I highly doubt they get info on your radio by any broadcast signal.
This has nothing to do with sniffing the radio in my car. This has everything to do with sniffing the signal from a Clear Channel FM station to the billboard. Picking up the 50 KW signal and looking at it's SCA subcarriers for data to the billboards is the sniffing mentioned. Replacing the signal from a 50 KW Clear Channel station in the area of the billboard to put in a hacked signal to the billboard is the competing with the 50 KW station mentioned.
Sorry I didn't make it super clear in my original post.
If they use a regular FM broadcast (why pay a paging company) and it's subchannel to send the information to the billboard, then the protocol would be sniffable. The trick would be swamping the input on the billboard to get your signal into it. You would have to be pretty close to do it since you are competing with a 50KW station most of the time.
For more information on subchannels, Google SCA subchannel.
Space shifting it to another locatin/sound system may be the violation. Making VHS tapes of the HBO channel and passing them on to your brother is a violation of most cable contracts. A temporary recording to watch the 2:00 AM show at 5:30 PM is simply timeshifting, not spaceshifting.
This is why the industry is all up in arms about a TIVO type recorder that can export the recording to another device. This is major red alert to the industry.
Remember the URL has to be in the body of the e-mail. For example say Earthlink got added to the list. My dad uses Earthlink. His text messages would not be blocked. The domain isn't blocked. The content is. If I sent you a mail from my ISP and put a link to Earthlink in the mail, then, yes it would be flagged as spam. For most e-mail the addition to the blacklist is not a problem. (it may help filter all the junk forwards I get from people who don't bother to actualy write a letter)
abandon using the web to spam and start handing out 800 numbers
This would be a good thing. The cost per contact is placed on the sender. If 100,000 people called to ask to be removed from the list, the phone bill and support costs would be astronomical. This is a good thing. Especialy true if it filled up the invalid address list and you called once per invalid address hit on your server.;-)
too bad I don't have anything in the way of good enough sound equipment for it.
File size is important. Super high fidelity CD quality is not required or even wanted. It makes the files too big.
Voice is defined by the telephone company as 300 HZ to 3KHZ, not 20 HZ to 20 KHZ usualy mentioned for high fideliety music.
A computer with a sound card and a headset with MONO boom mike provide excelent results. If you are running Windows, then the free utility CDEX used for ripping CD's to MP3 has a record function that works great. Set your bit-rate and sound levels and start reading. 8 bit mono at 11Kbits/sec is quite usable for speech and makes small files. Give it a shot. Use a room free of distracting background noises.
Classic TV advertising may even have to give way to pure product-placement campaigns.
What I found interesting is this type of advertising is far from new. I found some old radio programs. The Fibber McGee and Molly episodes were a real eye opener. The show did not break for a word from the sponsor. The pitch man added the product endorsement as part of the show. It seemed to fit just like the Monty Python SPAM SPAM SPAM episode that is so famous except the old radio show was promoting a floor wax. Killing the promotion would leave out an entertaining part of the show. Other than the industry hang-up with DRM and the "perfect copy", the advertising with product placement has come full circle back to the 1940's.
Too bad I have to go to the '40's and '50's to get DRM free MP3's of good radio shows. Most everything newer is locked up in vaults and copyright never to be heard again. I would like to collect the Radio Mystery series from the '70's, but CBS refuses to release it.
that piracy is justified because CDs are overpriced (they're $12.99 at my store
And this is a better value to the consumer who bought a 2 hour movie for $3 more how? To make a CD, they didn't need a set, Movie Cameras, boom trucks, key grip, do location sets and cast wordrobe, write a script, build a set for the many scenes, hire stunt doubles, hire animators, hire folly team, painters, model makers, etc. and still produce a professional soundtrack. The CD crew just did a soundtrack. So they used a few costumes for the album cover, but they were usualy already in the wardrobe for the concert tour. There is a whole lot less goes into making a CD than a DVD. In some cases the sound-track CD is priced higher than the DVD. It's not hard to figure out why people percieve the CD's are overpriced. It's because it's easy to see they are way overpriced.
