No, the swiped cash has a finite limit, once it is spent, it is gone.
Slip the bartender some cash and he looks the other way while your RFID is used to buy rounds of drinks, I'm just saying there is a lack of safeguards that open up some big holes (social engeneering).
JV: I do not believe that you have the right to override an encryption. Because if you have the right to do it, everybody can do it.
I think the NSA, FBI, and CIA would say they have the right, and if they ask you, just say you were examining the data in question (ie. the movie) for possible Homeland Security threats.
Encryption as a right, didn't the NSA fight that battle and lose?
For a "first timer" I would not suggest Fedora as it is very "bleeding" edge, get a Knoppix CD and you'll be up and running in 5 minutes.
Once someone learns how to get Linux out to the masses without requiring the secret handshake to join the club, then and only then is Microsoft in deep trouble.
These are called boxed distributions (SuSE, Red Hat, Mandrake, XandrOS, etc.) they come with manuals, installation instructions, and real live tech support.
No secret handshake, just ask and most people will help, the local users groups are a good place to start.
Windoze may be an inferior product, but if the brainless can install it without being sniggered at, the brainless will continue to fork over a couple hundred $'s/year for it.
"A fool and his money are soon separated." -- P.T. Barnum
If I am "not allowed" to backup my movies that I purchased then I think the studios should have to offer lifetime replacement warranties if my disc ever becomes damaged.
There are several problems with this statement. First off, throwing water into your freezer tends to do a quick job of making your water un-wet.
First, not my statment, this is a statment from Bruce Schneier, someone who has forgotten more about encryption than most know. Second yes, you can freeze water, it then called ice, but you don't need an "approved" thawing device to get it back to being water.
Also, nobody is trying to make the DRM'd songs uncopyable, just unplayable. You can make as many copies of the file as you want, you just can't play it... Just as you can copy my PGP-encrypted data all you want, you just can't decode it.
If it is "unplayable", what good is a copy? "Water, water everywhere but not a drop to drink."
Well if I got your private key I could;) Most are "protected" with very weak passwords as humans are lazy.
Finally, anybody who knows a little bit of science will tell you that water really isn't all that wet to begin with.
Not all that wet, I'm sure Jacques Cousteau would disagree, for a liquid it sure seems wet. The lakes, rivers, and oceans I have visited sure seemed wet. Actually oil has a higher viscosity than water, this is why oil spills "float" on the ocean as it binds together better.
did they develop these models themselves or buy them from a U.S. company?
The US probably paid for them indirectly: US aid package --> Israel --> purchase Mini-spy planse from US company (of which the people who approve the aid packages probably have lots of money invested).;)
Now that you could copy an entire 'real' DVD at once.. with no compression, they might start to panic. Since they obviously buy into the ' pirates are eating us alive syndrome'
You already can, once you turf all of the "extras" (i.e. forced previews and FBI/Interpol warnings), most movies will fit on a regular old DVD-5 just fine. I can copy most within an hour, my kids no longer get to use originals, much like their computer games.
I have no problem buying DVD's, I almost never go to movies any more (LOTR was the exception), wait for it to come out on DVD and watch it on my home theater. But I paid for it once, and that will be all, I make backups for my own personal use.
Don't ever leave the comfy confines of your border then. Up here in the Great White North, when the Who sing "Who the fuck are you?" the radio station doesn't bleep it out, the DJ's can't sit around and swear (though numerous call in people have from time to time).
What will the FCC do when they are sued via the DCMA by the RIAA for circumventing the DRM so they can altera digital recording to "bleep" out offensive language?
So much for freedom of speach, now it is just freedom of speech as long as nobody/group/etc. is offended.
A pad of "Post-It Notes" sized transparent aluminum sheets that can be applied to items as you take them off the shelf;)
It's bad enough now if something doesn't have/can't read the UPC code, the cashiers can't figure out what to do, they will be lost if it has no/unreadable RFID tag.
So, what I can tell from your comment, you cannot confirm that the bootable ISO image was bigger than 2GB. And you cannot confirm that the single 4.7GB UDF image was bootable, can you?
I stated in my first post that both bootable discs have 4.7GB of data on them.
An ISO image file can be any size, it is only limited by the file system on the hard drive, on the disc it self, the ISO9660 format can support a single file of up to 2GB, where the UDF format can support bigger. Most DVD's are in ISO9660 format (this is why movies are broken up into files), but if you "dumped" the image to a file:
dd if=/dev/scd0 of=movie_img.iso
The entire "image" would be one big file.
That's my point, you fail to see: the bootable (or not bootable) ISO image is limited by 2GB. UDF can be bigger than 2GB (in fact 4.7 GB), but it is not bootable.
No, the image file is limited to your hard disk file system, not the disc it is burnt to, the size of files inside the image are subject to the 2GB file size limit of the ISO9660 standard. I have yet to see a file outside of video or database that needs to be bigger than 2GB.
