I don't have an HD-DVD or Blueray, so my knowledge is a bit fuzzy.
Having broken this key, any HD-DVD that was encrypted with this specific key is breakable, and will continue to be breakable, correct? It is just that any new HD-DVD productions will not include this specific key, correct?
It that's the case I don't think I would call that an all out victory for them, at best it's a push, but the player came out ahead. Prior to the crack, the consumer had no option, just after the crack the consumer had all options, after the key was revoked the consumer has all options on all HD-DVDs that have already been produced.
"This situation is of course ridiculous. There is no accountability in the patent system. That is, there is no feedback in the system that ensures the USPTO provides high quality patents. The USPTO does not get sued if they give out stupid patents. No, you need to hire a patent lawyer and go sort it out in court. There are even some patent lawyers that specialise in mining the patents for prior art conflicts and solicite business that way."
Is there a legal reason why the USPTO can not be sued? Hypothetically, if I as an inventor had to spend $100,000 in legal fees defending my invention against bad patents, why can I not turn around and sue the USPTO for issuing a patent on something that is obvious, has prior art, or is for some other blatant reason non-patentable?
"It's good to see that this patent is (or appears to be) registered as a free patent that can be used by anyone."
I'm curious as to how you came to that conclusion. The patent has been published, but I don't see anything in the link stating that the company has a non-enforcement vow.
Now, I'm pretty sure there is a whole slew of prior are on this, especially since it sounds like they are describing the method Visual Studio uses for break points and debugging. Heck even the debugging tools in VB5 and VB6 fit this description and that's from back in the mid/late 90's.
Correct! FRAPS adds little to the video processing load. For people who are interested in recording game play though, knowing that a card that costs 1/3rd as much will provided you the exact same output (30fps) can drastically alter their purchasing decision.
I'm right there with you. My friends and I built a map of our high school in Doom. We even put deamon spawn points in some of the classrooms where teachers we didn't like worked. All of the students involved have gone on to grow into productive contributing members of society with out killing a single person.
In addition to working on doom and quake levels based on real world locations, I also grew up around guns (with a very healthy respect for them), listened to heavy metal, and was probably considered a non-conformist to most (ie: trench coat and combat boot wearing, angst ridden, KMFDM listening, rivet head-teenager).
Had I gone to school after Columbine or VA Tech, I would have likely been arrested and secured for the safety of society, instead of going on to serve honorably in the US Marine Corps, working in medical research, and raising a family. The real shame here is how this kid's life will forever be changed because of overzealous scaremongers trying to make examples of anyone who doesn't fit in their homogenized view of society.
Although I highly doubt that Pen and Teller could pull it off, what about...
2012, Stewart/Colbert?
-Rick
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"...he doesn't have the quick thinking which will kill him in debates unless he over-reherses."
Err, I'm not sure if you were watching the same 2000 presidential debate but I'm pretty sure that Gore was significantly lighter on his feet behind the podium than Bush was. Gore made mistakes in that debate, 2 biggies: 1) He underestimated Bush (which is really really hard to do), and 2) He over estimated the intelligence of the average American. The *sigh* is what really cost him personality points. He was attempting to hammer home the point that he was debating with the official Mesquite, TX town idiot. Unfortunately for him he just wound up coming off as being pretentious. Gore is hardly a one trick pony, he's a military vet, served in both the house and the senate, and was Clinton's VP for 8 years. The guy knows the arena. And his work on the environment has hardly been limited to the US, he has been working internationally to try to find global solutions. The guys is experienced in international diplomacy and negotiation, that alone should put him as one of the top ranked candidates for cleaning up our presence in the Middle East.
"...2 years from now when we see that congress has done nothing they promised and everything they didn't, then we'll start hearing "it's because of Bush". But it's the fact that they want to grandstand and grab as much power as they can now."
Very true! I voted for representatives that said they would work towards finding an end to the war. If they fail to follow through with those campaign promises, I would not be nearly so likely to vote for them again. But, just because they didn't do their best doesn't be that they are immediately the worst candidate running. As you mentioned, I would sooner vote for a republicrat than Hitler.
"Remember the Republican are looking at Mccain and Guiliani, not bad candidates."
