It is amazing how the US comes down on on other countries for even thinking of having 1 bomb. While their history is of irresponsibly setting them off like fire crackers on the 4th. How many atolls no longer exist? How many places on earth are radioactive? Yet we are all supposed to believe that they are the sole responsible country on the earth.
>"I never understood why it's so hard to find other people who don't subscribe to one extreme or the other when it comes to climate change."
The issue is the blind faith in the computer models as science.
If you don't believe what you are told 100% then you are saying the computer models are wrong. If the computer models are wrong then you are saying the science is wrong. If you are saying the science is wrong then you are denying global warming. If you are denying the global warming then you are an eco terrorist.
Other "sciences" present the output of computer models as theories. Climatologists present them as facts. Watch people like Mann desperately trying to free himself from the hockey stick to see why this approach is so flawed.
The proper solution was to go to fiber. They could do long runs, it would have had better expandability and provides better electrical isolation between the components. The expandability may not seem important until you spend a boat load of money burring a cable in a wall or a ceiling only to have to rip it out again later.
80% of what they wrote is just to cover for the fact that they want the DRM. Google thinks they are going to make itunes type money from streaming Hollywood movies in the future. They aren't going to be able to do that with out DRM. Every thing else they wrote is just a smoke screen to cover that fact.
It isn't even a question of whether I want to use flash or not. Adobe has decided I am not allowed to view Youtube content so I won't. For a company that has made as much money as they have off of open standards Google is just seems so off base here. Why don't they just drop support for every thing except Windows as that is basically what this decision is.
This will be open to any one running a Microsoft Windows 7 device service pack2. Using IE 9 as their browser using Silver light on i386 hardware with some external proprietary libraries installed.
You've punked us twice there Beeb. We won't fall for it again.
None of this is going to matter to me after my patents are granted for
-combining oxygen and a combustable material through the application of heat resulting in the production of heat and light. -a circular object through which a shaft is placed. The shaft may or may not support a load which will then be able to travel across a surface with out coming in contact with it. -combining oxygen and hydrogen in to create a fluid useful for sustaining light. Also good for stopping the first patent.
Members of the North American music cabal claim that simple chord changes are copyrightable and so exclusively theirs. They have been ordering take down notices for showing such things as the chord changes to Knocking on Heavens Door for example, which has the same chord changes as a million other songs going back thousands of years.
Doesn't that really depend on how likely he thought it was that some one else would or had found the flaw. If I have a boat load of servers that are vulnerable and I think there is a good chance some one else has come across the exploit then where is the incentive for me to leave my servers vulnerable for another 60 days once the vendor has already given me the finger? I want the fix as soon as possible.
I don't pay didley for Fedora and they have fixed bugs in hours when I reported them. In fact that did that again just today. You would think that if you paid fat bank for an OS you would get at least as good of service.
A consensus of environmental scientists have been assuring us for years that the sun has no effect on the earth only oil. There for there can be no damage from the sun. There for the story must be incorrect.
When was the last time Microsoft had a success with any thing new? I hate to break it to you but the reason we don't hear more complaining about Windows 7 is coporations are still clinging to their XP licences and most home users are clinging to their pirated copies of XP.
Instead of firing a bullet at the neighbouring satellites they would be firing a shot gun at it instead. To make matters worse they currently have some thing they can track and has a predictable orbit. What the author wants to trade that in for is lots of orbits that they may or may not be able to track and may no longer be able to safely move out of the way from. If the military should try to fire on this satellite the reason would be all about testing a weapon rather than trying to make space safer.
Just a few stories down from here on/. is a story that they just charged a bunch of people with selling counterfeit Cisco gear. They even confiscated it. Yet the powers that be (big buisness) would have us believe that is completely impossible with the current laws. It is just like when the US came up to Canada and threatened a trade war if we didn't put in an anti cam-cordering law. Well we did. And some one was convicted of recording a movie in a movie theater. Only they didn't use the spanky new law that was put in just for that purpose, they didn't need it. So what was the point of the US interfering in the laws of a sovereign country again?
If the US wants to make themselves completely incapable of competing in the global economy because they give only a few companies the right to produce any thing, and those companies no longer feel a need to compete then fine. That is their business. But leave us the hell alone!!!
