But it's not a solution now is it? He would still be running windows in Parallels, but you'd having running Mac OS too, and paying plenty for the privilege. If he's gotta buy a Mac anyway, he can just run windows on the old machine. Do you still think you're offering a solution in any sense of the word?
Anyway, he's an IT guy. Somehow I think he'll figure out what to do.
Even though I'm an HDTV fanatic, it wasn't until this past weekend, that I finally made the jump to an HD monitor. While I don't have HDTV tuners on my Media Center, I do have an HD camcorder and it was important for me to be able to edit my high resolution videos.
After doing a little bit of research, I decided to pick up a SyncMasterTM 226BW from Samsung. Between the new monitor and my ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT video card, the resolution looks absolutely stunning. Even my home movies look fantastic in HDTV. I really couldn't have been happier with the upgrade.
Unfortunately, Hollywood isn't quite as thrilled about my new HD Media Dream Machine and they've decided to punish me by revoking my Watch Now privileges from Netflix.
I first found out about the problem on New Year's Eve, when I went to log into my account. When I tried to launch a streaming movie, I was greeted with an error message asking me to "reset" my DRM. Luckily, Netflix's help page on the topic included a link to a DRM reset utility, but when I went to install the program, I stopped dead in my tracks when I saw this warning.
The minute I saw"this will potentially remove playback licenses from your computer, including those from companies other than Netflix or Microsoft" I knew better than to hit continue. Before nuking my entire digital library, I decided to call Netflix's technical support, to see if I could get to the bottom of my C00D11B1 error message.
When I called them they confirmed my worst fears. In order to access the Watch Now service, I had to give Microsoft's DRM sniffing program access to all of the files on my hard drive. If the software found any non-Netflix video files, it would revoke my rights to the content and invalidate the DRM. This means that I would lose all the movies that I've purchased from Amazon's Unbox, just to troubleshoot the issue.
Technically, there is a way to back up the licenses before doing a DRM reset, but it's a pretty complex process, even by my standards. When I asked Netflix for more details, they referred me to Amazon for assistance.
Perhaps even worse than having to choose between having access to Netflix or giving up my Unbox movies was the realization that my real problems were actually tied to the shiny new monitor that I've already grown fond of.
Netflix's software allows them to look at the video card, cables and the monitor that you are using and when they checked mine out, it was apparently a little too high def to pass their DRM filters.
Because my computer allows me to send an unrestricted HDTV feed to my monitor, Hollywood has decided to revoke my ability to stream 480 resolution video files from Netflix. In order to fix my problem, Netflix recommended that I downgrade to a lower res VGA setup.
As part of their agreement with Hollywood, Netflix uses a program called COPP (Certified Output Protection Protocal). COPP is made by Microsoft and the protocol restricts how you are able to transfer digital files off of your PC. When I ran COPP to identify the error on my machine, it gave me an ominous warning that "the exclusive semaphere is owned by another process."
My Netflix technician told me that he had never heard of this particular error and thought that it was unique to my setup. When I consulted Microsoft, they suggested that I consult the creator of the program. Since Microsoft wrote the COPP software, I wasn't sure who to turn to after that.
The irony in all of this, is that the DRM that Hollywood is so much in love with, is really only harming their paying customers. When you do a DRM reset, it's not your pirated files that get revoked, it's the ones that you already paid for that are at risk. I
And yet they included the Wi-Fi hack that was simple over-the-air packet sniffing and cookie stealing, both of which are not new hacks. That was neither imaginative, nor crafty as promised. Pathetic list (on 6 pages, no less). Thank god it was only a top 5.
It's worth pointing out that the claim that Wikipedia is open to abuse is misleading. Much like Slashdot, abuse is made to be irrelevant, although people continue to do it anyway. The bias argument is more relevant, although the existence of anti-wikipedia site proves nothing, nor do your personal attacks.
If it upsets you that Wales makes money, something that does not affect you, then you're taking this too seriously.
and just pad it out with extra rubbish content until you hit the same md5sum again.
