Because of course, the only unbiased and honest people are those that agree with catastrophic AGW.
It sure looks that way! No amount of sarcasm on your part is going to change the fact that pretty much all denialists are either incompetent, dishonest, or both.
If you somehow think different, then you are probably just accepting what they say because you like the sound of it, without actually bothering to look too closely into whether what they say is actually true.
Microsoft is anything but late to this party. They have been trying to launch a tablet for over a decade now. They've tried again, and again, and again, and they have failed every single time.
I've lost count of how many times they have tried, but it goes all the way back to Windows 95 for Pen Computing, or whatever it was called.
Actually, LEDs are not directional at all. They give very wide light in their basic form. However, most LEDs are fitted with optics that make them quite narrow.
This is, I guess, mostly because LEDs are not quite powerful enough yet to give proper lighting over a wide area, so they are concentrated to be useful in at least one direction.
(The reason they are not powerful enough, and their real flaw, is that they don't like heat at all. So if you try making too powerful LED chips, they will overheat and degrade quickly.)
(Also, I doubt it would be "easy", since the amount of data contained in an uncompressed HD stream is pretty daunting. Like they say, they still can't decrypt it in realtime, to say nothing of encoding it. Just getting it onto a disk fast enough might be a challenge.)
In theory they could be banned, but in practice, due to sloppy distribution of keys, they can't ban them without breaking too many innocent devices, so they haven't.
Any bets on when we see this implemented in more full-featured software suites?
Never, as no software suites have any use at all for HDCP.
HDCP is used only for encrypting content as it travels across the cable to the display. Only devices connected to the display cable will ever see HDCP-protected content. Software players process the data before it is encrypted with HDCP.
The only thing this is good for is for wiretapping a display cable to capture uncompressed video, or for making a box that fools your paranoid computer into believing the display connection is protected.
Following up on yesterday's story about the PS3 being hacked by one of its own official controllers, there's now a guide in English that details how to mod a Sixaxxis controller.
If by "official controllers" you mean "a microcontroller mounted inside the shell of an official controller", sure. Or you could save yourself the work and just keep the microcontroller outside by itself.
(And the exploit is still blocked by new firmwares, so it's still not terribly exciting.)
By your argument, it is perfectly OK for the government to take as much tax revenue as it likes, and I think a lot of us would have a problem with that, too.
I don't know why you people keep badgering Bruce about this, when I could figure out the answers to all that within minutes of looking at the linked site. How about going and reading for yourself?
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I'll accept this idea that there are honest and unbiased climate change denialists the minute I see one.
Still hasn't happened.
Well, unless you count people who are just honestly misinformed by the liars and really don't know any better.
Because of course, the only unbiased and honest people are those that agree with catastrophic AGW.
It sure looks that way! No amount of sarcasm on your part is going to change the fact that pretty much all denialists are either incompetent, dishonest, or both.
If you somehow think different, then you are probably just accepting what they say because you like the sound of it, without actually bothering to look too closely into whether what they say is actually true.
As much as I want to free the climate science from biases and dishonesty, this is not the way to do it.
Indeed. If you actually wanted to do that, you would be trying to get rid of the denialists.
Microsoft is anything but late to this party. They have been trying to launch a tablet for over a decade now. They've tried again, and again, and again, and they have failed every single time.
I've lost count of how many times they have tried, but it goes all the way back to Windows 95 for Pen Computing, or whatever it was called.
Actually, LEDs are not directional at all. They give very wide light in their basic form. However, most LEDs are fitted with optics that make them quite narrow.
This is, I guess, mostly because LEDs are not quite powerful enough yet to give proper lighting over a wide area, so they are concentrated to be useful in at least one direction.
(The reason they are not powerful enough, and their real flaw, is that they don't like heat at all. So if you try making too powerful LED chips, they will overheat and degrade quickly.)
Yes, that would fall under the first case.
(Also, I doubt it would be "easy", since the amount of data contained in an uncompressed HD stream is pretty daunting. Like they say, they still can't decrypt it in realtime, to say nothing of encoding it. Just getting it onto a disk fast enough might be a challenge.)
Yes, but I was speaking only of the devices that were made before the release of the master key. I was probably a bit unclear there.
Well, here we have someone who certainly likes to swallow his propaganda whole.
It's been brought up in pretty much every single discussion of this I've seen so far.
In theory they could be banned, but in practice, due to sloppy distribution of keys, they can't ban them without breaking too many innocent devices, so they haven't.
Any bets on when we see this implemented in more full-featured software suites?
Never, as no software suites have any use at all for HDCP.
HDCP is used only for encrypting content as it travels across the cable to the display. Only devices connected to the display cable will ever see HDCP-protected content. Software players process the data before it is encrypted with HDCP.
The only thing this is good for is for wiretapping a display cable to capture uncompressed video, or for making a box that fools your paranoid computer into believing the display connection is protected.
Yeah, I am forgetting that because I've never heard such a thing.
Where do you people get these lights?
When was the last time you saw flicker,
Back when I used a CRT and obsessively tried tuning it to maximum refresh rates because I am pretty sensitive to flicker?
Still haven't seen a CFL flicker in years.
When was the last time you looked at a CFL? 1993?
However I've tried about a dozen types of bulbs, from every retailer, and they are all inferior to 100 year old technology.
Except, you know, for the part where they use a fraction of the energy.
Nobody said a word about color temperature except you, and also, "everybody" does not hate CFLs. Far from it.
Bad light colour, low light output and short lifetimes are all exact symptoms of buying bad lights.
Stop buying the cheapest shitty bulbs you can find.
Following up on yesterday's story about the PS3 being hacked by one of its own official controllers, there's now a guide in English that details how to mod a Sixaxxis controller.
If by "official controllers" you mean "a microcontroller mounted inside the shell of an official controller", sure. Or you could save yourself the work and just keep the microcontroller outside by itself.
(And the exploit is still blocked by new firmwares, so it's still not terribly exciting.)
By your argument, it is perfectly OK for the government to take as much tax revenue as it likes, and I think a lot of us would have a problem with that, too.
His argument says no such thing.
No, it is like saying that you are screwed if you have to rely on bystanders to come in and fix the work your construction workers did.
And no one wants to discuss it, therefore it must be horrifically bad.
It is discussed on the damn site which you could just click on, is what I am saying.
I don't know why you people keep badgering Bruce about this, when I could figure out the answers to all that within minutes of looking at the linked site. How about going and reading for yourself?
Exactly. If you do not already know the answer to this question, there is no way on earth you will write a program that is at all secure.
Back to the books and study.
They shouldn't.
They do, and that is all that matters.