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  1. What kind of liability does this put on the original owner financially? Will Youtube go after them for the money that was paid on the video, or pull the money from connected accounts? Some of these videos, or even channels of videos, must make a good amount of money, but I have not heard anything of that side of the issue.
  2. A PCI interface chipset from Philips. The SAA7146 is foremost simply a multimedia bridge to the PCI bus. It does not perform A/V decoding functions and, thus, does not have audio and video inputs, but rather provides a number of interface ports for standardized digital audio video streams. At a minimum, the SAA7146 can perform some processing on the video streams it is fed by providing scaling capabilities. Essentially, the SAA7146 "enable a wide variety of video and audio ICs to be connected to the PCI-bus thus supporting a number of video applications in a PC". The SAA7146 was well utilized and, not surprisingly, can be found configured on different PCI hardware devices such as analogue video framegrabbers, tv-cards, and A/V editing boards (see Saa7146 devices). It is noteworthy to highlight that the SAA7146 was initially intended only as a multimedia interface for analog audio and video, however, the IC was adjusted to work with DVB by packing demodulated MPEG-2 Transport Stream data into the video interface lines of the IC. A large number of older generation DVB PCI card designs (such from TechnoTrend, Siemens, Hauppauge, KNC1 and TerraTec) did indeed made use of the SAA7146 as the PCI interface bridge. This hackish approach works surprisingly well in most setups, though, in some rare cases, a few end users have reported problems with high data loss. A more formal approach to providing DVB support was implemented in the SAA7146 chipset's direct successor, the SAA7134, as the later IC has a dedicated digital stream interface.
  3. In the case of Dell, when you purchase from them you agree to that. They will provide the details of you and your purchase to third parties. Im not saying its right or wrong, Im simply pointing out that there doesn't have to be any maliciousness to happen for this data to be simply acquired through entirely legal means directly from Dell. It can then be used for nefarious purposes.
  4. Its a Dell account, Dell controls what they do with it and how they share that data, not me. If I want the option to do business with Dell, I submit myself and my company to that kind of data use. What data about the dell systems they sold me isnt my data, its theirs, and they can choose to monetize that data without my input.
  5. Its not jeopardized, its for sale to anyone who asks. You can go buy that data right now. While it may be data about you, it is not your data.
  6. Dell sells ALL of this info. We get calls all the time offering extended warranties on specific products right at the end of the warranty terms. Seems that all the major tech vendors sell and trade their customer data.
  7. If your products are so marginal that the only effective marketing strategy is to seed the market with derision and trash talk as your major selling points, your products are most likely no better. Trashing on other companies as a marketing tactic looks pretty shitty on any company. What ever happened to advertising that promoted your own products features and uses. You know focus on your OWN products positive points.
  8. He was awesome in those road bike party videos.
  9. Its much easier on the stock value to dismiss him over this and not the multiple serious security flaws that are cropping up.
  10. Its kinda sad that sharing the game store experience with my kids has been relegated to my living room and a digital purchase.
  11. You also cant find information about Paul Logan anymore. Searching for Paul Logan only returns results for Logan Paul, even if you use quotes. I think we need to boot him off the internet before he infects other search results.
  12. AGrider

    PC speaker bar

    I have that samsung on my tv currently and really like it. Its what made me want to look into using them for a computer. I was more worried that the design wouldnt lend itself to close proximity listening due to how the speakers would be tuned.
  13. AGrider

    PC speaker bar

    Ive been looking to replace a set of aging Creative T7900 7.1 speakers. Ive been pretty happy with the soundbar/sub I have for my TV and was wondering if anyone was using a TV style soundbar/sub with their desktop. I already have a nice set of headphones, but would prefer to have open air sound. If the soundbar idea is horrible, what are some good options for a decent set of computer speakers?
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