Apple is in this personal computing thing for the long haul, how long will Google make its own handsets and what happens to the openness of the Andoid platform if they stop ?
Apple is a Steve Jobs personality cult, and he has pancreatic cancer, got end stage liver failure and needed a transplant and is now out on sick leave.
Huh? They own the network so they can know and control how much you use. Sprint lets you know how many K you've used even on an unlimited plan, just by dialing *4.
The power company doesn't have to go into your house to meter your power and turn it off if you don't pay.
And, like all forms of this type of restriction, it was bypassed.
And, like all forms of this type of bypassing restrictions, it will be considered illegal under the DMCA, and a court will take money or even freedom from those that participate.
How does a $100,000 judgement and having everything you own sold off and being in debt for the rest of your life, or getting hit with a Federal felony and spending 5 years in a Federal penitentiary being physically attacked and if you survive to get out, being without the ability to get many jobs, own many types of businesses or have basic civil rights sound?
They are allowed to block US from using OUR (bought and paid for) products as we see fit, and it is illegal to circumvent those blocks.
Perhaps the exceptions in the DMCA make it legal, but if a court says no, the answer is NO. If a court says the sky is red, they consider it red, even if it is blue.
But installing whatever software you want on a device that you own, and that everybody is telling you that you bought (not rented or licensed it) is something that nobody should resign to, no matter if you want to use that right or not.
You barely OWN anything in the USA anymore.
With the DMCA for computers, media, etc.
You don't even OWN a house, even if there is no mortgage on it, you still have CC&R's if you have an HOA, and if you don't the county codes are often almost as restrictive (look at California), and you pay "taxes" on the same property over and over (more like rent). The IRS only taxes you once on your money, btw (and they allow deducting state/city taxes so you don't get multiply taxed).
Especially since THEY have a law called the DMCA which they will use to make it illegal for you to break encryption.
If they can use laws to make it ILLEGAL to break THEIR locks on YOUR property, a law making it illegal for them to put the lock on in the first place is the only way to use your property as you see fit without breaking the law.
If they don't want laws telling them what they can do with their products and putting on encryption, they should get rid of laws tell US what we can do with what is now OUR (bought and paid for) products and BREAKING encryption.
If someone's built an antimatter container that can keep it around for, say, long enough to fly it across the atlantic, that really is a new achievement.
Considering that TSA won't even let you bring a shampoo bottle on a plane, I don't think they'll be allowing antimatter on!
If I were this man's neighbor, and the fire that the fire department let burn suddenly engulfed my house as well, I would be quite the irate citizen.
There is public good in not permitting a fire from growing, regardless of whether or not someone payed their municipal fees. As such, fire protection should be a public service guaranteed to all citizens, funded through taxes, rather than be an optional insurance paid for at the individual level.
There is a public good from not having infections spread - so we should make health insurance a public good.
Otherwise uninsured sick people with infectious disease can make even insured people ill.
They are preserving the person's house, it's fair that they get paid out of the capital. That also bypasses liquidity problems.
How?
Real estate isn't worth much, and forcing a sale via such a lien is NOT easy, which is why most liens get deal with voluntarily or during sale or refinance.
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If you have a secure channel to transmit the one time pad, you could use that for the message instead and not need encryption.
Apple is in this personal computing thing for the long haul, how long will Google make its own handsets and what happens to the openness of the Andoid platform if they stop ?
Apple is a Steve Jobs personality cult, and he has pancreatic cancer, got end stage liver failure and needed a transplant and is now out on sick leave.
When he dies what happens to Apple?
It is quite likely to be quite soon.
Google is not dependent on any individual.
Huh? They own the network so they can know and control how much you use. Sprint lets you know how many K you've used even on an unlimited plan, just by dialing *4.
The power company doesn't have to go into your house to meter your power and turn it off if you don't pay.
And, like all forms of this type of restriction, it was bypassed.
And, like all forms of this type of bypassing restrictions, it will be considered illegal under the DMCA, and a court will take money or even freedom from those that participate.
How does a $100,000 judgement and having everything you own sold off and being in debt for the rest of your life, or getting hit with a Federal felony and spending 5 years in a Federal penitentiary being physically attacked and if you survive to get out, being without the ability to get many jobs, own many types of businesses or have basic civil rights sound?
They are allowed to block US from using OUR (bought and paid for) products as we see fit, and it is illegal to circumvent those blocks.
Perhaps the exceptions in the DMCA make it legal, but if a court says no, the answer is NO. If a court says the sky is red, they consider it red, even if it is blue.
