I use a Logictech Trackman Wheel...er, a "thumball." It's like a trackball, but the movement is controlled by my thumb, and the buttons are in a more traditional place.
I would have been more specific, but I was in a hurry.:-(
For effective DRM, they need to catch DRM'd data as it enters the computer, before even a device driver sees it. So unless, for example, they implement it as part of a TCP offloading engine in the chipset, it's not going to to hide the data from someone with kernel access.
And unless they add DRM segmenting to the hard drive controller, and restrict data transfers between network, locked memory and storage to hardware-controlled, that data is still going to be visible to anyone who pops the drive in another machine.
And unless they use a hardware decoder, and control transfers to that, the data is going to be visible to anyone who writes a media player or video driver.
And even then, there's going to be leaks, at the very companies authorized to produce each of the pieces of equipment involved.
In other words, no matter how I slice it, I find it hopeless.
One, it's not RFID. RFID is a means of identifying things, that happens to use the RF from the detector as a power source. You can use RF as a power source without it being RFID.
Two, bateryless cordless mice are old news. I've got a Graphire 2 next to me that's done that thing for three or four years.
Only until DRM is implemented at the I/O level. If you can't download or rip music without a certain degree of DRM support, you can't even try to strip out the encryption or whatever that they use for DRM.
DRM provides the perfect oppertunity for the PRC to implement civilian clearance levels and knowledge tracking, applying to everything from chat rooms to web pages to electronic books.
There's so many ways to take advantage of it, from their government's perspective, that I'd be amazed if they didn't already have massive development efforts underway.
Tab key on numpad, Backspace key for half of the spacebar.
Nice, but don't make it half the space bar. Split the spacebar into thirds, and make the middle third the space bar. That way it's available to both thumbs, and normal use of the spacebar won't be as severely affected.
It's only been mentioned ten or fifteen times in this story...I played a version for MajorBBS called TradeWars 2002.
Most of you poor souls will never know the joys of chasing someone across a convoluted 5000-sector universe on a multi-line BBS. Or having the members of an evil corporation and a good corporation all log on at once to have their own mini Armageddon.
I remember an old Teleconference add-on called Food Fight. It dumped a load of ANSI to your screen every time you were hit with something.
The cruellest thing you could do was to hit the guy with the 1200 baud modem with a watermelon. That he happened to be my younger brother only made it better.
It must have taken 30 seconds for the whole thing to show up on his screen, and the Hercules graphics didn't even make it look nice. Who wants underlined watermelon seeds?
You obviously never spent the better portion of your free time using Telix to connect to single or multi-line BBS.
I had the good fortune to grow up the son of the owners of a 50+ line BBS. IIRC, the most number of people I saw connected through the text interface was about 25. A lot of our lines were for SLIP users.
Ah, those were the days. I might have been an annoying as hell ten-year-old who liked to see how many exclamation marks he could put in one line, but it was still fun, and I still see some of same people on a weekly basis.
Alas, if I'd been born a bit sooner, I might have been able to enjoy it longer. The BBS I was on is still around, and you can log into it via telnet, but it's mostly used as a database to authenticate against for the dial-up portion of the ISP. For a few years(1999-2003), I was the phone tech. Then we sold the business to a family friend, who still runs it.
*lists the users he had a crush on* Diamond, Suicidal Heaven, Corky, Sassy.
Where are they now? Hm. Diamond married Deek. According to her bio page, SH is moving to Vegas. Corky is 20 years older than me.
Sassy broke up with me due to a three-year age difference. But she still lets me take her and her friends to movies. Yeah, that'll work. Wait...she still doesn't like computers.
Sorry if I offended you...I've got a friend from SA who's currently living in the US. She was surprised when told that police come to the scene of automobile accidents.
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Doesn't work well on hairy skin, either.
er...so I've been told.
I use a Logictech Trackman Wheel...er, a "thumball." It's like a trackball, but the movement is controlled by my thumb, and the buttons are in a more traditional place.
I would have been more specific, but I was in a hurry. :-(
For effective DRM, they need to catch DRM'd data as it enters the computer, before even a device driver sees it. So unless, for example, they implement it as part of a TCP offloading engine in the chipset, it's not going to to hide the data from someone with kernel access.
And unless they add DRM segmenting to the hard drive controller, and restrict data transfers between network, locked memory and storage to hardware-controlled, that data is still going to be visible to anyone who pops the drive in another machine.
