Reuters article quote:
"PARIS (Reuters) - A Paris-based media watchdog released a handbook on Thursday to help cyber-dissidents and bloggers avoid political censorship in countries as far apart as China, Iran, Vietnam and Cuba."
Xinhua article quote:
"BEIJING, Sept. 23 (Xinhuanet) -- A Paris-based media watchdog released a free guide Thursday to help bloggers and cyber-dissidents avoid political censorship in countries as far apart as Iran, Vietnam and Cuba."
Once again, it's a system that will only be effective in causing problems for honest people. The pirates will use their hacked hardware to make protection-free copies, and everyone else will d/l them off bittorrent/usenet/wherever.
The person who already bought a nice HDTV or monitor on the other hand - hes screwed. Hes the guy who goes out and buys legitimate copies of movies, and buys the new hardware when it comes out. Hes the type of guy who keeps the content and hardware companies in profitable. And hes the one they're screwing over most - what a way to run a business.
Whats wrong with RAID-5? Most home users arent storing a TB of mission-critical data, so being protected from any single drive failing should be plenty. That way you're only talking about 1 extra disk, instead of 3 - its still more then $500, but its not exactly double it either.
I think the throttling thing is a bit of an exageration. I just pulled up my 3 month history on netflix's site, and I rented 20, 15, and 17 dvds for a total of 52 over 90 days. Before that I was renting roughly the same amount aswell. I have the 3 at a time plan, which is $18 a month. That means I'm paying $54 for 3 months, which works out to $1.04 per rental, whereas that site says they'll throttle you if you get under $2/per. It is possible that the occasional extra day waits are some sort of throttling measure, but it doesnt seem to me that they're very aggressive, if so. Well, atleast I think I'm getting a pretty good deal at 1.04/each.
The obvious answer is that the 360 is closer to it's launch date then the PS3. Wouldn't it actually be kind of strange if it didn't have more in the way of game trailers, etc, already running?
If she can't even grasp the situation when it comes to video games and goes on a crusade to "save the children", just how well do you think she would do when it comes to actually fighting a war?
This article on forbes indicates that the whole thing about selling it was likely fabricated.
While Deutsche Telekom spokespersons refused to comment on a report they termed "pure speculation," high-ranking company officials told the German daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung they were convinced the report in the Wall Street Journal Europe was fabricated.
They told the newspaper they believed certain elements in the U.S. financial sector were interested in "disrupting Telekom and its U.S. investments."
This is a bit confusing. By that logic, anyone who will ever go back in time already has their future predetermined.
For instance: Someone goes back in time and kills someone. It becomes known who the killer is, and that it was a time traveler from the future. The killer in the present learns of this too, and realizes that he has no choice but to travel back in time later and kill that person? Does that mean he has no free will? What if it was him from 5 years later that did it? He would know that nothing could possibly kill him for the next 5 years, because it would prevent something that already happened? He couldnt even kill himself?
"If I want RAID, it would be for the redundancy and spanning multiple drives, not speed."
For spanning multiple drives I think you want LVM.
That wont do much for redundancy, tho. With LVM spanning multiple disks, the loss of any single disk means the loss of all data on all disks. If you value your data at all, sw raid-5 is a good way to make sure it doesnt all get lost from a single failure. Oh, and for anyone looking to set up a linux software raid, evms is the tool to use - its much easier then the old mess of config files and command line tools.
They saved what, maybe $10-25 on the computer by using the 4200rpm drive, and yet I would imagine almost every user would rather pay the extra money to have a computer with a hard drive with 'normal' performance.
For the same reason the default is 256mb of ram, and the upgrade options cost 4x what the actual parts cost. Its not supposed to be that fast, its only supposed to be fast enough for today, so that 6-12 months from now you'll decide you want something faster and buy a real mac.
People keep saying you could use it as a PVR, but just how do you plan to do this? Sure, it has DVI, but so does every modern graphics card. From what I've read, its simply not powerful enough to handle video encoding + playback at decent levels at the same time.
