The DHCP package you take as an invitation was interpreted by the court as a telecommunication message not intended for the recipient and thus illegal to read.
Does that mean that packet sniffing is also illegal in Germany? Promiscuous mode lets you see everyone's traffic (e.g. packets) on the same wire. All I have to do is set up in a Starbucks or someplace that has lots of people on wifi and I can keep an eye on everyone's net activities (as long as the traffic is unencrypted)
They all have at least one good point though: what do we do with the waste?
1. reprocess it
or
2. place it into sealed containers and drop it into a tectonic subduction zone so it eventually gets pulled down into the mantle
or
3. Launch it into space
we need to fight back in the only way possible - with our wallets.
I've heard this many times before. The problem with that is that there simply aren't enough knowledgeable people to make a dent. For every person who doesn't buy equipment because it has HDCP, there are a lot more people who will buy it simply because they don't know any better. Our power is limited because uninformed consumers greatly outnumber us.
Spreading the word about why DRM is pointless when most people don't know what DRM is. Hatred of the RIAA/MPAA doesn't happen all at once, it has to be carefully honed over a period of time by news like this. Many of these people wouldn't care or even understand even if you tried to explain it. I used to tell people about the RIAA and many times their eyes just glazed over and I may as well have been talking to a post.
IMO, The only way things are going to change is if we somehow acquire a benefactor of sorts who is powerful enough to match the content industries strength for strength. A group of lobbyists on our side and the loyalty of a few congress-critters could probably get quite a bit done, such as stopping any new pro-DRM legislation, or even breaking the spine of the content industry itself. Of course, what are the odds that such a thing would happen?
Game producers have a predisposed anti-Linux prejudice. Trust me, game shops hate Linux, and I contend that if Linux ever became a market force that refused to be ignored, Game shops would do whatever was possible to sabotage a Linux gaming platform.
I'm not convinced. To me, it seems more like the absence of games on the Linux platform has more to do with the fact that there is not enough Linux desktop usage as gaming rigs to justify development/porting costs. There are few Linux games because there are few Linux Desktops, yet there are fewer Linux desktops because (in part) there are fewer games available for Linux. It's a chicken-and-egg scenario.
Developers like id Software have been releasing native Linux versions of their games, but that is not enough to turn things around. Some sort of critical mass has to be achieved, IMO, and that hasn't happened yet.
Just make sure if you're carrying that cell phone in the same pocket as your credit card that either the cell phone or the credit card is kept in a mu-metal container.
It's one of those cell-phone holsters that clip to a belt, and I wear it opposite to the pocket my wallet (and cards) are in.
Just keep in mind these are *STRONG* magnets.
Yep, they sure are. I learned real quick not to put it close to any flat metal surface unless I wanted to pry it off with a screwdriver AND leave a gouge on the metal object. I also found out that these magnets can scramble a 3.5 floppy disk so badly that it won't ever format right again.
I took apart a old 1GB hard disk (practically less than worthless these days) just to get the magnet out. It now holds my cell phone case closed (the weak magnets that were on there were crap and my phone kept falling out.) Now, it won't come apart without a strong tug. A strong magnet and a weak magnet make the perfect latch without being too strong.
The strong magnetic field hasn't affected my cell phone at all. (it's been exposed to the field practically all the time for the past few months except when I'm making a call )
Well here you go. Now it all makes perfect sense... 'cause it's in English!
Due to the poor translation, parts of it are almost like very abstract poetry.
What about those hapless people who buy one of these things, take it home, and open the package, only to discover that their particular unit had a pinhole leak that let air in and ruined the disc prior to purchase. These people then have to get back in their car and drive back to the store for a refund (when fuel is typically $4 a gallon or more) Even if the store gives them a refund, they are still out the time and fuel money. You probably can't toss these things into your recycling container, so they will probably end up in the trash, since how many people are going to take the time to order the return labels, much less drive out to return the ruined disc?
Compare this to the regular rental disc that has a 99% chance of working perfectly. I just can't see any benefit at all.
MS seems to deliberately makes their OS do almost nothing useful beyond the basics it seems (or was it that Monopoly ruling that caused this?) It's now just 3rd party apps for most people.
