Actually, this should work better. Overburning was streching the operating parameters of the existing drive hardware beyond it's intended limits.
The HD-BURN technology is implemented in hardware that can handle it. The same technology is used in DVD drives, which have even finer tolerances, so this system should be solid and within the normal capabilites of the hardware used.
No, you can't. According to the tech specs, the only formats that you can put on it are VCD, SVCD and CD-ROM. CD-Audio or Red Book standard isn't on the list.
What prevents you from doing it is the shorter pit lengths and closer inter-track spacing that the new HD-BURN format uses. That can only be tracked by a modified CD-R drive (or one with HD-BURN already) or a DVD drive, which can track even smaller pits, already.
The other standard uses overburning, which some drives can read, but it's a crapshoot. I'm not completely familiar with the Sony method, but I'm guessing that a standard consumer CD-player (again, one dealing with Red Book standards) won't allow more than 74/80 minutes of audio.
Good luck - it's probably like trying to track spam - even if you get past the fake headers, etc. your search ends up in some unpronounceable country with no extradition or datacrime laws like the Cayman Islands.
The cable companies aren't doing anything - It's jsut that the device simply isn't effective against what they already doing. The cable companies as a matter of course are polling the boxes to see if they are connected, and the designers of the device were either unaware of that, or didn't care (scam).
It's the exact same way with DirectTV satellite service - you can unplug the box from the phone line, and you won't get charged for PPV until you reach a dollar limit, or 25 events. Then the box has to call home and "unload" the billing information, and you are charged for all the purchases at once.
A friend used to do this sometimes when he was financially strapped, then next month when he got paid, he'd plug the phone back in and pay for all the purchases. He wasn't really stealing - just delaying the billing bit.
They also can poll the newer boxes to make them dial home even if they have no pending PPV purchases.
The main difference is that with CATV they know where the box is, with satellite there is no way for them to tell.
The other difference is that with the satellite boxes, the pirates can clear the purchases from the removeable access card, whereas with cable boxes there's no way to clear that memory.
As far as the command set goes it's a vector processor. That means it has an instruction set that is completely unlike any standard scalar (Von Neumann) archictecture processor you may be familiar with. The CRAY series of supercomputers were one of the first vector processors around; do a google search for "CRAY Instruction Set Reference Card" and have a look. That will give you some insight on how a vector processor is programmed. Most instructions support 3 operands - 2 source and a destination argument.
Makes me think of the scene in "Amish Paradise" by Wierd Al Yankovic, where the farmer picks up the phone and cranks it up, and it spews dust in his face!
In a related story, Slashfires set ablaze the server farm at the Australian National University. "Twas 'orrible, mate!" recalled the sysadmin there, who narrowly avoided burning his (transmission garbled)......Fortunately, the MP3 and p0rn servers have reportedly survived the onslaught. Film at 11.
Line of sight. 50-200 miles depending on HAAT (height above average terrain) of the transmitting antenna. Such signals will go up infinitely, to the moon and beyond.
About 30 years ago, IIRC someone turned on a small transistor AM radio during takeoff/landing and the local oscillator in the radio emitted RF on just the right frequency to screw with the onboard Avionics. Since then it spooked the Airline industry, and they have a staunch policy about electronic devices - they don't distingush between a CD player and a radio receiver. Only fairly recently they finally decided laptops aren't radios - although they probably emit more RF than most radio receivers do today anyway, due to high clock speeds.
They also have a gadget inside called an "escrow hopper" which holds the coins until the end of the call, when a positive or negative 100 volt pulse is sent to trip the escrow hopper one way or the other - this tells the fone to either barf back or swallow the money.
They can if properly designed. Ma Bell spent millions on hardware and software at the Central Offices for fraud protection. They measure the exact frequency and duration of coin tone blasts, and it's pretty hard to fake it by hand. A microprocessor circuit to meter the tones precisely might do the trick...
Actually, it really is a genuine "Red Box". The REAL coin-tone generator circuit board in a real Ma Bell payphone is in fact in a red plastic box. That's where the term "Red Box" came from.
