And to forestall the responses to my own comment... I'm an idiot. Of course they can just connect to the torrent and see every IP address connected; End-to-end encryption really only helps stop content provider traffic shaping. That'll teach me to post before thinking.
In that case, it seems traffic over an onion network is the only solution...
This is why everybody who torrents should be using Azureus or uTorrent and enabling RC5 end-to-end encryption.
It doesn't matter whether or not what you're downloading is legal or not under our messed up copyright system. It is simply a message saying "we're not going to let you stifle legitimate technologies because 'they might be used for piracy'". In fact, let's have everybody enable RC5 end-to-end encryption, and then keep trading Ubuntu images and other legal stuff back and forth.
This, of course, can't stop them from attacking torrent trackers, but I'm sure the whole "not being in the USA" thing will help many of them.
And as a result, labels often now don't put the Compact Disc logo on any CDs, protected or not.
Guaranteed they'd do the exact same thing with DVDs and consumers wouldn't notice a thing, unless they were forbidden from using the term "DVD" whatsoever.
I agree to a point, except that saying "college" is a no-win trap seems to be awfully oversimplifying the issue given the number of different disciplines at hand. I'd say, sure, a philosophy major may not exactly be marketable once you get out of school; but can you honestly say that studying electrical engineering is pointless? What about elementary education? There are plenty of disciplines where higher study is quite beneficial, although I agree perhaps there's a better way to go about it than the typical college experience, and I definitely agree that the importance of a degree has been severely diluted by today's "everyone must have a degree" mindset.
95 percent is still far too low for a viable consumer product. Can you imagine if 5 percent of the folks buying something based on this technology found that it didn't work? The public outcry would be enormous.
In the latest Israeli trial, the system caught 85% of the role-acting terrorists
Finally, we have a way to identify people pretending to be terrorists! Excellent!
Honestly, how do you possibly test this? A terrorist that isn't nervous in the slightest will breeze right through, while anybody with social anxiety disorder, or people with phobias of authority figures, will be rounded up as "potential threats". Give me a break.
In all seriousness, couldn't the world community impose "Internet sanctions" on a country, cutting them off from the Internet at large until they take action against these sorts of people? We already impose trade sanctions for other offenses. Of course, somebody will invariably point out that no one entity owns the Internet, thus such sanctions would be hard to enforce; I don't buy that for a second. You may not be able to completely cut a country off from the Internet, but you could, say, have backbone servers and routers deny access to certain IP blocks.
You know, basically a "play nice or don't play at all" sort of rule.
Isn't it feasible that they have released this feature to try and kill the "I modded my XBox to make and play homebrew games" argument? I remember reading a while back that somebody once showed Bill Gates a modded XBox, with a couple homebrew games, a few emulators, and XBox Media Center on it, and his response was something along the lines of "how can we leverage this idea into future products?" Apparently, now they have.
In a story about this, there will inevitably be the horde of comments about people setting up their own HTPCs using MythTV. I gave MythTV a shot, and was for the most part unimpressed with its appearance; despite being powerful, the fonts remained ugly, misaligned, and improperly cropped no matter what I did. In addition, installation and configuration (while having improved significantly over time) is still a pain, unless you use a pre-rolled distro like KnoppMyth, in which case you sacrifice customizability for ease of installation.
For those of you who want an alternative, I'd like to recommend MediaPortal, which is partially based off the old XBox Media Center code. I'll readily admit that it is not as efficient as MythTV -- it doesn't have the frontend/backend model that Myth does (although that is being developed), and it requires WinXP with the.NET framework. But it is also fully open-source, has an active development team, and -- most importantly -- is easy to install and use and looks really nice on my television. I haven't used its PVR capabilities much, but it works like a dream for playing our MP3s and digital video, and acts as a very capable emulator frontend as well.
I'm curious: did you give TNG and all the series after it a chance beyond the first two or three seasons? Every one of them shifted significantly away from fanboy shoot-em-up technobabble and towards character interactions. Heck, even Voyager started developing some really good interpersonal relationships once Seven and the Doctor came into their own. (Ironic that the actress hired to be the token T&A ended up being the most interesting and complex character, and the best actor, of them all.)
Sure, every one of the latter shows placed more emphasis on technobabble than the Original Series, but for many of the episodes, if you can suspend your disbelief and focus on the way characters dealt with situations, you can see some very interesting relationships and behaviors emerge.
