I think that this may be something to consider (taken from a letter to my Senator)
"The movie industry as a collective has had great interest in recent years in selling multimedia machine- basically a highly specialized computer with copy restrictions built in. In a capitalist economy, such a produce would compete against older forms of media and traditional general-purpose desktop computers. All things being equal, the computer market is large enough to support their special machines alongside regular computers. However, it turns out that not all things are equal. When their products were tried in the marketplace, they failed miserably (the DivX machine is the most well known example). Most consumers refused outright to purchase hardware that they labeled as erestrictedf and the few who did purchase these media machines found that the restrictions they contained gave the machines extra technical difficulties and were more difficult to use in general.
Despite their failure in the marketplace, the movie industry seems to still want to sell their movies on similar machines. Having failed in a free market, this legislation would force consumers to buy general purpose computers that have been twisted into essentially being their multimedia players (making them no longer general-purpose. I have read about proposed hardware protections, and there is no way to implement them without limiting how they connect to other computers and without breaking many existing software tools.) Not only are they cheating the consumer out of a truly general purpose computer, they are forcing the computer hardware industry to pay the tab for producing hardware for the movie industry to sell their special protected files for"
Just post it through old (current, non-protected) hardware.The point is this would be posted from a hacked machine- every bit that is posted is controlled by the hacker.
I bet that something like this (anonymous p2p) whill suddenly become popular if they try to do this. Someone will hack their box to spit out unprotected versions of tv episodes etc and anonymously post them on places like freenet.
Instead of stopping piracy, they may actually make it easier in a way... or at least more widespread.
Point one is that this guy is wrong; the Japanese xbox disk drive scratched up disks. While the US release went great, the same cannot be said for overseas.
The other point is that the software itself had to be changed for different regions in unpredicted ways.Not only were languages different, but That includes the Xbox start-up screen, which had to be redesigned for the Xbox's European launch because nobody realized that the German "einstellungen" wouldn't fit in the same text space as "settings."
So with all of these differences(using the xbox as an example) how is Sony going to make a distributed world-wide game? Everyone would have to be using basically the same software, right? Unforseen changes needed for different regions could cause problems.
You know, that would be really neat if someone did just that on a small file. Just to make the point. Civil disobedience. 'So are pencils and magnifying glasses illegal?'
Older articles talked about using a hardware/software combo that would have protection flags. You can set the level of protection on files you generate. But if you dl a file or load it off a disc etc. you are at the mercy of their settings.
In other words, he who makes the files defines what can be done with it.
It just means people will buy their stuff from Hong Kong. That isn't as scarry as it sounds.
This reminds me of how the solution to a puzzle in 7th Guest read... The solution was, "There is no possible way."
That is kind of the situation we are in. There is no way to truely impliment unhackable hardware and software. The more money/time you spend into designing the protection, the more resources they are wasting. On a very basic level this is impossible, no matter how rich of a corp. you are.
If this really does come to pass, people will be buying anti-anti-copyprotection black boxes along with the usual cable tv black boxes at fleamarkets.:P
Really, the question is how much will this damage the industry before people chuck this non-protection concept?
The problem with that is just because life in general can survive that doesn't mean that 'human' life can survive that. Every continent except antarctica has tons of human life on it. You can't just say, well Asia just froze over... just move away from Asia! More than a few people would die.
Just because there have been radical changes in climate in the past doesn't mean it is 'ok' for it to happen in the future.
How exactly would it NOT make a difference? Each tiny bit of increase in temp causes a decrease in the longitude that ice can remain frozen. Imagine a line drawn around antarctica, and the line moving downward towards the south pole with each change in average temp. Even a small change in the position of that line causes a pretty big change in the area in that circle.
One of the iceberg articles said the change was 2.5 degrees.:P
Talk about holding fire until you see the lights of their eyes! Soldiers who only can be seen by their eyes, as that is the only spot where the 'light bending' isn't used. Interesting.:P
Alot of you guys aren't familiar with some of the older (as in >25 years ago) science fiction. If you were, you would see where ALOT of the anime stuff is coming from.
For example, in a billboard in AI city is the title of an English sci-fi novel of the same basic storyline.
You are worried about nukes going off on US soil? Guess what, It has already happened. Repeatedly. The difference is that the test site was in the central US as opposed to one of the coasts. But that doesn't mean thousands of Americans didn't die from it. These tests were done upwind of a town; they died of cancer...
(Area 51 is well known, but have you ever wondered where that name came from? It is a bomb grid reference. The place is radioactive.)
It is no secret, but since it hasn't gotten air time on the news alot of people don't seem to know about this. I have relatives who could see the mushroom clowds periodically from their homes.It's almost kind of like the rocket engine tests that produce huge clowds visable from Sandy, Utah. Alot of people have seen them, but few non-locals know about it.
"We now hold MS responsable for all mishaps that occur due to problems in their operating system. Every time something bad happens to a soldier on the field, the same thing will happen to a MS executive. Gates is going to love taking the punisment of the guy who just got captured and tortured..."
I wonder if that would speed up their security fixes.
