I built one of these years ago... the thing mine had that theirs is missing is some way to flip it over to erase it.
I used a big servo (made for a remote controlled boat) to flip it over. Also a solenoid to lock the screen in the vertical position so that the servo/solenoid only need to be energized while the screen is being shaken.
In the past, Apple has negotiated "exclusives" on certain high-demand-although-merely-incremental technologies. A good example would be the Cinema display when it first came out - for at least a year it was the only decent hires (>= 1600x1024) panel you could buy.
It wouldn't surprise me if we see the same thing with higher capacity mini-HDs. Apple's surely willing to pay some premium to be the only ones who can ship a 60G mp3 player.
I have marked every single announcement and special offer i've ever received from Apple as junk, and yet the filter still refuses to classify them as such automatically.
I wonder if there's a loophole here that spammers could take advantage of: masquerade as Apple using the hole they've left in their filter. Spam Mac users to your heart's content. Bundle a Mac virus along with it for extra damage.
Please don't mod this down just because you like Macs. I like Macs too, but it really looks like there is a back door in the spam filter and I'm just reporting it - not mac bashing.
With the service agreement that they have for the iTMS, it seems already they can change the rules for the DRM (number of burns per playlist, number of computers, kinds of applications that will be allowed depending on available quicktime APIs, etc.
It wouldn't surprise me in the least if they start charging you to "upgrade" the privileges you have for the music you've already bought.... perhaps even charging you just to continue your rental - even though it was never part of the original deal, it seems the contract allows them to change whatever they want at any time, and their copy protection, backed by law, gives them the tools to do it. Retroactive price hikes... now possible under the DMCA!
Is if it didn't matter so much what distro you choose.
Software should be easy to build and run from the moment you download. It shouldn't be a big deal which distro you're running, what cpu arch you have, or what libs you have installed. Software should be smart and just work. If you don't have the right shared libs, the app in question should get/provide them itself. That sort of thing. Just make it EASY to install useable programs.
The whole point of the GPL is that you're free to share each other code. Instead of requiring your users to install package X which has 20 of its own dependendcies, just provide package X in case its not there already. Problem solved.
At any rate, this is the approach that we're taking with slimserver and our users, both geek adn non-geek, seem to be quite happy with it.
It's very unlikely that someone will find a way to beat public key and AES encryption.
That's not true... you don't need to "break the encryption" because the very nature of DRM encryption is that the client is doing the decryption himself. At some level you have to trust the client not to reveal the key to the user. All a hacker needs to do is figure out how it's encrypted and what the key is. The key is on your computer. You don't need to "break" anything.
- grab the data when it is in the clear. This is what the iTunes crackers do.
That's what qtFairUse did - snagged the data as it went through quicktime. But PlayFair is different and better - dvdJohn figured out how iTunes generates the key (from HD serial number and stuff) and that's the trick. No breaking of encryption is involved.
I think what you're failing to understand is that all DRM mechanisms that have so far been conceived rely on the client at some level to hide the key or the mechanism of the encryption. As a programmer (but not a encryption expert) it is impossible for me to envision any other kind of DRM besides "security through obscurity" and that's why I agree with the grandparent that every popular DRM format will be cracked in time.
Never mind that ANYTHING you can see or hear can be recorded, DRM or not, from an analog signal using advanced technology such as "sound cards" or even "tape recorders".
In the picture it just looks to me like a big chassis enclosing something, and I really can't tell if there's one wheel or two. But if you RTFA, the diagram is pretty clear, and at the end of the specs it says:
For some people maybe... as far as I'm concerned everyone should be allowed to drive whatever they want as long as:
a) they can go fast enough, stop fast enough, and maneuver well enough to avoid inconveniencing or endangering other drivers.
b) in the event of an impact they will not unduly endanger the lives of others. i.e. a car can be strong enough to protect you without being so heavy that it's guaranteed to destroy anything it hits.
So by my rules there would be no gas guzzling, top heavy, overweight, unmaneuverable SUVs on the road. But monocycles would be just fine by me if you want to ride one.
Personally I drive a little 2 door that stops faster than 99% of the cars on the road, can swerve around a hazard with ease, and weighs less than 3K lbs so it won't kill you if I run into your bumper. And it's got four airbags and a strong frame in case you run into me. If you want to ride a monocycle go ahead - you're endangering me less than the asshole in his Expedition, and you're doubltess aware of the... er "safety limitations" of your own vehicle and won't be dicking around those guys in their living rooms on wheels.
If you don't like this, you shouldn't use iTunes at all and don't buy their music
I won't, thanks! Oh, and if you don't like Playfair, don't use it either! Software should not be illegal. People in America should not be GOING TO PRISON FOR SPEAKING PUBLICLY about algorithms.
Some things are just absolutely wrong - don't you get that? The music business is of very little importance compared to the sickening law which Apple is invoking to protect their business interests.
