With o2 you are supposed to be able to disable it by spending £1 on a card which is refunded as £5 discount on your phone bill, this functionality wasn't working when i was using my phone out of town and wanted to get on certain forums. I went into the local o2 store stated that the online system was down and asked them to confirm me 18, the guy in the store hadn't got a clue, asked his manager played with the pc for a couple of minutes then said that their system was down as well.
When i returned home my friend who works at o2 suggested i just give him the details required so he could do it for me, before giving him the details i tried with the card again which also failed, however this friend managed to disable it just fine for me.
Just shows how much people who don't know what they're doing bullshit you in stores.
Had this with o2 3g internet for my phone however it applied to a broader range including online forums etc so it was more of an over 18 flag than a 'does want porn' one.
Increasingly more and more studios are using expensive actors/locations/effects to compensate for boring/predictable plots. If they spent time writing decent worthwhile storylines they wouldn't need to rely on expensive gimmicks as much. There are loads of good older movies which don't have flashy effects or scenes set in multiple countries.
It doesn't state whether the first donut chart of browsers and exploits accounts for market share, however given then internet explorer is leading followed by firefox then chrome i would assume it doesn't (unless people select their browsers based on which is more exploitable).
You say this but steam itself is DRM, it may be unintrusive (Depending on your view), but you can't run the games outside of steam (Without cracks). I personally like it because it gives me the automated ease to keep my games neatly (instead of downloading them off some other site).
However given that watching videos is largely a different situation and creators of these medias love and rely on their DRM you would need to have an unintrusive drm that also allows the watching of videos on other devices/tvs.
I can't really picture a perfect solution, but you seem to have overlooked the fact that its very unlikely DRM will just be dropped with any form of digital media.
If anything there are maybe 2 people on my course of 80+ (ball park guess) who have been programming for an extended period of time before university (e.g. 5+ years), past that most peoples experience is either from starting via 6th form (16-18yrs education) or not at all, this may just be because i didn't want to goto Warwick and I'm not at Oxbridge, but most CS graduates aren't coming from those elite places anyway.
I'm in my first year of a degree doing computer science at the University of Sheffield (UK), our course is made up of maybe 50% who hadn't programmed before coming to university (this includes not doing ICT[yeah that's nothing like cs] or computer studies at Secondary school). When i asked some people why they chose computer science they just shrugged, these same people struggle with a lot of the programming concepts we have covered in java past the initial 'this is a for loop, this is a select case statements etc'.
I was really surprised when i got to University and my course wasn't full of 'nerdy' or geeky people as such, I just feel that some people didn't really know what they were getting into. So i agree that having programming experience and enjoying it is a necessity of doing a computer science degree (some may argue that the maths is the most important side). Even worse is the fact ~90% of the ITMB (IT and business management) students who have the java, software engineering and web/internet technology modules, lack even the slightest interest in programming or any of the CS modules when this is taking up half of their degree. Anyone should know that its far easier to learn something when you have interest in it, so back to the point why do people choose to do CS.
Personally i had been playing around with vb.net and lua for a couple of years making loads of small utilities before i reached university (this involved software engineering coursework at a2) instead of going out clubbing and drinking, but some people just seem a bit naive about programming and struggle past 'Hello World!'.
I'm not trying to say that i'm amazing, there are people who excel past me at programming. But there are only 10-25% of the course who can code competently, and a few others who excel at the maths side (usually Romanian international students). I just pity some of the people who will be in teams together for our software engineering module next year (where we have to produce a real product for a real customer in teams of 4 [50% of marks are awarded by a manager at the company your developing the software for]), maybe they will be better with haskell (functional programming language) which we learn next year.
But the weak model of nSpire has 2 modes, one where some light shows to prove that it is in exam mode and then doesn't show when its got memory features etc enabled (iirc). And the more advanced model of nSpire which i have is just outright banned from exams.
So stopping programming for the reason of allowed in exams just doesn't seem like a valid answer, I for one doubt my university would let me use the weaker model with some way of saying whether i have it in 'exam mode' or not.
Given the fact that it has been seen that botnets (not #hivemind) have joined a fair few of the ddos attacks i would bet that there are a few people who are more than just script kiddies joining some of the actions.
It's asif we're starting to move backwards to the time when all forms of nudity were godly unacceptable. If they can't see that by making it opt in it implies there will be a list of 'porn watchers' then surely they want the list for a reason. The government shouldn't control the people.
Everyone's talking about removing drm, but look at the leaked US cables. The use Government has been lobbying foreign countries to change their intellectual property laws. Slightly off topic, but it shows you how far the US government is willing to go.
Most of the well branded av's are just packed full of bloatware and getting worse. It's even got to the point now that alot of free software which i have installed also installs mcafee smartscan or a similar product to my desktop without allowing me to not install them. Isn't there something foul about this?
Personally i use the lesser known eset's nod32 and i think it does a good job.
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Wish i had mod points for this.
In the UK we have had sim-only contracts for the past 2 years, maybe even longer although less common.
I currently live about a mile or two from the city centre of Sheffield (UK) and we can't even get virgin media cable.
With o2 you are supposed to be able to disable it by spending £1 on a card which is refunded as £5 discount on your phone bill, this functionality wasn't working when i was using my phone out of town and wanted to get on certain forums. I went into the local o2 store stated that the online system was down and asked them to confirm me 18, the guy in the store hadn't got a clue, asked his manager played with the pc for a couple of minutes then said that their system was down as well.