I am afraid I agree. I would think that the DoD would want to use their own version of Linux or an OS totally their own. The military historically has made alot of their own stuff using their own programming languages. Why would this be different?
I think that I can answer my question myself though. With spending cutbacks + computers in every military building, they need something that they can easily and cheaply contract new software for. Windows has VB, VC++ etc so that the same app can be more cheaply than for other OS's (well, whether that is true or not is not as important as the fact that the BELIEVE that it is true). Like many corporations nowdays, they just want to point to a problem, throw some money at someone and say 'fix it' without having worrying about it anymore. This would be as opposed to having teams of their own computer scientists writing programs for and supporting Linux/DoDix/whatever.
I am thinking that their current use of windows is a transitional state, but a transition to what is the quesiton.
If these virus writers were really against MS, they would have named the virus.Net, which reallyl would mess with the heads of corporate management teams. I could imagine something like that slowing down the adoption of.Net in the corporate world.
It was an anime/manga in which a whole society lived on a planet that was a dump for another society's high tech trash. Enough of the junk worked or partially worked that they were able to make a fairly high tech society themselves; although it was a fairly lawless one. Living off of the trash of others has a psychological impact...
I remember reading an article a few years back on scientists combining anti-protons and anti-electrons to make anti-electrons. At the time they were still playing with the data they got, but the figured they made about 12 anti-atoms.
These guys are interesting in that they actually got the stuff to hold still for a while.
Also on the message board is the statement that ZD didn't inport the flash linkers at all; they were bought from a US supplier. (I wanna know who that is!)
zophar's domain was an emu site LONG before gba flash linkers even existed. They just recently started up the zd store to help pay for bandwith expenses caused by being a major emu site. No real profit is being made here; it is unlikely that their weak sales even let the site break even.
I used to live in Washington, and the legend there was that a local teen made the origional nes and sold the plans to Nintendo. It doesn't match what I have read on the net on the history of the net, but that is the legend.The nes that was finally sold obviously was modified from it's origional version, reguardless of what story you listen to.
Well, there were two gameboy advance competitions. One was on www.gbadev.org - go take a look.Obviously quite a few people are using these for purposes other than pirating.
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In contrast, gravity producing devices could let us do Dragonball Z style 'gravity training!' Instead of super weak, we get to be super strong!
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I can raise my power level!
I think that this may be something to consider (taken from a letter to my Senator)
"The movie industry as a collective has had great interest in recent years in selling multimedia machine- basically a highly specialized computer with copy restrictions built in. In a capitalist economy, such a produce would compete against older forms of media and traditional general-purpose desktop computers. All things being equal, the computer market is large enough to support their special machines alongside regular computers. However, it turns out that not all things are equal. When their products were tried in the marketplace, they failed miserably (the DivX machine is the most well known example). Most consumers refused outright to purchase hardware that they labeled as erestrictedf and the few who did purchase these media machines found that the restrictions they contained gave the machines extra technical difficulties and were more difficult to use in general.
Despite their failure in the marketplace, the movie industry seems to still want to sell their movies on similar machines. Having failed in a free market, this legislation would force consumers to buy general purpose computers that have been twisted into essentially being their multimedia players (making them no longer general-purpose. I have read about proposed hardware protections, and there is no way to implement them without limiting how they connect to other computers and without breaking many existing software tools.) Not only are they cheating the consumer out of a truly general purpose computer, they are forcing the computer hardware industry to pay the tab for producing hardware for the movie industry to sell their special protected files for"
Just post it through old (current, non-protected) hardware.The point is this would be posted from a hacked machine- every bit that is posted is controlled by the hacker.
www.freenetproject.org
I bet that something like this (anonymous p2p) whill suddenly become popular if they try to do this. Someone will hack their box to spit out unprotected versions of tv episodes etc and anonymously post them on places like freenet.
Instead of stopping piracy, they may actually make it easier in a way... or at least more widespread.
This brings up two points.
Point one is that this guy is wrong; the Japanese xbox disk drive scratched up disks. While the US release went great, the same cannot be said for overseas.
The other point is that the software itself had to be changed for different regions in unpredicted ways.Not only were languages different, but That includes the Xbox start-up screen, which had to be redesigned for the Xbox's European launch because nobody realized that the German "einstellungen" wouldn't fit in the same text space as "settings."
So with all of these differences(using the xbox as an example) how is Sony going to make a distributed world-wide game? Everyone would have to be using basically the same software, right? Unforseen changes needed for different regions could cause problems.
You know, that would be really neat if someone did just that on a small file. Just to make the point. Civil disobedience. 'So are pencils and magnifying glasses illegal?'
If that doesn't make the point, nothing will.
Older articles talked about using a hardware/software combo that would have protection flags. You can set the level of protection on files you generate. But if you dl a file or load it off a disc etc. you are at the mercy of their settings.
In other words, he who makes the files defines what can be done with it.
From the little these articles say about the proposal, it is non-retroactive. Currently manufactured stuff is ok.
But if you are wanting an mp3 player or a major computer upgrade, you have a year...
