that ensures that once the publisher loses interest and takes down the servers, the consumer loses their ability to use what they've purchased
This doesn't have to be customer hostile. Since we're primarily concerned about protecting the software at release --- how about delivering a patch scheduled for 1 year after release that removes DRM to ease the maintenance burden and load on the servers.
We can avoid requiring "continuous internet access" by "downloading such and such data payload for offline use" but maintaining it in encrypted forms taking advantage of the hardware TPM module on gamers' PCs to perform a hardware-secured authorization over the internet to issue a credential that is valid for a specified period of time to authorize access to certain bits by a trusted agent system.
Updating DRM on the release copy while magically thinking that the previous version wouldn't have roadmapped how to defeat it -- CHECK.
Only if people trying to crack the software are content running a before release version of the game. At least daily within the first few weeks of release then weekly, then monthly there should be planned updates, and those running a cracked version of a new title will find themselves hindered or be missing out severely. That is by design the original code will not be as intended, and there may even be bugs designed in to render progression impossible that will have a timed update rollout before we expect the first players to reach that point in the game ---- and the updates/patches will of course include planned re-generation of certain security sections rendering cracked games unable to work with the updates.
For starters..... make Two Factor Authentication using a hardware token such as Gsec token a mandatory requirement for enabling the Verified mark........ Secondly compromise of an official Google account makes one suspect exploitation of some kind of hole in Twitter's systems; mainly b/c Google goes the extra mile in regards to security ---- its difficult to imagine anyone could have scammed G suite creds from them easily. Also the sudden serial compromises of multiple other high-profile Twitter accounts that hadn't happened before? Very suspicious.
Forget relying on a pre-package DRM solution. Make games where internet access is a necessity to enjoy the game.
When the game boots have some data structures with critical assets that must be loaded from data that is only available on servers.
Release day should also be the day that a new protection layer is introduced, so even if the pre-relase DRM had been cracked, somehow; folks would have to start over after release.
The power requirements only get high if your ecosystem involves competing over solving the blocks
And if your ecosystem doesn't involve competing over a scarce resource to solve blocks; then the entire ecosystem is at greater risk that a single actor, such as a nation state, can get enough computing power to rewrite the entire chain. POW secures Bitcoin, because not even a 3-letter agency could afford to procure enough computing power to double-spend or rewrite history. "Blockchains" that aren't reliant on a scarce resource won't work, because there are single actors out there who can afford to corrupt the network.
Proof of Stake coins like REDD have a similar issue ---- instead of the validation power being distributed rather well, and anyone that can stand up a mining operation of a certain size - Under PoS the power is concentrated in a small number of entities (usually the founders) that horde large quantities of the coin; corrupt 1 or 2 of these people, and you can undermine a Proof of Stake coin easily ---- that is well within the compass of a state actor to do : target the people Hording / HOLDING / MINING PoS crypto. And the perfect pre-text exists to do so...... controlling a large number of crypto tokens can be deemed a basis for suspicion
This looks like another thing that belongs as a 3rd party addon. This is just a 3rd party service that tracks prices in some way and does PUSH notifications. Anyone could write such plugin. I see no reason for the core browser team to be doing this.
The vast majority of energy use by crypto mining is wasted hash attempts, and that energy *can't* be reclaimed
The energy consumed by logic circuits is erasing state, and ALL that energy is released as simple waste heat. The ability to "reclaim" the energy is not necessary, because the whole purpose of a space heater is ALL the heat is waste heat and to release waste heat in order to heat the room..... There is no fuel or energy loss in a chemical process such as in fuel combustion heaters. That is why radiant electric space heaters are said to be 100% efficient -- miners are in just the same category.
The only thing better is a heat pump which can be 300% efficient by bringing in 10kBTU of heat from a source using 1kW of electricity; although the efficiency decreases as the heat source gets colder.
No it can't. Its a mathematical nonsense to suggest it can be.
It's not mathematical nonsense.... All the energy consumed by a Cryptominer is dissipated as heat.
That said, miners take more energy to produce the silicon and are more expensive than a simple coil.
Also, in many places... other sources of fuel for heat such as heating oil or natural gas are more cost efficient, so there's that....
But its not very unethical to call a miner a "networked space heater" --- if its been programmed to work as one; because thats essentially what it is; on the other hand concealing the nature of its network usage might be unethical, particularly if it utilizes significant bandwidth.
