When/if a revolution comes, it will come from the people. And the military is made of those people. The VAST majority of our military is young men and women on the lower end of the social strata. They won't necessarily work together for a common goal, but they won't really fight off the citizens that are, expect in some small percentage. Unfortunately, our military is fast becoming capable of operating without these people, for at least limited time frames. The revolution will be interesting, if nothing else. Film it and we can probably sell it as reality TV.:(
Don't forget to factor in the cost of replacing all that cattle. Those cows aren't there as lawnmowers, they provide food product to a large number of people.
Interestingly enough, in the modern military a simple fly by and strafe run from any number of aircraft would accomplish the same goal, using already existing systems. Bonus, once the bird is in the area, she can provide close air support.
Maybe we should go a little further back and use the wheel that we all know and love. TXT. Or hell, HTML is a perfectly viable format for this sort of thing, with the bonus that interlinked concepts can actually be interlinked inside the document.
I'm really not sure why or what value the consumer sees from the use of proprietary formats. Simple is good, universal is good. DRM, proprietary formats and format wars are all bad.
Every Ebook I have is either in RTF, TXT, or HTML format. I have yet to find a device I use daily that can't handle these formats easily. That being said, I don't have an ereader, I have a cell phone that serves this purpose on the go, and a number of computers that manage it at home/work.
I do understand that publishers want a format they can at least pretend like they can protect, but it's probably best they learn the lesson that the music industry never did... which is that effective DRM is a pipe dream. Fighting over format and distribution will lead to catastrophic losses on all sides. Further, it leads to a certain type of entitlement and resentment towards the publishers, and sometimes the authors/artists.
Have some perspective. The biggest difference in your numbers is about the time it takes you to blink twice. Why don't you think about that for a few seconds, which is several orders of magnitude longer than it takes to find and start receiving data from your non-optimal CDN.
FYI and off topic, but you can put the steam folder on a non-system drive and will not be required to reinstall after a rebuild. Some games will require a first run setup, but you won't have to reload the files.
It is unlikely that their "size" (whatever that means to you) will have any effect on the economic basis for which their and our country are propagated. Building an economy on consumerism means you always need consumers. The US is pretty much the pinnacle of consumerism, so we will always be at least civil with china. At least until their basic daily wage reaches par with ours. I don't foresee that actually happening, but it's arguably possible.
HAHA, I just reformatted yesterday because of that garbage. It didn't seem worth the effort of digging it out, especially as good as it is at defeating any attempt to do so. So I just ghosted to a good install and moved on. I'm going through some log files right now to see if I can figure out where it came from, so I can block the domain/IP. It's not looking good so far.
I'm with you 100%. If spending more means I don't wait as much, I'm sold. Partly because my hourly income is pretty high, and if I spend a few hours a week waiting, it pays for the new processor. And partly because it drives me batty to wait on computers.
I once had a boss that said "you tell me what you need, and we'll get it". What I needed was 3 high end desktops in a single workstation configuration using Synergy to share inputs. It was beautiful, for once, if I had to wait, I just switched machines. I kept them all running non-stop and my productivity was through the roof. It more than paid back the cost of 3 2500$ computers.
I don't recall labeling you, just rejecting the labels you put on me. Also, I would have prosecuted the founders of this country, if they had violated the laws of this country (which they almost certainly did)
Let me try again with a little less froth. I believe in justice, and I don't believe that can be achieved by selective enforcement. Only by just laws. I do realize that under our current system I pretty much have to accept a little bit of both. At least for now. However, that doesn't mean I'm ok with it.
I believe that letting anyone, and doubly so a company, have a non-codified exception to the law is how we end up with one law for plebeians, and one for the kings...er people with money. Historically this is easy to see, and our legal system was set up in ways that were supposed to stop that from happening. However, I think it's easy to see we are slipping away from those ideals, and I for one am going to fight that tooth and nail. Because the alternative is a bloody revolution, and frankly, that doesn't appeal to me in these so called civilized times.
That grandiose sense of morality, that's what is missing these days. Far too many people believe it's out of reach. That is simply wrong, and defeatist. That being said, you are certainly entitled to your opinion, as I am to mine.