Unless that router botnet is redirecting traffic to a malicious site without the consumer knowing knowing. The consumer plugs in their credentials and then some one at the malicious site uses that information to defraud the financial company.
Any distro that wants to licence h.264 is no longer available for free. They will have to charge for it. I know that is what the propriatary companies want. But more importantly it's h.264 today. What do we give up tomorrow? ODF? Do we start licensing MONO? What standards do we start doing away with? HTML?
To me Ubuntu has never been a part of the open source world. They have always shown that they are willing to throw the rest of the open source world under the bus if it will get them market share or help them generate more revenue. I have absolutely no doubt that Ubuntu will soon be wrapping it's self in all the DRM they need to be just like Microsoft and Apple. Even if that means locking you out of parts of the system to make it happen.
How is it that every single thing that happens at Ubuntu becomes a story on/. ? A new name is prime for a press release or an announcement on their site. It is a waste of bandwidth on/. . Some of the stuff that gets posted here goes beyond minutia and straight to trivial.
Please provide the patent numbers that Theora implements. Just because the head of Apple who is part of the MPEG-LA patent pools says it's so doesn't make it so. If he wants to provide some patent numbers to go with his great story then I will still get not very excited. The reason being that if there is going to be a replacement for h264 all indications are that it will be VP8 rather than Theora. I have nothing against Theora but it has been around for long enough that if it was going to take off it would have by now.
It is a preemptive move against Google's VP8 in particular and open source in general. Basically they are creating a problem for Firefox (which has stated that they won't support H.264) and trying to stop Google's VP8 before it can be successful.
Well if youtube goes VP8 and you can't watch youtube with IE, people will just start loading firefox, chrome, opera or what ever browser they think will work for them. In Europe they will just pick some thing other than IE from the list when they do an install of windows. Acting like the 800lb gorilla doesn't work so well when you are the 700lb gorilla and the 800lb gorilla is is standing beside you.
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It is amazing how the US comes down on on other countries for even thinking of having 1 bomb. While their history is of irresponsibly setting them off like fire crackers on the 4th. How many atolls no longer exist? How many places on earth are radioactive? Yet we are all supposed to believe that they are the sole responsible country on the earth.
>"I never understood why it's so hard to find other people who don't subscribe to one extreme or the other when it comes to climate change."
The issue is the blind faith in the computer models as science.
If you don't believe what you are told 100% then you are saying the computer models are wrong.
If the computer models are wrong then you are saying the science is wrong.
If you are saying the science is wrong then you are denying global warming.
If you are denying the global warming then you are an eco terrorist.
Other "sciences" present the output of computer models as theories. Climatologists present them as facts. Watch people like Mann desperately trying to free himself from the hockey stick to see why this approach is so flawed.
The proper solution was to go to fiber. They could do long runs, it would have had better expandability and provides better electrical isolation between the components. The expandability may not seem important until you spend a boat load of money burring a cable in a wall or a ceiling only to have to rip it out again later.
80% of what they wrote is just to cover for the fact that they want the DRM. Google thinks they are going to make itunes type money from streaming Hollywood movies in the future. They aren't going to be able to do that with out DRM. Every thing else they wrote is just a smoke screen to cover that fact.
It isn't even a question of whether I want to use flash or not. Adobe has decided I am not allowed to view Youtube content so I won't. For a company that has made as much money as they have off of open standards Google is just seems so off base here. Why don't they just drop support for every thing except Windows as that is basically what this decision is.
This will be open to any one running a Microsoft Windows 7 device service pack2. Using IE 9 as their browser using Silver light on i386 hardware with some external proprietary libraries installed.
You've punked us twice there Beeb. We won't fall for it again.
None of this is going to matter to me after my patents are granted for
-combining oxygen and a combustable material through the application of heat resulting in the production of heat and light.
-a circular object through which a shaft is placed. The shaft may or may not support a load which will then be able to travel across a surface with out coming in contact with it.
-combining oxygen and hydrogen in to create a fluid useful for sustaining light. Also good for stopping the first patent.
God what I wouldn't do for mod powers right now.
Am I the only one having a little trouble making the word "Open" mesh with the phrase "by invite only"?
