re: How to Defeat DVD Zone Controls

2002-07-29 Thread mean-green
Most players cannot be hacked. And many hacks do not operate properly. How about just rent or borrow DVDs, reprocess to remove the region controls and reburn to a DVD-R? DVD-Rs are only about $1.25 or less each. Test burn on a DVD-RW to help prevent expensive coasters. See

crime control before it happens: thought control

2002-07-29 Thread Major Variola (ret)
She even conceives of developing algorithms so advanced that society might intervene, to get people liable to be recruited into cells back on track before they can be seduced by elements like Al Qaeda. There is a possibility that with sufficient information about known terrorists we could evolve

Re: Hollywood Hackers

2002-07-29 Thread AARG! Anonymous
On Mon, 29 Jul 2002 14:25:37 -0400 (EDT), you wrote: Congressman Wants to Let Entertainment Industry Get Into Your Computer Rep. Howard L. Berman, D-Calif., formally proposed legislation that would give the industry unprecedented new authority to secretly hack into

Hollywood Hackers

2002-07-29 Thread Duncan Frissell
Congressman Wants to Let Entertainment Industry Get Into Your Computer Rep. Howard L. Berman, D-Calif., formally proposed legislation that would give the industry unprecedented new authority to secretly hack into consumers' computers or knock them off-line entirely if

Learning to love Big Brother: George W. Bush channels George Orwell

2002-07-29 Thread Steve Schear
[Might be funnier if it weren't so true...] Learning to love Big Brother George W. Bush channels George Orwell Daniel Kurtzman Sunday, July 28, 2002 )2002 San Francisco Chronicle. URL: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/a/2002/07/28/IN244190.DTL Here's a question for