Comments on: 01/12/2010 Freedom Watch 69 w/ Lew Rockwell, Walter E. Williams, Jacob Hornberger

By: LibertarianMike

LibertarianMike — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:54:31 +0000

It is my experience that entities like Fox are largely technologically illiterate, and depend on the larger world to show them the way, and the larger world hasn't yet been able to "learn" and "realize" that there are better things than proprietary software and formats. So we need to first wish and hope for, and work toward getting everyone else to recognize it as well. It's a major uphill battle, of course.

Personally, I'm simply resigned to the fact that most people are happy being clueless, which is also why the two-party system endures and libertarianism struggles to take hold.

Just as most people don't take charge of their health until something catastrophic such as a heart attack occurs, the citizens of this country won't "wake up" to political truths until after there's been a major catastrophe of some sort. And then like after a heart attack, there will still be a major contingent who still don't get it.

By: Bob Robertson

Bob Robertson — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:02:06 +0000

I’m using Firefox(iceweasel) 3.0.6 on Debian, and had some trouble getting this day’s shows to work. But they did, eventually, when I went to the “read comments” screen.

Flash really is ending up being far less reliable than other forms. I wonder how long it will take for folks like Fox to realize that there are other formats out there, like OGG, that don’t depend upon companies who treat Linux like the red-headed stepchild?

By: LibertarianMike

LibertarianMike — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 02:11:40 +0000

It works fine for me in Firefox on my Ubuntu (9.10) box…
I wonder what's going on here……

By: LibertarianMike

LibertarianMike — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 02:11:16 +0000

It works fine for me in Firefox on my Ubuntu (9.10) box, as it did in previous versions.

By: patriot

patriot — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:34:24 +0000

Judge, Glad to see you back. I missed my education. That was an excellent season premier.

By: HDThoreau

HDThoreau — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 23:22:00 +0000

I'm on Linux as well(A Freedom loving OS), and I also can't seem to launch the flash video's properly. The Linux version is 10.0.42.34.

Looking at the diff from the old(working) and new(not working) video's, I don't see anything but the video source ID being different.

diff old new
14c14
< videoId:'3964903',
—
> videoId:'3966479',
37c37
< $(document).ready(function(){ oFoxVideo.playVideoAttempt('3964903', false); });
—
> $(document).ready(function(){ oFoxVideo.playVideoAttempt('3966479', false); });

By: The Proud Profiteer

The Proud Profiteer — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:27:27 +0000

The Judge needs this show live on TV in Prime Time. Fox would do well to dump Shepard Smith and put this at 7. Even better, dump O'smiley for the Judge. The Proud Profiteer http://www.proudprofiteer.com

By: David Fox

David Fox — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:46:50 +0000

I can no longer watch Freedom Watch on my Linux box in either Firefox or Chrome. It's not my browser or OS. I am getting the following error from the debug console:
Error: Permission denied for <http://video.foxnews.com> to call method Location.toString on <http://freedomwatchonfox.com>.
Please fix!