Md5 is a "hash". Hashes take a long thing (like a song file), and squish it down to something short, like 32 bytes long. That small version can't be played or anything, but it's useful for telling different files apart. It's designed so that if you change a single bit in the file, it changes the hash value that you get from the file, so changing the ID3 tag would indeed change the file's hash.
It would make more sense that the RIAA would do something like have a database of their songs, and have a way to fingerprint the audio. My method when I was playing around with this stuff was to take in a few seconds of audio and average the volume for that section, so I get a list of averaged volumes for different parts of the song. You could compare different volume lists for different files, and if you found one that was similar, then it might be the same song. Keep in mind that this idea is a rather simplistic example of "acoustic fingerprinting" of files. It's not terribly difficult to come up with a different method that might be more reliable. I'm just trying to make the point that while an md5 or SHA hash *would* change if you changed the ID3 tag, most likely any investigator worth their salt would use a different method that actually examines the audio data.
Well...I prefer Amarok to iTunes, but I guess it doesn't have access to the iTunes store, and I somehow doubt that it would work with a non-jailbroken iPod Touch/iPhone.
In corporate environments, use of virtual machines is rising sharply. I know that Windows 2008 (same kernel as Vista) runs like a dog in my VMs. So why would my employer move away from Win2k, XP, and Win2k3 VMs that we run, which work perfectly well?
In the consumer market, VM users are a tiny slice of the pie. In the corporate market (their major source of revenue), virtual users are a growing demographic. I really don't think that they can afford to sleight the VM guys.
I think that their goal is to provide the largest number of essential features possible. To be licensed to play various DRMed data formats, they've allowed the rules to be dictated to them by "big media". They degrade the experience for all users by a certain amount (I don't have enough data to attach a percentage to it, of course) in order to ensure that the majority of people can do the things that a computer would be expected to do , e.g. playback the user's beloved Bluray media.
Get us the source code or a DRM-free copy of the OS, and we'll talk then. Speaking from what I remember from just before the release of Vista, the OS makes requests to its hardware for voltage and other information. It does some calculation to decide on the likelihood that the unencrypted data stream is being captured in some way. It does this check about 30x per second, targeting multiple pieces of hardware. This requires the drivers for the devices to block for IO, and the computer can't do anything else with the device while this happens. It does this even when DRMed media aren't being played. Anytime that you're working with hardware polling like that, it's going to slow things down. They're using clock cycles on *my* personally-owned hardware to do checks for large Hollywood corporations that I'm not stealing their data. And the encryption of a lot of the data they would want to check (Bluray, for example) has been rather thoroughly broken anyhow. In short, every Vista/7 machine is wasting time checking data streams that can be decrypted in software anyhow.
Safety is a reasonably strong selling point in the US as well. Using myself as an example: When I last bought a car, any vehicle that got less than 4 stars out of 5 in any of its safety tests was immediately struck from my list of candidates.
I can't imagine that any country with a decent selection of vehicles wouldn't be pretty focused on safety features.
I never really watched the older Dr Who series, only the newer ones (except when I've gone back for noteworthy episodes and such). But still...Daleks have a flat bottom, and they're clearly meant to slide along the ground. Seeing them levitate (and worse, fly through the air like awkward jet planes) is just plain ridiculous. They've got their death rays and nigh upon indestructible bodies....what the heck do they need to be able to go up stairs for?
I've had textbooks with an optional electronic version. That version was always heavily DRM'd, and generally "expired" 3-6 months after activation. Why the hell I would ever want an *expiring* textbook is quite beyond me.
You're lucky. Most every textbook I needed had yearly editions, where they essentially mixed up the contents so you are forced to buy the newest one to keep in line with the rest of the class
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You would have to raise it in a similar action to raising a gun, it has an obvious stock, and weaponry imagery is more prevalent in society in general than rifle-stock-mounted cameras are. What do you think would be the initial gut instinct for an officer?
I like smplayer on Windows and Linux....but that's open source. And frankly, I can't think of a single closed source program that I'd rather use for sheer interoperability with different formats and efficiency of the code. Smplayer lets my 7 year old laptop play HD versions of xvid encoded videos, and I haven't seen any other software that would run those vids at full framerate on my laptop.
Wow, that's from way back, when they were using the named category directories and an account number to identify pages....I used to have one like that, but I lost it due to neglect when they switched to the new name system.....errr, new as of 8 or 9 years ago or something, anyhow...
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Md5 is a "hash". Hashes take a long thing (like a song file), and squish it down to something short, like 32 bytes long. That small version can't be played or anything, but it's useful for telling different files apart. It's designed so that if you change a single bit in the file, it changes the hash value that you get from the file, so changing the ID3 tag would indeed change the file's hash.
