Didn't say loss of quality numbnuts. As for realtime video feed maanipulation, SGI was able to do that mid 90's, how long before a consumer class machine is capable of such?
I used the Tivo as an example (it might be awhile, if ever before there is a 'series 6' machine). Don't imagine they'll be using the same lowly little PPC (note: the PPC arch itself isn't lwoly, just the cheap one they use in Tivos) that they do today.
As for reconstituting hidden video, with the way most photographers shoot film/video/movies, the least important parts of the film are toward the edges, not the middle. Yes, it could easily be reconstituted to such a degree, that it doesn't look bad to the casual viewer. This is far different from it being the same as the original, mind you.
And hell. This doesn't even have to be realtime. Duh. We are talking PVRese, here. I certainly wouldn't mind watching 30-180 seconds behind 'live', if it meant killing all the ads.
As far as the ads themselves go, if they're 1/1000th as obnoxious as I think they'll be, there will be plenty to distinguish them from the actual video. Not to mention a discontinuity from the original feed, think about it. If one portion of the video matches closely the last non-overlapped frame, and the other part doesn't match at all, is it safe for the PVR to assume this new thing is an ad?
[SARCASM] Yeh, that's real far-fetched. They won't be able to do this for at least 70-80 years, I think. [/SARCASM]
I have no trouble imagining it possible to hack my Tivo Series VI to automatically crop out crud like that, and stretch the picture back to normal.
And if they try to superimpose it on the video feed itself, it might even be possible to train a neural net to "rebuild" it with some degree of accuracy.
Technology is finally on our side for once, as opposed to the hordes of spam minions.
Jehovah, is that you? You've been out drinking and carousing with Allah again, haven't you? You good-for-nothing lowlife. Quit picking on pornographers, they are my chosen people, after all. I'm warning you....
-Grunjnak, All-farting God of the Troll-people.
PS Anyone have any objections if I tweak the speed of light a little, or perhaps the charge of the proton? 5/32's of +1 charge would be kinda cool, would it not?
If you aren't getting the things from me, you shouldn't have to pay, period. Regardless of whether I sell such. And as long as you aren't actively selling those things things in a retail or wholesale way, I don't care, EVEN IF I do own the copyright.
That's why Walmart is the #1 retailer, they (for the most part) don't bother selling things that every highschool student in the country can give away infinite copies of, for virtually no cost.
Then again, I'm not some fuckhole corporate entity, trying to exact some quasi-tax on everyone even though I serve no useful purpose whatsoever. In some countries, you pay them even when you don't use any of their "product".
Someone please tell me how many legal/managerial jobs there are in the recording industry, vs. how many 'performer' jobs. Then explain to me what the hell it is that they do, that makes them think I should care whether or not they starve.
Yes. And when I simply choose not to buy their products, I deprive them then, also.
When I don't close out my savings account, and send the RIAA a cashier's check for the complete amount, I also deprive them of this money.
As a matter of fact, right now I am depriving close to 6 billion people an almost infinite amount of money, whether or not I have it to give. Because wheen people are allowed to fabricate fictional sales, then accuse me of somehow thwarting that sale, I then owe them that amount, no matter what, right?
Copyright doesn't bestow any revenue at all. You have some really twisted morals, not to mention an RIAA lackey's understanding of the law.
I'm not his mother, but I'm proud of him. Proud to be a member of the same species as him, if nothing else. Far better than being whatever nomeclature of scum Ralsky is...
Not that IM is bad, mind you, it's useful also. But what if I wanted to send you a non-spam email, for some reason? Maybe I think I recognize your style of writing, and that you're a long lost college buddy? Or I want to inform you that you're unknowingly revealing a glaring security hole while posting? Or hell, I've come up with some incredible anti-spamming system, and I think you could help me with it, beta-testing or something?
I can't do that though. You don't (read: can't, for fear of spam) include your email address in your posts.
And while it's unlikely that I will ever need to email you, I do see hundreds, and even thousands of posts. Sooner or later, there will be one that I need to email. And I won't be able to.
The most boring internet service, but quite easily the most useful, powerful, and otherwise cool service, is being choked to death with this asshole's scams. And it wouldn't be so bad, if they weren't intent on also ruining the web, IM, and IRC.
Guys, murder this fucker. Have your lawyer choose me for the jury... I promise you won't be convicted.
So I buy an Xbox, have it connect through a sniffing proxy (a linux box with a modem and a serial nullmodem connection). Then I mod it, do the same. At this point, I should be able to start spoofing Xboxen, with fake or even strategically chosen GUIDs. That asshole that beat me at Q3 3 times last sunday? He better hope his GUID isn't available to me through my proxy. The admin who chewed me about about saying "cunt" in the #kindergarden area of Xbox Live? He better hope I can't find his GUID.
