No, it is more of an "Your world view is distorted up by the media argument. Go out in the world, meet some friends, realize that, even in backwater US Midwest, the fundamentalist Christians consists of less than 0.1% of all Christians." argument. Just because being a friendly, open-minded, rational thinking human being doesn't put you on the news, doesn't mean those people does not exist.
There is absolutely no meat in TFA, just vague speculations about White House personell maybe using their personal email accounts to communicate with lobbyists. There need to be specific allegations about person X doing Y otherwise the article is just a baseless smokescreen. But yeah, *if* personal email accounts has been improperly used, then that is just astonishingly shameful for Obama.
Well, there are Wikipedia pages you know. And forum message boards. And mailing lists with certain steam dump utility software developers acknowledging that rtmpdump can't be used for the most recent stream formats. Google yourself.
Of all companies, I'd expect Google to know that making bits uncopyable is not possible. Especially amusing since they cite RTMPE as an example of a useful feature, when RTMPE is broken and can easily be ignored by anything other than the official Flash player.
It's funny that a lot of these points end with something like "HTML 5 is working on it" or "HTML 5 is just begun" or "Hopefully they all merge to one." And that's the idea of an unfinished specification. With one big exception: DRM (or as the article calls it "Content Protection"). While I don't think it's impossible, I think it's a pretty big effort to produce DRM that content owners (like the MPAA or RIAA) are satisfied with as an open standard. I think they perceive open standards to be inherently insecure (despite several cases of the opposite like OpenSSL).
Insecure in a DRM video context means "easy to save the file." Their aim is to control and monitor who watches their content. You are not supposed to be able to download their streams and upload them to your own streaming sites to get ad revenue or whatever from it. Right now, Adobe's RTMPE protocol offers that feature because no one has deciphered the whole protocol yet. Not even rtmpdump is able to decode the most recent streaming protocol. That means there will still be a niche for flash because an open standard is unlikely to be constructed in such a way that it makes it easy for the content producers to protect their files.
Me neither, but the question is "What's the probability that my other child is a boy?" which I read as "the probability that the child, other than the one just mentioned, is a boy." But maybe the riddle was about parsing ambigous English sentences and not about math.
The problem stated in the article is: "Suppose that Mr. Smith has two children, at least one of whom is a son. What is the probability both children are boys?" This is a different scenario than what is stated in the summary: "I have two children, one of whom is a boy. What's the probability that my other child is a boy?" In the first scenario, the probabilities are dependent on each other because it is not stated whether the first or the second child is the boy. In the second problem, it is given that the FIRST child is a boy. But that does not affect the odds of the second child which should therefore be 0.5.
Surely, you must have seen it used in phone numbers, for example 070/XX XXX XXX. Sure they know what it means because they jack off a lot and know everything about American culture. Use google.de or google.nl and search for the most common meanings of xxx in those languages. In Seden, there are companies called XXX Architects and Design XXX. Neither of them have anything to do with porn. Instead the XXX is used to mean "extra extra extra." Probably they think they are really good at what they do.
It is only in the US that xxx is equivalent to porn. In other languages, xxx means crossed over or censored. So why the fuck is the new tld called "xxx" when the porn link is only obvious to Americans? Isn't ICANN supposted to care about the whole world and not just the US? If they wanted a porn tld, they could have called it ".porn," ".adult" or even ".sex" both which would have been more logical than ".xxx" Is it because the word "porn" is so dirty you have to call it "xxx" instead and pretend it is something else?
The real problem is the reliance on the stock market as a measure of the economy in the first place. The stock market is a completely artificial construct that has nothing to do with anything. It would be best if people just ignored it.
It is impossible. Most western governments around the world put peoples pensions in stocks and other kinds of papers whose value is decided by the stock market. There is no guarantee that anyones pension will be livable. If the market thinks your stocks are low valued when you retire, tough luck! Thanks for playing! But of course that can never happen, because the wise politicians and economists all know that stocks can only increase in value. The stock market can't tank and will make everyone filthy rich. Just bet on the stocks..
