"In addition to Wyden, the bill was sponsored by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (New York), Sen. Ed Markey (Massachusetts), Sen. Jeff Merkley (Oregon), Sen. Patty Murray (Washington), Sen. Elizabeth Warren (Massachusetts), Sen. Brian Schatz (Hawaii), Sen. Cory Booker (New Jersey) and Sen. Richard Blumenthal (Connecticut). All are Democrats."
somehow, I knew it would not be the R's that wanted an audit trail.
I think you hit a key issue, and a sort of proof of a kind.
the proof: that countries are power-grabbing on the anti-privacy thing. they love to snoop (people who are attracted to power tend to be that kind of person) and they love to control others. they simply can't stand being told NO, to things.
its not that they NEED to read our shit. but they feel left out if country A has this power and they don't.
this is all there is to it. the need to control is so strong, with those sociopaths that they use any excuse that they think will work. and fear certainly works. that's why they ALL are using it, even countries like australia that is just too far away for any 'terrorist' to really care about;)
all countries are joining in, more or less, in this fight against citizen rights. when you look at it, this is what's going on. all other 'reasons' are just a smoke screen.
this is what humankind is like. its why we actually don't deserve to own the earth. no matter, we'll blow ourselves up in the next century, most likely. the universe won't have to carry us that much longer.
onboard gfx is lagging seriously behind, along with power savings.
I bought only intel for many of the last few generations of chips; I have a fanless heatpipe cooled i7 on my desk. can't do that with ryzen; for one, there is no good cpu with onboard apu (yet) and those with onboard gfx are not power efficient yet.
I want to buy ryzen. been wanting a 1700 for the 16 thread perf, but I refuse to buy a gfx CARD (I'm not a gamer) and a waste of a slot is a big deal today. I need that pcie slot for nvme; and no, I'm not mounting it behind the board where it will cook!;(
my guess is that the FF's would have insisted on revolution 2.0 by now, probably by the time the unions were being crushed and all our workers rights were thrown BACK in the toilet, again. followed by the extreme rise of corporatism, to the point that corps are now more powerful and influential than COUNTRIES are.
we have gone way too far without a reboot. no one wants the reboot but it has to happen. things are not getting better, they're going backwards, continually, with no stop in sight. only a reboot can fix this mess.
and of course, those in power would love nothing more than to keep us little people powerless. violence is the last resort but if you can't even defend yourself, you have already lost.
its not a cop's job to stop or prevent crime. hell, they are not even there to 'serve and protect'. all that is now BS and the supremes have even said that they have no duty to protect you. they are there, to clean up, mostly, after the fact.
it would be GREAT if they really were, officially, here to serve and protect. we need that. but what they are now is the city's biggest gang (for any given city) and they can get away with almost anything.
I don't want the cops to be more powerful. I want them to be LESS powerful and LESS 'effective'. that way, more lives will be saved (not kidding).
I make a good income and yet, I can't imagine spending $1k on a phone. a fucking PHONE, which is locked down, not a general purpose computer that I control, but something that I have temporary use of, and the vendor will EOL when it suits them.
I guess the lesson is: the power of peer pressure makes even poor people think they -have- to have this thingie to be part of the in-crowd.
but wow, a grand for a phone. and people are buying them. I am not unaware of this, but I'm continually amazed by how people can be conned out of their money so easily and for such a silly thing, too. yes, phones are needed, but not $1k phones! there's absolutely nothing ESSENTIAL on this phone that you simply must have. its all about style and being part of the in-crowd. and people do this. yes, I'm really amazed.
(my phone is at least 4 gens back, some generica android thing, and I bought it as a refurb. and I'll stop using it when it STOPS running. so far, after 3 yrs of ownership, it still runs as fine as it did on day1, so I can't see the reason to throw it out)
I recently changed jobs, and my previous employer's life insurance company tried to pull a fast one on me.
I did not need to continue the LI policy from the last job, I have one with my new job. the previous one was trying to be 'helpful' by giving me the option to continue it. that's fine, but...
they didn't phrase it that way, and that caused me to waste time with them. they sent me a 'bill' and it was hard to tell it was not a real bill. it looked like they auto-subscribed me to a continued service without my permission. I did not want to deal with a collections agency and all THAT hassle, when I never signed up for such service to begin with.