Hell, you might even just start carpet-bombing things. I can imagine even writing a little worm, that goes out hitting cable modem users, who still have a dialup. Late at night, it dials out to the service, and spoofs a modded Xbox. Hundreds of them, thousands of them. This could be fun...
I mean, there are cryptographic methods that could prevvent something like this, but after all, we are talking about M$.
Nice moderation, you fool. You must not be ATTBI, apparently.
MediaOne was my first address. Then, with the AT&T buyout, they changed the mailserver format, so the portion after the @ changed, change #1. Then just 3 months later, they changed forced me to change to an @attbi.com address, change #2. Now, I'll most likely get a @comcast.com or some shit,for change #3.
Check it out, if you don't believe me, or are thinking of crackmoderating me.
Yes, but the joke is on us americans, all the same. When we spend 5 million, it's $5 million(US dollars). When they spend $200 million (canadian dollars), that is about the same amount that the average american family spends on groceries for a month.
If there was a physicst out there that was obviously intelligent, could he draft a theory that was so far beyond anyone elses comprehension to get seriously attacked, even if he knew it was BS.
In my opinion, no. Even if some sort or cosmic irony dropped a physicist into our time, from 10,000 years in the future, said physicist wouldn't be capable of it.
For one, english as it is spoken today, even with the jargon of the phsyics community, would be inadequate to say anything truly mind-blowing. And if he adds in his own jargon from the year 12k, it would most likely dominate any message he would say. It would truly be gibberish to us, and it wouldn't exactly be unfair to call it nonsense.
I'm thinking it would be magnetic, somehow. You could have electromagnets, that you would turn on and off to reflip them when necessary. Small ball-bearing type permanent magnets would be cheap enough... the only issue I forsee would be one of aesthetics, will it look good?
The LCD under the keycaps approach will be prettier, though continuously applying power will be a bitch. Thanks to USB though, at least the keyboard has an interface capable of moving bitmaps back and forth. Would be neat as hell though, you hit the capslock key, and the font changes on all the keys.
I also like the glasspad approach, where you have a touchscreen LCD. This isn't so cool for typing, but I imagine quite a few games could take advantage of it. Instead of using the mouse when playing warcraft, the game would upload a new layout for the glasspad, where you could click on the "attack" or "gather wood" icon with your finger, using the mouse only to direct peons and knights. Though, to a lesser extent, this could be possible even with the more traditional keyboards.
Hmm. They operate as monopolies (which have now been judged acceptable by the current regime), while denying desired services to the very people that would be their most enthusiastic customers. They buy laws, judges, and commissioners to protect all of this. They pollute the entire internet with half-assed policies and actions. And if a person does one little thing to get in their way, they sic federal authorities on them. Even when those "little things" amount to nothing more than civil disputes.
My tax dollars are used to pay for this. Something which I consider their responsibility to police, something that would be taken care of much more quickly, if their service were cancelled permanently. Instead, federal agents with much more important duties waste their time on this, simply because our goverment has its heaad up corporate america's ass, shoulder deep. It might not be fascism in the most technical sense of the definition... but gee, they certainly do have the attitude and spirit down perfect.
Well, being slightly technically savvy myself, I'll point out that it's actually the underlying phsyics of a copper wire, plus the existing POTS architecture that limited things to "56k". Not to mention that the number is 99.99999% marketing hype, and practical use never could realize more than a slight and brief increase over the previous 33.6k... which itself was fairly heavy voodoo.
But yeh... I tend to agree with the sentiment that the FBI goons raiding you for modifying your own property is generally bad. The lesson here, is the internet is too empowering for the common man to be allowed to use it for more than a few small emails (which are safe now that they have carnivore). They'd be happy to let monopolistic market forces price internet service out of everyone's budget, but people who try to avoid that need to be dealt with harshly.
Fiber doesn't disolve after n bits have passed through it.
Not that I really worry. Idiots like yourself will get burned too, by the fascists that you invite into society and goverment. So there is at least that small justice.
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Didn't say loss of quality numbnuts.
As for realtime video feed maanipulation, SGI was able to do that mid 90's, how long before a consumer class machine is capable of such?
I used the Tivo as an example (it might be awhile, if ever before there is a 'series 6' machine). Don't imagine they'll be using the same lowly little PPC (note: the PPC arch itself isn't lwoly, just the cheap one they use in Tivos) that they do today.
As for reconstituting hidden video, with the way most photographers shoot film/video/movies, the least important parts of the film are toward the edges, not the middle. Yes, it could easily be reconstituted to such a degree, that it doesn't look bad to the casual viewer. This is far different from it being the same as the original, mind you.