By increasing the price per song online, they have given CDs a discounted rate without ever really discounting them.
Except it doesn't work. A simple trip over an isle or two shows DVD's are the true discount. They haven't figured it out yet, there is competition for the entertainment dollar. Their product offers little value compared to the other offerings. It's not just P-P that is the problem. Price pressure is a big problem.
Re:$33 cd? It is going to decrease profit
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"If I've heard this segment of audio within the last 24 hours, don't record it."
I don't think that is permitted in the XM service contract. I don't have the service, but this is not free over the air radio. Recording it might be defined as theft of service. Check your contract. I you have a contract, reply to my post and let us know if recording the program is permitted.
Can you imagine how popular XM radio would be if you could go online and set up a playlist of ANY music you want (and none that you dont) and listen to it from you car?
I can imagine it. Just look at the old Napster. Look at in-dash MP3 players. Nuf said.
Too bad that market is still un-filled by the industry. They will sell you only stuff that won't work with your MP3 in-dash player. The players are out there, the legal content for it is missing. I think it's bad business to not sell what the consumer is looking to buy.
So if it lands on the property I bought from the Lunar Embassey (http://www.moonshop.com/) can I sue them for littering, or even trespassing. I am serious, I have the paperwork and everything.
Um, why not buy the flight (you seem to have spare change for useless items) and have your real-estate sign with the SOLD sticker delivered to your parcel? It's probably cheaper than putting up the sign yourself.;-)
Claria said it has 43 million active victims and 425 parasites
Um, Parasites feed off a host and manytimes kill it. You need something else to describe that. I think it would be correct to say there are 43 million active victims and 426 feeding paranah.
There's a lot more that goes into that album then just packaging and studio time....
And this is as expensive as shooting a blockbuster film with major league talent how?
Show me an album that cost as much as Lord of the Rings to produce and distribute. Why is the DVD about the same price as many albums that cost a fraction to produce? Most albums don't have a cast of thousands, but both have post production, and distribution costs. I think I recall a CD is easier to master and stamp than a DVD. So where are the real reasons for high priced Compact Disks. Download singles are even cheaper to promote, distrubute, print, etc.. Sorry for smelling something fishy, but the evidence is sorely lacking for the high prices. Like it or not, they have lost my money long ago. I found other products much more worthy of my investment. They have done nothing to win me back. There is little value in the product. With DRM, there is even less, not more.
I'd rather buy the sub $6 DVD's at Wal-Mart than buy a CD or DRM DL tracks. I'd rather DL free (legal) public domain old time radio MP3's. Hopefuly someday, they will price the stuff so I'll pick up a gallon of milk and a CD on the way home from work, but for now it isn't hapening.
What I want to know, is how are hard drives, motherboards, memory sticks, monitors, mice, etc. (basicly anything with a circuit board) going to be made without solder a 60/40 lead/tin mixture. The only thing keeping Intel from using solder is the packagaing. The Flip chip design uses solder on the top of the chip to connect it to the package so the back of the die can be exposed to a heatsink. They could go to the old style package with a die bottom down in a package with gold wires stitched from the top of the die to the package, however, the heat path would now be blocked. The chip would cost more to make (packaging) as each connection is done one at a time by machine instead of all at once (flow solder) and the chip would have to be severly underclocked as there is now not a low thermal resistance path to remove heat. Would you pay more for an identical chip that ran 1/4 or less speed to keep the lead out?
Intel needs to keep the flip chip design so it can be heatsinked effeciently (directly to the back of the die) to keep the speed/performance up. Having poor performance by going way back in packaging technology is not a viable option in high power parts. They have tried to use copper, but the connections weren't reliable and switched back to lead. They are still looking for a workable alternative.
Ever since the more watts = more power advertising race started, people started looking at just watts, not how it was measuered. In the beginning, true RMS watts per channel was the standard. It included at what amount of distortion of a sine wave was permitted such as 1%, 0.1%, 0.005%, etc. into a specified resistive load such as 4 or 8 ohms.
