I think I would still pick 8.1 over Windows 7. Metro does suck but it is tolerable and the OS is otherwise very stable and fast, even more so than Windows 7. Microsoft really fucked up though by treating mouse/keyboard/monitor users like second class citizens in an upgrade to their own operating system.
And such an incident should definitly NOT take for hours - espescially if scanning the glass memory is offered immedeatly. (more or less voluntarily)
The story gives a reasonable answer to the time it took. The Fed didn't want the guy to touch the device in case he attempted to destroy the evidence, and presumably he was waiting himself for somebody with a laptop and a cable to turn up to download stuff from the device onto a computer for inspection.
They might see someone in the audience holding up a camera. They might catch a glimpse of a screen or light which tells them someone is recording. Another patron might report someone they suspect of filming. They could not detect someone with a concealed camera providing they didn't give themselves away through their behaviour. And what they'll absolutely see is some guy with a camera attached to his glasses and they'll react accordingly.
The cinema chain might be legally obliged to report people who they suspect of filming content. Or they might be morally obliged to report it on the basis that piracy hits their bottom line. Either way they did what they did and there was sufficient probable cause for the FBI to question the guy. He was questioned, somebody turned up to inspect his device and he was released. Big deal.
Except in this instance, the PS4 and XB1 are so similar in function, hardware and the software they run (mostly games) that it is reasonable to draw comparisons. Sales are just part of that of course and sometimes the better product loses out. But in this case I doubt anybody could seriously claim that the XB1 is the better product and people just don't realise it. Neither the PS4 or XB1 can claim to be perfect so far and much could change over the course of a few years, but so far the PS4 is leading for a reason - it's cheaper, it's slightly faster (more games in 1080p), it's nicer looking and the marketing has been better.
I suspect this person already has several pairs of regular glasses he could have worn. He simply lacked the foresight to anticipate that a movie theatre might have a problem with someone capable of recording a movie from a camera attached to their head.
It doesn't imply thuggery at all. An investigator may wish to call in an expert to investigate recording equipment rather than inadvertently damage it by fiddling around with it for themselves.
Because copyright law should be a civil matter. Or rather, it shouldn't exist at all, but at the very least, it should be a civil matter.
What it should be and what it is is irrelevant. If the complaint falls under federal law then the FBI are duty bound to investigate it. Change the law rather than whining that a cinema chain and the FBI were attempting to uphold it.
Clearly they're not fine. They're slashing their sales forecasts and haemorrhaging money all over the place.
While there will always be people who want to buy the new Mario game or Pokemon or whatever, these are not enough to sustain a platform. A lot of people who owns a PS3 or 360 will not be swayed by a trickle of exclusive titles. They want a console which is actually better than what they have or they're happy to stick with what they have. That's the main problem - the Wii U doesn't differentiate itself in any significant way from existing consoles and indeed seems cynically designed to bring it up to parity with them and no further.
Nintendo would do well to slash the prices, pray that Sony and Microsoft try to hasten the end of life of their older consoles to give some breathing room and go after less saturated markets where a cheaper console stands a better chance. Or drop out of the hardware business entirely - do a SEGA and produce games that run on multiple platforms.
Nintendo's problem with the Wii U from the beginning is they delivered a mediocre console and demanded a premium price for it. The price was and is the main problem. If they can slash the price (and there is no reason they can't) then they might boost sales. Also, they'd be better off going after markets like China and India where a cheaper console might see greater success.
If attackers have sufficient access and sufficient privilege to dump a snapshot of your RAM then all bets are off. Dumping RAM is the least of things they could do - they could directly steal the secrets off the volume itself if they were that interested in them, or log keystrokes, or install rootkits etc. Heck, why not just replace the TrueCrypt binaries with modified ones which write the passphrase off somewhere and lift that later?
Just buy a NAS from Synology and be done with it. It's simple to set up, has an attractive web front end and supports DLNA, SMB and other ways you might want to stream content.
I still have a bootloader menu entry for Fedora 19 called "Schr?dinger?s cat" since nobody bothered to check if it could cope with umlauts or apostrophes. I wonder if Fedora 21 will feature a blank menu entry.
Yes its slightly different but not hugely so. Red Hat certainly can't bitch that people use the GPL to replicate their code and that might affect their public message.
But I expect if you candidly asked Red Hat what they thought of CentOS you would get a very similar answer as Microsoft - given the choice they'd MUCH prefer you paid for your OS (or services thereof), but if you won't or can't pay it's still better you use the product for nothing in the hope some day that you will pay.
I suppose from Red Hat's point of view there is a bit of a balancing act. Support CentOS too much and they deprive themselves of revenue, be too hostile to it and they alienate potential customers. I assume they are shifting themselves slightly to make the relationship a bit closer so people perceive RH to be the natural step up rather than (for example) Oracle Linux which is a RH knock off in its own right.
