What I'm concernec about is the situation of HDTV and what happens if the CBDTBA (or whatever it's called right now passes). It basically outlaws unencrypted digital (or ANALOG hi-def) media. What some are pushing for is that only encrypted data enters your DTV, and there is no access to the anlog output at any point.
THe problem is, that means all us early adoptors of HDTV are basically being told to go fuck ourselves. My set has three connectors (Component) which are basically Hi-Def analog inputs. It requires a box to tune the HDTV (or even just DTV) signals in (so in 2006, I'll *need* to have a box).
Well if some have there way, then basically no box can ever be made that decrpyts HI-def signals and outputs analog. Since it would be outlawed. They want a DVI port on the back of DTV sets, and thats it. Encrpyted stuff goes in, nothing comes out.
THe situation with OTA (over the air) is worse. Since you can't encrypt a broadcast, they won't likely show movies OTA in Hi-Def (the FCC mandate is for DIGITAL tv, and does not say anything about High-Definition), and so what will happen is whenever someone isn't comfortable with the signal being unencrypted OTA, then can choose to downconvert it back to DTV resolutions (so you don't have such a high quality to pirate).
This all makes me sick. I don't know where this will all end, but there's going to be some serious backlash if this keeps up. Consumers will NOT tolerate this kind of abuse. Fair use rights are being destroyed. HDTV will never catch on light this.
Ahh well, at least my DVDs look REALLY nice now, thats all I really wanted. Hopefully the dust will settle on this mess within the next 2 years (when my TV's warranty expires and it blows up).;)
Okay, given that a properly encoded MP3 (e.g. lame --r3mix ) has been proven to be indistinguishable from the source material in double-blind tests
Dude! Get a better set of speakers. If you are listening to this on a set of speakers that came in a cow patterned box, try again. Listen to any MP3 on pro quality headphones and you will be amazed. I think a lot of people are USED to mp3 sound, they don't notice the high end getting absolutely TRASHED by compression. Also, a lot of times the bass response is diminished, most people don't even hear lower bass due to poor bass response of most speakers, and those that due, have loose muddy bass from their speakers anyhow, and wouldn't notice the difference.
Beyond that... you're plan makes no sense whatsoever.
Obviously the burden of not violating copyright rests with the user under Australian law, which is the same as that applied to photocopiers. Today evening I saw the machine and it's really cool. Wonder what would happen to this machine in U.S. and Europe."
Yeah, right. It'll never happen. Could you imagine if the machine was within walking distance of the local music store? 1 kid buys a CD, 10 kids get copies. It's napster, but moved to sneaker-net.
Sure, it *could* be used responsibly, and thats why its legal in some areas, it would even be legal in the US as long as it didnt circumvent any copy protection (ie: PC Games, etc), but I still dont expect to see that any time soon, it would just get abused far too much.
It even bypasses some anti-copying measures....
That's a violation of the DMCA (Digital Millenium Copyright Act), which makes it illegal to circumvent any copy protection system.
Mozilla currently will warn you when a build is older than two weeks. It continues to function however. The reason for this, is so that bug reports are relevant to the current codebase, and new bugs are found quicker, and less duplicates are reported.
Personally I don't feel the software should expire or stop working in any way. But a better approach is software that can check for newer releases of itself, and possibly auto-update itself.
A good example of this is Gnucleus's evolve capability. If a security problem is found, most all the users would know about it the next time the program checked for an update, and it would get fixed easily within a day or two.
Why can't you just continue to use PGPFreeware 7.02 (whatever the latest is?) It's not like they can stop you from using it. Unless it gets "broken" somehow (I doubt it).
Seems I upgraded to a widescreen set JUST IN TIME!
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"This tv has been modified. It has been formatted to fit your movie."
PAN & SCAN should be a CRIME!
...have doubled the distance record for high-bandwidth, ultra long-distance transmission by sending 2.56 terabits (trillion bits) of information per second over a distance of 4000 kilometers (2500 miles), roughly the distance between Orlando, Fla., and San Diego.
Yet, I still can't even get 144 Kilobits/s from Verizon at 5 miles... where's my Fiber-to-the-home?
Lot's of time, when registering for a website for example, an email is required. It requires you to respond to an email to verify the authenticity of the address. Lot's of time you have no idea what the sender email address will be ahead of time and even what mail server it will come from.
Obviously an automated email verification system won't understand the whitelist notice message and the whole thing will fail miserably.
