Seeing how this law is coming from a state where they tried to pass laws allowing kids to bring guns to school as long as they tell their principal, I am not suprised by their lack of logic.
Re:Just tested a DivX 6 file on my DVP642
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DivX 6.0 is Out
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Hopefully there will be pressure on Phillips to release a new version of the firmware to play DivX 6.
As a student employee at my university I was amazed at how little security there is on personal information. Sure the data is secure when the admissions department has it but once you start taking classes you are added into countless access databases where most of your information is stored in plain text form and usually not password protected. If someone were to type a wrong email when sending the database as an attachment or if someone's spouse used their laptop they would have access to thousands upon thousands of records. On my second day here I was emailed a database with somewhere around 50,000 entries. Scary.
Its unfortunate students aren't warned about the way their data is stored either. When I tell people they get mad at the university (like good college kids should). You'd think the government would start to crack down on the way data is handled in universites. I heard they are busy with a war or something.
You would think that internet cam recordings, vcd's etc will start to dissapear. This reminds me of how hdtv has changed the way tv shows appear online. The majority of tv rips from 5 years ago are extremely poor in quality and relatively large in size. Does the movie industry really have support for this? It seems to me that they would be completely against any kind of system that put their movies in digital form. It really just takes out one step for the release groups and such.
An interesting idea would be if they could eliminate the people who work in the projection room. That is if some large cinema company (UGC in Europe) could run all movie showings from one central command.
Yes Azureus does rock. Some of the features that have been around for a while are its support for pluggins. The one that seems to be most popular is its RSS feed reader. It monitors and filters RSS feeds for files that a user wants to have downloaded. This makes going on a several day vacation quite a bit easier. I use it to download my latest Al Franken Show from Air America.
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Seeing how this law is coming from a state where they tried to pass laws allowing kids to bring guns to school as long as they tell their principal, I am not suprised by their lack of logic.
Hopefully there will be pressure on Phillips to release a new version of the firmware to play DivX 6.
As a student employee at my university I was amazed at how little security there is on personal information. Sure the data is secure when the admissions department has it but once you start taking classes you are added into countless access databases where most of your information is stored in plain text form and usually not password protected. If someone were to type a wrong email when sending the database as an attachment or if someone's spouse used their laptop they would have access to thousands upon thousands of records. On my second day here I was emailed a database with somewhere around 50,000 entries. Scary. Its unfortunate students aren't warned about the way their data is stored either. When I tell people they get mad at the university (like good college kids should). You'd think the government would start to crack down on the way data is handled in universites. I heard they are busy with a war or something.
You would think that internet cam recordings, vcd's etc will start to dissapear. This reminds me of how hdtv has changed the way tv shows appear online. The majority of tv rips from 5 years ago are extremely poor in quality and relatively large in size. Does the movie industry really have support for this? It seems to me that they would be completely against any kind of system that put their movies in digital form. It really just takes out one step for the release groups and such. An interesting idea would be if they could eliminate the people who work in the projection room. That is if some large cinema company (UGC in Europe) could run all movie showings from one central command.
Yes Azureus does rock. Some of the features that have been around for a while are its support for pluggins. The one that seems to be most popular is its RSS feed reader. It monitors and filters RSS feeds for files that a user wants to have downloaded. This makes going on a several day vacation quite a bit easier. I use it to download my latest Al Franken Show from Air America. -dk