This is why I'm saving to retire and buy a small farm or woods. I can D/C from this nonsense and go back to living. Assuming my high stress high tech job doesn't kill me with a stroke or something first.
It's simple really. If you like movies, you will find the best selection on DVD. If you like the miniseries, especially the new ones that Netflix are developing, then streaming service is the way to go. For some people, Netflix DVDs + Amazon Prime hits the sweet spot for streaming versus movies. A lot of the cooking shows my wife likes are on Prime without additional charge. but Netflix doesn't stream much that she wants. For me I mostly watch movies, and I have been soured on the dwindling selection of Netflix's streaming catalog.
Have a tax that goes directly into the pockets of film studios and music labels. It would be cheaper for everyone than some kind of hair brained scheme to block servers based on some nebulous definition of "pirate".
My guess is Bell wants to buy new routers and have the government pay for it.
Instead of artificial intelligence this car offers the true democracy of mob rule. Every seat has a steering wheel so that each passenger can vote on which direction to go. And in an accident there is no longer any clear person to blame, it's a perfect system like our glorious democracy.
Anyone downloading without using a VPN client is risking a $3,000 fine and possible loss of their internet connection.
I'm a huge Trek fan, and if the risk were only $3,000 I would do it.
The legal penalties for copyright infringement are:
Infringer pays the actual dollar amount of damages and profits.
The law provides a range from $200 to $150,000 for each work infringed.
Infringer pays for all attorneys fees and court costs.
The Court can issue an injunction to stop the infringing acts.
The Court can impound the illegal works.
The infringer can go to jail.
Why specifically the Christian version of the Bible and not any of the texts that pre-date it or any of the more recent texts? How do you know the Mormons aren't the ones who got it right, they are Christians (by their own definition) yet have a dramatically different view on history than you do.
The remote has been bundled in it for quite some time, I think at least a year. Definitely the old shield that was much bigger (2015) didn't include the remote unless you upgraded to the "Pro" bundle. I think the change over for a free remote occurred when they removed the microSD slot.
They come with a game controller, which is a bit bulky for use as a remote control. However, it is controllable with the android tv app on a phone.
The $180 one only comes with a remote, no game controller. But there are so few games for the controller it's probably not a big deal. Main advantage is the battery life when using headphones is better on the gamepad than on the remote.
And the scancode for SysRq is a lot easier to detect in an OS or BIOS than many other extended keys and easier than combinations with multiple modifiers like Ctrl-Alt-Del. While on a modern AT keyboard SysRq is Alt-PrtScr, the controller still sends a single byte scancode back (0x54). It's something IBM invented and was mostly ignored by mainstream software vendors like Microsoft. And I believe it mapped to its own INT handler in PC BIOS, so it should have been easy for an OS to latch onto.
Windows keys are a pretty good thing when individual apps want to take over various Alt key combinations for hotkeys. But that Menu key is pretty damn worthless. I mapped mine to open up the calculator.
Failure to find consensus results in no new standard from W3C on this topic. That's exactly what we wanted. The W3C doesn't need to cover every topic and is not even in a real hurry to standardize. Letting DRM flail around as several proprietary implementations is potentially in all of our interests. Standardizing something that we can't find consensus for does us no good anyways, because the question will now be if the standard favors one influential party over another.
Giving up on the consensus building process means the W3C has transformed into a completely different organization. And I don't blame the EFF one bit for leaving.
We'd be better off if there were a bunch of costly competing standards for DRM. So that support for DRM was spotty and expensive to maintain.
If every server can reliably handle DRM that means it's accessible to many more businesses than before and can be applied to a broader range of materials.
In the end we'll likely see widespread us of DRM cut off millions from most of the Internet as only browsers signed by an authority can serve up the content. Poor Open Source folks and people on obscure platforms will be totally out of luck like they have been with Netflix for the last several years, except now it might be more like 50% of the Internet (by traffic) they are missing out on.
AI could steal a penny from every transaction, and make it difficult to trace where the money went. Spend the money to build a stockpile of poison at various abandoned warehouses. Have mail-bots deliver the poison to every water treatment plant in the US as mislabeled bottles of the usual industrial reagents. And finally explain this whole plan to the hero locked in the main control room moments before initiating the plan.
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I prefer open standards like XMPP and IPv4/v6.
This is why I'm saving to retire and buy a small farm or woods. I can D/C from this nonsense and go back to living. Assuming my high stress high tech job doesn't kill me with a stroke or something first.
It's simple really. If you like movies, you will find the best selection on DVD. If you like the miniseries, especially the new ones that Netflix are developing, then streaming service is the way to go.
