No, what you did there was moronic, because people need to take the bus to get to work. There's a huge difference between a PUBLIC BUS SYSTEM and a private content provider not wanting to sell you content as cheaply as you'd like.... I don't know what to say if you can't see the difference.
People don't need to take the bus either, not when they can walk. Yes, they lose the benefits of taking the bus, such as shorter transit time and less fatigue, but hey, if people won't follow the arbitrary nonsensical rules about who's allowed to sit where on this here bus, well...there's the road, sonny.
'Private' content availability or 'public' transportation, it's still discrimination, it's just that now there are technical ways to circumvent it, and that makes certain entitled fat cats see red. The content producers may not like it much, but one benefit of teh interwebs is that pretty much the entire world is 'next door' now. Is it wrong to read a Globe and Mail article on a news aggregator online, instead of buying the same old hard copy of the Globe and Mail just to read that one article that caught your eye? Now imagine that the G&M website tried to geo-restrict their readerbase, so as to force anyone outside their arbitrary distribution area to purchase (and wait for delivery of) a hard copy. How long do you think they would remain relevant?
I can't believe it's really that hard to just not watch a TV show or movie, and the lengths people will go to in order to bend logic to justify their illegal activity.
I just watch pirated movies and TV shows because I enjoy it. No bending of logic involved. Why is that so hard to understand ?
Some may have spoken, but they've done it the wrong way. If they want copyright laws changed, they need to change the copyright laws - you don't just wantonly break laws you disagree with.
I disagree. If the laws are established by a small minority with disproportionate influence because money, then what other option is there besides civil disobedience?
This isn't like sitting in the front of the bus... this is the entertainment industry.
It is? Golly-gee, guess we shouldn't get so worked up about it then!
You'd all be better off not taking the bus at all, but instead you justify to yourself violating someone else's sense of impropriety for the sake of not having to walk an extra 15 feet.
See what I did there? It's not about the damn movies or tv shows or whatever. It's about generating a sense of artificial scarcity in order to drive more dollars in to the already grossly overflowing pot.
For lack of a better phrase, it's the principle of the thing. If anything highlights that, this story does, since canucks were happily paying to see the content they wanted (sure, once to Netflix and probably again to a VPN provider, but whatever). Sure, they can still PVR the content, or (often) stream it from the network website, or even purchase individual episodes through iTunes...meanwhile this exact same content is provided to the next door neighbor free of (additional) charge. How would your kids react if you give cake to one and kicks to the other, simply because one has a room on the north side of the house the other is in the south?
"Spotify has not been hacked and our user records are secure. We monitor Pastebin and other sites regularly. When we find Spotify credentials, we first verify that they are authentic, and if they are, we immediately notify affected users to change their passwords."
Soo, if the site has not been hacked and user accounts are secure, then how are the credentials getting onto pastebin? Is Spotify giving them away voluntarily?
I've heard of extrapolating a process, or even inferring something unknown from known facts (sure, that could be a process). Heck, even "explicate" would work...but "implicate the process"?
Implicate it in what? Manslaughter? Conspiracy to defraud?
More like the ad conveniently auto-pauses for you whenever the face recognition detects that you are looking elsewhere...so helpful! Also mandatory, so yay!
Personally, I think religions should not be protected, subsidized or otherwise treated in any special way at all. They should be treated as commercial enterprises and, in drastic cases, even as fraudulent schemes. Because that's what they are.
Or social clubs. Because that's what they really are.
Absolute elimination of stray voltage from livestock buildings has been the (sometimes elusive) goal of electrical designers for as long as livestock buildings have been supplied with electricity, and now we're inducing tingle voltages on purpose??
I guess cows know to stop drinking when they feel the tingle of electricity. People? Not so much...
Hey, you want to know how much this car costs, okay no problem sir no problem! This chart shows that it costs 0.5% less than the national average for cars of this general make, model and condition! I think sir can agree, this is a fantastic deal, yes?
Oh, you want to know actual, real dollar values? I'm sorry, we don't provide those, just the "simplified" and properly adjusted comparison to our completely honestly determined average values. But according to this chart we have the best prices in town, best price guaranteed!
Sir? Where do you go, Sir? I shall await your return here, yes?
The stock is a share in the corporation, so if the corporation has no net assets and is dissolving, then the stock is worthless.
Said another way, the stockholders get paid last (after creditors) when a corporation dissolves.
Ah yes, that's right. A stock is only 'worth' as much as someone is willing to pay for it.
