Sure it does, look at it this way: You are attacker Andy and you know Bob runs an exit node. Now you don't like Bob, you think he's a douche. so you use the trick outlined in TFA to route a BUNCH of nasty activity through Bob's node, so that the government takes notice. Sure EVENTUALLY Bob will be cleared, but how long will he be in PMITA prison before that day comes?
Before anybody says that can't happen don't forget a guy in FLA basically lost 2 years of his life and over $300,000 in legal fees because the company issued laptop had a bug that scum were using to download CP through his connection.
So yeah, this is a serious WTF moment and until they both fix it AND ban previous clients so that this trick can't be used you'd have to be nuts to run an exit node.
I remember reading once (sorry at work so I can't spend time Googling) that if one were to buy a brand new PC and simply install the most commonly used programs that going through the EULAs on JUST those programs and the most commonly installed would take around 3 weeks, more if one were to actually hire a lawyer to translate the terms into English, and that is if you did NOTHING but read EULAs 8 hours a day. Now add in the ToS for every website you visit (as failing to do so could land you in PMITA prison) and you are looking at probably a year of more, plus the expense of hiring a lawyer that can make heads or tails of the complex legalese.
Ya know, as much as i thought Ayn Rand was batshit her often used criminal quote is starting to look highly prophetic. I mean how in the hell is anybody that has a job other than reading ToS supposed to be able to pull this miracle off? remember if you use ANY software or ANY website without reading and understanding the EULA or ToS you could open yourself up to criminal charges if they have their way like in TFA. How could one reasonably obey the law under such a situation? hell I bet my last dollar that there isn't a single person here that isn't guilty of several state and federal laws RIGHT NOW simply because there are so damned many of them, now we are gonna add EULAs and ToS to that list? give me a fucking break!
I'll get hate for saying this but I think Bush was better for one simple reason. Bush was an idiot but he was an HONEST idiot. he never hid what he wanted or covered it in bullshit, he was "the decider' dammit and he was gonna decide...err stuff or something.
Whereas Obama is a bold faced liar and will happily tell you anything you want to hear while cashing the check which he knows makes every word out of his mouth a lie. Just look at the completely bullshit responses he gave to the petitions, it was the most flowery "fuck you, you have no monies LOL!" I have ever seen written in my entire life. Obama takes the worst aspects of Jimmy Carter and Bush and rolls them together to make a truly slimy POTUS He is spineless like Jimmy, he is greedy like Bush, that folks is a BAD combination. At least Bush was clear and honest that he was a greedy asshole with cracks like his "My people" bit when addressing the elite 1%, or as he called them "the haves and have mores". Obama will pretend he gives a fuck while he quietly empties your bank account and offers any law the rich want passed as long as they sign the check.
As for TFA somebody cue up the Ayn Rand criminal quote because it soo fits. Here you have corps paying to basically make the ToS, which they can change at ANY time and for ANY reason, into an actual weapon they can use against those that piss them off, all with the blessings of a corrupt White House. Talk about giving the corps a blank check to fuck anyone that uses their services and pisses them off!
Go to Wikileaks and look it up, I don't want to be doing searches that will end up with stories of child rape while at work. Its a well known American PMC that was and is offering children as bribes to get contracts and that same American PMC is hired by the US gov for contracts. Our response was NOT to sever all ties, NOT to have them arrested but instead to cover it up! So when you are not at work look up "Afghanistan child sex slave" and I'm sure the story will be on the first page.
I'm sorry but that is the actions of a sick and corrupted regime with no moral authority left and YOU sir are sick and corrupted if you support them. if it weren't for Manning we would have never known that 10 year old boys are being bought and sold with American tax dollars and those SAME people were doing the exact same shit in kosovo during the action in the late 90s and again the USA did NOTHING but help them cover up the scandals. totally fucking sick and frankly i don't give a shit WHY Manning chose to blow the lid off the cabal that is our relationship with PMCs I'm damned glad he did it!
I did and in fact I'd say they are pretty damned scary if they hold up. How are you gonna make your browser with a way to tell users a page is loading as opposed to hung without a throbber of some sort? but don't forget friend we have Apple claiming rights to a square and so far the courts have sided with them which means unless you can get the courts to throw out MSFT's patents (which is NOT guaranteed by ANY means) you could see FOSS well and truly fucked. look at the one on file systems, how in the fuck are you gonna make a modern file system that does NOT infringe on that one?
That is why while I say software patents shouldn't be allowed in the first place often you are better off just paying the troll to STFU and go away. if the courts give MSFT precedent by ruling in their favor you are screwed, and if B&N are drug through the courts for a decade or more of legal wrangling then the court fees and lawyers will screw them so bad we'll need a word worse than Pyrrhic victory for the money drain they are gonna suffer. I know guys here think they should always 'fight teh powerz!" but if you look at the costs often you are cutting your own throats.
After all MSFT has enough cash on hand that a decade long legal fight won't cost them shit, hell they have a legal army on payroll anyway so it is the same cost whether they use them or not. How is B&N doing for cash these days?
While that is true two things make me think they don't have a case. 1.-He changed the name so it no longer has squat to do with the company and it is currently in his own name. Are they gonna argue they own his name now? 2.- In connection with the second while he did have the name of the company as a prefix he also had his own name as a suffix. Again this would give the corporation rights to his name, and give him no control over his own identity. what if the guy they give his handle to starts posting shit? if someone does a search it most likely will be connected to the original guy thus negatively impacting him.
The only way I can see the courts fairly resolving this is forcing the guy to send a tweet that has the link to whomever the new phonedog guy is. After all folks weren't just subscribing to get PR crap, they were subscribing because they liked his style. Knowing if they are like most corps they'll replace this guy with some hack that just copypastas PR crap and will run it down the shitter anyway.
So you can't say he was the only braintrust in this, the corp not saying anything about the guy having his name in the title is a pretty forest gump moment too IMHO. To me it just sounds like sour grapes and I wouldn't be surprised if they already tried putting a phonedog hack on Twitter and found he couldn't get enough subscribers to fill a broom closet.
