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MGM Studios used self-destructing DVDs with music videos and trailers to promote the new James Bond movie, 'Die Another Day.' Movie critics were told the DVD would self-destruct in 36 hours a nod to 007's gadget-providing character Q. Destructable DVDs were also used at MTVs recent Latin American awards show in Miami. A disposable DVD begins life as an ordinary DVD. It is then coated with an epoxy and light cured, leaving a rough surface which makes the disk unreadable. Next an acidic polymer is used to smooth out the curface of the disk.
Special dye in the mix is opaque only when in an acidic environment. An additional coat is applied to neutralize the acidity of the previous layer. The dye becomes clear and the disk is readable. When the disk is removed from packaging the neutralizing coat begins to evaporate and eventually the dye becomes opaque, preventing the disk from being read. The disk's life span can range from a half hour to two weeks depending on the thickness of the top coat.
Spent disks can be returned to be re-coated for further use. My bet is that it wont fly.
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Do any of you remember DIVX? No not the codec but the distribution scheme that was adobted by circut city in the late 90s? The basic premise was that you payed only a few dollars for any dvd but then had to pay a few dollars every couple times you watched it.
The whole thing was a big failure, no one bought them and a lot of money was lost. Now this is a little different, I don't know but if the self destructing dvds don't require new specialized DVD players like DIVX did and enough movie companies get behind it then maybe it might just get some market share initially. But long term I don't see how this could work, would you want to waste gas and time running back and forth to best buy to pick up another copy of a DVD you already have owned? I also see this leading to an increase in bootlegging and illegal distribution of copied DVDs.
If the public doesn't want to deal with the movie industries stupid practices they will just do what they did to the RIAA and start getting more and more of their movies online.
How’s this for an undocumented feature? Apple’s newer MacBook, MacBook Air and MacBook Pro notebooks have a security flaw that can allow hackers to remotely prevent the batteries from charging.
Better yet, hackers can exploit the same flaw and remotely cause batteries to explode. Apple laptops’ new “smart” battery technology is intended to provide added control over power management, and it does just that.
Unfortunately, it also gives hackers added control because the microcontroller chip that ships in recent Apple laptops can be accessed remotely using a default password shared by each and every notebook. Charlie Miller, the security expert who discovered the vulnerability, plans to showcase the flaw next month at the Black Hat security conference. There, Miller will show that he is able to access the battery controller remotely and cause it to refuse a charge, or even heat up until it catches fire and explodes. “These batteries just aren’t designed with the idea that people will mess with them,” Miller told Forbes last week.
“What I’m showing is that it’s possible to use them to do something really bad.” Thankfully, the security expert also intends to showcase a fix for the flaw, which Apple will hopefully implement as soon as possible. Wouldn’t you just change the Default Password to your own?!?!?! Problem solved.
Doesn’t really sound like much of a HACK. Maybe when the Apple Computer is started the first time, it has the person CHANGE the default password with a short description of WHY this should be done! I’m gotten in other people’s wide open Routers using the Default Password and could have changed anything I wanted and locked THEM out of it!! I didn’t, but just goes to show the first thing of any hardware you get is change them Passwords!!!