Mr. Burns: Smithers, get the amnesia ray. Smithers: You mean the revolver, sir? Mr. Burns: Yes, and be sure to wipe your mind clear when you're done as well.
Sure, online you can delete database entries and whatnot...but some of this information isn't even personally identifiable first of all, and second of all, how is the law going to chase down every single database entry in the world?
France just sued twitter for 50 million because they wouldn't reveal the identities of some people who made anti-semetic tweets. Twitter told them to fuck off (and rightly so, free speech shouldn't be limited to that which does not offend, IMO) and there isn't a damn thing France can do about it. What makes the EU think they can go around systematically scrubbing every disk in the world willy nilly?
As a regular reader and frequent poster, I almost always have moderator points (frequently 15 at a time) and do the "neighborly" thing of keeping all posts in full view to watch for moderator abuse, as slashdot requests. However, if posts like this continue I'll just go back to what I usually do (-1 hidden)
Can we please add a content filter for quick detection and (non-automatic) removal of these posts? Given that he frequently posts just the same crap over and over again, I think it should be pretty easy to set up a heuristic system that would allow an admin to easily spot and nuke these, followed by IP bans.
If you use windows 8 sans metro, it has a lot of nice improvements for power users. For example, right-click the bottom left corner and you have one click access to all sorts of stuff that otherwise takes several clicks to get to.
Also, boot times are FAST. My computer mostly stays on 24/7, but when I modify something (par for the course of an overclocked system) a full reboot takes under 10 seconds.
Along with that, memory and CPU requirements are lower on 8, namely because it needs less of each.
Metro kills all of the above, but again, just forgo metro and you do have a worthy successor to 7.
My sister voted for him because he's black. What's worse: Putting a corrupt politician in office because you feel we all owe it to his race only to have him bomb civilians, or vote him out because you're a racist.
There was a previous Slashdot article blaming this incident on Cisco, and even though I don't work for Cisco, I want to cut the bs and set the record straight. Let me do so by quoting the words of the main politician behind this project
West Virginia Homeland Security chief Jimmy Gianato, who's leading the state broadband project, defended the $24 million router purchase last week, saying the devices "could meet many different needs and be used for multiple applications."
"Our main concerns were to not have something that would become obsolete in a couple of years," Gianato said. "Looking at how technology evolves, we wanted something that was scalable, expandable and viable, five to 10 years out. We wanted to make sure every place had the same opportunity across the state."
So we have this asshole behind this mess, but the mass media blames Cisco and Verizon. There's more:
Verizon spokesman Keith Irland said the company simply responded to router specifications detailed in the state's bid posting.
"They specified the equipment they wanted," Irland said. "That's what they requested, that's what we bid on. We had the lowest price, and we won the bid for the equipment and related maintenance."
The Gazette-Mail contacted two Cisco sales agents last week, asking whether the 3945 series routers were appropriate for schools and libraries.
"The 3945 is our router solution for campus and large enterprises, so this is overkill for your network," a Cisco representative responded.
The sales agents recommended a smaller router -- with a list price of $487.
State Department of Education officials questioned the size of the routers before Gianato and the Office of Technology executed the $24 million purchase order.
Other than manufacturing the equipment, Cisco had nothing to do with this project. They weren't even involved in the sales. So clearly corrupt corporations are to blame, not the poor innocent politicians. Oh and did I mention that he was commended for this later?
My last nvidia card (I think around the age of the gt220, though I don't remember the model) didn't work with the latest unified driver, rather I had to download a separate driver that carried GPU's from x generation to y generation (the old driver was still updated for newer windows though.) They have a different driver for different generations of cards.
AMD basically does the same thing as far as I'm aware, though for some OEM parts you can't use the stock drivers. I'm not sure why this is, but I think it has to do with the OEM wanting to change some parts of the GPU that go outside of AMD's normal driver spec, so you'll be forced to install OEM supplied drivers. If you use a discreet graphics card you shouldn't ever run into this issue, and I think AMD fusion APU's shouldn't have this issue either but I could be mistaken.
