Wouldnt the plastic in the CD itself begin to deform? I think they tried reinforcing it with Kevlar, and the Kevlar did not break, but the CD went between the wires.
Hmm... I live, and have lived, in Ann Arbor for my whole life (17.67 years) and I havent heard of it either. As a matter of fact, HEY! Its not in the phonebook! And its not as if its a very big town... Off the top of my head, I can think of only a few University/College institutions in the area: UofM, EMU (in Ypsi), Washtenaw Community College, and Concordia College. Hmm.. no "Ann Arbor University"...
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Student at Ann Arbor Pioneer High School
Ann Arbor, MI
Grr...
Ya know what really annoys me? Every time I see a REALLY good comment, I dont have any mod points. I would mod it up if I could, but I cant, so I wont.
If you run Linux, you can use X to do this. ANY internet connected machine that has an X server on it will work (these are avaliable for Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Unix, just about every major OS) to connect to it, and I have had good success using my home system (on a cable modem with a relatively slow upload cap) from an iMac or Win95 box from my CONGESTED high school network. Although I have never used a Java X server, I have heard that there is one avaliable (WeirdMind or something?) but I dont know how well it works. I successfully used KDE over this connection, and had very few problems (it was a bit slow to actually draw the windows, but seemed to speed up quite a bit once the window was open. For this reason I turned off features such as autohide taskbar) I was using my usual NIDE (Non Integrated Develpment Environment) of xterm and kwrite.
Before I used this system, I was using SSH to do all my work, and didnt find that it took any more time. I found a great java SSH client that has built in SCP and tunneling called MindTerm. I tunneled my X connection through this as well.
The server ALWAYS has an address to complain to. Try ones such as 'root.' If you can get the server admin, s/he is probably the only person who can fix the open relay anyway.
I think I saw a similar thing in a movie. IIRC, it was a Charles Bronson movie.
This guy had some gadget made of iron pipes, one slightly bigger than the other. The bigger one had an end cap on it, and he slid them apart, and placed a shotgun shell into the end of the smaller pipe, then slid the larger pipe forwad hard. I assume that the larger pipe had some sort of point on the inside of the end cap to fire the shell. I thought about it, and it seems to be at least SOMEWHAT realistic, as long as you use a fairly low yeild shell, so you dont break your wrist.
That is a great idea. What would be ideal is if when a company takes protecting their IP into their own hands, the government should no longer protect their IP from consumers. Rather, the government should protect the consumers from the companies.
Also, isnt it legal to give out information about how to break copy protection under THE FIRST AMMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES?!?! IIRC, it states:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
I think that this makes the DMCA unconstitutional, as it is a law "abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press." Any thing that says that people cannot distribute means to remove copy protection would be covered under this! I am going to research this further, and send letters to the Supreme Court and to the President. If they ignore me, I will know that the government really does not care about my rights, (as I have suspected all along.)
HELP! HELP! IM BEING REPRESSED!!! -- Monty Python and the Holy Grail
AFAIK, the tax is only on the sale of the blank "Music" cds. These have a special code stamped on them that says you have paid the tax, and the stand alone cd recorders (the ones that go into your stereo system) look for this code. If the cd doesnt have the code, (i.e. it is a "Data" cd) it refuses to record on it. Other than that, the two cds are the same. So, if you are using a cd recorder in your computer, you might as well just get "Data" cds, because they are the same as the "Audio" cds.
But, Sattelite connections are SOOOO laggy because of the distance to the sattelite! If you lived in the jungle, how would you get a good fast internet connection? Sure, you get ok bandwidth, but the ping is horrid!
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Ya know? I REALLY hate it when people do this. Someone made an honest mistake, and people yell at them for spelling. Its a safe bet to assume that anyone who read the post knows that he meant "lose" and not "loose," he just made a MISTAKE. MISTAKES HAPPEN!!! NO ONE IS PERFECT! Cut him some slack!
I dont know about you, but if they seal my computer case, I WILL get it open, and put everything into an old case I have lying around. Unless they start building computer cases like they used to (think: XT) Even if they weld it shut, people will get in.
So, where does the "copy protection" go in my computer? If its in the OS, I will just run an open source OS like Linux, and remove all the copy protection crap (if congress can get it in there) from my kernel and recompile. If its in hardware, its probably in the BIOS, or another chip on the mobo. When do the diagrams for soldering jumpers to your mobo for bypassing copy protection (I probably just violated the DMCA for suggesting a "circumvention" thingie) come out?
So, where is this anti copy stuff going to go? Ill just not compile the crap into my linux kernel, so its not in the OS, that's too simple to get around. BIOS? How long till we see people flashing their computers with bootleg BIOS w/o copy protection? Mobo mods? Soldering jumpers across the "copy protection unit?" Just how far will i have to go to get a computer that doesnt keep me from watching movies in an "approved" (microsoft) operating system?
Have we heard the opinions of any Blizzard people yet? From what I understand, all of this is coming from their parent company, Vivendi (sp?) Blizzard cant really do much about that aside from making suggestions. Some of the Blizzard people may have realized Vivendi's mistake, but theres no way they can demand that Vivendi back off. Any Blizzard employees here? Please tell us what you have heard about all of this.
