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  1. Re:What's Actually Wrong With DRM...? on What's Actually Wrong With DRM In HTML5? · · Score: 1

    Your PC can watch subscription services without a subscription?

  2. Re:What's Actually Wrong With DRM...? on What's Actually Wrong With DRM In HTML5? · · Score: 1

    No, JavaScript runs in a VM with the ability to break and inspect. Plus the client has full control over it. All I have to do is overwrite their function with one that saves the stream to a file.

    There is a very old rule in computer security: don't trust the client.

  3. Re:What's Actually Wrong With DRM...? on What's Actually Wrong With DRM In HTML5? · · Score: 1

    Firstly: Firefox's license is GPL compliant. And before that switch it was tri-licensed under both GPL and LGPL and Mozilla's license. I consider Firefox to be a browser worth its name. [citation]

    Secondly: If I have a keyfile in my possession and the software to decode it is open source it wouldn't take much work to write a compliant keyfile reader that spits out a decrypted stream. It is not possible to have an open source DRM scheme without also a system of signed binaries for every OS that wants to access the DRM system. The owner of the machine has to be locked out in some manner because if the computer knows how to decrypt the stream then the computer can decrypt the stream.

  4. Re:What's Actually Wrong With DRM...? on What's Actually Wrong With DRM In HTML5? · · Score: 1

    No you cannot. DRM has to be closed to function.

  5. Re:People have short memories it seems. on Stop Standardizing HTML · · Score: 1

    You can make a blink tag entirely in css now with no Javascript needed. Progress :)

  6. Re:Javascript on Stop Standardizing HTML · · Score: 1

    So you honestly want the web to be a static, non-interactive system? I hope you know how much of a minority you are and understand the web wouldn't be where it is today without JavaScript.

    I want JavaScript to die but I want it to be replaced with a properly engineered language. I do not want a static internet and I'd say a high 90% of people agree.

  7. Re:It's the Muslims !! on FBI Releases Boston Bombing Suspect Images/Videos · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Not that I'm condoning any violence but when a bunch of Saudis brought down your towers you did use it to justify killing a lot more than 3000 innocent Muslims... Look at it from another perspective. You're a huge and powerful country that thought you were completely justified to kill a bunch of innocents. Why would a hurting and disillusioned Muslim feel bad about taking the hurt to you? From my perspective you both have pretty similar attitudes. If you want to claim the moral high ground you have to earn it.

    Additionally, as the other poster said there is currently no link between this bombing and Islam. So you're either a troll or a racist, probably both.

  8. Re:The Mechanical Turk may be faster... on Boston Tech Vs. the Bomber · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure the "same skin tone" was part of their reasoning that the two people in one photo were the same two people in the other photo. Not, these two people are the same colour but the two people in that photo are the same as the two in this photo with evidence such as they have the same corresponding skin tones.

    Woosh? Maybe?

  9. You demand the right to not be "irritated" for something that you have no real reasons for defining as irritating but they're the self-entitled ones? Think about that for a moment.

  10. Re:Would I buy one? on Falling Windows RT Tablet Prices Signify Slow Adoption · · Score: 2

    they keep trying to shoehorn Windows into a tablet.

    Well to be fair this time they shoehorned some tablet into Windows first...

  11. Re:Steve Jobs on Steve Jobs' First Boss: 'Very Few Companies Would Hire Steve, Even Today' · · Score: 1

    So you honestly think that without Steve Jobs we wouldn't have graphical interfaces? You really do think that he single handedly created the modern world don't you?

  12. Re:Steve Jobs on Steve Jobs' First Boss: 'Very Few Companies Would Hire Steve, Even Today' · · Score: 1

    Or more likely some other company would have filled the gap. The lack of any of those companies would not have caused the world to collapse.

  13. Re:Steve Jobs on Steve Jobs' First Boss: 'Very Few Companies Would Hire Steve, Even Today' · · Score: 1

    Replacements for Steve Jobs: anyone that will pay engineers, software developers and designers to do their jobs with someone else's money.

  14. Re:Steve Jobs on Steve Jobs' First Boss: 'Very Few Companies Would Hire Steve, Even Today' · · Score: 1

    If it hadn't been him, it would have been one or more others like him.

    That's pretty much how a lot of us feel about Steve Jobs. I don't want to put words into the GP's mouth but I'm also pretty sure that was their point. If we're just giving people praise for being there we might as well give praise to everyone who was there.

