That's the thing with computers they are really good at is following instructions, like checklists. My guess is that a computer could both read a checklist to the pilot and make sure the things checked are actually correctly set. But a human pilot would do better in a totally unforeseen situation.
I thought China and Microsoft made a deal for a site license, a few years back. So that all computers in China could use Microsoft Windows. Pretty big Site if you ask me. I think the reason for this was that chine had been using pirated copies and the Copyright laws there are not very tight. And like all Western companies MS saw a huge future market in China.
Hopefully they are seeing the light and dropping Windows. I believe the Chineese are smart people.
This code is intended to build with gcc 2.7.2 and egcs 1.1.2. Patches for building with gcc 2.95 are merged but less tested than other compilers. Caution is recommended when using gcc 2.95 and feedback is sought.
It looks like gcc is coming around, maybe it was improving towards the end of the year. The warning I read from these Release notes are not as strong against egcs and gcc 2.95 as the last time I looked.
So packet networks are BAD and connection-oriented networks are GOOD, I seam to recall hearing that somewhere before.
I guess ATM networks are really good at keeping track of billions and billions of "virtual" connections, and a lot quicker to connect up new computer, to all other computers on "the ATM" than the Internet.
I could go for most important, but as I see it gcc is not improving that much, our lord and master Linus Torvalds still warns people against using egcs.
But without gcc many OSS project would never have been born, or only work vith Visual C++.
Father of DBI/DBD perl modules, has been delivering DBI and DBD::Oracle modules, for at least five years now. Without DBI Perl would never have been as instrumental in creating the Web as it is today.
I have been thinking for the last days, about this Y2K thing. All power, water and whatnot services have been inspected and upgraded. But won't the real problem start when people start using 00 in forms and the computers have to interpret such things.
The computers themselves are pretty accurate in keeping track of time, but they might have a harder time figuring out stupid users. So my fears comes from thing like ordering processes, you know when some wholesalers are unable to fullfill orders becouse they are fulfilling orders for 2000 but the retailers are placing orders to be fullfilled in 1900.
As someone might have guessed I used to work for a retailer(I got out a year ago), a and it kind of scares me how random the EDI systems work, at least here in Iceland.
So I guess the real fun begins when banks open and people start acting like people.
This is perl, localtime gives years since 1900. So you have to add them to 1900 arithmetcaly (-is this a word or what) not prefix with 19. Just some last minute Y2K fix for you fixers out there.
Do you celebrate your 40th or 41st birtday? I know in US you would probably celebrate you 21st birtday more than the 20th, but that just for the alcahol.
DeCSS does has no access to this data, it does not need to.
When a DVD starts playing the "player" and DVD "drive" have to authenticate each other, and only when this has taken place will the "drive" play the DVD, and the player can ask for a title key with a special function. The consumer DVD players just skip this part and use the extra data somehow.
So if you wrote a DVD disk with only the 2048 bytes and tried playing it in a DVD-ROM or consumer DVD unit the drive would figure out that the disk is not a legal and presumably would not play. Of course you might be able to regenerate the missing data, but I don't think that is part of DeCSS. So you really can not use DeCSS to duplicata DVD's. But OTOH you can get the MPEG streams off the disk unscrambled.
I must addmitt I am not really sure on any off this, off course the DVD Consortium aims to keep it that way.
DVD-ROM drives are not able to do bit by bit reading of a DVD-video. I think the block size for DVD is something like 2234 bytes but the DVD-ROM drive only gives you 2048 bytes. The rest is somehow used for the crypting and stuff.. Consumer DVD players i think can read the whole block.
So CSS was only created to stop binary copying from DVD-ROM drives, or home cpoying not latge scale piracy.
The Dxr2 uses ZiVA CS chip from C-Cube, it does CSS in hardware in such a way that you only have access to the analog version of the decrypted picture. I am not sure about the sound though.
C-Cube was not willing to release specs, to the Open Source community, but I think Creative hired/got some people to make the port and they had the specs.
