I'm a software guy just like you. It's just that I am also a software guy with a hobbyist understanding of amateur radio and electronics.
You can learn how to do this too.
am I the only one reading this story and thinking, "so what?". The most interesting this is that apparently the digital signal was embedded into the tv-feed for the video. One would think that they would strip that back out before broadcast. The rest? I'm guessing that this woman has an amateur radio background, for her to know what 1200baud BFSK sounds like and to have all of the SDR software already on her computer. The rest is just hexdump and pattern matching. Sorry, I know this is an oversimplification, but this isn't genius either.
Yes, but service may have been completed by publication and the GP doesn't understand what happened. The lawyer from the debt collection company would then take a stack of motions for orders of default into ex-parte and get their default judgement order against you.
Um, do you mind disclosing _when_ and _where_ this was? I can't imagine any circumstances in which I would consider it acceptable to be asked to sit a polygraph test in order to obtain a job. Especially a crappy minimum wage job. I mean, if you're trying to get hired as a state trooper or CIA agent or who knows what, then fine.. I'd consider it the sort of request that you just have to deal with in those career paths... but RADIO SHACK?!? Seriously? I desperately want to know when this was. Is McDonald's administering lie detector tests now? I can absolutely promise that if I were looking for a terrible job, I would under no circumstances agree to take a polygraph.
Double edged safety razors really are the only way to go. The blades cost nearly nothing.. I think I pay $2.00 for a 10-pack from the store. The razor itself walks right through any length of beard hair... none of that trying to tap the hair out from between the twin/quad/octuple blades. Once I tried it, I honestly couldn't fathom why everyone switched to disposable multi-bladed razors in the first place. The interesting thing is that my wife&daughters all borrow my "scary old-timey razor" for doing their legs. They agree that it works better than any other razor they've found. I'm just saying, give it a shot. You can find an old gilette DE razor on ebay for a few dollars or buy one of the new overpriced merkur models (but I wouldn't bother).
Could you please post a page/paragraph reference and quote? As much as I would love to find what you are describing, I don't see anything in any of the rulings (including the current one, on PDF) that give end users the right to backup DVD's for personal use.
Hm, I'll admit to being a bit behind the times here. However, based on my research (and your comments), it seems that your method requires creating a disk image. That disk image can then be mounted via some virtual optical drive software (such as DaemonTools) and then viewed with any normal PC DVD viewing software. My thoughts:
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1) The DMCA doesn't use the words "Decrypting", it uses the words "Circumventing". Could it be argued that using some specialized software to do a bitwise copy of the disc to local drive and then another piece of specialized software to mount the image is circumventing the copy protection of the disc? I think that yes, quite possibly. The copy protection is meant to keep anyone from making a copy of any sort, therefore circumventing it is circumventing it. Perhaps slightly more of a grey area, but only in an interesting legal argument sort of way. You'd still have the same lawsuit on your hards (Well, if it was a DMCA suit, then it would be the FBI seizing computers, subject to arrest, the whole nine yards)... Most people are ill-equipped to deal with a large scale civil suit, let alone a criminal one, even though a criminal suit is actually far easier to have dismissed. Please don't take this as approval of this law - but I believe only with visibility into the seriousness of the legal problem can people really understand and hopefully change it.
2) It sort of misses the point of the "loaned that backup to a friend" that the OP was talking about. I mean, you can't read the ensuing data chunk in a dvd player, for certain... and "Here, buddy, hand me your portable HD and I'll copy this.iso onto your disk and you'll be able to mount it and view it at home" seems unlikely.
Anyways, thanks for letting me know. Now I'm interested to see how legit the technique really is. I'm still very very skeptical. Have you done it yourself?
You can copy DVDs bit for bit, thus not breaking encryption. You argument falls apart there,
srsly? We can copy DVD's without breaking the encryption? How exactly does that work, then?
Also, no fair cheating and saying "Well, it _could_ be done, you just wouldn't be able to watch it." because that's useless.
I watch movies for free all the time over at a friend's house. He rented or bought them, I paid nothing. If he loans me the physical media, is that illegal? I still paid nothing. Now just stretch it a bit further and say he ripped it for the purposes of back up, then loaned me that copy? There isn't a lot of difference in these scenarios, and it proves, that yes, you can legally watch movies for free sometimes.
