I'm just questioning the wordings of the statements. Having a named source and an original phrasing would give the statements more credibility. Seeing as how the threat to "storm" the embassy was obviously woriding of the equadorian FM, not the UK diplomat speak. The actual quote from the UK representative was much more informative than the very "undiplomatic" interpretation from the equadorian side.
As for the second quote (the claim that the swedes have refused to offer any guarantees about extradiction to the US, and refused to question assange in the UK), I'm equally interested in the source, i.e. WHO said this, as well as the original wording. It is especially interesting since here in sweden, there is no reporting about refused opportunities to question Assange in the UK, and there is no talk about why Sweden would not offer guarantees of no extradiction to the US. I suppose it could be hard diplomaticaly for Sweden to say "we will violate agreements we have with the US if we have to". That would stir up a diplomatic fight with yet another country, for no obvious reason. A more interesting question than why Sweden can't offer guarantees, is this: why would Assange have to go to Sweden to be handed to the US? Sweden doesn't have any special agreements or any history of handing people to the americans. On the contrary, the UK works with the US more closely!
As for the UK/Sweden story, at this point I believe the swedes will just question him in the embassy, and that will be it. Once the whole sexual misconduct thing is cleared up, I believe mr. Assange rather just stays in London than moves to Equador.
I meant the original source of the alleged statements, that is, who on the swedish and UK sides made these statements? I suspect both are either misunderstandings or complete fabrications (until I see some proof of the contrary).
Stripping the embassy privileges would mean they could go in and fetch him. This would be in accordance with conventions, but would cause serious diplomatic fallout.
The next option is to claim that the embassy is already in violation of the conventions, since it harbors criminals. You just can't do that forever and still follow the conventions. What the UK would do here is then to throw out an ambassador or like the above, strip the diplomatic privileges alltogether from the embassy. This too would cause serious diplomatic fallout.
The simplest option is to simply wait until he leaves the embassy, and just stop the car. The Vienna convention is quite clear on the fact that you can stop/search a diplomatic vehicle if there is a suspected crime. So the whole "sneak assange out to the airport in an embassy car" does not seem like a watertight plan. Even simpler, you could just block any way a car could leave the embassy, forcing people to walk from the embassy thereby letting him be arrested without having to search a car. In any case, I bet he will be extradited to sweden sooner or later. I'm also quite sure that once there, he will be questioned and released quickly (so quickly that the swedish authorities can claim not to know his whereabouts when the US asks, thereby avoiding a diplomatic problem between sweden and the US). There was a political scandal with the CIA smuggling suspected terrorists from Sweden to an egyptian CIA run prison where they were tortured, and no politician in Sweden will want to be involved in anything related to extradictions and the US again. At this point it is merely a question of prestige for the swedish legal authorities.
Source of this? Same source as "UK threatens to storm Ecuadors embassy"? These are two statements allegedly by the US and Sweden respectively, but confirmed by neither. Until they are, I'd disregard both. Completely.
Yes, metro is designed for touch interfaces. One can question the decision to remove the "start directly to desktop" possibility, but I assume they reasoned that it is easier to provide this option later, than to remove the option if they realize this is the correct way to go. I don't see it as a big problem anyway (one presses enter ONCE to get from the start screen to desktop. Similar to what one always has done with the start screen showing a list of users in the home editions).
Calling IE10 a shitty browser is a bit of inflation in that term I believe. Those who still have to care about IE6 knows what a shitty browser really is. When you can write apps for newer versions of chrome and IE only, you suddenly find both of them to be very good browsers compared to what we had a few years ago.
How do you know it will take a year and a half to learn how to use the new interface? What is going on here is microsoft saying that a) "desktop env. is crap on a touch device" (no argument from anyone) and b) "having the same env for all classes of devices is good". The last point can be argued back and forth but at least they have a consistent plan and try to make the best with that plan. If it turns out to be a disaster, I'm confident they will back off from it. The point is, all changes are always resisted by us the vocal 1%. Ribbon UI is a good example (where ms was right, but some on/. would still be whining I suppose).
The code that extracts the machine parameters that make up the key has to be non-encrypted, right? Wouldn't that be where to start? I.e. if you know the key is a combination of a path and a MAC address, and you know how they are combined to form the key, then you could reduce the key space by looking at plausible paths/macs?
