Good luck when they accuse you of shoplifting. There really is no good alternative to a paper receipt yet. Email is likely the closest thing and it ain't great.
...service agreement having terms saying that AT&T can sneak in the middle of the night and steal your and your family's organs, unless your cable TV company has already harvested them first. And the FCC allows such conditions.
Make license agreements great again!
PS - I agree wholeheartedly. The bottom line: metering always affects the bottom line. The heavier and more convoluted the more costly.
Anyone here remember Soekris boards? There have always been single board computers and test setups. Price may have varied from time to time, but they've pretty much always been available.
> If the person or company who owns the copyright uses it, gives work to other people, and isn't being a dick about suing everyone for patent troll reasons, why take it away from them?
Because copyright is not a "natural" inalienable right. Artificial censorship was never a right to begin with. Some argue censorship shouldn't even exist from a philosophical standpoint. Therefore, if it has some small usefulness for a short term, it must justify every inch of its existence to balance the costs it incurs and the harms it causes.
20 + life / 40 corporate should be far more than enough and 0 + life / 20 corporate might even be enough. DMCA and every extra control beyond "first sale": No thank you!
You're asking the question the wrong way. Steamboat Willie, unlike a person, is not innocent until proven guilty. Quite the opposite. Why should my tax-payer dollars waste expensive court time to enforce censorship on a 95 year old work of fiction to "promote progress of the useful arts and sciences"?
And that's the crux of another matter. Most intellectual property isn't used to collect fair and equitable royalties. 9 times out of 10 it's being used to censor information in a war against competitors and consumers alike. Look at Qualcomm and Apple. Look at Google and Sun (Oracle). And consider, those are some of the BEST and MOST FAIR corporations using copyright and trademark. And make no mistake, these are both fights about whether INTEROPERABILITY should be censored or not. None of these corporations needed to CRIB HOMEWORK to implement their platform. It is only an API or TEMPLATE they are forced to follow in order to standardize their industries as best they can.
Of course, how many politicians in this day and age actually even consider that every tax dollar is not "theirs" to do with as they please.
On top of that, Mozilla Foundation doesn't understand why javascript (ecmascript) should be an interpreted language and instead they compile javascript strait to exploitable machine code for performance. (Like everyone else, Chrome / Google do the same thing and that's pretty much the whole browser market right there.)
Mozilla is not who I'd be taking security advice from.
Hillary really wasn't careless. She did hire someone she trusted, evidently as much or more than the NSA etc, to secure her own private email server. She just did it herself. Possibly she's just very independent. Possibly she didn't want to constantly change servers every election cycle. Possibly she thinks her guy is better than the government tech workers. Possibly she wanted to hide something.
Was it illegal? I dunno, it doesn't seem like it was illegal when she set up the server.
If Trump wants to use one of the most user-friendly phones in existence it seems hard to blame him. It's a little like a CEO using MS Outlook. It may not be secure, it may not be technologically advanced or even standard, but darn if you can't do some amazing scheduling with the calendar. And double the darn if you add office automation.
NYT claims:
Mr. Trump keeps the personal phone, White House officials said, because unlike his other two phones, he can store his contacts in it.
Trump claims:
I only use Government Phones, and have only one seldom used government cell phone.
If NYT's claim were true, the only conclusion would be a laugh at the idea the NSA can't provide rudimentary contact list features.
Either way: If I were on the street and a random reporter tells me: "That guy drinks Pepsi." Then if I ask him and he claims to drink Coke, who do you think I'm going to believe? Of course if the reporter told me: "That politician drinks Pepsi." I'd probably just throw up my arms in disgust and walk away.
It's much more likely that your favored political figure is, in fact, a moron who is incapable of securing his own communications.
Do you think it is the CEO's job to secure his own telephone? Should that same CEO have to abandon his contact list from a perfectly standard iPhone with something like a 19% market share. You're calling the entire US government idiots. In particular every single person drawing any kind of pay from the government in any capacity involving technology. (Also the whole software industry especially telecommunictions, Apple etc. Though perhaps just stupidly greedy not idiotic. )
But you know. Enjoy it. You seem to enjoy denigrating others. Point that finger all you want and try to ignore the other 3 pointing back. We've got an infrastructure that can't transfer a list of names and 10-digit numbers. It is pretty freaking ridiculous.
Hey I think someone actually predicted this mess: The Right to Read.
Not to disagree here, but something is important not to forget:
labor that is not valuable
If it wasn't valuable, it wouldn't be paid for at all. Humans can do things and are still useful, even when under educated or untrained.
In the context of some people who make $25,000 per year vs some people who make $100,000 per year, it appears to make sense that the different labor involved could have different levels of value. However, when you then compare with someone making $155k per minute we're talking about societal gaming and barriers to entry not overall societal benefit.