It would make more sense that the RIAA would do something like have a database of their songs, and have a way to fingerprint the audio. My method when I was playing around with this stuff was to take in a few seconds of audio and average the volume for that section, so I get a list of averaged volumes for different parts of the song. You could compare different volume lists for different files, and if you found one that was similar, then it might be the same song. Keep in mind that this idea is a rather simplistic example of "acoustic fingerprinting" of files. It's not terribly difficult to come up with a different method that might be more reliable. I'm just trying to make the point that while an md5 or SHA hash *would* change if you changed the ID3 tag, most likely any investigator worth their salt would use a different method that actually examines the audio data.
Well...I prefer Amarok to iTunes, but I guess it doesn't have access to the iTunes store, and I somehow doubt that it would work with a non-jailbroken iPod Touch/iPhone.
He doesn't *have* to know how to use an iso, or what one is, just how to click on the file and follow the Windows 7 disk image burning wizard.
"When I click on this file and put a disk in the drive, it burns it automatically. Yay!"
Are you kidding? Starcraft is remembered more for its multiplayer than for its story.
In corporate environments, use of virtual machines is rising sharply. I know that Windows 2008 (same kernel as Vista) runs like a dog in my VMs. So why would my employer move away from Win2k, XP, and Win2k3 VMs that we run, which work perfectly well?
In the consumer market, VM users are a tiny slice of the pie. In the corporate market (their major source of revenue), virtual users are a growing demographic. I really don't think that they can afford to sleight the VM guys.
I think that their goal is to provide the largest number of essential features possible. To be licensed to play various DRMed data formats, they've allowed the rules to be dictated to them by "big media". They degrade the experience for all users by a certain amount (I don't have enough data to attach a percentage to it, of course) in order to ensure that the majority of people can do the things that a computer would be expected to do , e.g. playback the user's beloved Bluray media.
Get us the source code or a DRM-free copy of the OS, and we'll talk then. Speaking from what I remember from just before the release of Vista, the OS makes requests to its hardware for voltage and other information. It does some calculation to decide on the likelihood that the unencrypted data stream is being captured in some way. It does this check about 30x per second, targeting multiple pieces of hardware. This requires the drivers for the devices to block for IO, and the computer can't do anything else with the device while this happens. It does this even when DRMed media aren't being played. Anytime that you're working with hardware polling like that, it's going to slow things down. They're using clock cycles on *my* personally-owned hardware to do checks for large Hollywood corporations that I'm not stealing their data. And the encryption of a lot of the data they would want to check (Bluray, for example) has been rather thoroughly broken anyhow. In short, every Vista/7 machine is wasting time checking data streams that can be decrypted in software anyhow.
Safety is a reasonably strong selling point in the US as well. Using myself as an example: When I last bought a car, any vehicle that got less than 4 stars out of 5 in any of its safety tests was immediately struck from my list of candidates.
I can't imagine that any country with a decent selection of vehicles wouldn't be pretty focused on safety features.
I never really watched the older Dr Who series, only the newer ones (except when I've gone back for noteworthy episodes and such). But still...Daleks have a flat bottom, and they're clearly meant to slide along the ground. Seeing them levitate (and worse, fly through the air like awkward jet planes) is just plain ridiculous. They've got their death rays and nigh upon indestructible bodies....what the heck do they need to be able to go up stairs for?
I've had textbooks with an optional electronic version. That version was always heavily DRM'd, and generally "expired" 3-6 months after activation. Why the hell I would ever want an *expiring* textbook is quite beyond me.
You're lucky. Most every textbook I needed had yearly editions, where they essentially mixed up the contents so you are forced to buy the newest one to keep in line with the rest of the class
ftfy.
Why isn't there a +1, geeky reference mod?
You would have to raise it in a similar action to raising a gun, it has an obvious stock, and weaponry imagery is more prevalent in society in general than rifle-stock-mounted cameras are. What do you think would be the initial gut instinct for an officer?
Why wouldn't this be covered under laws for harassment or libel or something? Why do we need a special law because it's suddenly on the internet?
Frobozz?
I like smplayer on Windows and Linux....but that's open source. And frankly, I can't think of a single closed source program that I'd rather use for sheer interoperability with different formats and efficiency of the code. Smplayer lets my 7 year old laptop play HD versions of xvid encoded videos, and I haven't seen any other software that would run those vids at full framerate on my laptop.
Wow, that's from way back, when they were using the named category directories and an account number to identify pages....I used to have one like that, but I lost it due to neglect when they switched to the new name system.....errr, new as of 8 or 9 years ago or something, anyhow...
That's the stupidest password I've ever heard of in my life! That's the kinda thing an idiot would have on his luggage!
And people wait for a new OS release for that? I think I've seen new drivers come up in my package upgrade lists a few times over the same release.
Are you sure it's a road? It's not a big truck, after all.
Exactly! We should start taking nominations for King of California!
Well, waiting until the morning makes it harder to crap inside his computer case before you leave....
32 years of shitting inside computers and throwing them into the ocean?
Jurassic Park. Oh, wait, you mean their own? Star Trek. The Swedish gentle-beings with the predilection for laser-eyes.
Yes.