What about old fashioned copy protection? (How many hit points does an Ogre-Mage have? How much damage can a Grunt do? etc.) I would think that would be enough;)
But... StarOffice 6 beta (which I have regularly used for several months instead of MS Office) is as good if not better than the MS products. It still lacks in a few features, but I have found it to be more stable than any of the MS Office programs.
Also, depending on what features it has in addition to those of OpenOffice, I will probably purchace StarOffice 6.0 because it will most probably be less than MS Office. I don't think it would be smart for Sun to sell StarOffice for $300+ like MS Office, it will probably run around $100.
I saw a nice solid state drive somewhere. Dont remember where though. It hooked up via external SCSI, and stored everything on 30 gigs of SDRAM. When it had to power down, it copied everything to a pair of mirrored 30 gig hard drives. It even had a built in UPS with enough power to put everything onto the hard drives if power failed.
heh yeah i have had that problem
I bought a nice large (at the time) 60GiB drive several months ago, and within a couple months, it was more than half full, and you could buy a 130GiB drive for the same price!!!
To COMPLETELY close a heating vent during the summer, you can get sheets of magnetic material used for closing off heat to unused rooms. You should be able to get it at Home Depot, Lowes, or a hardware store or something. You just cut it to size, and it competely seals the vent.
Insulate the room, and put the "Cold Air Return" vents near the celing, because you will be venting warm air, not cold, so it will all be rising. Place vents from your furnace/ac near the floor, and put in a vent to the outside, with a fan in it. Get a portible air conditioner (the kind with a hose on them that can be stuck out a window or wherever you want to vent it) Make sure to get a window thingie for it so you can have the tube go out a window with no spaces around it.
During the summer, vent the air conditioner out the window, seal the cold air return vents (to keep the heat out of your main air conditioner and save energy) and open the vents from your furnace/house ac. The already cold air from your house ac will be cooled further by the air conditioner in the room, and all the heat will go out the hose to the window.
During the winter, open the cold air return vents, and remove one of the covers to shove the air conditioner hose down the pipe. Seal the furnace vents, and open and turn on the vent to outside. The extra heat from the air conditioner will be sent through the cold air returns to your furnace, where it will need less energy to heat.
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Wouldnt the plastic in the CD itself begin to deform? I think they tried reinforcing it with Kevlar, and the Kevlar did not break, but the CD went between the wires.
Hmm... I live, and have lived, in Ann Arbor for my whole life (17.67 years) and I havent heard of it either. As a matter of fact, HEY! Its not in the phonebook! And its not as if its a very big town... Off the top of my head, I can think of only a few University/College institutions in the area: UofM, EMU (in Ypsi), Washtenaw Community College, and Concordia College. Hmm.. no "Ann Arbor University"... -- Adam Jaskiewicz Student at Ann Arbor Pioneer High School Ann Arbor, MI
Grr... Ya know what really annoys me? Every time I see a REALLY good comment, I dont have any mod points. I would mod it up if I could, but I cant, so I wont.
If you run Linux, you can use X to do this. ANY internet connected machine that has an X server on it will work (these are avaliable for Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Unix, just about every major OS) to connect to it, and I have had good success using my home system (on a cable modem with a relatively slow upload cap) from an iMac or Win95 box from my CONGESTED high school network. Although I have never used a Java X server, I have heard that there is one avaliable (WeirdMind or something?) but I dont know how well it works. I successfully used KDE over this connection, and had very few problems (it was a bit slow to actually draw the windows, but seemed to speed up quite a bit once the window was open. For this reason I turned off features such as autohide taskbar) I was using my usual NIDE (Non Integrated Develpment Environment) of xterm and kwrite. Before I used this system, I was using SSH to do all my work, and didnt find that it took any more time. I found a great java SSH client that has built in SCP and tunneling called MindTerm. I tunneled my X connection through this as well.
The server ALWAYS has an address to complain to. Try ones such as 'root.' If you can get the server admin, s/he is probably the only person who can fix the open relay anyway.
I think I saw a similar thing in a movie. IIRC, it was a Charles Bronson movie. This guy had some gadget made of iron pipes, one slightly bigger than the other. The bigger one had an end cap on it, and he slid them apart, and placed a shotgun shell into the end of the smaller pipe, then slid the larger pipe forwad hard. I assume that the larger pipe had some sort of point on the inside of the end cap to fire the shell. I thought about it, and it seems to be at least SOMEWHAT realistic, as long as you use a fairly low yeild shell, so you dont break your wrist.
Gloin? Nori? Dori? Ori? Balin? Dwalin? Thorin? I can go on, but it would take to long. Oh! The latest one i read about: Mim
Hey Kirkoff
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these!
That is a great idea. What would be ideal is if when a company takes protecting their IP into their own hands, the government should no longer protect their IP from consumers. Rather, the government should protect the consumers from the companies.
