You've been heard. Response re: 4.9 and Encryption
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Light-emitting resistors? That's not a software problem, that's a hardware problem.
Contrary to popular belief, computers DO NOT run on electricity. They run on smoke. Let the smoke out and it no longer runs. Fire is just letting all the smoke out, violently, at once. So, yeah...it's a hardware problem.
Having worked in the electonics field in the past, (15 years before moving on), I can confirm you don't want to let the smoke (or stench) out of capacitors either. Who knew a 22pF disk Capacitor (about the size of a cherrio) could also contain a 10" flame as well....
Oh yeah...those tiny things sure do pack it in...but you really want to be impressed...cook off one of the BIG ones. You measure it in feet...and the flame is several of those!
Yep. My professor for Power Electronics told us about the 'magic smoke' in the junior year of Electrical Engineering. Makes all the crazy mathematics used in electronics suddenly make a lot more sense......
I think the biggest I ever cooked was a 1000uf 230v electrolytic that I accidently installed backwards... but it just let out a very undramatic puff of black, oozed some nasty goo, and a smell that lingered for days.... But the most interesting one was when I was running this tempermental ancient pos tester that should have been retired 20 year ealier, that never ran right, and would take 8 hours to test 20 Pcb's that had a 5 minute test time... but this particular day, it was running very well, and I was almost done when the boss came over and asked how they were going... I no sooner got the words "They're running great" out of my mouth, when a cap let go, and 12" flame... I to this day will NEVER say something is running good...
Well - I downloaded the encrypted item - the DAZ Connect off-line install files in the product library - to my laptop, brought them home, copied them to my main system - and installed them (it). The "Lulu Outfit for Genesis 3 Females", sku 22708. Then I loaded G3F, added the outfit, and rendered.
In electronics class in the '60s we ran a test-to-destruction on a new mini vacuum tube - the last gasp of vacuum tube tech before they got replaced by transistors. IIRC, the peanut-size tube used a 1 volt filament and 5 volt plate; we had it pumped up to 9 volts on the filament and 200+ on the plate, glowing bright as a 100 watt bulb. And then the glass melted. It was MIL-spec, intended for some kind of communications gear.
Tubes aren't dead...they've just been moved over to the 'extremely expensive, super high-end' specialty side of things...especially in audio. Heck, a few years back Aopen even put them on motherboards (yes, they were just in the sound circuits).
Wait, I thought this was a joke until I read all the following posts. Is this actually true? o.o
Don't let the smoke out of a selenium rectifier
Must have been fun to watch... However, as mjc1016 says, Tubes aren't dead... in fact most industrial furnaces still use Vacuum (even if most people don't realize it) as sensors. I worked for Fireye (part of Kidde,plc, now part of UTC.) and we made furnace burner controls for industrial boilers. We used 3 different sensor types, depending on the fuel being used. Coal/Wood/Heavy Oil Soot up quickly, and required a IR sensor, Natural gas used a UV sensor. They tried to at one point switch the UV sensor from Vacuum tube to Solid State, but quickly dropped it, as nothing worked as well as a simple Ionization of gas by UV in a glass tube... (ok, not a transisor type, but still a vacuum tube.)
However, I'm starting to think this thread, at least for the topic it was started for, is dead (or close to it)..
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There have been a couple of recent strands of discussion that haven't really seen answers.
One was the talk of a survey being sent out and what sorts of suggestions for questions would go in it. There were some good suggestions for that earlier.
This has been mentioned a few times but never answered: Is there any chance we could get an icon on the store LIST page showing that a product is encrypted/Connect-only? It's very clear even from this thread alone that a significant number of people are buying things without seeing until later that its encrypted only. Also having to go into each product just to check is irritating. The whole thing feels kinda sneaky (not saying it is intending to be, just that that's the end result) and it would really be much better if it was obvious before clicking on the product (the same as DO and PC+ have their own icon, make a giant yellow padlock or skull or dead rat or shield or glass of wine who cares what just add SOMETHING) so is there any chance we could have that pretty please?
It's not dead. It's morphed. It started as a discussion of recent changes to... well, everything, and almost immediately became a discussion about everything!
