I hadn't heard of it, but reading the story elsewhere I can say I have had no problem with the latest update on my 4-core Mac Pro.
I'm not seeing it on the Firehose. Perhaps you'd like to submit it?
I have had a different problem where the system wouldn't take me to the login screen, sticking on the blue background. Pulling the iPod Shuffle from its USB dock immediately resolves that problem. It just doesn't like having it connected at startup.
OK, so Blu-Ray and HD-DVD (and UDF 2.5) is a "bag of hurt"
I know what you're referring to, but starting with Leopard, UDF 2.5 is built-in. Also, Apple's DVD Player will play HD DVDs if they're mastered with DVD Studio Pro (i.e. not encrypted).
Don't buy ReadDVD! by Software Architects to get UDF 2.5, 2.6 support for Tiger. It does not work.
Apple's GS/OS had FSTs (File System Translators) that allowed that operating system to access HFS, ProDOS, DOS 3.3, and FAT volumes. How does FUSE compare in function to GS/OS's FSTs? You know, apart from working with non-obsolete hardware.
Musante: How are things here on the station? Sheridan: Fine, fine. Status quo. We have had problems with the lurkers, but nothing-- Musante: Lurkers? Sheridan: It's our version of the homeless. In many ways, we have the same problem Earth does. Musante: Earth doesn't have homeless. Sheridan: Excuse me? Musante: We don't have the problem. Yes, there are some displaced people here and there, but they've chosen to be in that position. They're either lazy or they're criminal or they're mentally unstable. Sheridan: They can't get a job. Musante: Earthgov has promised a job to anyone that wants one. So if someone doesn't have a job, they must not want one. Sheridan: Poverty? Musante: It's the same. Sheridan: Crime? Musante: Yes, there is some, but it's caused by the mentally unstable. We've instituted correctional centers to filter them out at an early age. Sheridan: Prejudice? Musante: No, we're just one happy planet. Well, all right, there's the Marsies, but that won't change until they stop fighting the Earth rule. Sheridan: And when exactly did all this happen? Musante: When we rewrote the dictionary.
Musante: Captain, you're a good man. You're a fine soldier. A leader. You understand that sometimes before you can deal with a problem you have to redefine it. Sheridan: But you can't deal with the problems by pretending they don't exist. Musante: There's no need to embarrass our leaders by pointing out the flaws that they're aware of and dealing with in their own way. Some people just enjoy finding fault with our leaders. They're anarchists, troublemakers, or they're simply just unpatriotic. None of which describes you. Now, do you want people thinking otherwise?
Microsoft has begun flooding media outlets with information advising users to switch to an alternate browser while a serious security flaw is being patched.
Will this patch be provided in a manner that does not require one to run the vulnerable browser to download and install it?
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I read the secrets that you keep When you're posting in your sleep
A friend said he'd been caught contributing code to a dial-up BBS he was co-sysop of while asleep (a GBBS system, writing ACOS (a variety of BASIC) code). The sysop at the console broke into chat while he was typing, and he just kept typing code into the chat buffer instead of the editor, not getting any audible signal that his mode had changed. And it wasn't just a data send as there would be typos, pauses, and corrections made to the typos.
The 300 DVDs jukebox described by the parent poster is fully 100% legal in all countries around the world, except in the USA, and including where I currently live.
I have a 400-disc DVD "jukebox" sold by Sony. It plays the physical disks, just like commercial music jukeboxes did (45s or CDs). (Sony has a disappointing, expensive 200-disc Blu-ray version w/500 GB drive.)
A system that rips the disks to files and plays the files also isn't necessarily illegal. The Kaleidescape system survived legal challenge (still being appealed), though the licensing agreements from the DVD CCA have been changed to close the loophole that allowed it. But Kaleidescape was never breaking the encryption: they're licensed key holders by the DVD CCA and found a way to read their license that allowed them to build their media server.
Nowadays though, there's little point in decrypting a DVD for storage. You could put the encrypted version on your media server and just decrypt it in real time for playback. It's just the newer, high-definition stuff that needs pre-ripping for unauthorized playback for system-performance reasons.
The DMCA explicitly excludes circumvention for the purpose of fair use.
