1) Finding these keys in the memory space of WinDVD is an elementary reverse-engineering operation, hardly cutting-edge "cracking".
2) This is a software player; The key will be removed from the allowed list on all future hd-dvds, and the next point release of WinDVD will contain a new key + better obfuscation and anti-debugging code.
3) Before someone says how software will always be cracked blah blah, do note that:
3a) The media piracy "scene" (movies, etc) does not traditionally attract a large number of skilled reversers, for obvious reasons. 3b) Software can infact be made extremely hard to crack; I won't bother mentioning specifics since anyone who doesn't have an idea of what I mean probably wouldn't understand the explanation anyway:p
That's still transcoded from a sizeable mpeg2 (.ts) -- The video equivalent of reencoding a 320kbps mp3 to a 128kbit ogg.. Not exactly something to be happy about:)
Sorry, modern OS's don't access the disks via BIOS. It's direct IO.
Not to say the whole thing can't work, but it'd have to be a more complex solution where the rootkit code hooks into the OS kernel itself (disk.sys or whatnot), which would require having OS-specific code in ROM.
(why would you even want to have a hidden partition -- assembly language rootkits are only a few tens of KB in size).
He's right though; Harddrive and CPU capacity/speed has always moved steadily ahead while holodiscs are more like cold fusion - always around the corner, but never getting there..
Over here in olde yurp' a lot of countries are old monarchies and as such, when christianity became popular, kings would mandate by law or edict that everyone else adopt this new God.
So when democracy came about, the laws about christianity and the "state church" just kinda stayed on the books:)
To be fair, it's fairly simple to opt-out of, and one does get something in return for the tax (christenings, weddings, funerals etc. are all free of charge).
The reason your fan doesn't come on is because the heat transfer from the cores to the heatsink/heatpipe assembly is so poor that the thermal sensor in the heatpipe is detecting a much too low temperature..
Yeah, if by excellent you mean
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completely nonsensical.
Hunter S. Thompson (RIP) produced more coherent narratives than this broad.
If you thought Google censoring chinese sites to the chinese was bad, wait untill thousands of %special_interest_group% people (religious right, save-the-childreners, you name it) start censoring the internet for EVERYONE, by "modding down" offensive (to their mindset) websites.
Human moderation of Google is a preposterously bad idea.
I recently found out that GANDI has chosen to use a new payment system which redirects one to ones internet banking site (which by itself makes GANDI a prime target for phishing), but that many, as my bank, internet banks use microsoft-only technology on their sites.
So much for registering/renewing domains on GANDI using firefox!:(
This guy DOES NOT represent the majority of danes.
In fact i'd say the views presented above are typical of the danish "loony left"; liberals (in the bad sense of the word) more PC than Bill Clinton could ever dream of being (to put it into an american context)..
Personally, I think it was probably a bad move to publish the drawings, but mainly because the backlash is going to cost the danish government vast sums in lost export revenues...
res = 7680 x 4320 that's (7680*4320)/2^20 = 31.64 megabyte per frame at the specified bitrate of 24gbps, that's ~100fps
to the point: raw super hi-vision is 24gbps = 3gigabyte/sec raw 720p hdtv is (1280*720*60)/2^20 = 52.73 megabyte/sec this fits the numbers if you consider that super hi-vision has a frame size 32 times that of 720p, and a framerate 1.67 times that of 720p.
current mpeg2 as used in hdtv compresses raw hdtv into about 20mbps = 2.5megabyte/sec so we get a reduction of 52.73 / 2.5 = 21.1 times
if we assume the same (probably better because the larger frame size will allow larger macroblocks = better compression, along with the higher framerate meaning less change (residual energy) between frame) compression for super hi-vision: (3*1024)/21.1 = 145.6 mb/sec = 1.137gbps let's round that to an even 1gbps assuming our theoretical compression gains.
mpeg4 and/or h.264 would give even better compression, at the cost of more complex integrated circuits needed to decode the stream (video compression is very parallizable; there are no huge problems in scaling up a hdtv decoder chip 40x or so, afaik), i would say to the tune of ~3x better compression. that's around 3-400mbit.
last thing i want to mention: multicast, over fiber. the bandwidth can be made available at least in urban areas for a couple of super hi-vision tv channels via forthcoming FTTH networks.
