You realise that was pulled not out of censorship but because the ebooks publisher only had rights to sell it in Europe? It was a case of pulling it or leaving everyone (the publisher, Amazon, the user) open to copyright infringement lawsuits. Never let facts get in the way of hysteria I suppose.
Does it really matter? The fact is that they can and did delete content from people's kindles. That is simply impossible to do with real books. Every time they do it, whether its for their convenience or their morals or whatever - its a case of them deeming their own interests more important than their customers. They could have left the content there and gone to court, if need be, to argue that ebooks should be treated the same as paperbooks. But they didn't. Hell, they could have avoided the problem by buying 'licenses' or whatever the hell they are called for the american ebook version of 1984. Instead they took the easiest way out for themselves, never mind that it was the worst way out for their customers.
Why is it impressive that a smaller solid state drive performs as well as a standard size one? What does the size have to do with anything relating to these performance benchmarks?
Because the bigger it is the more smoke it can hold and we all know that letting the smoke out totally kills performance.
need to explain this? Your position is basically "meh, the people can sort it out for themselves". That's functionally equivalent to "turning a blind eye" to what's going on in Zimbabwe, just phrased a little less favourably (and, frankly, I think a little more honestly).
Really? That's what you took away from what I wrote? Because what I intended to convey was that reformers who don't follow the very same principles they claim to champion aren't doing much to bring reform.
On the other hand YOUR quixotic rebuttal sounds like standard white man's burden.
I did consider that possibility myself, but I don't think it can be done perfectly. They can include a list of hashes for all the big games, but think how many games there are - and then they have slight variations by version, by region, and so on. Unless they can get every publisher to send the hashes for every version of every game they have sent to the CD press, some people will find their games broken. Sony might consider that a price worth paying.
It is almost certain that the process of signing the games includes a hash generation. Usually the way these things work is that you hash the entire image, then encrypt the hash with the private key. Mainly because hashing is orders of magnitude faster than encryption. So even if Sony didn't archive a copy of every game they signed due to laziness or lack of process or they ran out of shelf-space, it would have been trivial to archive a copy of every hash that they signed.
3. The SACD player digital audio output. All SACD players must support a DRMed extension - I forget it's name - but it's very primative and trivial to break. So you could just record off that.
I own a stand-alone SACD player and I have no idea what you are talking about. If you are thinking of SP-DIF/toslink - at best that only gives you down-rezzed CD-quality - might just as well rip the CD compatibility layer that most SACD discs have.
Sorry, I don't understand your point.. You appear to be equating "turning a blind eye" to requiring that democratic reformers adhere to basic principles of democracy. I don't see the connection.
Are those sanctions ultimately necessary? Sadly, yes.
Oh really? They didn't work in Iraq and decades of sanctions haven't worked in Cuba.
Maybe it should be up to the people to decide. If the country's best hope for democracy was himself willing to lie to his own constituency and essentially sacrifice them for his greater good, maybe he wasn't all that much of a reformer to begin with.
In other words, Sony has just gone and proved that the only DRM that remains unhacked is the kind that nobody cares to hack. See also: SACD.
SACD is cracked. Or at least worked around enough so that it doesn't matter. There are two hacks for SACD:
1) Physical modification of various players to extract the PCM audio after conversion from DSD, this approach is a few years old now. 2) The widespread crack of HDCP enabled extraction of the original DSD audio from any HDMI equipped SACD player.
There are plenty of SACD rips floating around the net
Ok, the PS3 was launched on November 11, 2006. Today's date is December 29, 2010. That means that it took over four years to be broken.
Another way to look at is that on April 1st, 2010 the "other OS" option was retroactively removed from all PS3s with current firmware. That makes it 5 months from pissing off the wrong people to the first widespread jailbreak and 9 months to a permanent crack.
What about when teachers show movies in class? Presentation of those films outside of home use is not allowed. (We're talking about showing movies on half days / Christmas time not the educational ones).
Adrian Lamo isnt a journalist, last time I checked.
Check Again Adrian Lamo is a journalist, threat analyst, and former hacker. His intrusions included Microsoft, The New York Times Co., and Salon.com. He is reachable via e-mail at adrian[at]adrian.org.
You do realise that America gets twice as much oil from Canada as from Saudi, right?
Since oil is pretty much fungible, it really doesn't matter where "we" get it from, we still are contributing to the world-wide demand for oil which keeps the money flowing to the middle-east. In other words, if the US didn't get oil from Canada, current direct buyers of Saudi oil would be able to buy from Canada instead.