I called the LI company and asked what this was about. at first, they tried to snow me into believing I had to mail them some kind of letter or fax something to cancel this service. I asked what would happen if I just ignored the 'bill' and they finally admitted that the 'policy' would be void and there would be no charge.
so, why make me mail in some stupid shit and waste time when I could just ignore it and not have to spend time on a thing I never authorized?
reason: they hope to snag enough dumb fish and I bet they do, since they are still in business (and likely they make a lot from false 'renewals').
companies *think* they need to resort to low-handed tactics to be profitable, but its just pure greed. this is not - and should never be - part of a business plan. harassing past customers is not a sound business strat.
they are now on my 'never do business with' list. but I'm just one person, and their behavior will never change.
it used to be SCMS (serial copy mgmt system) and when taking the spdif stream from cd players, DAT and other decks would see this as an original, they'd let you make one gen copy of it digitally and then a copy from that would be stopped. easily overcome these days, no one even knows (as your post suggests); but its still there.
once 'ripping' became a thing, no one copied data over spdif.
I'll never let people forget how much the R's are for One True Religion(tm) in the US, hatred and disdain for women, minorities, poor and even middle class.
the R party pretends to be the party of jesus, but its beyond laughable, how opposite they really are from each other.
if the R"s were not so cozy with big religion, then yes, BSAB, but this one thing is enough to throw it all out of balance; I'll never ever support the current R party. religion is for fools and slaves; not for modern thinking persons who want to be truly free. and the R's do all they can to keep people ignorant and 'god fearing'. it serves their control-freak nature very well.
if they are SUCCESSFUL, its entirely because of the infra that they received FOR FREE from america.
therefore, they should pay their fair share; their success is based on the ability to do business here and not worry about electricity, workers strikes, invading wars, crime like africa has, etc.
they are freeloaders and they NEED to pay their share.
else, it will continue to fall on the poor and middle class. and we're fucking tired of paying for EVERYTHING in this country; while watching the land owners laugh all the way to the bank.
amazon will not move. they know better. but our lawmakers, sigh, they only know how to accept suitcases of cash;(
in more and more products, amazon is the ODM, spec'ing the actual design of the product (amazon basics, for one) and having someone build it to their specs.
only very large companies can afford to do that, and amazon is one of the world's largest, now.
to absolve them of any fault in this case - wow - that's amazing. not unexpected, given who's running things right now, but still amazing how brazen the courts are in stepping on our necks (seemingly with delight). only thing missing is a furry cat and bezos wearing a monicle to complete the whole evil james bond villian persona.
amazon *certainly* knows who made the thingie. to say they have no idea who the vendor was (their last contact in the manuf/sales line) is pure fantasy.
again, the only reason this is happening is because the country sold itself out to the party of big-business. we're paying for our stupidity in who we have elected (and will continue to elect; we seem so stupid, we can't even learn from our mistakes).
we now have republicans running things and this is 100% against their core^Hp principles.
this is not BSAB; the R's are completely for gutting any consumer protections, favoring business, *always*. look at the whole net-neutrality war going on; the R's are on the side of the business guys (ISP) and all the cries from the users/consumers are being ignored. states that are majority R-controlled have the worst environmental laws and the people, there, are suffering from it. (not that they'd consider giving the other side a real chance; not going to happen, for 'reasons').
back to this case: if amazon is not passing thru - the name of the company that made/sold the goods - then amazon does need to pay damages. its really simple, from a 'hey, someone's product just cost me my home!' point of view. we are not quite a 3rd world hellhole yet, but it seems that our court and law system wants us to get there as soon as possible;( by removing consumer protections like this, it undoes so much of the progress over the last 75 or so years - much of what made the US a first-class nation.
sigh. the rich are, again, taking all they can and leaving us with nothing.
at work, we use a lot of python and for some reason, the editor 'pycharm' has a large following. personally, I don't get it - I'm an emacs user from the 1980's onward. I don't need an IDE to get work done, but the young guys in my group all seem to insist on it.
problem is, it keeps crashing on various linux distros and the project is somewhat closed source. the x-server crashes when people use pycharm. while x11 should pretty much *never* crash these days, I wonder what this app is doing to aggrivate it so much?
