Yes it is a hipster thing exploited by the marketing of food companies. I've even seen "Gluten free" on packages of meat....What we're probably seeing here is the nocebo effect perpetuated by mass hysteria.
I'm having a hard time blaming "hipsters" at this point when I can't tell if greedy food companies are merely marketing, or if they are more responsible for perpetuating or even creating the mass hysteria, especially when you consider the example you provided regarding selling meat, which gives sellers a convenient excuse to increase profit margins.
If we want to go after something to take out of our food supply, let's go after the real killers, which exceed well beyond allergy concerns. Humans aren't compatible with HFCS, and there's little left to debate on that shit.
Sony make the professional cameras used for TV, live sports and movies. They know what the fsck they are doing. This is just downstream usage for stuff created for high end CCDs. It has probably been sitting on a shelf until Samsung or LG could retool one of their plants and run these things off at a scale and price that makes them viable for consumer gadgets.
A toilet maker likely knows what the fsck they're doing as well. Doesn't justify forging one out of titanium, which speaks directly to my original point.
Just because you can, doesn't mean a customer will appreciate the fact the new-and-improved model with features no one asked for now costs $75 more. Bigger is not always better, as pointless remains pointless.
I can start a tobacco company today and help contribute the the killing of hundreds of thousands of Americans every year (far worse a death toll than anything we're currently rioting in the streets over), but I'll be arrested if I sell marijuana, because it's "harmful".
Well, of course. Marijuana has all the dangers of tobacco - and then some. It is a bit worse. (Perhaps much worse, perhaps just a little bit worse, depending on who you believe. But certainly worse.) So if a line is to be drawn somewhere; between tobacco and marijuana certainly is a valid place. If marijuana was legal, you'd be setting up a marijuana company instead of a tobacco company. Killing hundreds of thousands in more amusing ways.
The only "danger" you've managed to demonstrate here is your inability to discern fact from fiction. Otherwise, you wouldn't be making fucking idiotic statements about killing hundreds of thousands in "more amusing ways" with marijuana. I suggest you educate yourself before attempting to speak on this topic again. Perhaps then you'll grasp the fact that marijuana isn't legal because it doesn't harm enough to create the massive revenue streams generated from alternatives like alcohol and tobacco, along with the benefit provided to population control. This is why the products responsible for tens of millions of deaths remain legal.
Horseshit. Several vendors have noted the hate apple is getting for its proprietary bullshit and have decided not to follow suit. Major phone makers have announced devices with USB-C and headphone jacks. Major gadget manufactures have decided to steer away from proprietary standards and switch to BLE or something equivalent. Standardisation isn't going away because Tim cook has a sadistic form of courage.
We're already watching HTC, Motorola, and Samsung follow suit when it comes to removing a headphone jack standard that has existed for decades. Believe me, that shit will continue.
As far as standardization going away, let's see how vendors respond as their Board of Directors demand more "courage", which translates into 30% profit margins and plenty more revenue streams.
In this case, money will talk. A lot. It sure as shit did at Apple. The only thing that is truly horseshit here is Design being a slave to Greed.
For some it's about taking photos of their kids. Ever try to capture a good photo of a wiggly toddler?
As a parent, yes I certainly have. I'm thinking with the speed at which any toddler wriggles, 100fps is likely sufficient. You're capturing a human, not a bullet flying through the air.
If they can make a camera app that starts up super fast and captures the image at super high frame rates, I'm in.
This is a feature that enables shooting 1,000fps, which has little to do with the speed at which your smartphone can respond when you want to start up the application.
While I can certainly applaud Sony in advancing technology for the sake of innovation and capitalism, the form factor certainly questions logic here.
I shouldn't be surprised though. When it comes to consumer electronics, the vendor knows best, which is why they no longer give a damn about asking a single customer if 1,000fps is something they want or need in a smartphone. It's not exactly a necessary feature in order to take drunk selfies and cat videos destined for social media.
Camera enthusiasts will continue to cringe as smartphone focus will eventually push development away from the DSLR form factor entirely. It's a shame, because as it stands today, there is no substitute for a lot of good glass.
In the early 2000s it was blogs. Now we have Youtube videos and Soundcloud podcasts. The under-20 set treat these as their new TV shows and obsess over them and their stars just like we used to care about bloggers.
Blogging didn't go away.
