They may have been "Direct-to-DVD", but I don't think it took them long to then go "and onwards to Sky TV as multi-part episodes". I know there aren't many Futurama episodes, but Sky seem to have played the "Direct to DVD" ones more than normal!
If you're still running 32-bit then you may be able to download the.deb, open it with File Roller, open the data.tar.gz file inside, extract/opt to wherever you want, sym-link the main executable to a bin folder, and run it.
Unfortunately the 64-bit.deb is a 32-bit app, so I just get "bad ELF interpreter: No such file or directory" then "error while loading shared libraries: libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory" after installing the i686 glibc, and so on.
I'd thought that recently about a project I'm working on, but there isn't an LGPL version of Affero. Getting the "if you modify it and redistribute it then make your modifications available" and "using it on a website is 'redistribution'" along with the LGPL's "you can link non-GPL code against it" would be useful for some libraries for online use.
The GPL is only a free license according to Richard Stallman's dishonest redefinition of the word "free."
It's a good job that this story is about the LGPL then, the one that lets you link against and re-use the library freely as long as you don't edit it;)
Hurrah! They've implemented an even more effective Flash stopper than FlashBlock:) Now if only they had generic RPMs for it for us Fedora/openSuse/other users.
You should not just be auditing a static network at a single point in time, but also the policies and procedures for maintaing the system.
But policies, like the parts of a car, are worn down. People push them further and further, or people outright breach them because that's the only way they can get their job done. It's all well and good saying "if you do X, Y and Z you're safe" and the company saying "we did X, Y and Z but still had a breach, so you're liable", but the chances of someone also having done W are normally somewhere between certain and guaranteed.
As I pointed out elsewhere, certain accreditation standards are for absolute specific versions of software in a defined configuration. Any minor deviance from that and you aren't strictly guaranteed to be running at the same accreditation/assurance level.
Camino still works on OS X 10.3.9. I've got the wife's old iBook and it's the best browser I can find. Not quite as good as Firefox, but most of the way there, plus it doesn't look ugly and out of place on not just one but all desktops!
Yeah, from one of their pages it is basically a proxy server with added compression (not just GZip since a lot of servers can deflate content anyway).
Since it isn't part of the Opera browser but is actually an Opera-run server, I wonder how long it'll take for someone to write a Firefox extension that piggy-backs on to those servers and gets the speed increase itself?:D
Not to mention that there are ongoing changes, such as patching and updates to signature files etc, do you need to recertify every time a minor change is made? A minor change could introduce vulnerabilities, for instance a security update could introduce new features and bring with it new exploitable issues while it also fixes an older issue.
That's a problem with people relying on EALs to assure their hardware and software in high security environments. If Oracle 9 got EAL5 accreditation, you can't just take any version of Oracle 9, slap it in your EAL5 system and be sure that the database is EAL5 approved. There are a number of other factors that make up the EAL (and probably other) review processes, and they tend to be specific to the exact build and the configuration of the app and OS at the time. If you don't have the same build with the same configuration then you could have vulnerabilities and not get the same EAL.
Ditto for MOT tests in the UK (from what I've heard from my sister-in-law in the US the Americans don't have a similar "road-worthiness test"). The MOT says your car is safe to go on the road, doesn't have emissions that are too high, etc, but it also says that it is a one-off test and that it doesn't make any guarantee of on-going quality. Just because the garage checked the car over on Monday and thought it was okay doesn't mean it is okay on Friday after the driver has run it over large curbs or high-speed over extremely rough and rocky terrain.
Basically the question was posed: Do we even bother to try and replicate the windows chrome experience? Or simply put our fast little engine inside a totally different visual experience?
For the love of god, please let the developers use a different visual experience! A fast new browser is great, but if the developers are going to make it look and behave in a non-standard way then I don't want it. Running Safari on Windows looks out of place. Running Safari on most editions of OS X looks out of place. Running Chrome on just about anything looks out of place!
Perhaps not, but DRM is still a technology-wide problem and not just restricted to music.
Besides, if it wasn't for Apple and Amazon being big enough players to stand up to the big music companies then we'd almost certainly still have DRMed songs. There have been several comments from Sony execs recently that show they're not exactly the kinds of people to take the initiative and let people own stuff they bought by themselves. Also, there's still CSS on DVDs, even though it has been broken for ages, so most of the content industries aren't learning.