For some people, Netflix DVDs + Amazon Prime hits the sweet spot for streaming versus movies. A lot of the cooking shows my wife likes are on Prime without additional charge. but Netflix doesn't stream much that she wants. For me I mostly watch movies, and I have been soured on the dwindling selection of Netflix's streaming catalog.
Does whatever their corporate masters decide.
It's a terrible example of that.
I know they have the tax. But there is no law preventing the government from taxing you multiple times for the same thing.
Have a tax that goes directly into the pockets of film studios and music labels. It would be cheaper for everyone than some kind of hair brained scheme to block servers based on some nebulous definition of "pirate".
My guess is Bell wants to buy new routers and have the government pay for it.
Good luck finding people who don't have a mental illness.
Hey, we're not the ones who chanted "lock her up".
Instead of artificial intelligence this car offers the true democracy of mob rule. Every seat has a steering wheel so that each passenger can vote on which direction to go. And in an accident there is no longer any clear person to blame, it's a perfect system like our glorious democracy.
Who hurt you?
Anyone downloading without using a VPN client is risking a $3,000 fine and possible loss of their internet connection.
I'm a huge Trek fan, and if the risk were only $3,000 I would do it.
The legal penalties for copyright infringement are:
Infringer pays the actual dollar amount of damages and profits.
The law provides a range from $200 to $150,000 for each work infringed.
Infringer pays for all attorneys fees and court costs.
The Court can issue an injunction to stop the infringing acts.
The Court can impound the illegal works.
The infringer can go to jail.
I ain't got time to read long winded tweets.
Satan did them to confuse you and test your faith.
Why specifically the Christian version of the Bible and not any of the texts that pre-date it or any of the more recent texts? How do you know the Mormons aren't the ones who got it right, they are Christians (by their own definition) yet have a dramatically different view on history than you do.
* cool story bro.
* blog it.
* defeasible reasoning
The remote has been bundled in it for quite some time, I think at least a year. Definitely the old shield that was much bigger (2015) didn't include the remote unless you upgraded to the "Pro" bundle. I think the change over for a free remote occurred when they removed the microSD slot.
I gave specific examples of why you cannot.
I hope everyone has fun getting their J.D.
They come with a game controller, which is a bit bulky for use as a remote control. However, it is controllable with the android tv app on a phone.
The $180 one only comes with a remote, no game controller. But there are so few games for the controller it's probably not a big deal. Main advantage is the battery life when using headphones is better on the gamepad than on the remote.
If you RTFA you'd see that they knocked $20 off the price if you leave out the $60 gamepad.
Every time I want to log into my multimedia box while eating a sandwich.
And the scancode for SysRq is a lot easier to detect in an OS or BIOS than many other extended keys and easier than combinations with multiple modifiers like Ctrl-Alt-Del. While on a modern AT keyboard SysRq is Alt-PrtScr, the controller still sends a single byte scancode back (0x54). It's something IBM invented and was mostly ignored by mainstream software vendors like Microsoft. And I believe it mapped to its own INT handler in PC BIOS, so it should have been easy for an OS to latch onto.
Windows keys are a pretty good thing when individual apps want to take over various Alt key combinations for hotkeys. But that Menu key is pretty damn worthless. I mapped mine to open up the calculator.
Failure to find consensus results in no new standard from W3C on this topic. That's exactly what we wanted. The W3C doesn't need to cover every topic and is not even in a real hurry to standardize. Letting DRM flail around as several proprietary implementations is potentially in all of our interests. Standardizing something that we can't find consensus for does us no good anyways, because the question will now be if the standard favors one influential party over another.
Giving up on the consensus building process means the W3C has transformed into a completely different organization. And I don't blame the EFF one bit for leaving.
We'd be better off if there were a bunch of costly competing standards for DRM. So that support for DRM was spotty and expensive to maintain.
If every server can reliably handle DRM that means it's accessible to many more businesses than before and can be applied to a broader range of materials.
In the end we'll likely see widespread us of DRM cut off millions from most of the Internet as only browsers signed by an authority can serve up the content. Poor Open Source folks and people on obscure platforms will be totally out of luck like they have been with Netflix for the last several years, except now it might be more like 50% of the Internet (by traffic) they are missing out on.
AI could steal a penny from every transaction, and make it difficult to trace where the money went. Spend the money to build a stockpile of poison at various abandoned warehouses. Have mail-bots deliver the poison to every water treatment plant in the US as mislabeled bottles of the usual industrial reagents. And finally explain this whole plan to the hero locked in the main control room moments before initiating the plan.