Stick a guy in the scanner and ask "do you agree with the government?" Yes or no, done.
Yes, that's right. Slippery slope and all that. And gun registry is just one step to finding all the guns and taking them away. They started with cars you know. It's now illegal to own or drive a car without registration. They're going to take the cars away first and then the guns. Get your tinfoil hats to protect against government eavesdropping too.
I think at some point our never ending quest for understanding of the way the world works will end up trapping us into a life of never ending servitude from birth, i don't want to be a part of that world.
Maybe we should just climb back up into the trees the way God created us? God never created any technology - it all must be the work of the devil. Ignorance is bliss!
Actually, that won't work in the US. We have something known as the 5th amendment to the Constitution.
So if the accused can be placed on the stand he can be stuck in the scanner. If he can't go on the stand he can't go in the scanner. It's not really complicated. This just prevents someone from lying on the stand.
how does it get rid of the RIAA lawyers or other frivilous lawsuits which take up massive amounts of taxpayer money? How does it stop the lawyers whose job as a corporate attorney is to keep sending out Motions to Delay in order to keep something from getting to court or stop them having to pay when a judgement goes against them?
Inventor: I have invented a better fork that replaces all other forks in existence!
Critic: Well that's completely useless - how do you eat soup with it?
Actually I'm hoping that this technology gets developped even more and is proven to be infallible.
Can you imagine the stinkin' lawyers we'd get rid of? Stick the guy in the brain scanner and ask 'did you rob the store and murder the clerk - yes or no?'. Done. No more blowing a quarter million dollars of my tax money on some trial for a lowlife criminal (or wrongly convicting the innocent).
I went there for engineering and never saw any Linux rally, or any pro/anti software rally whatsoever. Not to say it didn't happen but it certainly isn't common occurrence. The geekiest thing I ever saw was a paper airplane contest. Free outdoor concerts and filling the bar with sand for indoor winter beach volleyball were the cool things I saw.
They were likely transients hopped up on crack or something.
These are "top students", not necessarily smart ones. There's usually a difference.
I went thorough Computer Engineering at that university. Generally the top students in the first and second year that got by memorizing the textbook didn't do well in the upper years when you had to time manage and think for yourself. It was generally the creative types that could think on their feet that became the top students.
Given that the article says they are upper year students, I'd say that very likely they are also smart.
But the decoding power requirements are related to your CPU/GPU would happen with any video stream, it's got nothing to do with Blu-Ray. If I had that movie straming off of my harddrive or (when it exists) from the web, if the resolution were the same the power requirements from the CPU would not be different than from a BluRay disk.
He blew hundreds of thousands of dollars of taxpayers money getting emergency crews running around on wild goose chases. He tied up the emergency system needlessly and someone who needed them at the time may very well have been killed.
This is clear cut public reckless endangerment, and he should be prosecuted fully for it.
If the laser in a Blu-ray drive uses remotely as much as your CPU or LCD backlight, you're going to be burning a hole through your laptop in just a few minutes... Where does the media go to always find these moronic analysts?
I agree - that's a misleading and idiotic quote from the analyst.
Older 1GHz laptop CPUs use about 10W, while newer CPUs that you would probably want for higher end graphics capability are 30W or more (that's only the CPU not counting the GPU). A laser diode is about 5mW for reading and on the order of 200mW for burning. As far as I can tell there is no real power requirement difference between Blu-Ray and a high speed DVD RW drive.
And laser power is definitely not the major driver in laptop battery life - the big power draws are the CPU, large LCD panels and WiFi.
Reading does require less power than writing, but the power requirements are also related to read speed. So the laser on a 12x DVD reader needs to be higher power than one on a 1x DVD reader. Similar for Blu-ray.
If you look at what a patent is really for, a software patent does not make any sense whatsoever. They should have never existed.
For something to be patentable, it has to meet the following crieteria: novel, non-obvious and useful. Software by itself is not useful as it doesn't do anything - it must have a computer or some other hardware devices attached to it to be the least bit useful at all. If you don't then you essentially have a work of material created by an author and this would then fall under copyright law, not patent law.
Software should only be patentable as part of a largert device that does something. So for example if someone created a novel GPS device, the unit and the software together can be patented as the unit as a whole is useful. The algorithm that someone created may be novel, but as a stand alone it is not useful.
This is definitely for the better - losing parties should generally pay for legal fees, especially if they are the instigator of the lawsuit. It makes it more fair, and prevents large companies from suing smaller companies just to get them out of business. Court costs are expensive and a small company shouldn't be expected just to eat those cost by a bunch or predatory lawyer companies.
