The left-right spectrum is NOT about politically liberal to conservative.
Itâ(TM)s about âoeforceâ - just like this, âoedo what we sayâ - to âoenot-forceâ, i.e. freedom. The fact that political parties have co-opted and distorted this until âoewar is peaceâ-level cognitive dissonance is the minds of the general public is just another symptom of the problem.
The best commentary from a software company that I've seen so far is that it was costing them a non-trivial amount to deal with the support requests from "customers" who cracked software, then thought that they should get support from the company.
How can we help avoid situations like this, especially for smaller companies? I'm sure it can be done, and *believe* that DRM isn't the answer, but I'm not sure how to best... do it. If you only accept support requests online (maybe only *opening* them online?) then you can refuse to start a request for someone who isn't logged in with a registered copy of the software, I guess. Hmm...
I mean, you can try. In the end, you'd have to use total monopoly power, pretty much, and stomp on anyone who wouldn't comply. And you're going to obsolete all those players, etc. that exist now. And people can still write open software, and crack your encryption just like they do now.
And consumer adoption of things like DivX went so well, too./s
A distributed ledger is only a distributed ledger, not a control mechanism, and they seem to be missing this - there's nothing "new" that they get in terms of DRM from spending a lot of money trying to bake in "blockchain". If Sony-and-only-Sony controls the ledger, how is it any different from Sony-and-only-Sony controlling the "license key" server, or "WMA DRM certificate-issuing" server, or anything else that they can already do? Openness? As in, they're going to let the entire world look at their ledger/sales numbers/who bought what combination of things? Nah.
He entered Taiwan legally; the US *revoked* his passport after he was there, at which point Taiwan booted him for "not having a valid passport".
You didn't even have to RTFA; it as right IN the story that he's not accused of anything illegal in Taiwan other than "getting fucked by the US":
"Taiwan has no formal extradition treaty with the U.S., and Wilson was not said to have been doing anything directly criminal in Taiwan, the press there reports that he was arrested without incident because the U.S. had revoked his passport, making his mere presence in Taiwan illegal"
Right, and for "benefit commensurate with expenditure" Microsoft should be paying the poor people who use Windows 10 for doing so. It doesn't (I think you agree with me, while child comments don't) provide useful new functionality for the most part, removes *lots* of functionality in the form of shitty "apps" that are inconsistent with other parts of the OS and its settings, places what is effectively ad-ware in your paid-for product, and collects information in a non-negotiable manner.
It's pretty easy to see *who* exactly is receiving benefit from this "upgrade"...
The phrase I believe you're looking for is "pour encourager les autres", which yes... one would hope that this will do.
OTOH, if Charter isn't filing for an injunction in court by Monday to stay the order pending, uh... "negotiation of financial instruments which definitely aren't going to the politician over there watching from the corner" I will be *shocked*.
Defining an employee as exempt has a test, and in no way will all employees meet it.
Additionally, labor law requires that if an exempt and salaried employee works ANY hours in the period, they get paid salary (with some exceptions involving benefit-defined days off).
What you're talking about would have a state employment office all over them like a cured diabetic on chocolate cake.
*Suppose* that this were one particular franchise, and you'd be doing the world a favor by reporting them. Yesterday.
Lots of it *is* shit that's not worth paying for; I suspect that they don't want to put the real price out there because they know it.
There are still some "reputable" news sources left - the big, big papers and all - that DO provide quality content, even if you know that the publisher of the paper may have some bias/ideological bent. You usually know what that ideological bias/bent is, since it's not like they try to hide it.
*Those* entities have managed to, in some cases, demand and get a "more" reasonable subscription fee - i.e. any fee at all, in this publishing/news climate - but who knows if it really covers the actual costs or not; I suspect not based on the NYT headquarters changes and all. I'm sure there are lots of other stories like it; that's just the one that comes to mind.
I'd like some more justification for "90-95% of the population will make up a unique (home,work) ZIP pair." (paraphrased)
If we assume the estimated 330M population of the US, and *around* 43k ZIP codes, that 76% of the population is adult, and the relatively crazy assumption that ALL of them are working, let's do some combinatorics...
