I would not be adverse to a law being passed banning this use of encryption to lock down what software can be run on a platform, mainly because of the fear that other companies might follow Motorola and we might end up unable to modify the firmware on most Android phones.
Also, it seems to me that voting with ones feet no longer has any appreciable effect on large companies.
Getting guesses from educated persons in an area they know nothing about is not that much better than asking uneducated persons about an area they know nothing about.
Asking slashdot is better than asking on 4chan, I can just see the advice on/b/ now, it largely consists of "stick it in her pooper"
I have to agree there on using ZoneMinder too, and as for high resolution images, oddly you will get better resolution with some USB web cameras than with analog cameras, just make sure the sensor really does run at the resolution on the box.
Who cares about the pay, once you are earning above a certain amount, being happy with what you do is far more important than earning more money. programming sounds far more fun than managing things and people. Give me t-shirts and jeans, screw wearing shirts, ties, suits and overpriced uncomfortable stuff like that.
The magnets are insanely strong, they are well worth keeping, you will need torx screwdrivers to open the hard drives though, but they are not expensive to buy.
I find the platters seem to be made out of aluminium, and will melt and turn to dust in a fire. Nobody is ever recovering anything from that.
Most streaming video and audio that I have encountered lacks any form of effective DRM. I don't know whether it is there or not, but as I can play it in Linux with the appropriate codecs, I assume not. (Flash and FLV is marginally more effective than other forms, but can still be easilly evaded)
Assuming there are no submarine patents that some asshole could use to extort money out of all and sundry, then Ogg Vorbis and Theora seem like great choices for a standard internet codec.
Interesting, apparently:
"The source is released under GPL3 and restricted to private, non-commercial uses only."
Kind of a contradiction there perhaps.
If they say it is unlimited, they should he held to that. I am under the impression that here in new Zealand, they would quickly find themselves in deep trouble with the Commerce Commission if they were advertising something as unlimited when it really wasn't, Surely such laws exist in the US too.
Script kiddie would be a better term, regardless of technical knowledge, the person had the attitude of a script kiddie.
I hope they catch the worthless sack of shit that did it, too bad that probably wont happen.
I dual boot for my HL2 fix, cant stand using Windows most of the time. Most Linux distributions I've tried aren't much fun till you install all the "non free" stuff like MP3 support, libdvdcss, ffmpeg and suchlike. (my music collection is all VBR MP3, so no MP3 support = no music while working, browsing, tinkering) Fedora is no exception, was reading though the planned features for FC7, and it looks like they will be adding something to display messages about such problems when people try to play such files, though, which is some progress.
Or writing a letter, or suchlike.
But even if the law gets passed, it wont make any difference to me, will still keep playing DVDs in Xine, will still tell others how to play DVDs on Linux, and I doubt any enforcement will happen.
But I thought the government was smarter than this, I guess not. If anything, the opposite should he happening, the government should really be actively seeking to eliminate DRM.
Both of which work beautifully in linux, although the installation process is perhaps less than friendly.
However, Cedega has crappy performance for garry's mod for HalfLife 2, no antialiasing, and it chokes when lots of things move.
Not all linux distributions are entirely open source either, you can distribute closed source software along with GPL open source software as long as you provide a way for people to get the source code for anything covered by the GPL, if I understand the GPL correctly.
First of all, check the user agents of the users/bots doing it, although this should be fairly obvious to check for and change, but its worth a look anyway.
Another idea is to prevent all new users from posting links for a week or so, or even anything that looks like a link, like anything that contains "http://", "www", "w w w", and such like, anything that you can block that wont restrict normal conversation on the forums too much.
Although, I suppose its possible that they may then turn to using gibberish, like the gibberish encountered in spam.
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I would not be adverse to a law being passed banning this use of encryption to lock down what software can be run on a platform, mainly because of the fear that other companies might follow Motorola and we might end up unable to modify the firmware on most Android phones.
Also, it seems to me that voting with ones feet no longer has any appreciable effect on large companies.
