Seems like you are trying to work out a solution to a problem you don't have yet. Maybe first see if users are just willing to play nice. Get a powerful system and let them have at it. That's what we do. I work for an engineering college and we have a fairly large Linux server that is for instructional use. Students can log in and run the provided programs. Our resource management? None, unless the system is getting hit hard, in which case we will see what is happening and maybe manually nice something or talk to a user. We basically never have to. People use it to do their assignments and go about their business.

Hardware is fairly cheap, so you can throw a lot of power at the problem. Get a system with a decent amount of cores and RAM and you'll probably find out that it is fine.

Now, if things become a repeated problem then sure, look at a technical solution. However don't go getting all draconian without a reason. You may just be wasting your time and resources.

" when in fact I mean anyone who thinks that disks are the perfect medium, including the rights holders

Rights holders would love to move to an all-streaming, all-rental model. They just would cut out a large number of customers.

If they would let go of their belief that disk distribution is a good thing... then we can all move towards a world where streaming distribution is normal, easy and cheap.

The thing is, streaming puts you at other people's mercy. The studio doesn't make money streaming an old movie (it does cost something to host them)? Gone from the service. There was never a disk release? Possibly gone forever, like the old inflammable films of yore.

With physical media, there is still that first sale doctrine to keep the copies alive and circulating.

we can all move towards a world where streaming distribution is normal, easy and cheap.

It will be cheap and easy, then as it become normal, it will become less cheap. As it becomes less cheap, it will become less easy, because suddenly there is enough money in it that every media company can roll their own solution, and not lose money to another entity taking a cut. Hell, the later is already happening, as stuff is disappearing off Hulu to various network sites.

There is absolutely no way these companies would give it up voluntarily.

Well, the easier solution is not to give them the option. It's also a lot more failsafe, since people *will* break a law, but *will not* do things that are impossible/too difficult/too expensive.

Getting ads is annoying, getting ads for African American hair styling products when you're a redhead is infuriating. Targeted ads are a good thing, it's the completely unaddressed side affects of that data collection that's a problem.

Targeted ads are annoying as hell.

They are often something I would never be interested in, and even if it were rarely what I am interested in at the time I'm browsing.

Non-targeted ads bother me less, because I just tune them out. No need for my brain to waste cycles processing a fast-food commercial

Bill Clinton word style play shouldn't absolve you of negligence.

Bill Clinton (a lawyer) played a better game of technicalities than the guy (another lawyer) taking his statement. As stupid as it would be to use language like that in real life, that whole process was just a game.

No, it wouldn't.

This takes advantage of driver/hardware differences, and settings for graphics.

Therefore, unless you update the drivers/change your settings/change your hardware it will not block this.

That said, it shouldn't be that difficult to block; I mean, who uses the Canvas anyway?

(Showing my age here), kind of like how you could easily see the difference between the old Voodoo and TNT2 graphics card by how they rendered.

Hell, there are even bugs* that have 100% different failure states on ATI vs. NVidia cards. All ATI cards default to white, NVidia cards to black**

*For example, rendering a NULL texture

** May be backwards

Instead of announcing they will stop processing on saturday to increase profits. they would have announce it as, "here at netflix we love our employees so starting now we will be giving all of them saturdays off. It's because netflix is an honest company that loves it's employees."

We all know it's as far from the truth as possible, but it's all fluffy and feely that makes people smile..

Or those that wants to watch a movie that is not on the streaming side. well over 50% of what I want to watch is not on netflix streaming OR hulu plus.

I pray every night that god will smite the physical disk huggers... so that Netflix can shift their business to all streaming and actually improve the availability of streaming titles. It hasn't happened yet, but I keep praying.

You have the horse and cart backwards. Because of the first-sale doctrine, Netflix can offer a lot more movies on DVD than via Streaming. They would probably kill the DVD service if they could offer their full collection over Streaming. But the Movie Industry refuses to grant them sufficent rights (which makes sense... they want to sell DVDs too). And the OP probably would prefer to stream movies if he could.

Just another example on why it's better to buy then rent your media.

links FTW, bitches!

(...then again, it would seem rather trivial to make/create an extension that blocks or modified the canvas tag contents, no?)

Given that they likely had to add a few custom bits to insure anonymity, and likely modified or ripped out a few other bits, odds are good that the customizations are where the issue lies.

(...then again, perhaps the bug(s) can be found in the std. packages, but the researchers wanted to scare a smaller organization into becoming a customer first?)

I'm 100% certain "in due time" would come a lot sooner if the Tails OS maintainers coughed up the right fee, which means that this is most definitely NOT responsible disclosure.

I get that security researchers have to eat too, but damn - this sort of reeks of extortion. Maybe I'm wrong, but I know if I had a code project and some company said they knew I had holes but refused to tell me upon asking, extortion would be the first effing thought that would come to mind.

...and we don't owe Microsoft our patronage - it works both ways, which is what GP was calling out.

I know it sounds vain but it does also have practical applications for people with muscular deficiencies owing to immobility. From what I've gathered, no one really knows what happens, precisely, to cause muscles to "grow". Sure, there's a hundred different theories tossed around on body building forums, but a lot of sounds more like pseudo-biological nonsense rather than real science. There's precious little experiment in the field and my lay understanding is that it is because the only method of looking at muscles is biopsy.

Or given that it has to be connected to a TV, the security pairing code can be displayed on the TV as well and the user enters that code in.

Anything the Chromecast can connect to is at least 720p - plenty for a QR code with a fairly beefy key.