I have apple's latest version of iOS (on my ipad,) and it already feels dated.
- Application icons get thrown about haphazardly upon install requiring manual sorting, even for an app you don't even use very much (whereas android stores them alphabetically so they are easy to find - even if you rarely use the app.) - Changing any common setting requires switching apps followed by menu navigation, whereas on android it's just a swipe and tap without any navigation necessary (e.g. turning wifi on/off, muting, orientation lock.) - Can't set application launch defaults, such as setting a default email client other than the stock one. (good lord...WHY? every other OS has done this since the 80's...) - Although apple finally made notifications stop interrupting what you're doing by borrowing the notification bar system from android, the notifications it provides aren't ever good enough to tell you what you need to know without opening them. - I'm not a heavy widget user, but I like having a brief display of my agenda visible on my smartphone desktop, as well as an RSS ticker on my tablet desktop. Apple offers no such capability without running an app. Every other OS, including (shudder) windows phone has managed to do this, but not apple.
The whole point of a smartphone is having access to information you need quickly, and iOS hasn't offered many improvements in that department in years. The ones that it has added (e.g. passive notifications) it ripped from android, and it didn't really do a good job of it.
It's kind of hard to give the "innovative" title to a company who hasn't really done anything other than incremental hardware updates. While android is also stuck in increment land at the moment, at least it increments both hardware AND software. Also android doesn't call each generation "the best iphone yet" or "the new ipad".
Well, that's assuming you use the OEM install disk or recovery partition, which restores all of the crapplets and spamware back to the way it came to you.
If you want a clean install, you still need to insert the proper key and activate upon installing with a clean disk. The only difference is you don't have to load the SLIC table into the bios ACPI memory because your computer already comes with that.
OEM activations of windows almost always require a phone call to microsoft because they don't expect you to install with a clean disk, and when you do, they want to know what's up. I've been through the process, and it is even more annoying than the normal phone in activation. First you get the activation key and have to enter it in to the phone, but it's going to fail no matter what, and you have to enter it a second time only for it to fail again. After a long time of screwing with that, you'll finally get transferred to a guy in Mumbai who will ask you to read the sticker on the COA, ask how many different computers you have it installed on and if you have replaced the motherboard.
Overall you're looking at spending at least 30 minutes on the phone. Meanwhile if you just use the Daz tool, you'll spend all of about the time it takes for your computer to reboot.
Yeah and one way or another I'll solve this problem, I figured I'd ask slashdot to try to fast-track a solution, but that doesn't really seem to be getting me anywhere. There's a vague reference to a technical means of circumventing the CCI byte, which seems like it would work but those who have done it seem mum on the issue, and understandably so.
If it isn't via that means, then the cord will inevitably be cut. It's just a matter of figuring out how to convince everybody else in the house that they don't need live news (I already don't.)
I've posted it elsewhere in the comments, but basically it comes down to HDCP handshake problems (which non CCI-affected users don't have) as well as a number of bugs that microsoft has already stated that they know about but aren't going to fix (WMC is basically derelict.)
I don't believe this to be accurate, and with good reason.
As another AC pointed out, you can hack tivos to ignore the CCI byte. I've actually done so myself, namely by breaking the chain of trust. You reprogram the prom to not check the kernel, which then doesn't check the tivoapp binary. You then patch tivoapp to ignore the CCI byte. Over at dealdabase, we've been doing this for years with no problems.
However I need this for more than one TV, which with tivo gets very expensive very fast. And XBMC does things so much better than tivo (which is ad laden, even with my lifetime subscription.) I just want to move away from that platform and be done with it, but I do have mine set up to ignore the CCI byte. Since only one of my tivos is hacked like this, the MRV function is useless anyways, and I don't care about tivotogo, so there's not much point in having it hacked to begin with other than some other things which tivo should have done a long time ago, but won't.
Well I shouldn't say standby. The computer stays up, but when you turn off the monitor and the AVR, it puts those into standby. Turning them back on while WMC is running creates problems. Sometimes even turning them on while WMC isn't running also creates HDCP handshake issues, and the same thing happens.
