Yes, this app (iRecord) is great, and does indeed let you record the digital MPEG-2 Transport Stream directly from the STB.
Unfortunately, I've had no success at all with iRecord. I set up the time to record, but the time goes by and nothing happens. I can record with Virtual DVHS (stock version) with AV/C Browser just fine, but not at all with iRecord.
Scientific Atlanta 3250 HD running TWC's infamous Mystro beta and a Mac Pro running iRecord 0.4. I just now see there's a 0.5.0h beta to try.
The AVSForum uses a color scheme designed for reading in a darkened room, such as a home theater. They do have alternate presentation styles you can apply when you have created a user account.
Are you seriously claiming it's a good thing to ruin somebody online reputation because of their political beliefs? Holy crap, man.
I didn't take it that he was saying it was a good thing or a bad thing; only that it will happen.
As to the next thing he said: Or you can simply multiply all the reputations of everyone/thing that is willing to vouch for you.
It may not be enough to have the reputation modifications themselves be modified by the anonymized reputation of the people modifying them.
Bercol: Has, um, a date been set for the Blake inquiry? Rontane: Does it matter? Without Travis' evidence the mishandling of the Blake affair becomes a matter of conjecture. The inquiry becomes a formality. Bercol: A Presidential stay of execution so that Travis can give evidence? After this, he should be more than willing. Rontane: After this he'll be a convicted mass murderer. Bercol: It could still damage Servalan. "Slime sticks," as the old saying has it. Rontane: Yes, but the President can't be seen to throw it. Bercol: Servalan picked Travis. Rontane: The President picked Servalan! Bercol: So she's outmaneuvered us once again.
And depending on ideological bents, some may want to apply the inverse of someone's reputation in some categories and not in others:
Homer: I don't approve of his Bart-killing policy, but I do approve of his Selma-killing policy. Krusty: Well, he framed me for armed robbery, but man, I'm aching for that upper-class tax cut.
Unfortunately, there will still be those who can compartmentalize multiple personae to build up a reputation stockpile to use to rep-assassinate their critics and enemies. There's a saying on Usenet that goes something like this: Any system that requires the good behavior of all involved to work is doomed to fail.
The only still-extant reason for downloading is that it takes so long for films to get from the cinema to DVD.
No, there are other reasons. One is that the movie is out of print in all regions, unavailable for rent, rare enough that no one is selling it used, and so encumbered with conflicting publication rights that it will never again be republished unless it manages to survive its interminable copyrigh++.
Except for the forms that recognize those reserved domains and prevent you from entering addresses under them.
I used to use fake addresses on sites that required them before allowing you to download their otherwise free software. Then I came across one that bothered to do some test (probably a DNS lookup) and it rejected garibaldi(a)babylon5.earthforce.mil (for example) as an invalid domain.
Now when I use a fake address, it is at domains that not only allow you to do it, but also allow you to retrieve mail sent to them in reply. It's great for those sites that e-mail you an expiring link to access what you came to get.
Not all replies are rebuttals. Not everyone has the same points to make.
Yours was that there are reasonable "attempted" crimes. Mine was that while "attempted murder" is a reasonable crime, "attempted copyright infringement" is not, and that the implied dichotomy that either you have every crime have an illegal attempted variant ("harmonize" per TFA) or you have no attempted variants is false. It is not reasonable to say if you're against "attempted copyright infringement" being illegal then you must also be against "attempted murder" being illegal.
Which is the trap you stepped in by reaching for the most heinous attempted crime you could think of. Keep doing that and next thing you know, people will be arrested for attempted mopery.
Not that it matters. We're lost between the pages of slashdot now, which is why an AC who posted "Attempted Murder" first got +5 Insightful and you won't even get a single deserved Redundant mod.
"Microsoft has also set up a military strike team that can travel through time, stopping virus and trojan developers before they infect the future." They call it ConunDRM.
Oh...and the people who use 'myself' when they mean 'me'. That bugs myself to no end. You should listen to some classic Smothers Brothers: "My brother and myselves...".
Do you think somebody who tried to kill you but muffed the job should be let free to take another stab at it? Do you think somebody who tried to play an encrypted DVD on Linux but muffed the job should be free to take another stab at it?
