People in Japan are really taken advantage of. If they want to buy episodes, they are forced to buy 1 or 2 episode DVDs. But since digital recording is prevelant, most wait for people who supply raw rips of the shows (anime in this case), download them, and since they speak the language, can store a very clean episode on their PC.
This April, the changes mentioned in the article will be taking effect so it will be impossible to download recorded shows since they will be in encrypted format. What some fansub groups are doing now are putting together all their unused cycles to try to figure out if the encryption can be broken through distributed processing.
More information can be garnered here and here.
I could see the government supporting companies like Lockheed and the such. Yet, if I was the president of my very own nation why would I would trust anything in the public software industry, no matter how secure they say they are, when the very technology they create can easily be leaked and used against whoever uses the creations of the cybersecurity companies?
Maybe a example would be better.
If I worked at a war factory and gave the schematics of some sort of top secret, new tank. There are a couple problems in that the country that receives the information might not be able to use the plans because of lack of complicated subcomponents either because another company makes that subcomponent or the country can't make it because of lack of tools to manufacture.
Now if a software company had their code stolen it can be enacted almost immediatly. Maybe the stripped down OSs might not be able to work the code but what prevents other nations from importing the hardware and software to get it to compile and run?
I am fearing that the sue-happy United States will take this too far someday.
"Yes. I am suing the following landmarks: Colorado River, Niagra Falls, Victoria Falls, and the Atlantic Ocean shore located 2 miles south of Atlantic City for knowing full well the use of white noise generated at these locations were addiciting but still distributing these addicting items to minors, the handicapped, and the elderly"
People are complaining about the expensiveness due to the risks of the camera just falling out of the sky. I think it was posted before on/. that this "disposable" camera can be cracked into so you can download the files and then purge.
It is only 1.3 megapixels. But you can adjust the focus and rig the shutter button without having to worry about burning out the cicuits.
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People in Japan are really taken advantage of. If they want to buy episodes, they are forced to buy 1 or 2 episode DVDs. But since digital recording is prevelant, most wait for people who supply raw rips of the shows (anime in this case), download them, and since they speak the language, can store a very clean episode on their PC. This April, the changes mentioned in the article will be taking effect so it will be impossible to download recorded shows since they will be in encrypted format. What some fansub groups are doing now are putting together all their unused cycles to try to figure out if the encryption can be broken through distributed processing. More information can be garnered here and here.
I could see the government supporting companies like Lockheed and the such. Yet, if I was the president of my very own nation why would I would trust anything in the public software industry, no matter how secure they say they are, when the very technology they create can easily be leaked and used against whoever uses the creations of the cybersecurity companies? Maybe a example would be better. If I worked at a war factory and gave the schematics of some sort of top secret, new tank. There are a couple problems in that the country that receives the information might not be able to use the plans because of lack of complicated subcomponents either because another company makes that subcomponent or the country can't make it because of lack of tools to manufacture. Now if a software company had their code stolen it can be enacted almost immediatly. Maybe the stripped down OSs might not be able to work the code but what prevents other nations from importing the hardware and software to get it to compile and run?
I am fearing that the sue-happy United States will take this too far someday. "Yes. I am suing the following landmarks: Colorado River, Niagra Falls, Victoria Falls, and the Atlantic Ocean shore located 2 miles south of Atlantic City for knowing full well the use of white noise generated at these locations were addiciting but still distributing these addicting items to minors, the handicapped, and the elderly"
People are complaining about the expensiveness due to the risks of the camera just falling out of the sky. I think it was posted before on /. that this "disposable" camera can be cracked into so you can download the files and then purge.
It is only 1.3 megapixels. But you can adjust the focus and rig the shutter button without having to worry about burning out the cicuits.