I completely agree with your point that killing and violence is worse than a naked breast. However, instead of now beginning to ban images of violence, the correct course of action should be to start DE-regulating the cursing and nudity in favor of letting adults choose what is appropriate for themselves and their children. I have no pet peeve worse than others trying to dictate what entertainment I can and cannot enjoy.
There is more detailed info in the included FAQ. The bad news is, the program itself isn't actually "cracking" anything. The author used publicly available AACS documents to write his own decrypter (e.g. just as PowerDVD or WinDVD would). The catch is, you must provide the decryption keys to this software in order to rip the movies from the disk.
However, the good news is, it looks like he may have found a way to extract the needed decryption key(s) from the HD-DVDs. He doesn't explain how in the documentation or provide any keys, but if he figured it out I'm sure others will - and that means more advanced and powerful tools shouldn't bee too far off.
If you think about it, it's not the OS that needs an anti-virus program; it's the user(s). I have been working in Windows since the 3.1 days, and I have never gotten a virus. And I have never once installed anti-virus software. The average user is just ignorant and sometimes a bit lacking in common sense. These users need virus protection, but technically the OS itself doesn't. They only need to educate themselves and be a bit more careful.
The filming is, again, part of that high school thing. Perhaps it was his idea--I don't remember.
In the first episode, he asked her why she was filming it if she didn't want anyone to know. Her response was, "I have my reasons". Therefore, I suspect that eventually, we may find out why she wanted to film it. (Then again, it could have just been a simple plot device for her "dad" to see she's beginning to find out about her powers)
I read somewhere that the premise of the show is eventually going to in a direction similar to the X-Men movies; that is, the public finds out that there are people with special abilities and shows how they have difficulty accepting it. I think this is very interesting and I'm excited to see how this show evolves.
I didn't take the time to read all the comments, so I hope this isn't redundant, but...
If you want to beat WoW - lose the monthly fee. I would happily spiral into an addiction to a WoW type game, as long there was no monthly fee. I refuse to spend $50-60 on a game, and then have to keep paying just to play it.
And I'm definitely not cheap, it's just the principle.
Not only that, but as I understand it, the Xbox 360 HD-DVD drive won't even include an HDMI port. Unless that has recently changed, someone please correct me if I'm wrong.
I wanted to point out that I read from several sources (sorry, I don't have any links at the moment, use Google) that the current Blue-Ray videos are just professionally done HD up-conversions from their DVD counterparts. Not only that, but they are also still only using MPEG2 as the codec instead of one of the new/better ones (MPEG4, VC1).
Once it becomes more main-stream, the studios will have to go back to the source film and make new HD transfers for them to truely live up to their potential.
Slightly off-topic, but I remember renting the movie "The Stupids" with Tom Arnold shortly after it came out on VHS a while back. It was a pretty dumb movie, but I'm glad I watched it until the end. His redition of this song was hilarious. Anyone know where I could find an mp3 of it?
Education of the masses will be required if we're to succeed in getting this horrible anti-American law abolished. I say anti-American because it stands against virtually every principle that American was founded on. What we really need to do is put this whole damn thing into perspective so Joe Taxpayer can understand it. So here is my explanation of the whole deal:
George Bush is our version of the Emperor, the Global War on Terror is his Death Star, and the Patriot Act is his version of Darth Vader.
I have to ask why this was modded Troll. In fact, if I had any mod points, I would give it a +1 Insightful. His analogy of the current administration to the events of the Star Wars universe is eerily similar.
In Star Wars, the Chancellor created a fake war to use as leverage in convincing his government to slowly give him more and more power and control. He eventually got everything he needed to completely take over, converting himself into the Emperor.
This doesn't sound at all familiar?
It is also absolutely true that many provisions of the Patriot Act are profoundly in opposition to what beliefs America was founded upon. It is also correct that the majority of the population is totally ignorant of all of this, and therefore need to be educated in matters that effect (or will effect) the basic rights of our everyday life that we take for granted.
