Diabolus Advocatus - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Religion didn't call for this (Score 1) 1376

by Diabolus Advocatus on Tuesday July 21, 2009 @04:08AM (#28766963) Attached to: Ireland Criminalizes Blasphemy

No, not socialist. Fianna Fail - the majority ruling party - are centre right and have been shifting further right for years due to the influence of the Progressive Democrats party. While in power they sold off most of the state and semi-state companies, while outsourcing to private companies things that they should be looking after themselves. Letting private companies build hospitals on land of a public hospital is not socialism! Letting private companies charge us tolls to use roads that were built with our tax money is not socialism! I could go on for pages. Jesus fucking christ I hate this country...

Comment Re:cutting edge considerd harmfull (Score 1) 378

by Diabolus Advocatus on Thursday July 16, 2009 @10:03AM (#28716151) Attached to: Typography On the Web Gets Different

Well that all depends on your target market huh?

Just remember that if you're building a golf site then stick to IE6 compatibility for the corporate users or you exclude practically your whole market.

Comment Re:Oh Lord! (Score 3, Insightful) 378

by Diabolus Advocatus on Thursday July 16, 2009 @09:59AM (#28716105) Attached to: Typography On the Web Gets Different

Anything is better than yellow Comic Sans on a purple background!

Comment Non-removable battery?! (Score 4, Informative) 205

by Diabolus Advocatus on Wednesday July 15, 2009 @12:10PM (#28704397) Attached to: Asus Launches Eee PC T91, a Touch-Screen Tablet Netbook

Non-removable battery? What if I'm traveling for hours and my battery runs out? Oh I'll just pop in my spare! Or not...

Comment Re:Interesting, but was already assumed (Score 1) 118

by Diabolus Advocatus on Wednesday July 15, 2009 @09:25AM (#28702581) Attached to: New Map Hints At Venus' Wet, Volcanic Past

Except that the atmospheric pressure it 90 time that of earth.

Comment Re:Does anyone even use classic anymore? (Score 1) 170

by Diabolus Advocatus on Thursday July 09, 2009 @06:39PM (#28643605) Attached to: Classilla, a New Port of Mozilla To Mac OS 9

And judging by how long it's taking for anyone to even comment, I assume the answer to my above question is no...

Comment Does anyone even use classic anymore? (Score 2, Informative) 170

by Diabolus Advocatus on Thursday July 09, 2009 @06:37PM (#28643581) Attached to: Classilla, a New Port of Mozilla To Mac OS 9

Seriously though, does anyone even use it? If I still had a Mac that old, I'd rather run 8.6 to be honest. 9 added nothing much more than bugs while running slower...

Comment From a user perspective (Score -1, Flamebait) 598

by Diabolus Advocatus on Thursday July 09, 2009 @06:12PM (#28643213) Attached to: Mono Outpaces Java In Linux Desktop Development

Java sucks. It's slow and a resource hog. It just doesn't feel 'right' when using programs made from it.

On the other hand, I've never really had a problem with any .net apps that I've used.

Sure Java might be more open but as a user I'm going to use what is better for me - not what's better for the developers.

Comment Both? (Score 2, Insightful) 459

by Diabolus Advocatus on Monday July 06, 2009 @05:07PM (#28599719) Attached to: Examining the HTML 5 Video Codec Debate

Can there not just be support for both?

If a browser vendor doesn't implement them both then it's their market share that will suffer, so browser vendors really would have no choice.

So... Why not implement both standards?

Comment Automatic fail... (Score 1) 310

by Diabolus Advocatus on Monday June 01, 2009 @05:33PM (#28174135) Attached to: Microsoft Bing Search Launches Early Preview

It's an automatic fail for me...

I live in Ireland, and quite often I like to search only within Ireland. Google and Yahoo detects that I'm in Ireland. Bing automatically redirects to the UK. ROI != UK

Comment Re:Boy oh boy! (Score 5, Interesting) 414

by Diabolus Advocatus on Friday May 01, 2009 @12:56PM (#27789177) Attached to: Linux Reaches 1% Usage Share

My girlfriends mother bought a laptop about two years ago. She struggled with Windows as she had never used a computer much before. I installed gOS and she's doing fantastic with it.

Just because you are used to Windows and find it hard to transition, don't blame the OS, blame yourself.

Submission + - EMC, Donatelli File Lawsuits Over Jump to HP (byteandswitch.com)

Submitted by Diabolus Advocatus on Thursday April 30, 2009 @06:37PM

Diabolus Advocatus writes: The fate of David Donatelli, former head of EMC's storage unit, may be decided by the courts. EMC and Donatelli have filed lawsuits against each other over Donatelli's plan to join EMC competitor Hewlett-Packard, the Reuters wire service reported.

HP announced Tuesday that Donatelli, president of EMC's storage division, will join HP on May 5 as executive vice president for enterprise servers, storage, and networking. But analysts questioned whether a non-compete clause would interfere with HP's plans to steal a top executive from a competitor.

Comment Re:DRM hacked? yawn (Score 1) 154

by Diabolus Advocatus on Thursday August 09, 2007 @07:19PM (#20176633) Attached to: Microsoft DRM Code for Netflix Streams Hacked

If ya don't like it then why don't ya fuck off and post somewhere else?

Submission + - Microsoft DRM code for Netflix Streams hacked (macworld.com)

Submitted by

reddburn

on Thursday August 09, 2007 @02:12PM

reddburn writes: "Macworld posted a story by IDN News Service about a hacker who has posted instructions for how to save streaming movies from Netflix, defeating Microsoft's DRM code designed to prevent users from saving the content. From the article:

A hacker who calls himself Dizzie wrote late last month on the Rorta hacking forum that "Netflix doesn't easily allow you to save the flicks and watch them at your leisure because the films are entrapped in some ... Windows Media DRM wrapper," referring to Microsoft's DRM system. Word of his hack spread more widely this week in various blogs and Web sites...He writes that the process for removing the DRM could take a few attempts, and the process does not remove the time limit imposed by Netflix on viewing the content. The Netflix site was down for maintenance early Thursday, although it was unclear if it was related to the hack. The site was back up later Thursday morning.

How long will it take for businesses to realize what the developers and engineers who work for them have known all along: there is no unbreakable DRM?"

Submission + - Hacker cracks Netflix 'Watch Now' Movies (rorta.net)

Submitted by Diabolus Advocatus on Wednesday August 08, 2007 @07:16PM

Diabolus Advocatus writes: At the start of 2007 Netflix started offering a 'Watch Now' service that lets subscribers watch flicks and tv shows online at no extra cost. The limit is one hour per dollar, so if you pay $18 for your subscription, you get 18 hours of credits to watch shit online. All well and good, but the trouble is that Netflix doesn't easily allow you to save the flicks and watch them at your leisure because the films are entrapped in some shittastic Windows Media DRM wrapper. Let's see if we can fix that. This guide will thus show you how to save and decrypt the movies from Netflix so that you can convert them to other mediums and watch them at your leisure.

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