That's nice... iTunes is expensive enough now Joe User has to buy an external hard disk as well.
Not gonna happen for most users, and that's the way Apple like it I'm sure - every time they replace their machine they need to buy all their music again. Hurray for DRM.
My standard DVD player already does Music, Pictures & Movies.
OTOH A mac Mini with a decent sized fast hard drive, HDMI, and the right shape for a living room ('lunchbox' doesn't really fit in) sounds cool... provided it has Tivo functionality of course.
I've got it by leaving the machine logged in overnight. Damned if I know how.
The other day I had to recover an old access database. Nobody remembered the password, of course, so I donwloaded the trial of one of the password recovery programs. 1 second after clicking on it the nastiest scumware I've ever seen appeared (Spy Sheriff).
This thing:
Changed my background, and locked it to 'you have been infected with spyware'. Ran no less than *four* copies of itself. Installed a service that went 100% CPU, and downloaded more spyware in the background (well it tried to.. I pulled the cable after about 10 seconds.. still managed to get a hell of a lot though.. damned broadband).
And here's the clincher:
It killed MS Antispyware, then found its install directory and erased it. Not only did Antispyware not detect it, it was powerless to defend itself.
Took me nearly a day to get rid of that bastard. Spybot would say it had cleared it, then it'd all come back again after a reboot. MS Antispyware was the same... it'd see it, but fail to remove it properly. Of course neither of these run in safe mode (Antispyware won't even *install* in safe mode... some use that is). I eventually killed it by manually tracking it down in the registry and finding its 're-spyware' routine (which was a priviliged service it had installed, that *none* of the anti spyware apps detected.. because it had managed to rename itself in memory to svchost.exe).
If a qubit is both 0 and 1 at the same time it allows for precisely 1 state (which is either 'not useful' or 'completely random' depending on your point of view.
To store data you need at least 2 independent states. That still leaves you the problem than you can't store 65536 values in 8 bits.
Even if it is exactly 65536, it's not 8 bits either, that's 16 bits.
TFA is dead, and the summary makes no sense... unless they're using a definition of 'bits' and 'bytes' that is unique to TFA, in which case they need to define their terms.
The deal breaker for me was no working mod_put... you can't use the multithreaded stuff anyway if you're using PHP so there's no performance advantage.
As for holding providers liable, does that mean I should hold the Washington Post, New York Times, USA Today, or any other major media outlet responsible wholly responsible for the content of their writers?
Yes of course.
If a newspaper libels someone, they get sued. A lot of the time, it costs them a *lot* of money.
Provided they print the truth, they've got no issues.
In most countries (not sure about the US) ISPs are responsible for the data that they host/publish, but not for the data that merely passes through them. If you put kiddie porn on your 'free' webspace on the ISPs servers, the ISP can't say 'not my problem', they have to do something.
Wikipedia is in that position. They're effectively providing free webspace - it's up to them to track who is using their service (again this is a legal requrement in most countries) and take appropriate action to ban the user/contact the authorities, depending on what is appropriate.
As for answers.com - they're taking flawed data and republishing it, so they don't even have the defence that wikipedia (possibly) has - they have complete legal liability for what they publish.
That's completely different. Sigenthaler is, by virtue of his notoriety, not entitled to the same level of libel and slander protection that you or I would get.
WTF? When did you get the right to abritratily change the law for certain people?
Slander is *not* dependent on who is being slandered. Slander is dependent on whether the accusation is true or not.
I don't see 15 years olds actually *using* video phones though.. they like to own them because it's the latest cool item.
3G Video has been widely available for 2-3 years and it's not exactly taken the world by storm... I don't see this doing it either. It seems most people don't *want* video, despite the way various companies keep trying to push it as the 'next big thing'.
I'd kill for something as good as Tivo in the UK (Sky+ is a pale imitation) however DVB-S is probably a non-starter, since Sky will *never* release the details of their encryption to *anyone*.
HDMI inputs, and the ability to control an STB would do the trick - just like Tivo but ready for HD when it arrives. For SD of course SCART is an absolute necessity (biggest problem with MCE at the moment is it's *very* hard to find capture cards with SCART inputs, so they can't be attached to standard media systems).
Some of the local shops now have signs explaining about the crashing problems, and saying that xboxes with the problem will be exchanged on request... their presales were presumably dropping off with the widely publicised problems.
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You forgot about DRM. Remember DRM.
Your itunes purchase is authorized to the machine you bought it on. You cannot copy it to another machine.. that's the whole *purpose* of DRM.
That's nice... iTunes is expensive enough now Joe User has to buy an external hard disk as well.
Not gonna happen for most users, and that's the way Apple like it I'm sure - every time they replace their machine they need to buy all their music again. Hurray for DRM.
My standard DVD player already does Music, Pictures & Movies.
OTOH A mac Mini with a decent sized fast hard drive, HDMI, and the right shape for a living room ('lunchbox' doesn't really fit in) sounds cool... provided it has Tivo functionality of course.
Spyware continues to be perceived as a huge threat. Just look at the Sony fiasco (a google search for "sony spyware" returns 18,600,000 hits).
A search for "google spyware" returns 15,900,000 hits... does that mean google are evil too?
The number of pages that google returns is absolutely no indication of the popularity of a subject.
I've got it by leaving the machine logged in overnight. Damned if I know how.