Greenwald is suggesting that the failure to release this information somehow is a failure of journalistic integrity on the part of Poulsen? I don't know where the fuck Greenwald went to school, but the protection of source confidentiality is one of the tenets of journalism.
You mean like how Lamo and by extension Poulsen promised Manning journalistic confidentiality as a source for a Wired article?
People get rich by working hard, yes. People get insanely rich by working hard and getting lucky. But they tend to over-attribute the outcome to working hard and discount the effect of chance. Lots of not-rich people work very very hard, but not everyone can be lucky.
I haven't read the book, but that math has long been intuitively obvious to me. It's why I don't believe for a second that sky-high CEO pay is justified - there are plenty of other people out there with the skills and knowledge to run a company well, they just haven't been fortunate enough to find themselves at the right confluence of events. If we stopped paying ridiculous amounts to corporate-level officers we might lose a few stars, but there are tens of thousands of equally good people just waiting in line to take their place.
There was a recent study that showed that less than one-third of American millionaires inherited their wealth. How have the other two-thirds achieved this status by "luck"?
Yes very much by luck. Being born into wealth gives people all kinds of opportunities that the average-born do not have. I should know since I grew up in exactly that kind of environment and I am one of those millionaires who did not inherit as I haven't taken a dime from my parents since college. I know plenty of people who are smarter and harder working than I am but just didn't have the good fortune of making the right connections. Plus, I say your numbers are skewed. My numbers say that being born into the top quintile of wealth gives one a 22% chance of ending up in the top 5% - that leaves practically nothing for the other 80% of the population.
but in the vast majority of cases, those who are pulling in significant salaries and paying into the highest tax brackets are doing so because they nourished some trade or talent that allows them to command a high price for their time and efforts.
That would be pure sophistry. Most of those who have "nourished some trade or talent" were only able to do so because they were rich enough and connected enough in the first place. The chance of a child from a low income family making it into the top 5% of earners is roughly 1% while kids born into the top 20% have a 22% chance of making it there. Intergenerational mobility in the USA is less than that of France, Germany, Sweden, Canada, Finland, Norway and Denmark - we're only ahead of the UK and then just barely.
Imagine that - a small subset of the population is better than the rest. The nerve of some people. How dare they stand out from the crowd? Clearly the communists had it right - we must force ALL people into standard-sized molds.
Ah the old wealth gospel. I grew up in a life of privilege - attended the most expensive private boarding school in the state, rubbed shoulders with kids of rockstars, sports franchaise owners and all kinds of captains of industry. I know plenty of such families, and, without doubt, they are no "better" than the rest. There are just as many dumbasses and leachers among them as there are among any other broad group of society. For most, the only thing they are better at is being born into the modern aristocracy.
IRDA doesn't flicker in the visible spectrum, and thus fails to cause hilarious non-fatal seizures in coworkers, which, I'm assuming, is the whole point of this new technology.
Joking yes. But being a self-proclaimed expert who hasn't even read the article my guess is that they are piggy-backing on the PWM commonly used to control LED brightness. The PWM frequencies for normal LED control are in the kilohertz range which is 100s of times faster than is visible to the human eye.
VLC gets it's codec support from a selection of libraries, primarily libavcodec. There isn't much it won't play. I've thrown everything from old realmedia to quicktime to mpeg to x264 in mkv container with vorbis audio at VLC, and it's all worked.
Try interlaced vc1. It's remarkably common on blurays because - for some damn reason - the bluray spec does not include 25fps progressive video - so all of those euro programs that are native 25fps have to be encoded as 50fps interlaced. Sometimes you get vc1 and sometimes you get h264 (which has MBAFF for interlaced-but-really-progressive which works great as a workaround for bluray). Lots of BBC content like Doctor Who, Torchwood and Being Human are in 1080i50 vc1.
There is a difference between news articles about what she does which are covered by 1st amendment rights, and using Sarah Palin's image to sell products without her permission.
Is there? News articles don't write and publish themselves, that all needs to be paid for. Here on the internet it's long been considered commercial usage by the likes of ICANN and the MAFIAA for a website to run advertisements even if it is just to support the cost of operating the website.
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And multichannel I think is dead for a different reason.
It's not. It's just on bluray now.
You realise that was pulled not out of censorship but because the ebooks publisher only had rights to sell it in Europe? It was a case of pulling it or leaving everyone (the publisher, Amazon, the user) open to copyright infringement lawsuits. Never let facts get in the way of hysteria I suppose.
