Good to know that greed and corruption still rule. I was worried that we may be entering some weird, "by and for the people" period in American history.
Seriously though, what's it gonna take? How bad does it have to get before Joe Sixpack wakes up and takes notice? How much more before we finally have that revolution?
I've been fighting with my votes, my dollar, and by educating everyone who will listen. I'm ready to lock and load to get MY America back.
Why is it that the most popular girl at the dance is usually the biggest douchebag?
I've seen this behaviour time and again, if it's pretty or popular, it's easier to let all manner of misdeeds slide.
Apple begins a very anti-competitive, design infringement lawsuit against everyone. Samsung fights back to try and protect it's market share. Samsung gets investigated for anti-competitive behaviour.
Popular kid abuses geek, geek fights back, geek gets sent to the principals office. WTF!?
I expected (not accepted) this sort of blatant ignorance then, but when it comes to an entire governing body (excuse my ignorance of EU policy) this sort of nonsense should not be tolerated.
Isn't there some manner of oversight for something like this.
If my son were to insult another student repeatedly, without offending the teacher, that later resulted in said student having a violent outburst, not only would my son be brought up on bullying charges (legit in my state), but so would the teacher for ignoring the bullying.
But corporations are fully allowed to do this without repercussion.
Big Media Outlet: Waaah, we're the only ones allowed to exploit fair use, not other people...
Tom Brokaw was, "extremely uncomfortable with the extended use of my personal image in this political ad. I do not want my role as a journalist compromised for political gain by any campaign."
This is more of the same, "Infringe on someone else's freedom to protect mine? Sounds good! Infringe on my freedom to protect someone else's? Hell no!"
Bullshit...
The funny thing is, we'll be seeing more and more of this type of hypocrisy as copyright becomes more powerful and media becomes easier to catalog for the average person.
Information needs to be free to prevent tyrants and dictators from using our ignorance against us./paranoia:) Cheers!
This will end up becoming a metric of parental/economic efficacy.
I'm a teacher. My students have diverse socio-economic backgrounds. The students from "better" situations, on average, perform better. The reverse is usually true also. Of course, there are always outliers, but we're talking averages.
If this information was to be used to correct those out-of-school factors, that would be great. Unfortunately, they will most likely be used to punish under-performing teachers and districts.
I believe what you meant was Oblique Intent, unfortunately, without a time or concrete plan, there is no oblique intent. Oblique intent nullifies novus actus interveniens, BUT there needs to be a provable endgame.
"I'm thinking about someday committing a crime, I know what it is and what I'll need, but I have no clear plans to ever actually commit."
That's the crux. That's the fulcrum.
Just because you hate an action, it doesn't mean you are allowed to prevent it from being thought about.
Perhaps my irony detector is busted but I seriously doubt any banker INTENDED to lose a shedload of money and most probably weren't intendiing to blow up the world. The they did do some sockingly stupid things, especially in retrospect. But if we make stupid a crime I doubt we would have enough space if we used a couple of continents as penal colonies.
HA!:) I actually LOL'd when I read that last bit. Unfortunately, I think they did. The choices they made (dis)respecting where they invested were clearly in their best interest. While the corp may have lost money, it knew the govt would bail 'em out. It had already done so with the airlines. As soon as the banks saw that, they knew they had a golden ticket to fraud. Lost shitloads of cash (I mean SHITLOADS!), and still handed out bonuses to top executives.
Normally, I'm the first one to subscribe to Hanlon's razor, "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity", but not this time. This entire thing was willful from the beginning.
If I wrote a letter that said I am prepared financially and spiritually for violence and had a shopping list containing weapons. Should I be arrested?
If I have a erection and tell a friend, "Man, I'd really like to rape that chick." Should I be arrested?
The question isn't whether terrorism should be illegal, it's whether unclear and unsubstantiated intent is illegal. Were the plans for when and where he would strike? No, just a letter saying he was ready if called.
As much as I detest violence and (insert all bad things here), I vehemently oppose others controlling what I'm allowed to think.
This is a perfectly reasonable and insightful argument. If they limited everyone to 1mbps downstream, that would be plenty for almost everyone. Webpages, why would you need the entire page to load instantly? It's a phone, just rework mobile http to fetch the first screen and then the remaining elements.
But, then how would they be able to make billions? Oh No!! Well, charge by throughput, not usage. The faster it goes, the more you pay. Works great for wired ISPs.
Hell, put a selector into the phones OS to allow for different speed settings and have them charge by incremental bumps in speed. Kinda like with gas in a car. You need to go faster, you pay for more gas.
