Max Headroom: Have you any idea how successful censorship is on TV? Don't know the answer? Hmm... successful, isn't it?
Cheviot: Override Censor? Good God, Murray, I'm the Chairman, not the Creator!
Max Headroom: Now, I'm no librarian, in fact, I don't know what star sign I am. But, as a famous person once said, "You can fool some of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time." And as I -- another more famous person -- once said, "If you don't teach them to read, you can fool them whenever you like!"
"It's just an average day at your job. Noon swings around and it's time to amble out of the cubicle farm and venture outside into the city to find some lunch. You put on your slick steel framed Hunters Glasses, place your Hunters earpiece, and with black and white Hunters Gloves on, step out of the building and onto the street. After a block suddenly your dark tinted shades switch to a red tint. A silky female voice echoes in your ear, 'Players within range. Good Hunting.' The glasses are acting as a WiFi enabled computer screen. You swivel your head to scope the scene and find someone standing out within the red crowd as a white outline. The man with the white outline is scouting the area as well, trying to find who else is in the game right now. You get within range, pack a virtual snow ball with your gloves, approach slowly, wind up and
you are struck by a car.
'Player Eliminated,' says the female voice, 'Uploading Statistics.'"
* Video out of Iphone (make sure you can't use third party docks to watch ipod/iphone vids on your TV.
This is because of the licensing agreements between the content providers and Apple specifically exclude a license to display on a television screen.
Nevermind that the only difference between a television and a monitor is the presence of a frequency tuner. (Many monitors have built-in speakers these days.)
Well, if they get torn down their middle, they still produce only one strip but with a full twist. Do it again and you get two strips that are linked to each other. Self-entangling rings of carbon have gotta be useful somehow.
Maybe this will finally reverse that stupid shift that took place in the early 1980s where every girl's name that ends with an -ee sound was changed to -i. (E.g., Debbie --> Debbi, Cindy --> Cindi, Tammy --> Tammi, etc.)
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy says of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation products that 'it is very easy to be blinded by the essential uselessness of them by the sense of achievement you get from getting them to work at all.' In other words -- and this is the rock-solid principle on which the whole of the Corporation's Galaxywide success is founded -- their fundamental design flaws are completely hidden by their superficial design flaws."
If it were encrypted, VLC and MPlayer would not be able to play it, but they can and do.
But ffmpeg not knowing about the flag would explain why it wouldn't strip what it didn't know about. Not sure why Mencoder would choke with an audio complaint trying to do the same thing.
Hasn't anyone created a filter that just clears the broadcast flag from a recorded transport stream? If I had that then MPEG Streamclip would handle everything else for me.
In the "Legal Issues" section of the article, I expected to see something about the issue of FFMPEG potentially infringing on existing patents. Instead there's just some stuff about violating the GPL. Seems like a major oversight to me.
So that's not why I can't get ffmpeg to strip the "Copy once" broadcast flag out of my HD recording of 24 "Day 7: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM"?
I can hear all the audio, but I can't see anything other than the cable-inserted ads. VLC will play it but not transcode it. MPEG Streamclip will rip the audio but not the video. Mencode with copy and copy fails. Mplayer saving to tga files works but takes up too much disk space and QuickTime Player doesn't offer converting an image sequence to video at 59.97 fps.
I just want to convert the 1280x720p MPEG-TS signal to 720x480p anamorphic DV video for editing in Final Cut Pro and mastering with DVD Studio Pro.
I'm going to have to use the analog hole to get this one, and that means it'll be interlaced in SD instead of progressive. And I'll have to catch up with the series before watching it.
Max Landsberger: Since the 1984 oil discovery in New Guinea, we have sold the Bu!kais hill tribesmen 20 of our S-24 fighters. At $21 million per unit, that's $252 million. This has started a local arms race between the Bu!kais, and their local neighbors the Kla!klalas. Now the Kla!klalas also happen to be sitting an a large amount of oil. And now the Kla!klalas want to buy 20 of our new Slash X-Ray Ultra Pursuit fighters for a total of $480 million. Pete Helmes: What are the chances of war between them? Bob Nixon: Very good sir. Our spare parts replacement contracts could be very lucrative. Pete Helmes: Who trains their flight personnel? Max Landsberger: Well, as near as we can assess it... well, they don't actually fly the planes. They sort of... roll them down hills, crashing them into each other. Scott Dantley: Personally, I think that it's a shameful waste of incredible kill power. Pete Helmes: Make the deal. Bob Nixon, Scott Dantley: Absolutely.