History will show Manning is a Patriot NOT a traitor. when you have a government that finds out one of its contractors is selling 10 year old boys as fuck toys to get contracts, the same contractor who sold 11 year old girls in Kosovo and their ONLY concern is not how fast they can shut those fuckers down and have them locked up, but how they can cover up the stink? Then your government is corrupt to the core and evil, there is no other way to look at it.
I'm only sad that the MSM tripped over themselves to cover up the evil deeds and kiss the ring while labeling Assange and Manning as monsters. if there are any monsters here they are in the US government. Tell friend how do you justify standing by while they were selling children as sex slaves and doing NOTHING to help, in fact aiding in the cover up? do you have no shame, no belief in the things this country once stood for?
Are you HONESTLY trying to argue that cabbies don't get robbed and murdered pretty much constantly in this country? Because i can probably wallpaper this page with links of cabbies getting robbed or killed in just the past year. Cabbies, pizza delivery, and night convenience store clerks frankly should be allowed full body armor and an Uzi for all the attacks those professions suffer!
I'm right there with you on phones and emails, especially anything to do with the net as it seems the magic words to get around the fourth amendment is saying "On the Internet!" these days, but if there is ANY group in this country that deserves to have CC cameras with them 24/7 its the cabbies. Frankly I'm amazed they can even get anyone to take that job on the east coast anymore, i bet more of them get shot there than cops!
Not to mention there is a good reason for the hatred directed at the 1%. What we have in the USA is a system so corrupted by money the ones at the top literally have a "heads I win, tails you lose" situation where it is damned near impossible for them NOT to become ever richer and more powerful.
You have their lobbyists directly writing the tax laws so you get situations like GE that got several billion BACK instead of paying taxes, even while they were offshoring good jobs to India as fast as they could close the plants (we lost 21,000 FACTORIES in just the last decade folks, anybody think that level of gutting is sustainable?) and corps like Google get to pay a pittance compared to profits thanks to the Double dutch and Irish tax scam, aka the Irish whip, you have those at the top able to use Wall street like Las Vegas and then if they lose are able to get the house in the form of the government give them the money (your money) back in the form of "too big to fail", budgets are written with the "help" of those who are getting the money, hell I could go on all day.
The American people say they want an end to the wars and they ignore you, say they don't want kids lives ruined by being thrown in prison for pot and they ignore you, say we don't want to send billions overseas in the form of government handouts when so many of our people are hurting and they ignore you, write petitions spelling out clearly what we want and they ignore you, tell them we want the top 1% to actually pay their fair share instead of getting more tax dodges codified and they ignore you, say we want the money being handed to illegals stopped and our border secured and they ignore you.
Wise men once stood up against taxation without representation and fought and gained a nation for themselves. Well what do you think you have now folks? When even Colbert makes jokes about how you "need to stop smoking wacky tobaccky and give that money to a super packy" so you can bribe your own elected officials just like the corporations do, well what the hell is the difference between us and any third world banana republic? your vote certainly don't mean shit as they simply replace one bribed crook with another, thanks to the ownership of the MSM by only 7 multinationals your protests won't be heard or will be made to look like fools, so what is the difference?
It is THIS that the OWS movement is about although frankly i don't think it will work. i think the only way to fix a truly corrupted system is to replace and when the 1% have gutted this country enough and we are looking at Germany 32 levels of unemployment while the right wing guts every safety net they can we'll be looking at our very own Arab Spring. Well it was nice while it lasted but nothing lasts forever and the elite 1% have taken a big old shit in the punchbowl that is democracy, no point in trying to dip around it, time to throw it out and start again.
While your points are valid, the discussion was on HTPCs NOT office boxes so hardware acceleration is VERY much a point in this case. BTW they do have a completely passive Brazos board on the same site for a whole $20 more after MIR but since we are talking about an HTPC I didn't think a single mini fan was really gonna matter. I can tell you that fan is probably the same size as the one on my EEE and even with only one earbud in and watching HD video honestly I can't hear the thing over ambient sounds in the room, even when I stress the hell out of the chip to see what its max sound level is. for all intents and purposes it is silent as the HDD on an HTPC will be louder than the fan will be.
And even in a business environment, which I have built quite a few ruggedized PCs for places like construction trailers and lumber mills video performance very much DOES matter. After all you have training videos, you have video conferencing these units are also great for running a camera system for security. Also since now even Nvidia is supporting OpenCL I suspect we'll be seeing more and more applications benefit from having decent support for GP/GPU especially since every coder out there that has an ATI card gets the Streams and OpenCL SDK with the latest driver by default. And if you start getting into full desktop chips like the I3 then we'd have to start including the AMD desktop chips like the Athlon X4 which gives incredible bang for the buck as well.
But since we are talking about HTPCs in the Atom price range I stand by my statement, that getting a crappy in order CPU like Atom simply makes no sense when literally for a couple of bucks more one can get performance often greater than Atom+ION with better specs and higher RAM limits. One thing I've learned over the years is there is no such thing as too much RAM, especially when its cheap. To max out my EEE I paid a whole $33 after $10 MIR and the more I use it the faster the unit becomes as Superfetch begins to load my most used programs directly into RAM. Why limit yourself to less RAM and worse performance when economically it just doesn't make sense? it would be like saying "No I don't want that ION board even if its the same price, gimme that 945G board instead, thanks."
Oh I have NO problem with FOSS benchmarks, its one of the few places where you can be sure to get a rigging free test. Not real big on the A-Series though, I find that the Deneb and Thuban chips are a better deal ATM and in many tests Deneb and Thuban stomp Bulldozer. it looks like Bulldozer is gonna be another Phenom I, where it took them a generation to get the bugs out and crank up the clocks like they did with Phenom II.
But I'd say the E series is another story altogether. Its priced the same as Atom but frankly stomps it and gets scores usually above Atom+ION which is a more expensive option. its great for netbooks and all in ones, I've even built a couple of HTPCs with it and it works great in that role, quiet as a churchmouse while having no trouble with 1080p. I liked what I saw enough i put my own money where my mouth was and sold my athlon II Wind for a EEE with an E-350 and i just love the thing. its light, gets great battery life, never gets hot, and just about every video format under the sun is accelerated with DXVA.
