I'm especially bitter about the loss of Google Reader, the RSS news feed aggregator. I got by with so-so replacements for a few years and finally rolled my own with FreshRSS on my home server.
That one I miss. Reader was nice. And I just can't be bothered to roll my own.
What I want an "Amazon of on-line media consumption". One place, one bill. I add to my account the stuff I want, I deal with one entity, and leave it up to that entity to pay off the content providers under whatever arrangement they may have. I can pick up or drop services as desired, and just maintain it all at one place.
Amazon, ironically, does let you do pretty much that. I see plenty of shows and movies in their video service that are really through a different video service, which presumably you pay for via Amazon.
20 years ago, the worst DRM dystopia anyone could imagine was still better than one in which your entire game library literally vanishes as soon as (and I do mean the same second) the DRM server stops responding.
So buy from Gog.
If gog doesn't have what you like, then learn to like what they do have.
The only way to turn the tide is to take your business to those who do it right.
Everybody chosen MUST serve. they get paid appropriately and do something such as making their employer maintain a position for them upon return.
What if they were self-employed? How do you force that person's regular clients to keep coming back to that person when they've been unavailable for several weeks?
What if they were a student? Are you going to force the college to give that person a private tutor for the remainder of the classes that they didn't get to attend?
But... but... mandating good things is possible! AOC and Bernie say so!
Don't blame the hacking / cracking. Blame the insecure implementation.
The "kill the messenger" mentality is the underlying cause. Someone comes forward with a vulnerability, they are not taken seriously. Or if they are taken seriously, they are treated as a criminal who must be prosecuted. If not taken seriously, then they prove the vulnerability, which makes them a criminal.
Maybe it should be a crime to not seriously react to a provable vulnerability and get it fixed.
It's a good thing we can do both - work towards having more secure systems, and also prosecute those who play dangerous games with public safety equipment.
It doesn't matter how easy the firetruck is to hotwire (or even if the fireman left the keys in it), it's still illegal for me to jump in and take it for a joyride, or steal it. Doesn't matter if I say I was doing it to prove a point about how easy it is to do. I still can't do it.
For example, if some vandal spray painted the traffic light covers and make them useless, or drops a sackful of nails on a highway, he/she could cause huge damage. We don't immediately take DoT for not creating secure highways where vadals could not mess with traffic lights or strew nails on the road.
Precisely.
Believe it or not, it's legal to leave your door unlocked, and if someone comes in and commits crimes they are still guilty.
Trump is probably checking to see if he can get away with that one too.
Um, it's literally the Democrats who are going all in for online censorship. They just conveniently have the private sector CEOs of the communications media on their site.
Side, not site. Oh well. A typo clearly means I'm all wrong, lol
Well, that is until the data centers get harassed into not letting you use their services, and the same with your payment processors. and well we've seen what really happens when you try to run your own service.
Yep, the Democrats (and their pet subset of Republicans) are all in for online censorship. They just get to outsource it.
Trump is probably checking to see if he can get away with that one too.
Um, it's literally the Democrats who are going all in for online censorship. They just conveniently have the private sector CEOs of the communications media on their site.
Amazon's success has been limited to basic products like batteries where shoppers are inclined to seek generic alternatives to save money, the study found.
Oh, so they can only dominate in basic stuff that everybody needs. Well, what a yawner then...
Completely accurate. Want an example: anti-bacterial hand soap/dish soap. Advertising is awash (pun intended) with "Kills 99.99% of Germs!". Meanwhile current bacteria populations are becoming immune to the agents used in these products. It's called evolutionary adaptation and it works no matter what anyone thinks about evolution or god.
Meanwhile, if someone can make money on new antibiotics now the future can just go fuck itself. Use it up and breed (pun intended) future trouble because PROFIT!
You know, I've been hearing about the resistant-microbe-pocolypse on/. for what, 20 years now?
Nobody doubts the existence of resistance, but the apocalypse part is taking a little longer than anticipated.
The voting system will also be designed to create fully verifiable and transparent results so that voters don't have to blindly trust that the machines and election officials delivered correct results.
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I'm especially bitter about the loss of Google Reader, the RSS news feed aggregator. I got by with so-so replacements for a few years and finally rolled my own with FreshRSS on my home server.
That one I miss. Reader was nice. And I just can't be bothered to roll my own.
Don't become too dependent on any Google product because they could yank it at any time.
Meh. The important ones stick around. Gmail, docs/drive/whatever-it-is-today ...
Heck, Gmail has been more persistent than any other email provider I ever had.
No, don't get too dependent on any external service, but still, we may as well be realistic about the alternatives.
What I want an "Amazon of on-line media consumption". One place, one bill. I add to my account the stuff I want, I deal with one entity, and leave it up to that entity to pay off the content providers under whatever arrangement they may have. I can pick up or drop services as desired, and just maintain it all at one place.
