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According to this article on Endgadget, the AACS DRM used in HD-DVD and Blu-Ray has been cracked. The program allows one to decrypt and dump the video for play on a users hard drive, or it can be burned to a blank HD-DVD and played on a stand-alone player. According to the accompanying video, a source release for the program will be made available in January.I'm not surprised here. This was totally coming. Hooray to the crackerz! W00! Pwned!
I'm just a straw pulled at random by elastic organic shadows in a spasm while operating the future breed machine beneath the paradoxical spiral ;-)
And by the way, Meshuggah is great!
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If nothing else, we humans are good at pushing the limits of common sense just to see what will happen. Installing a ridiculous number of add-ons (and taking pictures, of course) has long been a tradition for Internet Explorer, uh, "enthusiasts," and now the Firefox fans are carrying the torch: Inspired by a 100-extension test back in February, the fine folks at CyberNotes doubled their pleasure and installed 200 add-ons in Firefox 2. The result? Well, it isn't pretty. Predictably, the screen is almost totally overwhelmed by toolbars, leaving but a few square inches for actually navigating the web. Perhaps more impressive is the Tools menu which takes up almost two full screen heights. What's impressive, though, is even after two hundred add-ons are installed, CyberNotes finds that Firefox still, essentially, works, and takes up a hefty but not outlandish 200MB of RAM.LOL! Limits are breaking every single day. And this is a good day :-)
As part of the 2.6.20 development process, patches adding support for the "PS3 game console and other devices" (built on top of the IBM Cell) have been merged. The code has been written by Sony.Very interesting stuff. I don't like consoles, and I'm not a gamer, but this is good move by Sony. One of the few.
What's the first thing you want to know whenever a new device comes out? Whether you can play Doom on it, of course.
Okay, but the next question is usually whether you can install Linux.
Oh, so true :-) Think about it!
