Actually no. That's not censorship unless it's done specifically to deny or suppress that knowledge from others. Burning your own book that you don't like is not.
Censorship is still legal in private forums by individuals
What's not legal is the government censoring and/or public places (not to be confused with publicly accessible private spaces).
TBH, what are private forums today (facebook, etc.) have become so prevalent and powerful they should be subject to more regulation limiting their ability to censor speech (IMHO)
You can judge them on ANYTHING if they support trump, PP, NRA, or gun ownership. If they support those things, then anything about them is fair game. Calling someone an inbred, fat, retarded, tranny, whore, fag, n****** is totally OK... if they support Trump.
If they DON'T then you must respect everything about them, their choices, and their lifestyle to the utmost.
Which means a forum that chooses to allow it is free to do so. i.e. no one can force reddit to allow racist speech if they don't want it, but if reddit does allow it then the government can't stop them. in theory.:)
Normally i don't subscribe to this kind of conspiracy thing, but i've recently had a very clear example of it.
Discussing a type of product X with someone. Not something typical for me in any way to buy, use or be around. No way in a million years would they target me for X advertising. But...it came up in conversation through unlikely circumstances. In-person audible conversation.
about two days later, what pops up in my feed? yep, ads for X. It was strange enough (targeted advertising usually works well) that it stood out and i remebered the conv. no way they could have known if they weren't listening in as i never posted, txted, whatsapped, googled, or DM'd about it.
For one, they didn't start from zero. Apple had enormous experience designing hardware including computers, UI, and portable devices - you might remember the iPod?
The pieces were already there and they out sourced much of the hardware (ex. the famous click wheel). They are (were) a great integrator that used creativity and cutting edge tech to deliver an amazing product.
They certainly do not have the expertise in-house to design a CPU from the ground up. Even the A11 SoC is still ARM based. I won't say they can't, but they certainly aren't in the same league this time. If they bought AMD, which is completely within their financial ability, that changes the whole perspective and gives them a ton of relevant IP.
Freedom? Is this now a (insert political hot topic) debate or are we still talking about CPUs?
On OSX root access is still permitted. There are some minor limitations, but generally you can run whatever software you want including a different OS, VM, etc. iOS doesn't allow any of that and you're completely locked to their walled garden and the dumbed-down version of apps there. No. Thanks. It's good for what it's good for, but it's not good for everything.
I'm kind of (not) surprised Apple is considering making this mistake. It's not like going intel helped their computer line at all/eyeroll
If they plan on cross-compatible apps, then one of them would need to be re-complied/re-coded. I don't see their iOS world taking that hit given it's some ridiculous number of times larger than the OSX world.
I can't speak for anyone else, but I definitely don't want the iPad version of all my apps to be my desktop version.
5GB is small enough to active discourage people from using it to back up their media vs other services that don't even lock you in but give you far more (or unlimited) free storage.
Besides that, a $90 stylus that (unless apple forgot to announce it) has no way to attach to the ipad is overpriced and far too easily lost. How well do they really think that will go over? Once again, they ensure no one will use it.
That's not even taking into account the fact that it's almost 1/3 of the cost for the iPad itself!! They're (badly) trying to pad the margin with another crappy accessory. Instead, a chromebook with an actual keyboard...yep.
Oh no, something that you aren't the intended audience for! Their business must immediately fail.
For as many cranky people on here that want to cry about 'omg no good movies' and 'wtf stupid overpriced popcorn' or 'way more comfy at home' there are plenty (literally millions) who have already eagerly signed up for this service.
They like at least one movie a month enough to go see it. They either don't buy overpriced snacks or don't care (booze in a bar is 'overpriced' too). They actually enjoy leaving their houses for the larger screen, better sound, etc.
Plus, moviepass works in theatres playing indie films depending on your area. And...while some movies I wouldn't pay full NYC price to see I also don't mind popping in on a free afternoon to watch when there's no cost to do so...and if it's horrible I can just leave....but I'll get off your lawn now sir. Very sorry to have stepped on your grass.
Agreed, though you don't take into account going up the bridge which is much harder work.
The larger problem in NYC is bike parking (well bike theft and vandalism really) and not arriving at work sweaty. The citibike programs solves some of this but they're pretty terrible to ride (by first hand experience) compared to even a slightly decent bike. Not being able to shower at work (space is FAR too tight for almost any but the largest companies to have showers) in a city that still sticks with formal office attire most of the time is pretty difficult too.