I didn't say that allowing exception in the law was the same as FORCING torture, I said it was on par, and it is. Someone once said "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety deserve neither Liberty nor Safety" It's still true, and there are far too many doing it.
Don't toss your anti-establishment bullshit on me. I didn't invoke it, and I'm not going to debate it.
Our founders knew that equality under the law mattered. They sure as hell didn't get it right in their lives, but they went further than anyone else had.
YES, I expect every law to be enforced for every infraction, or I expect the law to be changed. If selective enforcement is the rule, then prejudice, classism, and eventually a chaste system will prevail. You can live in that world, or we can all work together and make this one righteous. Any hand waving about impossibilities is the side effect of a small closed mind.
Granting privilege to a computer company whose sole value is providing you protection from the bad guys is right up there with allowing torture on terror suspects "because they are out to get us". Fuck you, coward. Stand, with pride, honor and integrity. Or walk away. But I'm not going to sit around while you and those like you slowly bleed all the power of the citizen into the state. The state has a purpose, and it isn't to provide a skewed legal system that blatantly ignores violations of the law because they might, maybe be helpful. Prove to me that symantec is working for the greater good, and I'll support an exception to the law to be CODIFIED legally. Until then you prosecute them like you would anyone else, that's pretty much the entire basis for out legal system. You know, justice is blind, equality under the law, and all./flame on, I suppose.
He'll do what any good... agent... would do. He'll find a buddy that works for a third party support call center, and convince him to provide phone accounts for as many phones as he needs.
Neither of the cases you cite are actually illegal. This is a key feature of the law, if something isn't codified as illegal, it's NOT ILLEGAL. The context is effectively null, since the example isn't valid.
You say that any completely fair application of the law would make it unworkable. That is the biggest pile of bullshit I've seen on/. in a long long time. Believe me, that's saying something. ONLY a completely fair application of the law works. Our founding fathers knew this. Our ancestors knew this. The fact that you don't know this is frightening beyond reason. You didn't say, but you implied that symantec should have rights and privileges that an ordinary citizen does not. That is the largest perversion of the law that is possible. Companies do not have any trust, they can't be given confidence, because they exist for ONLY one purpose, to make money. You can trust a person, you can't trust a company, and even attempting to do so is foolish (at least) and IMNSHO stupid beyond belief. Our entire foundation of laws is based on the INDIVIDUAL being the top, and everything else coming second. If you know believe that corporations should be on top (they are, but they should not be), well, we've already lost, haven't we?
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That's a rhetorical question, right? Well, let me assume it's not and answer it. Corporate structures were invented for EXACTLY that purpose. Corporation: An ingenious invention for obtaining personal wealth while avoiding personal responsibility.
I'm not inclined to tar and feather the CEO when something goes wrong. But when something goes catastrophically wrong, and takes months to come to a resolution, and is due to poor safety or operational prudence, then yes, SOMEONE needs to be held responsible, and I think that someone is at the top, not the bottom.
As the fallout settles from here, we are going to see a handful of guys vilified, but they will be the ones that died on the rig. Nice little closed circle. The Officers in BP will walk away with nothing more than a lashing from the board of directors and the stock holders.
I've actually used DMCA notices against a user on Photobucket. I got a blank DMCA notice form, filled it in accurately, and claimed copywrite on an image that this user had posted. They never even questioned it. They black holed the image on the first one. They black holed the account on when he reposted, and I re-submitted. The guy gave up.
Point of the story, most of these companies aren't going to question ANYTHING on an even remotely legit looking DMCA notice. The relevant equivalent in any given country is likely to be treated more or less the same. The company doesn't want the responsibility for "checking" these notices out. So they don't even try.
Lets not be overly dramatic with the example file names shall we? Can you think of a reason why any file other than a certain movie would be called:300[2006]DvDrip[Eng]-aXXo OR 300.2006.RETAIL.DVDRip.XviD-FLAiTE OR 300.DVDRip.XviD-MEMFOS ???
I'll grant a certain amount of room with mixed up file names. Lets not get carried away with absurd reductions though.
