing the cabinet to jocky cables, or buy another player just to play another format in the living room that won't play in my car or portable? It's easier to simply avoid incompatable formats.
Did you buy the Circuit City crippled format player so you could play the non-return rental DVD's? Neither did I. I didn't spend the money to buy DRM enabled players, so I'm not interested in DRM content.
I only bought a DVD player after it was here long enough to be firmly established. I didn't buy any of the $600 DVD players or $40 movies. I have bought a $60 player and some sub $10 movies. I know the movies will play on my next DVD player when mine dies.
Will your music play on your next audio player when your iPod and/or PC dies? My MP3's will work fine on my next MP3 CD player. That's why I support the format and don't support a DRM format. Your gullability to follow the DRM trail disturbes me. Are you thinking ahead, or just for the here and now?
Why would I bother with this when I already have an alternative that is free of charge, more secure, and has more content?
These people forget that the DRM'ed content is incompatible with my living room DVD player, my car CD player and my portable MP3 player.
I gathered from the article that a dealer could forward a copy and the reciepient could then buy it. It sounds like buying the DRM key to unlock it to me. My hardware can't use that content. Get a clue guys.. Use a universaly accepted standard.
This is as useful to me as if you came in to my store and only had Lyra and not dollars. I'd send you away to get it exchanged into something accepted here. DRM music has the same problem. I won't take it. I can't use it. Calling it music doesn't make it playable any more than calling Lyra in the US money makes it good for buying things here.
Just because I can use it somewhere doesn't make it universal in my location.
I really wouldn't mind giving money to more charities. I just wish that they could see it as a kind, benevolent act, and be thankful for it without pestering me for the rest of my life.
Change the name from charities to magazines, and you've hit the biggest reason I won't consider getting another magazine subscription, even for free.
I'd rather pick up a magazine once in a while at the supermarket that interests me than submit to the telemarketing via a subscription.
I'm not getting publishers clearinghouse sweepstakes offers any more. I quit my subscription and moved twice to do it.
Can't spammers just get verified domains to send their mail from?
Certanly.. Sending mail from your owned machine is a good start. Your machine, your MTA, your key, but not your message...
Expect more agressive attempts to find unpatched machines to become mail bots on the net.
I am afraid something doesn't fit in your statement.
The large suburban population of soccer moms that don't want their kids to go to war is a larger group than those who work in tall buildings. The threat is greater their precious kid will be killed in action than the threat that hubby will be killed in the office. That's why large urban areas voted for Kerry. The other population is those on heavy government handouts that don't want their entitlement money going to buy bombs instead of food stamps or pills. These demographics are both concentrated in urban areas and Kerry voters.
My comment on tall buildings was meant as a joke, but since reasons for voting patterns are being questioned, look at what demographic is mostly covered in diffrent areas.
Urban is the family, the down and out, the dependant on governmant assistance and enjoy the impact of government spending on care, food, housing, transportation, police,.. Democrat.
Country dwellers as a rule are self motivated, self reliant and understand working for a living and feel the impact of heavy taxation to help build trains, bridges, parks, etc. in places far away and face excessive government restrictions... Republican.
Republicans are the ones that have to deal with the urban passed regulations that make no sense. Try this one..
Livestock may drink from a stream but must be prevented from relieving themselves in it.
I understand it, but who is going to explain it to the cattle?
the cable has to be twice the length of geosynchronous orbit
I would agree if the cable was the same mass the entire length and did not have a large mass tied on the end. I would think a length greater than geosyncronous but less than 2 X geosyncronous would work if the weight force above was enough to counter the gravity force on the section below geosyncronous. The force would have to include not just the ribbon, but the elevator and contents. You wouldn't want to yank the weight down to have it land somewhere within 30K miles of the anchor point.
Did you not get the joke, or do you have a sense of humor even drier than mine...?
I'm English, what can I say?
Translation, I got the joke, then mentioned a possible outcome of a trial by jury.
From the article on the bust of the author and users...
The police tracked the users via Winny's transfer,since the cipher for anonymity was decoded.
I'm sure US and Japan law enforcement has shared the information.
The author has been busted.
6 4/ 146
http://www.infoanarchy.org/story/2003/11/28/125
This has not passed under the radar.
Besides, there is no jury that would believe you downloaded that movie.
In all honesty, I would belive you downloaded it instead of renting or buying it.
Here are my reasons for the belief.
1 It's well known it's a junk movie and not worth spending money on.
2 Due to the buzz about it, if it could be previewed for free just to see what all the discussion is about, then downloading it is about the only way you would consider seeing it.
So absolutely I would believe that it gets downloaded. I would have a hard time believing you kept it on the hard drive after watching it.
It's like the time I borrowed a bootleg copy of the Rocky Horror Picture Show. It was just to see what the fuss was about. There is no way I'd be interested in buying it.