To turn a mac mini into a decent PVR, you would need an external encoder, external storage, an IR receiver + remote, and good software to manage it all. At that point, you're talking about a hell of a lot more then the $499 sticker price, and taking up space with external hardware, so why exactly would you want to use a mac-mini for that?
From what I can tell, the trackerless stuff only kicks in if the central tracker(s) are unavailable. People who are able to connect to the main tracker wouldnt share the file to people who are on the distributed-db only... Or I might be misunderstanding, as the documentation is a bit sparse.
What makes you think you need root at all? Certainly an app running as a regular user would be plenty to steal or delete that user's data, or just turn the box into a ddos or spam zombie. I imagine most people would consider that pretty harmful, and if it happened on a windows system, it would be called a 'virus' by most people. The goal isnt to hack a multi-user server system, but to take over a (most likely) single-user desktop.
Well, I'm sure anything is possible, but for me, it took opening 35 tabs (open in tabs link in bookmarks is handy for this...) to get over 100mb. Normal usage is around ~35mb. I wonder if its not just a particularly bad extension going around? I only use adblock, web developer and tabbrowser preferences.
Uhm, the thread you linked to doesn't mention anything about requiring compiler options. It says it doesn't work on apps besides MS's built-in stuff, "until it is enabled system wide". In my post, I actually gave the exact GUI location to go to and enable it system-wide. Turning on an option in windows is not the same as compiling an application...
I have to call you on this one. It's only a "pretty nice thing" in theory, since the option has to be enabled during the compilation of the binary.
Sorry, but this isn't true - NX protection has nothing to do with compiling binaries. It is runtime protection.
In Windows (even XPsp2), this is only enabled for certain MS-created services that listen on ports. It has to run in PAE mode. Not every application is protected. Significantly, the user-space apps are not protected. You have to specify/PAE option, despite what MS says [microsoft.com].
This is unfortunate but true, the default for processors that support it really should have been to turn it on for all apps. As it is, you have to go into Control Panel->System->Advanced->Performance->Data Exec Protection and enable it for all apps yourself. It does work quite exactly how it should when you do, tho - warning you and shutting down apps that attempt to execute data as code.
So, moderators. How does the original post deserve such a high ranking? It's factually incorrect on a few points, and just makes general statements about "safety is good". The trend appears to be that early posters get points, and everyone else carps and trolls. What a shit hole slashdot has become. (I can recall when a 90-post story was big news, and most of the posts were useful... but don't get me started.)
So, moderators, how does an AC who posts factually incorrect statements also get a +4 Insightful? Is it just because he said "So, moderators"?
I can concur with the grandparent. I have a windows box running xp, and use firefox and thunderbird. It lives behind NAT from my linux box, and I never see any spyware/malware crap.
I just ran Ad-Aware for the first time in a while (it told me my definition file was 109 days old), and it prompted me to go download an upgrade. Ironicly, it launched IE for this (firefox is definately set as default). Once it finished updating and running a full scan, it found 4 whole 'bad' things, which in this case were IE tracking cookies (doubleclick.net, etc). 2 of those 4 had a creation date of today, meaning they were picked up in the process of downloading that adaware update...
Is this a joke? If you don't want a piece of code you wrote to be used in a certain way, then license it in a way that takes that into consideration. Of course, at that point, its no longer "free and open", its "free unless i don't like what you're doing". If you actually submit code to larger projects, where you don't have control over the licensing, well... too damn bad. Either don't give it away for free, or live with it. Nothing is being 'abused' here, but hey, thats common sense, and your post smells more like a troll then that of a real, concerned programmer who submits to open source projects.
WoW and Wc3 atleast (I assume the others) can be run in opengl mode on windows too, and of course run in it on macs. Blizzard probably maintains a library to interface between their games and the opengl or directx, so they can easily manage that stuff.
Slashdot Mirror
Reuters article quote:
"PARIS (Reuters) - A Paris-based media watchdog released a handbook on Thursday to help cyber-dissidents and bloggers avoid political censorship in countries as far apart as China, Iran, Vietnam and Cuba."
