Whether it was a calculated bit of political posturing, I nonetheless found it telling that (Frank) Jim Sensenbrenner (Jr.) voted for the amendment. As in the very same Jim Sensenbrenner, the House sponsor of the Patriot Act. That shocked me. He got an email and a phone call from me, given that he's my rep.
I wonder if they kept browser referrer info from those who did the surveys, to see what might reasonably be gotten by way of info indicating any useful demographic data. Who would learn of the survey site, from where, and who would bother to spend any time going through the images? Would everyone rating image pairs automatically be a hipster douchebag? Or maybe you mean it's the hipster douchebags from MIT who did this.
I've watched it happen in two medium-sized cities (pop. ~ 200,00 or so) each over a ten-year period. In both, it was an area near or basically in downtown, formerly a mix of business, retail, office, some housing in the upper stories, that had for various reasons gotten run down. Often the process had apparently been accelerated by the combo of suburbs and shopping centres. There's still be some shops, some housing, amidst too many empty storefronts and whole buildings.
The city might tinker with zoning, an enterprising building owner or holding company might figure that it'd be better to lower rents than to pay taxes on empty space, so a mix of people would move in - downtown workers, students, artists, and, yes, in the day, hippies, whatever that conjures in your mind. They generally were members of the aforementioned groups. Some new biz would open - an eatery, a small grocery, a candle shop, what have you. It became a neighborhood where you lived, worked in or nearby, knew your neighbors, played and enjoyed.
After a while, as you say, the area became prosperous; few vacancies of any type, rents got raised, buildings got bought and condo-ized, the place often becoming rather sterile and uninviting in the process, apart maybe for a couple of up-scale clubs and eateries, maybe a high-end fashion shop and gallery or so. The folks that then lived there considered it charming in some way, no doubt, but much of the vibrancy was gone, replaced by the hustle of flash and trash sophistication so beloved by upwardly mobile rich folks - more image than substance, in my book, a gloss of final coat on the sterility and blandness.
But for five, ten years, even longer, a fine place to live, the kind of place that when you walked out of a morning just looking at it made you feel good, and belonged.
Well, you know how it is. One day somebody figures it'd be handy to store some stuff, so some extra hard drives get bought. Then it'd be handy to set up an old machine to serve the stuff out instead of going in through somebody's shared folder. Then a few more hard drives are added, maybe a UPS. The assemblage is stuck in a corner, maybe next to someone's desk - hey, stick it in that closet down the hall, or in the copy-machine room, or in the unused whatever room next to the break room. Et voilà, a real live server is born. And in one fashion or another, if demand rises, it can even snowball from there, especially as projects come and go, and there's even more data to store... somewhere.
Maybe it's reasonable of them to want to find out just what they've got, scattered about here and there beyond what they know to be honest-to-God data centers with their own mailing addresses, power bills, and lease. I confess, were I in their shoes, I'd be curious also. Then add to that, how does one reasonably and efficiently evaluate what amounts of savings for what amounts of effort? There's also the question, if the data is worth keeping, to what extent would it be beneficial to be better able to share it? And what's the better and cheaper way to do that? Inquiring minds, and all that. It's not my biz, so my picture of it might be screwy, but the curiosity remains.
"The document was presented by the Joint Chiefs of Staff to Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara on 13 March 1962 as a preliminary submission for planning purposes. The Joint Chiefs of Staff recommended that both the covert and overt aspects of any such operation be assigned to them.
The previously secret document was originally made public on 18 November 1997, by the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Review Board,[4] a U.S. federal agency overseeing the release of government records related to John F. Kennedy's assassination.[5][6]"
Please note the first release was 35 years (more of a quibble and still a remarkably long time) and it was done by people working at a federal agency, not by an outside party using FOIA. Please also note that the memorandum outlined over a dozen covert actions and among them were several domestic terrorist acts. Most if not all were designed to be bloodless, from my reading. Had they happened it's anyone's guess as to unforeseen consequences, of course.
http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/northwoods.html source: From BODY OF SECRETS, James Bamford, Doubleday, 2001, p.82 and following.