It also took a third of the whole construction time just to repaint it (14 vs 5 years). Mind you, at the time it was built the bridge was hugely innovative and half again longer than any other suspension bridge.
But...this also should take into account the massive difference in safety regulations in 2018 vs 1869. Back then people were getting decompression sickness (the bends) when coming up from digging the foundation...and it was so long ago they didn't even know what that was. That partly contributes to the greatly increased cost but certainly does not take it all into account. We're still getting robbed.
I guess the folks in NYC could vote in candidates who vow to fight corruption in the city . . . but too many profit from the corruption!
Are you kidding? They couldn't even prevent a mayor from basically buying himself an extra term beyond the legal term limits. That's how bad NYC is for greed and corruption among the billionaires.
Remove the union!? How DARE you? That's blasphemy!
Unions ensure workers get their 'fair' pay (WAY over any vaguely comparable job), excessive benefits, and then allow employees to boycott together when they don't get their way on raises or something else. Oh, and who remembers what a pension is? Maybe your parents or grandparents do...and MTA employees.
Unions were needed at one point in history. They've long since outgrown their usefulness and have become another blight on society.
As a private company, their books are not open for public review despite getting a large portion of their funding from the city. Those books almost certainly have huge amounts of graft and wasteful spending (MTA got in trouble for 'retiring' a large portion of their outgoing employees on disability a few years back for example).
I agree, there's more investment needed in infrastructure but the money is likely there within the MTA if you cleaned up their budgets (and took away millions upon millions of illegitimate spending).
There's still a 'translation' - instead of remembering time zone differences you have to know what the working hours are for each area. By NOT having blocks of time zones you greatly increase the number of possible differences.
Does Gary work the 2-10 or was it the 1-9...
Instead you can at least say "PST is 3 hours behind me in NYC"
I still think a universal time for everyone is the ideal, but it's not a magic solution. It's good for telling time globally but still falls short when it comes to scheduling things globally.
They're actually worse than the bad 'slim' keyboard attempts in the early 2000s. I honestly remain astounded that Apple released the MBP with they keyboard it has. I have one ("thanks" work) and it's horrific to type on. The extra mm or so they saved... clearly the primary design goal of all apple products is thinness (and courage) at the expense of usability.
there is, and that is indeed the argument. The counterargument is that MS USA completely controls MS EU and therefore should be able and required to force MS EU to pony up despite European laws.
So you're saying the USA can compel someone to break laws in another country? How about if that access required the action of someone in the EU - so they'd need to compel a non-US (EU) citizen to break their own local laws?
I see many twisted outcomes from this - mainly companies are going to just get more creative restricting access to data and compartmentalizing it. Also, this stupidity is going to force more and more companies to 'officially' be based somewhere besides the US. Not like they pay their taxes here anyhow...:)
And...then there are ways around the ways around. Your transactions are still logged and easily subject to review after the fact. If you figure out a trick and then that trick is figured out a year later, don't think they won't come back.
Now, anyone arguing AML rules on/. doesn't likely have enough money to launder for anyone to care...so it's just mental masturbation anyhow.
Unless you did something stupid like wasted $1000 on bitcoin when it was a buck...:)
But if you think it's a simple as keeping transactions under 10k you're incorrect.
Also, at least in the US, it's illegal to intentionally break transactions into smaller amounts to avoid the $10k reporting cap. If you think a whole bunch of $9999 transactions won't raise a flag then please go ahead and try it.
AML software is a good size business...and considering your transactions are logged (both blockchain and conventional) don't think that at some time a few years down the road someone won't catch up on illegal activity.
How many times are people going to make the same old two arguments:
No intrinsic value
but people pay for them so they have value
but but but but but...
At the end of the day, it doesn't matter. People will keep paying for them and some people will make a ton of money while others will lose money. It's just like the stock market - it doesn't matter if the company is actually valuable if the stock price does things that earn you money.
And...this is gen 1 (or maybe 1.5). Blockchain by itself is viable for quite a few things. It will be interesting to see what Gen 2 does.
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Actually no. That's not censorship unless it's done specifically to deny or suppress that knowledge from others. Burning your own book that you don't like is not.
Censorship is still legal in private forums by individuals
What's not legal is the government censoring and/or public places (not to be confused with publicly accessible private spaces).
