I've actually seen a reverse trend over the last year or so, i.e. people specifically not buying Sony audio and video gear because they're afraid that it won't let them do certain things, or will require some "sony-only" media that costs more than the non-Sony items that everyone else uses.
Correct - at least in my case. I refuse to buy Sony gear now, because of the absolutely ridiculous way their company is run (the content side decides how the consumer electronics are designed - and guess what, the CE turnover is about 10x the content division's!), as well as their insistence not to follow standards and invent their own crippled, DRM'ed 'standards' (memory stick, ATRAX, etc).
I've had it with Sony until their CEO gets it, and kicks out the content guys for once and for all. And the day they start following standards, I'll buy their gear again.
Idiots. If I had shares in Sony I'd sue them for not working in the shareholder's best interests.
Correct. But it's not the article that's stupid. It's the submitter. Death to the submitter for making such STUPID, OBVIOUS mistakes, and the editors.... well.....
Let me start by saying that effective immediately, foreign aid to those nations on List 2 ceases immediately and indefinitely. The money saved during the first year alone will pretty much pay for the costs ofthe Iraqi war.
Ah.... you've got to love the imagination of the right-wing nutcases. Sounds like this particular one has serious problems with math. http://costofwar.com/ says we're up to $176 billion for the cost of this war. Most of which, by the way, went straight into the pockets of the fat cats in the military-industrial complex...
So, to offset the cost of the war would take not one but at least 18 years. And we're not done yet in Iraq...
Why don't you go and study up on math and common sense. And while you're at it, it sounds like you need a good dose of basic human values too. For starters, stop watching Fox News, and start listening to NPR. Maybe you'll get some notion of what things are really like in the world that way. Someday. Hopefully.
Sorry, I don't think that's right. The new constitution, from what I understood, would actually give _MORE_ power to the non-elected non-democratic bodies like the Commission.
There's a serious issue with people getting into this country who don't belong here. I don't just mean terrorists - I mean illegal immigrants as well. In Southern California this problem has caused many public hospitals to close, overwhelmed our once respected educational system, and cost our state BILLIONS of tax dollars each year.
Bull-shit. These illegal immigrants do all the dirty work nobody else wants to do (fruit harvesting on pesticide-infested plantations, meat 'packing' in the mid-west, etc). Are you going to take on such a job after they kick them all out? They pay BILLIONS to social security every year, of which they will not see a cent themselves because they have to use false SSN's. So they are, in fact, paying for the social security of all non-illegal residents. Also, they pay BILLIONS in sales tax, as well as taxes on gasoline, etc.
Many illegal immigrants don't pay income tax, that is correct. But they pay a lot of other taxes and social security, so saying they only cost society is a blatant lie. Without them, the social security system might actually have a real problem (as opposed to the non-existant issues 70 years in the future that those in power want to make us believe exist).
right, the US uses landmines in only one place the DMZ in korea. i wonder why you didn't attack china, india, north korea in your rant? does it matter that they have more landmines or that they use them freely? nope they are socialist states and therefore beyond criticism.
Not at all. I just feel that the US - and the west in general - has much more of a responsibility. We're supposed to be democratic states; we're supposed to have the moral high ground. And we're generally considered to be much further 'developed' than China, India or North Korea; doesn't that mean that we should also be a little more careful in the way we act? Set a good example maybe? With power comes responsibility.
Oh - by the way; throwing India together with China and North Korea is not going to please the Indian I think; and calling them all 'socialist states'.... well that's like calling a bicycle, a wheelbarrow and a tank all Volkswagens. And before you ask, no I have not been in North Korea, but I have been in India, so I have some idea of what life is like there.
Finally, as a European living in the US, I feel it is not my place to criticize other countries too much. I should first deal with 'my' governments, of the place I grew up and the country I live in now. My home country happens to have pushed for the anti-landmine treaty, so that leaves me only the US government to criticize, until it finally takes up its responsibility.
It has nothing to do with left or right - it has to do with governments doing the right thing. And that, my friend, is where the US is seriously behind...
i like how you ducked the issue of tibet, changed the topic to landmines and then turned it into an anti-bush rant.
Ducked? Hmm, I thought the whole post was pretty much about Tibet. More precisely, about your accusation of Amnesty, which is what the article referenced from your sig is about. So I'm not sure how that constitutes ducking. But if you say so...
As for the rant - well, I don't see how anyone in their right mind could support something as evil as anti-personnel landmines. So I take on whoever supports them, which is, not surprisingly, the number one guy in this country. Sadly.