Scanned and edited by NY Transfer News. From my reading, the material here taken from the book is not consistent with documents that were already in the public record. While I've read Bamford from "The Puzzle Palace" on, the number of errors here show me his account of Northwood is to be taken with a bit of salt. See caveat below.
http://911review.com/precedent/century/northwoods.html The first half of the web page presents from what I can figure a pretty good account with a timeline for the release of documents. It iterates the account at Wikipedia and for all I know uses the same sources if not just lifting it.
So, the first release comes from a federal agency in 1997. Several sites have photocopies of the memorandum. I used "operation northwoods" as search term in duckduckgo for all of this.
All accounts are a retelling from that point, some better than others. As for Bamford's book, I'd have to start with looking at his footnotes and sources, particularly where he seems to be rather free with quotations from conversations. If he had good additional sources, on or off the record, it would help to more easily accept his version.
Thanks to you, MrEricSir, and AC following for getting some truth out. As a long-time (well, over the short time they existed, plus later on before I got a "PC") user of the ST line, I mostly liked and admired many of those involved many of those involved in both divisions, and valued the few conversations with Bob Brodie, John Townsend, Ken Badertscher, and others.
What's left of the middle class is becoming more irrelevant as a social class, and the loss of revenue from them will be used to further stratify the status quo whilst excusing further privation for the lowers. It's long been my impression that the ubermenschen tend to be petty, paranoid, sadistic, and not terribly bright as a class, none of which matters. Far enough along the system may possibly collapse due to widespread rot but the core families of the few brighter ones will always prosper, essentially hidden, as I surmise they have done for many centuries, since I figure they're self-pruning and remain sufficiently prudent in how they manage their affairs.
I don't consider the class to be monolithic but I think it largely irrelevant in terms of their effect on the remainder of the species. It's only the relative openness of late that calls any of this into question, but attention spans are short as are memories.
Yeah, I liked that - it had the ring of self-consistency from a start at least as plausible start as any of the others and lent a fine back story for the arc. Another one I came across, earlier and simpler, was as payback by the Diem family.
A couple of the grade schools I attended in mid to late Fifties used to hand out iodine tablets one per student once or twice per week for the prevention of goiter. IIRC a few families objected and had to sign a waiver.
Then you're going to the wrong restaurants. No kitchen where I cooked over-salted anything - it is simply not done and gets in the way of proper seasoning anyway. Salt was often the last thing added, and only to the point of just enough, if that. In commercial kitchens making up food for hundreds at a time, if anything foods were under-salted, given the propensity of diners to shake salt and pepper onto almost everything by reflex. The only items with extra salt had it intrinsically as part of drying or curing - anchovies, ham, and the like. But these days cooks may be cooking differently, I suppose, so maybe there are no right restaurants left.
Thanks for that. That was my memory of it also, and when "In Like Flint" came out, I and most people I knew caught the reference easily. I don't know from which possible source came my first seeing the phrase, even where, but it was late Fifties. What I do recall is I and a few classmates finding occasion, no matter how contrived, to use it daily for a few weeks 'cuz it was an "in" thing to us.
If there is any advantage whatsoever in being dim-witted, stupid, and ill-informed it's that I can find what Illiri does to be interesting. (And yes, the first thing I thought of was listening to my old Zoom modem initiate handshake.)
Left out of this discussion is that one of the big reasons for wide-screen monitors was to better display movies without severe cropping (as is done for standard television) or letter-boxing. An increasing percentage of computer buyers (mostly laptops, to be sure) were buying them to more easily watch things from a greater variety of sources rather than for doing traditional "computer" stuff. It gave them greater flexibility to do whatever they wanted to do.
I've got this desktop, a laptop used mostly when I go to hospital or to take along when working on someone else's computer, and no TV. Wide-screen display on both machines makes things easier for me to be able to do what I want.
True, but with increasing use of for instance CL, GL, emulators, vm, library lookup (a la Wine), cross-platform languages then the underlying OS will become of lesser importance. I expect the trend to continue until OS is either a matter of user preference for specific usage or be transparent altogether, but it's gonna take a while to get there. Meanwhile, as you say.