You mean like the computer that already controls your engine? Or the one that controls your transmission? Or how about the one that controls the airbags? These embedded systems have been around a long time, and generally speaking (toyota gas pedals aside) don't fail much or at all. Several car companies already have staged shutdown or outright shutdowns when the car is idling for any length of time. It's not even remotely new technology. Further, these kinds of control systems have been in long use in the industrial market. I assure you, they will work VERY well. I can also assure you that "the public" will find a way to fail the system catastrophically.
I've seen heavy machinery sense and react to any number of dangers, including a soccer ball kicked into the middle of an automated assembly line. All the machines managed to dodge the soccer ball and go right back to work. But I've also seen a person get out of their car at a stopped light, and have their car roll back into the car behind them. And then I watched that same person swear up and down that the car was in park. It was a manual.
You start by saying it has little to do with apple, and then close by saying that apple will "keep getting better". That's good I guess, because apple has a LONG way to go before their platform catches up. I know, you are probably thinking I'm crazy, but you'll see as time goes on. OOOOOOOOOOOOOHHH SHINY will wear off, and soon.
Also, I'm not sure why you think smart phone users are "used to having their software up to date".... WTF? Since when? I've got a treo 600 on my desk that hasn't had any updates in several years, and the only updates it ever got were ones I hacked in. I've got a drawer full of RIMs you can have, none of them get updates. Iphone/Android and a few earlier exceptions force updates on users, almost no other platform has done this in the past. You were LUCKY if you got updates. They were not a forgone conclusion, as they seem to be now.
In Ireland. So a bit of censorship and or corporate protectionism (depending on how far you lean) isn't a big surprise. I am a bit shocked that anyone is upset by this. I'm as big a sharer as the next guy (god damn it people SEED!!!) but if that 'sharing' is in violation of local law, the idea isn't to do it surreptitious, it's to change the local laws. As long as our activity is technically illegal, it's going to be policed. The more money involved the better the policing is going to be. There is a LOT of money in music.
Ireland will be a test bed, and if it goes even remotely well, this program will expand to most of the EU and north america. I'm not sure how enthusiastic the ISPs will be about cutting off customers, however, I am sure that they will ham it up to get the highest possible "operational costs" from the RIAA and their ilk, to cover expenses, of course.
I am also not sure why anyone would think their unencrypted data isn't already being inspected. That's just naive. There doesn't need to be a good reason, there just needs to be a WAY, and we all know there is. So it's just a little bit foolish to think that your OPEN traffic isn't already being scanned at the very least by a machine, and probably occasionally by a human if the machine flags enough activity as "bad". Is it against the law for the ISP to scan the traffic? Depends where you live, and how you define scan. In the US, the ISP can pretty much snoop as they please under the guise of Network Operations monitoring. They would be sued if they released private info, or if they used it in public against the customer, but turning it over to law enforcement (or a corporation pretending to be a law enforcement agency), isn't likely to get them in all that much hot water, legally speaking. They have already been doing it for years, and I can't imagine why they would stop. It's not like there is an ISP you can use that doesn't traverse ATT/Comcast, and or would vow to protect your plain text communications in the first place.
Not to nitpik but bureaucracies are made of people. You don't have to anthropomorphize them, they are already emotional response engines. Just with more rules than most individuals use.
I have an idea, if you have a small child, don't let them wonder alone in the mountains. I know, responsibility isn't really "hip" these days, but seriously it isn't hard. Cougars aren't really interested in people as food most of the time, and they REALLY aren't interested if there is a full sized adult around. Further, if you live where there are wild cats, you should make sure they have enough food. My grandparents feed the bobcats in their area so that they won't eat the house cats and dogs. They specifically keep chickens on the property for this purpose. It works great, considerably better than trapping, and it doesn't cost much to keep chickens when half your neighbors are farmers.
Are you seriously implying that someone writing malicious code for the App store can't come up with even one fake identity good enough to fool apple? Seriously? Because that's just wishful thinking at it's finest.
I don't have the slightest idea how apple vets that information, or if they even do. What I do know is that for 25$ on any number of websites, I can buy a full identity, including all the above info and a lot more.
