No, this is actually the master key that you can use to generate vendor keys -- changing this key would break compatibility with existing HDCP equipment!
But you make it sound as if the content lords are afraid to do that in exchange for lengthening their false sense of security.
PEON: but the new discs wont work with the old player.
LORD: buy a new player, its all the fault of those filthy pirates.
LORD: oh, and the old discs wont work in the new player ether, so you'll have to re-buy them.
PEON: well I guess so.
Yes I know it includes TV's as well. So if this is to fall it will fall via the middleman, for example if Samsung decided to stop or not implement the new version of HDCP. This is a reason I will never buy AV equipment from Sony, Sony is also a copyright holder so they've got a vested interest in keeping DRM up to date.
As many others have pointed out, this does not affect the pirates one iota as the content is cracked before it even gets to the HDCP part.
Expansions and DLC are complteley different things. Keep in mind I'm talking about PC expansions.
Expansion packs are like half a game at half the cost, they provide a lot of new content and allow a developer to make more money whilst reusing a lot of code and assets whilst adding some new content. A good example is StarCraft BroodWar. Recently the idea of Expandalones which are based on the same principal but do not require the purchase of the original game, a good example is ARMA II Operation Arrowhead. These typically sell for about half the cost of a full game and typically come out after about 8-16 months after a successful release. Theses are nor rip offs.
DLC is a new idea mainly from console manufacturers. It's the idea that you can be sold new content piecemeal for small sums of money. Of course this has translated into sell half a game for the full price, nickel and dime the player for the other half. This explains why DLC is only popular on consoles. Console players are a captive audience, with no actual control over their equipment so this strategy works quite well as compared to PC players who are not conditioned to accept six hours of game play as a full game. DLC is a complete rip off, which is why I refuse to buy DLC.
Well, maybe not in one country, but M$ prices do differ quite a bit between different countries... not all of which can be explained by currency fluctuation or tax/customs on the products...
Everyone is doing it.
In the US a new PC game costs between US$40 and US$50. In Australia it costs between A$80 and A$100. The Exchange rate has been above 0.8:1 for a long time now and tax on digital media is GST only (10%). 40x1.2+10% = 52.8. So why am I paying $30 more then that?
Don't give me that freight bollocks either, I can buy a US$40 game from Play-Asia.com in Hong Kong (payment in USD) so that's about A$44 (current exch rate is 0.93:1 USD/AUD) plus A$12 shipping so that's A$56 delivered to my door. Economies of scale tell me when you're importing 10,000 units your shipping costs per unit drop well below A$12 but we still get an absolute shafting at the register.
"I don't remember exactly what I wrote as I was drunk. "
Yep, but it should be in his sent items right.
Seriously, I think somoene a few posts up nailed it.
1. Idiot sends abusive email to pres (stupidly with real name on it).
2. Secret Service calls the Plod, asks them to find out if the guy's a threat. Puts a ban on visa just in case.
3. Plod visits idiot, finds out he's an idiot and tells idiot he can't get a US tourist visa any more.
4. Idiot calls tabloid, makes up sob story.
5. Tabloid makes big deal out of nothing (BAU for a tabloid).
Nothing more to see here, the US is already very strict with tourist visa's and you can be rejected, even as Brit or Aussie for any number of obscure reasons. Even as an Aussie, I have to apply for a US tourist visa before even getting on a flight compared to Europe, Aisa and many other places where I can expect a Visa on Arrival.
Hey, not just them. Conroy still thinks it's a vote getter. I can't believe they're putting Turnbull up against him. That's like kicking a cripple.
Conroy is just giving lip service his masters, he knows a filter will never get past the Greens.
The NBN was a big part of the election, it's obvious a lot of people want it. I think the Libs are setting Turnbull up to fail as he could be a serious threat to Abbott and the faction leaders who put Abbott in power.
So you have successfully utilized a Nagios box to poll an alarm system
Sigh,
Why do people look at the specifics and not the procedure. FFS, what do they teach you at school, follow the damn instructions and keep your mouth shut.
My point was that we've already solved this problem, a monitored alarm needs to send a "I'm still alive" signal to a receiver off site, if the other site stops receiving this signal, setting up a warning via an automated process at this site is a trivial matter. It doesn't matter if you use Nagios or whatever, if you're not doing this you're doing it wrong, Nagios is just a damn good example of how you identify failing/failed systems from a remote point.
If you're having trouble understanding the concept, then carpentry may be more your thing.
Further more, if an alarm system operates on TCP then configuring Nagios to interpret it is trivial.
This does, although I am still not sure how the scammers got hold of the original certificate of title. Here in WA this is still a piece of paper and the settlement agent must have it to complete the transaction.