It's no accident that the idea comes up repeatedly in sci-fi over many decades of an elite under whose aegis all pure and applied research, all technological and medical developments, are reserved for themselves, shared somewhat with The Accepted, and meted out parsimoniously to The Acceptable at least whilst in the performance of their duties. I think it not so far-fetched to see we're in the midst of that happening.
While wealth has long, if not always, had its own virtue and its own power, it now has under fairly good control an increasing lock on technology and with it communication (thus eventual lock on research - if you can't tell it you can't share it, etc.) and with it their own little forever vision of the future of the species.
To take just the narrow yet furthest reaching realm of research, given the breadth, depth, and pace of experimentation, discovery, publication, collaboration in the vital areas of gene, nano-, and neuro-, along with computational studies and modeling viz. AI, robotic vision systems, and various developments in movement and power systems, there's absolutely no way that sneaker-net can be of any effective use apart from as a curiosity to be squashed whenever needful.
It's game over, folks. The only larger laws still operating are those of, say, thermodynamics. Those of you with brains, talent, and the capacity for obsequious loyalty will have some kind of at least somewhat congenial future. For the rest of us, not so much.
"That a few (90-99+%) might suffer that the worthy shall prosper is the nature of Life, is it not?" Well of course it is, and every self-congratulatory sanctimonious fuck on this site will be slurping this up with a spoon. Until, also of course, they discover just how much their masters truly value them. Turtles all the way down, so take comfort in your zone.
Hmm. Upon reflection this is nothing new; it's as it was, is, and will be. Vagaries of law, constitution, politics, the drama of war and boredom of peace, are shadow plays for the underlying reality, and are but amusements for the masses. So, sorry for long post; I wanted to say it anyway, for the exercise, perhaps. Philo 102, maybe; takes me a long time to learn stuff.
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/02/interactive-web-patent and from the last paragraph, Those companies include: Apple, Argosy Publishing, Blockbuster, Citigroup, eBay, Frito-Lay, JP Morgan Chase, New Frontier Media, Office Depot, Perot Systems, Playboy Enterprises International, Rent-A-Center, Sun Microsystems (bought by Oracle while this litigation was underway), and Texas Instruments.
For the amounts of settlements, good luck. Many if not most entities settling out of court do not, or are enjoined so can't, divulge amounts. Often one has to go on rumor, "unidentified sources" and the like. But do look at the names of the companies who settled; most have fairly deep pockets even on small margin.
If you're using Windows, as you indicate a few posts further on, it's because whether it came by default as part of base install or later with an update/upgrade of Windows Media Player, as part of a service pack or licensed codec bundle from Microsoft or third party, the equivalent dll is included. If it's not then one has to track it down and manually place it in several directories (something I've had to do on early XP installs, for instance; if memory serves, it came as default with WMP around SP3.) IIRC, mention of it is made in at least one of the many EULA's.
If you use one of several commercial media players that dll is included as well. It's licensed, legal, and often comes with restrictions on playback.
So when you install at some later point VLC the needed library is already on your system.
My thanks to you and the other AC's who've left me with a far better almost-understanding of neutrinos than when I started. This is the kind of discussion I relish here. It informs, teases (possibles, speculation, what if, how the hell?), and delights my inner scientist. Now I'm off to refresh my non-understanding of CP-violation, causality, and timeline. Again, thank you.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CP_violation and the first section on CP symmetry, there is this gem: "some reactions did not occur as often as their mirror image." The vampire shows up in the mirror only when he's not there?
My head hurts already. But it's kinda fun to try digging this stuff.
In the U.S. alone wood stoves were in common use for some time, generally until the local availability of a natural gas, and they were used indoors, in the kitchen, which most commonly was an intrinsic portion of the living space. A poorly adjusted flue or sudden downdraft could send smoke throughout the house. I've lived in several homes that still used a wood or coal stove. Last I looked, about ten years back, one can still buy such stoves.
I wasn't referring to anachronistic cooking methods, as you apparently have taken it. I referred explicitly to cooking in living spaces. By use of the word "cooking" I addressed, at least by implication, the activity, without any reference to whatever method might be used.
