As soon as anybody can start making set top boxes, somebody will make one that can easily be hacked to ignore all the various restrictions on recording, if not just market one that does that. And skipping commercials. And when that happens, the various networks are going to raise their fees to the cable companies.
Traditional television is dying, because nobody gives a shit any more. And frankly. good riddance.
I wish I had mod points. California is pretty strict on both sides of its "right to work" laws, and what Google and Apple did should have resulted in prison sentences for executives at every company involved. Not morally "should have," but legally "should have." They committed serious crimes.
Unfortunately, in California, you can't put rich people in prison, especially if they're also famous.
When the web page contains ads that include malware, in fact, yes, the web page does visit you. In much the same way diarrhea visits you after you visit the wrong hotel in Mexico.
And since distributing malware is a very serious crime, the visiting public is entirely justified in protecting itself.
Only an accomplice would argue otherwise. Since arguing otherwise makes one an accomplice.
The easier regulation is to hold the router owner responsible for everything that passes through it, which will, of course, include child porn and terrorism.
I spent a number of years working in the plumbing industry. There were a lot of imports (more Korean in those days than Chinese, but the same principles apply) , and a lot of domestic production, and lots of opportunity to compare.
And the import stuff was all over the place in quality. The good stuff was every bit as good as the US made stuff. The cheap stuff was crap. The difference was in what the importer (the US company, that is) ordered. The difference in manufacturing is that the Korean factories had a lower level of quality they were willing to produce than their US counterparts, so they had a lower price. The importers, as often as not, had no clue what the difference was between a $1 pipe fitting and a $10 pipe fitting, so they ordered the cheap one. But if you ordered the good stuff, it was top quality. And top price, because it took just as many man hours to make in Korea as it did in the US. The man hours were cheaper, sure, but then you had to pay to ship it here, so it evened out. The top quality was about the same price, no matter where it was made.
The failure wasn't a disconnect between the designers and the factory, the failure was between US management and the real world.
Because the computer is ours, and not Microsofts? And that is really the only reason we need. But if you want more details:
Because there are no hardware drivers for our cash register receipt printers for Windows 8 or 10, and no receipt printers supported by our vendor that do have drivers. It would cost us seven figures to change to a different POS system, and no other POS system is properly supported by our franchise.
Ergo, if Windows 10 installs, we are literally out of business, with no viable options.
We bought Windows 7 with an explicit, published promise from Microsoft that it would be supported until 2020. Now they are trying to take away nearly four years of usable life. That's fraud, plain and simple. Isn't fraud a predicate offense for RICO lawsuits? (Which, BTW, would treat any license provisions that prohibit class actions lawsuits as evidence of fraudulent intent, I suspect.)
If I could be bothered to get a smart phone, I still wouldn't be interested in buying a web page that pretends to be a novel, and even if I were, I certainly wouldn't add the security hazard of an app created by a bunch of penny pinching morons, which is all that's left in the publishing industry.
But if the publishers (and established authors) can convince their market that this is the New Bestest Thing Evar, then all novels have to be published this way or they're too "crude and amateurish." And that means that the self-publishing authors, who have zero barrier to entry in to the market, can no longer afford to self publish, because who can afford all the multi-media crap that adds nothing to the value of the novel?
This isn't a new idea. Publishers have been desperately trying to find a way to keep people from eliminating the middle man since Kindle made it big. Multi-media crap is the most obvious way, since it's too much work for one person to do alone, and too expensive for the self publisher to buy done. Unfortunately, for publishers, it adss nothing to the novel reader, and this scheme/scam will fail just like the multi-media schemes/scams before it.
People who want multi-media will buy DVDs of movies, not web pages that pretend to be novels.
It's a pity that publishers aren't willing to try the one value added service that will actually appeal to readers: actual, you know, editing and shit, like they used to do, so that their product doesn't suck donkey balls.
Simple. If you use a phone, you use someone else's network, and do things that are impossible for them to let you do without them knowing what you're doing. You can't call someone without the phone company knowing who you're calling.
