Or move to a new place with a landlord that doesn't impose such ridiculous restrictions, such as prohibiting external antennas. (This might be a little more costly and time consuming than other possible solutions, but it's always available as a last resort.)
Funny, but the real reason it didn't melt is because they refuse to stream video across international boundaries so most of the world cannot access it...
I'm from Australia, currently living in Norway, and I definitely wanted to watch the Aussies and also be able to watch with English commentary, rather than Norwegian. So I bypassed those regional restrictions to stream video from both NBC and Yahoo7. It can be done with either a VPN or SSH tunnelling to a server in the USA (for NBC) or Australia (for Yahoo7).
If you have a server available to do it, SSH tunnelling is as simple as:
ssh -D 8080 -fN username@example.com
Then set your browser to use localhost:8080 as a SOCKS 5 host.
Otherwise, eurosport apparently has streaming available in Europe, but it costs a few dollars; and, if it works in your country, I'm told youtube.com/beijing2008 has some videos, but I'm not sure which countries that's available in (It doesn't seem to be available in either Australia, Norway or the USA)
Finally, as a last resort, you can try downloading events recorded from TV through either usenet, bittorrent or other P2P networks.
... For example, iTunes videos are truly encrypted by DRM technologies that no one (with the exception of tunebite which again is a screen recorder software, not an actual decrypter or catcher) except the most skillful hackers can bypass...
That's a load of crap. Apple's FairPlay DRM has been successfully cracked. Requiem 1.7.3, which is available through Freenet and various torrents, will strip the DRM from purchased music and videos, leaving the video and audio streams completely intact. It even continued to work with the most recent iTunes 7.7.1 update.
It's also the easiest DRM stripping utility I've ever used; it certainly doesn't take an expert to use it. Just drag and drop the offending files onto RequiemDroplet.app, wait for it to finish and you're done.
Unfortunately, it doesn't appear to work with rentals though. I'm not sure if that was a conscious design decision by the hacker that wrote the program, or if there's something else that prevented it from being done at this stage.
I hate stupid questions. I often fill the answer with some long, random crap and don't even try to remember it. I've rarely needed to use them anyway, and on some sites that get answers to those questions upon sign up, they don't even use them for password retrieval. In my experience, forgotten password forms generally just send you an email with your password without even asking the question.
Sure, and it would also depend on which hashing algorithm the user used on their system to generate the password. This is not the first time something like this has been used, I've heard of various password generators hashing all sorts of things.
But I think this could be potentially confusing for some users. Consider the following scenario:
Alice uses her favourite Britney Spears song from her collection to generate her password. Alice goes to over to Bob's place and wants to use his computer to log into her account. Alice thinks that because Bob is an even bigger fan of Britney than she is, and because he also has a copy of the same song, that she can do it easily. Alice selects "Oops, I Did it Again" from Bob's collection and tries to log in. This time, it fails because the song is encoded differently. But unable to understand why, she tries again a couple more times, and ends up getting locked out of her account for too many failed attempts.
Now, not only is she totally confused by why it hasn't worked, she loses faith in the whole system and goes back to using her old password: "br1tney".
The first time I watched this, I couldn't figure out what order they were coming out in. I was watching it in a foreign stream with Chinese commentary and then it was later switched to Norwegian, cause I had no English stream available to me in Norway, where I am currently living.
But I later downloaded copies of the broadcast from NBC and Australia's 7 network, and briefly compared bits of them. They seemed to be roughly the same, except for different camera angles. I checked the countries too, and in all 4 streams that I saw, they did all come out in the same order.
But I can't believe they put ad breaks in the NBC broadcast! Channel 7 broadcast the whole thing completely free of ads, like they always do. Although, it was broadcast live in Australia. Also, I found the Australian commentators better (though I'm a little bias, since I am Australian)
I'm not sure you can trust the figure shown on that wikipedia page. If you look through the history, it's been changed several times in the past month. At time of writing, it was changed from 894 to 1394, and has had several different values before that.
