If you want to know how dangerous cell phones are (RF wise), you need to look at the population of ham radio operators and various professionals who use UHF radios on a regaular basis.
Based on the Hamfests I've been to I have come to the conclusion that long-term exposure to such RF turns you into an old coot.
But the REAL question I have is whether or not those who broke the watermarks *TOLD* RIAA HOW THEY DID IT.
If they want to collect that 10 grand, they did. It was part of the requirements, you have to spill your guts (and code) to the RIAA in order to collect the prize.
Need to have a box answer the phone when there is no caller ID and say "I'm sorry, this number does not accept calls from blocked callers".
Such a beast exists; I have one. Bought it at Radio Shack 3 or 4 years ago. I couldn't find it on their website or I'd give you a URL, but maybe they still sell it at their stores.
You can have the box block certain numbers, also it can block non-ID'd numbers. When someone calls on the block list a little digital voice tells them that you don't accept calls from their number and it hangs up - you hear one ring, and that's it.
I'm sure Rat Shack isn't the only supplier of such things...
What I'd really love is something that would allow me to record my own "F-off" message!
The thing worked, and the 6502 still is the hallmark of 8bit CPU design to me. Z80 is sort of... ugly.
Yeah, all those extra registers hanging off everywhere truly screwed the aesthetics into the ground. The 6502, with it's sleek and aerodynamic 6 register design, really set the style for future processors.
(BTW, I'm not harassing you - anyone who owns a 2001 is cool in my book. Didn't that thing show up on Battlestar Ponderosa on a regular basis? Or maybe I'm thinking of Buck Rogers... with Erin Gray in spandex it was hard to concentrate on the background...)
NewsFlash! Any game worth playing sucks on a standard dial up!!
Oh, I dunno about that. Chess seems to do ok. Fairly low-bandwidth...with postcards, even.
I might re-phrase that to "Any game worth playing that involves running around complex 3-d environments blasting the crap out of everything that moves sucks on a standard dialup". I know it's hard to believe but there were games before Doom;-)
Difference being that it would take more than 5 seconds to reveal the plot of The Matrix
Time in
Computers have taken over the earth creating a virual reality for all humans, which they use as batteries. Hero wrests control of said reality from computers. The End.
Time out
Ok, how long did it take you to read that? Less than 5 seconds, I'm guessing.
Sincere apologies if I've spoiled the movie for anyone.
Wouldn't this be a bit dangerous---seeing the properties of Mercury?
According to the article this has been considered. An epoxy-lined pit has been dug, if anything bad happens the mercury is trapped, and someone goes and gets a mop.
Why Is Anyone Even Trying To make a new standard? Copyright protected or not, anything made will just be converted to a free format as soon as the "COPY PROOF" method is made.
It seems pretty obvious to anyone with a little technical saavy to understand the issue and a little common sense to derive that the days of paying $15.00 for music (where $0.50 go to the artist and $14.50 goes towards getting that little CD into your hands) are over.
So, the answer has to be one of the following:
1) The Big Record Companies (BRCs) are just clueless. Naaw, they're too big and rich to be that dumb. At least some of the decision makers have to see the writing on the wall. That leaves us with:
2) Inertia. It's going to take some time for the BRCs to get something in place that will deliver the music we want at a price we'll find nice enough to download legit instead of hitting Napstella.
Yeah, I know the Linux uber-hacker croud could put something in place in twenty minutes or so, but the BRCs are going to want something robust, foolproof, eye-catching and permanent. Meaning that technology isn't going to bury it in the next couple of hours.
That takes a while. In the meantime, they sic the lawyer-dogs on whatever they can, and come out with copy-crippled-crap protocols hoping to slow things down enough that they can catch up. Damage control.
Oh, and coming to grips with the fact that they're not going to make those nice, fat profits as easily as they used to... that's inertia too.
From the article: The Madison experiment will continue at least until December 31, 1999, according to Max Martens, a spokesman with the public-relations firm of Porter Novelli in Los Angeles. Until then, neither IBM nor AlbumDirect will talk about the feedback they've been receiving from test participants. "This is strictly a test, and it's wait-and-see," Martens said.
Mine wasn't packaged with the magazine. It came in a seperate box with only Wired logos and an ad for Delta-Air.com on the outside -- no indication of what it was.
Oh. Well. Um, then Nevermind.
I wonder if this could lead to tiny writing on magazine subscription cards - "By subscribing you are agreeing to follow all license agreements that come attached to anything we may mail you"
Nobody viewed, copied, reverse engineered, or emulated any part of the firmware in the CueCat. Period.
That can't be right - the firmware encodes the barcode, right? And those clever hackers figured out how to decode it, so doesn't that count as reverse engineering?
Not that there's anything wrong with that you understand...
Enough to pay him a visit? If you'd consider flying over there perhaps you can take the computer as "baggage". We brought a system back (to Ohio) from California that way. I know, not quite the same thing, but...
This may be a very stupid idea, but then you didn't pay much for it.