And hell. This doesn't even have to be realtime. Duh. We are talking PVRese, here. I certainly wouldn't mind watching 30-180 seconds behind 'live', if it meant killing all the ads.
As far as the ads themselves go, if they're 1/1000th as obnoxious as I think they'll be, there will be plenty to distinguish them from the actual video. Not to mention a discontinuity from the original feed, think about it. If one portion of the video matches closely the last non-overlapped frame, and the other part doesn't match at all, is it safe for the PVR to assume this new thing is an ad?
[SARCASM]
Yeh, that's real far-fetched. They won't be able to do this for at least 70-80 years, I think.
[/SARCASM]
Haha. Not very bright, are you?
I have no trouble imagining it possible to hack my Tivo Series VI to automatically crop out crud like that, and stretch the picture back to normal.
And if they try to superimpose it on the video feed itself, it might even be possible to train a neural net to "rebuild" it with some degree of accuracy.
Technology is finally on our side for once, as opposed to the hordes of spam minions.
They've obviously never read the "how to be an evil genius" book.
I for one, will make damn sure to not make my daring last minute escape via a helicopter with its rope/chain ladder.
Jehovah, is that you? You've been out drinking and carousing with Allah again, haven't you? You good-for-nothing lowlife. Quit picking on pornographers, they are my chosen people, after all. I'm warning you....
-Grunjnak, All-farting God of the Troll-people.
PS Anyone have any objections if I tweak the speed of light a little, or perhaps the charge of the proton? 5/32's of +1 charge would be kinda cool, would it not?
Anthropomorphizing a group of people. Hmm. Yeh, that is pretty dumb.
[END SARCASM MODE]
If you aren't getting the things from me, you shouldn't have to pay, period. Regardless of whether I sell such. And as long as you aren't actively selling those things things in a retail or wholesale way, I don't care, EVEN IF I do own the copyright.
That's why Walmart is the #1 retailer, they (for the most part) don't bother selling things that every highschool student in the country can give away infinite copies of, for virtually no cost.
Then again, I'm not some fuckhole corporate entity, trying to exact some quasi-tax on everyone even though I serve no useful purpose whatsoever. In some countries, you pay them even when you don't use any of their "product".
Someone please tell me how many legal/managerial jobs there are in the recording industry, vs. how many 'performer' jobs. Then explain to me what the hell it is that they do, that makes them think I should care whether or not they starve.
Yes. And when I simply choose not to buy their products, I deprive them then, also.
When I don't close out my savings account, and send the RIAA a cashier's check for the complete amount, I also deprive them of this money.
As a matter of fact, right now I am depriving close to 6 billion people an almost infinite amount of money, whether or not I have it to give. Because wheen people are allowed to fabricate fictional sales, then accuse me of somehow thwarting that sale, I then owe them that amount, no matter what, right?
Copyright doesn't bestow any revenue at all. You have some really twisted morals, not to mention an RIAA lackey's understanding of the law.
Already on it.
A little project I tinker with, from time to time...
I'm not his mother, but I'm proud of him. Proud to be a member of the same species as him, if nothing else. Far better than being whatever nomeclature of scum Ralsky is...
Because at that point email IS just IM.
Not that IM is bad, mind you, it's useful also. But what if I wanted to send you a non-spam email, for some reason? Maybe I think I recognize your style of writing, and that you're a long lost college buddy? Or I want to inform you that you're unknowingly revealing a glaring security hole while posting? Or hell, I've come up with some incredible anti-spamming system, and I think you could help me with it, beta-testing or something?
I can't do that though. You don't (read: can't, for fear of spam) include your email address in your posts.
And while it's unlikely that I will ever need to email you, I do see hundreds, and even thousands of posts. Sooner or later, there will be one that I need to email. And I won't be able to.
The most boring internet service, but quite easily the most useful, powerful, and otherwise cool service, is being choked to death with this asshole's scams. And it wouldn't be so bad, if they weren't intent on also ruining the web, IM, and IRC.
Guys, murder this fucker. Have your lawyer choose me for the jury... I promise you won't be convicted.
So they charge you $50, even if the box is banned?
How fucked up is that?
So use the energy to constantly build more rope onto its end, with some nanotech procedure.
Don't think that even this allows for "perpetual motion", but could be fun all the same.
So I buy an Xbox, have it connect through a sniffing proxy (a linux box with a modem and a serial nullmodem connection). Then I mod it, do the same. At this point, I should be able to start spoofing Xboxen, with fake or even strategically chosen GUIDs. That asshole that beat me at Q3 3 times last sunday? He better hope his GUID isn't available to me through my proxy. The admin who chewed me about about saying "cunt" in the #kindergarden area of Xbox Live? He better hope I can't find his GUID.