The format merely changed, and seemingly right under your nose.
It's now called Vlogging, and the main stage is obviously YouTube.
Corporations should focus on their employees and their customers, not shareholders.
This can be read as "businesses should focus on their employees and their customers, not their owners".
Now, explain why, exactly, someone should buy part of a business if they're not going to get some benefit from doing so....
Investing in an organization that maintains proper focus is critical, because it takes far more than a Board of Directors or majority shareholder to run a profitable company.
Without proper focus on customers, there is no maintaining the revenue. Without revenue, there is no company.
Without proper focus on employees, there is no maintaining the product. Without a product, there is no company.
I don't expect focus to be put on me as a shareholder. I expect focus to be put on the components that make my investment profitable, with the end result providing a benefit to everyone involved.
Honestly I tend to think the driving force of all the division is what I've come to call "the clicks". They've got to do everything to get the clicks. The media, none of it, even remotely pretends to present things in a fair and impartial light. They spin everything as much as they can and make headlines as inflammatory as possible to try to get the clicks. And whether you want to admit it or not, the media has a huge influence on everybody. They fundamentally set the mood of everything. And since they've decided that the clicks are more important than providing fair level headed articles, and riling people up is the best way to get the clicks, we end up with the atmosphere we have.
If the "atmosphere" we have today is one of bullshit hype and information deemed corrosive at best, then perhaps we need to find a way to stop fucking feeding it. In other words, stop creating and funding revenue streams based on nothing more than "the clicks". Petition to make turning a human into the product illegal. Start to give a shit about privacy again.
Sadly, that will never happen, so our atmosphere will continue to devolve. Capitalism often does not makes sense due to it being perverted by corruption and greed. I can start a tobacco company today and help contribute the the killing of hundreds of thousands of Americans every year (far worse a death toll than anything we're currently rioting in the streets over), but I'll be arrested if I sell marijuana, because it's "harmful".
You don't see how violent rioting in response to an election is cause for the government to look into someone's background?
Certainly. That said, you don't see how this is a perfect avenue that is ripe for abuse with no one in the legal chain exercising reasonable constraint when requesting that background information?
Somehow, I bet you there's no constraint being exercised with respect to reasonable legal limits here, as the "potential terrorist" FBI file grows thick, regardless of citizenship status.
How ironic these same people are angered over how foreigners are being treated by the government.
Stop using "begs the question" incorrectly, you clowns.
Further:
According to Facebook's legal guidelines, a search warrant, for example, could allow Facebook to give away content data including "messages, photos, videos, timeline posts, and location information." A subpoena or a court order would give authorities less information, but would still include the individual's "name, length of service, credit card information, email address(es), and a recent login/logout IP address(es).
What's the problem, exactly? One arrested individual is making this claim. Facebook says they do so with a court order, subpoena, or actual warrant. You need an actual warrant to get most info.
The issue is not Facebook responding to a search warrant, because you don't just need a warrant. You need an valid fucking reason to justify one, and I'm not seeing how rioting one night somehow justifies digging through the last decade of someone's online personal life.
THAT is the "problem" here. And before you argue this, imagine this kind of bullshit overreach if you were arrested for shoplifting with a set of house keys on you. Think that automatically gives law enforcement the right to search your entire house? I think not. Search warrants need to be constrained by relevance.
If these were legitimately violent protesters being arrested..for violence..then by all means search.
Wrong.
You should be authorized to search data if and only if it is deemed relevant to the crime. Why people were protesting isn't some kind of fucking mystery to solve, so spare me the lame excuses of justifying a search warrant to dissect the last decade of personal data for someone who was pissed about who got sworn in two weeks ago.
If you got arrested for DUI (cause and effect is rather obvious), the police don't have an automatic right to search your house, your office, your garage, and your vacation home just because you happen to have a set of keys on you when you got arrested, and yet this is exactly the kind of searching you're justifying "by all means".
I find this kind of "overreach" (a.k.a. illegal) activity very harmful to society in general. Law enforcement dismissing or sidestepping the law doesn't exactly shine a guiding light down the straight and narrow path for the rest of society to follow.
A number of crimes (including violent ones) have been committed, which the relevant law-enforcement agency(ies) are duly investigating. They have detained some suspects and are collecting evidence. What's so outrageous or even particularly newsworthy about this?