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When/if a revolution comes, it will come from the people. And the military is made of those people. The VAST majority of our military is young men and women on the lower end of the social strata. They won't necessarily work together for a common goal, but they won't really fight off the citizens that are, expect in some small percentage. Unfortunately, our military is fast becoming capable of operating without these people, for at least limited time frames. The revolution will be interesting, if nothing else. Film it and we can probably sell it as reality TV. :(
Don't forget to factor in the cost of replacing all that cattle. Those cows aren't there as lawnmowers, they provide food product to a large number of people.
Interestingly enough, in the modern military a simple fly by and strafe run from any number of aircraft would accomplish the same goal, using already existing systems. Bonus, once the bird is in the area, she can provide close air support.
Maybe we should go a little further back and use the wheel that we all know and love. TXT. Or hell, HTML is a perfectly viable format for this sort of thing, with the bonus that interlinked concepts can actually be interlinked inside the document.
I'm really not sure why or what value the consumer sees from the use of proprietary formats. Simple is good, universal is good. DRM, proprietary formats and format wars are all bad.
Every Ebook I have is either in RTF, TXT, or HTML format. I have yet to find a device I use daily that can't handle these formats easily. That being said, I don't have an ereader, I have a cell phone that serves this purpose on the go, and a number of computers that manage it at home/work.
I do understand that publishers want a format they can at least pretend like they can protect, but it's probably best they learn the lesson that the music industry never did... which is that effective DRM is a pipe dream. Fighting over format and distribution will lead to catastrophic losses on all sides. Further, it leads to a certain type of entitlement and resentment towards the publishers, and sometimes the authors/artists.
Have some perspective. The biggest difference in your numbers is about the time it takes you to blink twice. Why don't you think about that for a few seconds, which is several orders of magnitude longer than it takes to find and start receiving data from your non-optimal CDN.
FYI and off topic, but you can put the steam folder on a non-system drive and will not be required to reinstall after a rebuild. Some games will require a first run setup, but you won't have to reload the files.
It is unlikely that their "size" (whatever that means to you) will have any effect on the economic basis for which their and our country are propagated. Building an economy on consumerism means you always need consumers. The US is pretty much the pinnacle of consumerism, so we will always be at least civil with china. At least until their basic daily wage reaches par with ours. I don't foresee that actually happening, but it's arguably possible.
HAHA, I just reformatted yesterday because of that garbage. It didn't seem worth the effort of digging it out, especially as good as it is at defeating any attempt to do so. So I just ghosted to a good install and moved on. I'm going through some log files right now to see if I can figure out where it came from, so I can block the domain/IP. It's not looking good so far.
I'm with you 100%. If spending more means I don't wait as much, I'm sold. Partly because my hourly income is pretty high, and if I spend a few hours a week waiting, it pays for the new processor. And partly because it drives me batty to wait on computers.
I once had a boss that said "you tell me what you need, and we'll get it". What I needed was 3 high end desktops in a single workstation configuration using Synergy to share inputs. It was beautiful, for once, if I had to wait, I just switched machines. I kept them all running non-stop and my productivity was through the roof. It more than paid back the cost of 3 2500$ computers.
I don't recall labeling you, just rejecting the labels you put on me. Also, I would have prosecuted the founders of this country, if they had violated the laws of this country (which they almost certainly did)
Let me try again with a little less froth. I believe in justice, and I don't believe that can be achieved by selective enforcement. Only by just laws. I do realize that under our current system I pretty much have to accept a little bit of both. At least for now. However, that doesn't mean I'm ok with it.
I believe that letting anyone, and doubly so a company, have a non-codified exception to the law is how we end up with one law for plebeians, and one for the kings...er people with money. Historically this is easy to see, and our legal system was set up in ways that were supposed to stop that from happening. However, I think it's easy to see we are slipping away from those ideals, and I for one am going to fight that tooth and nail. Because the alternative is a bloody revolution, and frankly, that doesn't appeal to me in these so called civilized times.
That grandiose sense of morality, that's what is missing these days. Far too many people believe it's out of reach. That is simply wrong, and defeatist. That being said, you are certainly entitled to your opinion, as I am to mine.
