You cannot serve warrents to search property in other countries.
You may not be able to serve warrants to actually force entry into foreign offices and collect physical evidence, but you probably can subpoena a domestic company and require _them_ to present things that are held in their foreign offices.
Case law has upheld that a subpoena isn't good enough to get data that is only held by the company for one of their customers, if the company chooses to fight. That is the case here, and thus a warrant is required.
Really read this sentence: "In essence, President Barack Obama's administration claims that any company with operations in the United States must comply with valid warrants for data, even if the content is stored overseas."
The problem is that this case is using a warrant, which historically targets a search of a very specific location and has never been allowed to specify a location not directly within the authority of the court issuing the warrant, yet the administration wants it to act like a subpoena, which does allow the data to be located outside the authority of the issuing court, as long as the person (or company) being served is within the court's authority.
For example, if the Chicago police department is investigating a crime, they can present to a Illinois court a request for a warrant to search something that is within the state of Illinois. They could not request an Illinois court to grant them a warrant to search a location in Texas. They can, of course, request that a Texas court allow them to perform that search.
In the same way, the US government cannot get a warrant from a US court to search a location in Ireland. Yet, the USG is trying to do exactly that. They could ask an Irish court to give them a warrant (and, IIRC, have done so in this case, and been denied) to search that location. If the USG was asking for information that was owned by Microsoft, then a subpoena against the US-based Microsoft would be enough to force them to produce data stored in Ireland. Instead, they are asking Microsoft to produce data that although they technically control, is actually owned by some user of Microsoft's services. For that, they need a warrant.
The question is "can you get it", not "is is currently in your possession".
"Can you get it?" is not a good test, as I can get all sorts of things from my employer's computers (being a system administrator), but legally I can't turn them over to you, even if you have a subpoena, as I don't "own" the data. Even if I was actually the one who gathered data in response to a subpoena, I wouldn't be the one to turn it over to you...I would give it to the person who has the legal authority to act for the company in those sorts of dealings.
I could spend about half an hour figuring out which of the numerous available torrents is in a playable format and not a fake and then maybe a couple hours downloading it. If I’m really lucky, I can burn it to a DVD that my player will understand so I don’t have to take the time to connect my laptop to the TV.
Slashdot posters used to be technically savvy people.
Seriously, I've never had a problem with a fake torrent (find an uploader you like, and follow the RSS of their uploads) or a file not being in a playable format (everything today is H.264 in an MKV container, and there are dozens of players that support that format). And, if the only hardware media player you own is a DVD player, then you likely have a really hard time playing back movies from Amazon Prime on your TV, too. Pretty much any other hardware player can stay hooked up to your TV and play either network streams or read your local file shares where you stored whatever you downloaded.
(3) If I have some patience to wait a day, I can order my own copy to keep from Amazon Prime, and I’ll STILL come out ahead financially.
You don't get to "keep" downloads from Amazon. You can keep the file around, but you still need a player that supports their DRM and can authorize you to play the content. This is not an issue with torrents, nor is it an issue with a purchased plastic disc, as you do get to keep the disc forever, and the DRM is easily defeated if you care about that (although it's not necessary, as every Blu-Ray player can play it back without having to phone home to authorize the playback).
All that said, I pay for what I want to own, and only use torrents to download TV shows that I could record anyway (the convenience of having somebody else remove the commercials is worth it...I used to do it myself) and movies that aren't available for purchase or that I already own but don't feel like ripping myself.
On that note however, if a studio offered a free digital download for a movie after watching it in a theater, say for an extra $5 dollars, even if it I cant download it for a couple months, I would most likely be willing to do that. But, I refuse to pay $20+ dollars for a blueray, just to have it sit around and collect dust. I run all my media off an HTPC and I don't want a bunch of movies taking up space on a shelf somewhere.
I'd love to be able to download movies instead of getting the plastic disc, but there are two big things stopping me:
DRM: any download will only be playable on whatever the studio deems to be "acceptable" hardware and software.
