Maybe someone should look up the details of project pluto. That was an atomic powered ram jet that would have powered a giant doomsday flying bomb. It would have been like a large supersonic V1 circling the globe dropping abombs everywhere.
Don't buy Sony CDRW or DVDRW drives. Sony is Evil. Don't buy Sony digicams or computers either. Sony is a member of the MPAA/RIAA block. They have no interest in YOUR rights. They cripple their machines to block fair use (even if it is hidden). Maybe you shouldn't buy their TV's either if you want to time shift your tv shows. Think DRM and digital tv. Doesn't mix with Sony.
If there is a valid patent that is infringed by your code AND you knew of the patent's existence AND you went ahead and included the patented features in your code, THEN you are liable for willful infringement. Well that's why Linus said he wouldn't look. If he DOESN'T KNOW a block of code might be infringing on a patent then he isn't guilty of willful infrigement is he? And another way around is to look for prior art done before the patent was filed, cause then the patent is INVALID.
Ok I hope they can pierce the corporate veil on this one and hang the fine on the members of the board of directors and the CEO. And they won't be able to use bankrupcy to get out of paying the fine.
Most of you don't get this....now listent please
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This technology is for CD-ROM disks, NOT audio cd's. It is to copy protect computer software or data on a computer cd-rom, not music on a music cd. It cannot be used in a music cd or dvd-video player (not without a firmware change to the player anyway). It works on computers because the cd-rom will contain an install program that acts like a bootstrap. This install program interacts with the smart chip buried in the substrate of the cd-rom disk. The data or software on the cd (not the bootstrap or install program) is encrypted and cannot be used until decrypted. You can read the entire disk and copy it by conventional means but as the data is encrypted it is useless. The smart chip contains the key to decrypt the data. The bootstrap/install program knows how to access the smart chip and obtain the decryption key. You can't copy the contents of smart chip onto a blank cd.
Ok, everyone understand this? This is NOT about audio or video, it has nothing to do with MP3's. Think bootleg cd copies of MS office that you see at every computer show. That's what this is aimed at. OK?
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you've missed the point here. First of all these are CD-ROMS NOT Audio CD's. The copy protection only works on computer cd drives for computer software or data. The data on the cd is encrypted and can only be used via software on the CD. So there is an un-encrypted bootstrap program on the cd used to install or read the encrypted data. The data cannot be un-encrypted without the encryption key which is not on the cd data tracks, but is buried in the cd substrate in the form of a smart chip. You can burn a copy of the cd but not the contents of the smart chip buried in the substrate. A real cool idea here!
This is a new format. Given the huge number of cd players out there, the music market will NOT abandon the CD format anytime soon. Also given the huge number of CD's out there new CD players will always be backward compatible with the CD format, and will add the SACD format. This is not the same thing as 8 tracks, LP's and cassettes, since the physical media is the same as CD's. Mostly this is a software change (some underlying hardware too). The DRM stuff will prevent copying a disk since the copy wouldn't play on a licensed SACD player. It still might be possible to rip a SACD and make an mp3 or cd out of it though you'd lose the advantage of the SACD format. Maybe we'll never see licensed SACD recorder and be stuck with CD recorders (another reason why the CD format won't go away).
Almost all DVD-R(W) drives will burn CD-R(W)'s so you can have your cake and eat it too here (though dvd-r drives won't burn a cd as fast as some of the latest cd-r(w) drives do.) CD's will be replaced by dvd's eventually, but they will be around for quite a bit longer and dvd drives will always be able to read them so no need to to upgrade yet. The shootout between dvd-r(w) and dvd+r(w) isn't over yet, better wait until the winner is know before you end up with a bunch of useless disks. Maybe a dvd drive that will work with both flavors will come along and claim the title of standard. And even DVD will become obsolete as the new blue-ray drives and media become available. I'll sit dvd burners out until the media drops to about $1 a disk or less and the burners drop to the $100-150 price range.
Have you ever used one of those cassette adaptors to play you cd player through a car cassette player? They suck. They work by having a cassette head placed next to the one in your car player and magneticly couple. The frequency response sucks and with some players you get lots of flutter and wow if the thing doesn't seat properly and moves around. If the adaptor isn't lined up just right, the thing sounds worse than an 8 track. I can just imagine how bad it will pickup for recording. An FM radio link would work much better.
So if I have to buy a computer from Dell with windows and I plan on using something else, can I sell my unused copy of windows on ebay? (Only if I got the CD with the computer?)
Hey not everything scales. Modems finally reached a brick wall at 56k (52k actually). DSL is a distance vs speed compromise, want more speed...then you have to upgrade from copper to fiber. Want to pay for that last few miles of fiber? Didn't think so. Cable has limits too, but they are usually higher than DSL. Even Moore's law has limits and we are about 10-20 years away from it. This has nothing to do with "the big boys". It's just that the infastructure has it limits and the customers don't want to pay for rebuilding it.