Well, no, there actually is a difference in those scenarios. In the first scenario, you are not breaking the law or committing a crime. In the second scenario, a DVD is being decrypted. This is a violation of the DMCA and a crime under US statutory law.
You should always strive to be aware of the laws that you break.
https://www.eff.org/es/wp/unintended-consequences-under-dmca
Have you considered lending the machine to a NetBSD developer? In order to have hardware supported, we need the conjunction of (access to hardware, skills, time). You may lack the second entry of the tuple, but someone else may just lack the first one.
NetBSD mailing lists (port-sgimips here) are the right place to discuss such an arrangement
Eh, lack of availability of those computers isn't the problem. The problem is that the systems have very custom/unique architecture and there isn't a lot of end-user desire. I, too, went through what the GP is talking about. Irix is _still_ commercial and is realistically still the only option if you want to fire up your Octane. I went down all of the roads I possibly could with Linux/mips & NetBSD/mips.. support on both sides of the coin was the same: Terrible. Anything besides Irix on those old mips SGI's is pretty much useless, everything from "Hey, I got a bootloader to work and you can totally telnet into the machine, no framebuffer support" to "framebuffer support, mostly works, but no acceleration of any kind". The SGI Octane is really a conversation piece at this point anyways, I donated my long ago to the local PC-recycler and they turned it into scrap metal. Not old/rare enough to be a museum piece and not new/fast enough for modern use.
IANAL, but I _think_ that I would need to move for and receive an order giving permission to file a motion in that case, since I am not a party to the action?
Wouldn't that be an Amicus motion?.. although, I suppose that if you are one of the John Doe's listed in the case (and didn't mind to identify yourself) - and were currently pro se? then I think you could file that motion. Who knows. Maybe everybody should try it and we'll see what happens.
Worst case, the court throws out a thousand motions.
Ah, that makes more sense to me now. Yes, ebay/paypal deliberately punishes sellers that are foolish enough to ship outside of the united states. Chargebacks are super common and they can last as long as a month. The sale that made me stop selling outside of the country left my paypal account negative $100 for a month. Most of that money was the shipping to the country in question (Ukraine)... All for a $30 videocard. Never again. If you don't like it, encourage ebay to be fair to the sellers that are even-handed about shipping internationally.
Any time I see a bluescreen, I look first (and most of the time LAST) at the RAM. It's almost always a problem with buying sketchy commodity ram. Sometimes, however, the bluescreen can be from something more obscure. The other day, I diagnosed a bluescreen that was happening due to the failure of the swap file while gaming. Apparently the underperforming power supply wasn't able to power BOTH the videocard and the HD at the same time (or at least, not fast enough for the swapfile to operate correctly) and bluescreen. One Powersupply swap later and all was well.
... though amateur radio is an aging community (fewer young people than decades ago).
I'm not sure that this is true any longer. With the advent of removing all morse code requirements from all amateur radio licenses, it really opened the doors to the casually interested technical engineer. I am a third generation ham and from what I have observed, amateur radio basically "skipped a generation" in general. There was a time when electronics MEANT radio. Period. If you were talking about electronics, you were talking about radio. However, that changed in my father's generation to electronics meaning Computers. That generation never became amateur radio operators, because their interest in electronics went in the direction of computers instead of radio. My generation seems to be focused on combining the two. I know a lot of ancient and crusty hams and a lot of fairly young hams. Not so many in-between. I'd be interested to see some real statistical numbers regarding total licenses and ages, if any such exist.
Which states have antiquated alimony laws? Washington state is not one of them, then. I have no dislike for "Ask Men", I have dislike for hyperbole and unsubstantiated argument. I asked the GP for justification of his arguments and he quotes a men's magazine, rather than a legal journal or any other reliable legal source. I understand that men want to feel like the deck is stacked against them in the courtroom, but at least in washington state, that's not really true. Provided the man doesn't totally screw up his case (which is extraordinarily common), he has the same chances that a woman does for custody of the kids (or near enough).
The interesting thing about family law is that it is almost entirely decided at the state level. Therefore, any declaration of the state of family law in this country must be bounded by defining the states in question, otherwise the statement is meaningless. State law, family law included, is wildly different from state to state in this country.
