i suspect a lot do, but really, i can see them making an adaptor available. if not, it should be easy to make. hdmi is just dvi with a few extras, so you could make a hdmi to dvi+5v power adaptor without much hassle.
you're thinking of sslstrip, another program by moxie marlinspike
a lot of websites get around this by denying requests to http:/// for login pages and beyond, but some surprisingly popular ones didn't when i played with it last year.
" "It's probably been in [iOS] since day one," said Wisniewski, who speculated that even attackers hadn't known of the flaw. "Someone would likely would noticed if it had been used, because every Windows user would have been getting browser warnings [of an invalid certificate] on a public Wi-Fi network even as iPhone users were seeing no such warning." "
Does he seriously think you can't filter out non iOS devices and just forward them to the proper site? even a user agent check would suffice
how about diffing the mbr with a known good copy, or checksumming on boot? is there any reason why this isnt done as standard for rootkit protection? (genuine question. inb4 "the virus could modify the copy/checksum")
when i first heard about the xbox kinect (nee natal) i thought it'd be great if it ever gets hacked to work with linux, or even windows, so we could use it in media centres and htpcs. this kind of gesture recognition is only useful for sporadic instructions though. scrolling up and down, turning the volume up etc, and only if you can do it by moving your hand, not your arms
They'll just bring out an xbox update and issue a new wave of bans to xbox live if it matters that much to them. that'll stop most people using it until a copy of the officially released version shows up on P2P in 3 weeks
HD x264 decoding support is as strong if not stronger under linux than windows right now with nvidias newer graphics card. look up VDPAU. people report very very little CPU usage running 1080p videos under linux on acer revos and the like.
but the pirates do use it. its the defacto standard for scene released bluray rips in 720p and 1080p format, due to it being a convenient container for packaging multiple audio signals, subtitles and x264 encoded video and being all FOSS. its also a very popular format for anime, due mostly to its multiple audio and subtitle strengths.
the piracy scene decided on x264 mkv for various reasons but wide compatibility probably wasnt one of them. potential for wide compatibility, open standards and high quality were probably bigger concerns. im pretty sure there werent any hardware xvid players around when they decided that that was the best option for dvdrips.
the playstation 3 and xbox 360 can play x / h264 but not within the mkv container. this means its pretty simple and quick to convert on your pc, but more importantly it means that the console's hardware is fully capable of such playback, its merely a software limitation and this'll get sorted in time.
i was gonna suggest teeworlds, enemy territory and subspace/continuum, but other people have mentioned the first two. but regardless, how many children from poor backgrounds will have parents who have the internet anyway? in the uk a lot of the working class prioritise sky tv over the internet and if these kids really are in need of charity, their parents probably cant afford both.
i still do that with our 2nd pc. its just an old dell i picked up for £20. its on a piece of wood though, which is far easier to move than cardboard. you should have upgraded your case to wood before you went to the darkside and got a notebook
i agree with most things you wrote, although i cant let the comment about local newspapers stand. our local paper is packed front to back with murders, robberies and rape thankyouverymuch. none of that celeb shit here, just fear and violence;)
what irritates me most about this ID card move is that they're trialing it with a group of people who cannot oppose it. they're forcing the most vulnerable to go through with it. dont want an ID card? get out of the country. once the ID cards are established in the non-european immigrant sector it'll be easier to push it on the next group. quite how they're gonna get around EU regulations on freedom of movement will be interesting though.
my grandad died last year aged 95. that's 30 years retirement from his job as a plumber. he left £90,000 in his bank for relatives and that's after paying for his own funeral. how he did it, im not quite sure, but to say he was careful with his money whilst alive would be an understatement.
my dad retires next year, at 65. he was going to have a nice BOC pension but his department got bought by an american company in the early 90s so it isnt so cushy any more. he's benefitted from the uk housing market though in the late 80s and the house is worth a lot more than it was bought for.
unless im clever with my money and the work i do, i expect ill retire aged 70 in the uk or aged 55 on some tropical island, and live poor but content.
ive not figured out which one is better or how likely it is that i can invest enough money in the right things yet
despite being a tv presenter and writer and having a degree in literature, he did get it from cambridge after all, and can probably get his arty flamboyant mind around something like the concept of free software without the aid of his dad.
im in the uk and use Be Unlimited. i sync at about 11mbit and to be honest, the biggest limit on my downloads is my storage space. i watch a few HD 720p movies and a lot of standard definition stuff and my monthly usage clocks in at around 160GB a month. my max was about 230GB one month. i havent got my HDTV plugged in to receive broadcasts, its just plugged into my PC so all my tv and movie watching comes down the interweb pipe. other usage is pretty minimal - the occasional game, youtube, transferring stuff via scp to my girlfriend's parents house when she's staying there and wants something to watch etc.