Incidentally this is not new. In Canada it is standard practice in corporate cases to allow businesses to recoup their lawsuit costs from the other party if they successfully defend against a lawsuit.
BD requires AACS and ROM-Mark, IIRC. BD players won't play home burned disks, only commercially pressed ones, due to the Rom-Mark and AACS requirements.
You've spewed that nonsense before and that is such a load of crap.
Do a quick search and look into the camcorder forums. There are both BluRay high def recorders out there that record directly to BluRay disc, and there is also PC and Mac software that can take a 1080 digital source from a high-def camcorder and record directly to Blu-Ray. So your statement that BD players won't play home burned discs is clearly wrong.
Just because you bet on the wrong horse doesn't mean you should run around spreading FUD on every forum. Sony won with a superior product. Get over it.
I see you resort to name calling when it is revealed all you want to really do is steal movies and complain because of your unfounded bias against Sony. Get a grip.
Edit out stupid 30m trailers that disney inserts at the beginning of their movies.
Ever try skipping over them? Works for me. Just tell it to go to the next scene.
Create a disk that your kid(s) can use without fear of death when they scratch it (that's thrown in there because of your statement about "caring" for your disk).
Why not teach your kids to care for their stuff? If they break it they lose it.
How about a HTPC setup?
Again nothing to do with Blu-Ray. PVR capabilities and movie on demand come with the cable box.
How about a 1s startup for a movie vs the 45+s startup for a HD disk of either type?
I don't know what you are talking about with that one. Buy quality equipment not cheap crap next time.
I could go on, but it seems pointless.
Well your bullshit whining is highly entertaining.
Guess your vision is limited. Never wanted to see anything that wasn't in the 200 selections at your local BlockBuster?
Sure I have, but with the several hundred at Blockbuster, several more hundred for purchase at varius stores,and close to a thousand available for on-demand viewing (including hi-def) through my cable provider, I'm gussing it will be hard to find a movie I cannot see.
But I'm happy that in your bubble you're happy. May you always march in lock-step with your content overlords, as apparently you're happy to swallow whatever they send your way.
I don't know who the 'them' is you're talking about, but I see no reason to apologize for the fact that I have no issues with the technology. And I'm not swallowing anything, there's just nothing to complain about.
I'd prefer not to give them any new "rights".
Fine. You have obviosly made up your mind, so quit your bitching and ranting at others that dont have any issues. Geez what a whiner.
Beta was kept for broadcvast TV because it had superior resolution to VHS, therefore there was a benefit of standardizing in that industry on Beta. Actually if you look at the cameras news reporters use they are all still Beta.
HD-DVD does not have any benefits over Blu-Ray. Therefore the likeliness that it will find a niche market in the same manner that Beta did is remote.
I guess you didn't bother truly reading it then. The removal of fair use is the primary theme and the ways that consumers are getting screwed.
I read it - none of that affects me.
Wont play high res (downsamples) on older non-HDMI TVs. I wasn't an early adopter so I'm not in that boat, but regardless, those older TVs wont play 1080p anyway so I don't know what they are whining about. If your player downsamples a 1080p source to 720 when your TV can only display 720 anyway is not a big concern.
Playing on a PC. I've never watched a movie on a PC. Don't see the point. I want to watch movies on a big screen with good sound. Watching on a PC is just stupid. And if you are thinking about the ability to download movies on demand, my cable provider alrady has this capability - I can watch on demand hundereds of regular and hi-def movies from an onscreen menu. Why would I want any of that capability on a PC?
Copying movies. Never had the need to do that either, and I dont want to put the movie on a PC. Take care of the disk and there wont be a problem.
Region encoding. DVDs already have region encoding - never has been a limitation.
Their complaints about the format war are now obsolete.
That pretty much covers all of the points on that page. Like I said, none of that affects me.
Yeah, let's just blame it all on out of date firmware. The BD spec is about to come out, everything before then is merely prototype hardware.
Early adopters get fried - that's why they call it bleeding edge.
Hint, it's not, for so many many documented reasons - go read bluraysucks.com for some more info - it's slams both HD formats btw, even though BD is worse than HD DVD
Those are the lamest excuses I've ever read. Most of the information is invalid or out of date. Not one of those complaints about HD apply to me or affect me in any way. Most of those complaints are about getting screwed for being an early adopter. That happens with all new technology, not just BluRay and HD-DVD.
pI'm just glad one format is chosen, and in my opinion the better one was. More room, more capability and more features.
