No the worst part will be bringing flaky driver issues to hard drives. What's to say the next version of Windows will even work with the thing. Hell, I can't even trust MFGs to put out drivers that actually work with Win7 for something as simple as a USB interface. I downgraded to Win7 from Win8 on new hardware and wound up having to use a Linux Live CD on that system because the open source WIFI and USB drivers worked out of the box (the same chipset was in a different piece of hardware that had an open source driver already). Put the files on the Win7 partition with Linux, rebooted, Win7 USB drivers installed, but the USB ports still don't work. Now, imagine that's a hard drive. I wouldn't have been able to use Linux to help make the damn thing work... I'd have just had to stick with the OS that came with the hardware: Windows8. What if the driver is discontinued by the time I want to install Windows Blue (or whatever)? Nothing doing.
Nope, less competition isn't the worst part. The worst part is opening the door for shitty drivers and planned obsolescence to prevent you from using your hardware, and this time it's your data -- The only thing you put in a computer that actually matters.
I don't care how much cheaper it is to offload the hardware's job into the software driver. If it doesn't have support for Linux, then I don't want it in my Windows either. It's like no one's heard of "Plan B" -- which is the only reason that "Plan A" got the go ahead in the first place.
spoiler alert, everybody dies. i'd rather be one of the first people to live and die on mars than the umpteen billionth person to live and die on earth.
You could always try... I dunno... doing something meaningful on earth?
Let me know how that works out for you. Protip: Asteroids come from Space. Space is where we have to go if we don't want ALL the meaningful stuff ever done on Earth to be for nothing.
I can accept an astronaut signing up for something which is risky, but has a reasonable chance of working. But I'm a little creeped out by a guaranteed death sentence from a one way mission operated by a private company who wants to have a reality show.
Life is a guaranteed death sentence. I'm not seeing how that's much different than not signing up... IMO, it's not how long you live, that's silly. You'll be dead (or unborn) for infinitely longer a time than alive. What counts is the journey, and what you do with your life.
Frankly, I've lost complete tolerance for any humans who aren't actively trying to do something about the problem of having all the eggs in one basket called Earth.
I don't care if they're going to fund Mars One via reality TV, live porn, or human centipede eating contests. The fact that we don't already have an off-world colony, despite 4 decades of manned space exploration is quite retarded. You want to just wait around some more, like dinosaurs until some 'acceptable' parties manage to trick the ignorant masses into funding a colony? How horrible to think a big rock could be discovered heading this way tomorrow, and we'd have missed our chance to have any sort of defense or at least a self sustaining off world gene pool -- Pissed away our chances by fighting stupid petty wars instead.
These volunteers are trail blazers who are doing more for mankind with their sacrifice than any single human ever has. I don't think they care how it gets funded either, there's WAY more important things at work here... Like reducing our current 100% odds that we'll become extinct -- And it's not just humans I'm talking about. It's all life on Earth. These folks, and all who further our footholds in space, are the only ones actually saving the World.
Close inspection of the nose of the missile shows the warhead's surface is undulated. Some analysts suggest the wrinkles mean the material is a thin metal sheet, unable to withstand flight pressures.
Maybe they're speed ridges, you know, to make them go faster. Sort of like speed holes on a sports car, but different...
So the ones they showed in a parade are fakes. Now how smart do you have to be to decide to use fakes in a parade? ...
Showing them in a parade means they are not ready to use if the US or the South attacks.
Maybe they were just en-route to another facility. They needed the police / military presence to secure the route anyway, and decided, hell, let's make a day of it and have a parade too.
I could be completely wrong; However, I find your lack of doubt in your own unproven hypotheses disturbing. There's a pretty easy way to find out if the missiles are real. Just ask our intel agents on the inside. Or, you know, read their computer logs we've probably got. There's no way of us knowing for sure, but IMO: If the feds are spouting FUD about how much of a thread China's hackers are, and pretty much ignoring NK, then I'm not too worried about either eventuality.
We can narrow the search a bit further. My crack team of forensic consultants have discovered that his mother was a snow blower, and his father reeked of elderberries.
Their current privacy policy basically says: "We collect whatever data we want, we do whatever we want with it and reserve the right to share it with anybody". That is simply not allowed and has to change, so please enlighten us where you see any injustice.