I've been working towards that route, but I can't find enough information on what exactly I am supposed to do. I've actually set up a DVB driver, but getting the softcam to work is where I'm confused. I'm not quite sure what kind of CAM the cablecard is supposed to be analogous to (e.g. videoguard, nagra, etc) as only a limited selection seem to be emulated, nor do I know how the decrypt keys are supposed to be extracted after they are generated by the ASIC.
Traditional DVB CAM's use ISO7816, which is basically just an RS232 port embedded on to a credit card. Cablecards are a form factor with some variation of PCMCIA.
If anybody finds any info, username jkeeshd "en la" gmail.com
Windows media center is *ok* overall, but it has many blatant issues. For starters, every now and then when you bring the computer out of standby, it complains about not having a protected media path (something about "certain video drivers are missing" I'd have to look it up.) It also just out of nowhere will say there are no available tuners, even though nobody is using any tuners at all except that instance of WMC (microsoft is aware of this bug, but won't release a patch.) WMC will also complain about low signal even though the signal is fine (another known bug, microsoft won't patch.)
Maybe I'm just an unlucky guy, but ALL of these issues show up for me.
I've spoken with some within cox about it. I wrote this in my original submission, but the editor removed it.
Basically what they told me is that in most areas it is basically identical to what you do at comcast, including Atlanta where Cox is based. However in my area they just flag everything copy once. The heads of each respective area say they are following corporate policy, yet clearly not all of them are.
I didn't say you wanted to ban anything; I said you sound like a politician. Politicians are little men until they get near a crowd, at which time they hop on the nearest high horse and try to get everyone's attention by spouting off their virtues.
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Well how does one become forgotten IRL?
Mr. Burns: Smithers, get the amnesia ray.
Smithers: You mean the revolver, sir?
Mr. Burns: Yes, and be sure to wipe your mind clear when you're done as well.
Sure, online you can delete database entries and whatnot...but some of this information isn't even personally identifiable first of all, and second of all, how is the law going to chase down every single database entry in the world?
France just sued twitter for 50 million because they wouldn't reveal the identities of some people who made anti-semetic tweets. Twitter told them to fuck off (and rightly so, free speech shouldn't be limited to that which does not offend, IMO) and there isn't a damn thing France can do about it. What makes the EU think they can go around systematically scrubbing every disk in the world willy nilly?
This is a trademark issue; no copyright laws apply. Likewise, copyright reform doesn't apply here.
He's been doing this on and off since 2006.
As a regular reader and frequent poster, I almost always have moderator points (frequently 15 at a time) and do the "neighborly" thing of keeping all posts in full view to watch for moderator abuse, as slashdot requests. However, if posts like this continue I'll just go back to what I usually do (-1 hidden)
Can we please add a content filter for quick detection and (non-automatic) removal of these posts? Given that he frequently posts just the same crap over and over again, I think it should be pretty easy to set up a heuristic system that would allow an admin to easily spot and nuke these, followed by IP bans.
If you use windows 8 sans metro, it has a lot of nice improvements for power users. For example, right-click the bottom left corner and you have one click access to all sorts of stuff that otherwise takes several clicks to get to.
Also, boot times are FAST. My computer mostly stays on 24/7, but when I modify something (par for the course of an overclocked system) a full reboot takes under 10 seconds.
Along with that, memory and CPU requirements are lower on 8, namely because it needs less of each.
Metro kills all of the above, but again, just forgo metro and you do have a worthy successor to 7.
My sister voted for him because he's black. What's worse: Putting a corrupt politician in office because you feel we all owe it to his race only to have him bomb civilians, or vote him out because you're a racist.
There was a previous Slashdot article blaming this incident on Cisco, and even though I don't work for Cisco, I want to cut the bs and set the record straight. Let me do so by quoting the words of the main politician behind this project
West Virginia Homeland Security chief Jimmy Gianato, who's leading the state broadband project, defended the $24 million router purchase last week, saying the devices "could meet many different needs and be used for multiple applications."