But has a blanket prohibition on the distribution of the tools necessary to circumvent the protection necessary to exercise fair use. That's where the real teeth are in the law.
And also where the loophole is: if you can create your own tools, you're free to circumvent the protections for your own fair use. You just can't share your tools or the tools created by anyone else. I.e. DVD Jon can exercise his fair use rights with impunity.
Has the MPAA filed a restraining order against DVD Jon personally to bar him from acquiring any encrypted DVDs by any means yet?
What the DMCA makes illegal is circumventing an encryption scheme...
Actually, what it makes illegal is the distribution of tools that can be used to circumvent an encryption scheme. If you can manage to do it yourself or create your own tools, the DMCA doesn't apply. But you can't let someone else use your tools or use someone else's tools. Oh, and you can't share your resulting copies either.
The DMCA isn't about preventing you from copying. It's about preventing communication on how to copy. In that it should be an unconstitutional restraint of free speech (and even against the goals of copyright itself), but it hasn't gone to the Supreme Court yet. The closest was the case of 2600 and the DeCSS source code, and the climate wasn't ripe for a victory in the Supreme Court at the time, so 2600 Magazine elected not to appeal.
Nature is reporting that bad brackets were replaced by the manufacturer... with identically bad brackets. The Planetary Society blog sums it up succinctly: 'Ouch. Ouch ouch ouch.'
One thing I did notice though was that writes were slower. The specs on the drive didn't show that to be the case but for some reason my database writes happened at half the speed during my test units. Random reads on the other hand (e.g. bootup and software loading) happen incredibly fast.
Check to make sure your system is not treating the SSD as an external drive. Tekzilla episode 242, Windows: Boost External Drive Speeds may help.
"You`re right when you say that when people want to pirate the game they will but DRM is there to make it as difficult as possible for pirates to make copies of our games. A lot of people complain that DRM is what forces people to pirate games but as PoP PC has no DRM we`ll see how truthful people actually are. Not very, I imagine. Console piracy is something else entirely and I`m sure we`ll see more steps in future to try to combat that."
Is that an exact quote? I seriously doubt that the person speaks with backwards apostrophes in his contractions. I also note that TFA does not have this reversal.
Generally Sony Region 1 hardware for North America won't play PAL format disks, even if the disks are Region 0. Some of their hardware have also been known to be picky with recordable DVD media and recordable CD media except for Music CD-R.
I have one of the Sony 400-disc DVD changers that upconverts via HDMI. Attempts to duplicate B-sides of flipper DVDs have uniformly resulted in non-playable disks with this player. A friend with an earlier model noted it wouldn't play music off of CD-Rs unless they were Music CD-Rs; I haven't tested mine for CD-R playing.
Generally any DVD player that has a backdoor code to make it region-free can play both NTSC and PAL disks to the local video standard. Aspect and pitch may be off a bit.
I see no reason why police or other government agencies should use DVD as a storage media for recording video when less corruptible media providing similar quality is available for far less.
I can name one: S-VHS decks are becoming exceedingly rare and expensive and VHS as a technology will likely cease producing players, recorders, and tapes sometime around February 17, 2009 whereas DVDs will be around for far longer. Try looking somewhere other than eBay to determine the current market in non-used hardware. You can't find them at all in brick-and-mortar stores and the only one sold as new through Amazon.com is from B&H Photo-Video, also plays Mini-DV, and costs $525.00 + $19.55 Estimated Shipping.
I don't think I'd want evidence accessibly to be dependent upon the used hardware market of eBay.
Even the D-VHS decks won't play back S-VHS tapes at better than VHS quality.
Except in the case of upon discovery it disintegrated, in which opposite case it continues to... endure.
A shame they'll likely start sectioning it and shaving off layers to examine it long before we develop the technology to read the experiences encoded therein.
I just realized, they don't need to make it a Bluetooth device paired to the car key at all. They just need to attach the phone to the key physically so that it can't be in use as a phone when its in the ignition. Tie them together with a short security chain and provide a little place in the dash to put the phone so it isn't hanging from the ignition. Need to answer/make a call or send a text message? You'll have to pull it from the ignition first.
No transmitters, no loss of charge, and you're less likely to lose your phone or your keys; just more likely to lock both your keys and your phone in the car.
