The sheer act of this case going to court and the resulting international press attention has already damaged these kids far beyond any damage the original photos may have done to them (and it's arguable that that is none at all). The prosecutor should be tried IMO.
Like fuck it does. I'm sorry, but just because the politicians need something to hold up every time they fuck something else up in the name of the War on Terror (Remember 7/7! Remember 7/7!) doesn't mean the rest of the country is busy sobbing into their cornflakes about it. It was just another bomb. We've been bombed before, and we'll be bombed again. The only people making a fuss about 7/7 are the politicians and the tabloids.
The only way I see is closed harware channel for HD content: encrypted disk read by HD-player, encrypted stream transmitted to PC and in encrypted form to graphic card and (again encrypted) to HD-screen. This is exactly what HDCP is.
either you would (after buying a movie) hit a site somewhere with a list of keys, and grab the one for your new movie (there will be SOMEONE with a Windows machine buying new movies and sharing the keys, just 'cos they can) or there's a server somewhere somewhat like CDDB storing a database of keys. Then your player would check the server on playback for a key. You could synchronise offline if you want to watch on the move.
Far from ideal, and maintaining the key servers in the face of constant lawsuits would be a tough task, but thepiratebay and co prove there are people out there more than willing to perform this service. Yeah, it would be illegal, but so is playing DVDs on Linux right now.
Not true. Macrovision works (as I understand it) by making the auto-brightness-adjust of the VCR go nuts. My old TV didn't have SCART, so I used to have the DVD player plugged into the VCR via SCART, then the VCR into the TV via RF. Nothing nefarious going on there. However, I had to disable Macrovision on the DVD player to watch any DVDs, even if I wasn't recording.
My newer VCRs, however, don't have this problem UNTIL YOU PRESS RECORD. I don't know this for a fact, but what I believe has happened is that VCRs have long since outgrown whatever little quirk of functionality it was tha made Macrovision work, and now build it into the players artifically so that Macrovision still works.
So it's equally a function of the media and the player, now.
Or even, earphones that do a complex analysis of your needs and wants, process it, and then inevitably play something which is almost, but not quite, entirely unlike music.
I'd rather a few more hundred thousand Japanese (and indeed American) soldiers than a few hundred thousand civillians. If you're fighting a war, your primary target should be the military, no matter what the opponent's tactics.
I'm sorry, I have to take issue with some of this. Firstly, India did not start everything from scratch after the British left. Anyone who has attempted to negotiate the beaurocracy (for example negotiating the release of a container from customs or getting a telephone line installed) can see the shadows of the British establishment that were left behind. The entire Indian system of Government is a very close mirror of the British system - the dual house system for starters.
Now, don't get me wrong, I don't mean to belittle the accomplishments of the Indian people since Independence, far from it, but to impy that they threw everything away and started again from scratch is just nonsense, and devalues the efforts of all the political leaders who worked so hard to make sure a country so large and chaotic CAN be effectively governed.
And as for "Others are not going to be as arrogant and barbarous as USA were" are you intending to gloss over the recent period of BJP-dominated politics which was, in my opinion, one of the darkest moments of Indian political history and saw aggression against Pakistan increase SIGNIFICANTLY? Fortunately, unlike the USA, the voting public in your country realised their mistake and voted them the hell out. By the way, that very creative piece of political manouvering by Congress/Sonia Gandhi and associates was quite a joy to watch.
because we're used to big name companies like Apple, Microsoft and so on getting their own way in disputes like this, especially where brand is very important. It's pretty much inconcievable, for example, that Apple would not own itunes.co.uk, and indeed they bullied the existing occupant off it. So, if Apple wants iPhone, the natural assumption (by many even here) is that Apple gets iPhone.
I merely cited the one example I can think of that goes against this trend: Google. Big company, who's brand is a very important part of their business strategy. Integral, one might say, since what Google mainly sells is... Google. And they didn't get gmail.co.uk, and instead had to settle for googlemail.co.uk.
If my post doesn't make a huge amount of sense, it's because it's 4am and I should be in bed.
Perhaps we'll see another GoogleMail? That case at least proves that big business can't always get its own way (especially outside the USA). So, ApplePhone, possibly.
Where things have changed in Vista, is if you have an account that has Parental Controls applied to it to limit the kinds of games that can be run. Vista knows the ESRB (& other ratings boards) ratings for quite a large number of games, and can block access to them if the parents don't want their kids to play them... but that's not the default setting. You have to go out of your way to set it up.
You know, this is possibly the first feature of Vista I've heard about that I wholeheartedly approve of. Of course, most parents will be badgered incessently by their children to take the controls away or give them the superuser password, but for those of us that actually DO think that perhaps, say, Grand Theft Auto 3 is not suitable gaming material for a 12 year old, this could be very useful.
Once a few big advertising contracts are hammered out, then the funds available to Wikipedia will grow, and so the needs of Wikipedia will grow to fill the available funds. They will lay on more servers, better bandwidth deals, maybe hire some people, and then suddenly Wikipedia is dependent on that cash to continue operating. Thus, the advertisers can start to assert influence, knowing full well what would happen if they pulled the cash. Suddenly you'll see exactly the kind of censorship parent alludes to.
What a bizarre comment. My experience is that most TV "rips" are taken from HD broadcasts, which at least have the potential to surpass anything taken from DVD. Realistically the DivX encodes are usually lower quality than either medium of original distribution, so there's no practical difference.
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"What we really need now is a gun of some sort"
"Will this work?"
"What is it?"
"A gun of some sort"
Over here from thedailywtf (or whatever it's calling itself now) are you?
That captcha stuff is lame there and, guess what, it's lame here too.
"Critereon", single.
"Criteria", plural.
