How is that bad? They're running code that, in essense, is telling the user "yes, this code is safe to run", and not allowing it to run against toolkits they do not know are safe is a bad thing?
Considering this has been a known "exploit" for several years and its not widely used, people are no less safe now than they were a month ago or a year ago.
There's a difference between being unsafe and having a greater risk exposure. If you have safe browsing habits, you are still safe regardless of the added risk exposure from a minor issue being hyped up by Slashdot, even though that issue was known at the time internationalized domain standards were being created, and even though it was hyped up on here a year or two ago.
Plus the fix worked fine here, not sure why some people are seeing problem with it.
So tempting to make a comment mentioning Nintendo dominating video games, Linux on the Desktop, and pigs flying but I already got modded down today in the China article as a troll, so doing it twice might get my hands slapped by the Slashdot gods.
So I agree, the future dominance of Linux on the desktop is sure to cause a drop in the core financials of Microsoft such that the economic viability of the XBox becomes paramount.;-)
And you do realize those human rights organizations have a bit to say about us as well, right?
Don't look down on China because of what happens there versus here unless you are going to understand that the government here wants us to be aware of what their government does and goes out of the way to try to keep us from knowing what ours does.
We are the last country that should claim the moral high ground.
It has nothing to do with that. It has to do with the $20,000 cost that an HD-capable MPEG encoder costs. You can't use a $20 dedicated MPEG chip to do it the way Tivo does.
There are LOTS of HD OTA tuner cards. It records the digital signal directly. There are also HD tuner cards that can do digital cable, but none of them are CableCard so you only get unencrypted channels. (Although with Comcast where I live thats 5-6 HD channels, virtually all of the digital cable channels, and bizarrely the entire NBA pay-per-view lineup, all unencrypted).
Its possible you may start seeing cable-card compatible capture cards at some point, but they will definitely honor the copy-once flags, and will probably be very restrictive about how you man modify the data path from them.
I may give this version of Myth a try, though, if it can handle firewire HD streams, as the blurb suggests.
Well, blinding snowstorms? Probably not. But plowing down a snowman or too is always fun;-)
And yes, on a track. 100mph on a populated road is unsafe... at some point your safety is more in the hands of the idiots around you than your own, and around here 70mph on a dry highway scares me if there is traffic around.
Dozens of hours of professional driver training, including high performance limited traction driving, and specifically targeted high performance ice and snow driving.
Hundreds of hours of track time.
I can guarantee you me driving 60mph in a blinding snowstorm on unplowed roads, I'm a safer driver than the vast majority of people you've ever met. Don't make assumptions. How much direct experience do you have maintaining control of a car with all four wheels broken loose at 100mph in the rain, in heavy traffic moving at the same speeds? Could you recover from that? How much training and experience do you have driving in conditions where you *never* have traction?
A few speeding tickets from a neighboring state does not equate to being an "idiot driver".
Lets hope the "complete drivers' histories, including motor vehicle violations, suspensions and points on licenses" is just going forward, or my insurance is going way up.
You make the assumption that the will of the people is valid on matters of economics. The people, in aggregate, do not have any background in economic theory. They are self-focused, and have a very narrow view about both the way the world really works and the way it has to work for an economy to function.
Imagine the state the US would be in if the will of the ignorant majority was, in fact, what got cast into law.
Better comps would be a big plus... unless you're a high roller, the pit boss rarely pays enough attention to accurate track your betting, especially if you bet in an inconsistent manner at something like craps.
Shoplifting: crime that is hard to get away with, and has an immediate stigma of being a crime P2P: equivalent crime that is easy to get away with, and doesn't have the social stigma of being a criminal.
The stigma and threat of being caught and spending jailtime is the demotivator in the former case. In the latter, if you can't change the opinions of these people that their actions aren't crimes, and its easy to not get caught, you have to severely up the penalties to keep the same level of demotivation.
Thats why penalties are the way they are. P2P isn't a threat to the companies, the mass counterfitting of their products is...
Its worth noting that the penalties for traffiking in stolen property is higher than the stealing itself... the same reason penalties in file sharing are higher than the actual theft of the material.
If you think car companies don't sue each other left and right constantly, you're living with your head in the sand. They sue from things as trivial as naming (Porsche 911 has a "1" in the middle digit because Peugeot owned car names with zero as a middle digit -- the original 911 was a 901)
Car makes sue over grill designs, interior designs, ergonomic innovations, brake system designs, motor design. The lists go on and on.
And clearly nearly 200 years of industrialized history has demonstrated your conentention that those laws can't be passed or enforced are completely incorrect. There are lots of good books about IP cases in the 1700's and 1800's. Hell, the history around the invention and implementation of the telegraph puts all this stuff around the Internet to shame.
