but one of the reasons i run my IP blocking software on a dedicated machine instead of on my firewall is that using the blocklists from bluetack to block connections from anti-p2p organizations blocked access to imdb and a bunch of imdb's content, even after i white listed imdb.com
Well, boxee will probably eventually be running flash and that just doesn't run well on a primitive old box. DVD rips and over-the-air TV recordings can run well on an ancient cast-off box but Hulu can't. It's using a more "modern" encoding and is terribly put together.
while i am pissed at intel over this whole HDMI + upgrade card fiasco, there's no denying that the atom CPU and nvidia ion chipset make a decent, inexpensive, flash capable machine, provided it has more than a gig of ram.
i wish AMD made a similar low power/low heat/low cost chip.
flash on old hardware usually comes down to RAM, the more the merrier. the problem is that 2gb of ram on a 6 year old box, if the box even supports it, can be tough to find and tends to be expensive.
i tried that, but sadly the DSL service where i live was horribly slow. i watched all the TV and stuff that i wanted (bit torrent just don't care) but it was difficult for the whole family to play online games at the same time.
so i canceled DSL and have cable now, but i took the highest connect speed and the lowest number of channels. i did this because i had no other choice.
though, now that i have worked with the cable company's business service to get broadband for my hackerspace, i am wondering what it would take to get business service for myself at my house and not bother with cable television at all.
"Emerging executives are pretty smart. They're not going to keep trying to sell us something we don't have to pay for. They'll figure out another way to give us something that we'll want to buy."
they only have one thing i want to buy, residential broadband and mobile service.
cops are supposed to do this thing called "police work".
the guy's identity is pretty easy to determine (he's somewhat famous, i gather) so why not just pull his criminal record and see what his list of priors are? if he has a history of assault, even one, take him down town and ask him some questions.
if he doesn't, then just call him or stop by for a chat to get a sense of why he did such a thing. you could send a patrol cop whose beat includes the guy's neighborhood instead of a detective. cops are supposed to get a sense for what people are up to, you know, part of that whole "police work" thing.
steam's DRM is the best around, in terms of what you get for your frustration, but it's still annoying.
i have made heavy use of the download feature, but it's kind of a double edged sword:
you can download all your games, but i have something like 20gb of steam games, so downloading them is a multi-day affair.
also, even if you have installed them from DVD first (which i did, after waiting almost a week for everything to download,) they have to patch/validate which can be a day long affair. double click an icon for a game you haven't played in a few months, it most likely won't start right away due to patching and validation.
i discovered this after two PC rebuilds, one i downloaded everything online and had to wait almost 5 days to play the games i wanted to play, the other i loaded from DVDs and still had to wait a couple of days to play with patches and other nonsense. then i moved, and my gaming machine sat in storage for a few months and when i finally powered it up, i had to download months of patches and re-validate which left me locked out of my games for another day or two.
in steam's defense, you run into this problem with most MMO's, and even XBOX live games as well.
the problem with accusations, especially when those accusations are based on IPs is that the "internet death penalty" could negatively affect the entire household:
We weren't mates back then, not until both our families got dragged into the mandatory "safe network use" counselling sessions. He'd been downloading his obscure Keith Kennenson videos for his Great Work, whereas I'd just been looking to fill my phone up with music. We were both kids, dumb enough to do our wicked deeds without a proxy, and so we got the infamous red disconnection notice through the door, and both our families were added to the blacklist of households that could not be legally connected to the net for a full year. We all got dragged down to the day-long seminars where a patronizing woman from the BPI explained how our flagrant piracy would destroy the very fabric of British society[...]
And three months later—when my Mum lost her benefits because she couldn't go online to renew them and couldn't get down to the Jobcentre to queue up for them, not with her legs; when his Dad lost his job because he wasn't able to put in the extra hours on email that everyone else was doing—that's exactly what we did. We'd caused our families enough trouble. It was time to hit the road.
and of course, there is the fact that it's impossible to enforce a ban on internet access.
The film wasn't even out for two years before Hollywood decided to remake it.
hollywood remakes everything because it believes that americans are too stupid to understand something in its original form.
let the right one in was a good movie and exposed me to swedish cinema. since then i have also watched the millennium trilogy and a couple of other swedish films whose names escape me at the moment.
Just want to point out, that I think it is important to look at who is buying these new Ebooks.
i know two people who have dedicated ebook readers and are buying ebooks for them, though both of them have nooks instead of kindles.
i have read quite a few ebooks, including novels, though i have read most of them on my phone and not on a dedicated reader, and most of them have been public domain/CC works via feedbooks.
Actually, I agree with you here. It's high time to start dipping our feet in the water of actual rebellious actions.
DDOS is a really good tool if you want to get people involved in a protest:
1) anyone with a computer and internet access can participate
2) it doesn't require much actual skill, once the vulnerability has been identified. you just download the script and run it.
3) with thousands or millions of hosts around the globe it makes it very difficult to determine who was accessing the site legitimately and who was part of the protest.
4) with thousands or millions of hosts around the globe it makes it very difficult, if not impossible to stop such an attack.
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not to sound all tin foil hat or anything
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Re: Anyone heard of Ink?
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yo dawg, i heard you like computers...