Does it really matter? The fact is that they can and did delete content from people's kindles. That is simply impossible to do with real books. Every time they do it, whether its for their convenience or their morals or whatever - its a case of them deeming their own interests more important than their customers. They could have left the content there and gone to court, if need be, to argue that ebooks should be treated the same as paperbooks. But they didn't. Hell, they could have avoided the problem by buying 'licenses' or whatever the hell they are called for the american ebook version of 1984. Instead they took the easiest way out for themselves, never mind that it was the worst way out for their customers.
SPDIF can do 96KHz 24-bit... or are SACD players required to cripple their SPDIF output?
Yes they are. Also, that's stereo only. My personal interest in SACD was for multichannel.
Well, actually first they came for George Orwell.
And lots of people spoke up, so they promised not to do it again.
I guess this time they decided to pick on an easier target.
Why is it impressive that a smaller solid state drive performs as well as a standard size one? What does the size have to do with anything relating to these performance benchmarks?
Because the bigger it is the more smoke it can hold and we all know that letting the smoke out totally kills performance.
It's funny cause when you're poor and starving the only luxury you can afford is sex.
No matter how little food you have, you can always eat pussy.
HDMI can transport DSD, some SACD players have an HDMI output.
Really? I never would have guessed.
need to explain this? Your position is basically "meh, the people can sort it out for themselves". That's functionally equivalent to "turning a blind eye" to what's going on in Zimbabwe, just phrased a little less favourably (and, frankly, I think a little more honestly).
Really? That's what you took away from what I wrote?
Because what I intended to convey was that reformers who don't follow the very same principles they claim to champion aren't doing much to bring reform.
On the other hand YOUR quixotic rebuttal sounds like standard white man's burden.
I did consider that possibility myself, but I don't think it can be done perfectly. They can include a list of hashes for all the big games, but think how many games there are - and then they have slight variations by version, by region, and so on. Unless they can get every publisher to send the hashes for every version of every game they have sent to the CD press, some people will find their games broken. Sony might consider that a price worth paying.
It is almost certain that the process of signing the games includes a hash generation. Usually the way these things work is that you hash the entire image, then encrypt the hash with the private key. Mainly because hashing is orders of magnitude faster than encryption. So even if Sony didn't archive a copy of every game they signed due to laziness or lack of process or they ran out of shelf-space, it would have been trivial to archive a copy of every hash that they signed.
3. The SACD player digital audio output. All SACD players must support a DRMed extension - I forget it's name - but it's very primative and trivial to break. So you could just record off that.
I own a stand-alone SACD player and I have no idea what you are talking about.
If you are thinking of SP-DIF/toslink - at best that only gives you down-rezzed CD-quality - might just as well rip the CD compatibility layer that most SACD discs have.
Sorry, I don't understand your point.. You appear to be equating "turning a blind eye" to requiring that democratic reformers adhere to basic principles of democracy. I don't see the connection.
Are those sanctions ultimately necessary? Sadly, yes.
Oh really? They didn't work in Iraq and decades of sanctions haven't worked in Cuba.
Maybe it should be up to the people to decide. If the country's best hope for democracy was himself willing to lie to his own constituency and essentially sacrifice them for his greater good, maybe he wasn't all that much of a reformer to begin with.
In other words, Sony has just gone and proved that the only DRM that remains unhacked is the kind that nobody cares to hack. See also: SACD.
SACD is cracked. Or at least worked around enough so that it doesn't matter.
There are two hacks for SACD:
1) Physical modification of various players to extract the PCM audio after conversion from DSD, this approach is a few years old now.
2) The widespread crack of HDCP enabled extraction of the original DSD audio from any HDMI equipped SACD player.
There are plenty of SACD rips floating around the net
Ok, the PS3 was launched on November 11, 2006. Today's date is December 29, 2010. That means that it took over four years to be broken.
Another way to look at is that on April 1st, 2010 the "other OS" option was retroactively removed from all PS3s with current firmware.
That makes it 5 months from pissing off the wrong people to the first widespread jailbreak and 9 months to a permanent crack.
What about when teachers show movies in class? Presentation of those films outside of home use is not allowed. (We're talking about showing movies on half days / Christmas time not the educational ones).
In the USA, for either case, the answer has long been yes a license is required.
Adrian Lamo isnt a journalist, last time I checked.
Check Again
Adrian Lamo is a journalist, threat analyst, and former hacker. His intrusions included Microsoft, The New York Times Co., and Salon.com. He is reachable via e-mail at adrian[at]adrian.org.