I would love being able to throttle my connection up every-so-often for an extra boost when needed. And for the rest of the time crank it way down. That would be spectacular.
You'd get ppl who pay for always going fast "subsidizing" for the people who don't. Shit, it may actually produce the opposite effect.
There are saner ways of using the bandwidth available more efficiently without having to build out infrastructure and without having to institute usage tiers.
Use simple time slicing. The faster you wanna go, the more time slices you pay for. Simple as that. After all, most internet functionality is best effort stuff anyway. I know few people who always stream to their phones. VoIP, that's a different story and would different considerations. It's hard to best effort voice. But isn't that why you have a cellphone?
If it was just about the format it wouldn't be an issue. It's about the EULA. It's about Apple seducing (iEverything looks damn sexy, easy to use, etc...) authors into a walled garden. It's about limiting the rights of authors by hiding the nitty-gritty in a document that doesn't get to be seen until after you've spent all that effort to make a shiny new iBook. You're options at that point amount to: export it to severely format deprived pdf or (by changing the extension from ibook to epub, and again, losing any and all formatting) epub or straight up text (sans pictures, etc...).
The whole reason for using iBook Author was to make it shiny. To give it that magical quality that people lust after.
Now, once a competent conversion program comes out, that keeps all the formatting and everything, the iBook lock-in hurt will be lessened.
Unfortunately, it stipulates that you must sign a contract prior to consideration of your work being distributed through iBooks.
What this means. Don't attempt to get published through Apple or you will be beholden to them in perpetuity AND they don't even have to publish it.
Tricky, scheister-y Apple.
Worst part, there will be an endless stream of authors clambering to be first in line to give up their copyrights in exchange for a chance at being published.
Hey, if you're gonna do something illegal enough to warrant that level of paranoia, why not go for the gusto. Create a set of files that contain your data. Use steganography (hell, ADS in NTFS so long as the files are within an archive) to embed said data in other files then torrent the damn things. Just put them in "homemade" porn files.
Everyone that torrents them will be adding to your backups and you don't need to store the files locally after you've seeded once.
There's numerous ways to keep files away from your HDD.
The above assumes guilt.
The innocent need a different system. But, there are no truly innocent people; at least, according to our government.
Presumption of innocence is no longer the dominant paradigm. Encryption denotes guilt. After all, if you're not guilty of anything, why do you need to hide?
Or: Faux spam encryption? Use white-space/negative-space as the storage. Computer generate text to create "spam", store in spam folder in email.
Or: 2 passwords. 1st password is normal. 2nd password "during decryption" replaces flagged files with seemingly semi-innocuous ones; porn, etc...
BTW, never underestimate the power of porn. You can cram thousands of images into gz.tars to be later inflated into mock file structures. Many ppl like porn and are "ashamed" by it. Just make sure there's nothing illegal in your "collection".
Now, if you're a movie/music/software infringer, you're going to have a significantly harder time. Hundreds of gigs of data can't easily be hidden or stored elsewhere without leaving a trace. It's not like hiding the bodies. Unless your Dahmer, you're generally not into storage, but you probably DO store those files.
Of course it involved manipulating the biology of the transceivers, but, hey, "eggs...scramble...break...", right?
Seriously though, WTF!? These are the agencies that we "rely" on to protect us and they can't figure out how to fix the blinking 12:00 on the VCR? Yes, I purposely used an antiquated term for technical incompetence, because the tech is 15 years old!!
Please, Mod parent up! It's all well and good to have über-books, but like the parent said, (paraphrased) the production costs will go from hefty to astronomical. Also, like video games, movies, etc...books that DON'T have high production value will begin to be dismissed as "not worth the money". Because of this, authors (the actual creators of the book) will have to spend significantly more time and effort to create the book, while the publishers effort decreases significantly. No longer having to bind and ship books?!!? That'll be a godsend --for the publisher.
Who exactly will be paying for these textbooks? The prices Apple quoted, $14.99US, is ridiculously low for a college level textbook. Average cost of Kno textbooks is $63US (as of Dec 2010).
So, these textbooks will most likely be for primary (elementary) and high school students. Single books, at this level of education, are reused for many years before needing to be repurchased. Even if textbooks were $100US, they would still be a better cost proposition than $15/student/year.
Shenanigans. More money for the publisher. More for the author too, but the author had to spend significantly more to get there, whereas the publisher didn't.
