No, it's not, since all the TV recording software outputs in MPEG2, and support burning to DVD without downsampling to divx first. Face it, you deal with divx, your purpose is piracy, or preparing video for portable devices, and what moron wants to take a DVD down to 1/4 resolution, and then burn it to DVD?
Echelon is NOT for decrypting DVDs, it's for taking divx-avi's and writing them out as a DVD. It has no legitimate purpose...if you want to backup your DVDs, you don't downsample them to divx first, you just copy them with 100% digital fidelity using something like said decss...
ie 6 here, and at home, on my over-burdened DSL line, where it took a good 60 seconds just to load the images on the "test" page, that it said was fast enough.
Just look around on google, you'll find that lots of "independant" porn sites, who use stolen images, get shut down all the time. It's just so easy to automate the process of setting up new servers on free-hosting services, that the porn people can keep ahead of playboy's lawyers...
While I agree it should be fair use to backup one's VHS tapes to DVD, you're way off on Macrovision. It is very much in the tape-encoding, specifically so they wouldn't have to force manufacturers to adopt their technology. For a complete explanation of how it works, check out here.
This is more like the game-rental system EB had on their website for a while, where you could download current games, play them for a set period of time, and then their system forced the uninstall/disabling of the game.
Yeah, I wasted the money to go see Star Wars at Cinerama in digital projection, to compare with having seen it from print at another theatre...I was stunned at how horrible it was. From the incredible jaggies in the opening credits, to the massively noticeable compression artifacts during high-movement scenes, I was severely underwhelmed. Of course all the companies involved in digital projection have websites, with comment boxes, which I went home to fill up with vitrol, only to find out out that not a single Digital Projection company is capable of configuring a working email server...
Call me crazy, but I wouldn't spend $1k, much less $150k, at a company that can't setup an email response box properly...
I intend to spend atleast 10 minutes a day for the next couple of weeks, calling up Qwest's customer service lines, wasting some expensive operator time. And opting-out. Ideal would be for someone to come up with the telephone equivalent of a spider-trap, wherein a group of well meaning phreakers buys a block of phone numbers, sets up an automated voice-recognition system, and some eliza programs on the other end, and let the telemarketers spend hours trying to sell stuff to non-existant people.
Problem is most people only talk privacy, but will still sign up for a free internet account, willingly subjecting themselves to this level of oversight, and more. The free-ISP I used to work for is working very hard to log as much as possible, of traffic sent, including url's and search keywords. Your account setup process may be "anonymous", but sooner or later, if you use a free-isp, and you fill in a web-form, they are going to have identifiable personal data, stored in their DB, and available to almost anyone within the company. How long before some curious hackers start paying attention to db-security flaws and start sharing this wonderful data?
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I can relate. Today is the next to the next to the last day I'm working for my current employer. One of many reasons I'm quitting has to do with how ethical I feel their corporate behavior is. See, they are a free-ISP, and I'm the database architect. I've spent the last 3 months building them a system to allow targeted advertisement delivery...I don't much care for advertising in general, but all the targeting is based upong user-supplied information, and that's it.
But now, we've got a new project coming down the pike, one that is intended to log every URL visited, and every keyword typed, and to use that information for targeting. Here I had to draw the line...no matter how wonderful the perks are (and they are wonderful, I work from home 90% of my time), I have to live with myself at the end of the day, and no paycheck is nice enough to make up for how icky I feel being associated with such invasive behavior.
Think about it this way, if I make an extra $500 a year at a job I feel icky about, and so I end up drinking an extra $750 a year to drown my concious, did I really make out all that well?
Anyone who thinks that stress doesn't cost them isn't paying attention to their own medical bills....
OK, so what's the big deal? Intel has been making the MMO modules for a couple of years now, and these things look like they've just bought them and attached a fan to it...
Aren't these modules already inside most PII mobiles sold today?
And strangely co-incident with a personal job offer in Germany...hmmm, perhaps it's time to leave the country? Certainly seems an omen of some sort, and a portent of less than ideal times to come.
Someone tried to justify this with saying that Smith's real goal is to fight illegal immigration, or course as is typical in this particular debate, all the attention focuses down south, atleast making me question the motives...add a genetic component to the gobs of data stored, and we can have a properly automated form of racial prejudice, just what we need in Amerika...
The nice thing about our modern age of a billion net-freebies, sending political faxes using a free-fax service...
Most companies offer brand-advertisement kickbacks, that's why bars have all those neon signs, that's why restaurants use "coke" branded cups, because they get a break on the price. To me this is a non-issue that someone is trying to create fuss over, out of sour-grapes...
Many ethernet cards now store their MAC addresses in EEPROMs, which anyone can edit with appropriate software. This is done to reduce cost of building NIC cards, and allows the manufacturer to build the same card for several OEMs, while still assigning each individual card a MAC from the correct OEM's block. FYI IEEE assigns ranges of MAC addresses to OEMs, generally determined by the OUI number (first 5? characters in hex).
While it is possible to change this after you have the MAC card, if your PC exists on the same sub-net as the "correct" owner, both machines will be dead in the water...
Yup...many big SAP clients spend big bucks bringing them in, then spend bigger bucks sending them back out the door. Me thinks they have a better sales staff, than coders...
