They tried. The O2's were Intel architecture. Seems nobody wanted to pay $20,000 for a pretty teal box with the same guts everyone else was selling for $2,000.
The only problem with Gravity I have heard of is covered by Wiley's Law: A person going off a cliff will not fall until he _notices_ he's standing in mid-air.
Other than than minor anomaly, I find Gravity quite reliable and consistent - every time I fall, it's always down!
I wanna see the "transformer" that will do anything with DC, which is what all batteries (natural or otherwise) produce.
A DC-DC converter is largely inefficient to make this voltage do anything useful either, the only way to raise the voltage is to connect a bunch of trees in series. The current is a function of how much surface area your electrodes have, and how strong the electrolyte is (not very, I gather).
Actually, Region Coding does have a tiny bit to do with the CSS encryption scheme in newer players. The newer players won't even read the keyset for the disc if it's the wrong region.
In that minor way, the improper region code would prevent the screener disc from being read at all by the screener player if the region codes don't agree.
I'm pretty sure the screener players are ones based on the newer player design. They are most likely only different in using a custom set of CSS keys that don't exist in normal commercial (or software) players.
As long as you quantize the spectrum for the entire "connect" time within the clock window (visualize charging a capacitor the entire cycle) any extraneous energy, even a fast pulse would cause the detected spectrum (voltage level) to be wrong. The question then would be how little energy can you pulse with to be possibly below the detection threshold and appear as random noise on the medium?
The 9v battery simply powers the DTMF keypad and the speaker audio amplifier. Phones usually get this power from the line current, when they are off-hook there is enough current (20ma) to power these things.
However, the butt-set can monitor an on-hook (unterminated) line, but to do so it can't draw any significant current, or the CO will think the other end picked up the line. So, to be able to monitor the line you need a locally powered speaker amp. The butt-set also has a "hook" switch toggle on the side to "pick up" the line, then it acts just like a regular telephone with regard to line loading.
The DTMF keypad also needs the proper polarity which isn't guaranteed when randomly attaching clips to a pair. This could be done via a bridge rectifier like most telephone sets to make it polarity independent, but you still have the current draw problem. The keypad on regular phones only work when they go off-hook due to this.
Finally, 9v is nowhere near enough voltage to "fake it", the open loop voltage (on-hook) is around 48V. When you draw the required 20ma to go "off-hook", the voltage drops to somewhere around 12V.
Laugh! Yes, let the professionals work on it! Bah.
I'm a professional, hummmmm lesseee, Broadcast Engineer, RF Design Engineer, Software Designer, 2-Way Radio Repair Tech, Telephone Systems Tech, TV/Small Appliance Tech, Pinball/Video Game Tech, I could go on, but you get the idea.
That little sign "No User Serviceable Parts Inside..." is NOT for me. I'm NOT a fucking User. The point is, I DON'T call repair centers. I know more than any of the dumbasses that work there. They make stupid assumptions, and finally wind up shotgunning the entire board set since there is a whole warehouse full of them in back. Yeah, it takes some real raw intelligence and mad skillz to be one of those "certified pros".
You must work there, because you made some really stupid assumptions:
Stupid Assumption #1. It was NOT damaged in shipping (It ran for 4 years and died WAAAY too soon).
Stupid Assumption #2. I can carry it in to a sony center (I can't).
Stupid Assumption #3. A dead picture tube can be replaced in 15 minutes (It can't).
Stupid Assumption #4. I am willing to pay more than half the price of the set for repair (I won't).
Stupid Assumption #5. I don't own a "CRT Rejuvenator" (I do) and didn't try it (I did).
Stupid Assumption #6. I didn't try tapping on the neck board (I did).
Stupid Assumption #7. I would settle for such a cheesy fix (I wouldn't).
Stupid Assumption #8. If people don't buy Sony's they still get their money. Maybe in the short term, but when the inventory backs up at Circuit City from people not buying them, like turds in a pipeline the shit will wash backwards, eventually to Sony's doorstep.
The Sony WEGA's are teh SUCK technically. I just put one out on the curb 2 weeks ago. Planned obsolescence at it's finest!
I had a 32" flat tube that was only 4 years old, and the picture tube was arcing internally! The one thing that can't be fixed or replaced (well, it can, but it's $450.00 for a new tube and $500.00 for a new set).
