They do say on CNet that they will play in CDROM drives, just not be able to rip them. The S/PDIF output should be what the DAC is seeing, so if it plays, you should be able to get ungarbled digital audio info, just not via the IDE/SCSI interface.
Of course we know they wouldn't, but this does hinge on UMG being honest here....
Does anyone have any direct experience with this? Is there anyone brave enough to admit they like MJ or Charlie Pride?;)
The only thing I think this might prohibit is digital audio extraction - if you're using the S/PDIF output of a CD ROM drive, you should get the full digital info, just at 1X speed. Full digital quality, no loss. The audio portion (like the headphone out jack and digital audio out via S/PDIF) is independent of the IDE interface. Once it starts playing, it just keeps going.
I don't see how they could hobble the normal playback mode of a CD ROM - is this actually the case, or do they just hamper direct digital extraction? I just haven't had the slightest urge to buy a Michael Jackson or Charley Pride CD to try this out...
Now that the encryption tools, which are not evil, but can be used for such just like a car or a hammer or a computer or virtually any other useful thing, are out there with full source code and all, does anyone seriously think the nasty bad men
1) will upgrade to the new CIA-approved encryption technologies, should they pass, or
2) will not be able to extend the previous technology as computers get faster
The genie is out of the bottle. All we can do is allow government to pry into the lives of honest, law abiding citizens with new back doors.
It's the same as *strict* gun control - criminals already won't follow the law, so they aren't going to suddenly turn in their guns if they become illegal. Oh, guess I'll have to find a new way to break the law, now that guns are illegal.
and a lot of science to both. I DO both, and I don't see any intrinsic difference. You start out with a problem, and you wish to create as elegant, straightforward, and cost-effective a solution as possible. There artistic flairs that can be applied to either, but both are scientific arts.
If you do not see similar art in engineering, you aren't looking hard enough.
I remember reading a quote from a famous software scientist (I forget who, maybe Turing?) who said (and I paraphrase here) that we shouldn't be teaching our your computer scientists maths, physics, engineering etc, but rather art and biology. Because programming is an art, it's the creation of something from your own imagination, not like engineering which is simply applying rules. And once created, any large application behaves far more like a living organism than a machine, it grows, it evolves and (often) it gets ill. I always liked that idea:-)
Engineering just applying rules, yet programming is an art? Is this your editorializing or the original quote? Somebody needs a smack from a slide ruler.;)
Inspired by NASA Planetary
Exploration Missions, Plantraco's
Desktop Rover is a Telepresence
Capable R.O.V. (Remote Operated Vehicle) that enables the user to
have a little taste of what it feels
like to actually explore an "Alien Landscape" remotely!
I know a lot of people hate Windows here, but it certainly has the lion's share of apps. Can/will/do you plan to add a windows emulation layer, or some fairly painless way of running Windows apps? Same for X/GTK/etc.
Would a server running IIS necessarily have mail services on? Is there any other way to passively alert the admin? At least in my neck of the woods (RoadRunner cable modem), almost none of the IPs attacking me have sites up. I've heard some web development tools install IIS without necessarily explaining what's happening in detail, and that seems to be the norm on cable, unless the worm deletes index.htm? and/or default.htm?. I went to try and harvest some admin email addresses, and couldn't find a page on many tries.
Any other ways to non-maliciously get someone's attention in NT or 2K if you merely know their IP address?
There are a lot of people out there (/. is where I've been following this) that
are reluctant to initiate remote access to a machine. I have done a little
digging around at work, where we have most different versions of Windows, and
figured this much out:
You can use the 'net send ip.ip.ip.ip message' to initiate a popup window on an
NT or 2K box, but you can only specify an ip address from 2K. NT will only
work with locally networked machine names, not ip addresses, and 98 doesn't have net send.
I have a few ideas on this, to protect those of us who are squeamish about
using an 0wned box. I do a little embedded stuff, but am not a programmer per
se, especially not Java or Windows, but:
Can we (as a community) reverse engineer the 2K 'net send' protocol and create
a (probably java-based) popup generator for 95/98/NT/Linux? This will send a
message from your computer to theirs, without using their cracked box to do it. This would be a more favorable solution, as it would keep the workload distributed rather than client-server.
Or, can we create a java-based tattle tale app that reports offending IPs to
someone outside the US or who just doesn't give a crap?;) They could then
send the LOCALHOST message. I suppose this could be done very easily with some 2K servers which provide some (limited!) access to the 'net send' command, and each java client could access that command (with the admin's permission of course, that's my whole point).
Most people don't use Google anyways, they just go straight to Ask Slashdot.:(
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People need to patch servers that don't know they're servers. I have RoadRunner (cable modem), and I looked at my logs, and decided to try and track a few people down via http://ipattackingme. Almost none of them had a website up - just the stock 'page under construction.' So I suspected (and RR tech suppt. confirmed this) that most of these people are running IIS and DON'T KNOW THEY'RE RUNNING IIS.
