The article pointed out an interesting fact: way back in the early eighties, there was that lawsuit legalizing the taping of TV shows by VCRS (yeah, they were BetaMAX, which is another story altogether). There was a comment already made in this discussion that the MPAA is concerened about people recording and redistributing shows, particularly pay-per-view shows.
The main concern here, however, is that recording a show in HDTV format (like 1080i res) is ridiculously good quality. When I record a show on my VCR at home, there is a noticeable loss of quality. With an HDTV recording, there would be no loss of quality, nor would there be any generational loss from multiple copies made.
I believe that quality of recording is as much a concern of the MPAA as is the content recorded.
I thought that this was one of the best movies I've seen all summer. My brother saw it the week before I did and said it was one of the scariest movies he'd ever seen, if not, the scariest. And I read the review in the Washington Post where the critic said it was the scariest movie he'd EVER seen. Now, that's pretty balsy for a critic to make such a superlative comment. So I took the gamble and saw it.
***POSSIBLE SPOILER*** I really admired the concept of the movie, as my brother is a film student and the actors were completely believeable as college students. Seeing the whole movie unfold and seeing the characters break down was unlike anything I've seen before. This movie was an instant classic. The only gripe I have is that is follows the classic plot; it's just told from a different perspective. e.g. the characters don't use common sense! I mean, Why didn't they follow the creek?!? Or follow the sun? And I have been through that area in Maryland and it's NOT THAT HARD to get out of those woods. But, hey, you oughta see it. It's terrifying. Reminds me of a good 'ol campfire story...
BTW any Linux user could survive this ordeal if they faced the Blair Witch:)
Dude, I have a Banshee as well (Monster Fusion) and it is the toughest damn card to work with. Upgrading to Red Hat 6 inexplicably took care of the problems. I don't know what will happen with Kingpin, but I don't have good vibes. I am thinking of getting a Riva TNT2 card, since it's a nice chipset. Do you know how it runs w/Linux? I'll check. The Voodoo chipset will be out of style by Christmas. I know this has nothing to do with Kingpin but I needed to vent to another Banshee owner.
Johnny: I read your comment on slashdot and wanted to e-mail you this parital article from the Washington Post a month ago. Figured this company could present a solution to your problem. The article information is there, but it'll cost 2 bucks to retrieve from an database.
Just trying to help,
StephenJ
SOFTWARE, HARDWARE & READY-TO-WEAR; STATE-OF-THE-ART COMPUTER ACCESSORIES FOR THE SMART DRESSER
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LINTON WEEKS WASHINGTON POST STAFF WRITER Friday, June 18, 1999 ; Page C01 Section: Style Word Count: 2117
"He strolls around the hotel with a hard drive strapped on. A teensy color monitor juts out over one eye like a bicycle helmet mirror. Beneath the other eye is a thumbnail-size camera. A noodle-thin microphone drapes near his mouth. Oddly enough, he doesn't look that odd. You've seen it in the movies--the bionic people and robocops and half-human, half-machine cyborgs that render real life obsolete."
I totally see you point, but we have to look at the big picture. That is, ordinary people can download this thing and use it for whatever purpose they wish, whether it be a network admin testing out security, or a person using it maliciously to take advantage of a network without security against it. Some may say, "too bad for the network admin". I understand where cDc is coming from. It can produce results, but it it also probable that problems could result.
My analogy was incorrect before. A better (perhaps not entirely accurate) one is an auto parts store selling a master key for all Ford vehicles, which would put pressure on both Ford motor corporation and all Ford customers to purchase a different lock for their vehicles.
I dunno. This thing plagued our college campus for a few months until we got it under control. Our network is NT on a UNIX backbone.
I agree with the CNN article: this cult's motives don't make any sense; it's like a cult from the automobile industry who steals cars to make everyone get car alarms. It does much more harm than good. This is a negative way of getting attention to network security, not a positive way.
"McCallum also indicated that Darth Maul, easily the most popular character in The Phantom Menace, will most likely not return. Internet talk, however, is that Maul will return--as a clone of his bad self."
"1 Hour Data Retention with no power" Nah! Now this couldn't be true, could it? I mean, I happen to know a little about Physics and some about hardware design as well, but STILL. This cannot be. They are comparing this drive to RAM and it seems kind of like a teeny tiny drive that acts like SRAM. In other words, it retains data when the machine is off, but the rest of this stuff is so infeasible anyway...even SRAM runs on batteries...those little bits would fly right off when the machine is off...