Getting guesses from educated persons in an area they know nothing about is not that much better than asking uneducated persons about an area they know nothing about.
Asking slashdot is better than asking on 4chan, I can just see the advice on /b/ now, it largely consists of "stick it in her pooper"
It is a useful tool, it shouldn't be too hard to strip out all the dodgy code and host it on another site.
I have to agree there on using ZoneMinder too, and as for high resolution images, oddly you will get better resolution with some USB web cameras than with analog cameras, just make sure the sensor really does run at the resolution on the box.
Who cares about the pay, once you are earning above a certain amount, being happy with what you do is far more important than earning more money. programming sounds far more fun than managing things and people. Give me t-shirts and jeans, screw wearing shirts, ties, suits and overpriced uncomfortable stuff like that.
The magnets are insanely strong, they are well worth keeping, you will need torx screwdrivers to open the hard drives though, but they are not expensive to buy.
I find the platters seem to be made out of aluminium, and will melt and turn to dust in a fire. Nobody is ever recovering anything from that.
Most streaming video and audio that I have encountered lacks any form of effective DRM. I don't know whether it is there or not, but as I can play it in Linux with the appropriate codecs, I assume not. (Flash and FLV is marginally more effective than other forms, but can still be easilly evaded)
Assuming there are no submarine patents that some asshole could use to extort money out of all and sundry, then Ogg Vorbis and Theora seem like great choices for a standard internet codec.
It wont work anywhere but the US, I would buy from it, but it seems their attitude towards the rest of the world seems to consist of "no, fuck off".
Lame, and they need to fix it, but anyhow.
Interesting, apparently: "The source is released under GPL3 and restricted to private, non-commercial uses only." Kind of a contradiction there perhaps.
If they say it is unlimited, they should he held to that. I am under the impression that here in new Zealand, they would quickly find themselves in deep trouble with the Commerce Commission if they were advertising something as unlimited when it really wasn't, Surely such laws exist in the US too.
Script kiddie would be a better term, regardless of technical knowledge, the person had the attitude of a script kiddie.
I hope they catch the worthless sack of shit that did it, too bad that probably wont happen.
I dual boot for my HL2 fix, cant stand using Windows most of the time. Most Linux distributions I've tried aren't much fun till you install all the "non free" stuff like MP3 support, libdvdcss, ffmpeg and suchlike. (my music collection is all VBR MP3, so no MP3 support = no music while working, browsing, tinkering) Fedora is no exception, was reading though the planned features for FC7, and it looks like they will be adding something to display messages about such problems when people try to play such files, though, which is some progress.
While she may or may not have deserved it before, she certainly deserves it now.
Or writing a letter, or suchlike. But even if the law gets passed, it wont make any difference to me, will still keep playing DVDs in Xine, will still tell others how to play DVDs on Linux, and I doubt any enforcement will happen. But I thought the government was smarter than this, I guess not. If anything, the opposite should he happening, the government should really be actively seeking to eliminate DRM.
New Zealand already has native bats, they were the only known form of native mammal before now,
Both of which work beautifully in linux, although the installation process is perhaps less than friendly. However, Cedega has crappy performance for garry's mod for HalfLife 2, no antialiasing, and it chokes when lots of things move.
Not all linux distributions are entirely open source either, you can distribute closed source software along with GPL open source software as long as you provide a way for people to get the source code for anything covered by the GPL, if I understand the GPL correctly.
WHy is Total Annihilation not on any of those lists, it is still the best RTS ever made, well, as far as I am concerned, anyhow.
First of all, check the user agents of the users/bots doing it, although this should be fairly obvious to check for and change, but its worth a look anyway. Another idea is to prevent all new users from posting links for a week or so, or even anything that looks like a link, like anything that contains "http://", "www", "w w w", and such like, anything that you can block that wont restrict normal conversation on the forums too much. Although, I suppose its possible that they may then turn to using gibberish, like the gibberish encountered in spam.