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No, it's not, since all the TV recording software outputs in MPEG2, and support burning to DVD without downsampling to divx first. Face it, you deal with divx, your purpose is piracy, or preparing video for portable devices, and what moron wants to take a DVD down to 1/4 resolution, and then burn it to DVD?
Echelon is NOT for decrypting DVDs, it's for taking divx-avi's and writing them out as a DVD. It has no legitimate purpose...if you want to backup your DVDs, you don't downsample them to divx first, you just copy them with 100% digital fidelity using something like said decss...
ie 6 here, and at home, on my over-burdened DSL line, where it took a good 60 seconds just to load the images on the "test" page, that it said was fast enough.
yeah, they told me 5149kbps is too slow too =p
Someone can't tell the difference between Greater-Than and Less-Than in their code, looks like...
or for linux sluts =p
The case is England, the DMCA already doesn't apply =p
Just look around on google, you'll find that lots of "independant" porn sites, who use stolen images, get shut down all the time. It's just so easy to automate the process of setting up new servers on free-hosting services, that the porn people can keep ahead of playboy's lawyers...
While I agree it should be fair use to backup one's VHS tapes to DVD, you're way off on Macrovision. It is very much in the tape-encoding, specifically so they wouldn't have to force manufacturers to adopt their technology. For a complete explanation of how it works, check out here.
This is more like the game-rental system EB had on their website for a while, where you could download current games, play them for a set period of time, and then their system forced the uninstall/disabling of the game.
Yeah, I wasted the money to go see Star Wars at Cinerama in digital projection, to compare with having seen it from print at another theatre...I was stunned at how horrible it was. From the incredible jaggies in the opening credits, to the massively noticeable compression artifacts during high-movement scenes, I was severely underwhelmed. Of course all the companies involved in digital projection have websites, with comment boxes, which I went home to fill up with vitrol, only to find out out that not a single Digital Projection company is capable of configuring a working email server...
Call me crazy, but I wouldn't spend $1k, much less $150k, at a company that can't setup an email response box properly...
I intend to spend atleast 10 minutes a day for the next couple of weeks, calling up Qwest's customer service lines, wasting some expensive operator time. And opting-out. Ideal would be for someone to come up with the telephone equivalent of a spider-trap, wherein a group of well meaning phreakers buys a block of phone numbers, sets up an automated voice-recognition system, and some eliza programs on the other end, and let the telemarketers spend hours trying to sell stuff to non-existant people.
Problem is most people only talk privacy, but will still sign up for a free internet account, willingly subjecting themselves to this level of oversight, and more. The free-ISP I used to work for is working very hard to log as much as possible, of traffic sent, including url's and search keywords. Your account setup process may be "anonymous", but sooner or later, if you use a free-isp, and you fill in a web-form, they are going to have identifiable personal data, stored in their DB, and available to almost anyone within the company. How long before some curious hackers start paying attention to db-security flaws and start sharing this wonderful data?
I can relate. Today is the next to the next to the last day I'm working for my current employer. One of many reasons I'm quitting has to do with how ethical I feel their corporate behavior is. See, they are a free-ISP, and I'm the database architect. I've spent the last 3 months building them a system to allow targeted advertisement delivery...I don't much care for advertising in general, but all the targeting is based upong user-supplied information, and that's it.
But now, we've got a new project coming down the pike, one that is intended to log every URL visited, and every keyword typed, and to use that information for targeting. Here I had to draw the line...no matter how wonderful the perks are (and they are wonderful, I work from home 90% of my time), I have to live with myself at the end of the day, and no paycheck is nice enough to make up for how icky I feel being associated with such invasive behavior.
Think about it this way, if I make an extra $500 a year at a job I feel icky about, and so I end up drinking an extra $750 a year to drown my concious, did I really make out all that well?
Anyone who thinks that stress doesn't cost them isn't paying attention to their own medical bills....
OK, so what's the big deal? Intel has been making
the MMO modules for a couple of years now, and these things look like they've just bought them and attached a fan to it...
Aren't these modules already inside most PII mobiles sold today?
Hrmmm....
And strangely co-incident with a personal job offer in Germany...hmmm, perhaps it's time to leave the country? Certainly seems an omen of some sort, and a portent of less than ideal times to come.
Someone tried to justify this with saying that Smith's real goal is to fight illegal immigration, or course as is typical in this particular debate, all the attention focuses down south, atleast making me question the motives...add a genetic component to the gobs of data stored, and we can have a properly automated form of racial prejudice, just what we need in Amerika...
The nice thing about our modern age of a billion net-freebies, sending political faxes using a free-fax service...
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Most companies offer brand-advertisement kickbacks, that's why bars have all those neon signs, that's why restaurants use "coke" branded cups, because they get a break on the price. To me this is a non-issue that someone is trying to create fuss over, out of sour-grapes...
Many ethernet cards now store their MAC addresses in EEPROMs, which anyone can edit with appropriate software. This is done to reduce cost of building NIC cards, and allows the manufacturer to build the same card for several OEMs, while still assigning each individual card a MAC from the correct OEM's block. FYI IEEE assigns ranges of MAC addresses to OEMs, generally determined by the OUI number (first 5? characters in hex).
While it is possible to change this after you have the MAC card, if your PC exists on the same sub-net as the "correct" owner, both machines will be dead in the water...
Yup...many big SAP clients spend big bucks bringing them in, then spend bigger bucks sending them back out the door. Me thinks they have a better sales staff, than coders...