You've got 2 answers already. Here's a third: evil acts in evil ways. A good person can be hard to predict, but a purely malicious evil person? You can deduce everything about them.
There seems to be some kneejerk reaction on/. that saying "government isn't helping us" == "let the corporations win". That's the false dichotomy. With a government owned by the corporations, there's no "government or corporations" in play. There's no choice like that right now. The choice is "more corporation-run government" or "less corporation-run government".
You're thinking like a normal person, not a sociopath. Comcast isn't offering any bigger pipes, they just stopped making small pipes even smaller once the check from Netflix cleared.
It's not quite so dire, thanks to cloud computing. It's easy to host a server with as big an upstream as you like, simply host that server in EC2 or Azure (whichever is cheaper that week). If you have a lot of data to serve you can even mail Amazon a drive to get started.
I'm hoping that once the FCC decides how to fuck the average citizen the hardest they possibly can with this, and calls that law, that Amazon will then offer some "server with fast lane" choice in EC2, with a price that benefits from their negotiating power.
Sorry, that's not one of the choices. That was never one of the choices. Government agencies act for the benefit only of themselves, never for the governed. The FCC seeks the solution that requires the most employees and biggest budget for the FCC, as that's their only actual incentive in any decision.
There is no requirement for DRM on Steam. It's a distribution platform first and formaost, and there are DRM-free games on Steam. Steam also has DRM that publishers can use (and which really isn't that bad or intrusive). Steam also distributes games with all the worst DRM: horrible, horrible stuff.
Contrast this with Good Old Games, owned by the very same CD Projekt Red. There you get a promise of "no DRM of any kind ever". They distribute many games which originally had DRM in some cracked (but licensed) form, so stuff like "look up this word in the manual" is bypassed. They're just as good as Steam at patch management.
Steam is tolerable. It's good points outweigh its problems. But GOG is great. It's made of win and awesome. It's like the best pirate BBS from back in the day, where every game worked better thanks to the cracks, except it's all legal and licensed, and reasonably priced. Naturally, they're having a hard time attracting publishers, but the financial success of the Witcher titles might get some notice.
Having a liberally educated populace is good for everyone.
You don't say.
well, cost is an issue to, but I'm a democratic socialist, so I think education should be paid from society
You don't say.
You want everyone indoctrinated to your belief system, regardless of the cost to them or to society. I want people to be successful and find their own paths to happiness in life. I don't think we'll reconcile our views.
To me the most amusing answer would be that collectively they are one really good antenna, thanks to clever software, which is then shared among subscribers.
While 0-60 times are fun, once your into the torque band of first gear electric loses it's advantage. My car will match the Model S from 10-70, with similar horsepower, but the Tesla sure leaps off the line.
At the limit of tech, the power density of top fuel is just nuts. If you don't need durability, you can ramp up HP from a given displacement of gas engine 30x (and 2x with very mild changes that will take thousands of miles to wreck the engine).
Cornering will be the interesting thing for electric cars. The Model S is damn heavy, but still corners OK thanks to its very low center of mass. That's neat. There's something there that a gas engine really can't match.
Why? A long cable is a long cable. Why is there any legal difference? The answer of course I because the lawmakers have been thoroughly corrupted, but that's really it. If Aereo was sending content across advertising markets, reducing the value of local ads, then maybe something's there, but they aren't.
It a bit better than that. It only takes a couple years to double your pay while still at the small regional airline. Then after a couple of years with a bigger player it will have doubled again.
My brother is a pilot. No one coming in today is going to make crazy money, as that system will be gone by the time they're 50. But it pays a respectable salary past your first couple of years - better than e.g. a bus driver working for the city. Flying your own plane is really easy to learn, but for commercial flight few can manage the really high mountain of arbitrary regs you have to memorize, so supply is constrained (commercial non-airline pilots are a middle ground).
Yup, the skilled trades are the future. Unskilled and low-skilled jobs are vanishing. Manufacturing doesn't require humans any more. But not everyone can be an engineer or artist (or an electrician for that matter, but that's kind of a special case, like an airline pilot, of needing the "memorize 1000 pages of rules" skill), and we have a real shortage of skilled blue-collar workers.
Either college needs to be focused on teaching stuff that leads to an actual job, or we need to end the "everyone should go to college" mantra. Everyone should be given the education needed to get a real job. Gaelic Poet Studies is a luxury that frankly few can afford.
