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They have cracked standard DVD why not HD-DVD..


In order to protect their interests, record companies and movie studios have worked hard to developed uncrackable DRM solutions so that you can't just rip their music and vids, sending them all over the world via the interweb. Hollywood's greatest effort thus far as been the AACS DRM system developed for HD-DVDs. Too bad it has now been hacked.

A software tool known as BackupHDDVD (creative, I know) claims that it can decrypt and dismantle AACS on a Windows PC. Apparently, you "just feed the small utility a crypto key, and it'll dump the video right off the disc onto your hard drive, supposedly playable in any HD DVD compatible player." Just as people figured out how to rip songs from CDs and movies from DVDs, they can now get their hi-def video from HD-DVDs.

Does it really work? Check out the vid below.


http://www.youtube.com/v/_oZGYb92isE

Full month of power, wow! this is what i'm waiting for


Not waiting around for those Matsushita replacement batteries, Samsung is moving full steam ahead down the fuel cell highway, with a notebook dock that can give you a full month's worth of power. That's a lot of time between charges, which is a good thing for today's ultimately portable society.

The noise level of the fuel cell is nothing more than a gentle hum, which is what you would expect from a notebook power source anyway. This is a significant improvement and pairs with the impressive leap in density to provide a big step forward in avoiding exploding batteries altogether.

The fuel cell itself is of the Direct Methanol variety (or DMFC, for the acronym lovers among us). And that's a Q35 in the photo, meaning that you won't have to buy a super-tiny notebook just to be able to use this fuel cell dock.

We can expect to see this product in full force by the end of 2007. It should still be ahead of its time.

Remember years ago when people said that no one will ever need more than one megabyte of storage, and then they said that the average person would never require one gigabyte? My, how times have changed. Hitachi is keeping up the with the times, offering us unprecedented storage in the world's first terabyte hard drive. That's 1000 gigabytes, people.

For the nit-pickers amongst us, Hitachi has defined one gigabyte as 1 billion bytes, and as such, one terabyte is 1000 gigabytes. In this way, they remind us that "accessible capacity may be less", but who's going to notice a gig or two missing when you've got a thousand of them. As expected, this drive -- creatively named the 7K1000 -- is a 3.5-inch platter spinning at 7200rpm. They also have a CinemaStar variant designed for DVR applications.

Retail shipping will commence during Q1 (like now?), with a suggested retail price of $399. That works out to just 40 cents a gig.

Quote from: Terliso on January 03, 2007, 01:10:20 AM
Full month of power, wow! this is what i'm waiting for

Hi Terliso, had not seen this one, but I like it.  I wonder if that is a MTI mobion fuel cell in that there gadget.  Samsung and MTI did a joint dev deal back in May 2006 and just recently sent them some more of the latest cells.  US army also a big player in the demand for portable power.

Note: I do own MTI,  "MKTY" on Nasdaq, have for some time, a little in the red right now but one of those I just love the technology and the possible future demand.  I remember reading over a year ago that they had a demo unit small enough to fit into a cell phone.

PS on the silly design side, about 6 months ago I saw an ad for an electronic laptop cooling refrigeration pad, it used a thermionic device to cool the battery.  Just like the kind used in small portable picnic coolers you plug into your car to get the fairly healthy power needed to run them.  Now for the laptop unit you are not usually in your car and not around 120v power, so they just set it up to use the only local power available, ie stick a USB plug onto it and plug it into the laptop.  Ya right,  draw significant power from the battery you are trying to cool !!

happy investing / trading
Quasi

Not to be confused with the device from Cisco of the same name, the Apple iPhone has garnered more than its fair share of attention these past few days. Everyone is lusting after its multi-touch screen, gorgeous widescreen-ness, and -- oh right -- that whole locked to Cingular business. But how does it perform? Maybe this video will help you find out.

While the rest of the barrage of Apple fanboys crowding Macworld couldn't really get their hands on an actual iPhone, restricted to viewing it in its hard plastic-encased cylinder, John Blackstone of CBS managed to score himself a hands-on session with Phil Schiller of Apple. The video below goes through many of the iPhone's key functions, and as you'd expect, everything seems pretty intuitive. Yes, I want one. But I'm in Canada, so (as far as we know thus far) I can't have one... yet.

