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R'lyeh Rises! 2007-02-13 22:17:39 R’lyeh Rises!Share This
09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 2007-02-13 17:41:40 As of February 11, 2007, AACS is history. The most expensive content protection scheme in history, developed jointly by Disney, Intel, Microsoft, Matsushita (Panasonic), Warner Brothers, IBM, Toshiba and Sony, has been broken, mere months after it was put into action.
AACS is used as encryption on both Blu-Ray and HD-DVD discs, as well as within Microsoft’s Windows Vista OS.
Whereas earlier attempts at breaking the encryption were successful at removing protection from one specific movie, the discovery of the Processing Key (the title of this post) makes it possible to now decrypt every movie ‘protected’ by AACS.
The most amusing thing about the whole debacle is explained by the rather clever fellow who discovered it:
Nothing was hacked, cracked or even reverse engineered btw: I only had to watch the “show” in my own memory. No debugger was used, no binaries changed.Share This
Thirteen Lessons In A Year 2007-02-15 03:40:03
I began working on this site on February 14, 2006, a year and a day ago (and almost a decade to the day from my first web site). In that time I have spewed a fair number of words into the aether. I have also learned a lot of lessons along the way.
In honor of that anniversary, here are thirteen things I have learned in the last year, in roughly chronological order.
Nobody talks about staying at home without children: Though the internet is clogged with SAHMs and a smaller number of SAHDs, there are no known SAHWs or SAHHs. Either you must havekids as an excuse or wait until you are old enough to be “retired”.
Most People Can’t Talk About Anything But Work: Of course, given the amount of time and energy most people put into the jobs they hate, I suppose that isn’t very suprising.
I Am Not Cut Out For Time Management: Time management requires a level of compartmentalization and disintegration that I seem not to be capable of.
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LineRider FTW! 2007-02-15 01:17:13 LineRider FTW!Share This
Let's Get Serious About Marriage 2007-02-15 00:43:02 This is a truly fantastic idea. If the State is going to claim a "legitimate state interest" in defining marriage exclusively for the purpose of procreation and child-rearing and go on to use this interest to declare that same-sex couples are properly barred from marriage because they are incapable of procreating, then they should have to lie in the bed they have so messily made, so to speak.
If same-sex couples should be barred from marriage because they can not have children together, it follows that all couples who can not or will not have children together should equally be barred from marriage.
I amparticularly amused by the stipulation that
couples married out of state file proof of procreation within three years of the date of marriage or have their marriage classed as "unrecognized;"
I still think that the answer is to make heterosexual (along with homosexual) marriage unconstitutional, since clearly it de-emphasizes the comm
A Psuedo-Intellectual Understanding of Blogging 2007-02-14 23:29:18 I find this statement from Tyler Cowen rather amusing;
Blogging
makes us more oriented toward an intellectual bottom line, more interested in the directly empirical, more tolerant of human differences, more analytical in the course of daily life, more interested in people who are interesting, and less patient with Continental philosophy.
Amusing because of who Cowen is: a pro-globalization, libertarian, economics professor who writes books about how to gut public arts funding and feel good about it. Amused because within that context, the phrase less patient with Continental philosophy does not mean
“I am not convinced of the value of using Lacanian psychoanalysis to explore time, subjectivity and inter-subjectivity, radical otherness, sexual difference, and deconstruction”
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“I am unwilling to listen to any bit of thinking, or have any conversation, that refuses to begin with the premise that the ‘free market& Read more:Intellectual
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Web 2.0 2007-02-14 14:39:08 I have, since the term first began to appear, had an innate revulsion for the idea of “web 2.0″. I didn’t buy Tim O’Reilly’s definition then, and I don’t buy any of the other punditry now.
As a matter of fact, other than some shiny bits tacked onto the same old contentless “tools” and “networks”, Web 2.0 looks a whole lot like Bubble 2.0 to me; a bunch of market wonks using an ill-defined sound-bite as a way to seperate venture capitalists from money.
So I was delighted to hear that Tom Orlowski speaking at Wobble 2.0 hit the nail on the head:
web2.0 is fundamentally about “presentation layer people trying to solve infrastructure problems”
To which Seamus McCauley adds:
The web2.0 bubble is about businesses continuing to deny what web1991, TBL’s [Tim Berners Lee’s] original innovation, really means—the long-term unlikelihood of realising business-scale returns from digital.
Cheers fellas! Nothing war
Cows With Guns 2007-02-15 18:35:34 Cows With GunsShare This
Daily Quote… On Dissipation 2007-02-15 01:00:20
The world is too much with us; late and soon; Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers…
– William Wordsworth
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Daily Quote… On Simplicity & Complexity 2007-02-16 01:00:29
I would not give a fig for the simplicity this side of complexity, but I would give my life for for the simplicity on the other side of complexity.
– Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Daily Quote… On Theory 2007-02-17 01:00:32
The supreme misfortune is when theory outstrips performance.
– Leonardo da Vinci
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Desolation Row 2007-02-17 21:32:09 Desolation RowShare This
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