Yeah typo. Confused by doing both C and F in my head. And of course inland climates have more extremes, like central us and a lot of russia. Very northernly inland locations should be more consistently cold (that is cool or cold depending on season€
Luleå has to have one of the most extreme temperature ranges anywhere. Summer temp is quite consistently 15-20C with occasional peaks of 30C and winter temp is zero to 40C below. So the range is nearly 90C (130F)! This of course seasonal variation and not "rapid change" so data centers should not be affected by this. The fastest changes there are probably in winter when the temperature in rare cases can go from -40 (and zero humidity) to zero (and damp) in a day or two. That kind of change, especially the other way round, could mean trouble (condensation in air in/outlets etc.)
In fact, if google just wanted cold/dry climate, there has to be better locations. Northern sweden is mild, and has quite warm summers. Arctic inland climate further from the gulf stream atlantic would be more logical. Border between Russia and Finland for example. But there are probably logistical reasons (huge cargo airport, good port, good roads, railroads, lots of good technical people, ridiculous backbone connection) that placed the datacenter there.
I think you represent a tiny minority of computer game buyers. As such, studios adapting to your needs probably aren't doing it for business reasons.
In 1993 you bought a physical item when you bought the game. Today you buy (license) the experience of playing the game. For a while at least. In 5 years I don't think you will be able to find major game titles on physical media. If you don't pay for DLC you aren't an attractive customer anyway, so DVD/bd users just risk being people without Internet connections and their credit cards registered at purchase (I.e. bad customers).
There will always be indie games which have none of this of course. I'm no talking 90% of the games bu 90% of the dollars, which is what is relevant really.
No-resale, DRM, always-on etc. is fine by me. I license something, I don't buy it. I don't expect to be able to transfer my license to anyone and I don't even expect to be able to play the game myself in a few years. So a game for me is 1-2 years of entertainment, without resale. If the price of a game feels to steep for what I'll get, I'll just NOT buy it. If it turns out I can resale in a few years from now, or that the game will be open sourced or DRM/always-on removed, then that is a BONUS, and something I didn't expect when I bought it.
As long as the seller is upfront with what I'm paying for, I can choose to not buy it. The unforgivable failures on game producers behalf is when they have DRM servers not working, or *hidden* caveats such as no-resale licenses, always-on requirements and so on. As long as I can make an informed decision I'm happy.
A much better predictor is betting odds. Beats polls and any other index I have seen.
As for the quality of twitter as a gauge of opinion, they just face a normal page rank problem. The weight of a quote about a candidate is determined by the rank of the account and the number of tweets from that account. The rank of the account depends on the followers and their rank, with validated accounts in the top. I didn't read tfa but it would surprise me if an algorithm like this isn't used. An army of bots would only have bots as followers. Just like splogs and other "ring" spam web sites.
Deciding whether a tweet is good or bad is difficult. If you can't sense e.g. sarcasm in political tweets you will miss by a large margin. Doing that from 140 chars (plus history) would be a more impressive feat than using I for political indexes.
It don't think this patent debacle stifles innovation or startups, I think it does so in the US because of a broken patent system and borked legal system. Incubate your startup company somewhere where it can either fail, or grow large enough to stand up to the patent trolls before they ever find themselves in that situation.
If I started a company in the US, an attorney or patent advisor would be person #3 involved. In europe I'd be confident to run a much larger innvoation-heavy a startup with without legal advise. I'm not shitting you: you can run a company for years with dozens of employees and not even have a business card from a lawyer in your office.
So it has little in common with "Windows". This won't be what you use to run "Windows" on your new arm ultraportable. This is what you use when you run some metro-esque OS on a tablet.
The difference between Win8-ARM on a device/appliance is to Windows on a laptop/desktop what iOS on an iPad is to MacOS on a macintosh laptop. All this talk about walled gardens aside, I can see the point of having a very protected environment for computers that are appliances more related to my toaster than they are to my old desktop computer. I don't want to care about device drivers when Win8 runs in my TV, phone or tablet. It must just work, even if it means I can't install my old applications. If I want a computer where I can do anything I want, I get a computer. In this case that happens to mean my computer has to be x86 and my appliances have to be ARM. So be it. It almost certainly was going to be that way for the foreseeable future anyway.
I can't really blame microsoft for making this decision. They don't want to wall in windows users, they want to win over some iOS users with iPad. Maybe on Win9 or Win10 we'll do all our computing in the walled garden. But lets cross that bridge when we get ther.
