He asked if they had some way to stop people from just using a camcorder to record the tv, and the boss-guy said no...
I tried to scan in a picture from a girlie calender the other day and it came out with an array of dots over the picture, it looked terrible. I was told that it was a relatively old form of copy protection. I looked at the source picture but it looked perfect in real life, I wondered how they did it.
I could imagine that there is some way around it though, or that it only works with still images.
Although with media all it takes is one person to crack it, of course. Makes the 100% target more inviting.
But you're right. Under the circumstances there doesn't seem to be a way of stopping the crackers 100% of the time, so they may as well not be overly worried about stopping everyone.
Is the only way for a good DRM system to work a hardware device that holds a certificate? Is there any way of hacking that besides duplicating the actual device?
If usability engineers designed a nightclub, it would be clean, quiet, brightly lit
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But nobody would be there.
No one says a game of quake should be a 3 second run across a room with no monsters to the exit.
If the user wants some action, be it a nightclub or a computer game, then by all means make it fun. But if the user is after information for non-entertainment means, then he is full of shit.
I thought I read a way to encrypt something where, if you are asked for the key, you give it to them, but it only decrypts 'half' of the message. To decrypt the second half they need another key.
I got the impression that it's impossible to tell that you've only given them access to half the encypted data. I will try to find the page if anyone is interested.
I'm constantly looking for a way to explain Unix terms in NT terminology. "I want to remove these things from/etc/inetd.conf -- kind of like changing the services to manual in NT."
There's no need to explain it in NT terms, just explain it in less technical terms.
Just like software development. You should explain things in psuedo code terms to the management rather than expecting them to know the actual language in much detail.
It's true that sometimes it's hard to abstract a language specific problem to explain to management. I've had some fights over these sorts of problems with past bosses who had zero knowledge of the language I was working in (a QuickBasic coder who hired me to write an MSDOS Basic to Windows C TCP interface. He would call functions by setting global parameters then doing a GOTO or GOSUB, ouch).
He's talking about the 'private' inner workings of the microwave, not the 'public'.
Analogous to using functions written by other people. You should know that CreateWindow() on Windows creates rectangle, not round windows. You shouldn't need to know that it contains a no-op instruction at offset 19 of the function.
How many times does it have to be said: People (i.e. non programmers) want computers to work for them, not the other way around. Your attitude is part of the reason Linux is less mainstream.
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I tried to scan in a picture from a girlie calender the other day and it came out with an array of dots over the picture, it looked terrible. I was told that it was a relatively old form of copy protection. I looked at the source picture but it looked perfect in real life, I wondered how they did it.
I could imagine that there is some way around it though, or that it only works with still images.
Although with media all it takes is one person to crack it, of course. Makes the 100% target more inviting.
But you're right. Under the circumstances there doesn't seem to be a way of stopping the crackers 100% of the time, so they may as well not be overly worried about stopping everyone.
Is the only way for a good DRM system to work a hardware device that holds a certificate? Is there any way of hacking that besides duplicating the actual device?
No one says a game of quake should be a 3 second run across a room with no monsters to the exit.
If the user wants some action, be it a nightclub or a computer game, then by all means make it fun. But if the user is after information for non-entertainment means, then he is full of shit.
Ironically, it's usually the karma whingers like grandpa up there.
...and if I had titties, I'd play with them all day...
I met my current girlfriend in a Quake 3 game a year ago, still going strong.
I thought I read a way to encrypt something where, if you are asked for the key, you give it to them, but it only decrypts 'half' of the message. To decrypt the second half they need another key.
I got the impression that it's impossible to tell that you've only given them access to half the encypted data. I will try to find the page if anyone is interested.
There's no need to explain it in NT terms, just explain it in less technical terms.
Just like software development. You should explain things in psuedo code terms to the management rather than expecting them to know the actual language in much detail.
It's true that sometimes it's hard to abstract a language specific problem to explain to management. I've had some fights over these sorts of problems with past bosses who had zero knowledge of the language I was working in (a QuickBasic coder who hired me to write an MSDOS Basic to Windows C TCP interface. He would call functions by setting global parameters then doing a GOTO or GOSUB, ouch).
Might be a tad harder to copy or manipulate that analog information though.
The person in front you of may get a little annoyed as you slam your mouse around on the tray table, however.
I read that Vietnam has one of the lowest PC per person ratios in the world. I think it was 2-5% of the population had one.
Point taken. I apologize for being rude.
Why are you firing retarded questions at the guy for giving out some inside information?
Is Linux in general strong enough to withstand standards-changing like tactics from AOL though?
I ask this as a serious question, not trolling.
The idea is to get people to share files not run away in fear.
He's talking about the 'private' inner workings of the microwave, not the 'public'.
Analogous to using functions written by other people. You should know that CreateWindow() on Windows creates rectangle, not round windows. You shouldn't need to know that it contains a no-op instruction at offset 19 of the function.
I totally agree. There is a group of people who use or want to use Linux because it's non-MS, _not_ because they want to hack the guts of it.
Having a GUI to just about every feature of Linux should be a goal.
You're truly a sick bastard you know that?
How many times does it have to be said: People (i.e. non programmers) want computers to work for them, not the other way around. Your attitude is part of the reason Linux is less mainstream.
That's a good point. Perhaps the liability could be limited to the profit of the software owner.
Not that I'm real keen on the liability thing or anything...
Yes but IM makes it so easy that the usage would increase dramatically.
No, sorry. It died because it was a textbook sitcom.
hehe good one
Well said.