Only in Corporate America would you need to: 1: Trot out a specific individual who was damaged by crimes that affected millions. 2: Have that individual come up with documented proof of being one of those millions from many years ago. 3: Have that individual nothing to the case because all discovery, evidence gathering, and argument will be based on the millions of victims, not the one. 4: Pray the court issues a guilty verdict that won't even cover the damages/ill-gained profits, let alone construe actual punishment. 5: Continue to let the corporation engage in the same or extremely similar behavior. 6: Be thankful that you got a fraction of a fraction of the judgment, in the form of a gift card to use at the criminal's store.
Gee golly, I'm watching in real time as samzenpus removes the various idle markings. At the time of this post, this story appears no where on/recent (on idle or not), has an idle tag, but is not on the idle site any longer. This is not a story worthy of the front page, it was not firehosed to the front page, get it the fuck off of the front page and stop gaming the fucking system.
It doesn't even have to be self aware. We already program systems to automatically kill people and blow shit up. They will get more reliable, more deadly, more automated, and more connected because we are afraid other nations are building versions that are more reliable, more deadly, more automated, and more connected than our own.
The stock market reacts autonomously to headlines. We have systems that consider fucking Twitter as an input into a threat model that can dispatch the military to your town. As soon as systems like these are programmed to desire to remain online, we'll be fucked. Once China / Russia / North Korea tries to take our systems offline (or we fear they will try to, or we manufacture fear that they will try to), we'll build our systems to desire to remain online.
I have never once gotten malware from TPB. "Reputable" sites such as download.com have been injecting it into / wrapping it around every download for the past few years now.
No, more questions like "Why doesn't this match the documentation?" and "Why is this is god damn fucking slow?". Emacs/vi/vim and make are terrible to use, but at least they work as described in the docs and don't take forever to do anything on a 4.5 GHz i7.
And everyone other grandparent would simply be watching those videos on Youtube. Your 8 TB of disk cost you a few hundred dollars. You don't represent a market force.
My girlfriend rapidly fills her disk with RAW photos from her pro DSLR. She does not represent the 99%. She might represent the 99.9%. Still, she's not buying new storage week. She'll buy when she fills up the current disk and she'll buy 1 new disk that lasts her a while, using the existing disk as backup / overflow. She and the market segment she represents do not represent the driving force in the market. The vast majority of people simply aren't photographers.
This isn't about thinking of instances where X niche users need Y storage; it's about where the vast majority of money in the storage market goes. Niche users needing 50 times the storage of the average user doesn't mean shit when the average user outnumbers them by 1000 times.
And if you take 100 photos and like 4 or 5, it's OKAY to delete the others, or at least delete the RAWs. The only reason to keep every RAW (let alone every photo) is if you're shipping the full shoot to a client. The amount of people who keep every RAW is even smaller than the amount of people who are photographers.
Bluray's aren't heavily compressed H.264. The "Digital Download" shit they pack in with every major Bluray release have bitrates that are 1/4 of the Bluray or less. Streaming bitrates are even lower. Blurays by comparison have massive, wasteful bitrates because they have to be decoded by ancient shitty players. And no, not all Blurays are H.264, the spec also supports MPEG2 and VC-1 - many early Blurays were MPEG2. MPEG2 is nowhere near the same class as MPEG4 Part 10 - they're not "comparable" with regards to quality for a given bitrate.
Blurays can have up to 40 mbps for video bitrate. A nearly-identical rip from the Bluray can be had for 8-10 mbps video bitrate. A nearly-identical rip from the same source the Bluray was encoded from (i.e., what the studio can provide you with in the "digital download") can be had for even less.
If YOU knew what you were talking about you would post actual arguments instead of just trolling like a dipshit. Try again.
>Sorry vendors. You can push your multi-terabyte hard drives all you want, but Moore's Law hasn't even remotely >held true in the consumer space when it comes to storage demand.
Of course it has. I'm up to about 12TB in used storage, and I'm not anywhere near alone in this. Don't think that just because you're not using as much storage as computer users generally do now, that no one else is.
>The average consumer fills 10 - 20% of their drive capacity. Ever.
The average consumer isn't the market for hard drives. They don't even need computers since tablets and phones better suit the needs of non-technical people.
The sum total of all the special snowflakes like you who need many TB of storage pales in comparison to the Joe Schmoes who grab whatever drive is cheap and big enough. 1 TB has been "big enough" for 99.9% of people for a long time, and 1.5 and 2 TB drives only move when they're priced very close to the 1 TB versions. Storage is fully commoditized. I bought my last hard disk drive at Costco, for shit's sake. I see them at supermarkets and drug stores.
