ba.nk wouldn't fool browser security updates/certs designed to be damn sure the domain stops at blah.bank and not blah.bank.com or anything as TFA implies.
I know its traditional for slashdotters to NOT RTFA but I'm still surprised how negative people are being about this clearly without having bothered to.
Name ONE genuinely negative aspect of this to the individual consumer. I can't think of one but I'm not so egotistical as to think there might not be one, but there are certainly lots of positive aspects.
You won't be paying for this, the banks will, why do you care.
As TFA states there are.aero for aviation, and.museum, so why not.bank to actually help protect your, and other peoples money for gods sakes, isn't that more important to you?
Reductions in fraud on-line would also limit banks excuses for high fees to counter their losses.
And it's NOT just a very expensive TLD, it's one where the organisation in question would have to prove absolutely and legally that they are a fitting organization for the TLD, as TFA states as an example you just don't get fake.gov sites. If someone did somehow sneak through they would be shut down very quickly and easily, compared to constantly re-locating.com.org.net sites.
Obviously I'm not on a mac or I wouldn't be talking about Quicktime Alt, Media Player Classic, and CoreAVC.
All windows packages that help assist in not having to install Quicktime itself, as a lot of people find it rather abhorrent.
Only OSX machines have Quicktime built in from the get go, rigorously enforcing it's file associations, so they're infinitely less likely to have had something else screwing up their MIME types before, or after a Quicktime system is installed.
(from the PDF) "Overall, we expected to notice a very strong and con- sistent correlation between high utilization and higher failure rates. However our results appear to paint a more complex picture. First, only very young and very old age groups appear to show the expected behavior. Af- ter the first year, the AFR of high utilization drives is at most moderately higher than that of low utilization drives. The three-year group in fact appears to have the opposite of the expected behavior, with low utilization drives having slightly higher failure rates than high uti- lization ones."
If you can't deal with QTL files then your quicktime or quicktime alt install needs to be reinstalled to fix up the file associations.
And/or you need to check your mime type application/x-quicktimeplayer opens with the OS default handler ( I used the MIME edit addon to fix firefox just now so I could watch this new trailer).
When it's working Quicktime will load it up, or Quicktime Alt will popup a menu asking what you want to do (download to location / download and play with MPC or WinMplayer / Stream)
Forcing.QTL to open with a browser, or directly with a media player doesn't work.
finally, if you download it, and have media player classic with coreAVC installed, rename the file to.hdmov and it will open with directshow and coreavc instead of quicktime, and playback speed will be much improved.
Despite them being by far the most popular portable digital player, why would this focus purely on the ipod? how can they possibly be doing this, and it not be a problem for other players?
I always just go to java.sun.com , find downloads, download the latest offline install of the JRE (java runtime environment), install, never had a problem.
Pirates use something because it's the BEST way to do something.
Why? because they have total freedom to choose the best, because, due to their nature, they don't pay for anything.
Thus, outlawing something because pirates use it is shooting yourself (or at least technical progress itself) in the foot.
Sony's views on the xvid codec originally brought this thought to my mind when they prevented sony vegas 5 or 6 from working with it, under that same logic I'd say ban sony vegas itself, I hear it's still incredibly popular with pirates.
While your at it you'd better do something to shut down Maya, 3dstudio and Photoshop.
I had this exact same problem a couple of years ago, it was caused by bad (terrible) drivers for the Adaptec SATA card I had (1210sa, using Sil 3112 chipset).
Moving the mov file to any drive not using that controller and it played perfectly. From the 1210sa, an instant unrecoverable lock would occur. maybe 5% of mov's I tried wouldn't lock the drive, but those that did it was a definite and 100% repeatable problem, irrespective of player used, or quicktime version.
I reported it to Adaptec several times, as it was fixed and then broken again with different releases, but never acknowledged.
