Uhh... read the linked article. What, exactly, do you think MS's Secure Audio Path does? The speakers recieve an encrypted audio stream, then decrypt and play it back. A recorder plugged into the output will obviously not be able to decrypt the content, so you'll just be recording static.
We already blew up the only phone exchange in Afghanistan. No telecom lines exists in the country anymore (assuming there were a usable number to begin with, which there weren't). So unless his Amiga came with a satellite modem, no, it isn't possible.
My company just expects us to be able to fix our own systems. They couldn't enforce an SOE if they wanted to. I have a Sparc, a FreeBSD box, a pair of Linux boxes and a W2k box in my cube, and people keep asking me why I only have 5. =(
Just so you don't think this is all because I work in a QA department, the developers, managers, and secretarys all have the same setup.
I've done some work for the US Navy at a reserve base. I swear that I've never seen so many Linux geeks in one place before. They were running most of the base's systems on Linux, excpet for (strangely) the WinNT ID card system that's down 90% of the time. I spent most of the time there discussing Linux/*BSD, instead of doing any actual work. Heh.
Apparently, San Bernadino County in California thinks "old" systems are useless. I just came from a surplus auction, I bid on a 4year old IBM mainframe, 3 year old Sparc, 4 HP netservers, 34gb of RAID, 96 P100-P133 systems, several 20+ inch monitors, etc, etc,etc. It's insane what these people throw away...I didn't bid more than $30 on any of it, and I'm most likely to win it all...don't ask me what the hell I'm gonna do with a 600gb IBM storage mainframe, but its there.
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Hey Fal, I haven't seen you around in a while. Where've you been lately? (And no, you can never really escape us....)
DG
Uhh...you realize that you just described a DVD decoder card, right? They've been around for at least 5 years. try Creative's DxR3 or Sigma Designs' Hollywood cards.
Uhh... read the linked article. What, exactly, do you think MS's Secure Audio Path does? The speakers recieve an encrypted audio stream, then decrypt and play it back. A recorder plugged into the output will obviously not be able to decrypt the content, so you'll just be recording static.
We already blew up the only phone exchange in Afghanistan. No telecom lines exists in the country anymore (assuming there were a usable number to begin with, which there weren't). So unless his Amiga came with a satellite modem, no, it isn't possible.
DoomGerbil
My company just expects us to be able to fix our own systems. They couldn't enforce an SOE if they wanted to. I have a Sparc, a FreeBSD box, a pair of Linux boxes and a W2k box in my cube, and people keep asking me why I only have 5. =(
Just so you don't think this is all because I work in a QA department, the developers, managers, and secretarys all have the same setup.
DG
I've done some work for the US Navy at a reserve base. I swear that I've never seen so many Linux geeks in one place before. They were running most of the base's systems on Linux, excpet for (strangely) the WinNT ID card system that's down 90% of the time. I spent most of the time there discussing Linux/*BSD, instead of doing any actual work. Heh.
Sean Robertson
Apparently, San Bernadino County in California thinks "old" systems are useless. I just came from a surplus auction, I bid on a 4year old IBM mainframe, 3 year old Sparc, 4 HP netservers, 34gb of RAID, 96 P100-P133 systems, several 20+ inch monitors, etc, etc,etc. It's insane what these people throw away...I didn't bid more than $30 on any of it, and I'm most likely to win it all...don't ask me what the hell I'm gonna do with a 600gb IBM storage mainframe, but its there.