dvd::rip always gets the language mixed up (for example, when ripping 'Howl's Moving Castle,' one of the files it ripped to was in Japanese instead of English),
What makes you think it is dvd::rip that has the language mixed up? It is a Japanese movie and it is not surprising that the first audio track is Japanese. Fortunately you can select to rip a different audio track.
Yeah, that sounds more like a user error to me.
I have used dvd::rip a lot and never had an issue with the languages, even when creating rips with more than one language.
You have to keep in mind the differences between countries. In Germany, the most popular way to order stuff online is to give your bank account number to the merchant who will then charge your account. It works just like a credit card number and stores rarely check if the number (account) really belongs to the person that's making the order.
The only time I have encountered such a check was with Paypal: they do two small test transactions (just Cents) and you have to..I actually don't remember right now..either enter the correct amounts into a form on Paypal's site or to send the cents back to prove that you really have access to that account.
In practice, it will be the banks' problem. Instead of running to your bank to get your money, you monitor your bank account and dispute/charge back possible fraudulent transactions.
Who wants a mass list anyway, you can't target spam at people just because they're German and they have a bank account, and stealing that many identities begs the question, "why?"
Yeah, who could have use for the equivalent of 21 million valid direct debit cards.
Yeah, I had the same impression when I stumbled on that while googling for the quote.
It just fits nicely.
But then again, there are folks on the net quoting it with a page number from a certain translation that I didn't manage find online (for free).
Funnily enough, it isn't there anymore; found it only in the "yet unclassified" section of the version from before the 7th of December.
If someone has a copy of that Manheim translation or knows from which section/chapter that quote is supposed to be..
Because earlier today I found nothing similar to that quote by grepping through the German version and the other translation that's on Gutenberg (among other things I searched for "child" (English) and "Kind" (German)).
The closest thing I found was - using that wikiquote link - from Volume II, Chapter 2:
[..]"It must proclaim the truth that the child is the most valuable possession a people can have. It must see to it that only those who are healthy shall beget children;[..]
That's the same part I was referring to in my original post when I said that I found only something similar to the first sentence, but in a completely different context (racism, not propaganda).
"The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people. As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation" - quote from Mein Kampf.....
From what I found on the net, that's not from "Mein Kampf" - except for the first sentence, but that was used in an entirely different (racist) context.
I would be interested if someone knows the origin of that quote to be sure that it's real (looks useful against "think of the children" propaganda). So far Google found someone random giving "Hitler, 1943" as a source, but that's pretty weak..
As to Media Markt, if they wish to sell only the crap from Intel, why shouldn't they be allowed to?
I'm pretty sure it isn't about prohibiting them to sell what they want.
It's a lot more likely they targeted MediaSaturn to gather evidence for illegal business practices by Intel, i.e. finding out whether the decision to go Intel-only is based on bribes, kickbacks etc.
I'm very much against Real ID for all of the reasons discussed here on Slashdot: the possibility for ID theft,
How's that?
Coming from a country with an ID card, whenever I read something about ID theft or SSNs being stolen, I think that that wouldn't work here and thus doesn't happen.
It might also help with no-flight-list mixups like the five-year-old being searched because he has the same name as someone on the list.
But I don't like the card being mandatory by law(*), much less the biometric crap they have started adding by making (BS) claims that they are needed to fight terrorism.
With it being de-facto necessary I'm somewhat ok.
I lived 2-3 years with one that was expired and only needed it for elections (dead people can't vote here..)- and the election helpers didn't bother to check the date.
I'm also pretty sure that voting-by-mail doesn't require ID.
The ironic thing is, the only other time I *really* needed it was when I had to sign personally for a registered letter questioning me/informing me/threatening charges because I didn't have a valid ID or passport for two years.
Without a valid ID it shouldn't have been possible for me to sign for and receive that letter..
(signing was necessary since it contained an ultimatum to get either an ID or a passport or to prove their records wrong within four weeks to avoid penalties. AFTER I had a new ID I got a (very small) misdemeanor fine anyway.)
the RIAA lawyers do have a parallel universe law library
Basically contradicting themselves within one page seems to be a part of it, too.
