What the hell is wrong with us? In any sane society a person like that would've been strung up from a lamppost a long time ago.
The problem is we don't have a choice. The Tories are making a fuss about the speaker allowing the police to conduct an investigation in the house of commons (something that is IMHO fine) and quietly forgetting that they pushed through the anti-terror legislation that caused the entire problem. The liberal democrats and other fringe parties, that may care about our freedom simply don't stand a chance under the first past the post system.
Q. What does Linux have lots of libraries for? A. Networking
Q. What field do a lot of people working on linux come from? A. Physics
Q. Is it likely that Havok is soo much better that physicists with networking libraries cant even get close A. Not really, its just pretty pointless to develop open-source games at a time when nobody is interested in them as 1. You need to be running closed source drivers to play them 2. If your happy running closed source software you can run HL2/spore/etc in wine
After all, OS_X is the merging of proprietary and open source as well.
True, but i tend not to have any proprietary extensions on my default profile because i don't trust them to not sell my data to 3rd parties, in fact I'm fairly sure that's what they do do to make money. Also with interclue specifically it just didn't seam worth the effort running when i can just open the tab then close it if its not what i want without any potential privacy risk.
Both OSS and Proprietary have their virtues and vices
What exactly are the virtues of proprietary software? It seams to me that it has to be your forced to do something you may not want to. want to use an ipod? Got to use itunes! want to use OS X? Got to use expensive mac hardware! want to work with people using the latest version of office? Got to use the latest version of office!
If proprietary software has virtues why bother with lock-in, surely it could compete by itself on a level playing field?
You mean capitalism is falling apart and we need to go to some remote island to create an encyclopedia of everything? *damn you Wikipedia for ruining in this reference*
Obviously if you electrocute yourself, or mangle your finger, or cause any other unforeseen damage to yourself / VCR, I'm not responsible.
Be aware that the psu is inside the VCR(well end stuff it is anyway) so there will be some transformers with high current/voltage lying about in there.
dammit i was hopping that would be the workaround for once.
in fairness, it seams to only affect you if you dont properly parse the sql input from a web application, so if the attacker is using this exploit they are already 'in'.
c) Don't upgrade the PC and play most games anyway.
Half-life 2 runs fine on a £300 machine from 5 years ago. for ~£300 i could build a medium-high end machine now that will play anything current with good settings (if i still ran windows).
Halo is like counterstrike on crack. The lack of any permanent damage means that all you get is a bunch of 13y/o running around and teebaging eachother.
The content is still provided by the fans. Youtube is very comparable to a fan club, sure Google pay for the hosting but the content is still provided by fans.
Would you say stargate.wikia.com is not a fanclub because its also hosted by a large corporation.
At youtube quality there's not even a chance that somebody rips the audio to avoid paying for a single.
All i can image these idiots are thinking is that if they make music videos is value you get from buying the CD they might sell more, they are of course forgetting the sakes they would have otherwise got from the free advertising.
I fail to see how network topology is something to be hidden, the computers either in front of a firewall and thus mappable anyway or behind one and so it doesn't really matter if you have the IPs because you cant send any traffic to them anyway.
A map of a bank's safe isn't much use if the bank is secure.
I use get_iplayer because full screen flash maxes out my CPU (i cant even watch porn on some flash sites!!!!) But id quite like to see a feature and performance comparison to the official product i know that get_iplayer has: streaming: x bandwidth: unlimit upload usage: 0 (not sure if thats so good, but as it stops virgin media throttling me i wont complain) performance: ~0 for downloading and player dependent for full screen video (but fairly low in mplayer) interface: CLI only search: pretty much anything assuming you know regex DRM: none (but you soon find out that you have no HDD space left, if i don't erase stuff)
The only missing 'feature' is it doesn't advertise new shows, as i don't have a TV id quite like to know when there is a new show or new season of a show a might like.
I actually didn't mind the Windows native only in the first place, it meant windows users (~90% of the population) got to use the service a year before they would have if wed all waited for windows/mac/linux. It also meant that linux users could use flash to watch it for that year.
It was clear from the start that windows only was just temporary witch I'm fine with, unlike the rest of the UK terrestrial channels.
There are 3 types of show on the bbc: 1) BBC produced, the bbc obviously have complete rights to these, but make a fair amount of money from selling these to foreign companies. As they make money (a.k.a save the taxpayers money) by selling these to foreign companies, they don't want to put this online as it would harm their revenue (a.k.a the taxpayers have to foot more of the bill). 2) Independently produced by uk companies, these have to make up something like 10-15% of all shows, the bbc will buy limited rights to these programs, so that they can be resold elsewhere in the world. 3) Stuff bought from other companies (heros, etc), the bbc have to negotiate on these contracts, with some (heros) not even being allowed onto iplayer.
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What the hell is wrong with us? In any sane society a person like that would've been strung up from a lamppost a long time ago.
The problem is we don't have a choice. The Tories are making a fuss about the speaker allowing the police to conduct an investigation in the house of commons (something that is IMHO fine) and quietly forgetting that they pushed through the anti-terror legislation that caused the entire problem. The liberal democrats and other fringe parties, that may care about our freedom simply don't stand a chance under the first past the post system.
