Comment instant fines for negligent or malevolent claims (Score 1) 165
I can't believe there is still no comeback when companies interfere with other people's legitimate shit
Comment short playback on FLAC? (Score 1) 391
Why is FLAC playback so battery-intensive? Is it because its not implemented in hardware while the mp3 playback is?
Comment Excessive powers granted by copyright (Score 2) 437
The fundamental issue here is that copyright is too powerful. Electronic goods should be a single global market, so the fact that copyright holders are able to use the powers granted by copyrights to slice the market shows that copyright law grants too much.
Comment Settlements != justice (Score 1) 117
This is another example of how settlements can work against the public interest of justice. This blatant lying may influence other court cases differently to an open judgement.
I think all terms of settlements should be public, for the sake of justice.
Sony Hack Reveals MPAA's Big '$80 Million' Settlement With Hotfile Was a Lie 117
An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from Tech Dirt: For years, we've pointed out that the giant 'settlements' that the MPAA likes to announce with companies it declares illegal are little more than Hollywood-style fabrications. Cases are closed with big press releases throwing around huge settlement numbers, knowing full well that the sites in question don't have anywhere near that kind of money available. At the end of 2013, it got two of these, with IsoHunt agreeing to 'pay' $110 million and Hotfile agreeing to 'pay' $80 million. In both cases, we noted that there was no chance that those sums would ever get paid. And now, thanks to the Sony hack, we at least know the details of the Hotfile settlement. TorrentFreak has been combing through the emails and found that the Hotfile settlement was really just for $4 million, and the $80 million was just a bogus number agreed to for the sake of a press release that the MPAA could use to intimidate others.
Comment Re:DNT is useless by design (Score 1) 145
I expect the EU to sooner or later begin enforcing it under the data protection legislation.
Comment Great marketing (Score 2) 176
About 40x as many people know the name of the film now than if they hadn't dramatically pulled it.
Sony: 'The Interview' Will Have a Limited Theatrical Release 176
New submitter clovis writes: It's not over until it's over. Sony Pictures has announced that The Interview will be getting a limited theatrical release after all. The Texas-based Alamo Drafthouse Cinema chain has authorization to show the film, and The Plaza Theater in Atlanta will show it as well. It's not yet clear whether the major theater chains will choose to show the movie despite the threats against them. Sony Entertainment CEO Michael Layton said, "[W]e are continuing our efforts to secure more platforms and more theaters so that this movie reaches the largest possible audience." There are unconfirmed reports that Sony will make the movie available over video-on-demand as well.
Comment Inconsiderate hypocritical cunts (Score 1) 293
If they are blocking wifi inside their hotel, they are almost certainly blocking wifi outside their hotel as well. An eye for an eye...
Comment entrapment (Score 0, Redundant) 388
I never feel anyone's actually committed a crime when an FBI agent is to some extent an instigator
MasterCard Rails Against Bitcoin's (Semi-)Anonymity 111
angry tapir writes: MasterCard has used a submission (PDF) to an Australian Senate inquiry to argue for financial regulators to move against the pseudonymity of digital currencies such as Bitcoin. "Any regulation adopted in Australia should address the anonymity that digital currency provides to each party in a transaction," the company's told the inquiry into digital currencies. MasterCard believes that "all participants in the payments system that provide similar services to consumers should be regulated in the same way to achieve a level playing field for all."
Comment Re:Simple (Score 1) 720
GTX 750 Ti + Haswell 4770K can be run fanlessly or with maybe one low speed case fan.
So as long as the 750Ti is powerful enough for OP's resolution then OP is set.
Comment Re:Except... (Score 1) 126
Comment Except... (Score 4, Insightful) 126
...it wasn't the first computer.
How the World's First Computer Was Rescued From the Scrap Heap 126
anavictoriasaavedra sends this quote from Wired:
"Eccentric billionaires are tough to impress, so their minions must always think big when handed vague assignments. Ross Perot's staffers did just that in 2006, when their boss declared that he wanted to decorate his Plano, Texas, headquarters with relics from computing history. Aware that a few measly Apple I's and Altair 880's wouldn't be enough to satisfy a former presidential candidate, Perot's people decided to acquire a more singular prize: a big chunk of ENIAC, the "Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer." The ENIAC was a 27-ton, 1,800-square-foot bundle of vacuum tubes and diodes that was arguably the world's first true computer. The hardware that Perot's team diligently unearthed and lovingly refurbished is now accessible to the general public for the first time, back at the same Army base where it almost rotted into oblivion.