No doubt the underlying AAC file has a signature, applied by Apple, that Apple can recognize.
I know that for MP3, pretty much every encoder has some kind of characteristic which identifies it in the output - some (eg lame) even put their name and version number explicity in the stream. Encspot is a nice tool which will look for these sorts of things and tell you its best guess as to what encoder was used to generate each of your mp3s.
I asked my G5 to play itself at a game of "Global Compression Format War". It started by launching a powerful attack out of Germany, targetting every continent simultaneously. Then Washington fired back at Germany, and within a few months OSS bases around the world joined the fray. The record industry suffered heavy casualties, but just as things were looking really grim, a coordinated nerve gas attack on their behlf, out of California, neutralized their enemies... but only temporarily. Norway distributed a powerful antidote... the secret formula was banned in the US though, so manufacturing was moved to India. And on it went with this simulation... util after exhausting every possible scenario, it concluded:
"The only winning move is not to play."
Can't way to see how Apple tried to lock people in to a lossless format... best of luck to you guys, and have fun pissing away your resources on this stupid game.
Does it really get >1K HP except at top speed? I'd expect that on a dyno, or off the line, the performance is nowhere near that because you can't funnel air into the engine fast enough. For cars with lower horsepower ratings, the aerodynamics and speed of the car make less of a difference, right?
Only Apple makes the 8-track player, and because of the DRM, nobody else can make one. And because of the DMCA, it's illegal for you to even make one for your own use, or tell somebody how to make one.
A massive expedition of oridnary folks to piss on her grave won't yield any solution to spam, but would at least make us all (not just geeks) feel better.
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I built one of these years ago... the thing mine had that theirs is missing is some way to flip it over to erase it.
I used a big servo (made for a remote controlled boat) to flip it over. Also a solenoid to lock the screen in the vertical position so that the servo/solenoid only need to be energized while the screen is being shaken.
That's a miniscule amount
Yes, perhaps miniscule in magnitude, but at least it's positive!!!
Doesn't mythtv support an IR blaster so you can use an external tuner?
Shoot they're easy to build - I made one with just a 555 chip running at 39KHz (1/3 duty cycle) off one pin of the parallel port.
What are you talking about? All the squeezebox web interface skins have volume controls (and they go to 11!)
Heh... I suppose you're also paying per anum for that .mac account then!
See, I don't know that they DO pay a premium.
I agree the price is probably the same. But you can "pay a premium" in other ways, eg volume commitment.
In the past, Apple has negotiated "exclusives" on certain high-demand-although-merely-incremental technologies. A good example would be the Cinema display when it first came out - for at least a year it was the only decent hires (>= 1600x1024) panel you could buy.
It wouldn't surprise me if we see the same thing with higher capacity mini-HDs. Apple's surely willing to pay some premium to be the only ones who can ship a 60G mp3 player.
I have marked every single announcement and special offer i've ever received from Apple as junk, and yet the filter still refuses to classify them as such automatically.
I wonder if there's a loophole here that spammers could take advantage of: masquerade as Apple using the hole they've left in their filter. Spam Mac users to your heart's content. Bundle a Mac virus along with it for extra damage.
Please don't mod this down just because you like Macs. I like Macs too, but it really looks like there is a back door in the spam filter and I'm just reporting it - not mac bashing.
With the service agreement that they have for the iTMS, it seems already they can change the rules for the DRM (number of burns per playlist, number of computers, kinds of applications that will be allowed depending on available quicktime APIs, etc.
It wouldn't surprise me in the least if they start charging you to "upgrade" the privileges you have for the music you've already bought.... perhaps even charging you just to continue your rental - even though it was never part of the original deal, it seems the contract allows them to change whatever they want at any time, and their copy protection, backed by law, gives them the tools to do it. Retroactive price hikes... now possible under the DMCA!
I've got everything you describe. I run Windows XP on a Pentium. Kiss my fully functional ass!
Yes, I'm sure your Windows XP systems is best for running Windows XP software.
But please explain how it helps you run any of the thousands of excellent but not-specifically-for-windows-XP software applications out there.
If anything, you've only bolstered my argument about how bad most software is in terms of platform dependence.
Want to try again, AC?
Is if it didn't matter so much what distro you choose.
Software should be easy to build and run from the moment you download. It shouldn't be a big deal which distro you're running, what cpu arch you have, or what libs you have installed. Software should be smart and just work. If you don't have the right shared libs, the app in question should get/provide them itself. That sort of thing. Just make it EASY to install useable programs.
The whole point of the GPL is that you're free to share each other code. Instead of requiring your users to install package X which has 20 of its own dependendcies, just provide package X in case its not there already. Problem solved.
At any rate, this is the approach that we're taking with slimserver and our users, both geek adn non-geek, seem to be quite happy with it.
It's very unlikely that someone will find a way to beat public key and AES encryption.
