How do office buildings with a lot of glass windows "hold up"?
One word, STEEL. Residences aren't made of such strong material as the above posters pointed out. And as building codes have been relaxed, fewer and weaker supports are used. My cookie cutter Townhome doesn't even have 6/8 inch joists in the attic, just 2x4's. Noticed that when I bought it but that's the code here now (VA) since 92 so it's not something you can realistically get away from.
As a former resident of the 2nd cloudiest city in America (Rochester, NY) I'm curious how much actual usage you'd get in the Seattle area for the same reason.
Serious question since you've done some research, how much of the year can you actively use the panels?
Global warming is responsible for the 'dead' hurricane season in an indirect way. the year after a very active hurricane season has frequently been much quieter. The deeper (cooler) waters are churned up by the hurricanes so the surface isn't as warm and thus won't produce as many strong storms.
Let the waters sit with a dead year and they warm up nicely...producing a more active cycle.
Well I seriously doubt they will be data mining *across* valid logins. bug me not is a blessed thing. And their own zeal to kill each new bug me not login, only causes more and more people to switch to a new login as it's created.
So my history and those of other technical people are probably pretty safe from mining anything useful.
The downside is the vast majority of people don't know about this stuff and will be mined relentlessly.
not too feed the troll but there are decent points in this post. Wireless connections in a 'dirty' environment will never provide the quality of wired connections. The simple fact that my neighbor can turn on their microwave and or cordless phone and screw up my 11g connection is proof enough of that.
However, proper planning of a spectrum will allow useful wireless connections that don't just drop out for a minute or two in the middle.
I.e. Cell Phones. Exactly the same thing...and yet they do work remarkably well in a vast multitude of environments.
Yeah, I'll agree that's a fairly interesting draw and being able to play the 'Boss' in an instance certainly has it's perks. But when that's the *only* PVP in the game? sorry, not enough for me.
And I think waitlists will still exist. You can't have 40,000 named monsters and 12 players or vice versa. Invariably there will need to be balance of some sort and that means making people wait.
I tried out the LORTO beta and wasn't terribly impressed. Nice pretty graphics don't make up for an almost complete lack of PVP type action. The real draw of WOW is that you can play 'both' sides of the scenario.
Or perhaps better said the real draw is you have the *option* to play either side. They let the game play determine the social aspects of the servers. Non PVP servers allow people who don't want that to enjoy the game story. PVP servers allow people to experience playing against other actual humans rather than just MOB instance runs.
WOW gives you many different facets of the story to explore. Is there grinding? yep, but it's the grinding that makes you earn your value. Do you have to grind? nope, nothing requires you to do that. Yes it has quests that say "Kill 20 of these" but I doubt that is the usual definition of grinding.
Haven't played EVE, but had a co-worker explain the basics. Again, it's the game play that determines the game, not the developers. They simply lay out the environment, how you handle things are your own decisions.
My biggest gripe on LORTO is that they are trying to be true to the story. That's going to be it's biggest downfall in my opinion. When Sauron is defeated (wait...shouldn't that be *if*????) what happens, THEN and only then will LORTO start to explore the areas that WOW and EVE layout as their basis. If they don't have true PVP by then, what exactly would be the point? There's no more story (at least none that's very well known by the general public) so if there's no story to follow, people will bolt pretty quickly.
Maybe I'll come around to LORTO, but I don't see it happening anytime soon. I'm far and away a *very* casual WOW player, by no means hardcore. It's enjoyable and I can explore different aspects of the game.
Looking at the original article there's no explanation if the initial decryption results are used in the decryption of the Volume ID. If there were I'd tend to agree with your suggestion, it wouldn't end up helping much.
But if the original decryption is just a gateway to start the (self-contained) decryption of the Volume ID using the as yet unfound 'Host Private Key', then hacking the firmware on the drive to not do the initial decryption and just go to step 2, would be an unbreakable hack.
It would also boggle my mind how stupid the MPAA and their ilk are. And how good the salesmen for the AACS are in getting MPAA people to think this would work;-)
I think the point is that the they patched the firmware on the Xbox HD DVD drive to no longer need to do the initial decryption which is handled by the keys that can be revoked. Hence why they are calling an 'unbreakable' hack.