I didn't say that allowing exception in the law was the same as FORCING torture, I said it was on par, and it is. Someone once said "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety deserve neither Liberty nor Safety" It's still true, and there are far too many doing it.
Don't toss your anti-establishment bullshit on me. I didn't invoke it, and I'm not going to debate it.
/flame on, I suppose.
Our founders knew that equality under the law mattered. They sure as hell didn't get it right in their lives, but they went further than anyone else had.
YES, I expect every law to be enforced for every infraction, or I expect the law to be changed. If selective enforcement is the rule, then prejudice, classism, and eventually a chaste system will prevail. You can live in that world, or we can all work together and make this one righteous. Any hand waving about impossibilities is the side effect of a small closed mind.
Granting privilege to a computer company whose sole value is providing you protection from the bad guys is right up there with allowing torture on terror suspects "because they are out to get us". Fuck you, coward. Stand, with pride, honor and integrity. Or walk away. But I'm not going to sit around while you and those like you slowly bleed all the power of the citizen into the state. The state has a purpose, and it isn't to provide a skewed legal system that blatantly ignores violations of the law because they might, maybe be helpful. Prove to me that symantec is working for the greater good, and I'll support an exception to the law to be CODIFIED legally. Until then you prosecute them like you would anyone else, that's pretty much the entire basis for out legal system. You know, justice is blind, equality under the law, and all.
He'll do what any good ... agent... would do. He'll find a buddy that works for a third party support call center, and convince him to provide phone accounts for as many phones as he needs.
Neither of the cases you cite are actually illegal. This is a key feature of the law, if something isn't codified as illegal, it's NOT ILLEGAL. The context is effectively null, since the example isn't valid.
/. in a long long time. Believe me, that's saying something. ONLY a completely fair application of the law works. Our founding fathers knew this. Our ancestors knew this. The fact that you don't know this is frightening beyond reason. You didn't say, but you implied that symantec should have rights and privileges that an ordinary citizen does not. That is the largest perversion of the law that is possible. Companies do not have any trust, they can't be given confidence, because they exist for ONLY one purpose, to make money. You can trust a person, you can't trust a company, and even attempting to do so is foolish (at least) and IMNSHO stupid beyond belief. Our entire foundation of laws is based on the INDIVIDUAL being the top, and everything else coming second. If you know believe that corporations should be on top (they are, but they should not be), well, we've already lost, haven't we?
You say that any completely fair application of the law would make it unworkable. That is the biggest pile of bullshit I've seen on
That's a rhetorical question, right? Well, let me assume it's not and answer it. Corporate structures were invented for EXACTLY that purpose. Corporation: An ingenious invention for obtaining personal wealth while avoiding personal responsibility.
I'm not inclined to tar and feather the CEO when something goes wrong. But when something goes catastrophically wrong, and takes months to come to a resolution, and is due to poor safety or operational prudence, then yes, SOMEONE needs to be held responsible, and I think that someone is at the top, not the bottom.
As the fallout settles from here, we are going to see a handful of guys vilified, but they will be the ones that died on the rig. Nice little closed circle. The Officers in BP will walk away with nothing more than a lashing from the board of directors and the stock holders.
I've actually used DMCA notices against a user on Photobucket. I got a blank DMCA notice form, filled it in accurately, and claimed copywrite on an image that this user had posted. They never even questioned it. They black holed the image on the first one. They black holed the account on when he reposted, and I re-submitted. The guy gave up.
Point of the story, most of these companies aren't going to question ANYTHING on an even remotely legit looking DMCA notice. The relevant equivalent in any given country is likely to be treated more or less the same. The company doesn't want the responsibility for "checking" these notices out. So they don't even try.
Lets not be overly dramatic with the example file names shall we? Can you think of a reason why any file other than a certain movie would be called :300[2006]DvDrip[Eng]-aXXo OR 300.2006.RETAIL.DVDRip.XviD-FLAiTE OR 300.DVDRip.XviD-MEMFOS ???
I'll grant a certain amount of room with mixed up file names. Lets not get carried away with absurd reductions though.
So... What is the dead drop you are sending the IP to address DB table to?
