Don't worry, we'll get off you lawn.:)
In all seriousness though, this is just a reflection of modern society; it's become cheaper to replace something (or reinstall from scratch/backup) than to actually fix the damaged product.
I once knew a guy who reinstalled Windows because the sound from his mic was being played back through his speaker (turned out he'd fiddled around with the volume control). It took 5 sec to fix that, yet he chose to spend over an hour reinstalling.
It really just comes down to what's faster, and not the actual solution/cause of the problem.
No more catching the show on the distant TV station because your local one won't carry it. It's a shame.
The modern equivalent is to BitTorrent it because the country you live in isn't airing it. This is more common in non-US countries, but it also applicable for other content (e.g. anime).
Perhaps there's a way to leverage this - write a virus that tells the user they are infected and downloading child porn, and the FBI are being contacted. If the virus actually searches for and downloads the content, then this should get considerable media attention, possibly changing the public perception. It's a pretty grey idea morally, but would certainly be effective.
--- I hereby release all ideas, concepts and designs in this post into the public domain. Where this is not possible, all users are granted implicit permission to use it in any way they desire.
1) Any ISP relaying openly malicious traffic needs to face consequences for it - Force them to self-monitor.
The problem is that it's not too far from monitoring for 'malicious traffic' to monitoring for 'illegal traffic' (P2P, etc.) to monitoring for 'objectionable traffic' (porn, unpopular political view, anything unsuitable for children, etc.) It's hard enough to keep ISPs out of content filtering without people actively encouraging them to do so for security reasons.
What advantage does getting the legal copy give me again?
Supporting the artists, so that they get to make more content.
And for the record, Avatar isn't really anime. It was made in the US, but was heavily influenced by Japanese culture. I would argue that anime is defined by the art style, and Avatar has an American-style with some elements from anime. At any rate, it's certainly missing some of the typical cliches, character archetypes, etc. that are typical of anime.
I agree. While VLC will play back pretty much anything for me, I've had issues with frames freezing/skipping randomly when watching something in 1280x1008 on a pretty capable system (4GB RAM, Core 2 Duo). SMPlayer plays back the same files perfectly. The difference is more pronounced on lower end systems (512 MB RAM, P4), where VLC wouldn't get past the first frame. Admittedly, SMPlayer only managed a framerate of 1 FPS, but at least it didn't freeze the way VLC did.
For better or for worse, one can go to a Catholic priest or a Protestant minister and get lessons on their branch of Christianity for free.
Why bother going anywhere? You can get a copy of all of the Church's teachings in the form of the Cathechism, which is availble on the Vatican's website. http://www.vatican.va/archive/catechism/ccc_toc.htm
1. Boot of LiveCD. 2. Copy hashes (don't know where these are in Linux, but in Windows you can ectract them from C:\windows\system32\config\SAM) to external/accessible location. 3. Run them against a rainbow table (e.g. http://plain-text.info/ 4.... 5. Profit!
Don't you mean Adobe's file format (i.e. PDF)? There are plenty of other programs which support it that are both more secure and less bloated than Acrobat. One that I recommend is Foxit.
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most EULAs cross national boundaries
There, fixed that for you.
Yes.
Don't worry, we'll get off you lawn. :)
In all seriousness though, this is just a reflection of modern society; it's become cheaper to replace something (or reinstall from scratch/backup) than to actually fix the damaged product.
I once knew a guy who reinstalled Windows because the sound from his mic was being played back through his speaker (turned out he'd fiddled around with the volume control). It took 5 sec to fix that, yet he chose to spend over an hour reinstalling.
It really just comes down to what's faster, and not the actual solution/cause of the problem.
+i Imaginary
You already can store every movie in the world as long as you don't mind the quality.
and the MPAA lawsuits...
I'm pretty sure there have a been a few articles where even the summary, or the article itself, demonstrates Godwin's Law.
Profit!! Now what should I do with all these gold bars?
Use lasers to turn them into black gold.
Then copy it to C:\Program Files by using a Linux LiveCD to get around Windows security :)
The answer: Google Chrome. It installs itself to the user's AppData folder, so it doesn't require admin rights.
No more catching the show on the distant TV station because your local one won't carry it. It's a shame.
The modern equivalent is to BitTorrent it because the country you live in isn't airing it. This is more common in non-US countries, but it also applicable for other content (e.g. anime).
Perhaps there's a way to leverage this - write a virus that tells the user they are infected and downloading child porn, and the FBI are being contacted. If the virus actually searches for and downloads the content, then this should get considerable media attention, possibly changing the public perception.
It's a pretty grey idea morally, but would certainly be effective.
---
I hereby release all ideas, concepts and designs in this post into the public domain. Where this is not possible, all users are granted implicit permission to use it in any way they desire.
1) Any ISP relaying openly malicious traffic needs to face consequences for it - Force them to self-monitor.
The problem is that it's not too far from monitoring for 'malicious traffic' to monitoring for 'illegal traffic' (P2P, etc.) to monitoring for 'objectionable traffic' (porn, unpopular political view, anything unsuitable for children, etc.)
It's hard enough to keep ISPs out of content filtering without people actively encouraging them to do so for security reasons.
What advantage does getting the legal copy give me again?
Supporting the artists, so that they get to make more content.
And for the record, Avatar isn't really anime. It was made in the US, but was heavily influenced by Japanese culture. I would argue that anime is defined by the art style, and Avatar has an American-style with some elements from anime. At any rate, it's certainly missing some of the typical cliches, character archetypes, etc. that are typical of anime.
That said, it's still a great show.
I have a new bullshit meter. It measures in units of "picosofts".
Hey, I might start using that.
Don't. I tried, and the moment it came within a metre of a Windows installation, the damn thing broke.
my shiny new TI84
How is the TI84 new? The TI89 Titanium has been out for ages, and the TI-NSpire just came out.
I agree.
While VLC will play back pretty much anything for me, I've had issues with frames freezing/skipping randomly when watching something in 1280x1008 on a pretty capable system (4GB RAM, Core 2 Duo). SMPlayer plays back the same files perfectly.
The difference is more pronounced on lower end systems (512 MB RAM, P4), where VLC wouldn't get past the first frame. Admittedly, SMPlayer only managed a framerate of 1 FPS, but at least it didn't freeze the way VLC did.
For better or for worse, one can go to a Catholic priest or a Protestant minister and get lessons on their branch of Christianity for free.
Why bother going anywhere? You can get a copy of all of the Church's teachings in the form of the Cathechism, which is availble on the Vatican's website.
http://www.vatican.va/archive/catechism/ccc_toc.htm
1. Boot of LiveCD. ...
2. Copy hashes (don't know where these are in Linux, but in Windows you can ectract them from C:\windows\system32\config\SAM) to external/accessible location.
3. Run them against a rainbow table (e.g. http://plain-text.info/
4.
5. Profit!
That's why there's an encrypted partition. Security by obscurity is the weakest trick in the book, so its only there as a last resort.
Or even better, just store it on an encrypted partition or use an esoteric lossless codec. Maybe .ape or .tta, but probably not .flac
Adobe's software is the industry standard
Don't you mean Adobe's file format (i.e. PDF)?
There are plenty of other programs which support it that are both more secure and less bloated than Acrobat. One that I recommend is Foxit.
What, no Riemann Hypothesis?
If they're going to declare it obsolete, the least they could do is give us the source for the drivers...
http://xkcd.com/149/
But I can see M$ telling Dell - HP - etc. if you want to put Windows a BIOSOS system ... no OS discount for you!
More like a non MS BIOSOS...