But I am not sure the Open Source driver is using hardware CSS for the moment.
It looks to me like FBI is simply terrorizing those who act outside the established "normal" behavior.
This investigation is of course not a sentence or anything but to me it seems like an act of mental manipulation, warning him not to step over this line again.
Maybe the FBI and other government agencies are just running scared they have no idea how to deal with the internet, so they end up doing these stupid things.
I probably should never have posted anything like this, my travellers visa will most likely not be renewed.
Like someon said: "even if you are a paranoid, does not mean that they are not out to get you"
The american system seems simpler, but you have to learn more latin number prefixes. Luckily I don't have to count that high. Anyway it looks like the world is following american lead on this one, some european newsmagazines have changed over.
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According the book "Where Wizards stay up late" there was this group of students that met to specify how host computers should talk to IMPs (IMP is a early ARPANET router). They called their specifications "Request for Comments" because they did not feel that they had the authority to demand any special behavior. They always thought that at some Official Agency would eventually replace them and thank them for their efforts. But the replacements newer came.
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That's the thing with computers they are really good at is following instructions, like checklists. My guess is that a computer could both read a checklist to the pilot and make sure the things checked are actually correctly set. But a human pilot would do better in a totally unforeseen situation.
So if the most common cause for accidents is "pilot error", would you not reduce the risk of accidents by halving the number of pilots?
The mainframe programmer is the one with the necktie.
Why is always the hackers that "claim" things and the and the MPAA always just states the facts?
I thought China and Microsoft made a deal for a site license, a few years back. So that all computers in China could use Microsoft Windows.
Pretty big Site if you ask me. I think the reason for this was that chine had been using pirated copies and the Copyright laws there are not very tight. And like all Western companies MS saw a huge future market in China.
Hopefully they are seeing the light and dropping Windows. I believe the Chineese are smart people.
The release notes for Linux 2.2.14 state:
This code is intended to build with gcc 2.7.2 and egcs 1.1.2. Patches for building with gcc 2.95 are merged but less tested than other compilers. Caution is recommended when using gcc 2.95 and feedback is sought.
It looks like gcc is coming around, maybe it was improving towards the end of the year. The warning I read from these Release notes are not as strong against egcs and gcc 2.95 as the last time I looked.
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So packet networks are BAD and connection-oriented networks are GOOD, I seam to recall hearing that somewhere before.
I guess ATM networks are really good at keeping track of billions and billions of "virtual" connections, and a lot quicker to connect up new computer, to all other computers on "the ATM" than the Internet.
How is gcc the most improved OSS project?
I could go for most important, but as I see it gcc is not improving that much, our lord and master Linus Torvalds still warns people against using egcs.
But without gcc many OSS project would never have been born, or only work vith Visual C++.
Father of DBI/DBD perl modules, has been delivering DBI and DBD::Oracle modules, for at least five years now. Without DBI Perl would never have been as instrumental in creating the Web as it is today.
Awesome combination, faster than PHP and just as easy. Easier for me at least after years of perl programming.
I have been thinking for the last days, about this Y2K thing. All power, water and whatnot services have been inspected and upgraded. But won't the real problem start when people start using 00 in forms and the computers have to interpret such things.
The computers themselves are pretty accurate in keeping track of time, but they might have a harder time figuring out stupid users. So my fears comes from thing like ordering processes, you know when some wholesalers are unable to fullfill orders becouse they are fulfilling orders for 2000 but the retailers are placing orders to be fullfilled in 1900.
As someone might have guessed I used to work for a retailer(I got out a year ago), a and it kind of scares me how random the EDI systems work, at least here in Iceland.
So I guess the real fun begins when banks open and people start acting like people.
This is perl, localtime gives years since 1900. So you have to add them to 1900 arithmetcaly (-is this a word or what) not prefix with 19.
Just some last minute Y2K fix for you fixers out there.
