That day's probably never going to come, sadly. The N900's hardware is getting too outdated now, I've resigned myself to the fact that I'll have to use a rooted Droid 4 with a Linux chroot as my next phone. After that I'm hoping to put desktop Linux on an Ockel Sirius A with a sliding keyboard.
One of the things I've learned from a friend who has worked in the upper echelons of medium-sized businesses, is that it's actually quite common for a company to lobby against something in public and for it in private - commonly regulations on their industry. Publicly they say they're against it because they're against most regulations and don't want to paint a picture that they're easing up their opposition, but in private they may want a particular regulation for its barriers to entry so they lobby for it.
In this case we have big telecoms lobbying against net neutrality in private, because a tiered Internet could make them even more stupidly rich, and for net neutrality in public, because virtually everyone who doesn't have a vested interest in a large telecom wants it and will avoid supporting a company that lobbies against it if they have the option.
Libertarians should go to this iceberg and plant a flag on it as their own country! Sure it'll melt eventually, but they would've turned the place into a corpse-strewn hellscape by then anyhow.
On a national political level, very nearly the whole planet does subscribe to those principles, even the Scandinavian countries and arguably even Chavista Venezuela. The only clear exceptions are Cuba and North Korea.
Well the cat's out of the bag, we had a good run of ultra-convenient piracy. Back to torrrents where necessary I guess. I'm buying a lot of music DRM-free from Bandcamp these days anyway.
There is no good or acceptable reason to do anything with a vulnerability other than to first report it to the developer, and then release it to the public if they fail to patch it within an acceptable timeframe.
Make no mistake, that market is as black as the devil's heart.
They can but they generally don't. The rich fleeing from taxes has historically not been a real thing. The Gerard Depardieus of the world are very much the exception rather than the rule. Turns out they'd still greatly prefer to live in a nice civilization than to hole up in a fort in Somalia.
See Venezuela for REAL WORLD examples of how socialism plays out...
That's an example of how a heavily oil-dependent economy plays out when the price of oil falls through the floor. Same thing would've happened if they were corporatocratic...well, a lot of the people might've been destitute and rioting in the streets before, but it would've been the same after.
The problem is that people are more productive than ever but there's no need for them to earn their income - there isn't demand for that much work. Would digging holes and filling them back in count as earning income?
The rich would certainly prefer paying a bit more in taxes than to deal with a Global French Revolution 2.0, the question is if they'd rather commit killbot-powered genocide against the 99% than pay a bit more in taxes.
The pic shows a bare aircraft, so the people at the ends of each section will be squished like bugs, dead, if any significant longitudinal Gs were experienced (such as in every single takeoff and landing). Significant lateral Gs, like from an uncoordinated turn, could similarly squish a crowd of people against the sides of a completely bare aircraft cabin.
Trains and buses don't have big empty spaces like those, and they don't experience signficant Gs in any direction unless there's a crash.
Straps in the roof and/or poles to hand onto, if everyone used them flawlessly, would prevent people from being squished against any walls but would not save people bouncing off the roof and floor if there were signficant vertical Gs, such as from turbulence.
The closest people could come to safely standing in a plane would be to use the bicycle-like seats Ryanair proposed.
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That day's probably never going to come, sadly. The N900's hardware is getting too outdated now, I've resigned myself to the fact that I'll have to use a rooted Droid 4 with a Linux chroot as my next phone. After that I'm hoping to put desktop Linux on an Ockel Sirius A with a sliding keyboard.
One of the things I've learned from a friend who has worked in the upper echelons of medium-sized businesses, is that it's actually quite common for a company to lobby against something in public and for it in private - commonly regulations on their industry. Publicly they say they're against it because they're against most regulations and don't want to paint a picture that they're easing up their opposition, but in private they may want a particular regulation for its barriers to entry so they lobby for it.
In this case we have big telecoms lobbying against net neutrality in private, because a tiered Internet could make them even more stupidly rich, and for net neutrality in public, because virtually everyone who doesn't have a vested interest in a large telecom wants it and will avoid supporting a company that lobbies against it if they have the option.
Libertarians should go to this iceberg and plant a flag on it as their own country! Sure it'll melt eventually, but they would've turned the place into a corpse-strewn hellscape by then anyhow.
On a national political level, very nearly the whole planet does subscribe to those principles, even the Scandinavian countries and arguably even Chavista Venezuela. The only clear exceptions are Cuba and North Korea.
Mod parent to +5! A post for the ages!
China is a communist government with a healthy leavening of capitalism.
China's more like an ultra-capitalist oligarchy with some communist bumper stickers on it.
Well the cat's out of the bag, we had a good run of ultra-convenient piracy. Back to torrrents where necessary I guess. I'm buying a lot of music DRM-free from Bandcamp these days anyway.
LOL mod parent Funny! XD
It's not like Apple could buy the stuff at an auction or something - or could they?
They indeed could buy them from the black market cyber-arms-dealers like anyone else, at highly inflated prices. Zerodium will sell to anyone.
There is no good or acceptable reason to do anything with a vulnerability other than to first report it to the developer, and then release it to the public if they fail to patch it within an acceptable timeframe.
Make no mistake, that market is as black as the devil's heart.
Which other country was as oil-dependent AND as broke as Venezuela? They're not exactly comparable to the UAE.
Just like California!
They can but they generally don't. The rich fleeing from taxes has historically not been a real thing. The Gerard Depardieus of the world are very much the exception rather than the rule. Turns out they'd still greatly prefer to live in a nice civilization than to hole up in a fort in Somalia.
Not at all, if anything I'm saying we should work this out before killbots become an option.
See Venezuela for REAL WORLD examples of how socialism plays out...
That's an example of how a heavily oil-dependent economy plays out when the price of oil falls through the floor. Same thing would've happened if they were corporatocratic...well, a lot of the people might've been destitute and rioting in the streets before, but it would've been the same after.
Mod parent up. We have individual regular human beings making one or two tenths of a billion dollars per year. And nobody bats an eye.
Horseshit. A permeable, hackable tax code is regressive. A secure one without loopholes is not. The rich couldn't avoid taxes in the New Deal era.
The problem is that people are more productive than ever but there's no need for them to earn their income - there isn't demand for that much work. Would digging holes and filling them back in count as earning income?
The rich would certainly prefer paying a bit more in taxes than to deal with a Global French Revolution 2.0, the question is if they'd rather commit killbot-powered genocide against the 99% than pay a bit more in taxes.
Tencent and Baidu are other Chinese tech megacorps.
A magnet archive would be much smaller and quite nearly as effective in maintaining access to what's already online.
Yeah I guess stringing up everyone like spider prey with nylon webbing could work :-P
The pic shows a bare aircraft, so the people at the ends of each section will be squished like bugs, dead, if any significant longitudinal Gs were experienced (such as in every single takeoff and landing). Significant lateral Gs, like from an uncoordinated turn, could similarly squish a crowd of people against the sides of a completely bare aircraft cabin.
Trains and buses don't have big empty spaces like those, and they don't experience signficant Gs in any direction unless there's a crash.
Straps in the roof and/or poles to hand onto, if everyone used them flawlessly, would prevent people from being squished against any walls but would not save people bouncing off the roof and floor if there were signficant vertical Gs, such as from turbulence.
The closest people could come to safely standing in a plane would be to use the bicycle-like seats Ryanair proposed.
Paying the bills, including the costs of self-actualization.
However, for people with careers that allow them to do valuable, challenging work in the week, I think it's better to have a relax on the weekend.
Likely true, but that's a tiny fraction of the population.
Indeed, a cromulently defined new word embiggens us all!