This isn't a solution most people can do, but it is a step towards a software program that can just read portions of an HD DVD disc with an unpatched drive, thus making the whole AACS scheme useless.
Yes. As I said the Device Keys only protect the Volume ID. If they revoke all those keys no players will work as you said.
The point is they bypassed the Device Key and read the Volume ID directly. Software using the Volume ID on the physical media will still be able to read the encrypted content regardless of key revocation.
The 'unbreakable' point is that since the Volume ID is the actual key that decrypts the content, and the Volume ID is actually on the media, they can *always* decrypt since the decryption key is supplied with the media.
The protection granted by the Device Keys has been bypassed.
the reason it's undefeatable is the 'keys' that the MPAA can revoke only protect the 'Volume ID' on the physical HD-DVD media. This 'Volume ID' is then used to decrypt the actual movie content.
By doing some soldering they are able to read the 'Volume ID' in plain text, thus negating any key revoking that can be done.
As the post says, by knowing the 'Volume ID' they can now search the physical media for where this is stored. This will let them have a method for extracting the 'Volume ID' from any AACS protected disc.
And yes I'm probably missing something in the translation as well, but that's the general idea.
Assuming they use the middle of the road, yes the opposing breezes would cause turbulence in the middle.
However, any basic idea of this sort would assume that there would be a path for the air to flow through past the turbines. Turbines in turbulent air don't turn very well for the same reason that planes in turbulent air don't fly very well;-)
So this would have to been taken into account. For instance by putting the turbines along the outside of the roadway as an alternative. But more likely this idea isn't for places where there's *only* one jersey wall width between traffic, but where there's a dedicated median of a few feet/yards.
Would a turbine over a boiler cause more energy to be used than if no turbine were there? certainly!
However, the actual situation is a boiler that's currently under a solid wall. It's already encountering resistance. By putting the turbine there instead of a wall, the boiler meets LESS resistance than it did previously so you end up with greater efficiency of the boiler, not less efficiency
In other words, they have to prove not only what IP did it, but what person.
This is always the crux of the argument I haven't seen fleshed out. If a bank robbery is committed and my license plate is seen on the get away car, I can be quite sure I'm going to be bothered by the police until I tell them who I had let use my car at that particular time (assuming of course *I* wasn't driving a the time!).
I suppose if I could prove I routinely left my car on the street, unlocked, with the keys in it then there might be reason for not charging me, but then I'd have to report the car as stolen (since them putting the car back would be quite unlikely me thinks.
So I don't mean this as a rant, but given the ISP customer signed an agreement, aren't they responsible for all use of that service? If they can prove it wasn't them, but they are on the hook to cough up who *was* using it aren't they?
It's the same thing as the recent RIAA case against the granny who claimed she didn't know what the kids in the house were doing. Given that she's the adult, she's responsible for anything the kids did under her watch isn't she?
If I leave a loaded gun outside for anyone to use, aren't I responsible for anything done with that gun?
I fully appreciate leaving open access for all to use, I just worry about the consequences that's all:)
previous poster said it's related to the Thumbnail creations so only happens when you have Thumbnail view turned on. That might explain the hit or miss encountering of the issue.
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Yep, throw a rock at your window, then throw one at your roof. See which one fares better.
How do office buildings with a lot of glass windows "hold up"?
One word, STEEL. Residences aren't made of such strong material as the above posters pointed out. And as building codes have been relaxed, fewer and weaker supports are used. My cookie cutter Townhome doesn't even have 6/8 inch joists in the attic, just 2x4's. Noticed that when I bought it but that's the code here now (VA) since 92 so it's not something you can realistically get away from.
As a former resident of the 2nd cloudiest city in America (Rochester, NY) I'm curious how much actual usage you'd get in the Seattle area for the same reason.
Serious question since you've done some research, how much of the year can you actively use the panels?
and the real added bonus is that *if* your laptop and music was really indeed stolen, it's already been shared and you can get it back again ;-)
Reminds me of the old saying "Real men don't make backups, they just put the file on the internet for sharing" or something like that...