Some smart advertiser found if they take all the channels of a 2 or 4 channel amplifier, ignore low distortion (square wave clipped output is ok) list the power delivered at the peak voltage, not RMS and specify an overload condition of a couple ohms and high supply voltage, then a 12 watt per channel amplifier could be advertised as a 250 watt peak total power amplifier. So would you buy the 25 watt/channel amplifier or the 250 watt amplifier? The truth is the 25 watt amplifier is twice the power (real power) of the 250 watt amplifier. I used to demonstrate this with dummy loads, sine wave generator, and scope in my old shop. The 250 watt amplifier in the demonstration did not have an inverter power supply. It clipped at what ever the supply voltage was. The 25 watt amplifier did have an inverter and clipped at close to 20 volts peak to peak. Customers understood the demonstration and would then seek buying advice. I then pointed out the 25 watt amplifier was fused at 12 amps and the 250 watt amplifier was fused at 8 amps. How can a 250 watt amplifier put out it's rated power when the fuse blows at (12volts X 8 amps = 96 watts) Who wants massive clipping?
Today's chips suffer the same fate. High Megahertz does not fix all the bottlenecks that appear. Parallel instructions do more per clock. This is not measured in Megahertz. Pipelining takes more clocks to get an instruction done. This is not measured in Megahertz. Predictive branching; same thing. In terms of real processing power, the amount of power used per transister per cycle is way down. In the days of the PC and PC XT, the chips did not use fans or heatsinks. There were only a few hundred K transisters clocked at 4.77 - 8 Megahertz. Power dissipation was somewhere in the 5 watt range. Now you are talking several million transistors clocked at several thousands of Megahertz (Gigahertz) or in simple terms, almost 1,000 times faster using only 10-20 times the power and the power is divided by many times the number of transisters. The effeciency in real terms of transistor performance has gone way up. Using the current technology, if you wanted a PC (8088 CPU) it could be clocked at 1 GHZ at under a watt of power. It could be clocked at 4.77 Magahertz at just a few miliwatts. Both would be fanless heatsink-less solutions. Other than display, and drives, a solar power PC XT is possible if you can survive with no USB, Windows, GUI, etc. They don't make them as there is no market big enough to tool up to produce them. Even a cell phone now uses more CPU power than an old XT. (at much less power consumption)
FYI, Church organs go to 32 foot pipes. The good ones go one rank further to 64 feet. These are the big folded pipes in back. You won't get to see these unless they have a viewing window to the real pipes. They are not the pretty pipes in front. The 64 footers are almost always folded double or triple (like most brass insturments) because the pipe loft isn't that tall. Due to the shape of the pipe, it's throat, and other attributes, most pipes don't play exactly one pitch. That's why they don't all sound like sine waves or have a flute sound. Some pipes have brass and trumpet sounds instead of flute sounds. This is due to the harmonics generated by many pipes to give them rich fat sounds by design.
I knew the Big Blue chess programming was good for something. Wow, they have moved the game off the board and are aiming for a quick checkmate. Good Job!
No way! They could always go back to selling Cauldera Open Linux. They better be careful however and check the source code so they don't get sued. There are lots of people out there with an axe to grind...
I'm suprised you didn't mention the Halloween X document in your post. A simple Google search will turn up the teltale information. No need to post a link. Pick one from the list and spread out the/. effect.
it surely is my html editor of choice, as can be seen here
Great Link. I just checked the prices and the location of the download files for the various OS'es. Too bad the policies on my machine kept the download links from working. You got me on that one.;-)
it surely is my html editor of choice, as can be seen here [notepad.org]
Please re-read my post. You missed two letters that make a big difference. MS;-) The one I mentioned is NOT my editor of choice. I'll have to check out your editor of choice. I haven't tried it yet.
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I highly doubt they get info on your radio by any broadcast signal.
This has nothing to do with sniffing the radio in my car. This has everything to do with sniffing the signal from a Clear Channel FM station to the billboard. Picking up the 50 KW signal and looking at it's SCA subcarriers for data to the billboards is the sniffing mentioned. Replacing the signal from a 50 KW Clear Channel station in the area of the billboard to put in a hacked signal to the billboard is the competing with the 50 KW station mentioned.
