Yeah, someone who doesn't like Hollywood elites, doesn't like rules, and wants to see smaller, more agile companies overthrow the older bureaucracy. Typical liberal!
HDCP 1.x is defeated. Publicly and trivially. HDCP 2.2 isn't, as far as I know, publicly defeated. One vendor made and sold a working stripper at one point, but I don't know if it's still functional (I believe HDCP 2.2 has more updating capability to revoke blacklisted decoders). They also got sued.
Well, it seems like in the US, it'd be pretty trivial to prove such devices illegal. Is it an access control method? Of course (otherwise, what is the point??). If it's an access control method, then a device that can circumvent it is illegal under the DMCA, unless that device was specifically given an exemption, which seems unlikely.
Manchester by the Sea is a depressing, boring, grey turd. It's extremely overrated even if you go in with the attitude of wanting to drown yourself in a miserable bog. I've discussed this movie in detail before. [slashdot.org]
I actually had a fun time watching this movie. About 15 minutes in I remembered "Hey, wasn't this that movie Casey Affleck said was depressing in his monologue hosting SNL?" But I had fun. I knew it was going to be super-depressing, so eventually I just couldn't help but start laughing. I mean, I knew nothing was really going to get better, so the endless parade felt like a parody, and I enjoyed the parody. I also think it's a great character study of a fundamentally broken man who hasn't yet found a way to claw out from the abyss. He has undiagnosed (in the plot) clinical depression; depressed people don't sit around crying, real depression is the inability to feel emotion at most times leaving you a shell of a person. I also appreciated the writing. At no time did characters do really stupid out of character things for the purpose of advancing the plot, which is my big pet peeve for movies these days. Every word felt true to the character, and they felt like real people.
Arrival is fucking dogshit.
Arrival for me is good except for two parts: 1) The military was treated unrealistically. I know lots of movies use a cardboard-cutout stereotype of the military, good or bad, but when the rogue soldier was loading explosives into the ship I was rolling my eyes. Horrible. 2) The ending did NOT think through the implications of these time powers. I was pretty disappointed with that. Now, normally, a really bad ending is enough to trash my appreciation for a film, and there are many films like most of M. Night's where the enjoyment I'd had previously was torpedoed by the ending. For some reason this didn't happen for me on the Arrival. Maybe it's just that half of the movie is SO GOOD that I want to believe as a whole it's better than it is. That said, I'm sure this is a movie that's going to fall in my estimation over time.
I'll agree that Doctor Strange went long, a problem common to action movies now. I still like Civil War, though Winter Soldier is still my favorite main Marvel movie. We'll certainly agree that Batman vs Superman was a disaster. At this point I don't think there's any redemption for Zack Snyder now. Just get it over with and pair him with Damon Lindelof so they can create the worst comic book movie that will ever be made, and be done with it.
I'm sick of movies like Interstellar and Arrival and Passengers masquerading as sci-fi but ending up as romance/drama +/fantasy horseshit instead.
Didn't see Passengers, but I have a very special, intense hatred for the pretension of Interstellar.
One last FUCK YOU goes out to a special turd-in-the-making. Logan. Wasn't the last Wolverine movie bad enough?
I didn't see it.:-( It's strange, some people really like it, some hate it. There seems to be little in between.
Disney and Universal collect your fingerprints and no one ever objects to it.
Yes, but they're not saved. They're used to create a hash number to tie that hash to a ticket so you can't share the ticket. The hashes are deleted after 30 days, according to their privacy policy.
Unfortunately strict originalists like Scalia forget about the Ninth Amendment when they want to go back to what "The drafters of the Constitution wrote down" as their primary source for rulings.
Fuck yes. I suppose this is one of the big reasons why I loathed Scalia. I WANTED to like him. I like some of his writing. I like the idea of hewing clearly to what the law actually says. But I felt so many times he refused to do that and just went with his personal conservative biases instead and then used personal insults when called on it. Disappointing.