So you decide to create an address that doesnt block non-whitelisted emails and now that address is vulnerable to spam.
It does exactly what you are talking about, only you dont need to run your own mail server. They forward to your real address. You can set each alias to allow all, deny all, allow all except specifically blocked (per sender), or block all except specifically allowed (per sender).
So basically I have a slashdot alias, but slashdot@slashdot.org is the only person who can send mail to that alias;-) All the other emails are put into a "mail-dam" that I periodically check for anything of real value. You can also set it to instantly trash mail from senders you dont allow.
I run ORDB on my mail server as well, and I will soon be blocking all of APNIC, I go several days now with no spam while receiving tons of legitimate email.
On the off chance I get a spam, I immediately report it to spamcop.net
You need to attack spam on many many levels for it to be effective;-)
But by default... the drivers license number *IS* your SSN. I suspect many people don't care, I personally opted for a unrelated numerical ID instead of my SSN.
I have, and will continue to run my own IMAP mail server off my cable modem. It works well, it's blazing fast at home, I have complete archives (over 300MB of mail), no quota, and the mail comes directly to me.
MAPS is still alive and well.
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First of all, people can and have been running Athlon XP chips in a dual configuration successfully for a while now. What has happened is they started cutting a trace.
Ok big deal. Why would your CPU fry when it worked just fine before with the trace not cut? All you are doing is reconnecting that trace.
My company has a "standard" of naming the machines like the following:
[F.I.][LastName]_[Speed in Mhz]
oh. yes... I kid you not.
WTF... so every time I get a new machine it needs to change, and every time it changes hands, it also needs to chance. Not to mention "_" is invalid in a host name but they don't care cause they dont even use DNS.. they just rely on WINS (*sigh*).
From the RFC: There are some organizational and geographical names that work fine. These are exactly the ones that do not function well as domain names. For example, amorphous names such as rivers, mythological places and other impossibilities are very suitable. ("earth" is not yet a domain name.)
Wow... this may have been true at one point, but not now, in a world where every conceivable meaningful domain name is now registered. *sigh*
"Breathing" and "Forbidden Love" are the two trailers I've seen officially posted so far. There's one I got thats labeled "Episode II Teaser trailer" which does seem to have some new footage that the others don't have. And just last night, shown in front of "The Time Machine" was an EP2. trailer which looked to be "Forbidden Love" trailer and the "Teaser Trailer" combined into one.
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THe problem is, that means all us early adoptors of HDTV are basically being told to go fuck ourselves. My set has three connectors (Component) which are basically Hi-Def analog inputs. It requires a box to tune the HDTV (or even just DTV) signals in (so in 2006, I'll *need* to have a box).
Well if some have there way, then basically no box can ever be made that decrpyts HI-def signals and outputs analog. Since it would be outlawed. They want a DVI port on the back of DTV sets, and thats it. Encrpyted stuff goes in, nothing comes out.
THe situation with OTA (over the air) is worse. Since you can't encrypt a broadcast, they won't likely show movies OTA in Hi-Def (the FCC mandate is for DIGITAL tv, and does not say anything about High-Definition), and so what will happen is whenever someone isn't comfortable with the signal being unencrypted OTA, then can choose to downconvert it back to DTV resolutions (so you don't have such a high quality to pirate).
This all makes me sick. I don't know where this will all end, but there's going to be some serious backlash if this keeps up. Consumers will NOT tolerate this kind of abuse. Fair use rights are being destroyed. HDTV will never catch on light this.
Ahh well, at least my DVDs look REALLY nice now, thats all I really wanted. Hopefully the dust will settle on this mess within the next 2 years (when my TV's warranty expires and it blows up). ;)
Dude! Get a better set of speakers. If you are listening to this on a set of speakers that came in a cow patterned box, try again. Listen to any MP3 on pro quality headphones and you will be amazed. I think a lot of people are USED to mp3 sound, they don't notice the high end getting absolutely TRASHED by compression. Also, a lot of times the bass response is diminished, most people don't even hear lower bass due to poor bass response of most speakers, and those that due, have loose muddy bass from their speakers anyhow, and wouldn't notice the difference.
Beyond that... you're plan makes no sense whatsoever.
Obviously the burden of not violating copyright rests with the user under Australian law, which is the same as that applied to photocopiers. Today evening I saw the machine and it's really cool. Wonder what would happen to this machine in U.S. and Europe."