You know that. I know that. Most here know that. The article, and the point, is that some people in the House IT department admit to knowing that. The summary appears to be a bit misleading in referring to VLC as a "CSS-circumventing app" since one usually has to install libdvdcss separately.
Did not RedHat secure a Microsoft key? Ditto for Ubuntu (although they may be simply using RedHat's); the bootloader shim was written some time back, all that was lacking was the key. The links below are fairly old and I haven't been keeping tabs on the matter since I'm not going to be doing a build soon. Last thing I recall reading, tho, indicated the whole thing was a done deal and that if one wanted to install a Linux distro it wouldn't be a problem, just a bit of hassle.
Btw, the key itself comes from Verisign; you can get your own for $99 just like everyone else; or use any of the other approaches as above. Unless the OEM completely locks down it's board, you can also simply bypass the UEFI signing altogether, as required in the spec, as I understand it.
There's certainly precedent; unless local weather was bad much of the time, historically in much of the world cooking was done apart from living spaces - either outside or in an alcove or courtyard. So many of today's houses and apartments really are not that well thought out, if you stop to think about it.
Yours is one of the better counter arguments, to me anyway.
Even as I was reading the article, and the old burnt-out ex-hippie part of me was saying "Right on!" at the same time I was thinking of all the things that could go wrong. I find it uncomfortable to have conflicting opinions on something because then I usually have to stop to try to think about it - and that makes my head hurt even worse. So, thanks, I think, while I wander off for some Ibuprofen.
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Whether it was a calculated bit of political posturing, I nonetheless found it telling that (Frank) Jim Sensenbrenner (Jr.) voted for the amendment. As in the very same Jim Sensenbrenner, the House sponsor of the Patriot Act. That shocked me. He got an email and a phone call from me, given that he's my rep.
If it's all gang tag, pass; if it's mostly street art, maybe.
I wonder if they kept browser referrer info from those who did the surveys, to see what might reasonably be gotten by way of info indicating any useful demographic data. Who would learn of the survey site, from where, and who would bother to spend any time going through the images? Would everyone rating image pairs automatically be a hipster douchebag? Or maybe you mean it's the hipster douchebags from MIT who did this.
I've watched it happen in two medium-sized cities (pop. ~ 200,00 or so) each over a ten-year period. In both, it was an area near or basically in downtown, formerly a mix of business, retail, office, some housing in the upper stories, that had for various reasons gotten run down. Often the process had apparently been accelerated by the combo of suburbs and shopping centres. There's still be some shops, some housing, amidst too many empty storefronts and whole buildings.
The city might tinker with zoning, an enterprising building owner or holding company might figure that it'd be better to lower rents than to pay taxes on empty space, so a mix of people would move in - downtown workers, students, artists, and, yes, in the day, hippies, whatever that conjures in your mind. They generally were members of the aforementioned groups. Some new biz would open - an eatery, a small grocery, a candle shop, what have you. It became a neighborhood where you lived, worked in or nearby, knew your neighbors, played and enjoyed.
After a while, as you say, the area became prosperous; few vacancies of any type, rents got raised, buildings got bought and condo-ized, the place often becoming rather sterile and uninviting in the process, apart maybe for a couple of up-scale clubs and eateries, maybe a high-end fashion shop and gallery or so. The folks that then lived there considered it charming in some way, no doubt, but much of the vibrancy was gone, replaced by the hustle of flash and trash sophistication so beloved by upwardly mobile rich folks - more image than substance, in my book, a gloss of final coat on the sterility and blandness.
But for five, ten years, even longer, a fine place to live, the kind of place that when you walked out of a morning just looking at it made you feel good, and belonged.
Well, you know how it is. One day somebody figures it'd be handy to store some stuff, so some extra hard drives get bought. Then it'd be handy to set up an old machine to serve the stuff out instead of going in through somebody's shared folder. Then a few more hard drives are added, maybe a UPS. The assemblage is stuck in a corner, maybe next to someone's desk - hey, stick it in that closet down the hall, or in the copy-machine room, or in the unused whatever room next to the break room. Et voilà, a real live server is born. And in one fashion or another, if demand rises, it can even snowball from there, especially as projects come and go, and there's even more data to store... somewhere.