Couldn't you just lift the car straight up, using some form of hydraulic jacks, slide it on a flatbed, and drive off with it that way?
Actually a friend of mine had his high end sports car stolen in exactly that method. They used a forklift (like the kind that Home Depot uses on the back of flatbed trucks for deliveries), picked up the car ot of the driveway and drove off. They are so good at it they never set off the impact or proximity sensors (the kind that go off with a single finger touch). Broad daylight and literally gone in under a minute.
The police said theives that use this method are shopping for specific makes - theft to order. They then take the car back to the shop where they can take the time to disable the security and fake a new VIN for the buyer. There's really no defence other than making sure the car is in a garage or behind a locked gate.
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Please do not lump me in with your paranoia. And go get some prescription anti-psychotics. Strong ones. Seriously.
Yes, that's right. Slippery slope and all that. And gun registry is just one step to finding all the guns and taking them away. They started with cars you know. It's now illegal to own or drive a car without registration. They're going to take the cars away first and then the guns. Get your tinfoil hats to protect against government eavesdropping too.
Maybe we should just climb back up into the trees the way God created us? God never created any technology - it all must be the work of the devil. Ignorance is bliss!
So if the accused can be placed on the stand he can be stuck in the scanner. If he can't go on the stand he can't go in the scanner. It's not really complicated. This just prevents someone from lying on the stand.
Inventor: I have invented a better fork that replaces all other forks in existence!
Critic: Well that's completely useless - how do you eat soup with it?
Actually I'm hoping that this technology gets developped even more and is proven to be infallible.
Can you imagine the stinkin' lawyers we'd get rid of? Stick the guy in the brain scanner and ask 'did you rob the store and murder the clerk - yes or no?'. Done. No more blowing a quarter million dollars of my tax money on some trial for a lowlife criminal (or wrongly convicting the innocent).
Why is joke syntax genius?
I went there for engineering and never saw any Linux rally, or any pro/anti software rally whatsoever. Not to say it didn't happen but it certainly isn't common occurrence. The geekiest thing I ever saw was a paper airplane contest. Free outdoor concerts and filling the bar with sand for indoor winter beach volleyball were the cool things I saw.
They were likely transients hopped up on crack or something.
Ability to make money does not mean you are smart - just look at George W Bush.
I went thorough Computer Engineering at that university. Generally the top students in the first and second year that got by memorizing the textbook didn't do well in the upper years when you had to time manage and think for yourself. It was generally the creative types that could think on their feet that became the top students.
Given that the article says they are upper year students, I'd say that very likely they are also smart.
But the decoding power requirements are related to your CPU/GPU would happen with any video stream, it's got nothing to do with Blu-Ray. If I had that movie straming off of my harddrive or (when it exists) from the web, if the resolution were the same the power requirements from the CPU would not be different than from a BluRay disk.
He blew hundreds of thousands of dollars of taxpayers money getting emergency crews running around on wild goose chases. He tied up the emergency system needlessly and someone who needed them at the time may very well have been killed.
This is clear cut public reckless endangerment, and he should be prosecuted fully for it.
Even if you had hyperaccurate cruise control, you'll still get some jackass yammering on a cellphone cutting you off or slamming into you.
I agree - that's a misleading and idiotic quote from the analyst.
Older 1GHz laptop CPUs use about 10W, while newer CPUs that you would probably want for higher end graphics capability are 30W or more (that's only the CPU not counting the GPU). A laser diode is about 5mW for reading and on the order of 200mW for burning. As far as I can tell there is no real power requirement difference between Blu-Ray and a high speed DVD RW drive.
And laser power is definitely not the major driver in laptop battery life - the big power draws are the CPU, large LCD panels and WiFi.
Reading does require less power than writing, but the power requirements are also related to read speed. So the laser on a 12x DVD reader needs to be higher power than one on a 1x DVD reader. Similar for Blu-ray.
If you look at what a patent is really for, a software patent does not make any sense whatsoever. They should have never existed.
For something to be patentable, it has to meet the following crieteria: novel, non-obvious and useful. Software by itself is not useful as it doesn't do anything - it must have a computer or some other hardware devices attached to it to be the least bit useful at all. If you don't then you essentially have a work of material created by an author and this would then fall under copyright law, not patent law.
Software should only be patentable as part of a largert device that does something. So for example if someone created a novel GPS device, the unit and the software together can be patented as the unit as a whole is useful. The algorithm that someone created may be novel, but as a stand alone it is not useful.
