The Free Lance-Star newspaper is reporting that the Navy Surface Warfare Center in Dahlgren, Virginia has successfully demonstrated an 8-megajoule electromagnetic rail gun.
Yeah, but can you headshot with it from the far platform on the Longest Yard?
The labels require it though (also to maintain control over your music unless you are living under a rock somewhere and wonder why about that too)... why not use it to your company's advantage when the people your licensing from require it anyway.
That's false, and Apple loves that you believe it. The license holders don't "require it". Case-in-point, eMusic, which sells DRM-free MP3's. A ton of them. Johnny Cash, Dashboard Confessional, Credence Clearwater, Moby, the list goes on for miles.
Those songs are DRM-free on eMusic, but on iTunes, those same songs are locked down with Apple's Fairplay. The only one making that decision is Apple, and the only reason they make that decision is to lock in marketshare.
According to tech.co.uk, Apple is about to license its Fairplay DRM to Made for iPod accessory manufacturers. It's reported that Apple will also allow streaming of protected AAC content via USB. Could this signal a move to allowing other music players to access and play ITMS content?
Again, reinforcing the point that DRM isn't about preventing piracy, it's about maintaining control over other things. Like competitors in the marketplace.
Joyce Park, CTO of invitation site Renkoo.com, has written a two-part essay exploring why there is no pipeline of self-taught female engineers entering the tech industry via Open Source or other individual efforts.
There are, but they don't look much different from the men, if you know what i mean.
'These statutory tools may provide key leads for counterintelligence and counterterrorism investigations,' Whitman said. 'Because these are requests for information rather than court orders, a DOD request under the NSL statutes cannot be compelled absent court involvement.
Is that how they get around the privacy angle? Just rename it to an "information request", and somehow that makes the problem go away. Just like torture is "creative interrogation".
Read it 5 times to absorb the densest, most content-rich pronouncement that Wired will deliver
I'm pretty sure that if it's as dense as you say it is, it's going to clog the tubes on the way over here. Kind of like when I eat too much fiber, if you know what I mean.
DRM doesn't work. I would ask, "when will they get it?", but it's pretty clear that they do "get it". Look at the recent crack of HD-DVD protection. That's the best they have, and it's already cracked. They know full well any DRM they put out there is not a deterrent against piracy, which means their goal with DRM is clearly to control legal activity.
When it comes down to it, DRM is not intended to control piracy. It's intended to maintain **AA stranglehold over the market, to be used as a cudgel against hardware manufacturers, and to be used as a way to extract money, justified or otherwise, from the content-buying public.
From the article: 'All audio services -- Webcasters included -- would be obligated to implement "reasonably available and economically reasonable" copy-protection technology aimed at preventing "music theft" and restricting automatic recording.'"
What about copyleft-licensed broadcasts? You can't "steal" something that's free.
Their goal is to provide a small, energy efficient board that's compatible with as much hardware as possible.
If that's the goal, then with ISA, PCI, AGP, PCI-X, IDE33/66/100/133/SATA and a few hundred flavors of SIMMS and DIMMS, I can see this becoming a very large board indeed.
Gamasutra offers up yet another unique feature: an annotated contract for a big-budget game. The document, part of a legal dispute between studio Spark and Activision, was released to the public.
That's a good way to make sure nobody will work with you in the future..
The result is that starting July 1st, cable boxes distributed by cable companies must not be tied directly to a cable provider via internal security features.
Now if only they could accomplish this same feat for mobile phones.
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Why couldn't they have just done this in the first place? Then there would have been minimal objection and none of this PR nightmare.
Because, in their minds, asking forgiveness is easier than asking permission.
Zing. Got any "all your base" jokes to go with that?
No. I do have some Duke Nukem Forever jokes, but they're only halfway written. They're sure to be done real soon, though.
The 10 Worst Games Made For The PSP and DS
Is this roundup accurate? "Daikatana 2: Daikatana Harder, DS Platinum Edition" didn't even make the list.
Cancer Drug May Not Get A Chance Due to Lack of Patent
Yeah, well, if they continue to hold it up, it may not get a chance due to lack of patients.
The Free Lance-Star newspaper is reporting that the Navy Surface Warfare Center in Dahlgren, Virginia has successfully demonstrated an 8-megajoule electromagnetic rail gun.
Yeah, but can you headshot with it from the far platform on the Longest Yard?
Having stable and unstable in parallel: I think it used to be a great model
It certainly works when dual-booting.
The labels require it though (also to maintain control over your music unless you are living under a rock somewhere and wonder why about that too)... why not use it to your company's advantage when the people your licensing from require it anyway.
