I have used the Dock-n-Talk and I have used the X-Link. I believe the X-Link is much nicer. The X-Link allows for MULTIPLE phones to base themselves on the receiver unlike the Dock-n-Talk. When one of the cell phones rings the land lines would ring. you can either do this with a wireless basestation as I have or you can use the wired phones. Top use the wired phones you would disconnect them at the DMarc box and tie the wires together - signal from the X-Link can then be injected at any phone jack. This isn't hard to do - same thing you would do to add a PBX. As I recall Asterisk was working on supporting something liek this but when I was doing my setup the support was poor and i was never able to get it to work - I'd be interested in hearing if Asterisk finally has this working well. In any case the X-Link isn't very expensive and reuqires ZERO maintenance so if you simply want ringing phones and have no need for voicemail or call management the X-Link is a better way to go.
Perception is reality, those reading the comments - accurate or not - are going to take them into account. Does your book link to your errata page somehow? You could probably have happier "users" if the cost of the book wasn't so high. That is honestly the most likely reason so many are pirating it. If it's indeed out of print as you stated elsewhere that could also be an issue...
So wait, the book is out of print and you're using the sales of USED books, textbooks no less, to judge value? Aren't textbooks often sold to recoup costs at the end of each class? Why would this price go up when the incentive to sell existing copies is so high? Are you aware of courses requiring your out of print book? I understand the book is ten years old, have you considered perhaps updating it such that it would have content that would generate additional interest and thus sales? Has the state of the art in this field not progressed in that timeframe?
I see complaints that the engine is "old" and that the graphics aren't up to snuff with more modern games. I say "So What?!".
I like FPS and own all of the UT series of games as well as some of the older id games. I still find myself going back to UT2K4 over and over even though I have a later "better" UT3. Why? It's not the graphics, it's not the engine, it's not the sound - it's the gameplay. UT2K4 is FUN for me. Fun doesn't require super duper grpahics it simply requires engaging gameplay. With all of the custom maps, weapons, and other things added to UT2K4 it's a ton of FUN to play. Looking at the movies for this game it looks FUN just like the old Quake games were. Okay maybe the graphics aren't quite as good as a modern shooter but I don't appear to be paying $50 for it either AND honestly many of those bells and whistles found in expensive games don't add to the FUN. Kripes I had FUN playing the original Wolfenstein. the original Quake, why couldn't I also enjoy this one? Folks don't like the maps? Build better ones - just like what has been done with UT, Quake, Doom, and others. Stop bitching about that stuff and fix it if you really have heartburn with it...
Control comms consist of it going to a WEBsite and looking for a binary package that is both encrypted and digitally signed. you could block HTTP but obviously that is pointless. you could put in the 250+ domain names it looks for per DAY but that too is pointless since the A version looks for a totally different not overlapping set (okay one or two overlapped apparently) and the new C version bumps that domain number to something like 50K. Ooops! There might be a SNORT sig you could use but if the author was smart it shouldn't look abnormal...
FWIW I came to this discussion upon seeing the headline hoping to find out more data about this sucker but so far it's just arguing about Linux vs Winders blah blah. Doesn't anyone know much about this worm? The C version was out well over a week ago and it's just now hitting here (sigh). The WEB page linked in the article is suspended too...
Yes you can - and then run into emission laws. The OEM module is frequently encrypted and the auto manufacturers do get upset when it's cracked and published.
The ID is used as PART of the process to remove the copy protection from purchased eBooks and it can be used in order to allow the purchase of protected books from other services. Other than that - you got me as to how this is a DMCA violation.
Good god, jump to conclusions much? Kindle is upset about a program that pulls an ID number that can be used to purchase books from others - and help strip the DRM from their files. They are NOT stopping or even trying to stop the use of books from many sources - if they were then their PDF service wouldn't exist and their software wouldn't be MOBI compatible. Many Kindle owners get books from sources other than Amazon and they have no problems doing so. You don't seem to understand why they are doing this, frankly I'm puzzled too since the DRM stripping script is still out there alive and well lol.
As for granting authors access to the book market - Amazon has to try and get them to sell not the other way around! Some authors are flat out refusing to go digital at all, the ones that are willing they publish. Try buying any of the Potter books electronically for instance. Amazon even has a button on their book purchases where you can ask to have a book done electronically. BTW the Potter PDFs converts fine sans Amazon assistance.
What software of theirs exactly does this modify? This software obtains an ID number for the specific device - that's all. that ID is used as part of the crypto and having it allows you to do interesting things but it hardly modifies their software in any way.
Citation please - how are they losing money? It costs them jack to sell a book electronically and you know all of that sale isn't going to the publishers. How exactly are they losing money on eBooks?