Quality: no download comes close to the quality of audio and video on a Blu-Ray, and downloads almost never have extras like commentary tracks.
For other people, another reason not to download is that Blu-Ray generally has all the subtitles they need to enjoy the movie, but most downloads are very limited in that respect.
It depends on the transaction. ISTR that PayPal had some concept of "personal" transactions that had either very small or no fees. The idea was to allow people to move money to their friends and relatives without taking a big hit. There are also places like GOG that have a lot of sub-$10 transactions who likely have a special "volume" agreement with PayPal.
For regular one-off transactions, though, there is per-transaction fee that would kill you if you are moving just $5.
Microsoft does a good job of supporting backward compatibility because it has to do so to maintain lock-in. If things weren't very compatible from version to version, you might be tempted to try something else.
MS is generally OK in the "programs run" bit, but they really need to force hardware manufacturers to keep supporting the older OS with drivers. When Windows 7 came out, a lot of smaller companies stopped providing XP drivers for their hardware.
Make sure your infrastructure is set up so the clone CAN be properly tested.
If the clone isn't on the same VLAN, accessing the same data-gathering hardware, there is no way the infrastructure can have a test match production. The data-gathering hardware I'm talking about costs $20-70K in supplies to complete a run, and the hardware itself is in the $250K range, so there is no way to duplicate it.
I'm not saying that we don't try (use data from an old run, etc.), but there is no way to truly duplicate everything, and sometimes you just have to live with that.
But it's a huge task just to put the shoot together; they don't just drive up with some kind of aircraft and start flying around.
Because they are generally flying over property that they don't own.
I'm willing to bet that an insurance company would laugh at me when I ask for insurance to protect my own home against what might happen if I crash a model airplane into it.
You're missing that point that anybody can make both USB sockets and USB leads with a very minimal royalty payment.
What if only one company made USB sockets (Microsoft) and they charged $100 for it (Windows). Then, once you did pay and had your USB device working, they stopped supporting the current USB standard, which encouraged your device manufacturer to stop supporting it. Then, all new USB devices would only work on the new USB sockets, so if you buy a new camera/scanner/mouse/keyboard/whatever, you can't plug it in to your current USB socket, and need to pay another $100 to get the new socket. If Microsoft didn't see Windows as a profit center, but instead used it as a platform to get you to pay for everything else they do, 90% of the complaints about them would stop.
I didn't mind paying for the first versions of Windows, because they gave me something I didn't have: a windowed UI. Then, Windows NT gave us real multi-tasking and 32-bit code. Windows 2000 and XP were just more polished versions, although XP gave us 64-bit that wasn't supported much. Windows 7 finally gave us 64-bit with real support. Windows 8 is just a different UI. So, the reality is that over that span of nearly 20 years, I feel like I should have paid "full price" for about 3 versions (truly major upgrades), and some token amount (about 20% of the full version price seems right) for the "maintenance" releases.
Instead, if you wanted to play the latest games, you had to upgrade to XP (2000 was just fine for running productivity apps) and 7, and even before the end of support of XP, you had to upgrade to 7 if you didn't use an alternate browser (unless you like getting burned by the most common security exploits). Then, add in that the more recent OS often don't have drivers for older hardware and have a lot more system requirements, and you end up with Linux getting traction because of this endless cycle.
Although Linux is really hurting the inroads that MS made into the server market, it will never touch the desktop until it's just as easy to use. It will never be just as easy to use as long as there are 14 different Linux distributions with 43 different GUI implementations (numbers pulled out of my ass, but you get the picture). Until there is one GUI, no large percentage of companies will heavily invest in converting to a Linux desktop because they won't want to train every new hire in how the system works. And yes, I know that the vast majority of people don't do anything complicated, but things like connecting to a network share, changing the screen resolution, changing the GUI colors, playing a video, scheduling a meeting with co-workers, etc., are all things that real people do and which have to be easy and consistent. In addition, until all the standard software is available (no, Linux doesn't have to have Microsoft Office, but it has to have a package that does everything that Office does, and Open/Libre Office ain't it), there won't be a large shift, either.
