This is a huge undertaking by CBS/Paramount and I hope they do justice to the series by not tampering too much with the special effects (which have to be redone in HD). From what i've seen of some of the episodes in HD the content looks impressive but does have its flaws. Part of one episode (Sins of the father) looks upscaled from DVD whilst the rest looks like a direct lift off the 35mm source.
Gnome developers are clueless idiots who are ripping off OS X in an attempt to look hip. Maybe they should team up with Comical if they're so obsessed with copyring everything Apple is doing.
Thank god for the CLI and Xfce!
Windows 8 is just more of the same insecure bloatware from Microsoft. Only those with padlocked minds and no respect for their freedoms would choose an OS by this convicted monopolist.
This is a relatively mild exploit that has been effectively squashed. Why all the hoopla over nothing ? One should be more concerned with Microsoft and the trucKload of exploits that have yet to be addressed with Vista. Windows 7 and IE.
These surveillance and data retention laws are a violation of civil liberties and freedoms. There is no need for government to capture and retain all voice and most data traffice of common users. It's obscene and could only be justified if the person/persons being monitored have committed or are engaged in serious criminal activites.
These laws treat everyone like a criminal or terrorist. Sheer insanity. Where will it end ?
Shuttledork is just a misguided cointrol freak who is desperate to turn a profit from his charity venture (Canonical). The sheer arrogance of the guy and his failure to acknowledge the Debian community as the base for Ubuntu are two things that piss me off. His sanctimonious and hostile attitude towards Linux users is sickening to watch and is so far removed from what open source is all about. He has totally lost the plot and is now pushing Ubuntu down a proprietary path for which their is no turning back. He will either sink or swim. I'm betting that Canonical will get aborbed by somebody who knows better than Shuttledork and his and his band of tools.
Canonical are once again shooting themselves in the foot by introducing radically new and awkward changes to the desktop environment of Ubuntu. Now they want to incorporate a useless HUD which will slow users down even more and frustrate the hell out of them. Is there no end to the madness at Canonical ? Haven't they learned that users are NOT happy with their absurd changes (re Unity) and their complete and utter failure to fix serious breakages and regressions with Ubuntu itself ? Obviously not - Canonical is being run a bunch of lying, self-absorbed opportunists who think their way is best and stuff everyone else. I'm so glad I dumped this fascist distro and moved to LMDE. Canonical can sink and die for all I care.
Microsoft are so desperate to contain the widespread adoption of GNU/Linux on non-x86 platforms they have to now resort to OS lockout. Instead of competing fairly by actually developing good software Microsoft would rather choose the path of least effort - and greater hostility
Same old. Same new. Microsoft will never change unless the toothless tigers in government decide to break up this behemoth of a company.
What's scary is that people who sell their pc's or just dump them in the street are keeping data intact on their hard drives Some go to the trouble of doing a high level format thinking they're safe (big mistake) whilst others only do a standard secure erase which does nothing to ensure that personal data can't be recovered. Is it any wonder that identity fraud is now rampant because of the stupidity and sheer ignorance of people using computers and mobile devices.
Touch and smartphone interfaces are not a huge hit at all unless one believes all the propaganda and lies from companies like Canonical. These interfaces are pure garbage and are simply a way of making desktops less customizable and dumbed-down. The end result ? - little or no control over one's computing device.
Unity is a solution looking for a problem. It's awkward, clunky, unstable and just totally inappropriate for desktop use. On a large screen (24"+) that goddam launch bar is hideous and it wastes valuable screen space. Shuttleworth and the other clowns at Comical must have rocks in their head if they think people are going to embrace a dumbed-down smartphone interface on laptops and desktops. It's plainly obvious they don't give a rats ass about power users and those who want a clean and and functional desktop environment. They are too busy trying to copy Apple and that goddam awful Mac OS X.
Social networking sites and search engines are used for data collection and data mining. I've been telling people for years that their activity will be monitored, captured and tracked yet people sre still willing to tradeoff their privacy for convenience. Ignorance knows no bounds.
So what ? The Mint team needs all the support they can get. Right now I'm hoping they will divert more of their attention to LMDE. It would be great if the team stopped piggybacking off Ubuntu and just focused on making a solid and polished Debian-based distro that appeals to everyone.
The government and intelligence agencies are treating citizens like terrorists and internet users as enemy combatants. They have no interest in serving the people and are doing their very best to destroy our civil liberties and freedoms. Take a look at the S-1867 bill that was recently passed - it gives the military sweeping powers to arrest, detain and incarcerate people without any legal recourse.
Welcome to hell. You are a number and have no rights.