To me the big step in camera sizes is "pocketable" and "not pocketable". All interchangeable lens cameras with 4/3 size sensors or larger are squarely in the "not pocketable" segment. And if you get a camera that you can't pocket, I suggest you simply get the best one for the money which is probably a dslr.
That said, if you can live with an extremely compact zoom (there is only one model that I know of that telescopes and has motorized zoom) or even a fixed focal pancake lens, then you actually can pocket an interchangeable lens camera. Nikon also makes their 1-series cameras with smaller sensors and interchangeable lenses, but I feel they have the worse of both worlds (sensor of a compact and price of a slr).
As usual here on the internet I'm going to recommend something different than what you asked for: a dslr. Go with Nikon D5100 or canon 600D as an entry level camera. Keep your phone or a good compact camera for snapshots.
Honestly all web platforms have drawbacks, and all of them will have supporters claiming they dont.
python: pros: easy, decent tools, good frameworks. cons: syntax is difficult to check for correctness (non-compiled).
perl: pros: it's free: cons: Its perl
.net: pros: techincally bloody excellent, good tools. cons: practically win-only, no free server software
javascript (e.g. node.js): pros: it is the same on the client if you want one. Cons: it is still bloody javascript.
java: pros: widespread, good servers. cons: a million frameworks to choose from and none is great, next year all will be obsolete and 100 new ones will come. Slow language development (java 8 is.net from about 2005)
They all suck, which one sucks the least depends on the circumstances of your project (time, budget, techincal aspects, what you already know, what you would like to learn, performance requirements, scalability requirements).
I agree that it isnt exactly the same as images. Still, I don't think you will find a lot of people that miss the days of having to watch videos in a popup real player. Having everything in the browser (separate tab: fine) is probably what people want. And lets not forget, this is mainly a business problem not a technical one. The video needs to be protected, and the video needs to be displayed with the appropriate ads and branding surrounding it
So you agree that there is a niche for live streaming of DRM:ed content? Even with streming you could just buffer the whole move or whatever (that is the same as downloading). The important bit is that the user can't be bothered to manage a file or a video player app in 2011. No sir.
I think people in the US approach the whole SL debate from another agle, as hey probably met it through Netflix (which I have never used for georaphical reasons). Over here SL is used for most if not all live internet TV services (i.e. the web versions of pay-per-view sports basically). They will never serve anything but streaming content, and they will never use anything that doesn't have good DRM, and of course it will always be streamed as it is live
Of course I am assuming the value of the content is zero once the game is over. So offline cracking/uploading etc. is not relevant for live streams. Of course there is a motivation for cracking the drm also for live streams, as long as you can redistribute the cracked streams live.
HTML-5 does not provide any method for any kind of adaptive bitrate, or fragmented video delivery.
You're free to implement it yourself using a combination of server-side programming and client-side javascript.
You cleverly removed the bit about DRM from the quote of the parent post. So when I implement my client side part, to be able to have the drm bits I'll probably make it native rather than js. That also means it is now a plugin. Oh wait I can see what ms did here...
In 2011 I want to be able to seek in my video file (or watch live streams), I want autmatic adjustment of bitrate depending on my bandwidth, and whoever I'm downloading the video from want's to make sure I pay my subscription to watch this game. There are basically only a few technologies that handle this.
I know and MS implementation (IIS media) is one implementation of this. Of course the one that is actually used isn't the http live streaming but the silverlight client smooth streaming which adds the drm capability. Video delivery without drm just won't be interesting for those who sell content. Not anytime soon.
If http live streaming just added drm capability then we wouldn't need silverlight smooth streaming.
No. We never needed flash to play internet video. If you link to a video directly, it will play in your system's default video player.
This kind of wisdom has sadly gone the way of the dodo. The marketing department convinced everybody we need in-lined videos because that's so much better
Why would I want to open a video in a separate player? Do you open images on websites in your picture viewer as well?
The sorry state of navigation in streaming video is the best argument why to avoid it in general. The "streaming" formats really have no advantage here.
The main problem is making sure that people aren't getting your content for free.
Nothing else about "streaming" is terribly compelling for anyone.
Wouldn't the opposite of streaing be downloading and offline watching? That feels awkward. Especially for live events (the main use of SL it seems) where you suggest I download the game after it is finished?