You are uninformed. I have converted quite a few PDF for use on my Kindle and I have yet to use their service to do so. there are tools to do this conversion and others without using anything Amazon produces. There are also tools to strip the crypto'd DRM.
That said, yeah your exactly right as to what this script does. that ID is also needed to strip the DRM with other nifty scripts - that for some reason they haven't tried to take-down lol.
All of the books I've bought have been $10 or less - often just $5-6. the one book I wanted that was above $10 was just out, waited a week and got it for $10. Yes, the DRM sux however it can be stripped off with some creative searching - something I'll be attempting to do soon. No you don't save piles of money on books with the Kindle but I do spend less on books than I would buying them at my bookstore or COSTCO and I can carry quite a few of them around without hassle and read them in any light that would be suitable for a normal book. Works for me, I'm happy with the thing.
Terrific, try it on an ePaper display. Call it what you want but it's not just another LCD. the newer Kindle has even greater resolution and sharpness too - just not enough that I need to upgrade. side by side the difference is noticeable but I still get good mileage from the old one - and with scripts to remove the DRM I'm not worried about obsolescence just yet.
Actually they stole a great deal of technology from the US to build those nukes. A recent book on this, Nuclear Express, details much of the proliferation. Some of it is apparently disputed but it lays out a pretty good case with regards to the Russians having infiltrated the Manhattan Project bigtime.
Get the Mobi tools to convert them yourself - pretty sure it will convert files that are marked not copyable as one of the ones I did wasn't supposed to be copied:-) As for them not doing this - imagine the legal furor if they did on something that was "copyrighted" blah blah. I don't blame them for simply avoiding this.
Simple - their bookstore sucked. the Sony was a superior device - with less easily accessible content. I know guys who owned them and bought Kindles later to get content. Amazon on the other hand already had a pile of content and contacts with the folks who made it - they just needed a device. It's butt ugly but the screen is great and the battery life rox when not using the radio. When I'm reading I'm not focused on anything but the text and flipping the page - the Kindle works because there's content for it despite being ugly. Kindle2 is sleeker but the Sony still has the edge in looks, shame about the content.
BTW - I have converted many PDF and have mailed none of them anywhere. The Mobi tools work fine for this and were free. Took a few moments of time is all. the mail away process isn't one I've used but I understand it's pretty darned good!
P.S. Yes I know about the free stuff out there blah blah...
Spoken as someone who has never used and likely never seen a Kindle. I own a Kindle1, have used a Kindle2, and own a NetBook as well as an iPhone. Guess which one I spend HOURS reading on. Hint: The one that can last for 8++ hours without eyestrain! ePaper!=LCD screen.
You are of course aware of the political party by a very similar name in that country - and the political leanings of the folks that run TPB right? Couldn't possibly be a play on words? Stranger things have happened....
Yes, it will make a great deal of difference to someone who is already willing to break the law to hurt or rob someone that the possession of such device isn't legal. Lets all watch as countries like the UK attempt to ban pointy kitchen knives and screwdrivers in an ever downward spiral of attempting to get everyone to stop hurting one another. Oh and cameras, we need lots more of those as they've proven terribly effective.
The TPB will no longer be needed when the content providers pull their heads out of their ass. I can now get unprotected MP3 at decent bitrates with album art for a reasonable price - I do not download MP3. When does that happen with movies and when will such services be available\legal everywhere? Movie prices are nutz, DVD and BD prices are still sky high, and it's months before content appears on said media in the US let alone all over the world. The TPB is simply filling a need that the legal owners are too stupid to understand. They cannot remake the world the way they want it nor turn back the hands of time but it's not stopped them from trying.
Robbery is when I take something from you and you no longer have it. What's being argued is Copyright Infringement since obviously a digital copy is a.... copy!
No doubt Sweden will be enacting laws against this shortly after TPB is found not guilty, and they will be the best laws money can buy no doubt written by the "content providers" and modeled after that POS DMCA. How truly sad.
NetFlix and Hulu are available in Sweden? What about iTunes? Amazon MP3 downloads? No? FAIL! I thought you said they were figuring it out?
DMCA is an American piece of crap law and it's amusing that they are so arrogant as to try and have it enforced in a country that hasn't got such a law. Sadder still is their attempts to get ISP to follow suit and block content. And since when did those ever so generous content providers share their profit fairly with the artists?
No, I don't DL content that's copyrighted and I also don't watch Hulu - especially since they blocked out Boxee which is the only way I'd have seen it anyway...