It just means people will buy their stuff from Hong Kong. That isn't as scarry as it sounds.
:P
This reminds me of how the solution to a puzzle in 7th Guest read... The solution was, "There is no possible way."
That is kind of the situation we are in. There is no way to truely impliment unhackable hardware and software. The more money/time you spend into designing the protection, the more resources they are wasting. On a very basic level this is impossible, no matter how rich of a corp. you are.
If this really does come to pass, people will be buying anti-anti-copyprotection black boxes along with the usual cable tv black boxes at fleamarkets.
Really, the question is how much will this damage the industry before people chuck this non-protection concept?
The problem with that is just because life in general can survive that doesn't mean that 'human' life can survive that. Every continent except antarctica has tons of human life on it. You can't just say, well Asia just froze over... just move away from Asia! More than a few people would die.
Just because there have been radical changes in climate in the past doesn't mean it is 'ok' for it to happen in the future.
How exactly would it NOT make a difference? Each tiny bit of increase in temp causes a decrease in the longitude that ice can remain frozen. Imagine a line drawn around antarctica, and the line moving downward towards the south pole with each change in average temp. Even a small change in the position of that line causes a pretty big change in the area in that circle.
:P
One of the iceberg articles said the change was 2.5 degrees.
Just add some 'augmented reality' gear so that they know where their comrads are by little cursers over their heads (a la Halo multiplayer).
"Light-deflecting material could make the suit blend in with surroundings.
-So that the number of soilders hurt or killed by friendly fire increases"
Talk about holding fire until you see the lights of their eyes! Soldiers who only can be seen by their eyes, as that is the only spot where the 'light bending' isn't used. Interesting. :P
Alot of you guys aren't familiar with some of the older (as in >25 years ago) science fiction. If you were, you would see where ALOT of the anime stuff is coming from.
For example, in a billboard in AI city is the title of an English sci-fi novel of the same basic storyline.
You are worried about nukes going off on US soil? Guess what, It has already happened. Repeatedly. The difference is that the test site was in the central US as opposed to one of the coasts. But that doesn't mean thousands of Americans didn't die from it. These tests were done upwind of a town; they died of cancer...
(Area 51 is well known, but have you ever wondered where that name came from? It is a bomb grid reference. The place is radioactive.)
It is no secret, but since it hasn't gotten air time on the news alot of people don't seem to know about this. I have relatives who could see the mushroom clowds periodically from their homes.It's almost kind of like the rocket engine tests that produce huge clowds visable from Sandy, Utah. Alot of people have seen them, but few non-locals know about it.
"We now hold MS responsable for all mishaps that occur due to problems in their operating system. Every time something bad happens to a soldier on the field, the same thing will happen to a MS executive. Gates is going to love taking the punisment of the guy who just got captured and tortured..."
I wonder if that would speed up their security fixes.
I am afraid I agree. I would think that the DoD would want to use their own version of Linux or an OS totally their own. The military historically has made alot of their own stuff using their own programming languages. Why would this be different?
I think that I can answer my question myself though. With spending cutbacks + computers in every military building, they need something that they can easily and cheaply contract new software for. Windows has VB, VC++ etc so that the same app can be more cheaply than for other OS's (well, whether that is true or not is not as important as the fact that the BELIEVE that it is true). Like many corporations nowdays, they just want to point to a problem, throw some money at someone and say 'fix it' without having worrying about it anymore. This would be as opposed to having teams of their own computer scientists writing programs for and supporting Linux/DoDix/whatever.
I am thinking that their current use of windows is a transitional state, but a transition to what is the quesiton.
If these virus writers were really against MS, they would have named the virus .Net, which reallyl would mess with the heads of corporate management teams. I could imagine something like that slowing down the adoption of .Net in the corporate world.
It was an anime/manga in which a whole society lived on a planet that was a dump for another society's high tech trash. Enough of the junk worked or partially worked that they were able to make a fairly high tech society themselves; although it was a fairly lawless one. Living off of the trash of others has a psychological impact...
I remember reading an article a few years back on scientists combining anti-protons and anti-electrons to make anti-electrons. At the time they were still playing with the data they got, but the figured they made about 12 anti-atoms.
These guys are interesting in that they actually got the stuff to hold still for a while.
That was on the message board.
Also on the message board is the statement that ZD didn't inport the flash linkers at all; they were bought from a US supplier. (I wanna know who that is!)
zophar's domain was an emu site LONG before gba flash linkers even existed. They just recently started up the zd store to help pay for bandwith expenses caused by being a major emu site. No real profit is being made here; it is unlikely that their weak sales even let the site break even.
No, he refused to mis-label his packages in an attempt to not cause problems with Customs. Read the site.
I used to live in Washington, and the legend there was that a local teen made the origional nes and sold the plans to Nintendo. It doesn't match what I have read on the net on the history of the net, but that is the legend.The nes that was finally sold obviously was modified from it's origional version, reguardless of what story you listen to.
Well, there were two gameboy advance competitions. One was on www.gbadev.org - go take a look.Obviously quite a few people are using these for purposes other than pirating.