1) I'm a Democrat from Mass. and I was glad to spank Mr. Markey for this via telephone.
2) It was very inspiring to see posts from various/.ers indicating they had contacted congress.
It helped me move my butt a little faster!
3) interestingly, ed markey's homepage currently has the headline:
SHAM PORT ACT FAILS TO SCREEN 100% OF US-BOUND CARGO AT ALL PORTS
Therefore, in my message I pointed out that he should have seen this boarding pass simulator as
being *on the same page as him.* But without hacktivist security experts on his board, things like this are going to
be difficult for him to interpret.
I just wanted to say how really weird it is to actually know quite
a bit about the topic (I've been developing PSP homebrew for over
a year now) of an article and then read how unnuanced and uninformed
people's comments are. It makes me wonder about the quality of
information and comments on all the articles I read each day.
For almost every person pointing out something that seems completely
stupid and illogical, there is usually a really good reason. Like the
person talking about the 32MB sticks being filled up....did you ever stop
to think that maybe someone already has it filled up with mp3s and doesn't
want to erase them? or the person who says it shouldn't be called a 'downgrader',
but a 'backdater,' did you ever stop to think about the thousands and thousands
of people out there already calling it a downgrader? you can't change any movement
that big.
so by all means, make inquiries, but don't act like other people are stupid
and illogical for things that surprise you.
I'm a hardcore PSP fanboy and developer (see PSPKick.com) and even
i think this is out of place here.
How about some stories about trying to get linux
onto PSP? still doesn't work in pure form. efforts are being made
to write directly to the flash on the mobo, but the DRM has so many
layers, no one has been able to boot arbitrary code. There's so much
more story there and prophecy of what's to come with DRM than in a
bunch of screen protectors and junk that all PSP fans already know
about anyway.
And yes, it's obvious that typical linux would be kind of pointless b/c there's no (non-virtual) keybd on PSP, however, linux would be a
LOT better for developers because of the PSPs tendency to crash often.
Also, it would be much more convenient to have DHCP code used for homebrew (currently only static IPs are available for homebrew).
While we're at it, can anyone comment on implementing DHCP? thanks.
While I'm at it, the product list they review isn't even close to
complete. They only represent about 1/3rd of what you can get in terms of ntsc converters, carrying cases, etc. it doesn't even include the talkman, the socom headset, blah blah blah. definitely a work in progress.
well i want to encourage the guy, but at the same time, it's a first pass and not working yet, why does it deserve a post on slashdot? just to help him find crystals from 23-25 MHz? try digikey. that's more like local newsgroup/scene/bbs level topic, not slashdot material.
and to those who ask, yes there are definitely games where even though programmers *should* have been planning on a fixed number of cycles, they made bad decisions, and they slow down when the action gets intense. A mod like this might help that. Might because depending on architecture of hw and sw it may speed up the wrong parts.
This shows the British government, similar to the U.S., can not control their population any other way. Controlling poverty, friendlier foreign relations, less class division, etc. These measures reduce crime, but they're not the choices current administrations make. Our current "leaders" lack guile and are not persuasive or clever enough to guide us with their intelligence. Rather than architecting an organic, autonomous society, they have chosen to pen us in via technology.
NES #1? Ignorance.
on
20 Years of NES
·
· Score: 3, Interesting
It's foolish, revisionist history to say that Americans hated videogames.
Does anyone remember Pac Man fever? The album? It was a phenomenon.
There was a veritable ton of Pac Man schwag (cheesy merchandise like
bubble gum dispensers, keychains, Rubik's cube knockoffs, etc.) showing
strong evidence of video games' pre-Nintendo dominance in American culture.
I'm very weary of articles, especially on boingboing.net, that pitch
Mario Bros. as the original videogame.
You all should be making fan art of Yar's Revenge, Pitfall and River Raid.
You make some good responses to what I wrote, so let me
to respond to those.
First, there, of course, is no explicit right to consumer electronics freedom in any constitution anywhere. However,
you must realize that we confer these rights on ourselves!