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Re: Re: Roku!
while i am pissed at intel over this whole HDMI + upgrade card fiasco, there's no denying that the atom CPU and nvidia ion chipset make a decent, inexpensive, flash capable machine, provided it has more than a gig of ram.
i wish AMD made a similar low power/low heat/low cost chip.
flash on old hardware usually comes down to RAM, the more the merrier. the problem is that 2gb of ram on a 6 year old box, if the box even supports it, can be tough to find and tends to be expensive.
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Re: Re: lets see
so i canceled DSL and have cable now, but i took the highest connect speed and the lowest number of channels. i did this because i had no other choice.
though, now that i have worked with the cable company's business service to get broadband for my hackerspace, i am wondering what it would take to get business service for myself at my house and not bother with cable television at all.
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Re: Re: New Respect
they only have one thing i want to buy, residential broadband and mobile service.
i can get everything else over tcp/ip.
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hell no, son. a cowboy hat's like wearin' a sign that says "i ain't no terrorist!"
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i think all of those shows don't do enough to differentiate themselves. they should be titled by their most distinguishing characteristics:
CSI: cute goth girl
the show with ice-T
law and order: sunglasses guy
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Re: Where are these police ...
the cops are too busy lurking twitter. i thought that was firmly established in the blog post.
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Re: Re: Re: Not sure about this one....
the guy's identity is pretty easy to determine (he's somewhat famous, i gather) so why not just pull his criminal record and see what his list of priors are? if he has a history of assault, even one, take him down town and ask him some questions.
if he doesn't, then just call him or stop by for a chat to get a sense of why he did such a thing. you could send a patrol cop whose beat includes the guy's neighborhood instead of a detective. cops are supposed to get a sense for what people are up to, you know, part of that whole "police work" thing.
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Re: Techdirt is a Broken Web Site
that probably explains why no one uses it.
On the post: Game Developers Can Beat Piracy By Copying Their Actual Competition
Re: Steam Features
i have made heavy use of the download feature, but it's kind of a double edged sword:
you can download all your games, but i have something like 20gb of steam games, so downloading them is a multi-day affair.
also, even if you have installed them from DVD first (which i did, after waiting almost a week for everything to download,) they have to patch/validate which can be a day long affair. double click an icon for a game you haven't played in a few months, it most likely won't start right away due to patching and validation.
i discovered this after two PC rebuilds, one i downloaded everything online and had to wait almost 5 days to play the games i wanted to play, the other i loaded from DVDs and still had to wait a couple of days to play with patches and other nonsense. then i moved, and my gaming machine sat in storage for a few months and when i finally powered it up, i had to download months of patches and re-validate which left me locked out of my games for another day or two.
in steam's defense, you run into this problem with most MMO's, and even XBOX live games as well.
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Re:
it's called SSH.
connect to a box overseas and tunnel your traffic through that.
that's the problem with censoring the internet, it's so easy to get to that controlling it is nearly impossible.
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Do we need to wait long?
yes. blockbuster has been dead for at least 5 years and the corpse just stopped kicking.
talk all the trash you want to about them, record labels are sitting on a lot of money and it will take a really long time for them to bleed out.
On the post: Could Cutting People Off From The Internet Be Dangerous?
consider the effects on the household
http://shareable.net/blog/the-jammie-dodgers-and-the-adventure-of-the-leicester-square -screening
We weren't mates back then, not until both our families got dragged into the mandatory "safe network use" counselling sessions. He'd been downloading his obscure Keith Kennenson videos for his Great Work, whereas I'd just been looking to fill my phone up with music. We were both kids, dumb enough to do our wicked deeds without a proxy, and so we got the infamous red disconnection notice through the door, and both our families were added to the blacklist of households that could not be legally connected to the net for a full year. We all got dragged down to the day-long seminars where a patronizing woman from the BPI explained how our flagrant piracy would destroy the very fabric of British society[...]
And three months later—when my Mum lost her benefits because she couldn't go online to renew them and couldn't get down to the Jobcentre to queue up for them, not with her legs; when his Dad lost his job because he wasn't able to put in the extra hours on email that everyone else was doing—that's exactly what we did. We'd caused our families enough trouble. It was time to hit the road.
and of course, there is the fact that it's impossible to enforce a ban on internet access.
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Re: Hollywood lacks a lot
hollywood remakes everything because it believes that americans are too stupid to understand something in its original form.
let the right one in was a good movie and exposed me to swedish cinema. since then i have also watched the millennium trilogy and a couple of other swedish films whose names escape me at the moment.
On the post: Don't Be Confused By Amazon's Ebook Sales Claims
Re: books
i know two people who have dedicated ebook readers and are buying ebooks for them, though both of them have nooks instead of kindles.
i have read quite a few ebooks, including novels, though i have read most of them on my phone and not on a dedicated reader, and most of them have been public domain/CC works via feedbooks.
On the post: Denial Of Service Attacks On RIAA & MPAA Are A Really Dumb Idea
Re: Re: @14
DDOS is a really good tool if you want to get people involved in a protest:
1) anyone with a computer and internet access can participate
2) it doesn't require much actual skill, once the vulnerability has been identified. you just download the script and run it.
3) with thousands or millions of hosts around the globe it makes it very difficult to determine who was accessing the site legitimately and who was part of the protest.
4) with thousands or millions of hosts around the globe it makes it very difficult, if not impossible to stop such an attack.
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no sense of humor?
On the post: Intel Confirms HDCP Master Key Is Out
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