Why hundreds of people were protesting isn't some kind of unsolved mystery that demands or even justifies law enforcement digging through the last decade of electronic personal data in order to "crack" the case. How would you feel after getting arrested for DUI if law enforcement searched through you entire house, your office, your vacation cabin, and your parents house, just because you happen to have a set of keys on you? If private data is irrelevant to the crime, then it's fucking irrelevant, and privacy should be protected.
Forget Facebook simply handing over information. The root of the issue is the bullshit justification that a search warrant of this kind was even authorized.
Just because something has been wrong in the past does not mean it is wrong now.
Just because something has been right in the past does not mean it is right now.
Unfortunately, our legal system does not always run on common sense logic, and prior cases feeding legal precedent tend to be a rather effective way to repeat history, even when the result is repeating a wrong. This is essentially why this patent remains an effective weapon for a patent troll.
Past performance is not indicative of present condition or future results.
While generally true, this is not the stock market floor, and lawyers don't base their paycheck on 50/50 odds.
The '362 patent was designed with optical disc content in mind. Filed in 2000, Lee envisioned a system in which a computer server "downloads necessary data onto the CD-R writing machine," then sends the CD-R into a bin for shipment. However, the patent claims that Lee's attorney wrote, and the US Patent Office ultimately granted, use the vague terminology of describing various "modules" that together comprise a "computer-implemented method of data duplication."
I think Netflix should ask for a jury trial on this one.
Is Watch Offline anything even remotely like burning and shipping a custom CD-R to someone?
Ironically, you ask this question of the very company who also offers a DVD service that is essentially exactly the definition of watching a movie "offline"...
20 years ago the majority of the world was still dialing up to the internet.
Find me someone who accurately predicted in 1997 that people would be obtaining gigabit connections to their home within 20 years, and I'll believe the blind predictions regarding the speed at which AI will dismantle the concept of human employment.
Until then, perhaps we can stop fucking assuming, and start fucking preparing for how humanity will survive without the concept of human employment.
MD5's weakness lies in it's popularity and therefore susceptibility to rainbow table lookup. There's not a hashing algorithm around you should use without a salt and feel good about in the long term.
Your analogy is dumb.
Much like a 3-digit combination that is unknown to the attacker, MD5's ultimate weakness lies in the speed at which it can be cracked, which today's hardware has proven, irrelevant of the popularity or combinations known by rainbow tables.
And if programmers are going to remain as ignorant as they always have and refuse to add a little salt to their coding diet, then stronger algorithms (stronger locks) are a rather necessary minimum, because convincing them to use a decades-old security bolster sure as shit ain't working.
You are correct in that a hash alone does not provide a comfortable security buffer, but that hardly dismisses my analogy.
Do you not know what a rainbow table is? MD5 can't be cracked quickly... The problem with MD5 is that people have been working for decades to crack it and they shared the cracked passwords to the point that it is trivial to take the encypted password "fb8273hbr#@T@(#FJW" and map it to "secret!"
And when a password happens to not exist yet in a rainbow table (thus removing your "popularity" factor), MD5's standing weakness is the fact that modern computing technology allows billions of computations per second against that particular algorithm, which was my entire point. The very existence of rainbow tables tend to prove how weak certain algorithms are, especially against modern hardware.
They want to hire Americans, but not at current wages. WIth greater supply is less demand. A kid out of college earns around 10 - 20/hr with 15/hr being average for a college grad. Ridiculous but reality.
If reality is ridiculous, then perhaps we should start doing something about that shit, because no college graduate spends four years obtaining a degree to live the dream of continuing to live in their parents basement. And anyone from any era should understand that. Perhaps $60K isn't such a silly figure, especially when you look at the average cost of living today. When you cannot afford to be single to buy a home simply because you need at least two incomes, the problem becomes rather obvious. And when the chasm between the 99% and the 1% continues to grow, my sympathy fucking dies for the greedy elite not wanting to pay a decent wage.
2nd my biology teacher had a saying. People know more about their freaking cars then their bodies. Students hated science but the same principle applies. COmputers are important in business and any kid should know how to use excel SUM and basic pivot tables.
Using Excel features is not coding (there's a SUM button in the GUI), and can be taught in a day with YouTube. Computers are a lot like cars in business value. Learning to drive one is rather mandatory. Learning to build one is optional.
their end is near, because it is done out of sheer desperation...
That depends on the company.