I maintain Linux servers for a living, but I still use a Windows desktop (even though my employer does support Windows, Linux, and OSX for personal desktops) because it still is easier to get everything done using that. I have lots of options to get to a Linux system and run programs (both text and GUI), and not everyone in my office uses the same toolset as I do. But, the other direction is painful. Without Windows, you can't easily find out when everybody is available for a meeting, and can't stay logged in to your e-mail (OWA times out, while Outlook does not). I can connect to a Windows share from a Linux system, but I can't adjust the ACLs. With a Windows desktop, I can connect to both Windows and NFS shares and adjust the ACLs.
...pay enough attention to game design to consistently produce quality games.
You're saying this mostly because of Portal. Without that game, you'd be left with the taste of Half-Life 2, which showed they were losing their touch because they had to have enemy spawn points that never run out of bad guys.
It also was a very linear game, where even the more open sections were just an A->B->C->D path for the player...there was no side exploring of any consequence. In particular, you very rarely left a building by the same way you entered. You would often see areas where you would soon be or used to be through windows/fences/etc., with the path between the two a very long maze.
The opening level for Daikatana was death by a thousand mosquito bites and killer toads. I never got past that level. A FPS game is supposed to ramp up the difficulty as the player gets used to the new game world. Killing them off at the get go is bad design.
I never played the game until I picked it up from GOG last year. I didn't find the first section very hard at all until the giant dragon. Even that was easy after I realized there's no shame in hiding and sniping. I even killed the sentry guns by destroying them instead of destroying their power link until I got to the door that could only be opened by destroying the power link, at which point I felt like an idiot.
The first weapon you get has essentially unlimited ammo (carry 100 shots with 50-shot packs sitting around every corner) and does a respectable amount of damage per shot. It can also fire around corners via bouncing off walls.
The only real problem I have with the game is that although there is a story, there isn't any game-play info in the story, so I wasn't sure if the cowering technicians were OK to kill or not (being used to games like Deus Ex where you don't kill something unless it's trying to kill you). I haven't finished the game yet (only gotten to the point where I have both sidekicks with me), as I had to rebuild my gaming machine and don't have a lot of time for games in general, so it could get a lot more sucky.
so once a week you have to get up early and do some work.
I don't think that the "2am" listed in TFS is "getting up early". Instead, it's more like "staying up late".
For me, it's not really a problem, but I have had to do that kind of maintenance as a team, and some people are just useless if they stay up that long, or even got a short nap. My current job gives us all day one Saturday a month for maintenance, so you can sleep like normal and get up when appropriate (one hour worth of work, start at 2 in the afternoon if you want...7 hours of work, better start before noon). A lot fewer mistakes seem to be made with this sort of schedule.
Especially with VMs, it is so easy to snapshot and test things.
How, exactly, do you snapshot and test the production VM before the maintenance window and guarantee you won't affect (and by "affect", I mean anything that changes behavior in any way that is not expected by the users) any services running on that VM?
If you meant "clone" instead of "snapshot", that doesn't help either, as the clone will have to have a different IP address, can't connect to the production database, etc.
We've had VMs that have become corrupt in very strange ways so that they would not reboot. The corruption didn't affect any running services, but existed for at least six weeks (we had to go back that far to get a backup that didn't have the issue). Testing a kernel patch that requires a reboot wouldn't have revealed this corruption, as the dev and staging servers didn't have the problem. Testing it on the production server would have revealed it, but we would have to do that during scheduled maintenance anyway....
...which still doesn't allow two different Steam logins to play the same game at the same time unless it is in both their game libraries.
I'm surprised there are console games that allow you to buy one copy and play on more than one console at the same time, as tepples seems to imply in the GP post.
