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Comment: Re:Objection to the formal objection. (Score 2) 270

by Idimmu Xul (#43859285) Attached to: EFF Makes Formal Objection to DRM In HTML5

what he said!

When we rented videos from Blockbuster did we bitch and moan about having to return it?

One of the main gripes about DRM is lack of transferability or consistency due to everyone using their own incompatible DSM standards. Standardising on this should mean someone with a Netflix account will get to stream videos on not just Windows (hopefully without Silverlight) but also their standards compliant Linux desktop, Mac and possibly phone and tablet all via the browser.

If the DSM is too invasive, there will always be piracy, if that floats your boat. But DRM in the browser creates more choice and more options, choice and options that we otherwise don't have right now.

Comment: Re:More Flexibility? (Score 1) 466

by Idimmu Xul (#43670789) Attached to: Ubuntu Developing Its Own Package Format, Installer

You're just angry that I'm pointing out that linux lacks a central repository for application and kernel settings and you have to dig through /etc 's mass of files to do the same thing. Linux is still rocking the equivalent of ".ini" files, and yeah -- it is primitive.

I hope this is the greatest troll comment ever, because this is the last thing Linux needs. /etc is so mind numbingly simple and can be traversed with vim, grep and find so easily that turning it in to a shit fest of a binary repository, e.g. window's registry or even gconf's xml would be horrific

not having a repository like that is a feature as opposed to an over architected flaw

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Google Releases Street View Images From Fukushima Ghost Town 63

Posted by samzenpus
from the new-fallout-map dept.
mdsolar writes in with news that Goolge has released Street View pictures from inside the zone that was evacuated after the Fukushima disaster. "Google Inc. (GOOG) today released images taken by its Street View service from the town of Namie, Japan, inside the zone that was evacuated after the Fukushima nuclear disaster in March 2011. Google, operator of the world's biggest Web search engine, entered Namie this month at the invitation of the town's mayor, Tamotsu Baba, and produced the 360-degree imagery for the Google Maps and Google Earth services, it said in an e-mailed statement. All of Namie's 21,000 residents were forced to flee after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami crippled the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant, about 8 kilometers (5 miles) from the town, causing the world's worst nuclear accident after Chernobyl. Baba asked Mountain View, California-based Google to map the town to create a permanent record of its state two years after the evacuation, he said in a Google blog post."

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