I doubt sufficient motivation exists to crack it. You can get higher quality from DVD (or especially Blu-Ray) rips off TPB for anyone so inclined, leaving the only people who want to record Silverlight those people who don't know / don't want to use BitTorrent. Most of those people aren't the sort to know how to crack it. And with only Netflix using it, there really just doesn't seem to be a point.
So maybe no one has circumvented it, but probably just for lack of trying. Witness how fast the much-vaunted PS3 was hacked after removing OtherOS support. And as you say, streaming media recorders always work. DRM simply does not work.
I watch silverlight drm:ed streams everyday. For live sports. Since it is live, the argument about dvd:s and download of course doesn't work.
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I'm just questioning the wordings of the statements. Having a named source and an original phrasing would give the statements more credibility. Seeing as how the threat to "storm" the embassy was obviously woriding of the equadorian FM, not the UK diplomat speak. The actual quote from the UK representative was much more informative than the very "undiplomatic" interpretation from the equadorian side.
As for the second quote (the claim that the swedes have refused to offer any guarantees about extradiction to the US, and refused to question assange in the UK), I'm equally interested in the source, i.e. WHO said this, as well as the original wording. It is especially interesting since here in sweden, there is no reporting about refused opportunities to question Assange in the UK, and there is no talk about why Sweden would not offer guarantees of no extradiction to the US. I suppose it could be hard diplomaticaly for Sweden to say "we will violate agreements we have with the US if we have to". That would stir up a diplomatic fight with yet another country, for no obvious reason. A more interesting question than why Sweden can't offer guarantees, is this: why would Assange have to go to Sweden to be handed to the US? Sweden doesn't have any special agreements or any history of handing people to the americans. On the contrary, the UK works with the US more closely!
As for the UK/Sweden story, at this point I believe the swedes will just question him in the embassy, and that will be it. Once the whole sexual misconduct thing is cleared up, I believe mr. Assange rather just stays in London than moves to Equador.
I meant the original source of the alleged statements, that is, who on the swedish and UK sides made these statements? I suspect both are either misunderstandings or complete fabrications (until I see some proof of the contrary).
Stripping the embassy privileges would mean they could go in and fetch him. This would be in accordance with conventions, but would cause serious diplomatic fallout.
The next option is to claim that the embassy is already in violation of the conventions, since it harbors criminals. You just can't do that forever and still follow the conventions. What the UK would do here is then to throw out an ambassador or like the above, strip the diplomatic privileges alltogether from the embassy. This too would cause serious diplomatic fallout.
The simplest option is to simply wait until he leaves the embassy, and just stop the car. The Vienna convention is quite clear on the fact that you can stop/search a diplomatic vehicle if there is a suspected crime. So the whole "sneak assange out to the airport in an embassy car" does not seem like a watertight plan. Even simpler, you could just block any way a car could leave the embassy, forcing people to walk from the embassy thereby letting him be arrested without having to search a car. In any case, I bet he will be extradited to sweden sooner or later. I'm also quite sure that once there, he will be questioned and released quickly (so quickly that the swedish authorities can claim not to know his whereabouts when the US asks, thereby avoiding a diplomatic problem between sweden and the US). There was a political scandal with the CIA smuggling suspected terrorists from Sweden to an egyptian CIA run prison where they were tortured, and no politician in Sweden will want to be involved in anything related to extradictions and the US again. At this point it is merely a question of prestige for the swedish legal authorities.
Source of this? Same source as "UK threatens to storm Ecuadors embassy"? These are two statements allegedly by the US and Sweden respectively, but confirmed by neither. Until they are, I'd disregard both. Completely.
Yes, metro is designed for touch interfaces. One can question the decision to remove the "start directly to desktop" possibility, but I assume they reasoned that it is easier to provide this option later, than to remove the option if they realize this is the correct way to go. I don't see it as a big problem anyway (one presses enter ONCE to get from the start screen to desktop. Similar to what one always has done with the start screen showing a list of users in the home editions).
Calling IE10 a shitty browser is a bit of inflation in that term I believe. Those who still have to care about IE6 knows what a shitty browser really is. When you can write apps for newer versions of chrome and IE only, you suddenly find both of them to be very good browsers compared to what we had a few years ago.