While you may be sensible enough to dispose of your rubbish properly, the problem is caused by lazy people who leave their rubbish behind at the beach, including, among other things, 6-pack rings.
With plastic rings for 6-packs of aluminum cans...
Do they still have those plastic rings in some countries? They were replaced with carboard sleeves a long time ago in Australia, and I've not seen them in any of the European counties I've been in recently.
For me, there are several more reasons I download TV series and movies illegally:
1. Cost: iTunes Australia has recently added TV shows, but they charge $3 AUD per episode, or up to $70 or more per season. In some cases, that's twice the price of the DVD box set and doesn't come with all the extra content.
2. DRM: Although Requiem will successfully strip the FairPlay DRM quite easily, I object to paying while I know the studios are wasting some of that money developing flawed DRM schemes designed to cripple my ability to view what I legally bought.
3. Availability: None of the TV shows I want to see are legally available in my regions (either in Australia, where I'm from, or Norway, where I'm currently living). Shows can take up to a year or more to be aired on TV outside the US, and I just don't want to wait.
4. Scheduling: Sticking to the TV schedule for watching the shows I like is inconvenient and frequently causes me to miss episodes.
5. Quality: TV shows available through iTunes are lower quality than some of the HDTV or Bluray rips I can get from torrents. I would gladly pay to download videos in 720p or 1080p. In fact, I did that when Sanctuary came out last year and were sold DRM free and worldwide, and will do it again if and the next season begins and is available in the same way.
Great! Thanks for letting me know the low quality CAM is available already for me to watch on my awesome 3" iPhone screen. I'm off to download it. Now I don't have to pay a reasonale price to see it on the big screen in high quality with surround sound and everything. Geez, it would have been horrible to sit through that. I'm saved!
Seriously though, I find it hard to believe that the anti-piracy campaign had any effect whatsoever upon those who intended to see it at the theatre, and those who intend to wait and download it. I'm sure the big opening weekend had more to do with the quality of the film, than the availability of a pirated copy.
The summary above, where it says "The Codex Sinaiticus dates to the fourth century BCE" is wrong. The article states "Handwritten in Greek more than 1,600 years ago". Whoever wrote the summary just got confused about the difference between BCE and CE.
I can't believe GoDaddy is still in business. I can't remember ever reading anything good about them and every time I do see some article, it's always about their unethical business practices.
However, I think the core of the problem is that something ICANN needs to sort out by forbidding the resale or auction of domain names. They should only be allowed to be leased from accredited registrars at a fair price, with clear restrictions on artificially inflating the price. IMHO, the auDA has got this right for all.au domains.
Also, it doesn't come with IIS. Again, not a dealbreaker for most installations, althought if you're a web developer who uses IIS, it could be quite a problem. If you're a web developer or server admin that uses IIS, you've got bigger problems to worry about!
Well the easiest way to tell is because they're always in the same order. I've yet to meet someone who gets up and down the wrong way round:P That doesn't help at night when it's difficult, if not impossible, to see which position the light is in relation to the others.
Someone I know who is Red-Green colourblind once told me he could tell the difference between red and green lights because they lights have different intensities, or something like that. How do you think colour blind people deal with traffic lights?
1. If you only automatically download the headers, then that requires the user to be online to manually download the body. Not so much of a problem for IMAP users, but...
2. POP email (or equivalent, in your new system) accounts that download all emails immediately, which then allow the user to read later at their own pace, even without being online, would just download the message anyway.
3. When the receiver downloads the message from the server, that immediately validates the email address as real. That takes away the need to do it with images or other techniques in HTML mail.
4. It's not backwards compatible. There a litterally mllions of legacy systems out there and both email platforms would need to run in parallel indefinitely, while it takes several decades for everyone to switch, only to realise that it hasn't solved any problems.