Good god, jump to conclusions much? Kindle is upset about a program that pulls an ID number that can be used to purchase books from others
You do know that those "others" are in fact a subsidiary of Amazon, right?
So Amazon is trying to stop people from buying from their subsidiary instead of from Amazon directly. Why would they do that? Because either they want to negotiate Kindle rights separately from other electronic books so they can charge a premium for the Kindle edition or their contracts for those other editions are too tightly worded to allow for a Kindle edition so they need to be renegotiated.
It's like Hulu having the rights to show content on computer screens only, but not television screens, so any device that's been demonstrated using a television screen (Boxee) must be cut off by Hulu or Hulu will be in breach of license rights.
Or how the guy who got a license for Tetris on "computers" thought he was getting a good deal (thought it could apply to game consoles, calculators, any computing device now or in the future) until at the 11th hour a definition of a computer was inserted as being something with a keyboard and monitor. Nintendo ended up with the best contract for being the first to actually pay Russia for it.
(Nevermind that television screens and monitors are practically interchangeable these days. Size matters not. I watch TV on a 47" monitor. A television has a frequency tuner; a monitor does not.)
Or how Apple has to disallow turn-by-turn navigation programs for the iPhone and iPod Touch because Apple hasn't licensed the patents for such an application and would be sued for selling it and having the deepest pockets.
Vardan leader: It is time to conclude these formalities, Doctor. Sign the treaty! The Doctor: I never sign anything before I read it. Vardan leader: Then read! The Doctor: [reading] You promised me complete control over the Time Lords. Vardan leader: You will have complete control. The Doctor: But in paragraph four subsection three, it states that- Vardan leader: Mere lawyers' quibbles, Doctor. The Doctor: I've heard that one before. Lawyers' quibbles can get you killed.
And it will cost Google a lot of time and money to validate whether a click is fraud or not if enough people start doing it.
Nah, just a simple matter of Javascript to test if you have certain pieces of chrome installed relating to this script to determine if the clicks are fake. No Javascript, no ads for the plug-in to click on anyway. Then the plug-in is going to have to randomize where it stores its chrome evade detection.
Because if you buy their Kindle at a loss for Amazon, then never buy a book from them, they lost money.
So, if I buy a Kindle and never buy a book for it, only using it to read Wikipedia and read and post to blogs... should Amazon be able to sue me for stealing from them by my failure to buy books, or brick my Kindle? If they're serious about this take-down, they'd sue me for buying from someone else; how is that different from not buying anything more from them at all?
They aren't doing that now. In fact, no one is yet, but we're getting to the point where businesses think that by selling you a product at a loss they are entitled to additional profit after the sale. Well, there was the Columbia Record Club where you got a bunch of records for a penny plus an obligation towards a minimum number of purchases later at inflated prices, but not yet with electronic gateway devices. We're getting close to a situation like an enforced "two drink minimum" at a bar with these products. Keep an eye on those EULAs.
In fact, this is Amazon protecting first their share of profits for granting these books' publishers access to the Kindle market and second themselves for not having negotiated with these books' publishers the right to reproduce their books on the Kindle. By authorizing the books ourselves without authority, we both undercut Amazon's profits and expose Amazon to contributory infringement liability by giving these books a free ride.
Copyright is such a tangle that rights holders would rather pay Amazon for the privilege than be given access against their will/rights. It's like treating a kid to a free trip to Disneyland and Disney suing you instead of the kid's parents. (Actually it would be the government bringing suit, once they know about it, possibly even against the wishes of the parents, but that's not important for the analogy.)
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So if you're going to need to boot a Linux Live DVD on it, are you going to need an eSATA optical drive, or can it boot from a USB drive?
Are there Vista drivers for using another Mac's optical drive wirelessly, or just drivers for a Mac to use a Windows system's optical drive?
There are people out there that don't realize that lose and loose are pronounced differently. Think on that.
Max Headroom: Have you any idea how successful censorship is on TV? Don't know the answer? Hmm... successful, isn't it?
Cheviot: Override Censor? Good God, Murray, I'm the Chairman, not the Creator!
Max Headroom: Now, I'm no librarian, in fact, I don't know what star sign I am. But, as a famous person once said, "You can fool some of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time." And as I -- another more famous person -- once said, "If you don't teach them to read, you can fool them whenever you like!"