Small note of pedantry though, Bill Hicks died in 1994 so when he's quoted as saying 'last year' it doesn't mean 2004, and he might have been using artistic license anyway;)
"Like, I was over in England. You ever been to England, anyone, been to England? No one has handguns in England, not even the cops. True or false? True. Now-in England last year, they had fourteen deaths from handguns. FFFFFourteen. Now-the United States, and I think you know how we feel about handguns-woooo, I'm getting a warm tingly feeling just saying the fucking word, to be honest with you. I swear to you, I am hard. Twenty-three thousand deaths from handguns. Now let's go through those numbers again, because they're a little baffling at first glance. England, where no one has guns, fffffffourteen deaths. United States, and I think you know how we feel about guns-woooo, I'm getting a stiffy-twenty-three thousand deaths from handguns. But there's no connection, and you'd be a fool and a Communist to make one. There's no connection between having a gun and shooting someone with it, and not having a gun and not shooting someone. There have been studies made and there is no connection at all there. Yes. That's absolute proof. You know, fourteen deaths from handguns. Probably American tourists, too. (Angry tourist voice) You call this a sandwich? BANG! BANG! You don't boil pizza! BANG! BANG! (Scared English voice) That's the way we eat here, that's the way we eat here! BANG! (Tourist voice) This food sucks! BANG!" Bill Hicks
It's a terrible thing to happen, it really is, I'm very sorry for the victims and their families and friends.
But don't go claiming more guns = safer. Guns are banned in the UK and many other countries, and of course plenty of illegal guns are still present all over the place were they are banned, but if anyone would care to dig out the real, current statistics for gun deaths, I think they'll speak for themselves still.
How do most of the illegal held guns in the US come to be anyway? stolen from originally legal owners?
People keep putting vista down for the DRM, but it doesn't add DRM to anything other current OS's already do.
It doesn't enforce DRM on programs you already use.
As far as I can make out the only difference is it supports DRM for new technology.
At the moment, you have no alternative, as in, without that DRM being supported, you cannot even PLAY media from those new technologies (hd-dvd, bluray).
so, what's the problem? To playback these new media formats at all *nix and other OS users will have wait until someone breaks break the DRM, or legit DRM inclusive players are available (unlikely except at a cost, or possibly never, due to AACS licensing), to backup media on vista users will have to wait for someone to break the DRM, but at least they can use the media in the first place.
Yes, brilliant, because everyone knows overworked tired, miserable workers produce better cleaner, well documented more efficient code.
Fortunately, though sadly few, there are companies now that happily understand this is NOT the case, happy, well slept workers with regular hours, work faster, more efficiently, and produce better results, and those benefits far outweigh a very negligible cost.
The topic never left. It just didn't go the way you wanted. As I pointed out, what you find superior on Windows drives others nuts. See the above for the ultra complex and hideously obfuscated process for changing apps on a Mac while NOT moving your mouse. (That's just step 2 in the above process in case you're wondering.) The topic did change, it being how to maximise a window.
I should have thought to never mention windows and use linux or zeta as an example instead, but I thought I'd mentioned my otherwise happy use of osx enough, and merely questioning something a little, enough to subdue pointless fanboyism.
My comment on menus was purely my personal thoughts on the logic of flow in 2 different methods of display, it's nothing to do with windows v's mac. and I'd intentionally left out shortcut keys as :
1. I'm proficient with shortcuts on several OS's, but plenty of people aren't. 2. it's still more efficient to direct click menu to menu when there are 3 or more apps open than tab through them or use expose.
Besides it was merely a retort to your defensive 'it's BETTER that it can't do it because... ' approach, I'd mistakenly thought the subject might actually segue into intelligent conversation on UI design rather than rabid fanboyism.
The matter of 'choice' in this cases context clearly was my amazement that you argue your tool of choice is better, because the user doesn't even have the OPTION to use it as they wish. Ie you think osx is better as it's incapable of maximising a window even with shortcut, leaving your beloved original 'maximised-application free, mac world' settup untouched.
with other OS's (PLENTY more than windows) , that option is there, that people so often use it should simply prove to you that it's useful. plenty of people DON'T use it a great deal, but myself, I generally beleive in free choice, but in this issue I'm biased as it is something I use sometimes, mostly with Photoshop.
to argue FOR a limitation of free choice seems pointlessly idiotic.
Here, lets be pointlessly argumentative, it's the internet after all, so are you pro DRM too? anti net nutrality?
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ba.nk wouldn't fool browser security updates/certs designed to be damn sure the domain stops at blah.bank and not blah.bank.com or anything as TFA implies.
I know its traditional for slashdotters to NOT RTFA but I'm still surprised how negative people are being about this clearly without having bothered to.
.aero for aviation, and .museum, so why not .bank to actually help protect your, and other peoples money for gods sakes, isn't that more important to you?
.gov sites. .com .org .net sites.
Name ONE genuinely negative aspect of this to the individual consumer.
