Comment: Re:Trolltalk is back? (Score 0) 62859
Back to /prog/, please.
RIAA Says "Don't Expect DRMed Music To Work Forever" 749
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timothy
from the just-ask-what-and-whether-you're-buying-or-renting dept.
from the just-ask-what-and-whether-you're-buying-or-renting dept.
Oracle Goddess writes "Buying DRMed content, then having that content stop working later, is fair, writes Steven Metalitz, the lawyer who represents the MPAA, RIAA in a letter to the top legal advisor at the Copyright Office. 'We reject the view that copyright owners and their licensees are required to provide consumers with perpetual access to creative works.' In other words, if it stops working, too bad. Not surprisingly, Metalitz also strongly opposes any exemption that would allow users to legally strip DRM from content if a store goes dark and takes down its authentication servers."
Comment: What won't the PRS do? (Score 4, Informative) 305
Let's not forget the time the PRS sued the police!
This is all getting rather silly.
Comment: Re:It's the same as vista (Score 3, Funny) 856
It's actually based on Mojave. Do your research.
Comment: WHATWG-style offline apps? (Score 1) 220
I hope it also supports WHATWG-style offline apps. I don't much fancy installing Gears just to get something my browser already has.
Comment: Re:Faster than Vista! (Score 1) 689
You can digitally sign installers on windows, too. It's not quite as good as a trusted repository which can assert that something is safe (rather than just whom it's from), but it does let you know who created it.
Atari Founder Proclaims the End of Gaming Piracy 831
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ScuttleMonkey
from the until-they-build-a-better-crack dept.
from the until-they-build-a-better-crack dept.
OMGZombies writes "Speaking on a conference held yesterday in New York, the Atari founder Nolan Bushnell said that a new stealth encryption chip called TPM will 'absolutely stop piracy of gameplay'. The chip is apparently being embedded on most of the new computer motherboards and is said to be 'uncrackable by people on the internet and by giving away passwords' though it won't stop movie or music piracy, since 'if you can watch it and you can hear it, you can copy it.'"
Microsoft Performs Illegal Operation, Shuts Down
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mail.app writes "Microsoft Performs Illegal Operation, Shuts Down
Microsoft Corp. issued a surprise press release this morning announcing that the company had "performed an illegal operation and would be shut down." Company executives refused to provide further information regarding the cause of the unexpected shutdown, only issuing a cryptic error number of $00038FF577 and advising all interested parties to "contact their system administrator.""
No fooling Wikipedia on April Fools' Day
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Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes "In a bold and oppressive move, Wikipedia has prohibited modification to its April Fools' Day page. Visiting the page today yields the message:
"Editing of this article by unregistered or newly registered users is currently disabled because of vandalism due to the fact that it is April Fools Day."
What's next? Prohibiting the modification of the International Waffle Day page on International Waffle Day? The Union of Transylvania with Romania Day on the Union of Transylvania with Romania Day? Or the Death to America Day page on Death to America Day? I, for one, am shocked."
HTML6 will be based on OOXML
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Henri Sivonen
Henri Sivonen writes "The Web Hypertext Application Technology Task Force revealed today its secret behind-the-closed-doors plans for HTML6. HTML6 will use OOXML as the serialization for backwards compatibility with the installed base of office suites. The architectural model will be based on the principle of separation of semantics from presentation and integrates with the enterprise-strength backplane for rich applications."