Yes, there exists sufficient space in Binomial[43001,2] (Mathematica/Wolfram Alpha notation) to *permit* every adult to have a unique pair. The estimate gives 251M adults and about 925M k-multicombinations (43000 pick 2, with repetition permitted) of (ZIP,ZIP) pairs.
Lots of people live and work in the same ZIP, though, especially among non-white-collar jobs, or live and work in the one or two residential ZIP codes and commercial ZIP codes in smaller areas.
That said, I'm not claiming it's not easy-ish to take "anonymous" data and reattach it to a person. It's all too easy.
This is correct, WARF legitimately handles University of Wisconsin's patents.
Now, whether or not a public university paid for by taxes should be ABLE to patent stuff and/or not license it on a "reasonable and non-discriminatory licensing" (RAND) basis, where we use "public funds" to help determine the "reasonable" part...
Au contraire... they KNOW exactly how to "cut through" it. It's just that, much like a certain Time Lord's confession dial, it will take them longer than they wish it to take.
I feel no sympathy or mercy for them. It's under five hours to Louisville from Chicago DRIVING, and they sold those seats to paying customers. Then United violated their contract for a *very* minor purported savings, which is going to cost them untold millions now. You may say that under a capitalist system, they can do what they did and it's expected. Perhaps it *is* expected at this point, but it certainly wasn't *rational* of them to do if they were acting in their own best interests. After all, failing to live up to your agreements given that you have the ability to do so is normally pretty damning, whether you're an individual or business - just look at Sears, where upon merely the FEAR that they won't be able to pay their suppliers we find that their suppliers are reducing shipments.
If it was SO important to have those employees in Louisville, BUS them, or rent a car, or ANYTHING but what they did. It's fine to *offer* to have people give up their seats - see Delta instead when they had storms and issues - but United showed horrible judgement and exemplified just how atrocious they can be (link).
I continue to hope that United becomes embroiled in a messy, public lawsuit where the public sees how they behave and they suffer dearly for it. We'll see how negative the amount "saved" by flying those employees can go.
It already doesn't look good - SNAP is insanely, stupidly over-valued and we all know it. The only ones who don't seem to be the ones hurling money at it.
Obviously, this is just my opinion - worth what you paid for it.
I think that any court or arbitrator would read that and see "For the sole purpose of enabling us to make your Content available through the Service," then slap Wix if they attempt to commercially use things people have posted - nevermind that there's no claimed license to sublicense said right to other parties.
That said, yes. Time to go. At this point someone can build it better.
Maybe if all of them would stop lying and quit acting like the country is their personal playground/piggybank/etc, we wouldn't be "accepting crazy stuff as normal," and *some* sense of sanity could start coming back.
It's real simple: this is apparently what "people" want, based on their behavior.
Alternatives (paid, and cheap) have attempted to make your "social media" something where you're the customer, not the product (see http://app.net/ - "people" have mostly rejected it, whether on philosophical grounds (I'm not paying for this!), or for critical mass problems (But everyone I want to talk to used Facebook!). Primarily, it just seems that they want it free and don't value being a customer - they're fine being the product.
THAT, in turn, leads to this: Facebook will keep testing where the black, thick boundary line is that causes too much pain until it they overstep and do too much damage, then they'll back up just a little. And wait. And then test it again, maybe in a slightly different way. They're only slightly less insidious than the government here-the government just keeps attempting to ram the same thing through/down your throat until total rage fatigue sets in, and not enough people still want to fight it.
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Statist is probably preferable.
The left-right spectrum is NOT about politically liberal to conservative.
Itâ(TM)s about âoeforceâ - just like this, âoedo what we sayâ - to âoenot-forceâ, i.e. freedom. The fact that political parties have co-opted and distorted this until âoewar is peaceâ-level cognitive dissonance is the minds of the general public is just another symptom of the problem.
The best commentary from a software company that I've seen so far is that it was costing them a non-trivial amount to deal with the support requests from "customers" who cracked software, then thought that they should get support from the company.