At first blush that was my reaction too - WTF is the FCC (!!) doing telling AOL or anyone else to open thier code?
Then upon further reading, it turns out the FCC is doing this as part of the AOL / Time-Warner merger deal. In that regard it makes sense. The merger gives one company a hell of a lot of clout, getting them to shake loose a few proprietary things as part of the deal sounds like a good idea to me.
After reading their web site, I think it all boils down to this: They made some Magic Ink and some Magic Lights. Anything touched with the Magic ink will glow under a Magic Light. Nothing but their ink will glow under their lights, and only their lights will make their ink show up.
So reguardless of the actually technology used (hence my use of the word "magic") they've got a pretty good way of insuring Genuine Items as long as they have exclusive control of who gets the ink and who gets the light.
How it really works is secondary - it could be based on firefly nads, and as long as no one else has access to those nads, they win.
For what it's worth... as part of a "services rendered" compensation package to a local group of nuts^h^h^h^h free thinkers, I got a cassette tape entitled "Top Down Liturgical Design" by Isaac Bonewits, where (if memory serves) he described some basic coding techniques to be used for... um... that spellcasting stuff.
when you install the (windows) software, it requires you to register, no? and isn't that registration form about the same as insurance forms? i heard they ask for a lot of information... maybe im wrong, ill find out whenever I go to RS
Sure, they ask a lot of questions - and it's up to you how honest you care to be. They also require a valid e-mail address (so they can send you the "activation" code), mailexpire.com takes care of that handily.
So I'm using CueCat and they have no idea who I am.
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How does Al Gore fit into this picture?
Didn't you know he invented the space program? Kids today... you probably don't even remember his personally designing the Saturn V booster...
If you want to know how dangerous cell phones are (RF wise), you need to look at the population of ham radio operators and various professionals who use UHF radios on a regaular basis.
Based on the Hamfests I've been to I have come to the conclusion that long-term exposure to such RF turns you into an old coot.
But the REAL question I have is whether or not those who broke the watermarks *TOLD* RIAA HOW THEY DID IT.
If they want to collect that 10 grand, they did. It was part of the requirements, you have to spill your guts (and code) to the RIAA in order to collect the prize.
Need to have a box answer the phone when there is no caller ID and say "I'm sorry, this number does not accept calls from blocked callers".
Such a beast exists; I have one. Bought it at Radio Shack 3 or 4 years ago. I couldn't find it on their website or I'd give you a URL, but maybe they still sell it at their stores.
You can have the box block certain numbers, also it can block non-ID'd numbers. When someone calls on the block list a little digital voice tells them that you don't accept calls from their number and it hangs up - you hear one ring, and that's it.
I'm sure Rat Shack isn't the only supplier of such things...
What I'd really love is something that would allow me to record my own "F-off" message!
Unless you're counting the program counter (PC), stack pointer (SP), and processor status bits (PS) as "registers".
That's how I remember them being referred to in the MOS manual. But, that was a long time ago, my memory could be faulty.
The thing worked, and the 6502 still is the hallmark of 8bit CPU design to me. Z80 is sort of ... ugly.
Yeah, all those extra registers hanging off everywhere truly screwed the aesthetics into the ground. The 6502, with it's sleek and aerodynamic 6 register design, really set the style for future processors.
(BTW, I'm not harassing you - anyone who owns a 2001 is cool in my book. Didn't that thing show up on Battlestar Ponderosa on a regular basis? Or maybe I'm thinking of Buck Rogers... with Erin Gray in spandex it was hard to concentrate on the background...)
Can be found at:
http://www.ascap.com/weblicense/license.html
Wide Brush Alert!
;-)
NewsFlash! Any game worth playing sucks on a standard dial up!!
Oh, I dunno about that. Chess seems to do ok. Fairly low-bandwidth...with postcards, even.
I might re-phrase that to "Any game worth playing that involves running around complex 3-d environments blasting the crap out of everything that moves sucks on a standard dialup". I know it's hard to believe but there were games before Doom
If the story board would end up on the web, even if only remotelly accurate, it would spill the beans and spoil the movie.
Once I read a book, and then they made a movie out of the book, and even though I knew what the story was, I went to see the movie anyway.
Am I dumb or what?
Difference being that it would take more than 5 seconds to reveal the plot of The Matrix
Time in
Computers have taken over the earth creating a virual reality for all humans, which they use as batteries. Hero wrests control of said reality from computers. The End.
Time out
Ok, how long did it take you to read that? Less than 5 seconds, I'm guessing.
Sincere apologies if I've spoiled the movie for anyone.
Wouldn't this be a bit dangerous---seeing the properties of Mercury?
According to the article this has been considered. An epoxy-lined pit has been dug, if anything bad happens the mercury is trapped, and someone goes and gets a mop.
Why Is Anyone Even Trying To make a new standard? Copyright protected or not, anything made will just be converted to a free format as soon as the "COPY PROOF" method is made.