Maybe it's reasonable of them to want to find out just what they've got, scattered about here and there beyond what they know to be honest-to-God data centers with their own mailing addresses, power bills, and lease. I confess, were I in their shoes, I'd be curious also. Then add to that, how does one reasonably and efficiently evaluate what amounts of savings for what amounts of effort? There's also the question, if the data is worth keeping, to what extent would it be beneficial to be better able to share it? And what's the better and cheaper way to do that? Inquiring minds, and all that. It's not my biz, so my picture of it might be screwy, but the curiosity remains.
a correction, if you will, from
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods [I have excerpted the following from two paragraphs]
"The document was presented by the Joint Chiefs of Staff to Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara on 13 March 1962 as a preliminary submission for planning purposes. The Joint Chiefs of Staff recommended that both the covert and overt aspects of any such operation be assigned to them.
The previously secret document was originally made public on 18 November 1997, by the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Review Board,[4] a U.S. federal agency overseeing the release of government records related to John F. Kennedy's assassination.[5][6]"
Please note the first release was 35 years (more of a quibble and still a remarkably long time) and it was done by people working at a federal agency, not by an outside party using FOIA. Please also note that the memorandum outlined over a dozen covert actions and among them were several domestic terrorist acts. Most if not all were designed to be bloodless, from my reading. Had they happened it's anyone's guess as to unforeseen consequences, of course.
http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/northwoods.html
source: From BODY OF SECRETS, James Bamford, Doubleday, 2001, p.82 and following.
Scanned and edited by NY Transfer News.
From my reading, the material here taken from the book is not consistent with documents that were already in the public record. While I've read Bamford from "The Puzzle Palace" on, the number of errors here show me his account of Northwood is to be taken with a bit of salt. See caveat below.
http://911review.com/precedent/century/northwoods.html
The first half of the web page presents from what I can figure a pretty good account with a timeline for the release of documents. It iterates the account at Wikipedia and for all I know uses the same sources if not just lifting it.
http://www.net4truthusa.com/operationnorthwoods.htm has photocopies of pages from the memorandum as do others. Also, check out their "music jukebox time machine."
So, the first release comes from a federal agency in 1997. Several sites have photocopies of the memorandum. I used "operation northwoods" as search term in duckduckgo for all of this.
All accounts are a retelling from that point, some better than others. As for Bamford's book, I'd have to start with looking at his footnotes and sources, particularly where he seems to be rather free with quotations from conversations. If he had good additional sources, on or off the record, it would help to more easily accept his version.
Thanks to you, MrEricSir, and AC following for getting some truth out. As a long-time (well, over the short time they existed, plus later on before I got a "PC") user of the ST line, I mostly liked and admired many of those involved many of those involved in both divisions, and valued the few conversations with Bob Brodie, John Townsend, Ken Badertscher, and others.
For some early history, please see:
http://mcurrent.name/atarihistory/atari.html
starts with Nolan Bushnell at Ampex and goes from there.
What's left of the middle class is becoming more irrelevant as a social class, and the loss of revenue from them will be used to further stratify the status quo whilst excusing further privation for the lowers. It's long been my impression that the ubermenschen tend to be petty, paranoid, sadistic, and not terribly bright as a class, none of which matters. Far enough along the system may possibly collapse due to widespread rot but the core families of the few brighter ones will always prosper, essentially hidden, as I surmise they have done for many centuries, since I figure they're self-pruning and remain sufficiently prudent in how they manage their affairs.
I don't consider the class to be monolithic but I think it largely irrelevant in terms of their effect on the remainder of the species. It's only the relative openness of late that calls any of this into question, but attention spans are short as are memories.
Yeah, I liked that - it had the ring of self-consistency from a start at least as plausible start as any of the others and lent a fine back story for the arc. Another one I came across, earlier and simpler, was as payback by the Diem family.
