Yes, because you should be innocent until proven guilty. If they can only prove you pirated one song, that's all they should be able to sue for. Copyright has nothing to do with it.
Actually, I was trying to make a reference to the video game Mass Effect, but I think it ended up sounding better in my head. If you haven't/don't want to play the game, *SPOILER ALERT* it is revealed as the story progresses that whenever the sentient races in the galaxy reach a certain technological level sentient machine-ships (who spend the rest of the time in hibernation outside the galaxy) sweep through and destroy all intelligent life in the galaxy. The reasons for doing this were not revealed; at one point you get the chance to speak to one of these machines, and it claims we would not be capable of understanding why even if wanted to tell you.
By the "first part", I mean I've only finished the first entry of the trilogy and don't know what happens in the second or the yet-to-be-released third game. I'm going to go out on a limb and guess the situation becomes increasingly dire as the stakes rise to epic levels, until at the last minute when all seems lost our Main Characters consisting of a ragtag group of humans and aliens emerge victorious in some sort of final battle/mission where the odds are against success a thousand to one, yet we miraculously win anyways because we can't make more sequels if everyone's dead.
I thought we already knew, it's Space Robots who kill everything every 50,000 years or so because... uh... I don't know, I only saw the first part of that documentary.
(opening it up to ARM-based devices, particularly.)
Actually, NaCl already works on ARM. Though PNaCl will make it easier to develop for, as you won't need to maintain different builds for each platform.
You realize the JVM and a Java application are not the same thing, right? And I'm not saying the Register article is wrong, but I would take with a grain of salt anything Microsoft has to say about Java.
That almost sounds like Netflix. Almost, because half the time the show I'm looking for isn't on streaming, and they don't have currently-airing stuff. It does have Star Trek though, at least if you're in the US. I agree with you though, I have no interest in cable anymore. Between Netflix and Hulu, I have 90% of everything I'm interested in, and I have bittorrent for the rest.
There's also the networks' web sites for things not on Hulu, but I refuse to watch TV on them, because they pretty much universally suck. Go ahead, try to watch something on CBS's web site - set it to fullscreen, maybe plug the computer in to the TV. You'll get maybe 5-10 minutes until the first commercial, at which point you start cursing the trained monkeys they have coding the player; it dumps you out of fullscreen, takes over your entire browser with an annoying, intrusive ad, and then doesn't return you to fullscreen. Yes, if you're sitting on your couch watching this on your TV, you'll have to get up every 10 minutes to click a button so you don't have to watch the show in a tiny box on your screen. And all this assumes you can even find the show, or that the current episode is available (online access is delayed several days to give everyone time to pirate it instead, if they even make it available online), or that you can watch it without having to stop and buffer every few minutes.
CBS is an especially bad example of how to build a website, but they're all pretty bad. It's like all the networks think the internet is some passing fad and if they ignore it hard enough it will go away. I use legit sources when I can, but when said source comes just short of kicking me in the crotch for trying to watch something on it, I'll take a nice, friendly.mp4 file instead.
Now, every day, you're going to get every script kiddie in the internet trying to poke holes in your network.
Uh, how is this different from our current reality? Do you think nobody probes Google's or PayPal's servers, because they might get in trouble? And I don't recall parent saying it should be legal to steal the information, just that people behave unreasonably when you point out a gaping security hole.
True enough. There are many advanced features you find in NoScript but not NotScripts, and I can see how one would miss them. But if all you're looking for is to block flash and ad network/tracking scripts, it gets the job done.
If one page slows/freezes the browser, the entire application slows/freezes
That there is the single biggest reason I switched to Chrome. I got so fed up with the whole browser freezing up every other time I loaded a new web site. If they switch to a process-per-tab setup like Chrome, I'll consider switching back.
Well, not exactly the same. Chrome has this problem to an extent too, because tabs belonging to the same website share a process. So if I'm reading a news site and open up several articles in background tabs, the one I'm reading becomes unresponsive while they load.
I use NotScripts, and while it's not quite as good as NoScript, it still works great. Seems development has stopped though, but it's already perfectly functional as-is.