And the internet is a public place, period. Don't do anything on the internet that you wouldn't do in your front yard, with the neighbors watching.
If you don't like it, tough. The rules of reality don't need your approval.
It isn't the being reported that's a problem. It's the report being taken seriously instead being a joke on the office bulletin board that's a problem.
I agree completely. When a liberal wants to use any means necessary to silence political, religion, or any opinion they disagree with, it is hatred and bigotry, of the most dangerous kind.
It's the silent, invisible "that we disagree with" at the end of their list of banned speech that's disagreeable, because it's always there. It's inherent to all web for a that someone owns it, and controls what goes there.
And in the end, banning speech you disagree with on a private web site is free speech. It's their web site, they can make it suck throbbing purple donkey dick in any way they want.
The first abuse will by spammers and con artists. We know they'll be first, because they've been using chatbots for years. All dating sites use them, or have fraudsters using them who do. I've had email chatbots respond to ads on Craig's List, too.
I expect these new ones will be a decade behind in sophistication, permanently.
Well you can also sell electricity while keeping the inner workings of your box secret.
If you're generating enough power to get rich, by definition, you're not keeping it secret. And the regulators will come knocking on your door, wanting to know a) what the waste products are, b) what you are doing with said waste products, and c) what effect that has on the environment.
Real cold fusion would have very good answers to those questions. Fake cold fusion would involve a lot of pollutants being illegal (and criminally) dumped somewhere.
So no, you can't sell the electricity while keeping it secret.
The reason cold fusion isn't taken seriously is because it's been a consistent source of bullshit, lies, data manipulation, outright fraud, and bogus explanations.
And incompetence. Don't forget incompetence.
Cold fusion didn't just lose credibility because of Fleischmann and Pons. It's lost credibility because of the 26 years of its history too. A lot of the time, reputable scientists do attempt to verify and duplicate the claims of the cold fusion people only to be rapidly turned away. The cold fusion people don't *want* real experts looking at their work. They want gullible idiots and journalists.
If I had cold fusion i would keep it secret at all cost and cash in.
How, pray tell, would you do so? You "cash in" by selling working units, which, by definition is not secret.
What you propose is, literally, the very definition of pseudoscience.
If someone that can hide such a discovery claims to have it, that's a very good reason to doubt it.
However the claim of pseudoscience is as far as I can see unfounded. What's your references for that claim. It probably isn't possible to do cold fusion but that doesn't make it pseudoscience.
What makes it pseudoscience is that a) no one has every had results that could be reproduced by other researchers, and b) everyone working in the field today is not interested in publishing their results, patenting the design, and selling working units. Most are only interested in collecting money from investors without doing those things.
National retailers who do their own software, like Target (who had a hell of an incentive) and Home Depot (who also had a hell of an incentive) are ahead of the curve. Anybody who relies on software vendors for their processing software is at said company's mercy, and the software companies (who end up on the hook for any expensive mistakes) are very cautious. Our vendor didn't like the beta testing, and decided to not throw us in to the Christmas season with software they weren't confident in. We did not disagree.
There is no difference to the consumer. Their protections are legal, not technical (and if you believe otherwise, you probably need a more honest bank). The only difference is some liability on disputed transactions shifts from the merchant service or card holder's bank to the merchant, and if the merchant is at all competent, that's a small difference.
The reason it was easier in Europe was that fewer people have credit cards there, and it cost less. When the terminals cost the better part of a grand apiece, it's a huge expense to change them out. That, and inertia, and a certain amount of stupidity.
What Posner advocates is an attack on the most fundamental principles of the United States. He should be sent a warning by the government about that, and if he continues to advocate such dangerous actions, he should be fined or imprisoned.
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I think you just concluded the exact opposite of what I wrote. But I'm not sure, because you're fairly incoherent.
As soon as anybody can start making set top boxes, somebody will make one that can easily be hacked to ignore all the various restrictions on recording, if not just market one that does that. And skipping commercials. And when that happens, the various networks are going to raise their fees to the cable companies.
Traditional television is dying, because nobody gives a shit any more. And frankly. good riddance.
