Simply stated I agree 100%. Patents need to go.
There is no chance of that whilst we're all racing towards globalization + the WTO owns this, not your elected officials.
Thanks for the explantation of how politics works in the USA. For a Brit it's very useful!
Money really is everything in the USA. I think your Constitution needs a rewrite. (Not that we don't have our own problems!)
Interesting thought, but I don't think this is principally about tolerance and in any case, it's not mutually exclusive.
A person can be free to choose who they associate with whilst, at the same time, being tolerant of those they chose not to associate with.
I'd say, simply, that my freedom to choose who I associate with trumps the right of anyone to associate with me and I'll support the right of others to choose who they associate with, even if I disagree with their reasons for doing so.
For disabling his car. The dealership did not own that car so their actions were illegal.
For lack of notice. Even if the dealership thought they were entitled to this action, they were not entitled to do it without proper notice served.
For intimidating him into letting them take *his* GPS tracker/remote immobiliser device from *his* car.
As this is Slashdot, I feel obliged to say my first action would be to find that device and attempt to remove it myself. I would keep that box as a trophy.
I think the question must always be asked when people call for regulation is can they profit from it?
I can't help but wonder if Musk is actually not doing good here but setting in motion the slow train of regulation so that when he's ready with some uber-AI he'll be in the position to get the rules of the game altered to his advantage with bureaucracy, regulation and licensing.
That's a bit subjective. I think I would call it an alternative pattern.
I have seen it work well but more often than not I have seen create code that looks like an arrow. In real life, outside of trivial snippets, arrow code can be horrible to read and maintain. That's not always the case though hence I don't say it's a "worse" pattern - just an alternative.
That's not a reason to outlaw their use. If all you have are mediocre developers then no amount of coding standards will help you.
Less experienced developers can learn from good code. Sure they will get it wrong as they find their feet - we have code reviews to deal with that - but we shouldn't seek to handicap them by taking away tools they can use to express themselves.
"This Linux distribution is designed to serve as a media center -- nothing more, nothing less."
It's a media center appliance that uses the Linux kernel and a few user space bits and bobs to start up Kodi (XBMC). Last I checked it was non-trivial to install your own stuff and generally hack about without rebuilding the lot from source... so sure it's a "linux distribution," in that it distributes "Linux" but I find that term unhelpful.
Given the safety implications, they would want to minimise the chance of anyone disabling updates so I wouldn't be surprised if they have already modified the software and this is notice that 15th December (or 6 days of runtime) is already baked in as a date of death.
I feel I should point out that the items you've linked to are not being sold by Amazon but by third parties using Amazon's website. The same problems occur anywhere you allow Tom, Dick and Harry to sell things using your website.
Last year I bought some LED Christmas tree lights from E-bay. When they arrived I immediately was concerned about the mains cabling not being of sufficient quality so I cut off the moulded plug to inspect the cable cross section. That confirmed my suspicions - the cables were the cheapest possible things with the thinnest slither of metal surrounded by dodgy insulation that could break far too easily.
My attention then turned to the inline box with a CE stamp that was advertised as being a transformer. It was very light so, having already decided there was no way these things are getting used in my house, I started to cut open the box and it practically fell open without much effort. Inside discovered that there was in fact no transformer. Instead there was just a single 1/4w resistor in series with the mains, held in place with a blob of hot glue with incredibly bad soldering. If/when the glue melts the resistor would have been free to pull out of the hole exposing the unfused mains voltage to the outside.
The scary thing for me is that 99% of people will just plug these things in not realising the potential dangers.
Nothing wrong with them. But because they are bigger than lower case letters they must use more of something to transmit so definitely you should be charged more to transmit them!
Aah, yes. I had jumped ahead in my thinking imagining that everyone was on the same page! Doh. Sorry.:-)
In the event of the password being lost, the phone would be useless unless a new key could be created and securely transported to the Great Database. I thought that, in practice, would be unnecessarily complicated.
Also a fixed symmetric key could be compromised by the user himself, prior to selling the phone to some unsuspecting user. No more pin needed.
I think the public-private keypair suggestion fixes those issues.
3) Seems far too complicated. How about shipping each phone with a unique back door public key. Every time the user changes the key, two copies are stored. The first encrypted using some derivative of the user's password, the second encrypted using the phone's unique backdoor public key.
When gubbermint wants access they get a subpoena and make manufacturer cough up the code.
In theory that's no less secure than we have it now - given that the manufacturer already holds a golden signing key for your phone.
Windows 10, Microsoft's new operating system, uses the Winsock Sockets library to automatically manage socket connections while navigating the web. This is what Java does with applets, and Flash with SWF files -- it unintentionally allows a hacker to append malicious code to data and trigger drive-by attacks, which exploit Winsock vulnerabilities to target Windows 10 users. All that an attacker needs to do is to find and create a database of Winsock vulnerabilities it could leverage to distribute his malware.
Here's my ideal so-called Intellectual Property (IP) solution. All IP must be abolished immediately and rent seekers be damned.
I doubt my ideal solution will be implemented so I'd settle for copyright laws being scaled back massively. Mickey bloody Mouse is way past its copyright date. Collusion with lawmakers to extend it shows exactly why nobody trusts the establishment and why people like Trump will become the next president.
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Man, fuck this ".exe" Microsoft PE shit. This is Linux. Show some fucking respect!
"Google needs to stop treating customer trust like it's a renewable resource, because they're screwing up badly."
I don't think, relatively speaking, that many of us are Google's customers. Most of us are just food on the menu.
Simply stated I agree 100%. Patents need to go. There is no chance of that whilst we're all racing towards globalization + the WTO owns this, not your elected officials.
