The dvd machine(hollywood, not the player) has already fscked this up for us. if you note, in the print," supports all copy protection " this means that unless the hardware eng. who designed it with a backdoor you could drive a truck thru, you can't copy dvd's. However, a dvd played through a macrovision stripper, into the inputs would probably record ok though...
I agree: the only way to get rid of these assholes is an all out war. I used to think that metallica thought the way i did; no, i was wrong. i've never been all about the money. Code, or music, stands on its own, and metallica' music meant something as a social outcast; it means nothing as a 'hardcore wanna-be'. ask dave mustaine whether the music or the money was important to those guys. He may not sound as polished as their machine, but at least he sounds honest. The way to get these bastards is: a.) Take your cd collection to a friends. b.) copy what you like, let them copy what they like. don't buy their crap. all the good music has already been released. (havent you heard metallica's new one on the web? IT SUCKS!!!!!) your friends have the cd's you don't. Social engineering is a good thing. ask kevin.
Check out the first paper, Esp. the labels in Figure 1. I can see Frasier Crane playing quake and yelling, "Die, Mr. poopypants!!" This Study basically says : Men are Naturally Violent. They must instinctively have some propensity for violence. Damn. I always thought that we (humans) were top of the food chain. No telling how many less successful predators helped shape our minds. Now some morons have went and spent millions of dollars to prove that men like to hunt, even virtually, more than solve puzzles. Now, in my neck of the woods, the women are just as vicious as the men. More, if you just fragged them. These guys found enough correlation to get some headlines, and that will probably be enough. No one else will read the papers, just the headlines.
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This is exactly the way that things are going now. Universities have taken the viewpoint that"We only give crappy,300 person classes at $1000 a pop, and if you want a degree you have to put up with our bullshit." I guess that that is why ill be a non-degreed engineer forever. Only a few of my coworkers understand that to be good at something, you need to 'grok' it, not just learn enough to pass the test. Copyrights in the computer age are keeping knowlege from people who will be needed to extend that computer age to its next reach. We could knuckle under, but, i think we'll see 'unaproved' versions of everything from Math texts to fifty year old sci-fi. I believe that everything should be online, at a price lower than a student's lunch fund, to allow people to determine what they truly enjoy; looking at a meteor crater can lead to a careey in astronomy; imagine the links possible if the artificial bounds on knowlege placed there by greed were removed. The vast majority care about entertainment, but the same copyrights control non-fiction works as well. What if textbooks only came on ebooks, and had to be deleted after passing the exams?
Anyone remember the satellite TV thing in the 80s? for awhile people were able to get all the channels with an illegal decoder. this helped sell systems even when they were still expensive, and most local sat. shops could sell you an illegal decoder under the table. The sat. broadcasters knew, and made noises, but , as this helped improve the market base, they didnt do anything major. After a while, people with illegal decoders noticed that there were porn on some of the channels near 'religeous' broadcasts. then the shit hit the fan; American Triple exxtacy was taken off the air, and legislation was passed, and now hardly anyone has an old 10' sat. dish. Once the 'see everything' part was taken away, there wasnt the incentive for the people to go thru the hassles associated with the technology.
Now, HDTV is going to be all digital, MPEG-2 just like(or very similar to) DVD. NOTE that without decoders, your old TV isnt going to be able to see a picture at all. All or these decoders will have to have macrovision 'copy protection' on their outputs to 'ensure the rights of the copyright holder'. You wont be able to make tapes of stuff you've done for years. And, since DCMA, anything you do about it will be criminal. You may have to subscribe to'ER' if you want to see it. If they use CSS on broadcast, unless you subscribe, you wont be able to see anything. Remember, The deadline YOUR congress set is 2006 for ALL broadcast TV to be digital. You might want to keep some of that old VHS stuff in the garage, so you can watch something without a subscription. And get a TV composite output filter, capable of stripping macrovision, before theyre made illegal under DCMA.(May this year, i believe.)