Thanks for the correction; I realized as I hit enter my example was a bit low. Oh, and yes, the other reason we don't use these for people is that it seems about every 1 in 10 of them blows up. The safety factors and redundancies aren't up to "human" standards.
They don't carry enough payload. They will carry up a 500-1000 pound satellite, but 2 people plus all the life-support crap necessary to keep them alive would weigh about the same. Not too economical to just send 2 people up, with no cargo. Also, they're not re-useable, nor cheap enough to be more economical than a re-useable vehicle. We need to send more than just people into space; we've been there, done that. Cargo capacity is the most important consideration, but cost is also important - the Shuttle holds lots of cargo, but it's too expensive to use for everything we want to send up.
Just stop putting hyperlinks in stories! The time it will take everyone to manually type in the URL's will stagger the onslaught, and the lazier readers won't even bother. Maybe this will keep from killing the poor little servers!:)
Funny you mention that, I'm watching TNN's Star Trek Marathon in FatVision right now as we speak! Makes Picard look like he works out, and makes Riker fatter that he already was:)
It already happens. I got pissed (as you predicted) when watching Max Headroom reruns on TechTV when 3/4 of the way through the show they shrunk the video to get a banner of what was "coming up next" onscreen. Gaaahhhh!!! Like 1) I give a damn and 2) Don't know how to use the guide(s) available to tell me this and 3) They couldn't tell me this last commercial break?
And let's not forget those damn omnipresent "surf" logos adorning the lower 1/32 of the screen area. Now that EVERY channel uses them, why do they insist on using text scrollers on the bottom line that get 1/2 obliterated by that damn logo? Duh.
Their website is www.fobbit.com, but I fear it may be slashdotted... I just tried to link to it and got a timeout - they might be down or just drowning:)
Slashdot Mirror
Or do you say CD nowadays? "Synesthesia" is an excellent album by Peter Himmelman. In the liner notes, it explains what the phenomenon is...
Actually, this should work better. Overburning was streching the operating parameters of the existing drive hardware beyond it's intended limits.
The HD-BURN technology is implemented in hardware that can handle it. The same technology is used in DVD drives, which have even finer tolerances, so this system should be solid and within the normal capabilites of the hardware used.
No, you can't. According to the tech specs, the only formats that you can put on it are VCD, SVCD and CD-ROM. CD-Audio or Red Book standard isn't on the list.
What prevents you from doing it is the shorter pit lengths and closer inter-track spacing that the new HD-BURN format uses. That can only be tracked by a modified CD-R drive (or one with HD-BURN already) or a DVD drive, which can track even smaller pits, already.
The other standard uses overburning, which some drives can read, but it's a crapshoot. I'm not completely familiar with the Sony method, but I'm guessing that a standard consumer CD-player (again, one dealing with Red Book standards) won't allow more than 74/80 minutes of audio.
O.K...
Expressed in DVD's: The size of a tiny shard of the DVD you broke in half in disgust.
Expressed in LOC's: The size of a sliver of paper that fell off an extremely old tome that was contained within.
You asked for it!
Good luck - it's probably like trying to track spam - even if you get past the fake headers, etc. your search ends up in some unpronounceable country with no extradition or datacrime laws like the Cayman Islands.
The cable companies aren't doing anything - It's jsut that the device simply isn't effective against what they already doing. The cable companies as a matter of course are polling the boxes to see if they are connected, and the designers of the device were either unaware of that, or didn't care (scam).
It's the exact same way with DirectTV satellite service - you can unplug the box from the phone line, and you won't get charged for PPV until you reach a dollar limit, or 25 events. Then the box has to call home and "unload" the billing information, and you are charged for all the purchases at once.
A friend used to do this sometimes when he was financially strapped, then next month when he got paid, he'd plug the phone back in and pay for all the purchases. He wasn't really stealing - just delaying the billing bit.
They also can poll the newer boxes to make them dial home even if they have no pending PPV purchases.
The main difference is that with CATV they know where the box is, with satellite there is no way for them to tell.
The other difference is that with the satellite boxes, the pirates can clear the purchases from the removeable access card, whereas with cable boxes there's no way to clear that memory.
