Still, that's zealotism to the point of failed logic. Have you seen them do the kinda shit AOLers are famous for*?
* Script-kiddieism; excessive and post-useful typing in l33t; LOL@URMOM!!!!; the bad habit of ruining their computers with ad/spyware in the space of minutes**; being the worst forum trolls in the universe; and finally, installing AOL
** I swear, AOL'ers and post-AOL'ers are primarily responsible for windows users' reps as typhoid users
Get linux. Use KDE. Submit bugs to the KHTML/KJS bugzilla. I guarantee you, if you do that, the next Safari will be far improved (ie: where do you think they get their rendering engine from?)
What he said about AOL-Netscape may be true, but AOL-Netscape was a lame-ass alliance.
Seriously, I've known Apple fanboys to be zealous to the point of failed logic, but I've never known a mac user to be outright stupid (lookin' at you, AOL).
Meanwhile, Google is ubiquitous and powerful, with a number of good web-apps that are challenging to MS's model. And the pair of them are at the (to date) height of their power with very little overlaping in the finger-to-pie categories.
"The interoperability and reverse engineering clauses are meaningless because they require you to do it using fairie wings and pixie dust."
Not exactly. Some dude in another country did the heavy lifting on this one, and if I were to, say, finish up the work (by making it transparent, for example), and it took me no reversing work to do so, it's technically 'clean' so far as the DMCA and Apple's licensing goes. I am, after all, not reversing iTunes; that work's been done for me. All I'm doing is packaging the end result.
Also, if you look at the QTFairUse6 code, iTunes itself is unlocking the data; you're just copying it out just after it gets decrypted, but just before it gets decoded. You don't need the keys at all; you're sneaking it out from under the gatekeeper's nose.
No, but your post implied that anyone wanting to use QTFairUse6 would be in some way dishonest.
Meanwhile, I've been playing with it. I've been able to make it auto-fix the dumped files, name them properly and tag them. Also, rather than failing if run without iTunes running, it makes a fair effort to find iTunes before giving up.
Once I've worked out the bugs and figured out how to use py2exe properly, I'm going to provide the modified version (source and binary) as an upload off my website.
I'm not saying I'm doing anything special; the real work that Igor did in finding the backtraces is phenominal compared to my web-hunt-and-implement work in using the iTunes scripting interface.
Also, it doesn't actually require any mucking about in python; it works out of the box, once python's installed. If you're mucking about, it better be to add 'faad -a dump_xx.decoded.aac dumpxx.aac' to the end of the dump process.
Meanwhile, the link in the forum linked by the engadget article is to rapidshare.de. I hate these things, and I assume most others do. Additionally, that zip doesn't have FAAD in it. So, I took the liberty of putting it in and hosting it myself. It's not offshore, and I'm nothing like anonymous, so the first Cease and Desist will get it off my site. If I get a lawsuit instead, you can be sure I'm going to grab the EFF's attention on the matter.
Because getting your iTunes downloads to play on stuff other than your iPod, without spending time burning a CDRW, is not criminal. You've paid for it, after all.
Does wanting to format-shift my paid content easily constitute dishonesty? If you think so, I would kindly say, "Fuck you."
Stereoscopic 3d: Render with the camera at 1.5" to the left and 1.5" to the right of the viewpoint. Depending on your stereo-rendering abilities: Flick them in even/odd to left/right respectively, sending the 'change' signal to your LCD glasses on each frame.
Render them simultaneously to a pair of framebuffers. Combine the left:red channel and the right:blue/green channels to the screen. Put on your 50's 3d movie glasses.
Render half-screens, right and left swapped, and cross your eyes.
Render half-screens, don't swap, and go wall-eyed.
(if you're lucky enough to own a 3d screen) Your screen's implementation may vary.
The Really Slick Screensaver collection. Blender. Jahshaka. Quake (all versions). Doom 3. Warcraft III/World of. Halflife / Counterstrike. The GameCube. The Wii. (supposedly,) the PS3. Bryce 3d. Anything by Silicon Graphics. Bindings for every language on every platform under and out of reach of the sun.
Yeah. Completely unpopular. Please do me a favor and remove your lips from Mr. Ballmer's rear end long enough to post coherently when on Slashdot.
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Because slashdot doesn't have a 'Funny-once +0' throwaway mod. I get the feeling that if everyone could use that without losing mod points, we'd have a whole lot fewer 'Funny' moderations.
It would be a bad idea to store anything in Yucca mountain.
I mean, they want to fill it with nuke waste; I'm sure that's bad for the life of a disc. If the radiation doesn't effect the dye layer, I'm pretty sure the heat would melt the plastic.
By the way, when did "Yucca Mountain" replace "Fort Knox" in the common vernacular?
