LCD's do not use a scanning electron beam, so the screen display is not made up by the high bandwidth light output. LCD's on the desk top and on laptops are a step in the right direction. The other solution is never use a computer in a dark room. Kick on a few compact flourescent lights. Their high frequency operation and high output goes a long way to adding lots of noise (opticaly) to the environment. Tempest then becomes difficult the same way it is to eavesdrop on the couple whispering to each other a few rows up at a concert.
Responding to Macrovision is in the VHS license. The fact DVD players must output Macrovision when a bit is set on the DVD disk is in the DVD license. The manufacturs must comply to build players. DMCA does not require it. Making a player that will play an encrypted DVD requries a license. The license requires it to put out Macrovision if the disk being played requests it. Taking out that feature by the end user is a violation of the DMCA. Building a player not able to output Macrovision is a violation of the DVD license and a violation of the DMCA. If you want to build a player that is not required to output Macrovision, go ahead. However it must not be able to play DVD's which use a licensed technology. Laser Disks fall into this catagory. The problem is it is very hard to find content in that unprotected format.
I wonder how long it will take him to get a clue when his domain gets on all the major blacklists now it's well known. His view of the internet is going to get very small very fast. He needn't worry about being DOS'ed by angry netizens. Most of their packets will no longer be able to get through soon.
If a CD is clearly labeled as copy-protected, I won't buy it -- plain and simple. It's a big claim.. Can I see evidence of that? The problem will be when the entire industry goes to the new format together and there is no alternative. Two examples that I find in widespread use are Macrovision on videotapes and DVD's and Region coding on DVD's and videogames. Have you bought any of these? Do you only buy non Macrovision DVD's and tapes? Do you buy only region free DVD's? They do exist. The last one I saw was in Yellowstone National park about the bears. It is region free and free of Macrovision. They intended on selling it to visitors to take home. My entire DVD collection still contains one one DVD I bought used. I got it to test the DVD player in my new computer. I do back up not supporting the cripled formats with my wallet. I have bought extra 100 disk spindles of blank CD's to support the open standards industry.
the man will come and take all your non compliant hardware away! No they won't. They won't have to. It will become an obsolete format. The new stuff will not play on it. I have a nice collection of formats that are no longer mainstream. I have 7 inch reel to reel tape recorder (not copy protected), an 8 track tape recorder (not copy protected), a 12 inch laser disk (not copy protected, not even macrovision), a Betamax (ignores Macrovision). Nobody will come and take it away. They don't have to.
And the 90% of the consumers out there without the hack can't use the product, hense it remains unsold. Those who share the hack will also probably share the content also leaving it on the shelf unsold. Crippled CD are a lose lose proposition for the music industry. I wonder if they'll go bust before they get it?
Get hit with a clue stick from the Circuit City DVD experiment. It was a dismal failure.
Wow, this guy has taken a big step to protect the music industry. Only problem is the music industry doesn't know it yet. He may be forcing them to continue to provide a useful product that consumers may continue to buy instead of letting them produce useless junk.
Be sure to use a low capacitance diode to pick up the light. An old large apature 35mm camera lens focesed on a diode array from a compact disk player detector is a great source of a high speed photodiode. It can povide great bandwidth at a long range. Larger photodiodes have larger capacitance and do not carry enough current in the short amount of time to capture high data rates. A large apature telephoto camera lens has the nessary gain to drive high enough light current to provide high speed detection. Alignement and focus are critical for good signal to noise ratio. Any hardware types want to try it? I have and used a scope to check the current waveform. Many pieces of equipment do tie the indicator lights to the signal and do reveal the data. Other equipment has an activity light (ethernet cards as prime example) because the average data traffic is too low of a duty cycle to provide useful illumination for an indicator light.
Instead of simply taking what the banner ad company offers, state prime realestate has premium rates. Everyone has seen pages of nothing but banner ads. Placement value on those pages is about zero. Slashdot should not get the same rate for a banner ad impression that a sleasy site with 20 banners lined up top to bottom gets because slashdot has premium realestate. The ad does not get lost in the clutter. Charge for the valuable space. Slashdot is the superbowl of the tech crowd. I'd hate to see it become a late late show ad placement discount repository like AOL. Here at work there are many cubes with calanders from Dispair. Guess where they found the ad for the calander? I rest my case.