How do you know it will take a year and a half to learn how to use the new interface? What is going on here is microsoft saying that a) "desktop env. is crap on a touch device" (no argument from anyone) and b) "having the same env for all classes of devices is good". The last point can be argued back and forth but at least they have a consistent plan and try to make the best with that plan. If it turns out to be a disaster, I'm confident they will back off from it. The point is, all changes are always resisted by us the vocal 1%. Ribbon UI is a good example (where ms was right, but some on /. would still be whining I suppose).
The code that extracts the machine parameters that make up the key has to be non-encrypted, right? Wouldn't that be where to start? I.e. if you know the key is a combination of a path and a MAC address, and you know how they are combined to form the key, then you could reduce the key space by looking at plausible paths/macs?
Yeah typo. Confused by doing both C and F in my head. And of course inland climates have more extremes, like central us and a lot of russia. Very northernly inland locations should be more consistently cold (that is cool or cold depending on season€
Luleå has to have one of the most extreme temperature ranges anywhere. Summer temp is quite consistently 15-20C with occasional peaks of 30C and winter temp is zero to 40C below. So the range is nearly 90C (130F)! This of course seasonal variation and not "rapid change" so data centers should not be affected by this. The fastest changes there are probably in winter when the temperature in rare cases can go from -40 (and zero humidity) to zero (and damp) in a day or two. That kind of change, especially the other way round, could mean trouble (condensation in air in/outlets etc.)
In fact, if google just wanted cold/dry climate, there has to be better locations. Northern sweden is mild, and has quite warm summers. Arctic inland climate further from the gulf stream atlantic would be more logical. Border between Russia and Finland for example. But there are probably logistical reasons (huge cargo airport, good port, good roads, railroads, lots of good technical people, ridiculous backbone connection) that placed the datacenter there.
In 1993 you bought a physical item when you bought the game. Today you buy (license) the experience of playing the game. For a while at least. In 5 years I don't think you will be able to find major game titles on physical media. If you don't pay for DLC you aren't an attractive customer anyway, so DVD/bd users just risk being people without Internet connections and their credit cards registered at purchase (I.e. bad customers).
There will always be indie games which have none of this of course. I'm no talking 90% of the games bu 90% of the dollars, which is what is relevant really.
No-resale, DRM, always-on etc. is fine by me. I license something, I don't buy it. I don't expect to be able to transfer my license to anyone and I don't even expect to be able to play the game myself in a few years. So a game for me is 1-2 years of entertainment, without resale. If the price of a game feels to steep for what I'll get, I'll just NOT buy it. If it turns out I can resale in a few years from now, or that the game will be open sourced or DRM/always-on removed, then that is a BONUS, and something I didn't expect when I bought it.
As long as the seller is upfront with what I'm paying for, I can choose to not buy it. The unforgivable failures on game producers behalf is when they have DRM servers not working, or *hidden* caveats such as no-resale licenses, always-on requirements and so on. As long as I can make an informed decision I'm happy.
I think slashdotters observing the state of the server has changed the state of it.
A much better predictor is betting odds. Beats polls and any other index I have seen. As for the quality of twitter as a gauge of opinion, they just face a normal page rank problem. The weight of a quote about a candidate is determined by the rank of the account and the number of tweets from that account. The rank of the account depends on the followers and their rank, with validated accounts in the top. I didn't read tfa but it would surprise me if an algorithm like this isn't used. An army of bots would only have bots as followers. Just like splogs and other "ring" spam web sites. Deciding whether a tweet is good or bad is difficult. If you can't sense e.g. sarcasm in political tweets you will miss by a large margin. Doing that from 140 chars (plus history) would be a more impressive feat than using I for political indexes.
It don't think this patent debacle stifles innovation or startups, I think it does so in the US because of a broken patent system and borked legal system. Incubate your startup company somewhere where it can either fail, or grow large enough to stand up to the patent trolls before they ever find themselves in that situation.
If I started a company in the US, an attorney or patent advisor would be person #3 involved. In europe I'd be confident to run a much larger innvoation-heavy a startup with without legal advise. I'm not shitting you: you can run a company for years with dozens of employees and not even have a business card from a lawyer in your office.
The difference between Win8-ARM on a device/appliance is to Windows on a laptop/desktop what iOS on an iPad is to MacOS on a macintosh laptop. All this talk about walled gardens aside, I can see the point of having a very protected environment for computers that are appliances more related to my toaster than they are to my old desktop computer. I don't want to care about device drivers when Win8 runs in my TV, phone or tablet. It must just work, even if it means I can't install my old applications. If I want a computer where I can do anything I want, I get a computer. In this case that happens to mean my computer has to be x86 and my appliances have to be ARM. So be it. It almost certainly was going to be that way for the foreseeable future anyway.