I'm not a number cruncher, or cad affectionado, but one of the best benchmarks I've personally found to jibe with the 'feel' of a system is the Quake demos. If it gives me 100frames per second in Q3, then it isnt going to slow down with anything else i throw at it either. 'Course, my system philosophy is CPU MHz, Tons o memory, Tons o cache, a kickass video card with tons o memory, and a fast harddrive. (my current gaming system is a bit behind the times, but still outperforms a new 2500 dollar intel machine!) K6-3,2MB L3 cache,128MB ram, and a TNT2 rules for me. And yes this is a socket 7. No i dont buy top of the line hardware. i wait for the price to drop first. I've got $600 in this one.
Yeah, right! Turn over the education of children to fundamentalist religeous fanatics. This can only lead to further degradation of the american way of life. In the last few decades, it seems the ones who do the work that keeps the country alive have been ignoring the politicos and hoping they will go away. the ones who are voting are either on the public dole, or are voting for idiots who seem to know what theyre doing, but really dont. What is the effective difference between Al and GWIII? Ans: GW3 will fire the DOJ and set MS free, while lining his pockets. Al will only line his pockets, while telling us that its 'for the environment'. The 'war on drugs' is a war against americans. With musicians on MTV reporting how they financed their first albums with money from selling drugs, do we really think anyone will listen? All repressive societies used these tactics to consolidate their control. It starts with 'Educating' children with propaganda, and goes downhill from there. Our current 'hitler youth' organisation could be 'dare' or 'wave' or whatever, but it WILL come if we let it. The net exposes freedom for all to see; some governments really dont like that; in ten years will their childern be able to compete globally? If some fundamentalist organisation takes over our children's education, will they be able to understand what we do? Evolution is a litmus test of some of these problems; If you dont understand the practicality of evolution, could you ever understand biology; i.e. AIDS progression, or other disease development? "Oh, you're from Kansas, they don't teach biology well enough to get into this college." To conclude, we need to seperate the idiots from congress, and their public teat, not let someone less qualified, however well meaning, teach.
Totally cool metaphor. But, in the current age, could you see Microsoft deciding to change their click thru liscense to" and all software written with a DO..LOOP statement must pay $xxx to use our patented technology". Compilers as revenue streams are actually possible under the current legal arena, as uncool as that sounds. probably wait until after using debuggers is outlawed tho...
I suppose that murder laws are a nuisance to some people; Your average felon can't lobby congress to get them changed.(thank bog.) So why should we support these a**holes who rewrite our laws to our detriment? We should raise hell with our congresspeople(living in their multimillion-dollar estates, spending millions to get elected to a 200k a year job) and so on. these people live of our money, that we choose to give them. I havent bought anything since the DVD bs started, and now, i wont be buying cd's until they get off napsters' ass either. I think the best protest is to go to wal-mart, buy a case of blank computer style CDs, and invite our friends over with their cd collection. That way they (the record companies) get no income, and maybe after the fall of the record co.s, artists will get more than pennies per cd.
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These Bastards. Last night i was trying, once again to 'remove' some of the 'features' of a really great video card, which i paid for.(A creative TNT2 ultra.) All of these great features have one thing in mind. Preventing me from enjoying my dvd's. The built in macrovision in the tv out chip is really pissing me off! I bought this card, not only for gaming, but to watch dvd's. The Picture looks wonderful while recording our quake 3 matches, but, the macrovision encoded pic is crap. the Matrix looks like it was filmed underwater! Sometimes, if i load the software inthe correct order, the cinemaster dvd player won't turn on MV. If it does after the video starts, it crashes the entire machine!! This is directly tracable to the driver,Written by creative and Nvidia!! These bastards are in on it too!!! It just works so much better to rip to harddrive, remove macrovision, and CSS, and watch it from there.
