Unless the USB device contains software that knows to look in a non-standard place on the DVD to find the real decryption key... or worse, it sends the product's unique ID out over the net along with whatever information it can gather about your system and you get a key that is also signed to your hardware configuration, producing half of the real key and information as to where where on the disk the other half of the key can be found to decrypt the rest of the disk. Probably also tied to the system clock's date and time to make the license expire, or even to process ID.
The more convoluted the methodology, the happier the client purchasing the protection <del>racket</del><ins>scheme</ins>. Especially if it also nets them consumer data.
Picture if you will a 3.5" floppy disk with a small padlock through the write protection hole, with a label on the disk reading "My Diary".
But otherwise, yeah, a special clamp that interfaces with contacts for circuitry at the hub of the disk and ends in a USB plug would be better than this unbalanced monstrosity, and you don't lose disk capacity. After the initial introduction of disks with the device included, you then sell them without the device and offer it separately as a replacement part and for new adopters.
From what I've seen, code (especially from game companies) is like a gas: it always fills up and takes the shape of the container it's in.
Interesting then that "code" was not among the things listed as filling the disk. For games, data tends to expand more rapidly than the actual executable code, being the fuel you need to feed to the engine.
...you can't "boot OS X" on non-Apple hardware without:
1. Breaking Apple's Mac OS X license agreement, which says that Mac OS X is to be run only on Apple-branded computers
Contact your local cattle rancher?
2. Pirating Mac OS X (Intel), since Mac OS X (Intel) is not available as a standalone OS at present
Who says you need to buy it as a standalone OS to possess an install disk? Wanting to install Mac OS X on a PC does not preclude ownership of an Intel-based Mac. You can even balance out the seats by uninstalling the Mac's preinstallation and run something else instead on the Mac hardware.
It is also possible to possess legitimate beta install disks.
The telephone booth is more apt as the comparator to the Police Box, and they've been disappearing for quite some time now, except we think of them more as places for superheroes to change into costume, despite also being used for timetravel.
The blue corner mailbox only resembles the Police Box in its former ubiquity and color. The American Police Box is the Emergency Pole which have a light on the top and a single button to press to contact the police through something more kin to an intercom than a telephone. Those of the TARDIS variety you enter by walking behind it and utilizing a split-screen effect to disappear inside, similar to the general method of entry into the Master's TARDIS when in its various forms without obvious entryways.
I have yet to give up any of my old hardware (oldest being my original beige Apple IIe). I even find myself adopting others' old computers.
Now I'm finding I'm running out of shelf space for them, apart from not having enough power to drive them all in the same room. I have four machines I use regularly at the moment: three Macs (G3+1, G4, Xeon), and one PC, with plans to set up the NeXT Cube for use again.
One piece I think people skip over is the benefit from rotating certain monitors to be oriented vertically. Most non-media-related computing tasks rely more on the y-axis (emails, code, web pages.); being able to see 100+ lines of code on the screen lets you have a lot more context.
In my work environment, I read code in three panels of one emacs window and another panel below the three for compiler results, because I often need to review more than one file at a time.
Only recently have I been allowed to have a second display. Unfortunately the IT manager decided to set it to a resolution below that supported by our own software because he has a personal bias against 60Hz refresh, and I'm not granted sufficient access to control my own display resolution.
I've looked at the various display sizes and, if one could get the same DPI on all displays, an arrangment that used a WQXGA (2560x1600) center screen and then two cheaper UXGA (1600x1200) in portrait orientation (1200x1600) on either side might be useful (or other combinations where the portraits' native horizontal is the same as the center's vertical). Unfortunately finding the same DPI is difficult, leading to using CRTs where you can adjust the display settings to match, but which will effectively increase your bezel gap.
I'd hope they'd have to label them as similarly protected CDs are labeled, or not be allowed to use the DVD logo.
I'd also hope someone would offer a list of known titles protected by this. I want to try one out on my non-PC players to see if any of them fail to play it as well.