I suggested to the guys that emacs can likely do all you want, and it never crashes x servers;) no one seemed to want to take any time to learn emacs. my suggestion was not interesting to them.
emacs users are mostly older guys. I don't think I've met a single young person (30's and below) who uses or likes emacs. pity, as it really is a great editor and can run equally well in char-cell mode as fancy x-mode. pycharm - well - its java based and crashes daily. boggles the mind why people insist on crapware when solidware is free and has been for over 40 years!
It is pretty well known that the "left" rarely argues in favor of limited government, they tend to want more and more government. More laws, more regulations, more taxes, more government spending, more government ownership of infrastructure, services, land, resources, etc, more forced "redistribution of wealth", more Federal instead of State control.
the REASON why the left is arguing for 'more government' (which is a sloppy phrase that means almost nothing anymore, but lets use it since you seem to like it) is that business has been behaving VERY BADLY for several decades now and has been given more and more freedom to fuck over fellow man; we NEED to control these rogue companies and they are not going to self-govern. never works.
the R's are selling us all out. and they are giving all the power to the corps and the corps are eating it up like there's no tomorrow.
this abuse is WHY we need more regulation. if the greedy fucks stopped being so self-centered and would share the wealth, realizing that a rising tide lifts us ALL - then we wouldn't need so many watchdogs to keep them honest. but we know what we have now, its pretty bad and showing no signs of converging to stability. we're regressing to the sweatshops of the early 1900's and the R's are laughing all the way to the bank - at all our expense!
you think its great to breath bad air, drink only bottled water and not even be able to trust our food supply? given any chance, the R's in control will fuck us all over as badly as they are able; UNLESS they are watched and fined for bad behavior (no one goes to jail anymore, sadly; unless you're poor, that is).
as for redistribution of wealth, again, if those that had only shared a little and stopped stockpiling, we would not have the disbalance we now have. the ratio of a ceo to a regular is over 400:1 in the US. you think that's ok???
economist is going to tell me what my lying ears and eyes are not sensing? really? and I'm supposed to listen because... ?
the republicans are the closest things to nazis in the US, today. they are very racist, don't like anyone who isn't in their club of christianity, they block progress at every chance, they want to control women and tell them what they can do with their bodies, they are against any kind of fun or pleasure that isn't what THEY, in particular, like (the whole hatred of sex, drugs, rockandroll, etc).
and with the orange idiot in charge, he's given a free pass for those that stayed under a rock, to come crawl out and show themselves. and, oh boy, have they;(
there is NO left in the US anymore. it boggles the mind how anyone can say ANY kind of 'left' has power in the US. we don't even have a middle; we have right and far-right, that's all.
to say that nazis in the modern age are leftist is beyond absurd.
left is for progress and equal rights, freedom for all, education for all, basic human rights for all. we have no left and the nazis in the US are definitely NOT leftists!
but go ahead and believe some 'economist'. yeah, right. he's smarter than our lying eyes and ears, of course.
if you consider yourself a 'believer', then the R party is probably more to your liking.
if you insist that others follow your views on religion, you are most definitely an R person.
other than that, yeah, both parties are similar in that they don't care about you and me and only want to enrichen and empower themselves.
personally, I hate religion, so the R's are the enemy. and the R's seem to almost have a violent hatred for the middle class and poor, and all classes of consumer.
seems almost funny: even business people are consumers, so any party that is anti-consumer should not be in power. and yet, here we are.
Slashdot Mirror
"In addition to Wyden, the bill was sponsored by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (New York), Sen. Ed Markey (Massachusetts), Sen. Jeff Merkley (Oregon), Sen. Patty Murray (Washington), Sen. Elizabeth Warren (Massachusetts), Sen. Brian Schatz (Hawaii), Sen. Cory Booker (New Jersey) and Sen. Richard Blumenthal (Connecticut). All are Democrats."
somehow, I knew it would not be the R's that wanted an audit trail.
funny, that...
make yourself a 25ohm dummy load by paralleling 4 100ohm resistors that are heavy enough (1w each will give 4 total, when in parallel).
yeah, I said 25 ohms. I will only give the bastards half of what they deserve.