How can ordinary people tell what news is real news and what news is fake news when they can't trust the people who define it?
No one cares.
They care about whether the news confirms or denies their biases. Confirms = good. Denies = fake. They care about whether the news supports or undercuts their tribe. Supports = good. Undercuts = bad/fake/etc.
Defeated by HDCP, when they turn that on. More and more devices now refuse to output if everything in the chain isn't HDCP-compliant, which broke my home theater setup when I tried connecting my HDCP-enforcing Roku to my HDMI matrix (splits signal into two different rooms).
I don't blame Marvel or DC for milking that cow, but I don't understand why audiences haven't lost interest.
Because most of them are actually quite decent as movies. I didn't watch Ant-Man and will probably skip yet another Spider-Man reboot, but Doctor Strange was mild fun, Deadpool was great, and Civil War pretty great too.
Non-comic-book movies I've seen recently that are absolutely fantastic, not utter crap:
Hacksaw Ridge Manchester By The Sea Arrival (actually this was just 'good,' not fantastic) Rogue One (except maybe some of the weird CG human stuff at the end) Finding Dory Zootopia Kubo and the Two Strings
Sadly I've been busy of late and haven't had time to watch that much, and there are a number I'd love to see but haven't, like Fences, Moonlight, La La Land, John Wick 2 (comic book movie? Video game movie??), Ip Man 3 (delicious chinese propaganda).
Or invite over a few friends and split the cost. Oh, wait . ..
That's the assumption that they're working from, not the cost-splitting part, but that multiple people will be watching. They're thinking "Let's see, 4 people times $15 for an evening screening should be $60, so we'll charge under that...
I prefer blood diamonds. It's a special thrill to be able to wear as an ornament something that caused death and despait to other human beings who we wouldn't even bother to look down on.
I enjoy wearing real furs where 30 minks were hunted and slaughtered rather than fake fur that imitates the real thing. It gives me a feeling of power over the base beasts. I enjoy having a purse of real crocodile-skin, because it means that brute was slaughtered so I could look good. I enjoy having a necklace of diamonds that a 13-year-old was forced to dig out of a mine. Third-world primitives.
Yeah, a clean interface that is actually rather snappy rather than one that bogs down your web browser if you have multiple pages open, opens links in a timely manner when you click on them, and frames the content appropriately instead of showing a page where you can see the content if you squint hard enough past the ads, the navigation panels, and other bullshit that many/most "modern" websites put out.
The left can't find one good thing to say about Trump, and it's all-or-nothing. Attack in every possible way: his family, his business, even attack his 10 year old son.
The problem here is generalizing a few outliers into a population as a whole. IE, I don't think you'll find too many leftists who are interested in attacking Barron. Some have, sure, but they don't represent the larger group, and many left-wingers also said that isn't cool.
If you believe in private ownership of property, you are center right.
I... I'm not sure what to say to that. I mean, the US is fairly right on the global level, and here in the US the idea of being against private property is something I can only get from the most on-the-fringe of the hard left. It's definitely not a trait of the Hollywood folks or the Marin County crowd, since they love their private houses. There are some truly destitute who might feel this way, since if you have nothing of your own you might not care as much about others' property rights, but even those folks who might harbor such sentiments in college grow out of it once they get their own home and start to think it would suck if someone carried off their TV.
But back to the main point, saying "I found a number of things to like about a liberal politician, why can't you find things to like about Trump?" feels like false equivalency. I find Donald Trump to be extremely unpresidential in manner, far below the standards set by previous Democratic and Republican administrations, whether it's willfully not listening to expert opinion (which was the greatest of the sins that Hillary was guilty of -- her email problems and Benghazi both resulted from that attitude), his general disrespect and bullying behavior, his clinical narcissism, the the total lies that underpin his policies such as illegal immigrants voting or terrorism in the US, and therefore I'm not sure I can support policies built on such a shaky foundation. I don't think he's the devil, but so far I'm pretty confident that G.W.B. will have been a better president, and I didn't used to think I'd see a worse GOP president in my lifetime. I'm wracking my brain for positive traits Trump has here, and that's a pretty difficult task. The TPP was already dead and he buried it, and that's a good thing. I think his nomination for Supreme Court Justice is pretty good, a definite upgrade from Scalia, so there's that.
