#include <stdio.h> int main(int argc, char **argv) { int C=0x11; if(C++ > C) { printf("C++ is greater than C\n"); } else { printf("C++ is not greater than C\n"); } }
Before they just used http without tls. The web is moving to be encrypted. So phishing sites are being encrypted as well. No surprise. And nothing worse than before. It's even better, because just the phisher gets your creditionals, but not the NSA, which sniffes your connection to the phishing site.
> need to access a public service, which may be shut down at any time As it does for telegram, signal, threema and much more. Why do you think they will be there forever? I guess most of them will be gone when icq is still around.
Its just a problem, where the crowd is. And possibly special persons.
If your girlfriend uses whatsapp only, you probably will install it. If the majority of users use xmpp, it may be a good idea to have an xmpp client. but the majority doesn't. So your need to reach a critical mass. And you probably need some unique feature to get enough users started.
Facebook asshats block thirdparty-clients for whatsapp. Maybe its time to start the IM war again and try to go undetected. But i doubt there are developers available now. The people who reversed icq and other protocols are now happy developing other centralized non-federated mobile apps in the hope to make millions, when the users start jumping on their app.
Nerds do not have a problem choosing some messengers, so they can reach everyone. Noobs will install a new app, if it has colorful smileys. So they do not have a problem either.
If you want a standard, use XMPP (and OMEMO). And read the XKCD comic about standards... until then we just use multiple programs with a fallback to e-mail, phone and sms.
With a better bot detection, twitter could stop flagging new registered accounts after the first few minutes and then requiring a mobile number to continue.
Just be sure. Your approach is prone to forget something or somebody or just miscalculate the risk and then the cia(contractor) or somebody using the same security hole still accesses your stuff. Better safe than sorry
That's not how "bit rot" works and your file system doesn't have anything to do with changing files either. If your FS is the problem, you won't be able to access the file. If bitflips would be a problem, your file would be corrupt (which doesn't shift your colors, but causes errors in the image. single bitflips probably won't even be visisble at all). Then the "bit rot" isn't a problem on hard drives manufactured in this millenium. Either your drive fails or has bad sectors or your files are probably okay. The probability of a single bitflip is very very low, the bit rot you think you're observing is obviously something else. I guess you got a new monitor and a less tolerant video player or something similiar.
Actually it doesn't matter which one is the fastest. Browsers are optimizing since years and with each release they claim to be 10-30% faster. If it were true, pages would be rendered instantly...... and on the other hand, nobody selects browsers by rendering speed. People select them by interface, startup time and addons. This matters a lot more than if the page renders 10ms faster.
> And yet it is also the foundation for arguably the most successful innovation in the music industry in decades: Spotify. I use spotify with mopidy, which streams the music via gstreamer. It would be like half in hour of gstreamer manpages to pipe it directly into files, including the metadata. The point of spotify: I do not need to. I have a flatrate, which i can afford and it provides me with a radio i can control (or just listen to). Their success is not via drm, but comes from a good offer.
> Who do you think is ripping 4K movies from Netflix? Dunno? Doesn't matter? Somebody did and now streaming via DRM is useless, as people who want it without can just download it without. But there is no offer to download without DRM while paying. OTOH, the paying customers get the limited DRM offer.
> As someone who has actually run businesses in this market, I can promise you that many people do have a problem with paying $10/month. So? That's the whole point. The "pirates" do not steal your money. They would not have bought the movie either, if it wasn't available via download. There is little loss through piracy. Who can afford it, would pay to have a nice download portal without DRM. Who cannot, will download anyway. With or without DRM, its always little time until the first rip appears. And be honest, people who cannot afford to buy even watch bad camrips. And then you think, that DRM will stop pirated copies?
> As someone who has actually run businesses in this market, I can promise you that many people do have a problem with paying $10/month. It would, but there currently is no such scheme for movie streaming. You always get trouble from time to time. The less trouble it is, the more customers, which is proven quite good by netflix, amazon prime, etc. But there is still a customer base waiting for better support i.e. in KODI, which would be the point they start paying for netflix.