Xinhua article quote:
"BEIJING, Sept. 23 (Xinhuanet) -- A Paris-based media watchdog released a free guide Thursday to help bloggers and cyber-dissidents avoid political censorship in countries as far apart as Iran, Vietnam and Cuba."
Once again, it's a system that will only be effective in causing problems for honest people. The pirates will use their hacked hardware to make protection-free copies, and everyone else will d/l them off bittorrent/usenet/wherever.
The person who already bought a nice HDTV or monitor on the other hand - hes screwed. Hes the guy who goes out and buys legitimate copies of movies, and buys the new hardware when it comes out. Hes the type of guy who keeps the content and hardware companies in profitable. And hes the one they're screwing over most - what a way to run a business.
Whats wrong with RAID-5? Most home users arent storing a TB of mission-critical data, so being protected from any single drive failing should be plenty. That way you're only talking about 1 extra disk, instead of 3 - its still more then $500, but its not exactly double it either.
I think the throttling thing is a bit of an exageration. I just pulled up my 3 month history on netflix's site, and I rented 20, 15, and 17 dvds for a total of 52 over 90 days. Before that I was renting roughly the same amount aswell. I have the 3 at a time plan, which is $18 a month. That means I'm paying $54 for 3 months, which works out to $1.04 per rental, whereas that site says they'll throttle you if you get under $2/per. It is possible that the occasional extra day waits are some sort of throttling measure, but it doesnt seem to me that they're very aggressive, if so. Well, atleast I think I'm getting a pretty good deal at 1.04/each.
The obvious answer is that the 360 is closer to it's launch date then the PS3. Wouldn't it actually be kind of strange if it didn't have more in the way of game trailers, etc, already running?
If she can't even grasp the situation when it comes to video games and goes on a crusade to "save the children", just how well do you think she would do when it comes to actually fighting a war?
This article on forbes indicates that the whole thing about selling it was likely fabricated.
While Deutsche Telekom spokespersons refused to comment on a report they termed "pure speculation," high-ranking company officials told the German daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung they were convinced the report in the Wall Street Journal Europe was fabricated.
They told the newspaper they believed certain elements in the U.S. financial sector were interested in "disrupting Telekom and its U.S. investments."
This is a bit confusing. By that logic, anyone who will ever go back in time already has their future predetermined.
For instance: Someone goes back in time and kills someone. It becomes known who the killer is, and that it was a time traveler from the future.
The killer in the present learns of this too, and realizes that he has no choice but to travel back in time later and kill that person? Does that mean he has no free will? What if it was him from 5 years later that did it? He would know that nothing could possibly kill him for the next 5 years, because it would prevent something that already happened? He couldnt even kill himself?
May aswell include a propane torch while you're at it.
"If I want RAID, it would be for the redundancy and spanning multiple drives, not speed."
For spanning multiple drives I think you want LVM.
That wont do much for redundancy, tho. With LVM spanning multiple disks, the loss of any single disk means the loss of all data on all disks. If you value your data at all, sw raid-5 is a good way to make sure it doesnt all get lost from a single failure. Oh, and for anyone looking to set up a linux software raid, evms is the tool to use - its much easier then the old mess of config files and command line tools.
They saved what, maybe $10-25 on the computer by using the 4200rpm drive, and yet I would imagine almost every user would rather pay the extra money to have a computer with a hard drive with 'normal' performance.
For the same reason the default is 256mb of ram, and the upgrade options cost 4x what the actual parts cost. Its not supposed to be that fast, its only supposed to be fast enough for today, so that 6-12 months from now you'll decide you want something faster and buy a real mac.
Don't worry, I'm sure the MPAA will be willing to stick you in a faraday cage, or alternatively, wrap you up into a giant ball of tinfoil.
People keep saying you could use it as a PVR, but just how do you plan to do this? Sure, it has DVI, but so does every modern graphics card. From what I've read, its simply not powerful enough to handle video encoding + playback at decent levels at the same time.
To turn a mac mini into a decent PVR, you would need an external encoder, external storage, an IR receiver + remote, and good software to manage it all. At that point, you're talking about a hell of a lot more then the $499 sticker price, and taking up space with external hardware, so why exactly would you want to use a mac-mini for that?
