So maybe it has to wait until the end of Windows 7's lifecycle. At that time, users will be being forced to upgrade which requires them to agree to the EULA that strips them of the right they previously had to file a class action suit.
Your analogy is wrong. Anything Google recorded was broadcast to them. They didn't use magical telescopic receivers to record things from a longer distance than they were being sent by the people sending those things. The people whose data was recorded literally sent it to Google either willingly and intentionally or because they were too stupid to realize they were sending that information to Google.
I said lying was wrong. I also said Google's lies were stupid because they were. Recording openly broadcast information and doing nothing with it isn't something they needed to lie about. What they should have done was announce something along the lines of "Yes, we recorded packets from non-encrypted connections. Anyone stupid enough to send sensitive information over a non-encrypted connection should be really grateful that we have no intention of doing anything with that information."
Lying isn't inherently evil. Everyone does it all the time. Whether it's saying "Fine" when someone says "How are you" or telling a child Santa Clause is coming or that nothing is going on when you're actually planning a surprise birthday party or one of the uncountable other "little white lies", we all do it and it isn't evil.
Wrong is also not inherently evil. I'm dieting. If I eat a cookie, it's wrong, but it's not evil. If you don't brush your teeth every day, it's wrong but not evil. Trying to equate wrong with evil is dumb.
Google lied to cover their ass when they didn't really need to. It was stupid and wrong, but it wasn't evil by any realistic definition of the term.
Google didn't steal credentials. They recorded information that was being openly broadcast. If you DVR a TV show and someone on it holds up his credit card and reads out the numbers, you haven't stolen that person's credentials even though you have recorded them. Unless you take that information and do something, you've done nothing wrong.
The only thing Google did wrong was lying about it and trying to cover their asses. I'm not arguing that lying and covering your ass isn't wrong, but it doesn't cause harm to anyone in any way and it's not remotely evil.
If you hand your credit card to someone and they look at it and happen to remember the information printed on it a month later, they did not steal your credentials.
I'm not saying what Google did was right, but it doesn't qualify as evil. Stupid, sure, but not evil.
I have no problem with the first three lines of your post, but the fourth is idiotic.
There are lots of things in this world that are evil. Torture, rape, murder, genocide, biological warfare, terrorism, racism, letting people die of starvation when food is available, letting them die from diseases when treatments and vaccines are available, stripping people of their basic rights... recording unencrypted data that's being broadcast to you as you drive by and doing nothing with it isn't even close to evil.
That's easy to solve, at least: Use the number of appeals as an exponent of a base cost to file the appeal. Say the first appeal costs $100. The second appeal would cost $1,000, third would be $10,000, fourth would be $100,000 and so on.
Jesus Christ no!!!! We can't have diversity! Everybody has to have the exact same experiences! Our world would collapse if people started to live unique lives!
The irony I find is that someone has the audacity to sell the word of god
I'm sure the publishers would be happy to hand out bibles for free if God would just send a check to cover the production costs.
to prey on someones vanity to profit, that has always bothered me.
Designer clothes, shoes, purses, suits, ties, jewelry, make-up, fancy bibles and tens of thousands of other products are marketed specifically to serve people who want to display their vanity. Quite frequently the cost of the item is an important part of that since it allows them to show off their affluence. The people who buy those things obviously aren't being preyed upon because they seek them out and pay for them of their own free will.
Why does it bother you that other people make those goods available to the people who want them and are willing to pay for them?
A "tort" is the same as "crime", it is an action performed.
A tort isn't the same as a crime.
A tort is a civil wrong which causes harm or loss to another, but may or may not be illegal. A crime is a violation of law which may or may not cause harm or loss to another. The two definitions overlap, but they are not the same.
As with anything, a crime isn't punished unless someone is convicted, and a tort doesn't manifest as money or equity unless someone has a judgement levied against them.
Officially, yes, but paying lawyers to defend against lawsuits is expensive. Those expenses aren't reimbursed unless your defense is successful and you file a counter suit to sue for your legal costs and win, much less while the trial is ongoing. An entity like the MPAA has deep pockets and can drag out a trial for years while the defendant goes bankrupt paying for legal representation. You don't have to win to bankrupt your opponent.
> There are no such things as filters precise enough to isolate the GPS signals from the Lightsquared signals. Not even close. They don't exist today, and they can't be made with today's technology.
Not true. It is possible make a filter precise enough to isolate GPS signals from Lightsquared signals with today's technology, but it's expensive and bulky to do so. A number of higher-end GPS units had no problem with Lightsquared signals for just that reason. Lightsquared used those results to try and blame GPS manufacturers, in fact, but the FCC didn't buy it. Expecting everyone to be okay with suddenly having to pay hundreds more for a working GPS unit and not having GPS available in cell phones (after mandating that GPS be available in cell phones by the end of 2005) wasn't happening.