Actually, I use NotScripts for Chrome OS, which is basically the same thing but removes the need to edit configuration files with a password first. It does introduce the possibility of web sites looking at what sites I've disabled and enabled, but I really don't care if some site knows I let youtube.com run scripts on my browser. This also makes it easier to recover your site settings from a corrupted profile, or when you want to move them to another computer, both of which have happened to me.
Of course Catholics are Christians, but they don't represent all of Christianity. They do things other sects don't, for example, the transubstantiation thing we're talking about here. You might say Catholicism is a superset of baseline Christianity.
To put it in a car analogy, all DeLoreans are cars, but not all cars are DeLoreans. DeLoreans have certain features that other brands don't, and they certainly do many things differently. So if you're going to make a crack about a time travel, you better make sure it has a DeLorean, because those are the only kind with enough room in the backseat for a flux capacitor.
Catholics take that verse far more seriously, and to an extent literally, than most other Christian sects. They have something called transubstantiation, in which they believe the bread and wine of the sacrament physically represents Jesus's flesh and blood. Most other sects view it as a metaphor, the flesh and blood being the word of God. As only Catholics attach literal meaning to this statement, any cannibalism jokes should be directed at them.
Yes, I know I'm being overly pedantic. In my defense, I had way too much to eat at thanksgiving dinner and am currently only capable of nitpicking wisecracks made by strangers on the internet. I promise by this time tomorrow I'll return to Slashdot's regular schedule of car analogies and Apple hating.
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Yes, because you should be innocent until proven guilty. If they can only prove you pirated one song, that's all they should be able to sue for. Copyright has nothing to do with it.
That's right, though I've heard it works well in Wine.
Have you tried foobar2000? It's simple and minimal like Winamp used to be, but still extensible with plugins if you need functionality not built-in.
I desperately want to live in a world where this becomes reality.
If you are hardware that supports it, I'd be more worried about you being Skynet. And that Skynet runs OS X.
Makes sense to me. How do you think De Beers does it? Do you really think they just find them in holes in the ground?
Actually, I was trying to make a reference to the video game Mass Effect, but I think it ended up sounding better in my head. If you haven't/don't want to play the game, *SPOILER ALERT* it is revealed as the story progresses that whenever the sentient races in the galaxy reach a certain technological level sentient machine-ships (who spend the rest of the time in hibernation outside the galaxy) sweep through and destroy all intelligent life in the galaxy. The reasons for doing this were not revealed; at one point you get the chance to speak to one of these machines, and it claims we would not be capable of understanding why even if wanted to tell you.
By the "first part", I mean I've only finished the first entry of the trilogy and don't know what happens in the second or the yet-to-be-released third game. I'm going to go out on a limb and guess the situation becomes increasingly dire as the stakes rise to epic levels, until at the last minute when all seems lost our Main Characters consisting of a ragtag group of humans and aliens emerge victorious in some sort of final battle/mission where the odds are against success a thousand to one, yet we miraculously win anyways because we can't make more sequels if everyone's dead.
I thought we already knew, it's Space Robots who kill everything every 50,000 years or so because... uh... I don't know, I only saw the first part of that documentary.
I hope you did that on purpose, otherwise you may want to go back to cooking school.
(opening it up to ARM-based devices, particularly.)
Actually, NaCl already works on ARM. Though PNaCl will make it easier to develop for, as you won't need to maintain different builds for each platform.
You realize the JVM and a Java application are not the same thing, right? And I'm not saying the Register article is wrong, but I would take with a grain of salt anything Microsoft has to say about Java.
HTML5 has native embedded SVG now, which can be manipulated with Javascript. It's not as functional as Flash (yet), but it is possible.
Yeah, everyone knows women can't program. Or wait, was that drive cars?
Well, I know for sure they can't do both at the same time. Morons.
That would only work if we could confirm the existence of oil on the planet.
That almost sounds like Netflix. Almost, because half the time the show I'm looking for isn't on streaming, and they don't have currently-airing stuff. It does have Star Trek though, at least if you're in the US. I agree with you though, I have no interest in cable anymore. Between Netflix and Hulu, I have 90% of everything I'm interested in, and I have bittorrent for the rest.