Otherwise you could just distribute black box units to your co-workers to run as space heaters throughout the winter ---- Make an iPhone/Android app required to be used to turn on the heater and adjust its settings (network connectivity required to enable), and Alexa or Google Home integration for reading the current temperature, and i'm sure they'd appreciate that.
When it comes to installing equipment on telephone poles and street lights, it's all tightly regulated.
Erhm... Its not just that. Private property: the federal government doesn't own it, they can't load crap on those poles. The state or municipality owns the land the poles are on, generally. If they're on private property, then the landowner's permission is required to put something on the poles, and nobody can just hang streetlights or cameras, or whatever they feel like without permission of the property owner.
Poles on public land or the right of way --- this is municipality or county/parish-owned land, not federally owned land, so the feds don't have any authority or rights to do anything with it. For public land: municipality or electric company that put the poles in place owns the poles, generally --- in some cases the deal is by installing the pole on right of way the PoCo has to let other utility cabling ride the pole.
That leaves basically two possibilities: (1) They are in cahoots with some cities, or (2) The DEA themself are breaking the law or doing something fraudulent --- for example, by doing clandestine jobs at night where they replace hardware with bugged hw in secret, or corrupting municipalitys' supply chains by covertly introducing bugged units that when plugged into power have a hidden camera that works without infrastructure
Chances are its (1)..... "Here, let us save you some $$$ on streetlights --- we'll provide a certain percentage of the units you need for your city; in exchange we might do some shady things with some of them, but you go by no questions asked, and the feds will cut you in on for $$$ on some of the action"
The places are publicly owned and accessible. Things that happen there CAN still be private: when you look around, and see that no other person is there or nearby, then you have a reasonable expectation of almost complete privacy.
Also, if somebody records your voice without the consent of at least one party to the conversation, then you have what is called an illegal recording; A.K.A. illegal unauthorized wiretap.
I don't think many people will have sympathy for your intolerance of a car door closing
It's NOT a car door closing -- its part a sonic boom that they Claim in their words to be similar in ordinary sounding in their hopes to a car door closing - they aren't supplying a maximum number of decibels on the ground --- they ask different people to rank the loudness, and some people say they hear a Medium-Loud, and others say they hear a Loud boom.....
Guess how loud it's going to sound to you outside, if you are at a heightened elevation; if it sounds like a "Car door closing" when indoors at sea level? It's going to be friggin' loud, that's what.
The boom varies; today it might be a thump, and tomorrow they may maneuver their plane differently and you have the potential to be one one of the unlucky 2 or 3 to get a sonic blast that shatters your windows ----- that's a bit unsettling and what you call a nuisance; you're part of an unwanted human experiment where you're at risk, and consent was never granted for this.
Sensitive little snowflake that doesn't mind thunder that can crack windows
You're the melodramatic snowflake here --- there's no thunder that cracks windows, and the sound is natural.
Generally, when it thunders that occurs at predictable times and it's raining, and I go indoors when it's raining, anyways. There's a difference between acts of god and manmade disturbances coming out of the blue.
This is tantamount to a craft brewer complaining he can't put his beer in Walmart's aisle coolers.
No.... this is tantamount to officials from your local flea market coming up to your permanent booth that you've been selling from for years informing you "We're going to have to close you down, because you've been selling reconditioned brand X products, and we've signed an exclusivity deal with brand X that only businesses authorized by brand X officials can sell brand X products at this market.".
This SEEMS like Antitrust, because Amazon != Apple, and Amazon is in the business of allowing 3rd party sellers to sell pretty much any kind of product on their website, which only a few general exceptions.... this is Not normal like Walmart refusing to allow a 3rd party to stock goods in their store. The Amazon marketplace is more like eBay..... it would be like Apple signing a deal with eBay requiring eBay to remove/block listings for all Apple-branded products unless the seller is pre-approved with Apple as "permitted to sell".
There goes.... not only all the legitimate used/refurbished equipment, But generic replacements for things like Macbook power adapters, non-Apple-OEM adapters, lightning cables, thunderbolt cables, etc.
Of course there is... it's literally called a Landowner's Right to Quiet Enjoyment, and interfering with that results in a legal tort for which one can be sued called Private Nuisance
A private nuisance is an interference with a person's enjoyment and use of his land. The law recognizes that landowners, or those in rightful possession of land, have the right to the unimpaired condition of the property and to reasonable comfort and convenience in its occupation.