How do PC gamers address this problem? We don't play AAA titles designed for a console the same year that console was released. They suck for PC anyway.
And, they also might have less tweaks for graphics so that in a few years when that $75 card can run the game at max settings, you still can't get any better quality with a $300 card (which matches today's $700 cards). All the $300 card will do is allow you to run at a higher overall resolution, which eventually will start to expose things like lower polygon counts, lack of anti-aliasing (even injected after the fact sometimes doesn't work), etc.
Because that has worked out so well for IMDB and TMDB. Try looking at their genres sometime, especially ones like "comedy" where if there is anything even vaguely humorous no matter how passing or unintentional the movie gets classed as a comedy.
"Genre" isn't really a problem on IMDB, as users can't directly set that. I believe you are thinking of "plot keywords", which are really nothing but tags, and have become silly.
How does a "loud shirt" have anything to do with the plot of the listed titles?
You see, there's a "broadcast flag" developed in the DVR software that is really the "can't copy flag" that would take away you ability to move that file around.
The MyHD DVR ignores the setting of the broadcast flag, as does pretty much every other OTA HD recorder. This is primarily because it has never been intentionally set on any program.
Try that with a PPV movie, an HBO/Showtime or similar movie. Try that with HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher... it won't work.
When those are broadcast OTA (over the air, i.e., TV using the same frequencies and antennas as has been used for 50 years) and can be decoded by any ATSC-compliant device, I suspect I'd have no problem moving the program anywhere.
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It's like that line from Temple of Doom. "Again we see there is nothing you can possess which I cannot take away, Dr Jones"...
That's actually from Raiders.
Because current car technology doesn't do that yet.
Google begs to differ.
You cannot serve warrents to search property in other countries.
You may not be able to serve warrants to actually force entry into foreign offices and collect physical evidence, but you probably can subpoena a domestic company and require _them_ to present things that are held in their foreign offices.
Case law has upheld that a subpoena isn't good enough to get data that is only held by the company for one of their customers, if the company chooses to fight. That is the case here, and thus a warrant is required.
I'm obligated to answer a subpoena even if I put it the data in a place where there is no legal jurisdiction.
This story is not about a subpoena...it is about a warrant. They are different documents, and have different rules.
Really read this sentence: "In essence, President Barack Obama's administration claims that any company with operations in the United States must comply with valid warrants for data, even if the content is stored overseas."
The problem is that this case is using a warrant, which historically targets a search of a very specific location and has never been allowed to specify a location not directly within the authority of the court issuing the warrant, yet the administration wants it to act like a subpoena, which does allow the data to be located outside the authority of the issuing court, as long as the person (or company) being served is within the court's authority.
For example, if the Chicago police department is investigating a crime, they can present to a Illinois court a request for a warrant to search something that is within the state of Illinois. They could not request an Illinois court to grant them a warrant to search a location in Texas. They can, of course, request that a Texas court allow them to perform that search.
In the same way, the US government cannot get a warrant from a US court to search a location in Ireland. Yet, the USG is trying to do exactly that. They could ask an Irish court to give them a warrant (and, IIRC, have done so in this case, and been denied) to search that location. If the USG was asking for information that was owned by Microsoft, then a subpoena against the US-based Microsoft would be enough to force them to produce data stored in Ireland. Instead, they are asking Microsoft to produce data that although they technically control, is actually owned by some user of Microsoft's services. For that, they need a warrant.
The question is "can you get it", not "is is currently in your possession".
"Can you get it?" is not a good test, as I can get all sorts of things from my employer's computers (being a system administrator), but legally I can't turn them over to you, even if you have a subpoena, as I don't "own" the data. Even if I was actually the one who gathered data in response to a subpoena, I wouldn't be the one to turn it over to you...I would give it to the person who has the legal authority to act for the company in those sorts of dealings.
I could spend about half an hour figuring out which of the numerous available torrents is in a playable format and not a fake and then maybe a couple hours downloading it. If I’m really lucky, I can burn it to a DVD that my player will understand so I don’t have to take the time to connect my laptop to the TV.