Or, maybe, nly they are allowed to reference other cases.
Page 3:
Two, the University's attempted challenge to Plaintiffs' discovery and litigation
practices is irrelevant to any issues presently before this Court. The evidence submitted
regarding what may have happened in different cases involving different parties, different facts,
different allegations, and different circumstances has no bearing on this case.
Next paragraph:
Over one hundred
different universities around the country have responded to identical subpoenas without raising
objections based on burden.
Similarly, the University's argument that the information requested by the subpoena is
not "directory information" and that FERPA somehow provides a basis for quashing the
subpoena also fails. Those courts that have addressed this precise issue have rejected the
University's argument and held instead that FERPA expressly allows the disclosure of the
information sought by the subpoena.
I don't know about the laws where you live, but in Germany the law is somewhat like: if you are a "person of public interest" and you are in public, you have to live with papers publishing your public appearances. HOWEVER if pictures concern your private life (e.g. family, friends) and you yourself haven't dragged your private life into the spotlight before, the publisher gets in trouble.
For example, try to find out how German chancellor Schroeder's teen-aged stepdaughter Klara (or the kid(s?) he adopted recently) looked - and compare that to how easy it is to find, for example, an old picture with Chelsea Clinton in it. Same goes for spouses/children of some of Germany's showbiz celebs.
In Germany's capital Berlin, the fire department's central emergency call/dispatch computer system went down. This resulted in New Year's eve celebrations - year 2000 no less - without fire fighters or ambulances.
A really nice chaotic mess ensued as they partially had to resort back to pen-and-paper for the busiest night of the year, because the old hardware of the previous system that was used as a backup couldn't handle the load that night. For the same reason the system keeping track of the fire department cars' current whereabouts went down, so the central coordinators had only a vague idea where their cars were deployed or who was available to respond to an emergency.
People had to wait up to 90 minutes for an ambulance or a fire truck to come and sweep up the ashes of their homes.
Instead of ambulances, cabs were taking people to the hospital. The police (separate emergency number/system) had to double as fire fighters, deploying anti-riot trucks equipped with water cannons. Since lots of emergency calls got lost, they had to switch to a patrol system and send out the police and FD cars to drive through the streets to look for fires - among all the smoke and fire of the New Years Eve fireworks in the streets.
assuming that we are secretaries [..]
It is the responsibility of men to realize that we are not one of the boys
I believe this is neither unique to IT/tech areas nor "the responsibility of men" as women do the same mistakes, be it to men or other women.
There really are much more men than women in that field and statistically it's still the better guess to assume that a hardware pusher is male.
If there's a man and a woman at the kindergarten and you ask people to bet who works with the kids and who is the janitor, I'm pretty sure where people will put their money.
Another example:
I know several girls who are now M.D.s at hospitals and told me patients always call them "nurse"; maybe female patients even more often than male ones.
At least one of my friends resorted to always wearing her lab coat and stethoscope simply to give patients another hint to check out her name tag before asking her to get a doctor.
The other way around, one of them became a state certified physiotherapist before starting to study medicine: this included 1-2 years of working in hospitals and her ~10% male classmates were often mistaken for doctors; the same frequently happens to male nurses.
There is no European constitution, so it isn't possible for an act or law to be unconstitutional in the context of the EC itself.
Yeah that was a somewhat sloppy choice of words by me.
What I hand in mind on the EU level was that Ireland "claims that the [European]Court[ of Justice] should annul Directive 2006/24/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 March 2006 on the retention of data generated or processed in connection with the provision of publicly available electronic communications services...on the grounds that it was not adopted on an appropriate legal basis,"link
What's flamebait about pointing out that there are real dangers for privacy at the moment? Yes, there are people opposed to it and yes, I hope the courts will kick out as much of it as possible for being unconstitutional.
But that doesn't change the fact that the people currently in power think that all that crap is a good idea and are pursue it. Which is why Germany might not be the heaven for communication privacy that the poster I replied to assumes or hopes it is.
[quote]And about the "trojan buzz", enjoy your old news![quote] What old news?
