jamesbrownuhh

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by jamesbrownuhh 11y ago
I see. "NCC's work - which has been restricted to its labs..." "Mr Davis said he had simulated his DAB-based attack only on equipment in his company's buildings..." "But he added that he had previously com
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by jamesbrownuhh 11y ago
Yes, of course, understood and accepted - this is cool too.
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by jamesbrownuhh 11y ago
I've never heard of this being used for hybrid C64/PC discs before, but the technique itself isn't all that new - as far back as the late 1980s there were dual-format Atari ST and Amiga discs which would work on either system
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by jamesbrownuhh 11y ago
The flashing block was "4 Computer Buffs" on Channel 4 - you can see them describe the process here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKmu68URUeI I recall seeing a torrent of the full series a while back - I'd
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by jamesbrownuhh 11y ago
'The ad relies on the fact that an iPhone, if plugged in and charging, will wake up on the voice command "Hey Siri"' -- actually, an iPhone will only respond to Hey Siri if you have _explicitly_ turned that feature on -
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by jamesbrownuhh 11y ago
Channel 4 is a "public service" channel only in the sense that it was one of the first four channels to come into existence at a time when the quid pro quo for having a broadcast licence was that challenging, worthy, high-quality
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by jamesbrownuhh 11y ago
Every part of this feels like a terrible idea, and, if anything, stands more of a chance of plausibly associating someone to the very activity which they are trying to (literally) distance themselves from. "It wasn't me, I was mil
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by jamesbrownuhh 11y ago
Frozen won't have anything like as much appeal to young, barely lingual children, who know that they like brightly coloured cars with faces, can probably say "cars" to their parents, and who will watch a video with those cars
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by jamesbrownuhh 11y ago
I think you got close to the answer at the end of your article - some videos just hit hard with younger children and the type of children who will love to watch something again and again and again, on near-permanent repeat. Cars 2 is exactl
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The kid who understands the importance of captions better than most adults(limpingchicken.com)
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Coastermelt – Reverse engineering a Blu-Ray disc recorder to create art(misc.name)
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by jamesbrownuhh 11y ago
Sorry if I'm missing something, but what does that have to do with the Berenstein Bears article which this is a comment to?
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by jamesbrownuhh 11y ago
> It wasn't even like Sky and Skype are directly competing with one another Not yet, but as the article says, Skype were seeking to register their name as a trademark in a number of fields where Sky DO operate - e.g. Products, servi
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by jamesbrownuhh 11y ago
The current state of the art prevents this technique from working on Sky's highest value HD channels. (HD channels require a newer set top box with a later generation of decryption abilities, and these ensure that any liftable keystrea
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by jamesbrownuhh 11y ago
And they'll still know exactly which door to knock on if they see the streams being illegally re-streamed.
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by jamesbrownuhh 11y ago
That's £25 on top of the basic package subscription, which is another £22-£30 by itself.
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by jamesbrownuhh 11y ago
And fundamentally, the visibility of the pint glass is not a "guilty / not guilty" switch. Even if something that looks like a pint glass is on display, no matter how well faked, it still comes down to whether Sky have a reco
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by jamesbrownuhh 11y ago
Love it - a classic story, never gets old. :)
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by jamesbrownuhh 11y ago
This particular approach is strictly a Sky (UK) thing, although I believe that Sky in other countries (e.g. Germany, Italy) adopt a similar technique. UK cable operators don't sell commercial subscriptions to premises, so the pint glas
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by jamesbrownuhh 11y ago
It depends on the size of the pub and, therefore, how much extra beer money is likely to be brought in by the venue showing live football (etc)
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by jamesbrownuhh 11y ago
Yes, that visible cue dot is exclusively an ITV thing these days.
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by jamesbrownuhh 11y ago
The pint glass is generated by the box software, so it already knows the viewing card number and, potentially, can ascertain where that card should be, geographically. So it's absolutely possible.
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by jamesbrownuhh 11y ago
The smart card has nothing like the power required to process video - but it doesn't need to. The Sky receivers are fortified sufficiently to make changing the firmware a distinctly non-trivial operation.
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by jamesbrownuhh 11y ago
That's exactly how it works. The numbers are hashed by the receiver and uniquely identify that particular viewing card, then displayed in a position selected by the channel operator, when triggered at a time of their choosing.
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by jamesbrownuhh 11y ago
Although the position of the number is (obviously) under the control of the platform operator, so could appear anywhere, for any amount of time, if they were so minded. I wouldn't like to bet against the number appearing right in the c
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by jamesbrownuhh 11y ago
Distinctly non-trivial. The receiver software is cryptographically signed and is heavily integrated with the conditional access system securing the underlying broadcast. I'm only aware of one time that a legitimate box was encouraged t
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by jamesbrownuhh 12y ago
Perhaps the issue just hit home more effectively at Netflix once it was their own content - and particularly content involving a blind central character. Who knows. I agree that the issue needs to stay in the public eye, but not if it'
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by jamesbrownuhh 12y ago
It's not quite as easy as it sounds - but Netflix are at least doing something, and starting with their original productions is a logical place to go, because they have complete control of the master copies and can commission an Audio
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by jamesbrownuhh 12y ago
Actually FedEx have specific rules against mailing dog poop to people, and if one of their customers were routinely doing so, I would indeed complain to FedEx and want them to do something about it. Ad networks saying "well, the conten
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by jamesbrownuhh 12y ago
There are sites which do display just such a message, so it's clearly not as hard as it might first sound. If you think about it, it can be as simple as just displaying a message 'underneath' an area of the screen where the b

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