That is the privacy policy of the Internet at large. You can make all the laws you want, but that's not how the system was designed, and it's fucking imbecilic to assume you can. No Law can change the fact that neither you nor the places you visit control the routers in the middle. Even when the data is encrypted then intermediary systems can pretty much figure out who's talking to whom based only on IP:Port mappings (return ports are fairly sequential), there's some data that I can't control. It's beyond my power. You don't like it, then don't use the Internet. Don't pay to have a painter write your message on a park bench then sue the painter for not being able to comply with the demand to tell you everyone who's read the message and what they're doing with the data.
Don't get me wrong, Apple should try to comply with the EU privacy laws as best they can if they operate there. However, you fuckers need to get bent if you think it's actually possible to comply with those laws at a technical level. Apple is just covering their ass, and probably are doing advertising and marketing graph data with 3rd parties, who knows who those third parties do business with forever, and what of the 4th parties? It's like "6 degrees of separation" is totally lost on you. That's the "injustice". That we should bend over backwards to comply with some ignorant and irrational demands. The Internet is PUBLIC space. Treat it as such. Is that too much to ask?
Err.. The European privacy laws are pretty much common sense. Just consider that people have the right to know what personal information is stored of them.
Well, how on Earth could anyone deny them this right? If you or your system is sending me personal information, then you can assume it's been stored somewhere, multiple times, and will be used for whatever purpose forever, and can't be deleted. THAT'S common sense. In fact, do a traceroute then maybe get even more irrationally incensed that there are intermediary router owners who can see and possibly store everything you sent and you never even agreed to their "privacy" policy. If it gets transmitted in the clear, consider it stored and used for ANY purpose. If you don't like it, then use common sense and GTFO the Internet, or at leas use encryption. It would be like sending a message on a post card then getting mad that people can see what you wrote, copy it, and do whatever they want with the copy. Doesn't make any sense to me.
I understand the issue and concerns, and I do my best to inform folks what i plan to do with their data, but it's just not in anyone's power to actually comply with the EU privacy regulations at all times. Hire a sky-writer, give them some data to deliver a message to a friend, then demand the sky writer give you a list of all the people who read the message in the sky.... Make a law that requires they tell you where that data is and all parties that could have it, and what they're doing with it? That's what you call "common sense"? Your "right" to know where your data is stored ends at the first router hop outside your ISP on its way to my server. For being supposedly made of "pretty much common sense", the European privacy laws sure don't seem to exhibit much at all to me.
Translation: If your IT department were staffed with CS grads, then you'd be doing swell... However, "IT" basically means the guy who fixes his family's PCs, and you're lucky if any of 'em actually program as a hobby.
IMO, teach programming in high school. Fuck, you really can't actually USE a computer these days unless you can make it do whatever you want. IMO, if you can't design scalable web applications in a cross platform manner and haven't PUNCHED IN THE FACE any idiot that wouldn't let you virtualize the OS, and thus software stack.... Then off with your fool heads.
No. The point of a car is to get you from one place to another. Driving is one of the most boring tasks imaginable, except on a few roads like BC's Sea to Sky Highway when the traffic is light. The vast majority of driving situations are tedious.
Well, in a self-driving car, you could play Need for Speed or Gran Turismo videogames on the HUD to make things more exciting while you wait. Ever imagined your finger was a bazooka while you're in traffic, and you could just blow up the cars in the way? Well, now we can use Altered Reality to superimpose images of Actual Explosions!
My extensive research has proven that "Time Flies when you're having fun"... Ergo, there's a loveseat in the back.
The Terrorists are Funding Free and Open Source Software made by Cheap Chinese Labor in order to Devalue the sacred Intellectual Property made by American Industry! If we fall off the Fiscal Cliff there will be no Funds to Save us from the Armies of the Pot Smoking Freetardians and their legions of Homosexual Concubines! Do you want your children to live in a world where Child Porn is distributed by Slant-Eyed Ladyboys with Neckbeards to further the Terrorist agenda?!
Act now! Vote Yes, on the LIBERTY Act to safe our great nation: Legislation to Insulate Babies Eyes and Reduce Terrorist Yiffing.
How long do we uphold the polite pretense that China isn't behind the overwhelming majority of real world hacking? How long are we supposed to avoid to avoid offending them and continue to allow them to steal all of our intellectual property that we supposedly value? At least the Chinese government actually bothers to protect Chinese businesses from foreigners unlike the US government which only protects big business. Turn the other cheek, what if your out of cheeks?