Oh, come on. Obama being black (more light brown actually, but whatever) is condescending to him as a politician, but that hasn't stopped anyone. The news value is "Americans aren't as racist as everyone thought."
Well, you are right. 5$/month is unrealistically crazy cheap. Then make it 100$/month for unfettered access to any movie. If I could download any movie in dvd quality at any time, watch it on linux without having to go through bullshit drm and not be bothered by ads, I'd pay a lot for that service. That is the kind of deal that would make me put my pirating days behind me. But it is not being offered by any legal entity.
Linux (the kernel) has millions of users, yet none of them pays/donates anything. There are thousands of important free software projects all created by developers receiving little to no compensation. They tried the PayPal donate now and it didn't work. There are projects like Firefox that gets lots of money, but they are the exceptions not the rule. What makes you think movie creators would be more lucky?
You still have to have name limits, and someone's name will always break it, using some ridiculous number of characters in your database is just going to kill your database.
It is only in MySQL where you have to specify a max length for the varchar column types. In more advanced rdbms:s, such as postgres, you do not have that limitation and can happily store as long names as you want.
On the other hand, isn't the White House located practically in the middle of a ghetto? Obviously that lowers the property value. Someone who knows more about Washington can correct me if wrong.
So just down 20 cups of coffee before taking the test. When you yourself are caffeine speeded, shivering in cold sweat and not able to tell up from down, the machine will have a very difficult job assessing your truthfulness.
Joke all you want, but they already are.:) What people jack off to already is closely tracked, even what porn works best for different countries and states. I can tell you already that what most people are interested in, is plain vanilla sex, but what matters is what kind of porn people are prepared to pay for and under what circumstances, and vanilla sex ain't it. Porn is just as competetive as any other internet business.
Because the DPRK is pushing more GDP into the program and there is the threat of prison for the scientists and engineers, families, parents and grandparents.
That is exactly the point. No one has proved that working under threats make you perform better in an intellectual pursuit, which developing ICBM:s and nukes undoubtedly are. In a too controlled environment people get afraid to take decisions, wont question orders and avoids responsibility because they get punished if they do and failure occurs. Which means that no progress is made and easily avoidable accidents occurs. Like Chernobyl, where the engineers on the floor knew the likelihood of a meltdown but didn't dare contradicting the managers orders. Designing weapons is a much different kind of work than digging holes in which the previous strategy might work.
Maybe these kids just aren't eating what other kids are eating.
Exactly what I was thinking, it is well known that autistic persons tend to be notoriously picky about their diet. This is one of the main explanations for the findings of abnormal gut flora (and the contentious alternative that the casual link goes the other direction).
Autistic children aren't picky about their food in a uniform way. One child might not eat crackers because they make a crack sound when you bite on them. Another might not eat peas because they are green and green is icky a third not fish because of the smell and so on. So their pickiness about food can not explain the urine sample differences that the study measured.
Yes and it is called JavaFX. It was released a decade to late though and still statically typed like Java. Which is one of the other reasons why Java never became big on the web.
My concern about caving into the extremist Muslims on this issue is that it is it gives legitimacy to their viewpoint.... to the exclusion of any other viewpoint. The freedom of speech is something that is incredibly important to preserve, including preserving viewpoints that are on occasion distasteful and against your own viewpoint.
Their viewpoint has already been given legitimacy to. By Jews wanting to outlaw Hitler salutes, swastikas and even buildings that are swastika shaped. By think-of-the-children moralists who wants lolicon outlawed and the Virgin Killer album censored. By Chinese who successfully forces search engines to filter Tiannamen Square massacre results.
Um.. no. You are simply wrong, rtmpdump doesn't implement the RTMPE spec fully and can not be used to dump most RTMPE streams. Try it yourself on some popular sites instead of spreading misinformation. In the future it may work, but not right now.
CDN:s (Content Delivery Networks for those who don't know. I can't believe these things have to be spelled out on/. Quality really has gone downhill) are not only used for advertising. They are used to serve all kinds of resource-intensive content. Such as porn. And streaming video. Let's say you're an Aussie with your website hosted on the Australian mainland. Then you'll pay premium for international bandwidth because Australia has crappy connections to the rest of the world. So you want international visitors to get their images and other static content you don't change regularily from a CDN to reduce your bandwidth costs.
