I had the pleasure of taking the Shinkansen train in Japan about a month ago. The fastest train (Nozomi) uses 4 hours from Hiroshima to Tokyo, about 900km (560 miles). That's 225 km/h (140 mph) average speed, including stops and the speed limit near Tokyo. The Hikari Shinkansen uses 4,5 hours (+ a 20 minute train change in Osaka) on the same route (about 180 km/h (112 mph). The trains do of course stop in the middle of the city.
The Shinkansen trains are way more comfortable than an airliner (unless you fly on business class). More room for your legs than the trains I'm used to.
Oh yeah, THAT'S a real good idea, all the phone companies have to do is suck up the charges to save face and then pass the bill onto their customers as a anti-spoofing tax or something like that.
Well, in the end the average guy have to pay anyway, either by taxes or by the phone bill.
So what if Apple updates Quicktime? Unless they change the AAC format to break the current version what's the incentive to update if you have a version which allows removal of DRM from AAC?
Well, they can just "update" iTMS and force all users to upgrade iTunes (and QuickTime at the same time). This will at least make it even more time-consuming to convert the AACs.
(I see QTFairUse just as a proof of concept, but it shouldn't be difficult to write an easy-to-use application which uses QuickTime to convert the files with just a few mouseclicks.)
I read the comments on MacRumours, and basically this program is not
an Apple DRM crack but a hack for QuickTime (windows version) which
dumps the decrypted AAC stream to disk before it is sent to the
AAC. This is done by patching QuickTime and writing the data in memory
to disk. It is easy for Apple to change QuickTime to make this app
useless, but it is nevertheless an interesting approach.
That said, it is certainly possible to reverse-engineer the
decryption routine in QuickTime instead of hacking the
application itself. It is just a matter of time.
Longhorn will require 3D video hardware to render special effects that will make the screen more photorealistic and deep.
Photorealistic desktop? What's the point of that? My desktop is cluttered with computer parts, cds, books, papers, and I don't want the same on the screen.
Blu-Ray is not a future product. You can buy players and discs in Japan. RW-discs were at least sold in the Sony Building in Tokyo for $30-40/piece (can't remember the exact price).
I'm on vacation in Tokyo now, and I've spent quite a few yen on the Taiko-game. It's very addictive game, and I'm considering buying the PS2-version (have to get myself a modchip for my PAL PS2 though).
Windows users who haven't disabled autorun can suspend it when they play a SunnComm-protected disc by holding down the shift key for a few seconds while inserting the CD. They can then copy the data normally.
As far as I understood, unless everyone with a domain uses this, the spammers can just adjust their scripts/programs to just generate fake emails from domains without SPF. (or did I miss something?)
If you really want to get secure you should take a look at the NSK 200, a GSM/DECT-phone which is approved for NATO Secret. I don't know if it is available for everyone though.
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That's $400 per potentional user!
Yeah, I've downl^H^H^H^H^Hbought a lot of albums/songs I'd otherwise never would've listened to after playing the THPS series.
I had the pleasure of taking the Shinkansen train in Japan about a month ago. The fastest train (Nozomi) uses 4 hours from Hiroshima to Tokyo, about 900km (560 miles). That's 225 km/h (140 mph) average speed, including stops and the speed limit near Tokyo. The Hikari Shinkansen uses 4,5 hours (+ a 20 minute train change in Osaka) on the same route (about 180 km/h (112 mph). The trains do of course stop in the middle of the city.
The Shinkansen trains are way more comfortable than an airliner (unless you fly on business class). More room for your legs than the trains I'm used to.
Well, in the end the average guy have to pay anyway, either by taxes or by the phone bill.
The robots.txt for slashdot stops (or at least should stop) search-engines from indexing comments.
Well, flying over Russia is in this case the shortest route.
The flight from Copenhagen to Tokyo flies over Russia, not over the North Pole. I'd guess the routes from other airports in Europe also do this.
Well, they can just "update" iTMS and force all users to upgrade iTunes (and QuickTime at the same time). This will at least make it even more time-consuming to convert the AACs.
(I see QTFairUse just as a proof of concept, but it shouldn't be difficult to write an easy-to-use application which uses QuickTime to convert the files with just a few mouseclicks.)
I read the comments on MacRumours, and basically this program is not an Apple DRM crack but a hack for QuickTime (windows version) which dumps the decrypted AAC stream to disk before it is sent to the AAC. This is done by patching QuickTime and writing the data in memory to disk. It is easy for Apple to change QuickTime to make this app useless, but it is nevertheless an interesting approach.
That said, it is certainly possible to reverse-engineer the decryption routine in QuickTime instead of hacking the application itself. It is just a matter of time.
Putting several hundred megs of video online and then posting it on slashdot has never been a good idea.
Photorealistic desktop? What's the point of that? My desktop is cluttered with computer parts, cds, books, papers, and I don't want the same on the screen.
Blu-Ray is not a future product. You can buy players and discs in Japan. RW-discs were at least sold in the Sony Building in Tokyo for $30-40/piece (can't remember the exact price).
I'm on vacation in Tokyo now, and I've spent quite a few yen on the Taiko-game. It's very addictive game, and I'm considering buying the PS2-version (have to get myself a modchip for my PAL PS2 though).
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This is already being done. However, most release-groups remove the serials (by blurring or just placing a black box) on the movies they release.
With SoftICE and an hexeditor/disassembler this can easily be fixed.
It was nice of them to me the notice one month in advance. I will leech as much as I can before cancelling my account on November 7th.
From the article:
As far as I understood, unless everyone with a domain uses this, the spammers can just adjust their scripts/programs to just generate fake emails from domains without SPF. (or did I miss something?)
Isn't this what the board game Diplomacy is all about?
From the changelog:
Does anyone know which framerate(s) this system supports? 30/60hz seems likely since this is in Japan. And do they use interlacing?
Hey, I need a few of those weeks. Where did you get yours?
NATO Secret != Secret (or at least I think so).
Nato levels are: NATO Restricted, NATO Confidential, NATO Secret and Cosmic Top Secret.
To know stuff like missile and radar performance data etc you usually need NATO Secret.
If you really want to get secure you should take a look at the NSK 200, a GSM/DECT-phone which is approved for NATO Secret. I don't know if it is available for everyone though.