HEAR HEAR! A hearty Flag Salute to you! Let's institute some strict Cyber Spying Laws that only apply to US citizens! We should Outlaw the use and creation of Hacking Tools! I don't care if you're a "security researcher", you're making tools for the Enemy to use against us! Hacking tools should only be made in secure military secured facilities, or no one will be safe. We CAN NOT Let this Chinese Threat sleep. We implore Congress -- A preemptive strike against the Chinese Cyber Army is needed. This Means Cyber-War!
Except.... We started the damn cyber war. We created the CIA expressly for that purpose. No one is innocent here. Don't let fear sway your mind into agreeing with an increasingly dystopia future. Sew. Reap. Cry me a river about what was harvested.
China is after our Intellectual Property. I have a foolproof counter attack: OUTLAW PATENTS AND COPYRIGHTS. Let researchers and artists make money the same way every other labor industry does. We simply get rid of the idea of Artificial Scarcity of Bits, and instead market the ability to configure more bits and do actual work for money! Crisis Averted. Sew. Reap. Cry me a river about reaping what was harvested. I'll defer any "but patents are good" arguments to my previous comments on the issue. The gist is: We have NO scientific proof that Intellectual property is beneficial to society, so we should get rid of those laws in order to test the unproven hypothesis and thus end the Cyber War too -- they're the spoils and thus direct cause of war and oppressive laws now? Let go of Artificial Scarcity of Ideas already... Welcome to the Information Age: Bits are in infinite supply. IP is a futures market that is guaranteed to fail: It defers payment for your work until the work is completely devalued by being published and in infinite supply (thus $0 price, regardless of cost to create). It's as economically insane as trying to sell ice to Eskimos. It's like I'm dealing with infants here: "But I don't Wannaaaa!" To bad, there is no other sane option.
My aunt had the same issue with Win7. So, I just "Upgraded" my Aunt's laptop to Windows8: Kubuntu. I installed Linux, replaced the splash screen and desktop image with a Windows8 logo, and every thing is fine. She even gets along great in conversations between other clueless users like her about how different her Windows8 is from Windows7... Her opinion on adopting "Win8" is: "Oh, sure, it's a bit different, but it's not THAT different, and you get used to it; I don't see what the big deal is, some programs just have to run in Compatibility Mode now" (I installed WINE). Of course her friends think she's nuts, to them Win8 is atrocious.
Interestingly, one of my more tech-savvy relatives called me up after they bought a brand new Toshiba laptop. It came with win8, he hated it. He has a legit boxed copy of Windows7, and the sales rep (at Toshiba, from toshiba.com) assured him the system would work fine with Win7. It doesn't. The WIFI drivers didn't work out of the box, so we downloaded the WIFI and other drivers for win7 on a another system, and tried to transfer them over and install....... Except the USB drivers didn't work either, so the new laptop couldn't read the USB under the Win7 install. The funny thing is? We just plugged in Ubuntu12.04 live CD on a USB flash drive, booted up just fine (after disabling Secure Boot in BIOS), and the USB works, so do the WIFI drivers. We used Ubuntu to copy the drivers onto the windows partition, then rebooted into Windows7. The WIFI worked, but no matter what we did we couldn't get the USB ports working. We let a Toshiba tech support goon fiddle fart around cluelessy on the system via remote desktop for about an hour (I swear she was just itching to play RDP with someone); They couldn't fix it either.
The dumb thing is that as soon as Windows7 got on the Internet the product key was said to be invalid. The installer liked it just fine, but the online activation was gorked. End result: We removed Win7's partition, installed Ubuntu12.04 from the USB, and replaced Unity with Gnome3 (because Unity is the Windows8 of Linux DEs). All the drivers work out of the box, even the AMD 3D drivers for the new APU; Runs WoW, and some other games just fine, hooked him up with the Emulated Firefox + Silverlight Netflix "app" to get that running on Linux, and installed Steam too. He called me a few days ago just to talk, and didn't have to uncomfortably as me for free support to diagnose any computer issues either. He said, "Runs like a dream, probably won't be going back to windows after that ordeal."
I can't decide if it's Toshiba's fault or MS's fault for the driver issue... I mean, Toshiba pays to have the open source drivers developed by a 3rd party, and so Linux just works... They pay just as much to get MS drivers working too, but for some reason solving the driver issue on Linux is easier than on Windows.
P.S. At one point We did try to D/L a crack for the windows activation issue... Unfortunately none of the ones we initially found were free of malware... Stay thirsty my friend.
I am a software developer and have a part-time independent game development business. Thus, this law can not apply to me.
