Oops, well I didn't mean the implementation, what I meant was, if you would please try re-reading my previous comments (or just read this one), that most people seem to think that x264 is the encoding standard.
Does the standard mpeg4 container have support for such things as chapters and multiple audio and subtitle tracks? AFAIK, Matroska has them all.
AFAIK it does support chapters, multiple audio and subtitle tracks but in practice practically no pirated movies use this, it tends to just be h.264 video + ac3, mp3 or (more rarely) aac audio.
x264 is a specific free software implementation of H.264. The releases may be tagged with x264 because that codec implementation was used to encode the video.
Yes, that's why they're tagged with x264. What I pointed out was that to most users the codec itself is called x264..
Apple has been very bullish as of late about only supporting what it wants to support, not what customers want. If it sticks to its guns and refuses to support HTML5 video...
What are you talking about? Safari supports HTML5 video right now (with h.264 video).
Why would we want to "defeat" h.264? Most of us like it. Also, there are tons of pirated movies and tv shows out there that use h.264 in a Matroska container (why they insist on Matroska when a standard mpeg4 container would work just fine is beyond me) and that means it's got a lot of mindshare with the casual pirates (although a lot of them seem to think the codec is called x264 since that's what the releases tend to be tagged with).
Well, WWII is generally considered to have been a great example of "total war", meaning that there really was no such thing as a civilian, which is also how many political and military leaders, regardless of country, viewed it. After all, how do you determine if someone is a civilian when practically everyone is involved in the war effort in one way or another?
It's the same reason there as very little DVD movie piracy in the mid-late 90's (very few people had burners and security cracks yet).
Doing a straight copy of a DVD doesn't require cracking CSS, you just copy the contents of the disc. The main thing that held DVD piracy back in the mid-late 90's was bandwidth and storage. While most people here in scandinavia would prefer 700 or 1400 MiB rips at the time we still hadn't convinced the average american "w4r3z d00d" that 250-300 MiB wasn't good enough for a full length movie...
"In case of doubt whether a person is a civilian, that person shall be considered to be a civilian."
See, this is sort of how it's illegal for me to kill another person unless I do so while protecting my own life, sure I can claim that the little old lady on the other side of the street scared me and I felt threatened by her, but that does not mean a court will believe me. Much in the same way as a chopper pilot can't just say "Oh, well, uh, I didn't really see what was going on so I just assumed they were picking up weapons...", you have to actually be able to support your claims, doubly so when you're a soldier or a police officer since it is your job.
In hindsight we know that the person in the van was a civilian but at the time this event occurred the pilot thought the guy in the van was an insurgent.
"In case of doubt whether a person is a civilian, that person shall be considered to be a civilian."
In fact if I was that wounded man I would have preferred for you NOT to have helped me because you just made me a legitimate target under rules of engagement.
No, helping wounded does not make a civilian "a legitimate target" no matter how many times you and your ilk claim so.
As for the definition of a civilian, allow me to quote the Geneva convention:
A civilian is any person who does not belong to one of the categories of persons referred to in Article 4 A 111, lIl, (31 and 161 of the Third Convention and in Article 43 of this Protocol. In case of doubt whether a person is a civilian, that person shall be considered to be a civilian.
The civilian population comprises all persons who are civilians.
The presence within the civilian population of individuals who do not come within the definition of civilians does not deprive the population of its civilian character.
The van was unmarked and it was perceived as an insurgent vehicle. It's fair game and it's much harder to observe a moving vehicle so it's understandable why the pilot wanted to take out the vehicle.
Wow, the laws of war now state that it's ok to kill the everloving shit out of any non-hostile civilians you run into who you decide are up to no good? especially when you lie to your CO over the radio and claim the civilians are picking up weapons when they're actually trying to help injured people?
t's tragic that the van driver was not an insurgent but I also can't help but think how stupid it would be to drive a van with your children in it and help some guy you don't know in a war zone where the enemy are insurgents dressed like civilians.
Well, most likely those people live in the city and just happened to come across a bunch of killed and injured people and decided to help their fellow man?
This isn't to say I wouldn't help a stranger in a peace time setting but I would not put my kids in that sort of risk during a war to attempt to help a stranger.