When the U.S. Const. was first written, they had a debate about
what they wanted to put in there. Consider this, here, the continuation of that debate. If enough of us can push in this
direction, we can establish this right for ourselves. There are
numerous arguments for the freedom, from basic ideas about
having a choice, to allowing corporations the use of certain public resources, to environmentalist arguments against prematurely obsolete hardware all the way back to enabling
third parties to compete in the software market. All of these arguments speak against closed hardware, and that hardware
openness should be government enforced.
Second, about "don't buy it if you don't like it." This is a.k.a.
"vote with your dollar." It's a good idea- in theory. I mean,
theoretically, if there were a market for something like what
we want, someone could start selling it. The only problem is,
in reality, the vote with your dollar argument has been tried,
and it doesn't work well. The reason is that it's not fast enough.
it's kind of like patents. If nobody could "the computer" for
25 years, where would we buy? Still on the 2nd generation. The
world simply changes too fast for market-based Darwinism to
be effective. This is compounded by the massive amount
diseducated consumers.
Finally, if Sony were to offer us a "shiny toy" that lets me do
what I want, I would buy it. In fact, they have a history of
supporting homebrew (see Yaroze, and ps2linux). It's frustrating that they don't now. Although many people suspect
they allowed the homebrewers access to early firmware on
purpose to appease them. (The theory goes they couldn't
do this explicity because it would infuriate the launch title
publishers).
Like I said, the reason the PSP is so interesting for Linux users
is because the day may soon some when we can't run Linux
due to DRM. We need to prepare and possibly act strategically.
Yeah, it used be pretty cool to watch protection get broken, but the PSP is part of a new generation of DRM. We're seeing some rules get bent/broken. For example, having access to the hardware no longer means you 0wn the machine. Classic techniques like tracing through code from the beginning of its execution are obsolete.
Another obstacle to opening the device is the (threat of the) law. When the PSP first came out, the website ps2dev.org quickly created space for discussion of opening it up. Once 1.5 opened up though, ps2dev quickly began to squash all discussion of opening attempts. They referred to "Grey Areas" in their censorship, claiming their goal of homebrew capability has been reached. Ps2dev admins prefer to keep it a small, elite community of 1.5 users, as opposed to the more idealistic and democratic goal of enabling anyone who buys the hardware to be able to develop and run homebrew.
The only alternative is the piracy underground, whose goals are different, but whose technology overlaps with the homebrewers. Because they're illegal, pirates don't have public information bases and their information is more valuable. This means any potential developers have to work their way into a social network, again, reserving homebrew capability for a dedicated elite.
Currently there are several commerical companies interesting in opening the PSP to public development (mostly because they want to sell modchips). They've given dozens of PSPs to promising openers, but no dice so far. Any attempts on the hardware, similar to Xbox, for example, would require high-speed equipment. Observing the PCB of the PSP, for example, shows signficant tromboning (a technique of inserting extra space into circuit board traces to meet extremely tight timing requirements) on the PSPs combined flash/DRAM chip. Also preventitive is the use of a MIPS core: the pinout of the MIPS processor is unknown, as well as what IPL code it boots with. It may even included its own encryption. Several varities of encryption, from crackable to strong (AES128) encryption are used in nearly every part of the PSP firmware.
The situation is so far from ideal, some promote the "Sony Leak Theory." The hypothesis is that Sony left open leaks on purpose in older firmware and encouraged the development of emulators in order to krush its kompetition, the Nintendo Revolution. Under this theory, Sony is confident that its DRM will prevent any future homebrew/piracy.
Perhaps the PSP experience will serve as a weathervane for the future of DRM in consumer products.
"You may laugh at our some of current ways,
Zwargax, but civilizations before us have
always been superstitious. The Americans,
for example, believed that if you painted over
the picture of a holy site it would be protected
from attack."
"But Dadex, weren't there all kinds of other ways
to get in there?"
"Yes, there were. Their leaders even allowed
the people to come into the holy site during
the day for example. But to an ancient American,
the pictures conjured on their LCD screens
seemed to posess magical powers and needed to be
obscured to protect the leader.
For those who think this device's use will
somehow be limited to rioters, I want
you to look up
Victoria Snelgrove
She was killed by
non-lethal technology (second hand shot from a pepperball gun to the temple) less than one year ago.
Technology always gets used for things other than
what it was intended for. From people scratching
on turntables, to aircraft, to video game music,
to internet over cable, etc.
