"direct users to a Web site where harmful programs would be downloaded to their computers, says Stephen Wellman, director of community and content for Ziff Davis."
Do these affect Linux or Apple PC's? I'm guessing it's the good old Windows.exe and.dll again, an exclusive Windows issue disguised as a "PC" issue.
"direct users to a Web site where harmful programs would be downloaded to their computers, says Stephen Wellman, director of community and content for Ziff Davis."
Do these affect Linux or Apple PC's? I'm guessing it's the good old Windows.exe and.dll again, an exclusive Windows issue disguised as a "PC" issue.
Yes, this is a "PC" issue, more specifically it is a "moron PC user" issue. Trust me, if the Linux and Mac marketshare were actually worth targeting for malware writers, you would see the very same kind of malware attacks succeed, because if the user clicks "Yes" to all prompts, what's there to prevent the malware from doing it's thing if it's actually designed to run on Linux.
We were one of several similar-sized ISPs serving a multi-metro area of maybe 3M people. At our peak, we had 30k accounts, if I recall correctly.
I don't mean this in a snarky way either, but to give you a sense of scale, we, in a country of 5,2 million, have 500k broadband accounts and have no problem maintaining this policy.
I work for a major finnish ISP and since this information is public knowledge, I am not going to anon this post.
We have several systems (which are actually pretty good and do work) in place that identify and warn us regarding the kind of traffic that happens when a customer machine is turned into a botnet zombie. When this is deteched, the customer is approached by either email or phone and given a grace period of a couple of days to clean up his machine. If the customer ignores this, his internet connection gets locked when the grace period is up.
If we cannot contact the customer by email/phone, we simply lock the connection, eventually the customer will call us.
Quite obviously we also block any outgoing:25 STMP traffic to any and all servers except our own.
Is it just me or do I find the complaint against Bandwidth Caps ridiculous?
I only seem to see people complaining about it in America, most of Europe (afaik) has gotten used to having bandwidth caps.
Are you out of your mind? The reason why you see people complaining about it in America and not in Europe is because a lot of European countries do not have any kind of download caps whatsoever so we don't have to complain about it.
Where are you living that adding 15,000 minutes (ca. 8 hours/day) of streaming 64 kbps from the Internet to your monthly mobile phone plan is "far cheaper" than a subscription to satellite radio?
Finland.
Unlimited mobile data at 384kbit for 9.80eur/month.
Why would you want reduced playback support in your OS? If you are using an OS with DRM-capabilities, it means that you CAN play DRM-enabled files. This however, has no effect whatsoever on your existing non-drm'ed files. If you remove DRM-capabilities from your OS, the only thing you would be doing is making it impossible for yourself to play DRM-enabled files, thus reducing the capabilities of your OS. Why?
With the new expansion and the latest 3.0.3 patch, performance took a very big hit for a lot of WoW players. I was playing the game on a E8400 2,4 Ghz, 4gb ram, 8600GT machine and I was seeing my fps in raids hover around 25-40 and around 15-20 in Dalaran. I upgraded to a new videocard (8800GTS) yesterday and it roughly doubled my framerate (40-50 fps in Dalaran now). Now arguably 8800GTS doesn't cost 500$ now, but it did when it first came out.
"Opera's engineers have developed a version of Opera Mini that can run on an Apple iPhone, but Apple won't let the company release it because it competes with Apple's own Safari browser."
Antitrust lawsuit, anybody?
You can't have a successful antitrust suit against someone with a minuscule marketshare.
Window Vista is such a huge disaster for Microsoft, considering that since it's release, it has consistently sold more than Windows XP in the same timeframe since it's release (ie. amount of sales after 1 year of being on the market for both XP and Vista, after 2 years, etc etc). Truly a horrible mistake one would never want to repeat. Oh wait, nevermind.
There is a truckload of strategy involved in playing a fast online FPS at professional level. Additionally, camping behind some door with a sniper rifle does not strategy make. Thank god there are still some FPS developers out there who actually make games that demand skill in order to get kills in an online game.
If Quake Live is fast for you, I'd love to see you try to wrap your head around the action that goes on in QuakeWorld.
Blu-ray hardware prices are expected to be as low as $399 by Christmas (and possibly lower). Is this a bad joke? There are $99 HD-DVD players out there.
Honest question, I am curious: what happens if you claim you don't remember the password/key? Wouldn't the burden on proof that you in fact DO remember it be on the shoulders of prosecution? Because I don't really see how the prosecution could provide evidence for what you do or don't remember.
