Comment Re:Trolltalk is back? (Score 0) 62851

by Asztal_ on Monday April 19, 2010 @08:14AM (#31894488) Attached to:

Back to /prog/, please.

RIAA Says "Don't Expect DRMed Music To Work Forever" 749

Posted by timothy on Thursday July 30, 2009 @01:50PM 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

by Asztal_ on Tuesday March 31, 2009 @03:01AM (#27398745) Attached to: PRS Demands License Fee To Play Music To Horses

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

by Asztal_ on Saturday January 31, 2009 @01:35PM (#26678233) Attached to: Windows 7 To Skip Straight To a Release Candidate

It's actually based on Mojave. Do your research.

Comment WHATWG-style offline apps? (Score 1) 220

by Asztal_ on Wednesday January 28, 2009 @10:21AM (#26638197) Attached to: Offline Gmail Launched

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

by Asztal_ on Friday October 31, 2008 @07:20PM (#25590473) Attached to: Ubuntu 8.10 Outperforms Windows Vista

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

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday May 26, 2008 @12:17PM 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.'"

Visual Basic on GNU/Linux 383

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday February 21, 2007 @11:41AM from the but-why-you-might-ask dept.

jeevesbond writes "The Mono Project announced that it has developed a Visual Basic compiler that will enable software developers who use Microsoft Visual Basic to run their applications on any platform that supports Mono, such as Linux, without any code modifications."