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Comment RTFA (Score 3, Insightful) 72

According to an email from Ross Finlayson of Live Networks, Inc., the vulnerability “does not affect VLC or MPlayer, because they use LIVE555 only to implement an RTSP. The bug affected only our implementation of a RTSP, which these media players don’t use. (VLC does have an embedded RTSP server, but that uses a separate implementation, not LIVE555’s.)”

Comment Re:ARE YOU A FUCKING SEARCH ILLITERATE JOCE640K? (Score 1) 72

Use Google? The company that records/tracks every move you make online?
So you trust Google but not Xiaomi, just because one collects it for America and the other for China?
The thing is, at the end of the day most of them are all the same. If you're online then someone is always trying to track you and collect as much information they can get their hands on.

Comment Beginning of the end! (Score 1) 553

I don't know why but i feel like this is the beginning of the end for Apple "in the long run".

The world doesn't stop on innovation, design is the most rapidly changing aspect of the tech industry, somehow someday people will come up with completely different, fresh, better and generally more favorable designs and also regarding the utility patents someone will come up with a more efficient, different and easier way to do those things. Who will Apple sue then?...their own fanbois for jailbreaking?

And mind you fanbois, this time Microsoft is not going to save Apple's Ass!

Comment Re:Is this over the same patents? (Score 2) 221

The way you steer a car not novel, nor is the brake/accelerator arrangement.

There was a first time, right?

It's been done like that for years.

So if pinch/zoom is used for the next 50 years (considering that you just came to know of it), will you be saying the same for that? And what's with the rectangle with rounded corners?....FFS man!. There's something seriously wrong with the US patent system.

Data Storage

Submission + - Megaupload Shutdown: Who's Next? RapidShare, Sound (ibtimes.co.uk)

An anonymous reader writes: In the wake of the crackdown on the file-sharing website Megaupload, sites offering free content-sharing, file linking and digital locker services such as RapidShare, SoundCloud and Dropbox could be next in the crosshair of anti-piracy authorities.

Many digital locker services which are clones of Megaupload are around. RapidShare and MediaFire are two of the biggest services left after Megaupload's exit. However, these sites have undergone a revamp and now provide only links to pirated content. They no longer host pirated content that could lead to a permanent ban.

Others in the line of fire are DropBox, iCloud and Amazon S3 that support hosting any file a user uploads. Though their intention of supporting open file-sharing is legitimate, there is really no control over the type of content being uploaded. With massive pirated content being uploaded online every day, these sites are in grave danger of facing bans if content filtering is not done.

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