Comment Re:Use Handbrake (Score 2, Informative) 501
windows users need DVD43 in place of libdvdcss.
Comment Re:Ooooo! (Score 1) 103
You can have your battlemech after I get my battlemech. I put down a deposit for my battlemaster last week.
Comment Re:Coming soon, (Score 1) 148
This isn't anerobic digestion. Go read the website:
Comment Re:3 measely dollars (Score 1) 155
The heavier the load on a server the more it costs the server to operate.
Also each router between the server and the target will eventually want a cut so they can support their servers and routers.
I in no way expressed or implied that I was in favor of a fixed price or subscription price for this on going service. I did state I think that this business model will collapse within the next couple of years because the server has to be kept operating while their is no new revenue coming in.
Comment Re:3 measely dollars (Score 1) 155
Hard wired bandwidth costs money. Every time someone downloads something some server somewhere has to spool up and start pushing bytes down a tube.
If you want to have the semantics argument: the electricity needed to run the servers costs money.
Comment Subscription service: (Score 1) 155
I still cannot mix it into my playlist on my itunes.
This is going back to the subscription service that Walmart had that collapsed several months ago.
For a service like this to endure it has to do the following thing:
1. Sell a product, not a service agreement.
2. This product has to be complete self contained item, not subject to someone elses server getting shut down because the server is needed to operate whenever I want to listen to the music (ie a service agreement).
This is going back to the subscription service that Walmart had that collapsed several months ago.
For a service like this to endure it has to do the following thing:
1. Sell a product, not a service agreement.
2. This product has to be complete self contained item, not subject to someone elses server getting shut down because the server is needed to operate whenever I want to listen to the music (ie a service agreement).
Comment 3 measely dollars (Score 1) 155
What happens when the content provider realizes that bandwidth costs money and that the measly $3 is not going to cover the bandwidth charges because someone wants to listen to the same album ten times a day?
I happen to think that this business model is very broken and a money loser. Websites sell advertising to pay for bandwidth. These guys are trying to sell an unlimited amount of bandwidth usage for a fixed price. This is going to collapse within the next 6-60 months leaving a whole lot of people who bought this app wondering where the songs they 'paid for' are.
Apps That Officially Support Wine 354
David Gerard writes "Wine (the Windows not-an-emulator for Unix) runs Windows applications more often than not. (Certainly more often than Vista does.) Dan Kegel on the wine-users mailing list/forum has started gathering apps that declare Wine a supported platform. And there's now a Wine Support Honor Roll page on the Wine wiki. We need more apps that work with Wine stating that they consider it a supported platform. If you write Win32 open source or shareware, please open yourself to the wider market!"
Why Do We Name Servers the Way We Do? 1397
jfruhlinger writes "If you use a Unix machine, it probably has a funny name. And if you work in an environment where there are multiple Unix machines, they probably have funny names that are variations on a theme. No, you're not the only one! This article explores the phenomenon, showing that even the CIA uses a whimsical server naming scheme." What are some of your best (worst?) naming schemes?
WarCloning, the New WarDriving? 154
ChrisPaget writes "After my legal skirmishes with HID a while back, The Register has coverage of my latest RFID work — cloning Passport Cards and Electronic Drivers Licenses from a moving vehicle. Full details will be released at Shmoocon this weekend, but in the meantime there's video of the equipment and articles all over the place."
Comment Re:Next stop, infomercial and/or MLM (Score 1) 674
1984 Honda civic. I got over 50 MPG with it a couple of times. Normally averaged over 40 wth it.
Submission + - Obituary for Joy Bubbles
Elfich47 writes: Joy Bubbles
recently passed away due to a heart attack. So who is Joy Bubbles and what does he mean to you?
He was one of the original phone phreaks who used the phone network as his own playground. Known as 'the whistler' he would unlock the phone network's tone system through whistling (and being able to whistle 2600Hz on command).
He also helped out the phone networks, did scent research and placed calls to terminally ill patients who needed someone to talk to.
An all around good guy.
He was one of the original phone phreaks who used the phone network as his own playground. Known as 'the whistler' he would unlock the phone network's tone system through whistling (and being able to whistle 2600Hz on command).
He also helped out the phone networks, did scent research and placed calls to terminally ill patients who needed someone to talk to.
An all around good guy.
Give iPod Thieves an Unchargeable Brick 338
Svippy writes "Apple has patented a technology for new generations of iPods that would detect when a user tries to operate the iPod on an unauthorised machine ... and will refuse to charge. Indefinitely. From the article: 'Every portable gadget with a rechargeable battery has a charging circuit that recognises when the external mains charger has been plugged in. It then manages the transfer of current to the battery. Apple's patent suggests that by attaching a "guardian circuit" to the charging circuit, it would be possible to block the charging process. When a device is plugged into an unauthorised computer, software would compare a security code in the device to a code buried in the software in the computer. Apple already employs a similar technology to "pair" iPods to iTunes running on a specific Mac or PC. If the codes do not match, then the guardian circuit could be triggered to prevent any further charging.'"
Submission + - Japanese robot thinks its a cocroach. (engadget.com)
Elfich47 writes: A Demonstration of new robots coming out of japan. It walks, it rolls, it looks like a three foot cocroach.
Submission + - GrokLaw: More Standards Highjink
A. Nonymous writes: Another story from the OOXML war, this time from Spain... GrokLaw