The electric outlet is also a great way to get the phone line replaced, if they're noisy, but wouldnt you hate to burn down a building or something? BTW- all ethernet card output circuits include a really cool thing that protects against such malfeasance. The (usually the biggest on the pcb) big black box on the ethernet card is a isolation/power supply device. it has a minimum isolation voltage in the thousands of volts.So the output is protected against 110/220 volt 'accidents'. But, In the original article, Everyone contends for bandwidth on an ethernet. colliding packets delay for a time, then try to retransmit. two quake servers on a 10Mbps ethernet is terribly congested; If these guys played online,there could be nothing left for the university to operate on.
I agree totally with you. I still play firat ed. AD&D, not as regularly as we used to, but some of my characters have been alive over twenty years. I never bought into the Demons and devils deletions of the second edition. it sucked. I won't be fucking with the third ed. for the same reasons. I still have my original books, dice, and miniatures, backups of the books scanned on cd, and will have forever.BTW, i'm also working on the 'unending' AD&D networkable DM aid/Character interaction program, and if i ever get it workable, i'll release it to the web, fuck thier copyright bullshit!!
So, You think that, just because you've paid for it, your house belongs to you? Don't pay taxes on 'your' property and see what happens. Or, maybe some legislator concieves a sweetheart deal, and your property is in the way. can you say Eminent Domain? We're all Slaves, from top to bottom. Who holds the strings? We will never know...
Not only does m$ get a whole shitload of info from your PC when you login to they're 'Update' site, our 'friend' AOL also creates a huge database of info on your pc and uploads it when you connect the first time. Filemon is such a wonderful program. And is it a coincidence that AOL's mainframes are physically located so close to the CIA and NSA? They realize that the really good programmers won't ' work for the facists'.(A quote from Teller, the first time he quit work on the fusion bomb.) So, they have to make sure they aren't overthrown somehow!
This has got to be the stupidest thing i've seen yet. The only use for this is to 'protect' copyright holders' interests at the expense of our pockets. Why encrypt a display unless you work on nukes? This makes the DVD issue small somehow...
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The dvd machine(hollywood, not the player) has already fscked this up for us. if you note, in the print," supports all copy protection " this means that unless the hardware eng. who designed it with a backdoor you could drive a truck thru, you can't copy dvd's. However, a dvd played through a macrovision stripper, into the inputs would probably record ok though...
I agree: the only way to get rid of these assholes is an all out war.
I used to think that metallica thought the way i did; no, i was wrong. i've never been all about the money. Code, or music, stands on its own, and metallica' music meant something as a social outcast; it means nothing as a 'hardcore wanna-be'. ask dave mustaine whether the music or the money was important to those guys. He may not sound as polished as their machine, but at least he sounds honest. The way to get these bastards is: a.) Take your cd collection to a friends.
b.) copy what you like, let them copy what they like.
don't buy their crap.
all the good music has already been released. (havent you heard metallica's new one on the web? IT SUCKS!!!!!)
your friends have the cd's you don't.
Social engineering is a good thing. ask kevin.
Check out the first paper, Esp. the labels in Figure 1. I can see Frasier Crane playing quake and yelling, "Die, Mr. poopypants!!"
This Study basically says : Men are Naturally Violent. They must instinctively have some propensity for violence. Damn. I always thought that we (humans) were top of the food chain.
No telling how many less successful predators helped shape our minds.
Now some morons have went and spent millions of dollars to prove that men like to hunt, even virtually, more than solve puzzles.
Now, in my neck of the woods, the women are just as vicious as the men. More, if you just fragged them.
These guys found enough correlation to get some headlines, and that will probably be enough. No one else will read the papers, just the headlines.
