True, though I was suprised by some Real video from the local public access TV. At 64kbyte/s it looks very good, only the sound sucks.
But especialy if the origin it's quality isn't that good, one wants to spend the time to do a decent encode since quality only decreases with each re-encode (you might try to hide it with some of the many filters mencoder has).
"It's like if the Romans built a huge wall and said "That will keep out anyone. It's not possible to breach it." Using our technology, which is 2000 years more advanced, (less, actually) we could fly an B2 bomber over the city and drop a couple 2000 pound bombs."
IIRC the Great Wall's effects expires with the discovery of metallurgy.
But this results in a 1 pass encoding, anyone that likes some quality would prefer to just dump the stream to disc and spend the extra time for a multipass encode.
There are already enough countries mentioned that are actively trying to block porn for the good of their citizens. Certain countries that don't agree can just unilaterally ignore if they wish (nobdoy will do anythin to them unless they have oil offcourse).
"I know if my choices were 'DL from uberfast official site, 10Mbit/sec, perfect quality, 3-5$ for the full contents of a DVD, ready to be burned to disc if I so choose' and 'grab dvdrip with no extras off P2P at crappy speed and no guarantee of quality', I'd pay a few bucks for no hassle."
If you do a little searching you can find (community) sites with high quality (scene) dvdrips to download at speeds able to saturate a 10Mbps connection. Free, available now (even before the DVD is in the store).
This will not change when the "record" companies finally "see the light". They will just find out that their downloadable content is getting distributed by these alternative free sites. Unless they stuff their content with DRM, unique watermarks, special applications/players and the likes.
I don't think it's illegal since when it comes to (the breaking of) laws ignorance is no excuse.
In the GPs example there surely were no lwayers present to give advise, those "we are not responsible for your goods" signs are put up by the busines owner.
BS. Ever driven over a freshly paved road with excess gravel? It surely doesn't stay on the ground after you have driven over it (which explains the noise of small pebbles hitting your car). Or imagine a bike hitting gravel in a high speed bend.
a noexec/tmp doesn't protect from running an interpreter with the script source in/tmp. Next version should simply include '/bin/sh/tmp/listen' instead to be fully functional.
Some media stories that were real a couple of years ago, suddendly became a myth. If you trust the media blindly you might want to watch http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0402577/ and maybe start comparing a little of the news you get.
Nice hypocracy: I'm self taught from day one, moving up up up. But your degree doesn't do so well, better try making it look like your education came from something better.
There are countries that require/everyone/ to always has identy papers on them, eg in the Netherlands (only 12+ olds IIRC). But atleast you don't have to show them on "their" every whim.
Nothing is forced, if something was published under GPL2 it still says "2 or greater". The users of licensed stuff can choose: 2 or greater. Nothing changes for them.
I'm still responsible for the car, my insurance will cough up the money which they will try to get back from the offender.
But running down is a bad analogy, running a trafficlight with a camera is better. The camera will take a nice picture of the rear license plate (assuming it was taken from behind), the result is that the fine is sent to the owner, not the actual driver (sure there are places where the picture is taken from the front (eg Germany) but I assume this only to make it more easy for the owner to point out the actual driver wasn't him).
So.*AA used the internets equivalent of the license plates: the IP address. Somehow found out that the grandparent is the owner of the machine attached to it and try to fine him. So either he did it or someone that had permission, in this case it's admittedly the grandson.
So.*AA simply just has to sue the grandson, if he is underage the supervising adult. I honestly don't see what the problem is in this case.
But it wasn't a worm, it was a mere human who had permission to use the machine. It's like being responsible for my car even if I lend it to someone.
And about "not owning the line", how do you know that? I own my fibre optic lines (collective ownership). But I guess you understood what was ment (owning the endpoint from where the alledged infringement was performed).
But I guess the best defence against these kind of accusations is to put up an open wireless accesspoint, but make sure it's one that is open by factory default.
Blocking chinese is bad and should be stopped, but what about all those other countries? Should we leave those poor saudis suffering in their medieval country?
Imagine the market share of your browser being 1% and a mix of browsers that do work correctly in the 90+%. I can imagine a company not caring about that 1%, they have already lost the sale so why spend money to fix the problem!
The usual mindless mysql bashing. ASP/mysql is no problem IF the admins/developers: -increase the max of mysql connections (if seen it handle 2000 without problems) -do connection pooling in the ASP framework
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True, though I was suprised by some Real video from the local public access TV. At 64kbyte/s it looks very good, only the sound sucks.
But especialy if the origin it's quality isn't that good, one wants to spend the time to do a decent encode since quality only decreases with each re-encode (you might try to hide it with some of the many filters mencoder has).
"It's like if the Romans built a huge wall and said "That will keep out anyone. It's not possible to breach it." Using our technology, which is 2000 years more advanced, (less, actually) we could fly an B2 bomber over the city and drop a couple 2000 pound bombs."
