If they could emulate the CAM they wouldn't need the card as a backup. They're not emulating the CAM, they're emulating the legit *receiver*. What you're describing is called "auxing" the card and they only use it because they haven't managed to get a bin dump/disassembly of the card. The device/computer simply mimics the correct box so they can send data to the card to get the correct keys for decryption and then send those to the actual receiver. And for the record they call that a HACK, not emulation.
Have you ever considered what happens if there is no possibility of "learning to accept and cope" with the traumatic event? I'll tell you what happens, you exist in a living hell until dead.
I have PTSD and can tell you that I can accept it all I want but there's no way to cope with recurring nightmares and flashbacks triggered by, you guessed it, memories that I would rather have buried and forgotten. The absence of those memories would give me no trigger..no reference point for the brain to repeatedly recall the "event" when someone mentions something *remotely* connected to the event. Think of it like cutting cancer out of your body and then getting it all over again, and stronger than before, when someone mentions "radioactivity", "surgery", "health care" or "knitting"(ala those hand knitted caps for cancer patients).
I'd rather "run and hide" than be subject to the potential of killing/injuring everyone around me when I'm startled by loud noises.
I think you're the one that's a bit mixed up. Using a card in an unapproved box is a hack, not emulation. See the definition of "emulate" for more details.
You must not follow the sat hacking community at all. CAM emulation is the thing that most of the people seem to be waiting on since an emulated CAM means that any ECMs won't affect a real card that would then have to be replaced. Nobody wants Black Sunday all over again afterall. And as far as I'm aware there haven't really been any recent systems where one could patch the *box* and get free tv. Those days are long, long gone.
Ebay(actually that's where I first found him, since then we've taken this away from ebay entirely). I forget the sellers name but it's something like electricalengineer3 or the like. I just watch his deals and buy them when they hit a good price which is quite often.
Seeing as how we weren't talking about PPC, yes it does because the next link in the arguement chain then leads to someone bragging about how they can run Windows natively on their Mac as well which a PPC isn't going to emulate well. Regardless, the $200 x86 hardware I can get is going to run all the same apps, sans OSX, as any x86 based Mac but at a tiny fraction of the price, at equal or better speed, less vendor lock-in for hardware upgrades available to an x86 Mac, and it would definitely overpower any PPC based Mac that might be equally priced but obviously waaay underpowered for the dollar.
Think about it, on one of those Mac commercials they bragged about how you can get, *gasp*, a webcam FREE with your new multi-thousand dollar Macbook(and whatever the other model is that included it)...a $20 item is yours FREE with a purchase of hardware that costs easily 5x of what I would pay for hardware. Even if a webcam was $200 I would come out ahead by leaps and bounds as I could still buy a minimum of 3 more PC's for the same cost as one Mac x86.
I posted about this elsewhere already. The ARC isn't what you think it is. A chapter semi-local to me has absolutely no resources to help any of the people in its region because the ARC requires charter dues of around $25,000-$100,000 per year(in return you get to use their name to do fund raising much like the Ronald McDonald House) and this particular chapter only makes about $20,000 *total* over the dues, and that has to pay for any employees and resources to help those in need. You would think the ARC would see that the region is dirt poor and give them a break and maybe even give them some new resources to help out...but you'd be wrong. The people at the head of the ARC seem to only be interested in the Benjamins to the point that my friend who was the head of the local chapter just quit out of disgust. I hope J&J wins.
What I loved about M$ crippling the stack was that if you do the math/iterations, any worm could still propagate within 60 seconds or so making the move ineffective at best.
If you get said Mac mini, you then lose the ability to install/run Ubuntu x86 so that arguement won't work in this particular case. And to put your arguement in perspective in regards to x86 hardware, I have been buying Athlon based 2.8Ghz systems fully loaded for the $200 you speak of with 80gb, 512Mb, etc. which is faster and likely better equipped than the $200 Mac mini.
They made a horrible mistake though. They claimed that the death of the Amiga was caused by its "acquisition" by Commodore but unless I recently had a stroke, didn't Commodore *create* the Amiga?
Children do that because their parents either set no boundaries and allow them to do anything, or they completely forbid the use of any curse words which causes the kids to respond even worse. My sister literally washes her kids' mouths out with soap and they apparently curse quite often. I simply discourage my kids from cursing, no spankings, etc., and I've heard maybe 3 really "good" curse words in as many years with the occasional "damn" and "hell" thrown in for flavor. And FYI, I can make a sailor blush when I curse yet my kids don't feel the urge to duplicate my behavior so while I can feel your concern, it's misdirected.