It might help, but while the MPAA might bitchslap dropbox, they're small potatoes compared to the likes of MS, Google, and increasingly Amazon (as they get their lobbying up to speed). Those 3 have insane amounts of cash compared to the MPAA members, and are starting to realize they need to get in the game.
The company that offered the "we'll remove the profanity from popular movies from your copy of the movie for you" service got shut down. It's not like anything rational is happening.
Technically, it's only the last mile, that natural monopoly, that needs to be segregated from the rest. If we had a genuine competitive environment for internet service (as distinct from the wires leading to your house), I suspect this would have sorted itself out already.
I've rented an antenna on the roof before, publicly and commercially, with a really long antenna cable to my living room. The only difference here is "on the internet".
Of course, Roberts may just decide its a tax, so who knows. It's not like these guys follow any basis in law or constitution these days.
They deal with pleasing the public these days, not legality. It will be interesting to see which way they go on this. They're quite smart enough to rationalize any possible decision, but that's after the fact.
If they don't like Aereo, I wonder how they'll explain the many apartment buildings with a shared antenna on the roof used by all the residents (though maybe that vanished with analog TV). I'm really tired of pretending that doing some old thing we've done for ever, except "on the internet" somehow makes it legally different.
I'm, not sure I understand your question. The part of SSH that the user is unaware of is therefore not bound by the need for user-memorable passwords. Plenty of issues with CAs and all, but not really what I was talking about.
I'm talking about a device (smart card or company-issued computer) with a very strong password (randomly generated by IT, rotated by IT, etc) that the user never sees, which must be combined with the user's weak password to do anything. As long as the attacker can't test whether a given user-password is correct without actually trying to log in (and hitting lock-outs fast), the user-password just needs to be good enough to survive 3 guesses.
Many people have never driven a gas car with real low-end torque, or any real HP at all, and so are easily impressed by electric. In a way this threatens the luxury cars across the board: powerful, smooth, low-end torque is the realm of expensive luxury in the gas world, but electric brings it downmarket.
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You've got 2 answers already. Here's a third: evil acts in evil ways. A good person can be hard to predict, but a purely malicious evil person? You can deduce everything about them.
There seems to be some kneejerk reaction on /. that saying "government isn't helping us" == "let the corporations win". That's the false dichotomy. With a government owned by the corporations, there's no "government or corporations" in play. There's no choice like that right now. The choice is "more corporation-run government" or "less corporation-run government".
I wonder how hard it would be for all the older games that run in DOSbox?
You're thinking like a normal person, not a sociopath. Comcast isn't offering any bigger pipes, they just stopped making small pipes even smaller once the check from Netflix cleared.
Government: or there and back again, a lobbyist's holiday.
It's not quite so dire, thanks to cloud computing. It's easy to host a server with as big an upstream as you like, simply host that server in EC2 or Azure (whichever is cheaper that week). If you have a lot of data to serve you can even mail Amazon a drive to get started.
I'm hoping that once the FCC decides how to fuck the average citizen the hardest they possibly can with this, and calls that law, that Amazon will then offer some "server with fast lane" choice in EC2, with a price that benefits from their negotiating power.
Sorry, that's not one of the choices. That was never one of the choices. Government agencies act for the benefit only of themselves, never for the governed. The FCC seeks the solution that requires the most employees and biggest budget for the FCC, as that's their only actual incentive in any decision.
I keep seeing that word "rebroadcast", but I don't think it means what you think it means.
As I understand it, they stream, the signal 1-for-1 from a specific antenna to a specific subscriber, no broad to that cast.
There is no requirement for DRM on Steam. It's a distribution platform first and formaost, and there are DRM-free games on Steam. Steam also has DRM that publishers can use (and which really isn't that bad or intrusive). Steam also distributes games with all the worst DRM: horrible, horrible stuff.
Contrast this with Good Old Games, owned by the very same CD Projekt Red. There you get a promise of "no DRM of any kind ever". They distribute many games which originally had DRM in some cracked (but licensed) form, so stuff like "look up this word in the manual" is bypassed. They're just as good as Steam at patch management.
Steam is tolerable. It's good points outweigh its problems. But GOG is great. It's made of win and awesome. It's like the best pirate BBS from back in the day, where every game worked better thanks to the cracks, except it's all legal and licensed, and reasonably priced. Naturally, they're having a hard time attracting publishers, but the financial success of the Witcher titles might get some notice.
Having a liberally educated populace is good for everyone.
