MFHFozzy - Slashdot User

Comment Re: Cue the audiophiles in 3...2.... (Score 0) 77

by MFHFozzy on Wednesday March 01, 2017 @04:36PM (#53956841) Attached to: Spotify Is Testing a Lossless Subscription Tier For $15 to $20 Per Month

Just to make things actually clear for people:Audio CDs (MP3) are already a lossy format. MP3 does not capture all the audio in a live recording. This is why audiophiles love vinyl records and why the vinyl industry *grew* in 2016. https://www.lifewire.com/what-... http://fortune.com/2016/04/16/...

Comment Re:In other words: (Score 1) 147

by MFHFozzy on Thursday May 02, 2013 @07:45PM (#43615791) Attached to: AMD's Open Source Linux Driver Trounces NVIDIA's

No, *I'm* sorry, but i have to call bullshit on your bullshit. And no, not pre-buyout. I've run/support huge labs of computers for years and years, and even now ATI/AMD drivers suck ass. Driver crashes? Only the ATI cards. BSODs caused by vid drivers? Only the ATI Cards. I have to go replace 2 more computers as of yesterday, due to the ATI drivers crashing on one and causing conflicts on another. *You* may be getting lucky, but when you scale it up, AMD drivers still have waaaaay more problems than Nvidia.

Comment Blame Apple. (Score 1) 1140

by MFHFozzy on Wednesday October 06, 2010 @02:21PM (#33813716) Attached to: Why Are We Losing Vertical Pixels?

The simple reason is marketing. The advanced reason is laptops. The initial reason is...Apple. When Apple started the whole "Watch movies on our new laptop in native widescreen!" trend, that was the start of this whole problem. Then marketing researchers noticed that people were buying widescreen laptops over non widscreen...and were paying a premium while using a smaller monitor. Thus, all laptop makers switched to widescreens. It saves them cash, and they could charge the same or more to consumers. All in all, it sucks bad.

Comment Look at the terms of service... (Score 1) 640

by MFHFozzy on Sunday March 15, 2009 @08:57PM (#27204933) Attached to: Morality of Throttling a Local ISP?

I would say it all depends on what the terms of service say in the contracts you sold the customers. When did it become ok to charge people for using their broadband ("always on") connection as much as they want? I know my contract has no text about how much i can use my connection.

Comment Use a combination of LDAP, Sudo, and a Cron job. (Score 1) 904

by MFHFozzy on Tuesday March 10, 2009 @05:17AM (#27132005) Attached to: Locking Down Linux Desktops In an Enterprise?

Dunno if this would work, but the idea is neat: Policies for running programs can be controlled via the sudoers file, using groups. Once on LDAP, the group memberships can be controlled via the central LDAP server. You could even create a cron job to check/update the sudoers file. You could take it a step further and write a global login script to lock down all aspects of a system, and have it unlock and lock services/devices based on group membership in LDAP.

RCMP Won't Go After Personal Filesharers 405

Posted by kdawson on Sunday November 11, 2007 @08:44PM from the sigh-of-relief-eh dept.

mlauzon writes "The RCMP announced that it will stop targeting people who download copyrighted material for personal use (Google translation). Their priority will be to focus on organized crime and copyright theft that affects the health and safety of consumers, such as copyright violations related to medicine and electrical appliances, instead of the cash flow of large corporations. Around the same time that the CRIA successfully took Demonoid offline, the RCMP made clear that Demonoid's users don't have to worry about getting prosecuted, at least not in Canada. 'Piracy for personal use is no longer targeted,' Noël St-Hilaire, head of copyright theft investigations of the RCMP, said in an interview. 'It is too easy to copy these days and we do not know how to stop it.'"

Journal Journal: Has Bush screwed up enough to guarantee "Billary" win? 13

Journal by tomhudson on Sunday November 11, 2007 @08:43PM

"Show me the $$$".

The simple facts:

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by ultrasook on Sunday November 11, 2007 @08:37PM

Feed Science Daily: How Poisonous Plants Protect Themselves From Their Own Weapons (sciencedaily.com)

From feed by sdfeed on Sunday November 11, 2007 @08:13PM

It is a known fact that plants are firmly planted in the soil -- they cannot flee from enemies which want to eat them. They are not helpless, however; they oppose their enemies with a large number of sometimes highly poisonous substances. But the plant itself -- how can it protect itself from these poisons?

Feed Science Daily: Anti-inflammation Molecule Helps Fight MS-like Disease, Study Suggests (sciencedaily.com)

From feed by sdfeed on Sunday November 11, 2007 @08:13PM

An immune system messenger molecule that normally helps quiet inflammation could be an effective tool against multiple sclerosis. Neurology researchers have found that the protein interkeukin-27 (IL-27) helped block the onset or reverse symptoms in animals with an MS-like disease. The results suggest that IL-27 may someday be part of a therapy to temper over-active immune responses, which are thought to be at the heart of MS.

Feed Science Daily: Life-threatening Gene Defect Located: Mutation Linked To Thoracic Aortic Disease (sciencedaily.com)

From feed by sdfeed on Sunday November 11, 2007 @08:12PM

Scientists have identified a defective gene that affects vascular smooth-muscle cells in people who suffer from hereditary thoracic aortic disease, which can kill victims with little warning in the prime of their lives.

Feed Science Daily: Thinking Makes It So: Science Extends Reach Of Prosthetic Arms (sciencedaily.com)

From feed by sdfeed on Sunday November 11, 2007 @08:12PM

A technique allowing a prosthetic arm to respond directly to brain signals has the potential to provide more arm and hand movements, beyond the four the technique has already achieved, a new study shows. The researchers have begun work with two US Army medical centers to help soldiers who have lost limbs.

Submission + - Google Honors Veterans Day

Submitted by

theodp

on Sunday November 11, 2007 @08:10PM

theodp writes: "It took nearly a decade, but Google has done a turnabout and is honoring Veterans Day with a special holiday design for its famous logo. Users who log onto Google's home page are greeted with three World War I-era helmets capping the letters 'o' and 'e' in Google's name. The decoration is a marked departure for the company, which has come under fire from veterans' groups for ignoring American holidays such as Veterans Day and Memorial Day since Google's inception in 1999."

Video Professor Sues 100 Anonymous Critics 261

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday September 24, 2007 @01:51PM from the sco-business-model dept.

Techdirt is reporting that the Video Professor Company is suing 100 anonymous critics of their company. The Video Professor is known for their television ads hawking DVDs that teach you various skills like how to use your computer. Most of the complaints center around how their "free" product offering automagically signs you up for a subscription. Instead of addressing the concerns the Video Professor has decided to take the litigious route.

Game Pirate Sentenced To Jail Time 136

Posted by Zonk on Monday September 24, 2007 @01:45PM from the don't-use-craigslist-for-this dept.

A man charged in a case separate from the much-publicized anti-modder raids last month has been sentenced to ninety days in prison, another nine months of work furlough, and five years of probation. "Police seized over 1,000 pirated game discs during the raid on Brown's home, along with 'numerous' mod chips. Ric Hirsch, Vice-President of Intellectual Property Enforcement at the ESA, said, 'Sentences that include jail time send a clear message that violating intellectual property rights is a serious crime with significant consequences and violators will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.'"

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