Speaking of weird stuff, we've seen more than our fair share of corporations literally piss money away on Superbowl advertising time to not do a damn thing with it other than gain a sizeable tax write-off.
There are many reasons to make decisions about revenue that may not make sense on the surface. Some mega-corps today hold a metric fuckton of cash reserves. When $30 million is considered a rounding error, you can certainly afford to take on the oddball venture or two, and would hardly be ringing the doomsday bell.
Never mind that the factory jobs that left the US did so because of high labor rates and the only way to get them back and keep them is to pay people competitive wages... for China.
Manufacturing jobs are returning to the US because labor is getting too expensive in China, as Chinese workers want a middle class lifestyle. But the new factories in the US require fewer workers and those workers must possess a college degree, eliminating the vast majority of Trump voters who are eagerly waiting for the 1980's manufacturing jobs to return.
In the meantime, Common F. Sense is eagerly waiting for someone to justify why factory workers suddenly need a college degree.
When college goes from optional to mandatory, it's time to start aligning the price of that degree alongside K-12 education. Fuck the greedy institutions who feel burying students in college debt for a decade or two is somehow the "right" answer.
...I know that the cost of public universities has increased since I finished school, but there's no requirement that you become overloaded with debt to get a bachelors degree.
Based on how you've marginalized the cost of higher education, I can tell you have no idea how expensive it has become to get a bachelors degree, a cost that has risen over 200% in the last 30 years. Not to mention actually landing a job after you spend $40,000+ getting a degree, unlike history when a degree all but guaranteed you employment. There's a reason outstanding college debt is now measured in trillions, and working a menial job through college used to be a way to avoid taking loans. That's hardly the case today.
It is laughable that people talk of it being an 'either/or' thing. In the modern world, people need a grasp of foreign languages, since people need to talk to people; people need a grasp of programming, so that computers are not so much 'magic black boxes with flashing lights'; and people need to grasp the languages of maths and science. Figuring out how to teach people, and get across why grokking these things is a good idea, is a research project nobody at the top of the education seems to want to take fully take on.
Most people need to learn how their "magic black box" works about as much as they need to learn how their "vroom-vroom" engine works, which is why most people have no fucking desire to learn programming or auto repair. That's what they pay other people for.
It's laughable that you think the average layman needs a grasp of programming when 1% of computer users hold that skill today, which doesn't seem to affect their ability to operate a "magic black box". We've been studying how to teach humans for a very long time. One truth has come out of that; not everyone is cut out for learning advanced shit.
Coding is not for everyone and not everyone will gain even a modest benefit from learning coding. Furthermore this shit is going to be highly automated over the coming decade or two. We need to teach kids stuff to make them well rounded, not just a fucking outdated cog.
Speaking of outdated cog, makes you wonder how many people really remember how to speak a foreign language, even after getting two years of it shoved down their throats back in high school.
Not trying to take away from your point at all, merely highlighting the actual value of teaching any language to the masses.
Never mind that the factory jobs that left the US did so because of high labor rates and the only way to get them back and keep them is to pay people competitive wages... for China.
Manufacturing jobs are returning to the US because labor is getting too expensive in China, as Chinese workers want a middle class lifestyle. But the new factories in the US require fewer workers and those workers must possess a college degree, eliminating the vast majority of Trump voters who are eagerly waiting for the 1980's manufacturing jobs to return.
In the meantime, Common F. Sense is eagerly waiting for someone to justify why factory workers suddenly need a college degree.
When college goes from optional to mandatory, it's time to start aligning the price of that degree alongside K-12 education. Fuck the greedy institutions who feel burying students in college debt for a decade or two is somehow the "right" answer.
Why do they care what they do with the supposedly "free" gift that they give me. The only reason to do this is to assert their power over me and make me do what they want. WHen someone gives me something then it no longer belongs to them and is none of their business what I do with it.
From TFA:
"retailers sent promotional game codes to customers that purchased a qualifying product."
Hope that clears up any confusion about how this is not a "free" gift.
And in the era of your digital privacy being raped in exchange for "free" apps and social media services, there is no such thing as "none of their business". Humans have become a very valuable product. That would include you, and there's not a damn thing you can do about it, other than living off the grid in a mountain shack somewhere.