Unless you are illegally in this country (and if you are, hint: you're here ILLEGALLY) this doesn't matter to you.
Ah yes. All those illegal people that supposedly profit from our society without paying any taxes. Except for the billions a year they contribute to social security, with their false SSN's to which their contributions are charged that will never be useable for them. And except for all the sales tax, and gas taxes, etc they pay.
So, this bill will require verification of your SSN to get a card. This means that suddenly, whole industries will be without workers. And millions of illegal immigrants will be without legal jobs.
Good move, people in power. Very well thought out. We're going to have millions of people that will have to work under the table (or will be forced into crime) to survive, and lots and lots of jobs that will remain open (mostly of the worst kind, that no legal residents want to do).
Very smart. Can you spell civil unrest? I'm looking forward to a bunch of incumbents being kicked out of their seats when, say, half of Iowa's meat-packing industry comes to a halt because there are no workers to do the job.
Maybe those of us who are not illegal should care. This is going to cause massive disruption in society.
I've been in Russia, and I've lived in Eastern Europe for a while. So yes, I have seen the effects of (that form of) communism first hand.
I have not been in Tibet or China, ever.
I had read your sig, and found it a bit simplistic. You are blaming Amnesty International for a civil war, which seems a bit far-fetched. I don't know very much about the situation in Tibet, other than that it is under Chinese control - an occupation of an independent country. That's not good.
These rebels who regrouped and got new guns and heavy weapons and landmines - according to you because of Amnesty's pressure for a cease-fire - obviously got some other state's support. That other state is the real villain. As are the people who produce the antipersonnel landmines, and everyone who does not sign the treaty to ban them. Including our bloody own US right-wing government - http://www.icbl.org/lm/2004/usa
So, the non-sequitor in your reasoning is that you assume none of this would have happened without the cease-fire. I think it probably was not quite that simple.
And it's definitely far-fetched to blame a human rights watchdog for a civil war. I don't think the army was being overly nice in that offensive - otherwise Amnesty would not have intervened in the first place.
Regardless of what the GOP wants us to believe, there is _never_ a reason good enough to torture people. It's sickening. Amnesty and the like fight for oppressed people. Regardless of what side they are on.
Interesting point, and there's something to be said for it. Of course smaller government goes both ways - it would also have less influence to do good. Fewer ways to encourage people to share some of their wealth with those that are not so well off, for example.
Abolishing all religion in schools is not very helpful I think. Schools are learning environments. As a consequence students should be exposed to lots of different religions in school, so that they learn to make up their own mind, and become self-thinking, intelligent individuals.
I don't know who is behind this movement to remove religion from schools, but I would not classify them as 'left'. The left fights to give people options, not to take them away. Mind you, the sane left, not the extreme left - they're in China. To be honest, there is no 'left' party in this country. Both the Dems and Reps are well right of what would be considered center in the rest of the world.
That being said, I'm much more worried by the 'faith based initiatives' of the present government than the efforts to kick religion out of schools. It's _very_ worrying how religion and government are being mixed up more and more - we're getting closer and closer to becoming a religiously fundamentalist state. Shudder.
?!? Perhaps a little more education would do for you. A basic governance class, maybe. Or some travel oversees, so you can learn to put things in perspective. I guess you don't have a passport?
Is it really _so_ hard to see that extreme left is very, very similar to extreme right? China is pretty much extreme left (with a business twist, lately). Censorship in the US is coming from the extreme _rightwing_ nutcases that brought us the Patriot act and the like...
Not making the distinction between extreme left and left is pretty idiotic. It shows a total lack of understand of reality - a polarized mind. I guess you've been drinking the GOP cool-aid for a bit too long...
Mark Burnett is an independent researcher, consultant, and writer specializing in Windows security.
I would be, too, if I'd be using Windows;)
Sigh. Use a real OS (*nix), and couple it with the most sensible security precautions you mention, and then some. Get rid of all Microsoft products, and get rid of 90% of your security problems.
I was taking a virtual drive around Boston, and could clearly see many people's faces. Do those people know that they're photographed, and on the internet for all to see?
There is no legal problem. When you're in a public place (e.g. on the streets of Boston), anyone can photograph you and publish the photos.
Rather than restrict sharing to say, 3 network MAC addresses, they removed the feature altogether.
