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  1. conFORmITY leaDS to BetTER READaBiLITY on Ask Slashdot: Do Coding Standards Make a Difference? · · Score: 1

    Conformity makes things easier to read; It depends on how extreme the grammer nazis go. The question is how much does it really matter that i used lowercase i's or incorrectly used a semicolon ... it depends on the context.

  2. Re:Why use region coding? on Spielberg Bitten by DVD Encryption · · Score: 5, Informative

    why are they even bothering to region code them?

    Because they werent suppose to!

    The S-View system requires a fully authored standard DVD-Video project as input, with only a few restrictions:

    1. Leave 200 MB free space on the disc (on Layer 0 of a dual layer title).
    2. Do not enable CSS.
    3. Do not set Region code.
    4. Do not set parental levels.
    5. Author the main feature as one continuous VTS, in MPEG 2.
    6. Do not author angles.
    7. Add a "Cinea Audio Track" as the last audio track for the title. "Cinea Audio Track" is a placeholder for watermarking data that the Cinea system generates. The content of this track is not important (the facility can use a track supplied by Cinea, or can generate their own). We can provide a Dolby Digital 128 kHz file (containing an audio test tone) 120 minutes in length, which is to be authored as the last audio under the entire feature.

    http://www.cinea.com/fews.html
  3. Someone please think of the servers on Scientists Spot Rare 'In Between' Black Hole · · Score: 3, Informative
  4. Priorities on U2 Threatens to Release Album Early on iTunes · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "French police have launched a major operation to find the disc."

    I just realized how screwed up this world really is. A major police operation has been launch to find a CD. Aparantly all other crimes have been defeated.

  5. Re:Need not cost money... but can P2P work? on Virtual Real Estate Boom Draws Real Dollars · · Score: 1

    How about a master blacklist?

    Have a client query the server, if it suspects cheating have another random server validate the cheating.

    The random server then determines wether or not it is cheating, and if so it sends the name/address to a master server.

    The master server then determines (again to prevent DOS on valid servers) if the server is cheating by either directly finding out (it is feasable the server would detect this and stop "cheating" for a while) or it could validate through multiple random other servers.

    This should allow for fairly rapid blacklisting and would require a very large number of compromised nodes to defeat it.

    The key to all this is having the servers selected for validation being random without that it probably wont work against large clans of naughty servers.

    Just a thought, im probably wrong though