Seems to all be either very first release players (1.0 which were identified as non compliant), or people trying to play back an audio codec thats not supported on their system, or old firmware.. Nothing that's not obvious or easily fixed.
But, I'm not paying $400 for a PS3 or any other BD system. I probably won't even pay $100
Fine - you don't like BluRay (or to be more precise Sony). Then why are you responding to a BluRay message discussion then other than to be an argumentative troll?
The industry wonks themselves have stated they'll be obsolete. Also, haven't there been a lot of reported issues with various players playing the couple of BD Live disks that are out?
Have not seen that. Please provide link to the reference.
Also, in reference to your GGP, the lowest price on a new BD player on and available from Amazon is $349.... I do know that the press release after the HD DVD defection about BD Live players was that they'd start at $599.
The best BluRay player out there now (at least until the HD-DVD manufacturers switch over to make more BluRay competition) is the PS3 and it will do BD Live 2.0. That unit new is under $400, with a movie thrown in, and you get a free game machine as a bonus. Best deal around.
I abjectly refuse to buy any media more than once, its the game they have played since there was more than 1 media choice out there, and that cash cow has got to stop.
You're right. I should try and bring back that book I dropped in the tub. Half the pages are illegible now, so I'm sure the bookstore will just hand over a fresh copy. It's only those evil movie people that are unreasonable and make us buy destroyed copies of their products again.
And current BD players need to be liquidated. The BD Live (2.0) players are coming, and all current players (PS3 excepted) will be obsolete.
Why would they be obsolete? Profile 1.1 players will play all future BD disks, regardless if they are live or not. The only thing you miss is internet connectivity, and given that I've been able to watch movies without internet on both VHS and DVD for years, I don't think I'll miss much. If you own a Profile 1.1 BD player now you will not have to junk it anytime soon, nor will it be obsolete.
On the otherhand, we are able to observe gravity in nature. We have been able to quantify gravity; modeling it and testing those models. We can not quite yet say the same for Evolution
Sure you can observe gravity and model it based on observation, but no one know what actually causes gravity or why it exists. There is no proven theory as to what gravity actually is.
However evolution can be observed and modelled. The process of selective genes being inherited from one generation to the next is observed, documented and can to some extent be predicted.
Given the above, I'd say evolution is more completely scientifically known than gravity.
50 years of operating with a nuclear threat meant making some very ugly decisions by everyone involved, and it will be a very long time before anyone can unravel all the repercussions.
Basically the entire world (except the US) realized right from the start that the war in Iraq was illegal and unjustified. The only weapons they had were the ones the US sold them to fight Iran. Noone else in the world understands what the US has against Cuba either.
Assassinating world leaders and funding terrorists is not good foreign policy, I don't care what the reasons. Although if someone had taken out both Bushes and Regan before they could do the damage they did, the world would arguably be in a better place today.
So guess what, I can also point at any _successful_ nation and find recent US intervention. Germany, France, UK, Japan, Italy, Canada, and all the other dozens I don't have room to list.
In what exactly has the US intervened in Canada to make it a better place? Imposing illegal tarrifs on our exports or trying to claim that our northern waters are now international because it now may be useful to them?
No surprise there, and no need for the US as your super-villainous Bad Guy from whom all problems in the world stem.
I like the US - great people and great country. However your foreign policy is a world menace - absolutely assinine. Maybe though the world will get a whole lot better if you stop voting republican.
Your post isn't insightful, it's willfully ignorant. i going to go out on a limb and think it has something to with partisanship. i bet 8 years ago your tune would have been different on the same issue.
Most thieves are not experts, and rely on a screwdriver and a hammer to defeat car security systems
I'm not talking about the average joy rider. Most theives of high end cars are experts and can steal any car without putting a scratch on it.
If you're buying a computer security system, you have a choice between believing the sales brochure, or buying something checked by a third party. Which sounds more secure to you?
