June 2013 - luv-talk - example.com

Demuxing an MPEG TS from a USB PVR where the TS is prefixed with invalid data
by Anthony Hogan 16 Jun '13

16 Jun '13

Hi all, I have a TV which has a built in USB record feature (which basically dumps DVB-T MPEG TS in 2GB chunks). I'd like to pull the audio track out of something I recorded. VLC happily plays the file and identifies the video, audio and EPG info in the transport stream, but if, for example, I run: avconv -i ... -acodec copy audio.mp3 ... I end up with about 2 seconds of silence. It seems there's a couple of dummy streams and also that the overall file is prefixed with what looks like null garbage. I know that if vlc can play it, there's gotta be a way of extracting it, but must admit that I haven't had any luck thus far. Any ideas on recommended tools for stubborn MPEG TS demuxing? Anthony

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Re: [luv-talk] hipsters vs geeks
by Tim Josling 16 Jun '13

16 Jun '13

On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 12:00 PM, <luv-talk-request(a)lists.luv.asn.au> wrote: >> From: Rick Moen <rick(a)linuxmafia.com> >> Subject: Re: [luv-talk] hipsters vs geeks > I was told by two people who claim to remember the 60s, (I do myself, but I was an mis-(in)formed child then), that in Australia "Hippies" were called "Freaks". I read somewhere that many in the rest of the world used that term for themselves too. They felt "Hippies" was a mainstream media label as (proto-hippies?) E.g. in the Crosby Stills Nash and Young song "Almost cut my hair" referring to "letting my freak flag fly" (ie his long hair). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4YpqRPLIWc >And Malcolm Muggeridge said he had seen the 60s before, except then it was called the 20s. 20s nostalgia is apparently taking off right now due to another "The Great Gatsby" movie but will likely be over way before the 2020s. The similarities were almost uncanny, such as authors like Herman Hesse who were recycled with great enthusiasm. Tim Josling

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Your Last Rights
by Lev Lafayette 16 Jun '13

16 Jun '13

Something that people may be attending; a small meeting with Dr. Rodney Syme, former president and lifelong worker for "Dying with Dignity Victoria" The meeting will be held next on Saturday June 22nd at 18:00 at the at the Melbourne Unitarian Church, 110 Grey Street. East Melbourne, June 22nd. Dr. Rodney Syme, will speak on "Legislative Requirements and Impediments to Our Last Rights" DWDV promotes the right for a mentally competent, terminally ill adult with intolerable suffering to choose whether to persevere or to ask a doctor for assistance to die peacefully. Current Victorian law denies the sufferer that right to choose, despite the overwhelming majority of Victorians wanting that choice for more than 25 years. DWDV's legislative charter specifies that the form of requested assistance given to terminally ill sufferers to die peacefully is to provide an oral dose of medication that the patient may consume voluntarily. This is physician assisted dying (PAD). In order to maximise safeguards, DWDV's legislative charter does not embrace the broader approach where a doctor administers a lethal dose to the sufferer by injection. A 1997 professional study published in the Australian medical literature showed that nearly 1 in 50 deaths is already physician assisted dying; but these doctors risk prosecution as the intention to shorten life is illegal, regardless of the patient's circumstances. The law is opaque, depending on the ability to establish "intention" or not of shortening life. In about 5% of terminal cases, palliative care simply is unable to provide relief from intolerable suffering (e.g., motor neuron disease, asbestosis, spinal cancer). A real consequence of lack of choice to die in a dignified manner with medical assistance is that some sufferers attempt to take their own lives anyway while they believe they still can, often by violent and undignified means. (Information from Dying With Dignity Victoria, http://www.dwdv.org.au/FAQs.html) The meeting has been organised by the Victorian Secular Lobby, Inc. For the Right to Life Victoria point of view see: Assisted suicide the path to Nazism: Right to Life http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/assisted-suicide-the-path-to-nazism-right… http://www.righttolife.com.au/index.php/life-issues/euthanasia -- Lev Lafayette, BA (Hons), MBA, GCertPM mobile: 0432 255 208 RFC 1855 Netiquette Guidelines http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt

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hipsters vs geeks
by Russell Coker 15 Jun '13

15 Jun '13

http://www.youtube.com/v/f3xe-Wxio1o Interesting Youtube video. Note that this is the form to download with youtube-dl. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/

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Re: [luv-talk] charity....oops
by Rohan McLeod 15 Jun '13

15 Jun '13

Andrew Spiers wrote: >> ...........snip >> no legislative requirement >> for a charity to reveal how much of one's donation will actually go to >> the child ...........snip > Reputable ones disclose this information. > http://www.msf.org.au/donate/what-your-donations-help-us-achieve/how-your-d… > Well I stand corrected; I will certainly be more inclined to give to MSF .now that I know only 12% is retained; I wonder why charities don't advertise it more prominently ? Another issue I find is that there seems to be a preference for a 'monthly commitment ', rather than a one-off donation.....discouraging to us commitment -phobes ! regards Rohan McLeod

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charity
by Russell Coker 15 Jun '13