Next, include the ability for the parents to send a text message code to the phone to stop the kid's car, and another code to control the door locks. (I could have used that that one time I locked my keys in my car with the lights on, heater on, and engine running in the parking garage.)
mandatory "here watch these gory movies" classes that make up drivers ed
I've never seen "Blood Flows Red on the Highway" or any of the like.
But I do remember those commercials reminding people to keep the seat-belts on their watermelons ("...or just lying there, stunned in the road" [squish]).
Strange then that maliciousness didn't trip the spelling checker. Can one not give more weight to the adjectival sense of an adjectivized noun by renounifying it?
Now "adjectivized" and "renounifying" on the other hand, they are flagged as not being words. But it did keep me from throwing the extra "i" in adjectivial.
Oh, I don't know. A mutual misunderstanding can lead to a meeting of the minds as long as you don't stray into maliciousness and neither side resorts to taking up arms.
In some implementations, a stack item 400 can include visualization objects related to multiple monitors. For example, if a monitor in a dual monitor user environment is disabled, the corresponding visualization objects displayed on the disabled monitor can collapse into a monitor stack on the remaining monitor.
I get the feeling they haven't fully considered the use of multiple displays under this interface, this being the only paragraph even mentioning them.
E.g. if each display is a walled-off tube, how do you move something between displays or cause it to span across them? What if the displays don't share pixel dimensions, don't align their edges, or are even placed diagonally to each other? What if there are more than two?
Slashdot Mirror
I hadn't heard of it, but reading the story elsewhere I can say I have had no problem with the latest update on my 4-core Mac Pro.
I'm not seeing it on the Firehose. Perhaps you'd like to submit it?
I have had a different problem where the system wouldn't take me to the login screen, sticking on the blue background. Pulling the iPod Shuffle from its USB dock immediately resolves that problem. It just doesn't like having it connected at startup.
OK, so Blu-Ray and HD-DVD (and UDF 2.5) is a "bag of hurt"
I know what you're referring to, but starting with Leopard, UDF 2.5 is built-in. Also, Apple's DVD Player will play HD DVDs if they're mastered with DVD Studio Pro (i.e. not encrypted).
Don't buy ReadDVD! by Software Architects to get UDF 2.5, 2.6 support for Tiger. It does not work.
Apple's GS/OS had FSTs (File System Translators) that allowed that operating system to access HFS, ProDOS, DOS 3.3, and FAT volumes. How does FUSE compare in function to GS/OS's FSTs? You know, apart from working with non-obsolete hardware.
You are perfectly willing to pay way more for electricity or safe fresh water at monopoly prices?
At $150 to own the Electric Company or the Water Works, sure!
And if you own both, you get from $20 to $120 if anyone lands on either one of them.
Musante: How are things here on the station?
Sheridan: Fine, fine. Status quo. We have had problems with the lurkers, but nothing--
Musante: Lurkers?
Sheridan: It's our version of the homeless. In many ways, we have the same problem Earth does.
Musante: Earth doesn't have homeless.
Sheridan: Excuse me?
Musante: We don't have the problem. Yes, there are some displaced people here and there, but they've chosen to be in that position. They're either lazy or they're criminal or they're mentally unstable.
Sheridan: They can't get a job.
Musante: Earthgov has promised a job to anyone that wants one. So if someone doesn't have a job, they must not want one.
Sheridan: Poverty?
Musante: It's the same.
Sheridan: Crime?
Musante: Yes, there is some, but it's caused by the mentally unstable. We've instituted correctional centers to filter them out at an early age.
Sheridan: Prejudice?
Musante: No, we're just one happy planet. Well, all right, there's the Marsies, but that won't change until they stop fighting the Earth rule.
Sheridan: And when exactly did all this happen?
Musante: When we rewrote the dictionary.
Musante: Captain, you're a good man. You're a fine soldier. A leader. You understand that sometimes before you can deal with a problem you have to redefine it.
Sheridan: But you can't deal with the problems by pretending they don't exist.
Musante: There's no need to embarrass our leaders by pointing out the flaws that they're aware of and dealing with in their own way. Some people just enjoy finding fault with our leaders. They're anarchists, troublemakers, or they're simply just unpatriotic. None of which describes you. Now, do you want people thinking otherwise?