Those who suggested the emergence of "acceptable casualty rates" have the most foresight. That being said, this thing is pretty powerful. I
wouldn't cry chicken little about it yet. The
government doesn't get that scary that quickly.
However, this is the kind of thing where we really
ought to recognize that we can create any kind of
technology we want to. Is this "heat ray" what we really
want? What if we could instead, say, transport prepared
food in minutes between here and other countries?
You could feast on different food every night from
around the world!
Probably one of the scarier things about this is it looks easy to build. Just a high-powered oscillator and Fresnel antenna (look closely at the pics). Now that the US has put the idea out there, I can imagine all kinds of people making their own...and forgetting to ask people to take off their glasses and remove their keys and pocket change and turn it off after five seconds.
And for those who might say 65 GHz oscillators are
difficult, I thought they were too, until I just
looked
them
up and
found parts.
Remember, it feels like heat, because it IS heat.
And finally:
"After
her death
, Boston Red Sox outfielder Trot Nixon said he would have traded back Game 7 Of The 2004 ALCS to have her back."
Um, as if you understand the connection between
human consciousness/spirits and human bodies.
You don't. Nobody does. It is possible that whatever mechanism connects one spirit/consciousness with one body could be putting a human consciousness inside these hybrid sheep. We don't know if that connection takes place in the brain, through the umbilical, through cells, or what.
However, you are correct in stating that without significant socialization, it would most likely be unable to detect this itself.
This WPI student made a spreadsheet that lets you
tweak params to see how good of a
solar vehicle you can design. It'll
tell you weight, cost, etc.
solar vehicle spreadsheet
I had major issues with my company tmobile. So I looked up "tmobile sucks" in yahoo. I found many websites like "tmobilesucks.com". Then, I looked up "verizon sucks," and found "*verizonsucks*." Then, I looked up every carrier I could think of...They all have a *sucks website!:)
Under this system,
we're going to put people in prison for stealing, selling drugs and dodging tickets all to feed their families. Meanwhile unemployment won't be affected.
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1) I'm a Democrat from Mass. and I was glad to spank Mr. Markey for this via telephone.
2) It was very inspiring to see posts from various /.ers indicating they had contacted congress.
It helped me move my butt a little faster!
3) interestingly, ed markey's homepage currently has the headline: SHAM PORT ACT FAILS TO SCREEN 100% OF US-BOUND CARGO AT ALL PORTS
Therefore, in my message I pointed out that he should have seen this boarding pass simulator as being *on the same page as him.* But without hacktivist security experts on his board, things like this are going to be difficult for him to interpret.
I just wanted to say how really weird it is to actually know quite a bit about the topic (I've been developing PSP homebrew for over a year now) of an article and then read how unnuanced and uninformed people's comments are. It makes me wonder about the quality of information and comments on all the articles I read each day.
For almost every person pointing out something that seems completely stupid and illogical, there is usually a really good reason. Like the person talking about the 32MB sticks being filled up....did you ever stop to think that maybe someone already has it filled up with mp3s and doesn't want to erase them? or the person who says it shouldn't be called a 'downgrader', but a 'backdater,' did you ever stop to think about the thousands and thousands of people out there already calling it a downgrader? you can't change any movement that big.
so by all means, make inquiries, but don't act like other people are stupid and illogical for things that surprise you.
How about some stories about trying to get linux onto PSP? still doesn't work in pure form. efforts are being made to write directly to the flash on the mobo, but the DRM has so many layers, no one has been able to boot arbitrary code. There's so much more story there and prophecy of what's to come with DRM than in a bunch of screen protectors and junk that all PSP fans already know about anyway.
And yes, it's obvious that typical linux would be kind of pointless b/c there's no (non-virtual) keybd on PSP, however, linux would be a LOT better for developers because of the PSPs tendency to crash often. Also, it would be much more convenient to have DHCP code used for homebrew (currently only static IPs are available for homebrew).
While we're at it, can anyone comment on implementing DHCP? thanks.