When i returned home my friend who works at o2 suggested i just give him the details required so he could do it for me, before giving him the details i tried with the card again which also failed, however this friend managed to disable it just fine for me.
Just shows how much people who don't know what they're doing bullshit you in stores.
Had this with o2 3g internet for my phone however it applied to a broader range including online forums etc so it was more of an over 18 flag than a 'does want porn' one.
Increasingly more and more studios are using expensive actors/locations/effects to compensate for boring/predictable plots. If they spent time writing decent worthwhile storylines they wouldn't need to rely on expensive gimmicks as much.
There are loads of good older movies which don't have flashy effects or scenes set in multiple countries.
Also hollywood accounting is another method they use to increase the 'cost' to produce movies;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting
It doesn't state whether the first donut chart of browsers and exploits accounts for market share, however given then internet explorer is leading followed by firefox then chrome i would assume it doesn't (unless people select their browsers based on which is more exploitable).
But we just love the pretty coloured smoke (and the sound popping capacitors make).
I'm waiting for them to open them up to google apps email addresses :(
You say this but steam itself is DRM, it may be unintrusive (Depending on your view), but you can't run the games outside of steam (Without cracks). I personally like it because it gives me the automated ease to keep my games neatly (instead of downloading them off some other site). However given that watching videos is largely a different situation and creators of these medias love and rely on their DRM you would need to have an unintrusive drm that also allows the watching of videos on other devices/tvs. I can't really picture a perfect solution, but you seem to have overlooked the fact that its very unlikely DRM will just be dropped with any form of digital media.
Do they have any jurisdiction over this? It wasn't even hosted in the US.
What about iTunes and amazon music etc, don't these count as legal online markets to purchase music? (Or are these unavailable in Finland?)
"The session cookies are sent over unsecured HTTP" Isn't this basically the same as the way the firefox addon firesheep worked?
Yes but desktops don't get used in direct sunlight anyway, which is one of the main reasons for wanting matte laptop screens.
If anything there are maybe 2 people on my course of 80+ (ball park guess) who have been programming for an extended period of time before university (e.g. 5+ years), past that most peoples experience is either from starting via 6th form (16-18yrs education) or not at all, this may just be because i didn't want to goto Warwick and I'm not at Oxbridge, but most CS graduates aren't coming from those elite places anyway.
I'm in my first year of a degree doing computer science at the University of Sheffield (UK), our course is made up of maybe 50% who hadn't programmed before coming to university (this includes not doing ICT[yeah that's nothing like cs] or computer studies at Secondary school). When i asked some people why they chose computer science they just shrugged, these same people struggle with a lot of the programming concepts we have covered in java past the initial 'this is a for loop, this is a select case statements etc'. I was really surprised when i got to University and my course wasn't full of 'nerdy' or geeky people as such, I just feel that some people didn't really know what they were getting into. So i agree that having programming experience and enjoying it is a necessity of doing a computer science degree (some may argue that the maths is the most important side). Even worse is the fact ~90% of the ITMB (IT and business management) students who have the java, software engineering and web/internet technology modules, lack even the slightest interest in programming or any of the CS modules when this is taking up half of their degree. Anyone should know that its far easier to learn something when you have interest in it, so back to the point why do people choose to do CS. Personally i had been playing around with vb.net and lua for a couple of years making loads of small utilities before i reached university (this involved software engineering coursework at a2) instead of going out clubbing and drinking, but some people just seem a bit naive about programming and struggle past 'Hello World!'. I'm not trying to say that i'm amazing, there are people who excel past me at programming. But there are only 10-25% of the course who can code competently, and a few others who excel at the maths side (usually Romanian international students). I just pity some of the people who will be in teams together for our software engineering module next year (where we have to produce a real product for a real customer in teams of 4 [50% of marks are awarded by a manager at the company your developing the software for]), maybe they will be better with haskell (functional programming language) which we learn next year.
Safari browser exploits and other app exploits can still lead to installing malware on a machine.
But the weak model of nSpire has 2 modes, one where some light shows to prove that it is in exam mode and then doesn't show when its got memory features etc enabled (iirc). And the more advanced model of nSpire which i have is just outright banned from exams. So stopping programming for the reason of allowed in exams just doesn't seem like a valid answer, I for one doubt my university would let me use the weaker model with some way of saying whether i have it in 'exam mode' or not.
Given the fact that it has been seen that botnets (not #hivemind) have joined a fair few of the ddos attacks i would bet that there are a few people who are more than just script kiddies joining some of the actions.
Wouldn't it be far more effective to ddos their psn servers.
It's asif we're starting to move backwards to the time when all forms of nudity were godly unacceptable. If they can't see that by making it opt in it implies there will be a list of 'porn watchers' then surely they want the list for a reason. The government shouldn't control the people.
Everyone's talking about removing drm, but look at the leaked US cables. The use Government has been lobbying foreign countries to change their intellectual property laws. Slightly off topic, but it shows you how far the US government is willing to go.
Yet the pirate bay still stands tall. We best start ordering some of those tshirt they advertise to help pay their fine.
Portal 2 in February(?) is said to be coming to the ps3 with some form of steam, are they going to cockblock this aswell?
Most of the well branded av's are just packed full of bloatware and getting worse. It's even got to the point now that alot of free software which i have installed also installs mcafee smartscan or a similar product to my desktop without allowing me to not install them. Isn't there something foul about this? Personally i use the lesser known eset's nod32 and i think it does a good job.