"Our main concerns were to not have something that would become obsolete in a couple of years," Gianato said. "Looking at how technology evolves, we wanted something that was scalable, expandable and viable, five to 10 years out. We wanted to make sure every place had the same opportunity across the state."
So we have this asshole behind this mess, but the mass media blames Cisco and Verizon. There's more:
Verizon spokesman Keith Irland said the company simply responded to router specifications detailed in the state's bid posting.
"They specified the equipment they wanted," Irland said. "That's what they requested, that's what we bid on. We had the lowest price, and we won the bid for the equipment and related maintenance."
The Gazette-Mail contacted two Cisco sales agents last week, asking whether the 3945 series routers were appropriate for schools and libraries.
"The 3945 is our router solution for campus and large enterprises, so this is overkill for your network," a Cisco representative responded.
The sales agents recommended a smaller router -- with a list price of $487.
State Department of Education officials questioned the size of the routers before Gianato and the Office of Technology executed the $24 million purchase order.
http://www.wvgazette.com/News/201205050057
Other than manufacturing the equipment, Cisco had nothing to do with this project. They weren't even involved in the sales. So clearly corrupt corporations are to blame, not the poor innocent politicians. Oh and did I mention that he was commended for this later?
My last nvidia card (I think around the age of the gt220, though I don't remember the model) didn't work with the latest unified driver, rather I had to download a separate driver that carried GPU's from x generation to y generation (the old driver was still updated for newer windows though.) They have a different driver for different generations of cards.
AMD basically does the same thing as far as I'm aware, though for some OEM parts you can't use the stock drivers. I'm not sure why this is, but I think it has to do with the OEM wanting to change some parts of the GPU that go outside of AMD's normal driver spec, so you'll be forced to install OEM supplied drivers. If you use a discreet graphics card you shouldn't ever run into this issue, and I think AMD fusion APU's shouldn't have this issue either but I could be mistaken.
I have apple's latest version of iOS (on my ipad,) and it already feels dated.
- Application icons get thrown about haphazardly upon install requiring manual sorting, even for an app you don't even use very much (whereas android stores them alphabetically so they are easy to find - even if you rarely use the app.)
- Changing any common setting requires switching apps followed by menu navigation, whereas on android it's just a swipe and tap without any navigation necessary (e.g. turning wifi on/off, muting, orientation lock.)
- Can't set application launch defaults, such as setting a default email client other than the stock one. (good lord...WHY? every other OS has done this since the 80's...)
- Although apple finally made notifications stop interrupting what you're doing by borrowing the notification bar system from android, the notifications it provides aren't ever good enough to tell you what you need to know without opening them.
- I'm not a heavy widget user, but I like having a brief display of my agenda visible on my smartphone desktop, as well as an RSS ticker on my tablet desktop. Apple offers no such capability without running an app. Every other OS, including (shudder) windows phone has managed to do this, but not apple.
The whole point of a smartphone is having access to information you need quickly, and iOS hasn't offered many improvements in that department in years. The ones that it has added (e.g. passive notifications) it ripped from android, and it didn't really do a good job of it.
It's kind of hard to give the "innovative" title to a company who hasn't really done anything other than incremental hardware updates. While android is also stuck in increment land at the moment, at least it increments both hardware AND software. Also android doesn't call each generation "the best iphone yet" or "the new ipad".
Hmm...the website offers you a cookie if you'll learn to speak freaky deaky dutch. :D
Well, that's assuming you use the OEM install disk or recovery partition, which restores all of the crapplets and spamware back to the way it came to you.
If you want a clean install, you still need to insert the proper key and activate upon installing with a clean disk. The only difference is you don't have to load the SLIC table into the bios ACPI memory because your computer already comes with that.
OEM activations of windows almost always require a phone call to microsoft because they don't expect you to install with a clean disk, and when you do, they want to know what's up. I've been through the process, and it is even more annoying than the normal phone in activation. First you get the activation key and have to enter it in to the phone, but it's going to fail no matter what, and you have to enter it a second time only for it to fail again. After a long time of screwing with that, you'll finally get transferred to a guy in Mumbai who will ask you to read the sticker on the COA, ask how many different computers you have it installed on and if you have replaced the motherboard.