The conversation has ranged all over the place, it's been dark and it's been fun, but nonetheless, it's been good, informative, and enjoyable. I'm kind of hoping that it won't end (especially since I still haven't seen one particular concern addressed!) but I know that it will.
There's no point in discussing DRM or encryption, it's here to stay despite the protests, we can accept it or not. So we talk about other things.
Well there are some new suggestions and questions await either answer or dismissal.
I still want to know if exporting a DRM'd product to another software for use there could be considered a violation of the anti-circumvention section of the DMCA. Kinda troubling given the DMCA doesn't seem to cover the idea that there might be parts of a DRM'd content item that aren't themselves DRM'd at least that I could find. And it doesn't seem to matter if the 'circumvention' isn't being done for infringement. I worry that it could be held to standards set by the RIAA and MPAA instead of the normal uses of content in this field. While it may not affect personal use, it could be a factor in professional use.
Which in part, is why I won't have anything to do with DRM. Side note: I'm currently getting better at making my own stuff anyways...
For technical details, consult the entries for LER (Light Emitting Resistor) and SED (Smoke Emitting Diode) in the Jargon File. For the underlying theory, the entry on Magic Smoke is useful.
It's actually encouraging me to spend my money on something like 3D Coat and making another stab at learning to do some object painting and design myself.
I still like new morphs and figures and that synergy, but for random props and so on? Learn!
I can see someday recieving a lawyer note for posting an image on line that uses the same figure or prop as one from a movie or video game.
That is a very tricky question...because, we've been told that all our export options are working and fine to use.
As it stands, the EULA currently allows for exporting to other programs. The advertising and promotional materials stress how usable the content is in other programs...it's almost expected to be used in more than just Studio.
Right but from what I've been reading, adding DRM to any product places it under an entirely different set of laws independant of the EULA or who 'owns' the product, etc.
(I believe this was linked here earlier: http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/columns-and-blogs/cory-doctorow/article/51292-cory-doctorow-a-whip-to-beat-us-with.html )
I do believe it - software is fun and this forum software has it's own and many quirks ...
But when the program it is intended to be used in is actually, also, the 'unlocker', how can it be circumventing anything?
Bringing the DMCA into is really beginning to make no sense...because, if it applies, then Daz needs to file DMCA procedings against itself for building the 'poison pill' and the export functions, especially for including the bridges to Hex, Photoshop and zBrush. Because, if there is any 'circumventing' going on (outside of crackers who do it because they can), it's Studio itself doing it.
This encryption is not like some DRM (think back to early SafeDisc that actually broke CD drives...or the Sony stuff that installed a rootkit). And, most all the scripts sold through the store have always been encrypted.
The whole thing Connect/encrypted content is more buzzword than anything. Connect is not 'cloud' content...is distributed distribution. Encryption is mild DRM, it's more an 'activation' than anything else.
If it's the sort of thing that isn't applicable that's great - but I've seen enough stupid situations thanks to people with money and lawyers when Rights and DRM gets involved that I think it's still worth asking those questions. If nothing can go wrong with it, great.
Also, Store icon for Encrypted pls.
I made a demo with a couple of suggestions on what store products might look like:
That would work. Just change the black bar across the bottom to a screaming red!
Or black-and-yellow, like crime scene tape...
And the blue icon to an upraised middle finger.
It's late, I'm going to bed.
I did consider all of these ideas, but for secret business reasons, I decided to use the orange from the Loyalty bar since that was a website approved colour.
This would require Daz to initiate action against people doing what the Daz EULA grants them the right to do - all the cases I could find cited involve the rights holder initiating action, this isn't somethng an over-zealous DA or equivalaent can do in defiance of the hoder's wishes - which is not going to happen, and not is going to succeed if by some freak concatentation of events it does. Of course if someone made a circumvention tool to remove the DRM from content wihthout permission then it might happen, but that is totally separate from authorised use.
Edited to insert correct quote
I tihnk you meant to quote a different post, but great. Laws get super complicated and murky these days (and exploited a lot) so it's nice to have things clarified simply.
Yes, I've edited my post to correct the quote.