I have a great deal of sympathy for Mr. Davis, but it is important to remember that we're only hearing one side of the story, and that's the story as presented by Mr. Davis' attorney, whose job is to put the strongest possible spin on the facts, without actually lying. Attorneys are very good at that.
The lawyer's public statement seems at odds with the firing -- ie, we REALLY haven't heard what was going on. He was fired because the company is biased on traditional gender roles, and he was expected to be the male breadwinner? That feels like a tortured interpretation of "some night and weekend work that can't be done from home."
Same AC here. You think the attitudes and characteristics I'm talking about apply solely to copyright? Are you seriously so narrow-minded, or does interpreting my words in such a narrow, limited context just help you to feel like you're "right"?
This article and this discussion is about copyright, if you want to open it up to "abuse of power" generally, be my guest, but that's a problem we've struggled with since the dawn of structured society, and will continue to do so till the death of civilization.
What you see as ghastly and horrible copyright abuse is not something most people think is a problem, or at least, they want to fight other, far more important battles first. If you want to rally people to fight the power, then by all means, but you won't get that much of a response from your average man by starting with whether you can copy a dvd or not.
Because that requires organization, determination, and working toward a goal with a long-term objective. Maybe that was part of the character of Americans in the past but it sadly isn't anymore. Most of them are too fat, soft and stupid to even realize just how much they're getting screwed by a system that lies to them daily. It's not really their fault because the educational system and mass media help make them that way. It is their fault for liking it. That's why the problem is not self-correcting.
Or maybe, most Americans think that copyright really isn't that big a deal, especially compared to EVERYTHING ELSE happening in politics, and that you're so fanatic about it is something that they would consider pretty weird.
And you'd be crazy if you think governments are willing to pony up serious cash, especially with today's political climate. The problems with censorship and topic selection would be far more extreme as well if we allow the government a hand in what does and does not get made.
It can mean more or less than that, but in the context of computing pirating has almost always equaled copyright infringement--in part because nothing gets *stolen*
"Pirating" as a term for copyright infringement long predates the modern computer as well, since at least the 1600s.
Another recent example of a democratic election gone horribly wrong.
No kidding. If they respected democracy they would have named the actual ship that instead of a robot launched from the ship.
They came at it from a "what respected name will people choose?" Then a bunch of people piled on with screwball names, treating it as an excuse to make a joke.
If you need to get up at dawn, what does it matter if the clock says 4 AM, 5 AM, 12 PM, or 8 PM? You're getting up at dawn, regardless.
The hours affect everyone else that he deals with, whether it's stores that he needs to go to, suppliers who need to make deliveries, or the transporters who take his food to the store.
We should have Daylight Savings Time year round, get rid of Standard Time entirely. However, I don't think that's what would happen. If we abolished DST entirely, then likely we'd just be on that abysmal Standard Time year-round. So having to switch clocks twice a year is a small price to pay for DST time.
Businesses cannot, WILL NOT change their operating hours so that the sun is in a reasonable position as we go out and live our day-to-day lives. It's just not happening, the "9-5" is too strongly engraved in business culture. There would be ripples through supply chains, entertainment schedules, so many things would have to change that the inertia would be just impossible to overcome. We actually found it much easier to change our definition of time, what "9 am" means rather than move to operating at 8 am instead. We could legislate that "9am" starts in the dead of night, and that's still when companies would expect you to be at work.
Are you really so naive as to think they're only using these tools against non-Americans?
The problem is that we don't have "American" TVs and computers and phone and routers, and "non-American" ones used by those of other countries. Yes yes, there are regional differences, but they're mild. Americans use the same computers, the same TVs, the same phones, the same devices as folks in other countries. That means if the CIA/NSA can hack the devices of foreigners, by necessary they can do the exact same with Americans. Whether or not they abuse this or not, the ability is unsettling, and power creep has shown us in the past that more and more people want this ability. The CIA wanted a backdoor built into the iphone for national security reasons, and police agencies chimed in, saying they wanted the ability to break into phones on drug cases and child exploitation reasons.
Obviously if they'd be able to, a whole host of hackers would be able to as well -- there's no such thing as a 'good guys only' exploit.
This is why no-one like Security 'experts'. Just because something can be broken into, doesn't mean it will. As demonstrated by the millions of locked houses with glass windows that aren't being broken into right now.