So I say stay away from the new socket for now, go with a Deneb or Thuban and by the time that is long in the tooth and you are ready to upgrade the chips after Piledriver will be out and they'll have any performance problems licked. Again I intend to put my money where my mouth is and after the holidays upgrade from Deneb quad to thuban. Do I need it? Not really but I WANTS IT precious, I WANTS IT!
Or you could you, just a thought I'm throwing it out there, actually give them assistance BEFORE they get sick as dogs then they wouldn't cost a tenth as much as they do? how about that?
My mom worked her whole life as an RN and I don't know how many times she told me about some poor person getting a total valve replacement because they had a bad tooth and the infection had spread to the heart and destroyed the valves. Now which do YOU think is less expensive, paying to pull a tooth or a quadruple valve replacement? Or times when they wouldn't give a dime to have a relative take care of someone but WOULD pay to have home health drive out there, even if the relative was completely qualified to do the job at hand. Again which do YOU think was the least expensive option?
The problem with health care in the USA is NOT the services but the "penny saved pound foolish" attitude that infects it like a cancer. Little things that would cost a pittance are disallowed while insanely expensive things are routine. Its not for the doctors, frankly it frustrates the hell out of them, its just bean counter Dilbert PHB bullshit.
As for TFA, why not a nice fat tablet or eReader? Why do you want to go through all the work when the new eReaders have frankly insane font sizes on them and one can get a nice 10 or 12 inch droid based for pretty cheap. nearly all have an easy to use magnify option, it'll let him get all the news he wants from the web, not to mention huge amounts of books from Amazon or even free from Gutenberg project.
When it doubt, go for the simplest route. It would be easy for him to handle, give him the WWW at his fingertips, you can load it with family photos, books, even movies, seems like a perfect solution to the problem to me.
He may be talking about the weird thing I have recently encountered, where an HDMI outputs a full 1080p to the TV but for some damned reason any dialog boxes 'won't fit" on the screen. You end up with the box (especially installers) with the buttons on the bottom unable to be reached, its almost like the old days when you would see a monitor set to some crazy low resolution like 640x480 and the OS just wouldn't fit on the screen.
If anybody has run into this and knows a fix I'd be most grateful. the customer has a bog standard HD4830 with DVI and VGA out. I've tried overscan but no dice. the picture looks fine, Win 7 says its 1080p, but all installers simply won't fit on the screen. Have to say its a head scratcher and am seriously thinking of picking up a DVI to HDMI adapter just to see if it would help because i'm stumped. It is bad enough he has moved the taskbar onto the right side of the screen just to get more room for dialog boxes.
Haven't tried those USB to PS2 adapters have you? they suck, they really really REALLY suck. I have yet to find one that will actually work on both the keyboard and mouse, not for an older B&W G3 Mac I have sitting in the closet because my KVM is PS2, nor for those damned Dell cheapos that cross my desk that have USB only. Its gotten to the point I just hook the VGA to the KVM and keep a USB keyboard and mouse spare handy for dealing with the Dells.
BTW OT but if anybody has managed to get a G3 to work with a USB adapter make and model would be appreciated. it has the last version of OSX for the G3 (Jaguar? Panther? One of those) and I'd love to play with it just for the PPC but i don't have the room at the apt for another monitor right now.
Just curious, but which brand did you use? I've had pretty good luck with the ATI USB cards myself and my customers like the fact they can leave their cable screwed in and just plug the RCA breakout box into the side when they want to convert their family DVDs or older camcorder vids.I'm always looking for models that work well in WMC though so if you know the make/model I'd be grateful.
Oh and if she hasn't gotten a good remote or is just using a wireless keyboard mouse combo you might want to look into the Lenovo mini keyboard remote. It has a trackball and trigger buttons and if she is even halfway decent at texting the keyboard is just the perfect size for two handed texting as well as one handed remote control. I've picked up several for customers and they just love the thing.
Uhhh...dude? Why would you go with Atom when you can have a Brazos board for the same price and have a BETTER CPU and GPU? i've have built a few brazos HTPCs as well as sold Brazos netbooks and all in ones (I was so impressed with the netbooks I sold my MSI Wind and got a EEE Brazos for myself) and frankly Brazos stomps the living shit out of Atom.
With atom you are limited to 2Gb whereas Brazos will take 8Gb (great for video buffering BTW, watching HD video with 8Gb on my netbook is sweet!) and Intel still hasn't made a decent GPU for Atom and cut their noses off to spite their face by cutting out nvidia from making new ION whereas with Brazos you have a Radeon HD6250 built in that accelerates ALL the major formats including DivX and flash as well as H.26x, max wattage is only 18w for the dual core 1.6GHz so no real need for fans and the Brazos is an out of order CPU instead of the crappy in order you get with Atom.
So if you were building an HTPC while saddle it with a craptastic Atom when you can get a nice brazos board for $80 after rebate and it even comes with a PCIe X16 in case you want more performance later or want to go hybrid crossfire.
I have to agree on Via though, never have seen their drivers be anything but flaky and their boards iffy. they just don't seem to be well engineered and tend to screw up more, at least from what I've seen.
Well all I can give is my little anecdote, but I have a friend that develops models and presentations for the NG wildcatters in Northwest AR and the map he showed me made me think Frakking? not such a good idea. He laid out a map on the screen of every place the bunch he had been working for was frakking then he laid over it a map from the local college's seismographic monitoring stations and what they had picked up and every single site they frakked had 2.8 or better earthquakes within 6 months of the start of frakking. And the area they were frakking is solid bedrock and shale, it just doesn't get earthquakes. he showed me the recorded data of that area going back to 1947 (when the college first started monitoring and collecting data) and they averaged maybe one a decade, now it is closer to one a month!
Frankly if the wildcatters elsewhere are like the ones here We, the People will get stuck cleaning up their messes anyway as they have a nice scam going. they have a shell corp set up which they lease ALL the assets from, from mineral rights to drilling equipment, right down to the office furniture. They hit a couple of dry wells or make a mess and the bills start piling up? They just burn the original corp by filing bankruptcy and make a new corp to lease the equipment from. I've already seen a couple pull that scam locally and skip town owing quite a large sum of money.
