Piracy will only take a huge hit when ISPs become liable for pirated content.
And why the hell should that ever happen? You trying to put the ISPs out of business? Since I see them as a single point of failure in the battle against censorship, that might not be a bad idea. It'll make room for real alternatives...
All of my data (documents, etc) is accessible to my standard user account, as it rather has to be, and malware could do me way more harm by fucking with that than it could do as root.
What? No offline backup? You're just asking for trouble...
If that's not a clear enough explanation, try this, go to your boss and tell him he's going to do what you say or you're going to withhold a portion of his funds do you. Go on, I'll wait...
Well see? You got it backwards. We are their boss. We have the power to fire them (vote them off the island). We only need to use it to send a message. At this point in the game it is we who reward their corruption. This democracy stuff is high maintenance. You gotta work it during the "off" season too. If you are only going to show up once every two years expecting miracles, you are in for a big disappointment.
Ok, here you go. This is the "screen shot" comment, and the other link you gave also shows up fine. The thing is they were made long after the 250th comment in the thread. If you go back to the original story. Hit the "Load next 500 Comments" Button until all the comments are loaded and visible. The thread contains 949 comments so you will need to hit the button at least twice. Then you will see those comments also.
As I've said elsewhere, there's no practical benefit to having one...
Sure there is. They make great throw away accounts to collect spam from all the porn sites you have registered with.. And personally, I like that you can white list your inbox to contacts only. Nobody else offers that. And there is the 15gb of storage..
None of this really matters. The entire internet is being heavily monitored. A connected machine is not safe from any of it.
Besides, using Win 10 without a touch screen kinda defeats the point of having it at all. Win 7 will die off with the hardware that can run it unless it's done in a VM. I sure wish EOL meant the end of copyright/patent privileges so independent support could continue.
We just have to make them smaller and harder to see. We can also shape them differently so they don't look like drones. We can't just let the government do all the spying. We have to be able to spy on them too. A balance of power must be maintained.
Yeah well, Slashdot is not IBM. I personally just don't understand the whining.. The workarounds are trivial. And besides we can do perfectly fine without the emojis.. Slashdot is a typewriter (just not an IBM one), let's learn to deal with it and be happy with extended ASCII. *256 characters is enough for everybody* Unicode will only draw more flies and it takes up too much space.
No, it was the Scientology publication thing. Slashdot got cold feet over copyright. I have yet to see anything else removed, and I do check occasionally by saving a copy (not a screen shot, click on the comment number and save the actual comment - Ctrl+S to save the URL) on my machine. Everybody should do this just to make sure and them post the results in a JE or something. Unfortunately the Journal section is completely flooded with spam now, so it will be a long search, but even those I don't want to see deleted because that decision would become political also.
To ensure you see all the comments, just be sure to set both thresholds to -1. You have to do it manually each time you open the page if you're not logged in. The moderation system here is one of the best in the business to mitigate forum poisoning, but there can still can be some abuse. And don't forget, the page only loads up to 250 comments until you hit the "Load All Comments" button.
I'll refrain from posting it as I'm actually glad that it did end up the way it ended up...
Evidence is required. You gotta be willing to name names and "show pics" if you are going to be believable, otherwise expect to be blown off:-)
The states have no influence over their DC representation and haven't since the passage of the Seventeenth Amendment.
That is total nonsense. The DC reps just need to know they won't win their next election if they don't conform to voter demands, but the voters aren't demanding anything except some fat federal contract or other handout. They have abdicated their power for convenience and expediency to the financial industry that the politicians respond to. The 17th Amendment didn't change anything except procedure. It didn't make the government any more or less corrupt.
You know, if the states are so against it, they should demand that their reps in DC vote it down or repeal it. But, they don't. The "outrage" is a political facade to win statewide elections. They will comply, while weakly grumbling to the press.
Slashdot Mirror
Well, I'm sorry. You have to keep it offline...
ain't no condom strong enough...
Could someone explain the summary in plain English?
Crybaby publisher is scapegoating Google for for unauthorized distribution of works.
Piracy will only take a huge hit when ISPs become liable for pirated content.
And why the hell should that ever happen? You trying to put the ISPs out of business? Since I see them as a single point of failure in the battle against censorship, that might not be a bad idea. It'll make room for real alternatives...
I do believe White Castle has prior art on that one.