I hope you'll never end up living next door to me.
Can you please point out the exact moment (time) in either short or full version of the video when children are clearly seen...
A few seconds before they fire on the van, while the guys in the chopper are swearing about how they want permission to fire.
Please keep in mind that what the soldiers in the helicopter see isn't a 360p youtube video (this is obvious from comments they make about details which aren't visible in the youtube video due to the low resolution).
...and when the soldier says "serves them right"?
Towards the end of the short video when mention of the kids come up one of the chopper guys says it serves them right for bringing their kids to a battle.
I'm running it on a mac, and my experiences with the Windows version are similar to yours, it feels slow and bloated compared to the mac version. I suspect a major reason for this is that the Windows version requires a whole bunch of libs that Apple ported over from OS X which then need to be loaded just for iTunes and which themselves may not be very well-optimized compared to the mac versions.
That's either dirt or a t-shirt that's supposed to look dirty, in either case the choice of that look is to make it look like the t-shirt is dirty.
As for dark skin, if you look at the fingers (including the thumb) it's pretty clear that it's dirt. If that's not good enough then I suggest you look at the redness on the subject's face and the contrast between that and the area around his mouth and his neck. You should probably also factor in the color of his hair (once again, look at the area around his mouth), that is not someone with dark skin.
Yet I'm running iTunes right now and it's using 47 MiB of RAM while playing a 192-320 kbps VBR mp3 from a 8000+ song library. Clearly they've surpassed iTunes, I need to download Songbird right now!
Really, I've been involved in a project where we had external consultants who were pushing for all shell scripts to be stored as and deployed from Ant xml files (so it would essentially have been shell scripts packaged as huge XML files), their main argument for this was that if we did this we could "use version control on all the scripts", we decided to ignore them and simply use Subversion for the scripts without XML-ifying them.
Wait. You'll be able to buy 2 for the price of one iPad. = and they'll have more features...
Price and features aren't everything (but those trying to sell you stuff would like to make you believe they are since they're easy to market). There's a swedish word that I think applies to most people when it comes to computers and related hardware, software and services: Dumsnål. This word could be freely translated to mean "Cheap to the point of being stupid" and is the reason so many people go out and buy whatever crap promises the most features per dollar only to be upset that the build quality is poor, the design is flawed and it appears to be incompatible with pretty much everything.
Also, prior to the iPad announcement there were basically two types of "tablets" available on the market, the "executive/pro" laptop with a twist-around screen and 50% added to the pricetag and b&w ebook readers (yeah, there were a few others none that seemed very appealing to me).
(And as I've stated elsewhere, I'm not buying an iPad either, but Apple isn't just selling on features and price)
I'm more excited about the Microsoft Courier, which looks like a genuinely revolutionary (for everyone) form factor.
The courier seems like the sort of device only CxOs, PHBs and geeks could love. Just the pictures of it alone make me not want to buy it (that doesn't mean I'm buying an iPad either, it's got a whole bunch of issues for the kind of things I'd like to use a tablet for).
I'm not saying this is a great idea but somehow the basic idea of integrating a dating/matchmaking service into something else sort of makes sense to me, but maybe that's because I'm one of those people who would rather meet someone I have something in common with.
It would of course be very hard to implement but the basic idea is interesting, kind of like integrating a matchmaking service into Facebook (no, not as a third party app, as an integrated component where you can look for people in your area who are available and who seem to be compatible with you), but then I'm looking at this from the point of view of someone who would like to try coding said functionality using the available data...
I'm taking all of these Company A is suing Company B which is suing Company C messes as a clear sign that the patent system (and in extension the entire Intellectual Property system) is slowly imploding. These days you couldn't invent the wheel without someone suing you since they own patents on "crafting an item out of a material", "objects made of matter" or any other silliness (I'm sure some pro-patent shill is going to start whining about how patents are needed to protect the little guy and whatever but in all honesty, the little guy can't afford patents, and if he is able to afford a patent or two the corporate giants will simply say "that's nice, here are 50 of our patents you're infringing on, now what do you think of our offer to purchase your patents/company for $low_sum?").
"The USSR was and Russia is a party to the Outer Space Treaty," she added. "It did not acquire the territory under the object when it landed. One cannot sell what one does not own. Since USSR/Russia did not have a property right to the territory under the landed object, there was nothing to sell."
