HDMI's only purpose is to placate the DRM happy content producers into cooperating with the end users.
All that encryption and decryption baloney does NOTHING to directly enhance the experience, and is only there because without it certain companies *cough*sony*cough* won't play ball.
They are being refreshingly honest about it being motivated by profit.
Whether they are just being truthful for a change or just feel so invincible they don't have to hide their true intentions though is another question entirely.
Right now, banks have the so far valid assumption that they are too big to fail and the feds won't let them suffer for their mistakes.
This makes them arrogant bastards who are pretty much free to squander their money and get away with it.
In the long run more will be saved by getting the banks to behave themselves and not mooch off the feds than will be lost in the short run by letting things go to hell.
Long now, shorter in the future on average once the bad banks get eaten alive in liquidation, and the leftover banks get enough of a fear of bankruptcy in them to not goof off and then expect the feds to cover them.
Between government debt from covering the FDIC underflow and government debt from propping up the banks I'd let the greedy banks take a well deserved fall over innocent depositors any day.
Besides, if the banks get bailed out every time they fuck up they have no incentive to behave themselves.
I'd say that having the feds NOT bail out banks will actually make them MORE reliable, since they'll start smartening up and quit sucking Uncle Sam's thumb.
That legal solution however is rendered unreachable by an elite that has monopolized access to the court system and also isn't afraid to use financial muscle to keep those they don't like bleeding dry before they finish their case.
The FDIC already had that covered and actually makes banks LESS in need of protection, since their most important creditors, the american people who have deposits with them, can't get shafted if the bank goes bankrupt.
Just let the banks fail already. Having the FDIC cover deposits is all the bailout we need.
The reason the rich should be taxed is that they can best afford it.
Also, the filthy rich tend to be powerful enough to push others around. Lopping the canopy off of the social ladder might not be such a bad idea after all.
According to the gaming crowd drunk on Sony's FUD, Geohot was a pirate who deserved every bit of what he got and is the lowest piece of scum that ever walked the earth.
Seriously, the gaming crowd HATES hackers, and I've been roasted and burned simply for defending them.
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First, a side note:
Spam is profitable only if you ignore the costs absorbed by people whose computers get hijacked into botnets that send the stuff.
In much the same way that grow ops are cheap when you jump the meter and rip off the electric company.
In both cases the perpetrators get away with securing a windfall because they dump their cost burdens on unwilling participants.
Now for the main point:
How is most spammed product paid for?
Don't deceive yourself.
HDMI's only purpose is to placate the DRM happy content producers into cooperating with the end users.
All that encryption and decryption baloney does NOTHING to directly enhance the experience, and is only there because without it certain companies *cough*sony*cough* won't play ball.
They are being refreshingly honest about it being motivated by profit.
Whether they are just being truthful for a change or just feel so invincible they don't have to hide their true intentions though is another question entirely.
Right now, banks have the so far valid assumption that they are too big to fail and the feds won't let them suffer for their mistakes.
This makes them arrogant bastards who are pretty much free to squander their money and get away with it.
In the long run more will be saved by getting the banks to behave themselves and not mooch off the feds than will be lost in the short run by letting things go to hell.
The so called liquidity crunch already had plans in place, the discount window with the federal reserve.
Why TARP needed to get involved in the first place is beyond me.
It's a lot like the IPv4 address space.
Not to mention both your car and your house have paperwork.
A title, and a deed, respectively.
Let them fail.
Right now those institutions are using their "too big to fail" status as leverage to get away with irresponsible behavior.
Long now, shorter in the future on average once the bad banks get eaten alive in liquidation, and the leftover banks get enough of a fear of bankruptcy in them to not goof off and then expect the feds to cover them.
So what?
Between government debt from covering the FDIC underflow and government debt from propping up the banks I'd let the greedy banks take a well deserved fall over innocent depositors any day.
Besides, if the banks get bailed out every time they fuck up they have no incentive to behave themselves.
I'd say that having the feds NOT bail out banks will actually make them MORE reliable, since they'll start smartening up and quit sucking Uncle Sam's thumb.
There is a legal solution to the problem.
That legal solution however is rendered unreachable by an elite that has monopolized access to the court system and also isn't afraid to use financial muscle to keep those they don't like bleeding dry before they finish their case.
We don't need our deposits protected.
The FDIC already had that covered and actually makes banks LESS in need of protection, since their most important creditors, the american people who have deposits with them, can't get shafted if the bank goes bankrupt.
Just let the banks fail already. Having the FDIC cover deposits is all the bailout we need.
The reason the rich should be taxed is that they can best afford it.
Also, the filthy rich tend to be powerful enough to push others around. Lopping the canopy off of the social ladder might not be such a bad idea after all.
It's the government's job to give everyone a ladder of success.
It's the person's own job to actually climb it.
What incentive do people have to be accurate when accepting bribes to skew the facts is so much more profitable?
Face it, the truth twisters have an edge and aren't afraid to use it to further their advantage.
they will abuse it to eliminate knockoffs and legitimate competition alike.
While good in theory, in practice they are about as open to abuse as diebold's voting machines.
I simply do not trust that a machine with hidden logic will remain untainted, either from the touch of a hacker OR a corrupt programmer.
Now counting to see how long it takes for one of these machines to be abused like DRM.
1. Put in a smart vending machine that can veto a purchase
2. Accept a bribe from Pepsi to "accidentally" deny Coke purchases on occasion
3. Profit!
I'd like to see them standardize the interaction between alloca and VLAs.
And are VLAs more than just a type-safe version of alloca?
that the bureaucrats are going to be paid off to look the other way on instead of ya know actually enforcing?
"Volkwasgen Turns Off E-mail After Work-Hours"
You guys misspelled Volkswagen in the title.
Good question indeed!
Even perfectly rational actors cannot predict the future.
Some will even do you the favor of firing you if you don't.
According to the gaming crowd drunk on Sony's FUD, Geohot was a pirate who deserved every bit of what he got and is the lowest piece of scum that ever walked the earth.
Seriously, the gaming crowd HATES hackers, and I've been roasted and burned simply for defending them.