No, but they are working on a USB simulator for it.
As far as the command set goes it's a vector processor. That means it has an instruction set that is completely unlike any standard scalar (Von Neumann) archictecture processor you may be familiar with. The CRAY series of supercomputers were one of the first vector processors around; do a google search for "CRAY Instruction Set Reference Card" and have a look. That will give you some insight on how a vector processor is programmed. Most instructions support 3 operands - 2 source and a destination argument.
Makes me think of the scene in "Amish Paradise" by Wierd Al Yankovic, where the farmer picks up the phone and cranks it up, and it spews dust in his face!
About "helping to establish new relationships with customers" - Plaintiff vs. Defendant?
In a related story, Slashfires set ablaze the server farm at the Australian National University. ...Fortunately, the MP3 and p0rn servers have reportedly survived the onslaught. Film at 11.
"Twas 'orrible, mate!" recalled the sysadmin there, who narrowly avoided burning his (transmission garbled)...
I'd love to see the guy stringing cat-5 cable in the airplane - punch through this wall, can't be important :)
Line of sight. 50-200 miles depending on HAAT (height above average terrain) of the transmitting antenna. Such signals will go up infinitely, to the moon and beyond.
About 30 years ago, IIRC someone turned on a small transistor AM radio during takeoff/landing and the local oscillator in the radio emitted RF on just the right frequency to screw with the onboard Avionics. Since then it spooked the Airline industry, and they have a staunch policy about electronic devices - they don't distingush between a CD player and a radio receiver. Only fairly recently they finally decided laptops aren't radios - although they probably emit more RF than most radio receivers do today anyway, due to high clock speeds.
They also have a gadget inside called an "escrow hopper" which holds the coins until the end of the call, when a positive or negative 100 volt pulse is sent to trip the escrow hopper one way or the other - this tells the fone to either barf back or swallow the money.
They can if properly designed. Ma Bell spent millions on hardware and software at the Central Offices for fraud protection. They measure the exact frequency and duration of coin tone blasts, and it's pretty hard to fake it by hand. A microprocessor circuit to meter the tones precisely might do the trick...
Actually, it really is a genuine "Red Box". The REAL coin-tone generator circuit board in a real Ma Bell payphone is in fact in a red plastic box. That's where the term "Red Box" came from.
Thanks for the correction; I realized as I hit enter my example was a bit low. Oh, and yes, the other reason we don't use these for people is that it seems about every 1 in 10 of them blows up. The safety factors and redundancies aren't up to "human" standards.
They don't carry enough payload. They will carry up a 500-1000 pound satellite, but 2 people plus all the life-support crap necessary to keep them alive would weigh about the same. Not too economical to just send 2 people up, with no cargo. Also, they're not re-useable, nor cheap enough to be more economical than a re-useable vehicle. We need to send more than just people into space; we've been there, done that. Cargo capacity is the most important consideration, but cost is also important - the Shuttle holds lots of cargo, but it's too expensive to use for everything we want to send up.
Just stop putting hyperlinks in stories! The time it will take everyone to manually type in the URL's will stagger the onslaught, and the lazier readers won't even bother. Maybe this will keep from killing the poor little servers! :)
Funny you mention that, I'm watching TNN's Star Trek Marathon in FatVision right now as we speak! Makes Picard look like he works out, and makes Riker fatter that he already was :)
It already happens. I got pissed (as you predicted) when watching Max Headroom reruns on TechTV when 3/4 of the way through the show they shrunk the video to get a banner of what was "coming up next" onscreen. Gaaahhhh!!! Like 1) I give a damn and 2) Don't know how to use the guide(s) available to tell me this and 3) They couldn't tell me this last commercial break?
And let's not forget those damn omnipresent "surf" logos adorning the lower 1/32 of the screen area.
Now that EVERY channel uses them, why do they insist on using text scrollers on the bottom line that get 1/2 obliterated by that damn logo? Duh.
And here I thought typos were due to being stoned...
Their website is www.fobbit.com, but I fear it may be slashdotted... I just tried to link to it and got a timeout - they might be down or just drowning :)