So as usual in the Corporate States of Amerika whether it turns out to be frakking or not it doesn't matter, as i'm sure by the time they get done we'll have several nice ecological messes that we the taxpayer gets to pick up the tab for while they cash out and move on to the next scam.
If that is boring I'd hate to see the interesting!
Here is how easy it is to setup an an HTPC in Windows 7 HP. Step 1.-Install Win 7 HP, the worst question it'll ask you is whether you are at home or at work, not a problem. Step 2.-(Optional) You can install the graphics drivers if you wish to be fiddly or tweak, otherwise the ones from Windows Update work just fine, as do the drivers for everything else. Step 3.- Fire up Windows Media Center, enable Internet TV (Optional) otherwise just answer a couple of questions and enjoy your new HTPC. Again if you want to be fiddly or tweak you can install the drivers for your capture card but if its by a major manufacturer like ATI or Hauppgauge WU probably has already installed it.
And that's it, nothing else to do except kick back and watch your new HTPC. Hell your grandma could set up an HTPC in win 7 and I should know, my dad still hasn't figured out how to do more than talk on his smartphone and even HE set up Win 7 by himself. All I had to do is show him where to get Firefox, it even told him he needed an AV on first run and gave him a page with free and pay AV software to choose from.
The whole client server design of Myth TV works great if that is how you are gonna actually run your HTPC, with a server in the closet and clients on the sets, but who does that? It also, at least when i tried it, tended to break when you did the 6 month upgrade which then wasted lots of time trying to get it back up on its feet. I haven't seen Windows break on update since XP SP2.
MythTV is fine if your time is free and you have no problem wasting a weekend every 6 months getting it back up again, but most folks want their HTPC to behave like a glorified VCR, and WMC works perfectly for that, its all "push button and you're done" simple. The only thing I think they got wrong was the price, it should be $50 IMHO for Win 7 HP, but other than that you can't get easier.
Try the new AMD Brazos chips, I've built a few using Brazos board and they make really nice low power HTPCs. The only thing it won't excel at is transcoding but if you are actually transcoding on an HTPC you shouldn't be using the mini boards as you'll need a larger case to deal with the heat.
Because thanks to Intel rigging their compiler, which they do to this very day, you can't just benchmark because without knowing what compiler the benchmark software was compiled upon the benchmark is useless? I mean Nvidia kicked ass on Q3 with the FX series until you changed the exe to Quack.exe and then whoops! It turned out to be a scam. Same thing here as Intel runs any CPU that gives a CPU-ID of Authentic AMD a pile of shit code while the Intel chip gets the latest SSE optimization, not exactly a fair test now is it?
Oh please! if it was MSFT the hitmen would have spammed the place with bullets but not hit a damned thing. You think they can train their hitmen any better than they plan their product roadmap?
Now if it were Apple it would have been incredibly expensive, but with style and flair, such as taking him up in a Lear Jet and dressing him in a really nice suit and then dropping him onto the point at the top of the Empire State building, while having a note in his pocket written by an academy award winning screenwriter.
And if it were Linux they would have received plans for an elaborate machine gun (released under GPL V2 of course!) and a pile of pig iron and told to "Make it yourself, RTFM noob, its easy!".
Oh please! you think linux is a magical woobie that scares away the hackers? Did you forget kernel.org got hacked not too long ago? or the KDElook malware, the Q3 malware that was hosted for SIX MONTHS on a major repo for anybody caught it, that nasty Debian bug a year and a half ago, hell I could go on all day.
And Antivirus DOES work if you actually have a decent one like Avast or Comodo. I honestly haven't seen a bug in ANY of my returning customers that they didn't install on purpose, in fact the only bug I've seen in the past 2 years from a machine where I had set it up and installed AV was one where a braintrust UNINSTALLED THE AV because it wouldn't let him install "The new limewire" which you guessed it was just a pile of malware wrapped around a gnucleus client.
As for APK's HOSTS file? If it works for him I say more power to him. i run my own recursive DNS but then again I get my electricity as part of the rent and have tons of spare boxes. If he wants to take the time to update the HOSTS file and it works for him? More power to the guy I say. I'd rather have my own DNS tied into several of the root servers so if any one goes down i can still get a connection and that way I have my most used sites stored in my own DNS, but that's just me.
But to act like Linux is some instant security blankie is just "magical thinking" and we have seen that fail time after time AFTER time. Hell I bet even APK could probably post a dozen links of Linux hacks just by spending 3 minutes with Google, i know i could.
Congrats Mikey, you've managed to shit out 400 accounts! Hell even twitter had the balls to back up his batshit with a single account, how does it feel to be lower than Twitter?
Then explain cock smoker, wetback, or any of the other shock words used here? Apparently you are too busy being PC to even understand what a troll is or how they work, or do you think Goatse is an ad for getting rectal exams? The WHOLE POINT of using shock words and shock words is...surprise surprise...to make PC dumbasses like yourself have a heart attack and thus feed the troll.
Now when the ones I've heard using that word for anything except shock value has been hard working black folks who are frankly fucking disgusted at shit like this I HONESTLY don't think the problem is a word, do you? I'd say its a culture that lets shifty, lazy, blame everyone else while holding their hand out bullshit to thrive is the problem, and I know plenty of hard working black folks that agree with me.
But if you wanna get rid of that word you are gonna have to get rid of those like in that video, good luck with that. be sure to read the comments by the black folks, you'll see quite a few of them using words like coon that frankly i hadn't heard since the 70s and i'm from the deep south.
The only idiot here is you Mikey "400 accounts and counting" dipshit, if you honestly don't know the difference between a sandbox and a firewall. The WHOLE POINT of a sandbox is to restrict the entire application to a pre approved reduced permission set, such as the sandboxing on Chromium or the Windows "low rights mode' for browsers like Chromium and IE, whereas a firewall is only for restricting access to the Internet based on either pre approved rules or heuristics.
So here is a thought Mikey, instead of working on getting your magical 1000th account because you can't quit being a retard, why don't you try actually reading up on the subjects you are gonna post about so you won't be retarded in the first place? how about that?