If food is being donated for a good cause it must be given away with NO strings attached. Sorta like being given away under the GPL if you will. How can you give away food with a threat of taking it back? Now in this case there is more going on here since the government on the receiving side is corrupt so this story looses it's bite.
The graviton is it's own anti-particle. That means anti-gravity is NOT possible. Anti-matter would attract matter or anti-matter as both would contain the same kind of graviton. So forget tractor beams, they will remain the stuff of startrek. 'Course current theory could be wrong......
There should be a way that a producer of media should be able to 'opt out'. After all if I WANT to give away my stuff, then I should be able to turn off drm in my files. Sort of a non-watermark watermark. I don't think anyone yet knows the nuts and bolts of drm, how it is going to work. I suspect that the watermark is embedded in the file in such a way that you can't just copy it out and paste it into another file. The software to produce the final file will embed the watermark, and might very well have an opt out option in it. This would NOT be usefull to a pirate who grabbed hold of a watermarked file and wanted to rip out the watermark. So far I think the the purpose of DRM is to provide a way for the MPAA and RIAA to enter the digital domain marketplace without having their digital works pirated. If it serves to lock out amateurs who want to sell their works, that is anti-trust. If DRM can exist on a level playing field with an opt-out option for those that do NOT want to protect their works, this would be a fair compromise.
First of all every digicam ever made stores pictures on it's media in jpg or tiff format. Web sites use either png or jpg file formats, and since most digicams do not support png people will still end up submitting pictures to ebay using jpg. Basicly this is a case of trying to lock the barn after the cows have run off. I would also liken it as loosing your trademark by not inforcing it for years. In other words its too damn late now to try and collect on this patent since EVERYONE has been using it for too long.
Many (if not most) of the newest dvd players will now support vcd svcd on cdr and cdrw disks. These machines also play audio cd's and mp3 cd's. They handle the cdr and cdrw media so they CAN play back home recorded mp3 disks. Surprising many of the cheaper machines from go video, samson, etc are the best at these multi-format disks. If I can get the necessary software going on linux to burn my own vcd's I might have to buy a new dvd player to handle them. Be nice to convert some old vhs tapes to vcd or svcd. Eventually vcd will be a moot point when dvd burners and media get cheaper though.
About 17 years ago when I was working for Gould computer systems I was working on an embedded communications controller for their supermini computers. I was writing the self test routines for the boot rom and the error handler routines in the main firmware. There were only two led's on the board and I was asked to somehow indicate failure modes on those led's. So I ended up blinking the error codes in MORSE on the leds! The blink rate was slow enough so you didn't need to know morse, just compare the blink patterns with those printed in the manual. But the hams working in the company figured it out!
When they start doing this the content will be altered to allow it without hiding anything. IE: When a show is shown in letterbox, stick the ads in the otherwise blank areas on the top and bottom of the active area. Some letterboxed movies already used this area for captions and subtitles.
I'm waiting for NYC to try something like this. There are tolls on the major bridges and tunnels into Manhattan, but not from Brooklyn and the Bronx. London and NYC both have good public transportation into and out of the city to the suburbs, so there is a good case to limit traffic in the heart of the city to local traffic.
So make a video of your hamsters fucking and post it on a p2p network.. Call the file "Simpsons episode_123" and wait. Sue 'em for false arrest. They should at least VIEW the material they think is pirated, just to make sure.
Hybrids still team an inefficent internal combustion engine that generates large amounts of pollution with an efficent electric power plant. Size matters. A central power plant can generate electricy more efficently than the power plant inside a hybrid. Even if you include the loss in transmitting the power from the plant to your car. If you put hydro, wind or solar power plants on the grid things look better. The only real pollution issue with an EV is the batteries. Perhaps a recyclable battery can be developed? Sorry I think your logic is wrong here, but it's good to thing outside the box for a change. Maybe a hydrogen powered hybrid would be a better idea, only H2O as an exhaust.
You can't change the number of days in a year, so any attempt to re-organize time would fail there. Sorta like the lame brain idea of making PI equal 3. You can't override GOD with an act of congress.
You could go to months of 28 days each and end up with 13 months, plus a day and a quarter left over. So one month ends up with 29 days, and once every four years or so it gets 30 days. BTW the word month comes from moon since the moons orbit is about a month long.
The fact that a circle is 360 degrees has something to do with 60 seconds in a minute and 60 minutes in an hour. Don't know where that came from but if you want to make decimal time you might end up with decimal angles.
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Maybe someone should look up the details of project pluto. That was an atomic powered ram jet that would have powered a giant doomsday flying bomb. It would have been like a large supersonic V1 circling the globe dropping abombs everywhere.