Err - restricting by MAC address would only work within a LAN (i.e., within your home network). The concept of MAC addresses is a part of the Ethernet specification, not the TCP/IP protocol. You, from home, can't see the MAC address of a computer not on the same physical ethernet LAN. You can't see the MAC addresses of the network interfaces of the Slashdot servers, for instance. MAC addresses are only used for routing on an ethernet wire. Once you hit your cable/dsl modem, you probably switch to IP over ATM. At most, your MAC address is transmitted to the other side of your internet link (at your ISP), but usually not further than the network of your ISP.
From what I have read on the MythTV and ivtv mailing lists, the big problem is that the PVR-350 framebuffer driver does not support XVideo extensions, which means that there is no accelerated video playback, unless the video is in a format that the PVR-350 natively handles. So, outside of maybe watching TV in MythTV or watching MPEG-2 videos, the PVR-350 will be slow.
Correct, that is also my experience - MPEG-2 is done in hardware and hence snappy, all the rest is problematic. Sorry; I didn't quite get what you meant the first time.
If you feel confident applying patches to get things to work, great. I feel confident as well, but my MythTV machine works for me with it's current configuration, and since already have a TV-Out card that works, I'll continue to use it until there's a new ivtv release that irons out the problems.
Wise. ivtv is a bit in flux; and the problems are race conditions that only seem to plague some people - and not the main driver developer. While I agree with your assertion that VIA hardware and PVR-x50 cards don't seem to get along under Linux very well (I replaced my KT-400-based board with a SiS748-based board recently, it helped quite a bit), I think that's still a driver issue. Apparently there are patches in testing, but when those will get merged into a new 0.1.10 release of the ivtv driver is unknown.
Oh totally, I'm sure it's a driver issue (though broken VIA chipsets may trigger it;). It's interesting that you switched to an slower CPU and some of your problems went away. There's been some speculation on the ivtv mailing list that there's some timing issues on faster CPUs.
Yeah; could be. I switched from a 900Mhz Epia Ezhra to a PIII 550Mhz, which seems to have made all the problems go away... It's also nice because it means that I don't have to recompile MythTV anymore (because that takes _forever_!).
I feel that I should point out a couple of things for anybody considering getting a PVR-350 for Linux at the moment:
Kindly allow me to counter those points, as someone who _actually has set up a working MythTV system_ with a PVR350.
1. Even though the PVR-350 has TV-Out on it, AFAIK, you'll still need a regular video card in your PC (I don't think that motherboard BIOS' will recognize the PVR-350 as a video card, though I may be wrong on that).
So? Most motherboards come with a video card built-in nowadays.
2. PVR-350 TV-Out at the moment isn't that great. Last I heard, it's just a framebuffer, so unless you're running specific apps that will use the acceleration, like mplayer, MythTV (for watching MPEG-2 recordings only, I think), and maybe Xine, it's extremely slow. And for applications that require some sort of GL support, well, forget it (people have had numerous troubles with the MythGame module/XMAME)..
I'm sorry, but that's crap. It's not 'extremely slow'. Have you tried recent versions of the ivtv driver with the proper patches? I don't think so.
3. Apparently there's some issues regarding using the PVR-350 to record, and using the TV-Out at the same time.
This is true, there are driver instability issues, particularly on this point. But they are, in my experience, very dependant on hardware (avoid VIA chipsets). I had all the trouble in the world with an older EPIA system and a PVR-350 (though there are plenty of success stories with that combination!) until I switched to an even older PIII system on a decent Abit board, and the latest version of the IVTV driver with some patches by Chris Kennedy. No more DMA issues. It works very stable now.
However, your advice is still sound. I bought a PVR-350, and at the moment, I'm using it as a PVR-250, using my GeForce 4MX for TV-Out. Once the ivtv driver stabilizes, I'll switch to the PVR-350. There's been a lot of traffic on the ivtv mailing list lately with patches for testing and the like.
Now that is true:) Keep an eye on the ivtv list, and don't despair!
SNORT! Have you ever contacted the Better Business Bureau? I have. I was told they dont do anything to companies/about companies that that dont honor their claims, advertise truth, etc. etc. I was actually told that as long as the companies continue to pay their "listing fee" with the BBB, the BBB could care less what the company is actually doing.
Nonsense. I had some trouble with Orbitz a while back, and filing a complaint with the BBB resulted in Orbitz finally making a move, and even trying to bribe me with a $100 voucher for my next flight through them. Not that I am ever going to use them again, of course.
Presumably, the TCPA-specific parts of your new AMIBIOS8 will be intellectual property that your company will guard closely, and if not, working around it to get a LinuxBIOS/OpenBIOS working will surely be a violation of the DMCA. So how will this affect the LinuxBIOS and OpenBIOS projects?