Members of the North American music cabal claim that simple chord changes are copyrightable and so exclusively theirs. They have been ordering take down notices for showing such things as the chord changes to Knocking on Heavens Door for example, which has the same chord changes as a million other songs going back thousands of years.
Doesn't that really depend on how likely he thought it was that some one else would or had found the flaw. If I have a boat load of servers that are vulnerable and I think there is a good chance some one else has come across the exploit then where is the incentive for me to leave my servers vulnerable for another 60 days once the vendor has already given me the finger? I want the fix as soon as possible.
I don't pay didley for Fedora and they have fixed bugs in hours when I reported them. In fact that did that again just today. You would think that if you paid fat bank for an OS you would get at least as good of service.
A consensus of environmental scientists have been assuring us for years that the sun has no effect on the earth only oil. There for there can be no damage from the sun. There for the story must be incorrect.
No problem. Just uninstall flash and your security problem goes away. I just did.
When was the last time Microsoft had a success with any thing new? I hate to break it to you but the reason we don't hear more complaining about Windows 7 is coporations are still clinging to their XP licences and most home users are clinging to their pirated copies of XP.
They are located next door to the consumer friendly movie studio.
Instead of firing a bullet at the neighbouring satellites they would be firing a shot gun at it instead. To make matters worse they currently have some thing they can track and has a predictable orbit. What the author wants to trade that in for is lots of orbits that they may or may not be able to track and may no longer be able to safely move out of the way from. If the military should try to fire on this satellite the reason would be all about testing a weapon rather than trying to make space safer.
Just a few stories down from here on /. is a story that they just charged a bunch of people with selling counterfeit Cisco gear. They even confiscated it. Yet the powers that be (big buisness) would have us believe that is completely impossible with the current laws. It is just like when the US came up to Canada and threatened a trade war if we didn't put in an anti cam-cordering law. Well we did. And some one was convicted of recording a movie in a movie theater. Only they didn't use the spanky new law that was put in just for that purpose, they didn't need it. So what was the point of the US interfering in the laws of a sovereign country again?
If the US wants to make themselves completely incapable of competing in the global economy because they give only a few companies the right to produce any thing, and those companies no longer feel a need to compete then fine. That is their business. But leave us the hell alone!!!
This.
The only real practical applications for this will be governments breaking the encryption of their citizens.
Unless that router botnet is redirecting traffic to a malicious site without the consumer knowing knowing. The consumer plugs in their credentials and then some one at the malicious site uses that information to defraud the financial company.
Any distro that wants to licence h.264 is no longer available for free. They will have to charge for it. I know that is what the propriatary companies want. But more importantly it's h.264 today. What do we give up tomorrow? ODF? Do we start licensing MONO? What standards do we start doing away with? HTML?
To me Ubuntu has never been a part of the open source world. They have always shown that they are willing to throw the rest of the open source world under the bus if it will get them market share or help them generate more revenue. I have absolutely no doubt that Ubuntu will soon be wrapping it's self in all the DRM they need to be just like Microsoft and Apple. Even if that means locking you out of parts of the system to make it happen.
How is it that every single thing that happens at Ubuntu becomes a story on /. ? A new name is prime for a press release or an announcement on their site. It is a waste of bandwidth on /. . Some of the stuff that gets posted here goes beyond minutia and straight to trivial.
Please provide the patent numbers that Theora implements. Just because the head of Apple who is part of the MPEG-LA patent pools says it's so doesn't make it so. If he wants to provide some patent numbers to go with his great story then I will still get not very excited. The reason being that if there is going to be a replacement for h264 all indications are that it will be VP8 rather than Theora. I have nothing against Theora but it has been around for long enough that if it was going to take off it would have by now.
It is a preemptive move against Google's VP8 in particular and open source in general. Basically they are creating a problem for Firefox (which has stated that they won't support H.264) and trying to stop Google's VP8 before it can be successful.
Well if youtube goes VP8 and you can't watch youtube with IE, people will just start loading firefox, chrome, opera or what ever browser they think will work for them. In Europe they will just pick some thing other than IE from the list when they do an install of windows. Acting like the 800lb gorilla doesn't work so well when you are the 700lb gorilla and the 800lb gorilla is is standing beside you.
Couldn't have summed it up better myself. Spot on.
If at first you don't succeed. Redefine success.