God Damn, I'm not even a liberal -- as far as US economic politics go, I lean center-right, and I still suspect he'll be the worst President I've ever seen. I thought I fell off the despair event horizon when it became clear that Hillary and Donald were the two top choices, but I suppose I'm still fucking depressed that we couldn't pick better than the two worst presidential candidates of my lifetime.
Agreed. In the 80s and 90s tech reporting was about what tech could do for you. Now it's about what tech is going to do TO you, and almost none of it is good.
It depends on what segment of tech reporting we're talking about. In the early to mid 1990s, mainstream media reporting on the Internet was almost entirely negative, casting it as a darknet of predators ready to lure away the children of unwary parents. The Internet has its faults, but no one can get away with that level of nonsense now about the Internet as a whole.
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Yeah, someone who doesn't like Hollywood elites, doesn't like rules, and wants to see smaller, more agile companies overthrow the older bureaucracy. Typical liberal!
I've gotten enough of these notes that I'm pretty sure on these sorts of posts I need a "the above was satire, seriously" signature.
Marijuana is illegal in the US. How many people have easy access to it? How many states are ignoring flagrantly ignoring federal law?
Unfortunately there isn't nearly the same sort of push to overturn the DMCA as there is for marijuana. >_>
HDCP 1.x is defeated. Publicly and trivially.
HDCP 2.2 isn't, as far as I know, publicly defeated. One vendor made and sold a working stripper at one point, but I don't know if it's still functional (I believe HDCP 2.2 has more updating capability to revoke blacklisted decoders). They also got sued.
Well, it seems like in the US, it'd be pretty trivial to prove such devices illegal. Is it an access control method? Of course (otherwise, what is the point??). If it's an access control method, then a device that can circumvent it is illegal under the DMCA, unless that device was specifically given an exemption, which seems unlikely.
Manchester by the Sea is a depressing, boring, grey turd. It's extremely overrated even if you go in with the attitude of wanting to drown yourself in a miserable bog. I've discussed this movie in detail before. [slashdot.org]
I actually had a fun time watching this movie. About 15 minutes in I remembered "Hey, wasn't this that movie Casey Affleck said was depressing in his monologue hosting SNL?" But I had fun. I knew it was going to be super-depressing, so eventually I just couldn't help but start laughing. I mean, I knew nothing was really going to get better, so the endless parade felt like a parody, and I enjoyed the parody. I also think it's a great character study of a fundamentally broken man who hasn't yet found a way to claw out from the abyss. He has undiagnosed (in the plot) clinical depression; depressed people don't sit around crying, real depression is the inability to feel emotion at most times leaving you a shell of a person. I also appreciated the writing. At no time did characters do really stupid out of character things for the purpose of advancing the plot, which is my big pet peeve for movies these days. Every word felt true to the character, and they felt like real people.
Arrival is fucking dogshit.
Arrival for me is good except for two parts: 1) The military was treated unrealistically. I know lots of movies use a cardboard-cutout stereotype of the military, good or bad, but when the rogue soldier was loading explosives into the ship I was rolling my eyes. Horrible. 2) The ending did NOT think through the implications of these time powers. I was pretty disappointed with that. Now, normally, a really bad ending is enough to trash my appreciation for a film, and there are many films like most of M. Night's where the enjoyment I'd had previously was torpedoed by the ending. For some reason this didn't happen for me on the Arrival. Maybe it's just that half of the movie is SO GOOD that I want to believe as a whole it's better than it is. That said, I'm sure this is a movie that's going to fall in my estimation over time.
