It is illegal to decode digital satellite signals without the permission of the broadcaster, even though they are indiscriminately irradiating most of the United States. If you don't want me to decode it, you shouldn't be so sloppy with your EM, not go running to the government.
"MPAA-puppet cable companies" is a ridiculous sentiment.
Comcast alone is on equal footing with Walt Disney (never mind that the portion of Disney that is a MPAA member is not the largest part of that company, by far). If you added things up, the MPAA studios probably have less revenues than Comcast, and they are almost certainly less profitable (especially if you ask them what their profits were).
Comcast plays hard ball with their customers because they think it is the profitable thing to do, not because they have the MPAA's hand up their ass.
Google needs to try a little harder, Google Groups is one of the biggest sources of spam for discussion groups, to the point that many people simply block it altogether.
I have a borrowed usb->parallel adapter (it really is one way) sitting a few feet away, for hooking up to the borrowed LaserJet 4L. I wish I didn't have to give it back.
(How do I know the cable is 1 way? The driver built into Windows pukes all over itself when it does not get the bidirectional communications that it is expecting)
Abrupt physical destruction is likely to be faster, but you probably don't have to worry that much about the secure part, just overwrite them with one of the software tools that says it does that (DBAN seems to get a lot of mentions).
(Recovery shops are very careful not to talk about what they can't do, but if I read the internets right, they can't read through a couple of writes on a modern drive, and even if they can, your data probably isn't worth it)
All I'm saying is that it might be incidental. If they don't make physical and electronic compatibility a priority, then some other small design decision may trigger the change.
If you haven't noticed yet, 'consumers' are pretty much wholly on laptops and, maybe, integrated desktops. Very few people want to mess around with the insides (and most tinkering is going to be swapping in larger drives or more ram, and the ram thing is sort of going out the window).
It's (mostly) useless for gamers, but one thing Intel does do is make excellent drivers for their graphics chips (at least, that is my experience under XP).
I do the same (Flashblock but no Adblock). It has the advantage of blocking the more annoying end of the ad spectrum without introducing a lot of bother about content accidentally getting blocked, not knowing how much is getting blocked, and so on.
The 'rich media' parts of html5 are going to offer the same challenge (but it seems more likely that browser makers will address it directly).
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It is illegal to decode digital satellite signals without the permission of the broadcaster, even though they are indiscriminately irradiating most of the United States. If you don't want me to decode it, you shouldn't be so sloppy with your EM, not go running to the government.
"MPAA-puppet cable companies" is a ridiculous sentiment.
Comcast alone is on equal footing with Walt Disney (never mind that the portion of Disney that is a MPAA member is not the largest part of that company, by far). If you added things up, the MPAA studios probably have less revenues than Comcast, and they are almost certainly less profitable (especially if you ask them what their profits were).
Comcast plays hard ball with their customers because they think it is the profitable thing to do, not because they have the MPAA's hand up their ass.
Well, either they didn't get it, or they wanted to show everybody that they did get it.
Mod parent DOWN.
It would be easier to just use websites.
Apple is currently only asserting silly levels of control over the app store, not over all data transfers.
It is much more outrageous when a mostly arbitrary legal standard has been found to apply.
Even worse, some hack might shove the data through some perl code:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article7028418.ece
In soup?
Or do you prefer them smushed flat on the road?
You can just use gmane.
Google needs to try a little harder, Google Groups is one of the biggest sources of spam for discussion groups, to the point that many people simply block it altogether.
It's quite likely that the price was a trifle (In Google's eyes).
And Google probably roped them into being employees at least for a few months.
And maybe they just wanted some particular technology.
Process Explorer does a nice job of showing what services are hosted by each instance of svchost.exe:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx
What beef could they possibly have with the U.S.?
It will likely get recycled at some point in the future.
I have a borrowed usb->parallel adapter (it really is one way) sitting a few feet away, for hooking up to the borrowed LaserJet 4L. I wish I didn't have to give it back.
(How do I know the cable is 1 way? The driver built into Windows pukes all over itself when it does not get the bidirectional communications that it is expecting)
Abrupt physical destruction is likely to be faster, but you probably don't have to worry that much about the secure part, just overwrite them with one of the software tools that says it does that (DBAN seems to get a lot of mentions).
(Recovery shops are very careful not to talk about what they can't do, but if I read the internets right, they can't read through a couple of writes on a modern drive, and even if they can, your data probably isn't worth it)
All I'm saying is that it might be incidental. If they don't make physical and electronic compatibility a priority, then some other small design decision may trigger the change.
If you haven't noticed yet, 'consumers' are pretty much wholly on laptops and, maybe, integrated desktops. Very few people want to mess around with the insides (and most tinkering is going to be swapping in larger drives or more ram, and the ram thing is sort of going out the window).
...if you like the look of industrial plastic.
It is nice to know that I am not losing the battle to throw things away as badly as some others.
The set of users that upgrade anything is pretty small. The set of users that upgrade CPUs is even smaller.
(so maybe they are doing it to force more sales, but they are pissing in the wind if they are)
It's (mostly) useless for gamers, but one thing Intel does do is make excellent drivers for their graphics chips (at least, that is my experience under XP).
You know that is just people making accusations, right?
I do the same (Flashblock but no Adblock). It has the advantage of blocking the more annoying end of the ad spectrum without introducing a lot of bother about content accidentally getting blocked, not knowing how much is getting blocked, and so on.
The 'rich media' parts of html5 are going to offer the same challenge (but it seems more likely that browser makers will address it directly).
I read his ranting as a complaint that the changes seem arbitrary and unnecessary, not that they happened.
If the changes made sense to him, he would be less bothered by them.
The problem with that analogy is that the vast majority of door locks have complexity equivalent to 'password123'.
That's a rather magical view of maintenance there.