People don't need more space to store HD video.
- They don't buy Blurays like they bought DVDs. They stream. And for the few times they do buy a Bluray, they don't rip it, they stream or download the heavily-compressed "digital" copy it comes with.
- They don't store their own HD video. They post to Youtube.
- The HD video they do store is stored in less space. Hardware accelerated H.264 encoding is ubiquitous.
People don't need more space to store music.
- Again, streaming.
- Music sizes have not increased as video sizes have with the introduction of HD. If anything, they've decreased.
People don't do shit else locally on their PCs that requires large amounts of storage. Even games with massive textures don't break the bank - 30 or 50 GB is nothing when you consider that people typically play a game, beat it, and then uninstall it. Only multiplayer-focused titles stay on the drive, and only a few at a time. 1 TB is enough to keep 20 of today's largest games installed at once. And gamers that do want (or believe they want) more storage represent the same niche that buys a $600 GPU (or two) every 8 months - they aren't the meat of the market by a long shot.
So good for you if you use 12 TB and want more, but 1 TB is enough for 99% of people, and 2 TB enough for 99.9%.
Woosh. GP is saying that even though real police officers make mistakes (or intentional transgressions), a random, untrained, unvetted person with a badge and a gun would easily make ten times the number of mistakes. The same applies to cab drivers.
I disagree. Cops have been trained to be violent, rights-abusing assholes who act without fear of repercussion. Cabbies have been trained to be terrible, aggressive, drivers. A random person in either position would not be as cavalier. You may have fewer arrests and you may not make it to the airport on time, but society as a whole would be much better off.
GoP isn't making those threats, nor have they posted any demands that those threats allude to. The threats are bullshit concocted in order to make people sympathetic to Sony and its poor, victimized employees. The allegations of it being North Korea (over a fucking Seth Rogen movie) are also bullshit, intended to distract from the fact that Sony had basically no security.
Do you have down's syndrome? You insert the CD, select the songs, then select import CD. I've seen 4 year olds do it.
Where exactly do you insert the CD? The iPhone doesn't have an optical drive (hell, Apple's been trying to kill them off on the laptop AND desktop too).
Login to iTunes on your PC. Login to iTunes on your iPhone using same account. Insert CD into PC while iTunes is running (or let it autolaunch) and proceed through the prompts the let it rip the disc. Find the cable. Find the adapter for the cable. Connect your iPhone to your PC and hope that it syncs. Assuming it has synced, eject the iPhone through iTunes and ONLY through iTunes. Disconnect your iPhone from your PC. Try to find the CD on your iPhone.
Whereas a sane method is the following: Insert disc into device of choice. Rip disc using method of choice. Store ripped files in destination(s) and on device(s) of choice using method(s) of choice.
Apple replaced my HDD 5 years after warranty expired on my Mac because there was a bad batch of HDDs. They did the same with the nVidia failures that affected many OEMs.
Gee, how generous of them of them to replace faulty parts. I should go thank GM for their generosity in the latest wave of recalls.
What forces does the train put on them, exactly? Draw me a diagram. If we followed your dumbass thinking we wouldn't have street sweepers, tires, or shoes.
Some identity providers (the "Log in with Twitter" bullshit) stupidly allowed people to authenticate with accounts that had unverified emails.
1: Create Twitter account with victim's email address.
2: Use "Log in with Twitter" bullshit on site.
3: Be granted access despite the email address associated with the Twitter account never being verified.
Some sites stupidly used the associated email address of the "Log in with Twitter" bullshit to match against existing users.
4: On such a site, you are granted access as the user with the email address you used in step 1.
There are three approaches to fixing this: 3: Twitter, Facebook, etc. should not provide identity services for accounts with unverified emails. 2: Sites should not trust (or even look at) the email address provided by an identity provider. 1: Site should simply NOT use this "Log in with Twitter" bullshit.
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Only in Corporate America would you need to:
1: Trot out a specific individual who was damaged by crimes that affected millions.
2: Have that individual come up with documented proof of being one of those millions from many years ago.
3: Have that individual nothing to the case because all discovery, evidence gathering, and argument will be based on the millions of victims, not the one.
4: Pray the court issues a guilty verdict that won't even cover the damages/ill-gained profits, let alone construe actual punishment.
5: Continue to let the corporation engage in the same or extremely similar behavior.