Or instead should he have to forfeit the DVD and all others in his possession, his computer, all its peripherals, his computer desk, his house, the car he used to transport the computer to his home, and be incarcerated for years, and if he ever manages to gain employment again (likely barred from contact with any computing device for a decade after release) have his wages garnished to pay restitution to the movie studio for damages resulting from his failed attempt to play the disk on unauthorized hardware? (Note that everything he could have sold to pay that restitution has already been seized, forfeited, and destroyed.)
We're talking about forfeiture of the kind used in drug law enforcement. This is not a tool that needs to be "harmonized" (defined as "to maximize harm"?) to copyright infringement.
Hey, how about criminally prosecuting everyone who "attempted" to post the AACS processing key to Digg had this bill been law? I'm sure there would have been plenty of records to seize to document and track down each person.
We're rapidly becoming a nation where enough information is gathered on every electronic transaction to allow for total enforcement of every law, including the ones you don't realize you're breaking every day.
They attempted to connect to a server and obtain copyrighted materials without success. I've done that every time Slashdot has told me, "Nothing to see here, please move along."
Apparently without this law, that's not illegal. Think about what would become illegal. Attempting to access a web server's directory regardless of whether it does or does not allow indexing will be considered attempted copyright infringement of its contents by some litigious bastard too.
OK, so maybe I don't think it's crappy. I liked it, so much that it still sits marked Keep Until I Delete on my TiVo while I wait for the DVD to arrive sometime this week. (The TiVo recorded it as one of its Suggestions, possibly because I told it I liked Primer, also one of its Suggestions.)
Is it wrong to mark as KUID content from a premium movie channel? I'm sure the entertainment cartels would believe it to be so, even though this movie is an independent film. The RIAA claims it owns all music distribution rights, even for unsigned music; I'd expect the MPAA to parrot that.
Well the thing is, that there is this deep psychological connection between blinking lights and technology in our culture. In the old days, computers in movies often had excessive amounts of this. But even today, you see similar things in movies. If the lights are blinking, it must be doing something! And parodied to good effect:
"Pull another lever." "There aren't any more levers; just switches." "No buttons?" "No, no buttons, just switches, lights, and knobs." "Oh, cut the bleeding heart crap, will ya? We've all got our switches, lights, and knobs to deal with, Striker. I mean, down here there are literally hundreds and thousands of blinking, beeping, and flashing lights, blinking and beeping and flashing - they're flashing and they're beeping. I can't stand it anymore! They're blinking and beeping and flashing! Why doesn't somebody pull the plug!"
Some laptops haven't been hacked [to be region-free] yet, and some of the ones that have require some relatively extreme measures to disable (and you better hope you don't screw up, or you're buying a new drive).
So why not skip the headache and just buy a new drive that can be flashed with RPC-1 firmware easily?
Or just let the drive be locked to one region and get another locked to another and swap drives as needed. If they make it possible to change the regions on a drive, and there's nothing preventing you from owning multiple drives, then there's nothing to even feel guilty about in having drives for different regions.
Easy. The existence of a format war is holding people back from buying either BD or HD-DVD until there is a winner. I know many such people.
For me, it is a lack of a compelling title on either format now, and what known titles that may compel me in the future are slated to be available in both formats.
However, I am closer to the HD-DVD camp because I bought the XBOX 360 HD-DVD drive for use with my desktop computers, and not the expensive Blu-Ray burner from Sony. The included copy of King Kong is my only HD-DVD title, still unwatched.
But what may kill HD-DVD is getting too late (or never) to market with a consumer burner. We may see HD-DVD succeed in the movie player market with Blu-Ray succeeding in the data recording market.
And of course in government buildings. Indeed, for certain government positions, there's clearly a prerequisite of not having lasting memory recall. They certainly wouldn't want any record being made of things they may be called to answer for in front of Congress.
Don't even think about having one in the military or intelligence services, at least not unless ordered by a superior (and never in operation in a superior's presence).
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Scientific Atlanta 3250 HD running TWC's infamous Mystro beta and a Mac Pro running iRecord 0.4. I just now see there's a 0.5.0h beta to try.
The AVSForum uses a color scheme designed for reading in a darkened room, such as a home theater. They do have alternate presentation styles you can apply when you have created a user account.
Yet another lesson why just because you can join two words together to form another word doesn't mean that you should in all contexts.
I didn't take it that he was saying it was a good thing or a bad thing; only that it will happen.
As to the next thing he said:
Or you can simply multiply all the reputations of everyone/thing that is willing to vouch for you.
