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I would bodyslam the publisher, not the vendor. It's only nature for someone to ask another to look after their best interest. For the publisher to acquiesce, disregarding their customer's best interest... is not only free market suicide, but should be the crime.
"If we lose liberties present in the Constitution, the Amendments and The Bill of Rights, have the terrorists won?"
This is the stupidest comment I've heard on this issue. If the terrorists win, we won't have a constitution. If the Constitution has to adapt to survive continual, international warfare by unregulated, rogue elements across the world, then that's why it was made the way it was. As long as soldiers don't burst into my home, and the police aren't snatching me off the street without cause or warrant, then the fourth amendment has retained its intent. You have to remember that privacy isn't absolute, only reasonable. It's unreasonable to think your "right" to talk over interstate or international telephone calls unobserved should protect the terrorists plans to destroy America unobserved.
You know, there is ANOTHER plan to win the war;
1. You can't use the PATRIOT act, it's unpatriotic.
2. You can't wiretap potential terrorists, not unless you can reasonably prove they are terrorists before hand.
3. Be gentle while questioning captured terrorists. Discomfort and irregular sleep patterns are not authorized.
4. Close down Guantanamo Bay. It's illegal to hold prisoners who have not been charged a crime under US Code.
5. Capitulate to the terrorist demands in Iraq. Maybe if we cooperate, we could find peace.
6. Immediately withdraw our troops, we can't defeat out problems by confronting them with the most powerful military force in the world.
There are the new guidelines, now go out and defeat the fascism of islamic subjugation!
Let's not forget the Clinton Administration used the Eschelon program to monitor millions of personal phone calls, private emils, and even ATM transactions inside the United States - all without a Court Order... for things such as spying on political opponents and foreign businesses. Former CIA director James Woosley defended the program, "I can tell you that five years ago, several European countries were giving substantial bribes to export business more easily." Woosley told Congress in 2000, that U.S. firms obtained over $6.5 Billion in contracts with the help of timely intelligence information from this program.
The war on terror wouldn't be such an ambigious phrase if Bush came out and said it ws a "War on Fascist Islamic Militants". Unfortunately, the politically correct police would call him a racist and fascist for condemning those peace loving people who would stone their mother for humming a tune while shopping for groceries.
I think it's funny how these people think retarded Bush so perfectly planned and engineered 9/11, but couldn't plan which tie to wear, when it came to the Iraq war. I was actually a consultant to the 9/11 commission working for the NYPD. The only thing full of holes is your reasoning ability.
Our national security depends on exposing terror plots against us before they happen, not afterwards. If anyone who opposes this program would care to suggest how they plan to do this with traditional police methods, I'm all ears. Unlike deductive criminal investigations, which the Bill of Rights applies to, stopping terrorist attacks requires the United States intelligence agencies knowing what is going on.Maybe this might scare the shit out of some subversive groups that advocate the overthrow of the US government as we know it, but shit, mybe they should be scared.
Only an inductive approach, amassing lots of materials and searching for patterns, has any chance of success. Intelligence agencies don't know who or what they are looking for, it's true. Only by combing the airwaves, listening for suspicious words and phrases, or patterns, can intelligence agencies determine who and what to investigate. In 2002, the federal government tipped off the NYPD that there was alot of chatter about the Brooklyn Bridge.
Yes, that's right, intelligence gleamed from this very spy program. The resulting police tactics stopped the attack and led to the apprehension of the would be bomber... and the ACLU in NYC didn't even get raided by brown shirts.
Farming might not be wildly destructive to the environment, but if you look at countries like Nauru, mining for fertilizer can devastate the environment.
In 1990, the MGM Studios in Culver City was purchase by Sony Entertainment of Japan. It also houses both Columbia Pictures and TriStar Pictures, which are both a division of Sony. In September of 2004, MGM announced that is would merge with Sony Corporation of America. Sony purchased MGM for $5 Billion.