I think you hit a key issue, and a sort of proof of a kind.
the proof: that countries are power-grabbing on the anti-privacy thing. they love to snoop (people who are attracted to power tend to be that kind of person) and they love to control others. they simply can't stand being told NO, to things.
its not that they NEED to read our shit. but they feel left out if country A has this power and they don't.
this is all there is to it. the need to control is so strong, with those sociopaths that they use any excuse that they think will work. and fear certainly works. that's why they ALL are using it, even countries like australia that is just too far away for any 'terrorist' to really care about ;)
all countries are joining in, more or less, in this fight against citizen rights. when you look at it, this is what's going on. all other 'reasons' are just a smoke screen.
this is what humankind is like. its why we actually don't deserve to own the earth. no matter, we'll blow ourselves up in the next century, most likely. the universe won't have to carry us that much longer.
actually.... no.
onboard gfx is lagging seriously behind, along with power savings.
I bought only intel for many of the last few generations of chips; I have a fanless heatpipe cooled i7 on my desk. can't do that with ryzen; for one, there is no good cpu with onboard apu (yet) and those with onboard gfx are not power efficient yet.
I want to buy ryzen. been wanting a 1700 for the 16 thread perf, but I refuse to buy a gfx CARD (I'm not a gamer) and a waste of a slot is a big deal today. I need that pcie slot for nvme; and no, I'm not mounting it behind the board where it will cook! ;(
my guess is that the FF's would have insisted on revolution 2.0 by now, probably by the time the unions were being crushed and all our workers rights were thrown BACK in the toilet, again. followed by the extreme rise of corporatism, to the point that corps are now more powerful and influential than COUNTRIES are.
we have gone way too far without a reboot. no one wants the reboot but it has to happen. things are not getting better, they're going backwards, continually, with no stop in sight. only a reboot can fix this mess.
and of course, those in power would love nothing more than to keep us little people powerless. violence is the last resort but if you can't even defend yourself, you have already lost.
its not a cop's job to stop or prevent crime. hell, they are not even there to 'serve and protect'. all that is now BS and the supremes have even said that they have no duty to protect you. they are there, to clean up, mostly, after the fact.
it would be GREAT if they really were, officially, here to serve and protect. we need that. but what they are now is the city's biggest gang (for any given city) and they can get away with almost anything.
I don't want the cops to be more powerful. I want them to be LESS powerful and LESS 'effective'. that way, more lives will be saved (not kidding).
I make a good income and yet, I can't imagine spending $1k on a phone. a fucking PHONE, which is locked down, not a general purpose computer that I control, but something that I have temporary use of, and the vendor will EOL when it suits them.
I guess the lesson is: the power of peer pressure makes even poor people think they -have- to have this thingie to be part of the in-crowd.
but wow, a grand for a phone. and people are buying them. I am not unaware of this, but I'm continually amazed by how people can be conned out of their money so easily and for such a silly thing, too. yes, phones are needed, but not $1k phones! there's absolutely nothing ESSENTIAL on this phone that you simply must have. its all about style and being part of the in-crowd. and people do this. yes, I'm really amazed.
(my phone is at least 4 gens back, some generica android thing, and I bought it as a refurb. and I'll stop using it when it STOPS running. so far, after 3 yrs of ownership, it still runs as fine as it did on day1, so I can't see the reason to throw it out)
I recently changed jobs, and my previous employer's life insurance company tried to pull a fast one on me.
I did not need to continue the LI policy from the last job, I have one with my new job. the previous one was trying to be 'helpful' by giving me the option to continue it. that's fine, but...
they didn't phrase it that way, and that caused me to waste time with them. they sent me a 'bill' and it was hard to tell it was not a real bill. it looked like they auto-subscribed me to a continued service without my permission. I did not want to deal with a collections agency and all THAT hassle, when I never signed up for such service to begin with.