Overall you're looking at spending at least 30 minutes on the phone. Meanwhile if you just use the Daz tool, you'll spend all of about the time it takes for your computer to reboot.
Yeah and one way or another I'll solve this problem, I figured I'd ask slashdot to try to fast-track a solution, but that doesn't really seem to be getting me anywhere. There's a vague reference to a technical means of circumventing the CCI byte, which seems like it would work but those who have done it seem mum on the issue, and understandably so.
If it isn't via that means, then the cord will inevitably be cut. It's just a matter of figuring out how to convince everybody else in the house that they don't need live news (I already don't.)
Not really, no.
I have high enough bandwidth and a large NAS that I don't need a seedbox. VPN services cost about $4 a month if you buy in large timespans.
Mainly just live national news feeds.
I've posted it elsewhere in the comments, but basically it comes down to HDCP handshake problems (which non CCI-affected users don't have) as well as a number of bugs that microsoft has already stated that they know about but aren't going to fix (WMC is basically derelict.)
I don't believe this to be accurate, and with good reason.
As another AC pointed out, you can hack tivos to ignore the CCI byte. I've actually done so myself, namely by breaking the chain of trust. You reprogram the prom to not check the kernel, which then doesn't check the tivoapp binary. You then patch tivoapp to ignore the CCI byte. Over at dealdabase, we've been doing this for years with no problems.
However I need this for more than one TV, which with tivo gets very expensive very fast. And XBMC does things so much better than tivo (which is ad laden, even with my lifetime subscription.) I just want to move away from that platform and be done with it, but I do have mine set up to ignore the CCI byte. Since only one of my tivos is hacked like this, the MRV function is useless anyways, and I don't care about tivotogo, so there's not much point in having it hacked to begin with other than some other things which tivo should have done a long time ago, but won't.
Well I shouldn't say standby. The computer stays up, but when you turn off the monitor and the AVR, it puts those into standby. Turning them back on while WMC is running creates problems. Sometimes even turning them on while WMC isn't running also creates HDCP handshake issues, and the same thing happens.
Either way, it's far too unreliable to be useful.
I've been working towards that route, but I can't find enough information on what exactly I am supposed to do. I've actually set up a DVB driver, but getting the softcam to work is where I'm confused. I'm not quite sure what kind of CAM the cablecard is supposed to be analogous to (e.g. videoguard, nagra, etc) as only a limited selection seem to be emulated, nor do I know how the decrypt keys are supposed to be extracted after they are generated by the ASIC.
Traditional DVB CAM's use ISO7816, which is basically just an RS232 port embedded on to a credit card. Cablecards are a form factor with some variation of PCMCIA.
If anybody finds any info, username jkeeshd "en la" gmail.com
The MPAA isn't going to miss their episode of doobie while I borrow it. Fail analogy.
Windows media center is *ok* overall, but it has many blatant issues. For starters, every now and then when you bring the computer out of standby, it complains about not having a protected media path (something about "certain video drivers are missing" I'd have to look it up.) It also just out of nowhere will say there are no available tuners, even though nobody is using any tuners at all except that instance of WMC (microsoft is aware of this bug, but won't release a patch.) WMC will also complain about low signal even though the signal is fine (another known bug, microsoft won't patch.)
Maybe I'm just an unlucky guy, but ALL of these issues show up for me.
I've spoken with some within cox about it. I wrote this in my original submission, but the editor removed it.
Basically what they told me is that in most areas it is basically identical to what you do at comcast, including Atlanta where Cox is based. However in my area they just flag everything copy once. The heads of each respective area say they are following corporate policy, yet clearly not all of them are.
I don't stare at any phosphorescent screens.
There's no family involved here. Household yeah, but no family. They're all adults.
The concern for financial ruin doesn't apply in any case.
TFS was edited after I submitted it, but I think it's still apparent that I don't use usenet.
I didn't say you wanted to ban anything; I said you sound like a politician. Politicians are little men until they get near a crowd, at which time they hop on the nearest high horse and try to get everyone's attention by spouting off their virtues.