Religion was a big factor in the original series as well, it just wasn't a specific plotline.
The original storyline was a retelling of a lot of Mormon teachings. For those who didn't know that, there are a ton of sites on Google that talk about it.
How much bandwidth do you have available to you in Scotland? If thats the law there, that means you could rip every CD and DVD you get your hands on, and put them online for the rest of us.
Got the rest of the season one episodes of Battlestar Galactica taped? I assume you weren't forced to sign anything before buying a product with a tuner in it, right? Those should be free game, too, then.
The law restricts the use of your property on public roads in those cases, it does not restrict your use of your property on private land.
But most important to this conversaion, you have every right to do whatever you want with the physical goods you purchased. Burn the box, microwave the CD, use it as a coaster. The CD is yours.
The contents, however, are not yours. Software is licensed, not sold, and you do not own it. You do not have the rights you seem to think you have around it becuase of your mistaken assumption that you own the software. (Although in most cases I think its a deliberate side-stepping of that fact, not a mistaken assumption... 90% of the posts on here so far are from people who know perfectly well they do not own that software).
I figure its worth pointing out that the statement that this will be a test of how far the DMCA can be applied to software people purchase is inaccurate. Its a test of how far the DMCA can be applied to enforce the fact that people have purchased media and an associated license for the software, and as such have no rights beyond what are granted by the software owner. I'd doubt very many people on/. have ever really bought software.
The publisher can't tell you that you can't use their CD as a coaster, or pop it in a microwave because you bought the CD. They can restrict in any way they want what you can do with the software, however, because you do not own that.
There are bad aspects of the DMCA, but people need to keep in mind that the means of protecting intellectual property and enforcing licenses may be wrong, but the concept is quite valid.
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How is that bad? They're running code that, in essense, is telling the user "yes, this code is safe to run", and not allowing it to run against toolkits they do not know are safe is a bad thing?
Considering this has been a known "exploit" for several years and its not widely used, people are no less safe now than they were a month ago or a year ago.
There's a difference between being unsafe and having a greater risk exposure. If you have safe browsing habits, you are still safe regardless of the added risk exposure from a minor issue being hyped up by Slashdot, even though that issue was known at the time internationalized domain standards were being created, and even though it was hyped up on here a year or two ago.
Plus the fix worked fine here, not sure why some people are seeing problem with it.
So tempting to make a comment mentioning Nintendo dominating video games, Linux on the Desktop, and pigs flying but I already got modded down today in the China article as a troll, so doing it twice might get my hands slapped by the Slashdot gods.
;-)
So I agree, the future dominance of Linux on the desktop is sure to cause a drop in the core financials of Microsoft such that the economic viability of the XBox becomes paramount.
It pains me to say it, I love my XBox.
I guess we can see what side of the China story moderators on /. believe...
Anders Hejlsberg did NOT design Pascal. Dr. Niklaus Wirth did in 1971.
And you do realize those human rights organizations have a bit to say about us as well, right?
Don't look down on China because of what happens there versus here unless you are going to understand that the government here wants us to be aware of what their government does and goes out of the way to try to keep us from knowing what ours does.
We are the last country that should claim the moral high ground.
But you'll have gone blind and won't be able to see the difference anyway.
Yes, all the silver ones have it, both the single and dual tuner versions.
More like 5 gig per second max.
Its raw, uncompressed digital frames. 165 megabytes per second just for the base video data in a 720P stream. Slightly more than that for 1080i.
That 20mbps figure is low for even the compressed bitrate.
It has nothing to do with that. It has to do with the $20,000 cost that an HD-capable MPEG encoder costs. You can't use a $20 dedicated MPEG chip to do it the way Tivo does.
There are LOTS of HD OTA tuner cards. It records the digital signal directly. There are also HD tuner cards that can do digital cable, but none of them are CableCard so you only get unencrypted channels. (Although with Comcast where I live thats 5-6 HD channels, virtually all of the digital cable channels, and bizarrely the entire NBA pay-per-view lineup, all unencrypted).
Its possible you may start seeing cable-card compatible capture cards at some point, but they will definitely honor the copy-once flags, and will probably be very restrictive about how you man modify the data path from them.
I may give this version of Myth a try, though, if it can handle firewire HD streams, as the blurb suggests.
There's a tasteless joke about grilled cat here... but I just can't put my finger on it...
Well, blinding snowstorms? Probably not. But plowing down a snowman or too is always fun ;-)
And yes, on a track. 100mph on a populated road is unsafe... at some point your safety is more in the hands of the idiots around you than your own, and around here 70mph on a dry highway scares me if there is traffic around.