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No, it is more of an "Your world view is distorted up by the media argument. Go out in the world, meet some friends, realize that, even in backwater US Midwest, the fundamentalist Christians consists of less than 0.1% of all Christians." argument. Just because being a friendly, open-minded, rational thinking human being doesn't put you on the news, doesn't mean those people does not exist.
There is absolutely no meat in TFA, just vague speculations about White House personell maybe using their personal email accounts to communicate with lobbyists. There need to be specific allegations about person X doing Y otherwise the article is just a baseless smokescreen. But yeah, *if* personal email accounts has been improperly used, then that is just astonishingly shameful for Obama.
Well, there are Wikipedia pages you know. And forum message boards. And mailing lists with certain steam dump utility software developers acknowledging that rtmpdump can't be used for the most recent stream formats. Google yourself.
RTMPE is not broken at all.
It's funny that a lot of these points end with something like "HTML 5 is working on it" or "HTML 5 is just begun" or "Hopefully they all merge to one." And that's the idea of an unfinished specification. With one big exception: DRM (or as the article calls it "Content Protection"). While I don't think it's impossible, I think it's a pretty big effort to produce DRM that content owners (like the MPAA or RIAA) are satisfied with as an open standard. I think they perceive open standards to be inherently insecure (despite several cases of the opposite like OpenSSL).
Insecure in a DRM video context means "easy to save the file." Their aim is to control and monitor who watches their content. You are not supposed to be able to download their streams and upload them to your own streaming sites to get ad revenue or whatever from it. Right now, Adobe's RTMPE protocol offers that feature because no one has deciphered the whole protocol yet. Not even rtmpdump is able to decode the most recent streaming protocol. That means there will still be a niche for flash because an open standard is unlikely to be constructed in such a way that it makes it easy for the content producers to protect their files.
Me neither, but the question is "What's the probability that my other child is a boy?" which I read as "the probability that the child, other than the one just mentioned, is a boy." But maybe the riddle was about parsing ambigous English sentences and not about math.
The problem stated in the article is: "Suppose that Mr. Smith has two children, at least one of whom is a son. What is the probability both children are boys?" This is a different scenario than what is stated in the summary: "I have two children, one of whom is a boy. What's the probability that my other child is a boy?" In the first scenario, the probabilities are dependent on each other because it is not stated whether the first or the second child is the boy. In the second problem, it is given that the FIRST child is a boy. But that does not affect the odds of the second child which should therefore be 0.5.
That's like saying there are billions of pages on the internet so why would anyone need Google? They serve basically the same funciton.
Surely, you must have seen it used in phone numbers, for example 070/XX XXX XXX. Sure they know what it means because they jack off a lot and know everything about American culture. Use google.de or google.nl and search for the most common meanings of xxx in those languages. In Seden, there are companies called XXX Architects and Design XXX. Neither of them have anything to do with porn. Instead the XXX is used to mean "extra extra extra." Probably they think they are really good at what they do.
It is only in the US that xxx is equivalent to porn. In other languages, xxx means crossed over or censored. So why the fuck is the new tld called "xxx" when the porn link is only obvious to Americans? Isn't ICANN supposted to care about the whole world and not just the US? If they wanted a porn tld, they could have called it ".porn," ".adult" or even ".sex" both which would have been more logical than ".xxx" Is it because the word "porn" is so dirty you have to call it "xxx" instead and pretend it is something else?
It is impossible. Most western governments around the world put peoples pensions in stocks and other kinds of papers whose value is decided by the stock market. There is no guarantee that anyones pension will be livable. If the market thinks your stocks are low valued when you retire, tough luck! Thanks for playing! But of course that can never happen, because the wise politicians and economists all know that stocks can only increase in value. The stock market can't tank and will make everyone filthy rich. Just bet on the stocks..
Oh, come on. Obama being black (more light brown actually, but whatever) is condescending to him as a politician, but that hasn't stopped anyone. The news value is "Americans aren't as racist as everyone thought."