  15. Transliterate does not mean to translate. It is not possible to transliterate "elohim" to "god" because they are both written in the same language (and most definitely aren't pronounced the same). I would wager a guess and say "elohim" is a transliteration or a transcription of a Hebrew word. The fact that you don't know what transliteration (a very basic linguistic topic) means would make me very leery to accept any linguistic assertions you make. You sound like you are regurgitating somebody else's "facts".

  16. Re:the truth... apk on Fantastic js1k Submissions · · Score: 2

    Slashdot devs seem in no hurry to fix this problem and it's been driving me nuts. So for anybody who values viewing at -1 and uses greasemonkey here's a Script. There's a chance of false positives and it's not the most optimized. But I value not having to scroll through > 10 paragraphs of APK, custom hosts files, or 'acceptable ads' spam.

  17. Re:chicken or egg? on GCC 4.8.0 Release Marks Completion of C++ Migration · · Score: 2

    Yes it has been mined and is now conveniently placed on the surface instead of buried beneath it. If we hit some global catastrophe all that ore and raw material isn't going to vaporise (unless of course that was the catastrophe). If we have to melt down some sky scrapers for ore so be it.

  18. Re:Just because... on Google's Punishment? Lecture Those They Snooped On · · Score: 1

    They were definitely using high grade equipment though. I would consider a high gain antenna to be analogous to a telescopic lens.

    People project photons out of places they have an expectation of privacy considering you have the right angle and the right equipment as well.

    The problem isn't necessarily that Google got off easy (I'm honestly not sure how I feel about it, definitely grey area). The problem is what do you think would have happened if you or I built a machine to do this and drove around the United States? Especially if you ever drove anywhere remotely close to a government building. Don't forget to keep in mind that people have gotten pretty heavy charges brought against them for no more than typing a url into a browser which is even more so broadcast for everyone to see.

  19. Re:Just because... on Google's Punishment? Lecture Those They Snooped On · · Score: 1

    Unless the SSID was "Google you may connect" how are the electromagnetic waves leaking out of their house any more inviting than the photons coming off their body? Is it legal to set up a hidden camera to look up women's skirts in public places? I honestly don't know but I seriously doubt it. All those photons are freely spraying out screaming "look at me!" though. I don't think anybody will disagree that that is wrong.

    Did Google record any hidden SSIDs? I bet they did. That sounds like acknowledgment you aren't welcome in a system (even if it is easily defeated).

  20. Re:Just because... on Google's Punishment? Lecture Those They Snooped On · · Score: 1
    Try this one:

    There's a man on the street with a camera and a telescopic lens pointed at my underage daughter's bedroom.

    I bet they wouldn't have a hard time finding something to charge him with for that. Even if he was just aiming at the owl on the roof.

  21. Re:HTML5 with DRM, or Silverlight... on Netflix Using HTML5 Video For ARM Chromebook · · Score: 1

    Because a lot of people don't believe the media companies have or should have the right to do what they do. Accepting that they have that right and abiding by their rules only legitimizes them. I'll watch what i feel like thank you and if that's not what you want then "boo-hoo", you don't own my eyeballs. I get to "protest" (really I'm just ignoring their existence) while getting a better experience for myself than those that pay. I assure you that they feel more "entitled" than i do.

  22. Re:"totally new like the ipod" on Apple's iWatch Could Come With IOS, Earn $6 Billion a Year · · Score: 1

    iTunes is also a non-starter.

    Now I hate itunes as much as the next self respecting geek but it's been around for over a decade. I think that disqualifies something from being a non-starter.

  23. Re:Hey... kid... on Apple's iWatch Could Come With IOS, Earn $6 Billion a Year · · Score: 1

    How often do you have to check the time? More importantly, how often do you have to check the time when it's not readily available right in front of you. Phones don't replace watches they merely help fill in the gaps that aren't already filled with a clock. There is a clock in the corner of every screen, they cost a dollar and can fill any wall you want. Watches are faster to check than a phone but the need for that extra speed often does not offset the cost of wearing a watch because they just aren't that needed any more.

  24. Re:No on Are Gaming Studios the Most Innovative Tech Companies Out There? · · Score: 1

    What do you suggest games be written in if not C++? What exactly is a modern language by your definition? The only thing i can think you might mean is some interpreted or managed languages which are definitely not optimized for game development. Perhaps the poor understanding is from yourself and not an entire billion dollar industry?

  25. Re:Aiding the enemy on Bradley Manning Pleads Guilty To 10 Charges · · Score: 5, Insightful

    this is war.

    Yes, which is why they're called war crimes.