Unless someone has a small image I can burn to a DVD-R with this protection that I can download with some Creative Commons content?
Expect it more in proprietary code where the compiler to use is strictly controlled, thereby ensuring a consistent result while also providing headaches for anyone who tries to steal the code and run it in a compiler that produces a different result.
But then implementing the ideas in Reflections on Trusting Trust would be more effective, and wouldn't show up in a Google Code Search unless you knew specifically what to look for. (And if an employee has access to modify the company's compiler, that employee can hardcode job security for life.)
have the device power the monitor. If you get off to take a breather, only your monitor loses power (saving you money in electricity use..).
Not to mention the stress of having to constantly save your work in case your feet slip off the pedals and your computer suddenly shuts down.
I'm reminded of the stationary bike Stanley Tweedle was made to ride on planet Fire where the motivation to keep going was the threat of automatic decapitation.
"There is no they any more. Everyone who has worked on Star Trek previously, from the top executives at the studio to the guy who sweeps the floor on-set, is gone. There's now a totally different production team running Star Trek. This is what people have been asking for now for years."
"I want Gene Roddenberry back you son of a bitch." -- Ensign Montoya
Seriously, I've thought about what I'd do with a MythTV box. I've wanted it set it up to play my DVD collection according to a schedule, inserting promos for other upcoming shows between chapters and trailers for the next episode (some DVDs like The X-Files put the 10 and 30 second ads all on the last disk). Then some lower-third overlays for inserting severe weather information, caller-ID, and signaling of when someone's at the door. If I had a family, I'd get the kids involved with a camera to produce periodic news updates.
Basically turning it into what TiVo had once advertised: controlling my own TV network.
Unfortunately I've been happily employed on other coding tasks and haven't had the time even to put together a system for basic recording tasks let alone learn the source tree of MythTV to gauge how feasible it would be to adapt it for 24-hour scripted network control.
But as the article pointed out, this could also be used to launch intercontinental weapons - so assuming it is the U.S. building it, they probably aren't going to want it located outside the U.S.
Oh, just what the U.S. needs: a way to secretly launch a nuclear warhead against an international target without the telltale rocket heat plume detectible by satellite. What are they calling it: a cold warhead?
Well, all you need to do to fix that is to use a small black hole as your centripetal force. As all matter experiences gravitation equally, the body's structure wouldn't experience centrifugal stress.
Great, so instead of being turned to jelly by centrifugal forces, I'll be turned into spaghetti by tidal forces?
And yet TV shows often use the same sound effects for the background noises of an arcade, and it's usually always either Galaga (even if there's no Galaga game present) or/and Atari 2600 Pac-Man(!), even if they're actually playing at a LAN party a fictional MMOFPS First Degree Murder: San Fernando Valley as the latest "ripped from the headlines" scare tactic over video games.
Retro games are "pure" in a sense;...they don't bore you with cut scenes
The Pac-Man series did have cut scenes; they were just under one minute each.
In the first one, Pac-Man is chased from the right edge of the screen to the left by the four ghosts. The four ghosts reappear in their blue edible form and a larger Pac-Man chases them off the right side of the screen.
I've never checked: has the ESRB applied ratings to those classic game collection systems that let you play a dozen old Atari 2600 games or six Midway arcade classics?
author Aaron Ruby says that the organization is 'incapable of effectively communicating with consumers, nor of fending off attacks from the industry's many critics.'
Would he rather the ESRB more closely follow the MPAA's example: talk softly and carry a big subpoena?
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Unless the USB device contains software that knows to look in a non-standard place on the DVD to find the real decryption key... or worse, it sends the product's unique ID out over the net along with whatever information it can gather about your system and you get a key that is also signed to your hardware configuration, producing half of the real key and information as to where where on the disk the other half of the key can be found to decrypt the rest of the disk. Probably also tied to the system clock's date and time to make the license expire, or even to process ID.