6: Be thankful that you got a fraction of a fraction of the judgment, in the form of a gift card to use at the criminal's store.
Gee golly, I'm watching in real time as samzenpus removes the various idle markings. /recent (on idle or not), has an idle tag, but is not on the idle site any longer.
At the time of this post, this story appears no where on
This is not a story worthy of the front page, it was not firehosed to the front page, get it the fuck off of the front page and stop gaming the fucking system.
This idle shit should not be showing on my front page, yet it is. /..
Fuck
It doesn't even have to be self aware.
We already program systems to automatically kill people and blow shit up.
They will get more reliable, more deadly, more automated, and more connected because we are afraid other nations are building versions that are more reliable, more deadly, more automated, and more connected than our own.
The stock market reacts autonomously to headlines. We have systems that consider fucking Twitter as an input into a threat model that can dispatch the military to your town. As soon as systems like these are programmed to desire to remain online, we'll be fucked. Once China / Russia / North Korea tries to take our systems offline (or we fear they will try to, or we manufacture fear that they will try to), we'll build our systems to desire to remain online.
And you weren't downloading from the pink/green skulls. Mouse over them sometime to find out what they mean.
The malware bay endures!
I have never once gotten malware from TPB.
"Reputable" sites such as download.com have been injecting it into / wrapping it around every download for the past few years now.
No, more questions like "Why doesn't this match the documentation?" and "Why is this is god damn fucking slow?".
Emacs/vi/vim and make are terrible to use, but at least they work as described in the docs and don't take forever to do anything on a 4.5 GHz i7.
I tried the Android IDE. All I got was more questions. Plenty of time to ponder them while waiting for the emulator to load and run my app, though.
And everyone other grandparent would simply be watching those videos on Youtube.
Your 8 TB of disk cost you a few hundred dollars. You don't represent a market force.
My girlfriend rapidly fills her disk with RAW photos from her pro DSLR. She does not represent the 99%. She might represent the 99.9%. Still, she's not buying new storage week. She'll buy when she fills up the current disk and she'll buy 1 new disk that lasts her a while, using the existing disk as backup / overflow. She and the market segment she represents do not represent the driving force in the market. The vast majority of people simply aren't photographers.
This isn't about thinking of instances where X niche users need Y storage; it's about where the vast majority of money in the storage market goes.
Niche users needing 50 times the storage of the average user doesn't mean shit when the average user outnumbers them by 1000 times.
And if you take 100 photos and like 4 or 5, it's OKAY to delete the others, or at least delete the RAWs. The only reason to keep every RAW (let alone every photo) is if you're shipping the full shoot to a client. The amount of people who keep every RAW is even smaller than the amount of people who are photographers.
Bluray's aren't heavily compressed H.264. The "Digital Download" shit they pack in with every major Bluray release have bitrates that are 1/4 of the Bluray or less. Streaming bitrates are even lower. Blurays by comparison have massive, wasteful bitrates because they have to be decoded by ancient shitty players.
And no, not all Blurays are H.264, the spec also supports MPEG2 and VC-1 - many early Blurays were MPEG2. MPEG2 is nowhere near the same class as MPEG4 Part 10 - they're not "comparable" with regards to quality for a given bitrate.
Blurays can have up to 40 mbps for video bitrate.
A nearly-identical rip from the Bluray can be had for 8-10 mbps video bitrate.
A nearly-identical rip from the same source the Bluray was encoded from (i.e., what the studio can provide you with in the "digital download") can be had for even less.
If YOU knew what you were talking about you would post actual arguments instead of just trolling like a dipshit.
Try again.
Bullshit, Will Robinson! Bullshit!
A client told me that after he sent his $25.01 how to enlarge his penis, he received a magnifying glass in the mail.
Sure. A "client".
>Sorry vendors. You can push your multi-terabyte hard drives all you want, but Moore's Law hasn't even remotely
>held true in the consumer space when it comes to storage demand.
Of course it has. I'm up to about 12TB in used storage, and I'm not anywhere near alone in this. Don't think that just because you're not using as much storage as computer users generally do now, that no one else is.
>The average consumer fills 10 - 20% of their drive capacity. Ever.
The average consumer isn't the market for hard drives. They don't even need computers since tablets and phones better suit the needs of non-technical people.
The sum total of all the special snowflakes like you who need many TB of storage pales in comparison to the Joe Schmoes who grab whatever drive is cheap and big enough. 1 TB has been "big enough" for 99.9% of people for a long time, and 1.5 and 2 TB drives only move when they're priced very close to the 1 TB versions.
