This has happened before too too many 360's have been released. They're going to want to protect their investments. I'll bet that they will release some sort of copy protection very shortly just as Sony released the PSP firmware update.
Reading the frelling article, I don't see what keeps anyone from hacking and getting the 'commercial-grade' service. What sort of blocks are there? Will this be like DirecTV which becomes very easily decodeable after a few years and millions of deployments, or will this be like some of the military satellite signals whose keys change every day?
Forget holding up the world for $100M ransom. I think that I'd take the frickin' website!
Re:Cool Yes, Difficult Yes, Impossible No.
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I heard from one friend that one of the best ways to get dust out of the air to perform this procedure is to be in a low-dust bathroom with circulation restricted. Get a hot shower going and let the steam rise and occupy the room. Turn off the shower and wait for several minutes. Then, once the vapor has settled, much of the dust has been knocked out of the air, and it is now a lot safer to open the drive and do the quick "surgery"... longer MBTF I suppose. This process has been done in photography for years.
This is only going to make things worse. Especially now that it was posted on Slashdot. The Wiki article appears to still be open, albeit I won't post a link to it.
This brings back some fond memories of a song that I once heard by Kompressor about the said X10 popups...
girl is naked, take a movie
girl is looking, picture cutie
you buy thing from pop up banner
you get wallet, purchase camera
we must destroy x10, we must destroy all internet ads
we must destroy x10, we must destroy all internet ads
window pop up on the screen
taking control of my machine
making all internet user insane
x10 profit goes down the drain
girl is naked, take a movie
girl is looking, picture cutie
you buy thing from pop up banner
you get wallet, purchase camera
we must destroy x10, we must destroy all internet ads
we must destroy x10, we must destroy all internet ads
the economy failing is x10 fault
popping up window is computer assault
window popup again and again
only solution is crush x10
we must destroy x10, we must destroy all internet ads
we must destroy x10, we must destroy all internet ads
we must destroy x10, we must destroy all internet ads
we must destroy x10, we must destroy all internet ads
Christian Science is actually a Christian denomination. It's a church much the same as Baptism, Lutheranism, Presbyterianism, Methodism, or Catholicism. The denomination emerged about a hundred years ago as a result of quack medicine concurrent with the "science" of the time. The officials railed on magnetism and weird drugs at the time (recall Coke's advertising of the era--a "tonic" or other medicinal beverage) and instead placed an emphasis in trusting in God as a source of healing.
If this is such a gaming LCD, why doesn't it support a higher resolution? Granted, with LCD's, either you get resolution or a nicer "refresh rate," but AFAIK, most game enthusiasts who go out and get the blazing hot, fast LCD's don't want the be bottlenecked by a fixed native resolution of 1280x1024 or the hindrance of ghosting.
Until gamers can get both "3ms" and higher resolutions, I don't see the market for gaming LCD's going too, too far. I've been looking at these things for weeks as a serious purchase (and have been watching them over the years), and I like Dell's 2001FP, but I just don't know about how it will match up to my five year old Sony E400 19" CRT that can do the same resolution at a crisp 75Hz. Plus, if my CRT evar goes bad, I can replace it with a better one at about a tenth of the cost of a "decent" LCD.
...They're hitting walls that they don't (for)see. Between this and the multitude of other legal issues that have arisen like the "name copyright" issue in the UK and the similar problem in Germany that forces them to call it Googlemail, I have begun to wonder how many more sectors/markets Google can possibly penetrate before hitting a legal or societal brick wall. They might do something that deems them as a "big business" or "monopoly" with all of the associated negative connotations. They've already infringed a little on privacy recently with their policy on using users' data. It will be interesting to see how far Google gets.
...but there's no such thing as a free lunch. This was to be expected, and I'm sure that sooner or later, Google will push the limits of privacy as other companies have. Their method, however, may be so slothfully and minutely incremental that few will notice.
Like a working Industry Standards Organization web server even when a lot of requests are made?...And I was considering looking up cool stuff like 9660 and 9001 while I saw "iso.org" on the front page:(
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This has happened before too too many 360's have been released. They're going to want to protect their investments. I'll bet that they will release some sort of copy protection very shortly just as Sony released the PSP firmware update.
Reading the frelling article, I don't see what keeps anyone from hacking and getting the 'commercial-grade' service. What sort of blocks are there? Will this be like DirecTV which becomes very easily decodeable after a few years and millions of deployments, or will this be like some of the military satellite signals whose keys change every day?
Ewwwwwwwwwwhaaatttttt?
OKAAAYY!!
I was filled with radiation once.....once.
So was Spock. And you see what happened to him!
That is actually gay.