You just boggled my mind. How can you say you hated the final seasons of DS9, and then immediately below that talk about how the franchise wants episodic television instead of story arcs and developed characters? An ongoing story arc and significant character development was precisely what happened to DS9 toward the end! On the other hand, early DS9 was very similar to TNG: episodic vignettes that can be neatly wrapped up when the hour is through, and everything is the same at the end as it was in the beginning. After seeing the success of Babylon 5, the writers and producers of DS9 started experimenting with the concepts you claim to like, and the result was the very thing you claim to hate.
After reading the entire article, I have no idea what the author was trying to say. Did he like the old designs, or hate them? Did he actually imply that the Jaguar was good for looking like a toilet seat, and the X-Box's "enormous X" appearance was stylish!?
Three pages full of talking, and yet he said nothing at all.
Why do you think the Net is so popular? It is because there is a lot more out there and we can influence and change it.
Which is why media companies are against Net Neutrality, because it would block their plans to curb our influence on the Net and start controlling that, too.
Funny you should mention that, since the Wii looks like it'll draw the most power in standby mode yet, with its networking service that will supposedly download new content when idle, or let others (for example) visit your Animal Crossing world when you're not playing.
That's true, but I've found that more and more electronics manufacturers are starting to say "Standby" or at least "Off (Standby)" instead of simply calling the state "Off". But as another poster mentioned, the primary reason for this standby mode is to respond to a remote's power button, and you'd better believe the average consumer electronics owner isn't going to give that up.
Discussing the merits of standby mode, however, misses the point. I believe far more power overall could be saved with some simple education, showing people the power savings benefits of switching to more efficient light sources (like compact fluorescents), or just shutting lights off more often when they aren't absolutely necessary. When the Lucent Technologies buildings aren't both lit up like nuclear Christmas trees at 1:00am, when folks learn that they don't need every single light in their house on when it starts to get dark, then we can focus on something so paltry as the minor current draws of appliance standby modes.
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Dude, Mechatron was my favorite Transformer!
Seriously, though, I had no idea "mechatronic engineering" was a discipline. Fascinating...
Wow. Is there any way I can "more than friend" you? Like "Superfriend" you? But then I suppose you'd have to go around wearing a Spandex uniform...
And to forestall the responses to my own comment... I'm an idiot. Of course they can just connect to the torrent and see every IP address connected; End-to-end encryption really only helps stop content provider traffic shaping. That'll teach me to post before thinking.
In that case, it seems traffic over an onion network is the only solution...
This is why everybody who torrents should be using Azureus or uTorrent and enabling RC5 end-to-end encryption.
It doesn't matter whether or not what you're downloading is legal or not under our messed up copyright system. It is simply a message saying "we're not going to let you stifle legitimate technologies because 'they might be used for piracy'". In fact, let's have everybody enable RC5 end-to-end encryption, and then keep trading Ubuntu images and other legal stuff back and forth.
This, of course, can't stop them from attacking torrent trackers, but I'm sure the whole "not being in the USA" thing will help many of them.
I do hope you were calling it "Zuma" repeatedly as a joke, considering even the text you quoted referred to it properly as the "Zune".
And you better believe Microsoft would weep with joy if people started using "Zune" as a verb.
Yep!
And as a result, labels often now don't put the Compact Disc logo on any CDs, protected or not.
Guaranteed they'd do the exact same thing with DVDs and consumers wouldn't notice a thing, unless they were forbidden from using the term "DVD" whatsoever.
I agree to a point, except that saying "college" is a no-win trap seems to be awfully oversimplifying the issue given the number of different disciplines at hand. I'd say, sure, a philosophy major may not exactly be marketable once you get out of school; but can you honestly say that studying electrical engineering is pointless? What about elementary education? There are plenty of disciplines where higher study is quite beneficial, although I agree perhaps there's a better way to go about it than the typical college experience, and I definitely agree that the importance of a degree has been severely diluted by today's "everyone must have a degree" mindset.
It saddens me how many people reading that comment today probably had it fly right over their heads.
95 percent is still far too low for a viable consumer product. Can you imagine if 5 percent of the folks buying something based on this technology found that it didn't work? The public outcry would be enormous.
Finally, we have a way to identify people pretending to be terrorists! Excellent!
Honestly, how do you possibly test this? A terrorist that isn't nervous in the slightest will breeze right through, while anybody with social anxiety disorder, or people with phobias of authority figures, will be rounded up as "potential threats". Give me a break.
In all seriousness, couldn't the world community impose "Internet sanctions" on a country, cutting them off from the Internet at large until they take action against these sorts of people? We already impose trade sanctions for other offenses. Of course, somebody will invariably point out that no one entity owns the Internet, thus such sanctions would be hard to enforce; I don't buy that for a second. You may not be able to completely cut a country off from the Internet, but you could, say, have backbone servers and routers deny access to certain IP blocks.