Turns out that is a very common failure turning up on the professional service fault databases. Sony, when beat about the ears, and subjected to excessive whining, pissing and moaning will sometimes replace tubes that fail beyond the 3 year warranty, it is written.
This is inexcuseable planned obsolescence in my opinion. Shit, we had an old tank of an RCA TV that lasted about 25 years when I was growing up. After refining that technology another 20 years, they can't make a picture tube that lasts more than 4-5 fucking years!?!? Gimme a break.
I used to like Sony, I thought the first open reel video tape, the micro 4" screen portable TV, the first CD Walkman, all of which I own(ed), were the some of the coolest and greatest accomplishments ever in technology.
But due to my recent experiences with their cheap shit CD and DVD players, plus all the fun I had diagnosing and throwing away a TV set that died way before it's time, my opinion of Sony and their various "products" has been mighty dim lately. This DRM rootkit crapola just tears it, I won't have any problems boycotting Sony and all their various instances and apparitions.
Some clients let you use randomized ports for that reason - use a range of 10,000 to 11,000 or something like that, it works behind a firewall pretty well...
Try BitTornado, it's my favorite. There are others out there that also allow port "range" configuration, too.
I don't know if Blizzard will allow this specifically, but most of the other trackers don't seem to mind the client picking a random high port.
I agree with what the other reply said, plus it offers you the opportunity to install a battery backup circuit at that point, also. Then you have a full UPS instead of just a very steady regulator.
It's not that it's unhackable, it's just too much trouble to have been broken so far. The encryption engine and relevant microcode is hidden deep in an ASIC, and no one has been able to secure an e-beam slicer long enough to open it up. There are only a few of them at major universities and chip fab labs, and it's pretty hard to "borrow" time on them during your lunch hour for such a "project". Someday, it will probably be broken but it has served the purpose of any successful encryption system - to keep sensitive data from prying eyes until it's no longer sensitive.
Actually, no one ever really cracked the P3 DRM either, what was known was due to internal leaks, rumored to have been possibly deliberate, as NDC (Rupert Murdoch) owns their competitor, Dish Network! Anyway, the P3 hacks were all workarounds that still needed the real hardware DRM decryption engine to do the work. There was rumors of a soft decryptor, but I never saw one and personally I think that was vaporware.
Thank You! Since some dumbass put together a "Murphy's Laws" website, and packed it full of every clever saying about computers, the internet and technology ever uttered and attributed them to Mr. Murphy, every n00b who hits the net reads it and takes it as gospel.
AFAIK, Murphy only had ONE law, "If anything can go wrong it will, at the worst possible moment".
In one episode the boys go hunting, and while they're out doing that, it's explained to them they can shoot any animals, even an endangered species, in self defense. So they are told to remember to yell "It's comin' right for us!" as they shoot (one that's clearly standing still).
Someone once said if you have to explain a joke, it's no longer funny. Sorry...
Why sure it is. If you've ever played with a cat and dangled it upside down, they look just like that! (minus the maimed head, of course) My cat loves being upside down - but he's wierd and likes to lay on his back, too - something most cats hate...
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They tried. The O2's were Intel architecture. Seems nobody wanted to pay $20,000 for a pretty teal box with the same guts everyone else was selling for $2,000.
The only problem with Gravity I have heard of is covered by Wiley's Law: A person going off a cliff will not fall until he _notices_ he's standing in mid-air.
Other than than minor anomaly, I find Gravity quite reliable and consistent - every time I fall, it's always down!
I wanna see the "transformer" that will do anything with DC, which is what all batteries (natural or otherwise) produce.
A DC-DC converter is largely inefficient to make this voltage do anything useful either, the only way to raise the voltage is to connect a bunch of trees in series. The current is a function of how much surface area your electrodes have, and how strong the electrolyte is (not very, I gather).
Obviously, he couldn't see the forest because of the... oh, I give up.
Actually, Region Coding does have a tiny bit to do with the CSS encryption scheme in newer players. The newer players won't even read the keyset for the disc if it's the wrong region.
In that minor way, the improper region code would prevent the screener disc from being read at all by the screener player if the region codes don't agree.