1. The city agreed to Google's terms in lieu of tax breaks (usually worth billions over 10-20 years). 2. BPU should have been contacted by the local govt BEFORE approving the Google deal. 3. The incumbent telcos are bitching because Google will be eating their lunch...shit...they'll be eating all their meals...
Remember, taxes paid for the CableCo's to build out most of their infrastructure. Taxes paid for the TelCo's to build out most of their infrastructure.
Of course, I understand that there are safety concerns here, but that should have gone into hour one negotiations, not 11th hour politicking.
"The story also notes that MS states purchases are responsible for backing up the data that you store in apps that you acquire via the Windows Store, including content you upload using those apps."
What?!
Is this even English?
Other than that, what did we expect? Every day our choices and freedoms are wittled away little-by-little. Make it pretty or make it scary and the sheeple will buy whatever you're selling.
And, yes, that goes for every single person who bought into Apples "eco-system".
I'd rather have the choice to download virii. Doesn't mean I want 'em, but it's better than no choice.
And, as we've seen, once something (business model, clothing line, etc...) becomes popular (regardless of the harm it does) everyone else will copy it to try and emulate it's success.
I can only hope that, like all "trends", this too shall pass.
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Good to know that greed and corruption still rule. I was worried that we may be entering some weird, "by and for the people" period in American history.
Seriously though, what's it gonna take? How bad does it have to get before Joe Sixpack wakes up and takes notice? How much more before we finally have that revolution?
I've been fighting with my votes, my dollar, and by educating everyone who will listen. I'm ready to lock and load to get MY America back.
Why is it that the most popular girl at the dance is usually the biggest douchebag?
I've seen this behaviour time and again, if it's pretty or popular, it's easier to let all manner of misdeeds slide.
Apple begins a very anti-competitive, design infringement lawsuit against everyone. Samsung fights back to try and protect it's market share. Samsung gets investigated for anti-competitive behaviour.
Popular kid abuses geek, geek fights back, geek gets sent to the principals office. WTF!?
I expected (not accepted) this sort of blatant ignorance then, but when it comes to an entire governing body (excuse my ignorance of EU policy) this sort of nonsense should not be tolerated.
Isn't there some manner of oversight for something like this.
If my son were to insult another student repeatedly, without offending the teacher, that later resulted in said student having a violent outburst, not only would my son be brought up on bullying charges (legit in my state), but so would the teacher for ignoring the bullying.
But corporations are fully allowed to do this without repercussion.
That upsets me.
Shame on them.
This is great!
Big Media Outlet: Waaah, we're the only ones allowed to exploit fair use, not other people...
Tom Brokaw was, "extremely uncomfortable with the extended use of my personal image in this political ad. I do not want my role as a journalist compromised for political gain by any campaign."
This is more of the same, "Infringe on someone else's freedom to protect mine? Sounds good! Infringe on my freedom to protect someone else's? Hell no!"
Bullshit...
The funny thing is, we'll be seeing more and more of this type of hypocrisy as copyright becomes more powerful and media becomes easier to catalog for the average person.
Information needs to be free to prevent tyrants and dictators from using our ignorance against us. /paranoia :) Cheers!
This will end up becoming a metric of parental/economic efficacy.
I'm a teacher. My students have diverse socio-economic backgrounds. The students from "better" situations, on average, perform better. The reverse is usually true also. Of course, there are always outliers, but we're talking averages.
If this information was to be used to correct those out-of-school factors, that would be great. Unfortunately, they will most likely be used to punish under-performing teachers and districts.
Wow. Just wow.
That's depressing.
As do the Thought Police. :)
The term you're looking for is Intention.
Not conspiracy. Conspiracy requires multiple parties.
I believe what you meant was Oblique Intent, unfortunately, without a time or concrete plan, there is no oblique intent. Oblique intent nullifies novus actus interveniens, BUT there needs to be a provable endgame.
"I'm thinking about someday committing a crime, I know what it is and what I'll need, but I have no clear plans to ever actually commit."
That's the crux. That's the fulcrum.
Just because you hate an action, it doesn't mean you are allowed to prevent it from being thought about.
Perhaps my irony detector is busted but I seriously doubt any banker INTENDED to lose a shedload of money and most probably weren't intendiing to blow up the world. The they did do some sockingly stupid things, especially in retrospect. But if we make stupid a crime I doubt we would have enough space if we used a couple of continents as penal colonies.