Okay, now there you've jumped off the deep end. McCain and Guiliani are horrible candidates! McCain will not be elected because he is for the war in Iraq and he has also backed military actions against Iran ("bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran" is NOT a Beach Boys song). Opposition to the war is at about 70% right now, if McCain wins the primary, he will be handing the Democrats a victory. Guiliani is a bad choice for any number of reasons, mob affiliations, track record, moral fortitude... The guy has is notable only because he is good on TV and got his face in front of as many cameras as he could on 9/11. He did a good job of being a public face when Bush/Cheny were indisposed, but he's about bungled everything he's touched since then. I would say that he is a better candidate than McCain in that he is more likely to win, but with the amount of dirt that is already known about him, and the skeletons he has to deal with, he's going to be eaten alive by the media and special interest groups.
I would actually say that IF Bush continues to push the war, and the Republicans in Congress do not jump ship, it would be an excellent time to introduce a 3rd party to the mix. With the republicans completely defunct in the eyes of the voters, and the Democrats seemingly incompetent or complacent, the Green and Libertarian parties could really make some headway in 2k8.
On the other hand, the volunteer's decision to try and cash out rather than cooperate with the campaign is a little short-sighted. If he really thought Obama had a shot at winning, he might have been better served to work with the campaign, maintain their official page, and use that leverage to angle for a cushy government job when Obama got elected.
Except that they made it clear to him that he would NOT be part of the future of the page. The one time payment was just a trap, and the guy fell for it. No matter how crooked they were in going about it, they can destroy his credibility by saying he was just in it for the cash. Even if he had said no to the payment offer, they would have muscled him out one way or another.
The polite thing to do would have been to split the different and give the guy some chump change for his costs and an invite to a few events as a special contributor. Would a few dinners really dent that $28 million dollar campaign?
Anyways, who cares. Obama is nothing more than a republicrat. He's riding the Bush bashing coat tails like all of the democrats but he hasn't shown anything of substance for how he is going to do things better on his watch. Preaching to the choir that Bush sucks is great and all, but what does he actually bring to the table? 4 more years of political foot play at the tax payers' expense.
Nah, if you want real change... Gore/Edwards in '08, now THAT would be an exciting 4 years.
I picked up an 8800 GTS 320meg card a few weeks ago for under $300. The thing runs all my games at top settings with AA cranked up on a 20.1" wide screen. I can run FRAPS through Shat'rath in WoW and still keep 30+ fps.
Unfortunately this will actually wind up to be a DRM like solution: It will annoy those who follow the rules, and those who don't want to follow the rules will circumvent it easily enough. If you (as a soldier) wanted to release information to the public and/or the enemy, this rule will not stop you. If anything it would be the enforcement of this rule that could stop you except that as TFA says, no commander has the kind of time this rule would require to enforce, and over time the rule will become ignored and irrelevant.
And for the record, there are 11 types of people in the world: Those that understand Binary, those that don't, and those that are extremely tired of that joke.
I would love to see that post as +5 Redundant. We all know 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 is going to be waaaaaay over abused for ever now, but at least that post was a good use of it.
Saying 4096 was probably the easy part. Of course someone probably had to research what the largest (time efficient) and smallest (space efficient) block size would give the greatest advantage in space/time for current average files. But eventually you get into the issue of working with Hard Drive manufacturers who likely have to redesign some circuits and controls _from scratch_, BIOS developers who have to recode to detect and support two different standards, and OS/Driver developers who also have to deal with any low level changes...
You're talking about interacting with likely hundreds of companies trying to come up with a single standard that 1) they can all agree on and 2) won't make any of them lose money. Good luck.
How are we suppose to protect civilians with those pescky civil rights getting in our way? It will be so much easier to protect people when we lock them up in jail. </sarcasm>
Agreed! I had a friend who lost damn near 100lbs on the DDR diet.
People will yell about this being a waste of money, but if using technology in this way can help curb the obesity issue in this country, it will well more than pay for itself as the number of over weight adults taxing the health care system with weight related health complications will be reduced as these children grow up.
Yeah, I saw that "The database is built from Microsoft's Jet database engine." and WTF'd out loud.
The software used to tabulate votes is build on an Access database!?!? holy crap! Talk about the mother of all bad ideas. There are so many know issues and so many better options that this should never have gotten this far. Who the crap was in charge of designing this system? Jim from Accounting?
True, my assertion was more along the lines of 'if X destroys Y and no other act occurs, how is Z effected'.
