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RIAA Hearing Next Week Will Be Televised 291

Posted by kdawson on Friday January 16, 2009 @12:38PM from the light-of-day dept.

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "One commentator labels it 'another fly in the RIAA's ointment.' In SONY BMG Music v. Tenenbaum, the Boston, Massachusetts, RIAA case in which the defendant is represented by Harvard law professor Charles Nesson and a group of his students, the Judge has ruled that the hearing scheduled for January 22nd will be televised over the Internet. The hearing will relate to Mr. Tenenbaum's counterclaims against the record companies and against the RIAA. In her 11-page opinion (PDF), District Judge Nancy Gertner labeled as 'curious' the record companies' opposition to televising the proceedings, since their professed reason for bringing the cases is deterrence, 'a strategy [which] effectively relies on the publicity arising from this litigation'."

Comment Not on Series2 Tivos... (Score 2, Informative) 291

by bdjohns1 on Sunday May 13, 2007 @01:43AM (#19101577) Attached to: TiVo Awarded Patent For Password You Can't Hack

Hopefully what they're talking about patenting isn't the protection scheme that's on Series2/2.5 Tivos, because that's been owned for a couple of years now. Series3 Tivos have been hacked to get shell access so far, but AFAIK, encryption hasn't been cracked.

On a Series2 Tivo, it's not rocket science:
1) Pull hard drive
2) Replace kernel with another kernel that doesn't do an integrity check of files at boot time.
3) Make the startup scripts spawn a telnet daemon (Tivo was thoughtful enough to provide one)
4) Change 8 bytes in 'tivoapp' to disable encryption.
(and copying files off the Tivo this way is at least 2x faster than TivoToGo transfers)

Series2.5 (nightlight and dual-tuner) and Series3 (dual CableCard HDTV) require that a PROM chip be desoldered, reflashed to remove file integrity checking, and then put back in. All the Series3 Tivo lacks is step 4, but it'll only be a matter of time.

Submission + - HD-DVD and Blu-Ray Fully Broken

Submitted by gEvil (beta) on Tuesday February 13, 2007 @11:36AM

gEvil (beta) writes: According to an article at BoingBoing, the processing keys for the AACS encryption scheme used by both HD-DVD and Blu-Ray video discs have been extracted, and a crack has been released. What this means is that there is now a method to extract the copy-protected content of any HD-DVD or Blu-Ray disc out there. This is different from Muslix64's previous crack, which only extracted the volume key for each disc. This new method bypasses this step and allows anyone to extract the data without first requiring the volume key.

Journal Journal: We all fake orgasm

Journal by zaximka on Tuesday February 13, 2007 @11:33AM

Fake orgasm seems to be mysterious thing to me. Everyone knows that people fake orgasm and at the same time everyone denies the fact that one of her or his partners has ever faked orgasm. Why does it happen? Perhaps we all want to be unique, we all do not want to recognize the fact that our partners might deceive us. Did you never pretend to achieve orgasm?

Than perhaps you are not aware of main reasons for fake climax. Here are they.

CmdrTaco becomes An Old(er) Man 339

Posted by Hemos on Wednesday May 10, 2006 @01:00PM from the it's-payback-time dept.

So, over the years, Rob, as only true friends do, has managed to cause my inbox to explode over the years. Now, it's payback time. That's right, our very own CmdrTaco is turning 30 today. I highly encourage you to drop him an e-mail at (remove the spam parts) maldaSPAM@SPAMslashdot.org. And of course, birthday presents of single malt scotch can be sent c/o of me. I'll...uh...make sure he gets them.

NASA Hacker Gary McKinnon Interviewed 402

Posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday May 06, 2006 @09:44AM from the out-of-this-world dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A BBC article reports about an interview between Click and Gary McKinnon who in 2002 hacked into NASA and other US Military networks. In the interview he talks about how he accessed machines by using default passwords and a conversation with a NASA network engineer using Wordpad. He also talks about how he found information about anti-gravity, UFO technology, free energy and how UFOs are regularly airbrushed out from high-resolution satellite images."

Working at Microsoft, the Inside Scoop 437

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday April 19, 2006 @01:46PM from the belly-of-the-beast dept.

bariswheel writes "Responding to the public interest, a long-time Apple and UNIX user/programmer, and a JPL/Caltech veteran, writes an insightful, articulate essay on the good, the bad, and the in-between experiences of working at Microsoft; concentrating on focus, unreality, company leadership, managers, source code, benefits and compensation, free soft drinks, work/life balance, Microsoft's not evil, and influence."

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