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Netflix Executive Admits a VPN-Blocking Policy Might Be Impossible To Enforce (theglobeandmail.com) 172

An anonymous reader writes: Netflix's chief product officer Neil Hunt has admitted that the company has 'no magic solution' to subscribers who use VPNs to access content not licensed for their geographical region, commenting that 'It's likely to always be a cat-and-mouse game'. Hunt notes that Netflix can only rely on lists of VPN IP addresses, and that these can easily be changed. However since Netflix subscribers pay for the service via geographically linked credit and debit cards, this article wonders if Netflix really believes that hundreds of thousands of their subscribers are permanently in migration or on holiday — and also that venerable old VPN IP addresses — ones so well-known that they are routinely challenged by services such as CloudFlare — never seem to have any trouble connecting to a Netflix account.
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Submission + - Judge in Oracle-Google Case Gets Schooled in Java (itworld.com)

itwbennett writes: "Lawyers for Oracle and Google gave Judge William Alsup of the U.S. District Court in San Francisco an overview of Java and why it was invented, and an explanation of terms such as bytecode, compiler, class library and machine-readable code. The tutorial was to prepare him for a claim construction conference in two weeks, where he'll have to sort out disputes between the two sides about how language in Oracle's Java patents should be interpreted. At one point an attorney for Google, Scott Weingaertner, described how a typical computer is made up of applications, an OS and the hardware underneath. 'I understand that much,' Alsup said, asking him to move on. But he had to ask several questions to grasp some aspects of Java, including the concept of Java class libraries. 'Coming into today's hearing, I couldn't understand what was meant by a class,' he admitted."

Comment Re:System Registry (Score 1) 583

Do it the Mac way. Standardized XML format (property lists) stored in a standard location (~/Library/Application Support/ApplicationName). Each app has its own file to work with, and completely removing an app and its detritus is as simple as trashing the folders.

The registry was a bad idea from the start. I imagine MS wants to get rid of it, but it has become too entrenched and backwards compatibility requires it to still be around.

Comment Re:It Hurts (Score 1) 320

So she has apparently decoded a manuscript written in a language she does not read (medieval Italian) does not know what a medieval herbal looks like, is not a botanist, a linguist or anything else that would be helpful to decoding a medieval manuscript of any kind .....

For her next trick she will disprove Einstein, and prove the world is flat .....

Oh, by the way-- Einstein WAS wrong :) God does indeed play dice. "Spooky," no?

Comment Re:Imagine being a young Somalian, and choose (Score 1) 666

I'm a little fuzzy on who you put in power once the warlords are out. And even if you find someone how they're supposed to maintain control without resorting to warlord tactics.

I'm not pretending to have a solution, but glib pronouncements on the evils of piracy and warlordship doesn't offer anything either.

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