Ah, askmen, the renowned authority in legal opinion. I stand corrected.:P
Do you know why the first person that files for divorce usually wins? It is because that person is the one that is prepared. Consequently, the person that did NOT bring the case is the UNprepared. Now, when you're going to get into a race to see who can spend $30,000 the fastest, who do you think will win: The prepared or the unprepared? I thought so.
My personal feeling with regard to why men oftentimes get so reamed in divorces is because they go into immediate "just give me the damned papers and I'll sign them and get out of my life" mode. I've seen it repeatedly. When wifey says she's leaving you for another man, husband doesn't want to settle into the fight for the rest of his life. He just wants to give her everything she is asking for so that she will go away and he can cry in peace.
Honestly, it is ludicrous that you are taking legal advice from a men's fashion magazine and only proves my point regarding the cluelessness of most men when it comes to law.
Wow, this is a load of nonsense. If what you say is true in your state, kindly provide the name of that state so that we can argue facts instead of mind boggling hyperbole. I was with you until about halfway through your post until you went on a completely uninformed rant about family law. Can I guess that you got reamed in a divorce or know somebody who did, and that's where you formed your legal opinions?
Fuck you, you poor excuse for a limp wristed cum stain.
YOU and people like YOU are clueless fucks that would watch society burn to the ground to hold onto you belief instead of thinking.
They need help. Most haven't even been taught how to plan or work, then suddenly they are on the streets becasue they are lazy.
The do nothing parent scratch their head and can't figure out why ignoring a child for 18 years has lead to them being 'lazy'.
You can always tell the people who don't have kids, because they think they know everything about how parenting should be done. Not based on anything as grossly boring as books or other reference material, no... just based on "it stands to reason" and ad hominem attack. I salute you and people like you, sir. I'm sorry that your parents ignored you for 18 years and now consider you lazy. Your arguments are valid and justified!
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I'm a software guy just like you. It's just that I am also a software guy with a hobbyist understanding of amateur radio and electronics. You can learn how to do this too.
am I the only one reading this story and thinking, "so what?". The most interesting this is that apparently the digital signal was embedded into the tv-feed for the video. One would think that they would strip that back out before broadcast. The rest? I'm guessing that this woman has an amateur radio background, for her to know what 1200baud BFSK sounds like and to have all of the SDR software already on her computer. The rest is just hexdump and pattern matching. Sorry, I know this is an oversimplification, but this isn't genius either.
Yes, but service may have been completed by publication and the GP doesn't understand what happened. The lawyer from the debt collection company would then take a stack of motions for orders of default into ex-parte and get their default judgement order against you.
Um, do you mind disclosing _when_ and _where_ this was? I can't imagine any circumstances in which I would consider it acceptable to be asked to sit a polygraph test in order to obtain a job. Especially a crappy minimum wage job. I mean, if you're trying to get hired as a state trooper or CIA agent or who knows what, then fine.. I'd consider it the sort of request that you just have to deal with in those career paths... but RADIO SHACK?!? Seriously? I desperately want to know when this was. Is McDonald's administering lie detector tests now? I can absolutely promise that if I were looking for a terrible job, I would under no circumstances agree to take a polygraph.
Double edged safety razors really are the only way to go. The blades cost nearly nothing.. I think I pay $2.00 for a 10-pack from the store. The razor itself walks right through any length of beard hair... none of that trying to tap the hair out from between the twin/quad/octuple blades. Once I tried it, I honestly couldn't fathom why everyone switched to disposable multi-bladed razors in the first place. The interesting thing is that my wife&daughters all borrow my "scary old-timey razor" for doing their legs. They agree that it works better than any other razor they've found. I'm just saying, give it a shot. You can find an old gilette DE razor on ebay for a few dollars or buy one of the new overpriced merkur models (but I wouldn't bother).
Could you please post a page/paragraph reference and quote? As much as I would love to find what you are describing, I don't see anything in any of the rulings (including the current one, on PDF) that give end users the right to backup DVD's for personal use.
Can you post a link? Also, does statute really give the library of congress the power to create exceptions to the DMCA?