This is exactly the way that things are going now. Universities have taken the viewpoint that"We only give crappy,300 person classes at $1000 a pop, and if you want a degree you have to put up with our bullshit." I guess that that is why ill be a non-degreed engineer forever. Only a few of my coworkers understand that to be good at something, you need to 'grok' it, not just learn enough to pass the test. Copyrights in the computer age are keeping knowlege from people who will be needed to extend that computer age to its next reach. We could knuckle under, but, i think we'll see 'unaproved' versions of everything from Math texts to fifty year old sci-fi. I believe that everything should be online, at a price lower than a student's lunch fund, to allow people to determine what they truly enjoy; looking at a meteor crater can lead to a careey in astronomy; imagine the links possible if the artificial bounds on knowlege placed there by greed were removed. The vast majority care about entertainment, but the same copyrights control non-fiction works as well. What if textbooks only came on ebooks, and had to be deleted after passing the exams?
Anyone remember the satellite TV thing in the 80s? for awhile people were able to get all the channels with an illegal decoder. this helped sell systems even when they were still expensive, and most local sat. shops could sell you an illegal decoder under the table. The sat. broadcasters knew, and made noises, but , as this helped improve the market base, they didnt do anything major. After a while, people with illegal decoders noticed that there were porn on some of the channels near 'religeous' broadcasts. then the shit hit the fan; American Triple exxtacy was taken off the air, and legislation was passed, and now hardly anyone has an old 10' sat. dish. Once the 'see everything' part was taken away, there wasnt the incentive for the people to go thru the hassles associated with the technology.
Now, HDTV is going to be all digital, MPEG-2 just like(or very similar to) DVD. NOTE that without decoders, your old TV isnt going to be able to see a picture at all. All or these decoders will have to have macrovision 'copy protection' on their outputs to 'ensure the rights of the copyright holder'. You wont be able to make tapes of stuff you've done for years. And, since DCMA, anything you do about it will be criminal. You may have to subscribe to'ER' if you want to see it. If they use CSS on broadcast, unless you subscribe, you wont be able to see anything. Remember, The deadline YOUR congress set is 2006 for ALL broadcast TV to be digital. You might want to keep some of that old VHS stuff in the garage, so you can watch something without a subscription. And get a TV composite output filter, capable of stripping macrovision, before theyre made illegal under DCMA.(May this year, i believe.)
I'm not a number cruncher, or cad affectionado, but one of the best benchmarks I've personally found to jibe with the 'feel' of a system is the Quake demos. If it gives me 100frames per second in Q3, then it isnt going to slow down with anything else i throw at it either. 'Course, my system philosophy is CPU MHz, Tons o memory, Tons o cache, a kickass video card with tons o memory, and a fast harddrive. (my current gaming system is a bit behind the times, but still outperforms a new 2500 dollar intel machine!) K6-3,2MB L3 cache,128MB ram, and a TNT2 rules for me. And yes this is a socket 7. No i dont buy top of the line hardware. i wait for the price to drop first. I've got $600 in this one.
Yeah, right!
Turn over the education of children to fundamentalist religeous fanatics. This can only lead to further degradation of the american way of life. In the last few decades, it seems the ones who do the work that keeps the country alive have been ignoring the politicos and hoping they will go away. the ones who are voting are either on the public dole, or are voting for idiots who seem to know what theyre doing, but really dont. What is the effective difference between Al and GWIII? Ans: GW3 will fire the DOJ and set MS free, while lining his pockets. Al will only line his pockets, while telling us that its 'for the environment'. The 'war on drugs' is a war against americans. With musicians on MTV reporting how they financed their first albums with money from selling drugs, do we really think anyone will listen? All repressive societies used these tactics to consolidate their control. It starts with 'Educating' children with propaganda, and goes downhill from there. Our current 'hitler youth' organisation could be 'dare' or 'wave' or whatever, but it WILL come if we let it. The net exposes freedom for all to see; some governments really dont like that; in ten years will their childern be able to compete globally? If some fundamentalist organisation takes over our children's education, will they be able to understand what we do? Evolution is a litmus test of some of these problems; If you dont understand the practicality of evolution, could you ever understand biology; i.e. AIDS progression, or other disease development? "Oh, you're from Kansas, they don't teach biology well enough to get into this college." To conclude, we need to seperate the idiots from congress, and their public teat, not let someone less qualified, however well meaning, teach.