The more the content gets lost in the noise, the more the visitors lose intrest. If this keeps up, it may be time to move on. People are here for the rich content. Over dilute it and the attraction rapidly fades. That's why I do not visit MP3.com. There is no real content. Everyting seems to be a teaser advertisement. TV has become a wasteland of product placement and mega blocks of ads and paid infomercials, I no longer watch it. I'd hate to see Slashdot face the same fate of smaller viewership, thus they must sell more ad space to make up for the lost revenue of fewer impressions, spiral of death. Without viewers the ad space is worthless.
They are priced high enough, most people don't bother to buy them often. The price fails to fall into the attractive price range for most people. A Pepsi is priced so most people don't think twice before dropping a couple quarters into a vending machine. CD's are priced so most people don't even bother to go into a store to browse the selection. It is true, they do get a few people, but most people on a trip to the mall never make it into a music store. More people browse jeans.
Since when is higher prices = pay off debt sooner? It's higher prices that still have me on dialup at home. I do dialup at home for/. and e-mail. High speed stuff is done at work. I contribute nothing to paying off the debt load. Cable is only cost effective at a certain connect ratio. Putting in high speed access in a neighborhood and having only one in thirty homes connected is not cost effective. They should be priced for greater than 50% connectivity which they are not. When they call asking for me to sign up, I ask "tripiling the price gets me what added value? It gets me no new content and adds many secutity concerns making me the target of script kiddies.
Family Radio Service and General Mobile Radio Service share the first 7 channels. Channel 8 on FRS is not the same channel as GMRS channle 8. One of the GMRS channels is designatated as an emergency channel (Ch 10 I think.. don't slam me if I'm wrong here.) FRS radios are very limited in power and have a typical range of up to 2 miles with a maximum half watt power with a self contained antenna. (No roof or tower antennas permitted) GMRS radios use more power for up to 5 mile range and they can use a repeater which FRS may not.
I wonder if they would like to buy my SONY LD100? It still works. I have a huge collection of about 6 movies to go with it. (Been waiting for the promise of disks cheaper than videotape to become true)
The big problem with files on a BBS is legal liability. If you have no-no's on your files section, you are a sitting duck for legal action. BBS'es do not have the protection of a distributed net.
"CDs are too expensive And when they are too expensive, many people leave them on the shelf as unsold. I stopped buying music on a weekly basis when it passed $8 per copy. (I know it's been a few years ago.) This has weaned me from being a prerecorded music collector. Last year I bought a total of 3 CD's and one used DVD. I still buy movies. On tape movies are much cheaper than music. Why is a 2 hour movie on DVD about the same price as a 1 hour music CD recording. The overpricing of audio is obvious to anyone. I thought movies cost lots more to make than a band recording. How many people would buy music on a regular basis if it is priced like a Sunday newspaper? Unsold CD's regardless of piracy or price is not helping anyones bottom line.
I don't believe the SSSCA will ever come to pass, but it doesn't hurt to hope for the best and expect the worst. I disagree. It is for the simple reason, that this will be sold as new technology enabling you to access new content. It's like you need Real Player to get a Real Audio stream, need Flash to play the latest video games etc. It will be an additonal feature. When it is in place, the push will be on to have it dilute and replace MP3's. Yahoo searches for mp3's now turn up more non-mp3 stuff in one protected pay me format or another than mp3's. Try it. See how long it will take you to find and download more than 10 good mp3's without giving up a credit card number or giving any personal information. See how many non-MP3's are offered (Liquid Audio, Real, etc.) Start with a Yahoo search for MP3. There are very few MP3's simply posted on a web site due to the litigation risk. Even MP3.com does not have MP3's. To listen to ANYTHING it is streamed and not downloaded. It will be worse when SSSCA is as standard as MS Windows on new machines. You will have to visit the internet underground to find mp3's.
This is a classic "chicken and egg" issue... True! What makes it worse is Microsoft is trying to tie into both the chicikens and eggs. Chickens = Windows on every PC shipped, Eggs = enticing application developers to use MS standards. Many applications will not run without MS Internet Explorer installed, even though they have nothing to do with the internet. (I have a Windows 95 box with the first version of 95 that came without IE.) The good news is MS hasn't figured out how to exterminate the free chickens (Linux) and eggs (Word Perfect, Starr Office, Gimp, Mozella, etc.) which are considered weeds that threaten his crop.
They check your balance to see if you are "Financialy Trustworthy" first. They can't trust anyone without a responiibly sized account showing good money management.(sucker!)
