You make it impossible to play on a computer, all you have to do is have a "legitimate" player convert the signal to analog for viewing, and put the analog output in to a computer input, and voila, any protection scheme has just been cracked. They just think we're too stupid to realize this...
"(a) IN GENERAL. -- A manufacturer, importer, or seller of digital media devices may not --
(1) sell, or offer for sale, in interstate commerce, or
(2) cause to be transported in, or in a manner affecting, interstate commerce,
a digital medial device unless the device includes and utilizes standard security technologies that adhere to the security system standards adopted under section 3."
It's right freaking there, "interstate commerce"! All you have to do is set up shop locally, not even advertising in a way that will reach out of state, and this bill can't touch you. Ah, I appreciate the Constitution more and more every day:D. If those bastards in the MPAA and RIAA want this bill to stick, they'll have to get the law passed in all 50 states. Small victories like this are always encouraging.
I remember when I was in sixth grade, what 8 years ago, and we were visiting the local state university. One of the professors had a lecture about research he was doing in to sonic refrigeration, and even showed us some units that could build up a pretty good sized thermal gradient. Being the environmentally conscious little git I was, wanting a freon free frige, I asked him how far from a commercial product they were. He said 3-4 years.....
Google fights back by de-listing a web site, faking a DMCA email as the cause, launching a massive Slashdotting against targets in Russia.... Wait a minute!
Now the DMCA is being abused by a bunch of religious wackos! The worst part is, assuming that xenu.net is violating copyright (which I doubt), what the wackos have done is legal. Check out this paragraph from the DMCA:
(From section 512)
`(d) INFORMATION LOCATION TOOLS- A service provider shall not be liable for monetary relief, or, except as provided in subsection (j), for injunctive or other equitable relief, for infringement of copyright by reason of the provider referring or linking users to an online location containing infringing material or infringing activity, by using information location tools, including a directory, index, reference, pointer, or hypertext link, if the service provider--
`(1)(A) does not have actual knowledge that the material or activity is infringing;
`(B) in the absence of such actual knowledge, is not aware of facts or circumstances from which infringing activity is apparent; or
`(C) upon obtaining such knowledge or awareness, acts expeditiously to remove, or disable access to, the material;
`(2) does not receive a financial benefit directly attributable to the infringing activity, in a case in which the service provider has the right and ability to control such activity; and
`(3) upon notification of claimed infringement as described in subsection (c)(3), responds expeditiously to remove, or disable access to, the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity, except that, for purposes of this paragraph, the information described in subsection (c)(3)(A)(iii) shall be identification of the reference or link, to material or activity claimed to be infringing, that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled, and information reasonably sufficient to permit the service provider to locate that reference or link.
Pay special attention to subsection `(3). So even linking to copyright infringing material is illegal?!? wtf were those wackos who wrote this bill thinking? This is a serious freedom of speech violation (since software is, after all, speech, and links are just software written in a scripting language). The sooner that abomination of a law gets repealed, the better.
In this instance, here's what xenu.net should do: register a new, and temporary, domain name. The scientologists will have conniptions hunting down his new domain names, he'll have to pay less than lawyer fees.
I wonder if I should become a sci fi author and start my own relition?
Capcom is doing a remake of the original RE for the Gamecube this year. The graphics are hella-improved, and they rearranged the mansion and added a bunch of stuff. They must have done a good job, too, because Famitsu (a Japanese mag that is very stringent on it's ratings: the only game to ever get a perfect score was The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time) gave it 39 out of 40.
For instance, the assumption that lines of code = complexity is false. Ultimately, these are what matters in programming:
How fast is the compiled program How big is the compiled program How easy is the source code to read How stable is the compiled code How secure is the program How complete is the feature set
These are all about software quality, not quantity, though. Once you've measured qaulity, the only measure I can see for quantity is, "Did ya get the job done?" The key to measuring a programmers productivity, I think, is to have the programmer keep a log of what he's doing. With that log, the company can insist on improvement, a maintained level, give bonuses for productivity, etc. The only issue I could see with such a log idea is that the higher ups will become so obsessed with the log, and what the programmer is allowed to claim as a job done in the log, that the programmers won't be able to do their job. Oh, well, it was just an idea.
