I would think that most self-respecting international spies would have a cooler way of smuggling their laptops into the country than Fedex;)
Why? It's hidden in plain sight, and I dare the DHS to search all packages containing anything larger than a SD micro flash card for information carrying shipments.
I want peace on Earth and goodwill towards men.
We are the United States government. We don't do that sort of thing.
Somehow this doesn't make me feel any safer, quite the opposite actually.
I don't know who I fear the most, Al-Queda, or the US government, It's pretty much a toss-up at the moment, and I'm not so sure that the needle won't end on the latter.
An additional infrared cut-off filter will solve that, so it really doesn't seem like a viable solution. On the other hand, haven't they tested this before?
Neither have I, but good advertising and excessive exposure does help on the opening weekend, after that it's word of mouth and 'friends' reviews that counts.
Honestly, I doubt that 38 hours are going to change much in this case. Who would cancel a planned trip to the cinema because they got a shoddy cam recording of the film? And not many would decide to go to see the film because they couldn't get that bootleg cam recording.
Imho, either someone decides not to want to pay for it and accept the bootleg quality, or they go to the cinema.
The real piracy issues are when the film arrive on DVD, Blu-ray or (legally) streamed download, either as a screener or in retail, when the quality of the copies approach DVD quality or better.
I'm not so sure that what Foxxcon is doing isn't outright criminal. They (silently) detect a specific type of software, and deliberately pass it faulty data. Hardware "Certified for Windows" usually doesn't mean "Works only with Windows"
Now, that the packaging for the Mobo said "This hardware is LOCKED-IN to Microsoft Windows Vista and XP, and it will NOT operate with any other operating system", they would be in the clear as far as I'm concerned.
It is not that they are only supporting Windows, but that they are up to the old Microsoft trick of detecting non MS software, and pass it deliberately bad data, only to claim that it may be the non-MS software that are at fault.
I wonder if anyone have considered what would happen to light at even.1C ? The instruments certainly would have to be able to adjust for the doppler effect, or else those nice modern blue leds on the dashboard would become beams of UV light:-)
The faster you go the more dangerous the oncoming light would become.
On the other hand, had MS not bought Paramount/Dreamworks last fall, the 'war' could have ended with Blu-ray as the victor anyway, after all HD DVD weren't fairing all that well before Paramount went exclusive for HD DVD.
I agree that HD DVD were the better one from the perspective of the users (Weak DRM and no region codes) but in the longer run that may also have hampered the technology with studios trying to drag their heels a bit, until even worse DRM schemes were introduced on the download services.
I doubt that the Moon can transition from an Earth orbit to a Solar one, if I'm not mistaken is it more likely to enter an increasingly elliptical orbit, which may indeed cause it to intersect Earth. I am no astronomer though, so I'm merely applying laymans logic (or lack thereof:-)
I'm more concerned that had the format war dragged on, and had studios had to do support both formats, it would have come down to mastering in the least common denominator. Here HDDVD's lower capacity could have played in, and as going from 30G to 25 isn't much for a stretch once you are playing that game, some studios might have opted for single layer BD's to cut cost further.
I'm just glad that this war seems to be coming to an end.
And for those people with the HDDVD drive for your XBOX, I wouldn't be surprised if MS were to release a BD drive once they realize that their format is no longer a selling point. Had the war gone the other way, I'm equally confident that an external drive solution would have been made available for the PS3...eventually.
Microsoft didn't succeed at monopolizing the net by bastardizing HTML, and their introduction of ActiveX controls. Is Silverlight just another attempt to try and push a Windows-only technology onto the net?
By getting rid of HTML and by using Silverlight, MS are going to sit on the specifications. They are definitely not going to share the Silverlight internals with the rest of us.
I really hate these cases. On one hand this case means one less perv on the streets, and no one can really argue against that. On the other hand, it should be considered an invasion on privacy, which any right thinking person really should fight to protect any day of the week.
It's a Catch 22, and a dangerous one to start building a legal precedence on.
a guy in Thailand who, after discovering ants in his external hard drive, took the cover off in order to spray the interior with insect repellent. Both the ants and the drive died.
I didn't know that removing bugs could damage a system like that...
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I would think that most self-respecting international spies would have a cooler way of smuggling their laptops into the country than Fedex ;)
Why? It's hidden in plain sight, and I dare the DHS to search all packages containing anything larger than a SD micro flash card for information carrying shipments.
I want peace on Earth and goodwill towards men.
We are the United States government. We don't do that sort of thing.
I love that quote. Good movie.
Honest citizens need to act like international spies.