I'll agree that Doctor Strange went long, a problem common to action movies now. I still like Civil War, though Winter Soldier is still my favorite main Marvel movie. We'll certainly agree that Batman vs Superman was a disaster. At this point I don't think there's any redemption for Zack Snyder now. Just get it over with and pair him with Damon Lindelof so they can create the worst comic book movie that will ever be made, and be done with it.
I'm sick of movies like Interstellar and Arrival and Passengers masquerading as sci-fi but ending up as romance/drama + /fantasy horseshit instead.
Didn't see Passengers, but I have a very special, intense hatred for the pretension of Interstellar.
One last FUCK YOU goes out to a special turd-in-the-making. Logan. Wasn't the last Wolverine movie bad enough?
I didn't see it. :-( It's strange, some people really like it, some hate it. There seems to be little in between.
You've always been a dick, but lately, you've become a super-mega-fucktard dick. You're one of the reasons I quit coming to Slashdot anymore.
Get a massage, get laid... grow up. Life's too short to be a prick all the time.
You sound like a class act. Don't let the door hit you on the way out.
So you would trust a cop who made 5 arrests and wrongfully imprisoned 4 of them? That is simply mind blowing.
That would be a terrible record, but what about a cop who made 2500 arrests and wrongfully imprisoned 4 of them? Would that be more reasonable?
God, it must be exhausting to be a braindead liberal puke.
Sounds like you lost.
Disney and Universal collect your fingerprints and no one ever objects to it.
Yes, but they're not saved. They're used to create a hash number to tie that hash to a ticket so you can't share the ticket. The hashes are deleted after 30 days, according to their privacy policy.
Unfortunately strict originalists like Scalia forget about the Ninth Amendment when they want to go back to what "The drafters of the Constitution wrote down" as their primary source for rulings.
Fuck yes. I suppose this is one of the big reasons why I loathed Scalia. I WANTED to like him. I like some of his writing. I like the idea of hewing clearly to what the law actually says. But I felt so many times he refused to do that and just went with his personal conservative biases instead and then used personal insults when called on it. Disappointing.
How can ordinary people tell what news is real news and what news is fake news when they can't trust the people who define it?
No one cares.
They care about whether the news confirms or denies their biases. Confirms = good. Denies = fake.
They care about whether the news supports or undercuts their tribe. Supports = good. Undercuts = bad/fake/etc.
Except my file server is on a dedicated network not connected to the internet.
Hope you remember to grab all the files you might need before you leave.
I'm not taking my porn collection with me to work.
Pre-orders for a product that does not yet exist and for which they won't tell how many people have cancelled. I wouldn't base to much on that.
Like I said, it's at least more certain than most other companies' fanciful projections.
HDMI capture card
Defeated by HDCP, when they turn that on. More and more devices now refuse to output if everything in the chain isn't HDCP-compliant, which broke my home theater setup when I tried connecting my HDCP-enforcing Roku to my HDMI matrix (splits signal into two different rooms).
I don't blame Marvel or DC for milking that cow, but I don't understand why audiences haven't lost interest.
Because most of them are actually quite decent as movies. I didn't watch Ant-Man and will probably skip yet another Spider-Man reboot, but Doctor Strange was mild fun, Deadpool was great, and Civil War pretty great too.
Non-comic-book movies I've seen recently that are absolutely fantastic, not utter crap:
Hacksaw Ridge
Manchester By The Sea
Arrival (actually this was just 'good,' not fantastic)
Rogue One (except maybe some of the weird CG human stuff at the end)
Finding Dory
Zootopia
Kubo and the Two Strings
Sadly I've been busy of late and haven't had time to watch that much, and there are a number I'd love to see but haven't, like Fences, Moonlight, La La Land, John Wick 2 (comic book movie? Video game movie??), Ip Man 3 (delicious chinese propaganda).
Or invite over a few friends and split the cost. Oh, wait . . .
That's the assumption that they're working from, not the cost-splitting part, but that multiple people will be watching.
They're thinking "Let's see, 4 people times $15 for an evening screening should be $60, so we'll charge under that...