But installing whatever software you want on a device that you own, and that everybody is telling you that you bought (not rented or licensed it) is something that nobody should resign to, no matter if you want to use that right or not.
You barely OWN anything in the USA anymore.
With the DMCA for computers, media, etc.
You don't even OWN a house, even if there is no mortgage on it, you still have CC&R's if you have an HOA, and if you don't the county codes are often almost as restrictive (look at California), and you pay "taxes" on the same property over and over (more like rent). The IRS only taxes you once on your money, btw (and they allow deducting state/city taxes so you don't get multiply taxed).
Especially since THEY have a law called the DMCA which they will use to make it illegal for you to break encryption.
If they can use laws to make it ILLEGAL to break THEIR locks on YOUR property, a law making it illegal for them to put the lock on in the first place is the only way to use your property as you see fit without breaking the law.
If they don't want laws telling them what they can do with their products and putting on encryption, they should get rid of laws tell US what we can do with what is now OUR (bought and paid for) products and BREAKING encryption.
If someone's built an antimatter container that can keep it around for, say, long enough to fly it across the atlantic, that really is a new achievement.
Considering that TSA won't even let you bring a shampoo bottle on a plane, I don't think they'll be allowing antimatter on!
Things can be censored out of the history.
Wouldn't it be ironic if the heavier employees ended up getting more exercise and ended up being healthier than the thin ones?
Of course if that happened the health police would hush that information up right quick.
And if you come to Las Vegas, you'd swear they were driving them too.
But when times turn good again (6 years? 8 years?) folks are going to hop for stuff like this.
They say the economy has recovered. It ain't getting any better really, except for the fat cats on Wall Street. The Dow went up.
This is the new normal. The recovery as left behind the American people, the bus has left and we're NOT on it!
Worse working conditions, less benefits, and that is if you are one of the increasingly fewer people who haven't been laid off.
Yahoo laid off 4% of its workers just now.
My brother and I have OpenBSD boxes as our firewalls and site-to-site VPNs between our houses.
Who is the third person?
The FBI guy of course.
But suppose for a moment that they are. These scanners are already, in themselves, more of a safety hazard than actually flying.
3 minutes at high altitude exposes you to the same level of radiation.
It would take hundreds of years before even one extra cancer case occurs, but thousands of terrorist deaths would have been prevented.
You could avoid all the risk of flying and drive instead. Just hope you aren't one of the 40000 people killed on the roads instead.
And it was the FCC who imposed an unjustified fine, and against an innocent broadcaster, not the person who caused the situation to begin with.
Why the government fines people (and the "wrong" people to boot) because of some uptight whiners is beyond me.
Well, the FCC is a lot less restrictive now thank goodness. They relaxed restrictions on cussing recently.
Isn't it illegal to support terrorist countries financially?
Where is OFAC?
State income taxes are a horrible idea. Nevada doesn't have one either, and if they ever did try to pass one, a riot wouldn't be a surprise.
Some places have state and city taxes, and you still pay Federal taxes, and sales taxes, so 60% of what you earn is going to taxes. That's crazy.
If I were this man's neighbor, and the fire that the fire department let burn suddenly engulfed my house as well, I would be quite the irate citizen.
There is public good in not permitting a fire from growing, regardless of whether or not someone payed their municipal fees. As such, fire protection should be a public service guaranteed to all citizens, funded through taxes, rather than be an optional insurance paid for at the individual level.
There is a public good from not having infections spread - so we should make health insurance a public good.
Otherwise uninsured sick people with infectious disease can make even insured people ill.
Yet people call that socialism!
They are preserving the person's house, it's fair that they get paid out of the capital. That also bypasses liquidity problems.
How?
Real estate isn't worth much, and forcing a sale via such a lien is NOT easy, which is why most liens get deal with voluntarily or during sale or refinance.
Or run your own business.
That's not illegal (yet).
And "freedom of speech, but there will be consequences" is not the same as "freedom of speech".
In the USSR, it was said you could say anything you want, once. :)
To a brit being banned from America is gonna be something of a badge of honour. This kid won't care.
Doubt it. Bush is gone, and Obama is President - so the world likes us again. Well except for North Korea. :)
If it was Outlook, it would've probably lost the email. :)
Fox News is often full of abusive language towards the President. Can we ban them? :)
The government does have the exclusive powers of securing our border.
LOL! They can start with the southern one. Starting right now!
Plus the Federal Government is explicitly charged with securing our borders.
LOL! Can someone please tell them that? There's this border on the south...