The bigest security hole in Hollywood does not come from it's customers, nor the "Analog Hole". It comes from insiders who either stupidly distribute the material to those who ask for it, or those who are bribed to supply it. Pro Pirates can come out with copies of DVDs before the official ones hit the street. How? Because they pay someone working in either the DVD authoring or the DVD pressing to send them a copy of the DVD.
The other way is actually quite funny. My boss has been working in TV for a few decades now. Back when he worked in Network News, they called up the company that produced Star Wars: A New Hope (yes, the first movie) to get some footage for the news. The studio sent them the whole movie over the satelite (which they recorded to 2" tape). Mind you, at this point the movies was still in theaters, and they had their very own high quality copy.
Before the MPAA can do anything about piracy, they need to fix their own security holes first. Consumers aren't going to be doing this proffesionaly and on a wide scale. The people who get to the material before the DVD that gets pressed are.
If you don't know who is calling you, don't answere the phone. If it is important or someone you know, they will leave a message and you can correlate the numbers to the person. This is the best thing to use on a Cell and what I do on my land line.
For someone who watches roughly one hour of TV a WEEK (what's the average TV viewing for Americans now? Six hours a day?), I'm giddy as hell about this.
Let me just say WOW about that 6 hours a day statistic. I can beleive it, but can you provide sources? I know I personally watched about 6 a day when in highschool. In college it dropped to 1 a week at most. And now that I am home it is 4 hours a week. (Plus CSI re-runs)
My family has a runnning joke/gag. Everything we like on TV is taken off the air. All our favorite resturaunts go out of business. This has been true more times than I can remember.
Better statement. Do you think anyone over 40 has never uttered what is currently considered to be a racist remark? Blacks, Jews, Irish, English, Germans, Italians, French, Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, everyone used to say insults about the others. Especially between the Europeans. (Wasps, Japs [not as in Japanese], stupid Irish and many, many more). To my parents, that was a common thing. AND NOBODY MEANT ANYTHING BY IT. It meant as much as telling someone to fuck off (and in most cases less).
It's only relatively recently that these words have become in peoples minds so bad they are "unspeakable" and anyone who says them is a racist. Going back a hundred year, Nigger was just the regular term for a black person and didn't hold any negative conotation for most people. Hell, I know blacks in college that use it amongst themselves. What is not hatespeach today may become hatespeach tomorow. The oposite may also be true. That is another problem with defining it.
Think about it in relation to normal computer usage. At some point, you have so much ram that you have already loaded all of your applications into main ram. At that point, any increase in ram will do absolutely nothing. Same thing goes for video cards. At some point, the game isn't going to be able to use that extra ram. 256 Meg is already overkill for just about all games. I don't know of any that can take advantage of 256 over 128 (yet).
Kinda sad when your video card has more ram than first/second/third computer had disk space (combined). Your processor has more cache than your first comp had ram. And I'm waiting for the day that a processor has more cache than my first comp had disk space.
Also, BEVs arent wasting energy for idling which AFAIK hybrids still do. And just think how much of idling does an engine do when driving in peak traffic hours.
Actually, the Honda Civic Hybrid shuts off the engine when you stop. And starts it up very quickly when you hit the gas/acceleration pedal. I have test driven one, this is true. Surprised me when it did that and I was expecting it. I am currious to see how the Accord Hybrid does.
Aircondishoning. It eats up a significant amount of power (maybe not in realtion to the engine, but it's not trivial either). As for the commuting and a 4 hour charge. The reason I say that is because I know of people who commute 120 miles a day (total round trip). That's two hours at highway speed, but when you get into a city that slows down. Or, if you have a slow day on the interstate (which is the norm around DC where I live). A two hour commute isn't uncommon. And you want heating/aircondishoning in winter/summer. That will eat up a good chunk of power. Also, since in a pure electric you don't have an ICE (strange acronym, considering what we're talking about) the only way to generate heat is by heating elements.
How about putting a small gas-powered generator to charge the batteries on long trips?
I've often wondered why they don't do this. Finland (i think it was) created a diesel bus that was electric propultion but used a diesel generator to charge the battery. It was very efficient and almost silent. I'm surprised they haven't done this yet with cars.
Better Idea, just write a program that constantly accesses the links and doesn't do anything. pay per click becomes useless due tot he number of false clicks generated. distribute program on slashdot to drive them into the red permanently.
Navigational sextants (in use till not long ago)...
Still in use, actually. The navy and many sailors use them as a backup for when they can't get GPS. Sailing by the stars is still comonly used in places where you can't see land. Such as the middle of the Pacific.