Apple and Amazon have dropped DRM on music because people use a variety of music players and they want more customers. Where is the drop in DRM on computer games? A couple of smaller players are trying it out because they know it's not worth the money and they realise that those pirating aren't really their customer base anyway, but the larger players like EA are still putting phone-home stuff in to games like Spore. Even Steam is basically just a huge "download-and-DRM" system and people seem to be assuming that'll last forever.
So I'm not completely wrong, hence the modding up;)
Well, yes, there is that alternative. The same thing can be said for cryptography, though, and yet you'll find open-source advocated flooding to crypto solutions. There is also the issue of "proprietary information" within a business.
You may be happy to share a document with members of another organisation as long as they're also members of the team working in a consortium with you, but the information shouldn't be shared further than those people. The idealist takes the naive view that information, even in a business, should be free, but that's not realistic when knowledge is power and power is money and money is the life blood of a business. Instead, sensible DRM on top of some form of encryption could be used to manage exactly who has what access to which documents and for which length of time while making sure that the information can't be decrypted after the contract expires.
When put like that it is obvious to almost everyone, but how many people have bought huge amounts of songs from Apple and didn't realise they couldn't use them on other machines or devices because of the DRM? The majority of the population don't care because they don't get bitten, and when they do they just assume there's nothing they can do and go in to another cycle of getting bitten by DRM.
Since most people don't get bitten to a degree they notice (e.g. "I have to use my iPod? Oh well, I guess I like it anyway so that's okay" rather than "What? I bought music and I can't use it how I want to, like I'd be able to with a CD? That's just ridiculous!") and so the industry carries ever onwards, implementing mechanisms that won't affect the illegal copies but may affect some legitimate copies.
DRM has its uses in business with rights managements on documents more than it has its uses in limiting the freedom of a consumer to use their product as they see fit.
As for "positive DRM", as I've mentioned on a comment to a blog recently that said about the "age of Steam", I've recently started playing a game from 1995 without any problems. Are your Steam games still going to work in 2023? Can you be sure that the activation or even download servers will still be there? With DRM in consumer goods you can get to the point of not having something you paid for and that is bad. With DRM in commercial documents you can get to the point of not being allowed access to someone else's information that was shared with you (perhaps because a contract or lease is up), which is reasonable.
Well, all he needs is an OEM install disk for the right edition. I've tried an OEM license with a Retail disk after wiping a laptop and it won't work (even thought they're the same product and it was the serial from the bottom). Much easier to install Linux instead;)
You need helmets to play football? You must be a wuss. Oh, you meant American Football... Still, most Rugby players don't need all that padding;)
You would be a bit stuck with games like FIFA that don't have head wear, plus anything other than "First Person..." would generally be quite hard due to the lack of relationship between your position and the movement required on screen.
Is it just me or is the shadow minister lacking some knowledge of common government policy.
[The shadow communications minister] said he had never heard of a voluntary mandatory system.
Surely that'd be the kind of thing we get in the UK, and I'm sure other nations do, where the government goes "There is a problem and we think the industry should volunteer to solve it. If it doesn't then we'll mandate a fix." It's entirely voluntary to create the solution, but not volunteering leaves you with the option of being mandated to do something.
On the plus side, at least the Aussies have stopped the filtering (potentially). Here in the UK we still have that non-Governmental organisation monitoring our websites and arbitrarily blocking what they want - the Internet Watch Foundation - and I'm sure the Government has other things they can do in the name of stopping Terrorism/Child Porn/Guns/Drugs/Global Warming/Pension Scandals/Stuff.
Slashdot: That'd be a loss YouTube: No bad thing, most of it is junk and what is worth keeping will be put elsewhere Digg: No big loss Yahoo: It has ads? It has been too long since I visited Google: They'll do sponsored, in-line ads instead of easily blockable stuff. Other sites: I already pay for the hosting of my own site without putting any adverts on it. If it is important enough to be put online then it is important enough to pay for. The majority of sites could make do with hosting that's cheaper than you can get a McDonalds meal for. If it uses more bandwidth than that then it is normally because people don't understand the concept of "optimisation" and "being sensible with images".
