Torrentfreak should read their source (the survey linked in the article) before going into their own conclusions. Page two of the survey paper shows that "music sharers" spend the least on music, and by a large margin.
>Proprietary software can only be inspected or fixed by the proprietor.
So third-party security researchers never find vulnerabilities in closed-source software?
You have misunderstood my post, my main point was that the extension model like FF's is just plain bad for security, as you increase the amount of people you need to trust from just the browser vendor to third-parties, who may or may not have proper skills in securing their software. We need something else, and my suggestion there would be more inbuilt functionality by the vendor.
>there's nothing insightful about trading away your software freedom to fight security vulnerabilities.
I'm not sure what you mean there. I subscribe to the free software ideal, and I really don't like using a closed-source browser like Opera in principle. However I do recognize the reasons why Opera is not open source software (I might completely agree with them, but anyway), and given Opera's good security record, I have made a personal choice to use it instead of an open-source browser because it seems to me that I can get a lot better security and quite much of the same functionality with it. My post was in no way meant to be any sales speech for Opera.
>If I see a youtube video I like, Opera has no way to grab it.
You can grab it from Opera's cache. Not convenient, but doable (personally I have done it a couple of times; I have cache off normally, so I turn disc cache on, watch the vid, and then take the file from cache).
>Neither does it have an easy way to zoom-in on tiny photos.
Pressing "8" gives you incremental zoom ("6" puts it back to no zoom). Probably not exactly what you wanted, as it zooms the whole site, but again, a work-around.
I might be misunderstanding your meaning, but if you mean things like Google's text ads, you can block them by adding "http://pagead2.*" to the blocked sites list. Sure, it's more work than with Adblock.
I completely agree, and I have been talking against the extension model for a long time. They are one of the main reasons why I use Opera instead of FF, as then I have only one vendor to introduce vulnerabilities, and it's the vendor I need to trust in any case to use the browser. Opera's inbuilt functionalities fortunately enable me to do the things for which I'd need to use extensions on FF.
> The monopole is at most a month old, so it's not like we're talking particularly old news. At worst it's an update on ongoing research.[citation needed]
I took part in a magnetism seminar two months ago, where magnetic monopoles in spin ices were discussed based on a group's experimental and theoretical studies (it wasn't the Oxford group TFA talks about).
To GP: It's not just theoretical physics, it's demonstrated in real-world experiments.
Lian-Li makes somewhat similar cases than what Mac Pros have. Full aluminum cases with wheels, nice looks, and more easily available for the "normal" PC builder than Mac Pro cases.
"The Home Office has dismissed the report. "This story is rubbish. We are satisfied the personal data on the chip cannot be changed or modified and there is no evidence this has happened," said a spokesperson.""
Looking at the values given on Arctic Silver and the linked site, Arctic Silver 5 should have twice the thermal conductivity than the diamond-based paste (4.5 W/(m*K) for diamond paste vs. >8.9 W/(m*K) for AS 5). This might be explained by the two orders of magnitude difference in the average particle size, the given values are 0.49 microns for AS 5, and 40 microns for the diamond paste (I'm interpreting à on the latter site to mean a micron).
Yeah, doesn't sound right. To add to what you said, for example how do you "cop[y] over enough "Windows" to run as a separate OS" without breaking a lot of apps because of incorrect paths in the copied registry?
"These are the countries in which we have the most resources to support an ad sales organization, which is how we earn money to pay artists and labels for their music. We are focused on the US, UK, and Germany as key markets, with the help of the CBS Interactive salesforce and our own sales team here in London. Our headquarters are in the UK and we've always had a strong presence in DE.
And so we've made the decision to focus on these markets for free streaming radio. We are still available worldwide and while listening is subscription, all the other rich content on the site is still free."
So they made a decision to discriminate against other countries. That's their privilege. I'm not complaining about a small fee really, the point is that I don't like being a target of discrimination because of my geographical location.
I wouldn't mind a small charge for the service, if it was collected from every user, regardless of where they live. As an "international" Last.fm user, this seems quite unfair practice, so either I'll stop using the service, or use a proxy in one of the three countries mentioned.
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I'd guess that a two-legged Japanese person would be easier to develop.
So that's 10 light years in two years to arrive in time for causing the end of the world in 2012, quite a speed.
Torrentfreak should read their source (the survey linked in the article) before going into their own conclusions. Page two of the survey paper shows that "music sharers" spend the least on music, and by a large margin.
"This would explain why people from the future are trying to stop "
No. The people from the future already know that it's impossible for LHC to create the black holes in question, as they have read this /. article.
Seriously, using acronyms doesn't work if they aren't explained anywhere. And no, I didn't RTFA, naturally.
Because there were 2008 mantises registered before him?