I may be wrong, but I was taught that there is a division between an operating system and the applications that it runs. The OS is supposed to handle things like IO and memory, while the real functionality comes from userland applications (often third party) interacting with the OS. True, Microsoft gives you almost nothing out of the box, but in a way, so does Linux in some instances. (some distros give you the kernel, bash, compilers, the core utilities like cp, rm, etc, and some sort of package manager and let you fetch the rest yourself, while other distros come fully loaded.)
If you want to compare raw out-of-the-box functionality, then I agree with you-- a default no-frills XP install is practically useless compared to the average default Linux install, which mostly gives you what you need, though there are exceptions.
My instincts reload '1776-The Revolution' into RAM, but I doubt it would work now days with the apathy and 'consumerism' that is rampant here
Exactly. How can we have a proper revolution if a significant chunk of people are not even willing to go out and vote? The ignorance and complacency of the people is the root of strength for a corrupt government. (I define corrupt government as one that primarily serves the interests of a select few groups at the expense of the common good)
How about SCP over SSH? As far as I know that's quite secure and I can tell you from experience that it's damned easy to set up and use.
I was about to say that, but you beat me to it. If I really wanted to protect something good, I would prepare a small truecrypt volume If I wanted to be really devious, I would make a 700 MB truecrypt file, name it after a well-known movie, and then give it a.avi extension before sending it out (probably on CD, since 700 MB downloads still take time these days) . If it is compromised, it would simply look like a media file that the interloper's player software didn't have codecs for (unless they knew what it really was) or simply a broken/corrupt file.
Hmm, I can't copy from Tivo to computer anyway. I think part of the agreement with Hughes to having it built into DirecTV was that they would't allow exporting perfect digital quality images (the USB connector seems to be a no-op). Though you can always just feed off of the composite or S-Video outputs, which doesn't help if you don't have a video card + software that can do this.
You could always pull the hard drive and mount it on your normal pc to empty it out before putting it back in the tivo. Cumbersome method, but the easiest way if, like you said, you don't have the software/hardware for svideo/component transfer.
Well it has a LITTLE to do with commercials--I tried watching The Office with NBC's abomination of a web service and it was miserable.
They have these ticks on the thing where they are going to insert an ad, there are like 3 or 5 per show, and whenever you pass one, it forces you to watch the 2 ads. BUT they only seem to have 2 ads at once! So if the stream resets at the end, you drag the little bar to where you were and it plays 2 ads, 2 ads, 2 ads, 2 ads then resumes your show (or in my case, resumes it at the wrong place so I have to drag again.)
Hulu has a similar setup, but the ads aren't nearly as bad. If anything, the 30-second ads give me time to check my email, take a leak, get some food, etc.
Of course if questions are not randomised it just becomes a matter of memorising the key sequence to type in...
Even if the questions are randomized, it probably wouldn't be too hard to write a script that greps for specific question strings and then fills in the right answer for each one, no matter where it is in the quiz.
Willful infringement is probably a lot more expensive (IANAL - I think it's maybe 3x damages if infringement shown to be willful).
I find it immensely disturbing that someone can have their life potentially ruined for all intents and purposes if they infringe and don't even know it. If they deliberately and purposefully do it, then it's a whole different matter, but there should be no punishment for ignorance.
Second, it provides an additional thermal block of "cool" to help keep the drive at a lower temperature while you perform the copy.
I suspect the recovery specialists use a similar trick, only they'd be smart to use a sub-zero frozen room with no moisture to do their "cold start and copy" process.
I've never had to do this, but your method gave me an idea-- Why not sandwich the drive assembly (drive, rice, and bag) in-between 2 blocks of dry ice? That way, the drive would stay freezing cold even longer and buy more time.
I can apply the same argument to tinted windows. Since they make a vehicle practically opaque, left turns at unprotected intersections have gotten a lot more dangerous, since I can't see through the car to see if anyone is coming, like I could if the car had regular windows. (plus some of these vehicles are large, which makes it even worse) If they're going to worry about driver distractions, why not ban tinted windows as well?
IIRC it was somewhere in the neighborhood of 800mhz and about 512 MB of Ram. Not a great computer even at the time, but it was all that I had. (this was about 1-2 years after XP came out) If I still had it today, it would be running Linux.
