Stick the granularity on 3 and try: N: 2 -.04 E: 4 - 1 S: 2 -.06 W: 4 - 0.1
you can see the system cue the cars on the east -> west road up and create little 'gaps' in the flow across all lanes that sync up with the north/south cars as they cross, nice to look at but it really needs turning and lane crossing, on the low granularity the cars get more clearence which is abit more realistic:P
I think 3D (Z-axis) cameras are starting to become availiable, you could stick one of those in to make sure it wasnt a flat cardboard cut-out or a picture, also you could stick in an infrared camera to make sure they were giving off the right sort of heat signature (and not that of a hotwater bottle stuck behind them) add to that that all sensors have as near to 360 view as you can get (you cant use a studio or it will appear in the shot) make it a video camera (because thats harder to fake) and get the evidence directly from the cameras tamper-proof self-destructing case and then we're talking:p
.. edit the position in the file? the only way to have evidence class devices is if they are locked tamper-proof cases/chips and the evidence is taken directly from them.
I think it needs to be mentioned that Tiscali sucks at most things including customer service ("we cut your phone off because of a billing mistake that _we_ made, we didnt give you a number to call, theres no number on any of the bills, and even when you find a number you wont be able to call it because we cut you off. However when you finally do call.. and get through (peak rate on your mobile) we will fob you off to as many departments as we can until we tell you that you owe us money but we cant take your payment over the phone, but 3 months later you will find out that we just took it out of your bank account anyway. The only helpful thing we will tell you is that we suck and that you should switch to another company like most of our customer support staff have")
so this doesnt surprise me
(yeah that was a cheap way of getting an off-topic rant out)...
Now im even more confused, why would you take a single can of coke that you knew was a winner into a restricted area like a briefing room (thats what the military was worried about). You would open the pack, say "Oh fuck look i'm the winner" and then press the button on the side and take the rest of the day off?
Could someone in the US explain how the panel on the side works? Is it covered up when you buy it or something or do all cans have it?? Otherwise you would be able to find the winner pretty easily!
It doesnt matter if they're made on the moon, if the American companies that design them (Intel etc) decide DRM has to go in then thats what goes in. Other companies will have to fall in line in order for their chips to get through customs and in the end its much cheaper to have DRM on every chip than to make different versions so they will be everywhere. They wont let there be a repeat of the P3 ID PR disaster, they've been weaning average-joe consumers on the idea of DRM for a long time now and the people will just go along with it. Don't forget, this time they will have the law on their side and will be presenting a FUD-filled technology that average-joes wont understand.
Our stores will sell gear without DRM. (It's cheaper to make stuff without it.)
Thats about to change. DRM will be included in most chips (CPUs, MPEG-Decoders & other DSP etc..) and once its in it will pose no extra cost. Finding chips without DRM will be the hard (i.e expensive) thing. Im guessing no American or European companies will risk making them for fear of being fined, some other enterprising foriegn manufactures might make some (or make mod chips) they could potentially make a fortune. Once the big players have got together with the US government and agreed on hardware, life is going to suck and since the US polices the rest of the world (i.e decides what laws we need to have in order to trade with the US) life is going to suck for everyone else too.
Just read about high-flow toilets ROFL "you have the right to own an assult rifle that can cut through trees and brick walls, but not a toilet that can flush more than 1.6Gs!"
Unrealistic? i've never bought a music CD in my life!
(Note: If you are a member of the RIAA, this is not an admission to copyright violation)
But on a different note, i think the EFF does a great job, however democracy in the US means donating money to the senators, so it might be time to come up with a "Slashdot lobby group" im not trolling, seriously half of them are totally corrupt.
You miss the main point of the act - any technology that makes high enough revenue for a select elite of corporations (who-ever paid hatch the most) is exempt. Obviously theres too much money to be made off IP to ban it, so it gets to stay, just as theres too much money to be made off portable digital music players, but only if they have DRM. Also you have to have your levels of exemption - ie who is allowed to have what. Obviously recording studios need to be able to have certain equipment, but the ultimate goal is that anyone without a license won't be allowed to own so much as a tape recorder - you'll have to use your phone to record things so that they can be scanned for material that may be copyrighted. You think im smoking something? this is the sort of crap that goes through their sick minds.
