I was quite surprise when using the FB app on my Nokia Belle (Symbian^3) phone, to discover that my phone's contacts' photos had been populated from FB. I don't recall giving permission for this app to access my phone's address book. I certainly hope that the data goes only one-way (i.e from FB to phonebook, and not phonebook to FB).:-/
I can't prove a square has five corners by insulting your mother, but if the wino on the street corner tells me the end is nigh, I'm not going to bother listening to his arguments.....
"One of four police officers disciplined for the incident on Nov. 27, 2009, Michael Sedergren, has filed an application for a criminal complaint against videographer Tyrisha Greene. Sedergren, who was suspended for 45 days, claims it was illegal for Greene to videotape him without his consent."
I've seen the "Cops" TV program. Do the police get the suspects consent to film them?
I suspect that many Joe Sixpack's don't know about backups, or if they have, haven't set some backup system/process/plan up. I guess it's good that Windows 7 Action Center warns about backups.
The info I gave wasn't correct. I'm sorry about that. It seems that even with "BD Internet Connection" set to "Do not allow", my Avatar disc still accesses the internet and loads the extra content. I am not sure whether this is due to a recent firmware update, or some other reason. Removing the memory stick for results in a message saying "This feature requires Local Storage..." when loading it, so I would guess it's still trying to do something internet related possibly?
I know that the 2010 Sony's can turn BD Live feature off. Is there such a setting for your player? Or one can remove the USB memory stick used for BD Live - should the player not have onboard storage. Internet access is not mandatory for blu-ray players - one can disconnect.
DVDs don't crash because some jag-off decided to run Java code between frames of my movie....
Citation please?
I have a huge collection of DVD's. I'm not going to repurchase everything....
Most Blu-Ray players will play DVDs also. So most Blu-Ray player owners do not need to replace any DVDs - let alone entire collections - unless they choose to. With most Blu-Ray players, one now has more choice of formats for future purchases.
(3)My personal hatred of BluRay - Taking several minutes to startup due to the DRM and HDCP handshaking, key updating, communication, et cetera.
It is utterly ridiculous that putting a DVD in my Sony BluRay player versus a BluRay means a playback difference of 3 minutes (and I have a fast BluRay player.) Note that some BluRay Discs do not exhibit this behavior but all are still sloooooow compared to DVD.
Newer Blu-Ray players are much faster to load discs than they used to be. 12 seconds to load Dark Night and 23 seconds to load POC1 (Samsung BDC-5500) is pretty good in my opinion.
I have a 2010 model Sony and it seems pretty quick to load discs - except when connected to the internet with BD Live enabled (can turn this off) and some disc wants to load extra features from the www. But on the whole, this player is pretty quick to load.
Bluray stops working for grandma. Then the player gets tossed aside. Or it must be sent to the repair shop. Or grand son must install the new DRM keys.
Bluray is trash and that is where the player belongs.
Huh? Install new DRM keys? To be fair, when a DVD player stops working - it too must be repaired or trashed.
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I was quite surprise when using the FB app on my Nokia Belle (Symbian^3) phone, to discover that my phone's contacts' photos had been populated from FB. I don't recall giving permission for this app to access my phone's address book. I certainly hope that the data goes only one-way (i.e from FB to phonebook, and not phonebook to FB). :-/
"Rolling back the Cisco Connect Cloud firmware to the Classic EA Series router web interface".
The last time I posted how Cisco uses their routers to sell our privacy...
They do? I was not aware of this. Which routers? More info please.
... I'm sure given time and the history of IE it probably doesn't need an extension to tell if you're pregnant...
It wouldn't be so hard to detect web searches for recipes where dirt is the primary ingredient. ;-)
Hey, don't knock "not collecting stamps". It's a great passtime.
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I can't prove a square has five corners by insulting your mother, but if the wino on the street corner tells me the end is nigh, I'm not going to bother listening to his arguments. ....
But what if he's right?
Released 5 November 09
http://www.cdwow.co.nz/blu-ray/pulp-fiction-blu-ray/dp/6304089
Pulp Fiction has been out on Blu-Ray since 2009.
"Apple lawyers are crying foul about Samsung, and ... Motorola's allegedly 'anticompetitive,' use of patents. ...
Ummm... I would think that patents by definition are anticompetitive. Aren't they?
"One of four police officers disciplined for the incident on Nov. 27, 2009, Michael Sedergren, has filed an application for a criminal complaint against videographer Tyrisha Greene. Sedergren, who was suspended for 45 days, claims it was illegal for Greene to videotape him without his consent."
I've seen the "Cops" TV program. Do the police get the suspects consent to film them?
Nice ad hominem. :-/
Nice xkcd reference. :-)
Bigger power transformer in the older gear? Tubes?
I never liked Thunderbird 3.x. Thunderbird 2.x is just what I want.
I suspect that many Joe Sixpack's don't know about backups, or if they have, haven't set some backup system/process/plan up. I guess it's good that Windows 7 Action Center warns about backups.
Do all Windows PCs ship with a CD? What about retrieving the user's data?
What if someone used a Debit Card?
The info I gave wasn't correct. I'm sorry about that. It seems that even with "BD Internet Connection" set to "Do not allow", my Avatar disc still accesses the internet and loads the extra content. I am not sure whether this is due to a recent firmware update, or some other reason. Removing the memory stick for results in a message saying "This feature requires Local Storage..." when loading it, so I would guess it's still trying to do something internet related possibly?
I know that the 2010 Sony's can turn BD Live feature off. Is there such a setting for your player? Or one can remove the USB memory stick used for BD Live - should the player not have onboard storage. Internet access is not mandatory for blu-ray players - one can disconnect.
DVDs don't crash because some jag-off decided to run Java code between frames of my movie. ...
Citation please?
I have a huge collection of DVD's. I'm not going to repurchase everything. ...
Most Blu-Ray players will play DVDs also. So most Blu-Ray player owners do not need to replace any DVDs - let alone entire collections - unless they choose to. With most Blu-Ray players, one now has more choice of formats for future purchases.
(3)My personal hatred of BluRay - Taking several minutes to startup due to the DRM and HDCP handshaking, key updating, communication, et cetera.
It is utterly ridiculous that putting a DVD in my Sony BluRay player versus a BluRay means a playback difference of 3 minutes (and I have a fast BluRay player.) Note that some BluRay Discs do not exhibit this behavior but all are still sloooooow compared to DVD.
Newer Blu-Ray players are much faster to load discs than they used to be. 12 seconds to load Dark Night and 23 seconds to load POC1 (Samsung BDC-5500) is pretty good in my opinion. I have a 2010 model Sony and it seems pretty quick to load discs - except when connected to the internet with BD Live enabled (can turn this off) and some disc wants to load extra features from the www. But on the whole, this player is pretty quick to load.
Bluray stops working for grandma. Then the player gets tossed aside. Or it must be sent to the repair shop. Or grand son must install the new DRM keys. Bluray is trash and that is where the player belongs.
Huh? Install new DRM keys? To be fair, when a DVD player stops working - it too must be repaired or trashed.
Koine (New Testament) Greek != Ancient (Classical) Greek != Modern Greek.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AT1GdI0Rbo
You mean like the ones that currently support Skype cameras?