Obviously buying MGM Studios in 1990, and expanding their movies division worked out pretty well if it coughed up $5 billion to buy MGM within 14 years.
"If you ask the average American if they support jailing a reporter for printing a story that says that the government has been monitoring all international phone calls since 9/11/01, "to keep the U.S. safe from terrorism," they'll more than likely say yes. Nevermind that this is an issue that goes to the very core freedoms on which the country was founded, and only petty thieves are stupid enough to pick up the phone and call their cohorts overseas to discuss their next nefarious scheme"
The entire reason we created a federal government was to provide for our collective defense. To say the government in protecting its citizens from terrorists are violating the 'core freedom' on which the country was founded is bullshit. The government has engaged in espionge during every war it has fought. In fact, it was Benjamin Franklin who said in respect to Presidential secrets, "we find by fatal experience that Congress consists of too many members to keep secrets." President Jefferson hired foreign mercenaries to invade Tripoli and free American hostages, and did not inform Congress in advance. So it is clear that the Constitution's original intent was that the president had the authority to take undisclosed actions to protect Americans. You make it out to be the target of the President's actions are presumably innocent US citizens, but in fact they have never been. The idea that espionage doesn't work.. well now I'm just convinced you're an "useful idiot".
We all know how horrible the implementation of activation keys are... What's to stop a blueray DVD with a nice java keygen that will activate whatever disc you want on your player, just by entering a code with your remote? Or even better, they require an internet connection? I imagine this would require ICS or Iptables for most home networks... I suppose it won't be long before there's a local network keyserver running.
While technologically challenging, I never underestimate innovation.
I never really payed much attention to the DRM aspect of this, I imagined both formats were pretty equal by end implementation, and I imgined they would be pretty shitty, not far from the music industry DRM. Time for me to lookup some whitepapers...
I know there are already HD tuner/encoders for Media Center PCs, so I've got to ask, "Will a BR player connected to a HD Encoder not be able to encode in HD?"
"No it won't, any more than it will revolve around the PC industry or Hollywood."
Then you have to ask yourself, who has the inside edge in these two industries? Toshiba or Sony?
Sony owns several extremely profitable movie studios, production compnies, and distributions.
Toshiba Consortium: 0
They can continue to crank out BR discs if for anything, only their own companies ad infinitum. Sony PSP sales are something like 3 million units sold, and the average sales per release of the UMD movies is 40-50k unit sold. I don't know who considers this a failure, as each disc sold pays the manufacturer (sony) a profit, the distributer (sony) a profit, and the producer (sony) a profit. While UMD sales might struggle to break 100k sales marks, the average release still hands over half a million of dollars in profits to Sony. It is no wonder they are releasing their entire library onto UMD. Unlike the UMD, Sony will undoubtedly be bundling BR Drives in their upcoming Sony Vaios, which are already slightly more expensive than conventional Desktops and Laptops with no noticeable competitiveness short of "sony style" and interoperatablility with their consumer electronics, as well as creating a line of standlone BR disc players for the home theater.
"Sitting on the XBox 360 would mean losing first-mover advantage...frustration from publishers contending with a stagnating market...and above all millions in lost potential sales."
Beating the market by 10 months (or even a year) to release a version of a product that will define its capacity for the next 4-6 year is something that needs to be carefully considered. Microsoft's prime consideration of beating the PS3 to market was to gain a foothold in Japan. The original Xbox had a better Japan release than the xbox 360 because they carefully considered the hardware capability before launching the product, which was far behind the PS2. Time to market might be an idea for software, but for hardware that isn't flexible to change without severly affecting profitability, it's not always the guiding force. Something Sony knows much better than Microsoft (Who typically releases a finished and stable operating system six months after they launch its replacement).
"Neither format has complete buy-in from Hollywood, PC and gaming industries yet. HD DVD has the advantage right now because it has a greater cross-section of supporters."
Sony can assert dominion in all three sectors, creating a solid foundation of support. HD-DVD has fans (like Microsoft), but Sony has commited product lines across the board.