I wish I had mod points. California is pretty strict on both sides of its "right to work" laws, and what Google and Apple did should have resulted in prison sentences for executives at every company involved. Not morally "should have," but legally "should have." They committed serious crimes.
Unfortunately, in California, you can't put rich people in prison, especially if they're also famous.
When the web page contains ads that include malware, in fact, yes, the web page does visit you. In much the same way diarrhea visits you after you visit the wrong hotel in Mexico.
And since distributing malware is a very serious crime, the visiting public is entirely justified in protecting itself.
Only an accomplice would argue otherwise. Since arguing otherwise makes one an accomplice.
The easier regulation is to hold the router owner responsible for everything that passes through it, which will, of course, include child porn and terrorism.
I spent a number of years working in the plumbing industry. There were a lot of imports (more Korean in those days than Chinese, but the same principles apply) , and a lot of domestic production, and lots of opportunity to compare.
And the import stuff was all over the place in quality. The good stuff was every bit as good as the US made stuff. The cheap stuff was crap. The difference was in what the importer (the US company, that is) ordered. The difference in manufacturing is that the Korean factories had a lower level of quality they were willing to produce than their US counterparts, so they had a lower price. The importers, as often as not, had no clue what the difference was between a $1 pipe fitting and a $10 pipe fitting, so they ordered the cheap one. But if you ordered the good stuff, it was top quality. And top price, because it took just as many man hours to make in Korea as it did in the US. The man hours were cheaper, sure, but then you had to pay to ship it here, so it evened out. The top quality was about the same price, no matter where it was made.
The failure wasn't a disconnect between the designers and the factory, the failure was between US management and the real world.
Because the computer is ours, and not Microsofts? And that is really the only reason we need. But if you want more details:
Because there are no hardware drivers for our cash register receipt printers for Windows 8 or 10, and no receipt printers supported by our vendor that do have drivers. It would cost us seven figures to change to a different POS system, and no other POS system is properly supported by our franchise.
Ergo, if Windows 10 installs, we are literally out of business, with no viable options.
We bought Windows 7 with an explicit, published promise from Microsoft that it would be supported until 2020. Now they are trying to take away nearly four years of usable life. That's fraud, plain and simple. Isn't fraud a predicate offense for RICO lawsuits? (Which, BTW, would treat any license provisions that prohibit class actions lawsuits as evidence of fraudulent intent, I suspect.)
If I could be bothered to get a smart phone, I still wouldn't be interested in buying a web page that pretends to be a novel, and even if I were, I certainly wouldn't add the security hazard of an app created by a bunch of penny pinching morons, which is all that's left in the publishing industry.
Though there's that, too.
But if the publishers (and established authors) can convince their market that this is the New Bestest Thing Evar, then all novels have to be published this way or they're too "crude and amateurish." And that means that the self-publishing authors, who have zero barrier to entry in to the market, can no longer afford to self publish, because who can afford all the multi-media crap that adds nothing to the value of the novel?
This isn't a new idea. Publishers have been desperately trying to find a way to keep people from eliminating the middle man since Kindle made it big. Multi-media crap is the most obvious way, since it's too much work for one person to do alone, and too expensive for the self publisher to buy done. Unfortunately, for publishers, it adss nothing to the novel reader, and this scheme/scam will fail just like the multi-media schemes/scams before it.
People who want multi-media will buy DVDs of movies, not web pages that pretend to be novels.
It's a pity that publishers aren't willing to try the one value added service that will actually appeal to readers: actual, you know, editing and shit, like they used to do, so that their product doesn't suck donkey balls.
Simple. If you use a phone, you use someone else's network, and do things that are impossible for them to let you do without them knowing what you're doing. You can't call someone without the phone company knowing who you're calling.
And the internet is a public place, period. Don't do anything on the internet that you wouldn't do in your front yard, with the neighbors watching.
If you don't like it, tough. The rules of reality don't need your approval.
Even Reddit learned the folly of such thinking. Eventually.
As do people who can't read any opinion they disagree with without feeling threatened.
