What other industry do you get paid for for writing something, then sitting on your backside for the next 70 years watching the money come in? I wish I had such an employer willing to throw money at me for 70 years for writing code I wrote in my 20's.
Surely this quest by programmers / crackers (call them what you will) is not about buying the movie or getting it "for free" on torrents. It's about breaking the discs to break the (apparently legal) movie / music cartels, breaking enforced regionalised disc sales, and breaking enforced device viewing so you can view the content you paid for on any device.
With VHS analogue tape, the only thing setting you back was the PAL/NTSC/SECAM conversion problem, but a VHS tape could be played anywhere in the world. Now in the digital age, you can't do that with the latest standards. This is about competition, and competition the media providers don't like.
All hail Windows, and be damned anyone that uses another operating system!
Do school IT departments still think in this day and age that knowing how to use Windows and Microsoft Word makes children some sort of computer genius?
Mid 1980's in the UK, home computers were coming on to the market more, and the school had "IBM compatible" computers, Microsoft was nowhere to be seen. We used what we could run on the machines (or got licences for), not restricted to dogma about which OS to use.
Isn't this a way to claim to the brainless masses that they should dump all their computers and buy ones with the "trusted computing" platform? THEN the sh*t really would begin. Digitally signed and trusted trojans you can't to anything about.
So one of the proposals is an electronic robot receptionist...
Robot: Welcome to Microsoft Visitor: I'd like to talk to a human. Robot: I'm sorry, you're request did not compute, please [BSOD replaces face render].
It's about time that all http web traffic was https instead, so the likes of BT could not inject their garbage into pages without people knowing the pages have been compromised.
Without seeming to flame (flame mode if you like), we've had experience of locked down platform with Apple's iPhone. Now Apple join Microsoft in having a locked down OS for media playback, nobody can feel smug or superior (apart from Linux users).
Space shuttle Endeavour mission specialist Heide Stefanyshyn-Piper yesterday dropped her toolbag as she and Steve Bowen worked outside the International Space Station, in the process consigning to oblivion "two grease guns, scrapers, several wipes and tethers and some tool caddies".[
I wouldn't ordinarily reply to my own posting, but I just tried the plug-in. CPU use seems so far to be the same as the 32 bit version, so maybe need a bit of tweaking by Adobe. In Firefox it's identified in about:plugins as "Shockwave Flash 10.0 d20", does not mention it as 64 bit.
I suspect I could now get rid of nspluginwrapper, but will test more to see how the plug-in reacts (if it crashes).
A quick hopefully useful notice for some users. On first test I had no sound playback. I actually found that the sound that was routing through the speakers was now being sent to the USB headset. Now that I use Pulse to route the audio instead of ALSA only, using "Pulse volume control" I was able to re-route the audio from the headset back to the main speakers.
I was one of many that put my name to asking for a 64 bit version. Now if only there was a 64 bit Skype and that ever elusive 64 bit browser plug-in for the 64 bit Sun Java.
Will be downloading the 64 bit Flash to test it out, hopefully it is easier than playing around with nspluginwrapper to get the 32 bit version working, and with a lot less processor power being eaten up just to run a Flash video.
The sound clips were interesting. Thankfully I've never heard these sounds for real. As a precaution I get new drives every so often and do a swap-out "just in case" the older drives might want to fail, it's not as if the drives are that expensive compared to yesteryear. The older drives then get used in non-critical machines so as not to waste them.
I will point out though that I have heard the one with sounds like head failure (clicking) on a pocket USB connect hard drive (first drive I got of this type). By my own investigation, I found out that when connected to the USB port, the drive started to spin up, then didn't have enough power to send the head all the way across, so it parked itself, then spun again etc. etc. After getting a spliced USB cable, I take power from two USB ports and the drive is working a perfect as any other hard drive.
I'm sure that there will be plenty of lobbying to keep the laws that screw the little people, and lock people into paying and paying to keep defunct business models in operation. I don't hold out any hope of any "sorting" happening.