If you are a corporation buying a security system, would you buy homemade crap cobbled together by a bunch of 14 year olds, or would you buy something created by a professional corporation that hires experts and supports their products if something goes wrong?
Screw specs - I'm talking about implementation. An RFID system is basically just an antenna - it needs to receive energy from the reader to power itself, then will broadcast the id. The size of the RFID tag is directly related to how far away it can be activated and read from.
I don't care what you use, a 2mm chemical RFID tag will not broadcast several metres away in a practical application.
I'd be interested to know whether the inline switch was part of a commercial anti-theft device, or installed by an amateur?
Neither - it was a switch installed by a mechanic. A switch is too cheap to be sold commercially - noone would buy it, even though you can show it is the most effective at preventing theft.
Actually they did say the absolute best defence is removing your spark plug when you leave your vehicle. Not many theives carry around spare parts.
There's nothing wrong with my argument, it was perfectly valid. The point was that with every other anti-theft device it was known how to bypass it (nothing is perfect). The theif would look at it and say 'ah - this is manufactured by XYZ, I can bypass it by doing ABC'. With the hidden switch, the car would not start, he couldn't find an anti-theft device so he had to give up. The hidden switch was the most secure.
Another example. You have a door to a building. The thief walks up to the lock, looks at the manufacturer of the lock and knows how to pick it. A second building he cannot find the door as it is hidden - may not even be locked. Obviously the first building is getting broken into.
My Wi-Fi is secure because (partially because) I don't broadcast my SSID. If I broadcast it, then someone intent on hacking me would have a place to start. They cannot see the SSID and therefore don't even know I'm there.
I'm not saying obscurity is the best form of security, but making everything public does not automatically make everything secure either. Sometimes hiding the implementation is valid for security.
Read my post above then recomment. All the US 'lesser sins' are in the past 50 years and have really made a mess of world politics. And now your country is near bankrupt trying to fund multiple wars with they started and are responsible for! Nice going.
Sorry 'assassinated' was probably too strong a word - should have been 'illegally overthrown'.
In 1953 the US government helped overthrow the democratically elected leader of Iran, setting up the previous pro-American monarch the Shaw. He was then eventually overthrown in 1979 and you get the middle-east mess you get now with religious nutbars ruling the country.
How about 1989 when the CIA invaded panama to overthrow Noriega who dictator of Panama and on the CIA payroll since the early 70's. The CIA backing likely helped his rise to power and his defacto takeover of the Panamanian government.
And what about Regan funding the anti-government Contras in Nicaragua, funding it through drug trade and illegal weapons deals with Iran?
Lets not forget the funding and training of the anti-government Mujahideen forces in Afghanistan (now the Taliban) against the Soviet government.
Basically point to any trouble spot today and you can find US meddling in the recent past.
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What exactly is illegal here that's legal in Cuba?
If this was south Asia or sub-Saharan Africa, you might have a point, but when it comes to something only 90 miles away from our shores, such "international" issues can quickly become domestic.
Russia is only 55 miles away and Canada is even closer. Neither Russia nor Canada have issues with Cuba, and the US doesn't have any (or much) mingling with Russia or Canada. I'm not sure why Cuba is special in the eyes of the US state department. It's not like they can do anything to you.
As far as I can tell, the department of homeland security is staffed by a bunch of paranoid Nazis.
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And don't forget that before Castro's revolution, Cuba was ruled by Batista - a dictator propped up by the US government. Batista killed up to 20000 people, mostly political prisoners and many were tortured.
Batista staged a military coup when it was clear he was going to lose an election. Casto was leader of one of the opposition parties and was jailed as a result. So gee - I wonder why Castro was a bit pissed at the US?
The US can, should, and (more often than most other countries) does take useful measures to improve the human condition - humanitarian projects, encouraging democratic political reform, standing up for human rights.