Let's assume that you want to rip a movie that's stored on a disc with completely unbreakable encryption. Let's assume the movie is actually playable on PC. What is to prevent you from writing an application which would basically run a "capture screen" on your player window at a set interval (say 24fps or 30fps) and then assemble the resulting (huge) amount of images into a DIVX/XVID movie file?
If the FSF can actually do this and if they go through with it, this is going to be very BAD for busines adoption Linux (and therefor, Linux development). And what's worse is not that FSF doesn't know this, they do, it's just that they don't care about anything but their distorted definition of "freedom". As Stallman once said: "We are not here to give users what they want, we are here to spread freedom".
Considering that www.yahoo.com takes about 5,000k more memory than www.google.com in my Firefox browser, it's obvious to me which one I use by default.
You cant be serious, can you? Who the hell looks at their memory usage when browsing the web? If you do, you need to purchase more RAM, not limit your browsing options.
What you managed to miss is that HD-DVD movies are already in x264 format on the disc. So if you take a 20GB x264 movie and repack it into a 5GB x264 movie, guess what happens to the quality? This is like re-ripping a 360kbps MP3 file into a 90kbps MP3 file. It's called retarded,
How could any CEO make such a decision for their company? It directly affects their revenues. I don't believe it is true.
Don't ask me, but that's exactly what Sony has made in the past. In case you don't remember, Betamax (from Sony) vs VHS war ended for the very same reason, Sony wouldn't allow XXX material on Betamax.
Actually, I believe it will be quite easy to use up all the cores. I recall reading an interview with some game designer (I believe it was someone working on one of the Fable games) and he was asked about features they had to drop before shipping the game: one interesting feature he mentioned was each and every tree growing individually in the game world. With the game world being huge and the amount of trees being rather big as well, they realised that even when optimised in the best possible way, it would still slow down the entire game by as much as 10-15%, so they had to drop this feature and go with static non-growing trees instead.
This kind of cool stuff is exactly where having many cores would come in very handy.
Guns: believe it or not, but europeans actually LIKE the fact that you can't just go into a shop and buy a gun! Also if you compare the crime rates in USA to Europe, you will see that easy availability of guns doesn't make people safer, quite the contrary. Speech: hate / racist speech never belonged to protected free speech in the first place. Free speech doesn't mean you can say whatever you like about whoever you like and get away with it. This person got what he deserved.
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"direct users to a Web site where harmful programs would be downloaded to their computers, says Stephen Wellman, director of community and content for Ziff Davis."
Do these affect Linux or Apple PC's? I'm guessing it's the good old Windows .exe and .dll again, an exclusive Windows issue disguised as a "PC" issue.
"direct users to a Web site where harmful programs would be downloaded to their computers, says Stephen Wellman, director of community and content for Ziff Davis."
Do these affect Linux or Apple PC's? I'm guessing it's the good old Windows .exe and .dll again, an exclusive Windows issue disguised as a "PC" issue.
Yes, this is a "PC" issue, more specifically it is a "moron PC user" issue. Trust me, if the Linux and Mac marketshare were actually worth targeting for malware writers, you would see the very same kind of malware attacks succeed, because if the user clicks "Yes" to all prompts, what's there to prevent the malware from doing it's thing if it's actually designed to run on Linux.
that'll probably work fine for the lay-man, but will having an encrypted hard drive count as evidence of illegal activity
If you don't supply the password when asked by the court, then sure.
We were one of several similar-sized ISPs serving a multi-metro area of maybe 3M people. At our peak, we had 30k accounts, if I recall correctly.
I don't mean this in a snarky way either, but to give you a sense of scale, we, in a country of 5,2 million, have 500k broadband accounts and have no problem maintaining this policy.
I work for a major finnish ISP and since this information is public knowledge, I am not going to anon this post.
We have several systems (which are actually pretty good and do work) in place that identify and warn us regarding the kind of traffic that happens when a customer machine is turned into a botnet zombie. When this is deteched, the customer is approached by either email or phone and given a grace period of a couple of days to clean up his machine. If the customer ignores this, his internet connection gets locked when the grace period is up.
If we cannot contact the customer by email/phone, we simply lock the connection, eventually the customer will call us.
Quite obviously we also block any outgoing :25 STMP traffic to any and all servers except our own.
Is it just me or do I find the complaint against Bandwidth Caps ridiculous?
I only seem to see people complaining about it in America, most of Europe (afaik) has gotten used to having bandwidth caps.
Are you out of your mind? The reason why you see people complaining about it in America and not in Europe is because a lot of European countries do not have any kind of download caps whatsoever so we don't have to complain about it.
