I've got an original (first generation) PS2 and it still reliably plays every DVD I own, from an original (non encrypted) Ghost in the Shell up to and including "The Incredibles". However, I've never played GTA3 (which I've told due to the disk layout causes the drive to work really hard). So, in summorizing, from DVD "players" I haven't had any problems. Now, on the PC end of things, I've gone through a couple DVD-R drives due to extremely heavy usage.
One solution might be just "rip" (i.e. copy the raw VOBS) up to a file server and just keep all of your DVD content online. You figure the cost of a good 3ware card and 4 250GB or bigger SATA disks would also allow you to store your entire CD collection in FLAC as well.
Nor did I. I watched the first season and retreated back into the world of Stargate SG1 never to return.
Though you do have to wonder. Some anonymous donor was going to pay to keep enterprise on the air and then fork over all the royalties and ownership to Paramount and they still said no. Now, I'm not sure if that person contributed enough money or not, but for arguments sake, let's say they did.
Hell, Paramount could have put the damn thing on at 1am on a wednesday night and it would still pull viewers (not that show times really matter at this point anymore) Not to mention the money they'd make of DVD sales, etc.
Basically this shows that LexisNexis has no ability to audit not only who's accessing their databases, but how much data they've been accessing!?!
That's just great. Just to think, while I've been writing this post I'm sure their databases have sucked up countless bits of info... Which I'm sure is already in the hands of some information broker in some shady 3rd world country.
When the next "9/11" happens, I'll bet a box of donuts they'll trace the money back to some granny in Idaho whose been in a coma for the last three years and has a dozen credit cards in her name...
Actually... If you really want to get the data off the drive, you can get around that.
There are companies that can take your drive into a clean room, open it and take the individual platters off of them and then read the bits off the undamaged parts of the platters.
So, just because your disk is making the dreaded "clunk-o-death" the data is probably salvagable.
We all know the truth... My watch will probably have a "pseduomorphic heterojunction bipolar transistor", but my computer will most definitely have photonic transistors.
Then again, maybe we'll all have "photonic pseduomorphic heterojunction bipolar transistors"
Well... if your putting your sun screen into a humitifier and then standing directly over it and taking deep breaths, there are other considerations that we need to speak about.
My feeling is that we should continue nanotechnology research and if possible ramp it up. However, I think the FDA needs to clarify that products rendered into the nanoscale should be tested and not assumed that they'll have the same physical properties as their larger macro cousins...
Firstly, you realize that the people that wrote this study are going to exclaim that they need another 7 years to revise the study so it'll be suitable.
Secondly, I bet if you read in the study it'll say stuff like: "It's in our judgement that internet worms are not going to be become factors until at least 2010."
Honestly, what needs to happen is for a couple dozen senators to get their idenities stolen. Have a whole shit load of credit cards opened in their names, utilites turned on, etc and having their credit ruined.
Suddenly, this problem will be dealt with.
On the other side of that, what needs to happen is their needs to be a paradigm shift in the way companies (specifically) credit card companies think about our idenities.
Things such as the ability to get instant credit should be done away with.
The distinction that your missing, is that he violated the GPL when he didn't acknowledge the PearPC work that he derivied (if he actually did any deriving (other than just changing every instance of "PearPC" with "CherryOS" (which any of us on slashdot could easy accomplish with 5 lines of perl or shell script)))
He didn't enhance the product in any way, he just renamed it.
If Mozilla organization was smart, what they'd do is just include Bittorent with the browser.
The biggest hurdle I see for bittorrent is that people like my wife would want it to work just like a regular download. They don't want to download any additional software they just want it to work "out of the box"
And it proceeded to patch itself by downloading the patch executable using bittorrent, I thought to myself, "Finally, something that isn't illegal that bittorrent is perfectly suited to!"
I have to give Blizzard credit, it's an amazingly great use of the technology.
Beyond that, the NSA doesn't store those key/ID's in a database. The safest way to store them is in paper form, in a vault. Where or how this vault is secured is unknown to me. I'll take a shot in the dark and say it's not in MD, but the NSA has many assets, who knows.
But I'll conject it has something todo with the fact that when people are using VOIP it makes it harder for the government to tap the phone to listen in.
And/or drug runners/dealers/czars are using VOIP todo their business... thus if they catch them using VOIP they can at least charge them for *something* i.e why the US government generally gets mobsters on stuff like tax evasion and not for cutting people in half with a chainsaw...
The irony being that if you called checkpoint or even showed up at their door with documents proving that you were who you said you were, they probably wouldn't show you the data they've got stored on you.
Not to mention the fact if they have erroneous data in their databases, you probably never get it corrected.
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I've got an original (first generation) PS2 and it still reliably plays every DVD I own, from an original (non encrypted) Ghost in the Shell up to and including "The Incredibles". However, I've never played GTA3 (which I've told due to the disk layout causes the drive to work really hard). So, in summorizing, from DVD "players" I haven't had any problems. Now, on the PC end of things, I've gone through a couple DVD-R drives due to extremely heavy usage.