I can't really blame microsoft for making this decision. They don't want to wall in windows users, they want to win over some iOS users with iPad. Maybe on Win9 or Win10 we'll do all our computing in the walled garden. But lets cross that bridge when we get ther.
No law like this will be passed on EU level unless it is absolutely certain that the core countries will adapt it without fuss.
That said, if you can live with an extremely compact zoom (there is only one model that I know of that telescopes and has motorized zoom) or even a fixed focal pancake lens, then you actually can pocket an interchangeable lens camera. Nikon also makes their 1-series cameras with smaller sensors and interchangeable lenses, but I feel they have the worse of both worlds (sensor of a compact and price of a slr).
As usual here on the internet I'm going to recommend something different than what you asked for: a dslr. Go with Nikon D5100 or canon 600D as an entry level camera. Keep your phone or a good compact camera for snapshots.
They all suck, which one sucks the least depends on the circumstances of your project (time, budget, techincal aspects, what you already know, what you would like to learn, performance requirements, scalability requirements).
I agree that it isnt exactly the same as images. Still, I don't think you will find a lot of people that miss the days of having to watch videos in a popup real player. Having everything in the browser (separate tab: fine) is probably what people want. And lets not forget, this is mainly a business problem not a technical one. The video needs to be protected, and the video needs to be displayed with the appropriate ads and branding surrounding it
So you agree that there is a niche for live streaming of DRM:ed content? Even with streming you could just buffer the whole move or whatever (that is the same as downloading). The important bit is that the user can't be bothered to manage a file or a video player app in 2011. No sir. I think people in the US approach the whole SL debate from another agle, as hey probably met it through Netflix (which I have never used for georaphical reasons). Over here SL is used for most if not all live internet TV services (i.e. the web versions of pay-per-view sports basically). They will never serve anything but streaming content, and they will never use anything that doesn't have good DRM, and of course it will always be streamed as it is live
Of course I am assuming the value of the content is zero once the game is over. So offline cracking/uploading etc. is not relevant for live streams. Of course there is a motivation for cracking the drm also for live streams, as long as you can redistribute the cracked streams live.
You're free to implement it yourself using a combination of server-side programming and client-side javascript.
You cleverly removed the bit about DRM from the quote of the parent post. So when I implement my client side part, to be able to have the drm bits I'll probably make it native rather than js. That also means it is now a plugin. Oh wait I can see what ms did here...
And HTML5 is one of them: HTTP Live Streaming.
I know and MS implementation (IIS media) is one implementation of this. Of course the one that is actually used isn't the http live streaming but the silverlight client smooth streaming which adds the drm capability. Video delivery without drm just won't be interesting for those who sell content. Not anytime soon. If http live streaming just added drm capability then we wouldn't need silverlight smooth streaming.
No. We never needed flash to play internet video. If you link to a video directly, it will play in your system's default video player.
This kind of wisdom has sadly gone the way of the dodo. The marketing department convinced everybody we need in-lined videos because that's so much better
Why would I want to open a video in a separate player? Do you open images on websites in your picture viewer as well?
The sorry state of navigation in streaming video is the best argument why to avoid it in general. The "streaming" formats really have no advantage here.
The main problem is making sure that people aren't getting your content for free.
Nothing else about "streaming" is terribly compelling for anyone.
Wouldn't the opposite of streaing be downloading and offline watching? That feels awkward. Especially for live events (the main use of SL it seems) where you suggest I download the game after it is finished?
I doubt sufficient motivation exists to crack it. You can get higher quality from DVD (or especially Blu-Ray) rips off TPB for anyone so inclined, leaving the only people who want to record Silverlight those people who don't know / don't want to use BitTorrent. Most of those people aren't the sort to know how to crack it. And with only Netflix using it, there really just doesn't seem to be a point.
So maybe no one has circumvented it, but probably just for lack of trying. Witness how fast the much-vaunted PS3 was hacked after removing OtherOS support. And as you say, streaming media recorders always work. DRM simply does not work.
I watch silverlight drm:ed streams everyday. For live sports. Since it is live, the argument about dvd:s and download of course doesn't work.