It's exactly like Windows. If someone is using your operating system (whether they bought it or not), then they're not using your rival's operating system. You're not necessarily making money now but you are denying money to the other crowd, and the user in time may ultimately develop skills or produce something that does make you money in future.
So some guy fiddling around with CentOS to knock together a website has skills which are easily transferrable to Red Hat because it's almost identical aside from some logos and text.
Who says the animal lived thousands of miles away? Every modern zoo seems to have some giraffes so clearly they're not the hardest animal to rear and I assume Romans would have the capability and incentive to do so if there was a market for the meat.
This is a debate between reason and unreason. I'm sure it will do wonders for Ken Ham to allowed the oxygen of publicity and his views. I doubt it will do anything for Bill Nye. Even if he tears Ken Ham to bits it won't make the slightest bit of difference to creationists.
msysgit has Unicode file support since 1.8.x but most of the accompanying tools like Bash aren't unicode aware and the path length issue is still there. Long path notation requires a \\?\ prefix on an absolute path and most of git's operations are relative where it can't be easily tacked on. So if a repo had a > 260 char relative path it would be pummelled. They could potentially fix instances where absolutePath > 260 chars by using the prefix. I don't know how UTF-8 encoding would play into this but perhaps unicode paths would hit the limit in less readable chars. Basically it's a mess.
I like SmartGit too although it's a licensed product. The best thing about it is the visualization which is much easier to follow than Tortoise or EGit.
It's not on the Windows side. It's either in the MSYS layer, or the git code itself. From an end-user perspective in means having to keep your paths as close to the root as possible or use the SUBST command to map a subdir to a drive letter.
Source code has to be hosted somewhere. Even if the FSF hosts source code on their own servers it's still "in the cloud" as far as people pushing and pulling from it are concerned. Anyway, if it's a big deal, they could set up GitHub as a mirror and host the "master" copy on their server even if in practice most people would be pushing to GitHub and that would be periodically synced to the FSF.
Git seems to be perpetually in preview on Windows but in practice it works relatively well. There are quite a few front ends for it if you hate the command line.
The biggest issues I have with it are:
Line ending conversion is a massive pain in the arse. Windows is CRLF, Linux is LF. Msysgit asks during installation what line ending conversion policy to use. If you get it wrong, you'll see spurious issues with files marked as modified when no difference is visible. The best advice I can give is set core.autocrlf to false when you install msysgit so that line endings are left alone. You can do stuff with a file called.gitattributes to turn off line ending conversion in the repo itself but JGit (the Java pure impl of Git in Eclipse) doesn't actually bother to honour the settings in that file.
Performance is a bit poor. You won't notice in small repos but when the repo is 10,000+ files, simple things like "git status" can sit there for minutes. MSYS has an inefficient lstat and performance becomes noticeably in Git as a consequence. An SSD helps a lot, but that's no consolation for devs who can't ask for one.
260 char MAX_PATH imposes restrictions on path length that the fs itself could cope with.
Nothing is a deal breaker. I think Git on Windows works as well as most other source control systems when its up and going and comes with its own advantages that compel its use for software development. I wouldn't use it for document management though - something like Subversion would be better for that.
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I think I would still pick 8.1 over Windows 7. Metro does suck but it is tolerable and the OS is otherwise very stable and fast, even more so than Windows 7. Microsoft really fucked up though by treating mouse/keyboard/monitor users like second class citizens in an upgrade to their own operating system.
Well petition to change the law instead of whining that the FBI did their duty by upholding it.
And such an incident should definitly NOT take for hours - espescially if scanning the glass memory is offered immedeatly. (more or less voluntarily)
The story gives a reasonable answer to the time it took. The Fed didn't want the guy to touch the device in case he attempted to destroy the evidence, and presumably he was waiting himself for somebody with a laptop and a cable to turn up to download stuff from the device onto a computer for inspection.
They might see someone in the audience holding up a camera. They might catch a glimpse of a screen or light which tells them someone is recording. Another patron might report someone they suspect of filming. They could not detect someone with a concealed camera providing they didn't give themselves away through their behaviour. And what they'll absolutely see is some guy with a camera attached to his glasses and they'll react accordingly.
The cinema chain might be legally obliged to report people who they suspect of filming content. Or they might be morally obliged to report it on the basis that piracy hits their bottom line. Either way they did what they did and there was sufficient probable cause for the FBI to question the guy. He was questioned, somebody turned up to inspect his device and he was released. Big deal.
Except in this instance, the PS4 and XB1 are so similar in function, hardware and the software they run (mostly games) that it is reasonable to draw comparisons. Sales are just part of that of course and sometimes the better product loses out. But in this case I doubt anybody could seriously claim that the XB1 is the better product and people just don't realise it. Neither the PS4 or XB1 can claim to be perfect so far and much could change over the course of a few years, but so far the PS4 is leading for a reason - it's cheaper, it's slightly faster (more games in 1080p), it's nicer looking and the marketing has been better.