I'll just sell my wares online, and give the finger to the corrupt classicism that is this law. If Rosa Parks had the balls to sit at the front of the bus and break the unjust segregation laws, and risk getting thrown in jail, then so do I. Unjust laws should be ignored, just because a law is made, doesn't mean it's a good one to abide by... Jim Crow was a law once. WE ALL already pay heavily via income tax. WTF more do you want from us? If you want more, then take more from the income tax, that's a decentralized method of taxation. Making all companies do more work to pay this tax is cruel and unusual punishment if you ask any systems designer: It's not scalable! The tax system is broken. As long as they're pretending like the The Information Age isn't here, I'm pretending like moronic laws like this don't exist either -- It just so happens that those who are supposed to represent me don't; So, I have nothing else left to do but protest.
Let's face it, this shit doesn't really affect the big guys. They'll manage. It just creates a big moat around real profit (and thus lobby power, since 'money = speech' now), to keep small companies from getting bigger and competing with the big ones.
It's not like I have any choice, I have to ignore the law. I haven't reached their BS $1mil limit, far from it, but I do have big plans... If I do hit that limit, then my actual take-home profit won't be that much because it does cost a lot to run a massively collaborative online world building game... Once I hit that tipping point, I'll go broke if I try to comply with this fucking law. I'd be dumb to just close up shop though. I'm just hoping the fines for not collecting the taxes will be less than the actual cost to do so, and that maybe I can fly under the radar until I'm on the other side of the chasm and can afford it. Even if that means I'm jailed and can never write software again, then it's a win-win situation. We'll have our "parks" moment (not that the corporate owned media would publicize it)... I hear that not all countries on this rock are quite this daft, so maybe I'll just fucking move and take my tax money with me to another country.
Will your contest winner be able to readily adapt to your entity's coding style/standards? Will your contest winner be able to adapt to your client's needs (and if it is for internal coding, then your internal customer's needs). And finally, will your contest winner, be there for the long haul or will he/she get bored and look for the next puzzle/contest, leaving you high and dry?
There is only one way to find out! More contests! Contests for ease of Coding Style adoption, Contests for Internal and External Customer Ass Kissing! Once hired, we can even set up fake contests to see how loyal the programmer is! Congratulations! You've won the Contest! You're Fired!
The best way to find good programmers who can work with your codebase effectively is to hire them from the mailing list of your Free (libre) and Open Source Software.
Having to share an IP address with tons of people is absolutely, 100% a crippling experience. There are plenty of sites (newspapers, the site I get textures from, RapidShare, etc.) who limit their services by IP address. There's nothing quite like seeing messages about how your IP has exceeded the download limit on a website you've never visited before.
Also: having to deal with bans when playing online games, as many are IP-based. The impossibility of hosting your own servers for games or other purposes. BitTorrent is nigh unusable. I would not pay a dime for this kind of a service, ever again.
And I shouldn't have to try and figure out some way to make my client and server software work around the crappy service either. I'm fully capable of using other types of fingerprinting (though they're spoofable to a large degree) in order to make quotas and bans stick (and secure your connection). However, I'm not EVER going to go out of my way to make IP level NAT more easy to digest -- (port based NAT in home routers is a whole different ballgame). If that means you get shitty issues when you use the shitty service, then those issues are incentive to "upgrade"; It is good for you, and me, and everyone that crap actually stinks.
I apologize to folks who have no other available options, but I don't make decisions based on the outliers in a graph, that way lies pain. My fear is that by placating the users of these "Option 1" "Carrier Grade" NAT I'll forever pave the way to ruin for everyone else; Essentially diverting my money into BTs pockets in the form of funneling traffic through servers needlessly (TURN instead of P2P), and development time to make the kludge ridden workaround code. I already did this shit once with "firewall" port punching because of the home routers (ISPs not giving you an IP for each device), and Look how that shit turned out: We're stuck with the damn things and to this day have to waste cycles and bandwidth negotiating with a 3rd party server just to do VOIP / online games, sync a backup of all the family's files in a private cloud store, etc. I am NOT doing it again. Complain incessantly to the ISP if they heap this crap on you, do not settle for less features for more money. They take your money, IPv6 adoption is the cost of doing business they're been trying to put off on everyone else, ever since they found out it was coming many YEARS ago, and the cost to serve traffic has gone down while their prices have gone the other direction... If the rate hike vs cost is NOT getting you upgraded service, then I can't be fucked to care.