The more convoluted the methodology, the happier the client purchasing the protection <del>racket</del><ins>scheme</ins>. Especially if it also nets them consumer data.
Picture if you will a 3.5" floppy disk with a small padlock through the write protection hole, with a label on the disk reading "My Diary".
But otherwise, yeah, a special clamp that interfaces with contacts for circuitry at the hub of the disk and ends in a USB plug would be better than this unbalanced monstrosity, and you don't lose disk capacity. After the initial introduction of disks with the device included, you then sell them without the device and offer it separately as a replacement part and for new adopters.
From what I've seen, code (especially from game companies) is like a gas: it always fills up and takes the shape of the container it's in.
Interesting then that "code" was not among the things listed as filling the disk. For games, data tends to expand more rapidly than the actual executable code, being the fuel you need to feed to the engine.
...you can't "boot OS X" on non-Apple hardware without:
1. Breaking Apple's Mac OS X license agreement, which says that Mac OS X is to be run only on Apple-branded computers
Contact your local cattle rancher?
2. Pirating Mac OS X (Intel), since Mac OS X (Intel) is not available as a standalone OS at present
Who says you need to buy it as a standalone OS to possess an install disk? Wanting to install Mac OS X on a PC does not preclude ownership of an Intel-based Mac. You can even balance out the seats by uninstalling the Mac's preinstallation and run something else instead on the Mac hardware.
It is also possible to possess legitimate beta install disks.
He's probably thinking of Rosetta and/or X11, or before that Classic for running Mac OS 9 and earlier apps under Mac OS X.
Hmm, I wonder if an Intel Mac could be coaxed into running Mac OS 9 under Classic under Rosetta, and if so whether you could run 68k binaries in it.
Overwriting the MBR is reckless, it isn't their data.... Class::action()
Have you checked your license agreement?
More like the eyepatched small white mouse secret agent with a hamster as a sidekick is losing his stateside vacation home.
The telephone booth is more apt as the comparator to the Police Box, and they've been disappearing for quite some time now, except we think of them more as places for superheroes to change into costume, despite also being used for time travel.
The blue corner mailbox only resembles the Police Box in its former ubiquity and color. The American Police Box is the Emergency Pole which have a light on the top and a single button to press to contact the police through something more kin to an intercom than a telephone. Those of the TARDIS variety you enter by walking behind it and utilizing a split-screen effect to disappear inside, similar to the general method of entry into the Master's TARDIS when in its various forms without obvious entryways.
Why not just keep both earbuds where they are, enjoy the music, and still stick it in her ear?
Aural sex?
I have yet to give up any of my old hardware (oldest being my original beige Apple IIe). I even find myself adopting others' old computers.
Now I'm finding I'm running out of shelf space for them, apart from not having enough power to drive them all in the same room. I have four machines I use regularly at the moment: three Macs (G3+1, G4, Xeon), and one PC, with plans to set up the NeXT Cube for use again.
One piece I think people skip over is the benefit from rotating certain monitors to be oriented vertically. Most non-media-related computing tasks rely more on the y-axis (emails, code, web pages.); being able to see 100+ lines of code on the screen lets you have a lot more context.
In my work environment, I read code in three panels of one emacs window and another panel below the three for compiler results, because I often need to review more than one file at a time.
Only recently have I been allowed to have a second display. Unfortunately the IT manager decided to set it to a resolution below that supported by our own software because he has a personal bias against 60Hz refresh, and I'm not granted sufficient access to control my own display resolution.
I've looked at the various display sizes and, if one could get the same DPI on all displays, an arrangment that used a WQXGA (2560x1600) center screen and then two cheaper UXGA (1600x1200) in portrait orientation (1200x1600) on either side might be useful (or other combinations where the portraits' native horizontal is the same as the center's vertical). Unfortunately finding the same DPI is difficult, leading to using CRTs where you can adjust the display settings to match, but which will effectively increase your bezel gap.