Not only this, but most every slashdotter posts their own versions of this information in every article related to this subject.
I'm probably too late in the discussion to get any responses for this, but has anyone asked the question of will Paramount even agree to it? Meaning, even if the required ~$36M or so is raised to cover the production costs, Paramount/UPN/whoever else still needs to agree to produce and air another season. Have they already agreed? If not, who's to say they will?
Let's assume that someone cracked, or otherwise somehow got the decryption key for a specific model player. They then re-encode the movie to DVD or some other format then release it onto p2p networks.
When someone from the MPAA (or whoever would govern this) sees said movie for download, how would they know what hardware was used to rip it, and thus what key(s) to revoke?
That site was just a mirror of Suprnova. You will be able to use it to download anything that was listed on Suprnova prior to the shutdown, but there will be nothing new added to it.
It had to have been a DX, Quake required an FPU (math co-processor) which the DX processors had, but not SX. Actually, on the box and in the readme it said "Requires a Pentium processor", for just this reason.
At that time, I had a 486DX2-50 MHz CPU. I was kind of young and I didn't know quite so much about the technical aspects of computers and components, so I was a bit upset. I figured what the hell, and gave it a try anyway. To my great surprise, it actually ran (not too bad either). I didn't find out until several months later while I was reading up on some things that the reason it asked for a Pentium was because of the FPU.
It was stated from the beginning that Doom 3 was a single-player focused game. Think of it more as id Software giving us an added bonus of 4-person multiplayer out-of-the-box. If you're looking for that super-duper new multiplayer experience, you might have to wait for Quake 4. Although who knows, Doom 3's multiplayer could be badass.
Personally, I'm kind of looking forward to 4 player multi. The 32 player games where a random rocket will kill 3 people just because everyone's packed so close together are getting old.
I thought Carmack was a big OpenGL fan. (Maybe the last one in the video game industry.) Why would you need DirectX for Doom? Maybe that's just shorthand for certain shared requirements, such as programmable GPU capabilities.
It uses both actually. OpenGL is the graphics API which ID has always used, but it uses DirectX for the sound and input, etc.
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I completely agree with your point that killing and violence is worse than a naked breast. However, instead of now beginning to ban images of violence, the correct course of action should be to start DE-regulating the cursing and nudity in favor of letting adults choose what is appropriate for themselves and their children. I have no pet peeve worse than others trying to dictate what entertainment I can and cannot enjoy.
If anyone wants to try it out, here is a link to the executable and source code (Java)...
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=119871
There is more detailed info in the included FAQ. The bad news is, the program itself isn't actually "cracking" anything. The author used publicly available AACS documents to write his own decrypter (e.g. just as PowerDVD or WinDVD would). The catch is, you must provide the decryption keys to this software in order to rip the movies from the disk.
However, the good news is, it looks like he may have found a way to extract the needed decryption key(s) from the HD-DVDs. He doesn't explain how in the documentation or provide any keys, but if he figured it out I'm sure others will - and that means more advanced and powerful tools shouldn't bee too far off.
If you think about it, it's not the OS that needs an anti-virus program; it's the user(s). I have been working in Windows since the 3.1 days, and I have never gotten a virus. And I have never once installed anti-virus software. The average user is just ignorant and sometimes a bit lacking in common sense. These users need virus protection, but technically the OS itself doesn't. They only need to educate themselves and be a bit more careful.
Tools -> Options -> Privacy section -> Passwords tab
uncheck "Remember Passwords"
I read somewhere that the premise of the show is eventually going to in a direction similar to the X-Men movies; that is, the public finds out that there are people with special abilities and shows how they have difficulty accepting it. I think this is very interesting and I'm excited to see how this show evolves.
I like it a lot so far.
I didn't take the time to read all the comments, so I hope this isn't redundant, but...
If you want to beat WoW - lose the monthly fee. I would happily spiral into an addiction to a WoW type game, as long there was no monthly fee. I refuse to spend $50-60 on a game, and then have to keep paying just to play it.