Yes we can
Global warming is responsible for the 'dead' hurricane season in an indirect way. the year after a very active hurricane season has frequently been much quieter. The deeper (cooler) waters are churned up by the hurricanes so the surface isn't as warm and thus won't produce as many strong storms.
Let the waters sit with a dead year and they warm up nicely...producing a more active cycle.
Well I seriously doubt they will be data mining *across* valid logins. bug me not is a blessed thing. And their own zeal to kill each new bug me not login, only causes more and more people to switch to a new login as it's created.
So my history and those of other technical people are probably pretty safe from mining anything useful.
The downside is the vast majority of people don't know about this stuff and will be mined relentlessly.
not too feed the troll but there are decent points in this post. Wireless connections in a 'dirty' environment will never provide the quality of wired connections. The simple fact that my neighbor can turn on their microwave and or cordless phone and screw up my 11g connection is proof enough of that.
However, proper planning of a spectrum will allow useful wireless connections that don't just drop out for a minute or two in the middle.
I.e. Cell Phones. Exactly the same thing...and yet they do work remarkably well in a vast multitude of environments.
and this probably isn't a good idea for those 'addictive' personalities right?
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too damned funny. But it really cements the notion that WOW is in it's own league among other games, no?
Yeah, I'll agree that's a fairly interesting draw and being able to play the 'Boss' in an instance certainly has it's perks. But when that's the *only* PVP in the game? sorry, not enough for me.
And I think waitlists will still exist. You can't have 40,000 named monsters and 12 players or vice versa. Invariably there will need to be balance of some sort and that means making people wait.
I tried out the LORTO beta and wasn't terribly impressed. Nice pretty graphics don't make up for an almost complete lack of PVP type action. The real draw of WOW is that you can play 'both' sides of the scenario.
;-)
Or perhaps better said the real draw is you have the *option* to play either side. They let the game play determine the social aspects of the servers. Non PVP servers allow people who don't want that to enjoy the game story. PVP servers allow people to experience playing against other actual humans rather than just MOB instance runs.
WOW gives you many different facets of the story to explore. Is there grinding? yep, but it's the grinding that makes you earn your value. Do you have to grind? nope, nothing requires you to do that. Yes it has quests that say "Kill 20 of these" but I doubt that is the usual definition of grinding.
Haven't played EVE, but had a co-worker explain the basics. Again, it's the game play that determines the game, not the developers. They simply lay out the environment, how you handle things are your own decisions.
My biggest gripe on LORTO is that they are trying to be true to the story. That's going to be it's biggest downfall in my opinion. When Sauron is defeated (wait...shouldn't that be *if*????) what happens, THEN and only then will LORTO start to explore the areas that WOW and EVE layout as their basis. If they don't have true PVP by then, what exactly would be the point? There's no more story (at least none that's very well known by the general public) so if there's no story to follow, people will bolt pretty quickly.
Maybe I'll come around to LORTO, but I don't see it happening anytime soon. I'm far and away a *very* casual WOW player, by no means hardcore. It's enjoyable and I can explore different aspects of the game.
If I want LORTO, I'll go watch the movie
I'd say read the original article which has a very nice diagram of the decryption process.
;-)
linky
Looking at the original article there's no explanation if the initial decryption results are used in the decryption of the Volume ID. If there were I'd tend to agree with your suggestion, it wouldn't end up helping much.
But if the original decryption is just a gateway to start the (self-contained) decryption of the Volume ID using the as yet unfound 'Host Private Key', then hacking the firmware on the drive to not do the initial decryption and just go to step 2, would be an unbreakable hack.
It would also boggle my mind how stupid the MPAA and their ilk are. And how good the salesmen for the AACS are in getting MPAA people to think this would work
I'd say read the original article which has a very nice diagram of the decryption process.
linky
I think the point is that the they patched the firmware on the Xbox HD DVD drive to no longer need to do the initial decryption which is handled by the keys that can be revoked. Hence why they are calling an 'unbreakable' hack.
This isn't a solution most people can do, but it is a step towards a software program that can just read portions of an HD DVD disc with an unpatched drive, thus making the whole AACS scheme useless.