What we are trying to point out (or at least what I am; I won't presume to speak for the grandparent) is the silliness of the slashbots raving about how since Burt Rutan can scrape the bottom of LEO in a jumped-up jetplane, we obviously will have affordable space travel in the relatively near future.
it's how the fiscal black-holes of the ISS and space shuttle are somehow a better use of NASA budget than pure science and unmanned probes.
it's people who are unable to separate episode of firefly and hh2g from the theoretical mathematics and empirical evidences that humanity will likely never be able to flit about the galaxy let alone the universe because of the way the universe is put together. (riddle me this, why have we never recieved a transmission or a visit from ET? Could it be because of the immense energy and effort required effectively separates the millions(?) of sentient races into their own little islands throughout the universe?)
The mindset of "if we did X Y years ago, we must be able to do Z Y(+|*)n years from now" is incredibly naive and betrays a fundamental lack of education into the physical sciences, imo.
Still, with this recent developement you can go out and buy an intel mobo, intel cpu, intel-qualified ram, nvidia/ati graphics card... and hey presto; you'll have about the same hardware as will be going into an x86 mac.
Did you even read the article? It clearly says that players won't "self-destruct", nor do they require an internet connection. This DRM will be something akin to what is on XBOX games where you have signed binaries, only here it will be signed ROM firmware updates on the disc, so when you buy a new commercial disc it will auto-reflash your player with an updated set of encryption keys.. Thusly allowing the licensors to "cancel" compromised keys.
Even though a faraday cage would likely be of little use against the type of energetic particles encountered in deep space, there are practical methods of shielding astronauts from harmful radiation;
The easiest is of course to build a massive spacecraft with a bunch of water shielding (and perhaps some lead) encapsulating the humans.
I suspect the "problem" with this approach is it demands launching vast amounts of matter, and using a lot of power/fuel to accelerate such a massive spacecraft to any reasonable speed; this in turn requires either:
1) spending a lot of money on conventional launches 2) spending maybe a little less money to develop and launch a nuclear powered craft atop a nuclear rocket (PR nightmare and political pipedream)
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Ever hear about electron drift? With todays feature sizes you'll be lucky to get 10 years of 24/7/365 use out of any reasonably complex integrated circuit...
Too true. From my travels in Italy the cavalier attitude of the italians towards their heritage is painfully obvious.. The first time I saw a bunch of ancient artwork eroding outside I was shocked, but sadly they don't seem to care.:(
This could be the first "major" hardware that includes solid, next-generation DRM.
It'll be interesting to see if it can/will be cracked as easily as some on this site believe..
As an EE-type person it appears to me that hardware can be protected to a much larger degree than today; after all the only reasons why the XBOX and various other consoles were cracked is because their pcbs included debug solder points and various busses were exposed on the surface layer.. Amateur mistakes that won't be made the second time around.
EXACTLY! I've been thinking the same thing. Why are people even trying to come up with reasons why cherryos is non-legit? Why are people NOT taking programmers/hackers words that cherryos is a blatant rip-off, as any script kiddie with a debugger could verify in five minutes? Has the modern so-called "balanced" news fad really corrupted the (already miniscule) brains of the public so that they are unable to comprehend absolute truths and absolute falsehoods?
What most people (especially americans with their cheap power) don't realize is that those "spare" cycles aren't free at all. They cost watts, meaning money out of your pocket and increased pollution in the long term because the extra power drain will cause more coal/oil to be burned. If you absolutely must pursure what amounts to a modern-day indulgence, do it with a cpu that delives good flops/watt performance, like a crusoe...
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IE has had this feature (via ie5 powertoys) since before anyone even thought of firefox... Sorry:=)
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Such amazing skillz.. I hope people realize that
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1) Finding these keys in the memory space of WinDVD is an elementary reverse-engineering operation, hardly cutting-edge "cracking".
2) This is a software player; The key will be removed from the allowed list on all future hd-dvds, and the next point release of WinDVD will contain a new key + better obfuscation and anti-debugging code.