"Sony has taken to bundling UMDs as giveaways inside DVD releases. UMD movies as a revenue stream has proven to be a bit of a challenge."
I loved this idea. The first gripe of many DVD owners was the compaint that even if they liked the UMD format, there was no home theater support for it, and they would be forced to buy their favorite movies on DVD AND UMD. Sony's cost of manufacture was low enough, and distribution costs split between the bundle, saw an excellent opportunity to bundle the UMD with the DVD and create a win-win for not only their format, but for the consumer as well.
"No, but they do have buy-in from several of the other major competing studios. They'll also have the additional advantages of being first to market, and having the price advantage in terms of hardware. Sony could press all the Blu-ray discs in the world and it wouldn't matter if nobody had a machine to play them on. Blu-ray manufacturers will either have to take a huge loss on player sales or charge 70 to 100 percent more for their machines than the HD DVD crowd. In order to justify spending that much more for a player, the content providers will have to be willing to add substantially more material to the Blu-Ray version to showcase the superior technology "
BlueRay has a larger commitment of Studios, and still maintains their BR only committments. HD DVD has lost most every one of their pledges to support ONLY HD DVD format fro
The prohibitive idea of increased production and manufacturing costs is not the only thing that will prevent a launch of HD DVD games for the xbox 360. The embedded security architecture of the Xbox 360 also would prevent an external HD DVD player from playing games. So not only would the game developers get serious versioning headaches, but so would Microsoft. Altering their security architecture wouldn't affect previous systems, and could seriously compromise the security of the system, thus greatly prohibitive from risk mnagement standpoint, thus an internal player would replace the standard internal DVD player as the only sensible alternative. So now xbox would have non-HD compatible devices, external 'movie only' devices, and internal game or movie devices, probably about halfway through the lifecycle of the xbox 360. Even considering any of these options would put a serious blow to Microsoft's chances of even turning a profit on the xbox 360.
They're stuck like chuck. No HD support for the xbox 360 except for movies.. at a price you could purchase a standalone home theater component because there is no chance in hell they will subsidize this accessory. It's a flop of an idea to even offer this function, but Microsoft has alredy commmitted themselves to it, and will be forced to at least design and offer a HD DVD compatible component to save face.
When you consider the limited industry support for HD DVD movies, you can see that HD DVD could be pushed out in the same fashion betamax was.. vendor withdraw.
I guess that's why in 1990 they bought MGM, so they could provide their own stable of content regardless of vendor support. Just look at the success of the UMD movie. It's a hugely profitable business for Sony, because they profit on the entire operation from end to end, from device to media. That's the idea with the BlueRay technology. The only reason I see for Sony to merge with NEC is to gain a foothold in a unified standard, and to lower their BlueRay drive manufacturing costs.
"Every organ transplant recipient should be strongly pressured to donate all their own organs when they die... The death of the donor should be sufficient prohibition for selling their organs."
Does this make sense to anyone?
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Spybot has thousands of variants. No anti-virus software can detect this virus by a signature, and I wouldn't be surprised if we see a hundred variants of this virus with a new command set by the end of the summer.
I would bodyslam the publisher, not the vendor. It's only nature for someone to ask another to look after their best interest. For the publisher to acquiesce, disregarding their customer's best interest... is not only free market suicide, but should be the crime.
"If we lose liberties present in the Constitution, the Amendments and The Bill of Rights, have the terrorists won?" This is the stupidest comment I've heard on this issue. If the terrorists win, we won't have a constitution. If the Constitution has to adapt to survive continual, international warfare by unregulated, rogue elements across the world, then that's why it was made the way it was. As long as soldiers don't burst into my home, and the police aren't snatching me off the street without cause or warrant, then the fourth amendment has retained its intent. You have to remember that privacy isn't absolute, only reasonable. It's unreasonable to think your "right" to talk over interstate or international telephone calls unobserved should protect the terrorists plans to destroy America unobserved.