Well, you are right. 5$/month is unrealistically crazy cheap. Then make it 100$/month for unfettered access to any movie. If I could download any movie in dvd quality at any time, watch it on linux without having to go through bullshit drm and not be bothered by ads, I'd pay a lot for that service. That is the kind of deal that would make me put my pirating days behind me. But it is not being offered by any legal entity.
Linux (the kernel) has millions of users, yet none of them pays/donates anything. There are thousands of important free software projects all created by developers receiving little to no compensation. They tried the PayPal donate now and it didn't work. There are projects like Firefox that gets lots of money, but they are the exceptions not the rule. What makes you think movie creators would be more lucky?
It is only in MySQL where you have to specify a max length for the varchar column types. In more advanced rdbms:s, such as postgres, you do not have that limitation and can happily store as long names as you want.
On the other hand, isn't the White House located practically in the middle of a ghetto? Obviously that lowers the property value. Someone who knows more about Washington can correct me if wrong.
So just down 20 cups of coffee before taking the test. When you yourself are caffeine speeded, shivering in cold sweat and not able to tell up from down, the machine will have a very difficult job assessing your truthfulness.
Joke all you want, but they already are. :) What people jack off to already is closely tracked, even what porn works best for different countries and states. I can tell you already that what most people are interested in, is plain vanilla sex, but what matters is what kind of porn people are prepared to pay for and under what circumstances, and vanilla sex ain't it. Porn is just as competetive as any other internet business.
That is exactly the point. No one has proved that working under threats make you perform better in an intellectual pursuit, which developing ICBM:s and nukes undoubtedly are. In a too controlled environment people get afraid to take decisions, wont question orders and avoids responsibility because they get punished if they do and failure occurs. Which means that no progress is made and easily avoidable accidents occurs. Like Chernobyl, where the engineers on the floor knew the likelihood of a meltdown but didn't dare contradicting the managers orders. Designing weapons is a much different kind of work than digging holes in which the previous strategy might work.
What an utterly idiotic argument. So if enough people are "murdering" in a neighbourhood, then the laws should be changed to make murdering legal?
Maybe these kids just aren't eating what other kids are eating. Exactly what I was thinking, it is well known that autistic persons tend to be notoriously picky about their diet. This is one of the main explanations for the findings of abnormal gut flora (and the contentious alternative that the casual link goes the other direction).
Autistic children aren't picky about their food in a uniform way. One child might not eat crackers because they make a crack sound when you bite on them. Another might not eat peas because they are green and green is icky a third not fish because of the smell and so on. So their pickiness about food can not explain the urine sample differences that the study measured.
Yes and it is called JavaFX. It was released a decade to late though and still statically typed like Java. Which is one of the other reasons why Java never became big on the web.
My concern about caving into the extremist Muslims on this issue is that it is it gives legitimacy to their viewpoint.... to the exclusion of any other viewpoint. The freedom of speech is something that is incredibly important to preserve, including preserving viewpoints that are on occasion distasteful and against your own viewpoint.
Their viewpoint has already been given legitimacy to. By Jews wanting to outlaw Hitler salutes, swastikas and even buildings that are swastika shaped. By think-of-the-children moralists who wants lolicon outlawed and the Virgin Killer album censored. By Chinese who successfully forces search engines to filter Tiannamen Square massacre results.
Um.. no. You are simply wrong, rtmpdump doesn't implement the RTMPE spec fully and can not be used to dump most RTMPE streams. Try it yourself on some popular sites instead of spreading misinformation. In the future it may work, but not right now.
CDN:s (Content Delivery Networks for those who don't know. I can't believe these things have to be spelled out on /. Quality really has gone downhill) are not only used for advertising. They are used to serve all kinds of resource-intensive content. Such as porn. And streaming video. Let's say you're an Aussie with your website hosted on the Australian mainland. Then you'll pay premium for international bandwidth because Australia has crappy connections to the rest of the world. So you want international visitors to get their images and other static content you don't change regularily from a CDN to reduce your bandwidth costs.