I fact, i guess some "pay what you want, but above $1" scheme would probably be quite useful for many. At least for music. Who can afford the music and actually likes the music (sorry, one hit wonders...) WANTS to support their artist. Who cannot afford the album doesn't listen to it at all or pirates it. These people would then pay the dollar and the artist gets one dollar more then he would have gotten with the pirate copy. Of course the DRM-free copy could be pirated, but a nice music portal, with streaming service for personalized radio, etc. would be enough to be worth it.
Why the dollar? There is one point you have to have: Payment. Payment requires some work. Typing in your credit card number. Logging in into paypal,... This amount of work stops people from paying, if they do not need to. So the person who would have given 50 usd for the album to support the artist would download the 0 usd version as well, because he's to lazy to login to paypal. That's why there needs to be a minimum amount.
by the way, there are such services, have a look at bandcamp. They even allow the 0 option.
it's all about the convenience. DRM did what the EFF and FSF tell you: It stopped people from using their music. In the age of mp3 players a format, which requires you to renew the licence file on the player every few days? No way. The same does apply to netflix. The (even 4k) rips of netflix movies started, because people wanted to see netflix on settop boxes / sticks, which do not support netflix. People do not have a problem to pay $10 per month. People have a problem, if watching the movies is FUBAR. AND you can never defeat privacy. As soon as there is a single copy, it cannot be removed from the net anymore. So you may only delay it by a few weeks, if you're lucky. Is that a reason to make watching movies a PITA for all honest custumers?
That's sad. And currently they seem to allow password change only via web ui, which flags your account for suspicious activity is unlucky and then you need to add a mobile number.
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In fact, it is not. Try it yourself:
./a.out
#include <stdio.h>
int main(int argc, char **argv) {
int C=0x11;
if(C++ > C) {
printf("C++ is greater than C\n");
} else {
printf("C++ is not greater than C\n");
}
}
$
C++ is not greater than C
Before they just used http without tls.
The web is moving to be encrypted. So phishing sites are being encrypted as well. No surprise. And nothing worse than before. It's even better, because just the phisher gets your creditionals, but not the NSA, which sniffes your connection to the phishing site.
ICQ is still working, even in thirdparty clients. Beat this, google.
RAID5 may help.
There are types of media, which play automatically. Others do not.
I think the automatic ones are loops, the others are videos.
> need to access a public service, which may be shut down at any time
As it does for telegram, signal, threema and much more. Why do you think they will be there forever? I guess most of them will be gone when icq is still around.
when it starts to speak omemo with xmpp clients ...
Its just a problem, where the crowd is. And possibly special persons.
If your girlfriend uses whatsapp only, you probably will install it. If the majority of users use xmpp, it may be a good idea to have an xmpp client. but the majority doesn't. So your need to reach a critical mass. And you probably need some unique feature to get enough users started.
Facebook asshats block thirdparty-clients for whatsapp.
Maybe its time to start the IM war again and try to go undetected. But i doubt there are developers available now. The people who reversed icq and other protocols are now happy developing other centralized non-federated mobile apps in the hope to make millions, when the users start jumping on their app.
Just use multiple messengers.
Nerds do not have a problem choosing some messengers, so they can reach everyone.
Noobs will install a new app, if it has colorful smileys. So they do not have a problem either.
If you want a standard, use XMPP (and OMEMO). And read the XKCD comic about standards ... until then we just use multiple programs with a fallback to e-mail, phone and sms.
With a better bot detection, twitter could stop flagging new registered accounts after the first few minutes and then requiring a mobile number to continue.
It still works, because for suggestive questions it is reversed.
neutrality of media, my ass.
Just be sure. Your approach is prone to forget something or somebody or just miscalculate the risk and then the cia(contractor) or somebody using the same security hole still accesses your stuff. Better safe than sorry
That's not how "bit rot" works and your file system doesn't have anything to do with changing files either. If your FS is the problem, you won't be able to access the file. If bitflips would be a problem, your file would be corrupt (which doesn't shift your colors, but causes errors in the image. single bitflips probably won't even be visisble at all).
