Debian does not ship mplayer for two reasons: first, the official reason: there are too many legal issues that they do not wish to tackle. Second, in the past, maintaners, developers, and contacts with mplayer have resulted in more heat than light, for example this message.
Though there is an attempt to resolve these issues. Documentation of these efforts is avaliable on one of the Debian developer's websites.
Can't you run a 32-bit Firefox or Mozilla on x86-64 to get the Flash plugin working? It's not really a complete fix, but if you _need_ the plugin working, I think that's a way to get it working.
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Use the above mplayer command to write an mencoder command to transcode on the fly from Real Player to OGG/MP3/FLAC/whatever. If I weren't at work and were at home, I'd pull up the documentation or the manual page to show you the command.
This is not our problem. The media companies need to adapt or die and change their business model. Though I fear that the new business model will involve product placement, and then it will become ever harder to escape it.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again, no matter how much it makes me look like a tin-foil paranoid: You have no privacy on the Internet and assuming that you do is foolish. Yes, you can use things like GnuPG to encrypt your email, but just about anyone can grab the ciphertext off of the mail server or while it is in transit. You can use SSL to submit a webform, but someone can get at the encrypted stream sent to the server. Assuming that you have anything worth knowing that is worth more than the cost of a cryptographic attack, there will be some party out there that will spend the resources to recover it. That's just the way it works.
If you need to communicate something private, the Internet is not the way to do it. Build your own network and use that, and hope that nobody else can get on it. (Operative word there: hope)
There are online shopping sites that take money orders. In the US, getting a money order is simple enough, head down to the convenience store or your nearest US post office. You can pay for money orders with cash. As for putting in your real name, well, that's not necessary in the web form since you're not paying with a credit card and they don't need it to run the card. As far as your address goes, some copy shops will receive packages for you and give you a street address. Pay with that for cash, it's not prohibitively expensive. Is it more of a hassle? Yes. Will you still get your product the same as if you paid with a credit card? Yes.
The thing that you miss about Miyazaki is that he is not "just" anime. His animation style is different than anime, and his goals for telling the story are different than what most people refer to as anime. Technically, his films are anime because they are from from Japan, but trying to shoehorn such a wonderful animator into the anime category is really doing him a disservice.
If you want to see "good anime artwork", then watch something else. Miyazaki isn't going to give you that. If you want to see beautiful artwork that is more than "just" anime, then Miyazaki will deliver.
(Note: Most animators that I know HATE anime yet love Miyazaki for the reasons above.)
A lot of the NES clone controllers that you can find in malls in the US are running about 20% faster than the actual game on a North American NES. My guess is that they're using PAL ROMs, since the refresh rate for PAL television is 50 Hz and the refresh rate for NTSC television is 60 Hz, causing the speedup.
Plus the controller is constucted from very flimsy materials. Most certainly not worth the price that they sell them for. Yet people snap them up anyway.
The hard drive was used in how many games? Best count I got was 3: the always-mentioned Final Fantasy XI, Resident Evil Outbreak, and SOCOM II. There is a total of one game that requires it: Final Fantasy XI.
While technically not a game, don't forget the Linux kit for the PlayStation 2. Perhaps the best accessory that I have for the machine. It comes with a hard drive, network adapter, but it's sold out in North America and Japan, AND it doesn't work in the new PStwo. Damn shame, in my opinion.
You're right - the only way to make sure that you've have to make sure that something is infected is to infect everything. An infected toolchain will do just that, and so long as the code that is the backdoor is hidden in the binary and your debuggers, profilers, etc are infected to hide it, you'll never know. An even more insidious way would be to infect the kernel itself. A rogue kernel module under a Linux system would acheive this. Even if you have written your own compiler, it's possible that this kernel module could add the back door to every executable that is executed.
The point of the exercise is that there is no absolute security. No matter what steps you take to preserve your security, there is no way to be 100% secure. If you have data that you don't want on the Internet, the only way to keep it off the Internet is to not connect the computer containing that data to the Internet. Otherwise, you're just gambling with it.
What about the bugs that would occur in your software? Writing secure software is something that's not easy and not easy to learn. Of course, there's always the problem of the assembler for your low level language might have a backdoor, and so forth. Of course, you could write everything at the machine code level, but then how are you going to enter it if your editor has a backdoor without them spying on you?
Yes, I am a pessimist.:-) At the end of the day, unless you write it yourself and you're the only one using it, you have to rely on someone else to provide resonably secure software. Just be cautious and smart and most of the time you're okay. It's just the rest of the time that you have to worry about...
