I'm having a hard time ripping, editing, and re-encoding my Blu-ray discs, via the internet. Perhaps you could help?
In what country? Laws vary.
Is there an HTML5 version of Blender for 3D modeling, on the internet somewhere?
Design something already.
How about online GIMP for full-fledged image editing?
Searching for an image editor for an operating system published by Google? Use the Google.
And "SSH" "on the internet" doesn't work well at all.
Was this supposed to be a joke? SSH is in Chrome Web Store.
The problem is: DRM is legally unresearchable
Under what law? It can't be the DMCA because 17 USC 1201(g) exempts certain "activities necessary to identify and analyze flaws and vulnerabilities of encryption technologies applied to copyrighted works, if these activities are conducted to advance the state of knowledge in the field of encryption technology or to assist in the development of encryption products."
Because its existence threatens your non-DRM'ed media how?
The existence of digital restrictions management encourages the design of distribution platforms that forbid publishers from making a DRM-free release even if they want to. This has already happened with Blu-ray Disc, which requires all discs with menus to carry DRM (BDMV requires the payment of AACS royalties and BDAV appears to disallow rich menus), and with video game consoles.
all those TVs and set top boxes that are running Linux would love to have Netflix support (or rather, Netflix would love those to support them)
I thought Netflix would love to support only that can support the robustness that the studios demand. This often involves a locked bootloader, which when used with devices that run Linux is called tivoization.
Sorry, but Metro is not the same as Windows Runtime API.
True, the Modern UI design language (formerly Metro) is a look and feel, and WinRT is an API. But they are strongly correlated: programs that use the latter API will have the former look and feel by default, and the Windows Store review process is supposed to enforce this.
Technical point: LTE isn't 4G.
So I guess people who misread "4G LTE" as "4G Lite" must be right, no?
Try getting cable or sat television without a Disney-owned channel on it.
That's impossible because of must-carry. Try getting broadcast television without a Disney-owned channel on it.
ESPN is not in basic cable most places. It is in extended basic.
I was under the impression that to most people, "basic cable" meant expanded basic (which Xfinity now calls "Digital Starter"), not limited basic (locals + public access + home shopping).
... why would they do that?
To avoid trademark infringement. It's the same reason that people hear "Is Pepsi OK?" in restaurants.
This is probably similar to how some call all digital audio players, "iPods", or any tablet an iPad. For example, someone looking at a tablet, and telling the clerk they wanted the "Samsung iPad".
If corporate found out, it would probably drill something like this into clerks' heads: "Samsung doesn't make the iPad; Apple does. Let me show you the Galaxy Tab."
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