"The kids are supposed to learn how to be responsible, make their own decisions, and generally become members of the society. They cannot learn that while knowing they are under a constant surveillance with no way to escape."
Strange, with the amount of CCTV and data mining around lately that sounds like pretty good practice for when they become adult members of our current society.
In store they're pretty much rubbish, with a lot the employees being school leavers with barely any training. It doesn't surprise me at all that you met someone who didn't realise the real problem or a manager who wanted to get out of repairing a laptop for free.
Try complaining higher up than in store pointing out that a structural defect can't have been caused by software... there are contact details for their complaints department on their website: http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/editorial/Customer_Services (phone/email/snail mail).
Journalling. That driver's nice, but it doesn't support journalling (ext3 is run as ext2, so no journal support). Unless there's another IFS driver which does support a file system with journalling.
There's also the disadvantage that Windows has to boot off a FAT/NTFS drive, so you're at least partially stuck with one of the two.
I don't know if it's possible to enforce DEP on some application and not others.
And the answer is yes, it is possible. Windows runs DEP in either an Always-on, Always-off, Opt-in or Opt-out modes. Opt-out lets you enable DEP by default and then override it for specific programs which break, and Opt-in lets you disable it by default and then enable it for specific programs which'll benefit such as a web server.
But that's actually Windows supporting the NX bit on certain recent CPUs. It *needs* hardware support to work properly.
There is a software substitute which takes effect in case your CPU doesn't support the NX bit, but that only prevents some attacks and *won't* stop execution of code in data pages.
If it's been revoked, then what's the point in chasing the people still posting it? The new DVDs won't use it. The pirates wanting to rip the DVDs already out there using the key will already have it.
The horse has already bolted, so why are they bothering to try to close the stable door?
All they're going to do is irritate bloggers more and make themselves more unpopular by doing so.
Virtual PC 2007 & VMWare. All the games I've played which would need top performance have 32bit installers so I've not needed to run them in a virtual machine. I expect that any recent games wouldn't run very well under it, but I haven't tried. Dune 2000 is, I think, the newest game I've had to run in a virtual machine to get it to install.
16bit installers don't all work on the x64 version of XP (and I'm assuming Vista). XP doesn't 'convert' the 16bit installer to 32bit as the article says... it actually has 32bit versions of several common installers with it. When you try running the 16bit one it recognises it and runs the 32bit replacement instead.
Of course that means only the recognised ones work. There are plenty of installers I've come across which won't work (mostly for games... Dungeon Keeper & Dune 2000 come to mind).
My 'solution' was to run a 32bit version of Windows XP inside a virtual machine and install the programs there. More annoying because I have to run the virtual machine to use them, but at least I can still run them.
You don't give blind people enough credit. I spent a year a couple of years ago working with someone who was completely blind. He was doing programming work. Hell, he was even designing a couple of user interfaces.* He was good at it too.
I know most slashdotters don't read the articles, but did you even read the summary?
Because of that limitation, the only freely available mail client it supports is Windows Live Desktop...
He knows about the program, but doesn't use Windows so the program is useless to him and many others at his university, and he doesn't want to use webmail.
As for emails it might be. Uni announcements probably will be sent out a week or two in advance so he can check them fine on campus, but universities use email for more than that (at least my one does) such as lecturers letting students know stuff. Assessment clarifications, rescheduling tomorrows lecture, that sort of thing. Things you want to see straight away, not sometime next week. I might be biased though - I do a computer science course so my department are probably more likely to use it for that sort of thing than others.
And that leaves the consumer where? A software player can be easily patched using the net in seconds, which almost everyone has now. A hardware player will need servicing or replacing.
Given the cheap price, I imagine most people would not bother and would just buy another. Of a different make, since it would damage that manufacturer's reputation. They probably wouldn't even know that it would need updating since while their new DVD won't play their old ones would still work.
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However, if you find a way to claim to the device that you're a legitimate player, then the dongle will be sending you the media stream in a form you can decrypt so it'll be no different to normal really.
As a refinement to the idea, the dongle could send the decrypted video straight to the video card to play on an overlay. That would probably work better since it wouldn't be so easily circumventable. However even then 1) you could circumvent it using custom hardware snooping the video card's data bus and 2) it'd mean all codecs etc would need to be on the dongle, which'd prevent new codecs being introduced or old ones being patched - firmware updates wouldn't be possible as that would provide the program code which could be decompiled to retrieve the key (even if it was encrypted someone would crack or leak the key).
The problem is that there's ALWAYS the ultimate analog hole - at some point it has to be playable so that we can actually watch it. That means the customer's device must decrypt it at some point and that means there's always going to be some way of getting at the data. They're fighting a battle they've already lost. They're just making customers and their hardware jump through endless loops, some of which are harmful to the customer, while not actually doing anything which'll stop the really determined people (pirates).
