This is very similar to all the times Apple's music store did various crappy things, where it was entirely due to the music rights holders making those demands. Here it's the connection holder. In the future, Apple needs to be sure to always have two or more so that it can jump ship when one is misbehaving, sort of like they did when they abandoned PowerPC...
Why shouldn't it? I don't feel that I should be allowed to let you say whatever you want about me... let's say I run a small business that is completely built on trust and honesty. Why should you be allowed to publish slander and libel all you want, under the guise of the first amendment? It hurts my reputation, it hurts my ability to do business, etc.
Because you don't own your reputation; it is merely what other people think of you. There are many things which affect what others think of you, and you don't have a right to stop others from doing all those things merely because it's in your interest. Ironically, libel laws make things people say more potentially damaging to your reputation, not less, as they cause others to give things said more weight than if there were no laws. Ultimately, your liberty isn't threatened by things others say, therefore there should be no laws "protecting" you from things people say (beyond threats of use of force against you).
If the judiciary isn't going to over-ride unconstitutional laws, no one else will. It is arguably the most important function of a judiciary in a free society.
Heh, I figured someone would mention how the LOC is the more modern system. I figured the DD was more commonly known (I only learned of the LOC in the past year when I started borrowing books from the local university library).
Let's say you're standing in a library with 20 shelves in front of you and thousands of books. You could take a picture and you'd immediately know where the book you're looking for is.'
These books were added to our catalog using our self-service platform by a third-party who did not have the rights to the books...When we were notified of this by the rights holder, we removed the illegal copies from our systems and from customers' devices, and refunded customers. [...] We are changing our systems so that in the future we will not remove books from customers' devices in these circumstances.
Those circumstances being when the books 1984 or Animal Farm are submitted improperly to our service. In all other cases, we will have no hesitation to delete material from our^H^H^Hyour Kindle.
> What use is not encrypting if you still don't know who's on the other end?
No false sense of security created by seeing https and a lock icon, due to not understanding the difference between encryption and authentication. Isn't that the point of this article?
1. connection encryption (i.e. nobody else can read the transmission);
2. site authentication (i.e. you can be certain that this page is actually your bank's website).
See, here's the problem. Many a time I need to put up encryption, but have no need whatsoever for authentication (sending data like passwords or whatever, but not that critical to be a target of somebody setting up a bigus copy). Firefox says "whatever", and proceeds to complain about 2. above not being satisfied. And complain loud!
What use is encryption if you don't know who's on the other end?
Using a Mac is not just a neutral experience. It is pleasurable. Combine the excellent hardware engineering, and the superior UI design of OS X, and you have a machine that is worth the extra money. (Which really isn't extra. As others have pointed out, a comparable Wintel machine is in the same price range.)
And when it comes time to sell it, it will have kept a significant portion of its value (perhaps even more than fiat currency would have).
But the power company has this line that it's making the grid "congested" as if the electrons are trying to go in **ZOMG!** both directions or something!
At least for AC grids in the US, they do go both directions, 60 times every second.
The appendix serves a useful function in humans, though that function is probably different than its original function in our ancestors. This is not to say that it is essential anymore as it was when our diets were much different.
A register-limited processor from the 1970s is still waging a battle that should have ended over 150 months ago. The processor continues to sport evolutionary adaptations, such as compactly-encoded instructions, to protect it from a small, slow memory configuration known as 640K. There's just one problem: that configuration went extinct around 1990 AD.
It's worse than a specially crafted image - there's a code injection flaw in the httpd server so merely accessing a URL that looks like "http://routerIP/cgi-bin/;command_to_execute" will do the trick.
I tried to go to that URL but I just got a message "command 'command_to_execute' not found". Why doesn't it work?
In my neighborhood they even have a wireless version of this VPN. It's called "linksys" for some reason, but it allows anonymous access, and it's even free.
That's because either way they're doing the same thing, Extend, Embrace, Extinguish. So you mean, they're damned if they do, and damned if they... do. People never learn with politicians, but for some reason they can still learn (and have) with computer software companies.
Most people know a thing or two. Some people know their way around weapons systems but most people don't. Most people are sane and rational but a few people are not. The unabomber wasn't rational but fortunately he was a mathematician, not a rail signalling engineer or an air traffic controller.
Yeah, fortunately no mathematicians have gotten into places where their lack of a grasp of reality has caused any serious problems, like financial crises or anything...
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This is very similar to all the times Apple's music store did various crappy things, where it was entirely due to the music rights holders making those demands. Here it's the connection holder. In the future, Apple needs to be sure to always have two or more so that it can jump ship when one is misbehaving, sort of like they did when they abandoned PowerPC...
Why did you insult children? You could have just written "a bunch of irrational, immature adults".
Because you don't own your reputation; it is merely what other people think of you. There are many things which affect what others think of you, and you don't have a right to stop others from doing all those things merely because it's in your interest. Ironically, libel laws make things people say more potentially damaging to your reputation, not less, as they cause others to give things said more weight than if there were no laws. Ultimately, your liberty isn't threatened by things others say, therefore there should be no laws "protecting" you from things people say (beyond threats of use of force against you).
Two words: jury nullification
Heh, I figured someone would mention how the LOC is the more modern system. I figured the DD was more commonly known (I only learned of the LOC in the past year when I started borrowing books from the local university library).
I can't believe it's taken so long to come up with a solution to for finding books in libraries. Maybe they can even find a way to extend this to allow online searches for books.
Those circumstances being when the books 1984 or Animal Farm are submitted improperly to our service. In all other cases, we will have no hesitation to delete material from our^H^H^Hyour Kindle.
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> What use is not encrypting if you still don't know who's on the other end? No false sense of security created by seeing https and a lock icon, due to not understanding the difference between encryption and authentication. Isn't that the point of this article?
What use is encryption if you don't know who's on the other end?
I think getting crushed by a large object would spread us out quite well.
And when it comes time to sell it, it will have kept a significant portion of its value (perhaps even more than fiat currency would have).
At least for AC grids in the US, they do go both directions, 60 times every second.
I pay for access to the Internet itself. How do you manage avoiding that?
The appendix serves a useful function in humans, though that function is probably different than its original function in our ancestors. This is not to say that it is essential anymore as it was when our diets were much different.
A register-limited processor from the 1970s is still waging a battle that should have ended over 150 months ago. The processor continues to sport evolutionary adaptations, such as compactly-encoded instructions, to protect it from a small, slow memory configuration known as 640K. There's just one problem: that configuration went extinct around 1990 AD.
Should they also put up an OS selector the first time the computer is booted?
So we could put these all along the perimeter of Earth. The only problem would be getting that power back to us.
In other words, like patents except the delayed release of the design.
I tried to go to that URL but I just got a message "command 'command_to_execute' not found". Why doesn't it work?
I thought "light" pretty much meant it was visible electromagnetic radiation, by definition, but what do I know...
I think it's better that they are in Permanent Paper instead of Disappearing Digital format.
In my neighborhood they even have a wireless version of this VPN. It's called "linksys" for some reason, but it allows anonymous access, and it's even free.
That's because either way they're doing the same thing, Extend, Embrace, Extinguish. So you mean, they're damned if they do, and damned if they... do. People never learn with politicians, but for some reason they can still learn (and have) with computer software companies.
Yeah, fortunately no mathematicians have gotten into places where their lack of a grasp of reality has caused any serious problems, like financial crises or anything...
They've had years to find and deal with XP vulnerabilities. Windows 7 may not have the ones XP had, but it has all new ones that are unknown!