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Yes it is a hipster thing exploited by the marketing of food companies. I've even seen "Gluten free" on packages of meat....What we're probably seeing here is the nocebo effect perpetuated by mass hysteria.
I'm having a hard time blaming "hipsters" at this point when I can't tell if greedy food companies are merely marketing, or if they are more responsible for perpetuating or even creating the mass hysteria, especially when you consider the example you provided regarding selling meat, which gives sellers a convenient excuse to increase profit margins.
If we want to go after something to take out of our food supply, let's go after the real killers, which exceed well beyond allergy concerns. Humans aren't compatible with HFCS, and there's little left to debate on that shit.
Sony make the professional cameras used for TV, live sports and movies. They know what the fsck they are doing. This is just downstream usage for stuff created for high end CCDs. It has probably been sitting on a shelf until Samsung or LG could retool one of their plants and run these things off at a scale and price that makes them viable for consumer gadgets.
A toilet maker likely knows what the fsck they're doing as well. Doesn't justify forging one out of titanium, which speaks directly to my original point.
Just because you can, doesn't mean a customer will appreciate the fact the new-and-improved model with features no one asked for now costs $75 more. Bigger is not always better, as pointless remains pointless.
I can start a tobacco company today and help contribute the the killing of hundreds of thousands of Americans every year (far worse a death toll than anything we're currently rioting in the streets over), but I'll be arrested if I sell marijuana, because it's "harmful".
Well, of course. Marijuana has all the dangers of tobacco - and then some. It is a bit worse. (Perhaps much worse, perhaps just a little bit worse, depending on who you believe. But certainly worse.) So if a line is to be drawn somewhere; between tobacco and marijuana certainly is a valid place. If marijuana was legal, you'd be setting up a marijuana company instead of a tobacco company. Killing hundreds of thousands in more amusing ways.
The only "danger" you've managed to demonstrate here is your inability to discern fact from fiction. Otherwise, you wouldn't be making fucking idiotic statements about killing hundreds of thousands in "more amusing ways" with marijuana. I suggest you educate yourself before attempting to speak on this topic again. Perhaps then you'll grasp the fact that marijuana isn't legal because it doesn't harm enough to create the massive revenue streams generated from alternatives like alcohol and tobacco, along with the benefit provided to population control. This is why the products responsible for tens of millions of deaths remain legal.
Horseshit. Several vendors have noted the hate apple is getting for its proprietary bullshit and have decided not to follow suit. Major phone makers have announced devices with USB-C and headphone jacks. Major gadget manufactures have decided to steer away from proprietary standards and switch to BLE or something equivalent. Standardisation isn't going away because Tim cook has a sadistic form of courage.
We're already watching HTC, Motorola, and Samsung follow suit when it comes to removing a headphone jack standard that has existed for decades. Believe me, that shit will continue.
As far as standardization going away, let's see how vendors respond as their Board of Directors demand more "courage", which translates into 30% profit margins and plenty more revenue streams.
In this case, money will talk. A lot. It sure as shit did at Apple. The only thing that is truly horseshit here is Design being a slave to Greed.
For some it's about taking photos of their kids. Ever try to capture a good photo of a wiggly toddler?
As a parent, yes I certainly have. I'm thinking with the speed at which any toddler wriggles, 100fps is likely sufficient. You're capturing a human, not a bullet flying through the air.
If they can make a camera app that starts up super fast and captures the image at super high frame rates, I'm in.
This is a feature that enables shooting 1,000fps, which has little to do with the speed at which your smartphone can respond when you want to start up the application.
While I can certainly applaud Sony in advancing technology for the sake of innovation and capitalism, the form factor certainly questions logic here.
I shouldn't be surprised though. When it comes to consumer electronics, the vendor knows best, which is why they no longer give a damn about asking a single customer if 1,000fps is something they want or need in a smartphone. It's not exactly a necessary feature in order to take drunk selfies and cat videos destined for social media.
Camera enthusiasts will continue to cringe as smartphone focus will eventually push development away from the DSLR form factor entirely. It's a shame, because as it stands today, there is no substitute for a lot of good glass.
So what if Apple won't offer a sane, standardized solution? How about you just STOP BUYING APPLE CRAP!?
That will not work. It's too late. You assume that others will offer a "sane, standardized solution". You can kiss that shit goodbye thanks to Apple.
There's a valid reason Apple is opting for yet even more proprietary bullshit and that's because "courage" is THE profit model to have.