While I'm at it, the product list they review isn't even close to complete. They only represent about 1/3rd of what you can get in terms of ntsc converters, carrying cases, etc. it doesn't even include the talkman, the socom headset, blah blah blah. definitely a work in progress.
and to those who ask, yes there are definitely games where even though
programmers *should* have been planning on a fixed number of cycles, they
made bad decisions, and they slow down when the action gets intense. A mod
like this might help that. Might because depending on architecture of hw and sw
it may speed up the wrong parts.
>"The computers lack many features found on a typical personal computer, such as a hard disk and software."
I pity those poor children, trying to run a computer with no software. Can't we at least get them some of that "free software?"
"Oh wait, that's right! The $100 laptop runs Linux! It'll have the full free catalog."
Bing! Agenda Detector...That's why Bill Gates is mocking it! ...and the uncritical media ("lack[s]....software") are going along
with it.
"Bill Gates attacks $100 laptop" is to "George Bush attacks Iran" as "$100 laptop runs Linux" is to "Iran supplies oil to China."
Stand up and shout.
This shows the British government, similar to the U.S.,
can not control their population any other way. Controlling
poverty, friendlier foreign relations, less class division,
etc. These measures reduce crime, but they're not the
choices current administrations make. Our current "leaders"
lack guile and are not persuasive or clever enough to
guide us with their intelligence. Rather than architecting
an organic, autonomous society, they have chosen to
pen us in via technology.
I'm very weary of articles, especially on boingboing.net, that pitch Mario Bros. as the original videogame. You all should be making fan art of Yar's Revenge, Pitfall and River Raid.
Sorry I gave you that exotic new disease... I was just trying to make an honest buck by selling you the cure! I didn't mean to wipe out your town. :(
You make some good responses to what I wrote, so let me to respond to those. First, there, of course, is no explicit right to consumer electronics freedom in any constitution anywhere. However, you must realize that we confer these rights on ourselves! When the U.S. Const. was first written, they had a debate about what they wanted to put in there. Consider this, here, the continuation of that debate. If enough of us can push in this direction, we can establish this right for ourselves. There are numerous arguments for the freedom, from basic ideas about having a choice, to allowing corporations the use of certain public resources, to environmentalist arguments against prematurely obsolete hardware all the way back to enabling third parties to compete in the software market. All of these arguments speak against closed hardware, and that hardware openness should be government enforced. Second, about "don't buy it if you don't like it." This is a.k.a. "vote with your dollar." It's a good idea- in theory. I mean, theoretically, if there were a market for something like what we want, someone could start selling it. The only problem is, in reality, the vote with your dollar argument has been tried, and it doesn't work well. The reason is that it's not fast enough. it's kind of like patents. If nobody could "the computer" for 25 years, where would we buy? Still on the 2nd generation. The world simply changes too fast for market-based Darwinism to be effective. This is compounded by the massive amount diseducated consumers. Finally, if Sony were to offer us a "shiny toy" that lets me do what I want, I would buy it. In fact, they have a history of supporting homebrew (see Yaroze, and ps2linux). It's frustrating that they don't now. Although many people suspect they allowed the homebrewers access to early firmware on purpose to appease them. (The theory goes they couldn't do this explicity because it would infuriate the launch title publishers). Like I said, the reason the PSP is so interesting for Linux users is because the day may soon some when we can't run Linux due to DRM. We need to prepare and possibly act strategically.
Yeah, it used be pretty cool to watch protection get broken,
but the PSP is part of a new generation of DRM. We're
seeing some rules get bent/broken. For example, having
access to the hardware no longer means you 0wn the machine.
Classic techniques like tracing through code from
the beginning of its execution are obsolete.
Another obstacle to opening the device is the (threat of the) law.
When the PSP first came out, the website ps2dev.org quickly
created space for discussion of opening it up. Once 1.5 opened
up though, ps2dev quickly began to squash all discussion of
opening attempts. They referred to "Grey Areas" in their
censorship, claiming their goal of homebrew capability has
been reached. Ps2dev admins prefer to keep it a small, elite community of
1.5 users, as opposed to the more idealistic and democratic
goal of enabling anyone who buys the hardware to be able to
develop and run homebrew.
The only alternative is the piracy underground, whose goals are
different, but whose technology overlaps with the homebrewers.
Because they're illegal, pirates don't have public information
bases and their information is more valuable. This means
any potential developers have to work their way into a
social network, again, reserving homebrew capability for
a dedicated elite.