Thanks for the explantation of how politics works in the USA. For a Brit it's very useful! Money really is everything in the USA. I think your Constitution needs a rewrite. (Not that we don't have our own problems!)
Why should the revenue be used for enforcement? Don't you think they get enough already?
Interesting thought, but I don't think this is principally about tolerance and in any case, it's not mutually exclusive. A person can be free to choose who they associate with whilst, at the same time, being tolerant of those they chose not to associate with.
I'd say, simply, that my freedom to choose who I associate with trumps the right of anyone to associate with me and I'll support the right of others to choose who they associate with, even if I disagree with their reasons for doing so.
He should sue them:
As this is Slashdot, I feel obliged to say my first action would be to find that device and attempt to remove it myself. I would keep that box as a trophy.
I think the question must always be asked when people call for regulation is can they profit from it? I can't help but wonder if Musk is actually not doing good here but setting in motion the slow train of regulation so that when he's ready with some uber-AI he'll be in the position to get the rules of the game altered to his advantage with bureaucracy, regulation and licensing.
#!/bin/sh
# Chinese Internet Enabler
sudo iptables -F
sudo iptables -P OUTPUT -j REJECT
Where is the TOR equivalent of these sites? Surely that's where this game of whack-a-mole is headed - the lawless dark web.
"why should this sort of corporate crime get ten years?"
Because "computers."
"you know, after learning how to trace the lines or figuring out the local telco/cable company labeling system)"
Or you could do what they used to do around our way... go to the local distribution cabinet and cut all of the wires. No tracing required!
That's a bit subjective. I think I would call it an alternative pattern.
I have seen it work well but more often than not I have seen create code that looks like an arrow. In real life, outside of trivial snippets, arrow code can be horrible to read and maintain. That's not always the case though hence I don't say it's a "worse" pattern - just an alternative.
That's not a reason to outlaw their use. If all you have are mediocre developers then no amount of coding standards will help you.
Less experienced developers can learn from good code. Sure they will get it wrong as they find their feet - we have code reviews to deal with that - but we shouldn't seek to handicap them by taking away tools they can use to express themselves.
"This Linux distribution is designed to serve as a media center -- nothing more, nothing less."
It's a media center appliance that uses the Linux kernel and a few user space bits and bobs to start up Kodi (XBMC). Last I checked it was non-trivial to install your own stuff and generally hack about without rebuilding the lot from source... so sure it's a "linux distribution," in that it distributes "Linux" but I find that term unhelpful.
I agree. A better penalty would be a one month ban after the first warning.
Given the safety implications, they would want to minimise the chance of anyone disabling updates so I wouldn't be surprised if they have already modified the software and this is notice that 15th December (or 6 days of runtime) is already baked in as a date of death.
At least, they should have done that.
I feel I should point out that the items you've linked to are not being sold by Amazon but by third parties using Amazon's website. The same problems occur anywhere you allow Tom, Dick and Harry to sell things using your website.
Last year I bought some LED Christmas tree lights from E-bay. When they arrived I immediately was concerned about the mains cabling not being of sufficient quality so I cut off the moulded plug to inspect the cable cross section. That confirmed my suspicions - the cables were the cheapest possible things with the thinnest slither of metal surrounded by dodgy insulation that could break far too easily.
My attention then turned to the inline box with a CE stamp that was advertised as being a transformer. It was very light so, having already decided there was no way these things are getting used in my house, I started to cut open the box and it practically fell open without much effort. Inside discovered that there was in fact no transformer. Instead there was just a single 1/4w resistor in series with the mains, held in place with a blob of hot glue with incredibly bad soldering. If/when the glue melts the resistor would have been free to pull out of the hole exposing the unfused mains voltage to the outside.
The scary thing for me is that 99% of people will just plug these things in not realising the potential dangers.
If BitKeeper had done that in the first place they'd still be relevant, possibly even the market leader.
Do they stand a chance now? Not without some killer new features that can't trivially be copied and pasted into Git.
Nothing wrong with them. But because they are bigger than lower case letters they must use more of something to transmit so definitely you should be charged more to transmit them!
Aah, yes. I had jumped ahead in my thinking imagining that everyone was on the same page! Doh. Sorry. :-)
In the event of the password being lost, the phone would be useless unless a new key could be created and securely transported to the Great Database. I thought that, in practice, would be unnecessarily complicated.
Also a fixed symmetric key could be compromised by the user himself, prior to selling the phone to some unsuspecting user. No more pin needed.
I think the public-private keypair suggestion fixes those issues.
The key splitting idea is a good one btw.
3) Seems far too complicated. How about shipping each phone with a unique back door public key. Every time the user changes the key, two copies are stored. The first encrypted using some derivative of the user's password, the second encrypted using the phone's unique backdoor public key.
When gubbermint wants access they get a subpoena and make manufacturer cough up the code.
In theory that's no less secure than we have it now - given that the manufacturer already holds a golden signing key for your phone.
Windows 10, Microsoft's new operating system, uses the Winsock Sockets library to automatically manage socket connections while navigating the web. This is what Java does with applets, and Flash with SWF files -- it unintentionally allows a hacker to append malicious code to data and trigger drive-by attacks, which exploit Winsock vulnerabilities to target Windows 10 users. All that an attacker needs to do is to find and create a database of Winsock vulnerabilities it could leverage to distribute his malware.
Here's my ideal so-called Intellectual Property (IP) solution. All IP must be abolished immediately and rent seekers be damned.
I doubt my ideal solution will be implemented so I'd settle for copyright laws being scaled back massively. Mickey bloody Mouse is way past its copyright date. Collusion with lawmakers to extend it shows exactly why nobody trusts the establishment and why people like Trump will become the next president.