One solution might be just "rip" (i.e. copy the raw VOBS) up to a file server and just keep all of your DVD content online. You figure the cost of a good 3ware card and 4 250GB or bigger SATA disks would also allow you to store your entire CD collection in FLAC as well.
I thought the future of processors was going ot be photonic processors. I'm not sure if these will be producing any heat or not.
-58F isn't too bad... I'm suspecting the first moon pilgrims will be from middle of Minnesota...
That's nothing! I'm 0 for 25 baby!
Nor did I. I watched the first season and retreated back into the world of Stargate SG1 never to return.
Though you do have to wonder. Some anonymous donor was going to pay to keep enterprise on the air and then fork over all the royalties and ownership to Paramount and they still said no. Now, I'm not sure if that person contributed enough money or not, but for arguments sake, let's say they did.
Hell, Paramount could have put the damn thing on at 1am on a wednesday night and it would still pull viewers (not that show times really matter at this point anymore) Not to mention the money they'd make of DVD sales, etc.
Oh well.
Ah... I was ignorant of that detail...
Thanks for the info!
Basically this shows that LexisNexis has no ability to audit not only who's accessing their databases, but how much data they've been accessing!?!
That's just great. Just to think, while I've been writing this post I'm sure their databases have sucked up countless bits of info... Which I'm sure is already in the hands of some information broker in some shady 3rd world country.
When the next "9/11" happens, I'll bet a box of donuts they'll trace the money back to some granny in Idaho whose been in a coma for the last three years and has a dozen credit cards in her name...
Actually... If you really want to get the data off the drive, you can get around that.
There are companies that can take your drive into a clean room, open it and take the individual platters off of them and then read the bits off the undamaged parts of the platters.
So, just because your disk is making the dreaded "clunk-o-death" the data is probably salvagable.
We all know the truth... My watch will probably have a "pseduomorphic heterojunction bipolar transistor", but my computer will most definitely have photonic transistors.
Then again, maybe we'll all have "photonic pseduomorphic heterojunction bipolar transistors"
Well... if your putting your sun screen into a humitifier and then standing directly over it and taking deep breaths, there are other considerations that we need to speak about.
My feeling is that we should continue nanotechnology research and if possible ramp it up. However, I think the FDA needs to clarify that products rendered into the nanoscale should be tested and not assumed that they'll have the same physical properties as their larger macro cousins...
Last time I checked, DTV's "non-standard" transport streams consisted of an encrypted MPEG2 stream...
I would fully expect to see an article just like this on the 2nd and not consider it a joka at all...
Firstly, you realize that the people that wrote this study are going to exclaim that they need another 7 years to revise the study so it'll be suitable.
Secondly, I bet if you read in the study it'll say stuff like:
"It's in our judgement that internet worms are not going to be become factors until at least 2010."
I guess I don't understand how an eyeless shrimp that floats around a vent of hot water breaks Christian Mythology?
That any machine they buy probably has the pirated full version of Windows XP already installed, or it can be found on the street for 5 dollars...
Honestly, what needs to happen is for a couple dozen senators to get their idenities stolen. Have a whole shit load of credit cards opened in their names, utilites turned on, etc and having their credit ruined.
Suddenly, this problem will be dealt with.
On the other side of that, what needs to happen is their needs to be a paradigm shift in the way companies (specifically) credit card companies think about our idenities.
Things such as the ability to get instant credit should be done away with.
That same day the French courts public website got cracked, by people using an unknown exploit...
The distinction that your missing, is that he violated the GPL when he didn't acknowledge the PearPC work that he derivied (if he actually did any deriving (other than just changing every instance of "PearPC" with "CherryOS" (which any of us on slashdot could easy accomplish with 5 lines of perl or shell script)))
He didn't enhance the product in any way, he just renamed it.
If Mozilla organization was smart, what they'd do is just include Bittorent with the browser.
The biggest hurdle I see for bittorrent is that people like my wife would want it to work just like a regular download. They don't want to download any additional software they just want it to work "out of the box"
And it proceeded to patch itself by downloading the patch executable using bittorrent, I thought to myself, "Finally, something that isn't illegal that bittorrent is perfectly suited to!"
I have to give Blizzard credit, it's an amazingly great use of the technology.
Beyond that, the NSA doesn't store those key/ID's in a database. The safest way to store them is in paper form, in a vault. Where or how this vault is secured is unknown to me. I'll take a shot in the dark and say it's not in MD, but the NSA has many assets, who knows.
But I'll conject it has something todo with the fact that when people are using VOIP it makes it harder for the government to tap the phone to listen in.
And/or drug runners/dealers/czars are using VOIP todo their business... thus if they catch them using VOIP they can at least charge them for *something* i.e why the US government generally gets mobsters on stuff like tax evasion and not for cutting people in half with a chainsaw...
Yeah, actually your supposed to wipe your ass with your left hand. Which is why left handed people are practically non existant in the islamic world.
At last check, I believe masturbation is against Islamic law...
The irony being that if you called checkpoint or even showed up at their door with documents proving that you were who you said you were, they probably wouldn't show you the data they've got stored on you.
Not to mention the fact if they have erroneous data in their databases, you probably never get it corrected.