It still amazes me that people have these kind of backwards views on security, you would probably get the same response even today! I would have thought that basic training at a bank for everyone would be on security principles, and lets not even get started on Diebold. Do you know what company made the cards/machines?
Ok I've just woken up and I might be a little out of it, but WHY THE FUCK IS THIS A THREAT?? what are they threatening to do? release really bad music or something? Will releasing the album somehow open a key to the 5th dimension portal of darkness?? And another thing, "French police have launched a major operation to find the disc." A major investigation?? WTF is a major investigation, surely that's the sort of investigation you do when some kid goes missing and witnesses say they saw a dodgy man with a van, then you go and get 200 police to search fields. You don't do a major investigation to find a CD. The fact is, and im sorry U2, your album will be on P2P networks, either now, or when its released, theres no if or buts, its a 100% sure bet, but why half the police force of Nice should waste time looking for something that's not even the master copy is beyond me.
Fair enough, just slap a "Do not use this product for piracy" sticker on the front of everything and carry on as normal. While we're at it, we could get a "Do not use this product for murder" sticker on guns. Wow, this opens up a whole sea of product safety messages I think we could be on to a winner! "Do not use this vehicle to commit traffic offences" "Do not use this pipe for consumption of illigal substances" And for exports - "Do not use this gas centrifuge for the production of weapons grade uraniam"
Theres also the point of what you do in your own home being your own business. Deactivating a gun safety would be border-line, but say, building a nuke in your shed is wrong for obvious reasons. Just programming a mod-chip in your own home is pretty obviously you're own business and your right. Fitting it to your PS2, also pretty clear. Using it to play a pirate game probably shouldnt be illigal either, as the actual pirating of the game is the illigal bit, just like 'murdering someone and then shooting their dead body' is pretty much covered by the murder bit. Selling the chips is debatable but id prefer to live somewhere it was legal, guns i can see a need to control, mod-chips - no.
This can only be solved with mass consumer action. Consumers need their own union because right now we have no legal footing to barter with - one person doesnt like the way a product is sold, what are they going to do? tell the companys' 15 top-paid layers to stop? "Your statutory rights are not affected" my ass
Too true, they want to play by the 'license' rule but do they want to send you a replacement that costs pennies to press? no way! They want have their cake and sell it to you at the same time! Then of-course they want to sell in regions and time the releases and techically tell you its illigal for you to buy it abroad (thats what region coding basically says to me).
Fucking pigs, fuck Tony he is getting the fuck out of my government, I want that bitch deported to the US the second the election is over. Mod chips are generally just blank PICs that have been programmed to give a certain output on seeing a certain input on their pins. As an engineering student this outrages me, no-one is going to tell me what I can and cant do with something as harmless as a PIC in my own home. If they want to ban selling these things then maybe I could live with that, but its my fucking God-given right to do this in my own home, just like it is to dance around listening to Britney spears. I bet this is Blunketts doing, that basterd would love to ban everything under the sun and start giving out curfews, infact the Taliban would have loved him - there, go find the remainder of them and join their club, maybe you can help them ban laughter and implement an iris scanning ID card system. Ok, thats the end of the rant, now its time for me to RTFA before I hit submit, wow Italy says its cool, and they have military conscription, maybe thats something else Blunkett could push on us. This really needs to be changed right now, possession for non-commercial purposes is legal, so why isnt use? The EUCD must be scrapped, bring on the PIC-ASM PS2 Mod-chip T-Shirts and lets go down Westminster and give it to them. After the pub that is..
Even though some of these old patents come and sting big companies, you know the big companies will never push for better patent law, they will only push for whatever benifits them the most and everyone else the least, maybe the law will change so that patents wont apply if the infinger has already made x amount of money from it or if stopping the infringement would 'cause noticable harm to the economy and would be a security risk because the US government uses the product' or maybe 'any company whos name begins with M can infringe patents' - you'll know if its this one if Microsoft suddenly starts registering every combination of M.