"77.Houston, We Have a Problem, Part 11: In late January 2002 -- well after the government has instructed Enron to stop shredding accounting documents -- Maureen Castaneda, a recently laid-off Enron employee, reveals that the shredding has continued. The tip-off: In boxing up her belongings, Castaneda finds a stash of shredded paper to use as packing material. Because the paper has been shredded horizontally instead of vertically, Castaneda can see that it consists of accounting documents."
What a bunch of incompetent asses! They can't even shred documents right!:D
They will be selling circumvention mechanisms. I love the bit about "sealed in the box" blah blah blah. "Stone walls do not a prison make, nor locked doors a barrier". I split open the box that contains the speaker or TV, and look what I find! The signal going in to the CRT/LCD/speaker is an analog signal! I simply whip up an analog to digital converter (can be done in software or hardware, all I need is a high speed voltmeter [a.k.a. an oscilloscope or lab interface like Vernier makes]), and voila! I have digital content back! I didn't circumvent anything, I just made an analog signal that was in the clear in to a digital one. If nothing else, I can set a microphone near the speaker and a camcorder in front of the screen. The content industry literally can not win! To successfully pull off what they want to do, they would need to make the U.S. in to a version of 1984, and that isn't going to happen. Just look at how well prohibition worked. All they'll end up doing is strengthening organized crime, which will ultimately be a bad thing.
Goku is, let's face it, dumb. And he isn't old either. Di Caprio has less muscle in his whole body than I've got in my pinky, so he couldn't fit any role; except maybe Master Roshi:D. Who would I pick to play Goku? I think that Russle Crowe might be able to do a good enough acting job to pull it off, that is, if he can learn the martial arts and instant transmission;).
Who am I kidding? DragonBall isn't even really great anime, it's just entertaining. The cheese factor of a live action movie will be way too high, and it will have to be 24 hours long to be true to the original:D. Don't see this one folks.
I've become so fed up that I donated to bnetd defense and joined the EFF. I hope Blizzard does try to take this to court, and the EFF is able to stick it to Vivendi and the DMCA.
Nuclear is practically a dirty word. Just stick your head out the door and say it, and in 5 minutes you'll have at least 5 hippies protesting outside. They won't know what or exactly why they're protesting, but it has the word "nuclear" attached to it, so it must be bad.
It's the same way with health nuts and the word "chemicals" though they don't protest it, they just condemn it. Just walk up to someone in a health club, and ask him, "Do you know how many chemicals you have floating around in your body?" and watch him get a disgusted look on his face like you accused him of having herpes. Or ask some clerk at a health food store, "How many chemicals does this have in it?" and laugh at his ignorant @ss when he tries to claim there aren't any.
Is that Bush wants smaller nuclear weapons developed. Remember when Bush promised to reduce the total ICBM arsenal to 2000 warheads or so (:sarcasm:only enough to destroy the world three times over:sarcasm:)? Now we know why: it's probably cheaper to pull apart the old nukes for spare parts rather than trying to mine all the extra uranium et al. What a magnanimous gesture that was.
For some odd reason, a lot of people in the U.S. think that cartoons are only for kids. Thus they assume that any cartoon should be suitable for junior, and get pissed when their presumption is wrong.
I've got a better question, why can't we show nudity? I'm not talking about sexual acts with nudity, I'm talking about plain old nudity. The U.S. really needs to get off it's damn hangups and realize that there isn't anything inherently dirty about the nude human body. If anything, the fear of nudity causes more problems than it could possibly be solving.
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You make it impossible to play on a computer, all you have to do is have a "legitimate" player convert the signal to analog for viewing, and put the analog output in to a computer input, and voila, any protection scheme has just been cracked. They just think we're too stupid to realize this...
BlackGriffen
"(a) IN GENERAL. -- A manufacturer, importer, or seller of digital media devices may not --
:D. If those bastards in the MPAA and RIAA want this bill to stick, they'll have to get the law passed in all 50 states. Small victories like this are always encouraging.
(1) sell, or offer for sale, in interstate commerce, or
(2) cause to be transported in, or in a manner affecting, interstate commerce,
a digital medial device unless the device includes and utilizes standard security technologies that adhere to the security system standards adopted under section 3."
