Anyone see Tears of the Sun? What were they using in that movie? Toughbooks? Or were they just generic props? They looked like Toughbooks, but there were no labels or markings on the laptops.
I'm surprised the movie didn't take advantage of a golden product placement opportunity.
The problem is the software install files will by encrypted, and can't be decrypted without the keys, which are located on "uncopyable" (except by special JVC hardware) areas of the disk.
DVDs have a similar copy-protection scheme. The CSS decryption keys are located on sectors of the DVD that are unwritable in the DVD-R (or +R, or RAM, etc.) media formats. So, if you copy a CSSed DVD, you get an encrypted copy with no accompanying keys.
So, a hacker group would have to gerry-rig a CD burner that could write to these "unwritable" areas of the CD-R, so that keys could be copied along with the encrypted software. Very difficult thing to do.
Frankly, I'm surprised something like this hasn't been tried already.
Get all your geek freinds and their friends, and each of you buy a few DVDs. Then share them amongst one another. Each of you spends, like $50 for a HUGE library of stuff.
That's a common misconception. We got new area codes because each phone company that moved into an area could only claim phone numbers in 10,000-number blocks. If you've got four companies competing in every rate area, and each of them needs its own 3-digit prefix, you run out of 3-digit prefixes real fast. Instead of the several companies figuring out how to share prefixes, they take the cheap and easy way out: area code splits.
We have phone companies with 500 customers in a rate area, claiming a big fat block of 10,000 numbers for them. That's 9,500 wasted numbers. THAT's why we have the explosion in area codes.
Most people here are too young to remember Ma Bell. Ma Bell 0wned the phone system in the US and Canada for 80 years. Government-sanctioned monopoly. And it worked: service was reliable, and Bell's primary goal was making the system the best possible phone network in years.
Then the government decided to trust-bust them. What did that get us? About five hundred new area codes (and that was just in California), and huge delays to get any changes in service or new lines.
I'm not saying that the Internation Internet Corporation would necessarily be a Good Thing, but in some instances there is something to be said for monopolies, IF they act in the best interest of the network (like Ma Bell did), and IF their prices are federally controlled, because they have the muscle to see that changes that need to be made get made, without dealing with a lot of BS from eight hundred other competitors.
You would not believe how many users I support complain about ordinary fan noise. What can I tell them, other than "computers are noisy. live with it." Of all the nit-picky things that users bitch about, getting rid of one of them is a Good Thing in my book.
Now, how to explain to them that I have no control over how fast their favorite websites load...
I always wondered why my text would randomly turn into ideograms, and Maoist propaganda started appearing in all of the Websites I visit, like Newsmax and Townhall.com.
It's a good thing China's control is slipping. Now maybe we can return the internet mantle to its rightful owner:
Just because you're 24 years old, single, and watch Teletubbies religiously does NOT mean you're into psychoactive substances. Maybe you work for Jerry Falwell and are screening the show for more hidden homosexual content, for example.
And what exactly is wrong with "Pepsi City" being built in the foothills of the "Taco Bell Mountains"? And being only a short moon-rover drive to Mao Tse Tung City?
On second though, yeah, we need to get NASA off its ass...
Yes, we all worry about the baby seals choking to death on six-pack rings, and pelicans unable to fly because they are covered in spilled crude oil...
Waitaminute. We're talking about the MOON here. How cool would it be if we could develop and terraform it, so when we look up at night, we see a giant green-blue ball, with Tycho City and New Berlin clearly visible, and Lake Armstrong staring back at us?
Actually, when IS Star Trek going to show us the 24th Century moon? Cause that would be awesome.
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Anyone see Tears of the Sun? What were they using in that movie? Toughbooks? Or were they just generic props? They looked like Toughbooks, but there were no labels or markings on the laptops.
I'm surprised the movie didn't take advantage of a golden product placement opportunity.
She may not be the best, but she's darn good. And she has some cool nude self-portraits ;-).
They own 8 of the 10-or-so Madison, WI area stations:
101.5 WIBA FM
1310 WIBA AM
Star 96.3
ESPN 1070 AM
92.1 WMAD
(can't remember the others)
LISTER: we're a real Mickey Mouse operation, aren't we?
CAT: Mickey Mouse? We aren't even Betty Boop!
Now, when people complain about all the filth on the Internet... They'll be correct!!
Herbal Fin-Fet.
Would it be possible for the glasses to be polarized with a private key, and have the monitor polarize with the corresponding public key?
DVDs have a similar copy-protection scheme. The CSS decryption keys are located on sectors of the DVD that are unwritable in the DVD-R (or +R, or RAM, etc.) media formats. So, if you copy a CSSed DVD, you get an encrypted copy with no accompanying keys.
So, a hacker group would have to gerry-rig a CD burner that could write to these "unwritable" areas of the CD-R, so that keys could be copied along with the encrypted software. Very difficult thing to do.
Frankly, I'm surprised something like this hasn't been tried already.
Why use the Internet for this?
We have phone companies with 500 customers in a rate area, claiming a big fat block of 10,000 numbers for them. That's 9,500 wasted numbers. THAT's why we have the explosion in area codes.
Then the government decided to trust-bust them. What did that get us? About five hundred new area codes (and that was just in California), and huge delays to get any changes in service or new lines.
I'm not saying that the Internation Internet Corporation would necessarily be a Good Thing, but in some instances there is something to be said for monopolies, IF they act in the best interest of the network (like Ma Bell did), and IF their prices are federally controlled, because they have the muscle to see that changes that need to be made get made, without dealing with a lot of BS from eight hundred other competitors.
Now, how to explain to them that I have no control over how fast their favorite websites load...
It's a good thing China's control is slipping. Now maybe we can return the internet mantle to its rightful owner:
The Swiss.
Just because you're 24 years old, single, and watch Teletubbies religiously does NOT mean you're into psychoactive substances. Maybe you work for Jerry Falwell and are screening the show for more hidden homosexual content, for example.
And what exactly is wrong with "Pepsi City" being built in the foothills of the "Taco Bell Mountains"? And being only a short moon-rover drive to Mao Tse Tung City?
On second though, yeah, we need to get NASA off its ass...
Yes, we all worry about the baby seals choking to death on six-pack rings, and pelicans unable to fly because they are covered in spilled crude oil...
Waitaminute. We're talking about the MOON here. How cool would it be if we could develop and terraform it, so when we look up at night, we see a giant green-blue ball, with Tycho City and New Berlin clearly visible, and Lake Armstrong staring back at us?
Actually, when IS Star Trek going to show us the 24th Century moon? Cause that would be awesome.