'Unbeatable' Cinavia Anti-Piracy Technology Cracked by DVD-Ranger. Cinavia's anti-piracy technology has been a thorn in the side of many file-sharers, who are unable to play pirated files on their DVD-players without being interrupted by a warning message.
In a breakthrough development, software vendor DVD-Ranger has cracked the protection, including for popular movies downloaded from pirate sites. Cinavia’s anti-piracy technology relies on a unique type of watermarking that allows it to remain present in pirated movies despite re-recording, transcoding, compression, or other type of transfer. This means that camcordings of Cinavia-protected first-run movies, Blu-ray and DVDrips can be easily detected. Support for the technology has been mandatory for all hardware and software Blu-ray players since 2012, which causes headaches for many pirates every day.
Pirated movies protected by Cinavia work at first, but after a few minutes playback is halted and a warning notice appears on the screen instead. “Audio outputs temporarily muted. Soma Unveils World's First Completely Compostable Water Filter. Water filtration company Soma recently unveiled the world’s first entirely compostable water filter.
Soma replaced conventional plastic casing filters with a food-based PLA composite that incorporates Malaysian coconut shells and vegan silk. The filter removes chlorine, heavy metals and other contaminants from tap water, producing clean water with a crisp taste. The sleek hour glass carafe combines great design with sustainability, and it looks better than a Brita filter to boot. Most traditional water filters are made mostly of plastic with a carbon filter. By contrast, Soma’s filter is completely organic, as it’s made of a starch-based plastic and vegan silk with a burned coconut shell filter. . + Soma The article above was submitted to us by an Inhabitat reader. Like Water For Sand. 'Huge' water resource exists under Africa. 20 April 2012Last updated at 10:48 GMT By Matt McGrath Science reporter, BBC World Service Scientists say the notoriously dry continent of Africa is sitting on a vast reservoir of groundwater.
They argue that the total volume of water in aquifers underground is 100 times the amount found on the surface. The team have produced the most detailed map yet of the scale and potential of this hidden resource. Writing in the journal Environmental Research Letters, they stress that large scale drilling might not be the best way of increasing water supplies. Across Africa more than 300 million people are said not to have access to safe drinking water. Demand for water is set to grow markedly in coming decades due to population growth and the need for irrigation to grow crops. Freshwater rivers and lakes are subject to seasonal floods and droughts that can limit their availability for people and for agriculture. Continue reading the main story What is ground water?
Ancient events. Chasing Ice: Could Time-Lapse Photography Save the Planet? The Extreme Ice Survey, an artistic and scientific project founded by award-winning photographer James Balog, has 27 cameras pointed at 18 glaciers around the world.
Together, they snap 8,000 frames worth of time-lapse footage per year. Thus the Extreme Ice Survey (EIS) is able to capture alterations to the arctic environment—changes that might seem to be slow, glacially so, are rendered dramatic. Almost equally dramatic was the organization’s beginning, which is documented in a film called Chasing Ice, now screening at South by Southwest. © 2010 Extreme Ice Survey Rappelling into Survey Canyon, looking down at moulin channel dropping meltwater 2,000 vertical feet into crevasses through the Greenland Ice Sheet. Between equipment unable to withstand the icy conditions and a faulty timer in an early camera, the project had a difficult start.
. © 2007 Extreme Ice Survey James Balog hangs off a cliff by Columbia Glacier, Alaska, to install a time-lapse camera.