It's right freaking there, "interstate commerce"! All you have to do is set up shop locally, not even advertising in a way that will reach out of state, and this bill can't touch you. Ah, I appreciate the Constitution more and more every day
BlackGriffen
I remember when I was in sixth grade, what 8 years ago, and we were visiting the local state university. One of the professors had a lecture about research he was doing in to sonic refrigeration, and even showed us some units that could build up a pretty good sized thermal gradient. Being the environmentally conscious little git I was, wanting a freon free frige, I asked him how far from a commercial product they were. He said 3-4 years.....
BlackGriffen
Google fights back by de-listing a web site, faking a DMCA email as the cause, launching a massive Slashdotting against targets in Russia.... Wait a minute!
BlackGriffen
(From section 512)
`(d) INFORMATION LOCATION TOOLS- A service provider shall not be liable for monetary relief, or, except as provided in subsection (j), for injunctive or other equitable relief, for infringement of copyright by reason of the provider referring or linking users to an online location containing infringing material or infringing activity, by using information location tools, including a directory, index, reference, pointer, or hypertext link, if the service provider--
`(1)(A) does not have actual knowledge that the material or activity is infringing;
`(B) in the absence of such actual knowledge, is not aware of facts or circumstances from which infringing activity is apparent; or
`(C) upon obtaining such knowledge or awareness, acts expeditiously to remove, or disable access to, the material;
`(2) does not receive a financial benefit directly attributable to the infringing activity, in a case in which the service provider has the right and ability to control such activity; and
`(3) upon notification of claimed infringement as described in subsection (c)(3), responds expeditiously to remove, or disable access to, the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity, except that, for purposes of this paragraph, the information described in subsection (c)(3)(A)(iii) shall be identification of the reference or link, to material or activity claimed to be infringing, that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled, and information reasonably sufficient to permit the service provider to locate that reference or link.
Pay special attention to subsection `(3). So even linking to copyright infringing material is illegal?!? wtf were those wackos who wrote this bill thinking? This is a serious freedom of speech violation (since software is, after all, speech, and links are just software written in a scripting language). The sooner that abomination of a law gets repealed, the better.
In this instance, here's what xenu.net should do: register a new, and temporary, domain name. The scientologists will have conniptions hunting down his new domain names, he'll have to pay less than lawyer fees.
I wonder if I should become a sci fi author and start my own relition?
BlackGriffen
the ability to deal with an HFS+ firewire hard drive, right? That's all the iPod is, really, that and some software to play the tunes on it.
BlackGriffen
Capcom is doing a remake of the original RE for the Gamecube this year. The graphics are hella-improved, and they rearranged the mansion and added a bunch of stuff. They must have done a good job, too, because Famitsu (a Japanese mag that is very stringent on it's ratings: the only game to ever get a perfect score was The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time) gave it 39 out of 40.
BlackGriffen
For instance, the assumption that lines of code = complexity is false. Ultimately, these are what matters in programming:
How fast is the compiled program
How big is the compiled program
How easy is the source code to read
How stable is the compiled code
How secure is the program
How complete is the feature set
These are all about software quality, not quantity, though. Once you've measured qaulity, the only measure I can see for quantity is, "Did ya get the job done?" The key to measuring a programmers productivity, I think, is to have the programmer keep a log of what he's doing. With that log, the company can insist on improvement, a maintained level, give bonuses for productivity, etc. The only issue I could see with such a log idea is that the higher ups will become so obsessed with the log, and what the programmer is allowed to claim as a job done in the log, that the programmers won't be able to do their job. Oh, well, it was just an idea.
BlackGriffen
The Agony and the Exstacy.
BlackGriffen
Great...
BlackGriffen
"77.Houston, We Have a Problem, Part 11: In late January 2002 -- well after the government has instructed Enron to stop shredding accounting documents -- Maureen Castaneda, a recently laid-off Enron employee, reveals that the shredding has continued. The tip-off: In boxing up her belongings, Castaneda finds a stash of shredded paper to use as packing material. Because the paper has been shredded horizontally instead of vertically, Castaneda can see that it consists of accounting documents."