"Mirror."
"So I should run? Okay."
"No, no, no, don't, no..."
[runs in circles]
"What are you doing? Oh, you're really, really, really stupid. Huh!"
"Case."
"Are you talking about this?"
"Yes. Trunk."
"So I should run?"
"No, don't run!"
"Okay."
[runs in circles]
"Don't run, don't run, don't run. Stop, stop, stop, stop."
"Trunk."
"Yes."
"Wh-- no, trunk. Trunk!"
"I am walking."
"I don't want you to walk! Trunk."
"I am walking."
"Trunk!"
"I am walking."
"Camera."
"It's just an antique."
"Do what I tell you!"
"Can you at least try to be serious?"
"Pffft!"
Microsoft has begun flooding media outlets with information advising users to switch to an alternate browser while a serious security flaw is being patched.
Will this patch be provided in a manner that does not require one to run the vulnerable browser to download and install it?
I read the secrets that you keep
When you're posting in your sleep
A friend said he'd been caught contributing code to a dial-up BBS he was co-sysop of while asleep (a GBBS system, writing ACOS (a variety of BASIC) code). The sysop at the console broke into chat while he was typing, and he just kept typing code into the chat buffer instead of the editor, not getting any audible signal that his mode had changed. And it wasn't just a data send as there would be typos, pauses, and corrections made to the typos.
The 300 DVDs jukebox described by the parent poster is fully 100% legal in all countries around the world, except in the USA, and including where I currently live.
I have a 400-disc DVD "jukebox" sold by Sony. It plays the physical disks, just like commercial music jukeboxes did (45s or CDs). (Sony has a disappointing, expensive 200-disc Blu-ray version w/500 GB drive.)
A system that rips the disks to files and plays the files also isn't necessarily illegal. The Kaleidescape system survived legal challenge (still being appealed), though the licensing agreements from the DVD CCA have been changed to close the loophole that allowed it. But Kaleidescape was never breaking the encryption: they're licensed key holders by the DVD CCA and found a way to read their license that allowed them to build their media server.
Nowadays though, there's little point in decrypting a DVD for storage. You could put the encrypted version on your media server and just decrypt it in real time for playback. It's just the newer, high-definition stuff that needs pre-ripping for unauthorized playback for system-performance reasons.
The DMCA explicitly excludes circumvention for the purpose of fair use.
But has a blanket prohibition on the distribution of the tools necessary to circumvent the protection necessary to exercise fair use. That's where the real teeth are in the law.
And also where the loophole is: if you can create your own tools, you're free to circumvent the protections for your own fair use. You just can't share your tools or the tools created by anyone else. I.e. DVD Jon can exercise his fair use rights with impunity.
Has the MPAA filed a restraining order against DVD Jon personally to bar him from acquiring any encrypted DVDs by any means yet?
What the DMCA makes illegal is circumventing an encryption scheme...
Actually, what it makes illegal is the distribution of tools that can be used to circumvent an encryption scheme. If you can manage to do it yourself or create your own tools, the DMCA doesn't apply. But you can't let someone else use your tools or use someone else's tools. Oh, and you can't share your resulting copies either.
The DMCA isn't about preventing you from copying. It's about preventing communication on how to copy. In that it should be an unconstitutional restraint of free speech (and even against the goals of copyright itself), but it hasn't gone to the Supreme Court yet. The closest was the case of 2600 and the DeCSS source code, and the climate wasn't ripe for a victory in the Supreme Court at the time, so 2600 Magazine elected not to appeal.
Nature is reporting that bad brackets were replaced by the manufacturer ... with identically bad brackets. The Planetary Society blog sums it up succinctly: 'Ouch. Ouch ouch ouch.'
Not to mention the diodes down its left side.
More binary multiples of metric capacity.
One thing I did notice though was that writes were slower. The specs on the drive didn't show that to be the case but for some reason my database writes happened at half the speed during my test units. Random reads on the other hand (e.g. bootup and software loading) happen incredibly fast.
Check to make sure your system is not treating the SSD as an external drive. Tekzilla episode 242, Windows: Boost External Drive Speeds may help.