[quote]But did you notice that constitutions in Europe actually mean something?[quote]
I did also notice that the constitution in Germany can be changed by the parliament and that the current government actually has the necessary majority to do so if they agree on the issue.
If the implementation of the data retention directive is declared unconstitutional in Germany but not in Europe, what's the most likely action of politicians:
a) getting the directive nixed across the EU against all their previous claims how everybody will be killed by terrorists without it b) breaking with the EU about that, again against all their.. c) finding a way to weasel around the issue by rewording laws and trying again
Funny, I was thinking about finding a proxy outside of Germany.
You might want to reconsider:
Data_retention_in_the_European_Union:
"Germany, for example, has indicated that it seeks to make retained data admissible in certain civil copyright cases" Oh, and then there currently is a VERY big buzz about making it legal for law enforcement to secretly break into suspects' computers and install a special "federal trojan horse".
There are reports of people being contacted with job offers regarding the modification of network traffic to poison downloads on-the-fly.
Political argument is:
"There's a security gap! All will die if the government isn't allowed to search through HDs without anyone knowing about it and if it isn't able to capture passwords. Terrorists might be using encryption!!1! "
While I was happy about that, the sad thing is that this is ammunition for another law that's currently in the making: remove judicial oversight and give copyright holders direct access to the usage data ISPs will have to collect and store for months to comply with the EU "OMG TERRAR!"-data retention directive.
That's the reason why legislators in Germany have done/plan a) to broaden the scope of the original directive to allow usage of the surveillance data not only for the intended, usual suspects (terrorism, child porn, "serious felonies" like murder, organized crime etc) to include "oh, and all bad stuff that somehow involves computers" b) during the IP law reform removed the planned "Bagatellklausel" that would have excluded small-style, private/non-commercial copyright infringement from being prosecuted as felonies (idea was "we don't want to criminalize the schoolyards")
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dvd::rip always gets the language mixed up (for example, when ripping 'Howl's Moving Castle,' one of the files it ripped to was in Japanese instead of English),
What makes you think it is dvd::rip that has the language mixed up? It is a Japanese movie and it is not surprising that the first audio track is Japanese. Fortunately you can select to rip a different audio track.
Yeah, that sounds more like a user error to me.
I have used dvd::rip a lot and never had an issue with the languages, even when creating rips with more than one language.
You have to keep in mind the differences between countries.
In Germany, the most popular way to order stuff online is to give your bank account number to the merchant who will then charge your account.
It works just like a credit card number and stores rarely check if the number (account) really belongs to the person that's making the order.
The only time I have encountered such a check was with Paypal: ..I actually don't remember right now..either enter the correct amounts into a form on Paypal's site or to send the cents back to prove that you really have access to that account.
they do two small test transactions (just Cents) and you have to
In practice, it will be the banks' problem.
Instead of running to your bank to get your money, you monitor your bank account and dispute/charge back possible fraudulent transactions.
Who wants a mass list anyway, you can't target spam at people just because they're German and they have a bank account, and stealing that many identities begs the question, "why?"
Yeah, who could have use for the equivalent of 21 million valid direct debit cards.
Yeah, I had the same impression when I stumbled on that while googling for the quote. It just fits nicely. But then again, there are folks on the net quoting it with a page number from a certain translation that I didn't manage find online (for free).
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/My_Struggle
Funnily enough, it isn't there anymore; found it only in the "yet unclassified" section of the version from before the 7th of December.
If someone has a copy of that Manheim translation or knows from which section/chapter that quote is supposed to be..
Because earlier today I found nothing similar to that quote by grepping through the German version and the other translation that's on Gutenberg (among other things I searched for "child" (English) and "Kind" (German)).
The closest thing I found was - using that wikiquote link - from Volume II, Chapter 2:
[..]"It must proclaim the truth that the child is the most valuable possession a people can have. It must see to it that only those who are healthy shall beget children;[..]
That's the same part I was referring to in my original post when I said that I found only something similar to the first sentence, but in a completely different context (racism, not propaganda).
"The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people. As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation" - quote from Mein Kampf.....