From what I can tell, the trackerless stuff only kicks in if the central tracker(s) are unavailable. People who are able to connect to the main tracker wouldnt share the file to people who are on the distributed-db only... Or I might be misunderstanding, as the documentation is a bit sparse.
There are a number of formats that support both multiple audio and subtitle streams in the same file. The most popular two would be ogm and mkv.
Wait, we lost to Canada?! Now that really is sad...
>> Life is dangerous, and I'm positive if they made an X-Prize to fix Hubble, it could be done by 2008.
It must be nice... living in a dream world, I mean.
What makes you think you need root at all?
Certainly an app running as a regular user would be plenty to steal or delete that user's data, or just turn the box into a ddos or spam zombie. I imagine most people would consider that pretty harmful, and if it happened on a windows system, it would be called a 'virus' by most people. The goal isnt to hack a multi-user server system, but to take over a (most likely) single-user desktop.
Well, I'm sure anything is possible, but for me, it took opening 35 tabs (open in tabs link in bookmarks is handy for this...) to get over 100mb. Normal usage is around ~35mb. I wonder if its not just a particularly bad extension going around? I only use adblock, web developer and tabbrowser preferences.
Uhm, the thread you linked to doesn't mention anything about requiring compiler options. It says it doesn't work on apps besides MS's built-in stuff, "until it is enabled system wide". In my post, I actually gave the exact GUI location to go to and enable it system-wide. Turning on an option in windows is not the same as compiling an application...
I have to call you on this one. It's only a "pretty nice thing" in theory, since the option has to be enabled during the compilation of the binary.
/PAE option, despite what MS says [microsoft.com].
Sorry, but this isn't true - NX protection has nothing to do with compiling binaries. It is runtime protection.
In Windows (even XPsp2), this is only enabled for certain MS-created services that listen on ports. It has to run in PAE mode. Not every application is protected. Significantly, the user-space apps are not protected. You have to specify
This is unfortunate but true, the default for processors that support it really should have been to turn it on for all apps. As it is, you have to go into Control Panel->System->Advanced->Performance->Data Exec Protection and enable it for all apps yourself. It does work quite exactly how it should when you do, tho - warning you and shutting down apps that attempt to execute data as code.
So, moderators. How does the original post deserve such a high ranking? It's factually incorrect on a few points, and just makes general statements about "safety is good". The trend appears to be that early posters get points, and everyone else carps and trolls. What a shit hole slashdot has become. (I can recall when a 90-post story was big news, and most of the posts were useful... but don't get me started.)
So, moderators, how does an AC who posts factually incorrect statements also get a +4 Insightful? Is it just because he said "So, moderators"?
Ya, I should've made that more clear, but that was indeed the case.
I can concur with the grandparent. I have a windows box running xp, and use firefox and thunderbird. It lives behind NAT from my linux box, and I never see any spyware/malware crap.
I just ran Ad-Aware for the first time in a while (it told me my definition file was 109 days old), and it prompted me to go download an upgrade. Ironicly, it launched IE for this (firefox is definately set as default). Once it finished updating and running a full scan, it found 4 whole 'bad' things, which in this case were IE tracking cookies (doubleclick.net, etc). 2 of those 4 had a creation date of today, meaning they were picked up in the process of downloading that adaware update...
Is this a joke? If you don't want a piece of code you wrote to be used in a certain way, then license it in a way that takes that into consideration. Of course, at that point, its no longer "free and open", its "free unless i don't like what you're doing". If you actually submit code to larger projects, where you don't have control over the licensing, well... too damn bad. Either don't give it away for free, or live with it. Nothing is being 'abused' here, but hey, thats common sense, and your post smells more like a troll then that of a real, concerned programmer who submits to open source projects.
WoW and Wc3 atleast (I assume the others) can be run in opengl mode on windows too, and of course run in it on macs. Blizzard probably maintains a library to interface between their games and the opengl or directx, so they can easily manage that stuff.