But the Internet is different, since it's easier to check, and the penalties aren't really there, not to mention jurisdiction problems. Someone breaks into my house? Then it was almost certainly a local job, and the police will be interested. My server is compromised by some kid in Romania? No one will care.
I don't think I've ever had a case where someone walked up to the door of my house and jiggled the doorknob just to see if it was unlocked, or walk around the side of the building to look through the window. But if I set up a random generic computer facing the 'net, it won't take long before I can look through the logs and see dozens of random doorknob-jiggling events a day.
You're just bitter because your candidate was so bad he lost to a black man named Hussein.
No he's not. He doesn't believe a word of it -- it's classic trolling, where a troll is just throwing out something he knows is nonsense for the sake of a reaction.
Personally my money's on costs continuing to go up, up, and away! but at least conservatives will be happy.
Yeah right. That's the point of the game: the real players moving the pieces don't ever have to be on the hook if it turns into a disaster. It's all about privatizing profits and socializing costs.
Who gives a fuck what you think, when *3 billions device run JAVA and is leaking like a sieve*, the world is on fire, it's time to scream and warn everyone, not a time to play fucking boy scout.
Because you sound like a guy ranting about chemtrails or water fluoridation or lizard people controlling governments. I wouldn't trust the hobo on the street corner rambling about backdoored CPUs, and the writing style is pretty evocative of that. I'm not even saying any of your points are wrong, just that If you actually learn how to communicate this more effectively, people might take it more seriously and you'll get more support for your points.
Wikileaks has leaked plenty of stuff from Russia before. But the juicy stuff is in Cyrillic and it's Russian so no one cares.
Wikileaks has not leaked anything juicy about Russia since the Swedes wanted to bring him up on criminal charges and Putin simultaneously started praising him. Strangely, those Russian leaks dried up right quick, and Assange mysteriously forgot about the trove of Russian documents he said was impending before those events.
Jobs will temporarily be lost to automation. We've been automating people out of work for a very, very long time
We're very good at cutting costs through automation, but we're extremely bad at creating those new jobs. Instead, larger and larger percentages of those gains have gone to the top.
And, before you say that the rich greedy people at the top will just pocket all that money, remember that they are rich and greedy and want even more money, so they'll take that money and start new businesses that employ lots of people. I know that sounds an awful lot like trickle-down economics (probably because it is) [...]
I know that's wonderful business school theory, but we have thirty-plus years of proof that Trickle Down Economics is bullshit, a self-serving argument to fleece the population while convincing them that the fleecing is good, and that someday, yes someday they'll benefit.
I foresee a lot of new hobbies in the not too distant future, manual labor being one of them. Maybe some of them will even become sports, so the really talented can earn money going that route. The others will be glad 'modern' humans will never have to do that anymore.
But manual labor involves risk of injury, you mentioned earlier that due to this risk employers wouldn't even hire people willing to work for free. And hobbies require money. They just do. If there are no jobs, then you can't even afford housing, much less hobbies. We'd have to actually attain the mythical/utopian post-money Star Trek society. It was possible in the Star Trek universe due to energy sources that provided basically unlimited resources. In our case though, it'd be the opposite -- without any jobs, the vast masses would need to be able to live a relatively comfortable, money-less existence, otherwise they'll be revolution.
Trump's speech this week had more viewers. They need to do something especially when they give the biggest award to a terrible movie just to be PC. The top review on IMDb for it has four stars. That doesn't deserve best picture award.
IMDB reviews are our standard now? It seems like most of the people who thought Moonlight was a terrible movie, affirmative action, blah blah didn't actually go and see it.
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So some other kind then because the summary clearly states that his boss said it was fine.
His boss may not have been authorized to make that sort of decision.
I have a great deal of sympathy for Mr. Davis, but it is important to remember that we're only hearing one side of the story, and that's the story as presented by Mr. Davis' attorney, whose job is to put the strongest possible spin on the facts, without actually lying. Attorneys are very good at that.
The lawyer's public statement seems at odds with the firing -- ie, we REALLY haven't heard what was going on. He was fired because the company is biased on traditional gender roles, and he was expected to be the male breadwinner? That feels like a tortured interpretation of "some night and weekend work that can't be done from home."
