What... like more LCD monitors showing the activists to embarrass them?
You could find yourself working in a prison camp, perhaps sorting through used LCD monitors for recycling. If you behave yourself you might get to work at Foxconn and get two restroom breaks per day.
People need to stop driving cars. Bicycles, pedestrians and mobility scooters only on urban streets. Take the train if you need to get somewhere far away. If there is no train, ask your city planners why there is no train.
Then R.I.P. Java. It is too dangerous to develop new software if APIs suddenly acquire copyright protection because the licensing terms effectively change and could impact your business. At this point to run a business responsibly you should negotiate up front what your license terms for tools, compilers and APIs should be. Going with platforms, tools and languages that are open licensed is going to be necessary for many businesses that don't have the resources to wrestle with licenses, lawyers and sales staff with complex licensing payment terms.
To make 75% even remotely true, it means that most places are completely corrupted and ruined.
No. Please re-read. Not everything is to one extreme or another. "have lost some or most of their functions" the key word there is "some". If once fertile virgin soil now requires amendments in order to be productive, that's a lost function. In the US this isn't a big deal, we normally use fertilizers and amendments in our agricultural practices. If you don't have these, then your going to have to use crop rotation and more land area as you let some of the land go fallow for one or two years. Local changes in climate (not to be confused with global climate change) can put people who use these more primitive methods of farming in a really desperate situation.
Theoretically the knowledge you acquired has some value, even if your skills aren't terribly marketable and the slip of paper that is your degree is worthless.
In 10 years those *coins are probably going to be worth around zero. You will have learned nothing from them. And the coins you have left will not even buy you a milkshake. At least your college degree can be used as a napkin.
Technically true, but it's not like you can get a loan from the IRS to buy BitCoin, and students don't normally owe the IRS anything.
It's simple, instead of setting aside income that would normally go on something like a 1099-MISC, you invest it. (or gamble it). That's technically the IRS's money. It's harder to do with a W-2 because your employer normally takes your estimated taxes out for you. But I suppose you could make up a goofy estimate and borrow money from the IRS that way too.
DISCLAIMER: I do not advocate tax fraud. The IRS will probably find you and try to ruin your life.
The SF BART marks your card electronically when you get on and only charges you to get off. So they will lock you in the station if you don't have enough or if your card is damaged in transit. Hopefully the station's ticket booth is open to have a human help you get your card fixed and let you out. BART's tickets are not centralized accounts, the only record of your balance is on the card's easily damaged magstripe.
And yes, I was locked in the BART station in Daly City for 20 minutes when the magnet in my Blackberry's leather case erased my card.
Privacy is outdated. Want privacy, run away from civilization and live like a primitive. Where there is no electricity, there is no electronic surveillance.
Is it necessary to swing to extremes? Can't there be any compromise or nuance in our positions?
I used to do TPM drivers for embedded systems, it's not that far fetched of a feature to time out when your TPM already has an NVRAM. From NVRAM it's simple to embed an RTC (simple but not free, increases costs by several cents and creates supply chain disruption by introduction of a new variant). There are other ways to deal with this problems as well, and I'm not married to this idea.
My main point is the solution that most of the people on slashdot demand is not really feasible. That solution being to do nothing to disrupt the status quo and lock devices down so that nobody, not even law enforcement, can get into the device. If you can't trust your police and legal system to not violate your rights on your cellphone, how can you trust them in any other aspect of your life? Fix the real problem of corruption and public distrust.
It would be nice if these devices automatically unlocked after some time limit, like 1 year. At least we could get into a device after someone died or after the police confiscated a device long enough, without having to hand over some backdoor keys that compromises the security of all our devices.
There really is no perfect solution that protects our rights and provides security and allows law enforcement to do their job. Some reasonable compromise has to be found. I'm of the mind that our rights has the highest priority, followed by the security of millions of people, and then finally the needs of a small number of criminal investigators.
That's certainly a choice an artist can make. And when they do so they generally tell you by offering the music for free. I listen to a fair number of musicians who release under a Creative Common license (CC-SA-BY)
-Piracy implies personal profit from infringing material, which 99% of "pirates" do not do
listening to music is your profit. You made use of a service, even if you didn't deprive someone of property.
-Record stores don't create content, the artists create content, and there are a myriad of ways to support them without middlemen
99% of "pirates" do not do this.