I'm pretty sure the screener players are ones based on the newer player design. They are most likely only different in using a custom set of CSS keys that don't exist in normal commercial (or software) players.
Yep. Stock up on those "All-In-Wonder" capture cards, and plan on keeping an old Win2K/Linux box around for the next, oh, rest of your life...
Actually, it's from their "Blind Melon Chitlin" sketch:
Blind (singing): "...gonna sing her a song, gonna show her my ding-dong".
Director: "Cut!"
(Mumbles reviewing lyrics)
Director: "Hey, Blind baby, whats's this ding-dong thing?"
Assistant: "I think he's gonna show us!"
(Zipper noise)
Director: "Oh, wow, man!"
(Crew gasping and giggling noises)
Assistant: "We'll never fit that on the album cover!"
As long as you quantize the spectrum for the entire "connect" time within the clock window (visualize charging a capacitor the entire cycle) any extraneous energy, even a fast pulse would cause the detected spectrum (voltage level) to be wrong. The question then would be how little energy can you pulse with to be possibly below the detection threshold and appear as random noise on the medium?
The 9v battery simply powers the DTMF keypad and the speaker audio amplifier. Phones usually get this power from the line current, when they are off-hook there is enough current (20ma) to power these things.
However, the butt-set can monitor an on-hook (unterminated) line, but to do so it can't draw any significant current, or the CO will think the other end picked up the line. So, to be able to monitor the line you need a locally powered speaker amp. The butt-set also has a "hook" switch toggle on the side to "pick up" the line, then it acts just like a regular telephone with regard to line loading.
The DTMF keypad also needs the proper polarity which isn't guaranteed when randomly attaching clips to a pair. This could be done via a bridge rectifier like most telephone sets to make it polarity independent, but you still have the current draw problem. The keypad on regular phones only work when they go off-hook due to this.
Finally, 9v is nowhere near enough voltage to "fake it", the open loop voltage (on-hook) is around 48V. When you draw the required 20ma to go "off-hook", the voltage drops to somewhere around 12V.
Cool! I always naturally assumed that was their warning to us that THEY were recording the call.
Nice double-edged sword, sauce for the gander, etc.
I had never thought of looking at it that way. Well done!
That sounds like a clusterfuck - which the entire idea is, anyway...
Odd that you didn't include the movie from which you took your Nom De Plume!
My pix would be:
1. 2001
2. Star Wars - New Hope
3. Apollo 13
4. Star Trek - Wrath of Kahn
5. Fifth Element
Honorable mention to (not exclusively serious space movies but they are all excellent Sci Fi):
1. Heavy Metal
2. Blade Runner
3. Tron
4. Dark Star
5. Spaceballs
Laugh! Yes, let the professionals work on it! Bah.
I'm a professional, hummmmm lesseee, Broadcast Engineer, RF Design Engineer, Software Designer, 2-Way Radio Repair Tech, Telephone Systems Tech, TV/Small Appliance Tech, Pinball/Video Game Tech, I could go on, but you get the idea.
That little sign "No User Serviceable Parts Inside..." is NOT for me. I'm NOT a fucking User. The point is, I DON'T call repair centers. I know more than any of the dumbasses that work there. They make stupid assumptions, and finally wind up shotgunning the entire board set since there is a whole warehouse full of them in back. Yeah, it takes some real raw intelligence and mad skillz to be one of those "certified pros".
You must work there, because you made some really stupid assumptions:
Stupid Assumption #1. It was NOT damaged in shipping (It ran for 4 years and died WAAAY too soon).
Stupid Assumption #2. I can carry it in to a sony center (I can't).
Stupid Assumption #3. A dead picture tube can be replaced in 15 minutes (It can't).
Stupid Assumption #4. I am willing to pay more than half the price of the set for repair (I won't).
Stupid Assumption #5. I don't own a "CRT Rejuvenator" (I do) and didn't try it (I did).
Stupid Assumption #6. I didn't try tapping on the neck board (I did).
Stupid Assumption #7. I would settle for such a cheesy fix (I wouldn't).
Stupid Assumption #8. If people don't buy Sony's they still get their money. Maybe in the short term, but when the inventory backs up at Circuit City from people not buying them, like turds in a pipeline the shit will wash backwards, eventually to Sony's doorstep.