Slashdot posters used to be technically savvy people.
Seriously, I've never had a problem with a fake torrent (find an uploader you like, and follow the RSS of their uploads) or a file not being in a playable format (everything today is H.264 in an MKV container, and there are dozens of players that support that format). And, if the only hardware media player you own is a DVD player, then you likely have a really hard time playing back movies from Amazon Prime on your TV, too. Pretty much any other hardware player can stay hooked up to your TV and play either network streams or read your local file shares where you stored whatever you downloaded.
(3) If I have some patience to wait a day, I can order my own copy to keep from Amazon Prime, and I’ll STILL come out ahead financially.
You don't get to "keep" downloads from Amazon. You can keep the file around, but you still need a player that supports their DRM and can authorize you to play the content. This is not an issue with torrents, nor is it an issue with a purchased plastic disc, as you do get to keep the disc forever, and the DRM is easily defeated if you care about that (although it's not necessary, as every Blu-Ray player can play it back without having to phone home to authorize the playback).
All that said, I pay for what I want to own, and only use torrents to download TV shows that I could record anyway (the convenience of having somebody else remove the commercials is worth it...I used to do it myself) and movies that aren't available for purchase or that I already own but don't feel like ripping myself.
On that note however, if a studio offered a free digital download for a movie after watching it in a theater, say for an extra $5 dollars, even if it I cant download it for a couple months, I would most likely be willing to do that. But, I refuse to pay $20+ dollars for a blueray, just to have it sit around and collect dust. I run all my media off an HTPC and I don't want a bunch of movies taking up space on a shelf somewhere.
I'd love to be able to download movies instead of getting the plastic disc, but there are two big things stopping me:
DRM: any download will only be playable on whatever the studio deems to be "acceptable" hardware and software.
Quality: no download comes close to the quality of audio and video on a Blu-Ray, and downloads almost never have extras like commentary tracks.
For other people, another reason not to download is that Blu-Ray generally has all the subtitles they need to enjoy the movie, but most downloads are very limited in that respect.
By the parent using the parent's bank card.
By "bank card", do you mean "debit card"? If so, wouldn't it be easier just to get the kid his own bank account with a debit card?
How much does PayPal make on micro-transactions?
It depends on the transaction. ISTR that PayPal had some concept of "personal" transactions that had either very small or no fees. The idea was to allow people to move money to their friends and relatives without taking a big hit. There are also places like GOG that have a lot of sub-$10 transactions who likely have a special "volume" agreement with PayPal.
For regular one-off transactions, though, there is per-transaction fee that would kill you if you are moving just $5.
any major insurer should cover such damage after your deductible so long as you were not negligent.
I suspect that "any major insurer" would consider the act of flying the drone "negligent".
Microsoft does a good job of supporting backward compatibility because it has to do so to maintain lock-in. If things weren't very compatible from version to version, you might be tempted to try something else.
MS is generally OK in the "programs run" bit, but they really need to force hardware manufacturers to keep supporting the older OS with drivers. When Windows 7 came out, a lot of smaller companies stopped providing XP drivers for their hardware.
Make sure your infrastructure is set up so the clone CAN be properly tested.
If the clone isn't on the same VLAN, accessing the same data-gathering hardware, there is no way the infrastructure can have a test match production. The data-gathering hardware I'm talking about costs $20-70K in supplies to complete a run, and the hardware itself is in the $250K range, so there is no way to duplicate it.
I'm not saying that we don't try (use data from an old run, etc.), but there is no way to truly duplicate everything, and sometimes you just have to live with that.
But that's a terrible approach to wiping a flash drive.
No approach is terrible compared to the consequences of leaking the types of data mentioned in TFA.
But it's a huge task just to put the shoot together; they don't just drive up with some kind of aircraft and start flying around.
Because they are generally flying over property that they don't own.