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I have used the Dock-n-Talk and I have used the X-Link. I believe the X-Link is much nicer. The X-Link allows for MULTIPLE phones to base themselves on the receiver unlike the Dock-n-Talk. When one of the cell phones rings the land lines would ring. you can either do this with a wireless basestation as I have or you can use the wired phones. Top use the wired phones you would disconnect them at the DMarc box and tie the wires together - signal from the X-Link can then be injected at any phone jack. This isn't hard to do - same thing you would do to add a PBX. As I recall Asterisk was working on supporting something liek this but when I was doing my setup the support was poor and i was never able to get it to work - I'd be interested in hearing if Asterisk finally has this working well. In any case the X-Link isn't very expensive and reuqires ZERO maintenance so if you simply want ringing phones and have no need for voicemail or call management the X-Link is a better way to go.
Perception is reality, those reading the comments - accurate or not - are going to take them into account. Does your book link to your errata page somehow? You could probably have happier "users" if the cost of the book wasn't so high. That is honestly the most likely reason so many are pirating it. If it's indeed out of print as you stated elsewhere that could also be an issue...
So wait, the book is out of print and you're using the sales of USED books, textbooks no less, to judge value? Aren't textbooks often sold to recoup costs at the end of each class? Why would this price go up when the incentive to sell existing copies is so high? Are you aware of courses requiring your out of print book? I understand the book is ten years old, have you considered perhaps updating it such that it would have content that would generate additional interest and thus sales? Has the state of the art in this field not progressed in that timeframe?
I see complaints that the engine is "old" and that the graphics aren't up to snuff with more modern games. I say "So What?!".
I like FPS and own all of the UT series of games as well as some of the older id games. I still find myself going back to UT2K4 over and over even though I have a later "better" UT3. Why? It's not the graphics, it's not the engine, it's not the sound - it's the gameplay. UT2K4 is FUN for me. Fun doesn't require super duper grpahics it simply requires engaging gameplay. With all of the custom maps, weapons, and other things added to UT2K4 it's a ton of FUN to play. Looking at the movies for this game it looks FUN just like the old Quake games were. Okay maybe the graphics aren't quite as good as a modern shooter but I don't appear to be paying $50 for it either AND honestly many of those bells and whistles found in expensive games don't add to the FUN. Kripes I had FUN playing the original Wolfenstein. the original Quake, why couldn't I also enjoy this one? Folks don't like the maps? Build better ones - just like what has been done with UT, Quake, Doom, and others. Stop bitching about that stuff and fix it if you really have heartburn with it...
Control comms consist of it going to a WEBsite and looking for a binary package that is both encrypted and digitally signed. you could block HTTP but obviously that is pointless. you could put in the 250+ domain names it looks for per DAY but that too is pointless since the A version looks for a totally different not overlapping set (okay one or two overlapped apparently) and the new C version bumps that domain number to something like 50K. Ooops! There might be a SNORT sig you could use but if the author was smart it shouldn't look abnormal...
FWIW I came to this discussion upon seeing the headline hoping to find out more data about this sucker but so far it's just arguing about Linux vs Winders blah blah. Doesn't anyone know much about this worm? The C version was out well over a week ago and it's just now hitting here (sigh). The WEB page linked in the article is suspended too...
Like the iPhone? done!
Yes you can - and then run into emission laws. The OEM module is frequently encrypted and the auto manufacturers do get upset when it's cracked and published.
Here's another of interest...
http://pastebin.com/fc53f5e8
The ID is used as PART of the process to remove the copy protection from purchased eBooks and it can be used in order to allow the purchase of protected books from other services. Other than that - you got me as to how this is a DMCA violation.
Pretty sure there's a debug sequence that can be entered to get the Kindle to display this string too...
Good god, jump to conclusions much? Kindle is upset about a program that pulls an ID number that can be used to purchase books from others - and help strip the DRM from their files. They are NOT stopping or even trying to stop the use of books from many sources - if they were then their PDF service wouldn't exist and their software wouldn't be MOBI compatible. Many Kindle owners get books from sources other than Amazon and they have no problems doing so. You don't seem to understand why they are doing this, frankly I'm puzzled too since the DRM stripping script is still out there alive and well lol.
As for granting authors access to the book market - Amazon has to try and get them to sell not the other way around! Some authors are flat out refusing to go digital at all, the ones that are willing they publish. Try buying any of the Potter books electronically for instance. Amazon even has a button on their book purchases where you can ask to have a book done electronically. BTW the Potter PDFs converts fine sans Amazon assistance.
What software of theirs exactly does this modify? This software obtains an ID number for the specific device - that's all. that ID is used as part of the crypto and having it allows you to do interesting things but it hardly modifies their software in any way.
Citation please - how are they losing money? It costs them jack to sell a book electronically and you know all of that sale isn't going to the publishers. How exactly are they losing money on eBooks?