You don't say.
well, cost is an issue to, but I'm a democratic socialist, so I think education should be paid from society
You don't say.
You want everyone indoctrinated to your belief system, regardless of the cost to them or to society. I want people to be successful and find their own paths to happiness in life. I don't think we'll reconcile our views.
To me the most amusing answer would be that collectively they are one really good antenna, thanks to clever software, which is then shared among subscribers.
While 0-60 times are fun, once your into the torque band of first gear electric loses it's advantage. My car will match the Model S from 10-70, with similar horsepower, but the Tesla sure leaps off the line.
At the limit of tech, the power density of top fuel is just nuts. If you don't need durability, you can ramp up HP from a given displacement of gas engine 30x (and 2x with very mild changes that will take thousands of miles to wreck the engine).
Cornering will be the interesting thing for electric cars. The Model S is damn heavy, but still corners OK thanks to its very low center of mass. That's neat. There's something there that a gas engine really can't match.
Why? A long cable is a long cable. Why is there any legal difference? The answer of course I because the lawmakers have been thoroughly corrupted, but that's really it. If Aereo was sending content across advertising markets, reducing the value of local ads, then maybe something's there, but they aren't.
It a bit better than that. It only takes a couple years to double your pay while still at the small regional airline. Then after a couple of years with a bigger player it will have doubled again.
My brother is a pilot. No one coming in today is going to make crazy money, as that system will be gone by the time they're 50. But it pays a respectable salary past your first couple of years - better than e.g. a bus driver working for the city. Flying your own plane is really easy to learn, but for commercial flight few can manage the really high mountain of arbitrary regs you have to memorize, so supply is constrained (commercial non-airline pilots are a middle ground).
Yup, the skilled trades are the future. Unskilled and low-skilled jobs are vanishing. Manufacturing doesn't require humans any more. But not everyone can be an engineer or artist (or an electrician for that matter, but that's kind of a special case, like an airline pilot, of needing the "memorize 1000 pages of rules" skill), and we have a real shortage of skilled blue-collar workers.
Either college needs to be focused on teaching stuff that leads to an actual job, or we need to end the "everyone should go to college" mantra. Everyone should be given the education needed to get a real job. Gaelic Poet Studies is a luxury that frankly few can afford.
It might help, but while the MPAA might bitchslap dropbox, they're small potatoes compared to the likes of MS, Google, and increasingly Amazon (as they get their lobbying up to speed). Those 3 have insane amounts of cash compared to the MPAA members, and are starting to realize they need to get in the game.
The company that offered the "we'll remove the profanity from popular movies from your copy of the movie for you" service got shut down. It's not like anything rational is happening.
It ain't free speech if you charge for it. ;)
Technically, it's only the last mile, that natural monopoly, that needs to be segregated from the rest. If we had a genuine competitive environment for internet service (as distinct from the wires leading to your house), I suspect this would have sorted itself out already.
I've rented an antenna on the roof before, publicly and commercially, with a really long antenna cable to my living room. The only difference here is "on the internet".
Of course, Roberts may just decide its a tax, so who knows. It's not like these guys follow any basis in law or constitution these days.
The Supremes deal with legality, not enforcement.
They deal with pleasing the public these days, not legality. It will be interesting to see which way they go on this. They're quite smart enough to rationalize any possible decision, but that's after the fact.
If they don't like Aereo, I wonder how they'll explain the many apartment buildings with a shared antenna on the roof used by all the residents (though maybe that vanished with analog TV). I'm really tired of pretending that doing some old thing we've done for ever, except "on the internet" somehow makes it legally different.
I'm, not sure I understand your question. The part of SSH that the user is unaware of is therefore not bound by the need for user-memorable passwords. Plenty of issues with CAs and all, but not really what I was talking about.
I'm talking about a device (smart card or company-issued computer) with a very strong password (randomly generated by IT, rotated by IT, etc) that the user never sees, which must be combined with the user's weak password to do anything. As long as the attacker can't test whether a given user-password is correct without actually trying to log in (and hitting lock-outs fast), the user-password just needs to be good enough to survive 3 guesses.
Many people have never driven a gas car with real low-end torque, or any real HP at all, and so are easily impressed by electric. In a way this threatens the luxury cars across the board: powerful, smooth, low-end torque is the realm of expensive luxury in the gas world, but electric brings it downmarket.
My point was: a serial hybrid can be simple. Whatever the Volt is, simple it ain't.