The Navy has been training dolphins for years. Remote controlled sharks?? Seriously, can we get some freaking lasers installed on their heads?
Those American fascists not letting China control the internet so they can more easily censor their people from Anti-State discussion.
You know, there is ANOTHER plan to win the war; 1. You can't use the PATRIOT act, it's unpatriotic. 2. You can't wiretap potential terrorists, not unless you can reasonably prove they are terrorists before hand. 3. Be gentle while questioning captured terrorists. Discomfort and irregular sleep patterns are not authorized. 4. Close down Guantanamo Bay. It's illegal to hold prisoners who have not been charged a crime under US Code. 5. Capitulate to the terrorist demands in Iraq. Maybe if we cooperate, we could find peace. 6. Immediately withdraw our troops, we can't defeat out problems by confronting them with the most powerful military force in the world. There are the new guidelines, now go out and defeat the fascism of islamic subjugation!
The war on terror wouldn't be such an ambigious phrase if Bush came out and said it ws a "War on Fascist Islamic Militants". Unfortunately, the politically correct police would call him a racist and fascist for condemning those peace loving people who would stone their mother for humming a tune while shopping for groceries.
I think it's funny how these people think retarded Bush so perfectly planned and engineered 9/11, but couldn't plan which tie to wear, when it came to the Iraq war. I was actually a consultant to the 9/11 commission working for the NYPD. The only thing full of holes is your reasoning ability.
How about a source for FDR's internment of over a million Japanese immigrants without Judicial oversight?
Only an inductive approach, amassing lots of materials and searching for patterns, has any chance of success. Intelligence agencies don't know who or what they are looking for, it's true. Only by combing the airwaves, listening for suspicious words and phrases, or patterns, can intelligence agencies determine who and what to investigate. In 2002, the federal government tipped off the NYPD that there was alot of chatter about the Brooklyn Bridge.
Yes, that's right, intelligence gleamed from this very spy program. The resulting police tactics stopped the attack and led to the apprehension of the would be bomber... and the ACLU in NYC didn't even get raided by brown shirts.
There's people who do not disagree with you. How difficult will the war on terror be when islam subjugates Europe?
Farming might not be wildly destructive to the environment, but if you look at countries like Nauru, mining for fertilizer can devastate the environment.
Obviously buying MGM Studios in 1990, and expanding their movies division worked out pretty well if it coughed up $5 billion to buy MGM within 14 years.
The entire reason we created a federal government was to provide for our collective defense. To say the government in protecting its citizens from terrorists are violating the 'core freedom' on which the country was founded is bullshit. The government has engaged in espionge during every war it has fought. In fact, it was Benjamin Franklin who said in respect to Presidential secrets, "we find by fatal experience that Congress consists of too many members to keep secrets." President Jefferson hired foreign mercenaries to invade Tripoli and free American hostages, and did not inform Congress in advance. So it is clear that the Constitution's original intent was that the president had the authority to take undisclosed actions to protect Americans. You make it out to be the target of the President's actions are presumably innocent US citizens, but in fact they have never been. The idea that espionage doesn't work.. well now I'm just convinced you're an "useful idiot".
While technologically challenging, I never underestimate innovation.
I never really payed much attention to the DRM aspect of this, I imagined both formats were pretty equal by end implementation, and I imgined they would be pretty shitty, not far from the music industry DRM. Time for me to lookup some whitepapers...
I know there are already HD tuner/encoders for Media Center PCs, so I've got to ask, "Will a BR player connected to a HD Encoder not be able to encode in HD?"
Holodiscs will replace WORM drives to store data, not DVDs to distribute it.