You are uninformed. I have converted quite a few PDF for use on my Kindle and I have yet to use their service to do so. there are tools to do this conversion and others without using anything Amazon produces. There are also tools to strip the crypto'd DRM.
That said, yeah your exactly right as to what this script does. that ID is also needed to strip the DRM with other nifty scripts - that for some reason they haven't tried to take-down lol.
All of the books I've bought have been $10 or less - often just $5-6. the one book I wanted that was above $10 was just out, waited a week and got it for $10. Yes, the DRM sux however it can be stripped off with some creative searching - something I'll be attempting to do soon. No you don't save piles of money on books with the Kindle but I do spend less on books than I would buying them at my bookstore or COSTCO and I can carry quite a few of them around without hassle and read them in any light that would be suitable for a normal book. Works for me, I'm happy with the thing.
Terrific, try it on an ePaper display. Call it what you want but it's not just another LCD. the newer Kindle has even greater resolution and sharpness too - just not enough that I need to upgrade. side by side the difference is noticeable but I still get good mileage from the old one - and with scripts to remove the DRM I'm not worried about obsolescence just yet.
Actually they stole a great deal of technology from the US to build those nukes. A recent book on this, Nuclear Express, details much of the proliferation. Some of it is apparently disputed but it lays out a pretty good case with regards to the Russians having infiltrated the Manhattan Project bigtime.
Get the Mobi tools to convert them yourself - pretty sure it will convert files that are marked not copyable as one of the ones I did wasn't supposed to be copied :-) As for them not doing this - imagine the legal furor if they did on something that was "copyrighted" blah blah. I don't blame them for simply avoiding this.
Simple - their bookstore sucked. the Sony was a superior device - with less easily accessible content. I know guys who owned them and bought Kindles later to get content. Amazon on the other hand already had a pile of content and contacts with the folks who made it - they just needed a device. It's butt ugly but the screen is great and the battery life rox when not using the radio. When I'm reading I'm not focused on anything but the text and flipping the page - the Kindle works because there's content for it despite being ugly. Kindle2 is sleeker but the Sony still has the edge in looks, shame about the content.
BTW - I have converted many PDF and have mailed none of them anywhere. The Mobi tools work fine for this and were free. Took a few moments of time is all. the mail away process isn't one I've used but I understand it's pretty darned good!
P.S. Yes I know about the free stuff out there blah blah...
Spoken as someone who has never used and likely never seen a Kindle. I own a Kindle1, have used a Kindle2, and own a NetBook as well as an iPhone. Guess which one I spend HOURS reading on. Hint: The one that can last for 8++ hours without eyestrain! ePaper!=LCD screen.
http://pastebin.com/fc53f5e8 This is the one that I prefer. I own a Kindle and many books for it too but for archival this is what I'll be using.
You are of course aware of the political party by a very similar name in that country - and the political leanings of the folks that run TPB right? Couldn't possibly be a play on words? Stranger things have happened....
Yes, it will make a great deal of difference to someone who is already willing to break the law to hurt or rob someone that the possession of such device isn't legal. Lets all watch as countries like the UK attempt to ban pointy kitchen knives and screwdrivers in an ever downward spiral of attempting to get everyone to stop hurting one another. Oh and cameras, we need lots more of those as they've proven terribly effective.
The TPB will no longer be needed when the content providers pull their heads out of their ass. I can now get unprotected MP3 at decent bitrates with album art for a reasonable price - I do not download MP3. When does that happen with movies and when will such services be available\legal everywhere? Movie prices are nutz, DVD and BD prices are still sky high, and it's months before content appears on said media in the US let alone all over the world. The TPB is simply filling a need that the legal owners are too stupid to understand. They cannot remake the world the way they want it nor turn back the hands of time but it's not stopped them from trying.
Robbery is when I take something from you and you no longer have it. What's being argued is Copyright Infringement since obviously a digital copy is a.... copy!
No doubt Sweden will be enacting laws against this shortly after TPB is found not guilty, and they will be the best laws money can buy no doubt written by the "content providers" and modeled after that POS DMCA. How truly sad.
NetFlix and Hulu are available in Sweden? What about iTunes? Amazon MP3 downloads? No? FAIL! I thought you said they were figuring it out?
DMCA is an American piece of crap law and it's amusing that they are so arrogant as to try and have it enforced in a country that hasn't got such a law. Sadder still is their attempts to get ISP to follow suit and block content. And since when did those ever so generous content providers share their profit fairly with the artists?
No, I don't DL content that's copyrighted and I also don't watch Hulu - especially since they blocked out Boxee which is the only way I'd have seen it anyway...