Okay then, new proposal: to hold voting stock, a person would need to maintain in escrow personal funds equivalent to the highest share price over the last 12 months. These funds would need to be held in a bond or something equally secure (i.e., they can't be 'held' in more of the corporation's shares) and would then be surrendered to creditors et al if the corporation went under. The value of the held funds may not match the current share value over time, but at least it's something, a personal commitment to the well-being of the company they want to help govern.
While one could, I suppose, grant all shareholders pieces of the balance sheet based on the proportion of their ownership, it would be a very complicated system.
Isn't there such a thing as voting and non-voting stock?
I'd think that one solution would be that the entirety of the value of the voting stock could be considered corporate assets, to be distributed to creditors if the corporation is dissolved. That way the people who actually had the power to make things right but didn't can't simply run off with big sacks of money. Basically, if you want the power to make big money decisions, you must invest your own financial future in the corporation by purchasing risky voting stocks instead of the safer, non-voting stocks.
I know, it's likely oversimplified and idealistic...but wouldn't it be nice?
The post could have just been out pf boredom. Its Saturday and we're all here posting on Slashdot instead of having lives so it's safe to assume we dont have anything better to do. I'm just killing time at work myself.
Ah, fair enough, although I'm not nearly as magnanimous as you are. That could also have been from being stuck inside at work on a beautiful Saturday...
So, you claim your identity isn't tied to brand choice, yet you spend (I'm guessing) at least a half-hour railing on someone on/. for a mild, offhand insult to PC users by someone who prefers Apple? Sure...your sense of self worth is super secure, so long as it's tied firmly to the anti-apple bandwagon, apparently.
For the record, the only Apple device that I 'own' (and that is under protest) is my company phone, and that's only because Blackberry was the only other option. I have no patience for Apple and their smarmy walled garden business practices either (I can't copy a photo onto my phone without using iTunes? WTF Apple??) BUT, I don't run around looking for people that like their Apple products and write mini-essays telling them how insecure they are either...
I'm just sayin', so yeah, stones and glass houses and all that jazz.
Try : Assemble standardised off the shelf parts that other people designed and built into a standardised case that someone else designed and built using a standardised OS and Games that other people designed and wrote.
built..... that process is just 1 step up from unpacking and plugging in a preassembled box.
Hey, some prefer a big mac, some prefer Harvey's, and some won't eat anything unless they've grown it (or raised it) themselves, completed all of the processing steps including churning the butter, canning the pickles and fermenting their own tabasco sauce. Of course, there's not a lot of the latter around, since they typically starve to death rather early on.
While disturbing, this news is by no means surprising.
Advertastards can wave their hands and shout "we're just trying to see what you like so we can send you info on stuff you might find interesting!" until they're blue in the face, but simply having the vast reams data considered 'necessary' to 'get to know' the vict^H^H^H^Hcustomer is too much temptation for some to resist.
Of course, political advertising is still, well, advertising, and they're still trying to sell something to you, even if it's only a predefined set of prejudices or empty promises. So I suppose in the broadest sense this is a legit business purpose for Dstillery...but the ramifications are just a wee bit chilling. The stakes on this sort of ad campaign are a bit higher than whether people buy a Ford or a Toyota, and the one that they don't 'buy' doesn't have access to a list of people who ultimately didn't buy what they were selling...
As no central server exists, every additional user is a further point of connection inside the network, helping to avoid potential failures. If one of the connections fails, this does not necessarily compromise the entire downloads platform.
So...the 'user' goes dark? I know, I know, the user's connection goes dark...but for some reason the phasing tickled the morbid elf in me, picturing users keeling over at their consoles while the network perseveres...:)
"Given the colossal assemblage of stars in the universe, who is to notice when one flares and dies? Does the night sky lose luster, will the frantic twinkle of other stars pause in solemn contemplation of their fallen brother? Or does the cosmic ballet continue unabated, save for an imperceptible, incandescent solo performance, over nearly before it's begun?"
-- Anon
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No, what you did there was moronic, because people need to take the bus to get to work. There's a huge difference between a PUBLIC BUS SYSTEM and a private content provider not wanting to sell you content as cheaply as you'd like.... I don't know what to say if you can't see the difference.
People don't need to take the bus either, not when they can walk. Yes, they lose the benefits of taking the bus, such as shorter transit time and less fatigue, but hey, if people won't follow the arbitrary nonsensical rules about who's allowed to sit where on this here bus, well...there's the road, sonny.
'Private' content availability or 'public' transportation, it's still discrimination, it's just that now there are technical ways to circumvent it, and that makes certain entitled fat cats see red. The content producers may not like it much, but one benefit of teh interwebs is that pretty much the entire world is 'next door' now. Is it wrong to read a Globe and Mail article on a news aggregator online, instead of buying the same old hard copy of the Globe and Mail just to read that one article that caught your eye? Now imagine that the G&M website tried to geo-restrict their readerbase, so as to force anyone outside their arbitrary distribution area to purchase (and wait for delivery of) a hard copy. How long do you think they would remain relevant?