186 Mph is great and all that, but that is on a 1 hour charge. They need to extend that to at leat 4 hours (and preferably 6 or 7 or more) in order to compete with Gas/Diesel on long distance drives. And to 4 hours at a minimum for daily commuters (rush hour sucks in some places). This may help extend Electric to the daily commuters, but it won't do for the long distance driver. Also, the long distance drivers will require a quick (less than 20 min) charging time total. The commuters can recharge their car overnight in the garage.
The separation of church and state was designed to give no one religion a particular upper hand - so that it could not dominate the country over other religions. It is there so that the free schooling system which all children must attend does not endorse one belief over another.
Which was started about 100 years after the constitution was written
There are those who want prayer in school, but to them I ask, who's prayer? Your's or mine? Would you be offended if your child were forced to pray to Allah before every school event?
Whoever the kid decides to pray to. Even if it is Lucipher himself for all I care or nobody at all.
Someone should let David E. Kelley know that if he is going to state on his show, Boston Legal, that if he is going to use the reason that the founding fathers believed in a God as a reason to teach intelligent design in school science classes, he should at least point out that their god is not the Christian god - and if their god was taught in schools, it would still not preclude the science of evolution. It would SUPPORT it.
I can't say anything about the protestant founders, but the Catholic Church supports Evolution/Inteligent Design.
I have an HP 2000C (That I bought in 2000) and 2230C (bought in 2003). The 2000C had this problem with the original ink cartriges. The newer cartriges don't have and expiration date in them. The 2230C doesn't have any expiration dates to begin with. With office printers, they tried this and stopped. Not sure about the consumer ones, I have never owned one.
Is England no longer part of Europe? One of the libraries is in England. Start with a language you know to perfect the process, then move on to others.
let's tax petroleum to pay for all the defense costs of the oil shipping routes instead of the taxpayer paying more for other things.
Instead of taxing the petroleum just send the companies a bill for the use. Same effect, and it actually on bills the people who use it. Otherwise you tax gas from places that don't need protection. Basically, rent out whoever may be gaurding the tankers. But don't put a tax on the gas. The politicians will just use it as another income source to spend money on pet projects. Also, can you provide links to prove that they are getting protection?
There are problems with a corporation not having any rights that a person has though. For example, if a corporation didn't have say, the fourth amendment, anything could be seized. Want an example of how this can be abused? Company A pays the DA to have all of Company B's computers seized. Or better yet, GroceryStore A has all of GroceryStore B's fruits and vegetables and meats and milks seized for a week and stored in a hot and humid warehouse. Congrads, A just put B out of business. Just think of what could happen to hotels without the 3rd (boarding of military personel without permission and compensation), anyone without the 5th (double jeproady) Keep someone in the courts forever at public expense, 6th (speedy trial), 8th (excessive punishments) Diner Fined 5 million for a minor health violation, This is just what I can think of off the top of my head in the first ten. Not to mention that Journalists that work for Newspapers rely on the 1st in order to stay in business. Without the 1st, the Journalists can be shut up becuase the companies they work for can be shut up.
I notice that they only include the money spent by the candidates themselves and not any of the advocacy groups or parties. Got any numbers on those last two? As I seem to recall, a lot of those "advocacy" groups spent a lot of money this last election.
Why do you need to do that? It's certainly nothing to do with delayed viewing.
There are various settings for the broadcast flag and how long content is supposed to remain arround after recording. the four key levels are as follows:
No Record
30 Minutes
1 Week
Unlimited
"No record" means just that. Don't allow recording. 30 minutes is the shortest setting with the broadcast flag. A show may remain around for that long and then it must be deleted in compliant hardware. I find this interesting as many shows are langer than 30 min. 1 week is the longest period of time (shorter than unlimited) that the flag alows shows to stay around for. If that bit is set, after the 1 week the show must be deleted. Finally, "Unlimited" or basically, no flag, allows what we currently do.
Unfortunately, I see a lot of people trying to get the 30 min or no record bits set on the shows and essentially eliminating time shifting because of that. I also see this as a step towards controlling VCRs where, if recording is allowed, we can play and stop. No pause, rewind, fastforward, etc... (And when we play, it starts from the very beginning) As a way to make sure that if we watch something we can't skip through any part of it. Such as at the beginning of many Disney DVDs where you have 20min of commercials advertising Disney products that you can't skip past.
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The bigest security hole in Hollywood does not come from it's customers, nor the "Analog Hole". It comes from insiders who either stupidly distribute the material to those who ask for it, or those who are bribed to supply it. Pro Pirates can come out with copies of DVDs before the official ones hit the street. How? Because they pay someone working in either the DVD authoring or the DVD pressing to send them a copy of the DVD.