And every other vendor in the world is about to follow suit with their own unique flavor of courage.
In the early 2000s it was blogs. Now we have Youtube videos and Soundcloud podcasts. The under-20 set treat these as their new TV shows and obsess over them and their stars just like we used to care about bloggers.
Blogging didn't go away.
The format merely changed, and seemingly right under your nose.
It's now called Vlogging, and the main stage is obviously YouTube.
This can be read as "businesses should focus on their employees and their customers, not their owners".
Now, explain why, exactly, someone should buy part of a business if they're not going to get some benefit from doing so....
Investing in an organization that maintains proper focus is critical, because it takes far more than a Board of Directors or majority shareholder to run a profitable company.
Without proper focus on customers, there is no maintaining the revenue. Without revenue, there is no company.
Without proper focus on employees, there is no maintaining the product. Without a product, there is no company.
I don't expect focus to be put on me as a shareholder. I expect focus to be put on the components that make my investment profitable, with the end result providing a benefit to everyone involved.
Honestly I tend to think the driving force of all the division is what I've come to call "the clicks". They've got to do everything to get the clicks. The media, none of it, even remotely pretends to present things in a fair and impartial light. They spin everything as much as they can and make headlines as inflammatory as possible to try to get the clicks. And whether you want to admit it or not, the media has a huge influence on everybody. They fundamentally set the mood of everything. And since they've decided that the clicks are more important than providing fair level headed articles, and riling people up is the best way to get the clicks, we end up with the atmosphere we have.
If the "atmosphere" we have today is one of bullshit hype and information deemed corrosive at best, then perhaps we need to find a way to stop fucking feeding it. In other words, stop creating and funding revenue streams based on nothing more than "the clicks". Petition to make turning a human into the product illegal. Start to give a shit about privacy again.
Sadly, that will never happen, so our atmosphere will continue to devolve. Capitalism often does not makes sense due to it being perverted by corruption and greed. I can start a tobacco company today and help contribute the the killing of hundreds of thousands of Americans every year (far worse a death toll than anything we're currently rioting in the streets over), but I'll be arrested if I sell marijuana, because it's "harmful".
We we support, is what we ultimately get.
You don't see how violent rioting in response to an election is cause for the government to look into someone's background?
Certainly. That said, you don't see how this is a perfect avenue that is ripe for abuse with no one in the legal chain exercising reasonable constraint when requesting that background information?
Somehow, I bet you there's no constraint being exercised with respect to reasonable legal limits here, as the "potential terrorist" FBI file grows thick, regardless of citizenship status.
How ironic these same people are angered over how foreigners are being treated by the government.
Stop using "begs the question" incorrectly, you clowns.
Further:
According to Facebook's legal guidelines, a search warrant, for example, could allow Facebook to give away content data including "messages, photos, videos, timeline posts, and location information." A subpoena or a court order would give authorities less information, but would still include the individual's "name, length of service, credit card information, email address(es), and a recent login/logout IP address(es).
What's the problem, exactly? One arrested individual is making this claim. Facebook says they do so with a court order, subpoena, or actual warrant. You need an actual warrant to get most info.
The issue is not Facebook responding to a search warrant, because you don't just need a warrant. You need an valid fucking reason to justify one, and I'm not seeing how rioting one night somehow justifies digging through the last decade of someone's online personal life.
THAT is the "problem" here. And before you argue this, imagine this kind of bullshit overreach if you were arrested for shoplifting with a set of house keys on you. Think that automatically gives law enforcement the right to search your entire house? I think not. Search warrants need to be constrained by relevance.
If these were legitimately violent protesters being arrested..for violence..then by all means search.
Wrong.
You should be authorized to search data if and only if it is deemed relevant to the crime. Why people were protesting isn't some kind of fucking mystery to solve, so spare me the lame excuses of justifying a search warrant to dissect the last decade of personal data for someone who was pissed about who got sworn in two weeks ago.
If you got arrested for DUI (cause and effect is rather obvious), the police don't have an automatic right to search your house, your office, your garage, and your vacation home just because you happen to have a set of keys on you when you got arrested, and yet this is exactly the kind of searching you're justifying "by all means".
I find this kind of "overreach" (a.k.a. illegal) activity very harmful to society in general. Law enforcement dismissing or sidestepping the law doesn't exactly shine a guiding light down the straight and narrow path for the rest of society to follow.
