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  1. Re:Not really HTML5 on Netflix Ditches Silverlight With HTML5 Support In IE11 · · Score: 1

    Amazon prime does HD. I watched "Good Eats" in HD on my computer yesterday. Netflix does not work at all on that computer.

  2. If it is so simple, why not explain it to the whole class?

  3. Re:Perfect analogy for NASA on NASA's NEXT Ion Thruster Runs Five and a Half Years Nonstop To Set New Record · · Score: 1

    Knowledge has no value to you?
    That must be one hell of a miserable existence you live.

  4. Re:Firefox on Netflix Ditches Silverlight With HTML5 Support In IE11 · · Score: 1

    Firefox can't support this. They best they could ever hope to do is pass this data to the OS and let it do the work. That will only work on Windows. OSX will likely get its own version and that will be it.

    The OS has to protect itself from its owner to do this sort of thing. If you actually had control over the computer this would never work. Which is why it will not be supported on linux running on non-locked down hardware.

  5. Re:NIX?? on Netflix Ditches Silverlight With HTML5 Support In IE11 · · Score: 1

    Nope, the OS underneath has to support it too. Since it must deprive the user of control of his computer to ensure security.

  6. Re:HTML5 is now officially been Embraced and Exten on Netflix Ditches Silverlight With HTML5 Support In IE11 · · Score: 1

    None of that changes the fact that these are simply incompatible with FOSS. No FOSS browser on a FOSS OS can ever support these. Well unless you want DRMed hardware, but then you might as well just give it all up anyway.

  7. Re:what about chrome os? on Netflix Ditches Silverlight With HTML5 Support In IE11 · · Score: 1

    It does not suggest that, nor will that ever happen.

    It is simply impossible to do so, since nothing would stop you from writing the output into a file. Unless you want to be booting a netflix signed kernel on your netflix signed hardware.

  8. Re:If it's still MS only, who gives a shit? on Netflix Ditches Silverlight With HTML5 Support In IE11 · · Score: 1

    How is that not abuse of a monopoly position?

    We will not license our software to people who compete with us in our main market to protect that market at all costs.

  9. Re:It's not only MS.... on Netflix Ditches Silverlight With HTML5 Support In IE11 · · Score: 1

    Or you could just get them to mail you DVDs or BluRay disks that are trivial to rip.

    Netflix is likely already the biggest distributer of media being pirated via their disk mailing business.

    You would not even have to worry about being sued, unless you tell someone what you are doing.

  10. Re:Don't see how that's better. on Netflix Ditches Silverlight With HTML5 Support In IE11 · · Score: 1

    Your "and" explains your previous question.

    They can't allow Firefox or anyone else to support this DRM directly since it would be trivial at that point to just ignore the content restrictions.

  11. Re:If it's still MS only, who gives a shit? on Netflix Ditches Silverlight With HTML5 Support In IE11 · · Score: 2

    Try using it on not windows and get back to me.
    Any flash replacement needs to at least support as many platforms if not more.

  12. Re:Not really HTML5 on Netflix Ditches Silverlight With HTML5 Support In IE11 · · Score: 1

    Flash seems to work fine for everyone else.

    Since they mail out easy to copy disks I would think no DRM is not much loss.

  13. Re:If it's still MS only, who gives a shit? on Netflix Ditches Silverlight With HTML5 Support In IE11 · · Score: 1

    Oh wow, it will run on OSX too and for the three folks with chromebooks ChromeOS.

    Wow, how amazing. They managed to add one minor OS to the previous supported list.

  14. Re:If it's still MS only, who gives a shit? on Netflix Ditches Silverlight With HTML5 Support In IE11 · · Score: 2

    So instead they install this plugin from widevine, which likely only netflix will use and thus not be very popular.

    Wow, what an improvement

  15. Re:If it's still MS only, who gives a shit? on Netflix Ditches Silverlight With HTML5 Support In IE11 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They already had netflix working just fine. So why would they care?

  16. Not really HTML5 on Netflix Ditches Silverlight With HTML5 Support In IE11 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If I still have to have an approved OS and browser and install a DRM plugin, it's not really just HTML5.

    Oh wow, we swapped one plugin for another.

  17. Re:Drone on Firsthand Impressions of Now-Delayed NVIDIA SHIELD · · Score: 1

    I doubt a 100g of fertilizer is going to do much.

  18. Re:Misspelled 'Drone Strike' as 'RC Plane Attack'? on RC Plane Attack 'Foiled,' Say German Authorities · · Score: 2

    Yes, I am very aware such things exist. I also know they are out of the price range of your average nutbag.

    Even a glow plugged engined thing that can lift a baseball is going to be many hundreds of dollars.

    Nor is such a small device likely to be that effective. Flying an RC plane is not easy, not is hitting a small target like a person with one. Explosives in small quantities are also unlikely to do much, since they will be outdoors. This means a shrapnel weapon would have to be used.

    Here in reality a $500 .308 rifle is a far more useful tool if you want to assassinate people.

  19. Re:Misspelled 'Drone Strike' as 'RC Plane Attack'? on RC Plane Attack 'Foiled,' Say German Authorities · · Score: 1

    Read your last sentence back to yourself.

    The typical RC plane cannot lift 700 grams, what you are talking about used to be typical long ago.

    Cheap foam is an advantage not a defect. Makes fixing them after crashes much cheaper. Also opens the hobby to a lot more folks.

  20. Re:Perfect analogy for NASA on NASA's NEXT Ion Thruster Runs Five and a Half Years Nonstop To Set New Record · · Score: 2

    I am not laughing nor minimizing. Scientists are not stuck with pictures, but tools not even available during the Apollo era are on those rovers to sample rocks.

    I agree, but we simply will not bother until we are forced. We can't even get people to update coal power plants, you can forget them wanting to spend a dime on this.

  21. Re:Perfect analogy for NASA on NASA's NEXT Ion Thruster Runs Five and a Half Years Nonstop To Set New Record · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So then those rovers on Mars are figments of my imagination?

    Our space program since Apollo has gotten better. Unless you think their is some scientific value in sending humans to play golf on other worlds.

  22. Re:Misspelled 'Drone Strike' as 'RC Plane Attack'? on RC Plane Attack 'Foiled,' Say German Authorities · · Score: 1

    Drones that can perform such strikes are rather larger than the average RC plane. The typical RC plane is not going to be able to even lift a grenade, much less a hellfire.

  23. Re:Hyperbole, anyone? on RC Plane Attack 'Foiled,' Say German Authorities · · Score: 1

    Hey now, the below the fold section is very pertinent to my interests.

  24. Re:New features? on Review: Oracle Database 12c · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What modern SQL server does not have some method of doing this? Even if it requires outside programs running against it?

    Please stop calling MS SQL server, sql server it makes it sound like it is the only one.

  25. Re: Legal statutes on FCC Considering Proposal For Encrypted Ham Radio · · Score: 1

    The internet is not that centralized. The phone system is to some degree. Good luck getting the ISP for mcDonalds to tell you that it was me at that restaurant. Simple mac address cloning makes that basically impossible. That assumes I do nothing outright illegal. Which would make this sort of tracking much harder.