The other day I had to recover an old access database. Nobody remembered the password, of course, so I donwloaded the trial of one of the password recovery programs. 1 second after clicking on it the nastiest scumware I've ever seen appeared (Spy Sheriff).
This thing:
Changed my background, and locked it to 'you have been infected with spyware'.
Ran no less than *four* copies of itself.
Installed a service that went 100% CPU, and downloaded more spyware in the background (well it tried to.. I pulled the cable after about 10 seconds.. still managed to get a hell of a lot though.. damned broadband).
And here's the clincher:
It killed MS Antispyware, then found its install directory and erased it. Not only did Antispyware not detect it, it was powerless to defend itself.
Took me nearly a day to get rid of that bastard. Spybot would say it had cleared it, then it'd all come back again after a reboot. MS Antispyware was the same... it'd see it, but fail to remove it properly. Of course neither of these run in safe mode (Antispyware won't even *install* in safe mode... some use that is). I eventually killed it by manually tracking it down in the registry and finding its 're-spyware' routine (which was a priviliged service it had installed, that *none* of the anti spyware apps detected.. because it had managed to rename itself in memory to svchost.exe).
This isn't a surprise though - savvy authors have been deleting the 'or any later version' clause from their copies for a long time.
I believe linux itself is a v2 only license.
That doesn't make sense at all.
If a qubit is both 0 and 1 at the same time it allows for precisely 1 state (which is either 'not useful' or 'completely random' depending on your point of view.
To store data you need at least 2 independent states. That still leaves you the problem than you can't store 65536 values in 8 bits.
Even if it is exactly 65536, it's not 8 bits either, that's 16 bits.
TFA is dead, and the summary makes no sense... unless they're using a definition of 'bits' and 'bytes' that is unique to TFA, in which case they need to define their terms.
The deal breaker for me was no working mod_put... you can't use the multithreaded stuff anyway if you're using PHP so there's no performance advantage.
huh? There are at least 2 that I'm aware of that are both legal and opensource.
That problem was fixed, um... 4 years ago?
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 ./test ./test: error while loading shared libraries: ./test: failed to map segment from shared object: Operation not permitted
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..and I'm expected to believe this because...?
That's the probem with wikipedia. You could have just written that yourself to back up the slashdot response. It's *not* an authoritative source.
As for holding providers liable, does that mean I should hold the Washington Post, New York Times, USA Today, or any other major media outlet responsible wholly responsible for the content of their writers?
Yes of course.
If a newspaper libels someone, they get sued. A lot of the time, it costs them a *lot* of money.
Provided they print the truth, they've got no issues.
In most countries (not sure about the US) ISPs are responsible for the data that they host/publish, but not for the data that merely passes through them. If you put kiddie porn on your 'free' webspace on the ISPs servers, the ISP can't say 'not my problem', they have to do something.
Wikipedia is in that position. They're effectively providing free webspace - it's up to them to track who is using their service (again this is a legal requrement in most countries) and take appropriate action to ban the user/contact the authorities, depending on what is appropriate.
As for answers.com - they're taking flawed data and republishing it, so they don't even have the defence that wikipedia (possibly) has - they have complete legal liability for what they publish.
That's completely different. Sigenthaler is, by virtue of his notoriety, not entitled to the same level of libel and slander protection that you or I would get.
WTF? When did you get the right to abritratily change the law for certain people?
Slander is *not* dependent on who is being slandered. Slander is dependent on whether the accusation is true or not.
Not really. That IP address + time is enough to tie you directly to the edit.
The problem is getting the ISPs to play ball when this kind of thing is done, so the culprits can be brought to justice.
Skype 2.0 is not currently available for mac and linux.
Since the version 1 skype never came out of beta for linux it's debatable whether there will *ever* be a linux version.
Anyway it's hardly the first cross platform video communication program - there are literally hundreds of the damned things.
Yes it does. SIP is just a session protocol, you can send anything over it.
Asterisk also supports video over SIP and has done for years. There just aren't many phones about that do it (I think cisco do one).
I don't see 15 years olds actually *using* video phones though.. they like to own them because it's the latest cool item.
3G Video has been widely available for 2-3 years and it's not exactly taken the world by storm... I don't see this doing it either. It seems most people don't *want* video, despite the way various companies keep trying to push it as the 'next big thing'.
I'd kill for something as good as Tivo in the UK (Sky+ is a pale imitation) however DVB-S is probably a non-starter, since Sky will *never* release the details of their encryption to *anyone*.
HDMI inputs, and the ability to control an STB would do the trick - just like Tivo but ready for HD when it arrives. For SD of course SCART is an absolute necessity (biggest problem with MCE at the moment is it's *very* hard to find capture cards with SCART inputs, so they can't be attached to standard media systems).
If you can't encode video streams that basically means that MythTV does *not* run on OSX.
A PVR without the V.. what is it, a PR?
If by 'desparate' you mean 'responding to the market' then yes, they are.
Possibly not... it's probably the same design.
Some of the local shops now have signs explaining about the crashing problems, and saying that xboxes with the problem will be exchanged on request... their presales were presumably dropping off with the widely publicised problems.
Try sorting by the domesting box office returns... not the 'adjusted' ones.
It's not pretty. Moviegoers are, by and large, dumb.
(the world box office returns aren't much better, but at least LOTR gets second...).
Better to come up with a protocol..
ptcp 'porn tcp'
Everything stays on the same port, but uses ptcp instead of tfp.
(It's still a stupid idea, but so is the entire fxxxing article!).