Not really lost. We just have to "opt in" the entire ministry. We have cameras too. Let's make good use of the system. Since we can't stop the spying, let's just do what we can to remove the state's advantage.
The law is really irrelevant, aside from acquiring strength through numbers. All your "rights" depend on the self restraint of those with the ability to violate them, regardless what the contract says. The philosophizing is a nice way to spend the day at the pub, but from every angle, in this universe might still makes right.
As far as cell phones are concerned, the artists are only hurting themselves, but their contract might also demand it. Personally, I think they should be allowed, at least to film something interesting that might pop up somewhere offstage. Besides, if we can't have our phones, we'll find another way. Big Brother, Little Brother, everybody is watching. Nobody gets the advantage. That's how to protect your rights
It may have been designed to be open, but in practice it suffers a deep mono-culture of protocols (DNS and DHCP) and a lack of redundancy, especially at the proverbial "last mile", where the ISP can 'drop anchor' on your connection on a whim. It is still not an ad hoc network, which it needs to be if it is to be truly open, and if you want to keep it from breaking.
What will happen is that many municipalities will see a dramatic loss of income from traffic and parking* violations. That could indeed be devastating. People are gonna have to fire up the old still and go back to bootlegging to make a couple of bucks.
*since the car can go off to find a space by itself, or simply drive around the block a few times.
The whole concept of car "ownership" will have to change. Autonomous vehicles will have to be operated more like a public on-demand service, like an elevator. Push a button on your phone, a vehicle shows up at the door, and off you go, the cost deducted from your card. It will have to be profitable to operate but the market must be open to real competition, even with state run operations. Otherwise service will be too selective.
Your market collective sounds like a bunch of commies. Why should they decide what I can buy?
What is the next thing, forcing companies to repair stuff regardless of the economics of it?
No, the simple solution is to revoke all copyright and patent privileges from the product so that anybody can legally repair or sell replacements. See, the idea here is make sure we have an open market. We can't let people with all the money use government resources to close it off from the rest of us.
Leave it to the Huffington Post to somehow blame lobbyists without blaming the people they lobby.
Yeah well, don't blame them either. Unless you plan on voting them out, it makes you look fat. With a 95% reelection rate, the blame obviously lies elsewhere. The voters are rewarding bad behavior. Nothing can possibly change until that issue is acknowledged and dealt with.
Their "ownership" is really a government granted license, a privilege. And it can and should be revoked when they abuse it. End of life and end of the copyright license should occur at the same time.
the original vendor should be required to make their software maintainable past any business motivated EOL.
The only way to do that is to revoke their copyright privileges so that somebody else can maintain it if they don't want to. *End of life* should mean end of copyright protections. Let's get a ballot referendum on it.
Does a temporary ban on immigration from conflict areas still seem unreasonable?
Yes. It is far more reasonable to stop financing the conflict. But market dominance in the arms trade takes precedence. The immigration charade is a diversion.
Yeah, it's already too easy to make shit up, and it's the listeners who believe and act in bad faith that are to blame for making it so easy. Everybody is wagging the dog.
All connected computers are "in the cloud", by default. The entire internet is a giant party line. The doc's server is just as vulnerable. RDP? My god! How can the cloud be any worse?
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And you can keep that right, as long as you can defend it. They aren't some magical force field that keeps the cops away.
Go back to 1860 and ponder that question.
I want to see how this cat and mouse game plays out. Ultimately they will have to force the ISPs to drop encrypted packets.
Not really lost. We just have to "opt in" the entire ministry. We have cameras too. Let's make good use of the system. Since we can't stop the spying, let's just do what we can to remove the state's advantage.
The law is really irrelevant, aside from acquiring strength through numbers. All your "rights" depend on the self restraint of those with the ability to violate them, regardless what the contract says. The philosophizing is a nice way to spend the day at the pub, but from every angle, in this universe might still makes right.
As far as cell phones are concerned, the artists are only hurting themselves, but their contract might also demand it. Personally, I think they should be allowed, at least to film something interesting that might pop up somewhere offstage. Besides, if we can't have our phones, we'll find another way. Big Brother, Little Brother, everybody is watching. Nobody gets the advantage. That's how to protect your rights
It may have been designed to be open, but in practice it suffers a deep mono-culture of protocols (DNS and DHCP) and a lack of redundancy, especially at the proverbial "last mile", where the ISP can 'drop anchor' on your connection on a whim. It is still not an ad hoc network, which it needs to be if it is to be truly open, and if you want to keep it from breaking.
The expiration of copyright on a compiled work doesn't make the work easily maintainable.
Easier than the present circumstance. All legal prohibitions against working on and distributing it are removed. That's a big step.
Well, every two years we have the opportunity to fix that, but for the life of me, I don't know why it hasn't happened yet.
They can sell anything.
What will happen is that many municipalities will see a dramatic loss of income from traffic and parking* violations. That could indeed be devastating. People are gonna have to fire up the old still and go back to bootlegging to make a couple of bucks.
*since the car can go off to find a space by itself, or simply drive around the block a few times.
The whole concept of car "ownership" will have to change. Autonomous vehicles will have to be operated more like a public on-demand service, like an elevator. Push a button on your phone, a vehicle shows up at the door, and off you go, the cost deducted from your card. It will have to be profitable to operate but the market must be open to real competition, even with state run operations. Otherwise service will be too selective.
Lose their captive market? The people will just have to move on to a different line of work. And there are other things to insure besides cars.
Be sure to tune in next week, when Doris gets her oats...
We turn our computers off at night...
Sheep stew cooked up by our very own oligarchy
Actually, the sheep are doing the cooking and serving themselves.
The bill should be called 'an entitlement to have something provided to the bigger block of voters at the expense of a smaller block of voters' bill.
Welcome to the West, comrade!
Your market collective sounds like a bunch of commies. Why should they decide what I can buy?
What is the next thing, forcing companies to repair stuff regardless of the economics of it?
No, the simple solution is to revoke all copyright and patent privileges from the product so that anybody can legally repair or sell replacements. See, the idea here is make sure we have an open market. We can't let people with all the money use government resources to close it off from the rest of us.
Leave it to the Huffington Post to somehow blame lobbyists without blaming the people they lobby.
Yeah well, don't blame them either. Unless you plan on voting them out, it makes you look fat. With a 95% reelection rate, the blame obviously lies elsewhere. The voters are rewarding bad behavior. Nothing can possibly change until that issue is acknowledged and dealt with.
Eminent domain. Works for land, it can work for copyrights and patents. And yes, American courts have done so.
Their "ownership" is really a government granted license, a privilege. And it can and should be revoked when they abuse it. End of life and end of the copyright license should occur at the same time.
the original vendor should be required to make their software maintainable past any business motivated EOL.
The only way to do that is to revoke their copyright privileges so that somebody else can maintain it if they don't want to. *End of life* should mean end of copyright protections. Let's get a ballot referendum on it.
This week they're financing Al Qaeda, and get very upset when the Russians bomb them.
:-) Whose router?
Does a temporary ban on immigration from conflict areas still seem unreasonable?
Yes. It is far more reasonable to stop financing the conflict. But market dominance in the arms trade takes precedence. The immigration charade is a diversion.
Yeah, it's already too easy to make shit up, and it's the listeners who believe and act in bad faith that are to blame for making it so easy. Everybody is wagging the dog.
All connected computers are "in the cloud", by default. The entire internet is a giant party line. The doc's server is just as vulnerable. RDP? My god! How can the cloud be any worse?