Although, I would wager that Korea is still the larger threat. IF (once again huuuuuuuge if) Iran were capable of and did perform a government sanctioned nuclear attack on Israel, AND Israel and Iran did not utterly destroy each other in the immediate incident. Even in that case, I still doubt you would wind up with another World War. Saudi Arabia's and Egypt's (from my understanding, which in all fairness may be very flawed) governments are westernized enough to see the writing on the wall. Going to war for them would only end poorly. However, not going to war, but profiteering off of those engaged locally would be quite beneficial to them. So the most likely outcome would be an open celebration to the end of Israel by the people, and increased foreign insurgency in Iran from international extremists helping to defend against/attack who ever retaliates, and a region wide political attempt to maintain stability. Iran would likely blame the incident on sub-state actors, any remaining leadership would likely be disposed, and we would wind up with yet another Iraq-like situation.
Korea on the other hand, is right next to China. And as well as things have been going as of late with China, it only takes a couple of screw ups to make things get ugly when you have the worlds two largest super powers, armed to the teeth, decimating a country on the border with nuclear capabilities.
Woh, I think someone is a little out of touch here.
North Korea has a nuclear program and nuclear weapons (err had atleast 1). North Korea has delivery vehicles capable of striking through out the region (including Japan).
Iran has a fledgling nuclear power program. IF (and that's a big IF) they have a nuclear weapons program, it is still decades from functionality. Iran has a limited delivery range. The destruction of Israel, while it would be a horrendous act, would have a significantly smaller direct impact on the US than if North Korea nuked Japan.
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for keeping Iran in line (see my journal), but we don't need to invade Iran to keep them in check. And at this point in time, the government of Iran has no ability to directly harm the United States.
Substate actors (ie: militant extremists) do pose a threat, but by invading Iran we would be empowering them far more than we would be hurting them.
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I don't have an HD-DVD or Blueray, so my knowledge is a bit fuzzy.
Having broken this key, any HD-DVD that was encrypted with this specific key is breakable, and will continue to be breakable, correct? It is just that any new HD-DVD productions will not include this specific key, correct?
It that's the case I don't think I would call that an all out victory for them, at best it's a push, but the player came out ahead. Prior to the crack, the consumer had no option, just after the crack the consumer had all options, after the key was revoked the consumer has all options on all HD-DVDs that have already been produced.
-Rick
we wouldn't need vaults!
-Rick
"This situation is of course ridiculous. There is no accountability in the patent system. That is, there is no feedback in the system that ensures the USPTO provides high quality patents. The USPTO does not get sued if they give out stupid patents. No, you need to hire a patent lawyer and go sort it out in court. There are even some patent lawyers that specialise in mining the patents for prior art conflicts and solicite business that way."
Is there a legal reason why the USPTO can not be sued? Hypothetically, if I as an inventor had to spend $100,000 in legal fees defending my invention against bad patents, why can I not turn around and sue the USPTO for issuing a patent on something that is obvious, has prior art, or is for some other blatant reason non-patentable?
-Rick
"It's good to see that this patent is (or appears to be) registered as a free patent that can be used by anyone."
I'm curious as to how you came to that conclusion. The patent has been published, but I don't see anything in the link stating that the company has a non-enforcement vow.
-Rick
Filing Date: 05/01/2002
Publication Date: 11/06/2003
Now, I'm pretty sure there is a whole slew of prior are on this, especially since it sounds like they are describing the method Visual Studio uses for break points and debugging. Heck even the debugging tools in VB5 and VB6 fit this description and that's from back in the mid/late 90's.
-Rick
Correct! FRAPS adds little to the video processing load. For people who are interested in recording game play though, knowing that a card that costs 1/3rd as much will provided you the exact same output (30fps) can drastically alter their purchasing decision.
-Rick
I'm right there with you. My friends and I built a map of our high school in Doom. We even put deamon spawn points in some of the classrooms where teachers we didn't like worked. All of the students involved have gone on to grow into productive contributing members of society with out killing a single person.
In addition to working on doom and quake levels based on real world locations, I also grew up around guns (with a very healthy respect for them), listened to heavy metal, and was probably considered a non-conformist to most (ie: trench coat and combat boot wearing, angst ridden, KMFDM listening, rivet head-teenager).
Had I gone to school after Columbine or VA Tech, I would have likely been arrested and secured for the safety of society, instead of going on to serve honorably in the US Marine Corps, working in medical research, and raising a family. The real shame here is how this kid's life will forever be changed because of overzealous scaremongers trying to make examples of anyone who doesn't fit in their homogenized view of society.