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Stick the granularity on 3 and try: .04 .06
:P
N: 2 -
E: 4 - 1
S: 2 -
W: 4 - 0.1
you can see the system cue the cars on the east -> west road up and create little 'gaps' in the flow across all lanes that sync up with the north/south cars as they cross, nice to look at but it really needs turning and lane crossing, on the low granularity the cars get more clearence which is abit more realistic
I think 3D (Z-axis) cameras are starting to become availiable, you could stick one of those in to make sure it wasnt a flat cardboard cut-out or a picture, also you could stick in an infrared camera to make sure they were giving off the right sort of heat signature (and not that of a hotwater bottle stuck behind them) add to that that all sensors have as near to 360 view as you can get (you cant use a studio or it will appear in the shot) make it a video camera (because thats harder to fake) and get the evidence directly from the cameras tamper-proof self-destructing case and then we're talking :p
rofl and still anyone will be able to buy an assult rifle..
Maybe its real but hes standing next to a card-board cut-out ;)
.. edit the position in the file? the only way to have evidence class devices is if they are locked tamper-proof cases/chips and the evidence is taken directly from them.
I think it needs to be mentioned that Tiscali sucks at most things including customer service ("we cut your phone off because of a billing mistake that _we_ made, we didnt give you a number to call, theres no number on any of the bills, and even when you find a number you wont be able to call it because we cut you off. However when you finally do call.. and get through (peak rate on your mobile) we will fob you off to as many departments as we can until we tell you that you owe us money but we cant take your payment over the phone, but 3 months later you will find out that we just took it out of your bank account anyway. The only helpful thing we will tell you is that we suck and that you should switch to another company like most of our customer support staff have")
so this doesnt surprise me
(yeah that was a cheap way of getting an off-topic rant out)...
Now im even more confused, why would you take a single can of coke that you knew was a winner into a restricted area like a briefing room (thats what the military was worried about). You would open the pack, say "Oh fuck look i'm the winner" and then press the button on the side and take the rest of the day off?
Could someone in the US explain how the panel on the side works? Is it covered up when you buy it or something or do all cans have it?? Otherwise you would be able to find the winner pretty easily!
It doesnt matter if they're made on the moon, if the American companies that design them (Intel etc) decide DRM has to go in then thats what goes in. Other companies will have to fall in line in order for their chips to get through customs and in the end its much cheaper to have DRM on every chip than to make different versions so they will be everywhere. They wont let there be a repeat of the P3 ID PR disaster, they've been weaning average-joe consumers on the idea of DRM for a long time now and the people will just go along with it. Don't forget, this time they will have the law on their side and will be presenting a FUD-filled technology that average-joes wont understand.
Our stores will sell gear without DRM. (It's cheaper to make stuff without it.)
Thats about to change. DRM will be included in most chips (CPUs, MPEG-Decoders & other DSP etc..) and once its in it will pose no extra cost. Finding chips without DRM will be the hard (i.e expensive) thing. Im guessing no American or European companies will risk making them for fear of being fined, some other enterprising foriegn manufactures might make some (or make mod chips) they could potentially make a fortune. Once the big players have got together with the US government and agreed on hardware, life is going to suck and since the US polices the rest of the world (i.e decides what laws we need to have in order to trade with the US) life is going to suck for everyone else too.
Just read about high-flow toilets ROFL "you have the right to own an assult rifle that can cut through trees and brick walls, but not a toilet that can flush more than 1.6Gs!"
Unrealistic? i've never bought a music CD in my life!
(Note: If you are a member of the RIAA, this is not an admission to copyright violation)
But on a different note, i think the EFF does a great job, however democracy in the US means donating money to the senators, so it might be time to come up with a "Slashdot lobby group" im not trolling, seriously half of them are totally corrupt.
You miss the main point of the act - any technology that makes high enough revenue for a select elite of corporations (who-ever paid hatch the most) is exempt. Obviously theres too much money to be made off IP to ban it, so it gets to stay, just as theres too much money to be made off portable digital music players, but only if they have DRM. Also you have to have your levels of exemption - ie who is allowed to have what. Obviously recording studios need to be able to have certain equipment, but the ultimate goal is that anyone without a license won't be allowed to own so much as a tape recorder - you'll have to use your phone to record things so that they can be scanned for material that may be copyrighted. You think im smoking something? this is the sort of crap that goes through their sick minds.
The guidelines say its ok, as long as the antenna isnt shaped like a breast.