So this crime was OK, but you're arguing they be prosecuted for a future crime they might hypothetically commit?
The sheer act of this case going to court and the resulting international press attention has already damaged these kids far beyond any damage the original photos may have done to them (and it's arguable that that is none at all). The prosecutor should be tried IMO.
Like fuck it does. I'm sorry, but just because the politicians need something to hold up every time they fuck something else up in the name of the War on Terror (Remember 7/7! Remember 7/7!) doesn't mean the rest of the country is busy sobbing into their cornflakes about it. It was just another bomb. We've been bombed before, and we'll be bombed again. The only people making a fuss about 7/7 are the politicians and the tabloids.
Holy Crap! Lions!
either you would (after buying a movie) hit a site somewhere with a list of keys, and grab the one for your new movie (there will be SOMEONE with a Windows machine buying new movies and sharing the keys, just 'cos they can) or there's a server somewhere somewhat like CDDB storing a database of keys. Then your player would check the server on playback for a key. You could synchronise offline if you want to watch on the move.
Far from ideal, and maintaining the key servers in the face of constant lawsuits would be a tough task, but thepiratebay and co prove there are people out there more than willing to perform this service. Yeah, it would be illegal, but so is playing DVDs on Linux right now.
Not true. Macrovision works (as I understand it) by making the auto-brightness-adjust of the VCR go nuts. My old TV didn't have SCART, so I used to have the DVD player plugged into the VCR via SCART, then the VCR into the TV via RF. Nothing nefarious going on there. However, I had to disable Macrovision on the DVD player to watch any DVDs, even if I wasn't recording.
My newer VCRs, however, don't have this problem UNTIL YOU PRESS RECORD. I don't know this for a fact, but what I believe has happened is that VCRs have long since outgrown whatever little quirk of functionality it was tha made Macrovision work, and now build it into the players artifically so that Macrovision still works.
So it's equally a function of the media and the player, now.
Or even, earphones that do a complex analysis of your needs and wants, process it, and then inevitably play something which is almost, but not quite, entirely unlike music.
Yes, but what about the various security holes that have been reported to Microsoft and then sat on?
FrostWire - all the *ahem* benefits of using Limewire, but without the annoying "Upgrade to Limewire Pro" popups.
They just listened to too much Iron Maiden.
(Seriously, though, I never bothered to listen to what that song was about. They're highbrow folks, those Maiden fellers, aint they?)
Donny Crane!
I'd rather a few more hundred thousand Japanese (and indeed American) soldiers than a few hundred thousand civillians. If you're fighting a war, your primary target should be the military, no matter what the opponent's tactics.
I'm sorry, I have to take issue with some of this. Firstly, India did not start everything from scratch after the British left. Anyone who has attempted to negotiate the beaurocracy (for example negotiating the release of a container from customs or getting a telephone line installed) can see the shadows of the British establishment that were left behind. The entire Indian system of Government is a very close mirror of the British system - the dual house system for starters.
Now, don't get me wrong, I don't mean to belittle the accomplishments of the Indian people since Independence, far from it, but to impy that they threw everything away and started again from scratch is just nonsense, and devalues the efforts of all the political leaders who worked so hard to make sure a country so large and chaotic CAN be effectively governed.
And as for "Others are not going to be as arrogant and barbarous as USA were" are you intending to gloss over the recent period of BJP-dominated politics which was, in my opinion, one of the darkest moments of Indian political history and saw aggression against Pakistan increase SIGNIFICANTLY? Fortunately, unlike the USA, the voting public in your country realised their mistake and voted them the hell out. By the way, that very creative piece of political manouvering by Congress/Sonia Gandhi and associates was quite a joy to watch.
"I wish more countries would do this, even though it would result in the US ultimately having less influence in the world"
"even though"? I think the less influence the US has over the world the better off we'll all be. That goes for the UK, by the way, IMO.
They're (the USA) going to have to stop waging wars first. I don't imagine there's enough money available for both.
because we're used to big name companies like Apple, Microsoft and so on getting their own way in disputes like this, especially where brand is very important. It's pretty much inconcievable, for example, that Apple would not own itunes.co.uk, and indeed they bullied the existing occupant off it. So, if Apple wants iPhone, the natural assumption (by many even here) is that Apple gets iPhone.
... Google. And they didn't get gmail.co.uk, and instead had to settle for googlemail.co.uk.
I merely cited the one example I can think of that goes against this trend: Google. Big company, who's brand is a very important part of their business strategy. Integral, one might say, since what Google mainly sells is
If my post doesn't make a huge amount of sense, it's because it's 4am and I should be in bed.
God, what utter SHITE!
Perhaps we'll see another GoogleMail? That case at least proves that big business can't always get its own way (especially outside the USA). So, ApplePhone, possibly.
You know, this is possibly the first feature of Vista I've heard about that I wholeheartedly approve of. Of course, most parents will be badgered incessently by their children to take the controls away or give them the superuser password, but for those of us that actually DO think that perhaps, say, Grand Theft Auto 3 is not suitable gaming material for a 12 year old, this could be very useful.
Once a few big advertising contracts are hammered out, then the funds available to Wikipedia will grow, and so the needs of Wikipedia will grow to fill the available funds. They will lay on more servers, better bandwidth deals, maybe hire some people, and then suddenly Wikipedia is dependent on that cash to continue operating. Thus, the advertisers can start to assert influence, knowing full well what would happen if they pulled the cash. Suddenly you'll see exactly the kind of censorship parent alludes to.
What a bizarre comment. My experience is that most TV "rips" are taken from HD broadcasts, which at least have the potential to surpass anything taken from DVD. Realistically the DivX encodes are usually lower quality than either medium of original distribution, so there's no practical difference.