-Rick
Although I highly doubt that Pen and Teller could pull it off, what about...
2012, Stewart/Colbert?
-Rick
"...he doesn't have the quick thinking which will kill him in debates unless he over-reherses."
Err, I'm not sure if you were watching the same 2000 presidential debate but I'm pretty sure that Gore was significantly lighter on his feet behind the podium than Bush was. Gore made mistakes in that debate, 2 biggies: 1) He underestimated Bush (which is really really hard to do), and 2) He over estimated the intelligence of the average American. The *sigh* is what really cost him personality points. He was attempting to hammer home the point that he was debating with the official Mesquite, TX town idiot. Unfortunately for him he just wound up coming off as being pretentious. Gore is hardly a one trick pony, he's a military vet, served in both the house and the senate, and was Clinton's VP for 8 years. The guy knows the arena. And his work on the environment has hardly been limited to the US, he has been working internationally to try to find global solutions. The guys is experienced in international diplomacy and negotiation, that alone should put him as one of the top ranked candidates for cleaning up our presence in the Middle East.
"...2 years from now when we see that congress has done nothing they promised and everything they didn't, then we'll start hearing "it's because of Bush". But it's the fact that they want to grandstand and grab as much power as they can now."
Very true! I voted for representatives that said they would work towards finding an end to the war. If they fail to follow through with those campaign promises, I would not be nearly so likely to vote for them again. But, just because they didn't do their best doesn't be that they are immediately the worst candidate running. As you mentioned, I would sooner vote for a republicrat than Hitler.
"Remember the Republican are looking at Mccain and Guiliani, not bad candidates."
Okay, now there you've jumped off the deep end. McCain and Guiliani are horrible candidates! McCain will not be elected because he is for the war in Iraq and he has also backed military actions against Iran ("bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran" is NOT a Beach Boys song). Opposition to the war is at about 70% right now, if McCain wins the primary, he will be handing the Democrats a victory. Guiliani is a bad choice for any number of reasons, mob affiliations, track record, moral fortitude... The guy has is notable only because he is good on TV and got his face in front of as many cameras as he could on 9/11. He did a good job of being a public face when Bush/Cheny were indisposed, but he's about bungled everything he's touched since then. I would say that he is a better candidate than McCain in that he is more likely to win, but with the amount of dirt that is already known about him, and the skeletons he has to deal with, he's going to be eaten alive by the media and special interest groups.
I would actually say that IF Bush continues to push the war, and the Republicans in Congress do not jump ship, it would be an excellent time to introduce a 3rd party to the mix. With the republicans completely defunct in the eyes of the voters, and the Democrats seemingly incompetent or complacent, the Green and Libertarian parties could really make some headway in 2k8.
-Rick
On the other hand, the volunteer's decision to try and cash out rather than cooperate with the campaign is a little short-sighted. If he really thought Obama had a shot at winning, he might have been better served to work with the campaign, maintain their official page, and use that leverage to angle for a cushy government job when Obama got elected.
Except that they made it clear to him that he would NOT be part of the future of the page. The one time payment was just a trap, and the guy fell for it. No matter how crooked they were in going about it, they can destroy his credibility by saying he was just in it for the cash. Even if he had said no to the payment offer, they would have muscled him out one way or another.
The polite thing to do would have been to split the different and give the guy some chump change for his costs and an invite to a few events as a special contributor. Would a few dinners really dent that $28 million dollar campaign?
Anyways, who cares. Obama is nothing more than a republicrat. He's riding the Bush bashing coat tails like all of the democrats but he hasn't shown anything of substance for how he is going to do things better on his watch. Preaching to the choir that Bush sucks is great and all, but what does he actually bring to the table? 4 more years of political foot play at the tax payers' expense.
Nah, if you want real change... Gore/Edwards in '08, now THAT would be an exciting 4 years.
-Rick
I picked up an 8800 GTS 320meg card a few weeks ago for under $300. The thing runs all my games at top settings with AA cranked up on a 20.1" wide screen. I can run FRAPS through Shat'rath in WoW and still keep 30+ fps.