Totally cool metaphor. But, in the current age, could you see Microsoft deciding to change their click thru liscense to" and all software written with a DO..LOOP statement must pay $xxx to use our patented technology". Compilers as revenue streams are actually possible under the current legal arena, as uncool as that sounds. probably wait until after using debuggers is outlawed tho...
I suppose that murder laws are a nuisance to some people; Your average felon can't lobby congress to get them changed.(thank bog.) So why should we support these a**holes who rewrite our laws to our detriment? We should raise hell with our congresspeople(living in their multimillion-dollar estates, spending millions to get elected to a 200k a year job) and so on. these people live of our money, that we choose to give them. I havent bought anything since the DVD bs started, and now, i wont be buying cd's until they get off napsters' ass either. I think the best protest is to go to wal-mart, buy a case of blank computer style CDs, and invite our friends over with their cd collection. That way they (the record companies) get no income, and maybe after the fall of the record co.s, artists will get more than pennies per cd.
These Bastards. Last night i was trying, once again to 'remove' some of the 'features' of a really great video card, which i paid for.(A creative TNT2 ultra.) All of these great features have one thing in mind. Preventing me from enjoying my dvd's. The built in macrovision in the tv out chip is really pissing me off! I bought this card, not only for gaming, but to watch dvd's. The Picture looks wonderful while recording our quake 3 matches, but, the macrovision encoded pic is crap. the Matrix looks like it was filmed underwater! Sometimes, if i load the software inthe correct order, the cinemaster dvd player won't turn on MV. If it does after the video starts, it crashes the entire machine!! This is directly tracable to the driver,Written by creative and Nvidia!! These bastards are in on it too!!! It just works so much better to rip to harddrive, remove macrovision, and CSS, and watch it from there.
The electric outlet is also a great way to get the phone line replaced, if they're noisy, but wouldnt you hate to burn down a building or something? BTW- all ethernet card output circuits include a really cool thing that protects against such malfeasance. The (usually the biggest on the pcb) big black box on the ethernet card is a isolation/power supply device. it has a minimum isolation voltage in the thousands of volts.So the output is protected against 110/220 volt 'accidents'. But, In the original article, Everyone contends for bandwidth on an ethernet. colliding packets delay for a time, then try to retransmit. two quake servers on a 10Mbps ethernet is terribly congested; If these guys played online,there could be nothing left for the university to operate on.
I agree totally with you. I still play firat ed. AD&D, not as regularly as we used to, but some of my characters have been alive over twenty years. I never bought into the Demons and devils deletions of the second edition. it sucked. I won't be fucking with the third ed. for the same reasons.
I still have my original books, dice, and miniatures, backups of the books scanned on cd, and will have forever.BTW, i'm also working on the 'unending' AD&D networkable DM aid/Character interaction program, and if i ever get it workable, i'll release it to the web, fuck thier copyright bullshit!!
So, You think that, just because you've paid for it, your house belongs to you?
Don't pay taxes on 'your' property and see what happens. Or, maybe some legislator concieves a sweetheart deal, and your property is in the way.
can you say Eminent Domain? We're all Slaves, from top to bottom. Who holds the strings? We will never know...
Not only does m$ get a whole shitload of info from your PC when you login to they're 'Update' site, our 'friend' AOL also creates a huge database of info on your pc and uploads it when you connect the first time. Filemon is such a wonderful program. And is it a coincidence that AOL's mainframes are physically located so close to the CIA and NSA? They realize that the really good programmers won't ' work for the facists' .(A quote from Teller, the first time he quit work on the fusion bomb.) So, they have to make sure they aren't overthrown somehow!
This has got to be the stupidest thing i've seen yet. The only use for this is to 'protect' copyright holders' interests at the expense of our pockets. Why encrypt a display unless you work on nukes? This makes the DVD issue small somehow...