That's false, and Apple loves that you believe it. The license holders don't "require it". Case-in-point, eMusic, which sells DRM-free MP3's. A ton of them. Johnny Cash, Dashboard Confessional, Credence Clearwater, Moby, the list goes on for miles.
Those songs are DRM-free on eMusic, but on iTunes, those same songs are locked down with Apple's Fairplay. The only one making that decision is Apple, and the only reason they make that decision is to lock in marketshare.
According to tech.co.uk, Apple is about to license its Fairplay DRM to Made for iPod accessory manufacturers. It's reported that Apple will also allow streaming of protected AAC content via USB. Could this signal a move to allowing other music players to access and play ITMS content?
Again, reinforcing the point that DRM isn't about preventing piracy, it's about maintaining control over other things. Like competitors in the marketplace.
Joyce Park, CTO of invitation site Renkoo.com, has written a two-part essay exploring why there is no pipeline of self-taught female engineers entering the tech industry via Open Source or other individual efforts.
There are, but they don't look much different from the men, if you know what i mean.
Seriously, I had a look at a few pages, and when I eventually managed to CTRL-ALT-DELETE my browser into submission
Does ALT-F4 not work on your computer?
Eric McCarty's pleading guilty to hacking USC's web site was 'terrible and detrimental,' according to tech lawyer Jennifer Granick.
No good deed goes unpunished. The lesson here is, lett the poor bastards find out about the problem after it's too late.
Great! Now I'll have to go all the way to Fairpoint Station to pay my bill. That's way out in the boonies!
Not to mention you could be put on trial for humanity's crimes, by an omnipotent super-being.
'These statutory tools may provide key leads for counterintelligence and counterterrorism investigations,' Whitman said. 'Because these are requests for information rather than court orders, a DOD request under the NSL statutes cannot be compelled absent court involvement.
Is that how they get around the privacy angle? Just rename it to an "information request", and somehow that makes the problem go away. Just like torture is "creative interrogation".
writes to tell us about Tubes: a beta application that uses a tube metaphor to enable users to share files over the Internet.
Good. Because we all know that it's not a big truck.
Read it 5 times to absorb the densest, most content-rich pronouncement that Wired will deliver
I'm pretty sure that if it's as dense as you say it is, it's going to clog the tubes on the way over here. Kind of like when I eat too much fiber, if you know what I mean.
Toshiba plans to launch a 51 GB HD DVD, with a 1 GB advantage over Sony's Blu-ray disc.
This will clearly make it victorious over blu-ray. The fact that the porn industry has chosen HD-DVD will have nothing to do with it.
DRM doesn't work. I would ask, "when will they get it?", but it's pretty clear that they do "get it". Look at the recent crack of HD-DVD protection. That's the best they have, and it's already cracked. They know full well any DRM they put out there is not a deterrent against piracy, which means their goal with DRM is clearly to control legal activity.
When it comes down to it, DRM is not intended to control piracy. It's intended to maintain **AA stranglehold over the market, to be used as a cudgel against hardware manufacturers, and to be used as a way to extract money, justified or otherwise, from the content-buying public.
From the article: 'All audio services -- Webcasters included -- would be obligated to implement "reasonably available and economically reasonable" copy-protection technology aimed at preventing "music theft" and restricting automatic recording.'"
What about copyleft-licensed broadcasts? You can't "steal" something that's free.
They should have had them drinking Brawndo: The Thirst Mutilator. It's got what Moms crave. It's got electrolytes.
Ne quid nimis. Aristotle was right.
The One Laptop Per Child product has clarified that they have not made a decision on whether or not to carry out a consumer release of the XO laptop
So they clarified with ambiguity. Good show.
In Pauly's worst-case-scenario, the SEC prosecutes Apple, and the board is forced to oust Jobs.
They'll just bring him back as an "independent consultant" and it'll be business as usual.
Their goal is to provide a small, energy efficient board that's compatible with as much hardware as possible.
If that's the goal, then with ISA, PCI, AGP, PCI-X, IDE33/66/100/133/SATA and a few hundred flavors of SIMMS and DIMMS, I can see this becoming a very large board indeed.
Gamasutra offers up yet another unique feature: an annotated contract for a big-budget game. The document, part of a legal dispute between studio Spark and Activision, was released to the public.
That's a good way to make sure nobody will work with you in the future..
The result is that starting July 1st, cable boxes distributed by cable companies must not be tied directly to a cable provider via internal security features.
Now if only they could accomplish this same feat for mobile phones.