Examples of private nuisances abound. Nuisances that interfere with the physical condition of the land include vibration or blasting that damages a house; destruction of crops; raising of a water table; or the pollution of soil, a stream, or an underground water supply. Examples of nuisances interfering with the comfort, convenience, or health of an occupant are foul odors, noxious gases, smoke, dust, loud noises, excessive light, or high temperatures. Moreover, a nuisance may also disturb an occupant's mental tranquility, such as a neighbor who keeps a vicious dog, even though an injury is only threatened and has not actually occurred.
An attractive nuisance is a danger likely to lure children onto a person's land. For example, an individual who has a pool on his property has a legal obligation to take reasonable precautions, such as erecting a fence, to prevent foreseeable injury to children.
Trespass is sometimes confused with nuisance, but the two are distinct. A trespass action protects against an invasion of one's right to exclusive possession of land. If a landowner drops a tree across her neighbor's boundary line she has committed a trespass; if her dog barks all night keeping the neighbor awake, she may be liable for nuisance.
Legal Responsibility A private nuisance is a tort, that is, a civil wrong. To determine accountability for an alleged nuisance, a court will examine three factors: the defendant's fault, whether there has been a substantial interference with the plaintiff's interest, and the reasonableness of the defendant's conduct.
I recommend that you train animals to make the sound of car doors slamming
I was thinking of fitting helmets with attack lasers onto the heads of some birds and training them to home in on and take out anything that sounds like a door slamming.
"quiet thump," more like the sound of a car door slamming
Please no.... Just because you want to fly your plane a little bit faster. It's totally unjustifiable forcing me to be exposed to noise equivalent to a car door slamming at random: that's still an unfair violation of my right to seclusion and peaceful enjoyment of my property that is well aways from any city or other place subject to routine manmade noises, and also, especially if i'm trying to record audio of nature, etc --- An unwanted intrusion is an unwanted intrusion --- fly your crap around my land only if you can guarantee no unnatural noise, noise pollution, or other interference or trespass, at all.
CFCs were found in things like spray cans, fridges, foam insulation and air conditioners.
Factories and Spray cans, yes... the rest: pretty much no. The hole in the Ozone layer wasn't caused by us having CFCs in refrigerators.... it was caused by CFC and Halon Emissions, or the Release of CFCs and Halons. Primarily from the emissions of industrial factories and facilities making the things, Halon gas Fire Suppression systems like those that used to be used in computing centers, and from Spray cans, yes.
Refrigeration equipment, on the other hand.... is designed to contain CFCs, not release them. It's counterproductive to emit the CFCs, because the equipment doesn't work after they leak out, so leaks get patched quickly, and refrigeration is not a significant source of CFC emission. R-12 Freon
is the most suitable refrigerant found, and any of the replacements resulted in equipment that won't work as reliably or efficiently ---- some of the latest replacements being used now to avoid CFC-like chemicals (While lining the pocketbooks of new chemical inventors) are downright scary.... R1234yf ---- just what we need in the engine compartment of all our cars, a pressurized system with highly-Flammable refrigerant that costs 100X as much by weight as the R134a HFC that some beancounters or lobbyists in the chemical industry who need more profits by forcing replacement with a newly patented magic formula deemed too CFC-like.
With the turnout to a typical election less than half.... who wins Is all about who is motivated to vote. See, all parties have "apathetic voters" who didn't care enough to show up to the polls ---- Selectively prodding ones with certain demographics or certain party affiliation basically amounts to tampering with the outcomes of elections.
Frankly... This should be illegal. At a personal level, sure, you should encourage your friends to vote, and that should be perfectly fine as long as you are not discriminating based on their party affiliation, etc --- But gaining access to party rosters and using selective pressure or systematic discriminatory aid to different groups (e.g. Republicans, Democrats, people who live in a certain neighborhood are of a certain age range, class, race, gender, etc) - is something that should be banned for fairness in elections.
the researchers used a median of all the values between January 1, 2016 and June 30, 2018
Wait a minute.... Averaging by median starting from 2016 is misleading. The COST TO MINE is not fixed. The cost to mine is a function of difficulty, and the difficulty is affected by hashrate --- how much hashrate people are willing to turn up is based on value but has steadily increased over time.
