Posts by Greg J Preece

Re: Causation/correlation?

I've seen Popcorn Time, and it's got a surprisingly nice interface. There's a disclaimer on the site it comes from, but the app is quite professionally put together. I'd think it reasonable that at least some users aren't aware of what they're doing. You don't see the torrent, the data, the seeding or anything like that. It looks like Netflix.

Of course, if the rights holders weren't so astonishingly out of touch, they might be asking the important question: what benefit does Popcorn Time provide over their own service? Well, it has way more movies instantly available than any legal streaming service, because of the constant exclusivity deals and squabbling over licencing, and it doesn't make users jump through hoops like Ultraviolet and the like do. As Jim Sterling puts it, "you push a button, and get the thing." Users will pay for convenience, but if they can get superior service for no cost at all, you bet your ass they'll go for it.

And in such straightforward language, too. I was also impressed. It's a very small thing in the big picture, but it's nice to hear a politician act and talk like they're not a scripted Ken doll.

Roll on SSD. Why people are still even trying to make HD I find baffling.

Didn't you answer your own question above? Capacity. That's why I still have a mechanical drive in this desktop, after all, along with 750GB of SSD space.

Re: @ Greg J Preece

Not at all, I'm just hoping the guys who make apps like these keep on top of things.

Wait, Blob isn't purple...

http://media.tumblr.com/0e8fa20f14dd89f8230a92b4f06d011f/tumblr_inline_mtmayxAUkk1rwnjjz.jpg

Re: Isn't Lara a bit young?

Face it: One's getting old. Games hold one's attention when younger but at some point one has to move to more interesting, rewarding (or not) real-world activities. Whereupon one regrets all the hours spent creating random activity in electronic hardware (but the sights seen and feels had were overwhelming, maybe more so in retrospect)

One sounds a bit pretentious, doesn't one?

I don't regret at all spending my recreational time doing a thing I enjoy. One thing I've been learning in recent years is the importance of downtime, and if I find more fulfillment in beating a game's challenge than I do in other activities, what's wrong with that? I might become jaded with the industry sometimes (read: most of the time) but that hardly means there aren't games available to inspire me. I haven't yet found a medium more compelling or rewarding in terms of sheer escapism than the video game.

Re: Like booze

The point is arse-covering. If they just show you porn, they "forced porn onto children, those monsters!" If they ask you your age, you got in because you're a liar, and how are they supposed to know?

Re: if you're on netflix, you're ganna have a bad time.

Since when? My TV gets 4K Netflix.

Re: I'll take these with 0.3125ml of salt

You have honestly never heard anyone say "just a tad bit more"... Do you live across the pond ?

"A tad more" I have heard many times, being raised in Yorkshire, but "a tad bit more" makes me think you've been mishearing "tidbit".

Re: @ Alexander

Of course it's already illegal, but as the British government will tell you, you can never have too many laws. There's always some keyboard warrior (like some of the ones in this thread) or hysterical nanny demanding newer and harsher laws for everything from littering to picking your nose.

Pssssssst, if it's that easy to plug a side-device into a TV to give it smart capabilities, it'll be even easier to do that to a smart TV in 5 years or so if one or more of the apps on it loses support.

Also, pssssssssssssssssst some of these TVs have free SDKs and allow side-loading so you can homebrew the bastards pretty easily.

This is the part I'm laughing my ass off at:

Biderman told investigative reporter Brian Krebs that ALM was "working diligently and feverishly" to get the leaked data pulled offline.

You want to remove information from the Internet. Good luck with that!

Re: Don't see the point

Oh, really? I thought it required a particular terminal. I must have been misinformed, and let's be honest, it's not like Apple to do anything in a standardised or easily-accessible way, so it's easy to believe. Thanks for putting me right. :-)

Still, over here I wouldn't go encouraging its use when the Interac service is superior. That much is still accurate.

Re: This sort of thing has been happening for years with Hotmail

Yeah, but....e-mail is terrible. As a protocol, as a tech, it's just awful. It was never meant to do the things it does. Skype is completely unrelated (and a lot newer). It shouldn't have the same issues (or at least not to the same extent, and in my experience it doesn't).

Re: No big deal

Can you show me a single instance where these laws have prevented anyone dying?

Well, at least they're managing to get rid of your calibre of user...

I have been using Firefox since the very early days and FF has gotten better and better, now Mozilla wants to kill it.

What planet are you living on where this makes an ounce of sense?

IF YOU JERK OFFS AT MOZILLA WANT TO DO SOMETHING KILL YOURSELF!

Always a reasonable response to a planned change in development procedure, I've found.

I will not be using Firefox any further.

You'll be missed.

The *buntu repository versions of Chromium don't seem to install this module, but then Chrome on Linux doesn't seem to either, at least on my machine.

Re: I've just read.

Hmmmmm. 10 book series. Tech site, so likely a nerd. I'm gonna shout....Wheel of Time. No, wait! Belgariad/Mallorean.

Re: Probably not

Opera? There you go, a giant hole in your own argument.

You mean Chrome?

You mean Steve Jobs' astroturfing for his devices not having the same functionality as the rest of the industry?

Re: and in the real world...

maybe my employer is atypical (local government) but quite a few of our windows servers run middleware and client/server stuff that absolutely must have a GUI to allow it to be configured and interrogated.

.......So then you would install the optional GUI? The article makes it clear that's still 100% possible, soooo.....what's the issue here?

You *can* install a GUI on a Linux server, after install, in very much the same way as this. It's just that in 99% of cases there is absolutely no reason to, and as mentioned it vastly increases your attack surface.

This is also coincidentally right as the Canadian government has authorised their own brand of completely unnecessary surveillance bullshit, and have you heard the shit coming out of Cameron's mouth since he got his majority?

Oh, downvoted for pointing out facts again. I guess Chrome doesn't have the DRM extensions I use all the time to watch Netflix on Linux.