User to check their e-mail and read the web with, they'll still get payment even with ultra-cheap computers. Alternate OS'es do email and web just fine. That is not the problem. The problem is alternate OS'es will not run most of the other software on the store shelf. Office applications are not the problem. I bought Star Office off a retail shelf and it does run on Linux and Windows. It was right next to Word Perfect for Linux. Most other desktop applications require MS Windows to run. Don't believe me? Fine, go get this years Turbo Tax and install it on your Linux system. I have not seen the Linux version on any store shelf. Until this changes, we will be stuck with the Windows Monopoly. We are stuck with the Windows monopoly because that is the base that almost all desktop applications run on top of.
Percieved value is low. Movie ticket prices are so high, I limit my consumption. $100 doesn't buy many nights out at the movies. I wait till it's out on VHS. One rental entertains the entire family. If it's good, then the DVD can be bought for less than the price of taking the family to the movies. Why do the studios crank out so many films? Most people will see less than 5% of them. Nobody wants to spend full price on a ticket for anything less than the best. That means that 80% of the films are not going to be winners. The industry is overproducing and still overpriced. They may get better return if the films were double features like the old days. (I know I am giving away my age when I mention double features. Most younger generation has never heard of or been to a double feature with a cartoon in the intermission.)
This would work with the new phones that have the enhanced location system for the 911 service. When shopping for a phone, be sure to ask if the GPS location feature can be turned off by the user. Explain you do not wish to by spammed by SMS messages when approaching a shopping center. If enough people ask, they may rethink selling location specific advertisement space. Explain you want to be able to turn it off for everything except 911 calls.
Warning, never give them your bank account! I have seen that ploy as a scam. Look up the bank transfer e-mail scam on the internet. It works by someone asking for a bank account to transfer money to avoid customs (usualy a Central America country) and promising a hansome profit for your time and trouble. Once a small deposit is transferred, the account is emptied including your money. If someone wants to give me money, a check, cash, or money order works for me. A bad check will only bounce, not empty the account.
I like the per message charge for SMS. That means it may be an option and may be a service you can choose to drop from you plan. Service providers may take action to can the spam if it means less revenue. I don't have a cell phone. I have a pager and 2 way company radio. I don't miss the cell phone at all.
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LCD's do not use a scanning electron beam, so the screen display is not made up by the high bandwidth light output. LCD's on the desk top and on laptops are a step in the right direction. The other solution is never use a computer in a dark room. Kick on a few compact flourescent lights. Their high frequency operation and high output goes a long way to adding lots of noise (opticaly) to the environment. Tempest then becomes difficult the same way it is to eavesdrop on the couple whispering to each other a few rows up at a concert.
Responding to Macrovision is in the VHS license. The fact DVD players must output Macrovision when a bit is set on the DVD disk is in the DVD license. The manufacturs must comply to build players. DMCA does not require it. Making a player that will play an encrypted DVD requries a license. The license requires it to put out Macrovision if the disk being played requests it. Taking out that feature by the end user is a violation of the DMCA. Building a player not able to output Macrovision is a violation of the DVD license and a violation of the DMCA. If you want to build a player that is not required to output Macrovision, go ahead. However it must not be able to play DVD's which use a licensed technology. Laser Disks fall into this catagory. The problem is it is very hard to find content in that unprotected format.
I wonder how long it will take him to get a clue when his domain gets on all the major blacklists now it's well known. His view of the internet is going to get very small very fast. He needn't worry about being DOS'ed by angry netizens. Most of their packets will no longer be able to get through soon.
If a CD is clearly labeled as copy-protected, I won't buy it -- plain and simple.
It's a big claim.. Can I see evidence of that? The problem will be when the entire industry goes to the new format together and there is no alternative. Two examples that I find in widespread use are Macrovision on videotapes and DVD's and Region coding on DVD's and videogames. Have you bought any of these? Do you only buy non Macrovision DVD's and tapes? Do you buy only region free DVD's? They do exist. The last one I saw was in Yellowstone National park about the bears. It is region free and free of Macrovision. They intended on selling it to visitors to take home. My entire DVD collection still contains one one DVD I bought used. I got it to test the DVD player in my new computer. I do back up not supporting the cripled formats with my wallet. I have bought extra 100 disk spindles of blank CD's to support the open standards industry.
the man will come and take all your non compliant hardware away!