Of course, if you can convince everyone that it's cool to pay a few grand to carry around something like this, maybe bulky and expensive wouldn't be such a problem. I don't see that happening either.
> What is this recent trend in equating TV problems with computers.
It starts with the United States' puritanical point of view. If it's fun or enjoyable, it's inherently bad for you and probably evil to boot. Computers are fun, so they must be bad in some way.
The easiest way to "prove" this is to relate using a computer to something that's already been demonized and is widely considered to be "bad"... watching TV. Nobody proudly announces how many hours of TV they watch a week but, every time a discussion comes up, you can bet there will be plenty of people who proudly announce that they don't watch and/or don't even own a TV set.
The two are superficially similar since they both involve looking at moving images on a screen, so it's easy to claim that there are deeper similarities. Sadly, a lot of people are actually dumb enough to be swayed by arguments like that (which explains a lot about our political system as well).
Metro is okay on a small handheld device with a touch screen. On a PC, it makes no goddamn sense. Microsoft is trying to figure out a way to tie the PC into the current popularity for smartphones and it just isn't going to happen.
Free market != unregulated market. A free market is a market in which prices, supply and demand are not controlled.
When a company sets up barriers to prevent other companies from competing, they are controlling the supply. Net neutrality laws specifically address this by making it illegal for an ISP to preferentially slow down or charge more for data from companies that provide the same services that the ISP provides.
The "Nanny State" argument is a false argument that suggests that net neutrality laws prevent businesses from competing freely while ignoring the fact that the laws (if written correctly) would actually make it more difficult for businesses from controlling the market.
Getting laws that are written correctly so they can't be exploited for one corporation's benefit, however, is an entirely different can of worms.
I've backed a few that completed: An Evening with Neila Gaiman and Amanda Palmer - They've finished the tour, put together the recordings and given out the download links. CDs should be shipping soon if they haven't already. The finished product contained a lot of really cool stuff that doesn't normally appear on CDs. Some of my favorite bits were "Ask Neil and Amanda Almost Anything", but I can't honestly imagine a record company ever allowing that stuff on a CD because they'd never believe it would sell.
Miskatonic School for Girls deck Buildiing Game - They've shipped the boxed games and I've received mine. The materials and construction are little better than average for board game. The game itself is fun and has a lot of replay value, but is probably too difficult for kids under 10 and drunk people.
Jessica Frech's Album - Okay... her accent makes some people hate her, but I like it. She's finished the allbum and sent out download links. I didn't buy a CD so I don't know if those have shipped or not. The album isn't as silly as the songs she routinely posts to her blog, but it's good.
Creatures: The Card Game - The card decks have long since been shipped and I received mine. It's a fun game to play with younger kids, but it requires an active imagination to make it fun. Playing it with some of the adults that I know would be excruciatingly dull.
I've backed other projects that delivered, but I'm not writing a novel so I'll leave it at that. There are only two successfully funded kickstarters that I've backed that I have any real doubts about ever receiving a finished product from. They keep giving occasional updates appear to be making slow progress toward finishing, however, so I can't honestly say that they won't (thus I will not name them). If the two fail to deliver, I'm okay with it. It looks to me that they're trying and I backed them because I want those two particular projects to exist and was willing to risk a few bucks to help that happen.
That's about XP, mind you. I can't find where anyone has done a similar test with Windows 7, but Windows 7 continues has had its fair share of buffer overrun issues that didn't require user intervention to be exploited.. Only a fool would think that the last patch cycle had finally fixed them all and perfected the OS.
It has nothing to do with them understanding or not understanding how the resolving power of the human eye should be measured. It has everything to do with the belief that more/bigger/faster/expensive is better.
It's the same psychology that drives audiophiles to spend thousands of dollars on wires that could be replaced with wire from coat hangers without any significant difference.
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and suddenly the button with the racial epithet on it becomes the most popular one and you lose all your real customers.
Haven't you ever watched TRON? It's a fucking nightmare in there!
Good luck proving the other drive took the time to read a text heavy bumper sticker before the impact.
So maybe it has to wait until the end of Windows 7's lifecycle. At that time, users will be being forced to upgrade which requires them to agree to the EULA that strips them of the right they previously had to file a class action suit.