I'd hope they'd have to label them as similarly protected CDs are labeled, or not be allowed to use the DVD logo.
I'd also hope someone would offer a list of known titles protected by this. I want to try one out on my non-PC players to see if any of them fail to play it as well.
Unless someone has a small image I can burn to a DVD-R with this protection that I can download with some Creative Commons content?
Expect it more in proprietary code where the compiler to use is strictly controlled, thereby ensuring a consistent result while also providing headaches for anyone who tries to steal the code and run it in a compiler that produces a different result.
But then implementing the ideas in Reflections on Trusting Trust would be more effective, and wouldn't show up in a Google Code Search unless you knew specifically what to look for. (And if an employee has access to modify the company's compiler, that employee can hardcode job security for life.)
have the device power the monitor. If you get off to take a breather, only your monitor loses power (saving you money in electricity use..).
Not to mention the stress of having to constantly save your work in case your feet slip off the pedals and your computer suddenly shuts down.
I'm reminded of the stationary bike Stanley Tweedle was made to ride on planet Fire where the motivation to keep going was the threat of automatic decapitation.
So who do they have in charge now? Major Healey? Colonel Bellows?
What's that old saying... ah yes:
Enable programmers to program in English and you will find that they can't.
-- Ensign Montoya
Seriously, I've thought about what I'd do with a MythTV box. I've wanted it set it up to play my DVD collection according to a schedule, inserting promos for other upcoming shows between chapters and trailers for the next episode (some DVDs like The X-Files put the 10 and 30 second ads all on the last disk). Then some lower-third overlays for inserting severe weather information, caller-ID, and signaling of when someone's at the door. If I had a family, I'd get the kids involved with a camera to produce periodic news updates.
Basically turning it into what TiVo had once advertised: controlling my own TV network.
Unfortunately I've been happily employed on other coding tasks and haven't had the time even to put together a system for basic recording tasks let alone learn the source tree of MythTV to gauge how feasible it would be to adapt it for 24-hour scripted network control.
From the glitches in knock-off versions (esp. a particular one where the ghosts were Sno-bees from the game Pengo), I'd say real-time.
But as the article pointed out, this could also be used to launch intercontinental weapons - so assuming it is the U.S. building it, they probably aren't going to want it located outside the U.S.
Oh, just what the U.S. needs: a way to secretly launch a nuclear warhead against an international target without the telltale rocket heat plume detectible by satellite. What are they calling it: a cold warhead?
I read that as 'To Moon a Harsh Mistress' at first.
Yes, found in the Edmund Wells section, along with "Knickerless Knickleby" and "A Sale of Two Titties".
Well, all you need to do to fix that is to use a small black hole as your centripetal force. As all matter experiences gravitation equally, the body's structure wouldn't experience centrifugal stress.
Great, so instead of being turned to jelly by centrifugal forces, I'll be turned into spaghetti by tidal forces?
And yet TV shows often use the same sound effects for the background noises of an arcade, and it's usually always either Galaga (even if there's no Galaga game present) or/and Atari 2600 Pac-Man(!), even if they're actually playing at a LAN party a fictional MMOFPS First Degree Murder: San Fernando Valley as the latest "ripped from the headlines" scare tactic over video games.
Retro games are "pure" in a sense; ...they don't bore you with cut scenes
The Pac-Man series did have cut scenes; they were just under one minute each.
In the first one, Pac-Man is chased from the right edge of the screen to the left by the four ghosts. The four ghosts reappear in their blue edible form and a larger Pac-Man chases them off the right side of the screen.
Granted most stores refuse to sell unrated games
I've never checked: has the ESRB applied ratings to those classic game collection systems that let you play a dozen old Atari 2600 games or six Midway arcade classics?
author Aaron Ruby says that the organization is 'incapable of effectively communicating with consumers, nor of fending off attacks from the industry's many critics.'
Would he rather the ESRB more closely follow the MPAA's example: talk softly and carry a big subpoena?