barry@pico.math.ucla.edu (Barry Merriman) (10/01/90)
In article <51700@brunix.UUCP> cgy@cs.brown.edu (Curtis Yarvin) writes: >>computations, it could perform real-time [TV] descrambling quite easily. > >Or, just as tantalizing... since the NeXT has 16-bit audio capability, it >could serve just as easily as a "black box" for DAT. Or, for day to day use, you can record, analyze (on the MonsterScope) and playback the tone access codes used by the telephone company---free phone calls for everyone! Sounds to me like the FCC's gonna have to shut down NeXT :-) -- Barry Merriman UCLA Dept. of Math UCLA Inst. for Fusion and Plasma Research barry@math.ucla.edu (Internet)
barry@pico.math.ucla.edu (Barry Merriman) (10/01/90)
Or, imagine the fun you can have applying the Sound Editor to recordings of various import people... -- Barry Merriman UCLA Dept. of Math UCLA Inst. for Fusion and Plasma Research barry@math.ucla.edu (Internet)
henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) (10/02/90)
In article <51700@brunix.UUCP> cgy@cs.brown.edu (Curtis Yarvin) writes: >Or, just as tantalizing... since the NeXT has 16-bit audio capability, it >could serve just as easily as a "black box" for DAT. You could read in the >music, add the "black frequency" that is masked out for DAT copy-protection, >and write it back to another tape... The "black frequency" scheme was decisively shot down and is no longer planned. DAT copy-protection is now strictly *digital* copy protection, with (oversimplifying slightly) a do-not-copy bit in the digital bit stream that other digital recorders will respect. Once the bits get turned into an analog signal, they are clean. -- Imagine life with OS/360 the standard | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology operating system. Now think about X. | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry
dar@cbnews.att.com (David A. Roth) (10/03/90)
| In article <451@kaos.MATH.UCLA.EDU>, barry@pico.math.ucla.edu (Barry Merriman) writes: |> In article <51700@brunix.UUCP> cgy@cs.brown.edu (Curtis Yarvin) writes: |> |> >>computations, it could perform real-time [TV] descrambling quite easily. |> > |> >Or, just as tantalizing... since the NeXT has 16-bit audio capability, it |> >could serve just as easily as a "black box" for DAT. |> |> Or, for day to day use, you can record, analyze (on the MonsterScope) and playback the |> tone access codes used by the telephone company---free phone calls for everyone! As Homey the Clown would say "I don't think so!". |> |> Sounds to me like the FCC's gonna have to shut down NeXT :-) |> |> |> |> -- |> Barry Merriman |> UCLA Dept. of Math |> UCLA Inst. for Fusion and Plasma Research |> barry@math.ucla.edu (Internet) | |