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The article pointed out an interesting fact: way back in the early eighties, there was that lawsuit legalizing the taping of TV shows by VCRS (yeah, they were BetaMAX, which is another story altogether). There was a comment already made in this discussion that the MPAA is concerened about people recording and redistributing shows, particularly pay-per-view shows.
The main concern here, however, is that recording a show in HDTV format (like 1080i res) is ridiculously good quality. When I record a show on my VCR at home, there is a noticeable loss of quality. With an HDTV recording, there would be no loss of quality, nor would there be any generational loss from multiple copies made.
I believe that quality of recording is as much a concern of the MPAA as is the content recorded.
I thought that this was one of the best movies I've seen all summer. My brother saw it the week before I did and said it was one of the scariest movies he'd ever seen, if not, the scariest. And I read the review in the Washington Post where the critic said it was the scariest movie he'd EVER seen. Now, that's pretty balsy for a critic to make such a superlative comment. So I took the gamble and saw it.
:)
***POSSIBLE SPOILER***
I really admired the concept of the movie, as my brother is a film student and the actors were completely believeable as college students. Seeing the whole movie unfold and seeing the characters break down was unlike anything I've seen before. This movie was an instant classic. The only gripe I have is that is follows the classic plot; it's just told from a different perspective. e.g. the characters don't use common sense! I mean, Why didn't they follow the creek?!? Or follow the sun? And I have been through that area in Maryland and it's NOT THAT HARD to get out of those woods. But, hey, you oughta see it. It's terrifying. Reminds me of a good 'ol campfire story...
BTW any Linux user could survive this ordeal if they faced the Blair Witch
Dude, I have a Banshee as well (Monster Fusion) and it is the toughest damn card to work with. Upgrading to Red Hat 6 inexplicably took care of the problems. I don't know what will happen with Kingpin, but I don't have good vibes. I am thinking of getting a Riva TNT2 card, since it's a nice chipset. Do you know how it runs w/Linux? I'll check. The Voodoo chipset will be out of style by Christmas. I know this has nothing to do with Kingpin but I needed to vent to another Banshee owner.
Johnny: I read your comment on slashdot and wanted to e-mail you this
parital article from the Washington Post a month ago. Figured this
company could present a solution to your problem. The article information
is there, but it'll cost 2 bucks to retrieve from an database.
Just trying to help,
StephenJ
SOFTWARE, HARDWARE & READY-TO-WEAR;
STATE-OF-THE-ART COMPUTER ACCESSORIES FOR THE
SMART DRESSER
Article 1 of 5 found
LINTON WEEKS
WASHINGTON POST STAFF WRITER
Friday, June 18, 1999 ; Page C01
Section: Style
Word Count: 2117
"He strolls around the hotel with a hard drive
strapped on. A teensy color
monitor juts out over one eye like a bicycle
helmet mirror. Beneath the other eye
is a thumbnail-size camera. A noodle-thin
microphone drapes near his mouth.
Oddly enough, he doesn't look that odd. You've
seen it in the movies--the bionic
people and robocops and half-human, half-machine
cyborgs that render real
life obsolete."
I totally see you point, but we have to look at the big picture. That is, ordinary people can download this thing and use it for whatever purpose they wish, whether it be a network admin testing out security, or a person using it maliciously to take advantage of a network without security against it. Some may say, "too bad for the network admin". I understand where cDc is coming from. It can produce results, but it it also probable that problems could result.
My analogy was incorrect before. A better (perhaps not entirely accurate) one is an auto parts store selling a master key for all Ford vehicles, which would put pressure on both Ford motor corporation and all Ford customers to purchase a different lock for their vehicles.
I dunno. This thing plagued our college campus for a few months until we got it under control. Our network is NT on a UNIX backbone.
I agree with the CNN article: this cult's motives don't make any sense; it's like a cult from the automobile industry who steals cars to make everyone get car alarms. It does much more harm than good. This is a negative way of getting attention to network security, not a positive way.
"McCallum also indicated that Darth Maul, easily the most popular character in The Phantom Menace, will most likely not return. Internet talk, however, is that Maul will return--as a clone of his bad self."
BUT 1/8TH HIS SIZE!!!!
"1 Hour Data Retention with no power"
Nah! Now this couldn't be true, could it? I mean, I happen to know a little about Physics and some about hardware design as well, but STILL. This cannot be. They are comparing this drive to RAM and it seems kind of like a teeny tiny drive that acts like SRAM. In other words, it retains data when the machine is off, but the rest of this stuff is so infeasible anyway...even SRAM runs on batteries...those little bits would fly right off when the machine is off...