-Content creators, outside of the independent scene, are paid by publishers/labels before their content is released, and even then they only receive a small percentage after the record store/label takes their cuts
Then listen to independent artists that you pay directly if you can't agree to the arrangement in main stream music. If I don't like how gas stations work, I don't start siphoning gas out of random people's tanks
-There have been multiple studies proving piracy does increase sales by providing advertising or allowing people who were otherwise not interested in paying full market price to get a taste of the content in question
Certainly an interesting factoid. But is a society where you can receive a good or service without paying to the agree to price the kind of society you want?
-Music in the late 90s/early 00s was indeed pretty shitty, with the rise of nu-metal and oversaturation of grunge rock
Pop music from every era is shit. That's what makes it pop. If you want music that is 100% free and artistically significant then listen to public domain classical.
-Musicians were paid before recording was possible, either as buskers, troubadors, orchestral players or as personal musicians to the elite rich folk, also see my third point
Times have changed. Musicians who were skillful and well connected had patrons to keep them clothed. That's not how things work today. It is nice to reflect about history, but anachronism is not a good excuse for violating the implicit agreements of commerce.
P.S. - you can live in a cave if you really don't like the constructs and rules we have in society.
I've been buying CDs and never opening them when the CD version is cheaper or the same price as than the streaming version due to Amazon offering "AutoRip" on many CDs.
While I appreciate the sentiment, rich powerful people don't normally pay for their crimes. Expect a slap on the wrist in exchange for a easy transition after impeachment. The Senate is likely to negotiate away charges like Treason, Seditious conspiracy, or Misprision of treason in exchange for a resignation. We're not likely to see a 5-20 year prison sentence or death penalty against any elected official, because D.C. doesn't work that way.
It's a pretty significant supply chain change for them. The operational details are probably quite complex and there are potentially contractual agreements that must expire as well.
It all went down hill when Google bowed to the Chinese government. Money drives all their decisions, and the NRA isn't paying YouTube to keep the videos. Google is far more afraid of a progressive boycott, novel lawsuits that try to shift the blame of gun violence on a common carrier, and grassroots anti-gun campaigns.
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Did you thing NVDA's stock gain was speculation on the shrinking PC market and bitcoin mining?
What... like more LCD monitors showing the activists to embarrass them?
You could find yourself working in a prison camp, perhaps sorting through used LCD monitors for recycling. If you behave yourself you might get to work at Foxconn and get two restroom breaks per day.
People need to stop driving cars. Bicycles, pedestrians and mobility scooters only on urban streets. Take the train if you need to get somewhere far away. If there is no train, ask your city planners why there is no train.
Then R.I.P. Java. It is too dangerous to develop new software if APIs suddenly acquire copyright protection because the licensing terms effectively change and could impact your business. At this point to run a business responsibly you should negotiate up front what your license terms for tools, compilers and APIs should be. Going with platforms, tools and languages that are open licensed is going to be necessary for many businesses that don't have the resources to wrestle with licenses, lawyers and sales staff with complex licensing payment terms.
Put another way 75% of Earth is no longer pristine.
Yeah, no big surprise there. Even the moorlands of Great Britain would have been forests some thousands of years ago before humans cleared them.
It's sensational journalism that isn't quite as exciting once you pick at the details a bit.
To make 75% even remotely true, it means that most places are completely corrupted and ruined.
No. Please re-read. Not everything is to one extreme or another. "have lost some or most of their functions" the key word there is "some". If once fertile virgin soil now requires amendments in order to be productive, that's a lost function. In the US this isn't a big deal, we normally use fertilizers and amendments in our agricultural practices. If you don't have these, then your going to have to use crop rotation and more land area as you let some of the land go fallow for one or two years. Local changes in climate (not to be confused with global climate change) can put people who use these more primitive methods of farming in a really desperate situation.
Agricultural practices that yield short term profits is not the same as feeding people.
Theoretically the knowledge you acquired has some value, even if your skills aren't terribly marketable and the slip of paper that is your degree is worthless.
In 10 years those *coins are probably going to be worth around zero. You will have learned nothing from them. And the coins you have left will not even buy you a milkshake. At least your college degree can be used as a napkin.
Technically true, but it's not like you can get a loan from the IRS to buy BitCoin, and students don't normally owe the IRS anything.
It's simple, instead of setting aside income that would normally go on something like a 1099-MISC, you invest it. (or gamble it). That's technically the IRS's money. It's harder to do with a W-2 because your employer normally takes your estimated taxes out for you. But I suppose you could make up a goofy estimate and borrow money from the IRS that way too.
DISCLAIMER: I do not advocate tax fraud. The IRS will probably find you and try to ruin your life.