I called the LI company and asked what this was about. at first, they tried to snow me into believing I had to mail them some kind of letter or fax something to cancel this service. I asked what would happen if I just ignored the 'bill' and they finally admitted that the 'policy' would be void and there would be no charge.
so, why make me mail in some stupid shit and waste time when I could just ignore it and not have to spend time on a thing I never authorized?
reason: they hope to snag enough dumb fish and I bet they do, since they are still in business (and likely they make a lot from false 'renewals').
companies *think* they need to resort to low-handed tactics to be profitable, but its just pure greed. this is not - and should never be - part of a business plan. harassing past customers is not a sound business strat.
they are now on my 'never do business with' list. but I'm just one person, and their behavior will never change.
cd's do have DRM, but its very light.
it used to be SCMS (serial copy mgmt system) and when taking the spdif stream from cd players, DAT and other decks would see this as an original, they'd let you make one gen copy of it digitally and then a copy from that would be stopped. easily overcome these days, no one even knows (as your post suggests); but its still there.
once 'ripping' became a thing, no one copied data over spdif.
ripping cd's never had drm, that's true.
bullshit, 100%
I had a dinan m3 once (not bragging, bought it used) with many aftermarket toys that would not even come close to OEM values for my car.
every year it passed. I live in the bay area.
I did worry since the previous owner installed almost every dinan toy made. but the car always passed.
its one data point, but it was a heavily modified car.
NO, both sides are NOT equally bad.
I'll never let people forget how much the R's are for One True Religion(tm) in the US, hatred and disdain for women, minorities, poor and even middle class.
the R party pretends to be the party of jesus, but its beyond laughable, how opposite they really are from each other.
if the R"s were not so cozy with big religion, then yes, BSAB, but this one thing is enough to throw it all out of balance; I'll never ever support the current R party. religion is for fools and slaves; not for modern thinking persons who want to be truly free. and the R's do all they can to keep people ignorant and 'god fearing'. it serves their control-freak nature very well.
"no fraction left behind"
if they are SUCCESSFUL, its entirely because of the infra that they received FOR FREE from america.
therefore, they should pay their fair share; their success is based on the ability to do business here and not worry about electricity, workers strikes, invading wars, crime like africa has, etc.
they are freeloaders and they NEED to pay their share.
else, it will continue to fall on the poor and middle class. and we're fucking tired of paying for EVERYTHING in this country; while watching the land owners laugh all the way to the bank.
amazon will not move. they know better. but our lawmakers, sigh, they only know how to accept suitcases of cash ;(
$250M is ROUNDOFF ERROR
gimme a break. amazon has more money than god. crying 'poor me!' is just lame beyond belief.
people don't matter to governments anymore. only corps. at least we all know that, now.
just be sure its not the 23rd of may...
in more and more products, amazon is the ODM, spec'ing the actual design of the product (amazon basics, for one) and having someone build it to their specs.
only very large companies can afford to do that, and amazon is one of the world's largest, now.
to absolve them of any fault in this case - wow - that's amazing. not unexpected, given who's running things right now, but still amazing how brazen the courts are in stepping on our necks (seemingly with delight). only thing missing is a furry cat and bezos wearing a monicle to complete the whole evil james bond villian persona.
amazon *certainly* knows who made the thingie. to say they have no idea who the vendor was (their last contact in the manuf/sales line) is pure fantasy.
again, the only reason this is happening is because the country sold itself out to the party of big-business. we're paying for our stupidity in who we have elected (and will continue to elect; we seem so stupid, we can't even learn from our mistakes).
We have consumer protection laws for a reason
well, we USED to.
we now have republicans running things and this is 100% against their core^Hp principles.
this is not BSAB; the R's are completely for gutting any consumer protections, favoring business, *always*. look at the whole net-neutrality war going on; the R's are on the side of the business guys (ISP) and all the cries from the users/consumers are being ignored. states that are majority R-controlled have the worst environmental laws and the people, there, are suffering from it. (not that they'd consider giving the other side a real chance; not going to happen, for 'reasons').
back to this case: if amazon is not passing thru - the name of the company that made/sold the goods - then amazon does need to pay damages. its really simple, from a 'hey, someone's product just cost me my home!' point of view. we are not quite a 3rd world hellhole yet, but it seems that our court and law system wants us to get there as soon as possible ;( by removing consumer protections like this, it undoes so much of the progress over the last 75 or so years - much of what made the US a first-class nation.
sigh. the rich are, again, taking all they can and leaving us with nothing.
at work, we use a lot of python and for some reason, the editor 'pycharm' has a large following. personally, I don't get it - I'm an emacs user from the 1980's onward. I don't need an IDE to get work done, but the young guys in my group all seem to insist on it.
problem is, it keeps crashing on various linux distros and the project is somewhat closed source. the x-server crashes when people use pycharm. while x11 should pretty much *never* crash these days, I wonder what this app is doing to aggrivate it so much?