Then the "bit rot" isn't a problem on hard drives manufactured in this millenium. Either your drive fails or has bad sectors or your files are probably okay. The probability of a single bitflip is very very low, the bit rot you think you're observing is obviously something else. I guess you got a new monitor and a less tolerant video player or something similiar.
Actually it doesn't matter which one is the fastest. ... ... and on the other hand, nobody selects browsers by rendering speed. People select them by interface, startup time and addons. This matters a lot more than if the page renders 10ms faster.
Browsers are optimizing since years and with each release they claim to be 10-30% faster. If it were true, pages would be rendered instantly
A lawer doesn't contact you via an unreliable medium like email. Wait for a corresponding letter.
> And yet it is also the foundation for arguably the most successful innovation in the music industry in decades: Spotify.
I use spotify with mopidy, which streams the music via gstreamer. It would be like half in hour of gstreamer manpages to pipe it directly into files, including the metadata.
The point of spotify: I do not need to. I have a flatrate, which i can afford and it provides me with a radio i can control (or just listen to). Their success is not via drm, but comes from a good offer.
> Who do you think is ripping 4K movies from Netflix?
Dunno? Doesn't matter? Somebody did and now streaming via DRM is useless, as people who want it without can just download it without. But there is no offer to download without DRM while paying. OTOH, the paying customers get the limited DRM offer.
> As someone who has actually run businesses in this market, I can promise you that many people do have a problem with paying $10/month.
So?
That's the whole point. The "pirates" do not steal your money. They would not have bought the movie either, if it wasn't available via download. There is little loss through piracy. Who can afford it, would pay to have a nice download portal without DRM. Who cannot, will download anyway. With or without DRM, its always little time until the first rip appears.
And be honest, people who cannot afford to buy even watch bad camrips. And then you think, that DRM will stop pirated copies?
> As someone who has actually run businesses in this market, I can promise you that many people do have a problem with paying $10/month.
It would, but there currently is no such scheme for movie streaming. You always get trouble from time to time. The less trouble it is, the more customers, which is proven quite good by netflix, amazon prime, etc. But there is still a customer base waiting for better support i.e. in KODI, which would be the point they start paying for netflix.
I fact, i guess some "pay what you want, but above $1" scheme would probably be quite useful for many. At least for music. Who can afford the music and actually likes the music (sorry, one hit wonders ...) WANTS to support their artist. Who cannot afford the album doesn't listen to it at all or pirates it. These people would then pay the dollar and the artist gets one dollar more then he would have gotten with the pirate copy.
Of course the DRM-free copy could be pirated, but a nice music portal, with streaming service for personalized radio, etc. would be enough to be worth it.
Why the dollar? There is one point you have to have: Payment. Payment requires some work. Typing in your credit card number. Logging in into paypal, ...
This amount of work stops people from paying, if they do not need to. So the person who would have given 50 usd for the album to support the artist would download the 0 usd version as well, because he's to lazy to login to paypal. That's why there needs to be a minimum amount.
by the way, there are such services, have a look at bandcamp. They even allow the 0 option.
it's all about the convenience. DRM did what the EFF and FSF tell you: It stopped people from using their music. In the age of mp3 players a format, which requires you to renew the licence file on the player every few days? No way.
The same does apply to netflix. The (even 4k) rips of netflix movies started, because people wanted to see netflix on settop boxes / sticks, which do not support netflix. People do not have a problem to pay $10 per month. People have a problem, if watching the movies is FUBAR. AND you can never defeat privacy. As soon as there is a single copy, it cannot be removed from the net anymore. So you may only delay it by a few weeks, if you're lucky. Is that a reason to make watching movies a PITA for all honest custumers?
People said this about music stores. Now you buy music as mp3, because they had no success with their drm.
You're trolling, right?
Right?
The problem is, there are people, who actually think like this.
So why isn't the whole moon dropping on the earth? The earth gravity is so much bigger than the moon gravity ... there must be some conspiracy!
That's sad.
And currently they seem to allow password change only via web ui, which flags your account for suspicious activity is unlucky and then you need to add a mobile number.
AOL sold ICQ.
Mod parent up.