If you want to "average" the value of a BTC, then you should be doing a weighted average where the weight value is the hash rate: the price of BTC at times when the hashrate were higher are more important for determining the worth ---- or just plain evaluate RECENT values that match up with the recent use of mining power and recent mining proceeds, but anything before November 2017 is too old to be looking at.
I don't care if they spoof a number legitimately.... Telecom carriers that accept and send outgoing calls from a customer should be REQUIRED to verify that all Outgoing Caller ID matches a number either (1) Assigned to that customer by the provider, OR (2) Ported in by that customer, OR (3) Supplied by that customer in advance. AND --- If there is not a match re-write/forcibly change the Caller ID to one of the above.
Lists of numbers supplied by the customer in advance shall include a recent invoice from the carrier providing those numbers on an end user service, Or other persuasive proof that additional numbers are owned by that customer as end user.
When peering with another Telecom carrier to accept incoming calls from the PSTN directed to their own customers, the Telecom carrier should be REQUIRED to specify in the agreement that all services provided to other partners, peer networks, or customers of the Peer include the same agreement, and they shall apply this same filtering to any subscriber they provide a Telephone line to.
How exactly do you mandate endpoint authentication for calls originating from Canada, Latin America, South America and overseas?
You don't.... you mandate that the carrier peering with the Canadian carrier check the Caller ID on incoming calls to ensure the calls have an appropriate prefix. If the prefix is wrong, then you either prepend a prefix or add a flag indicating the Caller ID is spoofed/unreliable.
Then when calling the US they have to choose between only spoofing Canadian numbers, or having their calls "flagged" for possible filtering.
Why? You'd kill class action suits as a way of suing large companies so I'm sure they'd be all in favour of this change.
No.... You'd kill "bullshit" class action suits that are being pursued to line some lawyer or sponsor's pocketbooks while the public doesn't get much benefit.
If the class action is for say 100 Million $$, then the lawyers still get $1 Million.
I'm also in favor of calculating a percentage of the amount in dispute for normal cases that aren't class actions -- civil trials in equity and some related hearings or cases where a plaintiff pursues monetary compensation as the "maximum allowed legal fee".
Example: In order to sue someone: the plaintiff has to deposit 10% of the amount they are suing for into a court escrow account in advance. If the plaintiff is successful, then half the original deposit is refunded to the plaintiff, and proceeds of the judgement will be collected into the same account until the balance is 10% of the actual judgement.
Whatever remains in the account will be used to reimburse legal expenses: first to the prevailing party, then to the losing party, and after all legal expenses are covered -- the remainder is divided by the lawyers of both parties at a ratio set by the judge. And before beginning a case, one of the first documents lawyers must sign is that reimbursement from the court shall be the only permitted compensation for all trial-related services, and any other renumeration must be returned.
The reimbursement is for lawyers and clerical work at a standard rate e.g. $20/Hour for clerical services, $50/Hour for actual work or consultation by an attorney, limited expenses for research, travel, and consultation with other professionals at same standard rates, and other types of services as reasonable after showing receipt for proof and acceptable written justification.
Neutrality is not the law of the land, but that wasn't good enough for ATT and various lobbyists groups --- they wanted to appeal to the Supreme Court seeking a ruling that it is not within the FCC's power to impose network neutrality, or, essentially that it is beyond the FCC's power to regulate their industry in the first place.
However, the Supreme Court's time is precious, therefore, they are one of the only courts in the US that gets to decide whether they will hear a case in the first place.... Those that want to appeal to the court must make a petition for certiorari.
The Supreme Court decided that this wasn't even worth hearing and denied their application for certiorari, therefore: the supreme court declines to even consider their case, at least for now, therefore they are unable to appeal the lower court's ruling, therefore, the lower court's 2015 ruling in favor of the FCC stands --- even if the FCC doesn't want to right now: A future administration retains the power to restore the Network Neutrality regulations.
There was an EF-1 Tornado powerful enough to take off roofs..... everyone ought to have evacuated when a warning sounded to a structurally sound room --- makes you wonder what kind of operation Amazon is running there...
no emergency preparedness?
Ads for political purpose are a different animal, as there are a series of laws that must be followed.
Bullshit. The only political ads that are allowed to be limited by the government are those ads actually commissioned by a political candidate Or donations directly to a political candidate, and compliance with the campaign financing rules are the responsibility of that politician's campaign.
And under the supreme court ruling: Facebook's free speech rights mean that they can post any advertisement they want without being subject to any limitation.