I can't believe it's really that hard to just not watch a TV show or movie, and the lengths people will go to in order to bend logic to justify their illegal activity.
I just watch pirated movies and TV shows because I enjoy it. No bending of logic involved. Why is that so hard to understand ?
^This^.
Also, this.
Some may have spoken, but they've done it the wrong way. If they want copyright laws changed, they need to change the copyright laws - you don't just wantonly break laws you disagree with.
I disagree. If the laws are established by a small minority with disproportionate influence because money, then what other option is there besides civil disobedience?
This isn't like sitting in the front of the bus... this is the entertainment industry.
It is? Golly-gee, guess we shouldn't get so worked up about it then!
You'd all be better off not taking the bus at all, but instead you justify to yourself violating someone else's sense of impropriety for the sake of not having to walk an extra 15 feet.
See what I did there? It's not about the damn movies or tv shows or whatever. It's about generating a sense of artificial scarcity in order to drive more dollars in to the already grossly overflowing pot.
For lack of a better phrase, it's the principle of the thing. If anything highlights that, this story does, since canucks were happily paying to see the content they wanted (sure, once to Netflix and probably again to a VPN provider, but whatever). Sure, they can still PVR the content, or (often) stream it from the network website, or even purchase individual episodes through iTunes...meanwhile this exact same content is provided to the next door neighbor free of (additional) charge. How would your kids react if you give cake to one and kicks to the other, simply because one has a room on the north side of the house the other is in the south?
We the people grant you property rights and you use them to stop me from taking a picture of your car. No fair!
FTFY.
FTA:
"Spotify has not been hacked and our user records are secure. We monitor Pastebin and other sites regularly. When we find Spotify credentials, we first verify that they are authentic, and if they are, we immediately notify affected users to change their passwords."
Soo, if the site has not been hacked and user accounts are secure, then how are the credentials getting onto pastebin? Is Spotify giving them away voluntarily?
I've heard of extrapolating a process, or even inferring something unknown from known facts (sure, that could be a process). Heck, even "explicate" would work...but "implicate the process"?
Implicate it in what? Manslaughter? Conspiracy to defraud?
But you can hit mute and look out the window for ten seconds to do some thinking.
Then you'd better switch that brain off and start watching youtube again.
No wonder they say the current generation has no attention spa............haha, kitties!......
I ran into an unskippable Squatty Potty ad on YouTube about a month back.
What. The. Actual. Fuck.
Why is this even a thing??? Much less an advertised thing??? Do people really miss their squat toilets that much when they move to North America?
My faith in humanity dies a little more each day...
You'll get a small electric shock if you try that
More like the ad conveniently auto-pauses for you whenever the face recognition detects that you are looking elsewhere...so helpful! Also mandatory, so yay!
Personally, I think religions should not be protected, subsidized or otherwise treated in any special way at all. They should be treated as commercial enterprises and, in drastic cases, even as fraudulent schemes. Because that's what they are.
Or social clubs. Because that's what they really are.
There's a reason that surgeons "scrub" up.
Do I have the "blog" for you! :)
As I said, there are solutions to both global warming and peak oil, but you might not like them. Don't kill the messenger ;)
You missed the most important, and most difficult to swallow solution: reduce the population.. by a lot.
So are you saying that we should kill the messenger? Well, if it'll save the planet, I suppose...
So many flavors to choose from, and they chose to make it salty.
Mmmm...everything tastes like chocolate!
I would eat more salad, for sure...
Wow. Just wow.
Absolute elimination of stray voltage from livestock buildings has been the (sometimes elusive) goal of electrical designers for as long as livestock buildings have been supplied with electricity, and now we're inducing tingle voltages on purpose??
I guess cows know to stop drinking when they feel the tingle of electricity. People? Not so much...
And if my child can't follow my rules, then being able to break them is a vital part of maturing.
Whoa, don't break them! Just...bend them a little, they'll come back into line.
You can always break them later, if they jus won't larn ;)
Hey, you want to know how much this car costs, okay no problem sir no problem! This chart shows that it costs 0.5% less than the national average for cars of this general make, model and condition! I think sir can agree, this is a fantastic deal, yes?
Oh, you want to know actual, real dollar values? I'm sorry, we don't provide those, just the "simplified" and properly adjusted comparison to our completely honestly determined average values. But according to this chart we have the best prices in town, best price guaranteed!