The SF BART marks your card electronically when you get on and only charges you to get off. So they will lock you in the station if you don't have enough or if your card is damaged in transit. Hopefully the station's ticket booth is open to have a human help you get your card fixed and let you out. BART's tickets are not centralized accounts, the only record of your balance is on the card's easily damaged magstripe.
And yes, I was locked in the BART station in Daly City for 20 minutes when the magnet in my Blackberry's leather case erased my card.
Privacy is outdated. Want privacy, run away from civilization and live like a primitive. Where there is no electricity, there is no electronic surveillance.
Is it necessary to swing to extremes? Can't there be any compromise or nuance in our positions?
I used to do TPM drivers for embedded systems, it's not that far fetched of a feature to time out when your TPM already has an NVRAM. From NVRAM it's simple to embed an RTC (simple but not free, increases costs by several cents and creates supply chain disruption by introduction of a new variant). There are other ways to deal with this problems as well, and I'm not married to this idea.
My main point is the solution that most of the people on slashdot demand is not really feasible. That solution being to do nothing to disrupt the status quo and lock devices down so that nobody, not even law enforcement, can get into the device. If you can't trust your police and legal system to not violate your rights on your cellphone, how can you trust them in any other aspect of your life? Fix the real problem of corruption and public distrust.
It would be nice if these devices automatically unlocked after some time limit, like 1 year. At least we could get into a device after someone died or after the police confiscated a device long enough, without having to hand over some backdoor keys that compromises the security of all our devices.
There really is no perfect solution that protects our rights and provides security and allows law enforcement to do their job. Some reasonable compromise has to be found. I'm of the mind that our rights has the highest priority, followed by the security of millions of people, and then finally the needs of a small number of criminal investigators.
It's way too small. I calculate it is as nearly $1Q (quadrillion)
That's certainly a choice an artist can make. And when they do so they generally tell you by offering the music for free. I listen to a fair number of musicians who release under a Creative Common license (CC-SA-BY)
Demonize the pirates all you want
This is not a religious discussion, it's a discussion on ethical behavior.
That's great then. I'm still struggling with finding certain R&B albums for sampling.
-Piracy implies personal profit from infringing material, which 99% of "pirates" do not do
listening to music is your profit. You made use of a service, even if you didn't deprive someone of property.
-Record stores don't create content, the artists create content, and there are a myriad of ways to support them without middlemen
99% of "pirates" do not do this.
-Content creators, outside of the independent scene, are paid by publishers/labels before their content is released, and even then they only receive a small percentage after the record store/label takes their cuts
Then listen to independent artists that you pay directly if you can't agree to the arrangement in main stream music. If I don't like how gas stations work, I don't start siphoning gas out of random people's tanks
-There have been multiple studies proving piracy does increase sales by providing advertising or allowing people who were otherwise not interested in paying full market price to get a taste of the content in question
Certainly an interesting factoid. But is a society where you can receive a good or service without paying to the agree to price the kind of society you want?
-Music in the late 90s/early 00s was indeed pretty shitty, with the rise of nu-metal and oversaturation of grunge rock
Pop music from every era is shit. That's what makes it pop. If you want music that is 100% free and artistically significant then listen to public domain classical.
-Musicians were paid before recording was possible, either as buskers, troubadors, orchestral players or as personal musicians to the elite rich folk, also see my third point
Times have changed. Musicians who were skillful and well connected had patrons to keep them clothed. That's not how things work today. It is nice to reflect about history, but anachronism is not a good excuse for violating the implicit agreements of commerce.
P.S. - you can live in a cave if you really don't like the constructs and rules we have in society.
I wish you the best of luck finding all of the old jazz albums on streaming.
As long as I can drink rum and have a parrot, I don't care what you call it.
If I understand you correctly you are suggesting pirating as the cheaper option?
I've been buying CDs and never opening them when the CD version is cheaper or the same price as than the streaming version due to Amazon offering "AutoRip" on many CDs.
While I appreciate the sentiment, rich powerful people don't normally pay for their crimes. Expect a slap on the wrist in exchange for a easy transition after impeachment. The Senate is likely to negotiate away charges like Treason, Seditious conspiracy, or Misprision of treason in exchange for a resignation. We're not likely to see a 5-20 year prison sentence or death penalty against any elected official, because D.C. doesn't work that way.
It's a pretty significant supply chain change for them. The operational details are probably quite complex and there are potentially contractual agreements that must expire as well.
It all went down hill when Google bowed to the Chinese government. Money drives all their decisions, and the NRA isn't paying YouTube to keep the videos. Google is far more afraid of a progressive boycott, novel lawsuits that try to shift the blame of gun violence on a common carrier, and grassroots anti-gun campaigns.