Posts by John Tserkezis

Re: An alternative option that you may want to consider

"Another advantage of ripping one's DVDs & Blu-Rays is that one loses all the pre- and post-roll crap that infests such media."

I can do one more than that and say I (illegally) copied a legally purchased entire box set first, then watched the copies. The menus were such a pain in the arse to navigate, I blew that away during the ripping process and just left the episodes.

It's as if paying for it wasn't enough, they wanted me to work for it by moving around the pain-in-the-arse DVD cursor keys, as well as kindly remining me that to "fix" that problem would be impossible without breaking the law.

Thanks but no thanks.

Re: Seriously

"Three pages of comments and no People Eating Tasty Animals yet?"

Agreed, PETA (People Eating Tasty Animals), I was caught on the other side of the timezone before seeing the report.

For a group that is supposedly for the rights of animals, they have been LONG, LONG doing a shitty job. They've long since lost the plot, should be disbanded and replaced by people who can actually do the job.

Since the chance of that happening is about nil, I'm going to do my part and bolster my diet with even more tasty animals.

When I get a heart attack, my job will be done. At least I'll die happy.

Re: How much for a human life?

"How much for a human life?"

That's the problem. What YOU value a human life compared to what THEY value a human life differs.

It's all up to who's paying for it. If emergency services were paying, they'd have it tomorrow - but they're not.

From the report, it appears the Productivity Commission has their wallets open - or perhaps not yet. Oh, and till this is decided, there are lots of marketing dogs at equipment manufacturers who are salivating.

Re: Not technically identical...

"During development there is a lot of random rearrangement that takes place to..."

Wow. There's a phrase I never thought could apply to multiple fields....

"I guess it doesn't work then."

Well, it would make money for the creator - so it does work in a sense.

Re: DMCA

"Surely the DMCA is intended to prevent people from profiting from copying things"

It has nothing to do with the DMCA, other than it was used as a tool to strongarm the car industry to pay attention to all the lobbying.

In other words: "We don't like what's going on so we'll threaten with the DMCA. Scared yet? Good, we like obedient car makers".

"My reading of that rule is you need the keys, to be able to re-generate plain-text, not to keep the plaintext ready to hand..."

Does it matter? Governments have proved again and again they play fast and loose with their country's data.

It's only a very tiny step from there to "everyone" getting said data for themselves.

Re: I fear it is too late

"If you have an android, you are already Google's bitch."

Or maybe not. Google apparently doesn't charge a licence fee for Android, but does make their money from ads. But since I don't see ads, they're not making any money from me.

However. Rumour has it that Microsoft charges $5 a pop for sections of code, so, if anything at all, I'm actually Microsoft's bitch.

That doesn't make me feel any better, but at least I'm accurate. Sigh.

Re: "he made over $100,000 in his fleeting reign as king of the App Store."

"If you've got half a brain you'd ask for a refund and jump ship to another maintained ad blocker."

Let's hope the new guy doesn't succumb to a dump truck full of money on his driveway - or threats of knowing where his daughter goes to school either.

Let's face it, the ad shills are fighting back, and there's only one user - everyone not involved in ads.

Re: "The process is the punishment"

"Create a video of yourself sitting in a chair and breathing, then post it to YouTube. Watch what happens."

I fell over from boredom.

Re: One wonders ...

"... why did his system need hydrating at that hour, to the point that after having access to water, he felt the need to carry a glass downstairs?

Most of us have a plastic bottle of water on the bedside table ..."

Due to medication, I end up peeing several times a night, and if I don't rehydrate, I'll be as dry as a dead dingo's elbow by the time the morning comes.

That's why some of our systems need hydrating "at that hour". I go through between 2 and 5 litres a night, but that's just me.

And before I'm downvoted for "stop drinking so much and you'll stop peeing", you may wish to know that if I maintain a healthy level of dehydration (drink like normal plebs like yourself), I'll lose my kidneys in a few years through medication damage. So there.

Re: @bobgameon

"Anybody who watches any movie or TV show made in the last 3 decades knows a "movie bomb" has a flashing red light (or LED, if the movie has sufficient budget) conspicuously placed on it."

It is also noteworthy that the retarded teacher also missed that bomb clocks count DOWN rather than up.

With teachers like this, it's incredible that ANYONE manages to work out how to add their groceries - or they don't do that anymore?

"Uhh.. Akamai are also a CDN company. They don't just do tracking cookies."

So that makes it allright then?

RTFM (You know, Read the manual, Sir)

> "Has been compared to ransom"

Yeah, that's why nobody uses AdBlock Plus anymore.

Firstly, the "randsom" refers to advertisers who wish to be whitelisted within Adblock Plus. If you're not wanting to whitelist your website, it won't matter. Unless you are, in which case, screw you.

Secondly, if you ACTUALLY read the Adblock Plus documentation, this whitelisting can be disabled, so you just see what you allow:

"On Firefox: click the Adblock Plus icon and choose Filter Preferences from the menu. Uncheck "Allow non-intrusive advertising" and you are done."

Re: Not surprising

Yeah, but getting it through Customs might be a bit problematic: "Sir, is that a howitzer in your pants, or are you just happy to see me?"

Would be easy getting it through Australia, here they seem only interested in food and porn. Yep, porn.

Re: AMPAS didnt get it's act together

"long as they don't call them a Motion Picture Association Academy Awards"

I wish you hadn't had said that, now I have to drink out of the toilet to get the bad taste out of my mouth.

Re: Simple solution for google

"Ad blockers are the very reason why this isn't happening. As more and more people use ad blockers, publishers need to show more and more intrusive ads to earn the same amount of money."

Really? So it's our fault that we're getting obtrusive ads? Who would have thought? Here have a downvote.

Re: Justice for all

"Taking money that doesn't belong to you is."

Every tried to "right" a clerical error the bank made in THEIR favour? Ever tried getting that back without the bank treating you like the customer piece of shit you are? Because that's what it's like.

It's a one way street my friend, and every road leads AWAY from you.

Re: PKK are not "Jihadists" and why is there an image of the local ISIS dance club?

"What next? Whistleblowers are "terrorists"?"

They've been considered that in Australia for a long time now. But as long as you can keep your head low and just shut the hell up about it afterwards - you'll do allright.

Unless you're making fun of politicians, because that's our national sport. Then it's Ok.

"That sort of incapability is fine (I think) in the case of analysing unions... It's not fine for those regulating our computer world..."

I used to work with a guy in our IT department who didn't own a computer, and saw no purpose in owning one.

Never trusted him. It was just too weird.