It's not about whether it can be provided - it's about whether it will be.
Fear the Libertarians! If they get their way, the government will leave you alone! Oh, the Horror!
No matter what. So if you've been mugged or your house is on fire, the Libertarian Government will do nothing about it because your freedom is too important to be messed with.
Your right to wank off over Miley Cyrus is not what's at issue here. It's photos of children being abused, i.e. real harm to real humans demanded by those who are just "harmlessly" looking at "harmless" photos.
What makes you think the manufacturers won't fix this? All you've done is said it was imposed (which it wasn't) and now how manufacturers have done things independently in the past when they weren't working together on a common standard.
My right to plug my laptop into my TV and have it work will be nice too. I have no idea why they don't work since they both support HDCP but all I get is a black screen. HDMI should be the digital equivalent of SCART, not some inane way to annoy legitimate users of products.
I'd like my PC to work with my HD TV. HDCP is however preventing me from doing that, despite both devices being HDCP compliant. Nothing to do with piracy and everything to do with technology that doesn't work properly.
You've obviously never had an IT job else you wouldn't even think of suggesting that an IT project's documentation would be anywhere near 96% accurate.
That's because a lot of Slashdot people actually have memories and remember that Microsoft have behaved very badly in the past. Just like any habitual criminal the trust won't magically come back, it will take a lot of effort on their part.
It does surprise me (although it shouldn't) that the blame for our current deficit woes has suddenly fallen on benefit scroungers, immigrants and the "dreadfully wasteful" public sector, instead of the previous administration having to spend huge sums bailing out a bunch of greedy fools in the banking sector. Those greedy fools of course are quite happily carrying on as before without any restrictions or complications.
They're called Crapita by Private Eye for a reason. However public service IT in the last 3 decades is a long story of waste, incompetence and stupidity. Hooray for privatisation - a worse service for a higher cost!
They need that delusional psychosis sorted now. I can just picture a group of men in Armani suits wandering around the streets of Seattle saying "I love my Kin" over and over again.
Getting the required industry EXPERIENCE solving real problems rather than just dicking around with it at home is not FREE. I learned Java at home. It got me precisely zero jobs. I learned C++ at night school. It got me precisely zero jobs. I managed to get EXPERIENCE in C# and SQL Server and now I have a job in that. Having no EXPERIENCE in the technology of the job you're applying for means your resume goes in the bin. At least in my experience anyway.
I've read lots of books. I've also been using Windows since 1995 and granted while it's not the disaster it once was it's still more of a mess than it needs to be. Mac OS is a shit example. It's still not a tenth of the target Windows is even though it now has a tenth of the market.
Windows is an easy target because it's a huge badly-secured monoculture. How does having several different versions of Android to attack make it similarly insecure?
If this works for RethinkDB fine. As long as it doesn't become the norm, good luck to them and anyone else that does it. If it does become the norm then a lot of talented people will be leaving the industry.
But this is an age where experts are not to be trusted and that the people you should really be listening to are journalists who know everything because they have common sense.
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It's not about whether it can be provided - it's about whether it will be.
Fear the Libertarians! If they get their way, the government will leave you alone! Oh, the Horror!
No matter what. So if you've been mugged or your house is on fire, the Libertarian Government will do nothing about it because your freedom is too important to be messed with.
Your right to wank off over Miley Cyrus is not what's at issue here. It's photos of children being abused, i.e. real harm to real humans demanded by those who are just "harmlessly" looking at "harmless" photos.
Shouldn't you be Bad Analogy Guy with that one?
What's your point?
The UK had a mobile phone network long before GSM came along and I'm sure the same is true for mainland Europe too.
What makes you think the manufacturers won't fix this? All you've done is said it was imposed (which it wasn't) and now how manufacturers have done things independently in the past when they weren't working together on a common standard.
My right to plug my laptop into my TV and have it work will be nice too. I have no idea why they don't work since they both support HDCP but all I get is a black screen. HDMI should be the digital equivalent of SCART, not some inane way to annoy legitimate users of products.
What I'm dying to know is where you got the idea that it was imposed, and why you think it's a bad idea for chargers to have a common plug.
Or you could use Firebug, IE developer tools, Chrome Developer Tools etc
I'd like my PC to work with my HD TV. HDCP is however preventing me from doing that, despite both devices being HDCP compliant. Nothing to do with piracy and everything to do with technology that doesn't work properly.
You've obviously never had an IT job else you wouldn't even think of suggesting that an IT project's documentation would be anywhere near 96% accurate.
Woohoo the incredibly annoying Flash ads will now render faster! Is there a Flashblock for GPU rendered annoyances yet?
That's because a lot of Slashdot people actually have memories and remember that Microsoft have behaved very badly in the past. Just like any habitual criminal the trust won't magically come back, it will take a lot of effort on their part.
It does surprise me (although it shouldn't) that the blame for our current deficit woes has suddenly fallen on benefit scroungers, immigrants and the "dreadfully wasteful" public sector, instead of the previous administration having to spend huge sums bailing out a bunch of greedy fools in the banking sector. Those greedy fools of course are quite happily carrying on as before without any restrictions or complications.
They're called Crapita by Private Eye for a reason. However public service IT in the last 3 decades is a long story of waste, incompetence and stupidity. Hooray for privatisation - a worse service for a higher cost!
They need that delusional psychosis sorted now. I can just picture a group of men in Armani suits wandering around the streets of Seattle saying "I love my Kin" over and over again.
They do care about running Windows software though which the iPad and Android cannot do.
You seem to be under the delusion that corporations pay tax.
Getting the required industry EXPERIENCE solving real problems rather than just dicking around with it at home is not FREE. I learned Java at home. It got me precisely zero jobs. I learned C++ at night school. It got me precisely zero jobs. I managed to get EXPERIENCE in C# and SQL Server and now I have a job in that. Having no EXPERIENCE in the technology of the job you're applying for means your resume goes in the bin. At least in my experience anyway.
I've read lots of books. I've also been using Windows since 1995 and granted while it's not the disaster it once was it's still more of a mess than it needs to be. Mac OS is a shit example. It's still not a tenth of the target Windows is even though it now has a tenth of the market.
Windows is an easy target because it's a huge badly-secured monoculture. How does having several different versions of Android to attack make it similarly insecure?
Microsoft are very trying.
If this works for RethinkDB fine. As long as it doesn't become the norm, good luck to them and anyone else that does it. If it does become the norm then a lot of talented people will be leaving the industry.
But this is an age where experts are not to be trusted and that the people you should really be listening to are journalists who know everything because they have common sense.
Until it passed by a group of people having a picnic.