From what I found on the net, that's not from "Mein Kampf" - except for the first sentence, but that was used in an entirely different (racist) context.
I would be interested if someone knows the origin of that quote to be sure that it's real (looks useful against "think of the children" propaganda).
So far Google found someone random giving "Hitler, 1943" as a source, but that's pretty weak..
SuSE 10 comes to mind.
(10.1 came with a lot of Novell/Enterprise junk only half-integrated)
I hope they mentioned that Germany decided in 2000 to phase out all of its nuclear reactors with the last one going off the grid in 2020 or 2021
I mostly remember McGreedy as the guy who was (and is again) fighting tooth and nail to introduce US style software patents enforceable in the EU.
I'm pretty sure it isn't about prohibiting them to sell what they want.
It's a lot more likely they targeted MediaSaturn to gather evidence for illegal business practices by Intel, i.e. finding out whether the decision to go Intel-only is based on bribes, kickbacks etc.
How's that?
Coming from a country with an ID card, whenever I read something about ID theft or SSNs being stolen, I think that that wouldn't work here and thus doesn't happen.
It might also help with no-flight-list mixups like the five-year-old being searched because he has the same name as someone on the list.
But I don't like the card being mandatory by law(*), much less the biometric crap they have started adding by making (BS) claims that they are needed to fight terrorism.
With it being de-facto necessary I'm somewhat ok.
I lived 2-3 years with one that was expired and only needed it for elections (dead people can't vote here..)- and the election helpers didn't bother to check the date.
I'm also pretty sure that voting-by-mail doesn't require ID.
The ironic thing is, the only other time I *really* needed it was when I had to sign personally for a registered letter questioning me/informing me/threatening charges because I didn't have a valid ID or passport for two years.
Without a valid ID it shouldn't have been possible for me to sign for and receive that letter..
(signing was necessary since it contained an ultimatum to get either an ID or a passport or to prove their records wrong within four weeks to avoid penalties. AFTER I had a new ID I got a (very small) misdemeanor fine anyway.)
Basically contradicting themselves within one page seems to be a part of it, too.
Or, maybe, nly they are allowed to reference other cases.
Page 3:
Two, the University's attempted challenge to Plaintiffs' discovery and litigation
practices is irrelevant to any issues presently before this Court. The evidence submitted
regarding what may have happened in different cases involving different parties, different facts,
different allegations, and different circumstances has no bearing on this case.
Next paragraph:
Over one hundred
different universities around the country have responded to identical subpoenas without raising
objections based on burden.
Similarly, the University's argument that the information requested by the subpoena is
not "directory information" and that FERPA somehow provides a basis for quashing the
subpoena also fails. Those courts that have addressed this precise issue have rejected the
University's argument and held instead that FERPA expressly allows the disclosure of the
information sought by the subpoena.
Why arent' the roads big enough for sidewalks?
Because there might be houses or lots of private property in the way?
There's lots of old towns with roads so narrow that just a single car can pass; horses weren't that fat when those were built.
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=+Barrow+Gurney&hl=en&oe=UTF-8&ie=UTF8&t=h&z=13&om=1
Interestingly enough, the idiom also exists in German:
"Die Ausnahme bestätigt die Regel."
Direct translation would be:
"The exception confirms the rule."
Or be a highschool freshman in the US and scribble a drawing critical of the president.
Better move to a "free speech zone" to do that.
Fuchs is the German word for fox.
The German pronunciation is more like "foocks".
Audio pronunciation example for "der Fuchs" ("the fox") at the dictionary leo.org:
http://dict.leo.org/le?9799018
I don't know about the laws where you live, but in Germany the law is somewhat like:
if you are a "person of public interest" and you are in public, you have to live with papers publishing your public appearances.
HOWEVER if pictures concern your private life (e.g. family, friends) and you yourself haven't dragged your private life into the spotlight before, the publisher gets in trouble.
For example, try to find out how German chancellor Schroeder's teen-aged stepdaughter Klara (or the kid(s?) he adopted recently) looked - and compare that to how easy it is to find, for example, an old picture with Chelsea Clinton in it.
Same goes for spouses/children of some of Germany's showbiz celebs.