OK. Why do you want it? You want high-quality surround sound, right? And maybe you want some extra goodies, right? That's innovation, indeed.
However, and that's a big however, this innovation comes with a price - built-in DRM technology that denies citizens (and I refuse to degrade citizens to just consumers - the war against the RIAA and others is very much about words) their fair-use rights. DRM technology that - in conjunction with the DMCA and EUCD - restricts the way people can use the music they buy (of course, our friends the lawyers will say that you don't own the music, you only buy some sort of license to it - there's a lot of work there too) to ways that the music distribution companies (note: not the artists) see fit. In other words, this totally kills any innovation having to do with music. I call that backwards, not innovation.
Is it only copyprotection, or also copyright you think is non-democratic? Now, don't read more in my writing that there is. The original motive for copyright was ensuring motivation for authors to create more content. It was not to allow authors to have total control over the use of their works.
The current state of copyright is vastly different. It is now much longer than initially (life of the author + 70 years versus 14 years + optionally another 14 if the author was still alive), and the scope is much, much broader. Like Larry Lessig says, we have gone from a world where most uses of copyrighted material were unregulated, to a world where virtually all uses of copyrighted material are regulated and restricted.
So in a nutshell, yes, I am against copyright in its current form. Do I think that it is alltogether necessary to encourage authors to create content with a system of intellectual property? Probably for some forms of content. However, there is increasingly evidence that for a lot of content this is not necessary - cf. Free Software, the Wikipedia, the Baen Free Library, etc. Stepping away from the 'one-size-fits-all' super restrictive copyright that the distribution corporations want us to believe is necessary to a much more diverse copyright is one of the arguments of Richard Stallman, and I believe that is a very crucial point.
Excuse me? You were saying that you work for the RIAA? You actually want DVD-Audio and SACD? You want copyprotected CDs? You want pay-per-listen music? You want total RIAA control over what you listen to and when, and through what device? You want the end of technological innovation?
Give me a break. And stop promoting that copyprotected non-democratic crap, please.
So if I am running Linux (which doesn't give a rats ass about DRM) turning off the hardware won't matter to me as NONE of the software I run expects any DRM hardware to be in place. Same thing with an embedded real time OS running in a medical instrument or in my car, etc.
Wrong. Your software doesn't expect TCPA hardware, but the software that you connect to over the internet does. This is about content, people. For example, you won't be able to read the NYT online anymore, because the NYT site will see that you have TCPA switched off and refuse you access. Worse still, you won't be able to use any of the e-government initiatives that are sprouting up all over the world, because these sites will require hardware with TCPA enabled.
This, by the way, will also ensure that our current (non-TCPA) hardware will not be of any use.
Think of it as the problem of Internet Explorer dominance (millions of websites that are only accessible through IE) magnified by a factor of 10000 or so - because now content will simply be refused to you instead of rendered poorly/inadequately. If TCPA flies, any open technology and open content is screwed. Period. And with it, after a while, Democracy - think 1984...
We MUST make it clear to the public at large that this scheme is pure evil. Talk to your boy/girlfriends, wives, parents, friends, neighbours, explain the issue and what's at stake. People need to understand what is going on. Lots of people.
Same here. When CMP bought BYTE, they killed it off (in the paper form), while owing me about a year's subscription. They then had the audacity to offer a year of Windows Magazine instead. I declined (I don't use that software). They owe me a whole year of BYTE, that was I think about $60. I would have subscribed to the Perl Journal, but NOT with CMP. They are not trustworthy.
They can't do a damn thing about it without law enforcement present AND a search warrant, which you are entitled to look at (so if the cops do accompany them, simply ask to see the search warrant).
Sorry, this is not true anymore - since that nice piece of legislation called the PATRIOT act became law (thank you Mr. Rumsfeld), they _dont_ need a search warrant anymore - even worse, the police can come and inspect your property without you being there, and they are _not_ obliged to tell you anymore that they did!
Oh yes, remember, CMP, the guys who killed Byte. They still owe me 60$ or so - they had the audacity to offer me a replacement subscription to Windows Magazine for the remaining issues, instead of Byte. I don't even use Windows - so that was rather an insult...
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I've actually seen a reverse trend over the last year or so, i.e. people specifically not buying Sony audio and video gear because they're afraid that it won't let them do certain things, or will require some "sony-only" media that costs more than the non-Sony items that everyone else uses.
