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Comment Re: Some valid criticisms (Score 1) 214

by wagnerrp (#32178874) Attached to: MythTV 0.23 Released

Completely agree about the settings being categorised - in fact I'd be happier if they were nicely categorised in the database, but as it is they're all just glommed into a single table listed in alphabetical order, without any sort of hierarchical structure in the key names (such as you do with objects in firefox's about:config for example) - wouldn't it be nice to have a frontend.display.widgets.renderer = opengl for instance?

Agree that it's entirely possible I'm doing very complicated things, but this is why I get so annoyed at the bulk of Myth power users; I say something's needlessly complicated, and I'm told it's because Myth is so powerful. If something powerful doesn't work as I'd like it to, I'm told I'm making things needlessly complicated.

Technically, there is no ordering of settings in the database. They are just inserted as needed. If they showed up in alphabetical order, its because you sorted them that way in your select statement. Manual tinkering with settings outside the GUI has never been recommended or supported in any manner.

Almost everyone will agree that there are far too many settings, and that their layout could be handled better. MythTV was designed for, and used on for several years, low resolution standard definition TVs. What works there doesn't make much sense on a higher resolution display. I have to say 'almost everyone', as there has been concerted effort over the past year to clear out bad and unnecessary settings. Every time something would be removed, people would pop into the mailing list and IRC channels bickering about how they couldn't live without their particular pet setting. Nevermind the fact that the setting was no longer even functional, and when it previously did function, enabling it caused bad things to happen.

Comment Re:Since when were ISPs the bad guys? (Score 1) 457

by aronschatz (#32178692) Attached to: The Telcos' Secret Anti-Net Neutrality Strategy

The problem isn't with the ISPs, then... It is with the government that granted the monopolies. The government is the problem. I agree with you. I cringe when people yield any power to the government. They (the government) forgot that "We the people" are the government... We will wake up and take it back, hopefully...

Comment Re:Hooray! (Score 2, Insightful) 457

by jedidiah (#32178602) Attached to: The Telcos' Secret Anti-Net Neutrality Strategy

It proved you're a moron. The Jungle demonstrated with clear examples from our own history
the need to prevent companies from running amok. The Gulag Archipelago is about what happens
when governments run amok. You have to be really quite dishonest (or stupid) to connect one
with the other.

It takes a really long slippery slope to turn a somewhat free market economy to a total command economy.

You could equally as well use Gulag as an excuse for anarchy in general rather than just anarchy for Robber Barons.

See how that works... someone will be coming over to harvest your organ momentarily.
Piracy

Submission + - Mpeg 7 to include content identification (pcauthority.com.au) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: NEC has announced that its video content identification technology has been incorporated in the upcoming Mpeg 7 video standard, allowing for each video frame to have its own signature, meaning that even minute changes to the file such as adding subtitles, watermarks or dogtags, and of course cutting out adverts, will alter the overall signature of the video. According to NEC this will allow the owners of the video to automatically "detect illegal copies" and "prevent illegal upload of video content" without their consent. NEC also claims that its technology will do away with the current manual checking by members of the movie industry and ISPs to spot dodgy videos.

Submission + - EU Parliament Passes Resolution Calling on Canada (michaelgeist.ca)

Submitted by unity100
unity100 writes: Eu Parliament passes resolution calling on Canada to support greater ACTA transparency, and to move negotiations closer to WIPO. Michael Geist writes :

"With the Canada — European Union summit underway this week, the European Parliament has just passed a resolution that calls on Canada to support even greater ACTA transparency and to shift the negotiations to an international organization such as WIPO. The full paragraph within the resolution states that the European Parliament:

Hopes that Canada will fully support the EU's request to open up the ACTA negotiations to public scrutiny, as it requested in its resolution of 10 March 2010, and to have those negotiations conducted under the auspices of an international organisation, the most suitable being WIPO;

In the aftermath of its success in promoting release of the ACTA draft text, it is interesting to see the European Parliament becoming increasingly vocal about the ACTA negotiations. Canada has remained generally silent on these issues and the EP resolution may help coax out a response."
Politics

Submission + - UK Coalition Government Arcana (cypherspace.org)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Most of the voting UK public are pretty confused as they thought as the Conservatives (Capitalist) got the highest number of votes on 6th May, that there would be an immediate change from the Labour (Socialist) government. But instead for the first time in 35 years the UK government is looking to be at risk of getting a hung or coalition government. (The most recent previous hung parliaments were in 1974 and 1929.) The voting rules are somewhat arcane and the votes this time are such that there are many strange possible outcomes and surprisingly large number of permutations of coalitions that could be formed and political strategies that may go into their forming. There are at least 60 permutations some more politically plausible than others. Adam Back wrote some software to work out the permutations, and lists some of the arcane factors affecting the outcome. If Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown chose to, it would appear even that he could simply refuse to resign, ostensibly trying to form a coalition indefinitely, maybe even forcing the Queen to dismiss the current Government, which last happened in 1834 under King William IV.

And this lack of a clear government and political uncertainty couldnt have come at a worse time for the UK economy, which after 13 years of Labour government is on track to reach a higher debt-ratio than Greece this year. Unsurprisingly the GBP currency has been falling since the election results particularly while its uncertain which party or coalition will end up in power. Also the UK is not accustomed to power-sharing and given the state of the economy a majority Conservative government is what the markets were preferring, or failing that at least a government! The UK government debt rating is increasingly at risk of downgrading from AAA which readers may recall was the bellwhether that presaged the onset of the Greek government debt crisis, causing the Euro currency to fall, and raising fears of a cascade of European countries defaulting on their debts and causing international stock markets turmoil and fears of a second dip to the just recovering world credit-crisis recession.

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