Hell, you might even just start carpet-bombing things. I can imagine even writing a little worm, that goes out hitting cable modem users, who still have a dialup. Late at night, it dials out to the service, and spoofs a modded Xbox. Hundreds of them, thousands of them. This could be fun...
I mean, there are cryptographic methods that could prevvent something like this, but after all, we are talking about M$.
Nice moderation, you fool. You must not be ATTBI, apparently.
MediaOne was my first address.
Then, with the AT&T buyout, they changed the mailserver format, so the portion after the @ changed, change #1.
Then just 3 months later, they changed forced me to change to an @attbi.com address, change #2.
Now, I'll most likely get a @comcast.com or some shit,for change #3.
Check it out, if you don't believe me, or are thinking of crackmoderating me.
Yes, but the joke is on us americans, all the same. When we spend 5 million, it's $5 million(US dollars). When they spend $200 million (canadian dollars), that is about the same amount that the average american family spends on groceries for a month.
Thank you comcast, for what will assuredly be yet another change of address. Wonder which ports they'll block next?
If there was a physicst out there that was obviously intelligent, could he draft a theory that was so far beyond anyone elses comprehension to get seriously attacked, even if he knew it was BS.
In my opinion, no. Even if some sort or cosmic irony dropped a physicist into our time, from 10,000 years in the future, said physicist wouldn't be capable of it.
For one, english as it is spoken today, even with the jargon of the phsyics community, would be inadequate to say anything truly mind-blowing. And if he adds in his own jargon from the year 12k, it would most likely dominate any message he would say. It would truly be gibberish to us, and it wouldn't exactly be unfair to call it nonsense.
I'm thinking it would be magnetic, somehow. You could have electromagnets, that you would turn on and off to reflip them when necessary. Small ball-bearing type permanent magnets would be cheap enough... the only issue I forsee would be one of aesthetics, will it look good?
The LCD under the keycaps approach will be prettier, though continuously applying power will be a bitch. Thanks to USB though, at least the keyboard has an interface capable of moving bitmaps back and forth. Would be neat as hell though, you hit the capslock key, and the font changes on all the keys.
I also like the glasspad approach, where you have a touchscreen LCD. This isn't so cool for typing, but I imagine quite a few games could take advantage of it. Instead of using the mouse when playing warcraft, the game would upload a new layout for the glasspad, where you could click on the "attack" or "gather wood" icon with your finger, using the mouse only to direct peons and knights. Though, to a lesser extent, this could be possible even with the more traditional keyboards.
Is Albert Johnson's Amazing Vic-20 World Tour taking a detour through Toronto?
Hmm. They operate as monopolies (which have now been judged acceptable by the current regime), while denying desired services to the very people that would be their most enthusiastic customers. They buy laws, judges, and commissioners to protect all of this. They pollute the entire internet with half-assed policies and actions. And if a person does one little thing to get in their way, they sic federal authorities on them. Even when those "little things" amount to nothing more than civil disputes.
My tax dollars are used to pay for this. Something which I consider their responsibility to police, something that would be taken care of much more quickly, if their service were cancelled permanently. Instead, federal agents with much more important duties waste their time on this, simply because our goverment has its heaad up corporate america's ass, shoulder deep. It might not be fascism in the most technical sense of the definition... but gee, they certainly do have the attitude and spirit down perfect.
Well, being slightly technically savvy myself, I'll point out that it's actually the underlying phsyics of a copper wire, plus the existing POTS architecture that limited things to "56k". Not to mention that the number is 99.99999% marketing hype, and practical use never could realize more than a slight and brief increase over the previous 33.6k... which itself was fairly heavy voodoo.
But yeh... I tend to agree with the sentiment that the FBI goons raiding you for modifying your own property is generally bad. The lesson here, is the internet is too empowering for the common man to be allowed to use it for more than a few small emails (which are safe now that they have carnivore). They'd be happy to let monopolistic market forces price internet service out of everyone's budget, but people who try to avoid that need to be dealt with harshly.
Yeh, because it truly is limited, you retard.
Fiber doesn't disolve after n bits have passed through it.
Not that I really worry. Idiots like yourself will get burned too, by the fascists that you invite into society and goverment. So there is at least that small justice.
I thought ports only went up to 2^16 ? Maybe if he hadn't been a script kiddy, he wouldn't have had so much trouble.
Yeh, all those lit fibers, and no way to lay more. It is indeed limited.
If we let hooligans steal bandwidth, then the terroists have already won.