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Dell Colludes With RIAA, Disables Stereo Mix
RCTrucker7 writes with a link to a Maximum PC story, which begins: "Details of Dell's surreptitious collusion with RIAA (Record Industry Association of America) have emerged. Apparently, the computer manufacturer disabled the Stereo Mix/Mono Mix/Wave Out sound recording function on certain notebooks to assuage RIAA. The hardware functionality is being disabled without any prior notice and one blogger has even alleged that he was asked by Dell's customer support staff to [shell] out $99 if he desired the stereo mix option. Gateway and Pac Bell are the other two manufacturers to have bowed to RIAA at the expense of their customers' satisfaction and disabled stereo mix without warning." (There are some workarounds posted in the comments of the linked article.)
No. It is part of the Jew World Domination.
Michael Dell is a Jew.
http://www.israelnewsagency.com/jewisrael194800.html
"Michael Dell (born 1965), Jew founder of Dell Computer Corporation."
And you know, RIAA is a cartel controlled by music companies largely controlled by Jews.
Got it?
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Oh, it's those money grubbin' Jews.
You fucking racist.
And your moderator, too.
Overlays and composting issues are why reasonable media players have a screenshot feature. VLC has excellent transcoding that is independent of the display and ffmpeg can grab whatever chunk of any video or audio you want from the command line. It's easy enough to mix the stuff you capture in programs like Kino and Cinelerra, which should work just fine on any laptop made in the last five years. If VLC or the like does not work right under Windows, you can blame Windows itself and fix the problem with free software. If free software does not work with your hardware, I'm sorry but you bought a piece of junk from people who hate you.
It's clever, but XVideo in the open source world is much better.
I'm sorry.... are you defending X?
You do realize that we only got the ability to switch resolutions without killing the entire desktop a few years ago. Cut & Paste is only finally beginning to reach a state of usefulness.
I suppose the video layer might be alright (I don't have enough experience to say), but X was an absolute mess until just a few years ago.
Windows may suck, but X11 has traditionally been one of the absolute worst things about Unix.
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Next you are going to expect the Bush administration to provide evidence they torture people. The incentive is there, draw your own conclusions.
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#12 actually. And thanks again...
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Whether or not this story is true, we have seen the government and various hardware companies bow down to the wishes of RIAA and other organizations. We have seen our rights and our liberties being stripped away for the sake of their profit margin. We are watching them take more active rolls in government policy making. We are watching them attempt to get federal law enforcement to do their bidding.
This may come in handy if the government keeps following the wishes of its corporate masters instead of the people:
IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. â" That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, â" That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. â" Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to enc