Now, if there are decent (freeware?) applications that can encode the format that would be great. You have to pay for Flash video encoding, and even if you can pay, asking about a Flash video encoder for Linux.. who cares about Linux. If you use MPEG4, some players are picky on the type of MPEG4 codecs you used to encode a video when you play it back. . Microsoft video format is just a pain in the backside.
A video format without the security problems of Flash, bring it on.
Why were unencrypted passwords allowed to be copied? Why are there no criminal convictions for these lapses in these companies and of government ministers responsible for these companies?
More worrying is comments like this from the UK's supreme leader on 02 Nov 08:
Gordon Brown has made a frank admission that government cannot promise the safety of personal data entrusted by the public. The Prime Minister was speaking hours after it emerged that a memory stick containing the passwords to a government website used submit online tax returns had been lost.
Even more worrying considering government rhetoric on the £20bn ID cards they want:
From 2010, the government will target young people to get an identity card on a voluntary basis "to assist them in proving their identity as they start their independent life in society", with full roll-out to all British citizens starting from 2011.
"The government are kidding themselves if they think ID cards for foreign nationals will protect against illegal immigration or terrorism - since they don't apply to those coming here for less than three months.
"ID cards are an expensive white elephant that risk making us less - not more - safe. It is high time the government scrapped this ill-fated project."
The Liberal Democrats said the cards' "fancy design" did not detract from the fact that they remained an intrusion into people's liberty.
Chris Huhne, the party's home affairs spokesman, said: "It does not matter how fancy the design of ID cards is, they remain a grotesque intrusion on the liberty of the British people.
"The government is using vulnerable members of our society, like foreign nationals who do not have the vote, as guinea pigs for a deeply unpopular and unworkable policy. When voting adults are forced to carry ID cards, this scheme will prove to be a laminated poll tax."
SNP Home Affairs spokesman Pete Wishart MP said his party had opposed ID cards from the outset but the government's "abysmal record on data protection" was reason enough to cancel them.
He said the government looked "absurd" for pushing ahead with such a costly project.
"These cards will not make our communities more secure, they will not reduce the terrorist threat and they will not make public services more efficient," said Mr Wishart.
Phil Booth, head of the national No2ID campaign group, attacked the roll-out of the cards as a "softening-up exercise".
"The Home Office is trying to salami slice the population to get this scheme going in any way they can," Mr Booth told the BBC.
"Once they get some people to take the card it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
"The volume of foreign nationals involved is minuscule so it won't do anything to tackle illegal immigration."
Serious point and not a troll, I'd hope that by the time Windows 7 arrived, KDE4 is fixed (and stop using end users as beta testers - it's not Windows). For now I'm sticking with KDE3, there's just too much missing from KDE4 to justify moving to it.
After wasting £500bn recently (nearly the entire budget spend by government in one year) on bank bailouts that didn't work, it's amazing there is someone out there still stupid enough to loan the UK money for such crackpot schemes (speaking as a UK citizen). This is on top of the £20bn being wasted for the ID card system that will also crash and burn.
Still, it's government, and they don't care about other people's money, because it's not their wages or pensions that are effected.
With encrypted links being made ever easier, and the/. story recently of Google pushing an easier to use secure protocol, these tracking schemes will ultimately fail, at vast taxpayer expense.
Talking about my Linux setup. I originally had 2GB RAM but had a swap of 1GB, upgrading the RAM I kept the swap of 1GB. The amount of times the system has ever used the swap space can be counted on one hand. The once it did, was when a process went out of control and ate all the system ram, then all the swap space, before crashing the OS.
I would have a swap of 512MB and not bother with any more.
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What other industry do you get paid for for writing something, then sitting on your backside for the next 70 years watching the money come in? I wish I had such an employer willing to throw money at me for 70 years for writing code I wrote in my 20's.