"It's just an average day at your job. Noon swings around and it's time to amble out of the cubicle farm and venture outside into the city to find some lunch. You put on your slick steel framed Hunters Glasses, place your Hunters earpiece, and with black and white Hunters Gloves on, step out of the building and onto the street. After a block suddenly your dark tinted shades switch to a red tint. A silky female voice echoes in your ear, 'Players within range. Good Hunting.' The glasses are acting as a WiFi enabled computer screen. You swivel your head to scope the scene and find someone standing out within the red crowd as a white outline. The man with the white outline is scouting the area as well, trying to find who else is in the game right now. You get within range, pack a virtual snow ball with your gloves, approach slowly, wind up and
you are struck by a car.
'Player Eliminated,' says the female voice, 'Uploading Statistics.'"
* Video out of Iphone (make sure you can't use third party docks to watch ipod/iphone vids on your TV.
This is because of the licensing agreements between the content providers and Apple specifically exclude a license to display on a television screen.
Nevermind that the only difference between a television and a monitor is the presence of a frequency tuner. (Many monitors have built-in speakers these days.)
Do these have useful properties at all?
Well, if they get torn down their middle, they still produce only one strip but with a full twist. Do it again and you get two strips that are linked to each other. Self-entangling rings of carbon have gotta be useful somehow.
They stopped being about real Sci Fi a long time ago.
Would that be when they scheduled Braveheart?
Maybe this will finally reverse that stupid shift that took place in the early 1980s where every girl's name that ends with an -ee sound was changed to -i. (E.g., Debbie --> Debbi, Cindy --> Cindi, Tammy --> Tammi, etc.)
And SanDeE*?
How about SFC?
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy says of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation products that 'it is very easy to be blinded by the essential uselessness of them by the sense of achievement you get from getting them to work at all.' In other words -- and this is the rock-solid principle on which the whole of the Corporation's Galaxywide success is founded -- their fundamental design flaws are completely hidden by their superficial design flaws."
Yeah, why are they using this tech for something as boring as fingerprints?
They could be scanning supermodels.
Interesting summary. If there is no human intervention, whose fingerprints are snapped?
Everyone's.
If it were encrypted, VLC and MPlayer would not be able to play it, but they can and do.
But ffmpeg not knowing about the flag would explain why it wouldn't strip what it didn't know about. Not sure why Mencoder would choke with an audio complaint trying to do the same thing.
Hasn't anyone created a filter that just clears the broadcast flag from a recorded transport stream? If I had that then MPEG Streamclip would handle everything else for me.
In the "Legal Issues" section of the article, I expected to see something about the issue of FFMPEG potentially infringing on existing patents. Instead there's just some stuff about violating the GPL. Seems like a major oversight to me.
So that's not why I can't get ffmpeg to strip the "Copy once" broadcast flag out of my HD recording of 24 "Day 7: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM"?
I can hear all the audio, but I can't see anything other than the cable-inserted ads. VLC will play it but not transcode it. MPEG Streamclip will rip the audio but not the video. Mencode with copy and copy fails. Mplayer saving to tga files works but takes up too much disk space and QuickTime Player doesn't offer converting an image sequence to video at 59.97 fps.
I just want to convert the 1280x720p MPEG-TS signal to 720x480p anamorphic DV video for editing in Final Cut Pro and mastering with DVD Studio Pro.
I'm going to have to use the analog hole to get this one, and that means it'll be interlaced in SD instead of progressive. And I'll have to catch up with the series before watching it.
So if we DO find it, then it's going to be the Standard Model for a VERY long time.
At least until the planet finishes collapsing into a nugget of super-dense matter roughly the size of a pea.
Macc OS Metrics?
Max Landsberger: Since the 1984 oil discovery in New Guinea, we have sold the Bu!kais hill tribesmen 20 of our S-24 fighters. At $21 million per unit, that's $252 million. This has started a local arms race between the Bu!kais, and their local neighbors the Kla!klalas. Now the Kla!klalas also happen to be sitting an a large amount of oil. And now the Kla!klalas want to buy 20 of our new Slash X-Ray Ultra Pursuit fighters for a total of $480 million.
Pete Helmes: What are the chances of war between them?
Bob Nixon: Very good sir. Our spare parts replacement contracts could be very lucrative.
Pete Helmes: Who trains their flight personnel?
Max Landsberger: Well, as near as we can assess it... well, they don't actually fly the planes. They sort of... roll them down hills, crashing them into each other.
Scott Dantley: Personally, I think that it's a shameful waste of incredible kill power.
Pete Helmes: Make the deal.
Bob Nixon, Scott Dantley: Absolutely.
