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  1. Re:Silverlight greatness on Netflix Wants To Go HTML5, But Not Without DRM · · Score: 1

    You can't. But there's no way to do it in Windows or Mac, either. There's also nothing you can do to prevent me from running netcat on another box on the network and capturing the stream in its entirety for brute force decryption at a later date.

    You can, however, make it enough of a pain in the ass that most people won't bother.

    Most people wont, but ONE will. This is why DRM always fails.

  2. Re:Silverlight greatness on Netflix Wants To Go HTML5, But Not Without DRM · · Score: 1

    The great thing about Silverlight is its ability to stream content as your internet line can take it. This means Silverlight will dynamically adjust the video and audio bitrate so that even users on less-than-fast lines can stream Silverlight video content.

    This truly sounds great ...if you live in third world country with slow internet.

  3. Re:Silly headline--the performance is plenty excit on Ouya Performance Not Particularly Exciting · · Score: 1

    What makes the Ouya exciting is it's ability to play games and it's performance exceeds several existing platforms which have worked fine for playing games. Ouya is ranked 73rd because of it's score of 4077.

    This beats the following popular platforms (score/name):

    This is also SLOWER than $44 chinese Android noname stick.

  4. Re:Content and Capabilities on Ouya Performance Not Particularly Exciting · · Score: 1

    What makes this list damning for nvidia is this
    http://community.futuremark.com/hardware/mobile/TMSON+M9/review
    this is Chinese bottom dollar RK3066 chip, you can buy $44 Android sticks with this chip
    http://www.geekbuying.com/item/MK808-Dual-Core-Android-4-1-Jelly-Bean-TV-BOX-Rockchip-RK3066-Cortex-A9-Mini-PC-stick-307415.html

    it is listed HIGHER than top Tegra from multi billion dollar Nvidia :)
    You know Nvidia is in trouble if they are losing to bargain bin Chinese designs.

  5. Re:And... on Ouya Performance Not Particularly Exciting · · Score: 1

    Ouya is slower than this noname chinese stick.

  6. Re:And... on Ouya Performance Not Particularly Exciting · · Score: 1

    http://www.laptopmag.com/review/stick-computers/android-mini-pc-rk3066.aspx

    rk3066 based android minipc $55, ranked 2 places Higher than Ouya on TFAs 3dmark list.

  7. Re:Turning it off is no option? on UK Gov To Investigate 'Aggressive' In-app Purchases · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    There's a lot of nasty software out there that is specifically targeted at kids and charges huge amounts for ingame items. My kids are at a young age and they simply do not understand the difference between real cash and virtual ingame cash, to them it's all the same. So if an app says 'do you want to buy this for 99,99 euros', they just tap 'yes'.

    Teach it to your kids then you retard.

  8. Re:Your kid, spending your money . . . on UK Gov To Investigate 'Aggressive' In-app Purchases · · Score: 1

    Buying a kid a toy used to be a safe bet, the purchase of the item was the sum total of the toy's price.

    When? In the 1950s? Almost every toy sold in last 50 years was designed to make the kid whine for the rest of the series. GI Joe, Lego, Pokemon, Barbie, Matchbox, etc.

  9. Re:Definitions, please? on Rhombus Tech 2nd Revision A10 EOMA68 Card Working Samples · · Score: 1

    Yeah, the A10 is a chip that's popular with mid-range unbranded chinese tablet PC manufacturers. It's a slightly better chip than the more common A13 from the same manufacturer (which is what most of the current crop of dirt cheap tablets are based on). It's usually advertised as being clockable at up to 1.5GHz (although 1.2 seems to be the fastest they reliably work at), and is a single core ARM chip with fully open source drivers for all of the integrated hardware

    Lie. No GPU, no Video Decoder, no Video Encoder.
    Its as "open source" as Broadcom sitting in RPi.

  10. Re:Anyone can read your texts anyway on EFF Urges Court To Protect Privacy of Text Messages · · Score: 1

    Of course they are encrypted. Whole control channel is.

  11. Re:Vila weighs 73 kilos, Avon. on Classic BBC Sci-fi Series Blake's 7 To Return On Syfy Channel · · Score: 2

    as bad (or worse) than the US version of Red Dwarf.