Why is this news? I've been a web developer myself and know plenty of other web developers who work for major companies like the NYTimes (though not specifcally any who work at NYTimes), and it's just not surprising any more that developers actually hand code. If you're a web developer and you don't hand code, or if you've hired one who doesn't, then that developer needs to update their skills.
FWIW, the NYT homepage is still full of careless validation errors, though it's quite clear from looking at the source code that much of it has been hand coded.
Look it up in any dictionary. They will tell you that the pronunciation is either. I just explained how I, and how I have observed others I know, make use of each pronunciation.
Wiktionary, and my Australian Oxford English Dictionary (paperback edition), list "root" as the official pronunciation in Australia. It seems that the the "rowt" pronunciation may originally have been an Americanism.
I generally pronounce route as "root" when used as a noun, but as "rowt" when used as a verb. Thus, in the case of a router, it's pronounced "rowter" because that's what it does: it routes the packets through the network.
However, in the case of "Grassroute", it would be pronounced "-root" because it's a noun.
I find it hard to believe that a dislike of IM is related to introversion. I'm an introvert, and a computer geek, but I leave have Skype, Adium and IRC open all the time. I don't really find it distracting at all. In fact, I think it's important so people can easily contact me whenever they need me.
Obviously, there aren't a set of specific moves to use from any position, rather it's the theoretical maximum number of moves required for the optimal solution to any given starting position. Given the right starting position, it's entirely possible to solve the cube in a single move, though very unlikely if the cube is randomised. (That would be 1 of the 12 states in which just one of the 6 sides is 1/4 turn from the solved state).
Determining the exact moves from a given starting point is an entirely different question from determining the number of requried moves. There are various formulas that can be used to solve a cube from any starting point, but finding the optimal solution that solves the cube in no more than 25 moves is extremely difficult in the general case.
Digital Versatile Disc is the alternative expansion to Digital Video Disc, since DVDs can contain more than just video. Wikipedia has info about its etymology.
It doesn't address the current inadequacies of forms Forms were the first feature the WHATWG addressed when they began working on HTML5 back in 2004. The Web Forms 2.0 spec has even been implemented by Opera and there are partial implementations of some features in other browsers. The spec was adopted by the Web Application Formats working groups in 2006 (before the HTMLWG was formed), and pending the outcome of the Forms Task Force (between the W3C's HTML and Forms working groups), the forms features will be integrated into HTML5.
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Or move to a new place with a landlord that doesn't impose such ridiculous restrictions, such as prohibiting external antennas. (This might be a little more costly and time consuming than other possible solutions, but it's always available as a last resort.)
Funny, but the real reason it didn't melt is because they refuse to stream video across international boundaries so most of the world cannot access it...
I'm from Australia, currently living in Norway, and I definitely wanted to watch the Aussies and also be able to watch with English commentary, rather than Norwegian. So I bypassed those regional restrictions to stream video from both NBC and Yahoo7. It can be done with either a VPN or SSH tunnelling to a server in the USA (for NBC) or Australia (for Yahoo7).
If you have a server available to do it, SSH tunnelling is as simple as:
ssh -D 8080 -fN username@example.com
Then set your browser to use localhost:8080 as a SOCKS 5 host.
Otherwise, eurosport apparently has streaming available in Europe, but it costs a few dollars; and, if it works in your country, I'm told youtube.com/beijing2008 has some videos, but I'm not sure which countries that's available in (It doesn't seem to be available in either Australia, Norway or the USA)
Finally, as a last resort, you can try downloading events recorded from TV through either usenet, bittorrent or other P2P networks.
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That's a load of crap. Apple's FairPlay DRM has been successfully cracked. Requiem 1.7.3, which is available through Freenet and various torrents, will strip the DRM from purchased music and videos, leaving the video and audio streams completely intact. It even continued to work with the most recent iTunes 7.7.1 update.