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No the worst part will be bringing flaky driver issues to hard drives. What's to say the next version of Windows will even work with the thing. Hell, I can't even trust MFGs to put out drivers that actually work with Win7 for something as simple as a USB interface. I downgraded to Win7 from Win8 on new hardware and wound up having to use a Linux Live CD on that system because the open source WIFI and USB drivers worked out of the box (the same chipset was in a different piece of hardware that had an open source driver already). Put the files on the Win7 partition with Linux, rebooted, Win7 USB drivers installed, but the USB ports still don't work. Now, imagine that's a hard drive. I wouldn't have been able to use Linux to help make the damn thing work... I'd have just had to stick with the OS that came with the hardware: Windows8. What if the driver is discontinued by the time I want to install Windows Blue (or whatever)? Nothing doing.
Nope, less competition isn't the worst part. The worst part is opening the door for shitty drivers and planned obsolescence to prevent you from using your hardware, and this time it's your data -- The only thing you put in a computer that actually matters.
I don't care how much cheaper it is to offload the hardware's job into the software driver. If it doesn't have support for Linux, then I don't want it in my Windows either. It's like no one's heard of "Plan B" -- which is the only reason that "Plan A" got the go ahead in the first place.
Well, you can have any color you like, so long as it's black.
Oh, it's not like the ONLY thing they do is stare at a switch all day, waiting to be told to press it.
"Island of Stability" -- Well, it's no Fortress of Solitude, but I guess for a used up pear-shaped Atomic Avenger, it'll do.
they won't be astronaut grade.
How would you know?
What happens on the ISS, stays on the ISS.
spoiler alert, everybody dies. i'd rather be one of the first people to live and die on mars than the umpteen billionth person to live and die on earth.
You could always try... I dunno... doing something meaningful on earth?
Let me know how that works out for you. Protip: Asteroids come from Space. Space is where we have to go if we don't want ALL the meaningful stuff ever done on Earth to be for nothing.
I can accept an astronaut signing up for something which is risky, but has a reasonable chance of working. But I'm a little creeped out by a guaranteed death sentence from a one way mission operated by a private company who wants to have a reality show.
Life is a guaranteed death sentence. I'm not seeing how that's much different than not signing up... IMO, it's not how long you live, that's silly. You'll be dead (or unborn) for infinitely longer a time than alive. What counts is the journey, and what you do with your life.
Frankly, I've lost complete tolerance for any humans who aren't actively trying to do something about the problem of having all the eggs in one basket called Earth.
I don't care if they're going to fund Mars One via reality TV, live porn, or human centipede eating contests. The fact that we don't already have an off-world colony, despite 4 decades of manned space exploration is quite retarded. You want to just wait around some more, like dinosaurs until some 'acceptable' parties manage to trick the ignorant masses into funding a colony? How horrible to think a big rock could be discovered heading this way tomorrow, and we'd have missed our chance to have any sort of defense or at least a self sustaining off world gene pool -- Pissed away our chances by fighting stupid petty wars instead.
These volunteers are trail blazers who are doing more for mankind with their sacrifice than any single human ever has. I don't think they care how it gets funded either, there's WAY more important things at work here... Like reducing our current 100% odds that we'll become extinct -- And it's not just humans I'm talking about. It's all life on Earth. These folks, and all who further our footholds in space, are the only ones actually saving the World.
Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master.
— Commissioner Pravin Lal (Alpha Centauri)
Fuck you and your DRMmed knowledge. I only rely on reference material that I know I can always reference.
Close inspection of the nose of the missile shows the warhead's surface is undulated. Some analysts suggest the wrinkles mean the material is a thin metal sheet, unable to withstand flight pressures.
Maybe they're speed ridges, you know, to make them go faster. Sort of like speed holes on a sports car, but different...
Or maybe they're just ribbed for her pleasure?
So the ones they showed in a parade are fakes. Now how smart do you have to be to decide to use fakes in a parade?
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Showing them in a parade means they are not ready to use if the US or the South attacks.
Maybe they were just en-route to another facility. They needed the police / military presence to secure the route anyway, and decided, hell, let's make a day of it and have a parade too.
I could be completely wrong; However, I find your lack of doubt in your own unproven hypotheses disturbing. There's a pretty easy way to find out if the missiles are real. Just ask our intel agents on the inside. Or, you know, read their computer logs we've probably got. There's no way of us knowing for sure, but IMO: If the feds are spouting FUD about how much of a thread China's hackers are, and pretty much ignoring NK, then I'm not too worried about either eventuality.
