Dunno, but 1, 2 and 3 were sabotaged and destroyed during construction, and 4 vanished without a trace 24h after becoming operation... oops, wrong subject:)
P2s were already obsolete 3-4 years ago. Considering normal computer replacement cycle is 3-4 years, you are a BIT overdue if you are still stuck with P2s.
One screw + quick fingers and you have a laptop with a missing hard drive. People steal everything that is not bolted down, and Thinkpad hard drives are just too quick to remove for a computer that is accessible by 'random' people - even in a place where the systems are supposedly watched over. You just slide the laptop side over an edge of a desk, use small screwdriver in your palm to remove the screw, and slide out the drive to your pocket. BAD.
You can secure the laptop to a desk so it won't walk off, but thinkpad hard drives have a way of taking the walk.
Those laptops where you first unscrew a HDD bay cover (having to most defintely flip the laptop first), and then under that cover unscrew 2-4 more screws to pull the drive out are MUCH better. That takes so much time that the stunt of quietly stealing the drive is way more difficult to pull off.
Night vision goggles wont catch telesync/telecine guys. They are doing it with the help of the theater staff. Sound is usually coming direct from the audio system (no mic used).
So in the context of this story, telesync and cam are way different.
On the internet, I don't belive that 92% of the files copied are cams. No way. That statistic is BOGUS.
But for the street vendors, pushing VCDs and crappy VHS dupes to idiots, it might even be true. Or might have been a few years back - nowdays with pirate DVDs of unreleased-to-DVD movies are more common, and with those the customers already demand a bit more quality than a cammed copy.
Lots of pirate _sales_ are made on the very first days the movie is out - and at that point the cammed version might be the only thing that's out there. The dumb pirate *buyers* do not know any better, and I could belive a hefty chunk of the sales are cammed copies. Tho I still think that 92% number must include telesyncs, which are made with a tripod, in an empty theater with the cooperation of the staff. And THAT problem is fixable by securing the handling and showing of the prints. Of course THAT would cost money. Probably more than what it costs to buy off new laws to toss camming kids to jail.
In today's PCs and Laptops, everything is very modular. And at the same time the components are so tightly packed that you cannot possibly do 'real repairs' without major magnifying glass, special tools and access to documentation on the device that nobody outside the original manufacture can have.
So its all about replacing dead parts until the thingy works. You can eliminate the cause by simple trial & error + pile of known working parts.
I know I've been 'trained' for laptop repairs of certain models. In about 30min for each model - which basically consisted of demonstrating how to disassemble and reassemble the thing, and which parts were replaceable and how ya could troubleshoot few of the most common faults.
Not rocket science... and if they can save on costs of moving things around by doing that in some shipping depot, more power to them:) Especially if the huge spares warehouse IS at the said shipping depot.
Sadly you can't convince millions of people tied to the major parties to suddenly jump ship.
So every vote to Nader this year is a vote that helps Bush. Yes, the system is broken, but trying to promote a 'third candidate' who has no possible hope of even getting 10% of the vote is counter-productive.
Nobody bothers with cam copies anymore anyway. You can find good telecines/telesyncs within a few days of release already.
Telesync = empty theater, cam on a tripod, sound from the theater sound panels. So theater employees are helping or doing it. Studio's own fault for not securely handling the prints/theaters. Ah but the theaters want to get by with just one guy running multiple showings being paid just bit over minimum wage while working long hours. And you wonder why these guys 'leak' stuff?
Telecine = print of the movie, telecine machine, basically an unauthorized film-to-digital transfer. Requires complete access to the print at a location with a telecine machine. DEFINITELY means that studios don't handle the security of the prints as they should. Nobody should be able to walk out of a theater with the print to telecine it. Meaning some prints end up in wrong hands - either out of the theaters or from the studios themselves.
And since law is apparently only vs. cammers, getting the print telecined is still apparently just a copyright infringement.
Of course buying a law against teleciners would make the studios admit that their prints are not handled securely and that the movie theater employees are leaking like hell. If pirates commonly can get the whole print in their hands and run it thru a telecine machine at their leisure, that would possibly wake up the lawmakers that this law is beyond stupid and does nothing to curb piracy.
Non-IE users *ARE* safe. The redirect might work, but that's irrelevant since the payload in the (now-offline, totally overloaded server) does not load up unless you are using IE. It actually served multiple payloads, and one of those abused yet-unpatched IE hole.
Seems like a nice keylogger. It also installs another trojan. Virus vendors seem to be getting on the ball. Also the site which distributes the payload is currently dying under the load. The virus is apparently bit too succesful for it's own good.
No, Apple doesn't count. It's priced so that for the same price I could get a dual CPU server setup as 'workstation' in the PC world as well, and most likely would have spare money for the second setup as well:) - I'm looking for 'high end PC desktop' pricerange. G5 is way past that.
I myself *do* use SCSI. However, SCSI disk prices are out of this world, so its unsuitable for mass storage. Out of my 550GB, only 27GB is SCSI.
Call me when 3ware puts out something for PCI Express. Desktop computers do not have PCI-X slots, and normal PCI is a huge bottleneck for something as bandwidth-hungry as a raid controller.