Underage drinking isn't the cause of problems with young people in the UK - it's a symptom of deeper problems
I agree it's not the cause of their problems, but it doesn't fix their problems either. There isn't a single positive benefit to letting underage kids drink. It's usually very destructive, both for them and the people around them.
However, most of the incentive to (binge-)drink is because of the taboo around it. The harder it gets for them to get drink, the more 'cool points' they'll get for doing so. Making it harder to get access to the drink won't stop them, it'll actually encourage them even more. The proof of age cards are already as good as they can be. Using ID cards instead wouldn't help at all. There's no way to stop it completely - at the very least they'll be able to just hang around outside an off-licence until they convince/bribe an adult to buy it for them.
I agree it doesn't do them any good, but the long term way to solve it's to solve the problems that are making them drink, not to make it harder to get access to it.
It's a computer vison problem that has had loads of academic papers published telling you how to do it... it'd be pretty easy to make an OSS implementation of one from those papers if anyone's interested in doing so.
Granted, they already have something like this in the DOCTYPE, that's what '-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN' is, but then they blow it by then including the path after that. The parser should, instead, have to look at W3C and go 'Hey, I know where that is, that's w3c.org' and construct a standardized path using 'DTD HTML 4.01', like 'http://w3c.org/doctype/HTML4.01.dtd'. (And I just realized that string mysteriously doesn't include 'strict' or whatever in it, so now I'm slightly confused as to what good it's for.)
Just a few of the recognised ones are:
"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Strict//EN" "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Frameset//EN" "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"...which do include the strict etc. information.
"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" which you asked about is equivalent to "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Strict//EN"
Given that I've seen some websites using relative paths (ick) I'm guessing that they are used, by some parsers anyway, as an alternative to the path. I suspect it's up to the parser which order it tries them in or if it will even try more than one.
Yes, it is retarded. It's not like there's not enough to go around, and trying to keep a monopoly on all of it would be impossible. There's just too much to keep an eye on.
It'd be nice if warfare never reached space. Sadly that's rather idealistic and extremely unlikely to happen.:(
I'm not sure whether this is what he meant, but I would personally like to see the ability to add extra bookmark toolbars. Currently you can only have one, showing the contents of the Bookmarks Toolbar Folder; I'd quite like the ability to have more than one and link each to a different bookmark folder. So far as I know, there is no way to do this in any of the current versions.
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"The kids are supposed to learn how to be responsible, make their own decisions, and generally become members of the society. They cannot learn that while knowing they are under a constant surveillance with no way to escape."
Strange, with the amount of CCTV and data mining around lately that sounds like pretty good practice for when they become adult members of our current society.
In store they're pretty much rubbish, with a lot the employees being school leavers with barely any training. It doesn't surprise me at all that you met someone who didn't realise the real problem or a manager who wanted to get out of repairing a laptop for free.
Try complaining higher up than in store pointing out that a structural defect can't have been caused by software... there are contact details for their complaints department on their website: http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/editorial/Customer_Services (phone/email/snail mail).
Indeed... the morning paper said the total number of innocent people still in the database is over 200,000.
Sssssssh! They might hear you!
Journalling.
That driver's nice, but it doesn't support journalling (ext3 is run as ext2, so no journal support). Unless there's another IFS driver which does support a file system with journalling.
There's also the disadvantage that Windows has to boot off a FAT/NTFS drive, so you're at least partially stuck with one of the two.
I don't know if it's possible to enforce DEP on some application and not others.
And the answer is yes, it is possible. Windows runs DEP in either an Always-on, Always-off, Opt-in or Opt-out modes. Opt-out lets you enable DEP by default and then override it for specific programs which break, and Opt-in lets you disable it by default and then enable it for specific programs which'll benefit such as a web server.
But that's actually Windows supporting the NX bit on certain recent CPUs. It *needs* hardware support to work properly.
There is a software substitute which takes effect in case your CPU doesn't support the NX bit, but that only prevents some attacks and *won't* stop execution of code in data pages.
You're assuming that there actually was a beginning, and that's not just something us mortal humans have ingrained into our being. :o)
(Not talking about the current universe starting with the big bang, I mean no beginning to whatever existed for the big bang to happen to/from/in).
Or just upgrade to Firefox 2, which has the feature built in.
If it's been revoked, then what's the point in chasing the people still posting it? The new DVDs won't use it. The pirates wanting to rip the DVDs already out there using the key will already have it.
The horse has already bolted, so why are they bothering to try to close the stable door?
All they're going to do is irritate bloggers more and make themselves more unpopular by doing so.
Virtual PC 2007 & VMWare. All the games I've played which would need top performance have 32bit installers so I've not needed to run them in a virtual machine. I expect that any recent games wouldn't run very well under it, but I haven't tried.
Dune 2000 is, I think, the newest game I've had to run in a virtual machine to get it to install.