If the plan is to deliberately cripple the low end Pc hardware specs, then how can you get decent performance out of windows? I remember that XP would barely run wel lat all on my old computer, so wouldn't Windows 2000 be more suited to this task?
When I worked Bresnan Communications they did just that to a woman I worked with and came up with a new policy that all bathroom usage must be done on breaks and we would be monitored to be sure we were not taking time outside of them for breaks.
That's probably illegal as hell.
As far as the program goes, can you prove that the source code is yours? If so, you can probably hit them hard for copyright infringement (somewhere to the tune of $120,000 per infringing copy in use)
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Spreading the word about why DRM is pointless when most people don't know what DRM is. Hatred of the RIAA/MPAA doesn't happen all at once, it has to be carefully honed over a period of time by news like this. Many of these people wouldn't care or even understand even if you tried to explain it. I used to tell people about the RIAA and many times their eyes just glazed over and I may as well have been talking to a post.
IMO, The only way things are going to change is if we somehow acquire a benefactor of sorts who is powerful enough to match the content industries strength for strength. A group of lobbyists on our side and the loyalty of a few congress-critters could probably get quite a bit done, such as stopping any new pro-DRM legislation, or even breaking the spine of the content industry itself. Of course, what are the odds that such a thing would happen?
Developers like id Software have been releasing native Linux versions of their games, but that is not enough to turn things around. Some sort of critical mass has to be achieved, IMO, and that hasn't happened yet.
Just keep in mind these are *STRONG* magnets. Yep, they sure are. I learned real quick not to put it close to any flat metal surface unless I wanted to pry it off with a screwdriver AND leave a gouge on the metal object. I also found out that these magnets can scramble a 3.5 floppy disk so badly that it won't ever format right again.
I took apart a old 1GB hard disk (practically less than worthless these days) just to get the magnet out. It now holds my cell phone case closed (the weak magnets that were on there were crap and my phone kept falling out.) Now, it won't come apart without a strong tug. A strong magnet and a weak magnet make the perfect latch without being too strong.
The strong magnetic field hasn't affected my cell phone at all. (it's been exposed to the field practically all the time for the past few months except when I'm making a call )
Well here you go. Now it all makes perfect sense... 'cause it's in English! Due to the poor translation, parts of it are almost like very abstract poetry.
What about those hapless people who buy one of these things, take it home, and open the package, only to discover that their particular unit had a pinhole leak that let air in and ruined the disc prior to purchase. These people then have to get back in their car and drive back to the store for a refund (when fuel is typically $4 a gallon or more) Even if the store gives them a refund, they are still out the time and fuel money. You probably can't toss these things into your recycling container, so they will probably end up in the trash, since how many people are going to take the time to order the return labels, much less drive out to return the ruined disc?
Compare this to the regular rental disc that has a 99% chance of working perfectly. I just can't see any benefit at all.
If you want to compare raw out-of-the-box functionality, then I agree with you-- a default no-frills XP install is practically useless compared to the average default Linux install, which mostly gives you what you need, though there are exceptions.
I use Koffice quite often, and Kivio is one of my favorite apps in there.
If I wanted to be really devious, I would make a 700 MB truecrypt file, name it after a well-known movie, and then give it a
I can apply the same argument to tinted windows. Since they make a vehicle practically opaque, left turns at unprotected intersections have gotten a lot more dangerous, since I can't see through the car to see if anyone is coming, like I could if the car had regular windows. (plus some of these vehicles are large, which makes it even worse) If they're going to worry about driver distractions, why not ban tinted windows as well?
IIRC it was somewhere in the neighborhood of 800mhz and about 512 MB of Ram. Not a great computer even at the time, but it was all that I had. (this was about 1-2 years after XP came out) If I still had it today, it would be running Linux.
If the plan is to deliberately cripple the low end Pc hardware specs, then how can you get decent performance out of windows? I remember that XP would barely run wel lat all on my old computer, so wouldn't Windows 2000 be more suited to this task?
As far as the program goes, can you prove that the source code is yours? If so, you can probably hit them hard for copyright infringement (somewhere to the tune of $120,000 per infringing copy in use)