Sorry I didn't make it super clear in my original post.
Or you can disconnect the antenna and strap your transmitter straight to that baby.
;-)
I don't carry a 30 foot ladder in my car. I do have a kilowatt of AC.
If they use a regular FM broadcast (why pay a paging company) and it's subchannel to send the information to the billboard, then the protocol would be sniffable. The trick would be swamping the input on the billboard to get your signal into it. You would have to be pretty close to do it since you are competing with a 50KW station most of the time.
For more information on subchannels, Google SCA subchannel.
Will they have X-rated ads at 2 am?
Nope, Just taxi ads so you can catch a cab as the bars close. Why risk a DUI?
Space shifting it to another locatin/sound system may be the violation. Making VHS tapes of the HBO channel and passing them on to your brother is a violation of most cable contracts. A temporary recording to watch the 2:00 AM show at 5:30 PM is simply timeshifting, not spaceshifting.
This is why the industry is all up in arms about a TIVO type recorder that can export the recording to another device. This is major red alert to the industry.
Remember the URL has to be in the body of the e-mail. For example say Earthlink got added to the list. My dad uses Earthlink. His text messages would not be blocked. The domain isn't blocked. The content is. If I sent you a mail from my ISP and put a link to Earthlink in the mail, then, yes it would be flagged as spam. For most e-mail the addition to the blacklist is not a problem. (it may help filter all the junk forwards I get from people who don't bother to actualy write a letter)
;-)
abandon using the web to spam and start handing out 800 numbers
This would be a good thing. The cost per contact is placed on the sender. If 100,000 people called to ask to be removed from the list, the phone bill and support costs would be astronomical. This is a good thing. Especialy true if it filled up the invalid address list and you called once per invalid address hit on your server.
too bad I don't have anything in the way of good enough sound equipment for it.
File size is important. Super high fidelity CD quality is not required or even wanted. It makes the files too big.
Voice is defined by the telephone company as 300 HZ to 3KHZ, not 20 HZ to 20 KHZ usualy mentioned for high fideliety music.
A computer with a sound card and a headset with MONO boom mike provide excelent results. If you are running Windows, then the free utility CDEX used for ripping CD's to MP3 has a record function that works great. Set your bit-rate and sound levels and start reading. 8 bit mono at 11Kbits/sec is quite usable for speech and makes small files. Give it a shot. Use a room free of distracting background noises.
Classic TV advertising may even have to give way to pure product-placement campaigns.
What I found interesting is this type of advertising is far from new. I found some old radio programs. The Fibber McGee and Molly episodes were a real eye opener. The show did not break for a word from the sponsor. The pitch man added the product endorsement as part of the show. It seemed to fit just like the Monty Python SPAM SPAM SPAM episode that is so famous except the old radio show was promoting a floor wax. Killing the promotion would leave out an entertaining part of the show. Other than the industry hang-up with DRM and the "perfect copy", the advertising with product placement has come full circle back to the 1940's.
Too bad I have to go to the '40's and '50's to get DRM free MP3's of good radio shows. Most everything newer is locked up in vaults and copyright never to be heard again. I would like to collect the Radio Mystery series from the '70's, but CBS refuses to release it.
that piracy is justified because CDs are overpriced (they're $12.99 at my store
And this is a better value to the consumer who bought a 2 hour movie for $3 more how? To make a CD, they didn't need a set, Movie Cameras, boom trucks, key grip, do location sets and cast wordrobe, write a script, build a set for the many scenes, hire stunt doubles, hire animators, hire folly team, painters, model makers, etc. and still produce a professional soundtrack. The CD crew just did a soundtrack. So they used a few costumes for the album cover, but they were usualy already in the wardrobe for the concert tour. There is a whole lot less goes into making a CD than a DVD. In some cases the sound-track CD is priced higher than the DVD. It's not hard to figure out why people percieve the CD's are overpriced. It's because it's easy to see they are way overpriced.