That should of course be that I might *not* completely agree with the reasons Opera Software ASA gives for keeping the proprietary model.
>Proprietary software can only be inspected or fixed by the proprietor.
So third-party security researchers never find vulnerabilities in closed-source software?
You have misunderstood my post, my main point was that the extension model like FF's is just plain bad for security, as you increase the amount of people you need to trust from just the browser vendor to third-parties, who may or may not have proper skills in securing their software. We need something else, and my suggestion there would be more inbuilt functionality by the vendor.
>there's nothing insightful about trading away your software freedom to fight security vulnerabilities.
I'm not sure what you mean there. I subscribe to the free software ideal, and I really don't like using a closed-source browser like Opera in principle. However I do recognize the reasons why Opera is not open source software (I might completely agree with them, but anyway), and given Opera's good security record, I have made a personal choice to use it instead of an open-source browser because it seems to me that I can get a lot better security and quite much of the same functionality with it. My post was in no way meant to be any sales speech for Opera.
>If I see a youtube video I like, Opera has no way to grab it.
You can grab it from Opera's cache. Not convenient, but doable (personally I have done it a couple of times; I have cache off normally, so I turn disc cache on, watch the vid, and then take the file from cache).
>Neither does it have an easy way to zoom-in on tiny photos.
Pressing "8" gives you incremental zoom ("6" puts it back to no zoom). Probably not exactly what you wanted, as it zooms the whole site, but again, a work-around.
I might be misunderstanding your meaning, but if you mean things like Google's text ads, you can block them by adding "http://pagead2.*" to the blocked sites list. Sure, it's more work than with Adblock.
I completely agree, and I have been talking against the extension model for a long time. They are one of the main reasons why I use Opera instead of FF, as then I have only one vendor to introduce vulnerabilities, and it's the vendor I need to trust in any case to use the browser. Opera's inbuilt functionalities fortunately enable me to do the things for which I'd need to use extensions on FF.
I guess I know what kind of girl to look for now ;)
Hopefully this will happen, so my a-hole neighbour can finally be responsible for what I do online.
> The monopole is at most a month old, so it's not like we're talking particularly old news. At worst it's an update on ongoing research.[citation needed]
I took part in a magnetism seminar two months ago, where magnetic monopoles in spin ices were discussed based on a group's experimental and theoretical studies (it wasn't the Oxford group TFA talks about).
To GP: It's not just theoretical physics, it's demonstrated in real-world experiments.
Lian-Li makes somewhat similar cases than what Mac Pros have. Full aluminum cases with wheels, nice looks, and more easily available for the "normal" PC builder than Mac Pro cases.
I'd bet that GGP meant non-removable motherboard *tray*, as the Level 10 case has a removable one.
"The Home Office has dismissed the report. "This story is rubbish. We are satisfied the personal data on the chip cannot be changed or modified and there is no evidence this has happened," said a spokesperson.""
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/08/07/id_card_hacked/
Looking at the values given on Arctic Silver and the linked site, Arctic Silver 5 should have twice the thermal conductivity than the diamond-based paste (4.5 W/(m*K) for diamond paste vs. >8.9 W/(m*K) for AS 5). This might be explained by the two orders of magnitude difference in the average particle size, the given values are 0.49 microns for AS 5, and 40 microns for the diamond paste (I'm interpreting à on the latter site to mean a micron).
Maybe Hubble's registry has been clogged up, and a fresh OS installation is needed.
Yeah, doesn't sound right. To add to what you said, for example how do you "cop[y] over enough "Windows" to run as a separate OS" without breaking a lot of apps because of incorrect paths in the copied registry?
PC World has the figure at $38 million, which one is right? News item here: http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/162832/microsoft_loses_antipiracy_patent_case.html
Seeing a movie ruins it? Hmm, looking at most of the Hollywood titles from recent years, I guess you are right...
That's not exactly what they say:
"These are the countries in which we have the most resources to support an ad sales organization, which is how we earn money to pay artists and labels for their music. We are focused on the US, UK, and Germany as key markets, with the help of the CBS Interactive salesforce and our own sales team here in London. Our headquarters are in the UK and we've always had a strong presence in DE.
And so we've made the decision to focus on these markets for free streaming radio. We are still available worldwide and while listening is subscription, all the other rich content on the site is still free."
So they made a decision to discriminate against other countries. That's their privilege. I'm not complaining about a small fee really, the point is that I don't like being a target of discrimination because of my geographical location.
How does that justify the non-subscribers in those countries not paying the mandatory fee for international users?
I wouldn't mind a small charge for the service, if it was collected from every user, regardless of where they live. As an "international" Last.fm user, this seems quite unfair practice, so either I'll stop using the service, or use a proxy in one of the three countries mentioned.