Toshiba Consortium: 0
They can continue to crank out BR discs if for anything, only their own companies ad infinitum. Sony PSP sales are something like 3 million units sold, and the average sales per release of the UMD movies is 40-50k unit sold. I don't know who considers this a failure, as each disc sold pays the manufacturer (sony) a profit, the distributer (sony) a profit, and the producer (sony) a profit. While UMD sales might struggle to break 100k sales marks, the average release still hands over half a million of dollars in profits to Sony. It is no wonder they are releasing their entire library onto UMD. Unlike the UMD, Sony will undoubtedly be bundling BR Drives in their upcoming Sony Vaios, which are already slightly more expensive than conventional Desktops and Laptops with no noticeable competitiveness short of "sony style" and interoperatablility with their consumer electronics, as well as creating a line of standlone BR disc players for the home theater. "Sitting on the XBox 360 would mean losing first-mover advantage...frustration from publishers contending with a stagnating market...and above all millions in lost potential sales."
Beating the market by 10 months (or even a year) to release a version of a product that will define its capacity for the next 4-6 year is something that needs to be carefully considered. Microsoft's prime consideration of beating the PS3 to market was to gain a foothold in Japan. The original Xbox had a better Japan release than the xbox 360 because they carefully considered the hardware capability before launching the product, which was far behind the PS2. Time to market might be an idea for software, but for hardware that isn't flexible to change without severly affecting profitability, it's not always the guiding force. Something Sony knows much better than Microsoft (Who typically releases a finished and stable operating system six months after they launch its replacement).
"Neither format has complete buy-in from Hollywood, PC and gaming industries yet. HD DVD has the advantage right now because it has a greater cross-section of supporters."
Sony can assert dominion in all three sectors, creating a solid foundation of support. HD-DVD has fans (like Microsoft), but Sony has commited product lines across the board. "Sony has taken to bundling UMDs as giveaways inside DVD releases. UMD movies as a revenue stream has proven to be a bit of a challenge."
I loved this idea. The first gripe of many DVD owners was the compaint that even if they liked the UMD format, there was no home theater support for it, and they would be forced to buy their favorite movies on DVD AND UMD. Sony's cost of manufacture was low enough, and distribution costs split between the bundle, saw an excellent opportunity to bundle the UMD with the DVD and create a win-win for not only their format, but for the consumer as well. "No, but they do have buy-in from several of the other major competing studios. They'll also have the additional advantages of being first to market, and having the price advantage in terms of hardware. Sony could press all the Blu-ray discs in the world and it wouldn't matter if nobody had a machine to play them on. Blu-ray manufacturers will either have to take a huge loss on player sales or charge 70 to 100 percent more for their machines than the HD DVD crowd. In order to justify spending that much more for a player, the content providers will have to be willing to add substantially more material to the Blu-Ray version to showcase the superior technology "
BlueRay has a larger commitment of Studios, and still maintains their BR only committments. HD DVD has lost most every one of their pledges to support ONLY HD DVD format fro
They're stuck like chuck. No HD support for the xbox 360 except for movies.. at a price you could purchase a standalone home theater component because there is no chance in hell they will subsidize this accessory. It's a flop of an idea to even offer this function, but Microsoft has alredy commmitted themselves to it, and will be forced to at least design and offer a HD DVD compatible component to save face.
When you consider the limited industry support for HD DVD movies, you can see that HD DVD could be pushed out in the same fashion betamax was.. vendor withdraw.
I guess that's why in 1990 they bought MGM, so they could provide their own stable of content regardless of vendor support. Just look at the success of the UMD movie. It's a hugely profitable business for Sony, because they profit on the entire operation from end to end, from device to media. That's the idea with the BlueRay technology. The only reason I see for Sony to merge with NEC is to gain a foothold in a unified standard, and to lower their BlueRay drive manufacturing costs.
"Every organ transplant recipient should be strongly pressured to donate all their own organs when they die ... The death of the donor should be sufficient prohibition for selling their organs."
Does this make sense to anyone?
Are you sure they weren't harvesting those organs from Iraq? I think I've seen this movie...
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Just make sure you're not using data mining on publicly available information, or you become the Gestapo.