I suspect this person already has several pairs of regular glasses he could have worn. He simply lacked the foresight to anticipate that a movie theatre might have a problem with someone capable of recording a movie from a camera attached to their head.
It doesn't imply thuggery at all. An investigator may wish to call in an expert to investigate recording equipment rather than inadvertently damage it by fiddling around with it for themselves.
Because copyright law should be a civil matter. Or rather, it shouldn't exist at all, but at the very least, it should be a civil matter.
What it should be and what it is is irrelevant. If the complaint falls under federal law then the FBI are duty bound to investigate it. Change the law rather than whining that a cinema chain and the FBI were attempting to uphold it.
While there will always be people who want to buy the new Mario game or Pokemon or whatever, these are not enough to sustain a platform. A lot of people who owns a PS3 or 360 will not be swayed by a trickle of exclusive titles. They want a console which is actually better than what they have or they're happy to stick with what they have. That's the main problem - the Wii U doesn't differentiate itself in any significant way from existing consoles and indeed seems cynically designed to bring it up to parity with them and no further.
Nintendo would do well to slash the prices, pray that Sony and Microsoft try to hasten the end of life of their older consoles to give some breathing room and go after less saturated markets where a cheaper console stands a better chance. Or drop out of the hardware business entirely - do a SEGA and produce games that run on multiple platforms.
Nintendo's problem with the Wii U from the beginning is they delivered a mediocre console and demanded a premium price for it. The price was and is the main problem. If they can slash the price (and there is no reason they can't) then they might boost sales. Also, they'd be better off going after markets like China and India where a cheaper console might see greater success.
I very much doubt you know what 96,000lb "feels like" either.
If attackers have sufficient access and sufficient privilege to dump a snapshot of your RAM then all bets are off. Dumping RAM is the least of things they could do - they could directly steal the secrets off the volume itself if they were that interested in them, or log keystrokes, or install rootkits etc. Heck, why not just replace the TrueCrypt binaries with modified ones which write the passphrase off somewhere and lift that later?
Just buy a NAS from Synology and be done with it. It's simple to set up, has an attractive web front end and supports DLNA, SMB and other ways you might want to stream content.
... that nothing he said makes a slightest bit of sense. Literally none at all.
I still have a bootloader menu entry for Fedora 19 called "Schr?dinger?s cat" since nobody bothered to check if it could cope with umlauts or apostrophes. I wonder if Fedora 21 will feature a blank menu entry.
But I expect if you candidly asked Red Hat what they thought of CentOS you would get a very similar answer as Microsoft - given the choice they'd MUCH prefer you paid for your OS (or services thereof), but if you won't or can't pay it's still better you use the product for nothing in the hope some day that you will pay.
I suppose from Red Hat's point of view there is a bit of a balancing act. Support CentOS too much and they deprive themselves of revenue, be too hostile to it and they alienate potential customers. I assume they are shifting themselves slightly to make the relationship a bit closer so people perceive RH to be the natural step up rather than (for example) Oracle Linux which is a RH knock off in its own right.
So some guy fiddling around with CentOS to knock together a website has skills which are easily transferrable to Red Hat because it's almost identical aside from some logos and text.
Who says the animal lived thousands of miles away? Every modern zoo seems to have some giraffes so clearly they're not the hardest animal to rear and I assume Romans would have the capability and incentive to do so if there was a market for the meat.
This is a debate between reason and unreason. I'm sure it will do wonders for Ken Ham to allowed the oxygen of publicity and his views. I doubt it will do anything for Bill Nye. Even if he tears Ken Ham to bits it won't make the slightest bit of difference to creationists.
msysgit has Unicode file support since 1.8.x but most of the accompanying tools like Bash aren't unicode aware and the path length issue is still there. Long path notation requires a \\?\ prefix on an absolute path and most of git's operations are relative where it can't be easily tacked on. So if a repo had a > 260 char relative path it would be pummelled. They could potentially fix instances where absolutePath > 260 chars by using the prefix. I don't know how UTF-8 encoding would play into this but perhaps unicode paths would hit the limit in less readable chars. Basically it's a mess.
I like SmartGit too although it's a licensed product. The best thing about it is the visualization which is much easier to follow than Tortoise or EGit.
It's not on the Windows side. It's either in the MSYS layer, or the git code itself. From an end-user perspective in means having to keep your paths as close to the root as possible or use the SUBST command to map a subdir to a drive letter.
Source code has to be hosted somewhere. Even if the FSF hosts source code on their own servers it's still "in the cloud" as far as people pushing and pulling from it are concerned. Anyway, if it's a big deal, they could set up GitHub as a mirror and host the "master" copy on their server even if in practice most people would be pushing to GitHub and that would be periodically synced to the FSF.
The biggest issues I have with it are:
Nothing is a deal breaker. I think Git on Windows works as well as most other source control systems when its up and going and comes with its own advantages that compel its use for software development. I wouldn't use it for document management though - something like Subversion would be better for that.