And I'm definitely not cheap, it's just the principle.
Not only that, but as I understand it, the Xbox 360 HD-DVD drive won't even include an HDMI port. Unless that has recently changed, someone please correct me if I'm wrong.
I work at a company who does a LOT of computer repairs. I can assure you that this program works for every version of XP. We use it quite often.
As already pointed out, this method only works with the VLKs. To change the key in any version of XP, use the Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder.
I wanted to point out that I read from several sources (sorry, I don't have any links at the moment, use Google) that the current Blue-Ray videos are just professionally done HD up-conversions from their DVD counterparts. Not only that, but they are also still only using MPEG2 as the codec instead of one of the new/better ones (MPEG4, VC1).
Once it becomes more main-stream, the studios will have to go back to the source film and make new HD transfers for them to truely live up to their potential.
That was great. I wish I had mod points to give you.
Best Slashdot comment/reply ever.
I wish I had mod points... and you cound be modded past +5.
Bravo.
Slightly off-topic, but I remember renting the movie "The Stupids" with Tom Arnold shortly after it came out on VHS a while back. It was a pretty dumb movie, but I'm glad I watched it until the end. His redition of this song was hilarious. Anyone know where I could find an mp3 of it?
I have to ask why this was modded Troll. In fact, if I had any mod points, I would give it a +1 Insightful. His analogy of the current administration to the events of the Star Wars universe is eerily similar.
In Star Wars, the Chancellor created a fake war to use as leverage in convincing his government to slowly give him more and more power and control. He eventually got everything he needed to completely take over, converting himself into the Emperor.
This doesn't sound at all familiar?
It is also absolutely true that many provisions of the Patriot Act are profoundly in opposition to what beliefs America was founded upon. It is also correct that the majority of the population is totally ignorant of all of this, and therefore need to be educated in matters that effect (or will effect) the basic rights of our everyday life that we take for granted.
Not only this, but most every slashdotter posts their own versions of this information in every article related to this subject.
So I ask again, how is the parent trolling?
... or you could delete the old firefox2.exe, and rename the new executable to firefox2.exe and you wouldn't have to edit any icons or shortcuts.
I'm probably too late in the discussion to get any responses for this, but has anyone asked the question of will Paramount even agree to it? Meaning, even if the required ~$36M or so is raised to cover the production costs, Paramount/UPN/whoever else still needs to agree to produce and air another season. Have they already agreed? If not, who's to say they will?
I think I'm going to invent my own new type of DRM so it will be illegal for them to remove my foot from their collective asses!
I'm not agreeing or disagreeing with you, but why? Please explain why you believe "it has to be" true.
Let's assume that someone cracked, or otherwise somehow got the decryption key for a specific model player. They then re-encode the movie to DVD or some other format then release it onto p2p networks.
When someone from the MPAA (or whoever would govern this) sees said movie for download, how would they know what hardware was used to rip it, and thus what key(s) to revoke?
It had to have been a DX, Quake required an FPU (math co-processor) which the DX processors had, but not SX. Actually, on the box and in the readme it said "Requires a Pentium processor", for just this reason.
At that time, I had a 486DX2-50 MHz CPU. I was kind of young and I didn't know quite so much about the technical aspects of computers and components, so I was a bit upset. I figured what the hell, and gave it a try anyway. To my great surprise, it actually ran (not too bad either). I didn't find out until several months later while I was reading up on some things that the reason it asked for a Pentium was because of the FPU.
It was stated from the beginning that Doom 3 was a single-player focused game. Think of it more as id Software giving us an added bonus of 4-person multiplayer out-of-the-box. If you're looking for that super-duper new multiplayer experience, you might have to wait for Quake 4. Although who knows, Doom 3's multiplayer could be badass.
Personally, I'm kind of looking forward to 4 player multi. The 32 player games where a random rocket will kill 3 people just because everyone's packed so close together are getting old.
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...want a gym memership when I can just sue McDonalds for making me fat and then get lipo? I figure I can do this every 6 months or so.