Storage is fully commoditized. I bought my last hard disk drive at Costco, for shit's sake. I see them at supermarkets and drug stores.
People don't need more space to store HD video.
- They don't buy Blurays like they bought DVDs. They stream. And for the few times they do buy a Bluray, they don't rip it, they stream or download the heavily-compressed "digital" copy it comes with.
- They don't store their own HD video. They post to Youtube.
- The HD video they do store is stored in less space. Hardware accelerated H.264 encoding is ubiquitous.
People don't need more space to store music.
- Again, streaming.
- Music sizes have not increased as video sizes have with the introduction of HD. If anything, they've decreased.
People don't do shit else locally on their PCs that requires large amounts of storage. Even games with massive textures don't break the bank - 30 or 50 GB is nothing when you consider that people typically play a game, beat it, and then uninstall it. Only multiplayer-focused titles stay on the drive, and only a few at a time. 1 TB is enough to keep 20 of today's largest games installed at once. And gamers that do want (or believe they want) more storage represent the same niche that buys a $600 GPU (or two) every 8 months - they aren't the meat of the market by a long shot.
So good for you if you use 12 TB and want more, but 1 TB is enough for 99% of people, and 2 TB enough for 99.9%.
Fuck that.
Why no PCI-E model?
Woosh. GP is saying that even though real police officers make mistakes (or intentional transgressions), a random, untrained, unvetted person with a badge and a gun would easily make ten times the number of mistakes. The same applies to cab drivers.
I disagree. Cops have been trained to be violent, rights-abusing assholes who act without fear of repercussion. Cabbies have been trained to be terrible, aggressive, drivers.
A random person in either position would not be as cavalier. You may have fewer arrests and you may not make it to the airport on time, but society as a whole would be much better off.
It goes pigeon, lizard, snake, gorilla.
When winter time rolls around, the gorillas simply freeze to death.
GoP isn't making those threats, nor have they posted any demands that those threats allude to.
The threats are bullshit concocted in order to make people sympathetic to Sony and its poor, victimized employees.
The allegations of it being North Korea (over a fucking Seth Rogen movie) are also bullshit, intended to distract from the fact that Sony had basically no security.
No, you just spewed some bullshit and got called out for being a dipshit.
Do you have down's syndrome? You insert the CD, select the songs, then select import CD. I've seen 4 year olds do it.
Where exactly do you insert the CD? The iPhone doesn't have an optical drive (hell, Apple's been trying to kill them off on the laptop AND desktop too).
Login to iTunes on your PC.
Login to iTunes on your iPhone using same account.
Insert CD into PC while iTunes is running (or let it autolaunch) and proceed through the prompts the let it rip the disc.
Find the cable.
Find the adapter for the cable.
Connect your iPhone to your PC and hope that it syncs.
Assuming it has synced, eject the iPhone through iTunes and ONLY through iTunes.
Disconnect your iPhone from your PC.
Try to find the CD on your iPhone.
Whereas a sane method is the following:
Insert disc into device of choice.
Rip disc using method of choice.
Store ripped files in destination(s) and on device(s) of choice using method(s) of choice.
Apple replaced my HDD 5 years after warranty expired on my Mac because there was a bad batch of HDDs. They did the same with the nVidia failures that affected many OEMs.
Gee, how generous of them of them to replace faulty parts. I should go thank GM for their generosity in the latest wave of recalls.
So the whole tech industry business model is flawed ?
Yes.
Anybody in the SV sticking to 40h/week is pretty likely to get laid off, if not fired, pretty quick.
Flawed.
What forces does the train put on them, exactly? Draw me a diagram.
If we followed your dumbass thinking we wouldn't have street sweepers, tires, or shoes.
Some identity providers (the "Log in with Twitter" bullshit) stupidly allowed people to authenticate with accounts that had unverified emails.
1: Create Twitter account with victim's email address.
2: Use "Log in with Twitter" bullshit on site.
3: Be granted access despite the email address associated with the Twitter account never being verified.
Some sites stupidly used the associated email address of the "Log in with Twitter" bullshit to match against existing users.
4: On such a site, you are granted access as the user with the email address you used in step 1.
There are three approaches to fixing this:
3: Twitter, Facebook, etc. should not provide identity services for accounts with unverified emails.
2: Sites should not trust (or even look at) the email address provided by an identity provider.
1: Site should simply NOT use this "Log in with Twitter" bullshit.
My brother tried to kill me by reversing and running over me in his power wheels truck.
The remotes should be a simple kill switch.