How about sticking a Video camera in front of the screen and recording the data after it's been transmitted, Sure there'd be a loss of quality , but with the new digital video cams, you could plug it into your digital vcr and in effect make a digital copy.
So what if it's mono.... It's beating the system.... As long as you can see or hear some data at one point, you can copy it, however crappily. there will ALWAYS be that, as long as we can actually percieve it at some point.
What are they going to do next, require that everyone has a brain copy protection device implanted? stop us discussing the news last night? gesh
that's when I'd start plotting to blow up the USA.
Thank god.nz seems to have sidestepped all this rubbish... for now.
Everyone is forgetting way back in the days of the IBM PC.... Compaq engineers basically reverse-engineered the PC's BIOS chip and produced a compatible version, which sparked a whole new era for pc's.. and thats the reason we have clones... if Compaq had never reverse engineered that chip, IBM and the whole x86 architecture would probably be similar to the APPLE machines....
If someone made a mac clone these days , a la compaq in the 80s, I think somehow the mac scene would be a whole lot better off... except they'd probably get sued before they got anything to the market.......
If we are to make contact, we first have to listen to them...
but are we listening at the right frequencies?
Correct me if i'm wrong, but if they were sending out ordinary old radio signals , wouldn't they be totally doppler shifted out of our listening range for conventional radio signals by the time they got anywhere even close to us?
It's all nice and good putting an ear to the stars, but if our ear just isn't tuned to hear what they are sending, we aren't going to hear a goddamn thing!
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How about sticking a Video camera in front of the screen and recording the data after it's been transmitted, Sure there'd be a loss of quality , but with the new digital video cams, you could plug it into your digital vcr and in effect make a digital copy.
.nz seems to have sidestepped all this rubbish... for now.
So what if it's mono.... It's beating the system.... As long as you can see or hear some data at one point, you can copy it, however crappily. there will ALWAYS be that, as long as we can actually percieve it at some point.
What are they going to do next, require that everyone has a brain copy protection device implanted? stop us discussing the news last night? gesh
that's when I'd start plotting to blow up the USA.
Thank god
Apples machines haven't died off , have they?
Everyone is forgetting way back in the days of the IBM PC .... Compaq engineers basically reverse-engineered the PC's BIOS chip and produced a compatible version, which sparked a whole new era for pc's.. and thats the reason we have clones... if Compaq had never reverse engineered that chip, IBM and the whole x86 architecture would probably be similar to the APPLE machines....
If someone made a mac clone these days , a la compaq in the 80s, I think somehow the mac scene would be a whole lot better off... except they'd probably get sued before they got anything to the market.......
If we are to make contact, we first have to listen to them...
but are we listening at the right frequencies?
Correct me if i'm wrong, but if they were sending out ordinary old radio signals , wouldn't they be totally doppler shifted out of our listening range for conventional radio signals by the time they got anywhere even close to us?
It's all nice and good putting an ear to the stars, but if our ear just isn't tuned to hear what they are sending, we aren't going to hear a goddamn thing!