I'm actually surprised this practice isn't more widespread.
I still don't surf TPB unprotected, because quite frankly what I surf is none of my ISP's business. There is so much "network damage" caused by these god-complexed imbeciles, I simply route the majority of my traffic through a big fat tunnel back to a private server overseas. The added privacy is well worth the extra latency.
Sibelius Scorch, which is what Ucklak was probably referring to, is a browser plugin to display music notation. It's basically a DRM-encumbered midi/pdf hybrid. It's used almost on almost all sites selling sheet music, because it can restrict printing and saving.
You can still take screenshots and stitch them back together, but that's obviously a pain in the ass.
The plugin itself tends to be unreliable, it often bombs without delivering the goods, while still counting as a print/view and thus often locking you out of the product you paid for, which then requires much dicking about with the site staff to get it reset.
You make it sound like the "black market" is a dark hostile entity that requires one cut off their left pinky-toe and murder a man.
The black market is everywhere. You probably know someone, who knows someone, who knows where to get Ivory. Or heroin. Or modchips. Or unlocked phones. Or dishnet cards. Maybe you know a mechanic who does work on the side, in cash. That's black market too!
The black market is anything and everything that either sidesteps legal control, or evades taxes. It is a term created by government (and the ethically fragile) to create an "Us vs Them" perspective against things that are beyond their control. If Bush were to outlaw the Qur'an, any sales of the book would be considered black market transactions. That's all it means.
For most people, honest or otherwise, it isn't much of a leap to acquire "black market" goods. It's not something that keeps people up at night in cold sweat. It's just some guy who doesn't give you a receipt with your purchase.
use a robotic arm to push a power button, or insert a usb thumbdrive and flash a bios from my cushy armchair and a laptop. Um, we do have networked switches for most of those tasks, y'know. Hell, with any decent LOM dongle these days you can mount CD images off the network and boot from them, which is way better than remote hands because you can then script the LOM.
Want to roll out a system-level change to 100+ desktops at a specific time ? Piece of cake, you don't even need to wake up at 4 a.m. to monitor it.
Just because people downloaded Scary Movie 4 doesn't mean they watched it.
Hell, I've got several dozen DVDs I bought _years ago_ that I still haven't watched. How do you expect me to catch up to the quadrillion crappy Divx rips that surface every day ?
I anticipated Moo3 for a long time, and when it finally happened I was irreparably disappointed. I didn't have too much issue with the bugs, I just thought they butchered the whole game by making it even more boring than the Democracy games. Too much administrative bullshit, not enough exploding-alien-ship action.
Multiple TVs ? Actually I have only one TV here, mostly used by the wife. My PC's display is just as large (27") and has better image fidelity. If only I could find a comfy seat that could double as a desk chair, I'd be quite content.
The thing that bothers me most about home theatre is the sound. My screen's big enough, considering I'm only 2-3 feet away, but I tend to use headphones... really good phones, but with films being mastered for 5.1, they become very dull and disembodied when downmixed to headphone stereo. Cross feed doesn't help much, and those gimmicky "Virtual Dolby" convolvers are very hit-or-miss.
That's not to say I don't miss my old basement projector (back when I had a basement), but tech today has made the theater experience a far more elective process than it was 10-15 years ago. Many people only go out for the "big screen movies", and we're even seeing films like Cloverfield where a significant part of the experience is lost in the home video transfer.
That's funny, because I usually bug the theater attendant to silence and/or expel the imbeciles. When they decline or simply fail to do so (pansies!), I just walk up and yank the guy's phone out of his/her hand.
Given my size and the fact that I generally look, um, vicious, people tend to ask nicely for their phone. Sometimes they get cocky but it doesn't last, and actually once I had to throw my hand at the guy.
I suggest you do the same. You'll get nothing but cheer and accolades from the other filmgoers.
Creative can burn in hell, but that chatty pseudo-AI was a blast. I used to force visitors to sit down with it for a few minutes, one was convinced there was another person in the next room typing the responses.
"I am bored. You mentioned sex before, let's talk about that. Sex sex sex sex sex sex sex sex sex sex !"
You mean you're going to kill the bastard, once and for all ?
No ?
Then you'll be hearing a lot more of him, now that he's no longer bound by the Bar's regulations. He's going to be on every inbred radio show, spouting his filth in bulk. His "job" will be to get paid to talk, which is insulting easy to do in the U.S.A.
Great. Let's spend 40 trillion dollars to buy an RDP framework to run free software.