Don't buy Sony CDRW or DVDRW drives. Sony is Evil. Don't buy Sony digicams or computers either. Sony is a member of the MPAA/RIAA block. They have no interest in YOUR rights. They cripple their machines to block fair use (even if it is hidden). Maybe you shouldn't buy their TV's either if you want to time shift your tv shows. Think DRM and digital tv. Doesn't mix with Sony.
If there is a valid patent that is infringed by your code AND you knew of the patent's existence AND you went ahead and included the patented features in your code, THEN you are liable for willful infringement.
Well that's why Linus said he wouldn't look. If he DOESN'T KNOW a block of code might be infringing on a patent then he isn't guilty of willful infrigement is he? And another way around is to look for prior art done before the patent was filed, cause then the patent is INVALID.
Ok I hope they can pierce the corporate veil on this one and hang the fine on the members of the board of directors and the CEO. And they won't be able to use bankrupcy to get out of paying the fine.
This technology is for CD-ROM disks, NOT audio cd's. It is to copy protect computer software or data on a computer cd-rom, not music on a music cd. It cannot be used in a music cd or dvd-video player (not without a firmware change to the player anyway). It works on computers because the cd-rom will contain an install program that acts like a bootstrap. This install program interacts with the smart chip buried in the substrate of the cd-rom disk. The data or software on the cd (not the bootstrap or install program) is encrypted and cannot be used until decrypted. You can read the entire disk and copy it by conventional means but as the data is encrypted it is useless. The smart chip contains the key to decrypt the data. The bootstrap/install program knows how to access the smart chip and obtain the decryption key. You can't copy the contents of smart chip onto a blank cd.
Ok, everyone understand this? This is NOT about audio or video, it has nothing to do with MP3's. Think bootleg cd copies of MS office that you see at every computer show. That's what this is aimed at. OK?
you've missed the point here. First of all these are CD-ROMS NOT Audio CD's. The copy protection only works on computer cd drives for computer software or data. The data on the cd is encrypted and can only be used via software on the CD. So there is an un-encrypted bootstrap program on the cd used to install or read the encrypted data. The data cannot be un-encrypted without the encryption key which is not on the cd data tracks, but is buried in the cd substrate in the form of a smart chip. You can burn a copy of the cd but not the contents of the smart chip buried in the substrate. A real cool idea here!
This is a new format. Given the huge number of cd players out there, the music market will NOT abandon the CD format anytime soon. Also given the huge number of CD's out there new CD players will always be backward compatible with the CD format, and will add the SACD format. This is not the same thing as 8 tracks, LP's and cassettes, since the physical media is the same as CD's. Mostly this is a software change (some underlying hardware too). The DRM stuff will prevent copying a disk since the copy wouldn't play on a licensed SACD player. It still might be possible to rip a SACD and make an mp3 or cd out of it though you'd lose the advantage of the SACD format. Maybe we'll never see licensed SACD recorder and be stuck with CD recorders (another reason why the CD format won't go away).
Almost all DVD-R(W) drives will burn CD-R(W)'s so you can have your cake and eat it too here (though dvd-r drives won't burn a cd as fast as some of the latest cd-r(w) drives do.) CD's will be replaced by dvd's eventually, but they will be around for quite a bit longer and dvd drives will always be able to read them so no need to to upgrade yet. The shootout between dvd-r(w) and dvd+r(w) isn't over yet, better wait until the winner is know before you end up with a bunch of useless disks. Maybe a dvd drive that will work with both flavors will come along and claim the title of standard. And even DVD will become obsolete as the new blue-ray drives and media become available. I'll sit dvd burners out until the media drops to about $1 a disk or less and the burners drop to the $100-150 price range.
Have you ever used one of those cassette adaptors to play you cd player through a car cassette player? They suck. They work by having a cassette head placed next to the one in your car player and magneticly couple. The frequency response sucks and with some players you get lots of flutter and wow if the thing doesn't seat properly and moves around. If the adaptor isn't lined up just right, the thing sounds worse than an 8 track. I can just imagine how bad it will pickup for recording. An FM radio link would work much better.
So if I have to buy a computer from Dell with windows and I plan on using something else, can
I sell my unused copy of windows on ebay? (Only if I got the CD with the computer?)
Does this mean that the award cup on display
at ARRL HQ for the first QSO with mars will
finally be awarded to someone?
Hey not everything scales. Modems finally reached a brick wall at 56k (52k actually). DSL is a distance vs speed compromise, want more speed...then you have to upgrade from copper to fiber. Want to pay for that last few miles of fiber? Didn't think so. Cable has limits too, but they are usually higher than DSL. Even Moore's law has limits and we are about 10-20 years away from it. This has nothing to do with "the big boys". It's just that the infastructure has it limits and the customers don't want to pay for rebuilding it.