You do realise that America gets twice as much oil from Canada as from Saudi, right?
Since oil is pretty much fungible, it really doesn't matter where "we" get it from, we still are contributing to the world-wide demand for oil which keeps the money flowing to the middle-east. In other words, if the US didn't get oil from Canada, current direct buyers of Saudi oil would be able to buy from Canada instead.
Greenwald is suggesting that the failure to release this information somehow is a failure of journalistic integrity on the part of Poulsen? I don't know where the fuck Greenwald went to school, but the protection of source confidentiality is one of the tenets of journalism.
You mean like how Lamo and by extension Poulsen promised Manning journalistic confidentiality as a source for a Wired article?
People get rich by working hard, yes. People get insanely rich by working hard and getting lucky. But they tend to over-attribute the outcome to working hard and discount the effect of chance. Lots of not-rich people work very very hard, but not everyone can be lucky.
I haven't read the book, but that math has long been intuitively obvious to me. It's why I don't believe for a second that sky-high CEO pay is justified - there are plenty of other people out there with the skills and knowledge to run a company well, they just haven't been fortunate enough to find themselves at the right confluence of events. If we stopped paying ridiculous amounts to corporate-level officers we might lose a few stars, but there are tens of thousands of equally good people just waiting in line to take their place.
There was a recent study that showed that less than one-third of American millionaires inherited their wealth. How have the other two-thirds achieved this status by "luck"?
Yes very much by luck. Being born into wealth gives people all kinds of opportunities that the average-born do not have. I should know since I grew up in exactly that kind of environment and I am one of those millionaires who did not inherit as I haven't taken a dime from my parents since college. I know plenty of people who are smarter and harder working than I am but just didn't have the good fortune of making the right connections. Plus, I say your numbers are skewed. My numbers say that being born into the top quintile of wealth gives one a 22% chance of ending up in the top 5% - that leaves practically nothing for the other 80% of the population.
but in the vast majority of cases, those who are pulling in significant salaries and paying into the highest tax brackets are doing so because they nourished some trade or talent that allows them to command a high price for their time and efforts.
That would be pure sophistry. Most of those who have "nourished some trade or talent" were only able to do so because they were rich enough and connected enough in the first place. The chance of a child from a low income family making it into the top 5% of earners is roughly 1% while kids born into the top 20% have a 22% chance of making it there. Intergenerational mobility in the USA is less than that of France, Germany, Sweden, Canada, Finland, Norway and Denmark - we're only ahead of the UK and then just barely.
Imagine that - a small subset of the population is better than the rest. The nerve of some people. How dare they stand out from the crowd? Clearly the communists had it right - we must force ALL people into standard-sized molds.
Ah the old wealth gospel. I grew up in a life of privilege - attended the most expensive private boarding school in the state, rubbed shoulders with kids of rockstars, sports franchaise owners and all kinds of captains of industry. I know plenty of such families, and, without doubt, they are no "better" than the rest. There are just as many dumbasses and leachers among them as there are among any other broad group of society. For most, the only thing they are better at is being born into the modern aristocracy.
IRDA doesn't flicker in the visible spectrum, and thus fails to cause hilarious non-fatal seizures in coworkers, which, I'm assuming, is the whole point of this new technology.
Joking yes. But being a self-proclaimed expert who hasn't even read the article my guess is that they are piggy-backing on the PWM commonly used to control LED brightness. The PWM frequencies for normal LED control are in the kilohertz range which is 100s of times faster than is visible to the human eye.
VLC gets it's codec support from a selection of libraries, primarily libavcodec. There isn't much it won't play. I've thrown everything from old realmedia to quicktime to mpeg to x264 in mkv container with vorbis audio at VLC, and it's all worked.
Try interlaced vc1. It's remarkably common on blurays because - for some damn reason - the bluray spec does not include 25fps progressive video - so all of those euro programs that are native 25fps have to be encoded as 50fps interlaced. Sometimes you get vc1 and sometimes you get h264 (which has MBAFF for interlaced-but-really-progressive which works great as a workaround for bluray). Lots of BBC content like Doctor Who, Torchwood and Being Human are in 1080i50 vc1.
There is a difference between news articles about what she does which are covered by 1st amendment rights, and using Sarah Palin's image to sell products without her permission.
Is there? News articles don't write and publish themselves, that all needs to be paid for. Here on the internet it's long been considered commercial usage by the likes of ICANN and the MAFIAA for a website to run advertisements even if it is just to support the cost of operating the website.