the best toilet facilities ive ever seen were in El Alto, Bolivia (the really fast sprawlling city of breezeblock and redbrick that the poorer native bolivians live in above the country's capital capital, La Paz). every shop, cafe, doorstep market stall and telephone centre has a toilet you can use for pocket change. its a nice little earner on the side after all. there's more signs for toilets than anything else in that place.
but anyway. are these seattle ones somehow different to the cylindrical cubicles (does that even make sense?) that i can pay 20p to use here in the uk, that shower themselves down when you step out? surely there's more to them than this, although quite why they didnt go with a few of these is confusing.
the reason it isnt the same as VHS to DVD or cassette to CD isnt a quality issue. the quality is clearly better. as the article suggests its largely to do with the requirement of an HDTV, but there's something else too. with DVDs and CDs, there was a convenience. no rewinding, instant search, 1:1 copying, non perishable (minus scratches). bluray brings nothing new here. the only new thing is quality and quality isnt enough for a lot of users. my parents marvel at the clarity of their 40" 1080p HDTV whilst watching DVB sky through a SCART cable. looks like youtube to me, who's been watching 720p HD movies on a 32" HDTV. HD movies ive aquired of the internet because i too, have no intention of paying for a bluray player.
... that isnt important. most people know what america did in central and south america a few decades ago, including training terrorist deathsquads and propaganda/censorship operations etc. the important parts are:
0: its obviously still going on, and probably on an even more sophisticated level
1: with a leaked document, its a lot harder to deny.
i give it one month until someone gets around the restrictions, and two months until someone makes a transmitter and shuts off all mobiles (or cars) in the area
the ISPs in the UK have been doing this for years, although some still have an ambiguous 'fair use policy' like virgin that'll bring your connection to its knees during peak hours if you're doing something like, say, using the internet.
all the ISPs market their service with all these multimedia capabilities. i use these capabilities, and my bandwidth doesnt go below 140GB a month. what the hell am i meant to do on a 5GB limit?
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i suspect a lot do, but really, i can see them making an adaptor available. if not, it should be easy to make. hdmi is just dvi with a few extras, so you could make a hdmi to dvi+5v power adaptor without much hassle.
i thought MITM could, though?
you're thinking of sslstrip, another program by moxie marlinspike a lot of websites get around this by denying requests to http:/// for login pages and beyond, but some surprisingly popular ones didn't when i played with it last year.
" "It's probably been in [iOS] since day one," said Wisniewski, who speculated that even attackers hadn't known of the flaw. "Someone would likely would noticed if it had been used, because every Windows user would have been getting browser warnings [of an invalid certificate] on a public Wi-Fi network even as iPhone users were seeing no such warning." " Does he seriously think you can't filter out non iOS devices and just forward them to the proper site? even a user agent check would suffice
how about diffing the mbr with a known good copy, or checksumming on boot? is there any reason why this isnt done as standard for rootkit protection? (genuine question. inb4 "the virus could modify the copy/checksum")
when i first heard about the xbox kinect (nee natal) i thought it'd be great if it ever gets hacked to work with linux, or even windows, so we could use it in media centres and htpcs. this kind of gesture recognition is only useful for sporadic instructions though. scrolling up and down, turning the volume up etc, and only if you can do it by moving your hand, not your arms
They'll just bring out an xbox update and issue a new wave of bans to xbox live if it matters that much to them. that'll stop most people using it until a copy of the officially released version shows up on P2P in 3 weeks
shh
HD x264 decoding support is as strong if not stronger under linux than windows right now with nvidias newer graphics card. look up VDPAU. people report very very little CPU usage running 1080p videos under linux on acer revos and the like.
but the pirates do use it. its the defacto standard for scene released bluray rips in 720p and 1080p format, due to it being a convenient container for packaging multiple audio signals, subtitles and x264 encoded video and being all FOSS. its also a very popular format for anime, due mostly to its multiple audio and subtitle strengths.
the piracy scene decided on x264 mkv for various reasons but wide compatibility probably wasnt one of them. potential for wide compatibility, open standards and high quality were probably bigger concerns. im pretty sure there werent any hardware xvid players around when they decided that that was the best option for dvdrips.
the playstation 3 and xbox 360 can play x / h264 but not within the mkv container. this means its pretty simple and quick to convert on your pc, but more importantly it means that the console's hardware is fully capable of such playback, its merely a software limitation and this'll get sorted in time.