How can we help avoid situations like this, especially for smaller companies? I'm sure it can be done, and *believe* that DRM isn't the answer, but I'm not sure how to best... do it. If you only accept support requests online (maybe only *opening* them online?) then you can refuse to start a request for someone who isn't logged in with a registered copy of the software, I guess. Hmm...
I was under the impression that once it was "sold" to you, it remained in your library even if the store stopped selling it.
Does some license say otherwise? If not, aren't we back to "fraud"?
I mean, you can try. In the end, you'd have to use total monopoly power, pretty much, and stomp on anyone who wouldn't comply. And you're going to obsolete all those players, etc. that exist now. And people can still write open software, and crack your encryption just like they do now.
And consumer adoption of things like DivX went so well, too. /s
A distributed ledger is only a distributed ledger, not a control mechanism, and they seem to be missing this - there's nothing "new" that they get in terms of DRM from spending a lot of money trying to bake in "blockchain". If Sony-and-only-Sony controls the ledger, how is it any different from Sony-and-only-Sony controlling the "license key" server, or "WMA DRM certificate-issuing" server, or anything else that they can already do? Openness? As in, they're going to let the entire world look at their ledger/sales numbers/who bought what combination of things? Nah.
Yes, Windows 10 is a [...redacted...].
The document you're looking for is here, if you're stuck with it:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-...
Try again.
He entered Taiwan legally; the US *revoked* his passport after he was there, at which point Taiwan booted him for "not having a valid passport".
You didn't even have to RTFA; it as right IN the story that he's not accused of anything illegal in Taiwan other than "getting fucked by the US":
"Taiwan has no formal extradition treaty with the U.S., and Wilson was not said to have been doing anything directly criminal in Taiwan, the press there reports that he was arrested without incident because the U.S. had revoked his passport, making his mere presence in Taiwan illegal"
These attempts to postpone the coming technological singularity and save their own... everything will not be successful, and are not acceptable.
Accelerate.
Right, and for "benefit commensurate with expenditure" Microsoft should be paying the poor people who use Windows 10 for doing so. It doesn't (I think you agree with me, while child comments don't) provide useful new functionality for the most part, removes *lots* of functionality in the form of shitty "apps" that are inconsistent with other parts of the OS and its settings, places what is effectively ad-ware in your paid-for product, and collects information in a non-negotiable manner.
It's pretty easy to see *who* exactly is receiving benefit from this "upgrade"...
The phrase I believe you're looking for is "pour encourager les autres", which yes... one would hope that this will do.
OTOH, if Charter isn't filing for an injunction in court by Monday to stay the order pending, uh... "negotiation of financial instruments which definitely aren't going to the politician over there watching from the corner" I will be *shocked*.
More details (since I immediately thought of PDO) at Wikipedia on designated origin, etc. in the EU:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Well, one suspects that they will be seeing a lawsuit - *in* US court(s) - soon, and I forsee damages not-in-their-favor...
I call BS.
Defining an employee as exempt has a test, and in no way will all employees meet it.
Additionally, labor law requires that if an exempt and salaried employee works ANY hours in the period, they get paid salary (with some exceptions involving benefit-defined days off).
What you're talking about would have a state employment office all over them like a cured diabetic on chocolate cake.
*Suppose* that this were one particular franchise, and you'd be doing the world a favor by reporting them. Yesterday.
Imedion.
Here's a decent, recent review:
https://metaefficient.com/rech...
Lots of it *is* shit that's not worth paying for; I suspect that they don't want to put the real price out there because they know it.
There are still some "reputable" news sources left - the big, big papers and all - that DO provide quality content, even if you know that the publisher of the paper may have some bias/ideological bent. You usually know what that ideological bias/bent is, since it's not like they try to hide it.
*Those* entities have managed to, in some cases, demand and get a "more" reasonable subscription fee - i.e. any fee at all, in this publishing/news climate - but who knows if it really covers the actual costs or not; I suspect not based on the NYT headquarters changes and all. I'm sure there are lots of other stories like it; that's just the one that comes to mind.
I'd like some more justification for "90-95% of the population will make up a unique (home,work) ZIP pair." (paraphrased)
If we assume the estimated 330M population of the US, and *around* 43k ZIP codes, that 76% of the population is adult, and the relatively crazy assumption that ALL of them are working, let's do some combinatorics...