The treaty only applies to nations, not individuals who purchase something from a nation so I suspect that angle is pretty useless. I'm suspecting a better "he doesn't own anything" angle would be 1) the rover is non-functional or 2) owning a dead rover on the moon is like owning the wreck of a chevy impala on Mars, you'd have a hard time protecting "your" property from the first person who actually made it up there.
First, getting access to Rapidshare's logs should not be so easy.
They're a company, if the cops show up with a warrant it's almost certain they'd hand over the logs.
Secondly, the tool I'm using for downloading changes the IP address after every download, so that you get a new IP everytime (and this removes the waiting between each file).
As someone who's worked for several ISPs I can tell you that even though you renew your DHCP lease there's a pretty big chance your ISP saves what MAC addresses your various connected computers have had and which IP addresses have been assigned to which MAC. In fact, they probably save this information for a lot longer than you think (read: months).
Thirdly, it's really easy to track torrents, without man in the middle or anything.
Track how? Unless all the seeders you're downloading from are controlled by the those trying to track you all they can see is that you're connected to the swarm and perhaps downloading parts of the files. And here in Sweden the rights-holders associations have admitted that this is a major legal loophole since they can't really get you unless they can prove you downloaded the entire file.
The trackers just need to check if the same IP downloaded (or worst: uploaded) SEVERAL recent movies.
Are you talking about the torrent tracker or whoever is trying to figure out what someone is downloading? In the first case there's tracker-less Bittorrent and for the second case I suggest you read my previous paragraph.
A single infrigement will be unnoticed, but several will likely trigger their detection.
Highly unlikely, to my knowledge the only Bittorrent-related busts I've heard of in Sweden have been against trackers and even there the legal situation is unclear to say the least.
Given your explanation, I guess that you think that only the original seeder is at risk, since he sends the file to everybody.
Possibly, yes.
Anyway, there are still binary newsgroups, and a given site provides you daily free access to those.
Unless of course your usenet provider logs transfers.
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Oops, well I didn't mean the implementation, what I meant was, if you would please try re-reading my previous comments (or just read this one), that most people seem to think that x264 is the encoding standard.
Does the standard mpeg4 container have support for such things as chapters and multiple audio and subtitle tracks? AFAIK, Matroska has them all.
AFAIK it does support chapters, multiple audio and subtitle tracks but in practice practically no pirated movies use this, it tends to just be h.264 video + ac3, mp3 or (more rarely) aac audio.
x264 is a specific free software implementation of H.264. The releases may be tagged with x264 because that codec implementation was used to encode the video.
Yes, that's why they're tagged with x264. What I pointed out was that to most users the codec itself is called x264..
I didn't say the tag wasn't valid, I said a lot of people who see movies tagged with "x264" seem to assume that x264 is what h.264 is called .
Apple has been very bullish as of late about only supporting what it wants to support, not what customers want. If it sticks to its guns and refuses to support HTML5 video...
What are you talking about? Safari supports HTML5 video right now (with h.264 video).
Why would we want to "defeat" h.264? Most of us like it. Also, there are tons of pirated movies and tv shows out there that use h.264 in a Matroska container (why they insist on Matroska when a standard mpeg4 container would work just fine is beyond me) and that means it's got a lot of mindshare with the casual pirates (although a lot of them seem to think the codec is called x264 since that's what the releases tend to be tagged with).
Well, WWII is generally considered to have been a great example of "total war", meaning that there really was no such thing as a civilian, which is also how many political and military leaders, regardless of country, viewed it. After all, how do you determine if someone is a civilian when practically everyone is involved in the war effort in one way or another?
It's the same reason there as very little DVD movie piracy in the mid-late 90's (very few people had burners and security cracks yet).
Doing a straight copy of a DVD doesn't require cracking CSS, you just copy the contents of the disc. The main thing that held DVD piracy back in the mid-late 90's was bandwidth and storage. While most people here in scandinavia would prefer 700 or 1400 MiB rips at the time we still hadn't convinced the average american "w4r3z d00d" that 250-300 MiB wasn't good enough for a full length movie...
