It does not encourage a turnkey spying system. It means that, at the most, Google would have a way to unlock the contents of a user's phone should law enforcement present them with a warrant when law enforcement has possession of the phone itself. That's hardly "spying". Quite frankly, as long as law enforcement has a legit warrant obtained through the proper channels, I don't see why people would get bent out of shape.
And things should be fixed. There are laws that can be passed or pulled that can try to reduce this sort of thing.
In the meantime, scumsucking thugs like Dears need to back behind bars for a long time, and no matter how just and proper the laws are, filth like him will always exist.
I'm sure they do have other avenues. However, in law enforcement, you often need to grab everything you can to throw at the guy. That includes evidence that could easily be on his cellphone. And yet it's "walking all over that trust" when law enforcement has good cause and gets a legitimate warrant? Are you kidding me?
Windows has been doing that for decades. Android has only been doing it for a few years. The platform is still relatively young and has its own hurdles to overcome. There are parts of Android development that can be a pain in the neck, that's for sure.
Um...yes it does. I just ripped a protected DVD recently with it. Did you notice that I specified that it uses VLC for stripping copy protection only on OS X? Because it does.
Nah, I go balls-out on encodes. Do it right and you only have to do it once, so I usually do everything I can to boost quality. I don't mind running an encode overnight.
Which is why I said for a while after introduction. You can build one cheaper now because Apple rarely does much with the MP line aside from perhaps one or two minor bumps/BTO options during a model's lifetime. When they first come out, they're pretty competitive. When they've been out a year+...not so much.
Minecraft is hardly the best benchmark for graphics performance. Never in my life have I seen a game engine that was so horrifically inefficient and inept. Mojang's devs should never be allowed to write another line of code for the rest of their lives.
You do realize that the Mac Pro is not a commodity gaming box, right? These are Xeon-based workstations with ECC RAM. I doubt that many Hackintoshes are built with those. As for the price, Mac Pros tend to be surprisingly competitive, sometimes even better-priced than the competition, but only for a while after their introduction. The line is stale now while the competition has been shuffling models and prices around. The next line will probably be priced appropriately for its particular market (at least in some models. Dual CPU Mac Pros tend to be more competitive), and that particular market is NOT the kind of people who build Hackies from commodity parts.
Not to mention that Handbrake is multithreaded to hell and back. Ripping a DVD can keep my i7 2600k @ 4.5ghz pegged above 80% the whole time. A high-quality DVD rip will finish in less than 20 minutes per pass. Haven't tried BluRay yet, but I will soon.
The odd thing is that it uses VLC for decryption...but only on OS X. It checks your Applications folder for it. I haven't seen anything equivalent on Windows, which is rather strange.
Considering how jaw-droppingly stupid some of the Lulzsec crew were (really, hidemyass.com was one's only attempt to stay anonymous), I'm willing to bet that Sabu dun goof'd somewhere.
What utter bullshit. You CAN regulate all of those ads. You know how? Turn off the damned TV. Install an adblocker in your browser. There, you just eliminated the bulk of that crap raping your eyeballs and subconscious, and you're probably intaking less general crap in the first place.
Let's restrict freedom of speech because what someone says/does might inadvertently have a negative impact on someone else who can't practice some goddamned self-discipline. Sounds like a great idea. Nice slippery slope you're on. Now here's a better idea: Why not get people to boycott companies that use scrawny bags of antlers to advertise things? If enough people do so, then that will change. If not, then apparently enough people don't give a crap. Nah, that takes effort, just ban them!
I can see Best Buy going away. So many of those stores are run by inept morons and so much corporate policy is made by inept morons. If you're really lucky, you'll get an honest salesperson who actually knows what they're talking about. Otherwise it's brainless chunkheads throwing whatever they can at you. If you're really lucky, you'll get a Geek Squad tech who knows what he's doing and will fix it right. Otherwise, you get some idiot sales flunkie who can barely read the checklist of crap to do, a checklist that probably ends with "Just sell 'em a bunch of crap if you can't figure it out". Best Buy's reputation has been dwindling because they're bloody incompetent. People will go elsewhere for their goods if it continues and BB will tank. Any town big enough for a BB already has alternate stores.
You must have a good Radio Shack. The one near where I live is mostly common stuff at 5x what it's worth, ie, HDMI cables up to $100 and nothing really exceptional on the shelves.
Yahoo! Answers is good, too. Well, good if you want to gawk at the horrifying depths of human stupidity. The average IQ of the Yahoo! userbase must be asymptotically approaching zero.
Apple flings lawsuits like mad. Then it bites them in the butt. Can we all just agree that the patent system is idiotic and far too overbearing already?
The biggest dealbreaker for me is that LibreOffice will friggin' mulch Office files. I've opened up a.docx with it, modified it, and then saved. What I got was a mess. Formatting wrecked, tables gone, figures gone...ugh. Maybe it's fine if you stick to ODF formats, but MS Office interoperability is borderline useless until then get the formatting figured out.
And you still fail at reading comprehension as evidenced by your earlier post. I'd also wager that they require proof of ID before checking that out or they'd get their asses busted for providing pornography to minors.
You fail at reading comprehension. I was talking about material that was legally age restricted. Show me the books that require you to be 18+ to purchase and I'll say that perhaps they should not be in the library, or at least should require all those checking it out should be 18+ or something to that effect. Do try to keep up.
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It does not encourage a turnkey spying system. It means that, at the most, Google would have a way to unlock the contents of a user's phone should law enforcement present them with a warrant when law enforcement has possession of the phone itself. That's hardly "spying". Quite frankly, as long as law enforcement has a legit warrant obtained through the proper channels, I don't see why people would get bent out of shape.