15 Jun '13

http://tinyurl.com/d3jnmqt The above TED blog post has an interview with Dan Pallotta about entrepreneurial charitable organisations. The idea that instead of just giving almost all their money to the cause a charity can invest some in advertising and staff to get more donations for a bigger end result. http://blog.ted.com/2013/03/01/effective-altruism-peter-singer-at-ted2013/ The above TED blog post has an overview of Peter Singer's TED talk about effective altruism. Among other things he asks whether failing to donate to a charity to save a child's life is equivalent to walking past a child dying in the street and doing nothing. Of course a problem with that analogy is that many people will walk past someone dying in the street. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/

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be as generous as Bill Gates
by Russell Coker 14 Jun '13

14 Jun '13

http://tinyurl.com/lo35nnt Interesting article about Bill Gates on philanthropy, tax, etc. # On the topic of tech giants being accused of setting up tax avoidance # schemes, Mr Gates said he was "one of those rare people who is actually for # taxes". He said he has paid a total of $US6 billion in tax. # "I feel like the services I get from the government are extremely # worthwhile," Mr Gates said. # Mr Gates said if one was to objectively look at what foreign aid had been # able to achieve then they “would never accuse it of creating a dependency". # "Having children not die is not creating a dependency, having children not # be so sick they can't go to school, not having enough nutrition so their # brains don't develop. That is not a dependency. That's an evil thing and # books like that - they're promoting evil," he said. Dear Libertarians, please try and be as generous as Bill. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/

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Sysadmin's dilemma - RE: be as generous as Bill Gates
by Pidgorny, Slav (GEUS) 14 Jun '13

14 Jun '13

G'day - > -----Original Message----- > > - Windows sysadmins are cheap, abundant, and ineffective. > > - Unix sysadmins are expensive, rare, and effective. > > This is true, but even more so *nix systems don't fall over as often. > > It's the classic sysadmin's dilemma. MS-Windows admins are running around > like headless chooks trying to put out brush fires caused by poor choice of > operating system, whereas *nix admins don't look like they have to work > very hard at all - because the problems are fewer and easier to fix (giving > them more time to deal with even more complex problems). > >From where I am I have seen many examples that are contrary to your stereotypes. And what exactly is the dilemma - to be effective or ineffective, or cheap or not? Regards Slav "This e-mail and any attachments to it (the "Communication") is, unless otherwise stated, confidential, may contain copyright material and is for the use only of the intended recipient. If you receive the Communication in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, delete the Communication and the return e-mail, and do not read, copy, retransmit or otherwise deal with it. Any views expressed in the Communication are those of the individual sender only, unless expressly stated to be those of Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited ABN 11 005 357 522, or any of its related entities including ANZ Bank New Zealand Limited (together "ANZ"). ANZ does not accept liability in connection with the integrity of or errors in the Communication, computer virus, data corruption, interference or delay arising from or in respect of the Communication."

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Victorian Liberals want to privatise ABC and SBS
by Petros 12 Jun '13

12 Jun '13

Hi all, This morning I thought it was a joke (I listened to PBS FM and they have the radio festival to attract subscribers - so they want to make up how important they are). Well, the Victorian Liberals really wants to discuss it this weekend: http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/political-news/state-liberals-propose-priv… The Victorian Liberal Party's state conference this weekend will vote on a motion urging the federal Coalition to make a full-scale ''operational review'' of the ABC and SBS to ''look at the feasibility of partial or full privatisation of both''. I sent my comment to the State Liberals: Well, okay, who needs movies from the rest of the world, news of a world beyond Broadmeadows, programs that are not fit-in between ads, programs that can inspire thinking, intelligent programs about science or history, something kids can watch without getting bombed with ten ads per minutes? Keep your hands off ABC and SBS - the only TV stations worth watching here! Maybe you would like to do the same? I think they get crazier here by the day! http://vic.liberal.org.au/#Contact Regards Peter

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3 felonies a day makes everyone an easy target
by Tim Josling 12 Jun '13

12 Jun '13

This posting offers some interesting insight into why tech companies seem to have so easily rolled over and given the US government access to their customers' data. "We know what happened in the case of QWest before 9/11. They contacted the CEO/Chairman asking to wiretap all the customers. After he consulted with Legal, he refused. As a result, NSA canceled a bunch of unrelated billion dollar contracts that QWest was the top bidder for. And then the DoJ targeted him and prosecuted him and put him in prison for insider trading -- on the theory that he knew of anticipated income from secret programs that QWest was planning for the government, while the public didn't because it was classified and he couldn't legally tell them, and then he bought or sold QWest stock knowing those things. This CEO's name is Joseph P. Nacchio and TODAY he's still serving a trumped-up 6-year federal prison sentence today for quietly refusing an NSA demand to massively wiretap his customers." https://mailman.stanford.edu/pipermail/liberationtech/2013-June/008815.html Not too different to what happened to Elliot Spitzer after he went after Wall St bankers a little too enthusiastic ally. The authorities suddenly developed an intense interest in his activities. This is a non-partisan issue and goes back a long way. Kennedy went after his opponents using the IRS, as did Nixon.

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