Currently there are several commerical companies interesting
in opening the PSP to public development (mostly because
they want to sell modchips). They've given dozens of PSPs
to promising openers, but no dice so far. Any attempts
on the hardware, similar to Xbox, for example, would require
high-speed equipment. Observing the PCB of the PSP,
for example, shows signficant tromboning (a technique of inserting extra space into circuit board traces to meet
extremely tight timing requirements) on the PSPs combined
flash/DRAM chip. Also preventitive is the use of a MIPS
core: the pinout of the MIPS processor is unknown, as well
as what IPL code it boots with. It may even included its own
encryption. Several varities of encryption, from crackable to strong (AES128) encryption are used in nearly every part of the
PSP firmware.
The situation is so far from ideal, some promote the "Sony Leak Theory." The hypothesis is that Sony
left open leaks on purpose in older firmware and encouraged
the development of emulators in order to krush its kompetition,
the Nintendo Revolution. Under this theory, Sony is confident
that its DRM will prevent any future homebrew/piracy.
Perhaps the PSP experience will serve as a weathervane for
the future of DRM in consumer products.
"You may laugh at our some of current ways, Zwargax, but civilizations before us have always been superstitious. The Americans, for example, believed that if you painted over the picture of a holy site it would be protected from attack."
"But Dadex, weren't there all kinds of other ways to get in there?"
"Yes, there were. Their leaders even allowed the people to come into the holy site during the day for example. But to an ancient American, the pictures conjured on their LCD screens seemed to posess magical powers and needed to be obscured to protect the leader.
You might think it's hard to reduce China's level of piracy to zero, but don't forget, George Bush is going to rid the world of evildoers!
For those who think this device's use will somehow be limited to rioters, I want you to look up Victoria Snelgrove
She was killed by non-lethal technology (second hand shot from a pepperball gun to the temple) less than one year ago.
Technology always gets used for things other than what it was intended for. From people scratching on turntables, to aircraft, to video game music, to internet over cable, etc.
Those who suggested the emergence of "acceptable casualty rates" have the most foresight. That being said, this thing is pretty powerful. I wouldn't cry chicken little about it yet. The government doesn't get that scary that quickly. However, this is the kind of thing where we really ought to recognize that we can create any kind of technology we want to. Is this "heat ray" what we really want? What if we could instead, say, transport prepared food in minutes between here and other countries? You could feast on different food every night from around the world!
Probably one of the scarier things about this is it looks easy to build. Just a high-powered oscillator and Fresnel antenna (look closely at the pics). Now that the US has put the idea out there, I can imagine all kinds of people making their own...and forgetting to ask people to take off their glasses and remove their keys and pocket change and turn it off after five seconds.
And for those who might say 65 GHz oscillators are difficult, I thought they were too, until I just looked them up and found parts.
Remember, it feels like heat, because it IS heat.
And finally: "After her death , Boston Red Sox outfielder Trot Nixon said he would have traded back Game 7 Of The 2004 ALCS to have her back."
Hey, there's much more than emulators, check out: PSPKick It's a drum machine for the PSP!
Um, as if you understand the connection between human consciousness/spirits and human bodies. You don't. Nobody does. It is possible that whatever mechanism connects one spirit/consciousness with one body could be putting a human consciousness inside these hybrid sheep. We don't know if that connection takes place in the brain, through the umbilical, through cells, or what. However, you are correct in stating that without significant socialization, it would most likely be unable to detect this itself.
This WPI student made a spreadsheet that lets you tweak params to see how good of a solar vehicle you can design. It'll tell you weight, cost, etc. solar vehicle spreadsheet
Schenectady, NY 12345
I had major issues with my company tmobile. So I looked up "tmobile sucks" in yahoo. :)
I found many websites like "tmobilesucks.com". Then, I looked up "verizon sucks," and found "*verizonsucks*."
Then, I looked up every carrier I could think of...They all have a *sucks website!
hell, everything sucks, I guess
Well, what are we waiting for? Let's diff two cracked AAC's of the same iTune bought by different people to see if there's any encoding!
Under this system, we're going to put people in prison for stealing, selling drugs and dodging tickets all to feed their families. Meanwhile unemployment won't be affected.