Actually, any member of the DVD consortium (Sony, Denon etc) do NOT have players that can be handset hacked, precisely because they have been told not to. It's the cheaper manufacturers that aren't involved in the actual production of the DVD video standard that are able to include the handset workarounds.
If you want to get one of these region-free, you need to get them physically modded - invalidating your manufacturers warranty in the process.
Goblin
Hmm, I only found out about "popunders" a few weeks ago.
When you're using an SDI browser like Opera, you can have popunders load and you never even notice. Once you've finished browsing you close the WHOLE application and the things are NEVER seen.
Not that's a clever campaign - similar to posting ads on the back of billboards where people can't see them.
My better half wasn't fussed on a diamond at all, so her ring is an amethyst. Not sure what the US is like, but in good old Blighty it's quite common for "alternative" stones to be the main setting in a ring.
Basically, go round the jewellers and try to ignore prices and wait until you've really found one you like. Took us about a month of constant seraching and we ended up with one that wasn't massively expensive but that we both thought was beautiful.
OK, so people agree that the way to get people to listen is to complain, but whenever we do, we get the "No-one uses the browser you're using, please go away".
Now, a concentrated effort, whereby each week a particular site was targetted as being alternative browser unfriendly and everyone from/. emails them to complain...
Suddenly, they have several thousand people complaining and management start questioning what their web dev team is doing blocking all these customers.
Anyone else feel like helping co-ordinate this effort?
My copy of Opera always identifies itself as Opera, except for the few sites I use that have decided "your browser does not meet the minimum requirements for this site". Strangely, when I tell it to identify as IE it suddenly DOES meet the minimum requirements and, surprise surprise, the site works.
And guess what else, if they had actually done some testing, there is nothing on the site that couldn't have been implemented for EVERY browser, including Lynx. Instead, they produce code that is WRONG and piss off their customers.
C'est la vie, and until laws are passed to stop companies restricting access based on the monopoly of a vendor, we'll just have to live with it and feel superior because we can actually do our jobs.
Let's hope that this doesn't mean that deep linking in itself becomes illegal. There may be a case where advertising revenue pages are bypassed or some other legitimate reason exists that the content publisher would rather users came via their front page.
I don't suppose there's any chance that publishers will come to a gentleman's agreement that it is improper to deep link if they explicitly ask not too (in the same way as it is considered "impolite" to provide direct links to files on others servers.
Finally, if DeCSS code can be considered "free speech", how can writing an URL not be subject to the same rational?
I totally agree. I wasn't trying suggest that more drove on the right, simply that there are a LOT more people than us Brits which do it. It seems to be taken that we alone are weird for driving on the "wrong" side of the road, when we actually aren't.
Goblin
Yes, we drive on the left, just like Australia, Bangladesh, Hong Kong, India, Indonisia, Japan, Malaysia, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa and all these countries.
So, that would be five of the top ten most densely populated countries on earth that must also be "silly".
Surely if there were an "Open" standard agreed for hardware embedded PKI that ALL operating system vendors, including the open source crowd, could implement, it would be a worthwhile cause?
Of course, this would require that the Media Conglomerates were NOT involved in its inception and that the encryption techniques were open to peer review by all.
Goblin
Opera DOES have alt tags, but in line with the W3C guidelines it doesn't display them as pop-ups when you hover over an image. They are an ALTernative to the image, not a subsidiary element.
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Nope - I haven't used the crappy audio cables in ages since drives started supporting digital audio extraction...
Actually, either answer to that question is pretty scary...
Goblin
Nope, you're not allowed to lend him the original either.
Goblin
Actually, any member of the DVD consortium (Sony, Denon etc) do NOT have players that can be handset hacked, precisely because they have been told not to. It's the cheaper manufacturers that aren't involved in the actual production of the DVD video standard that are able to include the handset workarounds.
If you want to get one of these region-free, you need to get them physically modded - invalidating your manufacturers warranty in the process. Goblin
A Dust PUPPY.
And the dirty thing with feet is Crud Puppy.
Hmm, I only found out about "popunders" a few weeks ago.
When you're using an SDI browser like Opera, you can have popunders load and you never even notice. Once you've finished browsing you close the WHOLE application and the things are NEVER seen.
Not that's a clever campaign - similar to posting ads on the back of billboards where people can't see them.
Goblin
My better half wasn't fussed on a diamond at all, so her ring is an amethyst. Not sure what the US is like, but in good old Blighty it's quite common for "alternative" stones to be the main setting in a ring.
Basically, go round the jewellers and try to ignore prices and wait until you've really found one you like. Took us about a month of constant seraching and we ended up with one that wasn't massively expensive but that we both thought was beautiful.
Love isn't measured in pounds/dollars.
Goblin
OK, so people agree that the way to get people to listen is to complain, but whenever we do, we get the "No-one uses the browser you're using, please go away".
/. emails them to complain...
Now, a concentrated effort, whereby each week a particular site was targetted as being alternative browser unfriendly and everyone from
Suddenly, they have several thousand people complaining and management start questioning what their web dev team is doing blocking all these customers.
Anyone else feel like helping co-ordinate this effort?
Goblin
My copy of Opera always identifies itself as Opera, except for the few sites I use that have decided "your browser does not meet the minimum requirements for this site". Strangely, when I tell it to identify as IE it suddenly DOES meet the minimum requirements and, surprise surprise, the site works.
And guess what else, if they had actually done some testing, there is nothing on the site that couldn't have been implemented for EVERY browser, including Lynx. Instead, they produce code that is WRONG and piss off their customers.
C'est la vie, and until laws are passed to stop companies restricting access based on the monopoly of a vendor, we'll just have to live with it and feel superior because we can actually do our jobs.
Goblin
Let's hope that this doesn't mean that deep linking in itself becomes illegal. There may be a case where advertising revenue pages are bypassed or some other legitimate reason exists that the content publisher would rather users came via their front page.
However, it is well known that deep linking is good linking as far as users go.
I don't suppose there's any chance that publishers will come to a gentleman's agreement that it is improper to deep link if they explicitly ask not too (in the same way as it is considered "impolite" to provide direct links to files on others servers.
Finally, if DeCSS code can be considered "free speech", how can writing an URL not be subject to the same rational?
Goblin
I totally agree. I wasn't trying suggest that more drove on the right, simply that there are a LOT more people than us Brits which do it. It seems to be taken that we alone are weird for driving on the "wrong" side of the road, when we actually aren't. Goblin
Yes, we drive on the left, just like Australia, Bangladesh, Hong Kong, India, Indonisia, Japan, Malaysia, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa and all these countries.
So, that would be five of the top ten most densely populated countries on earth that must also be "silly".
Goblin
Surely if there were an "Open" standard agreed for hardware embedded PKI that ALL operating system vendors, including the open source crowd, could implement, it would be a worthwhile cause? Of course, this would require that the Media Conglomerates were NOT involved in its inception and that the encryption techniques were open to peer review by all. Goblin
Opera DOES have alt tags, but in line with the W3C guidelines it doesn't display them as pop-ups when you hover over an image. They are an ALTernative to the image, not a subsidiary element.