Same AC here. You think the attitudes and characteristics I'm talking about apply solely to copyright? Are you seriously so narrow-minded, or does interpreting my words in such a narrow, limited context just help you to feel like you're "right"?
This article and this discussion is about copyright, if you want to open it up to "abuse of power" generally, be my guest, but that's a problem we've struggled with since the dawn of structured society, and will continue to do so till the death of civilization.
What you see as ghastly and horrible copyright abuse is not something most people think is a problem, or at least, they want to fight other, far more important battles first. If you want to rally people to fight the power, then by all means, but you won't get that much of a response from your average man by starting with whether you can copy a dvd or not.
Because that requires organization, determination, and working toward a goal with a long-term objective. Maybe that was part of the character of Americans in the past but it sadly isn't anymore. Most of them are too fat, soft and stupid to even realize just how much they're getting screwed by a system that lies to them daily. It's not really their fault because the educational system and mass media help make them that way. It is their fault for liking it. That's why the problem is not self-correcting.
Or maybe, most Americans think that copyright really isn't that big a deal, especially compared to EVERYTHING ELSE happening in politics, and that you're so fanatic about it is something that they would consider pretty weird.
Another way is government funding
And you'd be crazy if you think governments are willing to pony up serious cash, especially with today's political climate. The problems with censorship and topic selection would be far more extreme as well if we allow the government a hand in what does and does not get made.
It can mean more or less than that, but in the context of computing pirating has almost always equaled copyright infringement--in part because nothing gets *stolen*
"Pirating" as a term for copyright infringement long predates the modern computer as well, since at least the 1600s.
Another recent example of a democratic election gone horribly wrong.
No kidding. If they respected democracy they would have named the actual ship that instead of a robot launched from the ship.
They came at it from a "what respected name will people choose?" Then a bunch of people piled on with screwball names, treating it as an excuse to make a joke.
If you need to get up at dawn, what does it matter if the clock says 4 AM, 5 AM, 12 PM, or 8 PM? You're getting up at dawn, regardless.
The hours affect everyone else that he deals with, whether it's stores that he needs to go to, suppliers who need to make deliveries, or the transporters who take his food to the store.
I work for myself and set the hours that I work, some days more hours and some days fewer hours.
Very good for you! However, the majority of people who work don't have that luxury.
We should have Daylight Savings Time year round, get rid of Standard Time entirely.
However, I don't think that's what would happen. If we abolished DST entirely, then likely we'd just be on that abysmal Standard Time year-round. So having to switch clocks twice a year is a small price to pay for DST time.
Businesses cannot, WILL NOT change their operating hours so that the sun is in a reasonable position as we go out and live our day-to-day lives. It's just not happening, the "9-5" is too strongly engraved in business culture. There would be ripples through supply chains, entertainment schedules, so many things would have to change that the inertia would be just impossible to overcome. We actually found it much easier to change our definition of time, what "9 am" means rather than move to operating at 8 am instead. We could legislate that "9am" starts in the dead of night, and that's still when companies would expect you to be at work.
Jacob Applebaum? Lol.
Are you really so naive as to think they're only using these tools against non-Americans?
The problem is that we don't have "American" TVs and computers and phone and routers, and "non-American" ones used by those of other countries. Yes yes, there are regional differences, but they're mild. Americans use the same computers, the same TVs, the same phones, the same devices as folks in other countries. That means if the CIA/NSA can hack the devices of foreigners, by necessary they can do the exact same with Americans. Whether or not they abuse this or not, the ability is unsettling, and power creep has shown us in the past that more and more people want this ability. The CIA wanted a backdoor built into the iphone for national security reasons, and police agencies chimed in, saying they wanted the ability to break into phones on drug cases and child exploitation reasons.
Obviously if they'd be able to, a whole host of hackers would be able to as well -- there's no such thing as a 'good guys only' exploit.
This is why no-one like Security 'experts'. Just because something can be broken into, doesn't mean it will. As demonstrated by the millions of locked houses with glass windows that aren't being broken into right now.
But the Internet is different, since it's easier to check, and the penalties aren't really there, not to mention jurisdiction problems. Someone breaks into my house? Then it was almost certainly a local job, and the police will be interested. My server is compromised by some kid in Romania? No one will care.