    That is not possible. Nothing can be worse than the US version of Red Dwarf.

    US version of Top Gear, not to mention Australian version.

  12. Re:AMD news yesterday, NVidia today, that's great! on NVIDIA Open-Sources 3D Driver For Tegra SoCs · · Score: 3, Interesting

    How is a driver for Tegra (not even a unified shader architecture, something similar to Riva TNT2) going to help your desktop driver?

  13. Re:More person, more cost. Fine. on Samoa Air Rolling Out "Pay As You Weigh" Fares · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Ah yes, just like rural Estonians get better internet service (cheaper, faster) than New Yorkers, all because of this densely populated rural areas.

  14. Re:Long term? on Nuclear Power Prevents More Deaths Than It Causes · · Score: 1

    Sounds like straw man. It was probably reclaimed Coal mine, and argument was against Gold mining (cyanides/mercury contamination).

  15. Re:Enemy of the State on DOJ Often Used Cell Tower Impersonating Devices Without Explicit Warrants · · Score: 1

    The point is to make it look like DOJ did it. Interesting phone conversation was captured by IMSI Catcher as a background noise and then leaked. Bonus points if you can get your hands on something Petraeus quality.

  16. Re:Hosts file corollary on DOJ Often Used Cell Tower Impersonating Devices Without Explicit Warrants · · Score: 1

    You cant relay, if you relay you end up looking at encrypted traffic.

  17. Enemy of the State on DOJ Often Used Cell Tower Impersonating Devices Without Explicit Warrants · · Score: 2

    We need some geeks with USRP to sloppily intercept few members of appropriation committee phones "Enemy of the State" style.
    That will get the ball rolling on those DOJ scumbags.

  18. Re:Hosts file corollary on DOJ Often Used Cell Tower Impersonating Devices Without Explicit Warrants · · Score: 5, Interesting

    GSM has no network authentication (only user authenticates to the network, network doesnt authenticate to the user).
    3G/UMTS has authentication both ways and is mitm secure (in theory = if your phone is not broken)

    Just force phone to only talk 3G and you will be secure.

  19. Re:Security never was a concern on Wi-Fi Enabled Digital Cameras Easily Exploitable · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Yes, delete button is right there, and will happily help you corrupt all of your data on the card, in $4000 camera. Thats the point. Software in those cameras is GARBAGE. Wifi link being open to all kinds of exploits is not really surprising.

    btw new ExFAT filesystem brings even more garbage 'someone wrote it and it kinda works, lets not touch this" code to new hi-end cameras.

  20. Re:Security never was a concern on Wi-Fi Enabled Digital Cameras Easily Exploitable · · Score: 2

    Of course it was. $4000 camera, and it still cant manage flash filesystem properly and will corrupt saved files if you insert a card with non continuous space (plug card into computer, delete few random pictures, insert into camera, happy recovery).
    Canon, Nikon, Sony and other mayor manufacturers ALL recommend you to
    -format card in the camera, not in computer
    -never edit/delete files in the camera itself

  21. Re:Dude, you're getting a Dell! on Dell Confirms and Details Rival Bids From Blackstone and Icahn · · Score: 1

    Yes. In order to imitate Apple he needs to take company private just like Apple did ... oh wait

  22. Re:Too Bad on Two Outside Bids For Dell Threaten Founder's Buyout Plan · · Score: 1

    That's probably Icahn's plan.

    A girl can dream.

  23. Biology? on IBM Dipping Chips In 'Ionic Liquid' To Save Power · · Score: 1

    This reminds me of our meatbag bodies and homeostasis. Instead of waiting for electrons to come flowing down the wire transistors can draw electrons from surrounding 'Ionic Liquid'?

  24. Re:Antibiotic Placebo? on Most UK GPs Have Prescribed Placebos · · Score: 0

    Worst case, they will have to take off his leg.

    but cheap hamburger meat!

  25. Re:The best chess programs do not learn on DARPA Tackles Machine Learning · · Score: 2

    And google search and translate isn't really learning, they're just statistical systems that given the best result based on the data they've gathered. They don't "think" about it in any meaningful way.

    This is machine learning, they derive results based on statistical data, but new data input changes statistics = learning