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They may have been "Direct-to-DVD", but I don't think it took them long to then go "and onwards to Sky TV as multi-part episodes". I know there aren't many Futurama episodes, but Sky seem to have played the "Direct to DVD" ones more than normal!
Bingathon? Wouldn't it be a Bing-e? And just like a real binge, you feel awful after having been on it for a while ;)
And just as he says that, after a minute of sitting and loading, the page finally appears! Oh well, I'm sure it'll be true soon enough :D
In case it does happen, the video is on YouTube at http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/2ZlKnubPUbk&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999&hd=1
It looks like they're running their server on a netbook as well - Slashdot has brought it to its knees with only a few comments on the topic so far :)
If you're still running 32-bit then you may be able to download the .deb, open it with File Roller, open the data.tar.gz file inside, extract /opt to wherever you want, sym-link the main executable to a bin folder, and run it.
Unfortunately the 64-bit .deb is a 32-bit app, so I just get "bad ELF interpreter: No such file or directory" then "error while loading shared libraries: libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory" after installing the i686 glibc, and so on.
I'd thought that recently about a project I'm working on, but there isn't an LGPL version of Affero. Getting the "if you modify it and redistribute it then make your modifications available" and "using it on a website is 'redistribution'" along with the LGPL's "you can link non-GPL code against it" would be useful for some libraries for online use.
It's a good job that this story is about the LGPL then, the one that lets you link against and re-use the library freely as long as you don't edit it ;)
Hurrah! They've implemented an even more effective Flash stopper than FlashBlock :) Now if only they had generic RPMs for it for us Fedora/openSuse/other users.
But policies, like the parts of a car, are worn down. People push them further and further, or people outright breach them because that's the only way they can get their job done. It's all well and good saying "if you do X, Y and Z you're safe" and the company saying "we did X, Y and Z but still had a breach, so you're liable", but the chances of someone also having done W are normally somewhere between certain and guaranteed.
As I pointed out elsewhere, certain accreditation standards are for absolute specific versions of software in a defined configuration. Any minor deviance from that and you aren't strictly guaranteed to be running at the same accreditation/assurance level.
Camino still works on OS X 10.3.9. I've got the wife's old iBook and it's the best browser I can find. Not quite as good as Firefox, but most of the way there, plus it doesn't look ugly and out of place on not just one but all desktops!
Yeah, from one of their pages it is basically a proxy server with added compression (not just GZip since a lot of servers can deflate content anyway).
Since it isn't part of the Opera browser but is actually an Opera-run server, I wonder how long it'll take for someone to write a Firefox extension that piggy-backs on to those servers and gets the speed increase itself? :D
That's a problem with people relying on EALs to assure their hardware and software in high security environments. If Oracle 9 got EAL5 accreditation, you can't just take any version of Oracle 9, slap it in your EAL5 system and be sure that the database is EAL5 approved. There are a number of other factors that make up the EAL (and probably other) review processes, and they tend to be specific to the exact build and the configuration of the app and OS at the time. If you don't have the same build with the same configuration then you could have vulnerabilities and not get the same EAL.
Ditto for MOT tests in the UK (from what I've heard from my sister-in-law in the US the Americans don't have a similar "road-worthiness test"). The MOT says your car is safe to go on the road, doesn't have emissions that are too high, etc, but it also says that it is a one-off test and that it doesn't make any guarantee of on-going quality. Just because the garage checked the car over on Monday and thought it was okay doesn't mean it is okay on Friday after the driver has run it over large curbs or high-speed over extremely rough and rocky terrain.
For the love of god, please let the developers use a different visual experience! A fast new browser is great, but if the developers are going to make it look and behave in a non-standard way then I don't want it. Running Safari on Windows looks out of place. Running Safari on most editions of OS X looks out of place. Running Chrome on just about anything looks out of place!
Perhaps not, but DRM is still a technology-wide problem and not just restricted to music.
Besides, if it wasn't for Apple and Amazon being big enough players to stand up to the big music companies then we'd almost certainly still have DRMed songs. There have been several comments from Sony execs recently that show they're not exactly the kinds of people to take the initiative and let people own stuff they bought by themselves. Also, there's still CSS on DVDs, even though it has been broken for ages, so most of the content industries aren't learning.