It seems pretty obvious to anyone with a little technical saavy to understand the issue and a little common sense to derive that the days of paying $15.00 for music (where $0.50 go to the artist and $14.50 goes towards getting that little CD into your hands) are over.
So, the answer has to be one of the following:
1) The Big Record Companies (BRCs) are just clueless. Naaw, they're too big and rich to be that dumb. At least some of the decision makers have to see the writing on the wall. That leaves us with:
2) Inertia. It's going to take some time for the BRCs to get something in place that will deliver the music we want at a price we'll find nice enough to download legit instead of hitting Napstella.
Yeah, I know the Linux uber-hacker croud could put something in place in twenty minutes or so, but the BRCs are going to want something robust, foolproof, eye-catching and permanent. Meaning that technology isn't going to bury it in the next couple of hours.
That takes a while. In the meantime, they sic the lawyer-dogs on whatever they can, and come out with copy-crippled-crap protocols hoping to slow things down enough that they can catch up. Damage control.
Oh, and coming to grips with the fact that they're not going to make those nice, fat profits as easily as they used to... that's inertia too.
From the article: The Madison experiment will continue at least until December 31, 1999, according to Max Martens, a spokesman with the public-relations firm of Porter Novelli in Los Angeles. Until then, neither IBM nor AlbumDirect will talk about the feedback they've been receiving from test participants. "This is strictly a test, and it's wait-and-see," Martens said.
Is the article's date wrong, or is this old news?
Mine wasn't packaged with the magazine. It came in a seperate box with only Wired logos and an ad for Delta-Air.com on the outside -- no indication of what it was.
Oh. Well. Um, then Nevermind.
I wonder if this could lead to tiny writing on magazine subscription cards - "By subscribing you are agreeing to follow all license agreements that come attached to anything we may mail you"
Oh, you think that Wired or Forbes cares? They sold DC their mailing list, just like they sold everybody else their mailing list.
I was under the impression that the CueKittie came with the magazine...?
You subscribed to Forbes/Wired, didn't you? The Cuecat came with the magazine as part of the subscription. Game over.
Or are you going to complain to the post office about the AOL CDs they put in there, too?
>But do you actually know anyone who owns (or ever owned) a VRC+plus?
The last two or three VCRs I bought all had VCR+. I never set it up because it wasn't worth the effort, but these days just about every VCR has it.
I just went to Crutchfield's page, out of the 20 VCRs they list all but three have VCR+.
>Radio Shack also called a portion of their screen (a single character, iirc) used for the speach synthesizer a window.
It was more than one character, of that I'm certain. I think it was more like 15.
Nobody viewed, copied, reverse engineered, or emulated any part of the firmware in the CueCat. Period.
That can't be right - the firmware encodes the barcode, right? And those clever hackers figured out how to decode it, so doesn't that count as reverse engineering?
Not that there's anything wrong with that you understand...
The good news is that you can put all of Napster on a single electron.
The bad news is that you need 12 tons worth of equipment to play the music.
Enough to pay him a visit? If you'd consider flying over there perhaps you can take the computer as "baggage". We brought a system back (to Ohio) from California that way. I know, not quite the same thing, but...
This may be a very stupid idea, but then you didn't pay much for it.
The government should have NO BUSINESS in this.
At first blush that was my reaction too - WTF is the FCC (!!) doing telling AOL or anyone else to open thier code?
Then upon further reading, it turns out the FCC is doing this as part of the AOL / Time-Warner merger deal. In that regard it makes sense. The merger gives one company a hell of a lot of clout, getting them to shake loose a few proprietary things as part of the deal sounds like a good idea to me.
After reading their web site, I think it all boils down to this: They made some Magic Ink and some Magic Lights. Anything touched with the Magic ink will glow under a Magic Light. Nothing but their ink will glow under their lights, and only their lights will make their ink show up.
So reguardless of the actually technology used (hence my use of the word "magic") they've got a pretty good way of insuring Genuine Items as long as they have exclusive control of who gets the ink and who gets the light.
How it really works is secondary - it could be based on firefly nads, and as long as no one else has access to those nads, they win.
For what it's worth... as part of a "services rendered" compensation package to a local group of nuts^h^h^h^h free thinkers, I got a cassette tape entitled "Top Down Liturgical Design" by Isaac Bonewits, where (if memory serves) he described some basic coding techniques to be used for... um... that spellcasting stuff.
If there's interest...
Get to Isaac: http://www.neopagan.net/
Get to A.C.E: http://rosencomet.com/
Too lazy to do the tags... sorry.
when you install the (windows) software, it requires you to register, no? and isn't that registration form about the same as insurance forms? i heard they ask for a lot of information... maybe im wrong, ill find out whenever I go to RS
Sure, they ask a lot of questions - and it's up to you how honest you care to be. They also require a valid e-mail address (so they can send you the "activation" code), mailexpire.com takes care of that handily.
So I'm using CueCat and they have no idea who I am.