I wonder if DHL, UPS, TNT or FedEx will allow thermite charge booby trap systems in laptop shipments?
Somehow this doesn't make me feel any safer, quite the opposite actually.
I don't know who I fear the most, Al-Queda, or the US government, It's pretty much a toss-up at the moment, and I'm not so sure that the needle won't end on the latter.
The 'when' part have no expiration date.
An additional infrared cut-off filter will solve that, so it really doesn't seem like a viable solution.
On the other hand, haven't they tested this before?
Neither have I, but good advertising and excessive exposure does help on the opening weekend, after that it's word of mouth and 'friends' reviews that counts.
Honestly, I doubt that 38 hours are going to change much in this case. Who would cancel a planned trip to the cinema because they got a shoddy cam recording of the film?
And not many would decide to go to see the film because they couldn't get that bootleg cam recording.
Imho, either someone decides not to want to pay for it and accept the bootleg quality, or they go to the cinema.
The real piracy issues are when the film arrive on DVD, Blu-ray or (legally) streamed download, either as a screener or in retail, when the quality of the copies approach DVD quality or better.
The ones they have now are obviously faulty, 1 April isn't due for another 8 months.
I'm not so sure that what Foxxcon is doing isn't outright criminal.
They (silently) detect a specific type of software, and deliberately pass it faulty data. Hardware "Certified for Windows" usually doesn't mean "Works only with Windows"
Now, that the packaging for the Mobo said "This hardware is LOCKED-IN to Microsoft Windows Vista and XP, and it will NOT operate with any other operating system", they would be in the clear as far as I'm concerned.
It is not that they are only supporting Windows, but that they are up to the old Microsoft trick of detecting non MS software, and pass it deliberately bad data, only to claim that it may be the non-MS software that are at fault.
...or might this be an 'AMIBios' issue ?
My Biostar TForce 590 SLI Deluxe crashes during startup unless I pass the -NOACPI kernel parameter to it.
I had a similar problem with a previous computer, IIRC it ran on an AMI Bios as well.
WoW clients download the majority of the larger updates weeks in advance of them being applied, and Wowwiki have a very popular patch mirror page.
Maybe the increase have a bit to do with the dwindling value of the US Dollar, most of this equipment are produced abroad after all.
I wonder if anyone have considered what would happen to light at even .1C ? The instruments certainly would have to be able to adjust for the doppler effect, or else those nice modern blue leds on the dashboard would become beams of UV light :-)
The faster you go the more dangerous the oncoming light would become.
That explains Global warming then.
On the other hand, had MS not bought Paramount/Dreamworks last fall, the 'war' could have ended with Blu-ray as the victor anyway, after all HD DVD weren't fairing all that well before Paramount went exclusive for HD DVD.
I agree that HD DVD were the better one from the perspective of the users (Weak DRM and no region codes) but in the longer run that may also have hampered the technology with studios trying to drag their heels a bit, until even worse DRM schemes were introduced on the download services.
I doubt that the Moon can transition from an Earth orbit to a Solar one, if I'm not mistaken is it more likely to enter an increasingly elliptical orbit, which may indeed cause it to intersect Earth. :-)
I am no astronomer though, so I'm merely applying laymans logic (or lack thereof
/. is no place for racist jerks.
The reason Laserdiscs failed was because you couldn't record content onto them. And they were expensive.
I'm more concerned that had the format war dragged on, and had studios had to do support both formats, it would have come down to mastering in the least common denominator. Here HDDVD's lower capacity could have played in, and as going from 30G to 25 isn't much for a stretch once you are playing that game, some studios might have opted for single layer BD's to cut cost further.
I'm just glad that this war seems to be coming to an end.
And for those people with the HDDVD drive for your XBOX, I wouldn't be surprised if MS were to release a BD drive once they realize that their format is no longer a selling point. Had the war gone the other way, I'm equally confident that an external drive solution would have been made available for the PS3...eventually.
Microsoft didn't succeed at monopolizing the net by bastardizing HTML, and their introduction of ActiveX controls.
Is Silverlight just another attempt to try and push a Windows-only technology onto the net?
By getting rid of HTML and by using Silverlight, MS are going to sit on the specifications. They are definitely not going to share the Silverlight internals with the rest of us.
I agree, though the added competition can only be of the good.
I really hate these cases. On one hand this case means one less perv on the streets, and no one can really argue against that. On the other hand, it should be considered an invasion on privacy, which any right thinking person really should fight to protect any day of the week.
It's a Catch 22, and a dangerous one to start building a legal precedence on.
I didn't know that removing bugs could damage a system like that...
I thought ECMA was pronounced ACME...