We can narrow the search a bit further. My crack team of forensic consultants have discovered that his mother was a snow blower, and his father reeked of elderberries.
Their current privacy policy basically says: "We collect whatever data we want, we do whatever we want with it and reserve the right to share it with anybody". That is simply not allowed and has to change, so please enlighten us where you see any injustice.
That is the privacy policy of the Internet at large. You can make all the laws you want, but that's not how the system was designed, and it's fucking imbecilic to assume you can. No Law can change the fact that neither you nor the places you visit control the routers in the middle. Even when the data is encrypted then intermediary systems can pretty much figure out who's talking to whom based only on IP:Port mappings (return ports are fairly sequential), there's some data that I can't control. It's beyond my power. You don't like it, then don't use the Internet. Don't pay to have a painter write your message on a park bench then sue the painter for not being able to comply with the demand to tell you everyone who's read the message and what they're doing with the data.
Don't get me wrong, Apple should try to comply with the EU privacy laws as best they can if they operate there. However, you fuckers need to get bent if you think it's actually possible to comply with those laws at a technical level. Apple is just covering their ass, and probably are doing advertising and marketing graph data with 3rd parties, who knows who those third parties do business with forever, and what of the 4th parties? It's like "6 degrees of separation" is totally lost on you. That's the "injustice". That we should bend over backwards to comply with some ignorant and irrational demands. The Internet is PUBLIC space. Treat it as such. Is that too much to ask?
Err.. The European privacy laws are pretty much common sense. Just consider that people have the right to know what personal information is stored of them.
Well, how on Earth could anyone deny them this right? If you or your system is sending me personal information, then you can assume it's been stored somewhere, multiple times, and will be used for whatever purpose forever, and can't be deleted. THAT'S common sense. In fact, do a traceroute then maybe get even more irrationally incensed that there are intermediary router owners who can see and possibly store everything you sent and you never even agreed to their "privacy" policy. If it gets transmitted in the clear, consider it stored and used for ANY purpose. If you don't like it, then use common sense and GTFO the Internet, or at leas use encryption. It would be like sending a message on a post card then getting mad that people can see what you wrote, copy it, and do whatever they want with the copy. Doesn't make any sense to me.
I understand the issue and concerns, and I do my best to inform folks what i plan to do with their data, but it's just not in anyone's power to actually comply with the EU privacy regulations at all times. Hire a sky-writer, give them some data to deliver a message to a friend, then demand the sky writer give you a list of all the people who read the message in the sky.... Make a law that requires they tell you where that data is and all parties that could have it, and what they're doing with it? That's what you call "common sense"? Your "right" to know where your data is stored ends at the first router hop outside your ISP on its way to my server. For being supposedly made of "pretty much common sense", the European privacy laws sure don't seem to exhibit much at all to me.
Translation: If your IT department were staffed with CS grads, then you'd be doing swell... However, "IT" basically means the guy who fixes his family's PCs, and you're lucky if any of 'em actually program as a hobby.
IMO, teach programming in high school. Fuck, you really can't actually USE a computer these days unless you can make it do whatever you want. IMO, if you can't design scalable web applications in a cross platform manner and haven't PUNCHED IN THE FACE any idiot that wouldn't let you virtualize the OS, and thus software stack.... Then off with your fool heads.
No. The point of a car is to get you from one place to another. Driving is one of the most boring tasks imaginable, except on a few roads like BC's Sea to Sky Highway when the traffic is light. The vast majority of driving situations are tedious.
Well, in a self-driving car, you could play Need for Speed or Gran Turismo videogames on the HUD to make things more exciting while you wait. Ever imagined your finger was a bazooka while you're in traffic, and you could just blow up the cars in the way? Well, now we can use Altered Reality to superimpose images of Actual Explosions!
My extensive research has proven that "Time Flies when you're having fun"... Ergo, there's a loveseat in the back.
Just because it came from Mars doesn't mean it's automatically weird.
Silly humans.
Congratulations. You just described the entire mortgage industry...
The Terrorists are Funding Free and Open Source Software made by Cheap Chinese Labor in order to Devalue the sacred Intellectual Property made by American Industry! If we fall off the Fiscal Cliff there will be no Funds to Save us from the Armies of the Pot Smoking Freetardians and their legions of Homosexual Concubines! Do you want your children to live in a world where Child Porn is distributed by Slant-Eyed Ladyboys with Neckbeards to further the Terrorist agenda?!
Act now! Vote Yes, on the LIBERTY Act to safe our great nation:
Legislation to Insulate Babies Eyes and Reduce Terrorist Yiffing.