What I want to know is how the program knows the diffrence between tha latest Britney single and my collection of public domain Amos and Andy shows. They are both MP3's. Does it prompt? Does it do massive collateral dammage without prompting. How about the MP3's from my albums? How about the president's state of the union address?
So far the software looks like search and destroy without prompting. Since it "kills P-P" programs, will it kill my teleconferencing software? It can P-P share files.
I'm waiting for independant reviews of the software before I even consider running this trojan package.
OK, who are all the assholes that voted for Bush?
Just a few people who work in large buildings... that are still standing.
Some remember 9-11 was the second attempt to bring down the building. Putting down the attackers is why Bush got a second term. We no longer react with a police report an pass more resolutions when we get atacked. We made them think it might not be a good idea to stir us up agin anytime soon. The war on terror isn't going to be won by just passing resolutions.
Somehow blaming the FCC's action directly on Bush is a little miss-placed. I haven't seen anything to indicate this went through the house and congress and was signed into law by Bush. Not everything takes that route.
The blog indicates this content control applies to Digital TV broadcasts and computers with Tuner Cards.
As far as I'm concerned, the content providers can have it their way.. It will be up to the advertisers and content providers to figure out how to get eyeballs. If you can't TVIO it, watch it (time shifters out and watch one channel while recording one are SOL...) can't internet it (bad reception) etc. Can't hype it to your friends because you can't send the hot clip..
End result, advertisers go away, content providers go away, internet and subscription take over. Over the air TV and it's infastructure simply dies..
I wonder if the FCC has any plans to preventing it's death. They've done plenty to make sure nobody wants to buy reception equipment.
From the way I see it, after reading the blog, you should be fine as long as your PC does not have a tuner.
The FCC is frustrated at the slow adoption rate of digital television..
On one side of the coin, Content providers don't want to put out content unless it's protected to prevent sharing on the internet.
The television stations have made the investment to broadcast digital television signals. The infastrusture is in place.
On the other hand the content is scarce and locked down to be useles and expensive. Therefore the adoption rate is very poor by consumers. The transmitters are there, but the home receivers are not. Nobody is watching. Nobody is even interested. It's expensive and the content is mostly worthless. Why bother. Nobody will be interested until the local electronics stores show real (not a demo loop) off air DTV reception. (the closest to a real demo I've seen is dish network subscription satelite TV, not over the air local TV)
It's the chicken and egg complicated by a Mexican Standoff. Providers won't provide content because of no viewers. Viewers won't switch due to cost, restrictions, and lack of content in roughly that order. The biggie is of course cost. For those with smaller spaces, finding an affordable TV is the problem. There are some home theatre type TV's that actualy contain a tuner, but the number of under $400 sets with the tuner for college students, basement dwellers, dorm dwellers, etc just doesn't exitst yet. My biggest TV is 20 inch. There are lots of monitors that are digital ready, but the lack of complete TV's is disturbing. Price, selection and content are the biggest showstoppers to digital TV rollout.
Somebody needs to do something to break the standoff if digital TV is going to get adopted. In the meantime, broadband Internet and it's wide selection of content is making a quick end run past the standoff. I speak for myself. I spend way more online time in a week than I spend watching TV in a year. Why spend the money to upgrade? The content is ad ridden junk aimed at the lowest common denominator.
I know they would like us to be like the Simpsons and rush for the sofa to watch their over the air content. It's just not happening. Drive the neighborhood. Count the VHF and UHF antennas.. It's not like it was in the '60's and '70's. Now almost nobody is watching.
Really good movies will tend not to have PP.
And some of the blockbusters have lots of PP. When PP was in it's infancy, the movie industry wanted to get a slice of the advertising dollars. They tried to get Mars as a client for ET. They wanted to have M&M's placement in ET, but Mars wouldn't meet the asking price. M&M's were in the original script and they asked Mars if they wanted to pay for the placement.
Do you remember the candy used to lure out the ET? The success of the name and it's association with the ET began the PP advertising as we know it today.
Trivia quiz answer.. Hershey's Reese's Pieces
When did anyone invent an RFID reader capable of reading passive RFID tags at a range greater than 3 yards, let alone the 75 feet from the street to your medicine cabinet?
You forgot to mention the tags are inside a metal cabinet in many homes. Somehow I think there is some attenuation involved..
a story about tulip bulbs
I wish you hadn't mentioned that as just a story. Treat it as history. Those who don't learn from history are condemmed to repeat it.
Other than lightly touching on a very valid point, I think you have something profound here. How much are we going to invest in each little bit of IP until the market falls apart from the weight? It looks like the 17th century Tulip market you mentioned.
For those who haven't any idea what we are talking about.. Don't take my word for it. Look it up.
Plug this into Google.. Dutch tulip market collapse
I see our IP land grab saddles with the same fate.
I hope it doesn't bring down GAIM.