"In case of doubt whether a person is a civilian, that person shall be considered to be a civilian."
See, this is sort of how it's illegal for me to kill another person unless I do so while protecting my own life, sure I can claim that the little old lady on the other side of the street scared me and I felt threatened by her, but that does not mean a court will believe me. Much in the same way as a chopper pilot can't just say "Oh, well, uh, I didn't really see what was going on so I just assumed they were picking up weapons...", you have to actually be able to support your claims, doubly so when you're a soldier or a police officer since it is your job.
In hindsight we know that the person in the van was a civilian but at the time this event occurred the pilot thought the guy in the van was an insurgent.
"In case of doubt whether a person is a civilian, that person shall be considered to be a civilian."
In fact if I was that wounded man I would have preferred for you NOT to have helped me because you just made me a legitimate target under rules of engagement.
No, helping wounded does not make a civilian "a legitimate target" no matter how many times you and your ilk claim so.
As for the definition of a civilian, allow me to quote the Geneva convention:
I run it @ 1920x1200 on a machine with similar specs to those you listed, runs just fine.
The van was unmarked and it was perceived as an insurgent vehicle. It's fair game and it's much harder to observe a moving vehicle so it's understandable why the pilot wanted to take out the vehicle.
Wow, the laws of war now state that it's ok to kill the everloving shit out of any non-hostile civilians you run into who you decide are up to no good? especially when you lie to your CO over the radio and claim the civilians are picking up weapons when they're actually trying to help injured people?
t's tragic that the van driver was not an insurgent but I also can't help but think how stupid it would be to drive a van with your children in it and help some guy you don't know in a war zone where the enemy are insurgents dressed like civilians.
Well, most likely those people live in the city and just happened to come across a bunch of killed and injured people and decided to help their fellow man?
This isn't to say I wouldn't help a stranger in a peace time setting but I would not put my kids in that sort of risk during a war to attempt to help a stranger.
I hope you'll never end up living next door to me.
Can you please point out the exact moment (time) in either short or full version of the video when children are clearly seen...
A few seconds before they fire on the van, while the guys in the chopper are swearing about how they want permission to fire.
Please keep in mind that what the soldiers in the helicopter see isn't a 360p youtube video (this is obvious from comments they make about details which aren't visible in the youtube video due to the low resolution).
...and when the soldier says "serves them right"?
Towards the end of the short video when mention of the kids come up one of the chopper guys says it serves them right for bringing their kids to a battle.
I'm running it on a mac, and my experiences with the Windows version are similar to yours, it feels slow and bloated compared to the mac version. I suspect a major reason for this is that the Windows version requires a whole bunch of libs that Apple ported over from OS X which then need to be loaded just for iTunes and which themselves may not be very well-optimized compared to the mac versions.
That's either dirt or a t-shirt that's supposed to look dirty, in either case the choice of that look is to make it look like the t-shirt is dirty.
As for dark skin, if you look at the fingers (including the thumb) it's pretty clear that it's dirt. If that's not good enough then I suggest you look at the redness on the subject's face and the contrast between that and the area around his mouth and his neck. You should probably also factor in the color of his hair (once again, look at the area around his mouth), that is not someone with dark skin.
Yet I'm running iTunes right now and it's using 47 MiB of RAM while playing a 192-320 kbps VBR mp3 from a 8000+ song library. Clearly they've surpassed iTunes, I need to download Songbird right now!
I think what you want is Ant.
Really, I've been involved in a project where we had external consultants who were pushing for all shell scripts to be stored as and deployed from Ant xml files (so it would essentially have been shell scripts packaged as huge XML files), their main argument for this was that if we did this we could "use version control on all the scripts", we decided to ignore them and simply use Subversion for the scripts without XML-ifying them.
Wait. You'll be able to buy 2 for the price of one iPad. = and they'll have more features...
Price and features aren't everything (but those trying to sell you stuff would like to make you believe they are since they're easy to market). There's a swedish word that I think applies to most people when it comes to computers and related hardware, software and services: Dumsnål. This word could be freely translated to mean "Cheap to the point of being stupid" and is the reason so many people go out and buy whatever crap promises the most features per dollar only to be upset that the build quality is poor, the design is flawed and it appears to be incompatible with pretty much everything.