This fraud should not have occurred if the victim had been more vigilant about his online security. The crooks would, in addition to obtaining an sms token, have to also obtain a valid userid and password. Clearly, if they were able to get both of these details using social engineering or a keylogging trojan then the victim must be a careless and clueless idiot. He admits tio using an insecure machine for his online banking and is surprised at the outcome ?
This is another good reason why a trusted and secure OS like Linux makes more sense for online banking.
If Firefox disappears from the scene it will be a sad day for the www. I suspect that Google doesn't want to see this happen yet its continual development priorities with Chrome and it's nefarious agenda are clearly at odds with Mozilla's direction for Firefox. Google will probably just throw Mozilla a bone and say "here, work with this amount of $xxx and don't infringe on our browser's functionality". Conceivably, Firefox could become a second tier browser for Google that helps to ensure their dominance in the browsing domain.
I suspect various governments around the world will bow to the vested interests of media companies and introduce a copyright tax/levy on all entertainment products. The big issue is just how much of the revenue obtained from such an indirect tax would go the government and how much would go the media companies.
There are so many dffferent ways people can watch content today besides the TV. We have smartphones, tablets, netbooks, laptops, media players etc. Cheap LCD monitors are being used for games consoles and DVD/Bluray disc watching instead of gawking at free to air rubbish. The multitude of choices for watching content has impacted TV sales quite a bit and the manufacturers are trying to arrest this decline by offering more smart features built into TVs. The problem is, a lot of these extra features (eg. 3D, video streaming) are too awkward to use or require some proprietary configuration. In addition to the above, many people are fed up waiting for shows to appear on FTA TV ad have opted to source their content online instead.
I just hope clem and his Mint team do as good a job with LMDE. It's been too long since the last update pack and many users are making noises about LMDE being a sleeper distro. I'm not one of them. I would prefer that the developers get it right and focus on stability rather than put out something that is half baked
Like a lot of departments today, IT is run by boneheaded bean counters who lack any comprehension of technical matters. I regularly have to fight with these moronic turds for extra funding whilst having to endure the wrath of irate "clients" who think network engineers can work magic. The term "chief shit stirrer" is used a lot when referring to system engineers and is considered (in my view) as both apt and offensive.
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This is a huge undertaking by CBS/Paramount and I hope they do justice to the series by not tampering too much with the special effects (which have to be redone in HD). From what i've seen of some of the episodes in HD the content looks impressive but does have its flaws. Part of one episode (Sins of the father) looks upscaled from DVD whilst the rest looks like a direct lift off the 35mm source.
Gnome developers are clueless idiots who are ripping off OS X in an attempt to look hip. Maybe they should team up with Comical if they're so obsessed with copyring everything Apple is doing. Thank god for the CLI and Xfce!
Do people actually use Kubuntu ? It would have to be the worst KDE-based distro on the planet. Simply awful.
support for VDPAU ?
Windows 8 is just more of the same insecure bloatware from Microsoft. Only those with padlocked minds and no respect for their freedoms would choose an OS by this convicted monopolist.
This is a relatively mild exploit that has been effectively squashed. Why all the hoopla over nothing ? One should be more concerned with Microsoft and the trucKload of exploits that have yet to be addressed with Vista. Windows 7 and IE.
The US is run by criminals and warmongering thugs who think they control the world.
These surveillance and data retention laws are a violation of civil liberties and freedoms. There is no need for government to capture and retain all voice and most data traffice of common users. It's obscene and could only be justified if the person/persons being monitored have committed or are engaged in serious criminal activites. These laws treat everyone like a criminal or terrorist. Sheer insanity. Where will it end ?
Shuttledork is just a misguided cointrol freak who is desperate to turn a profit from his charity venture (Canonical). The sheer arrogance of the guy and his failure to acknowledge the Debian community as the base for Ubuntu are two things that piss me off. His sanctimonious and hostile attitude towards Linux users is sickening to watch and is so far removed from what open source is all about. He has totally lost the plot and is now pushing Ubuntu down a proprietary path for which their is no turning back. He will either sink or swim. I'm betting that Canonical will get aborbed by somebody who knows better than Shuttledork and his and his band of tools.
Canonical are once again shooting themselves in the foot by introducing radically new and awkward changes to the desktop environment of Ubuntu. Now they want to incorporate a useless HUD which will slow users down even more and frustrate the hell out of them. Is there no end to the madness at Canonical ? Haven't they learned that users are NOT happy with their absurd changes (re Unity) and their complete and utter failure to fix serious breakages and regressions with Ubuntu itself ? Obviously not - Canonical is being run a bunch of lying, self-absorbed opportunists who think their way is best and stuff everyone else. I'm so glad I dumped this fascist distro and moved to LMDE. Canonical can sink and die for all I care.