Excuse me?
Zero accidents. Zero. None.
Dozens of hours of professional driver training, including high performance limited traction driving, and specifically targeted high performance ice and snow driving.
Hundreds of hours of track time.
I can guarantee you me driving 60mph in a blinding snowstorm on unplowed roads, I'm a safer driver than the vast majority of people you've ever met. Don't make assumptions. How much direct experience do you have maintaining control of a car with all four wheels broken loose at 100mph in the rain, in heavy traffic moving at the same speeds? Could you recover from that? How much training and experience do you have driving in conditions where you *never* have traction?
A few speeding tickets from a neighboring state does not equate to being an "idiot driver".
Lets hope the "complete drivers' histories, including motor vehicle violations, suspensions and points on licenses" is just going forward, or my insurance is going way up.
You make the assumption that the will of the people is valid on matters of economics. The people, in aggregate, do not have any background in economic theory. They are self-focused, and have a very narrow view about both the way the world really works and the way it has to work for an economy to function.
Imagine the state the US would be in if the will of the ignorant majority was, in fact, what got cast into law.
Better comps would be a big plus... unless you're a high roller, the pit boss rarely pays enough attention to accurate track your betting, especially if you bet in an inconsistent manner at something like craps.
Shoplifting: crime that is hard to get away with, and has an immediate stigma of being a crime
P2P: equivalent crime that is easy to get away with, and doesn't have the social stigma of being a criminal.
The stigma and threat of being caught and spending jailtime is the demotivator in the former case. In the latter, if you can't change the opinions of these people that their actions aren't crimes, and its easy to not get caught, you have to severely up the penalties to keep the same level of demotivation.
Thats why penalties are the way they are. P2P isn't a threat to the companies, the mass counterfitting of their products is...
Its worth noting that the penalties for traffiking in stolen property is higher than the stealing itself... the same reason penalties in file sharing are higher than the actual theft of the material.
If you think car companies don't sue each other left and right constantly, you're living with your head in the sand. They sue from things as trivial as naming (Porsche 911 has a "1" in the middle digit because Peugeot owned car names with zero as a middle digit -- the original 911 was a 901)
Car makes sue over grill designs, interior designs, ergonomic innovations, brake system designs, motor design. The lists go on and on.
And clearly nearly 200 years of industrialized history has demonstrated your conentention that those laws can't be passed or enforced are completely incorrect. There are lots of good books about IP cases in the 1700's and 1800's. Hell, the history around the invention and implementation of the telegraph puts all this stuff around the Internet to shame.
Religion was a big factor in the original series as well, it just wasn't a specific plotline.
The original storyline was a retelling of a lot of Mormon teachings. For those who didn't know that, there are a ton of sites on Google that talk about it.
She's mentioned it a few times in the four or five episodes they've broadcast at this point, as well.
How much bandwidth do you have available to you in Scotland? If thats the law there, that means you could rip every CD and DVD you get your hands on, and put them online for the rest of us.
Got the rest of the season one episodes of Battlestar Galactica taped? I assume you weren't forced to sign anything before buying a product with a tuner in it, right? Those should be free game, too, then.
The law restricts the use of your property on public roads in those cases, it does not restrict your use of your property on private land.
But most important to this conversaion, you have every right to do whatever you want with the physical goods you purchased. Burn the box, microwave the CD, use it as a coaster. The CD is yours.
The contents, however, are not yours. Software is licensed, not sold, and you do not own it. You do not have the rights you seem to think you have around it becuase of your mistaken assumption that you own the software. (Although in most cases I think its a deliberate side-stepping of that fact, not a mistaken assumption... 90% of the posts on here so far are from people who know perfectly well they do not own that software).
I figure its worth pointing out that the statement that this will be a test of how far the DMCA can be applied to software people purchase is inaccurate. Its a test of how far the DMCA can be applied to enforce the fact that people have purchased media and an associated license for the software, and as such have no rights beyond what are granted by the software owner. I'd doubt very many people on /. have ever really bought software.
The publisher can't tell you that you can't use their CD as a coaster, or pop it in a microwave because you bought the CD. They can restrict in any way they want what you can do with the software, however, because you do not own that.
There are bad aspects of the DMCA, but people need to keep in mind that the means of protecting intellectual property and enforcing licenses may be wrong, but the concept is quite valid.
If you're lost at sea, you're probably not close enough to see a lighthouse anyway.
Those lost people are the "shipwrecked off the coast" people.
I can remember discussions about it years ago. I'd bet there may even be a /. article about it, although its not really worth searching to see.
This was a big part of the critisism around supporting larger character sets in domain names.