It already has RIAA bait in the article.
request list - allow people to broadcast requested files to friends and friends of friends. A requested CD, for example, could be ripped and then shared.
If it only mentioned personal home made content and not a rip of a possibly copyrighted work, they may have been able to use the "it's not a piracy tool" arguement. However mentioning in serious future upgrades, A requested CD, for example, could be ripped and then shared. makes the status of the entire project stand on unstable legal ground.
But it's a passive reaction, not a broadcast that says "I'm here!"
Cover up your cameras IR emitter (either autofocus or blinking activity LED).
Please read the article and the link to the site.
They use a bank of LED's and look for reflections from the lense of the camera. This makes it an active, not passive system. There is even specs on the pulse rate of the IR lED's. Unless you use a carbon base die in your IR emitter cover, it will to little good. IR passes through most dye based black pigments.
They claim it can even find a pinhole camera by it's lens.
I NEVER REQUESTED NO STINKIN AOL!!!!
Be bold and roll it back uphill. I know there is a trashy law now that allows anybody to treat your landline as a credit card. You need to treat them back like a credit card company and ask your local phone provider to remove and chargeback the invalid charges. If they don't, plan on going cable and VOIP instead of landline. The landline company will feel the pinch as more and more flee the hole in the credit protection laws. Government will also notice as all the 9-11 and other taxes are tied to the landline service. Advertise loudly (write the editor of the local newspaper) to let them know how AOL and the local phone company forced your loss of local phone service and loss of 9-11 services (think of the elderly and children that need 9-11 service but don't have it.
If direct billing your land line by 3rd parties isn't percieved as a threat to local phone service, it won't get fixed. Make it obvious it's a problem. Your phone line is not a credit card to be billed by 3rd parties.
A low-level, visible light "illuminator" is utilized. The illuminator produces collimated light from an LED array in short duration pulses of approximately 4 ms
PirateEye(TM) does not utlize LASER technology.
If it's realy visible, then finding a theatre without it would be simple. The system is not invisible to the patrons. A simple lens cap should be used. If the system is detected, leave the cap on. Making a "lasar radar" detector for the movie theatre should not be difficult.
You can bet a company like this is angling to position itself to be EVERYWHERE, much like Macrovision - and then, one wonders if "offending" theaters will be punished by, say, having new releases withheld?
Instalation costs would be a big hindrance. Expect it first in screening rooms. There is the need for an class 2 electrician to wire it to the local codes. Video, signal, and power has to be routed to the install location.
* Network / communications interface
* On-board TRAKSTAR TVS © audio watermark decoder
The install location must be unobtrusive, but have full view of the audiance from near the screen. The instalation may have problems with the masking for the screen in many locations. The system has to interface with the projection sound system for the audio watermarking. It needs to connect to a central location to connect to a communications point, probably broadband. This is not a trivial installation for the local alarm company.
Since the video is looking for the retro reflection from the lens and they claim;
An "IR Camera / Sensor " captures retro-reflections from camcorders while scanning and imaging the entire theater by section(s),
and claim
The system is unaffected by lens filtering
I have enough information to know reflections can be eliminated by the use of a circular polarizer. If they work in the IR, I don't know.
Take one and place it on a mirror to see the reflection in a mirror can be eliminated. Placed over a lens it would have the same result.
They still have some value left, and even if the company was going completely under could recoup some small value by selling it.
Personally, I would rather have options. It's OK to get 100 options at $64/share and have the current price at $20. It makes me feel much better than the stock I bought at a 20% employee discount at $64/share and now are worth $20. Now if they would only give me real shares for free instead of offering them at a discount...
But employee stock purchase plans vs free options... I'll take the options and invest the money is something more secure.
you have seen the default set ?
yahoo, amazon, ebay etc etc
Yes, AOL, MSN, ESPN, Disney store..
Most of it is media outlets, Media previews, search engines (Lycos, Ask, etc.), and shopping sites. Yahoo happens to be all 3 sections bundled into one.
If you only have 12 billion, you'll be at nearly a 6 to 1 disadvantage
1 I assume they won't burn all their assets on one case.
2 I assume they won't spend more than the original poster mentioned for selling it back to them.
That's where I got the 12 billion figure. It's true they might spend 65 billion to defend against a 12 billion website takeover, but I doubt it would require that much to squash you.
Since it'll probably end up being default start-up page in IE, lots.
You mean the same people who use the default favorites? I looked at the default list once, then deleted it. It looked like a paid list from the yellow pages of the travel and media sections in the phone book.
I think it should be "Even if you play, you probably won't win"
Remember the rules. Buy low, sell high. My $18 options were great when the stock peaked over $60. Options granted two years ago however are worthless... maybe, probably. Options I get now are in the slumps. They might be useful in 10 years.. I'll hang on to them and see. Maybe the market will spike again before then. I like dips in the market.. Buy low... Sell high. It's just discouraging sometimes that the time between buy low and sell high are so far apart.