RoadRunner is additionally trying to shut down individual cable modems, rather than some of the more extreme measures other providers are using (like killing port 80), so kudos to them. Please get the word out to anyone running 2K or NT to check their box, not just anyone who KNOWS they're running a website.
The only reason PNG started to gain significant acceptance was legal pressure from the GIF format's owners (I forget who it was at the time, Compuserve, Digital, Compaq, whoever). Now, there has been pressure in the past related to MP3, but it's generally free (as in $0) and easy to create/use for virtually anyone. There are tons of $0 players and encoders across platforms, and it's already an accepted standard. I suspect the same thing would happen if they tried to clamp down on MP3 - OGG would suddenly surge, showing that if they choked off MP3, a large segment of the population would merely abandon it, and MP3 would be essentially free again.
I don't know all the legal wranglings related to MP3, and they may constrain who can make a player or encoder, but as long as those are available at no cost to the general population, they're not going to care whether it's free, or open source, or whatever. They just get to rock for free! Rockanroll!
It's now illegal to ask for identification when someone votes. Seriously. Plus, you get people who are too damned lazy to send in a little form on their own, then registering to vote when the register their car, and you have gobs and gobs of registered voters that have no intention of voting. Can you say VOTER FRAUD? I knew you could, boys and girls.
Could they be any more short sighted? They might collect the $2K, but if Adobe really doesn't like their tone and how they handled/are handling this, they'll probably be cut loose. Short term gain, long term loss. They'll probably just continue to harass people on behalf of their other accounts.
The 10-day race follows old Route 66 (parallels I-55 from Chicago to St. Louis, I-44 from St. Louis to Oklahoma City, and I-40 from Oklahoma City to Los Angeles)...
I'd never heard of that 'Route 66' before, but when you mentioned the fabled freeways of song and television - Interstates 55, 44, and 40 - it just came to life, man. Thanks.
Read the contract. You should save these things, you know. Did you have the $500 clause? And did they violate the contract when they failed to provide you with service any more? What does the contract say about termination by them?
I love these corporate shell games. I had an ISP go under after prepaying for a year of service, losing about half of that. Someone else bought the domain, customer list, data, etc. and allowed us the privalege of paying for the same service over again, at an even higher rate! KEEEEEEEEWWWWL! All the benefits and none of the liabilities of the old co.
When you say bi-directional Zeners I assume you mean connected cathode to cathode or anode to anode?
Yes, most transient protection zeners just call them 'bidirectional.' You get the same zenering voltage in either polarity.
Bear in mind that any such thing that you build yourself won't be UL listed and if you start a fire with it your homeowners insurance might not pay out because of that.
Maybe you should send them a link if you dig up any good info?;)
But seriously, As an added precaution (and in keeping with the DIY spirit of most Ask Slashdot questions), I saw a really clever surge suppressor design. I can't find the original to credit it, but it's very simple: Just some bidirectional large zeners (with appropriate holdoff voltage) in a replacement 3 prong plug, inside the cap with no cord attached. Portable surge suppression, and IIRC, zeners are right around the correct frequency response for lightning, and usually large enough to sustain a smaller hit. $3 of components makes your $2 surge suppressor a $25 surge suppressor!
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They do say on CNet that they will play in CDROM drives, just not be able to rip them. The S/PDIF output should be what the DAC is seeing, so if it plays, you should be able to get ungarbled digital audio info, just not via the IDE/SCSI interface.
;)
Of course we know they wouldn't, but this does hinge on UMG being honest here....
Does anyone have any direct experience with this? Is there anyone brave enough to admit they like MJ or Charlie Pride?
The only thing I think this might prohibit is digital audio extraction - if you're using the S/PDIF output of a CD ROM drive, you should get the full digital info, just at 1X speed. Full digital quality, no loss. The audio portion (like the headphone out jack and digital audio out via S/PDIF) is independent of the IDE interface. Once it starts playing, it just keeps going.
I don't see how they could hobble the normal playback mode of a CD ROM - is this actually the case, or do they just hamper direct digital extraction? I just haven't had the slightest urge to buy a Michael Jackson or Charley Pride CD to try this out...
Does anybody know? I've found some apparently wrong links on discussion boards.
Now that the encryption tools, which are not evil, but can be used for such just like a car or a hammer or a computer or virtually any other useful thing, are out there with full source code and all, does anyone seriously think the nasty bad men
1) will upgrade to the new CIA-approved encryption technologies, should they pass, or
2) will not be able to extend the previous technology as computers get faster
The genie is out of the bottle. All we can do is allow government to pry into the lives of honest, law abiding citizens with new back doors.
It's the same as *strict* gun control - criminals already won't follow the law, so they aren't going to suddenly turn in their guns if they become illegal. Oh, guess I'll have to find a new way to break the law, now that guns are illegal.
See the info here: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/lostempires/trebuchet /
;)
Yeah, they didn't mess around with pumpkins, they destroyed a wall with a 200 lb ball.
and a lot of science to both. I DO both, and I don't see any intrinsic difference. You start out with a problem, and you wish to create as elegant, straightforward, and cost-effective a solution as possible. There artistic flairs that can be applied to either, but both are scientific arts.
