At one point the US government severely restricted the import/export sales of any kind of encryption hardware/software. I guess they must have decided that money talks and selling that technology, in fact having China manufacture most of it is now no longer a threat. I am surprised the encryption hardware used in these devices are not cataloged as munitions by the US government.
My sister just got drug tested in order to get a job, it's actually a dream job for her, everything she has been hoping for and more. So she had no issues with getting drug tested. Kind of weird but it looks like drug testing is now mandantory when you join a drug manufacturer. She is an expert at converting lab processes for manufacturing drugs into commercial large scale production. If it costs $1Mil a dose for a drug that cures a disease, odds are the drug won't be commercialized.
Pixar had a very neat server room, not sure if it is still there, been several years since I was last there. They had all the racks of computing equipment neatly placed on these racks and a glass wall through which you could look into the server room. They left all the overhead lights turned off when no one was working in the server room. All you saw were all these green LED's blinking. What is really nice from a system administrator perspective is that you could see an amber or red LED immediately from a failed unit. If this was from a redundant unit that failed but did not report themselves, this was a great way to find out if we needed to replace equipment.
I see nothing wrong with paying for my own copy of a movie or CD, and putting it on any one my dozen or so players, digitizing it storing it on a server and playing the movies from there. I am against giving copies away. I paid for the movie or song, it is my copy, no reason for anyone else to get a copy for free. If I get bored with it or find that I detest it, I also feel it in my right to destroy all my personal copies and sell the original. Yes I rip my movies and delete all the so call added content that I detest. When I want to watch a movie at home, I turn on my player and play a movie, I do not want to wait 5 minutes for my DVD player to load up all the crap DRM software, play 10 minutes of stupid adverts and trailers before I get to see my movie.
They are idiots, that school is so going to get its budget cut when the kid's parents sue the school. Hammer, a potential weapon in his home? What they did not confiscate his kitchen knives? His bleach, ammonia based cleaner, pesticides, ant traps, etc.. all the chemicals and tools we use daily in our homes that can be used as weapons.
It is not functional and it is not the fault of your player. There should not be a restock fee. If there is SONY should be paying it not you. They are selling you defective merchandise.
Yes, you do want to keep it professional. The professional circles you work in can be small, the people you are working for in that company may move on and if you act unprofessionally when you leave, you leave them with a bad opinion of you. A few years down the line you may end up looking for a job and find that the people you had flipped off when you left are in the company you are trying to get into. Needless to say your job prospects would be dim there.
Cutting the antenna will not work. The RFID chip broadcasts an ID. The data on the disc says "I am a RFID enabled DVD". When the player reads the track that says check my RFID code it tries to do so and fails as the antenna is cut. It rejects the disc as a pirated copy, so once the antenna is cut all RFID DVD's will be rejected. For it to work, it reads id from the data tracks and cross checks with the RFID and if they match the movie plays. If not it says "Pirated" and ejects the DVD.
DHS certainly proved what they can and can not do with the Katarina disaster. It appears to be a bloated bureaucracy with the only goal being the promotion of politcal agenda's. Not sure which is worse, a dozen disparate federal agencies that did not talk to each other but at least knew how to do their jobs or one monolithic incompetent bureaucracy.
Nope, it requires chips with encryption keys burnt into them to function. If those chips are not there, it will never work. If they put in eeproms that can have the keys downloaded into them, pirates will have those all over the net within days.
Actually getting lost in Washington DC is probably enough to get you on the list. I spent a night driving around in circles around the White House late at night looking for my hotel. Took me about 4 trips around it before I found my hotel. It was up a narrow street with a very small sign pointing to the street. The view of the sign was mostly blocked by a hedge. My consultant partner did the same thing, except it took him even more circles and he ended up being stopped by the Secret Service who directed him to the hotel. This was before 9/11. I imagine things would be worse now days, hopefully the Secret Service has figured out that they need to get that hotel's sign enlarged and remove a certain hedge or they will keep having to stop lost visitor's from circling the White House, and adding lots of innocent names to their watchlist. Garbage in garbage out, the more garbage they toss into the Federal database the less useful it is and the more likely real terrorists will actually get through.
Are they required by law to replace our copy if it is damaged or destroyed when we can prove ownership? Their DRM prevents us from making backups of what we legally purchased, are they bound by law to replace damaged DVD's etc. that are copy protected.
Lets say I buy a $2000 piece of software. It is registered and my place of work burns down. The software company should replace the media and documentation for the software since I have a license for its use. Do they charge me $2000 to replace it or just the cost of the media and documentation plus shipping? If they are legally bound to replace it, charging only for the costs of the media, documentation plus shipping, does the same apply to a $70 piece of software with DRM preventing backups?