But then your compiler has to determine that the code you are compiling is actually a netfilter (or similar) code. Otherwise the compiler has to put in the backdoor in about every piece of software it is compiling. And then the backdoor should reside in a part of code that is quite probable to be executed during the program's lifetime.
Okay, and how often do most people audit their binaries for this sort of behavior? Could the average user, or even most advanced users, dig through their binaries and notice this sort of change? I think not.
If that's too general for you, how about a C compiler that spits out a backdoor when it notices a certain set of lines? Then, not only netfilter gets backdoored, but any sort of networking code that matches the set of lines. More bang for the buck.
First of all, what's to say that there isn't one already, and second of all, what's to say that someone can't add it? The netfilter people have good intentions, but they're human. What if someone accidently accepts a patch that contains a backdoor? Then the backdoor sits there until somebody discovers it. I'm not saying that it's bound to happen - I'm saying that it could happen. Furthermore, that perhaps the Feds would like to make it happen.
Of course, your point is that perhaps the user is smart enough to spot the backdoor in the firewall and remove it, creating a fixed version. That's all good and well, but what happens if your C compiler has a backdoor that puts the backdoor back in the firewall when it's recompiled? Then your work is for naught.
a. Would a corporation (MS) work with the feds to allow this software a backdoor to bypass security and be easily automatically installed on the system?
If the Feds came to them and said, "You know, if you want to keep doing buisness, we need this from you," you can bet that they would do it. Microsoft is a corporation, and corporations exist to make money, so it's safe to assume that they would cooperate. (One side note: It's not like these sort of hooks need to be added. Internet Explorer seems to pick up spyware just fine.)
b. What precautions would be made to make sure this software didn't end up in the hands of others and spyware companies?
There wouldn't be any precautions taken. My guess would be that the security holes that are exploited to install and setup this spyware would be the same as any other spyware - meaning that the police are learning from existing spyware authors, not the other way around.
c. How are they going to get around more savvy users if firewalls are installed on the systems being monitored?
They'll install backdoors on the firewalls, of course. The same tactic that might get Microsoft on board would get major network companies on board and software firewall makers on board. Rinse and repeat.
I've said this before, and I'll say it again. The only computer that can't be spyed on is one that is turned off, unplugged from everything (including the wall), and buried under three square kilometers of concrete.
(Note: I'm not saying that there aren't secrets you'd like to hide, but a computer connected to the Internet is not the place to hide them.)
Given that most ISPs provide servers for their users to use, how long until ISPs start providing their own Jabber server? They already provide SMTP and (most ISPs provide) Usenet services. How difficult would it be for them to provide those services and get new users using them? (They could also run an AIM/ICQ transport, which probably would decrease the number of connections that they have outgoing to the AIM servers.)
You can hold whatever viewpoint that you wish. I'm all in favor of individuals having their own perspective and point of view, even if I believe that their perspective and point of view is wrong. All I'm claiming is if that you're so happy and proud to hold that viewpoint, why are you too gutless to own up to it?
Comparing our current situation to the situation during the McCarthy era is really taking it to the extreme. I hold unpopular opinions and express those opinions often. For the record, I think that warrentless searches are wrong and indefinite detention of foreign nationals is wrong as well. Do I get searched, beaten with batons, tear gassed, or harassed by the police? No. Perhaps if you opened your eyes and dismissed the propaganda you'd have an idea of what you're talking about. We don't have a secret police force destroying lives here. At most, we have an inept police force being inept.
I value anonymity. I think that if you choose to remain anonymous that it's your own call, but you're wrong if you think that people will take your point of view seriously if you remain anonymous. You're wrong if you think that I take you seriously because you choose to stay anonymous. More importantly, you're seriously mistaken if you think the United States Government cares what you've posted Slashdot Politics.
How does the "No Spin Zone" have anything to do with this? I'm just saying that if you're proud that you hate America, why not post with your registered UID? Is it really that hard?
I have to disagree with you. The last thing that I want a teacher doing is teaching my (yet unborn) children how to think. They should be taught how to reason. There is a big difference. If you teach someone how to think, then you are doing no better than teaching them to repeat what it spouted at them. If you teach them how to reason, you give them a useful toolbox of concepts that they can use to navigate through life and education.
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Debian does not ship mplayer for two reasons: first, the official reason: there are too many legal issues that they do not wish to tackle. Second, in the past, maintaners, developers, and contacts with mplayer have resulted in more heat than light, for example this message.