But there in lies the problem. The settlement agents (realtors) which had the power to sell the house (possibly also the title papers) were duped by the scammer, it's quite easy to see how this happened, scammer breaks into email account, scammer initiates contact with realtors, scammer instructs realtors to sell houses, realtors sell the houses and transfer the money to the owners "new" bank account. Because the owner is overseas the realtors may have been given the power to do this, as you pointed out there needs to be a physical signing of the papers and few Aussies are now retired Ex-pats living off rental income.
Where the realtor screwed up and it is the realtor who is most to blame here is not verifying the sale via another method of communication (voice, as in the phone) and it would be the realtor I'd be taking to court over this. By reading TFA it seems the person in question is doing this, also according to TFA the agent did not do a mandatory 100 point ID check. Where the owner screwed up is by A) entrusting a realtor (or at least a single realtor) to have the right to sell a house (I wouldn't leave a multi $100K investment in one persons hands) and B) Not checking his email, a sale takes days or weeks to finalise (esp with a bank involved, I've had friends wait months).
If a burglar cut you phone line and your alarm
system has no other form of communication then you are left without any protection anyway.
As a sysadmin, we've solved this problem. I have a Nagios box that sits off site and emails me when one of my websites goes down... I thought that would be one of the key reasons for paying for a monitored security system, so if it stops responding someone in a control centre says, "123 fake st is offline, get a car round there".
If you aren't monitoring your security system its near to useless anyway.
ACA - A Current Affairs - purely editorial program like Fox news but less annoying. They do biased tearjerker pieces on grandma's arguing with Telco's/government departments to sell ad space.
ACMA - Australian Communications and Media Authority - governmental department responsible for the regulation regarding media (print/TV/radio) and telecommunications.
ACCC - Australian Competition and Consumer Commission - politically independent public service mandated to protect consumer rights, business rights and obligations.
I suppose all three would be applicable but are either toothless wingers or will take years to action on anything.
Why do Aussie government "officials" have to subscribe to some kind of puritanical standard not applicable to ordinary citizens to get on the Internet?
I dont know why you think this is puritanical, I work in the private sector in Australia and I'm fairly certain if I look up porn at work I'll get sacked.
Because this guy is Public Sector, he just has to apologise and all will be forgiven.
The filter wasn't rolled out (i.e. preemptive enforcement). The laws regarding hosting and access, however, remain in place, and have been there for some time. Put naked pictures on a website, and they still can arrest you and label you a sex offender, whether the filtering firewall exists or not.
Ummm...
No they cant.
Pornography is not illegal in Australia. Production of pornography is not illegal in Australia.
Selling/giving pornography to minors is illegal (as it is in the US). Using a naked persons image without express connect is illegal.
Please learn about Australian laws before commenting on them.
Secondly, the filter was never implemented because it was voted down, twice. Also they faced a rebellion in the back bench over it so it's been shelved permanently.
Take a look at how they are changing the UI on Android and how they are controlling the apps.
Except thats only happening on one US carrier.
Does not constitute a pattern. US Telco's have always been more tyrannical then their European and Austral-Asian counterparts (or more precisely, we control them better).
What you forget in your blind Iphone praise and Google bashing is that carriers have never had to handle updates before. Apple didn't change a thing, in the past updates were always either A) user driven or B) manufacturer driven and it was RIM who first started doing OTA updates. Eventually, this is going to be sorted out, there are problems now because it's a new thing and it's needed because of localisation, I for one hate En_US (is not a language) on my phone, give me En_AU or En_UK not to mention number formatting differences (US xxx-xxx-xxxx, AU xxxxxxxxxx).
Burglars and would be bank robbers are not smart, but more then a few criminals are quite bright and they tend to get away with it because:
1. Public apathy Little Timmy isn't seen crying on the news in front of a smashed window, thus it does not register in the minds of most people as a heinous crime.
2. Harder crimes to solve. Often you're dealing with criminals who are expert social manipulators and are operating their actual crimes in foreign jurisdictions. They literally get their own victims to defend them.
So my advice when beginning that life of crime, put down the 410 sawn off and start a life of white collar crime, if you're ever caught they'll take a pittance of what you've bilked out of your victims and sentence you to a year or two of house arrest (if you can fake an illness and jet off to Majorca all the better).
but your link says only that TMo USA insists that their phones be capable of Band I
Which means their network is capable of Band I. Previously you and Wikipedia is quite correct, T-Mo US used Band IV (1700/2100 AWS) but their network upgrade earlier this year (where they were given control over the full 2100 spectrum by the FCC) means that they now use Band I and Band IV. Previously, T-Mo was only given half of the 2100 MHz spectrum so they were forced to use AWS.