I know of one bigger Y2K issue:
In Germany's capital Berlin, the fire department's central emergency call/dispatch computer system went down.
This resulted in New Year's eve celebrations - year 2000 no less - without fire fighters or ambulances.
A really nice chaotic mess ensued as they partially had to resort back to pen-and-paper for the busiest night of the year, because the old hardware of the previous system that was used as a backup couldn't handle the load that night.
For the same reason the system keeping track of the fire department cars' current whereabouts went down, so the central coordinators had only a vague idea where their cars were deployed or who was available to respond to an emergency.
People had to wait up to 90 minutes for an ambulance or a fire truck to come and sweep up the ashes of their homes.
Instead of ambulances, cabs were taking people to the hospital.
The police (separate emergency number/system) had to double as fire fighters, deploying anti-riot trucks equipped with water cannons.
Since lots of emergency calls got lost, they had to switch to a patrol system and send out the police and FD cars to drive through the streets to look for fires - among all the smoke and fire of the New Years Eve fireworks in the streets.
Since I used to dump BBC shows once in a while and got tired of extracting the .ra URLs myself:
save.sh:
#!/bin/sh
mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile "$1" `wget -O - "$2"`
=> "save.sh filename.rm http://bbclistenonyourstandalonerealplayerlink/"
It is the responsibility of men to realize that we are not one of the boys
I believe this is neither unique to IT/tech areas nor "the responsibility of men" as women do the same mistakes, be it to men or other women.
There really are much more men than women in that field and statistically it's still the better guess to assume that a hardware pusher is male.
If there's a man and a woman at the kindergarten and you ask people to bet who works with the kids and who is the janitor, I'm pretty sure where people will put their money.
Another example:
I know several girls who are now M.D.s at hospitals and told me patients always call them "nurse"; maybe female patients even more often than male ones.
At least one of my friends resorted to always wearing her lab coat and stethoscope simply to give patients another hint to check out her name tag before asking her to get a doctor.
The other way around, one of them became a state certified physiotherapist before starting to study medicine: this included 1-2 years of working in hospitals and her ~10% male classmates were often mistaken for doctors; the same frequently happens to male nurses.
Yeah that was a somewhat sloppy choice of words by me.
What I hand in mind on the EU level was that Ireland "claims that the [European]Court[ of Justice] should annul Directive 2006/24/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 March 2006 on the retention of data generated or processed in connection with the provision of publicly available electronic communications services
What's flamebait about pointing out that there are real dangers for privacy at the moment?
Yes, there are people opposed to it and yes, I hope the courts will kick out as much of it as possible for being unconstitutional.
But that doesn't change the fact that the people currently in power think that all that crap is a good idea and are pursue it.
Which is why Germany might not be the heaven for communication privacy that the poster I replied to assumes or hopes it is.
[quote]And about the "trojan buzz", enjoy your old news![quote]
What old news?
[quote]But did you notice that constitutions in Europe actually mean something?[quote]
I did also notice that the constitution in Germany can be changed by the parliament and that the current government actually has the necessary majority to do so if they agree on the issue.
If the implementation of the data retention directive is declared unconstitutional in Germany but not in Europe, what's the most likely action of politicians:
a) getting the directive nixed across the EU against all their previous claims how everybody will be killed by terrorists without it
b) breaking with the EU about that, again against all their..
c) finding a way to weasel around the issue by rewording laws and trying again
While I was happy about that, the sad thing is that this is ammunition for another law that's currently in the making:
remove judicial oversight and give copyright holders direct access to the usage data ISPs will have to collect and store for months to comply with the EU "OMG TERRAR!"-data retention directive.
That's the reason why legislators in Germany have done/plan
a) to broaden the scope of the original directive to allow usage of the surveillance data not only for the intended, usual suspects (terrorism, child porn, "serious felonies" like murder, organized crime etc) to include "oh, and all bad stuff that somehow involves computers"
b) during the IP law reform removed the planned "Bagatellklausel" that would have excluded small-style, private/non-commercial copyright infringement from being prosecuted as felonies (idea was "we don't want to criminalize the schoolyards")