And leave topic of Windows alone: when we talk avout a bootable Linux DVD - we don't care if Windows can read it or not.
You should, ISO9660 is a "standard" if Windows can't read the disc, then you have failed.
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Slip the bartender some cash and he looks the other way while your RFID is used to buy rounds of drinks, I'm just saying there is a lack of safeguards that open up some big holes (social engeneering).
If you pass out, your RFID chip still works, guess who's buying!
At least with cash, when your out, your done. Credit cards have a signature and some liability, what do the RFID tags have? (sorry no habla)
"If we wanted you to understand it we wouldn't call it code."
I think the NSA, FBI, and CIA would say they have the right, and if they ask you, just say you were examining the data in question (ie. the movie) for possible Homeland Security threats.
Encryption as a right, didn't the NSA fight that battle and lose?
Not really, dumb people with no prospects are more apt to take salary abuse (work 70+ hrs/week and we pay you for 40.... ok 35).
...and turn signal over/under (ie. none) usage
We got to move this fast before the public realizes it crap!
Once someone learns how to get Linux out to the masses without requiring the secret handshake to join the club, then and only then is Microsoft in deep trouble.
These are called boxed distributions (SuSE, Red Hat, Mandrake, XandrOS, etc.) they come with manuals, installation instructions, and real live tech support.
No secret handshake, just ask and most people will help, the local users groups are a good place to start.
Windoze may be an inferior product, but if the brainless can install it without being sniggered at, the brainless will continue to fork over a couple hundred $'s/year for it.
"A fool and his money are soon separated." -- P.T. Barnum
No, it just reports your every move to Redmond, WA.... and any server that asks ;)
First, not my statment, this is a statment from Bruce Schneier, someone who has forgotten more about encryption than most know. Second yes, you can freeze water, it then called ice, but you don't need an "approved" thawing device to get it back to being water.
Also, nobody is trying to make the DRM'd songs uncopyable, just unplayable. You can make as many copies of the file as you want, you just can't play it... Just as you can copy my PGP-encrypted data all you want, you just can't decode it.
If it is "unplayable", what good is a copy? "Water, water everywhere but not a drop to drink."
Well if I got your private key I could ;) Most are "protected" with very weak passwords as humans are lazy.
Finally, anybody who knows a little bit of science will tell you that water really isn't all that wet to begin with.
Not all that wet, I'm sure Jacques Cousteau would disagree, for a liquid it sure seems wet. The lakes, rivers, and oceans I have visited sure seemed wet. Actually oil has a higher viscosity than water, this is why oil spills "float" on the ocean as it binds together better.
Instant water available, just add water... ;)
"Making bits uncopyable is like making water un-wet." -- Bruce S.
"Why don't you make like a jet, and scram." ;)
The US probably paid for them indirectly: US aid package --> Israel --> purchase Mini-spy planse from US company (of which the people who approve the aid packages probably have lots of money invested). ;)
You already can, once you turf all of the "extras" (i.e. forced previews and FBI/Interpol warnings), most movies will fit on a regular old DVD-5 just fine. I can copy most within an hour, my kids no longer get to use originals, much like their computer games.
I have no problem buying DVD's, I almost never go to movies any more (LOTR was the exception), wait for it to come out on DVD and watch it on my home theater. But I paid for it once, and that will be all, I make backups for my own personal use.
What will the FCC do when they are sued via the DCMA by the RIAA for circumventing the DRM so they can altera digital recording to "bleep" out offensive language?
So much for freedom of speach, now it is just freedom of speech as long as nobody/group/etc. is offended.
Does ~30 square inches of more glass and casing add this much weight?
Must be the AGM lead acid battery to power the P4 and Pelteir cooler so it doesn't burn a hole in your lap (or US $20's).
Didn't they used to call these "luggables"?
Apple (TM) in car audio would come with FireWire...
It's bad enough now if something doesn't have/can't read the UPC code, the cashiers can't figure out what to do, they will be lost if it has no/unreadable RFID tag.
I stated in my first post that both bootable discs have 4.7GB of data on them.
An ISO image file can be any size, it is only limited by the file system on the hard drive, on the disc it self, the ISO9660 format can support a single file of up to 2GB, where the UDF format can support bigger. Most DVD's are in ISO9660 format (this is why movies are broken up into files), but if you "dumped" the image to a file:
- dd if=/dev/scd0 of=movie_img.iso
The entire "image" would be one big file.That's my point, you fail to see: the bootable (or not bootable) ISO image is limited by 2GB. UDF can be bigger than 2GB (in fact 4.7 GB), but it is not bootable.
No, the image file is limited to your hard disk file system, not the disc it is burnt to, the size of files inside the image are subject to the 2GB file size limit of the ISO9660 standard. I have yet to see a file outside of video or database that needs to be bigger than 2GB.
And leave topic of Windows alone: when we talk avout a bootable Linux DVD - we don't care if Windows can read it or not.
You should, ISO9660 is a "standard" if Windows can't read the disc, then you have failed.