A couple of the grade schools I attended in mid to late Fifties used to hand out iodine tablets one per student once or twice per week for the prevention of goiter. IIRC a few families objected and had to sign a waiver.
Then you're going to the wrong restaurants. No kitchen where I cooked over-salted anything - it is simply not done and gets in the way of proper seasoning anyway. Salt was often the last thing added, and only to the point of just enough, if that. In commercial kitchens making up food for hundreds at a time, if anything foods were under-salted, given the propensity of diners to shake salt and pepper onto almost everything by reflex. The only items with extra salt had it intrinsically as part of drying or curing - anchovies, ham, and the like. But these days cooks may be cooking differently, I suppose, so maybe there are no right restaurants left.
Thanks for that. That was my memory of it also, and when "In Like Flint" came out, I and most people I knew caught the reference easily. I don't know from which possible source came my first seeing the phrase, even where, but it was late Fifties. What I do recall is I and a few classmates finding occasion, no matter how contrived, to use it daily for a few weeks 'cuz it was an "in" thing to us.
If there is any advantage whatsoever in being dim-witted, stupid, and ill-informed it's that I can find what Illiri does to be interesting. (And yes, the first thing I thought of was listening to my old Zoom modem initiate handshake.)
Left out of this discussion is that one of the big reasons for wide-screen monitors was to better display movies without severe cropping (as is done for standard television) or letter-boxing. An increasing percentage of computer buyers (mostly laptops, to be sure) were buying them to more easily watch things from a greater variety of sources rather than for doing traditional "computer" stuff. It gave them greater flexibility to do whatever they wanted to do.
I've got this desktop, a laptop used mostly when I go to hospital or to take along when working on someone else's computer, and no TV. Wide-screen display on both machines makes things easier for me to be able to do what I want.
True, but with increasing use of for instance CL, GL, emulators, vm, library lookup (a la Wine), cross-platform languages then the underlying OS will become of lesser importance. I expect the trend to continue until OS is either a matter of user preference for specific usage or be transparent altogether, but it's gonna take a while to get there. Meanwhile, as you say.
"....and the corresponding war on progress."
It's no accident that the idea comes up repeatedly in sci-fi over many decades of an elite under whose aegis all pure and applied research, all technological and medical developments, are reserved for themselves, shared somewhat with The Accepted, and meted out parsimoniously to The Acceptable at least whilst in the performance of their duties. I think it not so far-fetched to see we're in the midst of that happening.
While wealth has long, if not always, had its own virtue and its own power, it now has under fairly good control an increasing lock on technology and with it communication (thus eventual lock on research - if you can't tell it you can't share it, etc.) and with it their own little forever vision of the future of the species.
To take just the narrow yet furthest reaching realm of research, given the breadth, depth, and pace of experimentation, discovery, publication, collaboration in the vital areas of gene, nano-, and neuro-, along with computational studies and modeling viz. AI, robotic vision systems, and various developments in movement and power systems, there's absolutely no way that sneaker-net can be of any effective use apart from as a curiosity to be squashed whenever needful.
It's game over, folks. The only larger laws still operating are those of, say, thermodynamics. Those of you with brains, talent, and the capacity for obsequious loyalty will have some kind of at least somewhat congenial future. For the rest of us, not so much.
"That a few (90-99+%) might suffer that the worthy shall prosper is the nature of Life, is it not?" Well of course it is, and every self-congratulatory sanctimonious fuck on this site will be slurping this up with a spoon. Until, also of course, they discover just how much their masters truly value them. Turtles all the way down, so take comfort in your zone.
Hmm. Upon reflection this is nothing new; it's as it was, is, and will be. Vagaries of law, constitution, politics, the drama of war and boredom of peace, are shadow plays for the underlying reality, and are but amusements for the masses. So, sorry for long post; I wanted to say it anyway, for the exercise, perhaps. Philo 102, maybe; takes me a long time to learn stuff.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eolas gets you started
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/02/interactive-web-patent and from the last paragraph,
Those companies include: Apple, Argosy Publishing, Blockbuster, Citigroup, eBay, Frito-Lay, JP Morgan Chase, New Frontier Media, Office Depot, Perot Systems, Playboy Enterprises International, Rent-A-Center, Sun Microsystems (bought by Oracle while this litigation was underway), and Texas Instruments.
http://www.law360.com/articles/146435/argosy-first-to-settle-with-eolas-in-web-patent-suit has what I would guess to be an informative article but it's behind a paywall.