Yeah, right. It'll never happen. Could you imagine if the machine was within walking distance of the local music store? 1 kid buys a CD, 10 kids get copies. It's napster, but moved to sneaker-net.
Sure, it *could* be used responsibly, and thats why its legal in some areas, it would even be legal in the US as long as it didnt circumvent any copy protection (ie: PC Games, etc), but I still dont expect to see that any time soon, it would just get abused far too much.
It even bypasses some anti-copying measures. ...
That's a violation of the DMCA (Digital Millenium Copyright Act), which makes it illegal to circumvent any copy protection system.
Mozilla currently will warn you when a build is older than two weeks. It continues to function however. The reason for this, is so that bug reports are relevant to the current codebase, and new bugs are found quicker, and less duplicates are reported.
Personally I don't feel the software should expire or stop working in any way. But a better approach is software that can check for newer releases of itself, and possibly auto-update itself.
A good example of this is Gnucleus's evolve capability. If a security problem is found, most all the users would know about it the next time the program checked for an update, and it would get fixed easily within a day or two.
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Why can't you just continue to use PGPFreeware 7.02 (whatever the latest is?) It's not like they can stop you from using it. Unless it gets "broken" somehow (I doubt it).
"This tv has been modified. It has been formatted to fit your movie." PAN & SCAN should be a CRIME!
Does the slashdot header have an Aqua-style theme for this (and only this) story?? Does anyone else see this? was /. hacked?
Damnit... I'm still downloading Mandrake 8.2 ISOs. *sigh*
Yet, I still can't even get 144 Kilobits/s from Verizon at 5 miles... where's my Fiber-to-the-home?
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Obviously an automated email verification system won't understand the whitelist notice message and the whole thing will fail miserably.
So you decide to create an address that doesnt block non-whitelisted emails and now that address is vulnerable to spam.
It does exactly what you are talking about, only you dont need to run your own mail server. They forward to your real address. You can set each alias to allow all, deny all, allow all except specifically blocked (per sender), or block all except specifically allowed (per sender).
So basically I have a slashdot alias, but slashdot@slashdot.org is the only person who can send mail to that alias ;-) All the other emails are put into a "mail-dam" that I periodically check for anything of real value. You can also set it to instantly trash mail from senders you dont allow.
I run ORDB on my mail server as well, and I will soon be blocking all of APNIC, I go several days now with no spam while receiving tons of legitimate email.
On the off chance I get a spam, I immediately report it to spamcop.net
You need to attack spam on many many levels for it to be effective ;-)
But by default... the drivers license number *IS* your SSN. I suspect many people don't care, I personally opted for a unrelated numerical ID instead of my SSN.
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I have, and will continue to run my own IMAP mail server off my cable modem. It works well, it's blazing fast at home, I have complete archives (over 300MB of mail), no quota, and the mail comes directly to me.
Mail Abuse Prevention System
Tracks open relays, dial up netblocks, etc. Works with sendmail, postfix, etc..
Does require paid subscription, but free for personal/hobbyist usage.
Dude! I'm not gettin' a Dell!
What if I set up a workstation with remote desktop to a server, then VNC into *that* from 100 other workstations... hmm?
Ok big deal. Why would your CPU fry when it worked just fine before with the trace not cut? All you are doing is reconnecting that trace.
Sheesh. Sad to see FUD coming from AMD... :(
My company has a "standard" of naming the machines like the following:
[F.I.][LastName]_[Speed in Mhz]
oh. yes... I kid you not.
WTF... so every time I get a new machine it needs to change, and every time it changes hands, it also needs to chance. Not to mention "_" is invalid in a host name but they don't care cause they dont even use DNS.. they just rely on WINS (*sigh*).
There are some organizational and geographical names that work fine. These are exactly the ones that do not function well as domain names. For example, amorphous names such as rivers, mythological places and other impossibilities are very suitable. ("earth" is not yet a domain name.)
Wow... this may have been true at one point, but not now, in a world where every conceivable meaningful domain name is now registered. *sigh*
The thing looks like a tricorder. Very cool design.
"Breathing" and "Forbidden Love" are the two trailers I've seen officially posted so far. There's one I got thats labeled "Episode II Teaser trailer" which does seem to have some new footage that the others don't have. And just last night, shown in front of "The Time Machine" was an EP2. trailer which looked to be "Forbidden Love" trailer and the "Teaser Trailer" combined into one.
Those patents are kinda hard to read. Maybe them should have used the hinting technology to print it ;-)