Your analogy is wrong. Anything Google recorded was broadcast to them. They didn't use magical telescopic receivers to record things from a longer distance than they were being sent by the people sending those things. The people whose data was recorded literally sent it to Google either willingly and intentionally or because they were too stupid to realize they were sending that information to Google.
I said lying was wrong. I also said Google's lies were stupid because they were. Recording openly broadcast information and doing nothing with it isn't something they needed to lie about. What they should have done was announce something along the lines of "Yes, we recorded packets from non-encrypted connections. Anyone stupid enough to send sensitive information over a non-encrypted connection should be really grateful that we have no intention of doing anything with that information."
Lying isn't inherently evil. Everyone does it all the time. Whether it's saying "Fine" when someone says "How are you" or telling a child Santa Clause is coming or that nothing is going on when you're actually planning a surprise birthday party or one of the uncountable other "little white lies", we all do it and it isn't evil.
Wrong is also not inherently evil. I'm dieting. If I eat a cookie, it's wrong, but it's not evil. If you don't brush your teeth every day, it's wrong but not evil. Trying to equate wrong with evil is dumb.
Google lied to cover their ass when they didn't really need to. It was stupid and wrong, but it wasn't evil by any realistic definition of the term.
You're focusing on the wrong thing.
Google didn't steal credentials. They recorded information that was being openly broadcast. If you DVR a TV show and someone on it holds up his credit card and reads out the numbers, you haven't stolen that person's credentials even though you have recorded them. Unless you take that information and do something, you've done nothing wrong.
The only thing Google did wrong was lying about it and trying to cover their asses. I'm not arguing that lying and covering your ass isn't wrong, but it doesn't cause harm to anyone in any way and it's not remotely evil.
If you hand your credit card to someone and they look at it and happen to remember the information printed on it a month later, they did not steal your credentials.
I'm not saying what Google did was right, but it doesn't qualify as evil. Stupid, sure, but not evil.
Evil generally involves harming others. Yes, Google tried to cover their ass, but who was harmed by that? Nobody.
I have no problem with the first three lines of your post, but the fourth is idiotic.
There are lots of things in this world that are evil. Torture, rape, murder, genocide, biological warfare, terrorism, racism, letting people die of starvation when food is available, letting them die from diseases when treatments and vaccines are available, stripping people of their basic rights... recording unencrypted data that's being broadcast to you as you drive by and doing nothing with it isn't even close to evil.
That's easy to solve, at least: Use the number of appeals as an exponent of a base cost to file the appeal. Say the first appeal costs $100. The second appeal would cost $1,000, third would be $10,000, fourth would be $100,000 and so on.
Jesus Christ no!!!! We can't have diversity! Everybody has to have the exact same experiences! Our world would collapse if people started to live unique lives!
The irony I find is that someone has the audacity to sell the word of god
I'm sure the publishers would be happy to hand out bibles for free if God would just send a check to cover the production costs.
to prey on someones vanity to profit, that has always bothered me.
Designer clothes, shoes, purses, suits, ties, jewelry, make-up, fancy bibles and tens of thousands of other products are marketed specifically to serve people who want to display their vanity. Quite frequently the cost of the item is an important part of that since it allows them to show off their affluence. The people who buy those things obviously aren't being preyed upon because they seek them out and pay for them of their own free will.
Why does it bother you that other people make those goods available to the people who want them and are willing to pay for them?
A "tort" is the same as "crime", it is an action performed.
A tort isn't the same as a crime.
A tort is a civil wrong which causes harm or loss to another, but may or may not be illegal. A crime is a violation of law which may or may not cause harm or loss to another. The two definitions overlap, but they are not the same.
As with anything, a crime isn't punished unless someone is convicted, and a tort doesn't manifest as money or equity unless someone has a judgement levied against them.
Officially, yes, but paying lawyers to defend against lawsuits is expensive. Those expenses aren't reimbursed unless your defense is successful and you file a counter suit to sue for your legal costs and win, much less while the trial is ongoing. An entity like the MPAA has deep pockets and can drag out a trial for years while the defendant goes bankrupt paying for legal representation. You don't have to win to bankrupt your opponent.
Or the guy knows his wife is cheating on him and is just trying to get proof he can use during a divorce. Not everyone is a violent asshole.
> There are no such things as filters precise enough to isolate the GPS signals from the Lightsquared signals. Not even close. They don't exist today, and they can't be made with today's technology.
Not true. It is possible make a filter precise enough to isolate GPS signals from Lightsquared signals with today's technology, but it's expensive and bulky to do so. A number of higher-end GPS units had no problem with Lightsquared signals for just that reason. Lightsquared used those results to try and blame GPS manufacturers, in fact, but the FCC didn't buy it. Expecting everyone to be okay with suddenly having to pay hundreds more for a working GPS unit and not having GPS available in cell phones (after mandating that GPS be available in cell phones by the end of 2005) wasn't happening.