No they won't. They won't have to. It will become an obsolete format. The new stuff will not play on it. I have a nice collection of formats that are no longer mainstream. I have 7 inch reel to reel tape recorder (not copy protected), an 8 track tape recorder (not copy protected), a 12 inch laser disk (not copy protected, not even macrovision), a Betamax (ignores Macrovision).
Nobody will come and take it away. They don't have to.
And the 90% of the consumers out there without the hack can't use the product, hense it remains unsold. Those who share the hack will also probably share the content also leaving it on the shelf unsold. Crippled CD are a lose lose proposition for the music industry. I wonder if they'll go bust before they get it?
Get hit with a clue stick from the Circuit City DVD experiment. It was a dismal failure.
Wow, this guy has taken a big step to protect the music industry. Only problem is the music industry doesn't know it yet. He may be forcing them to continue to provide a useful product that consumers may continue to buy instead of letting them produce useless junk.
Be sure to use a low capacitance diode to pick up the light. An old large apature 35mm camera lens focesed on a diode array from a compact disk player detector is a great source of a high speed photodiode. It can povide great bandwidth at a long range. Larger photodiodes have larger capacitance and do not carry enough current in the short amount of time to capture high data rates. A large apature telephoto camera lens has the nessary gain to drive high enough light current to provide high speed detection. Alignement and focus are critical for good signal to noise ratio. Any hardware types want to try it? I have and used a scope to check the current waveform. Many pieces of equipment do tie the indicator lights to the signal and do reveal the data. Other equipment has an activity light (ethernet cards as prime example) because the average data traffic is too low of a duty cycle to provide useful illumination for an indicator light.
Instead of simply taking what the banner ad company offers, state prime realestate has premium rates. Everyone has seen pages of nothing but banner ads. Placement value on those pages is about zero. Slashdot should not get the same rate for a banner ad impression that a sleasy site with 20 banners lined up top to bottom gets because slashdot has premium realestate. The ad does not get lost in the clutter. Charge for the valuable space. Slashdot is the superbowl of the tech crowd. I'd hate to see it become a late late show ad placement discount repository like AOL. Here at work there are many cubes with calanders from Dispair. Guess where they found the ad for the calander? I rest my case.
The more the content gets lost in the noise, the more the visitors lose intrest. If this keeps up, it may be time to move on. People are here for the rich content. Over dilute it and the attraction rapidly fades. That's why I do not visit MP3.com. There is no real content. Everyting seems to be a teaser advertisement. TV has become a wasteland of product placement and mega blocks of ads and paid infomercials, I no longer watch it. I'd hate to see Slashdot face the same fate of smaller viewership, thus they must sell more ad space to make up for the lost revenue of fewer impressions, spiral of death. Without viewers the ad space is worthless.
Hotmail account may be useless to him. They may be blocking IP packets from China. ;-)
They are priced high enough, most people don't bother to buy them often. The price fails to fall into the attractive price range for most people. A Pepsi is priced so most people don't think twice before dropping a couple quarters into a vending machine. CD's are priced so most people don't even bother to go into a store to browse the selection. It is true, they do get a few people, but most people on a trip to the mall never make it into a music store. More people browse jeans.
Since when is higher prices = pay off debt sooner? It's higher prices that still have me on dialup at home. I do dialup at home for /. and e-mail. High speed stuff is done at work. I contribute nothing to paying off the debt load. Cable is only cost effective at a certain connect ratio. Putting in high speed access in a neighborhood and having only one in thirty homes connected is not cost effective. They should be priced for greater than 50% connectivity which they are not. When they call asking for me to sign up, I ask "tripiling the price gets me what added value? It gets me no new content and adds many secutity concerns making me the target of script kiddies.
Family Radio Service and General Mobile Radio Service share the first 7 channels. Channel 8 on FRS is not the same channel as GMRS channle 8. One of the GMRS channels is designatated as an emergency channel (Ch 10 I think.. don't slam me if I'm wrong here.) FRS radios are very limited in power and have a typical range of up to 2 miles with a maximum half watt power with a self contained antenna. (No roof or tower antennas permitted) GMRS radios use more power for up to 5 mile range and they can use a repeater which FRS may not.
I wonder if they would like to buy my SONY LD100? It still works. I have a huge collection of about 6 movies to go with it. (Been waiting for the promise of disks cheaper than videotape to become true)
The big problem with files on a BBS is legal liability. If you have no-no's on your files section, you are a sitting duck for legal action. BBS'es do not have the protection of a distributed net.