Surely this quest by programmers / crackers (call them what you will) is not about buying the movie or getting it "for free" on torrents. It's about breaking the discs to break the (apparently legal) movie / music cartels, breaking enforced regionalised disc sales, and breaking enforced device viewing so you can view the content you paid for on any device.
With VHS analogue tape, the only thing setting you back was the PAL/NTSC/SECAM conversion problem, but a VHS tape could be played anywhere in the world. Now in the digital age, you can't do that with the latest standards. This is about competition, and competition the media providers don't like.
All hail Windows, and be damned anyone that uses another operating system!
Do school IT departments still think in this day and age that knowing how to use Windows and Microsoft Word makes children some sort of computer genius?
Mid 1980's in the UK, home computers were coming on to the market more, and the school had "IBM compatible" computers, Microsoft was nowhere to be seen. We used what we could run on the machines (or got licences for), not restricted to dogma about which OS to use.
Isn't this a way to claim to the brainless masses that they should dump all their computers and buy ones with the "trusted computing" platform? THEN the sh*t really would begin. Digitally signed and trusted trojans you can't to anything about.
So one of the proposals is an electronic robot receptionist...
Robot: Welcome to Microsoft
Visitor: I'd like to talk to a human.
Robot: I'm sorry, you're request did not compute, please [BSOD replaces face render].
It's about time that all http web traffic was https instead, so the likes of BT could not inject their garbage into pages without people knowing the pages have been compromised.
Without seeming to flame (flame mode if you like), we've had experience of locked down platform with Apple's iPhone. Now Apple join Microsoft in having a locked down OS for media playback, nobody can feel smug or superior (apart from Linux users).
Was it a commemorative tool release for the ISS's 10th year in space?
Space shuttle Endeavour mission specialist Heide Stefanyshyn-Piper yesterday dropped her toolbag as she and Steve Bowen worked outside the International Space Station, in the process consigning to oblivion "two grease guns, scrapers, several wipes and tethers and some tool caddies".[
How many pads of paper, pencils and books does $199 get? Maybe be of more use than a computer?
I wouldn't ordinarily reply to my own posting, but I just tried the plug-in. CPU use seems so far to be the same as the 32 bit version, so maybe need a bit of tweaking by Adobe. In Firefox it's identified in about:plugins as "Shockwave Flash 10.0 d20", does not mention it as 64 bit.
I suspect I could now get rid of nspluginwrapper, but will test more to see how the plug-in reacts (if it crashes).
A quick hopefully useful notice for some users. On first test I had no sound playback. I actually found that the sound that was routing through the speakers was now being sent to the USB headset. Now that I use Pulse to route the audio instead of ALSA only, using "Pulse volume control" I was able to re-route the audio from the headset back to the main speakers.
I was one of many that put my name to asking for a 64 bit version. Now if only there was a 64 bit Skype and that ever elusive 64 bit browser plug-in for the 64 bit Sun Java.
Will be downloading the 64 bit Flash to test it out, hopefully it is easier than playing around with nspluginwrapper to get the 32 bit version working, and with a lot less processor power being eaten up just to run a Flash video.
The sound clips were interesting. Thankfully I've never heard these sounds for real. As a precaution I get new drives every so often and do a swap-out "just in case" the older drives might want to fail, it's not as if the drives are that expensive compared to yesteryear. The older drives then get used in non-critical machines so as not to waste them.
I will point out though that I have heard the one with sounds like head failure (clicking) on a pocket USB connect hard drive (first drive I got of this type). By my own investigation, I found out that when connected to the USB port, the drive started to spin up, then didn't have enough power to send the head all the way across, so it parked itself, then spun again etc. etc. After getting a spliced USB cable, I take power from two USB ports and the drive is working a perfect as any other hard drive.
Circuit City short circuited by the credit crunch.
StupidIPLaws > /dev/null
I'm sure that there will be plenty of lobbying to keep the laws that screw the little people, and lock people into paying and paying to keep defunct business models in operation. I don't hold out any hope of any "sorting" happening.