Also, isnt it legal to give out information about how to break copy protection under THE FIRST AMMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES?!?! IIRC, it states:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
I think that this makes the DMCA unconstitutional, as it is a law "abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press." Any thing that says that people cannot distribute means to remove copy protection would be covered under this! I am going to research this further, and send letters to the Supreme Court and to the President. If they ignore me, I will know that the government really does not care about my rights, (as I have suspected all along.)
HELP! HELP! IM BEING REPRESSED!!! -- Monty Python and the Holy Grail
AFAIK, the tax is only on the sale of the blank "Music" cds. These have a special code stamped on them that says you have paid the tax, and the stand alone cd recorders (the ones that go into your stereo system) look for this code. If the cd doesnt have the code, (i.e. it is a "Data" cd) it refuses to record on it. Other than that, the two cds are the same. So, if you are using a cd recorder in your computer, you might as well just get "Data" cds, because they are the same as the "Audio" cds.
But, Sattelite connections are SOOOO laggy because of the distance to the sattelite! If you lived in the jungle, how would you get a good fast internet connection? Sure, you get ok bandwidth, but the ping is horrid!
Ya know? I REALLY hate it when people do this. Someone made an honest mistake, and people yell at them for spelling. Its a safe bet to assume that anyone who read the post knows that he meant "lose" and not "loose," he just made a MISTAKE. MISTAKES HAPPEN!!! NO ONE IS PERFECT! Cut him some slack!
I dont know about you, but if they seal my computer case, I WILL get it open, and put everything into an old case I have lying around. Unless they start building computer cases like they used to (think: XT) Even if they weld it shut, people will get in.
So, where does the "copy protection" go in my computer? If its in the OS, I will just run an open source OS like Linux, and remove all the copy protection crap (if congress can get it in there) from my kernel and recompile. If its in hardware, its probably in the BIOS, or another chip on the mobo. When do the diagrams for soldering jumpers to your mobo for bypassing copy protection (I probably just violated the DMCA for suggesting a "circumvention" thingie) come out?
So, where is this anti copy stuff going to go? Ill just not compile the crap into my linux kernel, so its not in the OS, that's too simple to get around. BIOS? How long till we see people flashing their computers with bootleg BIOS w/o copy protection? Mobo mods? Soldering jumpers across the "copy protection unit?" Just how far will i have to go to get a computer that doesnt keep me from watching movies in an "approved" (microsoft) operating system?
Have we heard the opinions of any Blizzard people yet? From what I understand, all of this is coming from their parent company, Vivendi (sp?) Blizzard cant really do much about that aside from making suggestions. Some of the Blizzard people may have realized Vivendi's mistake, but theres no way they can demand that Vivendi back off. Any Blizzard employees here? Please tell us what you have heard about all of this.
What about old fashioned copy protection? (How many hit points does an Ogre-Mage have? How much damage can a Grunt do? etc.) I would think that would be enough ;)
OK. I am usually not this mean about things, but this whole MPAA/DCMA crap is driving me nuts! Everyone: Visit http://www.mpaa.org/
But...
StarOffice 6 beta (which I have regularly used for several months instead of MS Office) is as good if not better than the MS products. It still lacks in a few features, but I have found it to be more stable than any of the MS Office programs.
Also, depending on what features it has in addition to those of OpenOffice, I will probably purchace StarOffice 6.0 because it will most probably be less than MS Office. I don't think it would be smart for Sun to sell StarOffice for $300+ like MS Office, it will probably run around $100.
Heh, mebbe we can protect it with the transparent aluminum oxide tile!!!!
I saw a nice solid state drive somewhere. Dont remember where though. It hooked up via external SCSI, and stored everything on 30 gigs of SDRAM. When it had to power down, it copied everything to a pair of mirrored 30 gig hard drives. It even had a built in UPS with enough power to put everything onto the hard drives if power failed.
heh yeah i have had that problem
I bought a nice large (at the time) 60GiB drive several months ago, and within a couple months, it was more than half full, and you could buy a 130GiB drive for the same price!!!
To COMPLETELY close a heating vent during the summer, you can get sheets of magnetic material used for closing off heat to unused rooms. You should be able to get it at Home Depot, Lowes, or a hardware store or something. You just cut it to size, and it competely seals the vent.
Insulate the room, and put the "Cold Air Return" vents near the celing, because you will be venting warm air, not cold, so it will all be rising. Place vents from your furnace/ac near the floor, and put in a vent to the outside, with a fan in it. Get a portible air conditioner (the kind with a hose on them that can be stuck out a window or wherever you want to vent it) Make sure to get a window thingie for it so you can have the tube go out a window with no spaces around it.
During the summer, vent the air conditioner out the window, seal the cold air return vents (to keep the heat out of your main air conditioner and save energy) and open the vents from your furnace/house ac. The already cold air from your house ac will be cooled further by the air conditioner in the room, and all the heat will go out the hose to the window.
During the winter, open the cold air return vents, and remove one of the covers to shove the air conditioner hose down the pipe. Seal the furnace vents, and open and turn on the vent to outside. The extra heat from the air conditioner will be sent through the cold air returns to your furnace, where it will need less energy to heat.
I dunno. I sorta liked how they brought the taskbar back in win95.