That's not true... you don't need to "break the encryption" because the very nature of DRM encryption is that the client is doing the decryption himself. At some level you have to trust the client not to reveal the key to the user. All a hacker needs to do is figure out how it's encrypted and what the key is. The key is on your computer. You don't need to "break" anything.
- grab the data when it is in the clear. This is what the iTunes crackers do.
That's what qtFairUse did - snagged the data as it went through quicktime. But PlayFair is different and better - dvdJohn figured out how iTunes generates the key (from HD serial number and stuff) and that's the trick. No breaking of encryption is involved.
I think what you're failing to understand is that all DRM mechanisms that have so far been conceived rely on the client at some level to hide the key or the mechanism of the encryption. As a programmer (but not a encryption expert) it is impossible for me to envision any other kind of DRM besides "security through obscurity" and that's why I agree with the grandparent that every popular DRM format will be cracked in time.
Never mind that ANYTHING you can see or hear can be recorded, DRM or not, from an analog signal using advanced technology such as "sound cards" or even "tape recorders".
For some people maybe... as far as I'm concerned everyone should be allowed to drive whatever they want as long as:
a) they can go fast enough, stop fast enough, and maneuver well enough to avoid inconveniencing or endangering other drivers.
b) in the event of an impact they will not unduly endanger the lives of others. i.e. a car can be strong enough to protect you without being so heavy that it's guaranteed to destroy anything it hits.
So by my rules there would be no gas guzzling, top heavy, overweight, unmaneuverable SUVs on the road. But monocycles would be just fine by me if you want to ride one.
Personally I drive a little 2 door that stops faster than 99% of the cars on the road, can swerve around a hazard with ease, and weighs less than 3K lbs so it won't kill you if I run into your bumper. And it's got four airbags and a strong frame in case you run into me. If you want to ride a monocycle go ahead - you're endangering me less than the asshole in his Expedition, and you're doubltess aware of the... er "safety limitations" of your own vehicle and won't be dicking around those guys in their living rooms on wheels.
If you don't like this, you shouldn't use iTunes at all and don't buy their music
I won't, thanks! Oh, and if you don't like Playfair, don't use it either! Software should not be illegal. People in America should not be GOING TO PRISON FOR SPEAKING PUBLICLY about algorithms.
Some things are just absolutely wrong - don't you get that? The music business is of very little importance compared to the sickening law which Apple is invoking to protect their business interests.
I'm sorry... do you mean "Can't wait to see"?
That doesn't look like a typo. That looks like using words you don't understand...
Wen try to het frist post somethines I just mash my palms into the kleyboard.
No doubt the underlying AAC file has a signature, applied by Apple, that Apple can recognize.
I know that for MP3, pretty much every encoder has some kind of characteristic which identifies it in the output - some (eg lame) even put their name and version number explicity in the stream. Encspot is a nice tool which will look for these sorts of things and tell you its best guess as to what encoder was used to generate each of your mp3s.
can't you get that kind of compression(get 40mb wav into 20mb file) with just zip&others
Absolutely, for WAV files which are half silence.
I asked my G5 to play itself at a game of "Global Compression Format War". It started by launching a powerful attack out of Germany, targetting every continent simultaneously. Then Washington fired back at Germany, and within a few months OSS bases around the world joined the fray. The record industry suffered heavy casualties, but just as things were looking really grim, a coordinated nerve gas attack on their behlf, out of California, neutralized their enemies... but only temporarily. Norway distributed a powerful antidote... the secret formula was banned in the US though, so manufacturing was moved to India. And on it went with this simulation... util after exhausting every possible scenario, it concluded:
"The only winning move is not to play."
Can't way to see how Apple tried to lock people in to a lossless format... best of luck to you guys, and have fun pissing away your resources on this stupid game.
Does it really get >1K HP except at top speed? I'd expect that on a dyno, or off the line, the performance is nowhere near that because you can't funnel air into the engine fast enough. For cars with lower horsepower ratings, the aerodynamics and speed of the car make less of a difference, right?
recycled Levis.
Only Apple makes the 8-track player, and because of the DRM, nobody else can make one. And because of the DMCA, it's illegal for you to even make one for your own use, or tell somebody how to make one.
It doesn't matter. The cat is out of the bag.
And the more Apple tries to stuff it back in, the more attention they draw to the futility or DRM and the existence of playfair.
++interesting.
A massive expedition of oridnary folks to piss on her grave won't yield any solution to spam, but would at least make us all (not just geeks) feel better.
What is the point of this?
Answer here
Presumably they will just hear a few wind noises as it blows past the microphones?
I found a pretty good explanation here.
Just out of interest, who is putting up the money for this?
I think if you dig around, you might find out here.
They sound like they are spending other people's money with no comeback
Science had known to occasionally be funded by someone for one reason or another. I would recommend reading this page to learn about the experiment.
Or you could just RTFA.