You mean like the computer that already controls your engine? Or the one that controls your transmission? Or how about the one that controls the airbags? These embedded systems have been around a long time, and generally speaking (toyota gas pedals aside) don't fail much or at all. Several car companies already have staged shutdown or outright shutdowns when the car is idling for any length of time. It's not even remotely new technology. Further, these kinds of control systems have been in long use in the industrial market. I assure you, they will work VERY well. I can also assure you that "the public" will find a way to fail the system catastrophically.
I've seen heavy machinery sense and react to any number of dangers, including a soccer ball kicked into the middle of an automated assembly line. All the machines managed to dodge the soccer ball and go right back to work. But I've also seen a person get out of their car at a stopped light, and have their car roll back into the car behind them. And then I watched that same person swear up and down that the car was in park. It was a manual.
You start by saying it has little to do with apple, and then close by saying that apple will "keep getting better". That's good I guess, because apple has a LONG way to go before their platform catches up. I know, you are probably thinking I'm crazy, but you'll see as time goes on. OOOOOOOOOOOOOHHH SHINY will wear off, and soon.
Also, I'm not sure why you think smart phone users are "used to having their software up to date".... WTF? Since when? I've got a treo 600 on my desk that hasn't had any updates in several years, and the only updates it ever got were ones I hacked in. I've got a drawer full of RIMs you can have, none of them get updates. Iphone/Android and a few earlier exceptions force updates on users, almost no other platform has done this in the past. You were LUCKY if you got updates. They were not a forgone conclusion, as they seem to be now.
In Ireland. So a bit of censorship and or corporate protectionism (depending on how far you lean) isn't a big surprise. I am a bit shocked that anyone is upset by this. I'm as big a sharer as the next guy (god damn it people SEED!!!) but if that 'sharing' is in violation of local law, the idea isn't to do it surreptitious, it's to change the local laws. As long as our activity is technically illegal, it's going to be policed. The more money involved the better the policing is going to be. There is a LOT of money in music.
Ireland will be a test bed, and if it goes even remotely well, this program will expand to most of the EU and north america. I'm not sure how enthusiastic the ISPs will be about cutting off customers, however, I am sure that they will ham it up to get the highest possible "operational costs" from the RIAA and their ilk, to cover expenses, of course.
I am also not sure why anyone would think their unencrypted data isn't already being inspected. That's just naive. There doesn't need to be a good reason, there just needs to be a WAY, and we all know there is. So it's just a little bit foolish to think that your OPEN traffic isn't already being scanned at the very least by a machine, and probably occasionally by a human if the machine flags enough activity as "bad". Is it against the law for the ISP to scan the traffic? Depends where you live, and how you define scan. In the US, the ISP can pretty much snoop as they please under the guise of Network Operations monitoring. They would be sued if they released private info, or if they used it in public against the customer, but turning it over to law enforcement (or a corporation pretending to be a law enforcement agency), isn't likely to get them in all that much hot water, legally speaking. They have already been doing it for years, and I can't imagine why they would stop. It's not like there is an ISP you can use that doesn't traverse ATT/Comcast, and or would vow to protect your plain text communications in the first place.
Not to nitpik but bureaucracies are made of people. You don't have to anthropomorphize them, they are already emotional response engines. Just with more rules than most individuals use.
I have an idea, if you have a small child, don't let them wonder alone in the mountains. I know, responsibility isn't really "hip" these days, but seriously it isn't hard. Cougars aren't really interested in people as food most of the time, and they REALLY aren't interested if there is a full sized adult around. Further, if you live where there are wild cats, you should make sure they have enough food. My grandparents feed the bobcats in their area so that they won't eat the house cats and dogs. They specifically keep chickens on the property for this purpose. It works great, considerably better than trapping, and it doesn't cost much to keep chickens when half your neighbors are farmers.
The irony of your sig and the GP is almost enough to create a singularity.
Are you seriously implying that someone writing malicious code for the App store can't come up with even one fake identity good enough to fool apple? Seriously? Because that's just wishful thinking at it's finest.
I don't have the slightest idea how apple vets that information, or if they even do. What I do know is that for 25$ on any number of websites, I can buy a full identity, including all the above info and a lot more.
Dude those duding dudes? It really doesn't have the same level of communication. Brah.