I have followed wearable computing for some time now. I look forward to when the MicroOpticals are available via retail.
What I'm more interested in is how to folks like Starner & Mann actually organize their data. They must collect and manipulate an enormous amount of data. I also know most wearable folks are Emacs fans. What are folks doing to keep all this info accessible?
PKI may well be a decent way to approach encrypting music, but it will simply not succeed as true protection (nor will any other system) as the digital audio stream will always be available via the loopback on the soundcard which can then be re-encoded into MP3, etc.
Additionally, PKI is really unlikely to catch on with the general public, IMO. If it were, we'd all be encrypting and signing all our emails and signing our/. posts already. PKI would need to be much simpler for Joe Q. Winamp to be remotely interested.
Finally, any format or distribtion mechanism that makes things more difficult for the end user than the current system (i.e. download or stream an MP3) will simply not fly. Why would it?
I would think SDMI can be cracked in software. There will undoubtedly be software SDMI players. Then you can grab the digital audio off the loopback in your sound card and voyla! there's the unencrypted audio.
Does anyone know if unfuck is a crack or simply a tap into the loopback type of thing?
It seems that moving servers and maintainership outside the us migjht not be an optimal solution since it would prevent the major distros - RedHat, Suse, Caldera, and anyone else that bundles patent-infringing software from including it in US-distributed versions, based on earlier points in this discussion.
Let's hope Apple puts their money where their mouth is WRT OSS and licenses the technology gratis to Freetype, xfstt, etc.
Except when cool is an adverb that modifies fighting instead of an adjective that modifies robots, i.e. "fighting is cool" or "fighting using robots is cool" in which case the singular form of the verb, is would be correct.
I'll leave it to someone else to determine who the dorks actually are.
This isn't intended to be news, Mr. Gibson. This is a feature. Give the guy a break. You may want to disable features in your preferences if you're only looking for hardcore news. And I'm sure you don't have Jennicam or Segfault in your slashboxes either, right?
As a public service, you may also want to avoid the following stories (they contain a great deal of common knowledge - be careful!) Essay on Open Source as an Art Form Sun Claims MS Steals Vision High Tech Junk
I, like many others I'm sure, was not aware of the Navajo story and also simply enjoyed the way the article was written. I give the guy credit, being a Microserf and posting on/.
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I have followed wearable computing for some time now. I look forward to when the MicroOpticals are available via retail.
What I'm more interested in is how to folks like Starner & Mann actually organize their data. They must collect and manipulate an enormous amount of data. I also know most wearable folks are Emacs fans. What are folks doing to keep all this info accessible?
I saw a couple of these over at mp3.com. Check under hardware.
You can make a DAT without losing quality. You can copy a CD, sample for sample to a DAT no problem. I've done it.
PKI may well be a decent way to approach encrypting music, but it will simply not succeed as true protection (nor will any other system) as the digital audio stream will always be available via the loopback on the soundcard which can then be re-encoded into MP3, etc.
/. posts already. PKI would need to be much simpler for Joe Q. Winamp to be remotely interested.
Additionally, PKI is really unlikely to catch on with the general public, IMO. If it were, we'd all be encrypting and signing all our emails and signing our
Finally, any format or distribtion mechanism that makes things more difficult for the end user than the current system (i.e. download or stream an MP3) will simply not fly. Why would it?
I would think SDMI can be cracked in software. There will undoubtedly be software SDMI players. Then you can grab the digital audio off the loopback in your sound card and voyla! there's the unencrypted audio.
Does anyone know if unfuck is a crack or simply a tap into the loopback type of thing?
It seems that moving servers and maintainership outside the us migjht not be an optimal solution since it would prevent the major distros - RedHat, Suse, Caldera, and anyone else that bundles patent-infringing software from including it in US-distributed versions, based on earlier points in this discussion.
Let's hope Apple puts their money where their mouth is WRT OSS and licenses the technology gratis to Freetype, xfstt, etc.
Except when cool is an adverb that modifies fighting instead of an adjective that modifies robots, i.e. "fighting is cool" or "fighting using robots is cool" in which case the singular form of the verb, is would be correct.
I'll leave it to someone else to determine who the dorks actually are.
This isn't intended to be news, Mr. Gibson. This is a feature. Give the guy a break. You may want to disable features in your preferences if you're only looking for hardcore news. And I'm sure you don't have Jennicam or Segfault in your slashboxes either, right?
/.
As a public service, you may also want to avoid the following stories (they contain a great deal of common knowledge - be careful!)
Essay on Open Source as an Art Form
Sun Claims MS Steals Vision
High Tech Junk
I, like many others I'm sure, was not aware of the Navajo story and also simply enjoyed the way the article was written. I give the guy credit, being a Microserf and posting on
I'm enjoying these (2nd in a series?) posts. Good schtuff. Reminds me of tagging along with my mom carrying punch cards while she got her C/S degree.