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Sure it does, look at it this way: You are attacker Andy and you know Bob runs an exit node. Now you don't like Bob, you think he's a douche. so you use the trick outlined in TFA to route a BUNCH of nasty activity through Bob's node, so that the government takes notice. Sure EVENTUALLY Bob will be cleared, but how long will he be in PMITA prison before that day comes?
Before anybody says that can't happen don't forget a guy in FLA basically lost 2 years of his life and over $300,000 in legal fees because the company issued laptop had a bug that scum were using to download CP through his connection.
So yeah, this is a serious WTF moment and until they both fix it AND ban previous clients so that this trick can't be used you'd have to be nuts to run an exit node.
I remember reading once (sorry at work so I can't spend time Googling) that if one were to buy a brand new PC and simply install the most commonly used programs that going through the EULAs on JUST those programs and the most commonly installed would take around 3 weeks, more if one were to actually hire a lawyer to translate the terms into English, and that is if you did NOTHING but read EULAs 8 hours a day. Now add in the ToS for every website you visit (as failing to do so could land you in PMITA prison) and you are looking at probably a year of more, plus the expense of hiring a lawyer that can make heads or tails of the complex legalese.
Ya know, as much as i thought Ayn Rand was batshit her often used criminal quote is starting to look highly prophetic. I mean how in the hell is anybody that has a job other than reading ToS supposed to be able to pull this miracle off? remember if you use ANY software or ANY website without reading and understanding the EULA or ToS you could open yourself up to criminal charges if they have their way like in TFA. How could one reasonably obey the law under such a situation? hell I bet my last dollar that there isn't a single person here that isn't guilty of several state and federal laws RIGHT NOW simply because there are so damned many of them, now we are gonna add EULAs and ToS to that list? give me a fucking break!
I'll get hate for saying this but I think Bush was better for one simple reason. Bush was an idiot but he was an HONEST idiot. he never hid what he wanted or covered it in bullshit, he was "the decider' dammit and he was gonna decide...err stuff or something.
Whereas Obama is a bold faced liar and will happily tell you anything you want to hear while cashing the check which he knows makes every word out of his mouth a lie. Just look at the completely bullshit responses he gave to the petitions, it was the most flowery "fuck you, you have no monies LOL!" I have ever seen written in my entire life. Obama takes the worst aspects of Jimmy Carter and Bush and rolls them together to make a truly slimy POTUS He is spineless like Jimmy, he is greedy like Bush, that folks is a BAD combination. At least Bush was clear and honest that he was a greedy asshole with cracks like his "My people" bit when addressing the elite 1%, or as he called them "the haves and have mores". Obama will pretend he gives a fuck while he quietly empties your bank account and offers any law the rich want passed as long as they sign the check.
As for TFA somebody cue up the Ayn Rand criminal quote because it soo fits. Here you have corps paying to basically make the ToS, which they can change at ANY time and for ANY reason, into an actual weapon they can use against those that piss them off, all with the blessings of a corrupt White House. Talk about giving the corps a blank check to fuck anyone that uses their services and pisses them off!
Go to Wikileaks and look it up, I don't want to be doing searches that will end up with stories of child rape while at work. Its a well known American PMC that was and is offering children as bribes to get contracts and that same American PMC is hired by the US gov for contracts. Our response was NOT to sever all ties, NOT to have them arrested but instead to cover it up! So when you are not at work look up "Afghanistan child sex slave" and I'm sure the story will be on the first page.
I'm sorry but that is the actions of a sick and corrupted regime with no moral authority left and YOU sir are sick and corrupted if you support them. if it weren't for Manning we would have never known that 10 year old boys are being bought and sold with American tax dollars and those SAME people were doing the exact same shit in kosovo during the action in the late 90s and again the USA did NOTHING but help them cover up the scandals. totally fucking sick and frankly i don't give a shit WHY Manning chose to blow the lid off the cabal that is our relationship with PMCs I'm damned glad he did it!
I did and in fact I'd say they are pretty damned scary if they hold up. How are you gonna make your browser with a way to tell users a page is loading as opposed to hung without a throbber of some sort? but don't forget friend we have Apple claiming rights to a square and so far the courts have sided with them which means unless you can get the courts to throw out MSFT's patents (which is NOT guaranteed by ANY means) you could see FOSS well and truly fucked. look at the one on file systems, how in the fuck are you gonna make a modern file system that does NOT infringe on that one?
That is why while I say software patents shouldn't be allowed in the first place often you are better off just paying the troll to STFU and go away. if the courts give MSFT precedent by ruling in their favor you are screwed, and if B&N are drug through the courts for a decade or more of legal wrangling then the court fees and lawyers will screw them so bad we'll need a word worse than Pyrrhic victory for the money drain they are gonna suffer. I know guys here think they should always 'fight teh powerz!" but if you look at the costs often you are cutting your own throats.
After all MSFT has enough cash on hand that a decade long legal fight won't cost them shit, hell they have a legal army on payroll anyway so it is the same cost whether they use them or not. How is B&N doing for cash these days?
While that is true two things make me think they don't have a case. 1.-He changed the name so it no longer has squat to do with the company and it is currently in his own name. Are they gonna argue they own his name now? 2.- In connection with the second while he did have the name of the company as a prefix he also had his own name as a suffix. Again this would give the corporation rights to his name, and give him no control over his own identity. what if the guy they give his handle to starts posting shit? if someone does a search it most likely will be connected to the original guy thus negatively impacting him.
The only way I can see the courts fairly resolving this is forcing the guy to send a tweet that has the link to whomever the new phonedog guy is. After all folks weren't just subscribing to get PR crap, they were subscribing because they liked his style. Knowing if they are like most corps they'll replace this guy with some hack that just copypastas PR crap and will run it down the shitter anyway.
So you can't say he was the only braintrust in this, the corp not saying anything about the guy having his name in the title is a pretty forest gump moment too IMHO. To me it just sounds like sour grapes and I wouldn't be surprised if they already tried putting a phonedog hack on Twitter and found he couldn't get enough subscribers to fill a broom closet.