For one thing, compare Jeff Bezo's contribution to society with Stephen Hawking or Albert Einstein. Or even just Vint Cerf or Tim Berners-Lee.
Also, at the "nearly useless" value of $35,000 / year in wages, construction workers build the cities we live in and the factories which enrich CEOs.
Face it. The economy is a game and some people are very very good at playing that game.
Platinum membership is a paltry $500k. Enough to keep the lights on in a couple server rooms, but not nearly $10 million. On revenues of $65 billion, it's actually kind of insulting.
So the VM envelope is broken and has vulnerabilities. That's a big deal and it's great it can be fixed. That makes sense. But how did it ever become a good idea to Just In Time compile javascript in the browser environment and rely on the hardware instruction set to keep us safe? That really seems like the major problem here. I don't see how anyone could ever expect to run potentially hostile web scripts at full native speed. Nor why they would want to if they bother to stop and think about it.
I know I have to let users see some dancing bunnies sometimes, but do the bunnies have to dance fast? Especially so fast they can't pause for some basic software bounds-checking.
If words like ephemeral meant ANYTHING to copyright the DMCA would never have passed because DVD makers would not have been scared of getting sued into oblivion for making partial temporary "copies" in memory of movies while playing them.
Honestly, notepad is great even for large files etc. The only application I can think of that handles large files much much better than Notepad is Fhred but that's a hex editor and it cheats by not actually opening the entire file when it's not needed.
I just wish they'ed fix the confusing rendering bugs that occur if you save a word-wrapped file then edit the last few lines then save again. Since WIndows 2000 or XP when they broke that I only use notepad with word-wrap turned off.
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Good luck when they accuse you of shoplifting. There really is no good alternative to a paper receipt yet. Email is likely the closest thing and it ain't great.
Or let's assume everyone likes to be hacked. It's not like QR codes are hyperlinks or that browsers are vulnerable...
And if your definition of nice fit EVERYONES definition of nice, you'd have solved an NP impossible problem. Aha! So that's their angle.
Yes, let's please put all our faith in cryptography we know will become 100% obsolete with the proper implementation of quantum computers.
Paper may be the foundation of civilization, but it can get wet and burn so it must not be nearly as safe or secure.
> Start throwing cops in jail when they shoot someone...
Or maybe try training them before making them cops. Like they do in other countries.
21 weeks vs 2-3 years. What could possibly be wrong with that...
...service agreement having terms saying that AT&T can sneak in the middle of the night and steal your and your family's organs, unless your cable TV company has already harvested them first. And the FCC allows such conditions.
Make license agreements great again!
PS - I agree wholeheartedly.
The bottom line: metering always affects the bottom line. The heavier and more convoluted the more costly.
Anyone here remember Soekris boards? There have always been single board computers and test setups. Price may have varied from time to time, but they've pretty much always been available.
> If the person or company who owns the copyright uses it, gives work to other people, and isn't being a dick about suing everyone for patent troll reasons, why take it away from them?
Because copyright is not a "natural" inalienable right. Artificial censorship was never a right to begin with. Some argue censorship shouldn't even exist from a philosophical standpoint. Therefore, if it has some small usefulness for a short term, it must justify every inch of its existence to balance the costs it incurs and the harms it causes.
20 + life / 40 corporate should be far more than enough and 0 + life / 20 corporate might even be enough. DMCA and every extra control beyond "first sale": No thank you!
You're asking the question the wrong way. Steamboat Willie, unlike a person, is not innocent until proven guilty. Quite the opposite. Why should my tax-payer dollars waste expensive court time to enforce censorship on a 95 year old work of fiction to "promote progress of the useful arts and sciences"?
And that's the crux of another matter. Most intellectual property isn't used to collect fair and equitable royalties. 9 times out of 10 it's being used to censor information in a war against competitors and consumers alike. Look at Qualcomm and Apple. Look at Google and Sun (Oracle). And consider, those are some of the BEST and MOST FAIR corporations using copyright and trademark. And make no mistake, these are both fights about whether INTEROPERABILITY should be censored or not. None of these corporations needed to CRIB HOMEWORK to implement their platform. It is only an API or TEMPLATE they are forced to follow in order to standardize their industries as best they can.
Of course, how many politicians in this day and age actually even consider that every tax dollar is not "theirs" to do with as they please.
Who would have thought that web servers hosting text and images would *gasp* get your IP address...
It's not like we have any geo location technology to find out location by IP or anything, especially here in the US.
On top of that, Mozilla Foundation doesn't understand why javascript (ecmascript) should be an interpreted language and instead they compile javascript strait to exploitable machine code for performance. (Like everyone else, Chrome / Google do the same thing and that's pretty much the whole browser market right there.)
Mozilla is not who I'd be taking security advice from.
https://www.ted.com/talks/tim_...
So this was a talk he gave in 2014. Up to the minute news here on Slashdot now eh?