3) Before someone says how software will always be cracked blah blah, do note that:
3a) The media piracy "scene" (movies, etc) does not traditionally attract a large number of skilled reversers, for obvious reasons.
3b) Software can infact be made extremely hard to crack; I won't bother mentioning specifics since anyone who doesn't have an idea of what I mean probably wouldn't understand the explanation anyway
Yes! The unfounded optimism of halfbaked ee/compsci slashdotters never fails to annoy me.. :=)
That's still transcoded from a sizeable mpeg2 (.ts) -- The video equivalent of reencoding a 320kbps mp3 to a 128kbit ogg.. Not exactly something to be happy about :)
Sorry, modern OS's don't access the disks via BIOS. It's direct IO.
Not to say the whole thing can't work, but it'd have to be a more complex solution where the rootkit code hooks into the OS kernel itself (disk.sys or whatnot), which would require having OS-specific code in ROM.
(why would you even want to have a hidden partition -- assembly language rootkits are only a few tens of KB in size).
He's right though; Harddrive and CPU capacity/speed has always moved steadily ahead while holodiscs are more like cold fusion - always around the corner, but never getting there..
Over here in olde yurp' a lot of countries are old monarchies and as such, when christianity became popular, kings would mandate by law or edict that everyone else adopt this new God.
:)
So when democracy came about, the laws about christianity and the "state church" just kinda stayed on the books
To be fair, it's fairly simple to opt-out of, and one does get something in return for the tax (christenings, weddings, funerals etc. are all free of charge).
The reason your fan doesn't come on is because the heat transfer from the cores to the heatsink/heatpipe assembly is so poor that the thermal sensor in the heatpipe is detecting a much too low temperature..
completely nonsensical.
Hunter S. Thompson (RIP) produced more coherent narratives than this broad.
"Magical realism" my foot.
If you thought Google censoring chinese sites to the chinese was bad, wait untill thousands of %special_interest_group% people (religious right, save-the-childreners, you name it) start censoring the internet for EVERYONE, by "modding down" offensive (to their mindset) websites.
Human moderation of Google is a preposterously bad idea.
I recently found out that GANDI has chosen to use a new payment system which redirects one to ones internet banking site (which by itself makes GANDI a prime target for phishing), but that many, as my bank, internet banks use microsoft-only technology on their sites.
:(
So much for registering/renewing domains on GANDI using firefox!
This guy DOES NOT represent the majority of danes.
In fact i'd say the views presented above are typical of the danish "loony left"; liberals (in the bad sense of the word) more PC than Bill Clinton could ever dream of being (to put it into an american context)..
Personally, I think it was probably a bad move to publish the drawings, but mainly because the backlash is going to cost the danish government vast sums in lost export revenues...
Doesn't the equation F = GmM/r^2 only apply to point masses? :)
I seem to be seeing a lot of bad physics in the grand-parents as well
here's a reality-check:
res = 7680 x 4320
that's (7680*4320)/2^20 = 31.64 megabyte per frame
at the specified bitrate of 24gbps, that's ~100fps
to the point:
raw super hi-vision is 24gbps = 3gigabyte/sec
raw 720p hdtv is (1280*720*60)/2^20 = 52.73 megabyte/sec
this fits the numbers if you consider that super hi-vision has a frame size
32 times that of 720p, and a framerate 1.67 times that of 720p.
current mpeg2 as used in hdtv compresses raw hdtv into about
20mbps = 2.5megabyte/sec
so we get a reduction of 52.73 / 2.5 = 21.1 times
if we assume the same (probably better because the larger frame size
will allow larger macroblocks = better compression, along with the
higher framerate meaning less change (residual energy) between frame)
compression for super hi-vision:
(3*1024)/21.1 = 145.6 mb/sec = 1.137gbps
let's round that to an even 1gbps assuming our theoretical compression gains.
mpeg4 and/or h.264 would give even better compression, at the cost
of more complex integrated circuits needed to decode the stream (video
compression is very parallizable; there are no huge problems in
scaling up a hdtv decoder chip 40x or so, afaik), i would say to the tune of
~3x better compression. that's around 3-400mbit.
last thing i want to mention: multicast, over fiber. the bandwidth can be
made available at least in urban areas for a couple of super hi-vision
tv channels via forthcoming FTTH networks.