And when do we get our damn 3D printers to make our own hardware that can't be controlled by the authorities?
All of my data (documents, etc) is accessible to my standard user account, as it rather has to be, and malware could do me way more harm by fucking with that than it could do as root.
What? No offline backup? You're just asking for trouble...
If that's not a clear enough explanation, try this, go to your boss and tell him he's going to do what you say or you're going to withhold a portion of his funds do you. Go on, I'll wait...
Well see? You got it backwards. We are their boss. We have the power to fire them (vote them off the island). We only need to use it to send a message. At this point in the game it is we who reward their corruption. This democracy stuff is high maintenance. You gotta work it during the "off" season too. If you are only going to show up once every two years expecting miracles, you are in for a big disappointment.
By the way, save your AC comments locally in the same fashion previously explained in order it retrieve it along with any responses it may have.
Ok, here you go. This is the "screen shot" comment, and the other link you gave also shows up fine. The thing is they were made long after the 250th comment in the thread. If you go back to the original story. Hit the "Load next 500 Comments" Button until all the comments are loaded and visible. The thread contains 949 comments so you will need to hit the button at least twice. Then you will see those comments also.
I just don't see the urgency. The system works. There are also some small security issues that maybe they don't want to deal with.
:-) I wouldn't know. Is there such a thing?
I'm not preaching anything. That is your chosen avocation...
You mean like Trump?
What? I can't? They're going cashless? Oh well, can I offer my goat as payment?
As I've said elsewhere, there's no practical benefit to having one...
Sure there is. They make great throw away accounts to collect spam from all the porn sites you have registered with.. And personally, I like that you can white list your inbox to contacts only. Nobody else offers that. And there is the 15gb of storage..
None of this really matters. The entire internet is being heavily monitored. A connected machine is not safe from any of it.
Besides, using Win 10 without a touch screen kinda defeats the point of having it at all. Win 7 will die off with the hardware that can run it unless it's done in a VM. I sure wish EOL meant the end of copyright/patent privileges so independent support could continue.
They could have kept all those shuttle tanks in orbit. They would make a perfect habitat.
We just have to make them smaller and harder to see. We can also shape them differently so they don't look like drones. We can't just let the government do all the spying. We have to be able to spy on them too. A balance of power must be maintained.
Yeah well, Slashdot is not IBM. I personally just don't understand the whining.. The workarounds are trivial. And besides we can do perfectly fine without the emojis.. Slashdot is a typewriter (just not an IBM one), let's learn to deal with it and be happy with extended ASCII. *256 characters is enough for everybody* Unicode will only draw more flies and it takes up too much space.
Your vision is clouded and distorted by cultural Solipsism. The "other" does not exist. There is only you and yours.
Context is a human thing
No, it was the Scientology publication thing. Slashdot got cold feet over copyright. I have yet to see anything else removed, and I do check occasionally by saving a copy (not a screen shot, click on the comment number and save the actual comment - Ctrl+S to save the URL) on my machine. Everybody should do this just to make sure and them post the results in a JE or something. Unfortunately the Journal section is completely flooded with spam now, so it will be a long search, but even those I don't want to see deleted because that decision would become political also.
To ensure you see all the comments, just be sure to set both thresholds to -1. You have to do it manually each time you open the page if you're not logged in. The moderation system here is one of the best in the business to mitigate forum poisoning, but there can still can be some abuse. And don't forget, the page only loads up to 250 comments until you hit the "Load All Comments" button.
I'll refrain from posting it as I'm actually glad that it did end up the way it ended up...
Evidence is required. You gotta be willing to name names and "show pics" if you are going to be believable, otherwise expect to be blown off :-)
They can be made beholden to the voters. Man! I just cannot believe how people like to pass the blame. That is the primary problem here.
The states have no influence over their DC representation and haven't since the passage of the Seventeenth Amendment.
That is total nonsense. The DC reps just need to know they won't win their next election if they don't conform to voter demands, but the voters aren't demanding anything except some fat federal contract or other handout. They have abdicated their power for convenience and expediency to the financial industry that the politicians respond to. The 17th Amendment didn't change anything except procedure. It didn't make the government any more or less corrupt.
You know, if the states are so against it, they should demand that their reps in DC vote it down or repeal it. But, they don't. The "outrage" is a political facade to win statewide elections. They will comply, while weakly grumbling to the press.