Hillary really wasn't careless. She did hire someone she trusted, evidently as much or more than the NSA etc, to secure her own private email server. She just did it herself. Possibly she's just very independent. Possibly she didn't want to constantly change servers every election cycle. Possibly she thinks her guy is better than the government tech workers. Possibly she wanted to hide something.
Was it illegal? I dunno, it doesn't seem like it was illegal when she set up the server.
If Trump wants to use one of the most user-friendly phones in existence it seems hard to blame him. It's a little like a CEO using MS Outlook. It may not be secure, it may not be technologically advanced or even standard, but darn if you can't do some amazing scheduling with the calendar. And double the darn if you add office automation.
NYT claims:
Mr. Trump keeps the personal phone, White House officials said, because unlike his other two phones, he can store his contacts in it.
Trump claims:
I only use Government Phones, and have only one seldom used government cell phone.
If NYT's claim were true, the only conclusion would be a laugh at the idea the NSA can't provide rudimentary contact list features.
Either way: If I were on the street and a random reporter tells me: "That guy drinks Pepsi." Then if I ask him and he claims to drink Coke, who do you think I'm going to believe? Of course if the reporter told me: "That politician drinks Pepsi." I'd probably just throw up my arms in disgust and walk away.
It's much more likely that your favored political figure is, in fact, a moron who is incapable of securing his own communications.
Do you think it is the CEO's job to secure his own telephone? Should that same CEO have to abandon his contact list from a perfectly standard iPhone with something like a 19% market share. You're calling the entire US government idiots. In particular every single person drawing any kind of pay from the government in any capacity involving technology. (Also the whole software industry especially telecommunictions, Apple etc. Though perhaps just stupidly greedy not idiotic. )
But you know. Enjoy it. You seem to enjoy denigrating others. Point that finger all you want and try to ignore the other 3 pointing back. We've got an infrastructure that can't transfer a list of names and 10-digit numbers. It is pretty freaking ridiculous.
Hey I think someone actually predicted this mess: The Right to Read.
boss / lackey
dispatch / responder
Not to disagree here, but something is important not to forget:
labor that is not valuable
If it wasn't valuable, it wouldn't be paid for at all. Humans can do things and are still useful, even when under educated or untrained.
In the context of some people who make $25,000 per year vs some people who make $100,000 per year, it appears to make sense that the different labor involved could have different levels of value. However, when you then compare with someone making $155k per minute we're talking about societal gaming and barriers to entry not overall societal benefit.
For one thing, compare Jeff Bezo's contribution to society with Stephen Hawking or Albert Einstein. Or even just Vint Cerf or Tim Berners-Lee.
Also, at the "nearly useless" value of $35,000 / year in wages, construction workers build the cities we live in and the factories which enrich CEOs.
Face it. The economy is a game and some people are very very good at playing that game.
Platinum membership is a paltry $500k. Enough to keep the lights on in a couple server rooms, but not nearly $10 million. On revenues of $65 billion, it's actually kind of insulting.
So the VM envelope is broken and has vulnerabilities. That's a big deal and it's great it can be fixed. That makes sense. But how did it ever become a good idea to Just In Time compile javascript in the browser environment and rely on the hardware instruction set to keep us safe? That really seems like the major problem here. I don't see how anyone could ever expect to run potentially hostile web scripts at full native speed. Nor why they would want to if they bother to stop and think about it.
I know I have to let users see some dancing bunnies sometimes, but do the bunnies have to dance fast? Especially so fast they can't pause for some basic software bounds-checking.
1998 called, they want their DMCA back.
If words like ephemeral meant ANYTHING to copyright the DMCA would never have passed because DVD makers would not have been scared of getting sued into oblivion for making partial temporary "copies" in memory of movies while playing them.
Yeah, since Starbucks already made being black obsolete, they might as well replace libraries too...
Yeesh, how did Forbes of all places decide to publish that article.
it's a sad state of affairs that a parasite like a streamer is now considered a 'business partner' with the gaming company.
It's almost as bad as those parasites broadcasting physical game coverage, like the NFL for example.
I wouldn't be in a room with her without a witness present.
In the workplace, that's pretty much par for the course for any woman nowadays. Not to mention some men.
Why would anyone use vim in cygwin? Just go to vim.org and get the win32 gVIm yeesh.
Happily editing a 99 meg text file created in Notepad. It does take about 20 seconds to launch notepad to open it, but otherwise it works great.
Honestly, notepad is great even for large files etc. The only application I can think of that handles large files much much better than Notepad is Fhred but that's a hex editor and it cheats by not actually opening the entire file when it's not needed.
I just wish they'ed fix the confusing rendering bugs that occur if you save a word-wrapped file then edit the last few lines then save again. Since WIndows 2000 or XP when they broke that I only use notepad with word-wrap turned off.