Ok, so how does having copyright last until 75 years AFTER THE DEATH of the author benefit the author? They're worm food.

As far a Disney, they take from the public domain, but do everything in their power to prevent their works enriching that same public domain. In addition, after they make their work, they may attack anyone else approaching that same PD source work for another project. Plus, they don't always have the rights they think they do when creating a work (example: Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne. Disney stepped well beyond the license they had to the work.)

The last time I checked, x86 needed extras like the GPU to offload HD decoding to as well.

As for why, MS managed to lose control of (or whore out) the one true cert that all Windows installations are dependent on. In spite of that being public knowledge they haven't revoked it.

Except they did revoke it. That's what the emergency security update they pushed out yesterday was all about.

Can you provide links to any of the promotional material that uses stills from the movies? I poked around on their site, and so far, all I have found are drawings and paintings. (Though the background on one looks very similar to Viggo Mortensen, though not exactly.)

Here is how he works:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbHygyExIIk

I'd rather have twice (or more) the battery life per charge than a removable battery which is one reason I have an iPhone 4S instead of an android handset.

Where are you going to keep those extra batteries that you have to swap throughout the day when you are not on a plane? What happens when you have then in your pocket with some keys and one of the keys short the terminals on a battery in your pocket?

Who said anything about carrying extra batteries? Let me count the number of times I have carried an extra battery for my phone (android or other) since phones changed from analog to digital carrier: never.

Having a removable battery allows for several things, such as removing the battery when something goes wrong (or to prevent it from going wrong), or replacing entirely when the original battery has worn out.

DEFLATE (which is used in gz files) also has a blocking mechanism. the problem is there is no magic value to search for like there is with bzip2. However, it is possible to recover data after a corrupt section of a tar.gz file. I know because I have done it just this month. "stored" blocks happen to be laid out in such a way that you can actually scan for them. once you find a stored block, you can then attempt to decode the deflate stream from that point. As long as no compressed blocks refer to data before that stored block, you've recovered data that you previously chalked up as lost.

3.5" and 5.25" floppy drives are generally quite dumb. they have no idea what a sector is. These are called "soft sectored" disks. The drive just streams flux reversal pulses out over the /READ_DATA line to the controller card. The controller is where the sector is decoded.

BTW, I have also checked and adjusted the calibration on a few different 3.5" drives. I don't have test media to check the alignment of a 5.25" drive, currently.

What method are you using to read them? If just a USB drive or an internal drive on a normal floppy controller, you might get better luck with a device such as the KryoFlux (if you are really determined to get that data back). It is a specialized floppy controller that records the timing of the flux reversals on the media, with the ability to sample a single track about 35 times in one pass, and retry many many times in an attempt to get everything. then software converts that to a usable disk image file.

If you are not interested on spending money on such a device, perhaps you could send the media to someone that has one. (Such as myself.)

No, I'm referring to Server Name Indication.

Sure, you can encrypt the data, but you still have layer 3 information showing what servers you're communicating with. And with the extensions to allow vhosts on https (with different certificates for each vhost), you might be able to tell what site is being visited by logging the handshake.

I've not purchased new games from GameStop in quite some time, however I have heard from a couple other people that they open every new copy and keep the CD or DVD behind the counter as an "anti-theft" measure. (There is no incentive to shoplift, as there is no media and/or key in the box.) At least one of the people I have heard this from complained to someone at id Software, with the concern over unscrupulous employees making copies of the keys to use themselves or sell.

I forgot to mention: I am not a lawyer, let alone YOUR lawyer. This is not legal advice.

False. Copyright infringement is ANY copying or distribution for which you do not have permission. And before someone else mentions fair use: Fair use is a legal defense after the owner goes after you.

You may not agree with the current state of copyright law, but you should at least know it before making false claims about it.