It's also the easiest DRM stripping utility I've ever used; it certainly doesn't take an expert to use it. Just drag and drop the offending files onto RequiemDroplet.app, wait for it to finish and you're done.
Unfortunately, it doesn't appear to work with rentals though. I'm not sure if that was a conscious design decision by the hacker that wrote the program, or if there's something else that prevented it from being done at this stage.
I hate stupid questions. I often fill the answer with some long, random crap and don't even try to remember it. I've rarely needed to use them anyway, and on some sites that get answers to those questions upon sign up, they don't even use them for password retrieval. In my experience, forgotten password forms generally just send you an email with your password without even asking the question.
The fact is that man have created their own gods in their own image.
Sure, and it would also depend on which hashing algorithm the user used on their system to generate the password. This is not the first time something like this has been used, I've heard of various password generators hashing all sorts of things.
But I think this could be potentially confusing for some users. Consider the following scenario:
Alice uses her favourite Britney Spears song from her collection to generate her password. Alice goes to over to Bob's place and wants to use his computer to log into her account. Alice thinks that because Bob is an even bigger fan of Britney than she is, and because he also has a copy of the same song, that she can do it easily. Alice selects "Oops, I Did it Again" from Bob's collection and tries to log in. This time, it fails because the song is encoded differently. But unable to understand why, she tries again a couple more times, and ends up getting locked out of her account for too many failed attempts.
Now, not only is she totally confused by why it hasn't worked, she loses faith in the whole system and goes back to using her old password: "br1tney".
The first time I watched this, I couldn't figure out what order they were coming out in. I was watching it in a foreign stream with Chinese commentary and then it was later switched to Norwegian, cause I had no English stream available to me in Norway, where I am currently living.
But I later downloaded copies of the broadcast from NBC and Australia's 7 network, and briefly compared bits of them. They seemed to be roughly the same, except for different camera angles. I checked the countries too, and in all 4 streams that I saw, they did all come out in the same order.
But I can't believe they put ad breaks in the NBC broadcast! Channel 7 broadcast the whole thing completely free of ads, like they always do. Although, it was broadcast live in Australia. Also, I found the Australian commentators better (though I'm a little bias, since I am Australian)
I'm not sure you can trust the figure shown on that wikipedia page. If you look through the history, it's been changed several times in the past month. At time of writing, it was changed from 894 to 1394, and has had several different values before that.
While you may be sensible enough to dispose of your rubbish properly, the problem is caused by lazy people who leave their rubbish behind at the beach, including, among other things, 6-pack rings.
With plastic rings for 6-packs of aluminum cans...
Do they still have those plastic rings in some countries? They were replaced with carboard sleeves a long time ago in Australia, and I've not seen them in any of the European counties I've been in recently.
For me, there are several more reasons I download TV series and movies illegally:
1. Cost: iTunes Australia has recently added TV shows, but they charge $3 AUD per episode, or up to $70 or more per season. In some cases, that's twice the price of the DVD box set and doesn't come with all the extra content.
2. DRM: Although Requiem will successfully strip the FairPlay DRM quite easily, I object to paying while I know the studios are wasting some of that money developing flawed DRM schemes designed to cripple my ability to view what I legally bought.
3. Availability: None of the TV shows I want to see are legally available in my regions (either in Australia, where I'm from, or Norway, where I'm currently living). Shows can take up to a year or more to be aired on TV outside the US, and I just don't want to wait.
4. Scheduling: Sticking to the TV schedule for watching the shows I like is inconvenient and frequently causes me to miss episodes.
5. Quality: TV shows available through iTunes are lower quality than some of the HDTV or Bluray rips I can get from torrents. I would gladly pay to download videos in 720p or 1080p. In fact, I did that when Sanctuary came out last year and were sold DRM free and worldwide, and will do it again if and the next season begins and is available in the same way.