Do you celebrate your 40th or 41st birtday? I know in US you would probably celebrate you 21st birtday more than the 20th, but that just for the alcahol.
DeCSS does has no access to this data, it does not need to.
When a DVD starts playing the "player" and DVD "drive" have to authenticate each other, and only when this has taken place will the "drive" play the DVD, and the player can ask for a title key with a special function. The consumer DVD players just skip this part and use the extra data somehow.
So if you wrote a DVD disk with only the 2048 bytes and tried playing it in a DVD-ROM or consumer DVD unit the drive would figure out that the disk is not a legal and presumably would not play. Of course you might be able to regenerate the missing data, but I don't think that is part of DeCSS. So you really can not use DeCSS to duplicata DVD's. But OTOH you can get the MPEG streams off the disk unscrambled.
I must addmitt I am not really sure on any off this, off course the DVD Consortium aims to keep it that way.
DVD-ROM drives are not able to do bit by bit reading of a DVD-video. I think the block size for DVD is something like 2234 bytes but the DVD-ROM drive only gives you 2048 bytes. The rest is somehow used for the crypting and stuff.. Consumer DVD players i think can read the whole block.
So CSS was only created to stop binary copying from DVD-ROM drives, or home cpoying not latge scale piracy.
Why don't we all just put DVD decryption documentation on CVS or some more obscure interface that the lawyers are too stupid to figure out?
TFTP comes to mind, but probably most firewall block it.
Maybe some protocol that only has a linux/unix clients. Does CODA allow for global sharing?
That way they can't see it and therefor it must not excist.
The Dxr2 uses ZiVA CS chip from C-Cube, it does CSS in hardware in such a way that you only have access to the analog version of the decrypted picture. I am not sure about the sound though.
C-Cube was not willing to release specs, to the Open Source community, but I think Creative hired/got some people to make the port and they had the specs.
But I am not sure the Open Source driver is using hardware CSS for the moment.
It looks to me like FBI is simply terrorizing those who act outside the established "normal" behavior.
This investigation is of course not a sentence or anything but to me it seems like an act of mental manipulation, warning him not to step over this line again.
Maybe the FBI and other government agencies are just running scared they have no idea how to deal with the internet, so they end up doing these stupid things.
I probably should never have posted anything like this, my travellers visa will most likely not be renewed.
Like someon said: "even if you are a paranoid, does not mean that they are not out to get you"
This is just the binary windows program, it can descramble the CSS but that is OK becouse it will not run on Linux.
OTOH Derec Fawcus posted the source to CSS decryption and that might be used to watch DVD on Linux so he must be stopped at all costs.
Then we could have World Series Lego Vollyball and really find out who's better - The Brits or us Colonials.
Ohh!
I thought you only had world series with US and maybe Canada. Silly me:)
Then why is there a four processor Primegy server in 11th place?
I always knew FSF was a terrorist bunch, they indirectly admit to it ;-)
(spook)
Soviet FSF PLO KGB Khaddafi colonel ammunition smuggle $400 million in
gold bullion Mossad domestic disruption arrangements Ft. Bragg NSA
supercomputer
You should of course mention that the british(non
american more likely) has names for american billion and quadrillion
1,000,000 = 1 million
1,000,000,000 = 1 milliard (sp?)
1,000,000,000,000 = 1 billion
1,000,000,000,000,000 = 1 billiard
1,000,000,000,000,000,000 = 1 trillion
10^24 = 1 trilliard
.....
The american system seems simpler, but you have to learn more latin number prefixes. Luckily I don't have to count that high.
Anyway it looks like the world is following american lead on this one, some european newsmagazines have changed over.
According the book "Where Wizards stay up late" there was this group of students that met to specify how host computers should talk to IMPs (IMP is a early ARPANET router). They called their specifications "Request for Comments" because they did not feel that they had the authority to demand any special behavior. They always thought that at some Official Agency would eventually replace them and thank them for their efforts. But the replacements newer came.