Though there is an attempt to resolve these issues. Documentation of these efforts is avaliable on one of the Debian developer's websites.
Can't you run a 32-bit Firefox or Mozilla on x86-64 to get the Flash plugin working? It's not really a complete fix, but if you _need_ the plugin working, I think that's a way to get it working.
Yes, you can. According to the Social Security Administration's website, you may request a new Social Security number if you are a victim of identity theft.
Use the above mplayer command to write an mencoder command to transcode on the fly from Real Player to OGG/MP3/FLAC/whatever. If I weren't at work and were at home, I'd pull up the documentation or the manual page to show you the command.
This is not our problem. The media companies need to adapt or die and change their business model. Though I fear that the new business model will involve product placement, and then it will become ever harder to escape it.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again, no matter how much it makes me look like a tin-foil paranoid: You have no privacy on the Internet and assuming that you do is foolish. Yes, you can use things like GnuPG to encrypt your email, but just about anyone can grab the ciphertext off of the mail server or while it is in transit. You can use SSL to submit a webform, but someone can get at the encrypted stream sent to the server. Assuming that you have anything worth knowing that is worth more than the cost of a cryptographic attack, there will be some party out there that will spend the resources to recover it. That's just the way it works.
If you need to communicate something private, the Internet is not the way to do it. Build your own network and use that, and hope that nobody else can get on it. (Operative word there: hope)
You realize that you can build MySQL 4.x from the source package on your stable machine, correct?
There are online shopping sites that take money orders. In the US, getting a money order is simple enough, head down to the convenience store or your nearest US post office. You can pay for money orders with cash. As for putting in your real name, well, that's not necessary in the web form since you're not paying with a credit card and they don't need it to run the card. As far as your address goes, some copy shops will receive packages for you and give you a street address. Pay with that for cash, it's not prohibitively expensive. Is it more of a hassle? Yes. Will you still get your product the same as if you paid with a credit card? Yes.
The thing that you miss about Miyazaki is that he is not "just" anime. His animation style is different than anime, and his goals for telling the story are different than what most people refer to as anime. Technically, his films are anime because they are from from Japan, but trying to shoehorn such a wonderful animator into the anime category is really doing him a disservice.
If you want to see "good anime artwork", then watch something else. Miyazaki isn't going to give you that. If you want to see beautiful artwork that is more than "just" anime, then Miyazaki will deliver.
(Note: Most animators that I know HATE anime yet love Miyazaki for the reasons above.)
A lot of the NES clone controllers that you can find in malls in the US are running about 20% faster than the actual game on a North American NES. My guess is that they're using PAL ROMs, since the refresh rate for PAL television is 50 Hz and the refresh rate for NTSC television is 60 Hz, causing the speedup.
Plus the controller is constucted from very flimsy materials. Most certainly not worth the price that they sell them for. Yet people snap them up anyway.
The hard drive was used in how many games? Best count I got was 3: the always-mentioned Final Fantasy XI, Resident Evil Outbreak, and SOCOM II. There is a total of one game that requires it: Final Fantasy XI.
While technically not a game, don't forget the Linux kit for the PlayStation 2. Perhaps the best accessory that I have for the machine. It comes with a hard drive, network adapter, but it's sold out in North America and Japan, AND it doesn't work in the new PStwo. Damn shame, in my opinion.
You're right - the only way to make sure that you've have to make sure that something is infected is to infect everything. An infected toolchain will do just that, and so long as the code that is the backdoor is hidden in the binary and your debuggers, profilers, etc are infected to hide it, you'll never know. An even more insidious way would be to infect the kernel itself. A rogue kernel module under a Linux system would acheive this. Even if you have written your own compiler, it's possible that this kernel module could add the back door to every executable that is executed.
The point of the exercise is that there is no absolute security. No matter what steps you take to preserve your security, there is no way to be 100% secure. If you have data that you don't want on the Internet, the only way to keep it off the Internet is to not connect the computer containing that data to the Internet. Otherwise, you're just gambling with it.
What about the bugs that would occur in your software? Writing secure software is something that's not easy and not easy to learn. Of course, there's always the problem of the assembler for your low level language might have a backdoor, and so forth. Of course, you could write everything at the machine code level, but then how are you going to enter it if your editor has a backdoor without them spying on you?
:-) At the end of the day, unless you write it yourself and you're the only one using it, you have to rely on someone else to provide resonably secure software. Just be cautious and smart and most of the time you're okay. It's just the rest of the time that you have to worry about...