Of course what I'd *really* want is a motherboard with a real, fast RAID controller built in, connected to the fast interconnects like thse chips.
Promise's chips are closest to this. Would have loved to see them compared to the south bridge crap they went thru.
Prescotts with Intel's version of x86-64 are coming out by early autumn. MS delaying the OS is partly because they don't want to piss Intel off. They also want to ensure the thing works perfectly on both versions, and while they are largerly compatible, there are couple of small differences.
Yes it is. Well, dying fast. You americans may be behind. Here in Finland our cable company is quickly running down the analog service. You probably will get the 'basic' free channels as analog for another 2-3 years, but most of the pay channels are already digital only.
So, for me, analog tuner HD box is useless. This product would never fly on the finnish market since all over-the-air TV is going digital in couple of years, and cable is probably going to be all digital by then too.
It has more than one drive inside, and it's not yet shipping. I was talking about single drives.
If I'd have to build 1TB setup right now, it would most likely be four 250GB drives, possibly striped if reliability was not an issue (or if your plan was to have two 1TB setups mirroring each other)
Analog = RIP. And dedicated separate digital tuners/descramblers = teh suck for timeshifting etc.
What I need is a 1TB box with 2-3 *digital* (DVB-C or DVB-T for us euros) tuners, and with a Conax descrambler smartcard support. So I could record at least one channel while watching another (or maybe 2 channels while watching third). In full digital glory. HDTV support would be a bonus, but that is not happening in europe at such a fast rate - I think broadcasters first want to move to digital, and then its easier to reuse the spare frequencies for HDTV signals once analog is dead and buried.
But no. Sony is designing an obsolete analog tuner box with a ridiculous pricetag...:(
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Let me guess - viewing each note = text message, or at least bunch of GPRS data transfer. And if you think that's free...
1. Make location-based 'text note' service
2. Add stupid people (supply: near infinite)
3. PROFIT!!!!
Dunno, but 1, 2 and 3 were sabotaged and destroyed during construction, and 4 vanished without a trace 24h after becoming operation... oops, wrong subject :)
P2s were already obsolete 3-4 years ago. Considering normal computer replacement cycle is 3-4 years, you are a BIT overdue if you are still stuck with P2s.
And thats why I know businesses that hate them.
One screw + quick fingers and you have a laptop with a missing hard drive. People steal everything that is not bolted down, and Thinkpad hard drives are just too quick to remove for a computer that is accessible by 'random' people - even in a place where the systems are supposedly watched over. You just slide the laptop side over an edge of a desk, use small screwdriver in your palm to remove the screw, and slide out the drive to your pocket. BAD.
You can secure the laptop to a desk so it won't walk off, but thinkpad hard drives have a way of taking the walk.
Those laptops where you first unscrew a HDD bay cover (having to most defintely flip the laptop first), and then under that cover unscrew 2-4 more screws to pull the drive out are MUCH better. That takes so much time that the stunt of quietly stealing the drive is way more difficult to pull off.
Night vision goggles wont catch telesync/telecine guys. They are doing it with the help of the theater staff. Sound is usually coming direct from the audio system (no mic used).
So in the context of this story, telesync and cam are way different.
Actually...
On the internet, I don't belive that 92% of the files copied are cams. No way. That statistic is BOGUS.
But for the street vendors, pushing VCDs and crappy VHS dupes to idiots, it might even be true. Or might have been a few years back - nowdays with pirate DVDs of unreleased-to-DVD movies are more common, and with those the customers already demand a bit more quality than a cammed copy.
Lots of pirate _sales_ are made on the very first days the movie is out - and at that point the cammed version might be the only thing that's out there. The dumb pirate *buyers* do not know any better, and I could belive a hefty chunk of the sales are cammed copies. Tho I still think that 92% number must include telesyncs, which are made with a tripod, in an empty theater with the cooperation of the staff. And THAT problem is fixable by securing the handling and showing of the prints. Of course THAT would cost money. Probably more than what it costs to buy off new laws to toss camming kids to jail.
In today's PCs and Laptops, everything is very modular. And at the same time the components are so tightly packed that you cannot possibly do 'real repairs' without major magnifying glass, special tools and access to documentation on the device that nobody outside the original manufacture can have.
:) Especially if the huge spares warehouse IS at the said shipping depot.
So its all about replacing dead parts until the thingy works. You can eliminate the cause by simple trial & error + pile of known working parts.
I know I've been 'trained' for laptop repairs of certain models. In about 30min for each model - which basically consisted of demonstrating how to disassemble and reassemble the thing, and which parts were replaceable and how ya could troubleshoot few of the most common faults.
Not rocket science... and if they can save on costs of moving things around by doing that in some shipping depot, more power to them
Humans are Illogical, as Mr. Spock would put it.
I tend to agree.
Stop using crappy P2P programs that are filled with cammed crap. :)
Sadly you can't convince millions of people tied to the major parties to suddenly jump ship.
