This is like a newspaper reporting someone is guilty of a crime on the front page, then a year later a retraction is printed on page 57 when he's found innocent of any wrongdoing.
It's remarkable. I work at a small independent ISP, and just now while checking our support email I got this gem:
Subject: JUST A QUICK QUESTION
HI, I HAVE A QUESTION REGARDING USING A DESKTOP MICROPHONE. I AM RELATIVELY NEW TO COMPUTER STUFF. I WAS WONDERING IF I WILL BE CHARGED A LONG DISTANCE PHONE FEE EVERY TIME I USE THE MICROPHONE TO TALK TO MY SISTERS IN OKLAHOMA.
PLEASE REPLY THROUGH EMAIL.
(bleh, lameness filter doesn't like all caps.) (bleh, lameness filter doesn't like all caps.)
Unless I'm mistaken, there wouldn't be a software workaround. From the article:
just because the GPU itself supports HDCP doesn't mean that the graphics card can output a DVI/HDCP compliant stream. There needs to be additional support at the board level, which includes licensing the HDCP decoding keys from the Digital Content Protection, LLC
and:
Well, what about NVIDIA? They were actually very direct: "The boards themselves must be designed with an extra chip when the board is manufactured. The extra chip stores a crypto key, and you cannot retrofit an existing board after the board is produced."
The RIAA lawsuits aren't unprecedented. DirecTV was doing this a couple years ago. They were settling for around $3k to $10k for most of those who settled. Whether or not they were right in suing, they certainly didn't have much proof of actual wrongdoing.
Three years between point releases, 3.0 -> 3.1, is just much too long to wait. I understand wanting a rock solid distribution, but I think this is stretching things just a bit.
I don't even watch news on TV anymore. With so many news sites on the net, which I can view at my leisure, there's no real reason to wait until the 6 o'clock news.
King Edward the 1st. Powell's great great great grandmother was an illegitimate child of Sir Eyre Coote, lieutenant governor of Jamaica and a black slave
I clicked on the next pic in the slide show. It was a picture of a blonde looking at Rasputin's penis in a jar at a Russian museum of erotica. Wasn't expecting that one.
Keep the firewalling on, no matter what Microsoft says. I've never had an instance where having a firewall turned on kept windowsupdate from working properly.
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This is like a newspaper reporting someone is guilty of a crime on the front page, then a year later a retraction is printed on page 57 when he's found innocent of any wrongdoing.
It took MS 4 years to apologize?
The summary is the entire article.
This post made with 100% recycled electrons.
As if books aren't already expensive enough. I wonder how much a used robot/textbook will cost, as well.
It's remarkable. I work at a small independent ISP, and just now while checking our support email I got this gem:
Subject: JUST A QUICK QUESTION
HI, I HAVE A QUESTION REGARDING USING A DESKTOP MICROPHONE. I AM
RELATIVELY NEW TO COMPUTER STUFF. I WAS WONDERING IF I WILL BE CHARGED A
LONG DISTANCE PHONE FEE EVERY TIME I USE THE MICROPHONE TO TALK TO MY
SISTERS IN OKLAHOMA.
PLEASE REPLY THROUGH EMAIL.
(bleh, lameness filter doesn't like all caps.)
(bleh, lameness filter doesn't like all caps.)
Nothing beats a warm, homemade, toll house chocolate chip cookie.
Except maybe two warm, homemade, toll house chocolate chip cookies.
just because the GPU itself supports HDCP doesn't mean that the graphics card can output a DVI/HDCP compliant stream. There needs to be additional support at the board level, which includes licensing the HDCP decoding keys from the Digital Content Protection, LLC
and:
Well, what about NVIDIA? They were actually very direct: "The boards themselves must be designed with an extra chip when the board is manufactured. The extra chip stores a crypto key, and you cannot retrofit an existing board after the board is produced."
I had the same problem, though I'm using Firefox on Linux. Wonder if it'd be better on Windows with IE?
The RIAA lawsuits aren't unprecedented. DirecTV was doing this a couple years ago. They were settling for around $3k to $10k for most of those who settled. Whether or not they were right in suing, they certainly didn't have much proof of actual wrongdoing.
I seem to recall Computer Shopper being more like 600-800 pages, and more like 75% ads.
That still leaves a couple hundred pages or so on reviews and articles. And the ads didn't block your view of the article, or otherwise distract you.
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I've always had good luck with Maxtor drives, and terrible luck with Western Digital.
That said, I have a friend who's had the *exact opposite* luck. His Maxtor drives have all died, and he swears by WD.
I would have to say that most drives are about equal. Ultimately, it's all luck.
Three years between point releases, 3.0 -> 3.1, is just much too long to wait. I understand wanting a rock solid distribution, but I think this is stretching things just a bit.
I don't even watch news on TV anymore. With so many news sites on the net, which I can view at my leisure, there's no real reason to wait until the 6 o'clock news.
Funny you should mention girls and dates these days...
King Edward the 1st.
Powell's great great great grandmother was an illegitimate child of Sir Eyre Coote, lieutenant governor of Jamaica and a black slave
I call prior art on stadium seating.
Namely, stadiums (stadia?) around the world.
I clicked on the next pic in the slide show. It was a picture of a blonde looking at Rasputin's penis in a jar at a Russian museum of erotica. Wasn't expecting that one.
Keep the firewalling on, no matter what Microsoft says. I've never had an instance where having a firewall turned on kept windowsupdate from working properly.
I've got the domain www.uglysoft.com. I think they have more reason to sue me, I think. Heh.
The slashdotting.
To quote Kurt Cobain:
"Just because you're paranoid, don't mean they're not after you."
i-candy, of course.
There's a saying that goes, "If sex is a pain in the ass you're not doing it right."
I wonder what the researcher thinks about that one.
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