It still amazes me that people have these kind of backwards views on security, you would probably get the same response even today! I would have thought that basic training at a bank for everyone would be on security principles, and lets not even get started on Diebold. Do you know what company made the cards/machines?
You think they wont have it extended when this gets big?
Oh great, get ready for a host of law-suits as Da Vinci comes back from the dead to sew 'Sculpture Pirates' copying ancient IP.
Ok I've just woken up and I might be a little out of it, but WHY THE FUCK IS THIS A THREAT?? what are they threatening to do? release really bad music or something? Will releasing the album somehow open a key to the 5th dimension portal of darkness?? And another thing, "French police have launched a major operation to find the disc." A major investigation?? WTF is a major investigation, surely that's the sort of investigation you do when some kid goes missing and witnesses say they saw a dodgy man with a van, then you go and get 200 police to search fields. You don't do a major investigation to find a CD. The fact is, and im sorry U2, your album will be on P2P networks, either now, or when its released, theres no if or buts, its a 100% sure bet, but why half the police force of Nice should waste time looking for something that's not even the master copy is beyond me.
Stars are all selfish assholes.
Because Utah is mostly full of republicans?
Fair enough, just slap a "Do not use this product for piracy" sticker on the front of everything and carry on as normal. While we're at it, we could get a "Do not use this product for murder" sticker on guns. Wow, this opens up a whole sea of product safety messages I think we could be on to a winner!
"Do not use this vehicle to commit traffic offences"
"Do not use this pipe for consumption of illigal substances"
And for exports - "Do not use this gas centrifuge for the production of weapons grade uraniam"
Tivo = VCR = PC with capture card. These things are all the same, they've been legal for a long time, get over it.
Theres also the point of what you do in your own home being your own business. Deactivating a gun safety would be border-line, but say, building a nuke in your shed is wrong for obvious reasons. Just programming a mod-chip in your own home is pretty obviously you're own business and your right. Fitting it to your PS2, also pretty clear. Using it to play a pirate game probably shouldnt be illigal either, as the actual pirating of the game is the illigal bit, just like 'murdering someone and then shooting their dead body' is pretty much covered by the murder bit. Selling the chips is debatable but id prefer to live somewhere it was legal, guns i can see a need to control, mod-chips - no.
This can only be solved with mass consumer action. Consumers need their own union because right now we have no legal footing to barter with - one person doesnt like the way a product is sold, what are they going to do? tell the companys' 15 top-paid layers to stop? "Your statutory rights are not affected" my ass
Too true, they want to play by the 'license' rule but do they want to send you a replacement that costs pennies to press? no way! They want have their cake and sell it to you at the same time!
Then of-course they want to sell in regions and time the releases and techically tell you its illigal for you to buy it abroad (thats what region coding basically says to me).
Fucking pigs, fuck Tony he is getting the fuck out of my government, I want that bitch deported to the US the second the election is over. Mod chips are generally just blank PICs that have been programmed to give a certain output on seeing a certain input on their pins. As an engineering student this outrages me, no-one is going to tell me what I can and cant do with something as harmless as a PIC in my own home. If they want to ban selling these things then maybe I could live with that, but its my fucking God-given right to do this in my own home, just like it is to dance around listening to Britney spears. I bet this is Blunketts doing, that basterd would love to ban everything under the sun and start giving out curfews, infact the Taliban would have loved him - there, go find the remainder of them and join their club, maybe you can help them ban laughter and implement an iris scanning ID card system. Ok, thats the end of the rant, now its time for me to RTFA before I hit submit, wow Italy says its cool, and they have military conscription, maybe thats something else Blunkett could push on us. This really needs to be changed right now, possession for non-commercial purposes is legal, so why isnt use? The EUCD must be scrapped, bring on the PIC-ASM PS2 Mod-chip T-Shirts and lets go down Westminster and give it to them. After the pub that is..
Even though some of these old patents come and sting big companies, you know the big companies will never push for better patent law, they will only push for whatever benifits them the most and everyone else the least, maybe the law will change so that patents wont apply if the infinger has already made x amount of money from it or if stopping the infringement would 'cause noticable harm to the economy and would be a security risk because the US government uses the product' or maybe 'any company whos name begins with M can infringe patents' - you'll know if its this one if Microsoft suddenly starts registering every combination of M.