A number of crimes (including violent ones) have been committed, which the relevant law-enforcement agency(ies) are duly investigating. They have detained some suspects and are collecting evidence. What's so outrageous or even particularly newsworthy about this?
Why hundreds of people were protesting isn't some kind of unsolved mystery that demands or even justifies law enforcement digging through the last decade of electronic personal data in order to "crack" the case. How would you feel after getting arrested for DUI if law enforcement searched through you entire house, your office, your vacation cabin, and your parents house, just because you happen to have a set of keys on you? If private data is irrelevant to the crime, then it's fucking irrelevant, and privacy should be protected.
Forget Facebook simply handing over information. The root of the issue is the bullshit justification that a search warrant of this kind was even authorized.
Just because something has been wrong in the past does not mean it is wrong now.
Just because something has been right in the past does not mean it is right now.
Unfortunately, our legal system does not always run on common sense logic, and prior cases feeding legal precedent tend to be a rather effective way to repeat history, even when the result is repeating a wrong. This is essentially why this patent remains an effective weapon for a patent troll.
Past performance is not indicative of present condition or future results.
While generally true, this is not the stock market floor, and lawyers don't base their paycheck on 50/50 odds.
I think Netflix should ask for a jury trial on this one. Is Watch Offline anything even remotely like burning and shipping a custom CD-R to someone?
Ironically, you ask this question of the very company who also offers a DVD service that is essentially exactly the definition of watching a movie "offline"...
20 years ago the majority of the world was still dialing up to the internet.
Find me someone who accurately predicted in 1997 that people would be obtaining gigabit connections to their home within 20 years, and I'll believe the blind predictions regarding the speed at which AI will dismantle the concept of human employment.
Until then, perhaps we can stop fucking assuming, and start fucking preparing for how humanity will survive without the concept of human employment.
MD5's weakness lies in it's popularity and therefore susceptibility to rainbow table lookup. There's not a hashing algorithm around you should use without a salt and feel good about in the long term.
Your analogy is dumb.
Much like a 3-digit combination that is unknown to the attacker, MD5's ultimate weakness lies in the speed at which it can be cracked, which today's hardware has proven, irrelevant of the popularity or combinations known by rainbow tables.
And if programmers are going to remain as ignorant as they always have and refuse to add a little salt to their coding diet, then stronger algorithms (stronger locks) are a rather necessary minimum, because convincing them to use a decades-old security bolster sure as shit ain't working.
You are correct in that a hash alone does not provide a comfortable security buffer, but that hardly dismisses my analogy.
Do you not know what a rainbow table is? MD5 can't be cracked quickly... The problem with MD5 is that people have been working for decades to crack it and they shared the cracked passwords to the point that it is trivial to take the encypted password "fb8273hbr#@T@(#FJW" and map it to "secret!"
And when a password happens to not exist yet in a rainbow table (thus removing your "popularity" factor), MD5's standing weakness is the fact that modern computing technology allows billions of computations per second against that particular algorithm, which was my entire point. The very existence of rainbow tables tend to prove how weak certain algorithms are, especially against modern hardware.
THe problem is 2fold.
They want to hire Americans, but not at current wages. WIth greater supply is less demand. A kid out of college earns around 10 - 20/hr with 15/hr being average for a college grad. Ridiculous but reality.
If reality is ridiculous, then perhaps we should start doing something about that shit, because no college graduate spends four years obtaining a degree to live the dream of continuing to live in their parents basement. And anyone from any era should understand that. Perhaps $60K isn't such a silly figure, especially when you look at the average cost of living today. When you cannot afford to be single to buy a home simply because you need at least two incomes, the problem becomes rather obvious. And when the chasm between the 99% and the 1% continues to grow, my sympathy fucking dies for the greedy elite not wanting to pay a decent wage.
2nd my biology teacher had a saying. People know more about their freaking cars then their bodies. Students hated science but the same principle applies. COmputers are important in business and any kid should know how to use excel SUM and basic pivot tables.
Using Excel features is not coding (there's a SUM button in the GUI), and can be taught in a day with YouTube. Computers are a lot like cars in business value. Learning to drive one is rather mandatory. Learning to build one is optional.
their end is near, because it is done out of sheer desperation...
That depends on the company.