What about business uses? If I am cutting DVD's to be shipped to a client that contains blueprints, materials analysis results etc.. I have to pay the tax or bill my customer for it most likely? If all you put on your recordable DVD's are photos's of you family and home movies you have to pay the tax, or do you get to collect the money since you have the creative rights to your home movies? What determines who gets money? Does anyone with a movie camera get to collect?
I think their response would simply be that if you do not buy their DRM'ed crap, then you are a pirate as every missing sale of their DRM'ed crap is a sale lost to piracy.:P Nevermind that I like a lot of people I know stopped buying CD's. In my case because I stopped listening to music. I guess they will get Congress to pass a law soon that will require x hours of RIAA mandated music listening to get around that next.
I ship DVD's all over the world. Would love it if the MPAA intercepted and tore apart one of those shipments. Lawyers would have a field day. Only thing on the DVD's are company proprietary data. Would love it if those dogs ended up causing the MPAA to tear open some classified DVD's shipments.
Not too surprising, I do all my games shopping at Fry's Electronics or EBX. Walmart and the publishers that cater to them are now being bypassed by Steam and Stardock. I hope to see more online direct sales of games by developers. That will allow for a lot more variety of games. Once Havok or Ageia's physics engine becomes standard, we can expect more detailed graphics catering to the Adult gamers. I belive adult gamers are probably the majority of game sales. I am not talking about X-Rated games, which we can buy from specialty stores. Its about detailed graphics in games where, heads and limbs get blown/cut off, blood spatter, stuff we do not see in games today.
Communications between the monitor and graphics cards are now going to be encrypted thanks to HDMI. Keyboards with encrypted communications to the computer are available. File system based encryption courtesy of Microsoft and encrypted tunnels via SSL. Soon RFID and Biometric devices for user login. Going to be interesting to see what the alphabet soup guys will be using to get into computer systems.
He was asking for funding to see the effects of ID on Canadian academics and leaders. Instead of the funding he got data which he can now incorporate into his study. The paper can now be published with the additional data listing all the people involved in the decision. Everyone will be able to take a good look at the academic credentials of the people who make up the SSHRC.
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The story I heard was that walmart bought 2 Million HD-DVD players to be sold around $300. http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/home-entertainment/wal+ mart-makes-the-push-for-299-hd-dvd-machines-253950 .php
At one point the US government severely restricted the import/export sales of any kind of encryption hardware/software. I guess they must have decided that money talks and selling that technology, in fact having China manufacture most of it is now no longer a threat. I am surprised the encryption hardware used in these devices are not cataloged as munitions by the US government.
My sister just got drug tested in order to get a job, it's actually a dream job for her, everything she has been hoping for and more. So she had no issues with getting drug tested. Kind of weird but it looks like drug testing is now mandantory when you join a drug manufacturer. She is an expert at converting lab processes for manufacturing drugs into commercial large scale production. If it costs $1Mil a dose for a drug that cures a disease, odds are the drug won't be commercialized.
Pixar had a very neat server room, not sure if it is still there, been several years since I was last there. They had all the racks of computing equipment neatly placed on these racks and a glass wall through which you could look into the server room. They left all the overhead lights turned off when no one was working in the server room. All you saw were all these green LED's blinking. What is really nice from a system administrator perspective is that you could see an amber or red LED immediately from a failed unit. If this was from a redundant unit that failed but did not report themselves, this was a great way to find out if we needed to replace equipment.
I see nothing wrong with paying for my own copy of a movie or CD, and putting it on any one my dozen or so players, digitizing it storing it on a server and playing the movies from there. I am against giving copies away. I paid for the movie or song, it is my copy, no reason for anyone else to get a copy for free. If I get bored with it or find that I detest it, I also feel it in my right to destroy all my personal copies and sell the original. Yes I rip my movies and delete all the so call added content that I detest. When I want to watch a movie at home, I turn on my player and play a movie, I do not want to wait 5 minutes for my DVD player to load up all the crap DRM software, play 10 minutes of stupid adverts and trailers before I get to see my movie.
They are idiots, that school is so going to get its budget cut when the kid's parents sue the school. Hammer, a potential weapon in his home? What they did not confiscate his kitchen knives? His bleach, ammonia based cleaner, pesticides, ant traps, etc.. all the chemicals and tools we use daily in our homes that can be used as weapons.
It is not functional and it is not the fault of your player. There should not be a restock fee. If there is SONY should be paying it not you. They are selling you defective merchandise.
Nice April Tom-Foolery on Blizzard and WoW players.
If this passes, it will be time to buy stock in HD manufactures and EMC. :D
Yes, you do want to keep it professional. The professional circles you work in can be small, the people you are working for in that company may move on and if you act unprofessionally when you leave, you leave them with a bad opinion of you. A few years down the line you may end up looking for a job and find that the people you had flipped off when you left are in the company you are trying to get into. Needless to say your job prospects would be dim there.