Correct - at least in my case. I refuse to buy Sony gear now, because of the absolutely ridiculous way their company is run (the content side decides how the consumer electronics are designed - and guess what, the CE turnover is about 10x the content division's!), as well as their insistence not to follow standards and invent their own crippled, DRM'ed 'standards' (memory stick, ATRAX, etc).
I've had it with Sony until their CEO gets it, and kicks out the content guys for once and for all. And the day they start following standards, I'll buy their gear again.
Idiots. If I had shares in Sony I'd sue them for not working in the shareholder's best interests.
Correct. But it's not the article that's stupid. It's the submitter. Death to the submitter for making such STUPID, OBVIOUS mistakes, and the editors.... well.....
Let me start by saying that effective immediately, foreign aid to those nations on List 2 ceases immediately and indefinitely. The money saved during the first year alone will pretty much pay for the costs ofthe Iraqi war.
s /us.html#Econ). Let's say it's a bit more now (probably not, but hey) - maybe $10 billion?
Ah.... you've got to love the imagination of the right-wing nutcases. Sounds like this particular one has serious problems with math.
http://costofwar.com/ says we're up to $176 billion for the cost of this war. Most of which, by the way, went straight into the pockets of the fat cats in the military-industrial complex...
The CIA World fact book says the US spent not even $7 billion in foreign aid in 1997 (http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geo
So, to offset the cost of the war would take not one but at least 18 years. And we're not done yet in Iraq...
Why don't you go and study up on math and common sense. And while you're at it, it sounds like you need a good dose of basic human values too. For starters, stop watching Fox News, and start listening to NPR. Maybe you'll get some notion of what things are really like in the world that way. Someday. Hopefully.
Sorry, I don't think that's right. The new constitution, from what I understood, would actually give _MORE_ power to the non-elected non-democratic bodies like the Commission.
Check with the FFII...
There's a serious issue with people getting into this country who don't belong here. I don't just mean terrorists - I mean illegal immigrants as well. In Southern California this problem has caused many public hospitals to close, overwhelmed our once respected educational system, and cost our state BILLIONS of tax dollars each year.
Bull-shit. These illegal immigrants do all the dirty work nobody else wants to do (fruit harvesting on pesticide-infested plantations, meat 'packing' in the mid-west, etc). Are you going to take on such a job after they kick them all out? They pay BILLIONS to social security every year, of which they will not see a cent themselves because they have to use false SSN's. So they are, in fact, paying for the social security of all non-illegal residents. Also, they pay BILLIONS in sales tax, as well as taxes on gasoline, etc.
Many illegal immigrants don't pay income tax, that is correct. But they pay a lot of other taxes and social security, so saying they only cost society is a blatant lie. Without them, the social security system might actually have a real problem (as opposed to the non-existant issues 70 years in the future that those in power want to make us believe exist).
right, the US uses landmines in only one place the DMZ in korea. i wonder why you didn't attack china, india, north korea in your rant? does it matter that they have more landmines or that they use them freely? nope they are socialist states and therefore beyond criticism.
Not at all. I just feel that the US - and the west in general - has much more of a responsibility. We're supposed to be democratic states; we're supposed to have the moral high ground. And we're generally considered to be much further 'developed' than China, India or North Korea; doesn't that mean that we should also be a little more careful in the way we act? Set a good example maybe? With power comes responsibility.
Oh - by the way; throwing India together with China and North Korea is not going to please the Indian I think; and calling them all 'socialist states'.... well that's like calling a bicycle, a wheelbarrow and a tank all Volkswagens. And before you ask, no I have not been in North Korea, but I have been in India, so I have some idea of what life is like there.
Finally, as a European living in the US, I feel it is not my place to criticize other countries too much. I should first deal with 'my' governments, of the place I grew up and the country I live in now. My home country happens to have pushed for the anti-landmine treaty, so that leaves me only the US government to criticize, until it finally takes up its responsibility.
It has nothing to do with left or right - it has to do with governments doing the right thing. And that, my friend, is where the US is seriously behind...
i like how you ducked the issue of tibet, changed the topic to landmines and then turned it into an anti-bush rant.
Ducked? Hmm, I thought the whole post was pretty much about Tibet. More precisely, about your accusation of Amnesty, which is what the article referenced from your sig is about. So I'm not sure how that constitutes ducking. But if you say so...
As for the rant - well, I don't see how anyone in their right mind could support something as evil as anti-personnel landmines. So I take on whoever supports them, which is, not surprisingly, the number one guy in this country. Sadly.