-Rick
Unfortunately this will actually wind up to be a DRM like solution: It will annoy those who follow the rules, and those who don't want to follow the rules will circumvent it easily enough. If you (as a soldier) wanted to release information to the public and/or the enemy, this rule will not stop you. If anything it would be the enforcement of this rule that could stop you except that as TFA says, no commander has the kind of time this rule would require to enforce, and over time the rule will become ignored and irrelevant.
And for the record, there are 11 types of people in the world: Those that understand Binary, those that don't, and those that are extremely tired of that joke.
-Rick
I would love to see that post as +5 Redundant. We all know 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 is going to be waaaaaay over abused for ever now, but at least that post was a good use of it.
-Rick
Saying 4096 was probably the easy part. Of course someone probably had to research what the largest (time efficient) and smallest (space efficient) block size would give the greatest advantage in space/time for current average files. But eventually you get into the issue of working with Hard Drive manufacturers who likely have to redesign some circuits and controls _from scratch_, BIOS developers who have to recode to detect and support two different standards, and OS/Driver developers who also have to deal with any low level changes...
You're talking about interacting with likely hundreds of companies trying to come up with a single standard that 1) they can all agree on and 2) won't make any of them lose money. Good luck.
-Rick
All of my 400b files are now going to take up 10 times as much space!!!
Heh, glad to see this is finally going through!
-Rick
How are we suppose to protect civilians with those pescky civil rights getting in our way? It will be so much easier to protect people when we lock them up in jail.
</sarcasm>
-Rick
Publishers and developers: Word of mouth > Professional Critique
-Rick
Agreed! I had a friend who lost damn near 100lbs on the DDR diet.
People will yell about this being a waste of money, but if using technology in this way can help curb the obesity issue in this country, it will well more than pay for itself as the number of over weight adults taxing the health care system with weight related health complications will be reduced as these children grow up.
-Rick
"So, for example, software distributed as source code can't violate a patent until it's compiled?"
That was my reading of it, but IANAL.
-Rick
Hey, I am a Karma whore you insensitive clod!
-Rick
The fact that they are using a Jet DB in this way should give you a clue as to their ability to write thread safe code.
-Rick
Yeah, I saw that "The database is built from Microsoft's Jet database engine." and WTF'd out loud.
The software used to tabulate votes is build on an Access database!?!? holy crap! Talk about the mother of all bad ideas. There are so many know issues and so many better options that this should never have gotten this far. Who the crap was in charge of designing this system? Jim from Accounting?
-Rick
True, my assertion was more along the lines of 'if X destroys Y and no other act occurs, how is Z effected'.
Although, I would wager that Korea is still the larger threat. IF (once again huuuuuuuge if) Iran were capable of and did perform a government sanctioned nuclear attack on Israel, AND Israel and Iran did not utterly destroy each other in the immediate incident. Even in that case, I still doubt you would wind up with another World War. Saudi Arabia's and Egypt's (from my understanding, which in all fairness may be very flawed) governments are westernized enough to see the writing on the wall. Going to war for them would only end poorly. However, not going to war, but profiteering off of those engaged locally would be quite beneficial to them. So the most likely outcome would be an open celebration to the end of Israel by the people, and increased foreign insurgency in Iran from international extremists helping to defend against/attack who ever retaliates, and a region wide political attempt to maintain stability. Iran would likely blame the incident on sub-state actors, any remaining leadership would likely be disposed, and we would wind up with yet another Iraq-like situation.
Korea on the other hand, is right next to China. And as well as things have been going as of late with China, it only takes a couple of screw ups to make things get ugly when you have the worlds two largest super powers, armed to the teeth, decimating a country on the border with nuclear capabilities.
-Rick
What's the point in publishing a paper that you want no one to cite!?
-Rick
Woh, I think someone is a little out of touch here.
North Korea has a nuclear program and nuclear weapons (err had atleast 1).
North Korea has delivery vehicles capable of striking through out the region (including Japan).
Iran has a fledgling nuclear power program.
IF (and that's a big IF) they have a nuclear weapons program, it is still decades from functionality.
Iran has a limited delivery range.
The destruction of Israel, while it would be a horrendous act, would have a significantly smaller direct impact on the US than if North Korea nuked Japan.
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for keeping Iran in line (see my journal), but we don't need to invade Iran to keep them in check. And at this point in time, the government of Iran has no ability to directly harm the United States.
Substate actors (ie: militant extremists) do pose a threat, but by invading Iran we would be empowering them far more than we would be hurting them.
-Rick