Do you have any idea what your government does with its foreign policy?? How about assasinating democratically elected leaders (Iran, most of central America, etc), providing weapons to terrorists (to the Taliban in Afghanistan against USSR, Iran against Iraq, Iraq against Iran, etc), setting up puppet governments (Panama, Cuba, etc), and keeping detainees on foreign soil for years without trial or any charges (Guantanamo, facilities in Afghanistan, Iraq, etc). Shall I go on?
In short - clean up your own crap before you go finger pointing at other countries.
Closed platforms make me nervous when security really matters.
I guess you've never seen the report abut those anti-theft devices in cars. Despite all of the advanced electronics and prtections schemes, all were easily bypassed in seconds (by a professional) EXCEPT the one where it was a simple hidden switch wired in series to the ignition.
Even though it was simple, hiding the details of how the car was disabled was the most effective. I'd argue the same can often be said for user level encryption.
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Seems to all be either very first release players (1.0 which were identified as non compliant), or people trying to play back an audio codec thats not supported on their system, or old firmware.. Nothing that's not obvious or easily fixed.
Fine - you don't like BluRay (or to be more precise Sony). Then why are you responding to a BluRay message discussion then other than to be an argumentative troll?
Have not seen that. Please provide link to the reference.
The best BluRay player out there now (at least until the HD-DVD manufacturers switch over to make more BluRay competition) is the PS3 and it will do BD Live 2.0. That unit new is under $400, with a movie thrown in, and you get a free game machine as a bonus. Best deal around.
I agree completely. Did you think I wasn't agreeing with evolution?
Sorry, that should have said 'you can observe the effects of gravity'
You're right. I should try and bring back that book I dropped in the tub. Half the pages are illegible now, so I'm sure the bookstore will just hand over a fresh copy. It's only those evil movie people that are unreasonable and make us buy destroyed copies of their products again.
Why would they be obsolete? Profile 1.1 players will play all future BD disks, regardless if they are live or not. The only thing you miss is internet connectivity, and given that I've been able to watch movies without internet on both VHS and DVD for years, I don't think I'll miss much. If you own a Profile 1.1 BD player now you will not have to junk it anytime soon, nor will it be obsolete.
Sure you can observe gravity and model it based on observation, but no one know what actually causes gravity or why it exists. There is no proven theory as to what gravity actually is.
However evolution can be observed and modelled. The process of selective genes being inherited from one generation to the next is observed, documented and can to some extent be predicted.
Given the above, I'd say evolution is more completely scientifically known than gravity.
Basically the entire world (except the US) realized right from the start that the war in Iraq was illegal and unjustified. The only weapons they had were the ones the US sold them to fight Iran. Noone else in the world understands what the US has against Cuba either.
Assassinating world leaders and funding terrorists is not good foreign policy, I don't care what the reasons. Although if someone had taken out both Bushes and Regan before they could do the damage they did, the world would arguably be in a better place today.
In what exactly has the US intervened in Canada to make it a better place? Imposing illegal tarrifs on our exports or trying to claim that our northern waters are now international because it now may be useful to them?
I like the US - great people and great country. However your foreign policy is a world menace - absolutely assinine. Maybe though the world will get a whole lot better if you stop voting republican.
No - what happened 8 years ago?
I'm not talking about the average joy rider. Most theives of high end cars are experts and can steal any car without putting a scratch on it.
If you are a corporation buying a security system, would you buy homemade crap cobbled together by a bunch of 14 year olds, or would you buy something created by a professional corporation that hires experts and supports their products if something goes wrong?
Screw specs - I'm talking about implementation. An RFID system is basically just an antenna - it needs to receive energy from the reader to power itself, then will broadcast the id. The size of the RFID tag is directly related to how far away it can be activated and read from.
I don't care what you use, a 2mm chemical RFID tag will not broadcast several metres away in a practical application.
Neither - it was a switch installed by a mechanic. A switch is too cheap to be sold commercially - noone would buy it, even though you can show it is the most effective at preventing theft.
