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Then again, if you don't trust the NoSript author after the controversy, this might be a good alternative. I figure NoScript is under more scrutiny than any other extension and the author learned his lesson.
Often, mods will give a funny post "insightful" instead of "funny" because it gives the user positive karma (whereas funny does not affect karma).
Not a use intended by CmdrTaco, I'd imagine, but it's a common practice.
If you want to use OpenDNS, NXDOMAIN redirection is easily disabled from an account (free to register, then you just put the DynDNS in your router or run their DynDNS client).
Blippy: Give your bank, credit card, and email logins to us, and we'll tell your friends what you bought. Hopefully we don't lose any of that info!
Seriously, I wouldn't touch the site with a ten foot pole.
You'd have to be insane to give money to this site. They are holding back account logins so they can scrape the transactions on debit cards. They have no income.
High libaility - any way of making money = VC Gold, apparently.
My guess is they're pitching something like the sponsored tweets. Where vendors can make their store or brands can make their brand/product purchases have some extra notice.
Of course they're going to use whatever statistics, presented in whatever fashion, to make you think that if you don't legislate everything to maximize their old businesses model without change, that everyone will suffer for it.
It's common sense not to take the RIAA/MPAA at their word. Not just because of their previous questionable tactics (suing individuals, scare campaigns,etc.), and how wrong they have been(like the MPAA saying that the VHS would be "the Boston Strangler" of the film industry when it expanded their market tremendously)... they're going to hate anything that, in their view, has a negative impact on their revenue.
Justice for anyone who lives and purchased their console from a European retailer.
In the US, the best I can probably hope for is a class action in which lawyers will make millions and I'll get a $10 coupon off of a PS3 game.
And Geohot's hack only works if you are on 3.15 or below, if you're on 3.20 (which has the other OS feature, last firmware to do so), you're out of luck.
The law is so brokenly bad that I have sympathy for everyone in Britain right now.
Essentially, from what I read (correct me if something changed in the final bill), a copyright holder can accuse you of pirating anything without evidence, and your provider must throttle/disconnect you. If you want to counter, you have to take me to court, at your cost, with real evidence that you didn't.
This is so mind bogglingly dumb I can't begin to fathom how they plan to enforce this without mass disconnections. Huge numbers of people with open APs or just kids in the house are going to find themselves without internet access. Antipiracy firms will make mistakes about IPs, but hey- it doesn't matter when you require no evidence.
Still, I was discussing it with many people last night who were "thankful that they were not British". Stuff like this is closer than we think with ACTA being pushed behind closed doors.
Microsoft is aware of reports of vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash Player 6 provided in Windows XP. The Adobe Flash Player 6 was provided with Windows XP and contains multiple vulnerabilities that could allow remote code execution if a user views a specially crafted Web page.
Two weeks ago, someone asked me to reinstall Windows XP for them. Their disk was XP SP3.
I reinstall, and open IE to visit Windows Update
Instantly, I get a Vundo variant from a malicious ad attacking the out-of-date Flash Player that came with XP that installs without any user intervention whatsoever.
This only served to reinforce that I was right and not a webmaster/free content hating jerk when I block ads online.
If I was a used CD retailer, I'd be scared right now. You're probably selling the CD for less anyways, but with the price difference being much less, you might lose a lot of your customers since the price of a new CD that supports the artist and is in immaculate physical condition is only a few bucks more.
Competition is always good though, and I'm sure used stores will be fine.
Speaking of businesses being threatened, I don't see the "as a record store owner, my business faces ruin" troll yet.
I'll be honest. I'm usually more of a singles person than an album person.
However, when the album and digital copy are near the same price, the physical copy provides a long lasting backup (pressed CDs last longer than burnt), and I have a lossless copy that I can legally use, rip to lossless on my PC, and not have to go on a tracker and seed until my eyeballs fall out of my head for the ratio...it makes sense for a number of albums.
Weird Al Yankovic stated that he was happy for either avenue his customers used to buy music, but his take per track on iTunes was about two cents a track and his take on CDs was about 26 cents- which is pretty major if you want to support the artist.
Anyhow, it's a good move by UMG, albeit overdue. I think it's like the MPAA- the "boston strangler" of VHS turned out to be a major blessing and boon to their business. Hopefully other companies follow suit.
This argument is moot. It's pretty easy (albeit not quite as easy- it involves running a single.bat file that flips one binary registry entry, rearms activation, and reboots) to do the same with an upgrade copy of Windows (I paid $30 for my 7 Pro x64 Upgrade).
Uusers who install 10.6 clean or on a non-10.5 system are technically in violation of the license (at which point you might as well just pirate Windows or Mac OS X). If you're running 10.5 or earlier you're (legally) expected to buy the box set.
