At last somebody that gets it!
AACS and CSS *only* affect legal playback. They do *nothing* to illegal copying.
I support copyrights - the GPL depends on it. What I don't support is technological measures that restrict unfairly how I can play content that I legally bought and have the right to play. I paid for the right to play the movie - yet they still try to prevent me from playing it and that I don't agree to.
The AACS is not a 'copy prevention' or 'copyright protection' code. It has always been possible to copy a DVD and it still is. The AACS is an 'anti fair use' code. As such, it has *nothing* to do with the DMCA.
Ugh, Thatcher did some good with her economic policies in the UK, but her foreign policy sucked. All the big leaders of that time, Thatcher, Gorbachef, Reagan and others, supported terrorist groups around the world, which led to much suffering.
Yup, it amazes me how incredibly patient Windows users are. They will put up with *anything* and come back for more. My guess is that they all have a sado-masochism fetish. If Windows gives me shit at work, I pop in a Linux bootable CD and carry on working while the rest of the people around me all head for the water cooler. Windows is the greatest *unproductivity* tool ever invented.
Many people complain about there being 'too many Linux distributions'. The fact is, that there is only one GNU/Linux. The distributions merely provide a tool kit that goes along with it, the underlying systems are all the same.
Companies should use end-to-end encryption for data links and should not rely on the simple encryption built into WiFi devices anyway. It should not matter whether WEP is working or broken. The data stream should be encrypted all the way, not just over the air.
Just a week ago, I bought a set of equipment from a well known 5-letter corp that shall remain nameless, that doesn't work. It has WEP and 3 modes of WPA and not one of those actually work. The only way I can get a connection between the USB adaptor and the home router is in plain text. That problem used to be common some years ago, but in 2007? Sigh...
Depends on where you work. I work at a large defence company. We regularly talk about bombs, missiles, guns, hand-guns and so forth. We even go shooting each other as a team activity - OK, it is paint ball...
Oh man, if I think of all the things I built as a teenager: It started with model airplanes and escalated to rockets and crackers and eventually lead to much bigger bangs that rattled the neighborhood. I stopped when I set a whole mountain on fire with a hot-air balloon gone wrong, but looking back I actually stopped because I ran out of pocket money. Chemicals are expensive...
You have to view the latest witch hunts in the proper historical context of the Salem Witch Trials with the resultant drownings and burnings, as well as the McCarthy Communist Hunts and resultant firings and character assassinations. I think, looking back at those, the USA eventually may enter the Renaissance...
Wooo, I can see the line-up of lawyers wanting to handle his case! He should walk away from this defamation and unfair dismissal suit with a very handsome package.
TIA can probably be populated very easily from second-hand drives bought on Ebay.
The sad thing is that ALL modern drives have an effective erase capability built in: http://cmrr.ucsd.edu/Hughes/SecureErase.html but few people know that and fewer still use it before disposing of a drive.
Well, not 'around the world' at all. The DMCA is a USA law. It doesn't affect me for example, so there: 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0
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No, Aussies don't get a star, just a brown dot... ;)
At last somebody that gets it! AACS and CSS *only* affect legal playback. They do *nothing* to illegal copying. I support copyrights - the GPL depends on it. What I don't support is technological measures that restrict unfairly how I can play content that I legally bought and have the right to play. I paid for the right to play the movie - yet they still try to prevent me from playing it and that I don't agree to.
The AACS is not a 'copy prevention' or 'copyright protection' code. It has always been possible to copy a DVD and it still is. The AACS is an 'anti fair use' code. As such, it has *nothing* to do with the DMCA.
Ugh, Thatcher did some good with her economic policies in the UK, but her foreign policy sucked. All the big leaders of that time, Thatcher, Gorbachef, Reagan and others, supported terrorist groups around the world, which led to much suffering.
I would have been shocked if that idea worked. Making a central list of all children's email addresses must be a pervert's dream come true...
No, evidently it was TCP/IP.
so they can't, sorry. BTW, the sailor was also the policeman.
Don't poke fun at the members of the ASD (American Dyslexic Society).
See this: http://www.jinx.com/scripts/details.asp?affid=-1&p roductID=628
Hmm, that post is just so uninformed that I guess the Honorable Coward hasn't ever actually used Linux.
Yup, it amazes me how incredibly patient Windows users are. They will put up with *anything* and come back for more. My guess is that they all have a sado-masochism fetish. If Windows gives me shit at work, I pop in a Linux bootable CD and carry on working while the rest of the people around me all head for the water cooler. Windows is the greatest *unproductivity* tool ever invented.
Many people complain about there being 'too many Linux distributions'. The fact is, that there is only one GNU/Linux. The distributions merely provide a tool kit that goes along with it, the underlying systems are all the same.
Now try this one during one of those silly hand-gun restrictions arguments: "Guns don't kill people........ I kill people.......". :)
Companies should use end-to-end encryption for data links and should not rely on the simple encryption built into WiFi devices anyway. It should not matter whether WEP is working or broken. The data stream should be encrypted all the way, not just over the air.
Just a week ago, I bought a set of equipment from a well known 5-letter corp that shall remain nameless, that doesn't work. It has WEP and 3 modes of WPA and not one of those actually work. The only way I can get a connection between the USB adaptor and the home router is in plain text. That problem used to be common some years ago, but in 2007? Sigh...
Depends on where you work. I work at a large defence company. We regularly talk about bombs, missiles, guns, hand-guns and so forth. We even go shooting each other as a team activity - OK, it is paint ball...
Oh man, if I think of all the things I built as a teenager: It started with model airplanes and escalated to rockets and crackers and eventually lead to much bigger bangs that rattled the neighborhood. I stopped when I set a whole mountain on fire with a hot-air balloon gone wrong, but looking back I actually stopped because I ran out of pocket money. Chemicals are expensive...
You have to view the latest witch hunts in the proper historical context of the Salem Witch Trials with the resultant drownings and burnings, as well as the McCarthy Communist Hunts and resultant firings and character assassinations. I think, looking back at those, the USA eventually may enter the Renaissance...
Wooo, I can see the line-up of lawyers wanting to handle his case! He should walk away from this defamation and unfair dismissal suit with a very handsome package.
TIA can probably be populated very easily from second-hand drives bought on Ebay.
The sad thing is that ALL modern drives have an effective erase capability built in:
http://cmrr.ucsd.edu/Hughes/SecureErase.html
but few people know that and fewer still use it before disposing of a drive.
Hmm, in these parts teenagers commonly swap DVDs full of MP3s. The number of albums involved makes my head hurt just to think about it.
You haven't heard of Intel India? India has a rather advanced electronics production infrastructure.
Why not? That leaves all of $7 for the hardware.
Exactly, the scheme is not a 'copy protection device' at all and as such doesn't even fall under the DMCA.
Well, not 'around the world' at all. The DMCA is a USA law. It doesn't affect me for example, so there: 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0