History will show Manning is a Patriot NOT a traitor. when you have a government that finds out one of its contractors is selling 10 year old boys as fuck toys to get contracts, the same contractor who sold 11 year old girls in Kosovo and their ONLY concern is not how fast they can shut those fuckers down and have them locked up, but how they can cover up the stink? Then your government is corrupt to the core and evil, there is no other way to look at it.
I'm only sad that the MSM tripped over themselves to cover up the evil deeds and kiss the ring while labeling Assange and Manning as monsters. if there are any monsters here they are in the US government. Tell friend how do you justify standing by while they were selling children as sex slaves and doing NOTHING to help, in fact aiding in the cover up? do you have no shame, no belief in the things this country once stood for?
Are you HONESTLY trying to argue that cabbies don't get robbed and murdered pretty much constantly in this country? Because i can probably wallpaper this page with links of cabbies getting robbed or killed in just the past year. Cabbies, pizza delivery, and night convenience store clerks frankly should be allowed full body armor and an Uzi for all the attacks those professions suffer!
I'm right there with you on phones and emails, especially anything to do with the net as it seems the magic words to get around the fourth amendment is saying "On the Internet!" these days, but if there is ANY group in this country that deserves to have CC cameras with them 24/7 its the cabbies. Frankly I'm amazed they can even get anyone to take that job on the east coast anymore, i bet more of them get shot there than cops!
Not to mention there is a good reason for the hatred directed at the 1%. What we have in the USA is a system so corrupted by money the ones at the top literally have a "heads I win, tails you lose" situation where it is damned near impossible for them NOT to become ever richer and more powerful.
You have their lobbyists directly writing the tax laws so you get situations like GE that got several billion BACK instead of paying taxes, even while they were offshoring good jobs to India as fast as they could close the plants (we lost 21,000 FACTORIES in just the last decade folks, anybody think that level of gutting is sustainable?) and corps like Google get to pay a pittance compared to profits thanks to the Double dutch and Irish tax scam, aka the Irish whip, you have those at the top able to use Wall street like Las Vegas and then if they lose are able to get the house in the form of the government give them the money (your money) back in the form of "too big to fail", budgets are written with the "help" of those who are getting the money, hell I could go on all day.
The American people say they want an end to the wars and they ignore you, say they don't want kids lives ruined by being thrown in prison for pot and they ignore you, say we don't want to send billions overseas in the form of government handouts when so many of our people are hurting and they ignore you, write petitions spelling out clearly what we want and they ignore you, tell them we want the top 1% to actually pay their fair share instead of getting more tax dodges codified and they ignore you, say we want the money being handed to illegals stopped and our border secured and they ignore you.
Wise men once stood up against taxation without representation and fought and gained a nation for themselves. Well what do you think you have now folks? When even Colbert makes jokes about how you "need to stop smoking wacky tobaccky and give that money to a super packy" so you can bribe your own elected officials just like the corporations do, well what the hell is the difference between us and any third world banana republic? your vote certainly don't mean shit as they simply replace one bribed crook with another, thanks to the ownership of the MSM by only 7 multinationals your protests won't be heard or will be made to look like fools, so what is the difference?
It is THIS that the OWS movement is about although frankly i don't think it will work. i think the only way to fix a truly corrupted system is to replace and when the 1% have gutted this country enough and we are looking at Germany 32 levels of unemployment while the right wing guts every safety net they can we'll be looking at our very own Arab Spring. Well it was nice while it lasted but nothing lasts forever and the elite 1% have taken a big old shit in the punchbowl that is democracy, no point in trying to dip around it, time to throw it out and start again.
While your points are valid, the discussion was on HTPCs NOT office boxes so hardware acceleration is VERY much a point in this case. BTW they do have a completely passive Brazos board on the same site for a whole $20 more after MIR but since we are talking about an HTPC I didn't think a single mini fan was really gonna matter. I can tell you that fan is probably the same size as the one on my EEE and even with only one earbud in and watching HD video honestly I can't hear the thing over ambient sounds in the room, even when I stress the hell out of the chip to see what its max sound level is. for all intents and purposes it is silent as the HDD on an HTPC will be louder than the fan will be.
And even in a business environment, which I have built quite a few ruggedized PCs for places like construction trailers and lumber mills video performance very much DOES matter. After all you have training videos, you have video conferencing these units are also great for running a camera system for security. Also since now even Nvidia is supporting OpenCL I suspect we'll be seeing more and more applications benefit from having decent support for GP/GPU especially since every coder out there that has an ATI card gets the Streams and OpenCL SDK with the latest driver by default. And if you start getting into full desktop chips like the I3 then we'd have to start including the AMD desktop chips like the Athlon X4 which gives incredible bang for the buck as well.
But since we are talking about HTPCs in the Atom price range I stand by my statement, that getting a crappy in order CPU like Atom simply makes no sense when literally for a couple of bucks more one can get performance often greater than Atom+ION with better specs and higher RAM limits. One thing I've learned over the years is there is no such thing as too much RAM, especially when its cheap. To max out my EEE I paid a whole $33 after $10 MIR and the more I use it the faster the unit becomes as Superfetch begins to load my most used programs directly into RAM. Why limit yourself to less RAM and worse performance when economically it just doesn't make sense? it would be like saying "No I don't want that ION board even if its the same price, gimme that 945G board instead, thanks."
Oh I have NO problem with FOSS benchmarks, its one of the few places where you can be sure to get a rigging free test. Not real big on the A-Series though, I find that the Deneb and Thuban chips are a better deal ATM and in many tests Deneb and Thuban stomp Bulldozer. it looks like Bulldozer is gonna be another Phenom I, where it took them a generation to get the bugs out and crank up the clocks like they did with Phenom II.
But I'd say the E series is another story altogether. Its priced the same as Atom but frankly stomps it and gets scores usually above Atom+ION which is a more expensive option. its great for netbooks and all in ones, I've even built a couple of HTPCs with it and it works great in that role, quiet as a churchmouse while having no trouble with 1080p. I liked what I saw enough i put my own money where my mouth was and sold my athlon II Wind for a EEE with an E-350 and i just love the thing. its light, gets great battery life, never gets hot, and just about every video format under the sun is accelerated with DXVA.
