Obama’s DVDS for Brown don’t work in the United Kingdom!
by tdaxp ~ March 19th, 2009
LOL. The article is silent on it, but the White House may have been involved in piracy & intellectual theft, in it’s attempt to circumvent the DVD Region Coding System.
Gordon Brown is frustrated by ‘Psycho’ in No 10 – Telegraph
Alas, when the PM settled down to begin watching them the other night, he found there was a problem.
The films only worked in DVD players made in North America and the words “wrong region” came up on his screen. Although he mournfully had to put the popcorn away, he is unlikely to jeopardise the special relationship – or “special partnership”, as we are now supposed to call it – by registering a complaint.,
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March 20th, 2009 at 7:46 am
So much for the supposed tech-savvynes of the Obama Administration. There is a big difference between having a blackberry on your waste and having a feel for how technology and technology infrastructure all interact and interrelate.
March 20th, 2009 at 8:19 am
Heh – President Sarkozy should seize the opportunity and give Brown a copy of VLC, an open-source region-free DVD program originally developed by students at the École Centrale Paris. [1,2]
At least then brown could watch the movies on his laptop!
[1] http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VLC_media_player
March 21st, 2009 at 7:54 am
If it were Bush, it would be front-page news.
Thank God for the Internet.
The man is inept, his subordinates are inept. He has never run anything except his mouth and MS Word.
March 21st, 2009 at 6:05 pm
As I wrote elsewhere [1]:
Obama’s foreign policy successes may just be a function of Hillary Clinton’s power-of-appointment within the State Department. All areas of foreign policy outside of Hillary’s purview appear to be going disastrously
Now the question is.. was I wrong to trust in Obama’s incompetence [2], or did some ‘once in a century’ fluke lead to this outcome?
[1] http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2009/03/20/obamas-foreign-policy.html/comment-page-1#comment-257698
[2] http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2009/02/13/obamas-surprising-incompetence.html
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