Congress passes a bill that would spend money. The bill, everyone who voted on it, and every research reference sited is indexed and put into a search engine. Since these bills are already electronically filed, this is just an extra step that could take, maybe, $1000 worth of programming.
The US Code, as it is, is already available online, and can be inserted into the database cheaply and quickly.
As for the cost/benefit analysis... The cost is paying a couple of programmers an exorbant government check to write the database and search engine. Call it a million bucks, plus $160,000 a year for maintenance (sounds like a lot for a couple of web programmers, but recall that this is a government contract).
The benefit, to the american citizen, is the ability to see where their tax money is going - and vote out those who spend it on shit. In one defense bill alone, there has recently been over $9 billion spent on pork (see the 2006 Department of Defense Appropriations Act). I'd say the benefit would be the ability to expose that kind of rediculous spending, and to prevent it in the future.
I don't buy either argument. He made the mistake of trying to shadily deal in a politically aware and publicly vocal nonmarket environment, and now he's trying desperately not to lose face.
That may be true, but Stevens, historically, is the undisputed King of Pork. He and his cronies (those who've helped him out in his porking) have their asses to cover.
Why Stevens would let himself get caught like this... I'm thinking the Smoking Room just decided, in the wake of Stevens' recent political tribulations (ie, tubes, bridge, and getting second place in the 'Coot-off'), that he's lost his usefulness. They then paid an intern to talk, and the rest is news.
When I say Smoking Room, of course, I just mean one of the teams of Good Ol' Boys that collect together in Congress and the Senate. You thought high school was cliquey, yeah?
High school is cliquey because the power of popular high school students seems very real to other high school students; it becomes an 'Us v. Them' situation, with many different groups of 'us' and 'them'. In Congress, this is amplified, as real power exists.
So, yeah. There's republicans, there's democrats. Then there's the 'middle of the roaders', the 'public-interesters', the 'pork guys', etc. In fact, there's likely several groups of each of these (especially the pork guys and their kin; corruption by its nature exists in small discrete groups, in an effort to avoid detection).
So? Mr. Stevens is falling out of favor. You don't have to be John Stewart to read the writing on the wall; he's extremely unpopular with the new generation and much of the middle generation. Have him do the deed, and if its exposed, have him take the fall.
"Under Linux, you won't swap much anyway unless you need it."
If you're like me, you have about half your ram committed under/tmp (really kicks up performance on things like Firefox, that keep many small files around). This means, of my 512, 256 is usable by X/KDE (which automatically chomps up a good 192 of it).
If I had 2G, I'd not have this issue at all, mind you. Still, I wouldn't mind giving up 5G for swapspace either; HD size is just boosting so much more quickly than RAM size per dollar that this discussion is completely academic.
It's the whole idea bittorrent is centered around.
Of course, that, and relative anonymitiy have caused its use for piracy, but really, it's just a means of distributing large and/or popular files efficiently.
It's really just a way of figuring out who gets the finger pointed at them: he who provides the shares, or she who gets the shares.
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"It's not really an excuse for piracy so much as an explanation of the motives involved"
The motive is common enough to cause widespread piracy, correct?
That would imply that the pirated companies have an incorrect policy or pricing strategy, from a purely socio-economic point of view (failure to align company policy with public demand). It's a basic mistake in business that usually comes from assuming the issue is far less widespread than it is; and fighting such a trend is sure to leave them with considerably less cash than they started with.
Call it theft. Call it whatever you want. The fact remains that it's happening, it's happening a a much larger clip that can be handled by drop-in-the-bucket lawsuits, and it's happening because - for whatever reasons - the customer base wants it to happen.
The right idea, of course, is to offer the consumer what they want: low cost, nonencumbered, mp3 downloads. There are steganographic methods that can embed information into a raw PCM in a way that is resistant to DCT compression; store user data there. If the file gets out into the wild, and they want to sue, they know EXACTLY the right person to go after. Screw DRM. Forget the DCMA. These things aren't necessary if the source can be identified.
Meanwhile, they'd not have to go after 7 year old girls and dead men on paltry evidence. They can go after release groups with definitive evidence instead, and stop the flow of incoming music.
Still, while they're being morons about it, I don't feel the need to buy music.
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Dayum.
Still, that's zealotism to the point of failed logic. Have you seen them do the kinda shit AOLers are famous for*?
* Script-kiddieism; excessive and post-useful typing in l33t; LOL@URMOM!!!!; the bad habit of ruining their computers with ad/spyware in the space of minutes**; being the worst forum trolls in the universe; and finally, installing AOL
** I swear, AOL'ers and post-AOL'ers are primarily responsible for windows users' reps as typhoid users
Get linux. Use KDE. Submit bugs to the KHTML/KJS bugzilla. I guarantee you, if you do that, the next Safari will be far improved (ie: where do you think they get their rendering engine from?)