You seem to be a little unclear on the concept. Were those DnD nerds or computer nerds? All hashes repeat, but the time required to calculate by brute force a fraction of the 2^128 different padded files until you might hit the one you want is designed to be years with the current technology and what we are expected to have in 10 years. MD5 is broken because there are shortcuts to make this calculation easier. However, the post I responded to had a misconception about the current state of the MD5 vulnerability.
The strange thing about your post is that a whole group of people would mull this over without admitting they didn't even know how MD5 works. I think you need a better group of nerds.
With a Hollywood movie hacker, you mean. It is theoretically possible for this to be done, but researchers have not accomplished it yet. Just last month someone came close, but it required altering the original program to match the new MD5 collision value: Software Integrity Checksum Vulnerability
But I'm sure it would be no problem for your über-hacker or for Chuck Norris.
Outlook is more of a reason to run away screaming than a reason to stay with Office, unless your company uses it for calendaring meetings, then you might be locked in. Besides, Thunderbird is the competition that is failing that battle for now.
Sharepoint? What a waste of money that was. There's the same docs that we had before, only now it's more clicks away and cross-linked with lots of place holder pages that make it so much more beautiful and so much less effective. We were better off when we were using a wiki. Funny how those sharepoint training classes didn't change a damn thing. I'm so surprised. God help us if engineers share information in the way that works best for them. We can't have that.
I'm glad you're finally able to outline now that the latest Microsoft product has come out, but I'm sure I'll get along just fine without it. Don't be shocked if OO does turn out to be an adequate - and free - replacement for all of most people's word processing needs. Hell, I've even seen Apple users in my office who aren't using Office. How are these people able to get any work done?!
If you genuinely believe that expanding coverage of individual Pokemon species is of a higher priority than expanding the current coverage of nonwestern cultures...
This is a false dilemma. The Pokemon writers are generally not the same writers you hope will contribute the non-western articles. You could easily do both if you wanted. It is strictly an editorial decision by the powers that be.
"Web pages that don't work with IE are thus by definition broken, as they don't comply with the de facto standard, whereas those that do work with IE aren't broken."
The good thing these days, and the reason you're wrong, is that www standards are not being widely ignored. Yes, people will make any exception the get it working with IE, but those are going in the "<!-- IE Workaraound" section now. The "IE standard" truly is deprecated, and only the monopoly props it up. It's been a long time since I haven't had a web page work in FF. Apparently the new de facto standard is one that you didn't see coming.
What is scary is who these people think are the ideal user. It's not the guy who never calls them? It's not?! Nope, they want to be needed by someone who knows less than they do, but is willing to learn at their feet:
"If I never hear from someone, that probably means they're fighting through something that's ruining their productivity,"
"If people aren't calling, that probably means they're getting frustrated."
That's right, even if we don't call, we secretly wish that they would descend to our cube and save us from ourselves. Thanks guys!
Once you get to Gold Rewards status, all your minutes last a year, but you need 1000 minutes for that. If you just get the smaller denominations, they expire after 90 days. It's on that page, and here:
You don't want the truth because deep down in places you don't talk about at parties, you want me on that wall, you need me on that wall. We use words like honor, code, loyalty. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent defending something. You use them as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said thank you, and went on your way, Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a weapon, and stand a post. Either way, I don't give a damn what you think you are entitled to!
Yes, I think $93 or so for a year is about the least you can pay with T-Mobile to go. If you buy fewer than 100 minutes, they cost more and expire sooner. Since they're no longer getting $40/month from me, I forgive their minimum cost tactics. It's not as if other carriers are going to compete for users like me.
As for comparing it to your $4/yr plan, since that will no longer be an option for you, where's the point of that?
I like your advice right up to the end - definitely don't touch it - but planning on leaving your position over someone else's mistake is rather drastic. If you decide that you never saw it, it's unlikely that the issue will ever come up, especially if they don't distribute their source. The author may not care. He might not be looking for violators. He might look but not find this case.