Actually they did say the absolute best defence is removing your spark plug when you leave your vehicle. Not many theives carry around spare parts.
There's nothing wrong with my argument, it was perfectly valid. The point was that with every other anti-theft device it was known how to bypass it (nothing is perfect). The theif would look at it and say 'ah - this is manufactured by XYZ, I can bypass it by doing ABC'. With the hidden switch, the car would not start, he couldn't find an anti-theft device so he had to give up. The hidden switch was the most secure.
Another example. You have a door to a building. The thief walks up to the lock, looks at the manufacturer of the lock and knows how to pick it. A second building he cannot find the door as it is hidden - may not even be locked. Obviously the first building is getting broken into.
My Wi-Fi is secure because (partially because) I don't broadcast my SSID. If I broadcast it, then someone intent on hacking me would have a place to start. They cannot see the SSID and therefore don't even know I'm there.
I'm not saying obscurity is the best form of security, but making everything public does not automatically make everything secure either. Sometimes hiding the implementation is valid for security.
Read my post above then recomment. All the US 'lesser sins' are in the past 50 years and have really made a mess of world politics. And now your country is near bankrupt trying to fund multiple wars with they started and are responsible for! Nice going.
Sorry 'assassinated' was probably too strong a word - should have been 'illegally overthrown'.
In 1953 the US government helped overthrow the democratically elected leader of Iran, setting up the previous pro-American monarch the Shaw. He was then eventually overthrown in 1979 and you get the middle-east mess you get now with religious nutbars ruling the country.
How about 1989 when the CIA invaded panama to overthrow Noriega who dictator of Panama and on the CIA payroll since the early 70's. The CIA backing likely helped his rise to power and his defacto takeover of the Panamanian government.
And what about Regan funding the anti-government Contras in Nicaragua, funding it through drug trade and illegal weapons deals with Iran?
Lets not forget the funding and training of the anti-government Mujahideen forces in Afghanistan (now the Taliban) against the Soviet government.
Basically point to any trouble spot today and you can find US meddling in the recent past.
Visiting Cuba?
Russia is only 55 miles away and Canada is even closer. Neither Russia nor Canada have issues with Cuba, and the US doesn't have any (or much) mingling with Russia or Canada. I'm not sure why Cuba is special in the eyes of the US state department. It's not like they can do anything to you.
As far as I can tell, the department of homeland security is staffed by a bunch of paranoid Nazis.
And don't forget that before Castro's revolution, Cuba was ruled by Batista - a dictator propped up by the US government. Batista killed up to 20000 people, mostly political prisoners and many were tortured.
Batista staged a military coup when it was clear he was going to lose an election. Casto was leader of one of the opposition parties and was jailed as a result. So gee - I wonder why Castro was a bit pissed at the US?
Do you have any idea what your government does with its foreign policy?? How about assasinating democratically elected leaders (Iran, most of central America, etc), providing weapons to terrorists (to the Taliban in Afghanistan against USSR, Iran against Iraq, Iraq against Iran, etc), setting up puppet governments (Panama, Cuba, etc), and keeping detainees on foreign soil for years without trial or any charges (Guantanamo, facilities in Afghanistan, Iraq, etc). Shall I go on?
In short - clean up your own crap before you go finger pointing at other countries.
How about a trilogy in five books? Don't Panic.
What a load of propagandist crap. That never happened.
The US should stay the hell away from the internal affairs of other sovereign countries.
Depends on the technology used - some are several meters, while others require near contact.
I guess you've never seen the report abut those anti-theft devices in cars. Despite all of the advanced electronics and prtections schemes, all were easily bypassed in seconds (by a professional) EXCEPT the one where it was a simple hidden switch wired in series to the ignition.
Even though it was simple, hiding the details of how the car was disabled was the most effective. I'd argue the same can often be said for user level encryption.