What he said about AOL-Netscape may be true, but AOL-Netscape was a lame-ass alliance.
Seriously, I've known Apple fanboys to be zealous to the point of failed logic, but I've never known a mac user to be outright stupid (lookin' at you, AOL).
Meanwhile, Google is ubiquitous and powerful, with a number of good web-apps that are challenging to MS's model. And the pair of them are at the (to date) height of their power with very little overlaping in the finger-to-pie categories.
If there's a plan, I hope it's a good one.
"The interoperability and reverse engineering clauses are meaningless because they require you to do it using fairie wings and pixie dust."
Not exactly. Some dude in another country did the heavy lifting on this one, and if I were to, say, finish up the work (by making it transparent, for example), and it took me no reversing work to do so, it's technically 'clean' so far as the DMCA and Apple's licensing goes. I am, after all, not reversing iTunes; that work's been done for me. All I'm doing is packaging the end result.
Also, if you look at the QTFairUse6 code, iTunes itself is unlocking the data; you're just copying it out just after it gets decrypted, but just before it gets decoded. You don't need the keys at all; you're sneaking it out from under the gatekeeper's nose.
It's because their DRM locks iTunes users into using the iPod. Dead simple, there.
No, but your post implied that anyone wanting to use QTFairUse6 would be in some way dishonest.
Meanwhile, I've been playing with it. I've been able to make it auto-fix the dumped files, name them properly and tag them. Also, rather than failing if run without iTunes running, it makes a fair effort to find iTunes before giving up.
Once I've worked out the bugs and figured out how to use py2exe properly, I'm going to provide the modified version (source and binary) as an upload off my website.
I'm not saying I'm doing anything special; the real work that Igor did in finding the backtraces is phenominal compared to my web-hunt-and-implement work in using the iTunes scripting interface.
It works, and works well.
Also, it doesn't actually require any mucking about in python; it works out of the box, once python's installed. If you're mucking about, it better be to add 'faad -a dump_xx.decoded.aac dumpxx.aac' to the end of the dump process.
Meanwhile, the link in the forum linked by the engadget article is to rapidshare.de. I hate these things, and I assume most others do. Additionally, that zip doesn't have FAAD in it. So, I took the liberty of putting it in and hosting it myself. It's not offshore, and I'm nothing like anonymous, so the first Cease and Desist will get it off my site. If I get a lawsuit instead, you can be sure I'm going to grab the EFF's attention on the matter.
QTFairUse w/ FAAD
Enjoy!Python 2.4.3 (required)
Because getting your iTunes downloads to play on stuff other than your iPod, without spending time burning a CDRW, is not criminal. You've paid for it, after all.
Does wanting to format-shift my paid content easily constitute dishonesty? If you think so, I would kindly say, "Fuck you."
Stereoscopic 3d: Render with the camera at 1.5" to the left and 1.5" to the right of the viewpoint. Depending on your stereo-rendering abilities:
Flick them in even/odd to left/right respectively, sending the 'change' signal to your LCD glasses on each frame.
Render them simultaneously to a pair of framebuffers. Combine the left:red channel and the right:blue/green channels to the screen. Put on your 50's 3d movie glasses.
Render half-screens, right and left swapped, and cross your eyes.
Render half-screens, don't swap, and go wall-eyed.
(if you're lucky enough to own a 3d screen) Your screen's implementation may vary.
*sniffs the air*
Smell that? That's the sweet, pungent smell of GP's sarcasm.
Take it in, boy, take it in.
The Really Slick Screensaver collection. Blender. Jahshaka. Quake (all versions). Doom 3. Warcraft III/World of. Halflife / Counterstrike. The GameCube. The Wii. (supposedly,) the PS3. Bryce 3d. Anything by Silicon Graphics. Bindings for every language on every platform under and out of reach of the sun.
Yeah. Completely unpopular. Please do me a favor and remove your lips from Mr. Ballmer's rear end long enough to post coherently when on Slashdot.
Because slashdot doesn't have a 'Funny-once +0' throwaway mod. I get the feeling that if everyone could use that without losing mod points, we'd have a whole lot fewer 'Funny' moderations.
It would be a bad idea to store anything in Yucca mountain.
I mean, they want to fill it with nuke waste; I'm sure that's bad for the life of a disc. If the radiation doesn't effect the dye layer, I'm pretty sure the heat would melt the plastic.
By the way, when did "Yucca Mountain" replace "Fort Knox" in the common vernacular?
I'm actually curious as to why this guy was modded troll...
Must be the fanboys.
What more details could he want?