I prefer blood diamonds. It's a special thrill to be able to wear as an ornament something that caused death and despait to other human beings who we wouldn't even bother to look down on.
I enjoy wearing real furs where 30 minks were hunted and slaughtered rather than fake fur that imitates the real thing. It gives me a feeling of power over the base beasts.
I enjoy having a purse of real crocodile-skin, because it means that brute was slaughtered so I could look good.
I enjoy having a necklace of diamonds that a 13-year-old was forced to dig out of a mine. Third-world primitives.
It's more like if someone has posted a picture of fine art they have created, you can order a print or maybe even the original for a higher price.
Yeah, a clean interface that is actually rather snappy rather than one that bogs down your web browser if you have multiple pages open, opens links in a timely manner when you click on them, and frames the content appropriately instead of showing a page where you can see the content if you squint hard enough past the ads, the navigation panels, and other bullshit that many/most "modern" websites put out.
The left can't find one good thing to say about Trump, and it's all-or-nothing. Attack in every possible way: his family, his business, even attack his 10 year old son.
The problem here is generalizing a few outliers into a population as a whole. IE, I don't think you'll find too many leftists who are interested in attacking Barron. Some have, sure, but they don't represent the larger group, and many left-wingers also said that isn't cool.
If you believe in private ownership of property, you are center right.
I... I'm not sure what to say to that. I mean, the US is fairly right on the global level, and here in the US the idea of being against private property is something I can only get from the most on-the-fringe of the hard left. It's definitely not a trait of the Hollywood folks or the Marin County crowd, since they love their private houses. There are some truly destitute who might feel this way, since if you have nothing of your own you might not care as much about others' property rights, but even those folks who might harbor such sentiments in college grow out of it once they get their own home and start to think it would suck if someone carried off their TV.
But back to the main point, saying "I found a number of things to like about a liberal politician, why can't you find things to like about Trump?" feels like false equivalency. I find Donald Trump to be extremely unpresidential in manner, far below the standards set by previous Democratic and Republican administrations, whether it's willfully not listening to expert opinion (which was the greatest of the sins that Hillary was guilty of -- her email problems and Benghazi both resulted from that attitude), his general disrespect and bullying behavior, his clinical narcissism, the the total lies that underpin his policies such as illegal immigrants voting or terrorism in the US, and therefore I'm not sure I can support policies built on such a shaky foundation. I don't think he's the devil, but so far I'm pretty confident that G.W.B. will have been a better president, and I didn't used to think I'd see a worse GOP president in my lifetime. I'm wracking my brain for positive traits Trump has here, and that's a pretty difficult task. The TPP was already dead and he buried it, and that's a good thing. I think his nomination for Supreme Court Justice is pretty good, a definite upgrade from Scalia, so there's that.
God Damn, I'm not even a liberal -- as far as US economic politics go, I lean center-right, and I still suspect he'll be the worst President I've ever seen. I thought I fell off the despair event horizon when it became clear that Hillary and Donald were the two top choices, but I suppose I'm still fucking depressed that we couldn't pick better than the two worst presidential candidates of my lifetime.
What kind of tool signs their Internet comments.
Someone who isn't 10 years old and remembers the time of signature files which were appended to every email and Usenet posting.
Hey, maybe Chewie didn't program the nav-computer properly.
"They told Harrison they fixed it! It's not his fault!!"
Agreed. In the 80s and 90s tech reporting was about what tech could do for you. Now it's about what tech is going to do TO you, and almost none of it is good.
It depends on what segment of tech reporting we're talking about. In the early to mid 1990s, mainstream media reporting on the Internet was almost entirely negative, casting it as a darknet of predators ready to lure away the children of unwary parents. The Internet has its faults, but no one can get away with that level of nonsense now about the Internet as a whole.
Its called free market capitalism for ya'll socialists out there.
IE, "real life capitalism" as opposed to the idealized invisible-hand, enlightened-consumer sort of capitalism you'll hear about in business schools.