The point is: we could be rid of this Ajax cruft, and simply run remote instances of OO.o with a suitable client. I could see something like NX (NoMachine) or multi-instanced VNC filling those shoes.
Or maybe turn the whole OO.o suite into a light-weight browser plugin that can talk back to its host for data storage.
I used to think that way, I briefly experimented with teaching, early in my career. What I realized is there's no amount of wisdom that's going to un-fuck the educational system. The pay sucks, the students mostly hate you (because _they_ suck), and the whole system is not designed to improve, but merely to survive financially.
I wasn't exactly in the public sector, but it was one of the cheaper and thus more popular private vocational colleges. My already modest expectations were far beyond what this enterprise was offering, which is probably why all the grads wound up either in brainless government jobs (lucky them), or call centers.
The day we rid schools of the financial burden, is the day they will start churning out smarter grads.
http://blacklist.linuxadmin.org/ will generate netblock lists, which you can use to populate iptables (and others) with the appropriate filtering rules.
Why not just add more system ram for the kernel to use as cache ? I realize flash is a bit cheaper than DRAM now, but still it seems like a very roundabout way to improve performance when existing OS architecture can do the same job and is well documented.
Adding another layer of caching via flash just means we'll have more things to go wrong.
Suck dick, Kiss ass, or have a friend/relative on the inside.
The problem with the film industry (and many others) is they think they're these superheroes saving the world from boredom. Such inflated egos create a very bizarre work environment.
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Easy, it's monochrome.
Take whatever resolution you currently have on a full-color LCD, and triple it for each axis. There's your mono rez.
I'm actually surprised this practice isn't more widespread.
I still don't surf TPB unprotected, because quite frankly what I surf is none of my ISP's business. There is so much "network damage" caused by these god-complexed imbeciles, I simply route the majority of my traffic through a big fat tunnel back to a private server overseas. The added privacy is well worth the extra latency.
(Blade Runner)
Load photo image.
Enhance.
(zooms in)
Enhance.
(pans around some obstacle)
Enhance.
(pans to the back door, opens the door?, reads license plate from some car a half-block away)
Enhance.
(finds intelligent life in Arkansas)
Sibelius Scorch, which is what Ucklak was probably referring to, is a browser plugin to display music notation. It's basically a DRM-encumbered midi/pdf hybrid. It's used almost on almost all sites selling sheet music, because it can restrict printing and saving.
You can still take screenshots and stitch them back together, but that's obviously a pain in the ass.
The plugin itself tends to be unreliable, it often bombs without delivering the goods, while still counting as a print/view and thus often locking you out of the product you paid for, which then requires much dicking about with the site staff to get it reset.
You make it sound like the "black market" is a dark hostile entity that requires one cut off their left pinky-toe and murder a man.
The black market is everywhere. You probably know someone, who knows someone, who knows where to get Ivory. Or heroin. Or modchips. Or unlocked phones. Or dishnet cards. Maybe you know a mechanic who does work on the side, in cash. That's black market too!
The black market is anything and everything that either sidesteps legal control, or evades taxes. It is a term created by government (and the ethically fragile) to create an "Us vs Them" perspective against things that are beyond their control. If Bush were to outlaw the Qur'an, any sales of the book would be considered black market transactions. That's all it means.
For most people, honest or otherwise, it isn't much of a leap to acquire "black market" goods. It's not something that keeps people up at night in cold sweat. It's just some guy who doesn't give you a receipt with your purchase.
Want to roll out a system-level change to 100+ desktops at a specific time ? Piece of cake, you don't even need to wake up at 4 a.m. to monitor it.
You just gave me an idea for my next pr0n site!
"You've seen the FuckingMachines, here's TeleDong!"
IANA-American, but from what I understand, if the Republicans win, consider it hax.
Amirite ?
Oh, I'm sorry, are you nauseated by my godless gay-spreading liberal "bias" ?
Thanks, I'll be here all week. Try the veal!
The only thing a low UID implies is age, and age implies cynicism, and..
oh fer fnarg sakes GET OFF OUR LAWN!
Just because people downloaded Scary Movie 4 doesn't mean they watched it.
Hell, I've got several dozen DVDs I bought _years ago_ that I still haven't watched. How do you expect me to catch up to the quadrillion crappy Divx rips that surface every day ?
This makes it a little too easy:
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1. Follow the money trail to the asshat (probably based in China or Russia).
2. Post the info on
3. I lead a mob of bored geeks to go beat the mustard out of this punk (and get the private key)
4. decryption algo posted on
5. everyone laughs at you, but at least you get your data back, and I get to crush someone's skull. everyone wins!