Yes. As I said the Device Keys only protect the Volume ID. If they revoke all those keys no players will work as you said.
The point is they bypassed the Device Key and read the Volume ID directly. Software using the Volume ID on the physical media will still be able to read the encrypted content regardless of key revocation.
The 'unbreakable' point is that since the Volume ID is the actual key that decrypts the content, and the Volume ID is actually on the media, they can *always* decrypt since the decryption key is supplied with the media.
The protection granted by the Device Keys has been bypassed.
the reason it's undefeatable is the 'keys' that the MPAA can revoke only protect the 'Volume ID' on the physical HD-DVD media. This 'Volume ID' is then used to decrypt the actual movie content.
By doing some soldering they are able to read the 'Volume ID' in plain text, thus negating any key revoking that can be done.
As the post says, by knowing the 'Volume ID' they can now search the physical media for where this is stored. This will let them have a method for extracting the 'Volume ID' from any AACS protected disc.
And yes I'm probably missing something in the translation as well, but that's the general idea.
Assuming they use the middle of the road, yes the opposing breezes would cause turbulence in the middle.
;-)
However, any basic idea of this sort would assume that there would be a path for the air to flow through past the turbines. Turbines in turbulent air don't turn very well for the same reason that planes in turbulent air don't fly very well
So this would have to been taken into account. For instance by putting the turbines along the outside of the roadway as an alternative. But more likely this idea isn't for places where there's *only* one jersey wall width between traffic, but where there's a dedicated median of a few feet/yards.
and to use your example in a different light:
Would a turbine over a boiler cause more energy to be used than if no turbine were there? certainly!
However, the actual situation is a boiler that's currently under a solid wall. It's already encountering resistance. By putting the turbine there instead of a wall, the boiler meets LESS resistance than it did previously so you end up with greater efficiency of the boiler, not less efficiency
wow...you're completely wrong :)
this post in the topic has the correct answer
well crap, I thought posting anonymously would preserve my moderations on other postings in this topic. Swear it used to do that...
oy, not only will the service absolutely suck, the name is ridiculous. How much money did they pay a focus group for that?
How about a better name
UsTube
or
MeTube
Just so it's crystal clear this is an also ran to the big player in the space and an attempt to take the YOU out of the experience.
Besides, exactly why does *user generated* content need protection?
fair enough, but negligent homicide would seem to fit that situation.
*responsible* probably is a broad term, the penalties ascribed would be based on the specific circumstances.
In other words, they have to prove not only what IP did it, but what person.
:)
This is always the crux of the argument I haven't seen fleshed out. If a bank robbery is committed and my license plate is seen on the get away car, I can be quite sure I'm going to be bothered by the police until I tell them who I had let use my car at that particular time (assuming of course *I* wasn't driving a the time!).
I suppose if I could prove I routinely left my car on the street, unlocked, with the keys in it then there might be reason for not charging me, but then I'd have to report the car as stolen (since them putting the car back would be quite unlikely me thinks.
So I don't mean this as a rant, but given the ISP customer signed an agreement, aren't they responsible for all use of that service? If they can prove it wasn't them, but they are on the hook to cough up who *was* using it aren't they?
It's the same thing as the recent RIAA case against the granny who claimed she didn't know what the kids in the house were doing. Given that she's the adult, she's responsible for anything the kids did under her watch isn't she?
If I leave a loaded gun outside for anyone to use, aren't I responsible for anything done with that gun?
I fully appreciate leaving open access for all to use, I just worry about the consequences that's all
haven't used Vista and won't till my office switches. But...
Is there no ability to set the color scheme used? Perhaps there's a better choice? Granted the one you're using sounds bad as a default selection.
By your definition, all of Galileo's observations were proven *wrong* by the Hubble telescope?
Producing more accurate results is not disproving, it's refining the initial theory. Newton's laws do still work.
Let go of a bowling ball over your foot and let us know how *wrong* Newton was, k?
previous poster said it's related to the Thumbnail creations so only happens when you have Thumbnail view turned on. That might explain the hit or miss encountering of the issue.