How long do we uphold the polite pretense that China isn't behind the overwhelming majority of real world hacking? How long are we supposed to avoid to avoid offending them and continue to allow them to steal all of our intellectual property that we supposedly value? At least the Chinese government actually bothers to protect Chinese businesses from foreigners unlike the US government which only protects big business. Turn the other cheek, what if your out of cheeks?
HEAR HEAR! A hearty Flag Salute to you! Let's institute some strict Cyber Spying Laws that only apply to US citizens! We should Outlaw the use and creation of Hacking Tools! I don't care if you're a "security researcher", you're making tools for the Enemy to use against us! Hacking tools should only be made in secure military secured facilities, or no one will be safe. We CAN NOT Let this Chinese Threat sleep. We implore Congress -- A preemptive strike against the Chinese Cyber Army is needed. This Means Cyber-War!
Except.... We started the damn cyber war. We created the CIA expressly for that purpose. No one is innocent here. Don't let fear sway your mind into agreeing with an increasingly dystopia future. Sew. Reap. Cry me a river about what was harvested.
China is after our Intellectual Property. I have a foolproof counter attack: OUTLAW PATENTS AND COPYRIGHTS. Let researchers and artists make money the same way every other labor industry does. We simply get rid of the idea of Artificial Scarcity of Bits, and instead market the ability to configure more bits and do actual work for money! Crisis Averted. Sew. Reap. Cry me a river about reaping what was harvested. I'll defer any "but patents are good" arguments to my previous comments on the issue. The gist is: We have NO scientific proof that Intellectual property is beneficial to society, so we should get rid of those laws in order to test the unproven hypothesis and thus end the Cyber War too -- they're the spoils and thus direct cause of war and oppressive laws now? Let go of Artificial Scarcity of Ideas already... Welcome to the Information Age: Bits are in infinite supply. IP is a futures market that is guaranteed to fail: It defers payment for your work until the work is completely devalued by being published and in infinite supply (thus $0 price, regardless of cost to create). It's as economically insane as trying to sell ice to Eskimos. It's like I'm dealing with infants here: "But I don't Wannaaaa!" To bad, there is no other sane option.
Science or Bust
My aunt had the same issue with Win7. So, I just "Upgraded" my Aunt's laptop to Windows8: Kubuntu. I installed Linux, replaced the splash screen and desktop image with a Windows8 logo, and every thing is fine. She even gets along great in conversations between other clueless users like her about how different her Windows8 is from Windows7... Her opinion on adopting "Win8" is: "Oh, sure, it's a bit different, but it's not THAT different, and you get used to it; I don't see what the big deal is, some programs just have to run in Compatibility Mode now" (I installed WINE). Of course her friends think she's nuts, to them Win8 is atrocious.
Interestingly, one of my more tech-savvy relatives called me up after they bought a brand new Toshiba laptop. It came with win8, he hated it. He has a legit boxed copy of Windows7, and the sales rep (at Toshiba, from toshiba.com) assured him the system would work fine with Win7. It doesn't. The WIFI drivers didn't work out of the box, so we downloaded the WIFI and other drivers for win7 on a another system, and tried to transfer them over and install....... Except the USB drivers didn't work either, so the new laptop couldn't read the USB under the Win7 install. The funny thing is? We just plugged in Ubuntu12.04 live CD on a USB flash drive, booted up just fine (after disabling Secure Boot in BIOS), and the USB works, so do the WIFI drivers. We used Ubuntu to copy the drivers onto the windows partition, then rebooted into Windows7. The WIFI worked, but no matter what we did we couldn't get the USB ports working. We let a Toshiba tech support goon fiddle fart around cluelessy on the system via remote desktop for about an hour (I swear she was just itching to play RDP with someone); They couldn't fix it either.
The dumb thing is that as soon as Windows7 got on the Internet the product key was said to be invalid. The installer liked it just fine, but the online activation was gorked. End result: We removed Win7's partition, installed Ubuntu12.04 from the USB, and replaced Unity with Gnome3 (because Unity is the Windows8 of Linux DEs). All the drivers work out of the box, even the AMD 3D drivers for the new APU; Runs WoW, and some other games just fine, hooked him up with the Emulated Firefox + Silverlight Netflix "app" to get that running on Linux, and installed Steam too. He called me a few days ago just to talk, and didn't have to uncomfortably as me for free support to diagnose any computer issues either. He said, "Runs like a dream, probably won't be going back to windows after that ordeal."