16bit installers don't all work on the x64 version of XP (and I'm assuming Vista). XP doesn't 'convert' the 16bit installer to 32bit as the article says... it actually has 32bit versions of several common installers with it. When you try running the 16bit one it recognises it and runs the 32bit replacement instead.
Of course that means only the recognised ones work. There are plenty of installers I've come across which won't work (mostly for games... Dungeon Keeper & Dune 2000 come to mind).
My 'solution' was to run a 32bit version of Windows XP inside a virtual machine and install the programs there. More annoying because I have to run the virtual machine to use them, but at least I can still run them.
You don't give blind people enough credit. I spent a year a couple of years ago working with someone who was completely blind. He was doing programming work. Hell, he was even designing a couple of user interfaces.* He was good at it too.
He knows about the program, but doesn't use Windows so the program is useless to him and many others at his university, and he doesn't want to use webmail.
As for emails it might be. Uni announcements probably will be sent out a week or two in advance so he can check them fine on campus, but universities use email for more than that (at least my one does) such as lecturers letting students know stuff. Assessment clarifications, rescheduling tomorrows lecture, that sort of thing. Things you want to see straight away, not sometime next week. I might be biased though - I do a computer science course so my department are probably more likely to use it for that sort of thing than others.
And that leaves the consumer where? A software player can be easily patched using the net in seconds, which almost everyone has now. A hardware player will need servicing or replacing.
Given the cheap price, I imagine most people would not bother and would just buy another. Of a different make, since it would damage that manufacturer's reputation. They probably wouldn't even know that it would need updating since while their new DVD won't play their old ones would still work.
However, if you find a way to claim to the device that you're a legitimate player, then the dongle will be sending you the media stream in a form you can decrypt so it'll be no different to normal really.
As a refinement to the idea, the dongle could send the decrypted video straight to the video card to play on an overlay. That would probably work better since it wouldn't be so easily circumventable.
However even then 1) you could circumvent it using custom hardware snooping the video card's data bus and 2) it'd mean all codecs etc would need to be on the dongle, which'd prevent new codecs being introduced or old ones being patched - firmware updates wouldn't be possible as that would provide the program code which could be decompiled to retrieve the key (even if it was encrypted someone would crack or leak the key).
The problem is that there's ALWAYS the ultimate analog hole - at some point it has to be playable so that we can actually watch it. That means the customer's device must decrypt it at some point and that means there's always going to be some way of getting at the data. They're fighting a battle they've already lost. They're just making customers and their hardware jump through endless loops, some of which are harmful to the customer, while not actually doing anything which'll stop the really determined people (pirates).
However, most of the incentive to (binge-)drink is because of the taboo around it. The harder it gets for them to get drink, the more 'cool points' they'll get for doing so. Making it harder to get access to the drink won't stop them, it'll actually encourage them even more. The proof of age cards are already as good as they can be. Using ID cards instead wouldn't help at all. There's no way to stop it completely - at the very least they'll be able to just hang around outside an off-licence until they convince/bribe an adult to buy it for them.
I agree it doesn't do them any good, but the long term way to solve it's to solve the problems that are making them drink, not to make it harder to get access to it.
It's a computer vison problem that has had loads of academic papers published telling you how to do it... it'd be pretty easy to make an OSS implementation of one from those papers if anyone's interested in doing so.
But you don't pay 1c per visit/visitor to a domain name.
Granted, they already have something like this in the DOCTYPE, that's what '-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN' is, but then they blow it by then including the path after that. The parser should, instead, have to look at W3C and go 'Hey, I know where that is, that's w3c.org' and construct a standardized path using 'DTD HTML 4.01', like 'http://w3c.org/doctype/HTML4.01.dtd'. (And I just realized that string mysteriously doesn't include 'strict' or whatever in it, so now I'm slightly confused as to what good it's for.)
...which do include the strict etc. information.
Just a few of the recognised ones are:
"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Strict//EN"
"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Frameset//EN"
"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" which you asked about is equivalent to "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Strict//EN"
Given that I've seen some websites using relative paths (ick) I'm guessing that they are used, by some parsers anyway, as an alternative to the path. I suspect it's up to the parser which order it tries them in or if it will even try more than one.
Yes, it is retarded. It's not like there's not enough to go around, and trying to keep a monopoly on all of it would be impossible. There's just too much to keep an eye on.
:(
It'd be nice if warfare never reached space. Sadly that's rather idealistic and extremely unlikely to happen.
A: "I own this"
B: "Own what? There's nothing there!"
I'm not sure whether this is what he meant, but I would personally like to see the ability to add extra bookmark toolbars. Currently you can only have one, showing the contents of the Bookmarks Toolbar Folder; I'd quite like the ability to have more than one and link each to a different bookmark folder. So far as I know, there is no way to do this in any of the current versions.
Ah! Hadn't seen that.
:)
Thanks!