Microsoft are so desperate to contain the widespread adoption of GNU/Linux on non-x86 platforms they have to now resort to OS lockout. Instead of competing fairly by actually developing good software Microsoft would rather choose the path of least effort - and greater hostility Same old. Same new. Microsoft will never change unless the toothless tigers in government decide to break up this behemoth of a company.
... the security breach was internal. That would explain their reluctance to comment on this breach in detail.
What's scary is that people who sell their pc's or just dump them in the street are keeping data intact on their hard drives Some go to the trouble of doing a high level format thinking they're safe (big mistake) whilst others only do a standard secure erase which does nothing to ensure that personal data can't be recovered. Is it any wonder that identity fraud is now rampant because of the stupidity and sheer ignorance of people using computers and mobile devices.
Touch and smartphone interfaces are not a huge hit at all unless one believes all the propaganda and lies from companies like Canonical. These interfaces are pure garbage and are simply a way of making desktops less customizable and dumbed-down. The end result ? - little or no control over one's computing device.
I mean really, who cares about a malevolent dictator kicking the bucket ?
Unity is a solution looking for a problem. It's awkward, clunky, unstable and just totally inappropriate for desktop use. On a large screen (24"+) that goddam launch bar is hideous and it wastes valuable screen space. Shuttleworth and the other clowns at Comical must have rocks in their head if they think people are going to embrace a dumbed-down smartphone interface on laptops and desktops. It's plainly obvious they don't give a rats ass about power users and those who want a clean and and functional desktop environment. They are too busy trying to copy Apple and that goddam awful Mac OS X.
Social networking sites and search engines are used for data collection and data mining. I've been telling people for years that their activity will be monitored, captured and tracked yet people sre still willing to tradeoff their privacy for convenience. Ignorance knows no bounds.
So what ? The Mint team needs all the support they can get. Right now I'm hoping they will divert more of their attention to LMDE. It would be great if the team stopped piggybacking off Ubuntu and just focused on making a solid and polished Debian-based distro that appeals to everyone.
The government and intelligence agencies are treating citizens like terrorists and internet users as enemy combatants. They have no interest in serving the people and are doing their very best to destroy our civil liberties and freedoms. Take a look at the S-1867 bill that was recently passed - it gives the military sweeping powers to arrest, detain and incarcerate people without any legal recourse. Welcome to hell. You are a number and have no rights.
This fraud should not have occurred if the victim had been more vigilant about his online security. The crooks would, in addition to obtaining an sms token, have to also obtain a valid userid and password. Clearly, if they were able to get both of these details using social engineering or a keylogging trojan then the victim must be a careless and clueless idiot. He admits tio using an insecure machine for his online banking and is surprised at the outcome ? This is another good reason why a trusted and secure OS like Linux makes more sense for online banking.
If Firefox disappears from the scene it will be a sad day for the www. I suspect that Google doesn't want to see this happen yet its continual development priorities with Chrome and it's nefarious agenda are clearly at odds with Mozilla's direction for Firefox. Google will probably just throw Mozilla a bone and say "here, work with this amount of $xxx and don't infringe on our browser's functionality". Conceivably, Firefox could become a second tier browser for Google that helps to ensure their dominance in the browsing domain.
I suspect various governments around the world will bow to the vested interests of media companies and introduce a copyright tax/levy on all entertainment products. The big issue is just how much of the revenue obtained from such an indirect tax would go the government and how much would go the media companies.
There are so many dffferent ways people can watch content today besides the TV. We have smartphones, tablets, netbooks, laptops, media players etc. Cheap LCD monitors are being used for games consoles and DVD/Bluray disc watching instead of gawking at free to air rubbish. The multitude of choices for watching content has impacted TV sales quite a bit and the manufacturers are trying to arrest this decline by offering more smart features built into TVs. The problem is, a lot of these extra features (eg. 3D, video streaming) are too awkward to use or require some proprietary configuration. In addition to the above, many people are fed up waiting for shows to appear on FTA TV ad have opted to source their content online instead.
I just hope clem and his Mint team do as good a job with LMDE. It's been too long since the last update pack and many users are making noises about LMDE being a sleeper distro. I'm not one of them. I would prefer that the developers get it right and focus on stability rather than put out something that is half baked
Like a lot of departments today, IT is run by boneheaded bean counters who lack any comprehension of technical matters. I regularly have to fight with these moronic turds for extra funding whilst having to endure the wrath of irate "clients" who think network engineers can work magic. The term "chief shit stirrer" is used a lot when referring to system engineers and is considered (in my view) as both apt and offensive.