Yes, there exists sufficient space in Binomial[43001,2] (Mathematica/Wolfram Alpha notation) to *permit* every adult to have a unique pair. The estimate gives 251M adults and about 925M k-multicombinations (43000 pick 2, with repetition permitted) of (ZIP,ZIP) pairs.
Lots of people live and work in the same ZIP, though, especially among non-white-collar jobs, or live and work in the one or two residential ZIP codes and commercial ZIP codes in smaller areas.
That said, I'm not claiming it's not easy-ish to take "anonymous" data and reattach it to a person. It's all too easy.
Or as I was immediately thinking when I saw the article title, regarding whoever's idea this was...
"You're a special kind of stupid, aren't you?"
This is correct, WARF legitimately handles University of Wisconsin's patents.
Now, whether or not a public university paid for by taxes should be ABLE to patent stuff and/or not license it on a "reasonable and non-discriminatory licensing" (RAND) basis, where we use "public funds" to help determine the "reasonable" part...
Sublime is at least not Electron-driven. Electron is bloated cancer, even if modern computers "can" run it.
Au contraire... they KNOW exactly how to "cut through" it. It's just that, much like a certain Time Lord's confession dial, it will take them longer than they wish it to take.
I feel no sympathy or mercy for them. It's under five hours to Louisville from Chicago DRIVING, and they sold those seats to paying customers. Then United violated their contract for a *very* minor purported savings, which is going to cost them untold millions now. You may say that under a capitalist system, they can do what they did and it's expected. Perhaps it *is* expected at this point, but it certainly wasn't *rational* of them to do if they were acting in their own best interests. After all, failing to live up to your agreements given that you have the ability to do so is normally pretty damning, whether you're an individual or business - just look at Sears, where upon merely the FEAR that they won't be able to pay their suppliers we find that their suppliers are reducing shipments.
If it was SO important to have those employees in Louisville, BUS them, or rent a car, or ANYTHING but what they did. It's fine to *offer* to have people give up their seats - see Delta instead when they had storms and issues - but United showed horrible judgement and exemplified just how atrocious they can be (link).
https://www.forbes.com/sites/l...
I continue to hope that United becomes embroiled in a messy, public lawsuit where the public sees how they behave and they suffer dearly for it. We'll see how negative the amount "saved" by flying those employees can go.
It already doesn't look good - SNAP is insanely, stupidly over-valued and we all know it. The only ones who don't seem to be the ones hurling money at it.
Obviously, this is just my opinion - worth what you paid for it.
Yes. The Nexus 5, pre-Lollipop, did just fine tethering on AT&T. As soon as it upgraded, it disabled tethering.
https://forum.xda-developers.c...
I think that any court or arbitrator would read that and see "For the sole purpose of enabling us to make your Content available through the Service," then slap Wix if they attempt to commercially use things people have posted - nevermind that there's no claimed license to sublicense said right to other parties.
That said, yes. Time to go. At this point someone can build it better.
> "we just start accepting crazy stuff as normal"
Maybe if all of them would stop lying and quit acting like the country is their personal playground/piggybank/etc, we wouldn't be "accepting crazy stuff as normal," and *some* sense of sanity could start coming back.
Maybe.
It's real simple: this is apparently what "people" want, based on their behavior.
Alternatives (paid, and cheap) have attempted to make your "social media" something where you're the customer, not the product (see http://app.net/ - "people" have mostly rejected it, whether on philosophical grounds (I'm not paying for this!), or for critical mass problems (But everyone I want to talk to used Facebook!). Primarily, it just seems that they want it free and don't value being a customer - they're fine being the product.
THAT, in turn, leads to this: Facebook will keep testing where the black, thick boundary line is that causes too much pain until it they overstep and do too much damage, then they'll back up just a little. And wait. And then test it again, maybe in a slightly different way. They're only slightly less insidious than the government here-the government just keeps attempting to ram the same thing through/down your throat until total rage fatigue sets in, and not enough people still want to fight it.