That and I know people who've personally been able to use a T-Mo SIM with their Australian phones (2100/900, same as Europe).
T-Mobile in the US uses Band IV, which uses 2100 only for the downstream data, not upstream. Wikipedia article.
T-mo uses Band I and Band IV. The upgrade to band I (using 2100 for both channels) was made earlier this year, T-Mo are now selling Band I only devices as well as Band IV. As always dont rely on Wikipedia as an authoritative source of information.
I work at RadioShack (yeah, only job I could find... give me a break) and it seems like the majority of people coming through are very much over the iPhone. The other cell companies are making phones that are much better than the iPhone (statistically speaking, not trying to troll some fanbois) and Google has done well with their marketing of Android OS. Apple's new releases don't bring enough new features to keep existing users on their device. When it was the only touch screen smart phone with apps, they could easily get away with it. Now that every carrier has 3-5 completely different touch screen, multitasking, Android-based phones, the new iPhone really doesn't look all that enticing (especially with the fuck-tarded price + service plan).
This is what I've said from the begining.
No one is going to kill the iphone, it will kill itself. More precisely Apple will kill it with overly restrictive censorship, fighting modders/hackers and constantly changing the rules. Apple is the single biggest threat to the Iphone.
The difference is that Apple only charged people $29 for the Snow Leopard upgrade.
The difference is that Microsoft only charged people $0 for a service pack.
Unlike Apple, MS does not charge for a lot of extra features that make their way in via MS Downloads and service packs. MS release and maintains quite a few free packages that Apple charges for. For example I had to purchase an OS upgrade for a 10.4 Macbook just to run an alternate operating system as OS X doesn't work properly in a Windows domain.
Don't forget D. Third-party ROMs like Cyanogenmod and others. They have a pretty substantial following (they're the real reason people root their phones in many cases.)
As much as I like Cyanogenmod, as Android grows we will end up with more non-technical people using Android. This means that the percentage of people following community mods will shrink a lot despite more people using community mods. What this means for the modding community is actually very little, modding will always be around but for Android as a whole we'll see fewer phones running mods.
I actually disagree with the GP's android groups, what we will see is:
A: feature phones/devices. Android MP3 players, ebook readers, low end phones such as the HTC wildfire that will not see an upgrade in its lifetime. These things will be competing with OS's like Bada and Symbian.
B: Mid range devices. Things like the HTC Legend, LG Optimums, SE Xperia10. All the functions of a smart phone but cheaper hardware and slower updates.
C: High end devices. The flagship devices from each manufacturer, typically running the fastest hardware with the latest OS (or a version below). Devices like the Samsung Galaxy S, HTC Desire, Motrola Droid/Droid2.
Right now we have two minor problems, the first is the breakneck pace of Android development. This will slow down, it has to. The second are the carriers delaying updates. The HTC Desire's base 2.2 ROM has been available for a month, but few carriers have deployed it, this will change as demand gets greater and carriers want to vie for your Android dollars (at least in Europe, Asia and Australia where I can switch carriers easily).
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But you make it sound as if the content lords are afraid to do that in exchange for lengthening their false sense of security.
PEON: but the new discs wont work with the old player.
LORD: buy a new player, its all the fault of those filthy pirates.
LORD: oh, and the old discs wont work in the new player ether, so you'll have to re-buy them.
PEON: well I guess so.
Yes I know it includes TV's as well. So if this is to fall it will fall via the middleman, for example if Samsung decided to stop or not implement the new version of HDCP. This is a reason I will never buy AV equipment from Sony, Sony is also a copyright holder so they've got a vested interest in keeping DRM up to date.
As many others have pointed out, this does not affect the pirates one iota as the content is cracked before it even gets to the HDCP part.
OK, I've put the battery around the other way... Now it just wont turn on.
Your children can have it converted into coal, the rarest substance on earth.
Expansions and DLC are complteley different things. Keep in mind I'm talking about PC expansions.
Expansion packs are like half a game at half the cost, they provide a lot of new content and allow a developer to make more money whilst reusing a lot of code and assets whilst adding some new content. A good example is StarCraft BroodWar. Recently the idea of Expandalones which are based on the same principal but do not require the purchase of the original game, a good example is ARMA II Operation Arrowhead. These typically sell for about half the cost of a full game and typically come out after about 8-16 months after a successful release. Theses are nor rip offs.