LED watches are actually more energy efficient than Nixie tubes. A Nixie tube *IS* a CRT. So my watch battery lasts months even.
This just in. The drive may have died. I suspect that a piece of dust contaminated the drive. RIP drive. $null to $null
Hmm, 1024GB = 1TB.
Forget holding up the world for $100M ransom. I think that I'd take the frickin' website!
I heard from one friend that one of the best ways to get dust out of the air to perform this procedure is to be in a low-dust bathroom with circulation restricted. Get a hot shower going and let the steam rise and occupy the room. Turn off the shower and wait for several minutes. Then, once the vapor has settled, much of the dust has been knocked out of the air, and it is now a lot safer to open the drive and do the quick "surgery" ... longer MBTF I suppose. This process has been done in photography for years.
Alcohol --> Bad for the liver
Coffee --> Good for the liver
Does this mean that Kahlua cancels itself out? If so, I'm going to get trashed tonight!!
This is only going to make things worse. Especially now that it was posted on Slashdot. The Wiki article appears to still be open, albeit I won't post a link to it.
I somehow doubt that google has spidered and indexed ~800k sites/pages containing such phrase, in that time period.
Somebody has a case of the cyber-Mondays!
How about a nice game of chess?
This brings back some fond memories of a song that I once heard by Kompressor about the said X10 popups...
girl is naked, take a movie
girl is looking, picture cutie
you buy thing from pop up banner
you get wallet, purchase camera
we must destroy x10, we must destroy all internet ads
we must destroy x10, we must destroy all internet ads
window pop up on the screen
taking control of my machine
making all internet user insane
x10 profit goes down the drain
girl is naked, take a movie
girl is looking, picture cutie
you buy thing from pop up banner
you get wallet, purchase camera
we must destroy x10, we must destroy all internet ads
we must destroy x10, we must destroy all internet ads
the economy failing is x10 fault
popping up window is computer assault
window popup again and again
only solution is crush x10
we must destroy x10, we must destroy all internet ads
we must destroy x10, we must destroy all internet ads
we must destroy x10, we must destroy all internet ads
we must destroy x10, we must destroy all internet ads
Looking at the "pretty picture," is that a crack in the polar ice cap?
Wow, does anyone else find Copernicus's reconstruction to look a lot like Zefram Cochrane?
Copernicus looks a little too much like Dr. Cochrane...
...his name were Tom Berners Lee, someone might take him seriously...
I know, I know
Christian Science is actually a Christian denomination. It's a church much the same as Baptism, Lutheranism, Presbyterianism, Methodism, or Catholicism. The denomination emerged about a hundred years ago as a result of quack medicine concurrent with the "science" of the time. The officials railed on magnetism and weird drugs at the time (recall Coke's advertising of the era--a "tonic" or other medicinal beverage) and instead placed an emphasis in trusting in God as a source of healing.
So be careful how you use that term.
...was chips with frickin' laser beams!
If this is such a gaming LCD, why doesn't it support a higher resolution? Granted, with LCD's, either you get resolution or a nicer "refresh rate," but AFAIK, most game enthusiasts who go out and get the blazing hot, fast LCD's don't want the be bottlenecked by a fixed native resolution of 1280x1024 or the hindrance of ghosting.
Until gamers can get both "3ms" and higher resolutions, I don't see the market for gaming LCD's going too, too far. I've been looking at these things for weeks as a serious purchase (and have been watching them over the years), and I like Dell's 2001FP, but I just don't know about how it will match up to my five year old Sony E400 19" CRT that can do the same resolution at a crisp 75Hz. Plus, if my CRT evar goes bad, I can replace it with a better one at about a tenth of the cost of a "decent" LCD.
...They're hitting walls that they don't (for)see. Between this and the multitude of other legal issues that have arisen like the "name copyright" issue in the UK and the similar problem in Germany that forces them to call it Googlemail, I have begun to wonder how many more sectors/markets Google can possibly penetrate before hitting a legal or societal brick wall. They might do something that deems them as a "big business" or "monopoly" with all of the associated negative connotations. They've already infringed a little on privacy recently with their policy on using users' data. It will be interesting to see how far Google gets.
Moving to the US...
Officer: Welcome to America, sir
Jon: It's a trap!
[Brief pause] Officer: You are under arrest for crimes against the DMCA.
...but there's no such thing as a free lunch. This was to be expected, and I'm sure that sooner or later, Google will push the limits of privacy as other companies have. Their method, however, may be so slothfully and minutely incremental that few will notice.
Like a working Industry Standards Organization web server even when a lot of requests are made? ...And I was considering looking up cool stuff like 9660 and 9001 while I saw "iso.org" on the front page :(