i was gonna suggest teeworlds, enemy territory and subspace/continuum, but other people have mentioned the first two. but regardless, how many children from poor backgrounds will have parents who have the internet anyway? in the uk a lot of the working class prioritise sky tv over the internet and if these kids really are in need of charity, their parents probably cant afford both.
i still do that with our 2nd pc. its just an old dell i picked up for £20. its on a piece of wood though, which is far easier to move than cardboard. you should have upgraded your case to wood before you went to the darkside and got a notebook
i agree with most things you wrote, although i cant let the comment about local newspapers stand. our local paper is packed front to back with murders, robberies and rape thankyouverymuch. none of that celeb shit here, just fear and violence ;)
what irritates me most about this ID card move is that they're trialing it with a group of people who cannot oppose it. they're forcing the most vulnerable to go through with it. dont want an ID card? get out of the country. once the ID cards are established in the non-european immigrant sector it'll be easier to push it on the next group. quite how they're gonna get around EU regulations on freedom of movement will be interesting though.
my grandad died last year aged 95. that's 30 years retirement from his job as a plumber. he left £90,000 in his bank for relatives and that's after paying for his own funeral. how he did it, im not quite sure, but to say he was careful with his money whilst alive would be an understatement. my dad retires next year, at 65. he was going to have a nice BOC pension but his department got bought by an american company in the early 90s so it isnt so cushy any more. he's benefitted from the uk housing market though in the late 80s and the house is worth a lot more than it was bought for. unless im clever with my money and the work i do, i expect ill retire aged 70 in the uk or aged 55 on some tropical island, and live poor but content. ive not figured out which one is better or how likely it is that i can invest enough money in the right things yet
despite being a tv presenter and writer and having a degree in literature, he did get it from cambridge after all, and can probably get his arty flamboyant mind around something like the concept of free software without the aid of his dad.
thank god he's advising the public to use gNewSense instead of something they might find difficult to get along with
im in the uk and use Be Unlimited. i sync at about 11mbit and to be honest, the biggest limit on my downloads is my storage space. i watch a few HD 720p movies and a lot of standard definition stuff and my monthly usage clocks in at around 160GB a month. my max was about 230GB one month. i havent got my HDTV plugged in to receive broadcasts, its just plugged into my PC so all my tv and movie watching comes down the interweb pipe. other usage is pretty minimal - the occasional game, youtube, transferring stuff via scp to my girlfriend's parents house when she's staying there and wants something to watch etc.
the best toilet facilities ive ever seen were in El Alto, Bolivia (the really fast sprawlling city of breezeblock and redbrick that the poorer native bolivians live in above the country's capital capital, La Paz). every shop, cafe, doorstep market stall and telephone centre has a toilet you can use for pocket change. its a nice little earner on the side after all. there's more signs for toilets than anything else in that place. but anyway. are these seattle ones somehow different to the cylindrical cubicles (does that even make sense?) that i can pay 20p to use here in the uk, that shower themselves down when you step out? surely there's more to them than this, although quite why they didnt go with a few of these is confusing.
the reason it isnt the same as VHS to DVD or cassette to CD isnt a quality issue. the quality is clearly better. as the article suggests its largely to do with the requirement of an HDTV, but there's something else too. with DVDs and CDs, there was a convenience. no rewinding, instant search, 1:1 copying, non perishable (minus scratches). bluray brings nothing new here. the only new thing is quality and quality isnt enough for a lot of users. my parents marvel at the clarity of their 40" 1080p HDTV whilst watching DVB sky through a SCART cable. looks like youtube to me, who's been watching 720p HD movies on a 32" HDTV. HD movies ive aquired of the internet because i too, have no intention of paying for a bluray player.
this is by far the strangest comment ive ever read on slashdot
... that isnt important. most people know what america did in central and south america a few decades ago, including training terrorist deathsquads and propaganda/censorship operations etc. the important parts are: 0: its obviously still going on, and probably on an even more sophisticated level 1: with a leaked document, its a lot harder to deny.
i give it one month until someone gets around the restrictions, and two months until someone makes a transmitter and shuts off all mobiles (or cars) in the area
the ISPs in the UK have been doing this for years, although some still have an ambiguous 'fair use policy' like virgin that'll bring your connection to its knees during peak hours if you're doing something like, say, using the internet.
all the ISPs market their service with all these multimedia capabilities. i use these capabilities, and my bandwidth doesnt go below 140GB a month. what the hell am i meant to do on a 5GB limit?