See, management would likely not let you in the boardroom because you probably look like you're going to go postal and kill everyone.
Honestly that has to be one of the most intelligent accurate posts ever written for Slashdot. Well done.
If that was true, please explain the purpose of camcorders that burn directly to Blu-Ray discs.
This is definitely for the better - losing parties should generally pay for legal fees, especially if they are the instigator of the lawsuit. It makes it more fair, and prevents large companies from suing smaller companies just to get them out of business. Court costs are expensive and a small company shouldn't be expected just to eat those cost by a bunch or predatory lawyer companies.
Incidentally this is not new. In Canada it is standard practice in corporate cases to allow businesses to recoup their lawsuit costs from the other party if they successfully defend against a lawsuit.
You've spewed that nonsense before and that is such a load of crap.
Do a quick search and look into the camcorder forums. There are both BluRay high def recorders out there that record directly to BluRay disc, and there is also PC and Mac software that can take a 1080 digital source from a high-def camcorder and record directly to Blu-Ray. So your statement that BD players won't play home burned discs is clearly wrong.
Just because you bet on the wrong horse doesn't mean you should run around spreading FUD on every forum. Sony won with a superior product. Get over it.
I see you resort to name calling when it is revealed all you want to really do is steal movies and complain because of your unfounded bias against Sony. Get a grip.
Sure but that's got nothing to do with Blu-Ray.
Ever try skipping over them? Works for me. Just tell it to go to the next scene.
Why not teach your kids to care for their stuff? If they break it they lose it.
Again nothing to do with Blu-Ray. PVR capabilities and movie on demand come with the cable box.
I don't know what you are talking about with that one. Buy quality equipment not cheap crap next time.
Well your bullshit whining is highly entertaining.
Sure I have, but with the several hundred at Blockbuster, several more hundred for purchase at varius stores,and close to a thousand available for on-demand viewing (including hi-def) through my cable provider, I'm gussing it will be hard to find a movie I cannot see.
I don't know who the 'them' is you're talking about, but I see no reason to apologize for the fact that I have no issues with the technology. And I'm not swallowing anything, there's just nothing to complain about.
Fine. You have obviosly made up your mind, so quit your bitching and ranting at others that dont have any issues. Geez what a whiner.
Beta was kept for broadcvast TV because it had superior resolution to VHS, therefore there was a benefit of standardizing in that industry on Beta. Actually if you look at the cameras news reporters use they are all still Beta.
HD-DVD does not have any benefits over Blu-Ray. Therefore the likeliness that it will find a niche market in the same manner that Beta did is remote.
I read it - none of that affects me.
Wont play high res (downsamples) on older non-HDMI TVs. I wasn't an early adopter so I'm not in that boat, but regardless, those older TVs wont play 1080p anyway so I don't know what they are whining about. If your player downsamples a 1080p source to 720 when your TV can only display 720 anyway is not a big concern.
Playing on a PC. I've never watched a movie on a PC. Don't see the point. I want to watch movies on a big screen with good sound. Watching on a PC is just stupid. And if you are thinking about the ability to download movies on demand, my cable provider alrady has this capability - I can watch on demand hundereds of regular and hi-def movies from an onscreen menu. Why would I want any of that capability on a PC?
Copying movies. Never had the need to do that either, and I dont want to put the movie on a PC. Take care of the disk and there wont be a problem.
Region encoding. DVDs already have region encoding - never has been a limitation.
Their complaints about the format war are now obsolete.
That pretty much covers all of the points on that page. Like I said, none of that affects me.
Early adopters get fried - that's why they call it bleeding edge.
Those are the lamest excuses I've ever read. Most of the information is invalid or out of date. Not one of those complaints about HD apply to me or affect me in any way. Most of those complaints are about getting screwed for being an early adopter. That happens with all new technology, not just BluRay and HD-DVD. pI'm just glad one format is chosen, and in my opinion the better one was. More room, more capability and more features.
Actually a friend of mine had his high end sports car stolen in exactly that method. They used a forklift (like the kind that Home Depot uses on the back of flatbed trucks for deliveries), picked up the car ot of the driveway and drove off. They are so good at it they never set off the impact or proximity sensors (the kind that go off with a single finger touch). Broad daylight and literally gone in under a minute.
The police said theives that use this method are shopping for specific makes - theft to order. They then take the car back to the shop where they can take the time to disable the security and fake a new VIN for the buyer. There's really no defence other than making sure the car is in a garage or behind a locked gate.