My hope is its somebody really incompetent so good old bobby drop tables; will mess everything up for them
Q. What does Linux have lots of libraries for?
A. Networking
Q. What field do a lot of people working on linux come from?
A. Physics
Q. Is it likely that Havok is soo much better that physicists with networking libraries cant even get close
A. Not really, its just pretty pointless to develop open-source games at a time when nobody is interested in them as
1. You need to be running closed source drivers to play them
2. If your happy running closed source software you can run HL2/spore/etc in wine
After all, OS_X is the merging of proprietary and open source as well.
True, but i tend not to have any proprietary extensions on my default profile because i don't trust them to not sell my data to 3rd parties, in fact I'm fairly sure that's what they do do to make money. Also with interclue specifically it just didn't seam worth the effort running when i can just open the tab then close it if its not what i want without any potential privacy risk.
Both OSS and Proprietary have their virtues and vices
What exactly are the virtues of proprietary software? It seams to me that it has to be your forced to do something you may not want to.
want to use an ipod? Got to use itunes!
want to use OS X? Got to use expensive mac hardware!
want to work with people using the latest version of office? Got to use the latest version of office!
If proprietary software has virtues why bother with lock-in, surely it could compete by itself on a level playing field?
You mean I've only got 12 months to live? 2010 is the real year of the linux desktop as predicted by the Mayan calendar!
But why would they fork it, everybody knows that an office suite is never going to get you laid.
You mean capitalism is falling apart and we need to go to some remote island to create an encyclopedia of everything? *damn you Wikipedia for ruining in this reference*
Obviously if you electrocute yourself, or mangle your finger, or cause any other unforeseen damage to yourself / VCR, I'm not responsible.
Be aware that the psu is inside the VCR(well end stuff it is anyway) so there will be some transformers with high current/voltage lying about in there.
So if im not a vet, and i cant tell if the cat is asleep or dead, it is in a state of both sleep and dead until i take it to the vet.
dammit i was hopping that would be the workaround for once.
in fairness, it seams to only affect you if you dont properly parse the sql input from a web application, so if the attacker is using this exploit they are already 'in'.
The open source ones do 3D, not amazingly fast, but good enough for composting etc
c) Don't upgrade the PC and play most games anyway.
Half-life 2 runs fine on a £300 machine from 5 years ago. for ~£300 i could build a medium-high end machine now that will play anything current with good settings (if i still ran windows).
Halo is like counterstrike on crack. The lack of any permanent damage means that all you get is a bunch of 13y/o running around and teebaging eachother.
Additionally, it checks each and every URL you visit against google's malware-list.
I fail to see how checking hashes against a pre-downloaded list gives out any information about a user
The content is still provided by the fans. Youtube is very comparable to a fan club, sure Google pay for the hosting but the content is still provided by fans.
Would you say stargate.wikia.com is not a fanclub because its also hosted by a large corporation.
At youtube quality there's not even a chance that somebody rips the audio to avoid paying for a single.
All i can image these idiots are thinking is that if they make music videos is value you get from buying the CD they might sell more, they are of course forgetting the sakes they would have otherwise got from the free advertising.
I fail to see how network topology is something to be hidden, the computers either in front of a firewall and thus mappable anyway or behind one and so it doesn't really matter if you have the IPs because you cant send any traffic to them anyway.
A map of a bank's safe isn't much use if the bank is secure.
I thought there was just the 1: Mr. Cheney's wallet. I mean it clearly wasn't WMDs, terrorism or Saddam.
what about the US just wanting to cut the cables to fuck over iran? that seams both possible and feasible
I use get_iplayer because full screen flash maxes out my CPU (i cant even watch porn on some flash sites!!!!) But id quite like to see a feature and performance comparison to the official product
i know that get_iplayer has:
streaming: x
bandwidth: unlimit
upload usage: 0 (not sure if thats so good, but as it stops virgin media throttling me i wont complain)
performance: ~0 for downloading and player dependent for full screen video (but fairly low in mplayer)
interface: CLI only
search: pretty much anything assuming you know regex
DRM: none (but you soon find out that you have no HDD space left, if i don't erase stuff)
The only missing 'feature' is it doesn't advertise new shows, as i don't have a TV id quite like to know when there is a new show or new season of a show a might like.
True but its clear that the flashplayer will under an OSS license in 3-5 years
because the gay posing art students pay tv licenses, so the bbc don't have a choice.
I actually didn't mind the Windows native only in the first place, it meant windows users (~90% of the population) got to use the service a year before they would have if wed all waited for windows/mac/linux. It also meant that linux users could use flash to watch it for that year.
It was clear from the start that windows only was just temporary witch I'm fine with, unlike the rest of the UK terrestrial channels.
There are 3 types of show on the bbc:
1) BBC produced, the bbc obviously have complete rights to these, but make a fair amount of money from selling these to foreign companies. As they make money (a.k.a save the taxpayers money) by selling these to foreign companies, they don't want to put this online as it would harm their revenue (a.k.a the taxpayers have to foot more of the bill).
2) Independently produced by uk companies, these have to make up something like 10-15% of all shows, the bbc will buy limited rights to these programs, so that they can be resold elsewhere in the world.
3) Stuff bought from other companies (heros, etc), the bbc have to negotiate on these contracts, with some (heros) not even being allowed onto iplayer.
I don't see how the size of the nation affects the problem. resistance to change is an extensive property, but so is people willing to change.