And things should be fixed. There are laws that can be passed or pulled that can try to reduce this sort of thing.
In the meantime, scumsucking thugs like Dears need to back behind bars for a long time, and no matter how just and proper the laws are, filth like him will always exist.
I'm sure they do have other avenues. However, in law enforcement, you often need to grab everything you can to throw at the guy. That includes evidence that could easily be on his cellphone. And yet it's "walking all over that trust" when law enforcement has good cause and gets a legitimate warrant? Are you kidding me?
Windows has been doing that for decades. Android has only been doing it for a few years. The platform is still relatively young and has its own hurdles to overcome. There are parts of Android development that can be a pain in the neck, that's for sure.
Um...yes it does. I just ripped a protected DVD recently with it. Did you notice that I specified that it uses VLC for stripping copy protection only on OS X? Because it does.
Nah, I go balls-out on encodes. Do it right and you only have to do it once, so I usually do everything I can to boost quality. I don't mind running an encode overnight.
Which is why I said for a while after introduction. You can build one cheaper now because Apple rarely does much with the MP line aside from perhaps one or two minor bumps/BTO options during a model's lifetime. When they first come out, they're pretty competitive. When they've been out a year+...not so much.
Minecraft is hardly the best benchmark for graphics performance. Never in my life have I seen a game engine that was so horrifically inefficient and inept. Mojang's devs should never be allowed to write another line of code for the rest of their lives.
It's true! The unfounded rumors said so!
You do realize that the Mac Pro is not a commodity gaming box, right? These are Xeon-based workstations with ECC RAM. I doubt that many Hackintoshes are built with those. As for the price, Mac Pros tend to be surprisingly competitive, sometimes even better-priced than the competition, but only for a while after their introduction. The line is stale now while the competition has been shuffling models and prices around. The next line will probably be priced appropriately for its particular market (at least in some models. Dual CPU Mac Pros tend to be more competitive), and that particular market is NOT the kind of people who build Hackies from commodity parts.
That entire decade was probably made up of negotiations with every group of stuffed suits at the RIAA...
Not to mention that Handbrake is multithreaded to hell and back. Ripping a DVD can keep my i7 2600k @ 4.5ghz pegged above 80% the whole time. A high-quality DVD rip will finish in less than 20 minutes per pass. Haven't tried BluRay yet, but I will soon.
The odd thing is that it uses VLC for decryption...but only on OS X. It checks your Applications folder for it. I haven't seen anything equivalent on Windows, which is rather strange.
Considering how jaw-droppingly stupid some of the Lulzsec crew were (really, hidemyass.com was one's only attempt to stay anonymous), I'm willing to bet that Sabu dun goof'd somewhere.
What utter bullshit. You CAN regulate all of those ads. You know how? Turn off the damned TV. Install an adblocker in your browser. There, you just eliminated the bulk of that crap raping your eyeballs and subconscious, and you're probably intaking less general crap in the first place. Let's restrict freedom of speech because what someone says/does might inadvertently have a negative impact on someone else who can't practice some goddamned self-discipline. Sounds like a great idea. Nice slippery slope you're on. Now here's a better idea: Why not get people to boycott companies that use scrawny bags of antlers to advertise things? If enough people do so, then that will change. If not, then apparently enough people don't give a crap. Nah, that takes effort, just ban them!
Or they could release a service pack, call it a new version, and charge up to $300 for it. Oh, wait...
I can see Best Buy going away. So many of those stores are run by inept morons and so much corporate policy is made by inept morons. If you're really lucky, you'll get an honest salesperson who actually knows what they're talking about. Otherwise it's brainless chunkheads throwing whatever they can at you. If you're really lucky, you'll get a Geek Squad tech who knows what he's doing and will fix it right. Otherwise, you get some idiot sales flunkie who can barely read the checklist of crap to do, a checklist that probably ends with "Just sell 'em a bunch of crap if you can't figure it out". Best Buy's reputation has been dwindling because they're bloody incompetent. People will go elsewhere for their goods if it continues and BB will tank. Any town big enough for a BB already has alternate stores.
You must have a good Radio Shack. The one near where I live is mostly common stuff at 5x what it's worth, ie, HDMI cables up to $100 and nothing really exceptional on the shelves.
Yahoo! Answers is good, too. Well, good if you want to gawk at the horrifying depths of human stupidity. The average IQ of the Yahoo! userbase must be asymptotically approaching zero.
Apple flings lawsuits like mad. Then it bites them in the butt. Can we all just agree that the patent system is idiotic and far too overbearing already?
The biggest dealbreaker for me is that LibreOffice will friggin' mulch Office files. I've opened up a .docx with it, modified it, and then saved. What I got was a mess. Formatting wrecked, tables gone, figures gone...ugh. Maybe it's fine if you stick to ODF formats, but MS Office interoperability is borderline useless until then get the formatting figured out.
Um...considering that the library is providing the material that you read, what need would there be to monitor anything in that regard?
And you still fail at reading comprehension as evidenced by your earlier post. I'd also wager that they require proof of ID before checking that out or they'd get their asses busted for providing pornography to minors.
Home is private property, not public property. You can already do a lot more at home than you could in public. That's a non-issue.
You fail at reading comprehension. I was talking about material that was legally age restricted. Show me the books that require you to be 18+ to purchase and I'll say that perhaps they should not be in the library, or at least should require all those checking it out should be 18+ or something to that effect. Do try to keep up.