If food is being donated for a good cause it must be given away with NO strings attached. Sorta like being given away under the GPL if you will. How can you give away food with a threat of taking it back? Now in this case there is more going on here since the government on the receiving side is corrupt so this story looses it's bite.
The graviton is it's own anti-particle. That means anti-gravity is NOT possible. Anti-matter would attract matter or anti-matter as both would contain the same kind of graviton. So forget tractor beams, they will remain the stuff of startrek. 'Course current theory could be wrong......
There should be a way that a producer of media should be able to 'opt out'. After all if I WANT to give away my stuff, then I should be able to turn off drm in my files. Sort of a non-watermark watermark. I don't think anyone yet knows the nuts and bolts of drm, how it is going to work. I suspect that the watermark is embedded in the file in such a way that you can't just copy it out and paste it into another file. The software to produce the final file will embed the watermark, and might very well have an opt out option in it. This would NOT be usefull to a pirate who grabbed hold of a watermarked file and wanted to rip out the watermark. So far I think the the purpose of DRM is to provide a way for the MPAA and RIAA to enter the digital domain marketplace without having their digital works pirated. If it serves to lock out amateurs who want to sell their works, that is anti-trust. If DRM can exist on a level playing field with an opt-out option for those that do NOT want to protect their works, this would be a fair compromise.
First of all every digicam ever made stores pictures on it's media in jpg or tiff format. Web sites use either png or jpg file formats, and since most digicams do not support png people will still end up submitting pictures to ebay using jpg. Basicly this is a case of trying to lock the barn after the cows have run off. I would also liken it as loosing your trademark by not inforcing it for years. In other words its too damn late now to try and collect on this patent since EVERYONE has been using it for too long.
Many (if not most) of the newest dvd players will now support vcd svcd on cdr and cdrw disks. These machines also play audio cd's and mp3 cd's. They handle the cdr and cdrw media so they CAN play back home recorded mp3 disks. Surprising many of the cheaper machines from go video, samson, etc are the best at these multi-format disks. If I can get the necessary software going on linux to burn my own vcd's I might have to buy a new dvd player to handle them. Be nice to convert some old vhs tapes to vcd or svcd. Eventually vcd will be a moot point when dvd burners and media get cheaper though.
If the patent office is looney enough to issue a patent on Morse Code there are some people in Newington Conn. they better talk to!
About 17 years ago when I was working for Gould computer systems I was working on an embedded communications controller for their supermini computers. I was writing the self test routines for the boot rom and the error handler routines in the main firmware. There were only two led's on the board and I was asked to somehow indicate failure modes on those led's. So I ended up blinking the error codes in MORSE on the leds! The blink rate was slow enough so you didn't need to know morse, just compare the blink patterns with those printed in the manual. But the hams working in the company figured it out!
When they start doing this the content will be altered to allow it without hiding anything. IE: When a show is shown in letterbox, stick the ads in the otherwise blank areas on the top and bottom of the active area. Some letterboxed movies already used this area for captions and subtitles.
I'm waiting for NYC to try something like this. There are tolls on the major bridges and tunnels into Manhattan, but not from Brooklyn and the Bronx. London and NYC both have good public transportation into and out of the city to the suburbs, so there is a good case to limit traffic in the heart of the city to local traffic.
So make a video of your hamsters fucking and post it on a p2p network.. Call the file "Simpsons episode_123" and wait. Sue 'em for false arrest.
They should at least VIEW the material they think is pirated, just to make sure.
Hybrids still team an inefficent internal combustion engine that generates large amounts of pollution with an efficent electric power plant. Size matters. A central power plant can generate electricy more efficently than the power plant inside a hybrid. Even if you include the loss in transmitting the power from the plant to your car. If you put hydro, wind or solar power plants on the grid things look better. The only real pollution issue with an EV is the batteries. Perhaps a recyclable battery can be developed?
Sorry I think your logic is wrong here, but it's good to thing outside the box for a change. Maybe a hydrogen powered hybrid would be a better idea, only H2O as an exhaust.
Can anyone say Soylent Green?
You can't change the number of days in a year, so any attempt to re-organize time would fail there.
Sorta like the lame brain idea of making PI equal 3. You can't override GOD with an act of congress.
You could go to months of 28 days each and end up with 13 months, plus a day and a quarter left over. So one month ends up with 29 days, and once every four years or so it gets 30 days. BTW the word month comes from moon since the moons orbit is about a month long.
The fact that a circle is 360 degrees has something to do with 60 seconds in a minute and 60 minutes in an hour. Don't know where that came from but if you want to make decimal time you might end up with decimal angles.