Speaking of weird stuff, we've seen more than our fair share of corporations literally piss money away on Superbowl advertising time to not do a damn thing with it other than gain a sizeable tax write-off.
There are many reasons to make decisions about revenue that may not make sense on the surface. Some mega-corps today hold a metric fuckton of cash reserves. When $30 million is considered a rounding error, you can certainly afford to take on the oddball venture or two, and would hardly be ringing the doomsday bell.
Never mind that the factory jobs that left the US did so because of high labor rates and the only way to get them back and keep them is to pay people competitive wages... for China.
Manufacturing jobs are returning to the US because labor is getting too expensive in China, as Chinese workers want a middle class lifestyle. But the new factories in the US require fewer workers and those workers must possess a college degree, eliminating the vast majority of Trump voters who are eagerly waiting for the 1980's manufacturing jobs to return.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/30/education/edlife/factory-workers-college-degree-apprenticeships.html
In the meantime, Common F. Sense is eagerly waiting for someone to justify why factory workers suddenly need a college degree.
When college goes from optional to mandatory, it's time to start aligning the price of that degree alongside K-12 education. Fuck the greedy institutions who feel burying students in college debt for a decade or two is somehow the "right" answer.
...I know that the cost of public universities has increased since I finished school, but there's no requirement that you become overloaded with debt to get a bachelors degree.
Based on how you've marginalized the cost of higher education, I can tell you have no idea how expensive it has become to get a bachelors degree, a cost that has risen over 200% in the last 30 years. Not to mention actually landing a job after you spend $40,000+ getting a degree, unlike history when a degree all but guaranteed you employment. There's a reason outstanding college debt is now measured in trillions, and working a menial job through college used to be a way to avoid taking loans. That's hardly the case today.
It is laughable that people talk of it being an 'either/or' thing. In the modern world, people need a grasp of foreign languages, since people need to talk to people; people need a grasp of programming, so that computers are not so much 'magic black boxes with flashing lights'; and people need to grasp the languages of maths and science. Figuring out how to teach people, and get across why grokking these things is a good idea, is a research project nobody at the top of the education seems to want to take fully take on.
Most people need to learn how their "magic black box" works about as much as they need to learn how their "vroom-vroom" engine works, which is why most people have no fucking desire to learn programming or auto repair. That's what they pay other people for.
It's laughable that you think the average layman needs a grasp of programming when 1% of computer users hold that skill today, which doesn't seem to affect their ability to operate a "magic black box". We've been studying how to teach humans for a very long time. One truth has come out of that; not everyone is cut out for learning advanced shit.
Coding is not for everyone and not everyone will gain even a modest benefit from learning coding. Furthermore this shit is going to be highly automated over the coming decade or two. We need to teach kids stuff to make them well rounded, not just a fucking outdated cog.
Speaking of outdated cog, makes you wonder how many people really remember how to speak a foreign language, even after getting two years of it shoved down their throats back in high school.
Not trying to take away from your point at all, merely highlighting the actual value of teaching any language to the masses.
Never mind that the factory jobs that left the US did so because of high labor rates and the only way to get them back and keep them is to pay people competitive wages... for China.
Manufacturing jobs are returning to the US because labor is getting too expensive in China, as Chinese workers want a middle class lifestyle. But the new factories in the US require fewer workers and those workers must possess a college degree, eliminating the vast majority of Trump voters who are eagerly waiting for the 1980's manufacturing jobs to return.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/30/education/edlife/factory-workers-college-degree-apprenticeships.html
In the meantime, Common F. Sense is eagerly waiting for someone to justify why factory workers suddenly need a college degree.
When college goes from optional to mandatory, it's time to start aligning the price of that degree alongside K-12 education. Fuck the greedy institutions who feel burying students in college debt for a decade or two is somehow the "right" answer.
Why do they care what they do with the supposedly "free" gift that they give me. The only reason to do this is to assert their power over me and make me do what they want. WHen someone gives me something then it no longer belongs to them and is none of their business what I do with it.
From TFA:
"retailers sent promotional game codes to customers that purchased a qualifying product."
Hope that clears up any confusion about how this is not a "free" gift.
And in the era of your digital privacy being raped in exchange for "free" apps and social media services, there is no such thing as "none of their business". Humans have become a very valuable product. That would include you, and there's not a damn thing you can do about it, other than living off the grid in a mountain shack somewhere.