Now, if there are decent (freeware?) applications that can encode the format that would be great. You have to pay for Flash video encoding, and even if you can pay, asking about a Flash video encoder for Linux.. who cares about Linux. If you use MPEG4, some players are picky on the type of MPEG4 codecs you used to encode a video when you play it back. . Microsoft video format is just a pain in the backside.
A video format without the security problems of Flash, bring it on.
Microsoft to offer frustration free packaging? I don't think users think the packaging is the frustrating bit, more like it's content.
I'd like to show you all anonymous anger, but then I'd decrease my chance of +ve mod points score.
Gordon Brown has made a frank admission that government cannot promise the safety of personal data entrusted by the public. The Prime Minister was speaking hours after it emerged that a memory stick containing the passwords to a government website used submit online tax returns had been lost.
Even more worrying considering government rhetoric on the £20bn ID cards they want:
From 2010, the government will target young people to get an identity card on a voluntary basis "to assist them in proving their identity as they start their independent life in society", with full roll-out to all British citizens starting from 2011. "The government are kidding themselves if they think ID cards for foreign nationals will protect against illegal immigration or terrorism - since they don't apply to those coming here for less than three months. "ID cards are an expensive white elephant that risk making us less - not more - safe. It is high time the government scrapped this ill-fated project." The Liberal Democrats said the cards' "fancy design" did not detract from the fact that they remained an intrusion into people's liberty. Chris Huhne, the party's home affairs spokesman, said: "It does not matter how fancy the design of ID cards is, they remain a grotesque intrusion on the liberty of the British people. "The government is using vulnerable members of our society, like foreign nationals who do not have the vote, as guinea pigs for a deeply unpopular and unworkable policy. When voting adults are forced to carry ID cards, this scheme will prove to be a laminated poll tax."
And from the government mouthpiece the BBC:
SNP Home Affairs spokesman Pete Wishart MP said his party had opposed ID cards from the outset but the government's "abysmal record on data protection" was reason enough to cancel them. He said the government looked "absurd" for pushing ahead with such a costly project. "These cards will not make our communities more secure, they will not reduce the terrorist threat and they will not make public services more efficient," said Mr Wishart. Phil Booth, head of the national No2ID campaign group, attacked the roll-out of the cards as a "softening-up exercise". "The Home Office is trying to salami slice the population to get this scheme going in any way they can," Mr Booth told the BBC. "Once they get some people to take the card it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. "The volume of foreign nationals involved is minuscule so it won't do anything to tackle illegal immigration."
I'm gonna sue because someone else used my IP address of 127.0.0.1 in their anti-piracy logs.
Umm, garnishing your wages does not mean the take everything...
This is the RIAA we're talking about, so think of it as a never-ending divorce settlement from the bitch that took you to the cleaners.
Serious point and not a troll, I'd hope that by the time Windows 7 arrived, KDE4 is fixed (and stop using end users as beta testers - it's not Windows). For now I'm sticking with KDE3, there's just too much missing from KDE4 to justify moving to it.
After wasting £500bn recently (nearly the entire budget spend by government in one year) on bank bailouts that didn't work, it's amazing there is someone out there still stupid enough to loan the UK money for such crackpot schemes (speaking as a UK citizen). This is on top of the £20bn being wasted for the ID card system that will also crash and burn.
Still, it's government, and they don't care about other people's money, because it's not their wages or pensions that are effected.
With encrypted links being made ever easier, and the /. story recently of Google pushing an easier to use secure protocol, these tracking schemes will ultimately fail, at vast taxpayer expense.
Talking about my Linux setup. I originally had 2GB RAM but had a swap of 1GB, upgrading the RAM I kept the swap of 1GB. The amount of times the system has ever used the swap space can be counted on one hand. The once it did, was when a process went out of control and ate all the system ram, then all the swap space, before crashing the OS.
I would have a swap of 512MB and not bother with any more.
For politicians, the toughest math question is 1 + 1.