Male Shepard's dialogue was very good in my opinion. Except the fact that Mark Meer shows that he's Canadian on certain words. Mainly "about" ("aboot").
I had issues back on XP, but on Vista/7, the opposite seems to be true- NVIDIA has the buggy drivers.
As part of some Vista capable lawsuit a while back, it was found that NVIDIA drivers caused the most BSODs. Even if you scaled ATI's marketshare at the time (I forget the month, but I looked it up- the Steam Hardware survey is as reasonable of a guess as you're going to get) to make the crash percentages ceteris paribus, NVIDIA drivers still crashed on Vista 50% more.
On Windows 7, I haven't had any driver related issues...
.The trouble is that the technology hasn't gone completely mainstream. If Apple were to adopt the technology, they would likely set the standard, and that would drive widespread adoption as everyone scrambles to make their systems iPhone-friendly.
Isn't this already very common in Japan?
And what employer would want to tie an identification/access system to a highly attractive theft target?
Due to the disruption ABC has caused, Cablevision invites you to enjoy our entire slate of on demand movies at no charge today, Sunday March 7th. To order, go to the iO TV main menu, select On Demand, then Movies on Demand, then choose your movie.
We appreciate your patience and hope ABC allows our customers to view their programming in the very near future.
Well, it's a nice gesture, considering how much they've put us in the middle (ABC with nonstop ads and pulling during negotiations, Cablevision pushing an update to change the default of all boxes to channel "1999" with a looped message on how ABC's parent corp needs to prop up their "struggling theme parks" and explaining that Hulu is good).
I don't care for the Oscars, but it's crap that it hasn't been settled already. Sit down and work something out, and stop putting consumers in the middle. People will bitch at both but most will watch their shows online. Very few will switch service over this.
That doesn't matter. The average person is aware of neither, and the stuff included with the OS (that they are familiar with) won't copy Hollywood DVDs or play copies without CSS stripped.
The results are still very funny, especially for non-English speakers.
However, it's a technology that is still relatively young. One hopes that applying it to Youtube will help Google improve the accuracy.
However, except for spoken videos with a native English speaker with absolutely no background noise, it's nothing more than a novelty at this point. Trying this on several videos not only yielded hilarious results, but delays of several seconds in some cases.
Apple's disk utility doesn't circumvent the Content Scramble System on commercial DVDs, so if you make a straight copy it won't play- you need to remove the CSS to have a working image that you can use on the PC or burn to a new DVD.
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Then again, if you don't trust the NoSript author after the controversy, this might be a good alternative. I figure NoScript is under more scrutiny than any other extension and the author learned his lesson.
Often, mods will give a funny post "insightful" instead of "funny" because it gives the user positive karma (whereas funny does not affect karma). Not a use intended by CmdrTaco, I'd imagine, but it's a common practice.
If you want to use OpenDNS, NXDOMAIN redirection is easily disabled from an account (free to register, then you just put the DynDNS in your router or run their DynDNS client).
Blippy: Give your bank, credit card, and email logins to us, and we'll tell your friends what you bought. Hopefully we don't lose any of that info! Seriously, I wouldn't touch the site with a ten foot pole.
You'd have to be insane to give money to this site. They are holding back account logins so they can scrape the transactions on debit cards. They have no income.
High libaility - any way of making money = VC Gold, apparently.
My guess is they're pitching something like the sponsored tweets. Where vendors can make their store or brands can make their brand/product purchases have some extra notice.
Of course they're going to use whatever statistics, presented in whatever fashion, to make you think that if you don't legislate everything to maximize their old businesses model without change, that everyone will suffer for it.
It's common sense not to take the RIAA/MPAA at their word. Not just because of their previous questionable tactics (suing individuals, scare campaigns,etc.), and how wrong they have been(like the MPAA saying that the VHS would be "the Boston Strangler" of the film industry when it expanded their market tremendously)... they're going to hate anything that, in their view, has a negative impact on their revenue.
Replying to undo a mistaken downmod...sorry :p
Justice for anyone who lives and purchased their console from a European retailer.
In the US, the best I can probably hope for is a class action in which lawyers will make millions and I'll get a $10 coupon off of a PS3 game.
And Geohot's hack only works if you are on 3.15 or below, if you're on 3.20 (which has the other OS feature, last firmware to do so), you're out of luck.
The law is so brokenly bad that I have sympathy for everyone in Britain right now.
Essentially, from what I read (correct me if something changed in the final bill), a copyright holder can accuse you of pirating anything without evidence, and your provider must throttle/disconnect you. If you want to counter, you have to take me to court, at your cost, with real evidence that you didn't.