Ever heard of a rootkit? Those are installed every day without a single peep from an up-to-date AV scanner. Hell, I've got a book on creating them right now that has an example that has managed to bypass Avira and AVG. And that's just example code.
When did Tivo come with lifetime service? When they first came out/were announced it was widely publicized that you would have to subscribe to get updated listings.
Not only that but, just like new viruses, etc., if you make something that's brand new(no recycled code, etc), the AV vendors haven't had a chance to add it to their blacklists. Assuming you only give it to one person, they'll never find out about it.
A modem doesn't provision itself so it doesn't matter what brand modem you own as long as it works. The provisioning is done on the cable system's back end. The setup page everyone sees is due to the modem being unprovisioned by the cable provider - they don't recognize the modem's MAC and redirect all traffic to their setup page.
I'm not that old and my grandfather would have been in his 20's when the damn was being built. It depends mostly on how long your grandparents/parents continued to make babies. I've got an aunt that's only 2 years older than I am if that puts it in perspective for you.
It can easily be critical in the work routine of a newspaper. It is not uncommon for ad or copy changes to come in and then 2 minutes later the whole paper is sent off to press. There's no time to find another solution no matter how many different ones there might be.
You are failing to address the point though, this wasn't something "mission critical"; it is the inability to uninstall older programs, something you're not going to routinely check every time you install a new patch and you might not notice it until months down the road. More to the point, it's about *noticing*, or not, this happened since it is obviously less noticeable than, say, a BSOD, or crash of a mission critical program. It went unnoticed for a while and the debate is regarding whether an IT staff should be held responsible for it. I say *if* they are software engineers that are paid $150+/hr to do this then hold them responsible. If they are paid $15-30/hr at an understaffed office, maybe not so much.
If this isn't a parody then we need to get all the people with IQ >120 together and get them to start making babies like crazy cause "Shelley" goes beyond retarded. I mean she argues that Google/blogger is hosted on M$ servers when it's well known that they are not. Maybe it's a Micro$loth troll site. Who knows...but send the smart hotties my way for "population explosion therapy". Only 3 at a time please.
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If they could emulate the CAM they wouldn't need the card as a backup. They're not emulating the CAM, they're emulating the legit *receiver*. What you're describing is called "auxing" the card and they only use it because they haven't managed to get a bin dump/disassembly of the card. The device/computer simply mimics the correct box so they can send data to the card to get the correct keys for decryption and then send those to the actual receiver. And for the record they call that a HACK, not emulation.
Have you ever considered what happens if there is no possibility of "learning to accept and cope" with the traumatic event? I'll tell you what happens, you exist in a living hell until dead.
I have PTSD and can tell you that I can accept it all I want but there's no way to cope with recurring nightmares and flashbacks triggered by, you guessed it, memories that I would rather have buried and forgotten. The absence of those memories would give me no trigger..no reference point for the brain to repeatedly recall the "event" when someone mentions something *remotely* connected to the event. Think of it like cutting cancer out of your body and then getting it all over again, and stronger than before, when someone mentions "radioactivity", "surgery", "health care" or "knitting"(ala those hand knitted caps for cancer patients).
I'd rather "run and hide" than be subject to the potential of killing/injuring everyone around me when I'm startled by loud noises.
I think you're the one that's a bit mixed up. Using a card in an unapproved box is a hack, not emulation. See the definition of "emulate" for more details.
"and when I have to be around them, I'm very, very careful."
Sounds like you've already tried out Vista then, eh?
You must not follow the sat hacking community at all. CAM emulation is the thing that most of the people seem to be waiting on since an emulated CAM means that any ECMs won't affect a real card that would then have to be replaced. Nobody wants Black Sunday all over again afterall. And as far as I'm aware there haven't really been any recent systems where one could patch the *box* and get free tv. Those days are long, long gone.
Ebay(actually that's where I first found him, since then we've taken this away from ebay entirely). I forget the sellers name but it's something like electricalengineer3 or the like. I just watch his deals and buy them when they hit a good price which is quite often.
Seeing as how we weren't talking about PPC, yes it does because the next link in the arguement chain then leads to someone bragging about how they can run Windows natively on their Mac as well which a PPC isn't going to emulate well. Regardless, the $200 x86 hardware I can get is going to run all the same apps, sans OSX, as any x86 based Mac but at a tiny fraction of the price, at equal or better speed, less vendor lock-in for hardware upgrades available to an x86 Mac, and it would definitely overpower any PPC based Mac that might be equally priced but obviously waaay underpowered for the dollar.