You know, basically a "play nice or don't play at all" sort of rule.
Isn't it feasible that they have released this feature to try and kill the "I modded my XBox to make and play homebrew games" argument? I remember reading a while back that somebody once showed Bill Gates a modded XBox, with a couple homebrew games, a few emulators, and XBox Media Center on it, and his response was something along the lines of "how can we leverage this idea into future products?" Apparently, now they have.
This doesn't surprise me in the least. PatchGuard is obviously designed to eliminate third-party competition, not stop hackers.
I'm curious -- what are you using as the frontend, and how are you saving the DVDs? As raw ISOs?
In a story about this, there will inevitably be the horde of comments about people setting up their own HTPCs using MythTV. I gave MythTV a shot, and was for the most part unimpressed with its appearance; despite being powerful, the fonts remained ugly, misaligned, and improperly cropped no matter what I did. In addition, installation and configuration (while having improved significantly over time) is still a pain, unless you use a pre-rolled distro like KnoppMyth, in which case you sacrifice customizability for ease of installation.
.NET framework. But it is also fully open-source, has an active development team, and -- most importantly -- is easy to install and use and looks really nice on my television. I haven't used its PVR capabilities much, but it works like a dream for playing our MP3s and digital video, and acts as a very capable emulator frontend as well.
For those of you who want an alternative, I'd like to recommend MediaPortal, which is partially based off the old XBox Media Center code. I'll readily admit that it is not as efficient as MythTV -- it doesn't have the frontend/backend model that Myth does (although that is being developed), and it requires WinXP with the
I'm curious: did you give TNG and all the series after it a chance beyond the first two or three seasons? Every one of them shifted significantly away from fanboy shoot-em-up technobabble and towards character interactions. Heck, even Voyager started developing some really good interpersonal relationships once Seven and the Doctor came into their own. (Ironic that the actress hired to be the token T&A ended up being the most interesting and complex character, and the best actor, of them all.)
Sure, every one of the latter shows placed more emphasis on technobabble than the Original Series, but for many of the episodes, if you can suspend your disbelief and focus on the way characters dealt with situations, you can see some very interesting relationships and behaviors emerge.
You just boggled my mind. How can you say you hated the final seasons of DS9, and then immediately below that talk about how the franchise wants episodic television instead of story arcs and developed characters? An ongoing story arc and significant character development was precisely what happened to DS9 toward the end! On the other hand, early DS9 was very similar to TNG: episodic vignettes that can be neatly wrapped up when the hour is through, and everything is the same at the end as it was in the beginning. After seeing the success of Babylon 5, the writers and producers of DS9 started experimenting with the concepts you claim to like, and the result was the very thing you claim to hate.
After reading the entire article, I have no idea what the author was trying to say. Did he like the old designs, or hate them? Did he actually imply that the Jaguar was good for looking like a toilet seat, and the X-Box's "enormous X" appearance was stylish!?
Three pages full of talking, and yet he said nothing at all.
Nobody ever tried that sort of thing before and had it fail spectacularly!
Hey, fight underhanded tactics with underhanded tactics. Sounds fair to me.
Um, if you're sticking DVDs into your hard drive, you have bigger problems than WGA. Just saying.
(Where do you fit them?)
Why do you think the Net is so popular? It is because there is a lot more out there and we can influence and change it.
Which is why media companies are against Net Neutrality, because it would block their plans to curb our influence on the Net and start controlling that, too.
Funny you should mention that, since the Wii looks like it'll draw the most power in standby mode yet, with its networking service that will supposedly download new content when idle, or let others (for example) visit your Animal Crossing world when you're not playing.
That's true, but I've found that more and more electronics manufacturers are starting to say "Standby" or at least "Off (Standby)" instead of simply calling the state "Off". But as another poster mentioned, the primary reason for this standby mode is to respond to a remote's power button, and you'd better believe the average consumer electronics owner isn't going to give that up.
Discussing the merits of standby mode, however, misses the point. I believe far more power overall could be saved with some simple education, showing people the power savings benefits of switching to more efficient light sources (like compact fluorescents), or just shutting lights off more often when they aren't absolutely necessary. When the Lucent Technologies buildings aren't both lit up like nuclear Christmas trees at 1:00am, when folks learn that they don't need every single light in their house on when it starts to get dark, then we can focus on something so paltry as the minor current draws of appliance standby modes.
Oh, I absolutely agree... but unfortunately the average American citizen still uses incandescents everywhere.