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1) The DMCA doesn't use the words "Decrypting", it uses the words "Circumventing". Could it be argued that using some specialized software to do a bitwise copy of the disc to local drive and then another piece of specialized software to mount the image is circumventing the copy protection of the disc? I think that yes, quite possibly. The copy protection is meant to keep anyone from making a copy of any sort, therefore circumventing it is circumventing it. Perhaps slightly more of a grey area, but only in an interesting legal argument sort of way. You'd still have the same lawsuit on your hards (Well, if it was a DMCA suit, then it would be the FBI seizing computers, subject to arrest, the whole nine yards)... Most people are ill-equipped to deal with a large scale civil suit, let alone a criminal one, even though a criminal suit is actually far easier to have dismissed. Please don't take this as approval of this law - but I believe only with visibility into the seriousness of the legal problem can people really understand and hopefully change it.
2) It sort of misses the point of the "loaned that backup to a friend" that the OP was talking about. I mean, you can't read the ensuing data chunk in a dvd player, for certain... and "Here, buddy, hand me your portable HD and I'll copy this .iso onto your disk and you'll be able to mount it and view it at home" seems unlikely.
Anyways, thanks for letting me know. Now I'm interested to see how legit the technique really is. I'm still very very skeptical. Have you done it yourself?
You can copy DVDs bit for bit, thus not breaking encryption. You argument falls apart there,
srsly? We can copy DVD's without breaking the encryption? How exactly does that work, then? Also, no fair cheating and saying "Well, it _could_ be done, you just wouldn't be able to watch it." because that's useless.
I watch movies for free all the time over at a friend's house. He rented or bought them, I paid nothing. If he loans me the physical media, is that illegal? I still paid nothing. Now just stretch it a bit further and say he ripped it for the purposes of back up, then loaned me that copy? There isn't a lot of difference in these scenarios, and it proves, that yes, you can legally watch movies for free sometimes.
Well, no, there actually is a difference in those scenarios. In the first scenario, you are not breaking the law or committing a crime. In the second scenario, a DVD is being decrypted. This is a violation of the DMCA and a crime under US statutory law. You should always strive to be aware of the laws that you break. https://www.eff.org/es/wp/unintended-consequences-under-dmca
THIS. I wish I hadn't burned my mod points earlier today, this needs to be modded up.
There is something profoundly broken about our justice system in that the general public takes joy in imagining the likelihood of prison rape.
Have you considered lending the machine to a NetBSD developer? In order to have hardware supported, we need the conjunction of (access to hardware, skills, time). You may lack the second entry of the tuple, but someone else may just lack the first one.
NetBSD mailing lists (port-sgimips here) are the right place to discuss such an arrangement
Eh, lack of availability of those computers isn't the problem. The problem is that the systems have very custom/unique architecture and there isn't a lot of end-user desire. I, too, went through what the GP is talking about. Irix is _still_ commercial and is realistically still the only option if you want to fire up your Octane. I went down all of the roads I possibly could with Linux/mips & NetBSD/mips.. support on both sides of the coin was the same: Terrible. Anything besides Irix on those old mips SGI's is pretty much useless, everything from "Hey, I got a bootloader to work and you can totally telnet into the machine, no framebuffer support" to "framebuffer support, mostly works, but no acceleration of any kind". The SGI Octane is really a conversation piece at this point anyways, I donated my long ago to the local PC-recycler and they turned it into scrap metal. Not old/rare enough to be a museum piece and not new/fast enough for modern use.
http://xkcd.com/244/
You can't recreate signal once it is lost. All interpolation would do in this example is chew up more disk space.
IANAL, but I _think_ that I would need to move for and receive an order giving permission to file a motion in that case, since I am not a party to the action? Wouldn't that be an Amicus motion? .. although, I suppose that if you are one of the John Doe's listed in the case (and didn't mind to identify yourself) - and were currently pro se? then I think you could file that motion. Who knows. Maybe everybody should try it and we'll see what happens.
Worst case, the court throws out a thousand motions.
Ah, that makes more sense to me now. Yes, ebay/paypal deliberately punishes sellers that are foolish enough to ship outside of the united states. Chargebacks are super common and they can last as long as a month. The sale that made me stop selling outside of the country left my paypal account negative $100 for a month. Most of that money was the shipping to the country in question (Ukraine)... All for a $30 videocard. Never again. If you don't like it, encourage ebay to be fair to the sellers that are even-handed about shipping internationally.