So I say stay away from the new socket for now, go with a Deneb or Thuban and by the time that is long in the tooth and you are ready to upgrade the chips after Piledriver will be out and they'll have any performance problems licked. Again I intend to put my money where my mouth is and after the holidays upgrade from Deneb quad to thuban. Do I need it? Not really but I WANTS IT precious, I WANTS IT!
Or you could you, just a thought I'm throwing it out there, actually give them assistance BEFORE they get sick as dogs then they wouldn't cost a tenth as much as they do? how about that?
My mom worked her whole life as an RN and I don't know how many times she told me about some poor person getting a total valve replacement because they had a bad tooth and the infection had spread to the heart and destroyed the valves. Now which do YOU think is less expensive, paying to pull a tooth or a quadruple valve replacement? Or times when they wouldn't give a dime to have a relative take care of someone but WOULD pay to have home health drive out there, even if the relative was completely qualified to do the job at hand. Again which do YOU think was the least expensive option?
The problem with health care in the USA is NOT the services but the "penny saved pound foolish" attitude that infects it like a cancer. Little things that would cost a pittance are disallowed while insanely expensive things are routine. Its not for the doctors, frankly it frustrates the hell out of them, its just bean counter Dilbert PHB bullshit.
As for TFA, why not a nice fat tablet or eReader? Why do you want to go through all the work when the new eReaders have frankly insane font sizes on them and one can get a nice 10 or 12 inch droid based for pretty cheap. nearly all have an easy to use magnify option, it'll let him get all the news he wants from the web, not to mention huge amounts of books from Amazon or even free from Gutenberg project.
When it doubt, go for the simplest route. It would be easy for him to handle, give him the WWW at his fingertips, you can load it with family photos, books, even movies, seems like a perfect solution to the problem to me.
He may be talking about the weird thing I have recently encountered, where an HDMI outputs a full 1080p to the TV but for some damned reason any dialog boxes 'won't fit" on the screen. You end up with the box (especially installers) with the buttons on the bottom unable to be reached, its almost like the old days when you would see a monitor set to some crazy low resolution like 640x480 and the OS just wouldn't fit on the screen.
If anybody has run into this and knows a fix I'd be most grateful. the customer has a bog standard HD4830 with DVI and VGA out. I've tried overscan but no dice. the picture looks fine, Win 7 says its 1080p, but all installers simply won't fit on the screen. Have to say its a head scratcher and am seriously thinking of picking up a DVI to HDMI adapter just to see if it would help because i'm stumped. It is bad enough he has moved the taskbar onto the right side of the screen just to get more room for dialog boxes.
Haven't tried those USB to PS2 adapters have you? they suck, they really really REALLY suck. I have yet to find one that will actually work on both the keyboard and mouse, not for an older B&W G3 Mac I have sitting in the closet because my KVM is PS2, nor for those damned Dell cheapos that cross my desk that have USB only. Its gotten to the point I just hook the VGA to the KVM and keep a USB keyboard and mouse spare handy for dealing with the Dells.
BTW OT but if anybody has managed to get a G3 to work with a USB adapter make and model would be appreciated. it has the last version of OSX for the G3 (Jaguar? Panther? One of those) and I'd love to play with it just for the PPC but i don't have the room at the apt for another monitor right now.
Just curious, but which brand did you use? I've had pretty good luck with the ATI USB cards myself and my customers like the fact they can leave their cable screwed in and just plug the RCA breakout box into the side when they want to convert their family DVDs or older camcorder vids.I'm always looking for models that work well in WMC though so if you know the make/model I'd be grateful.
Oh and if she hasn't gotten a good remote or is just using a wireless keyboard mouse combo you might want to look into the Lenovo mini keyboard remote. It has a trackball and trigger buttons and if she is even halfway decent at texting the keyboard is just the perfect size for two handed texting as well as one handed remote control. I've picked up several for customers and they just love the thing.
Uhhh...dude? Why would you go with Atom when you can have a Brazos board for the same price and have a BETTER CPU and GPU? i've have built a few brazos HTPCs as well as sold Brazos netbooks and all in ones (I was so impressed with the netbooks I sold my MSI Wind and got a EEE Brazos for myself) and frankly Brazos stomps the living shit out of Atom.
With atom you are limited to 2Gb whereas Brazos will take 8Gb (great for video buffering BTW, watching HD video with 8Gb on my netbook is sweet!) and Intel still hasn't made a decent GPU for Atom and cut their noses off to spite their face by cutting out nvidia from making new ION whereas with Brazos you have a Radeon HD6250 built in that accelerates ALL the major formats including DivX and flash as well as H.26x, max wattage is only 18w for the dual core 1.6GHz so no real need for fans and the Brazos is an out of order CPU instead of the crappy in order you get with Atom.
So if you were building an HTPC while saddle it with a craptastic Atom when you can get a nice brazos board for $80 after rebate and it even comes with a PCIe X16 in case you want more performance later or want to go hybrid crossfire.
I have to agree on Via though, never have seen their drivers be anything but flaky and their boards iffy. they just don't seem to be well engineered and tend to screw up more, at least from what I've seen.
Well all I can give is my little anecdote, but I have a friend that develops models and presentations for the NG wildcatters in Northwest AR and the map he showed me made me think Frakking? not such a good idea. He laid out a map on the screen of every place the bunch he had been working for was frakking then he laid over it a map from the local college's seismographic monitoring stations and what they had picked up and every single site they frakked had 2.8 or better earthquakes within 6 months of the start of frakking. And the area they were frakking is solid bedrock and shale, it just doesn't get earthquakes. he showed me the recorded data of that area going back to 1947 (when the college first started monitoring and collecting data) and they averaged maybe one a decade, now it is closer to one a month!
Frankly if the wildcatters elsewhere are like the ones here We, the People will get stuck cleaning up their messes anyway as they have a nice scam going. they have a shell corp set up which they lease ALL the assets from, from mineral rights to drilling equipment, right down to the office furniture. They hit a couple of dry wells or make a mess and the bills start piling up? They just burn the original corp by filing bankruptcy and make a new corp to lease the equipment from. I've already seen a couple pull that scam locally and skip town owing quite a large sum of money.