DLC is a new idea mainly from console manufacturers. It's the idea that you can be sold new content piecemeal for small sums of money. Of course this has translated into sell half a game for the full price, nickel and dime the player for the other half. This explains why DLC is only popular on consoles. Console players are a captive audience, with no actual control over their equipment so this strategy works quite well as compared to PC players who are not conditioned to accept six hours of game play as a full game. DLC is a complete rip off, which is why I refuse to buy DLC.
Everyone is doing it.
In the US a new PC game costs between US$40 and US$50. In Australia it costs between A$80 and A$100. The Exchange rate has been above 0.8:1 for a long time now and tax on digital media is GST only (10%). 40x1.2+10% = 52.8. So why am I paying $30 more then that?
Don't give me that freight bollocks either, I can buy a US$40 game from Play-Asia.com in Hong Kong (payment in USD) so that's about A$44 (current exch rate is 0.93:1 USD/AUD) plus A$12 shipping so that's A$56 delivered to my door. Economies of scale tell me when you're importing 10,000 units your shipping costs per unit drop well below A$12 but we still get an absolute shafting at the register.
Better yet, he lives there and is a full citizen.
Yours Sincerely,
An Australian
Yep, but it should be in his sent items right.
Seriously, I think somoene a few posts up nailed it.
1. Idiot sends abusive email to pres (stupidly with real name on it).
2. Secret Service calls the Plod, asks them to find out if the guy's a threat. Puts a ban on visa just in case.
3. Plod visits idiot, finds out he's an idiot and tells idiot he can't get a US tourist visa any more.
4. Idiot calls tabloid, makes up sob story.
5. Tabloid makes big deal out of nothing (BAU for a tabloid).
Nothing more to see here, the US is already very strict with tourist visa's and you can be rejected, even as Brit or Aussie for any number of obscure reasons. Even as an Aussie, I have to apply for a US tourist visa before even getting on a flight compared to Europe, Aisa and many other places where I can expect a Visa on Arrival.
Conroy is just giving lip service his masters, he knows a filter will never get past the Greens.
The NBN was a big part of the election, it's obvious a lot of people want it. I think the Libs are setting Turnbull up to fail as he could be a serious threat to Abbott and the faction leaders who put Abbott in power.
Sigh,
Why do people look at the specifics and not the procedure. FFS, what do they teach you at school, follow the damn instructions and keep your mouth shut.
My point was that we've already solved this problem, a monitored alarm needs to send a "I'm still alive" signal to a receiver off site, if the other site stops receiving this signal, setting up a warning via an automated process at this site is a trivial matter. It doesn't matter if you use Nagios or whatever, if you're not doing this you're doing it wrong, Nagios is just a damn good example of how you identify failing/failed systems from a remote point.
If you're having trouble understanding the concept, then carpentry may be more your thing.
Further more, if an alarm system operates on TCP then configuring Nagios to interpret it is trivial.
Unfortunately quite a few Aussies who made a fortune in the mining industry also fall into this category.
But there in lies the problem. The settlement agents (realtors) which had the power to sell the house (possibly also the title papers) were duped by the scammer, it's quite easy to see how this happened, scammer breaks into email account, scammer initiates contact with realtors, scammer instructs realtors to sell houses, realtors sell the houses and transfer the money to the owners "new" bank account. Because the owner is overseas the realtors may have been given the power to do this, as you pointed out there needs to be a physical signing of the papers and few Aussies are now retired Ex-pats living off rental income.
Where the realtor screwed up and it is the realtor who is most to blame here is not verifying the sale via another method of communication (voice, as in the phone) and it would be the realtor I'd be taking to court over this. By reading TFA it seems the person in question is doing this, also according to TFA the agent did not do a mandatory 100 point ID check. Where the owner screwed up is by A) entrusting a realtor (or at least a single realtor) to have the right to sell a house (I wouldn't leave a multi $100K investment in one persons hands) and B) Not checking his email, a sale takes days or weeks to finalise (esp with a bank involved, I've had friends wait months).
As a sysadmin, we've solved this problem. I have a Nagios box that sits off site and emails me when one of my websites goes down... I thought that would be one of the key reasons for paying for a monitored security system, so if it stops responding someone in a control centre says, "123 fake st is offline, get a car round there".
If you aren't monitoring your security system its near to useless anyway.
ACA - A Current Affairs - purely editorial program like Fox news but less annoying. They do biased tearjerker pieces on grandma's arguing with Telco's/government departments to sell ad space.
ACMA - Australian Communications and Media Authority - governmental department responsible for the regulation regarding media (print/TV/radio) and telecommunications.
ACCC - Australian Competition and Consumer Commission - politically independent public service mandated to protect consumer rights, business rights and obligations.
I suppose all three would be applicable but are either toothless wingers or will take years to action on anything.