TBH, what are private forums today (facebook, etc.) have become so prevalent and powerful they should be subject to more regulation limiting their ability to censor speech (IMHO)
oh no, it's better than that!
You can judge them on ANYTHING if they support trump, PP, NRA, or gun ownership. If they support those things, then anything about them is fair game. Calling someone an inbred, fat, retarded, tranny, whore, fag, n****** is totally OK ... if they support Trump.
If they DON'T then you must respect everything about them, their choices, and their lifestyle to the utmost.
Which means a forum that chooses to allow it is free to do so. i.e. no one can force reddit to allow racist speech if they don't want it, but if reddit does allow it then the government can't stop them. in theory. :)
Normally i don't subscribe to this kind of conspiracy thing, but i've recently had a very clear example of it.
Discussing a type of product X with someone. Not something typical for me in any way to buy, use or be around. No way in a million years would they target me for X advertising. But...it came up in conversation through unlikely circumstances. In-person audible conversation.
about two days later, what pops up in my feed? yep, ads for X. It was strange enough (targeted advertising usually works well) that it stood out and i remebered the conv. no way they could have known if they weren't listening in as i never posted, txted, whatsapped, googled, or DM'd about it.
For one, they didn't start from zero. Apple had enormous experience designing hardware including computers, UI, and portable devices - you might remember the iPod?
The pieces were already there and they out sourced much of the hardware (ex. the famous click wheel). They are (were) a great integrator that used creativity and cutting edge tech to deliver an amazing product.
They certainly do not have the expertise in-house to design a CPU from the ground up. Even the A11 SoC is still ARM based. I won't say they can't, but they certainly aren't in the same league this time. If they bought AMD, which is completely within their financial ability, that changes the whole perspective and gives them a ton of relevant IP.
Nah. I prefer to be able to use my computer.
Freedom? Is this now a (insert political hot topic) debate or are we still talking about CPUs?
On OSX root access is still permitted. There are some minor limitations, but generally you can run whatever software you want including a different OS, VM, etc. iOS doesn't allow any of that and you're completely locked to their walled garden and the dumbed-down version of apps there. No. Thanks. It's good for what it's good for, but it's not good for everything.
I'm kind of (not) surprised Apple is considering making this mistake. It's not like going intel helped their computer line at all /eyeroll
If they plan on cross-compatible apps, then one of them would need to be re-complied/re-coded. I don't see their iOS world taking that hit given it's some ridiculous number of times larger than the OSX world.
I can't speak for anyone else, but I definitely don't want the iPad version of all my apps to be my desktop version.
I don't want my Mac to behave like my iPad. I don't want a dumbed-down experience where I can't do anything that Apple doesn't permit.
lol seriously
5GB is small enough to active discourage people from using it to back up their media vs other services that don't even lock you in but give you far more (or unlimited) free storage.
Besides that, a $90 stylus that (unless apple forgot to announce it) has no way to attach to the ipad is overpriced and far too easily lost. How well do they really think that will go over? Once again, they ensure no one will use it.
That's not even taking into account the fact that it's almost 1/3 of the cost for the iPad itself!! They're (badly) trying to pad the margin with another crappy accessory. Instead, a chromebook with an actual keyboard...yep.
Oh no, something that you aren't the intended audience for! Their business must immediately fail.
For as many cranky people on here that want to cry about 'omg no good movies' and 'wtf stupid overpriced popcorn' or 'way more comfy at home' there are plenty (literally millions) who have already eagerly signed up for this service.
They like at least one movie a month enough to go see it. They either don't buy overpriced snacks or don't care (booze in a bar is 'overpriced' too). They actually enjoy leaving their houses for the larger screen, better sound, etc.
Plus, moviepass works in theatres playing indie films depending on your area. And...while some movies I wouldn't pay full NYC price to see I also don't mind popping in on a free afternoon to watch when there's no cost to do so...and if it's horrible I can just leave. ...but I'll get off your lawn now sir. Very sorry to have stepped on your grass.
Tell that to the people making money off it.
Port Win95 to ARM and you can. (well, give or take some drivers)
Heck, there's enough spare proc you could probably emulate a 386 and boot your precious.
In other news, bad troll is bad. You get no cookie.
Agreed, though you don't take into account going up the bridge which is much harder work.
The larger problem in NYC is bike parking (well bike theft and vandalism really) and not arriving at work sweaty. The citibike programs solves some of this but they're pretty terrible to ride (by first hand experience) compared to even a slightly decent bike. Not being able to shower at work (space is FAR too tight for almost any but the largest companies to have showers) in a city that still sticks with formal office attire most of the time is pretty difficult too.