OP said he was up against a release deadline and that the potential violator was in a position senior to his own. The survival guide says you saw nothing.
this does not serve as an offer to represent you, your family, or anyone you have ever met
That's perfect, because I have this internet friend that I've never met...;-)
So, you're saying that despite his citations that he probably didn't nail it down with a complete legal argument, which allowed the judge to decide whichever way he wanted? - against the non-lawyer, of course. We should expect contempt from judges for those who represent themselves. It's a closed club, you know. Laymen can't even share legal information freely in many cases, disclaimers or not, since it can be construed as practicing law without a license. I learned a lot from an immigration newsgroup before a bar association threatened some of the main contributors.
Thanks for the insight. I'm sure I might need a lawyer one day, but for filing forms or for making a single legal argument that does not have thousands of dollars riding on it, I'd like to conduct my own business without being abused by legal professionals.
You are not looking at it from the right perspective. There is someone who will be blamed if you damage the company after giving notice. In order for them to cover their ass, you have to be treated like a criminal. Some HR administrator has figured out they are less likely to be fired for implementing a draconian terminal policy than they are if an employee plays a harmless prank before walking out the door.
Calm down. I was talking about the future. What you want does not have to be provided by Netflix, although it currently is. At some point the movie studios can set up their own sites for very little money and completely replace the function of Netflix. I don't see Netflix ever having leverage in the market.
They're just a middle-man that adds no value. When the age of ubiquitous direct downloads comes, whether it's to the PC or the TV, nobody will need Netflix.
You refuse to read ACs, but you're concerned that we don't have enough Soviet Russia jokes?! I expected your sig to mean that you were trying to encourage a higher level of discourse. I guess not...and then you call people who don't agree with you idiots? Honestly, I prefer the AC's comments to your ill-mannered complaining.
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But it's not a solution now is it? He would still be running windows in Parallels, but you'd having running Mac OS too, and paying plenty for the privilege. If he's gotta buy a Mac anyway, he can just run windows on the old machine. Do you still think you're offering a solution in any sense of the word?
Anyway, he's an IT guy. Somehow I think he'll figure out what to do.
I also only paid $55 for the cable too.
That's more than I've ever paid for a cable, but you seem to feel that you got a bargain. I guess you have drunk the Kool-Aid.
Bad COPP No Netflix
Posted on January 3rd, 2008 by Davis
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When In Doubt Blame Microsoft
Even though I'm an HDTV fanatic, it wasn't until this past weekend, that I finally made the jump to an HD monitor. While I don't have HDTV tuners on my Media Center, I do have an HD camcorder and it was important for me to be able to edit my high resolution videos.
After doing a little bit of research, I decided to pick up a SyncMasterTM 226BW from Samsung. Between the new monitor and my ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT video card, the resolution looks absolutely stunning. Even my home movies look fantastic in HDTV. I really couldn't have been happier with the upgrade.
Unfortunately, Hollywood isn't quite as thrilled about my new HD Media Dream Machine and they've decided to punish me by revoking my Watch Now privileges from Netflix.
I first found out about the problem on New Year's Eve, when I went to log into my account. When I tried to launch a streaming movie, I was greeted with an error message asking me to "reset" my DRM. Luckily, Netflix's help page on the topic included a link to a DRM reset utility, but when I went to install the program, I stopped dead in my tracks when I saw this warning.
Netflix Reset Microsoft DRM Utility
Netflix DRM
The minute I saw"this will potentially remove playback licenses from your computer, including those from companies other than Netflix or Microsoft" I knew better than to hit continue. Before nuking my entire digital library, I decided to call Netflix's technical support, to see if I could get to the bottom of my C00D11B1 error message.
When I called them they confirmed my worst fears. In order to access the Watch Now service, I had to give Microsoft's DRM sniffing program access to all of the files on my hard drive. If the software found any non-Netflix video files, it would revoke my rights to the content and invalidate the DRM. This means that I would lose all the movies that I've purchased from Amazon's Unbox, just to troubleshoot the issue.
Technically, there is a way to back up the licenses before doing a DRM reset, but it's a pretty complex process, even by my standards. When I asked Netflix for more details, they referred me to Amazon for assistance.
Perhaps even worse than having to choose between having access to Netflix or giving up my Unbox movies was the realization that my real problems were actually tied to the shiny new monitor that I've already grown fond of.