I dont know why you think this is puritanical, I work in the private sector in Australia and I'm fairly certain if I look up porn at work I'll get sacked.
Because this guy is Public Sector, he just has to apologise and all will be forgiven.
Ummm... No they cant.
Pornography is not illegal in Australia. Production of pornography is not illegal in Australia.
Selling/giving pornography to minors is illegal (as it is in the US). Using a naked persons image without express connect is illegal.
Please learn about Australian laws before commenting on them.
Secondly, the filter was never implemented because it was voted down, twice. Also they faced a rebellion in the back bench over it so it's been shelved permanently.
You mean the one in angry /.er's imaginations.
Actually the Howard Government had ABC axe the Glass House in 2006.
Except thats only happening on one US carrier.
Does not constitute a pattern. US Telco's have always been more tyrannical then their European and Austral-Asian counterparts (or more precisely, we control them better).
What you forget in your blind Iphone praise and Google bashing is that carriers have never had to handle updates before. Apple didn't change a thing, in the past updates were always either A) user driven or B) manufacturer driven and it was RIM who first started doing OTA updates. Eventually, this is going to be sorted out, there are problems now because it's a new thing and it's needed because of localisation, I for one hate En_US (is not a language) on my phone, give me En_AU or En_UK not to mention number formatting differences (US xxx-xxx-xxxx, AU xxxxxxxxxx).
Confidence men, pyramid scams, bank fraud?
Burglars and would be bank robbers are not smart, but more then a few criminals are quite bright and they tend to get away with it because:
1. Public apathy Little Timmy isn't seen crying on the news in front of a smashed window, thus it does not register in the minds of most people as a heinous crime.
2. Harder crimes to solve. Often you're dealing with criminals who are expert social manipulators and are operating their actual crimes in foreign jurisdictions. They literally get their own victims to defend them.
So my advice when beginning that life of crime, put down the 410 sawn off and start a life of white collar crime, if you're ever caught they'll take a pittance of what you've bilked out of your victims and sentence you to a year or two of house arrest (if you can fake an illness and jet off to Majorca all the better).
Which means their network is capable of Band I. Previously you and Wikipedia is quite correct, T-Mo US used Band IV (1700/2100 AWS) but their network upgrade earlier this year (where they were given control over the full 2100 spectrum by the FCC) means that they now use Band I and Band IV. Previously, T-Mo was only given half of the 2100 MHz spectrum so they were forced to use AWS.
That and I know people who've personally been able to use a T-Mo SIM with their Australian phones (2100/900, same as Europe).
Always nice to see a bit of maturity on /.
T-mo uses Band I and Band IV. The upgrade to band I (using 2100 for both channels) was made earlier this year, T-Mo are now selling Band I only devices as well as Band IV. As always dont rely on Wikipedia as an authoritative source of information.
This is what I've said from the begining.
No one is going to kill the iphone, it will kill itself. More precisely Apple will kill it with overly restrictive censorship, fighting modders/hackers and constantly changing the rules. Apple is the single biggest threat to the Iphone.
There's an empty cubicle in the back of the mens bog, all three of them should be able to squeeze in there.
The difference is that Microsoft only charged people $0 for a service pack.
Unlike Apple, MS does not charge for a lot of extra features that make their way in via MS Downloads and service packs. MS release and maintains quite a few free packages that Apple charges for. For example I had to purchase an OS upgrade for a 10.4 Macbook just to run an alternate operating system as OS X doesn't work properly in a Windows domain.
As much as I like Cyanogenmod, as Android grows we will end up with more non-technical people using Android. This means that the percentage of people following community mods will shrink a lot despite more people using community mods. What this means for the modding community is actually very little, modding will always be around but for Android as a whole we'll see fewer phones running mods.
I actually disagree with the GP's android groups, what we will see is:
A: feature phones/devices. Android MP3 players, ebook readers, low end phones such as the HTC wildfire that will not see an upgrade in its lifetime. These things will be competing with OS's like Bada and Symbian.
B: Mid range devices. Things like the HTC Legend, LG Optimums, SE Xperia10. All the functions of a smart phone but cheaper hardware and slower updates.
C: High end devices. The flagship devices from each manufacturer, typically running the fastest hardware with the latest OS (or a version below). Devices like the Samsung Galaxy S, HTC Desire, Motrola Droid/Droid2.
Right now we have two minor problems, the first is the breakneck pace of Android development. This will slow down, it has to. The second are the carriers delaying updates. The HTC Desire's base 2.2 ROM has been available for a month, but few carriers have deployed it, this will change as demand gets greater and carriers want to vie for your Android dollars (at least in Europe, Asia and Australia where I can switch carriers easily).