The other way is actually quite funny. My boss has been working in TV for a few decades now. Back when he worked in Network News, they called up the company that produced Star Wars: A New Hope (yes, the first movie) to get some footage for the news. The studio sent them the whole movie over the satelite (which they recorded to 2" tape). Mind you, at this point the movies was still in theaters, and they had their very own high quality copy.
Before the MPAA can do anything about piracy, they need to fix their own security holes first. Consumers aren't going to be doing this proffesionaly and on a wide scale. The people who get to the material before the DVD that gets pressed are.
If you don't know who is calling you, don't answere the phone. If it is important or someone you know, they will leave a message and you can correlate the numbers to the person. This is the best thing to use on a Cell and what I do on my land line.
For someone who watches roughly one hour of TV a WEEK (what's the average TV viewing for Americans now? Six hours a day?), I'm giddy as hell about this.
Let me just say WOW about that 6 hours a day statistic. I can beleive it, but can you provide sources? I know I personally watched about 6 a day when in highschool. In college it dropped to 1 a week at most. And now that I am home it is 4 hours a week. (Plus CSI re-runs)
My family has a runnning joke/gag. Everything we like on TV is taken off the air. All our favorite resturaunts go out of business. This has been true more times than I can remember.
So is "Wolfenstien 3D" baned in Germany?l ient=mozilla&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aunofficial& q=wolfenstein+3d&btnG=Search
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&c
They have a lot of swastikas (among other things) in there.
Better statement. Do you think anyone over 40 has never uttered what is currently considered to be a racist remark? Blacks, Jews, Irish, English, Germans, Italians, French, Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, everyone used to say insults about the others. Especially between the Europeans. (Wasps, Japs [not as in Japanese], stupid Irish and many, many more). To my parents, that was a common thing. AND NOBODY MEANT ANYTHING BY IT. It meant as much as telling someone to fuck off (and in most cases less).
It's only relatively recently that these words have become in peoples minds so bad they are "unspeakable" and anyone who says them is a racist. Going back a hundred year, Nigger was just the regular term for a black person and didn't hold any negative conotation for most people. Hell, I know blacks in college that use it amongst themselves. What is not hatespeach today may become hatespeach tomorow. The oposite may also be true. That is another problem with defining it.
So instead of searching for "Adolf Hitler" search for "Alois Schickelgruber".
Interesting, here in Northern VA (Alexandria), it redirects to google.com . It must think your IP is in CA.
So under these new rules, your post would most likely be filtered out. Yes, I am assuming they are going to be using some fairly stupid filters.
Think about it in relation to normal computer usage. At some point, you have so much ram that you have already loaded all of your applications into main ram. At that point, any increase in ram will do absolutely nothing. Same thing goes for video cards. At some point, the game isn't going to be able to use that extra ram. 256 Meg is already overkill for just about all games. I don't know of any that can take advantage of 256 over 128 (yet).
Kinda sad when your video card has more ram than first/second/third computer had disk space (combined). Your processor has more cache than your first comp had ram. And I'm waiting for the day that a processor has more cache than my first comp had disk space.
Also, BEVs arent wasting energy for idling which AFAIK hybrids still do. And just think how much of idling does an engine do when driving in peak traffic hours.
Actually, the Honda Civic Hybrid shuts off the engine when you stop. And starts it up very quickly when you hit the gas/acceleration pedal. I have test driven one, this is true. Surprised me when it did that and I was expecting it. I am currious to see how the Accord Hybrid does.
Aircondishoning. It eats up a significant amount of power (maybe not in realtion to the engine, but it's not trivial either). As for the commuting and a 4 hour charge. The reason I say that is because I know of people who commute 120 miles a day (total round trip). That's two hours at highway speed, but when you get into a city that slows down. Or, if you have a slow day on the interstate (which is the norm around DC where I live). A two hour commute isn't uncommon. And you want heating/aircondishoning in winter/summer. That will eat up a good chunk of power. Also, since in a pure electric you don't have an ICE (strange acronym, considering what we're talking about) the only way to generate heat is by heating elements.
How about putting a small gas-powered generator to charge the batteries on long trips?
I've often wondered why they don't do this. Finland (i think it was) created a diesel bus that was electric propultion but used a diesel generator to charge the battery. It was very efficient and almost silent. I'm surprised they haven't done this yet with cars.
Better Idea, just write a program that constantly accesses the links and doesn't do anything. pay per click becomes useless due tot he number of false clicks generated. distribute program on slashdot to drive them into the red permanently.
Navigational sextants (in use till not long ago) ...
Still in use, actually. The navy and many sailors use them as a backup for when they can't get GPS. Sailing by the stars is still comonly used in places where you can't see land. Such as the middle of the Pacific.