I'm willing to bet that an insurance company would laugh at me when I ask for insurance to protect my own home against what might happen if I crash a model airplane into it.
USB sockets also lock you in to using USB leads.
You're missing that point that anybody can make both USB sockets and USB leads with a very minimal royalty payment.
What if only one company made USB sockets (Microsoft) and they charged $100 for it (Windows). Then, once you did pay and had your USB device working, they stopped supporting the current USB standard, which encouraged your device manufacturer to stop supporting it. Then, all new USB devices would only work on the new USB sockets, so if you buy a new camera/scanner/mouse/keyboard/whatever, you can't plug it in to your current USB socket, and need to pay another $100 to get the new socket. If Microsoft didn't see Windows as a profit center, but instead used it as a platform to get you to pay for everything else they do, 90% of the complaints about them would stop.
I didn't mind paying for the first versions of Windows, because they gave me something I didn't have: a windowed UI. Then, Windows NT gave us real multi-tasking and 32-bit code. Windows 2000 and XP were just more polished versions, although XP gave us 64-bit that wasn't supported much. Windows 7 finally gave us 64-bit with real support. Windows 8 is just a different UI. So, the reality is that over that span of nearly 20 years, I feel like I should have paid "full price" for about 3 versions (truly major upgrades), and some token amount (about 20% of the full version price seems right) for the "maintenance" releases.
Instead, if you wanted to play the latest games, you had to upgrade to XP (2000 was just fine for running productivity apps) and 7, and even before the end of support of XP, you had to upgrade to 7 if you didn't use an alternate browser (unless you like getting burned by the most common security exploits). Then, add in that the more recent OS often don't have drivers for older hardware and have a lot more system requirements, and you end up with Linux getting traction because of this endless cycle.
Although Linux is really hurting the inroads that MS made into the server market, it will never touch the desktop until it's just as easy to use. It will never be just as easy to use as long as there are 14 different Linux distributions with 43 different GUI implementations (numbers pulled out of my ass, but you get the picture). Until there is one GUI, no large percentage of companies will heavily invest in converting to a Linux desktop because they won't want to train every new hire in how the system works. And yes, I know that the vast majority of people don't do anything complicated, but things like connecting to a network share, changing the screen resolution, changing the GUI colors, playing a video, scheduling a meeting with co-workers, etc., are all things that real people do and which have to be easy and consistent. In addition, until all the standard software is available (no, Linux doesn't have to have Microsoft Office, but it has to have a package that does everything that Office does, and Open/Libre Office ain't it), there won't be a large shift, either.
I maintain Linux servers for a living, but I still use a Windows desktop (even though my employer does support Windows, Linux, and OSX for personal desktops) because it still is easier to get everything done using that. I have lots of options to get to a Linux system and run programs (both text and GUI), and not everyone in my office uses the same toolset as I do. But, the other direction is painful. Without Windows, you can't easily find out when everybody is available for a meeting, and can't stay logged in to your e-mail (OWA times out, while Outlook does not). I can connect to a Windows share from a Linux system, but I can't adjust the ACLs. With a Windows desktop, I can connect to both Windows and NFS shares and adjust the ACLs.
...pay enough attention to game design to consistently produce quality games.
You're saying this mostly because of Portal. Without that game, you'd be left with the taste of Half-Life 2, which showed they were losing their touch because they had to have enemy spawn points that never run out of bad guys.
It also was a very linear game, where even the more open sections were just an A->B->C->D path for the player...there was no side exploring of any consequence. In particular, you very rarely left a building by the same way you entered. You would often see areas where you would soon be or used to be through windows/fences/etc., with the path between the two a very long maze.
The opening level for Daikatana was death by a thousand mosquito bites and killer toads. I never got past that level. A FPS game is supposed to ramp up the difficulty as the player gets used to the new game world. Killing them off at the get go is bad design.