Of course, if you can convince everyone that it's cool to pay a few grand to carry around something like this, maybe bulky and expensive wouldn't be such a problem. I don't see that happening either.
Are my girlfriends boobs "real" just because the implants haven't failed?
A failed marriage was still a marriage while it lasted. Nothing fake about it.
> What is this recent trend in equating TV problems with computers.
It starts with the United States' puritanical point of view. If it's fun or enjoyable, it's inherently bad for you and probably evil to boot. Computers are fun, so they must be bad in some way.
The easiest way to "prove" this is to relate using a computer to something that's already been demonized and is widely considered to be "bad" ... watching TV. Nobody proudly announces how many hours of TV they watch a week but, every time a discussion comes up, you can bet there will be plenty of people who proudly announce that they don't watch and/or don't even own a TV set.
The two are superficially similar since they both involve looking at moving images on a screen, so it's easy to claim that there are deeper similarities. Sadly, a lot of people are actually dumb enough to be swayed by arguments like that (which explains a lot about our political system as well).
Metro is okay on a small handheld device with a touch screen. On a PC, it makes no goddamn sense. Microsoft is trying to figure out a way to tie the PC into the current popularity for smartphones and it just isn't going to happen.
Free market != unregulated market. A free market is a market in which prices, supply and demand are not controlled.
When a company sets up barriers to prevent other companies from competing, they are controlling the supply. Net neutrality laws specifically address this by making it illegal for an ISP to preferentially slow down or charge more for data from companies that provide the same services that the ISP provides.
The "Nanny State" argument is a false argument that suggests that net neutrality laws prevent businesses from competing freely while ignoring the fact that the laws (if written correctly) would actually make it more difficult for businesses from controlling the market.
Getting laws that are written correctly so they can't be exploited for one corporation's benefit, however, is an entirely different can of worms.
I've backed a few that completed:
An Evening with Neila Gaiman and Amanda Palmer - They've finished the tour, put together the recordings and given out the download links. CDs should be shipping soon if they haven't already. The finished product contained a lot of really cool stuff that doesn't normally appear on CDs. Some of my favorite bits were "Ask Neil and Amanda Almost Anything", but I can't honestly imagine a record company ever allowing that stuff on a CD because they'd never believe it would sell.
Miskatonic School for Girls deck Buildiing Game - They've shipped the boxed games and I've received mine. The materials and construction are little better than average for board game. The game itself is fun and has a lot of replay value, but is probably too difficult for kids under 10 and drunk people.
Jessica Frech's Album - Okay... her accent makes some people hate her, but I like it. She's finished the allbum and sent out download links. I didn't buy a CD so I don't know if those have shipped or not. The album isn't as silly as the songs she routinely posts to her blog, but it's good.
Creatures: The Card Game - The card decks have long since been shipped and I received mine. It's a fun game to play with younger kids, but it requires an active imagination to make it fun. Playing it with some of the adults that I know would be excruciatingly dull.
I've backed other projects that delivered, but I'm not writing a novel so I'll leave it at that. There are only two successfully funded kickstarters that I've backed that I have any real doubts about ever receiving a finished product from. They keep giving occasional updates appear to be making slow progress toward finishing, however, so I can't honestly say that they won't (thus I will not name them). If the two fail to deliver, I'm okay with it. It looks to me that they're trying and I backed them because I want those two particular projects to exist and was willing to risk a few bucks to help that happen.
So what you're saying is that Siri is assisting terrorists in targeting large commercial aircraft.
http://blog.chron.com/techblog/2008/07/average-time-to-infection-4-minutes/
That's about XP, mind you. I can't find where anyone has done a similar test with Windows 7, but Windows 7 continues has had its fair share of buffer overrun issues that didn't require user intervention to be exploited.. Only a fool would think that the last patch cycle had finally fixed them all and perfected the OS.
Or what? You'll sue him for Frivolous Citation?
> However, if subject experts are so easy to be self-deceived, then why wouldn't this same "force" apply to themselves?
Because they're experts at self-deception.
It has nothing to do with them understanding or not understanding how the resolving power of the human eye should be measured. It has everything to do with the belief that more/bigger/faster/expensive is better.
It's the same psychology that drives audiophiles to spend thousands of dollars on wires that could be replaced with wire from coat hangers without any significant difference.
You obviously don't understand the concept of a Kickstarter campaign and I'm not going to bother trying to explain it.