On a side note, who are they going to shrink?
Bruce Boxleitner?
Whoever it is, he's gotta purchase his program 30 days in advance. Or get special permission from the MCP.
Good god, jump to conclusions much? Kindle is upset about a program that pulls an ID number that can be used to purchase books from others
You do know that those "others" are in fact a subsidiary of Amazon, right?
So Amazon is trying to stop people from buying from their subsidiary instead of from Amazon directly. Why would they do that? Because either they want to negotiate Kindle rights separately from other electronic books so they can charge a premium for the Kindle edition or their contracts for those other editions are too tightly worded to allow for a Kindle edition so they need to be renegotiated.
It's like Hulu having the rights to show content on computer screens only, but not television screens, so any device that's been demonstrated using a television screen (Boxee) must be cut off by Hulu or Hulu will be in breach of license rights.
Or how the guy who got a license for Tetris on "computers" thought he was getting a good deal (thought it could apply to game consoles, calculators, any computing device now or in the future) until at the 11th hour a definition of a computer was inserted as being something with a keyboard and monitor. Nintendo ended up with the best contract for being the first to actually pay Russia for it.
(Nevermind that television screens and monitors are practically interchangeable these days. Size matters not. I watch TV on a 47" monitor. A television has a frequency tuner; a monitor does not.)
Or how Apple has to disallow turn-by-turn navigation programs for the iPhone and iPod Touch because Apple hasn't licensed the patents for such an application and would be sued for selling it and having the deepest pockets.
Vardan leader: It is time to conclude these formalities, Doctor. Sign the treaty!
The Doctor: I never sign anything before I read it.
Vardan leader: Then read!
The Doctor: [reading] You promised me complete control over the Time Lords.
Vardan leader: You will have complete control.
The Doctor: But in paragraph four subsection three, it states that-
Vardan leader: Mere lawyers' quibbles, Doctor.
The Doctor: I've heard that one before. Lawyers' quibbles can get you killed.
Jumping to conclusions? I don't think so.
I'm sure that their motive has nothing to do with whether it makes the kindle "more useful". This threatens their monopoly market for the books.
You missed a word there. I added it for you.
No I didn't, smartass. Amazon does not have a monopoly on books, and nobody's forcing you to buy their reader.
Then you apparently used one word too many: the word "the".
This threatens their market for <strike> the </strike> books.
Happy now, buddy?
Accessing and confirming existence are two different things.
And it will cost Google a lot of time and money to validate whether a click is fraud or not if enough people start doing it.
Nah, just a simple matter of Javascript to test if you have certain pieces of chrome installed relating to this script to determine if the clicks are fake. No Javascript, no ads for the plug-in to click on anyway. Then the plug-in is going to have to randomize where it stores its chrome evade detection.
Because if you buy their Kindle at a loss for Amazon, then never buy a book from them, they lost money.
So, if I buy a Kindle and never buy a book for it, only using it to read Wikipedia and read and post to blogs... should Amazon be able to sue me for stealing from them by my failure to buy books, or brick my Kindle? If they're serious about this take-down, they'd sue me for buying from someone else; how is that different from not buying anything more from them at all?
They aren't doing that now. In fact, no one is yet, but we're getting to the point where businesses think that by selling you a product at a loss they are entitled to additional profit after the sale. Well, there was the Columbia Record Club where you got a bunch of records for a penny plus an obligation towards a minimum number of purchases later at inflated prices, but not yet with electronic gateway devices. We're getting close to a situation like an enforced "two drink minimum" at a bar with these products. Keep an eye on those EULAs.
In fact, this is Amazon protecting first their share of profits for granting these books' publishers access to the Kindle market and second themselves for not having negotiated with these books' publishers the right to reproduce their books on the Kindle. By authorizing the books ourselves without authority, we both undercut Amazon's profits and expose Amazon to contributory infringement liability by giving these books a free ride.
Copyright is such a tangle that rights holders would rather pay Amazon for the privilege than be given access against their will/rights. It's like treating a kid to a free trip to Disneyland and Disney suing you instead of the kid's parents. (Actually it would be the government bringing suit, once they know about it, possibly even against the wishes of the parents, but that's not important for the analogy.)
Here's another one with the code in question:
http://www.copyright.gov/legislation/dmca.pdf
Now that's funny. (It's a play on the word "code".)
So where is the torrent?
Why bother with a torrent for something so small?
Or who will be man enough to post the code here ? :)
With enough technical prowess to keep slashcode from mangling the code?