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Comment Re:Google Much? (Score 1) 147

Which is because the MPAA and our friends at MPEG-LA were like: "Hello there. We create non-workaeble movie copies. That is, unless you use MPEG4. Of course the MPEG 4 license from MPEG-LA restricts vendors to play anything not obscurely crappy copyprotected. But hey... We have the Copyright, which is a law we lobbied to be passed, to make sure nobody may ever make useful copies. Of course nobody cared because movies cost money and we need to get paid. It just that we decided to earn money, our way. So now everybody is fscked, because we don't have a legitemate way to earn money, without a law that grands us a monopoly on a piece of work."

And then smart people ignored DRM and John Doe's didn't care. They soon will, but then the rest of us is forced to go completely Free Software mad and decided to put our spare time to better use.

Now where are the people who go outside? Or should I learn some more about computing, like I did before by learning about DRM? I'm sure my time wil have been spend useful while others wasted theirs, watching DRM copies of G.I. Joe or some other mindless crap that is only as useful for living for as long as it's being watched.

Comment Re:The King is dead (Score 1) 391

Are just saying it is like that or can you realy show me that that's actualy the case?

If you can show me, it just means your comment is just as unworthy as you cracking skills, meaning your comment is worthless.
If you can prove yourself wrong, then you are wrong.
If you can't even know, then your comments mean nothing.
If you can show me proof that human mistakes are avoidable, then you are smart enough to know that Apple didn't avoid them.

You are at the very least not right. Judging by past evidence made, very probably wrong. That makes my comment only more probable, so thanks for commenting me up.

Comment Re:The King is dead (Score 2) 391

This can only result in this:
1. PC manufacturers, not asociated by Apple will go full Linux;
2. Apple's security department will face security breach hell;
3. People will return to Windows or switch to Linux.

Mac OS X security is a joke. Not by design, but by practical reality:
1. It's based on free software;
2. It's not patches as fast as that free software;
3. Since there is no security through obscurity, cracker will only need to subscribe to various free software mailing lists and acces CVS systems;
4. Wait for holes in FreeBSD to be explained on the mailing lists;
5. Look at the CVS fixes before and after the patched holes;
6. Laugh their asses of while Apple's security responds team waits arrogantly for weeks to months on end to supply updates, since Apple doesn't appear to need a lot fixes, because Mac OS X is supposedly the shit;
7. Bye bye Apple customers;
8. Ballmer: "Missed me?";
9. Linus: "Don't go to the Darkside, Luke."

Comment Re:Police, Fire Brigade, Truncheon, Axe... (Score 1) 115

Rooting your device is difficult, so doing it yourself makes it so fscking easy for a cracker to use it?

And about that WiFi...
Laptop: "Is my SSID HomeRouter1337 around?
MITM attack script: change SSID to HomeRouter1337
HomeRouter1337~: "Right here baby 3"
Laptop: "I wanna connect to 9gag so bad"
HomeRouter1337~: "Not so fast, lolcats. I'v got badass security 'n shit, so why don't you prove you are not an evil scriptkiddy first?"
Laptop: Don't worry man, the password is 1234luggage"
MITM attack script: change WPA2-PSK to 1234luggage
HomeRouter1337~: "Amazing! I've got the same combination on my luggage!"
Laptop: "Give me bankofamerica.com"
HomeRouter1337~: "Here's your login page"
Laptop: "Here's John Doe, 1234password"
MITM attack script: detecting bankofamerica domain with ngrep; send to cracker laptop and give the laptop a fake bankofamerica.com maintenence page "We're sorry, but login an hour from now while we ensure our security stays 1337"
Cracker: "Lawl I can't believe people are so fscking stupid ^__^"
FBI: "Hello hacker criminal"

Comment Re:Nope, no source code. Just binary blobbage. (Score 1) 79

X.org is now pretty much implemented as a State Tracker for Gallium3D ;) 2D networking X11 stuff in Xlib doesn't work if compoziting and using 3D, so that's why X11 is being axed and replaced by HTML5 in the widget toolkits Qt and GTK, and also by Wayland. Wayland sits on top of what X.org now sits on, and is purely a Window Manager.

Xlib is outdated, even for X.org. X.org now uses XCB (X.org C-Bindings).

If you want to poke at the frame buffer, try directly talking to the Kernel Mode Setting driver ;)

Comment Re:Nope, no source code. Just binary blobbage. (Score 1) 79

This isn't the 90's anymore...

GPU drivers, today, aren't targetting hardware directly. It's not like one fires up Carmageddon, which talks to Glide, which talks to graphics card anymore.

Here's to illustrate what's going on, going from hardware to application:
0. Hardware: processes data;
1. Firmware: tells binary to go this way or that way;
2. Kernel drivers (called the Direct Rendering Manager): Memory manager buffers to time-slice between all kinds of GPGPU apps (like OpenGL, OpenCL, MPEG*-decoding, etc.), scheduler to schedule the apps and KMS for 2D shiny correct-resolution stuff;
3. Bytecode, aka IR (Intermediate Representation);
4. LLVM-driver to convert library (OpenGL, OpenCL, etc.) stuff to Gallium3D IR;
5. Library with routines from API to LLVM driver;
6. Apps/frameworks/whatever.