It may not be enough to have the reputation modifications themselves be modified by the anonymized reputation of the people modifying them. And depending on ideological bents, some may want to apply the inverse of someone's reputation in some categories and not in others: Unfortunately, there will still be those who can compartmentalize multiple personae to build up a reputation stockpile to use to rep-assassinate their critics and enemies. There's a saying on Usenet that goes something like this: Any system that requires the good behavior of all involved to work is doomed to fail.
It should read, "...but the sample image they have is copyright infringe pretty neat."
Except for the forms that recognize those reserved domains and prevent you from entering addresses under them.
I used to use fake addresses on sites that required them before allowing you to download their otherwise free software. Then I came across one that bothered to do some test (probably a DNS lookup) and it rejected garibaldi(a)babylon5.earthforce.mil (for example) as an invalid domain.
Now when I use a fake address, it is at domains that not only allow you to do it, but also allow you to retrieve mail sent to them in reply. It's great for those sites that e-mail you an expiring link to access what you came to get.
Not all replies are rebuttals. Not everyone has the same points to make.
Yours was that there are reasonable "attempted" crimes. Mine was that while "attempted murder" is a reasonable crime, "attempted copyright infringement" is not, and that the implied dichotomy that either you have every crime have an illegal attempted variant ("harmonize" per TFA) or you have no attempted variants is false. It is not reasonable to say if you're against "attempted copyright infringement" being illegal then you must also be against "attempted murder" being illegal.
Which is the trap you stepped in by reaching for the most heinous attempted crime you could think of. Keep doing that and next thing you know, people will be arrested for attempted mopery.
Not that it matters. We're lost between the pages of slashdot now, which is why an AC who posted "Attempted Murder" first got +5 Insightful and you won't even get a single deserved Redundant mod.
How about computer vs. computer matches, let the better algorithm win, best time out of 1025 games?
Without POTS, what connection will I run GBBS Pro on now?
Or instead should he have to forfeit the DVD and all others in his possession, his computer, all its peripherals, his computer desk, his house, the car he used to transport the computer to his home, and be incarcerated for years, and if he ever manages to gain employment again (likely barred from contact with any computing device for a decade after release) have his wages garnished to pay restitution to the movie studio for damages resulting from his failed attempt to play the disk on unauthorized hardware? (Note that everything he could have sold to pay that restitution has already been seized, forfeited, and destroyed.)
We're talking about forfeiture of the kind used in drug law enforcement. This is not a tool that needs to be "harmonized" (defined as "to maximize harm"?) to copyright infringement.
Hey, how about criminally prosecuting everyone who "attempted" to post the AACS processing key to Digg had this bill been law? I'm sure there would have been plenty of records to seize to document and track down each person.
We're rapidly becoming a nation where enough information is gathered on every electronic transaction to allow for total enforcement of every law, including the ones you don't realize you're breaking every day.
OK, so maybe I don't think it's crappy. I liked it, so much that it still sits marked Keep Until I Delete on my TiVo while I wait for the DVD to arrive sometime this week. (The TiVo recorded it as one of its Suggestions, possibly because I told it I liked Primer , also one of its Suggestions.)
Is it wrong to mark as KUID content from a premium movie channel? I'm sure the entertainment cartels would believe it to be so, even though this movie is an independent film. The RIAA claims it owns all music distribution rights, even for unsigned music; I'd expect the MPAA to parrot that.
Or just let the drive be locked to one region and get another locked to another and swap drives as needed. If they make it possible to change the regions on a drive, and there's nothing preventing you from owning multiple drives, then there's nothing to even feel guilty about in having drives for different regions.
However, I am closer to the HD-DVD camp because I bought the XBOX 360 HD-DVD drive for use with my desktop computers, and not the expensive Blu-Ray burner from Sony. The included copy of King Kong is my only HD-DVD title, still unwatched.
But what may kill HD-DVD is getting too late (or never) to market with a consumer burner. We may see HD-DVD succeed in the movie player market with Blu-Ray succeeding in the data recording market.
I can't define what constitutes a porn link, and I don't know it when I see it unless and until I click on it.
And of course in government buildings. Indeed, for certain government positions, there's clearly a prerequisite of not having lasting memory recall. They certainly wouldn't want any record being made of things they may be called to answer for in front of Congress.
Don't even think about having one in the military or intelligence services, at least not unless ordered by a superior (and never in operation in a superior's presence).