I never played the game until I picked it up from GOG last year. I didn't find the first section very hard at all until the giant dragon. Even that was easy after I realized there's no shame in hiding and sniping. I even killed the sentry guns by destroying them instead of destroying their power link until I got to the door that could only be opened by destroying the power link, at which point I felt like an idiot.
The first weapon you get has essentially unlimited ammo (carry 100 shots with 50-shot packs sitting around every corner) and does a respectable amount of damage per shot. It can also fire around corners via bouncing off walls.
The only real problem I have with the game is that although there is a story, there isn't any game-play info in the story, so I wasn't sure if the cowering technicians were OK to kill or not (being used to games like Deus Ex where you don't kill something unless it's trying to kill you). I haven't finished the game yet (only gotten to the point where I have both sidekicks with me), as I had to rebuild my gaming machine and don't have a lot of time for games in general, so it could get a lot more sucky.
so once a week you have to get up early and do some work.
I don't think that the "2am" listed in TFS is "getting up early". Instead, it's more like "staying up late".
For me, it's not really a problem, but I have had to do that kind of maintenance as a team, and some people are just useless if they stay up that long, or even got a short nap. My current job gives us all day one Saturday a month for maintenance, so you can sleep like normal and get up when appropriate (one hour worth of work, start at 2 in the afternoon if you want...7 hours of work, better start before noon). A lot fewer mistakes seem to be made with this sort of schedule.
Especially with VMs, it is so easy to snapshot and test things.
How, exactly, do you snapshot and test the production VM before the maintenance window and guarantee you won't affect (and by "affect", I mean anything that changes behavior in any way that is not expected by the users) any services running on that VM?
If you meant "clone" instead of "snapshot", that doesn't help either, as the clone will have to have a different IP address, can't connect to the production database, etc.
We've had VMs that have become corrupt in very strange ways so that they would not reboot. The corruption didn't affect any running services, but existed for at least six weeks (we had to go back that far to get a backup that didn't have the issue). Testing a kernel patch that requires a reboot wouldn't have revealed this corruption, as the dev and staging servers didn't have the problem. Testing it on the production server would have revealed it, but we would have to do that during scheduled maintenance anyway....
You realize how long this takes? You think anyone is going to wait until it would complete?
Writing zeros to every byte of a 32GB flash drive takes less than an hour, even with very slow flash (10 MB/sec write speed).
...which still doesn't allow two different Steam logins to play the same game at the same time unless it is in both their game libraries.
I'm surprised there are console games that allow you to buy one copy and play on more than one console at the same time, as tepples seems to imply in the GP post.
How do PC gamers address this problem? We don't play AAA titles designed for a console the same year that console was released. They suck for PC anyway.
And, they also might have less tweaks for graphics so that in a few years when that $75 card can run the game at max settings, you still can't get any better quality with a $300 card (which matches today's $700 cards). All the $300 card will do is allow you to run at a higher overall resolution, which eventually will start to expose things like lower polygon counts, lack of anti-aliasing (even injected after the fact sometimes doesn't work), etc.
Because that has worked out so well for IMDB and TMDB. Try looking at their genres sometime, especially ones like "comedy" where if there is anything even vaguely humorous no matter how passing or unintentional the movie gets classed as a comedy.
"Genre" isn't really a problem on IMDB, as users can't directly set that. I believe you are thinking of "plot keywords", which are really nothing but tags, and have become silly.
How does a "loud shirt" have anything to do with the plot of the listed titles?
You see, there's a "broadcast flag" developed in the DVR software that is really the "can't copy flag" that would take away you ability to move that file around.
The MyHD DVR ignores the setting of the broadcast flag, as does pretty much every other OTA HD recorder. This is primarily because it has never been intentionally set on any program.
Try that with a PPV movie, an HBO/Showtime or similar movie. Try that with HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher... it won't work.
When those are broadcast OTA (over the air, i.e., TV using the same frequencies and antennas as has been used for 50 years) and can be decoded by any ATSC-compliant device, I suspect I'd have no problem moving the program anywhere.