For the amounts of settlements, good luck. Many if not most entities settling out of court do not, or are enjoined so can't, divulge amounts. Often one has to go on rumor, "unidentified sources" and the like. But do look at the names of the companies who settled; most have fairly deep pockets even on small margin.
If you're using Windows, as you indicate a few posts further on, it's because whether it came by default as part of base install or later with an update/upgrade of Windows Media Player, as part of a service pack or licensed codec bundle from Microsoft or third party, the equivalent dll is included. If it's not then one has to track it down and manually place it in several directories (something I've had to do on early XP installs, for instance; if memory serves, it came as default with WMP around SP3.) IIRC, mention of it is made in at least one of the many EULA's.
If you use one of several commercial media players that dll is included as well. It's licensed, legal, and often comes with restrictions on playback.
So when you install at some later point VLC the needed library is already on your system.
My thanks to you and the other AC's who've left me with a far better almost-understanding of neutrinos than when I started. This is the kind of discussion I relish here. It informs, teases (possibles, speculation, what if, how the hell?), and delights my inner scientist. Now I'm off to refresh my non-understanding of CP-violation, causality, and timeline. Again, thank you.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CP_violation and the first section on CP symmetry, there is this gem: "some reactions did not occur as often as their mirror image." The vampire shows up in the mirror only when he's not there?
My head hurts already. But it's kinda fun to try digging this stuff.
In the U.S. alone wood stoves were in common use for some time, generally until the local availability of a natural gas, and they were used indoors, in the kitchen, which most commonly was an intrinsic portion of the living space. A poorly adjusted flue or sudden downdraft could send smoke throughout the house. I've lived in several homes that still used a wood or coal stove. Last I looked, about ten years back, one can still buy such stoves.
I wasn't referring to anachronistic cooking methods, as you apparently have taken it. I referred explicitly to cooking in living spaces. By use of the word "cooking" I addressed, at least by implication, the activity, without any reference to whatever method might be used.
You know that. I know that. Most here know that. The article, and the point, is that some people in the House IT department admit to knowing that. The summary appears to be a bit misleading in referring to VLC as a "CSS-circumventing app" since one usually has to install libdvdcss separately.
Did not RedHat secure a Microsoft key? Ditto for Ubuntu (although they may be simply using RedHat's); the bootloader shim was written some time back, all that was lacking was the key. The links below are fairly old and I haven't been keeping tabs on the matter since I'm not going to be doing a build soon. Last thing I recall reading, tho, indicated the whole thing was a done deal and that if one wanted to install a Linux distro it wouldn't be a problem, just a bit of hassle.
Or here: http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/news/uefi-secure-boot-key-provided-by-linux-foundation from Oct. 11 last year.
Or here: http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Features/UEFI-and-Secure-Boot
Or here: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/18/html-single/UEFI_Secure_Boot_Guide/index.html
Btw, the key itself comes from Verisign; you can get your own for $99 just like everyone else; or use any of the other approaches as above. Unless the OEM completely locks down it's board, you can also simply bypass the UEFI signing altogether, as required in the spec, as I understand it.
There's certainly precedent; unless local weather was bad much of the time, historically in much of the world cooking was done apart from living spaces - either outside or in an alcove or courtyard. So many of today's houses and apartments really are not that well thought out, if you stop to think about it.
Yours is one of the better counter arguments, to me anyway.
Even as I was reading the article, and the old burnt-out ex-hippie part of me was saying "Right on!" at the same time I was thinking of all the things that could go wrong. I find it uncomfortable to have conflicting opinions on something because then I usually have to stop to try to think about it - and that makes my head hurt even worse. So, thanks, I think, while I wander off for some Ibuprofen.
First good laugh since I arose yesterday morning - I thank you.