I can't think of one but I'm not so egotistical as to think there might not be one, but there are certainly lots of positive aspects.
You won't be paying for this, the banks will, why do you care.
As TFA states there are
Reductions in fraud on-line would also limit banks excuses for high fees to counter their losses.
And it's NOT just a very expensive TLD, it's one where the organisation in question would have to prove absolutely and legally that they are a fitting organization for the TLD, as TFA states as an example you just don't get fake
If someone did somehow sneak through they would be shut down very quickly and easily, compared to constantly re-locating
Fat tubes for all!
Obviously I'm not on a mac or I wouldn't be talking about Quicktime Alt, Media Player Classic, and CoreAVC.
All windows packages that help assist in not having to install Quicktime itself, as a lot of people find it rather abhorrent.
Only OSX machines have Quicktime built in from the get go, rigorously enforcing it's file associations, so they're infinitely less likely to have had something else screwing up their MIME types before, or after a Quicktime system is installed.
There was a recent google report that suggested otherwise, though this obviously isn't the same as just sticking them on a shelf.
/ 18/0420247
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02
(from the PDF)
"Overall, we expected to notice a very strong and con-
sistent correlation between high utilization and higher
failure rates. However our results appear to paint a more
complex picture. First, only very young and very old
age groups appear to show the expected behavior. Af-
ter the first year, the AFR of high utilization drives is
at most moderately higher than that of low utilization
drives. The three-year group in fact appears to have the
opposite of the expected behavior, with low utilization
drives having slightly higher failure rates than high uti-
lization ones."
Because magnetic media fails, badly, often, and at any time.
It is in NO way a long term backup solution.
For anyone worried about what the mysterious MPG is, and if it's worth clicking, it's the Transformer inspired dancing Citroen C4 ad.
If you can't deal with QTL files then your quicktime or quicktime alt install needs to be reinstalled to fix up the file associations.
And/or you need to check your mime type application/x-quicktimeplayer opens with the OS default handler ( I used the MIME edit addon to fix firefox just now so I could watch this new trailer).
When it's working Quicktime will load it up, or Quicktime Alt will popup a menu asking what you want to do (download to location / download and play with MPC or WinMplayer / Stream)
Forcing .QTL to open with a browser, or directly with a media player doesn't work.
finally, if you download it, and have media player classic with coreAVC installed, rename the file to .hdmov and it will open with directshow and coreavc instead of quicktime, and playback speed will be much improved.
Then the next question would be (assuming you did make sure firefox terminated properly)
what plugins are you using?
Despite them being by far the most popular portable digital player, why would this focus purely on the ipod? how can they possibly be doing this, and it not be a problem for other players?
I always just go to java.sun.com , find downloads, download the latest offline install of the JRE (java runtime environment), install, never had a problem.
So if they have all the rights and are as accountable..
:oD
when are they coming to lock Sony up for mass government infiltration on an unprecedented scale
Your saying Final Fantasy XI isn't popular and almost no-ones heard of it? or was that sarcasm.
It may have a small share http://www.mmogchart.com/Chart7.html but it's certainly known by anyone that knows FF games.
Google's intelisense auto complete thing now has it as the 2nd suggestiong after typing '09 F', lol.
Good lord, I so wish someone had done this for quake 2 / 3 back when I was playing seriously =)
I've said it before and I'll say it again.
Pirates use something because it's the BEST way to do something.
Why? because they have total freedom to choose the best, because, due to their nature, they don't pay for anything.
Thus, outlawing something because pirates use it is shooting yourself (or at least technical progress itself) in the foot.
Sony's views on the xvid codec originally brought this thought to my mind when they prevented sony vegas 5 or 6 from working with it, under that same logic I'd say ban sony vegas itself, I hear it's still incredibly popular with pirates.
While your at it you'd better do something to shut down Maya, 3dstudio and Photoshop.
I had this exact same problem a couple of years ago, it was caused by bad (terrible) drivers for the Adaptec SATA card I had (1210sa, using Sil 3112 chipset).
Moving the mov file to any drive not using that controller and it played perfectly.
From the 1210sa, an instant unrecoverable lock would occur. maybe 5% of mov's I tried wouldn't lock the drive, but those that did it was a definite and 100% repeatable problem, irrespective of player used, or quicktime version.
I reported it to Adaptec several times, as it was fixed and then broken again with different releases, but never acknowledged.