If you do not see similar art in engineering, you aren't looking hard enough.
I remember reading a quote from a famous software scientist (I forget who, maybe Turing?) who said (and I paraphrase here) that we shouldn't be teaching our your computer scientists maths, physics, engineering etc, but rather art and biology. Because programming is an art, it's the creation of something from your own imagination, not like engineering which is simply applying rules. And once created, any large application behaves far more like a living organism than a machine, it grows, it evolves and (often) it gets ill. I always liked that idea :-)
;)
Engineering just applying rules, yet programming is an art? Is this your editorializing or the original quote? Somebody needs a smack from a slide ruler.
Exploration Missions, Plantraco's
Desktop Rover is a Telepresence
Capable R.O.V. (Remote Operated Vehicle) that enables the user to
have a little taste of what it feels
like to actually explore an "Alien Landscape" remotely!
I hope you can turn off the 20 minute delay feature.
I know a lot of people hate Windows here, but it certainly has the lion's share of apps. Can/will/do you plan to add a windows emulation layer, or some fairly painless way of running Windows apps? Same for X/GTK/etc.
The Okamaaaaaaaaaaaa Gamesphere.
Any other ways to non-maliciously get someone's attention in NT or 2K if you merely know their IP address?
There are a lot of people out there (/. is where I've been following this) that are reluctant to initiate remote access to a machine. I have done a little digging around at work, where we have most different versions of Windows, and figured this much out:
You can use the 'net send ip.ip.ip.ip message' to initiate a popup window on an NT or 2K box, but you can only specify an ip address from 2K. NT will only work with locally networked machine names, not ip addresses, and 98 doesn't have net send.
I have a few ideas on this, to protect those of us who are squeamish about using an 0wned box. I do a little embedded stuff, but am not a programmer per se, especially not Java or Windows, but:
Can we (as a community) reverse engineer the 2K 'net send' protocol and create a (probably java-based) popup generator for 95/98/NT/Linux? This will send a message from your computer to theirs, without using their cracked box to do it. This would be a more favorable solution, as it would keep the workload distributed rather than client-server.
Or, can we create a java-based tattle tale app that reports offending IPs to someone outside the US or who just doesn't give a crap? ;) They could then
send the LOCALHOST message. I suppose this could be done very easily with some 2K servers which provide some (limited!) access to the 'net send' command, and each java client could access that command (with the admin's permission of course, that's my whole point).
Most people don't use Google anyways, they just go straight to Ask Slashdot. :(
RoadRunner is additionally trying to shut down individual cable modems, rather than some of the more extreme measures other providers are using (like killing port 80), so kudos to them. Please get the word out to anyone running 2K or NT to check their box, not just anyone who KNOWS they're running a website.
I don't know all the legal wranglings related to MP3, and they may constrain who can make a player or encoder, but as long as those are available at no cost to the general population, they're not going to care whether it's free, or open source, or whatever. They just get to rock for free! Rockanroll!
...so they won't have any room for him. ;)
It's now illegal to ask for identification when someone votes. Seriously. Plus, you get people who are too damned lazy to send in a little form on their own, then registering to vote when the register their car, and you have gobs and gobs of registered voters that have no intention of voting. Can you say VOTER FRAUD? I knew you could, boys and girls.
Could they be any more short sighted? They might collect the $2K, but if Adobe really doesn't like their tone and how they handled/are handling this, they'll probably be cut loose. Short term gain, long term loss. They'll probably just continue to harass people on behalf of their other accounts.
I'd never heard of that 'Route 66' before, but when you mentioned the fabled freeways of song and television - Interstates 55, 44, and 40 - it just came to life, man. Thanks.
I love these corporate shell games. I had an ISP go under after prepaying for a year of service, losing about half of that. Someone else bought the domain, customer list, data, etc. and allowed us the privalege of paying for the same service over again, at an even higher rate! KEEEEEEEEWWWWL! All the benefits and none of the liabilities of the old co.
IANAL, and all that....
Killlawyers. When does that one go up on Freshmeat?
too confusing?
"...perhaps the momentum for a manned Private Space explosion is building?"
Yes, most transient protection zeners just call them 'bidirectional.' You get the same zenering voltage in either polarity.
Bear in mind that any such thing that you build yourself won't be UL listed and if you start a fire with it your homeowners insurance might not pay out because of that.
Good warning. IANAL, and all that.
But seriously, As an added precaution (and in keeping with the DIY spirit of most Ask Slashdot questions), I saw a really clever surge suppressor design. I can't find the original to credit it, but it's very simple: Just some bidirectional large zeners (with appropriate holdoff voltage) in a replacement 3 prong plug, inside the cap with no cord attached. Portable surge suppression, and IIRC, zeners are right around the correct frequency response for lightning, and usually large enough to sustain a smaller hit. $3 of components makes your $2 surge suppressor a $25 surge suppressor!