"CDs are too expensive
And when they are too expensive, many people leave them on the shelf as unsold. I stopped buying music on a weekly basis when it passed $8 per copy. (I know it's been a few years ago.) This has weaned me from being a prerecorded music collector. Last year I bought a total of 3 CD's and one used DVD. I still buy movies. On tape movies are much cheaper than music. Why is a 2 hour movie on DVD about the same price as a 1 hour music CD recording. The overpricing of audio is obvious to anyone. I thought movies cost lots more to make than a band recording. How many people would buy music on a regular basis if it is priced like a Sunday newspaper? Unsold CD's regardless of piracy or price is not helping anyones bottom line.
I don't believe the SSSCA will ever come to pass, but it doesn't hurt to hope for the best and expect the worst.
I disagree. It is for the simple reason, that this will be sold as new technology enabling you to access new content. It's like you need Real Player to get a Real Audio stream, need Flash to play the latest video games etc. It will be an additonal feature. When it is in place, the push will be on to have it dilute and replace MP3's. Yahoo searches for mp3's now turn up more non-mp3 stuff in one protected pay me format or another than mp3's. Try it. See how long it will take you to find and download more than 10 good mp3's without giving up a credit card number or giving any personal information. See how many non-MP3's are offered (Liquid Audio, Real, etc.) Start with a Yahoo search for MP3. There are very few MP3's simply posted on a web site due to the litigation risk. Even MP3.com does not have MP3's. To listen to ANYTHING it is streamed and not downloaded. It will be worse when SSSCA is as standard as MS Windows on new machines. You will have to visit the internet underground to find mp3's.
This is a classic "chicken and egg" issue...
True! What makes it worse is Microsoft is trying to tie into both the chicikens and eggs. Chickens = Windows on every PC shipped, Eggs = enticing application developers to use MS standards. Many applications will not run without MS Internet Explorer installed, even though they have nothing to do with the internet. (I have a Windows 95 box with the first version of 95 that came without IE.)
The good news is MS hasn't figured out how to exterminate the free chickens (Linux) and eggs (Word Perfect, Starr Office, Gimp, Mozella, etc.) which are considered weeds that threaten his crop.
They check your balance to see if you are "Financialy Trustworthy" first. They can't trust anyone without a responiibly sized account showing good money management.(sucker!)
User to check their e-mail and read the web with, they'll still get payment even with ultra-cheap computers.
Alternate OS'es do email and web just fine. That is not the problem. The problem is alternate OS'es will not run most of the other software on the store shelf. Office applications are not the problem. I bought Star Office off a retail shelf and it does run on Linux and Windows. It was right next to Word Perfect for Linux. Most other desktop applications require MS Windows to run. Don't believe me? Fine, go get this years Turbo Tax and install it on your Linux system. I have not seen the Linux version on any store shelf. Until this changes, we will be stuck with the Windows Monopoly. We are stuck with the Windows monopoly because that is the base that almost all desktop applications run on top of.
Percieved value is low. Movie ticket prices are so high, I limit my consumption. $100 doesn't buy many nights out at the movies. I wait till it's out on VHS. One rental entertains the entire family. If it's good, then the DVD can be bought for less than the price of taking the family to the movies. Why do the studios crank out so many films? Most people will see less than 5% of them. Nobody wants to spend full price on a ticket for anything less than the best. That means that 80% of the films are not going to be winners. The industry is overproducing and still overpriced. They may get better return if the films were double features like the old days. (I know I am giving away my age when I mention double features. Most younger generation has never heard of or been to a double feature with a cartoon in the intermission.)
This would work with the new phones that have the enhanced location system for the 911 service. When shopping for a phone, be sure to ask if the GPS location feature can be turned off by the user. Explain you do not wish to by spammed by SMS messages when approaching a shopping center. If enough people ask, they may rethink selling location specific advertisement space. Explain you want to be able to turn it off for everything except 911 calls.
Warning, never give them your bank account! I have seen that ploy as a scam. Look up the bank transfer e-mail scam on the internet. It works by someone asking for a bank account to transfer money to avoid customs (usualy a Central America country) and promising a hansome profit for your time and trouble. Once a small deposit is transferred, the account is emptied including your money. If someone wants to give me money, a check, cash, or money order works for me. A bad check will only bounce, not empty the account.
I like the per message charge for SMS. That means it may be an option and may be a service you can choose to drop from you plan. Service providers may take action to can the spam if it means less revenue. I don't have a cell phone. I have a pager and 2 way company radio. I don't miss the cell phone at all.