186 Mph is great and all that, but that is on a 1 hour charge. They need to extend that to at leat 4 hours (and preferably 6 or 7 or more) in order to compete with Gas/Diesel on long distance drives. And to 4 hours at a minimum for daily commuters (rush hour sucks in some places). This may help extend Electric to the daily commuters, but it won't do for the long distance driver. Also, the long distance drivers will require a quick (less than 20 min) charging time total. The commuters can recharge their car overnight in the garage.
The separation of church and state was designed to give no one religion a particular upper hand - so that it could not dominate the country over other religions. It is there so that the free schooling system which all children must attend does not endorse one belief over another.
Which was started about 100 years after the constitution was written
There are those who want prayer in school, but to them I ask, who's prayer? Your's or mine? Would you be offended if your child were forced to pray to Allah before every school event?
Whoever the kid decides to pray to. Even if it is Lucipher himself for all I care or nobody at all.
Someone should let David E. Kelley know that if he is going to state on his show, Boston Legal, that if he is going to use the reason that the founding fathers believed in a God as a reason to teach intelligent design in school science classes, he should at least point out that their god is not the Christian god - and if their god was taught in schools, it would still not preclude the science of evolution. It would SUPPORT it.
I can't say anything about the protestant founders, but the Catholic Church supports Evolution/Inteligent Design.
I have an HP 2000C (That I bought in 2000) and 2230C (bought in 2003). The 2000C had this problem with the original ink cartriges. The newer cartriges don't have and expiration date in them. The 2230C doesn't have any expiration dates to begin with. With office printers, they tried this and stopped. Not sure about the consumer ones, I have never owned one.
Is England no longer part of Europe? One of the libraries is in England. Start with a language you know to perfect the process, then move on to others.
For those who cannot read more than 1 language (english) here is a translation by google:
I speak 3 languages. English, German and Japanese. French is not one of them. So instead say:
For those who cannot read French here is an English translation by
Just because someone doesn't understand french doesn't mean they don't understand any other languages.
let's tax petroleum to pay for all the defense costs of the oil shipping routes instead of the taxpayer paying more for other things.
Instead of taxing the petroleum just send the companies a bill for the use. Same effect, and it actually on bills the people who use it. Otherwise you tax gas from places that don't need protection. Basically, rent out whoever may be gaurding the tankers. But don't put a tax on the gas. The politicians will just use it as another income source to spend money on pet projects. Also, can you provide links to prove that they are getting protection?
There are problems with a corporation not having any rights that a person has though. For example, if a corporation didn't have say, the fourth amendment, anything could be seized. Want an example of how this can be abused? Company A pays the DA to have all of Company B's computers seized. Or better yet, GroceryStore A has all of GroceryStore B's fruits and vegetables and meats and milks seized for a week and stored in a hot and humid warehouse. Congrads, A just put B out of business. Just think of what could happen to hotels without the 3rd (boarding of military personel without permission and compensation), anyone without the 5th (double jeproady) Keep someone in the courts forever at public expense, 6th (speedy trial), 8th (excessive punishments) Diner Fined 5 million for a minor health violation, This is just what I can think of off the top of my head in the first ten. Not to mention that Journalists that work for Newspapers rely on the 1st in order to stay in business. Without the 1st, the Journalists can be shut up becuase the companies they work for can be shut up.
I notice that they only include the money spent by the candidates themselves and not any of the advocacy groups or parties. Got any numbers on those last two? As I seem to recall, a lot of those "advocacy" groups spent a lot of money this last election.
Why do you need to do that? It's certainly nothing to do with delayed viewing.
There are various settings for the broadcast flag and how long content is supposed to remain arround after recording. the four key levels are as follows:
No Record
30 Minutes
1 Week
Unlimited
"No record" means just that. Don't allow recording. 30 minutes is the shortest setting with the broadcast flag. A show may remain around for that long and then it must be deleted in compliant hardware. I find this interesting as many shows are langer than 30 min. 1 week is the longest period of time (shorter than unlimited) that the flag alows shows to stay around for. If that bit is set, after the 1 week the show must be deleted. Finally, "Unlimited" or basically, no flag, allows what we currently do.
Unfortunately, I see a lot of people trying to get the 30 min or no record bits set on the shows and essentially eliminating time shifting because of that. I also see this as a step towards controlling VCRs where, if recording is allowed, we can play and stop. No pause, rewind, fastforward, etc... (And when we play, it starts from the very beginning) As a way to make sure that if we watch something we can't skip through any part of it. Such as at the beginning of many Disney DVDs where you have 20min of commercials advertising Disney products that you can't skip past.