Apple and Amazon have dropped DRM on music because people use a variety of music players and they want more customers. Where is the drop in DRM on computer games? A couple of smaller players are trying it out because they know it's not worth the money and they realise that those pirating aren't really their customer base anyway, but the larger players like EA are still putting phone-home stuff in to games like Spore. Even Steam is basically just a huge "download-and-DRM" system and people seem to be assuming that'll last forever.
So I'm not completely wrong, hence the modding up ;)
Well, yes, there is that alternative. The same thing can be said for cryptography, though, and yet you'll find open-source advocated flooding to crypto solutions. There is also the issue of "proprietary information" within a business.
You may be happy to share a document with members of another organisation as long as they're also members of the team working in a consortium with you, but the information shouldn't be shared further than those people. The idealist takes the naive view that information, even in a business, should be free, but that's not realistic when knowledge is power and power is money and money is the life blood of a business. Instead, sensible DRM on top of some form of encryption could be used to manage exactly who has what access to which documents and for which length of time while making sure that the information can't be decrypted after the contract expires.
When put like that it is obvious to almost everyone, but how many people have bought huge amounts of songs from Apple and didn't realise they couldn't use them on other machines or devices because of the DRM? The majority of the population don't care because they don't get bitten, and when they do they just assume there's nothing they can do and go in to another cycle of getting bitten by DRM.
Since most people don't get bitten to a degree they notice (e.g. "I have to use my iPod? Oh well, I guess I like it anyway so that's okay" rather than "What? I bought music and I can't use it how I want to, like I'd be able to with a CD? That's just ridiculous!") and so the industry carries ever onwards, implementing mechanisms that won't affect the illegal copies but may affect some legitimate copies.
DRM has its uses in business with rights managements on documents more than it has its uses in limiting the freedom of a consumer to use their product as they see fit.
As for "positive DRM", as I've mentioned on a comment to a blog recently that said about the "age of Steam", I've recently started playing a game from 1995 without any problems. Are your Steam games still going to work in 2023? Can you be sure that the activation or even download servers will still be there? With DRM in consumer goods you can get to the point of not having something you paid for and that is bad. With DRM in commercial documents you can get to the point of not being allowed access to someone else's information that was shared with you (perhaps because a contract or lease is up), which is reasonable.
Or he could just not be a pirate or pay for Windows and install Linux ;)
Well, all he needs is an OEM install disk for the right edition. I've tried an OEM license with a Retail disk after wiping a laptop and it won't work (even thought they're the same product and it was the serial from the bottom). Much easier to install Linux instead ;)
Remember: Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean that they're not after you ;)
You need helmets to play football? You must be a wuss. Oh, you meant American Football... Still, most Rugby players don't need all that padding ;)
You would be a bit stuck with games like FIFA that don't have head wear, plus anything other than "First Person ..." would generally be quite hard due to the lack of relationship between your position and the movement required on screen.
Is it just me or is the shadow minister lacking some knowledge of common government policy.
Surely that'd be the kind of thing we get in the UK, and I'm sure other nations do, where the government goes "There is a problem and we think the industry should volunteer to solve it. If it doesn't then we'll mandate a fix." It's entirely voluntary to create the solution, but not volunteering leaves you with the option of being mandated to do something.
On the plus side, at least the Aussies have stopped the filtering (potentially). Here in the UK we still have that non-Governmental organisation monitoring our websites and arbitrarily blocking what they want - the Internet Watch Foundation - and I'm sure the Government has other things they can do in the name of stopping Terrorism/Child Porn/Guns/Drugs/Global Warming/Pension Scandals/Stuff.
Slashdot: That'd be a loss
YouTube: No bad thing, most of it is junk and what is worth keeping will be put elsewhere
Digg: No big loss
Yahoo: It has ads? It has been too long since I visited
Google: They'll do sponsored, in-line ads instead of easily blockable stuff.
Other sites: I already pay for the hosting of my own site without putting any adverts on it. If it is important enough to be put online then it is important enough to pay for. The majority of sites could make do with hosting that's cheaper than you can get a McDonalds meal for. If it uses more bandwidth than that then it is normally because people don't understand the concept of "optimisation" and "being sensible with images".