Netflix's software allows them to look at the video card, cables and the monitor that you are using and when they checked mine out, it was apparently a little too high def to pass their DRM filters.
Because my computer allows me to send an unrestricted HDTV feed to my monitor, Hollywood has decided to revoke my ability to stream 480 resolution video files from Netflix. In order to fix my problem, Netflix recommended that I downgrade to a lower res VGA setup.
As part of their agreement with Hollywood, Netflix uses a program called COPP (Certified Output Protection Protocal). COPP is made by Microsoft and the protocol restricts how you are able to transfer digital files off of your PC. When I ran COPP to identify the error on my machine, it gave me an ominous warning that "the exclusive semaphere is owned by another process."
My Netflix technician told me that he had never heard of this particular error and thought that it was unique to my setup. When I consulted Microsoft, they suggested that I consult the creator of the program. Since Microsoft wrote the COPP software, I wasn't sure who to turn to after that.
The irony in all of this, is that the DRM that Hollywood is so much in love with, is really only harming their paying customers. When you do a DRM reset, it's not your pirated files that get revoked, it's the ones that you already paid for that are at risk. I
And he's requested Google to not cache it? That was helpful!
And yet they included the Wi-Fi hack that was simple over-the-air packet sniffing and cookie stealing, both of which are not new hacks. That was neither imaginative, nor crafty as promised. Pathetic list (on 6 pages, no less). Thank god it was only a top 5.
It's worth pointing out that the claim that Wikipedia is open to abuse is misleading. Much like Slashdot, abuse is made to be irrelevant, although people continue to do it anyway. The bias argument is more relevant, although the existence of anti-wikipedia site proves nothing, nor do your personal attacks.
If it upsets you that Wales makes money, something that does not affect you, then you're taking this too seriously.
and just pad it out with extra rubbish content until you hit the same md5sum again.
You seem to be a little unclear on the concept. Were those DnD nerds or computer nerds? All hashes repeat, but the time required to calculate by brute force a fraction of the 2^128 different padded files until you might hit the one you want is designed to be years with the current technology and what we are expected to have in 10 years. MD5 is broken because there are shortcuts to make this calculation easier. However, the post I responded to had a misconception about the current state of the MD5 vulnerability.
The strange thing about your post is that a whole group of people would mull this over without admitting they didn't even know how MD5 works. I think you need a better group of nerds.
With a Hollywood movie hacker, you mean. It is theoretically possible for this to be done, but researchers have not accomplished it yet. Just last month someone came close, but it required altering the original program to match the new MD5 collision value: Software Integrity Checksum Vulnerability
But I'm sure it would be no problem for your über-hacker or for Chuck Norris.
Outlook is more of a reason to run away screaming than a reason to stay with Office, unless your company uses it for calendaring meetings, then you might be locked in. Besides, Thunderbird is the competition that is failing that battle for now.
Sharepoint? What a waste of money that was. There's the same docs that we had before, only now it's more clicks away and cross-linked with lots of place holder pages that make it so much more beautiful and so much less effective. We were better off when we were using a wiki. Funny how those sharepoint training classes didn't change a damn thing. I'm so surprised. God help us if engineers share information in the way that works best for them. We can't have that.
I'm glad you're finally able to outline now that the latest Microsoft product has come out, but I'm sure I'll get along just fine without it. Don't be shocked if OO does turn out to be an adequate - and free - replacement for all of most people's word processing needs. Hell, I've even seen Apple users in my office who aren't using Office. How are these people able to get any work done?!
If you genuinely believe that expanding coverage of individual Pokemon species is of a higher priority than expanding the current coverage of nonwestern cultures...
This is a false dilemma. The Pokemon writers are generally not the same writers you hope will contribute the non-western articles. You could easily do both if you wanted. It is strictly an editorial decision by the powers that be.
"Web pages that don't work with IE are thus by definition broken, as they don't comply with the de facto standard, whereas those that do work with IE aren't broken."