So every vote to Nader this year is a vote that helps Bush. Yes, the system is broken, but trying to promote a 'third candidate' who has no possible hope of even getting 10% of the vote is counter-productive.
Farenheit 9/11? Got any links to a .torrent of good telecine/telesync of it? :p
(ooops)
Nobody bothers with cam copies anymore anyway. You can find good telecines/telesyncs within a few days of release already.
Telesync = empty theater, cam on a tripod, sound from the theater sound panels. So theater employees are helping or doing it. Studio's own fault for not securely handling the prints/theaters. Ah but the theaters want to get by with just one guy running multiple showings being paid just bit over minimum wage while working long hours. And you wonder why these guys 'leak' stuff?
Telecine = print of the movie, telecine machine, basically an unauthorized film-to-digital transfer. Requires complete access to the print at a location with a telecine machine. DEFINITELY means that studios don't handle the security of the prints as they should. Nobody should be able to walk out of a theater with the print to telecine it. Meaning some prints end up in wrong hands - either out of the theaters or from the studios themselves.
And since law is apparently only vs. cammers, getting the print telecined is still apparently just a copyright infringement.
Of course buying a law against teleciners would make the studios admit that their prints are not handled securely and that the movie theater employees are leaking like hell. If pirates commonly can get the whole print in their hands and run it thru a telecine machine at their leisure, that would possibly wake up the lawmakers that this law is beyond stupid and does nothing to curb piracy.
Thankfully those laws do not apply to people living, *gasp*, outside the united states.
Whoever sold this harebrained idea to Indiana state gov must be hell of a salesdroid. This will crash and burn so badly its not even funny.
Non-IE users *ARE* safe. The redirect might work, but that's irrelevant since the payload in the (now-offline, totally overloaded server) does not load up unless you are using IE. It actually served multiple payloads, and one of those abused yet-unpatched IE hole.
So mozilla etc are still safe.
Link seems dead. Which is odd, since it's also linked from the front page of their security section.
http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/padodorw.shtml
Seems like a nice keylogger. It also installs another trojan. Virus vendors seem to be getting on the ball. Also the site which distributes the payload is currently dying under the load. The virus is apparently bit too succesful for it's own good.
In Real Browsers javascript is sandboxed and it cannot do anything harmful. This thingy uses javascript to perform IE-only exploit.
US-CERT is giving bullshit advice.
Basically they are saying 'this thing uses javascript, so users should disable javascript unless absolutely neccessary'.
Only problem being that I bet lots of the big name sites compromised require javascript.
Depending on what the payload does, this could turn nasty before monday.
0-day exploits in widely used closed source software being exploited for malicious purposes = fun.
No, Apple doesn't count. It's priced so that for the same price I could get a dual CPU server setup as 'workstation' in the PC world as well, and most likely would have spare money for the second setup as well :) - I'm looking for 'high end PC desktop' pricerange. G5 is way past that.
I myself *do* use SCSI. However, SCSI disk prices are out of this world, so its unsuitable for mass storage. Out of my 550GB, only 27GB is SCSI.
Call me when 3ware puts out something for PCI Express. Desktop computers do not have PCI-X slots, and normal PCI is a huge bottleneck for something as bandwidth-hungry as a raid controller.
Of course what I'd *really* want is a motherboard with a real, fast RAID controller built in, connected to the fast interconnects like thse chips.
Promise's chips are closest to this. Would have loved to see them compared to the south bridge crap they went thru.
What?
Have you been hibernating past few months?
Prescotts with Intel's version of x86-64 are coming out by early autumn. MS delaying the OS is partly because they don't want to piss Intel off. They also want to ensure the thing works perfectly on both versions, and while they are largerly compatible, there are couple of small differences.
Yes it is. Well, dying fast. You americans may be behind. Here in Finland our cable company is quickly running down the analog service. You probably will get the 'basic' free channels as analog for another 2-3 years, but most of the pay channels are already digital only.
So, for me, analog tuner HD box is useless. This product would never fly on the finnish market since all over-the-air TV is going digital in couple of years, and cable is probably going to be all digital by then too.
It has more than one drive inside, and it's not yet shipping. I was talking about single drives.
If I'd have to build 1TB setup right now, it would most likely be four 250GB drives, possibly striped if reliability was not an issue (or if your plan was to have two 1TB setups mirroring each other)
Analog = RIP. And dedicated separate digital tuners/descramblers = teh suck for timeshifting etc.
:(
What I need is a 1TB box with 2-3 *digital* (DVB-C or DVB-T for us euros) tuners, and with a Conax descrambler smartcard support. So I could record at least one channel while watching another (or maybe 2 channels while watching third). In full digital glory. HDTV support would be a bonus, but that is not happening in europe at such a fast rate - I think broadcasters first want to move to digital, and then its easier to reuse the spare frequencies for HDTV signals once analog is dead and buried.
But no. Sony is designing an obsolete analog tuner box with a ridiculous pricetag...
You honestly think it has a single 1TB drive? For even a moment?
Largest drives right now are in the 400GB range, and they are still bit expensive.
I personally expect it to contain 4-8 drives. Possibly with even a raid5 setup.