IIRC the Great Wall's effects expires with the discovery of metallurgy.
But this results in a 1 pass encoding, anyone that likes some quality would prefer to just dump the stream to disc and spend the extra time for a multipass encode.
Maybe it could work if the UN was in control?
There are already enough countries mentioned that are actively trying to block porn for the good of their citizens. Certain countries that don't agree can just unilaterally ignore if they wish (nobdoy will do anythin to them unless they have oil offcourse).
This problem only existed in the first C64 IIRC. I never noticed it with a C64 II. Maybe we can expect a redesign for the next version of the 360?
How about: Ban Illegale Games?
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It spells the dutch word big, which is pig in english. And they aren't even trying to hide their corporate image: http://www.bigweb.nl/images/pamflet.gif
(more (flash) banners can be found at http://www.bigweb.nl/support_banners.php (I still don't know if this is just a hoax
"I know if my choices were 'DL from uberfast official site, 10Mbit/sec, perfect quality, 3-5$ for the full contents of a DVD, ready to be burned to disc if I so choose' and 'grab dvdrip with no extras off P2P at crappy speed and no guarantee of quality', I'd pay a few bucks for no hassle."
If you do a little searching you can find (community) sites with high quality (scene) dvdrips to download at speeds able to saturate a 10Mbps connection. Free, available now (even before the DVD is in the store).
This will not change when the "record" companies finally "see the light". They will just find out that their downloadable content is getting distributed by these alternative free sites. Unless they stuff their content with DRM, unique watermarks, special applications/players and the likes.
Why shouldn't you trust people that pay cash?
Moby Dick? That's a movie with J.L. Picard (the better captain when compared with Kirk).
I don't think it's illegal since when it comes to (the breaking of) laws ignorance is no excuse.
In the GPs example there surely were no lwayers present to give advise, those "we are not responsible for your goods" signs are put up by the busines owner.
BS. Ever driven over a freshly paved road with excess gravel? It surely doesn't stay on the ground after you have driven over it (which explains the noise of small pebbles hitting your car). Or imagine a bike hitting gravel in a high speed bend.
Toyota uses the name Pruis on it's Aussie website: http://www.toyotamotorsport.com.au/heritage/timeli ne/
a noexec /tmp doesn't protect from running an interpreter with the script source in /tmp. Next version should simply include '/bin/sh /tmp/listen' instead to be fully functional.
Some media stories that were real a couple of years ago, suddendly became a myth. If you trust the media blindly you might want to watch http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0402577/ and maybe start comparing a little of the news you get.
Nice hypocracy: I'm self taught from day one, moving up up up. But your degree doesn't do so well, better try making it look like your education came from something better.
There are countries that require /everyone/ to always has identy papers on them, eg in the Netherlands (only 12+ olds IIRC). But atleast you don't have to show them on "their" every whim.
Well duh!
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If I modify the GPL license the result is a (valid) non GPL license.
RTFF: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#ModifyGP
Nothing is forced, if something was published under GPL2 it still says "2 or greater". The users of licensed stuff can choose: 2 or greater. Nothing changes for them.
I'm still responsible for the car, my insurance will cough up the money which they will try to get back from the offender.
.*AA used the internets equivalent of the license plates: the IP address. Somehow found out that the grandparent is the owner of the machine attached to it and try to fine him. So either he did it or someone that had permission, in this case it's admittedly the grandson.
.*AA simply just has to sue the grandson, if he is underage the supervising adult. I honestly don't see what the problem is in this case.
But running down is a bad analogy, running a trafficlight with a camera is better. The camera will take a nice picture of the rear license plate (assuming it was taken from behind), the result is that the fine is sent to the owner, not the actual driver (sure there are places where the picture is taken from the front (eg Germany) but I assume this only to make it more easy for the owner to point out the actual driver wasn't him).
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But it wasn't a worm, it was a mere human who had permission to use the machine. It's like being responsible for my car even if I lend it to someone.
And about "not owning the line", how do you know that? I own my fibre optic lines (collective ownership). But I guess you understood what was ment (owning the endpoint from where the alledged infringement was performed).
But I guess the best defence against these kind of accusations is to put up an open wireless accesspoint, but make sure it's one that is open by factory default.
Why not simply use a (personal(ized)) stamp like they do in Japan (atleast when I last was there 10 years ago). That has to be fool prove.
Blocking chinese is bad and should be stopped, but what about all those other countries? Should we leave those poor saudis suffering in their medieval country?
Somehow people only see the other's propaganda and somehow dismiss their own governments trying to hide "disturbing" information.
Imagine the market share of your browser being 1% and a mix of browsers that do work correctly in the 90+%. I can imagine a company not caring about that 1%, they have already lost the sale so why spend money to fix the problem!
The usual mindless mysql bashing. ASP/mysql is no problem IF the admins/developers:
-increase the max of mysql connections (if seen it handle 2000 without problems)
-do connection pooling in the ASP framework