I don't think I've ever had a case where someone walked up to the door of my house and jiggled the doorknob just to see if it was unlocked, or walk around the side of the building to look through the window. But if I set up a random generic computer facing the 'net, it won't take long before I can look through the logs and see dozens of random doorknob-jiggling events a day.
Ok, so you have FUD. FUD is fine as long as it's accurate, but do we have some sort of proof to point to here?
You're just bitter because your candidate was so bad he lost to a black man named Hussein.
No he's not. He doesn't believe a word of it -- it's classic trolling, where a troll is just throwing out something he knows is nonsense for the sake of a reaction.
Insurance costs should come way back down.
I'll hold you to that, AC.
Personally my money's on costs continuing to go up, up, and away! but at least conservatives will be happy.
Yeah right. That's the point of the game: the real players moving the pieces don't ever have to be on the hook if it turns into a disaster.
It's all about privatizing profits and socializing costs.
Kill pesky processes in unit tests that don't want to die normally
I've certainly heard sysadmins talk like this about process on a normal daily basis, and no one bats an eye.
Who gives a fuck what you think, when *3 billions device run JAVA and is leaking like a sieve*, the world is on fire, it's time to scream and warn everyone, not a time to play fucking boy scout.
Because you sound like a guy ranting about chemtrails or water fluoridation or lizard people controlling governments. I wouldn't trust the hobo on the street corner rambling about backdoored CPUs, and the writing style is pretty evocative of that.
I'm not even saying any of your points are wrong, just that If you actually learn how to communicate this more effectively, people might take it more seriously and you'll get more support for your points.
Wikileaks has leaked plenty of stuff from Russia before. But the juicy stuff is in Cyrillic and it's Russian so no one cares.
Wikileaks has not leaked anything juicy about Russia since the Swedes wanted to bring him up on criminal charges and Putin simultaneously started praising him. Strangely, those Russian leaks dried up right quick, and Assange mysteriously forgot about the trove of Russian documents he said was impending before those events.
In what way am I supporting eugenics?
Because you're using the long-discredited arguments of the eugenics movements without actually saying the word "eugenics."
You know what causes stupidity? Genetics.
Real geneticists and anthropologists have been trying to debunk this nonsense for decades now.
Jobs will temporarily be lost to automation. We've been automating people out of work for a very, very long time
We're very good at cutting costs through automation, but we're extremely bad at creating those new jobs. Instead, larger and larger percentages of those gains have gone to the top.
And, before you say that the rich greedy people at the top will just pocket all that money, remember that they are rich and greedy and want even more money, so they'll take that money and start new businesses that employ lots of people. I know that sounds an awful lot like trickle-down economics (probably because it is) [...]
I know that's wonderful business school theory, but we have thirty-plus years of proof that Trickle Down Economics is bullshit, a self-serving argument to fleece the population while convincing them that the fleecing is good, and that someday, yes someday they'll benefit.
I foresee a lot of new hobbies in the not too distant future, manual labor being one of them. Maybe some of them will even become sports, so the really talented can earn money going that route. The others will be glad 'modern' humans will never have to do that anymore.
But manual labor involves risk of injury, you mentioned earlier that due to this risk employers wouldn't even hire people willing to work for free.
And hobbies require money. They just do. If there are no jobs, then you can't even afford housing, much less hobbies. We'd have to actually attain the mythical/utopian post-money Star Trek society. It was possible in the Star Trek universe due to energy sources that provided basically unlimited resources. In our case though, it'd be the opposite -- without any jobs, the vast masses would need to be able to live a relatively comfortable, money-less existence, otherwise they'll be revolution.
Each warehouse robot will have feet coated with Flubber.
Trump's speech this week had more viewers. They need to do something especially when they give the biggest award to a terrible movie just to be PC. The top review on IMDb for it has four stars. That doesn't deserve best picture award.
IMDB reviews are our standard now?
It seems like most of the people who thought Moonlight was a terrible movie, affirmative action, blah blah didn't actually go and see it.
In 10 years time people will remember Spotlight won. Not because they saw the film; because of this stuff up.
Except Spotlight was 2015's Best Picture winner. Moonlight was 2016's Best Picture winner. You've already forgotten!