HA! :) I actually LOL'd when I read that last bit. Unfortunately, I think they did. The choices they made (dis)respecting where they invested were clearly in their best interest. While the corp may have lost money, it knew the govt would bail 'em out. It had already done so with the airlines. As soon as the banks saw that, they knew they had a golden ticket to fraud. Lost shitloads of cash (I mean SHITLOADS!), and still handed out bonuses to top executives.
Normally, I'm the first one to subscribe to Hanlon's razor, "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity", but not this time. This entire thing was willful from the beginning.
Prepared for jihad. That's your argument.
If I wrote a letter that said I am prepared financially and spiritually for violence and had a shopping list containing weapons. Should I be arrested?
If I have a erection and tell a friend, "Man, I'd really like to rape that chick." Should I be arrested?
The question isn't whether terrorism should be illegal, it's whether unclear and unsubstantiated intent is illegal. Were the plans for when and where he would strike?
No, just a letter saying he was ready if called.
As much as I detest violence and (insert all bad things here), I vehemently oppose others controlling what I'm allowed to think.
If only I had the mod points...
This is a perfectly reasonable and insightful argument. If they limited everyone to 1mbps downstream, that would be plenty for almost everyone. Webpages, why would you need the entire page to load instantly? It's a phone, just rework mobile http to fetch the first screen and then the remaining elements.
But, then how would they be able to make billions? Oh No!! Well, charge by throughput, not usage. The faster it goes, the more you pay. Works great for wired ISPs.
Hell, put a selector into the phones OS to allow for different speed settings and have them charge by incremental bumps in speed. Kinda like with gas in a car. You need to go faster, you pay for more gas.
I would love being able to throttle my connection up every-so-often for an extra boost when needed. And for the rest of the time crank it way down. That would be spectacular.
You'd get ppl who pay for always going fast "subsidizing" for the people who don't. Shit, it may actually produce the opposite effect.
There are saner ways of using the bandwidth available more efficiently without having to build out infrastructure and without having to institute usage tiers.
Use simple time slicing. The faster you wanna go, the more time slices you pay for. Simple as that. After all, most internet functionality is best effort stuff anyway. I know few people who always stream to their phones. VoIP, that's a different story and would different considerations. It's hard to best effort voice. But isn't that why you have a cellphone?
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Title should read, "Man arrested for possibly planning to become a terrorist". But still, arrested for criminal possibility.
His potential crime would have been a physical one. It needed bomb ingredients, guns, etc... He had none of the equipment, just the knowledge.
Everything about his crime is just conjecture. How do you prove that he WOULD have done anything. Were there dates of action?
I guess what it boils down to, if you're gonna have "evil" thoughts, don't write them down.
Pre-crime, here to protect you from yourself.
I'm feeling less special every day. I used to think I was a paranoid outsider. Nope, just observant.
Why do the countries witht the highest Press Freedom Index have to be so damned cold.
Update: Looks like Cape Verde has risen in the rankings... Hrmm...Might be worth the change of address.
Unfortunately, TFA is right. Look at what we did with Spain. Look at what were pressuring Canada into doing.
"Nice X ya got there, it'd be a shame if Y were to happen to it."
Why blow someone up, then they can't make you money. Duh.
Citation? Specifically the Fast and the Furious reference. Thank you.
If it was just about the format it wouldn't be an issue. It's about the EULA. It's about Apple seducing (iEverything looks damn sexy, easy to use, etc...) authors into a walled garden. It's about limiting the rights of authors by hiding the nitty-gritty in a document that doesn't get to be seen until after you've spent all that effort to make a shiny new iBook. You're options at that point amount to: export it to severely format deprived pdf or (by changing the extension from ibook to epub, and again, losing any and all formatting) epub or straight up text (sans pictures, etc...).
The whole reason for using iBook Author was to make it shiny. To give it that magical quality that people lust after.
Now, once a competent conversion program comes out, that keeps all the formatting and everything, the iBook lock-in hurt will be lessened.
You're still missing the point.
If Apple doesn't publish you. GAME OVER. The only way to get your book out there after that is to give it away...for free!
At least with normal publishers, if they don't take your book, you can shop it around.
Once you sign that new contract, Apple has full control over you capitalising on your efforts.
That doesn't offend you? Also, it's now NOT evil to bully people just because they're already being bullied?
Wow, just wow.
Unfortunately, it stipulates that you must sign a contract prior to consideration of your work being distributed through iBooks.
What this means. Don't attempt to get published through Apple or you will be beholden to them in perpetuity AND they don't even have to publish it.
Tricky, scheister-y Apple.