The driver for the UVD is called a state tracker (lib[5] plus driver[4]). Everything below [3] is graphics card specific. The rest is vendor-agnostic.

Since there needs to be a State Tracker, in this case a VDPAU implementation in the Mesa "pipe-video"-branche (merged with master), it's not AMD specific at all. (works with nouveau (Gallium3D nVidia driver) It is, however, called a driver.

Then there is the scheduler, memory and firmware stuff. They need to adress Gallium3D IR, by sending it to the appropriate driver.

So you will not, whatsoever, be looking at a single driver, to learn how AMD does their DRM. (as in Digital Rights Management, not to be confused with the Direct Rendering Manager)

It's like a Java VM, so with a correct LLVM CPU backend driver, one can run heavily threaded GPU stuff directly on the CPU, which is dumb as hell for end usage.

Comment Re:Police, Fire Brigade, Truncheon, Axe... (Score 1) 115

Where do I fit into all of this?

Let's see...

I run Linux Mint Debian.

Ouch... App Armour instead of SELinux.

I've basically turned the firewall off, on the computer and at the router.

No least amount of privilages (see app armour as well), making you exposing functionality one can abuse. Very. Stupid.

Flash is installed, and disabled by default.

I hope it's not Adobe Flash? Take Gnash for DRM'd YouTube. Use this for everything else:
  http://youtube.com/html5
  And please don't tell me you need Flash for anything important.
Widely spread closed source crap that is internet-only. (plugin, right?)

Javascript is disabled by default, but I can select sites on which to run it.

Entire... sites? Not individual scripts? Not per-session or whitelist?

In the unlikely event that I am pwned - how liable do you think I should be?

You did not actualy forgot to disable the file:/// protocol in use by your webbrowser, did you?

Are my precautions adequate?

Hahaha no. And don't tell me you automatically connect to WiFi, with any computing device you have under full control. (as in not a complete DRM castle, like an iPad. And please don't tell me that you root mobile stuff... do you?)

Comment Re:The Answer To This Nonsense... (Score 1) 1111

That's only one part of the problem. Now imagine making GHB available to all rapists. Yeah...

BTW the biggest problem with illicit drugs is that the people who take them regularly for a reason, aren't helped with therapy and 'real' medicine. Seriously...

So the point here is that the drug problem, anywhere, is lack of education. Also; the people who die from 'relatively safe' recreative use (say; 1-2mg MDMA per kilogram bodyweight per 3 months), die because of te lack of education. And they don't even have a problem because of drugs.

So basically drug problem is a problem with education, which can impair the economic and politics, which in turn leads to more people who want to escape from reality.

Comment Re:Fscking morons (Score 1) 170

And to quote the PDF:

On a more technical note...
oversampling eliminates Bayer pattern problems. For example, conventional 8MPix sensors include only
4Mpix green, 2Mpix red and 2Mpix blue pixels, which are interpolated to 8Mpix R, G, B image. With pixel
oversampling, all pixels become true R, G, and B pixels. What’s more, based on Nyqvist theorem, you
actually need oversampling for good performance. For example, audio needs to be sampled at 44 kHz
to get good 22 kHz quality.

Now hands up who thinks that Canon will dump the consumer camera market?

Comment Re:Blitz (Score 1) 628

Imagine you're Kim and this is the situation you are in:
1. You're smart and you've attended university in Sweden;
2. You survived a hit;
3. Your dad was butfsck psychotic and manic;
4. Your army wants you dead, because they are underfed;
5. The US wants you dead, because of your father.
6. All your aids are cut off;
7. Your dad's nuke can't reach the USA;
8. South Korea^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Everybody wants you dead.

This is what I think, Kim is planning:
1. Act as he does (happening right now);
2. Position 28.500 US soldiers in the range of your one nuke, inside the country that wants you dead;
3. Nuke the bastards;
4. Thereby making the US nuke your army (that wants you dead), along with the butfsck retarted and brainwashed population that is theoretically shit out of luck anyway;
5. Flee off to India to get a facelift that you pay for with the money that you acquired through your military industry;
6. Laugh your ass off, because the US can't even figure if you're dead, because they just nuked you, okay?

Comment Re:Blitz (Score 1) 628

The perfect con... Seen the movie?

First make yourself look like an knowledgeable idiot, to hide that that you are not that stupid. By acting arrogant, nobody will ever even considder that you are smarter, not even a nanosecond.

Secondly, make your enemy arrogant (seems to work).

After that, hand your enemy your chess pieces, utilizing the trick that your pulled of at first. Make your enemy underestimate you.

Your enemy will be laughing his ass of, until he realizes he has positioned himself checkmate. He will not learn from his mistake, because nobody wants to question their own intelligence.

Lols...

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