Great! Thanks for letting me know the low quality CAM is available already for me to watch on my awesome 3" iPhone screen. I'm off to download it. Now I don't have to pay a reasonale price to see it on the big screen in high quality with surround sound and everything. Geez, it would have been horrible to sit through that. I'm saved!
Seriously though, I find it hard to believe that the anti-piracy campaign had any effect whatsoever upon those who intended to see it at the theatre, and those who intend to wait and download it. I'm sure the big opening weekend had more to do with the quality of the film, than the availability of a pirated copy.
The summary above, where it says "The Codex Sinaiticus dates to the fourth century BCE" is wrong. The article states "Handwritten in Greek more than 1,600 years ago". Whoever wrote the summary just got confused about the difference between BCE and CE.
I can't believe GoDaddy is still in business. I can't remember ever reading anything good about them and every time I do see some article, it's always about their unethical business practices.
However, I think the core of the problem is that something ICANN needs to sort out by forbidding the resale or auction of domain names. They should only be allowed to be leased from accredited registrars at a fair price, with clear restrictions on artificially inflating the price. IMHO, the auDA has got this right for all .au domains.
Someone I know who is Red-Green colourblind once told me he could tell the difference between red and green lights because they lights have different intensities, or something like that. How do you think colour blind people deal with traffic lights?
No, that just creates more problems.
...
1. If you only automatically download the headers, then that requires the user to be online to manually download the body. Not so much of a problem for IMAP users, but
2. POP email (or equivalent, in your new system) accounts that download all emails immediately, which then allow the user to read later at their own pace, even without being online, would just download the message anyway.
3. When the receiver downloads the message from the server, that immediately validates the email address as real. That takes away the need to do it with images or other techniques in HTML mail.
4. It's not backwards compatible. There a litterally mllions of legacy systems out there and both email platforms would need to run in parallel indefinitely, while it takes several decades for everyone to switch, only to realise that it hasn't solved any problems.
Why is this news? I've been a web developer myself and know plenty of other web developers who work for major companies like the NYTimes (though not specifcally any who work at NYTimes), and it's just not surprising any more that developers actually hand code. If you're a web developer and you don't hand code, or if you've hired one who doesn't, then that developer needs to update their skills.
FWIW, the NYT homepage is still full of careless validation errors, though it's quite clear from looking at the source code that much of it has been hand coded.
Look it up in any dictionary. They will tell you that the pronunciation is either. I just explained how I, and how I have observed others I know, make use of each pronunciation.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/route
http://www.answers.com/route
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/route
Wiktionary, and my Australian Oxford English Dictionary (paperback edition), list "root" as the official pronunciation in Australia. It seems that the the "rowt" pronunciation may originally have been an Americanism.
I generally pronounce route as "root" when used as a noun, but as "rowt" when used as a verb. Thus, in the case of a router, it's pronounced "rowter" because that's what it does: it routes the packets through the network.
However, in the case of "Grassroute", it would be pronounced "-root" because it's a noun.
I find it hard to believe that a dislike of IM is related to introversion. I'm an introvert, and a computer geek, but I leave have Skype, Adium and IRC open all the time. I don't really find it distracting at all. In fact, I think it's important so people can easily contact me whenever they need me.
Obviously, there aren't a set of specific moves to use from any position, rather it's the theoretical maximum number of moves required for the optimal solution to any given starting position. Given the right starting position, it's entirely possible to solve the cube in a single move, though very unlikely if the cube is randomised. (That would be 1 of the 12 states in which just one of the 6 sides is 1/4 turn from the solved state).
Determining the exact moves from a given starting point is an entirely different question from determining the number of requried moves. There are various formulas that can be used to solve a cube from any starting point, but finding the optimal solution that solves the cube in no more than 25 moves is extremely difficult in the general case.
Digital Versatile Disc is the alternative expansion to Digital Video Disc, since DVDs can contain more than just video. Wikipedia has info about its etymology.
http://www.w3.org/TR/web-forms-2/