YO DAWG! I herd you like streams so we put a stream in your stream so you can stream while u stream!
Where are you living that adding 15,000 minutes (ca. 8 hours/day) of streaming 64 kbps from the Internet to your monthly mobile phone plan is "far cheaper" than a subscription to satellite radio?
Finland.
Unlimited mobile data at 384kbit for 9.80eur/month.
Why would you want reduced playback support in your OS? If you are using an OS with DRM-capabilities, it means that you CAN play DRM-enabled files. This however, has no effect whatsoever on your existing non-drm'ed files. If you remove DRM-capabilities from your OS, the only thing you would be doing is making it impossible for yourself to play DRM-enabled files, thus reducing the capabilities of your OS. Why?
You finally beat a 8 year old OS!
Yes and World of Warcraft is one of them.
With the new expansion and the latest 3.0.3 patch, performance took a very big hit for a lot of WoW players. I was playing the game on a E8400 2,4 Ghz, 4gb ram, 8600GT machine and I was seeing my fps in raids hover around 25-40 and around 15-20 in Dalaran. I upgraded to a new videocard (8800GTS) yesterday and it roughly doubled my framerate (40-50 fps in Dalaran now). Now arguably 8800GTS doesn't cost 500$ now, but it did when it first came out.
Aha, but market share of what? The browser market? The mobile browser market? The iPhone browser market?
The browser market, the mobile browser market as well as the mobile phone market.
Antitrust lawsuit, anybody?
You can't have a successful antitrust suit against someone with a minuscule marketshare.
Window Vista is such a huge disaster for Microsoft, considering that since it's release, it has consistently sold more than Windows XP in the same timeframe since it's release (ie. amount of sales after 1 year of being on the market for both XP and Vista, after 2 years, etc etc). Truly a horrible mistake one would never want to repeat. Oh wait, nevermind.
There is a truckload of strategy involved in playing a fast online FPS at professional level. Additionally, camping behind some door with a sniper rifle does not strategy make. Thank god there are still some FPS developers out there who actually make games that demand skill in order to get kills in an online game.
If Quake Live is fast for you, I'd love to see you try to wrap your head around the action that goes on in QuakeWorld.
Honest question, I am curious: what happens if you claim you don't remember the password/key? Wouldn't the burden on proof that you in fact DO remember it be on the shoulders of prosecution? Because I don't really see how the prosecution could provide evidence for what you do or don't remember.
Let's assume that you want to rip a movie that's stored on a disc with completely unbreakable encryption. Let's assume the movie is actually playable on PC. What is to prevent you from writing an application which would basically run a "capture screen" on your player window at a set interval (say 24fps or 30fps) and then assemble the resulting (huge) amount of images into a DIVX/XVID movie file?
If the FSF can actually do this and if they go through with it, this is going to be very BAD for busines adoption Linux (and therefor, Linux development). And what's worse is not that FSF doesn't know this, they do, it's just that they don't care about anything but their distorted definition of "freedom". As Stallman once said: "We are not here to give users what they want, we are here to spread freedom".
What you managed to miss is that HD-DVD movies are already in x264 format on the disc. So if you take a 20GB x264 movie and repack it into a 5GB x264 movie, guess what happens to the quality? This is like re-ripping a 360kbps MP3 file into a 90kbps MP3 file. It's called retarded,
Don't ask me, but that's exactly what Sony has made in the past. In case you don't remember, Betamax (from Sony) vs VHS war ended for the very same reason, Sony wouldn't allow XXX material on Betamax.
The iPhone is only GSM/EDGE and does not support 3G/UMTS. This makes it a non-starter, it is that simple.
Actually, I believe it will be quite easy to use up all the cores. I recall reading an interview with some game designer (I believe it was someone working on one of the Fable games) and he was asked about features they had to drop before shipping the game: one interesting feature he mentioned was each and every tree growing individually in the game world. With the game world being huge and the amount of trees being rather big as well, they realised that even when optimised in the best possible way, it would still slow down the entire game by as much as 10-15%, so they had to drop this feature and go with static non-growing trees instead.
This kind of cool stuff is exactly where having many cores would come in very handy.
Wow, you're so full of it.
Guns: believe it or not, but europeans actually LIKE the fact that you can't just go into a shop and buy a gun! Also if you compare the crime rates in USA to Europe, you will see that easy availability of guns doesn't make people safer, quite the contrary. Speech: hate / racist speech never belonged to protected free speech in the first place. Free speech doesn't mean you can say whatever you like about whoever you like and get away with it. This person got what he deserved.
They don't. Not to mention JAVA is not an operating system at all.