By increasing the price per song online, they have given CDs a discounted rate without ever really discounting them.
Except it doesn't work. A simple trip over an isle or two shows DVD's are the true discount. They haven't figured it out yet, there is competition for the entertainment dollar. Their product offers little value compared to the other offerings. It's not just P-P that is the problem. Price pressure is a big problem.
"If I've heard this segment of audio within the last 24 hours, don't record it."
I don't think that is permitted in the XM service contract. I don't have the service, but this is not free over the air radio. Recording it might be defined as theft of service. Check your contract. I you have a contract, reply to my post and let us know if recording the program is permitted.
Can you imagine how popular XM radio would be if you could go online and set up a playlist of ANY music you want (and none that you dont) and listen to it from you car?
I can imagine it. Just look at the old Napster. Look at in-dash MP3 players. Nuf said.
Too bad that market is still un-filled by the industry. They will sell you only stuff that won't work with your MP3 in-dash player. The players are out there, the legal content for it is missing. I think it's bad business to not sell what the consumer is looking to buy.
So if it lands on the property I bought from the Lunar Embassey (http://www.moonshop.com/) can I sue them for littering, or even trespassing. I am serious, I have the paperwork and everything.
;-)
Um, why not buy the flight (you seem to have spare change for useless items) and have your real-estate sign with the SOLD sticker delivered to your parcel? It's probably cheaper than putting up the sign yourself.
I'd send up a bucket of golf balls and have them delivered near Neal Armstrong's. It'll give future archeologists more of a challange. :-)
Claria said it has 43 million active victims and 425 parasites
Um, Parasites feed off a host and manytimes kill it. You need something else to describe that. I think it would be correct to say there are 43 million active victims and 426 feeding paranah.
There's a lot more that goes into that album then just packaging and studio time....
And this is as expensive as shooting a blockbuster film with major league talent how?
Show me an album that cost as much as Lord of the Rings to produce and distribute. Why is the DVD about the same price as many albums that cost a fraction to produce? Most albums don't have a cast of thousands, but both have post production, and distribution costs. I think I recall a CD is easier to master and stamp than a DVD. So where are the real reasons for high priced Compact Disks. Download singles are even cheaper to promote, distrubute, print, etc.. Sorry for smelling something fishy, but the evidence is sorely lacking for the high prices. Like it or not, they have lost my money long ago. I found other products much more worthy of my investment. They have done nothing to win me back. There is little value in the product. With DRM, there is even less, not more.
I'd rather buy the sub $6 DVD's at Wal-Mart than buy a CD or DRM DL tracks. I'd rather DL free (legal) public domain old time radio MP3's. Hopefuly someday, they will price the stuff so I'll pick up a gallon of milk and a CD on the way home from work, but for now it isn't hapening.
What I want to know, is how are hard drives, motherboards, memory sticks, monitors, mice, etc. (basicly anything with a circuit board) going to be made without solder a 60/40 lead/tin mixture. The only thing keeping Intel from using solder is the packagaing. The Flip chip design uses solder on the top of the chip to connect it to the package so the back of the die can be exposed to a heatsink. They could go to the old style package with a die bottom down in a package with gold wires stitched from the top of the die to the package, however, the heat path would now be blocked. The chip would cost more to make (packaging) as each connection is done one at a time by machine instead of all at once (flow solder) and the chip would have to be severly underclocked as there is now not a low thermal resistance path to remove heat. Would you pay more for an identical chip that ran 1/4 or less speed to keep the lead out?
Intel needs to keep the flip chip design so it can be heatsinked effeciently (directly to the back of the die) to keep the speed/performance up. Having poor performance by going way back in packaging technology is not a viable option in high power parts. They have tried to use copper, but the connections weren't reliable and switched back to lead. They are still looking for a workable alternative.
Ever since the more watts = more power advertising race started, people started looking at just watts, not how it was measuered. In the beginning, true RMS watts per channel was the standard. It included at what amount of distortion of a sine wave was permitted such as 1%, 0.1%, 0.005%, etc. into a specified resistive load such as 4 or 8 ohms.