Your reply is after his post, so no, he's the second to latest.
It isn't the being reported that's a problem. It's the report being taken seriously instead being a joke on the office bulletin board that's a problem.
Spoken like a true (and obedient) SJW . . .
I agree completely. When a liberal wants to use any means necessary to silence political, religion, or any opinion they disagree with, it is hatred and bigotry, of the most dangerous kind.
It's the silent, invisible "that we disagree with" at the end of their list of banned speech that's disagreeable, because it's always there. It's inherent to all web for a that someone owns it, and controls what goes there.
And in the end, banning speech you disagree with on a private web site is free speech. It's their web site, they can make it suck throbbing purple donkey dick in any way they want.
The first abuse will by spammers and con artists. We know they'll be first, because they've been using chatbots for years. All dating sites use them, or have fraudsters using them who do. I've had email chatbots respond to ads on Craig's List, too.
I expect these new ones will be a decade behind in sophistication, permanently.
And it is spambot.
Anybody who believes, for one second, this isn't part of their advertising technology knows nothing about Google.
Well you can also sell electricity while keeping the inner workings of your box secret.
If you're generating enough power to get rich, by definition, you're not keeping it secret. And the regulators will come knocking on your door, wanting to know a) what the waste products are, b) what you are doing with said waste products, and c) what effect that has on the environment.
Real cold fusion would have very good answers to those questions. Fake cold fusion would involve a lot of pollutants being illegal (and criminally) dumped somewhere.
So no, you can't sell the electricity while keeping it secret.
I'm going with "that which is not science, but pretends to be (for purposes of getting people to invest in some kind of Ponzi scheme)."
Science involves publishing one's research, and inviting commentary from others in the field. Not doing that is Not Science.
Precisely.
The reason cold fusion isn't taken seriously is because it's been a consistent source of bullshit, lies, data manipulation, outright fraud, and bogus explanations.
And incompetence. Don't forget incompetence.
Cold fusion didn't just lose credibility because of Fleischmann and Pons. It's lost credibility because of the 26 years of its history too. A lot of the time, reputable scientists do attempt to verify and duplicate the claims of the cold fusion people only to be rapidly turned away. The cold fusion people don't *want* real experts looking at their work. They want gullible idiots and journalists.
And investors.
If I had cold fusion i would keep it secret at all cost and cash in.
How, pray tell, would you do so? You "cash in" by selling working units, which, by definition is not secret.
What you propose is, literally, the very definition of pseudoscience.
If someone that can hide such a discovery claims to have it, that's a very good reason to doubt it.
However the claim of pseudoscience is as far as I can see unfounded. What's your references for that claim. It probably isn't possible to do cold fusion but that doesn't make it pseudoscience.
What makes it pseudoscience is that a) no one has every had results that could be reproduced by other researchers, and b) everyone working in the field today is not interested in publishing their results, patenting the design, and selling working units. Most are only interested in collecting money from investors without doing those things.
National retailers who do their own software, like Target (who had a hell of an incentive) and Home Depot (who also had a hell of an incentive) are ahead of the curve. Anybody who relies on software vendors for their processing software is at said company's mercy, and the software companies (who end up on the hook for any expensive mistakes) are very cautious. Our vendor didn't like the beta testing, and decided to not throw us in to the Christmas season with software they weren't confident in. We did not disagree.
There is no difference to the consumer. Their protections are legal, not technical (and if you believe otherwise, you probably need a more honest bank). The only difference is some liability on disputed transactions shifts from the merchant service or card holder's bank to the merchant, and if the merchant is at all competent, that's a small difference.
The reason it was easier in Europe was that fewer people have credit cards there, and it cost less. When the terminals cost the better part of a grand apiece, it's a huge expense to change them out. That, and inertia, and a certain amount of stupidity.
What Posner advocates is an attack on the most fundamental principles of the United States. He should be sent a warning by the government about that, and if he continues to advocate such dangerous actions, he should be fined or imprisoned.
They only thing they're an authority on is processing credit cards, and they only thing they certify is that your credit card didn't bounce.