$50-$100 are you serious? http://www.ebay.com/itm/IBM-Model-M-Clicky-Keyboard-PS-2-tested-working-SEPT-1993-/121075252956?pt=PCA_Mice_Trackballs&hash=item1c30a5bedc
Any time I see a bluescreen, I look first (and most of the time LAST) at the RAM. It's almost always a problem with buying sketchy commodity ram. Sometimes, however, the bluescreen can be from something more obscure. The other day, I diagnosed a bluescreen that was happening due to the failure of the swap file while gaming. Apparently the underperforming power supply wasn't able to power BOTH the videocard and the HD at the same time (or at least, not fast enough for the swapfile to operate correctly) and bluescreen. One Powersupply swap later and all was well.
FYI, this is now on at least one of the licensing tests. (I can't recall which one).
... though amateur radio is an aging community (fewer young people than decades ago).
I'm not sure that this is true any longer. With the advent of removing all morse code requirements from all amateur radio licenses, it really opened the doors to the casually interested technical engineer. I am a third generation ham and from what I have observed, amateur radio basically "skipped a generation" in general. There was a time when electronics MEANT radio. Period. If you were talking about electronics, you were talking about radio. However, that changed in my father's generation to electronics meaning Computers. That generation never became amateur radio operators, because their interest in electronics went in the direction of computers instead of radio. My generation seems to be focused on combining the two. I know a lot of ancient and crusty hams and a lot of fairly young hams. Not so many in-between. I'd be interested to see some real statistical numbers regarding total licenses and ages, if any such exist.
Which states have antiquated alimony laws? Washington state is not one of them, then. I have no dislike for "Ask Men", I have dislike for hyperbole and unsubstantiated argument. I asked the GP for justification of his arguments and he quotes a men's magazine, rather than a legal journal or any other reliable legal source. I understand that men want to feel like the deck is stacked against them in the courtroom, but at least in washington state, that's not really true. Provided the man doesn't totally screw up his case (which is extraordinarily common), he has the same chances that a woman does for custody of the kids (or near enough). The interesting thing about family law is that it is almost entirely decided at the state level. Therefore, any declaration of the state of family law in this country must be bounded by defining the states in question, otherwise the statement is meaningless. State law, family law included, is wildly different from state to state in this country.
Do you know why the first person that files for divorce usually wins? It is because that person is the one that is prepared. Consequently, the person that did NOT bring the case is the UNprepared. Now, when you're going to get into a race to see who can spend $30,000 the fastest, who do you think will win: The prepared or the unprepared? I thought so.
My personal feeling with regard to why men oftentimes get so reamed in divorces is because they go into immediate "just give me the damned papers and I'll sign them and get out of my life" mode. I've seen it repeatedly. When wifey says she's leaving you for another man, husband doesn't want to settle into the fight for the rest of his life. He just wants to give her everything she is asking for so that she will go away and he can cry in peace.
Honestly, it is ludicrous that you are taking legal advice from a men's fashion magazine and only proves my point regarding the cluelessness of most men when it comes to law.
Wow, this is a load of nonsense. If what you say is true in your state, kindly provide the name of that state so that we can argue facts instead of mind boggling hyperbole. I was with you until about halfway through your post until you went on a completely uninformed rant about family law. Can I guess that you got reamed in a divorce or know somebody who did, and that's where you formed your legal opinions?
Fuck you, you poor excuse for a limp wristed cum stain.
YOU and people like YOU are clueless fucks that would watch society burn to the ground to hold onto you belief instead of thinking. They need help. Most haven't even been taught how to plan or work, then suddenly they are on the streets becasue they are lazy. The do nothing parent scratch their head and can't figure out why ignoring a child for 18 years has lead to them being 'lazy'.
You can always tell the people who don't have kids, because they think they know everything about how parenting should be done. Not based on anything as grossly boring as books or other reference material, no... just based on "it stands to reason" and ad hominem attack. I salute you and people like you, sir. I'm sorry that your parents ignored you for 18 years and now consider you lazy. Your arguments are valid and justified!