"kyoto a bad plan" => american
It'd be a shame if you had to give up your giant SUVs and air-conditioning and live like the other ~5.7B of us here on earth..
What we are trying to point out (or at least what I am; I won't presume to speak for the grandparent)
is the silliness of the slashbots raving about how since Burt Rutan can scrape the bottom of LEO in a jumped-up jetplane, we obviously will have affordable space travel in the relatively near future.
it's how the fiscal black-holes of the ISS and space shuttle are somehow a better use of NASA budget than pure science and unmanned probes.
it's people who are unable to separate episode of firefly and hh2g from the theoretical mathematics and empirical evidences that humanity will likely never be able to flit about the galaxy let alone the universe because of the way the universe is put together.
(riddle me this, why have we never recieved a transmission or a visit from ET? Could it be because of the immense energy and effort required effectively separates the millions(?) of sentient races into their own little islands throughout the universe?)
Sorry if this seems like a rant,.
Well said.
The mindset of "if we did X Y years ago, we must be able to do Z Y(+|*)n years from now" is incredibly naive and betrays a fundamental lack of education into the physical sciences, imo.
Still, with this recent developement you can go out and buy an intel mobo, intel cpu, intel-qualified ram, nvidia/ati graphics card... and hey presto; you'll have about the same hardware as will be going into an x86 mac.
Did you even read the article? It clearly says that players won't "self-destruct", nor do they require an internet connection.
This DRM will be something akin to what is on XBOX games where you have signed binaries, only here it will be signed ROM firmware updates on the disc, so when you buy a new commercial disc it will auto-reflash your player with an updated set of encryption keys..
Thusly allowing the licensors to "cancel" compromised keys.
Amen brother!
Even though a faraday cage would likely be of little use against the type of energetic particles encountered in deep space, there are practical methods of shielding astronauts from harmful radiation;
The easiest is of course to build a massive spacecraft with a bunch of water shielding (and perhaps some lead) encapsulating the humans.
I suspect the "problem" with this approach is it demands launching vast amounts of matter, and using a lot of power/fuel to accelerate such a massive spacecraft to any reasonable speed; this in turn requires either:
1) spending a lot of money on conventional launches
2) spending maybe a little less money to develop and launch a nuclear powered craft atop a nuclear rocket (PR nightmare and political pipedream)
Ever hear about electron drift?
With todays feature sizes you'll be lucky to get 10 years of 24/7/365 use out of any reasonably complex integrated circuit...
Too true. :(
From my travels in Italy the cavalier attitude of the italians towards their heritage is painfully obvious..
The first time I saw a bunch of ancient artwork eroding outside I was shocked, but sadly they don't seem to care.
This could be the first "major" hardware that includes solid, next-generation DRM.
It'll be interesting to see if it can/will be cracked as easily as some on this site believe..
As an EE-type person it appears to me that hardware can be protected to a much larger degree than today; after all the only reasons why the XBOX and various other consoles were cracked is because their pcbs included debug solder points and various busses were exposed on the surface layer..
Amateur mistakes that won't be made the second time around.
EXACTLY! I've been thinking the same thing.
Why are people even trying to come up with reasons why cherryos is non-legit?
Why are people NOT taking programmers/hackers words that cherryos is a blatant rip-off, as any script kiddie with a debugger could verify in five minutes?
Has the modern so-called "balanced" news fad really corrupted the (already miniscule) brains of the public so that they are unable to comprehend absolute truths and absolute falsehoods?
Amusing, to say the least..
What most people (especially americans with their cheap power) don't realize is that those "spare" cycles aren't free at all.
They cost watts, meaning money out of your pocket and increased pollution in the long term because the extra power drain will cause more coal/oil to be burned.
If you absolutely must pursure what amounts to a modern-day indulgence, do it with a cpu that delives good flops/watt performance, like a crusoe...
IE has had this feature (via ie5 powertoys) since before anyone even thought of firefox... Sorry :=)