I suggested to the guys that emacs can likely do all you want, and it never crashes x servers ;) no one seemed to want to take any time to learn emacs. my suggestion was not interesting to them.
emacs users are mostly older guys. I don't think I've met a single young person (30's and below) who uses or likes emacs. pity, as it really is a great editor and can run equally well in char-cell mode as fancy x-mode. pycharm - well - its java based and crashes daily. boggles the mind why people insist on crapware when solidware is free and has been for over 40 years!
history and the present has continued to show that ANY GROUP WITH TOO MUCH POWER - acts badly.
applies to government and big business. hell, even applies to religion.
ANY thing that gets too big and powerful should be broken up. ...but we stopped caring about a 'fair world' a long long time ago ;(
one word: religion
I've said it many times before, so I won't repeat myself.
its entirely about religion and how they implant bullshit into your mind at early age.
remove that and you will see mankind, as a whole, double in intelligence almost overnight.
It is pretty well known that the "left" rarely argues in favor of limited government, they tend to want more and more government. More laws, more regulations, more taxes, more government spending, more government ownership of infrastructure, services, land, resources, etc, more forced "redistribution of wealth", more Federal instead of State control.
the REASON why the left is arguing for 'more government' (which is a sloppy phrase that means almost nothing anymore, but lets use it since you seem to like it) is that business has been behaving VERY BADLY for several decades now and has been given more and more freedom to fuck over fellow man; we NEED to control these rogue companies and they are not going to self-govern. never works.
the R's are selling us all out. and they are giving all the power to the corps and the corps are eating it up like there's no tomorrow.
this abuse is WHY we need more regulation. if the greedy fucks stopped being so self-centered and would share the wealth, realizing that a rising tide lifts us ALL - then we wouldn't need so many watchdogs to keep them honest. but we know what we have now, its pretty bad and showing no signs of converging to stability. we're regressing to the sweatshops of the early 1900's and the R's are laughing all the way to the bank - at all our expense!
you think its great to breath bad air, drink only bottled water and not even be able to trust our food supply? given any chance, the R's in control will fuck us all over as badly as they are able; UNLESS they are watched and fined for bad behavior (no one goes to jail anymore, sadly; unless you're poor, that is).
as for redistribution of wealth, again, if those that had only shared a little and stopped stockpiling, we would not have the disbalance we now have. the ratio of a ceo to a regular is over 400:1 in the US. you think that's ok???
economist is going to tell me what my lying ears and eyes are not sensing? really? and I'm supposed to listen because... ?
the republicans are the closest things to nazis in the US, today. they are very racist, don't like anyone who isn't in their club of christianity, they block progress at every chance, they want to control women and tell them what they can do with their bodies, they are against any kind of fun or pleasure that isn't what THEY, in particular, like (the whole hatred of sex, drugs, rockandroll, etc).
and with the orange idiot in charge, he's given a free pass for those that stayed under a rock, to come crawl out and show themselves. and, oh boy, have they ;(
there is NO left in the US anymore. it boggles the mind how anyone can say ANY kind of 'left' has power in the US. we don't even have a middle; we have right and far-right, that's all.
to say that nazis in the modern age are leftist is beyond absurd.
left is for progress and equal rights, freedom for all, education for all, basic human rights for all. we have no left and the nazis in the US are definitely NOT leftists!
but go ahead and believe some 'economist'. yeah, right. he's smarter than our lying eyes and ears, of course.
good thing this wasn't in the UK.
they weigh in 'stones' and pay in 'pounds'.
apparently they spent a lot of time shaking down hookers with hearts of gold
nah, that was neil young.
but its cool. its all cool.
it does matter is you are not a god-botherer.
if you consider yourself a 'believer', then the R party is probably more to your liking.
if you insist that others follow your views on religion, you are most definitely an R person.
other than that, yeah, both parties are similar in that they don't care about you and me and only want to enrichen and empower themselves.
personally, I hate religion, so the R's are the enemy. and the R's seem to almost have a violent hatred for the middle class and poor, and all classes of consumer.
seems almost funny: even business people are consumers, so any party that is anti-consumer should not be in power. and yet, here we are.