There's also the networks' web sites for things not on Hulu, but I refuse to watch TV on them, because they pretty much universally suck. Go ahead, try to watch something on CBS's web site - set it to fullscreen, maybe plug the computer in to the TV. You'll get maybe 5-10 minutes until the first commercial, at which point you start cursing the trained monkeys they have coding the player; it dumps you out of fullscreen, takes over your entire browser with an annoying, intrusive ad, and then doesn't return you to fullscreen. Yes, if you're sitting on your couch watching this on your TV, you'll have to get up every 10 minutes to click a button so you don't have to watch the show in a tiny box on your screen. And all this assumes you can even find the show, or that the current episode is available (online access is delayed several days to give everyone time to pirate it instead, if they even make it available online), or that you can watch it without having to stop and buffer every few minutes.
CBS is an especially bad example of how to build a website, but they're all pretty bad. It's like all the networks think the internet is some passing fad and if they ignore it hard enough it will go away. I use legit sources when I can, but when said source comes just short of kicking me in the crotch for trying to watch something on it, I'll take a nice, friendly .mp4 file instead.
You can make your own, too. Gamecube cards are actually just SD cards in a larger form factor, so it's just a matter of bridging the pinouts.
Now, every day, you're going to get every script kiddie in the internet trying to poke holes in your network.
Uh, how is this different from our current reality? Do you think nobody probes Google's or PayPal's servers, because they might get in trouble? And I don't recall parent saying it should be legal to steal the information, just that people behave unreasonably when you point out a gaping security hole.
True enough. There are many advanced features you find in NoScript but not NotScripts, and I can see how one would miss them. But if all you're looking for is to block flash and ad network/tracking scripts, it gets the job done.
Well, you could always use Chromium, which is basically Chrome before Google's tracking nonsense is added.
If one page slows/freezes the browser, the entire application slows/freezes
That there is the single biggest reason I switched to Chrome. I got so fed up with the whole browser freezing up every other time I loaded a new web site. If they switch to a process-per-tab setup like Chrome, I'll consider switching back.
Well, not exactly the same. Chrome has this problem to an extent too, because tabs belonging to the same website share a process. So if I'm reading a news site and open up several articles in background tabs, the one I'm reading becomes unresponsive while they load.
See my post above, I've used NoScript, I use NotScripts on Chrome now, and I don't miss any functionality.
I use NotScripts, and while it's not quite as good as NoScript, it still works great. Seems development has stopped though, but it's already perfectly functional as-is.
Actually, I use NotScripts for Chrome OS, which is basically the same thing but removes the need to edit configuration files with a password first. It does introduce the possibility of web sites looking at what sites I've disabled and enabled, but I really don't care if some site knows I let youtube.com run scripts on my browser. This also makes it easier to recover your site settings from a corrupted profile, or when you want to move them to another computer, both of which have happened to me.
ACs are so cute when they think their opinion matters!
Of course Catholics are Christians, but they don't represent all of Christianity. They do things other sects don't, for example, the transubstantiation thing we're talking about here. You might say Catholicism is a superset of baseline Christianity.
To put it in a car analogy, all DeLoreans are cars, but not all cars are DeLoreans. DeLoreans have certain features that other brands don't, and they certainly do many things differently. So if you're going to make a crack about a time travel, you better make sure it has a DeLorean, because those are the only kind with enough room in the backseat for a flux capacitor.
Catholics take that verse far more seriously, and to an extent literally, than most other Christian sects. They have something called transubstantiation, in which they believe the bread and wine of the sacrament physically represents Jesus's flesh and blood. Most other sects view it as a metaphor, the flesh and blood being the word of God. As only Catholics attach literal meaning to this statement, any cannibalism jokes should be directed at them.
Yes, I know I'm being overly pedantic. In my defense, I had way too much to eat at thanksgiving dinner and am currently only capable of nitpicking wisecracks made by strangers on the internet. I promise by this time tomorrow I'll return to Slashdot's regular schedule of car analogies and Apple hating.