Yes, I am a pessimist.
But then your compiler has to determine that the code you are compiling is actually a netfilter (or similar) code. Otherwise the compiler has to put in the backdoor in about every piece of software it is compiling. And then the backdoor should reside in a part of code that is quite probable to be executed during the program's lifetime.
Okay, and how often do most people audit their binaries for this sort of behavior? Could the average user, or even most advanced users, dig through their binaries and notice this sort of change? I think not.
If that's too general for you, how about a C compiler that spits out a backdoor when it notices a certain set of lines? Then, not only netfilter gets backdoored, but any sort of networking code that matches the set of lines. More bang for the buck.
First of all, what's to say that there isn't one already, and second of all, what's to say that someone can't add it? The netfilter people have good intentions, but they're human. What if someone accidently accepts a patch that contains a backdoor? Then the backdoor sits there until somebody discovers it. I'm not saying that it's bound to happen - I'm saying that it could happen. Furthermore, that perhaps the Feds would like to make it happen.
Of course, your point is that perhaps the user is smart enough to spot the backdoor in the firewall and remove it, creating a fixed version. That's all good and well, but what happens if your C compiler has a backdoor that puts the backdoor back in the firewall when it's recompiled? Then your work is for naught.
a. Would a corporation (MS) work with the feds to allow this software a backdoor to bypass security and be easily automatically installed on the system?
If the Feds came to them and said, "You know, if you want to keep doing buisness, we need this from you," you can bet that they would do it. Microsoft is a corporation, and corporations exist to make money, so it's safe to assume that they would cooperate. (One side note: It's not like these sort of hooks need to be added. Internet Explorer seems to pick up spyware just fine.)
b. What precautions would be made to make sure this software didn't end up in the hands of others and spyware companies?
There wouldn't be any precautions taken. My guess would be that the security holes that are exploited to install and setup this spyware would be the same as any other spyware - meaning that the police are learning from existing spyware authors, not the other way around.
c. How are they going to get around more savvy users if firewalls are installed on the systems being monitored?
They'll install backdoors on the firewalls, of course. The same tactic that might get Microsoft on board would get major network companies on board and software firewall makers on board. Rinse and repeat.
I've said this before, and I'll say it again. The only computer that can't be spyed on is one that is turned off, unplugged from everything (including the wall), and buried under three square kilometers of concrete.
(Note: I'm not saying that there aren't secrets you'd like to hide, but a computer connected to the Internet is not the place to hide them.)
I can't speak for Trillian, but I know that this is possible in gaim.
Given that most ISPs provide servers for their users to use, how long until ISPs start providing their own Jabber server? They already provide SMTP and (most ISPs provide) Usenet services. How difficult would it be for them to provide those services and get new users using them? (They could also run an AIM/ICQ transport, which probably would decrease the number of connections that they have outgoing to the AIM servers.)
You can hold whatever viewpoint that you wish. I'm all in favor of individuals having their own perspective and point of view, even if I believe that their perspective and point of view is wrong. All I'm claiming is if that you're so happy and proud to hold that viewpoint, why are you too gutless to own up to it?
Comparing our current situation to the situation during the McCarthy era is really taking it to the extreme. I hold unpopular opinions and express those opinions often. For the record, I think that warrentless searches are wrong and indefinite detention of foreign nationals is wrong as well. Do I get searched, beaten with batons, tear gassed, or harassed by the police? No. Perhaps if you opened your eyes and dismissed the propaganda you'd have an idea of what you're talking about. We don't have a secret police force destroying lives here. At most, we have an inept police force being inept.
I value anonymity. I think that if you choose to remain anonymous that it's your own call, but you're wrong if you think that people will take your point of view seriously if you remain anonymous. You're wrong if you think that I take you seriously because you choose to stay anonymous. More importantly, you're seriously mistaken if you think the United States Government cares what you've posted Slashdot Politics.
How does the "No Spin Zone" have anything to do with this? I'm just saying that if you're proud that you hate America, why not post with your registered UID? Is it really that hard?
That doesn't liberate CBS news and Dan Rather from their obligation to check their sources.
If you're so proud of your view, why don't you post under your real ID instead of Anonymous Coward.
I have to disagree with you. The last thing that I want a teacher doing is teaching my (yet unborn) children how to think. They should be taught how to reason. There is a big difference. If you teach someone how to think, then you are doing no better than teaching them to repeat what it spouted at them. If you teach them how to reason, you give them a useful toolbox of concepts that they can use to navigate through life and education.