Unless you are illegally in this country (and if you are, hint: you're here ILLEGALLY) this doesn't matter to you.
Ah yes. All those illegal people that supposedly profit from our society without paying any taxes. Except for the billions a year they contribute to social security, with their false SSN's to which their contributions are charged that will never be useable for them. And except for all the sales tax, and gas taxes, etc they pay.
So, this bill will require verification of your SSN to get a card. This means that suddenly, whole industries will be without workers. And millions of illegal immigrants will be without legal jobs.
Good move, people in power. Very well thought out. We're going to have millions of people that will have to work under the table (or will be forced into crime) to survive, and lots and lots of jobs that will remain open (mostly of the worst kind, that no legal residents want to do).
Very smart. Can you spell civil unrest? I'm looking forward to a bunch of incumbents being kicked out of their seats when, say, half of Iowa's meat-packing industry comes to a halt because there are no workers to do the job.
Maybe those of us who are not illegal should care. This is going to cause massive disruption in society.
I've been in Russia, and I've lived in Eastern Europe for a while. So yes, I have seen the effects of (that form of) communism first hand.
I have not been in Tibet or China, ever.
I had read your sig, and found it a bit simplistic. You are blaming Amnesty International for a civil war, which seems a bit far-fetched. I don't know very much about the situation in Tibet, other than that it is under Chinese control - an occupation of an independent country. That's not good.
These rebels who regrouped and got new guns and heavy weapons and landmines - according to you because of Amnesty's pressure for a cease-fire - obviously got some other state's support. That other state is the real villain. As are the people who produce the antipersonnel landmines, and everyone who does not sign the treaty to ban them. Including our bloody own US right-wing government - http://www.icbl.org/lm/2004/usa
So, the non-sequitor in your reasoning is that you assume none of this would have happened without the cease-fire. I think it probably was not quite that simple.
And it's definitely far-fetched to blame a human rights watchdog for a civil war. I don't think the army was being overly nice in that offensive - otherwise Amnesty would not have intervened in the first place.
Regardless of what the GOP wants us to believe, there is _never_ a reason good enough to torture people. It's sickening. Amnesty and the like fight for oppressed people. Regardless of what side they are on.
That is a sure sign of being human and humane.
Interesting point, and there's something to be said for it. Of course smaller government goes both ways - it would also have less influence to do good. Fewer ways to encourage people to share some of their wealth with those that are not so well off, for example.
Abolishing all religion in schools is not very helpful I think. Schools are learning environments. As a consequence students should be exposed to lots of different religions in school, so that they learn to make up their own mind, and become self-thinking, intelligent individuals.
I don't know who is behind this movement to remove religion from schools, but I would not classify them as 'left'. The left fights to give people options, not to take them away. Mind you, the sane left, not the extreme left - they're in China. To be honest, there is no 'left' party in this country. Both the Dems and Reps are well right of what would be considered center in the rest of the world.
That being said, I'm much more worried by the 'faith based initiatives' of the present government than the efforts to kick religion out of schools. It's _very_ worrying how religion and government are being mixed up more and more - we're getting closer and closer to becoming a religiously fundamentalist state. Shudder.
?!? Perhaps a little more education would do for you. A basic governance class, maybe. Or some travel oversees, so you can learn to put things in perspective. I guess you don't have a passport?
Is it really _so_ hard to see that extreme left is very, very similar to extreme right? China is pretty much extreme left (with a business twist, lately). Censorship in the US is coming from the extreme _rightwing_ nutcases that brought us the Patriot act and the like...
Not making the distinction between extreme left and left is pretty idiotic. It shows a total lack of understand of reality - a polarized mind. I guess you've been drinking the GOP cool-aid for a bit too long...
Mark Burnett is an independent researcher, consultant, and writer specializing in Windows security.
I would be, too, if I'd be using Windows
Sigh. Use a real OS (*nix), and couple it with the most sensible security precautions you mention, and then some. Get rid of all Microsoft products, and get rid of 90% of your security problems.
Keep trying Mark.
I was taking a virtual drive around Boston, and could clearly see many people's faces. Do those people know that they're photographed, and on the internet for all to see?
There is no legal problem. When you're in a public place (e.g. on the streets of Boston), anyone can photograph you and publish the photos.
But IANAL
Rather than restrict sharing to say, 3 network MAC addresses, they removed the feature altogether.
