FWIW, using only ubuntu, I did both of these things last month to create a Christmas DVD of home movies and cell phone video clips.

Without much fuss, I transfered the video files via ssh from my jail-broken iphone, then edited, mastered and burned the DVDs using kdenlive. It was much easier than I expected.

I don't think you're helping the case much when you throw ssh into the mix...

Why? SSH is very convenient, easy for anyone to understand (including my 9 year old nephew), and I trust the security. What is better?

Oh come on. You can't copy a video from an iPhone over SSH without fiddling, which was the constraint specified in the original comment.

Since I don't consider using SSH "fiddling", I don't know what you mean, and I'd guess that most developers don't think twice about how to use SSH. (If they did, they're not much of a developer in my book).

It's ironic to me that the most difficult part was having to jail-break my iphone. Apple certainly doesn't make my life any easier.

I think that difficult part constitutes fiddling.

I disagree. To me, the jail-break is just a default, one-time requirement to gain control over a device I own. It's actually not too difficult, so I don't consider it fiddling.

One time? How do you handle iOS updates?

something like: ip route change default via 0.0.0.0 dev eth0 initcwnd 10

Perhaps "ip route change default via <your gateway address> dev eth0 initcwnd 10" -- your gateway address, not 0.0.0.0.

That doesn't seem to work for me:

    RTNETLINK answers: No such file or directory

Apparently I need to patch my kernel?

slight offtopic: that's one of my favorite error messages that is actually relatively common.

I asked my doctor for a Modafinil prescription. She refused, but gave me a free one-week sample of Nuvigil instead. It was great. I made the sample last for months by taking a half pill only when I felt I needed it.

I like naming systems after ex-coworkers, and especially ex-managers.

I've had similar conversations with colleagues. I love the idea and hope to someday try it.

One method I like is to use a simple agile/scrum type project where the product backlog is crowdsourced.

Would China even allow a YC?

Sure, but I think the most likely way it will happen is that one of the universities (probably Tsinghua) starts an incubator and the Chinese government owns shares in all of the incubated companies, per socialism with Chinese characteristics. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism_with_Chinese_characte...

"vi" is missing.

Also the two handed "vim".

In which video does he explain how to tell the difference between a brilliant startup founder and a crazy person?

You cross the brilliance threshold when you can get others to buy into your crazy version of reality.

So an entrepreneur stops being crazy the moment a co-founder or investor shows up?

Get me one of those!

An entrepreneur stops being crazy the moment somebody pays money for their product.

Have you never heard of Scientology?

That's exactly why I found the full talks! Haven't watched them all yet, will report back.

Edit: Not sure. He didn't mention it in one of the video clips, but may eb addressed in the full audio.

According to the article: "It's also illegal to break the DRM that restricts copying of DVDs."

I think it's a worthwhile attempt to resolve a contradiction of a stupid law.

I think most DVD movies have a DRM that you must break to backup the disk.

Yea, no doubt most. But most is not all. So in my opinion it's not ambiguous, and not contradictory. It's still stupid, but it's not really ambiguous. It just means if it has DRM and it's commercial, you'll have to find another way to rip a copy, or go rip a commercial disk without DRM.

Commercial disk doesn't necessarily mean DRM, but major movie studio does.

Yes but the law doesn't specifically say major studio films right? I'm just saying the law itself is not exactly contradictory.

True, there is probably an interpretation of the laws in which they are not contradictory. If the intent of the home backup law was to allow copying of any video/dvd at home, and the intent of the drm law was to stop any copying of videos/dvds, then it really depends what exactly the laws are, and whether a court case about intent can lead to those laws being changed/clarified.

Unfortunately we only have uninformed guesses, so I say wait on it for 3 months and see if the guy gets his day in court. I shall set a date in my calendar to google it :-)

No. Like someone else said, you can make a perfect bitwise copy of a DVD without running afoul of anticircumvention laws--just copy it with the DRM intact.

99% of DVDs use CSS encryption, trivially breakable but encryption still.

The problem, as pointed out in the article/thread, they want products that will _immediately_ scale if the need arises.