Amazon, ironically, does let you do pretty much that. I see plenty of shows and movies in their video service that are really through a different video service, which presumably you pay for via Amazon.
20 years ago, the worst DRM dystopia anyone could imagine was still better than one in which your entire game library literally vanishes as soon as (and I do mean the same second) the DRM server stops responding.
So buy from Gog.
If gog doesn't have what you like, then learn to like what they do have.
The only way to turn the tide is to take your business to those who do it right.
Another method is to quit eating sugar.
Right. Too bad the truth about this has been suppressed, like the 50MPG carburetors ...
(obDisclaimer: sarcasm)
How does that make sense?
Because lefties!
What ... are you anti-science????
What if they were self-employed? How do you force that person's regular clients to keep coming back to that person when they've been unavailable for several weeks?
What if they were a student? Are you going to force the college to give that person a private tutor for the remainder of the classes that they didn't get to attend?
But ... but ... mandating good things is possible! AOC and Bernie say so!
... but I'm not sure electing those is necessarily a good idea either.
Guess nobody else remembers that show. Kid made drawings and they came alive.
How that's "flame bait" is puzzling ...
Just wondering ... is anyone actually shocked that there might eventually be some limits on, you know, free stuff?
Surely you didn't think their business model was really going to be "we give you as much cool free stuff as you need forever"?
Don't blame the hacking / cracking. Blame the insecure implementation. The "kill the messenger" mentality is the underlying cause. Someone comes forward with a vulnerability, they are not taken seriously. Or if they are taken seriously, they are treated as a criminal who must be prosecuted. If not taken seriously, then they prove the vulnerability, which makes them a criminal. Maybe it should be a crime to not seriously react to a provable vulnerability and get it fixed.
It's a good thing we can do both - work towards having more secure systems, and also prosecute those who play dangerous games with public safety equipment.
It doesn't matter how easy the firetruck is to hotwire (or even if the fireman left the keys in it), it's still illegal for me to jump in and take it for a joyride, or steal it. Doesn't matter if I say I was doing it to prove a point about how easy it is to do. I still can't do it.
For example, if some vandal spray painted the traffic light covers and make them useless, or drops a sackful of nails on a highway, he/she could cause huge damage. We don't immediately take DoT for not creating secure highways where vadals could not mess with traffic lights or strew nails on the road.
Precisely.
Believe it or not, it's legal to leave your door unlocked, and if someone comes in and commits crimes they are still guilty.
It's times like that you kinda wish cracking/hacking carried the death penalty ...
Trump is probably checking to see if he can get away with that one too.
Um, it's literally the Democrats who are going all in for online censorship. They just conveniently have the private sector CEOs of the communications media on their site.
Side, not site. Oh well. A typo clearly means I'm all wrong, lol
Well, that is until the data centers get harassed into not letting you use their services, and the same with your payment processors. and well we've seen what really happens when you try to run your own service.
Yep, the Democrats (and their pet subset of Republicans) are all in for online censorship. They just get to outsource it.
Trump is probably checking to see if he can get away with that one too.
Um, it's literally the Democrats who are going all in for online censorship. They just conveniently have the private sector CEOs of the communications media on their site.
Amazon's success has been limited to basic products like batteries where shoppers are inclined to seek generic alternatives to save money, the study found.
Oh, so they can only dominate in basic stuff that everybody needs. Well, what a yawner then ...
Lindley Johnson, a planetary defense officer at Nasa, told BBC News that blasts of this size were expected only two or three times a century.
Yet the last one was only six months ago!
What say you meteor-change deniers now??
Completely accurate. Want an example: anti-bacterial hand soap/dish soap. Advertising is awash (pun intended) with "Kills 99.99% of Germs!". Meanwhile current bacteria populations are becoming immune to the agents used in these products. It's called evolutionary adaptation and it works no matter what anyone thinks about evolution or god.
Meanwhile, if someone can make money on new antibiotics now the future can just go fuck itself. Use it up and breed (pun intended) future trouble because PROFIT!
You know, I've been hearing about the resistant-microbe-pocolypse on /. for what, 20 years now?
Nobody doubts the existence of resistance, but the apocalypse part is taking a little longer than anticipated.
They object to his work, they said, because they think it suggests their illness is psychological.
And so what if it were? Is the brain magically not biological for some reason?
Being an illness of the brain wouldn't make it "not real".
Hmm ... all attempts to appear cool have failed so far ... er, uh, what about this, I'm a 133t hax0r! Yeah, that's it!
So he's essentially created a music generator that turns semi random numbers into semi listenable music.
A preview of self driving cars ... the question is whether the risks are greater from the autopilot than from the human.
The human is not going to be as well practiced if they normally use autopilot. That's unavoidable.
The voting system will also be designed to create fully verifiable and transparent results so that voters don't have to blindly trust that the machines and election officials delivered correct results.
And ... it comes with a free unicorn!