I can't wait to get one of these thing!


http://www.youtube.com/v/YgW7or1TuFk

Mobiles have more bacteria than toilet seats


The hypochondriacs among us might want to stop reading now.

Still there? Well, you might rush out and get some antibacterial wipes once you've finished reading this one. Seems an outfit called Dial-a-Phone went and conducted a health study on common objects that we humans use everyday. One of the results was that our good old mobile phones have more bacteria per square millimeter than your keyboard, the bottoms of your shoes, and even a toilet seat. That's right, the mobile phone is officially the most-infected device known to man.

Remember your mother telling you that shaking someone's hand is much more dangerous in terms of infection than kissing? It's like that. Your hands touch way more things during any given day than your lips ever do, and your mobile phone tops even that. Further, the kind of bacteria that is commonly found in skin thrives in warm environments, like pants pockets, purses, and briefcases. The more you carry your mobile around with you and use it, the more bacteria piles up on its surface, just waiting to infect you or anyone who touches it.

Now, obviously, no one is dying from contact with a bacteria-infested mobile phone. But this is definitely something to take note of, even moreso than the warnings about keeping your keyboards and desk workspaces clean (which many people ignore, anyway). After all, your phone touches your hands, ears, and face many times each day. Who knows how many low-level infections your mobile is carrying around with it?

Nokia's latest concept phone has dual touchscreens

Didn't you know? Apple isn't the only touchscreen cell phone in town. Big dog Nokia is apparently working on a dual touchscreen concept phone that they have christened the "Achieve." It's not quite ready for market, but it's nice to see ideas like this coming out of some sort of official source rather than a random designer on that Yanko site. Like the N93i video that we saw yesterday, Nokia is emphasizing the capability to "share" with the Achieve.

Naturally, it's got all the latest features like Bluetooth audio, smart wireless conferencing, remote presentations, and so on. This is Nokia's "View of the Future" and they make sure that you know that the concept phones described in the video "are not showing prototypes of actual phones", but are rather "exploring futuristic concepts and potential new ideas."


http://www.youtube.com/v/9qIZBo8a_pA

Taser Cam the truth is undeniable

Well, now we can have video evidence that all those belligerents who were Tasered into submission actually deserved it.

Taser International, makers of the stun guns popular with law enforcement officials, has brought out the Taser Cam, an attachment for the stun gun that shoots video of whatever the gun's "shooter" sees before and during the "shot." The camera, which fits in the gun's handle like a cordless drill battery pack, has a microphone as well and even an infrared illuminator, so those night-time shots aren't lost in the dark. The footage is easily transferred to a PC via a USB cable.

That's all well and good, but we fear that we'll be seeing these kinds of videos on Cops sooner rather than later. Regardless, the ability to record the circumstances surrounding the use of a stun gun will no doubt be a big help to both the users and the recipients. Check out the funny video below about a TaserCam victim.


http://www.youtube.com/v/KIInf3CxPUA

HDDVD and Bluray cracked

Interview with muslix64, Developer of BackupHDDVD

http://www.slyck.com/story1390.html

Doom9.org

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=119871

HDkey.com

http://www.hdkeys.com/

Vista DRM cracked?

Alex Ionescu's Blog » Update on Driver Signing Bypass:

http://www.alex-ionescu.com/?p=24

"However, it does bypass DRM. As part of the Protected Media Path, (PMP), Windows Vista sets up a number of requirements for A/V software and drivers in order to ensure it complies with the demandes of the media companies. One of these features, which has been heavily criticized as being the actual reason behind driver signing, is that "some premium content may be unavailable" if test signing mode is used. Originally, I assumed that this meant that the kernel would set some sort of variable, but this didn't make sense: once your unsigned driver could load, it could disable this check. After reading the PMP documentation however, it seems to me that the "feature" explained is more likely the cause of this warning on premium content.

This feature is the ability of the PMP to notify A/V applications that there are unsigned drivers on the system, as well as provide a list of unsigned drivers. The idea is that the application can either outright refuse to play content, or that it can scan for known anti-DRM drivers which might be attempting to hook onto the unencrypted stream. This leads me to believe that it's up to applications, not the OS, to enforce this DRM check."



Slashdot:

http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/29/1811201