"You`re right when you say that when people want to pirate the game they will but DRM is there to make it as difficult as possible for pirates to make copies of our games. A lot of people complain that DRM is what forces people to pirate games but as PoP PC has no DRM we`ll see how truthful people actually are. Not very, I imagine. Console piracy is something else entirely and I`m sure we`ll see more steps in future to try to combat that."
Is that an exact quote? I seriously doubt that the person speaks with backwards apostrophes in his contractions. I also note that TFA does not have this reversal.
Generally Sony Region 1 hardware for North America won't play PAL format disks, even if the disks are Region 0. Some of their hardware have also been known to be picky with recordable DVD media and recordable CD media except for Music CD-R.
I have one of the Sony 400-disc DVD changers that upconverts via HDMI. Attempts to duplicate B-sides of flipper DVDs have uniformly resulted in non-playable disks with this player. A friend with an earlier model noted it wouldn't play music off of CD-Rs unless they were Music CD-Rs; I haven't tested mine for CD-R playing.
Generally any DVD player that has a backdoor code to make it region-free can play both NTSC and PAL disks to the local video standard. Aspect and pitch may be off a bit.
I see no reason why police or other government agencies should use DVD as a storage media for recording video when less corruptible media providing similar quality is available for far less.
I can name one: S-VHS decks are becoming exceedingly rare and expensive and VHS as a technology will likely cease producing players, recorders, and tapes sometime around February 17, 2009 whereas DVDs will be around for far longer. Try looking somewhere other than eBay to determine the current market in non-used hardware. You can't find them at all in brick-and-mortar stores and the only one sold as new through Amazon.com is from B&H Photo-Video, also plays Mini-DV, and costs $525.00 + $19.55 Estimated Shipping.
I don't think I'd want evidence accessibly to be dependent upon the used hardware market of eBay.
Even the D-VHS decks won't play back S-VHS tapes at better than VHS quality.
The question is where they'd get a large enough scalpel to dissect a supermassive black hole?
And yet sharp enough to dissect a singularity.
Except in the case of upon discovery it disintegrated, in which opposite case it continues to... endure.
A shame they'll likely start sectioning it and shaving off layers to examine it long before we develop the technology to read the experiences encoded therein.
I just realized, they don't need to make it a Bluetooth device paired to the car key at all. They just need to attach the phone to the key physically so that it can't be in use as a phone when its in the ignition. Tie them together with a short security chain and provide a little place in the dash to put the phone so it isn't hanging from the ignition. Need to answer/make a call or send a text message? You'll have to pull it from the ignition first.
No transmitters, no loss of charge, and you're less likely to lose your phone or your keys; just more likely to lock both your keys and your phone in the car.
Next, include the ability for the parents to send a text message code to the phone to stop the kid's car, and another code to control the door locks. (I could have used that that one time I locked my keys in my car with the lights on, heater on, and engine running in the parking garage.)
mandatory "here watch these gory movies" classes that make up drivers ed
I've never seen "Blood Flows Red on the Highway" or any of the like.
But I do remember those commercials reminding people to keep the seat-belts on their watermelons ("...or just lying there, stunned in the road" [squish]).
Hey, that reminds me: I don't have the movie Moving Violations (1985) in my DVD library yet.
a signal that jams the cell would cause the cell battery to run down early
This is a Bluetooth device. It will also cause the cell battery to run down early.
malice is the word you didn't need to invent.
Strange then that maliciousness didn't trip the spelling checker. Can one not give more weight to the adjectival sense of an adjectivized noun by renounifying it?
Now "adjectivized" and "renounifying" on the other hand, they are flagged as not being words. But it did keep me from throwing the extra "i" in adjectivial.
Don't rant first and ask questions later.
Oh, I don't know. A mutual misunderstanding can lead to a meeting of the minds as long as you don't stray into maliciousness and neither side resorts to taking up arms.
I get the feeling they haven't fully considered the use of multiple displays under this interface, this being the only paragraph even mentioning them.
E.g. if each display is a walled-off tube, how do you move something between displays or cause it to span across them? What if the displays don't share pixel dimensions, don't align their edges, or are even placed diagonally to each other? What if there are more than two?