> There's a good reason why, viz: it would cost the drive developer to allow
> or export this flexibility. Since very few customers are sick enough
This will go the same way as radio. First, you have hundreds of separate boxes,
each doing some custom modulation/frequency gig (am, fm, shortwave, T
At 03:08 PM 7/6/03 +0300, Sampo Syreeni wrote:
>. A writing drive capable of working at such a low level
>could be used to experiment with new encodings beyond what standard
CD's
>can do -- say, substituting CIRC with RSBC and gaining some extra room
on
>the disc, getting rid of the subchannels, a
At 04:13 AM 7/6/03 +0200, Thomas Shaddack wrote:
>Pondering. Vast majority of the CD/DVD "protection" methods is based on
>various deviations from the standards, or more accurately, how such
>deviations are (or aren't) handled by the drive firmware.
>
>However, we can sidestep the firmware.
>
>The
On 2003-07-06, Thomas Shaddack uttered to cypherpunks:
>If we'd fill this idea with water, would it leak? Where? Why?
It wouldn't leak, and I've never really understood why standard ATAPI
drives don't allow access to the raw data. As you say, that sort of tool
would have quite a number of applica
Slashdot pointed to this story of a man indicted via
his *relative's* DNA sample:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/3044282.stm
But an interesting, unmentioned issue is this: in population
DNA surveys you find that a lot of purported fathers *aren't*.
So the possibility of indicting a cuck