Changed to a Promise controller instead.
norton/symantec , bought out sygate :(
I keep worrying they'll pounce on nod32 next.
aside from sharing the profile (good work) that's exactly what I do too..
Awesome stats, thanks!
;)
Small note of pedantry though, Bill Hicks died in 1994 so when he's quoted as saying 'last year' it doesn't mean 2004, and he might have been using artistic license anyway
"Like, I was over in England. You ever been to England, anyone, been to England? No one has handguns in England, not even the cops. True or false? True. Now-in England last year, they had fourteen deaths from handguns. FFFFFourteen. Now-the United States, and I think you know how we feel about handguns-woooo, I'm getting a warm tingly feeling just saying the fucking word, to be honest with you. I swear to you, I am hard. Twenty-three thousand deaths from handguns. Now let's go through those numbers again, because they're a little baffling at first glance. England, where no one has guns, fffffffourteen deaths. United States, and I think you know how we feel about guns-woooo, I'm getting a stiffy-twenty-three thousand deaths from handguns. But there's no connection, and you'd be a fool and a Communist to make one. There's no connection between having a gun and shooting someone with it, and not having a gun and not shooting someone. There have been studies made and there is no connection at all there. Yes. That's absolute proof. You know, fourteen deaths from handguns. Probably American tourists, too.
(Angry tourist voice) You call this a sandwich? BANG! BANG! You don't boil pizza! BANG! BANG!
(Scared English voice) That's the way we eat here, that's the way we eat here! BANG!
(Tourist voice) This food sucks! BANG!" Bill Hicks
It's a terrible thing to happen, it really is, I'm very sorry for the victims and their families and friends.
But don't go claiming more guns = safer.
Guns are banned in the UK and many other countries, and of course plenty of illegal guns are still present all over the place were they are banned, but if anyone would care to dig out the real, current statistics for gun deaths, I think they'll speak for themselves still.
How do most of the illegal held guns in the US come to be anyway? stolen from originally legal owners?
I understand your annoyance, but the point is that this is not a regression from previous OS's. previous OS's can't even play them.
People keep putting vista down for the DRM, but it doesn't add DRM to anything other current OS's already do.
It doesn't enforce DRM on programs you already use.
As far as I can make out the only difference is it supports DRM for new technology.
At the moment, you have no alternative, as in, without that DRM being supported, you cannot even PLAY media from those new technologies (hd-dvd, bluray).
so, what's the problem? To playback these new media formats at all *nix and other OS users will have wait until someone breaks break the DRM, or legit DRM inclusive players are available (unlikely except at a cost, or possibly never, due to AACS licensing), to backup media on vista users will have to wait for someone to break the DRM, but at least they can use the media in the first place.
Yes, brilliant, because everyone knows overworked tired, miserable workers produce better cleaner, well documented more efficient code. Fortunately, though sadly few, there are companies now that happily understand this is NOT the case, happy, well slept workers with regular hours, work faster, more efficiently, and produce better results, and those benefits far outweigh a very negligible cost.
I should have thought to never mention windows and use linux or zeta as an example instead, but I thought I'd mentioned my otherwise happy use of osx enough, and merely questioning something a little, enough to subdue pointless fanboyism.
My comment on menus was purely my personal thoughts on the logic of flow in 2 different methods of display, it's nothing to do with windows v's mac. and I'd intentionally left out shortcut keys as :
1. I'm proficient with shortcuts on several OS's, but plenty of people aren't.
2. it's still more efficient to direct click menu to menu when there are 3 or more apps open than tab through them or use expose.
Besides it was merely a retort to your defensive 'it's BETTER that it can't do it because... ' approach, I'd mistakenly thought the subject might actually segue into intelligent conversation on UI design rather than rabid fanboyism.
The matter of 'choice' in this cases context clearly was my amazement that you argue your tool of choice is better, because the user doesn't even have the OPTION to use it as they wish. Ie you think osx is better as it's incapable of maximising a window even with shortcut, leaving your beloved original 'maximised-application free, mac world' settup untouched.
with other OS's (PLENTY more than windows) , that option is there, that people so often use it should simply prove to you that it's useful. plenty of people DON'T use it a great deal, but myself, I generally beleive in free choice, but in this issue I'm biased as it is something I use sometimes, mostly with Photoshop.
to argue FOR a limitation of free choice seems pointlessly idiotic.
Here, lets be pointlessly argumentative, it's the internet after all, so are you pro DRM too? anti net nutrality?