Hear, Hear!
The Sony WEGA's are teh SUCK technically. I just put one out on the curb 2 weeks ago. Planned obsolescence at it's finest!
I had a 32" flat tube that was only 4 years old, and the picture tube was arcing internally! The one thing that can't be fixed or replaced (well, it can, but it's $450.00 for a new tube and $500.00 for a new set).
Turns out that is a very common failure turning up on the professional service fault databases. Sony, when beat about the ears, and subjected to excessive whining, pissing and moaning will sometimes replace tubes that fail beyond the 3 year warranty, it is written.
This is inexcuseable planned obsolescence in my opinion. Shit, we had an old tank of an RCA TV that lasted about 25 years when I was growing up. After refining that technology another 20 years, they can't make a picture tube that lasts more than 4-5 fucking years!?!? Gimme a break.
I used to like Sony, I thought the first open reel video tape, the micro 4" screen portable TV, the first CD Walkman, all of which I own(ed), were the some of the coolest and greatest accomplishments ever in technology.
But due to my recent experiences with their cheap shit CD and DVD players, plus all the fun I had diagnosing and throwing away a TV set that died way before it's time, my opinion of Sony and their various "products" has been mighty dim lately. This DRM rootkit crapola just tears it, I won't have any problems boycotting Sony and all their various instances and apparitions.
It's because he's on TV - it's the natural propensity of talking heads to (de)evolve into plastic.
It's a sort of metamorphosis into an animation before your very eyes, referred to medically as "Clutch Cargo's Syndrome".
I HATE that Guy!
Some clients let you use randomized ports for that reason - use a range of 10,000 to 11,000 or something like that, it works behind a firewall pretty well...
Try BitTornado, it's my favorite. There are others out there that also allow port "range" configuration, too.
I don't know if Blizzard will allow this specifically, but most of the other trackers don't seem to mind the client picking a random high port.
Doh! Sorry - thought you were correcting the OP's use of you're... That's what I get for sticking my nose in someone else's mouth... (yecch!)
I agree with what the other reply said, plus it offers you the opportunity to install a battery backup circuit at that point, also. Then you have a full UPS instead of just a very steady regulator.
Actually, he was right - "your" is posessive - as in belonging to. So "you're", a contraction of "you are", was in fact quite correct.
It's not that it's unhackable, it's just too much trouble to have been broken so far. The encryption engine and relevant microcode is hidden deep in an ASIC, and no one has been able to secure an e-beam slicer long enough to open it up. There are only a few of them at major universities and chip fab labs, and it's pretty hard to "borrow" time on them during your lunch hour for such a "project". Someday, it will probably be broken but it has served the purpose of any successful encryption system - to keep sensitive data from prying eyes until it's no longer sensitive.
Actually, no one ever really cracked the P3 DRM either, what was known was due to internal leaks, rumored to have been possibly deliberate, as NDC (Rupert Murdoch) owns their competitor, Dish Network! Anyway, the P3 hacks were all workarounds that still needed the real hardware DRM decryption engine to do the work. There was rumors of a soft decryptor, but I never saw one and personally I think that was vaporware.
Wow, a tinfoil hat and robe! When do the pants and underwear come in?
They're not necessary! All I need is my trusty Ajax model Mountibank Lead Codpiece!
Thank You! Since some dumbass put together a "Murphy's Laws" website, and packed it full of every clever saying about computers, the internet and technology ever uttered and attributed them to Mr. Murphy, every n00b who hits the net reads it and takes it as gospel.
AFAIK, Murphy only had ONE law, "If anything can go wrong it will, at the worst possible moment".
You'd get my mod points if I had 'em today...
Heh... I think you have cause and effect reversed!
The animated TV show South Park.
In one episode the boys go hunting, and while they're out doing that, it's explained to them they can shoot any animals, even an endangered species, in self defense. So they are told to remember to yell "It's comin' right for us!" as they shoot (one that's clearly standing still).
Someone once said if you have to explain a joke, it's no longer funny. Sorry...
Why sure it is. If you've ever played with a cat and dangled it upside down, they look just like that! (minus the maimed head, of course) My cat loves being upside down - but he's wierd and likes to lay on his back, too - something most cats hate...