:D
What a bunch of incompetent asses! They can't even shred documents right!
BlackGriffen
This sounds more like a general Sci-fi thing.
BlackGriffen
Sshhhh! Don't you hit me with your technobabble and jargon! :D
thanx:)
BlackGriffen
They will be selling circumvention mechanisms. I love the bit about "sealed in the box" blah blah blah. "Stone walls do not a prison make, nor locked doors a barrier". I split open the box that contains the speaker or TV, and look what I find! The signal going in to the CRT/LCD/speaker is an analog signal! I simply whip up an analog to digital converter (can be done in software or hardware, all I need is a high speed voltmeter [a.k.a. an oscilloscope or lab interface like Vernier makes]), and voila! I have digital content back! I didn't circumvent anything, I just made an analog signal that was in the clear in to a digital one. If nothing else, I can set a microphone near the speaker and a camcorder in front of the screen. The content industry literally can not win! To successfully pull off what they want to do, they would need to make the U.S. in to a version of 1984, and that isn't going to happen. Just look at how well prohibition worked. All they'll end up doing is strengthening organized crime, which will ultimately be a bad thing.
BlackGriffen
"it turns on my wife when I bang on the bongo's like a chimpanzee."
;) :D.
Doesn't she find that painful? I know my last girlfriend would have never let me do that to her
BlackGriffen
Goku is, let's face it, dumb. And he isn't old either. Di Caprio has less muscle in his whole body than I've got in my pinky, so he couldn't fit any role; except maybe Master Roshi :D. Who would I pick to play Goku? I think that Russle Crowe might be able to do a good enough acting job to pull it off, that is, if he can learn the martial arts and instant transmission ;).
:D. Don't see this one folks.
Who am I kidding? DragonBall isn't even really great anime, it's just entertaining. The cheese factor of a live action movie will be way too high, and it will have to be 24 hours long to be true to the original
BlackGriffen
Stinking rich kids, all I had was my hand and a prayer.
BlackGriffen
It asked for password, I did not have one. Pls post source to ftp or similar.
BlackGriffen
I've become so fed up that I donated to bnetd defense and joined the EFF. I hope Blizzard does try to take this to court, and the EFF is able to stick it to Vivendi and the DMCA.
BlackGriffen
Nuclear is practically a dirty word. Just stick your head out the door and say it, and in 5 minutes you'll have at least 5 hippies protesting outside. They won't know what or exactly why they're protesting, but it has the word "nuclear" attached to it, so it must be bad.
It's the same way with health nuts and the word "chemicals" though they don't protest it, they just condemn it. Just walk up to someone in a health club, and ask him, "Do you know how many chemicals you have floating around in your body?" and watch him get a disgusted look on his face like you accused him of having herpes. Or ask some clerk at a health food store, "How many chemicals does this have in it?" and laugh at his ignorant @ss when he tries to claim there aren't any.
BlackGriffen
Click on your URL field, and hit enter. No more referral header, no more refusal of service.
;P.
Apple apparently fights the slashdot effect, but resistance is futile
BlackGriffen
Is that Bush wants smaller nuclear weapons developed. Remember when Bush promised to reduce the total ICBM arsenal to 2000 warheads or so (:sarcasm:only enough to destroy the world three times over:sarcasm:)? Now we know why: it's probably cheaper to pull apart the old nukes for spare parts rather than trying to mine all the extra uranium et al. What a magnanimous gesture that was.
BlackGriffen
Why are so many posts being modded as troll, when similar posts aren't? Just curious.
BlackGriffen
For some odd reason, a lot of people in the U.S. think that cartoons are only for kids. Thus they assume that any cartoon should be suitable for junior, and get pissed when their presumption is wrong.
I've got a better question, why can't we show nudity? I'm not talking about sexual acts with nudity, I'm talking about plain old nudity. The U.S. really needs to get off it's damn hangups and realize that there isn't anything inherently dirty about the nude human body. If anything, the fear of nudity causes more problems than it could possibly be solving.
BlackGriffen
If he was Lucas I'd be worried. Now if only I had some dip to get that damn Plot off my leg... ;D
BlackGriffen