Some smart advertiser found if they take all the channels of a 2 or 4 channel amplifier, ignore low distortion (square wave clipped output is ok) list the power delivered at the peak voltage, not RMS and specify an overload condition of a couple ohms and high supply voltage, then a 12 watt per channel amplifier could be advertised as a 250 watt peak total power amplifier. So would you buy the 25 watt/channel amplifier or the 250 watt amplifier? The truth is the 25 watt amplifier is twice the power (real power) of the 250 watt amplifier. I used to demonstrate this with dummy loads, sine wave generator, and scope in my old shop. The 250 watt amplifier in the demonstration did not have an inverter power supply. It clipped at what ever the supply voltage was. The 25 watt amplifier did have an inverter and clipped at close to 20 volts peak to peak. Customers understood the demonstration and would then seek buying advice. I then pointed out the 25 watt amplifier was fused at 12 amps and the 250 watt amplifier was fused at 8 amps. How can a 250 watt amplifier put out it's rated power when the fuse blows at (12volts X 8 amps = 96 watts) Who wants massive clipping?
Today's chips suffer the same fate. High Megahertz does not fix all the bottlenecks that appear. Parallel instructions do more per clock. This is not measured in Megahertz. Pipelining takes more clocks to get an instruction done. This is not measured in Megahertz. Predictive branching; same thing. In terms of real processing power, the amount of power used per transister per cycle is way down. In the days of the PC and PC XT, the chips did not use fans or heatsinks. There were only a few hundred K transisters clocked at 4.77 - 8 Megahertz. Power dissipation was somewhere in the 5 watt range. Now you are talking several million transistors clocked at several thousands of Megahertz (Gigahertz) or in simple terms, almost 1,000 times faster using only 10-20 times the power and the power is divided by many times the number of transisters. The effeciency in real terms of transistor performance has gone way up. Using the current technology, if you wanted a PC (8088 CPU) it could be clocked at 1 GHZ at under a watt of power. It could be clocked at 4.77 Magahertz at just a few miliwatts. Both would be fanless heatsink-less solutions. Other than display, and drives, a solar power PC XT is possible if you can survive with no USB, Windows, GUI, etc. They don't make them as there is no market big enough to tool up to produce them. Even a cell phone now uses more CPU power than an old XT. (at much less power consumption)
FYI, Church organs go to 32 foot pipes. The good ones go one rank further to 64 feet. These are the big folded pipes in back. You won't get to see these unless they have a viewing window to the real pipes. They are not the pretty pipes in front. The 64 footers are almost always folded double or triple (like most brass insturments) because the pipe loft isn't that tall. Due to the shape of the pipe, it's throat, and other attributes, most pipes don't play exactly one pitch. That's why they don't all sound like sine waves or have a flute sound. Some pipes have brass and trumpet sounds instead of flute sounds. This is due to the harmonics generated by many pipes to give them rich fat sounds by design.
I knew the Big Blue chess programming was good for something. Wow, they have moved the game off the board and are aiming for a quick checkmate. Good Job!
Wow, could this be the end of SCO?
No way! They could always go back to selling Cauldera Open Linux. They better be careful however and check the source code so they don't get sued. There are lots of people out there with an axe to grind...
I'm suprised you didn't mention the Halloween X document in your post. A simple Google search will turn up the teltale information. No need to post a link. Pick one from the list and spread out the /. effect.
but wouldn't life be just a little bit too bland without our favorite enemy?
;-)
I thought the case involved SCO, Not MS.
it surely is my html editor of choice, as can be seen here
;-)
Great Link. I just checked the prices and the location of the download files for the various OS'es. Too bad the policies on my machine kept the download links from working. You got me on that one.
it surely is my html editor of choice, as can be seen here [notepad.org]
;-) The one I mentioned is NOT my editor of choice. I'll have to check out your editor of choice. I haven't tried it yet.
Please re-read my post. You missed two letters that make a big difference. MS