Maybe that is how they stay in business. :D
I doubt if it makes too much of a difference to their bottom lines, they can either give those movies away or let them sit on store shelves unsold.
LOL! I love your sig.
How many of these SDTV's or HDTV's can display 1080p? Without that capability there is no reason to buy Blu-Ray or HD-DVD.
Cutting the antenna will not work. The RFID chip broadcasts an ID. The data on the disc says "I am a RFID enabled DVD". When the player reads the track that says check my RFID code it tries to do so and fails as the antenna is cut. It rejects the disc as a pirated copy, so once the antenna is cut all RFID DVD's will be rejected. For it to work, it reads id from the data tracks and cross checks with the RFID and if they match the movie plays. If not it says "Pirated" and ejects the DVD.
DHS certainly proved what they can and can not do with the Katarina disaster. It appears to be a bloated bureaucracy with the only goal being the promotion of politcal agenda's. Not sure which is worse, a dozen disparate federal agencies that did not talk to each other but at least knew how to do their jobs or one monolithic incompetent bureaucracy.
Nope, it requires chips with encryption keys burnt into them to function. If those chips are not there, it will never work. If they put in eeproms that can have the keys downloaded into them, pirates will have those all over the net within days.
Actually getting lost in Washington DC is probably enough to get you on the list. I spent a night driving around in circles around the White House late at night looking for my hotel. Took me about 4 trips around it before I found my hotel. It was up a narrow street with a very small sign pointing to the street. The view of the sign was mostly blocked by a hedge. My consultant partner did the same thing, except it took him even more circles and he ended up being stopped by the Secret Service who directed him to the hotel. This was before 9/11. I imagine things would be worse now days, hopefully the Secret Service has figured out that they need to get that hotel's sign enlarged and remove a certain hedge or they will keep having to stop lost visitor's from circling the White House, and adding lots of innocent names to their watchlist. Garbage in garbage out, the more garbage they toss into the Federal database the less useful it is and the more likely real terrorists will actually get through.
Are they required by law to replace our copy if it is damaged or destroyed when we can prove ownership? Their DRM prevents us from making backups of what we legally purchased, are they bound by law to replace damaged DVD's etc. that are copy protected. Lets say I buy a $2000 piece of software. It is registered and my place of work burns down. The software company should replace the media and documentation for the software since I have a license for its use. Do they charge me $2000 to replace it or just the cost of the media and documentation plus shipping? If they are legally bound to replace it, charging only for the costs of the media, documentation plus shipping, does the same apply to a $70 piece of software with DRM preventing backups?
What about business uses? If I am cutting DVD's to be shipped to a client that contains blueprints, materials analysis results etc.. I have to pay the tax or bill my customer for it most likely? If all you put on your recordable DVD's are photos's of you family and home movies you have to pay the tax, or do you get to collect the money since you have the creative rights to your home movies? What determines who gets money? Does anyone with a movie camera get to collect?
I think their response would simply be that if you do not buy their DRM'ed crap, then you are a pirate as every missing sale of their DRM'ed crap is a sale lost to piracy. :P Nevermind that I like a lot of people I know stopped buying CD's. In my case because I stopped listening to music. I guess they will get Congress to pass a law soon that will require x hours of RIAA mandated music listening to get around that next.
I ship DVD's all over the world. Would love it if the MPAA intercepted and tore apart one of those shipments. Lawyers would have a field day. Only thing on the DVD's are company proprietary data. Would love it if those dogs ended up causing the MPAA to tear open some classified DVD's shipments.
Not too surprising, I do all my games shopping at Fry's Electronics or EBX. Walmart and the publishers that cater to them are now being bypassed by Steam and Stardock. I hope to see more online direct sales of games by developers. That will allow for a lot more variety of games. Once Havok or Ageia's physics engine becomes standard, we can expect more detailed graphics catering to the Adult gamers. I belive adult gamers are probably the majority of game sales. I am not talking about X-Rated games, which we can buy from specialty stores. Its about detailed graphics in games where, heads and limbs get blown/cut off, blood spatter, stuff we do not see in games today.
Communications between the monitor and graphics cards are now going to be encrypted thanks to HDMI. Keyboards with encrypted communications to the computer are available. File system based encryption courtesy of Microsoft and encrypted tunnels via SSL. Soon RFID and Biometric devices for user login. Going to be interesting to see what the alphabet soup guys will be using to get into computer systems.
He was asking for funding to see the effects of ID on Canadian academics and leaders. Instead of the funding he got data which he can now incorporate into his study. The paper can now be published with the additional data listing all the people involved in the decision. Everyone will be able to take a good look at the academic credentials of the people who make up the SSHRC.