Err - restricting by MAC address would only work within a LAN (i.e., within your home network). The concept of MAC addresses is a part of the Ethernet specification, not the TCP/IP protocol. You, from home, can't see the MAC address of a computer not on the same physical ethernet LAN. You can't see the MAC addresses of the network interfaces of the Slashdot servers, for instance. MAC addresses are only used for routing on an ethernet wire. Once you hit your cable/dsl modem, you probably switch to IP over ATM. At most, your MAC address is transmitted to the other side of your internet link (at your ISP), but usually not further than the network of your ISP.
From what I have read on the MythTV and ivtv mailing lists, the big problem is that the PVR-350 framebuffer driver does not support XVideo extensions, which means that there is no accelerated video playback, unless the video is in a format that the PVR-350 natively handles. So, outside of maybe watching TV in MythTV or watching MPEG-2 videos, the PVR-350 will be slow.
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Correct, that is also my experience - MPEG-2 is done in hardware and hence snappy, all the rest is problematic. Sorry; I didn't quite get what you meant the first time.
If you feel confident applying patches to get things to work, great. I feel confident as well, but my MythTV machine works for me with it's current configuration, and since already have a TV-Out card that works, I'll continue to use it until there's a new ivtv release that irons out the problems.
Wise. ivtv is a bit in flux; and the problems are race conditions that only seem to plague some people - and not the main driver developer.
While I agree with your assertion that VIA hardware and PVR-x50 cards don't seem to get along under Linux very well (I replaced my KT-400-based board with a SiS748-based board recently, it helped quite a bit), I think that's still a driver issue. Apparently there are patches in testing, but when those will get merged into a new 0.1.10 release of the ivtv driver is unknown.
Oh totally, I'm sure it's a driver issue (though broken VIA chipsets may trigger it
It's interesting that you switched to an slower CPU and some of your problems went away. There's been some speculation on the ivtv mailing list that there's some timing issues on faster CPUs.
Yeah; could be. I switched from a 900Mhz Epia Ezhra to a PIII 550Mhz, which seems to have made all the problems go away... It's also nice because it means that I don't have to recompile MythTV anymore (because that takes _forever_!).
I feel that I should point out a couple of things for anybody considering getting a PVR-350 for Linux at the moment:
:) Keep an eye on the ivtv list, and don't despair!
Kindly allow me to counter those points, as someone who _actually has set up a working MythTV system_ with a PVR350.
1. Even though the PVR-350 has TV-Out on it, AFAIK, you'll still need a regular video card in your PC (I don't think that motherboard BIOS' will recognize the PVR-350 as a video card, though I may be wrong on that).
So? Most motherboards come with a video card built-in nowadays.
2. PVR-350 TV-Out at the moment isn't that great. Last I heard, it's just a framebuffer, so unless you're running specific apps that will use the acceleration, like mplayer, MythTV (for watching MPEG-2 recordings only, I think), and maybe Xine, it's extremely slow. And for applications that require some sort of GL support, well, forget it (people have had numerous troubles with the MythGame module/XMAME)..
I'm sorry, but that's crap. It's not 'extremely slow'. Have you tried recent versions of the ivtv driver with the proper patches? I don't think so.
3. Apparently there's some issues regarding using the PVR-350 to record, and using the TV-Out at the same time.
This is true, there are driver instability issues, particularly on this point. But they are, in my experience, very dependant on hardware (avoid VIA chipsets). I had all the trouble in the world with an older EPIA system and a PVR-350 (though there are plenty of success stories with that combination!) until I switched to an even older PIII system on a decent Abit board, and the latest version of the IVTV driver with some patches by Chris Kennedy. No more DMA issues. It works very stable now.
However, your advice is still sound. I bought a PVR-350, and at the moment, I'm using it as a PVR-250, using my GeForce 4MX for TV-Out. Once the ivtv driver stabilizes, I'll switch to the PVR-350. There's been a lot of traffic on the ivtv mailing list lately with patches for testing and the like.
Now that is true
SNORT! Have you ever contacted the Better Business Bureau? I have. I was told they dont do anything to companies/about companies that that dont honor their claims, advertise truth, etc. etc. I was actually told that as long as the companies continue to pay their "listing fee" with the BBB, the BBB could care less what the company is actually doing.
Nonsense. I had some trouble with Orbitz a while back, and filing a complaint with the BBB resulted in Orbitz finally making a move, and even trying to bribe me with a $100 voucher for my next flight through them. Not that I am ever going to use them again, of course.