I can't decide if it's Toshiba's fault or MS's fault for the driver issue... I mean, Toshiba pays to have the open source drivers developed by a 3rd party, and so Linux just works... They pay just as much to get MS drivers working too, but for some reason solving the driver issue on Linux is easier than on Windows.
P.S. At one point We did try to D/L a crack for the windows activation issue... Unfortunately none of the ones we initially found were free of malware... Stay thirsty my friend.
Brother, can you spare a dime?
Sure, if you don't mind the California Red-Hair variety.
I am a software developer and have a part-time independent game development business. Thus, this law can not apply to me.
I'll just sell my wares online, and give the finger to the corrupt classicism that is this law. If Rosa Parks had the balls to sit at the front of the bus and break the unjust segregation laws, and risk getting thrown in jail, then so do I. Unjust laws should be ignored, just because a law is made, doesn't mean it's a good one to abide by... Jim Crow was a law once. WE ALL already pay heavily via income tax. WTF more do you want from us? If you want more, then take more from the income tax, that's a decentralized method of taxation. Making all companies do more work to pay this tax is cruel and unusual punishment if you ask any systems designer: It's not scalable! The tax system is broken. As long as they're pretending like the The Information Age isn't here, I'm pretending like moronic laws like this don't exist either -- It just so happens that those who are supposed to represent me don't; So, I have nothing else left to do but protest.
Let's face it, this shit doesn't really affect the big guys. They'll manage. It just creates a big moat around real profit (and thus lobby power, since 'money = speech' now), to keep small companies from getting bigger and competing with the big ones.
It's not like I have any choice, I have to ignore the law. I haven't reached their BS $1mil limit, far from it, but I do have big plans... If I do hit that limit, then my actual take-home profit won't be that much because it does cost a lot to run a massively collaborative online world building game... Once I hit that tipping point, I'll go broke if I try to comply with this fucking law. I'd be dumb to just close up shop though. I'm just hoping the fines for not collecting the taxes will be less than the actual cost to do so, and that maybe I can fly under the radar until I'm on the other side of the chasm and can afford it. Even if that means I'm jailed and can never write software again, then it's a win-win situation. We'll have our "parks" moment (not that the corporate owned media would publicize it)... I hear that not all countries on this rock are quite this daft, so maybe I'll just fucking move and take my tax money with me to another country.
Great piece of legislation, as usual, pricks.
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Having to share an IP address with tons of people is absolutely, 100% a crippling experience. There are plenty of sites (newspapers, the site I get textures from, RapidShare, etc.) who limit their services by IP address. There's nothing quite like seeing messages about how your IP has exceeded the download limit on a website you've never visited before. Also: having to deal with bans when playing online games, as many are IP-based. The impossibility of hosting your own servers for games or other purposes. BitTorrent is nigh unusable. I would not pay a dime for this kind of a service, ever again.
And I shouldn't have to try and figure out some way to make my client and server software work around the crappy service either. I'm fully capable of using other types of fingerprinting (though they're spoofable to a large degree) in order to make quotas and bans stick (and secure your connection). However, I'm not EVER going to go out of my way to make IP level NAT more easy to digest -- (port based NAT in home routers is a whole different ballgame). If that means you get shitty issues when you use the shitty service, then those issues are incentive to "upgrade"; It is good for you, and me, and everyone that crap actually stinks.
I apologize to folks who have no other available options, but I don't make decisions based on the outliers in a graph, that way lies pain. My fear is that by placating the users of these "Option 1" "Carrier Grade" NAT I'll forever pave the way to ruin for everyone else; Essentially diverting my money into BTs pockets in the form of funneling traffic through servers needlessly (TURN instead of P2P), and development time to make the kludge ridden workaround code. I already did this shit once with "firewall" port punching because of the home routers (ISPs not giving you an IP for each device), and Look how that shit turned out: We're stuck with the damn things and to this day have to waste cycles and bandwidth negotiating with a 3rd party server just to do VOIP / online games, sync a backup of all the family's files in a private cloud store, etc. I am NOT doing it again. Complain incessantly to the ISP if they heap this crap on you, do not settle for less features for more money. They take your money, IPv6 adoption is the cost of doing business they're been trying to put off on everyone else, ever since they found out it was coming many YEARS ago, and the cost to serve traffic has gone down while their prices have gone the other direction... If the rate hike vs cost is NOT getting you upgraded service, then I can't be fucked to care.