The good thing these days, and the reason you're wrong, is that www standards are not being widely ignored. Yes, people will make any exception the get it working with IE, but those are going in the "<!-- IE Workaraound" section now. The "IE standard" truly is deprecated, and only the monopoly props it up. It's been a long time since I haven't had a web page work in FF. Apparently the new de facto standard is one that you didn't see coming.
What is scary is who these people think are the ideal user. It's not the guy who never calls them? It's not?! Nope, they want to be needed by someone who knows less than they do, but is willing to learn at their feet:
"If I never hear from someone, that probably means they're fighting through something that's ruining their productivity,"
"If people aren't calling, that probably means they're getting frustrated."
That's right, even if we don't call, we secretly wish that they would descend to our cube and save us from ourselves. Thanks guys!
Once you get to Gold Rewards status, all your minutes last a year, but you need 1000 minutes for that. If you just get the smaller denominations, they expire after 90 days. It's on that page, and here:
http://wiki.howardforums.com/index.php/Refills_and_Gold_Rewards
You don't want the truth because deep down in places you don't talk about at parties, you want me on that wall, you need me on that wall. We use words like honor, code, loyalty. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent defending something. You use them as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said thank you, and went on your way, Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a weapon, and stand a post. Either way, I don't give a damn what you think you are entitled to!
Why not try common sense and don't follow a link to snipurl.
Yes, I think $93 or so for a year is about the least you can pay with T-Mobile to go. If you buy fewer than 100 minutes, they cost more and expire sooner. Since they're no longer getting $40/month from me, I forgive their minimum cost tactics. It's not as if other carriers are going to compete for users like me.
As for comparing it to your $4/yr plan, since that will no longer be an option for you, where's the point of that?
I like your advice right up to the end - definitely don't touch it - but planning on leaving your position over someone else's mistake is rather drastic. If you decide that you never saw it, it's unlikely that the issue will ever come up, especially if they don't distribute their source. The author may not care. He might not be looking for violators. He might look but not find this case.
OP said he was up against a release deadline and that the potential violator was in a position senior to his own. The survival guide says you saw nothing.
this does not serve as an offer to represent you, your family, or anyone you have ever met
;-)
That's perfect, because I have this internet friend that I've never met...
So, you're saying that despite his citations that he probably didn't nail it down with a complete legal argument, which allowed the judge to decide whichever way he wanted? - against the non-lawyer, of course. We should expect contempt from judges for those who represent themselves. It's a closed club, you know. Laymen can't even share legal information freely in many cases, disclaimers or not, since it can be construed as practicing law without a license. I learned a lot from an immigration newsgroup before a bar association threatened some of the main contributors.
Thanks for the insight. I'm sure I might need a lawyer one day, but for filing forms or for making a single legal argument that does not have thousands of dollars riding on it, I'd like to conduct my own business without being abused by legal professionals.
You are not looking at it from the right perspective. There is someone who will be blamed if you damage the company after giving notice. In order for them to cover their ass, you have to be treated like a criminal. Some HR administrator has figured out they are less likely to be fired for implementing a draconian terminal policy than they are if an employee plays a harmless prank before walking out the door.
Calm down. I was talking about the future. What you want does not have to be provided by Netflix, although it currently is. At some point the movie studios can set up their own sites for very little money and completely replace the function of Netflix. I don't see Netflix ever having leverage in the market.
They're just a middle-man that adds no value. When the age of ubiquitous direct downloads comes, whether it's to the PC or the TV, nobody will need Netflix.
But it sounds so much better when you only show half of the last line of the summary, making it appear that they have found the lottery is not fair.
That's really misleading Zonk. They're saying nothing of than, "If it's not random, then you could get an advantage."
Yeah, that terrorism connection was a bridge too far.
If by sense of humour you mean the ability to laugh at something for the hundredth time as if it were the first time, then you are spot on.
You refuse to read ACs, but you're concerned that we don't have enough Soviet Russia jokes?! I expected your sig to mean that you were trying to encourage a higher level of discourse. I guess not. ..and then you call people who don't agree with you idiots? Honestly, I prefer the AC's comments to your ill-mannered complaining.