I don't care how smart this guy thinks he is, somebody please buy him a freakin' domain name.
Patching it ?
You mean, they replaced it with Dosbox and Moo2 ?
I anticipated Moo3 for a long time, and when it finally happened I was irreparably disappointed. I didn't have too much issue with the bugs, I just thought they butchered the whole game by making it even more boring than the Democracy games. Too much administrative bullshit, not enough exploding-alien-ship action.
If you want to improve education in the USA, stop letting the dumbest folk breed like bunnies.
School is a social experience. If the classrooms are full of uncontrollable ritalin-shooting idiots, the smart kids don't have a chance in hell.
dot.com summary:
Geeks got gobs of venture capital to spend on toys. Geeks != business tycoons. Geeks = fail.
Really, we just got a lot of money in a short amount of time, failed to make it profitable, and the money was pulled. That's what went wrong.
If people hadn't all gone retarded and ignored the concept of profit during those years, we wouldn't be in this stink.
Multiple TVs ? Actually I have only one TV here, mostly used by the wife. My PC's display is just as large (27") and has better image fidelity. If only I could find a comfy seat that could double as a desk chair, I'd be quite content.
The thing that bothers me most about home theatre is the sound. My screen's big enough, considering I'm only 2-3 feet away, but I tend to use headphones... really good phones, but with films being mastered for 5.1, they become very dull and disembodied when downmixed to headphone stereo. Cross feed doesn't help much, and those gimmicky "Virtual Dolby" convolvers are very hit-or-miss.
That's not to say I don't miss my old basement projector (back when I had a basement), but tech today has made the theater experience a far more elective process than it was 10-15 years ago. Many people only go out for the "big screen movies", and we're even seeing films like Cloverfield where a significant part of the experience is lost in the home video transfer.
That's funny, because I usually bug the theater attendant to silence and/or expel the imbeciles. When they decline or simply fail to do so (pansies!), I just walk up and yank the guy's phone out of his/her hand.
Given my size and the fact that I generally look, um, vicious, people tend to ask nicely for their phone. Sometimes they get cocky but it doesn't last, and actually once I had to throw my hand at the guy.
I suggest you do the same. You'll get nothing but cheer and accolades from the other filmgoers.
I miss my Dr. Sbaitso.
Creative can burn in hell, but that chatty pseudo-AI was a blast. I used to force visitors to sit down with it for a few minutes, one was convinced there was another person in the next room typing the responses.
"I am bored. You mentioned sex before, let's talk about that. Sex sex sex sex sex sex sex sex sex sex !"
Timeless.
You mean you're going to kill the bastard, once and for all ?
No ?
Then you'll be hearing a lot more of him, now that he's no longer bound by the Bar's regulations. He's going to be on every inbred radio show, spouting his filth in bulk. His "job" will be to get paid to talk, which is insulting easy to do in the U.S.A.
Great. Let's spend 40 trillion dollars to buy an RDP framework to run free software.
The point is: we could be rid of this Ajax cruft, and simply run remote instances of OO.o with a suitable client. I could see something like NX (NoMachine) or multi-instanced VNC filling those shoes.
Or maybe turn the whole OO.o suite into a light-weight browser plugin that can talk back to its host for data storage.
I used to think that way, I briefly experimented with teaching, early in my career. What I realized is there's no amount of wisdom that's going to un-fuck the educational system. The pay sucks, the students mostly hate you (because _they_ suck), and the whole system is not designed to improve, but merely to survive financially.
I wasn't exactly in the public sector, but it was one of the cheaper and thus more popular private vocational colleges. My already modest expectations were far beyond what this enterprise was offering, which is probably why all the grads wound up either in brainless government jobs (lucky them), or call centers.
The day we rid schools of the financial burden, is the day they will start churning out smarter grads.
http://blacklist.linuxadmin.org/ will generate netblock lists, which you can use to populate iptables (and others) with the appropriate filtering rules.
Rules ?
Where we're going, we don't need rules.
Why not just add more system ram for the kernel to use as cache ? I realize flash is a bit cheaper than DRAM now, but still it seems like a very roundabout way to improve performance when existing OS architecture can do the same job and is well documented.
Adding another layer of caching via flash just means we'll have more things to go wrong.
Suck dick, Kiss ass, or have a friend/relative on the inside.
The problem with the film industry (and many others) is they think they're these superheroes saving the world from boredom. Such inflated egos create a very bizarre work environment.