Think about it, on one of those Mac commercials they bragged about how you can get, *gasp*, a webcam FREE with your new multi-thousand dollar Macbook(and whatever the other model is that included it)...a $20 item is yours FREE with a purchase of hardware that costs easily 5x of what I would pay for hardware. Even if a webcam was $200 I would come out ahead by leaps and bounds as I could still buy a minimum of 3 more PC's for the same cost as one Mac x86.
I posted about this elsewhere already. The ARC isn't what you think it is. A chapter semi-local to me has absolutely no resources to help any of the people in its region because the ARC requires charter dues of around $25,000-$100,000 per year(in return you get to use their name to do fund raising much like the Ronald McDonald House) and this particular chapter only makes about $20,000 *total* over the dues, and that has to pay for any employees and resources to help those in need. You would think the ARC would see that the region is dirt poor and give them a break and maybe even give them some new resources to help out...but you'd be wrong. The people at the head of the ARC seem to only be interested in the Benjamins to the point that my friend who was the head of the local chapter just quit out of disgust. I hope J&J wins.
What I loved about M$ crippling the stack was that if you do the math/iterations, any worm could still propagate within 60 seconds or so making the move ineffective at best.
If you get said Mac mini, you then lose the ability to install/run Ubuntu x86 so that arguement won't work in this particular case. And to put your arguement in perspective in regards to x86 hardware, I have been buying Athlon based 2.8Ghz systems fully loaded for the $200 you speak of with 80gb, 512Mb, etc. which is faster and likely better equipped than the $200 Mac mini.
Aaah, cool thanks. I must have missed that part.
They made a horrible mistake though. They claimed that the death of the Amiga was caused by its "acquisition" by Commodore but unless I recently had a stroke, didn't Commodore *create* the Amiga?
Children do that because their parents either set no boundaries and allow them to do anything, or they completely forbid the use of any curse words which causes the kids to respond even worse. My sister literally washes her kids' mouths out with soap and they apparently curse quite often. I simply discourage my kids from cursing, no spankings, etc., and I've heard maybe 3 really "good" curse words in as many years with the occasional "damn" and "hell" thrown in for flavor. And FYI, I can make a sailor blush when I curse yet my kids don't feel the urge to duplicate my behavior so while I can feel your concern, it's misdirected.
Ever heard of a rootkit? Those are installed every day without a single peep from an up-to-date AV scanner. Hell, I've got a book on creating them right now that has an example that has managed to bypass Avira and AVG. And that's just example code.
Someone has got to mod you +funny. OT, PS, Ozric Tentacles are awesome.
When did Tivo come with lifetime service? When they first came out/were announced it was widely publicized that you would have to subscribe to get updated listings.
Not only that but, just like new viruses, etc., if you make something that's brand new(no recycled code, etc), the AV vendors haven't had a chance to add it to their blacklists. Assuming you only give it to one person, they'll never find out about it.
A modem doesn't provision itself so it doesn't matter what brand modem you own as long as it works. The provisioning is done on the cable system's back end. The setup page everyone sees is due to the modem being unprovisioned by the cable provider - they don't recognize the modem's MAC and redirect all traffic to their setup page.
I'm not that old and my grandfather would have been in his 20's when the damn was being built. It depends mostly on how long your grandparents/parents continued to make babies. I've got an aunt that's only 2 years older than I am if that puts it in perspective for you.
HA! I got you on that one!!! It's sandboxes all the way down!!!!!
It can easily be critical in the work routine of a newspaper. It is not uncommon for ad or copy changes to come in and then 2 minutes later the whole paper is sent off to press. There's no time to find another solution no matter how many different ones there might be.
You are failing to address the point though, this wasn't something "mission critical"; it is the inability to uninstall older programs, something you're not going to routinely check every time you install a new patch and you might not notice it until months down the road. More to the point, it's about *noticing*, or not, this happened since it is obviously less noticeable than, say, a BSOD, or crash of a mission critical program. It went unnoticed for a while and the debate is regarding whether an IT staff should be held responsible for it. I say *if* they are software engineers that are paid $150+/hr to do this then hold them responsible. If they are paid $15-30/hr at an understaffed office, maybe not so much.
If this isn't a parody then we need to get all the people with IQ >120 together and get them to start making babies like crazy cause "Shelley" goes beyond retarded. I mean she argues that Google/blogger is hosted on M$ servers when it's well known that they are not. Maybe it's a Micro$loth troll site. Who knows...but send the smart hotties my way for "population explosion therapy". Only 3 at a time please.
Looking to eat children now?
Nevermind you were trolling and it hid you. How do you keep warm under that bridge during the winter?
Same to ya buddy. Evidence actually shows he was responding to me, dimwit.