And unless they use a hardware decoder, and control transfers to that, the data is going to be visible to anyone who writes a media player or video driver.
And even then, there's going to be leaks, at the very companies authorized to produce each of the pieces of equipment involved.
In other words, no matter how I slice it, I find it hopeless.
And the answer springs to mind...
"Consistent past behavior."
I wouldn't be surprised if they became standards compliant...that doesn't mean they can't add to their copy of the standard.
One, it's not RFID. RFID is a means of identifying things, that happens to use the RF from the detector as a power source. You can use RF as a power source without it being RFID.
Two, bateryless cordless mice are old news. I've got a Graphire 2 next to me that's done that thing for three or four years.
I think we're going to see some of the same things added to IE7's Javascript engine, but implemented differently.
Which means more special-case code for web developers.
Only until DRM is implemented at the I/O level. If you can't download or rip music without a certain degree of DRM support, you can't even try to strip out the encryption or whatever that they use for DRM.
That sounds awful close to a DMCA violation, to me.
DRM provides the perfect oppertunity for the PRC to implement civilian clearance levels and knowledge tracking, applying to everything from chat rooms to web pages to electronic books.
There's so many ways to take advantage of it, from their government's perspective, that I'd be amazed if they didn't already have massive development efforts underway.
Love to see your monitor after that one...
The search engine indiscriminately references all road signs it finds.
Until the search engine gets contacted by the Church of Scientology, you mean.
Yeah, they tend to spawn a bunch of little packets, all headed to oblivion.
If mobile agents ever gain sentience, that'll be relevant a lot sooner than you think.
Well, Star Trek's labels are things like M SRT, M DRN, J FRK, and references to the speed of light.
Tab key on numpad, Backspace key for half of the spacebar.
Nice, but don't make it half the space bar. Split the spacebar into thirds, and make the middle third the space bar. That way it's available to both thumbs, and normal use of the spacebar won't be as severely affected.
Nice pun. Very subtle.
Tradewars
It's only been mentioned ten or fifteen times in this story...I played a version for MajorBBS called TradeWars 2002.
Most of you poor souls will never know the joys of chasing someone across a convoluted 5000-sector universe on a multi-line BBS. Or having the members of an evil corporation and a good corporation all log on at once to have their own mini Armageddon.
There were some family-oriented BBSes. Cyberspace BBS, in Grand Rapids, MI was one. (And still exists.)
Not to mention played games and upload and download shareware. (Or music and warez, but I was never on any of those BBSes. Honest.)
I remember an old Teleconference add-on called Food Fight. It dumped a load of ANSI to your screen every time you were hit with something.
The cruellest thing you could do was to hit the guy with the 1200 baud modem with a watermelon. That he happened to be my younger brother only made it better.
It must have taken 30 seconds for the whole thing to show up on his screen, and the Hercules graphics didn't even make it look nice. Who wants underlined watermelon seeds?
You obviously never spent the better portion of your free time using Telix to connect to single or multi-line BBS.
I had the good fortune to grow up the son of the owners of a 50+ line BBS. IIRC, the most number of people I saw connected through the text interface was about 25. A lot of our lines were for SLIP users.
Ah, those were the days. I might have been an annoying as hell ten-year-old who liked to see how many exclamation marks he could put in one line, but it was still fun, and I still see some of same people on a weekly basis.
Alas, if I'd been born a bit sooner, I might have been able to enjoy it longer. The BBS I was on is still around, and you can log into it via telnet, but it's mostly used as a database to authenticate against for the dial-up portion of the ISP. For a few years(1999-2003), I was the phone tech. Then we sold the business to a family friend, who still runs it.
Lessee...
*lists the users he had a crush on*
Diamond, Suicidal Heaven, Corky, Sassy.
Where are they now? Hm. Diamond married Deek. According to her bio page, SH is moving to Vegas. Corky is 20 years older than me.
Sassy broke up with me due to a three-year age difference. But she still lets me take her and her friends to movies. Yeah, that'll work. Wait...she still doesn't like computers.
Good info. I wish I found that before I posted. (I *did* RTFA.)
Sorry if I offended you...I've got a friend from SA who's currently living in the US. She was surprised when told that police come to the scene of automobile accidents.
I will say you're better off than most of Africa.
Really? I can't find any evidence he actually said that.
The only evidence I can find in favor of this story is an identical article posted by FOX News.