This is so mind bogglingly dumb I can't begin to fathom how they plan to enforce this without mass disconnections. Huge numbers of people with open APs or just kids in the house are going to find themselves without internet access. Antipiracy firms will make mistakes about IPs, but hey- it doesn't matter when you require no evidence.
Still, I was discussing it with many people last night who were "thankful that they were not British". Stuff like this is closer than we think with ACTA being pushed behind closed doors.
You were saying?
26 cents per track. Perhaps I didn't make it clear.
To be honest, I forgot the shortcut was even there.
On XP, I slipstream now. On Vista & 7, it's all in the control panel anyways.
To be clear: It was an ad on the MSN homepage.
Common sense for me will be going to the control panel and changing the homepage to Windows Update first now.
Two weeks ago, someone asked me to reinstall Windows XP for them. Their disk was XP SP3.
I reinstall, and open IE to visit Windows Update
Instantly, I get a Vundo variant from a malicious ad attacking the out-of-date Flash Player that came with XP that installs without any user intervention whatsoever.
This only served to reinforce that I was right and not a webmaster/free content hating jerk when I block ads online.
If I was a used CD retailer, I'd be scared right now. You're probably selling the CD for less anyways, but with the price difference being much less, you might lose a lot of your customers since the price of a new CD that supports the artist and is in immaculate physical condition is only a few bucks more.
Competition is always good though, and I'm sure used stores will be fine.
Speaking of businesses being threatened, I don't see the "as a record store owner, my business faces ruin" troll yet.
I'll be honest. I'm usually more of a singles person than an album person.
However, when the album and digital copy are near the same price, the physical copy provides a long lasting backup (pressed CDs last longer than burnt), and I have a lossless copy that I can legally use, rip to lossless on my PC, and not have to go on a tracker and seed until my eyeballs fall out of my head for the ratio...it makes sense for a number of albums.
Weird Al Yankovic stated that he was happy for either avenue his customers used to buy music, but his take per track on iTunes was about two cents a track and his take on CDs was about 26 cents- which is pretty major if you want to support the artist.
Anyhow, it's a good move by UMG, albeit overdue. I think it's like the MPAA- the "boston strangler" of VHS turned out to be a major blessing and boon to their business. Hopefully other companies follow suit.
This argument is moot. It's pretty easy (albeit not quite as easy- it involves running a single .bat file that flips one binary registry entry, rearms activation, and reboots) to do the same with an upgrade copy of Windows (I paid $30 for my 7 Pro x64 Upgrade).
Uusers who install 10.6 clean or on a non-10.5 system are technically in violation of the license (at which point you might as well just pirate Windows or Mac OS X). If you're running 10.5 or earlier you're (legally) expected to buy the box set.
Male Shepard's dialogue was very good in my opinion. Except the fact that Mark Meer shows that he's Canadian on certain words. Mainly "about" ("aboot").
I had issues back on XP, but on Vista/7, the opposite seems to be true- NVIDIA has the buggy drivers.
As part of some Vista capable lawsuit a while back, it was found that NVIDIA drivers caused the most BSODs. Even if you scaled ATI's marketshare at the time (I forget the month, but I looked it up- the Steam Hardware survey is as reasonable of a guess as you're going to get) to make the crash percentages ceteris paribus, NVIDIA drivers still crashed on Vista 50% more.
On Windows 7, I haven't had any driver related issues...
Isn't this already very common in Japan?
And what employer would want to tie an identification/access system to a highly attractive theft target?
Well, it's a nice gesture, considering how much they've put us in the middle (ABC with nonstop ads and pulling during negotiations, Cablevision pushing an update to change the default of all boxes to channel "1999" with a looped message on how ABC's parent corp needs to prop up their "struggling theme parks" and explaining that Hulu is good).
I don't care for the Oscars, but it's crap that it hasn't been settled already. Sit down and work something out, and stop putting consumers in the middle. People will bitch at both but most will watch their shows online. Very few will switch service over this.
And that's the interesting part. Some people provide their own captions, that's effectively training for the voice recognition algorithm.
That doesn't matter. The average person is aware of neither, and the stuff included with the OS (that they are familiar with) won't copy Hollywood DVDs or play copies without CSS stripped.
The results are still very funny, especially for non-English speakers.
However, it's a technology that is still relatively young. One hopes that applying it to Youtube will help Google improve the accuracy.
However, except for spoken videos with a native English speaker with absolutely no background noise, it's nothing more than a novelty at this point. Trying this on several videos not only yielded hilarious results, but delays of several seconds in some cases.
Apple's disk utility doesn't circumvent the Content Scramble System on commercial DVDs, so if you make a straight copy it won't play- you need to remove the CSS to have a working image that you can use on the PC or burn to a new DVD.
That is why Real got sued.