Congress passes a bill that would spend money. The bill, everyone who voted on it, and every research reference sited is indexed and put into a search engine. Since these bills are already electronically filed, this is just an extra step that could take, maybe, $1000 worth of programming.
The US Code, as it is, is already available online, and can be inserted into the database cheaply and quickly.
As for the cost/benefit analysis... The cost is paying a couple of programmers an exorbant government check to write the database and search engine. Call it a million bucks, plus $160,000 a year for maintenance (sounds like a lot for a couple of web programmers, but recall that this is a government contract).
The benefit, to the american citizen, is the ability to see where their tax money is going - and vote out those who spend it on shit. In one defense bill alone, there has recently been over $9 billion spent on pork (see the 2006 Department of Defense Appropriations Act). I'd say the benefit would be the ability to expose that kind of rediculous spending, and to prevent it in the future.
I don't buy either argument. He made the mistake of trying to shadily deal in a politically aware and publicly vocal nonmarket environment, and now he's trying desperately not to lose face.
That may be true, but Stevens, historically, is the undisputed King of Pork. He and his cronies (those who've helped him out in his porking) have their asses to cover.
Why Stevens would let himself get caught like this... I'm thinking the Smoking Room just decided, in the wake of Stevens' recent political tribulations (ie, tubes, bridge, and getting second place in the 'Coot-off'), that he's lost his usefulness. They then paid an intern to talk, and the rest is news.
When I say Smoking Room, of course, I just mean one of the teams of Good Ol' Boys that collect together in Congress and the Senate. You thought high school was cliquey, yeah?
High school is cliquey because the power of popular high school students seems very real to other high school students; it becomes an 'Us v. Them' situation, with many different groups of 'us' and 'them'. In Congress, this is amplified, as real power exists.
So, yeah. There's republicans, there's democrats. Then there's the 'middle of the roaders', the 'public-interesters', the 'pork guys', etc. In fact, there's likely several groups of each of these (especially the pork guys and their kin; corruption by its nature exists in small discrete groups, in an effort to avoid detection).
So? Mr. Stevens is falling out of favor. You don't have to be John Stewart to read the writing on the wall; he's extremely unpopular with the new generation and much of the middle generation. Have him do the deed, and if its exposed, have him take the fall.
"Under Linux, you won't swap much anyway unless you need it."
/tmp (really kicks up performance on things like Firefox, that keep many small files around). This means, of my 512, 256 is usable by X/KDE (which automatically chomps up a good 192 of it).
If you're like me, you have about half your ram committed under
If I had 2G, I'd not have this issue at all, mind you. Still, I wouldn't mind giving up 5G for swapspace either; HD size is just boosting so much more quickly than RAM size per dollar that this discussion is completely academic.
Yeah. They're unix now, right? So is it swap?
It's the whole idea bittorrent is centered around.
Of course, that, and relative anonymitiy have caused its use for piracy, but really, it's just a means of distributing large and/or popular files efficiently.
Ah, what about sharing ISOs?
The assumption that anything on P2P is copyrighted is an issue. Deal with it.
Spoofing is difficult or impossible for any actual data transfer.
Meanwhile, have you ever seen the RIAA's method of litigation? The evidence is paltry. It's the potential legal fees that cause people to settle.
http://phoenixlabs.org/pg2/
You didn't get it from me.
*whistles and walks away*
There's no paralell law, so it doesn't apply. Stop trolling, Mr. RIAA flunky.
No.
It's the 'making available copies to others'
It's really just a way of figuring out who gets the finger pointed at them: he who provides the shares, or she who gets the shares.
"It's not really an excuse for piracy so much as an explanation of the motives involved"
The motive is common enough to cause widespread piracy, correct?
That would imply that the pirated companies have an incorrect policy or pricing strategy, from a purely socio-economic point of view (failure to align company policy with public demand). It's a basic mistake in business that usually comes from assuming the issue is far less widespread than it is; and fighting such a trend is sure to leave them with considerably less cash than they started with.
Call it theft. Call it whatever you want. The fact remains that it's happening, it's happening a a much larger clip that can be handled by drop-in-the-bucket lawsuits, and it's happening because - for whatever reasons - the customer base wants it to happen.
The right idea, of course, is to offer the consumer what they want: low cost, nonencumbered, mp3 downloads. There are steganographic methods that can embed information into a raw PCM in a way that is resistant to DCT compression; store user data there. If the file gets out into the wild, and they want to sue, they know EXACTLY the right person to go after. Screw DRM. Forget the DCMA. These things aren't necessary if the source can be identified.
Meanwhile, they'd not have to go after 7 year old girls and dead men on paltry evidence. They can go after release groups with definitive evidence instead, and stop the flow of incoming music.
Still, while they're being morons about it, I don't feel the need to buy music.