So as usual in the Corporate States of Amerika whether it turns out to be frakking or not it doesn't matter, as i'm sure by the time they get done we'll have several nice ecological messes that we the taxpayer gets to pick up the tab for while they cash out and move on to the next scam.
If that is boring I'd hate to see the interesting!
Here is how easy it is to setup an an HTPC in Windows 7 HP. Step 1.-Install Win 7 HP, the worst question it'll ask you is whether you are at home or at work, not a problem. Step 2.-(Optional) You can install the graphics drivers if you wish to be fiddly or tweak, otherwise the ones from Windows Update work just fine, as do the drivers for everything else. Step 3.- Fire up Windows Media Center, enable Internet TV (Optional) otherwise just answer a couple of questions and enjoy your new HTPC. Again if you want to be fiddly or tweak you can install the drivers for your capture card but if its by a major manufacturer like ATI or Hauppgauge WU probably has already installed it.
And that's it, nothing else to do except kick back and watch your new HTPC. Hell your grandma could set up an HTPC in win 7 and I should know, my dad still hasn't figured out how to do more than talk on his smartphone and even HE set up Win 7 by himself. All I had to do is show him where to get Firefox, it even told him he needed an AV on first run and gave him a page with free and pay AV software to choose from.
The whole client server design of Myth TV works great if that is how you are gonna actually run your HTPC, with a server in the closet and clients on the sets, but who does that? It also, at least when i tried it, tended to break when you did the 6 month upgrade which then wasted lots of time trying to get it back up on its feet. I haven't seen Windows break on update since XP SP2.
MythTV is fine if your time is free and you have no problem wasting a weekend every 6 months getting it back up again, but most folks want their HTPC to behave like a glorified VCR, and WMC works perfectly for that, its all "push button and you're done" simple. The only thing I think they got wrong was the price, it should be $50 IMHO for Win 7 HP, but other than that you can't get easier.
Try the new AMD Brazos chips, I've built a few using Brazos board and they make really nice low power HTPCs. The only thing it won't excel at is transcoding but if you are actually transcoding on an HTPC you shouldn't be using the mini boards as you'll need a larger case to deal with the heat.
Because thanks to Intel rigging their compiler, which they do to this very day, you can't just benchmark because without knowing what compiler the benchmark software was compiled upon the benchmark is useless? I mean Nvidia kicked ass on Q3 with the FX series until you changed the exe to Quack.exe and then whoops! It turned out to be a scam. Same thing here as Intel runs any CPU that gives a CPU-ID of Authentic AMD a pile of shit code while the Intel chip gets the latest SSE optimization, not exactly a fair test now is it?
Oh please! if it was MSFT the hitmen would have spammed the place with bullets but not hit a damned thing. You think they can train their hitmen any better than they plan their product roadmap?
Now if it were Apple it would have been incredibly expensive, but with style and flair, such as taking him up in a Lear Jet and dressing him in a really nice suit and then dropping him onto the point at the top of the Empire State building, while having a note in his pocket written by an academy award winning screenwriter.
And if it were Linux they would have received plans for an elaborate machine gun (released under GPL V2 of course!) and a pile of pig iron and told to "Make it yourself, RTFM noob, its easy!".
Oh please! you think linux is a magical woobie that scares away the hackers? Did you forget kernel.org got hacked not too long ago? or the KDElook malware, the Q3 malware that was hosted for SIX MONTHS on a major repo for anybody caught it, that nasty Debian bug a year and a half ago, hell I could go on all day.
And Antivirus DOES work if you actually have a decent one like Avast or Comodo. I honestly haven't seen a bug in ANY of my returning customers that they didn't install on purpose, in fact the only bug I've seen in the past 2 years from a machine where I had set it up and installed AV was one where a braintrust UNINSTALLED THE AV because it wouldn't let him install "The new limewire" which you guessed it was just a pile of malware wrapped around a gnucleus client.
As for APK's HOSTS file? If it works for him I say more power to him. i run my own recursive DNS but then again I get my electricity as part of the rent and have tons of spare boxes. If he wants to take the time to update the HOSTS file and it works for him? More power to the guy I say. I'd rather have my own DNS tied into several of the root servers so if any one goes down i can still get a connection and that way I have my most used sites stored in my own DNS, but that's just me.
But to act like Linux is some instant security blankie is just "magical thinking" and we have seen that fail time after time AFTER time. Hell I bet even APK could probably post a dozen links of Linux hacks just by spending 3 minutes with Google, i know i could.
Clear and concise enough for you?
Congrats Mikey, you've managed to shit out 400 accounts! Hell even twitter had the balls to back up his batshit with a single account, how does it feel to be lower than Twitter?
Then explain cock smoker, wetback, or any of the other shock words used here? Apparently you are too busy being PC to even understand what a troll is or how they work, or do you think Goatse is an ad for getting rectal exams? The WHOLE POINT of using shock words and shock words is...surprise surprise...to make PC dumbasses like yourself have a heart attack and thus feed the troll.
Now when the ones I've heard using that word for anything except shock value has been hard working black folks who are frankly fucking disgusted at shit like this I HONESTLY don't think the problem is a word, do you? I'd say its a culture that lets shifty, lazy, blame everyone else while holding their hand out bullshit to thrive is the problem, and I know plenty of hard working black folks that agree with me.
But if you wanna get rid of that word you are gonna have to get rid of those like in that video, good luck with that. be sure to read the comments by the black folks, you'll see quite a few of them using words like coon that frankly i hadn't heard since the 70s and i'm from the deep south.
The only idiot here is you Mikey "400 accounts and counting" dipshit, if you honestly don't know the difference between a sandbox and a firewall. The WHOLE POINT of a sandbox is to restrict the entire application to a pre approved reduced permission set, such as the sandboxing on Chromium or the Windows "low rights mode' for browsers like Chromium and IE, whereas a firewall is only for restricting access to the Internet based on either pre approved rules or heuristics.
So here is a thought Mikey, instead of working on getting your magical 1000th account because you can't quit being a retard, why don't you try actually reading up on the subjects you are gonna post about so you won't be retarded in the first place? how about that?