Worst part, there will be an endless stream of authors clambering to be first in line to give up their copyrights in exchange for a chance at being published.
That sucks.
Hey, if you're gonna do something illegal enough to warrant that level of paranoia, why not go for the gusto. Create a set of files that contain your data. Use steganography (hell, ADS in NTFS so long as the files are within an archive) to embed said data in other files then torrent the damn things. Just put them in "homemade" porn files.
Everyone that torrents them will be adding to your backups and you don't need to store the files locally after you've seeded once.
There's numerous ways to keep files away from your HDD.
The above assumes guilt.
The innocent need a different system. But, there are no truly innocent people; at least, according to our government.
Presumption of innocence is no longer the dominant paradigm. Encryption denotes guilt.
After all, if you're not guilty of anything, why do you need to hide?
Or:
Faux spam encryption? Use white-space/negative-space as the storage. Computer generate text to create "spam", store in spam folder in email.
Or:
2 passwords. 1st password is normal. 2nd password "during decryption" replaces flagged files with seemingly semi-innocuous ones; porn, etc...
BTW, never underestimate the power of porn. You can cram thousands of images into gz.tars to be later inflated into mock file structures. Many ppl like porn and are "ashamed" by it. Just make sure there's nothing illegal in your "collection".
Now, if you're a movie/music/software infringer, you're going to have a significantly harder time. Hundreds of gigs of data can't easily be hidden or stored elsewhere without leaving a trace. It's not like hiding the bodies. Unless your Dahmer, you're generally not into storage, but you probably DO store those files.
They called it a "Ghost Network".
Of course it involved manipulating the biology of the transceivers, but, hey, "eggs...scramble...break...", right?
Seriously though, WTF!? These are the agencies that we "rely" on to protect us and they can't figure out how to fix the blinking 12:00 on the VCR? Yes, I purposely used an antiquated term for technical incompetence, because the tech is 15 years old!!
"15 years ago" perspective:
Just to name a few...
Please, Mod parent up!
It's all well and good to have über-books, but like the parent said, (paraphrased) the production costs will go from hefty to astronomical. Also, like video games, movies, etc...books that DON'T have high production value will begin to be dismissed as "not worth the money". Because of this, authors (the actual creators of the book) will have to spend significantly more time and effort to create the book, while the publishers effort decreases significantly. No longer having to bind and ship books?!!? That'll be a godsend --for the publisher.
Who exactly will be paying for these textbooks? The prices Apple quoted, $14.99US, is ridiculously low for a college level textbook. Average cost of Kno textbooks is $63US (as of Dec 2010).
So, these textbooks will most likely be for primary (elementary) and high school students. Single books, at this level of education, are reused for many years before needing to be repurchased. Even if textbooks were $100US, they would still be a better cost proposition than $15/student/year.
Shenanigans. More money for the publisher. More for the author too, but the author had to spend significantly more to get there, whereas the publisher didn't.
Shenanigans.
+1 Informative!! I wish I had mod-points. It may be ePub, but perverted to keep it locked to Apple.
1. The city agreed to Google's terms in lieu of tax breaks (usually worth billions over 10-20 years).
2. BPU should have been contacted by the local govt BEFORE approving the Google deal.
3. The incumbent telcos are bitching because Google will be eating their lunch...shit...they'll be eating all their meals...
Remember, taxes paid for the CableCo's to build out most of their infrastructure. Taxes paid for the TelCo's to build out most of their infrastructure.
Of course, I understand that there are safety concerns here, but that should have gone into hour one negotiations, not 11th hour politicking.
I teach different college level IT courses and Moglen's sentiments are always part of "Intro" courses.
RMS and Moglen, who would've guessed, 10 years ago, they'd be right?
Paranoia, it's not just for the fringe anymore.
I understand that RIM is mentioned in he article, but this is an Apple focused story.
"The story also notes that MS states purchases are responsible for backing up the data that you store in apps that you acquire via the Windows Store, including content you upload using those apps."
What?!
Is this even English?
Other than that, what did we expect? Every day our choices and freedoms are wittled away little-by-little. Make it pretty or make it scary and the sheeple will buy whatever you're selling.
And, yes, that goes for every single person who bought into Apples "eco-system".
I'd rather have the choice to download virii. Doesn't mean I want 'em, but it's better than no choice.
And, as we've seen, once something (business model, clothing line, etc...) becomes popular (regardless of the harm it does) everyone else will copy it to try and emulate it's success.
I can only hope that, like all "trends", this too shall pass.