Also, prior to the iPad announcement there were basically two types of "tablets" available on the market, the "executive/pro" laptop with a twist-around screen and 50% added to the pricetag and b&w ebook readers (yeah, there were a few others none that seemed very appealing to me).
(And as I've stated elsewhere, I'm not buying an iPad either, but Apple isn't just selling on features and price)
I'm more excited about the Microsoft Courier, which looks like a genuinely revolutionary (for everyone) form factor.
The courier seems like the sort of device only CxOs, PHBs and geeks could love. Just the pictures of it alone make me not want to buy it (that doesn't mean I'm buying an iPad either, it's got a whole bunch of issues for the kind of things I'd like to use a tablet for).
"sudo su -" doesn't work but "sudo make me a sandwich" does.
I'm not saying this is a great idea but somehow the basic idea of integrating a dating/matchmaking service into something else sort of makes sense to me, but maybe that's because I'm one of those people who would rather meet someone I have something in common with.
It would of course be very hard to implement but the basic idea is interesting, kind of like integrating a matchmaking service into Facebook (no, not as a third party app, as an integrated component where you can look for people in your area who are available and who seem to be compatible with you), but then I'm looking at this from the point of view of someone who would like to try coding said functionality using the available data...
I'm taking all of these Company A is suing Company B which is suing Company C messes as a clear sign that the patent system (and in extension the entire Intellectual Property system) is slowly imploding. These days you couldn't invent the wheel without someone suing you since they own patents on "crafting an item out of a material", "objects made of matter" or any other silliness (I'm sure some pro-patent shill is going to start whining about how patents are needed to protect the little guy and whatever but in all honesty, the little guy can't afford patents, and if he is able to afford a patent or two the corporate giants will simply say "that's nice, here are 50 of our patents you're infringing on, now what do you think of our offer to purchase your patents/company for $low_sum?").
Hey! I had some good times between 2000 and 2008 so could you please only destroy time in New York during that period?
"The USSR was and Russia is a party to the Outer Space Treaty," she added. "It did not acquire the territory under the object when it landed. One cannot sell what one does not own. Since USSR/Russia did not have a property right to the territory under the landed object, there was nothing to sell."
The treaty only applies to nations, not individuals who purchase something from a nation so I suspect that angle is pretty useless. I'm suspecting a better "he doesn't own anything" angle would be 1) the rover is non-functional or 2) owning a dead rover on the moon is like owning the wreck of a chevy impala on Mars, you'd have a hard time protecting "your" property from the first person who actually made it up there.
I think you are wrong.
I'm not.
First, getting access to Rapidshare's logs should not be so easy.
They're a company, if the cops show up with a warrant it's almost certain they'd hand over the logs.
Secondly, the tool I'm using for downloading changes the IP address after every download, so that you get a new IP everytime (and this removes the waiting between each file).
As someone who's worked for several ISPs I can tell you that even though you renew your DHCP lease there's a pretty big chance your ISP saves what MAC addresses your various connected computers have had and which IP addresses have been assigned to which MAC. In fact, they probably save this information for a lot longer than you think (read: months).
Thirdly, it's really easy to track torrents, without man in the middle or anything.
Track how? Unless all the seeders you're downloading from are controlled by the those trying to track you all they can see is that you're connected to the swarm and perhaps downloading parts of the files. And here in Sweden the rights-holders associations have admitted that this is a major legal loophole since they can't really get you unless they can prove you downloaded the entire file.
The trackers just need to check if the same IP downloaded (or worst: uploaded) SEVERAL recent movies.
Are you talking about the torrent tracker or whoever is trying to figure out what someone is downloading? In the first case there's tracker-less Bittorrent and for the second case I suggest you read my previous paragraph.
A single infrigement will be unnoticed, but several will likely trigger their detection.
Highly unlikely, to my knowledge the only Bittorrent-related busts I've heard of in Sweden have been against trackers and even there the legal situation is unclear to say the least.
Given your explanation, I guess that you think that only the original seeder is at risk, since he sends the file to everybody.
Possibly, yes.
Anyway, there are still binary newsgroups, and a given site provides you daily free access to those.
Unless of course your usenet provider logs transfers.