Presumably, the TCPA-specific parts of your new AMIBIOS8 will be intellectual property that your company will guard closely, and if not, working around it to get a LinuxBIOS/OpenBIOS working will surely be a violation of the DMCA. So how will this affect the LinuxBIOS and OpenBIOS projects?
Of course I want DVD-Audio SACD
OK. Why do you want it? You want high-quality surround sound, right? And maybe you want some extra goodies, right? That's innovation, indeed.
However, and that's a big however, this innovation comes with a price - built-in DRM technology that denies citizens (and I refuse to degrade citizens to just consumers - the war against the RIAA and others is very much about words) their fair-use rights. DRM technology that - in conjunction with the DMCA and EUCD - restricts the way people can use the music they buy (of course, our friends the lawyers will say that you don't own the music, you only buy some sort of license to it - there's a lot of work there too) to ways that the music distribution companies (note: not the artists) see fit. In other words, this totally kills any innovation having to do with music. I call that backwards, not innovation.
Is it only copyprotection, or also copyright you think is non-democratic?
Now, don't read more in my writing that there is.
The original motive for copyright was ensuring motivation for authors to create more content. It was not to allow authors to have total control over the use of their works.
The current state of copyright is vastly different. It is now much longer than initially (life of the author + 70 years versus 14 years + optionally another 14 if the author was still alive), and the scope is much, much broader. Like Larry Lessig says, we have gone from a world where most uses of copyrighted material were unregulated, to a world where virtually all uses of copyrighted material are regulated and restricted.
So in a nutshell, yes, I am against copyright in its current form. Do I think that it is alltogether necessary to encourage authors to create content with a system of intellectual property? Probably for some forms of content. However, there is increasingly evidence that for a lot of content this is not necessary - cf. Free Software, the Wikipedia, the Baen Free Library, etc. Stepping away from the 'one-size-fits-all' super restrictive copyright that the distribution corporations want us to believe is necessary to a much more diverse copyright is one of the arguments of Richard Stallman, and I believe that is a very crucial point.
So, I hope that this clarifies things a bit.
Excuse me? You were saying that you work for the RIAA? You actually want DVD-Audio and SACD? You want copyprotected CDs? You want pay-per-listen music? You want total RIAA control over what you listen to and when, and through what device? You want the end of technological innovation?
Give me a break. And stop promoting that copyprotected non-democratic crap, please.
So if I am running Linux (which doesn't give a rats ass about DRM) turning off the hardware won't matter to me as NONE of the software I run expects any DRM hardware to be in place. Same thing with an embedded real time OS running in a medical instrument or in my car, etc.
Wrong. Your software doesn't expect TCPA hardware, but the software that you connect to over the internet does. This is about content, people. For example, you won't be able to read the NYT online anymore, because the NYT site will see that you have TCPA switched off and refuse you access. Worse still, you won't be able to use any of the e-government initiatives that are sprouting up all over the world, because these sites will require hardware with TCPA enabled.
This, by the way, will also ensure that our current (non-TCPA) hardware will not be of any use.
Think of it as the problem of Internet Explorer dominance (millions of websites that are only accessible through IE) magnified by a factor of 10000 or so - because now content will simply be refused to you instead of rendered poorly/inadequately. If TCPA flies, any open technology and open content is screwed. Period. And with it, after a while, Democracy - think 1984...
We MUST make it clear to the public at large that this scheme is pure evil. Talk to your boy/girlfriends, wives, parents, friends, neighbours, explain the issue and what's at stake. People need to understand what is going on. Lots of people.
Same here. When CMP bought BYTE, they killed it off (in the paper form), while owing me about a year's subscription. They then had the audacity to offer a year of Windows Magazine instead. I declined (I don't use that software). They owe me a whole year of BYTE, that was I think about $60. I would have subscribed to the Perl Journal, but NOT with CMP. They are not trustworthy.
They can't do a damn thing about it without law enforcement present AND a search warrant, which you are entitled to look at (so if the cops do accompany them, simply ask to see the search warrant).
Sorry, this is not true anymore - since that nice piece of legislation called the PATRIOT act became law (thank you Mr. Rumsfeld), they _dont_ need a search warrant anymore - even worse, the police can come and inspect your property without you being there, and they are _not_ obliged to tell you anymore that they did!
Its a scary world we live in.
Oh yes, remember, CMP, the guys who killed Byte. They still owe me 60$ or so - they had the audacity to offer me a replacement subscription to Windows Magazine for the remaining issues, instead of Byte. I don't even use Windows - so that was rather an insult...
So I'm not too fond of these guys.