Sir? Where do you go, Sir? I shall await your return here, yes?
The stock is a share in the corporation, so if the corporation has no net assets and is dissolving, then the stock is worthless.
Said another way, the stockholders get paid last (after creditors) when a corporation dissolves.
Ah yes, that's right. A stock is only 'worth' as much as someone is willing to pay for it.
Okay then, new proposal: to hold voting stock, a person would need to maintain in escrow personal funds equivalent to the highest share price over the last 12 months. These funds would need to be held in a bond or something equally secure (i.e., they can't be 'held' in more of the corporation's shares) and would then be surrendered to creditors et al if the corporation went under. The value of the held funds may not match the current share value over time, but at least it's something, a personal commitment to the well-being of the company they want to help govern.
While one could, I suppose, grant all shareholders pieces of the balance sheet based on the proportion of their ownership, it would be a very complicated system.
Isn't there such a thing as voting and non-voting stock?
I'd think that one solution would be that the entirety of the value of the voting stock could be considered corporate assets, to be distributed to creditors if the corporation is dissolved. That way the people who actually had the power to make things right but didn't can't simply run off with big sacks of money. Basically, if you want the power to make big money decisions, you must invest your own financial future in the corporation by purchasing risky voting stocks instead of the safer, non-voting stocks.
I know, it's likely oversimplified and idealistic...but wouldn't it be nice?
The post could have just been out pf boredom. Its Saturday and we're all here posting on Slashdot instead of having lives so it's safe to assume we dont have anything better to do. I'm just killing time at work myself.
Ah, fair enough, although I'm not nearly as magnanimous as you are. That could also have been from being stuck inside at work on a beautiful Saturday...
So, you claim your identity isn't tied to brand choice, yet you spend (I'm guessing) at least a half-hour railing on someone on /. for a mild, offhand insult to PC users by someone who prefers Apple? Sure...your sense of self worth is super secure, so long as it's tied firmly to the anti-apple bandwagon, apparently.
For the record, the only Apple device that I 'own' (and that is under protest) is my company phone, and that's only because Blackberry was the only other option. I have no patience for Apple and their smarmy walled garden business practices either (I can't copy a photo onto my phone without using iTunes? WTF Apple??) BUT, I don't run around looking for people that like their Apple products and write mini-essays telling them how insecure they are either...
I'm just sayin', so yeah, stones and glass houses and all that jazz.
Build ??????
ROTFLMAO.
Try :
Assemble standardised off the shelf parts that other people designed and built into a standardised case that someone else designed and built using a standardised OS and Games that other people designed and wrote.
built..... that process is just 1 step up from unpacking and plugging in a preassembled box.
Hey, some prefer a big mac, some prefer Harvey's, and some won't eat anything unless they've grown it (or raised it) themselves, completed all of the processing steps including churning the butter, canning the pickles and fermenting their own tabasco sauce. Of course, there's not a lot of the latter around, since they typically starve to death rather early on.
Me, I just want a damn burger.
Glass houses, dude.
You might want to ponder glass houses, tossing rocks, and the inherent advisability of performing said activities in such environments.
Don't do it!
...frig. Thanks for the annoying earworm just before bedtime! >:(
I can see why it was banned...
While disturbing, this news is by no means surprising.
Advertastards can wave their hands and shout "we're just trying to see what you like so we can send you info on stuff you might find interesting!" until they're blue in the face, but simply having the vast reams data considered 'necessary' to 'get to know' the vict^H^H^H^Hcustomer is too much temptation for some to resist.
Of course, political advertising is still, well, advertising, and they're still trying to sell something to you, even if it's only a predefined set of prejudices or empty promises. So I suppose in the broadest sense this is a legit business purpose for Dstillery...but the ramifications are just a wee bit chilling. The stakes on this sort of ad campaign are a bit higher than whether people buy a Ford or a Toyota, and the one that they don't 'buy' doesn't have access to a list of people who ultimately didn't buy what they were selling...
FTA:
As no central server exists, every additional user is a further point of connection inside the network, helping to avoid potential failures. If one of the connections fails, this does not necessarily compromise the entire downloads platform.
So...the 'user' goes dark? I know, I know, the user's connection goes dark...but for some reason the phasing tickled the morbid elf in me, picturing users keeling over at their consoles while the network perseveres... :)
"Given the colossal assemblage of stars in the universe, who is to notice when one flares and dies? Does the night sky lose luster, will the frantic twinkle of other stars pause in solemn contemplation of their fallen brother? Or does the cosmic ballet continue unabated, save for an imperceptible, incandescent solo performance, over nearly before it's begun?"
-- Anon