It also took a third of the whole construction time just to repaint it (14 vs 5 years). Mind you, at the time it was built the bridge was hugely innovative and half again longer than any other suspension bridge.
But...this also should take into account the massive difference in safety regulations in 2018 vs 1869. Back then people were getting decompression sickness (the bends) when coming up from digging the foundation...and it was so long ago they didn't even know what that was. That partly contributes to the greatly increased cost but certainly does not take it all into account. We're still getting robbed.
I guess the folks in NYC could vote in candidates who vow to fight corruption in the city . . . but too many profit from the corruption!
Are you kidding? They couldn't even prevent a mayor from basically buying himself an extra term beyond the legal term limits. That's how bad NYC is for greed and corruption among the billionaires.
Remove the union!? How DARE you? That's blasphemy!
Unions ensure workers get their 'fair' pay (WAY over any vaguely comparable job), excessive benefits, and then allow employees to boycott together when they don't get their way on raises or something else. Oh, and who remembers what a pension is? Maybe your parents or grandparents do...and MTA employees.
Unions were needed at one point in history. They've long since outgrown their usefulness and have become another blight on society.
Well, the MTA 'budget' is it's own problem.
As a private company, their books are not open for public review despite getting a large portion of their funding from the city. Those books almost certainly have huge amounts of graft and wasteful spending (MTA got in trouble for 'retiring' a large portion of their outgoing employees on disability a few years back for example).
I agree, there's more investment needed in infrastructure but the money is likely there within the MTA if you cleaned up their budgets (and took away millions upon millions of illegitimate spending).
There's still a 'translation' - instead of remembering time zone differences you have to know what the working hours are for each area. By NOT having blocks of time zones you greatly increase the number of possible differences.
Does Gary work the 2-10 or was it the 1-9...
Instead you can at least say "PST is 3 hours behind me in NYC"
I still think a universal time for everyone is the ideal, but it's not a magic solution. It's good for telling time globally but still falls short when it comes to scheduling things globally.
They're actually worse than the bad 'slim' keyboard attempts in the early 2000s. I honestly remain astounded that Apple released the MBP with they keyboard it has. I have one ("thanks" work) and it's horrific to type on. The extra mm or so they saved ... clearly the primary design goal of all apple products is thinness (and courage) at the expense of usability.
Have more courage my young apprentice. In time you will learn to be one with the Apple hivemind.
there is, and that is indeed the argument. The counterargument is that MS USA completely controls MS EU and therefore should be able and required to force MS EU to pony up despite European laws.
So you're saying the USA can compel someone to break laws in another country? How about if that access required the action of someone in the EU - so they'd need to compel a non-US (EU) citizen to break their own local laws?
I see many twisted outcomes from this - mainly companies are going to just get more creative restricting access to data and compartmentalizing it. Also, this stupidity is going to force more and more companies to 'officially' be based somewhere besides the US. Not like they pay their taxes here anyhow... :)
Of course there are ways around everything.
And...then there are ways around the ways around. Your transactions are still logged and easily subject to review after the fact. If you figure out a trick and then that trick is figured out a year later, don't think they won't come back.
Now, anyone arguing AML rules on /. doesn't likely have enough money to launder for anyone to care...so it's just mental masturbation anyhow.
Unless you did something stupid like wasted $1000 on bitcoin when it was a buck... :)
AML doesn't care about $20k either.
But if you think it's a simple as keeping transactions under 10k you're incorrect.
Also, at least in the US, it's illegal to intentionally break transactions into smaller amounts to avoid the $10k reporting cap. If you think a whole bunch of $9999 transactions won't raise a flag then please go ahead and try it.
AML software is a good size business...and considering your transactions are logged (both blockchain and conventional) don't think that at some time a few years down the road someone won't catch up on illegal activity.
How many times are people going to make the same old two arguments:
No intrinsic value
but people pay for them so they have value
but but but but but...
At the end of the day, it doesn't matter. People will keep paying for them and some people will make a ton of money while others will lose money. It's just like the stock market - it doesn't matter if the company is actually valuable if the stock price does things that earn you money.
And...this is gen 1 (or maybe 1.5). Blockchain by itself is viable for quite a few things. It will be interesting to see what Gen 2 does.