The court concluded that “no sufficient governmental interest justifies limits on the political speech of nonprofit or for-profit corporations.” Although thus agreeing with Citizens United’s claim that Section 203 was unconstitutional as applied to Hillary,
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that ensures that once the publisher loses interest and takes down the servers, the consumer loses their ability to use what they've purchased
This doesn't have to be customer hostile. Since we're primarily concerned about protecting the software at release --- how about delivering a patch scheduled for 1 year after release that removes DRM to ease the maintenance burden and load on the servers.
We can avoid requiring "continuous internet access" by "downloading such and such data payload for offline use" but maintaining it in encrypted forms taking advantage of the hardware TPM module on gamers' PCs to perform a hardware-secured authorization over the internet to issue a credential that is valid for a specified period of time to authorize access to certain bits by a trusted agent system.
Updating DRM on the release copy while magically thinking that the previous version wouldn't have roadmapped how to defeat it -- CHECK.
Only if people trying to crack the software are content running a before release version of the game.
At least daily within the first few weeks of release then weekly, then monthly there should be planned updates, and those running a cracked version of a new title will find themselves hindered or be missing out severely.
That is by design the original code will not be as intended, and there may even be bugs designed in to render progression impossible that will have a timed update rollout before we expect the first players to reach that point in the game ---- and the updates/patches will of course include planned re-generation of certain security sections rendering cracked games unable to work with the updates.
For starters..... make Two Factor Authentication using a hardware token such as Gsec token a mandatory requirement for enabling the Verified mark........ Secondly compromise of an official Google account makes one suspect exploitation of some kind of hole in Twitter's systems; mainly b/c Google goes the extra mile in regards to security ---- its difficult to imagine anyone could have scammed G suite creds from them easily. Also the sudden serial compromises of multiple other high-profile Twitter accounts that hadn't happened before? Very suspicious.
Forget relying on a pre-package DRM solution. Make games where internet access is a necessity to enjoy the game.
When the game boots have some data structures with critical assets that must be loaded from data that is only available on servers.
Release day should also be the day that a new protection layer is introduced, so even if the pre-relase DRM had been cracked, somehow; folks would have to start over after release.
The power requirements only get high if your ecosystem involves competing over solving the blocks
And if your ecosystem doesn't involve competing over a scarce resource to solve blocks; then the entire ecosystem is at greater risk that a single actor, such as a nation state, can get enough computing power to rewrite the entire chain.
POW secures Bitcoin, because not even a 3-letter agency could afford to procure enough computing power to double-spend or rewrite history. "Blockchains" that aren't reliant on a scarce resource won't work, because there are single actors out there who can afford to corrupt the network.
Proof of Stake coins like REDD have a similar issue ---- instead of the validation power being distributed rather well, and anyone that can stand up a mining operation of a certain size - Under PoS the power is concentrated in a small number of entities (usually the founders) that horde large quantities of the coin; corrupt 1 or 2 of these people, and you can undermine a Proof of Stake coin easily ---- that is well within the compass of a state actor to do : target the people Hording / HOLDING / MINING PoS crypto. And the perfect pre-text exists to do so...... controlling a large number of crypto tokens can be deemed a basis for suspicion
This looks like another thing that belongs as a 3rd party addon. This is just a 3rd party service that tracks prices in some way and does PUSH notifications. Anyone could write such plugin. I see no reason for the core browser team to be doing this.
The vast majority of energy use by crypto mining is wasted hash attempts, and that energy *can't* be reclaimed
The energy consumed by logic circuits is erasing state, and ALL that energy is released as simple waste heat. .... There is no fuel or energy loss in a chemical process such as in fuel combustion heaters. That is why radiant electric space heaters are said to be 100% efficient -- miners are in just the same category.
The ability to "reclaim" the energy is not necessary, because the whole purpose of a space heater is ALL the heat is waste heat and
to release waste heat in order to heat the room.
The only thing better is a heat pump which can be 300% efficient by bringing in 10kBTU of heat from a source using 1kW of electricity;
although the efficiency decreases as the heat source gets colder.
No it can't. Its a mathematical nonsense to suggest it can be.
It's not mathematical nonsense.... All the energy consumed by a Cryptominer is dissipated as heat.
That said, miners take more energy to produce the silicon and are more expensive than a simple coil.
Also, in many places... other sources of fuel for heat such as heating oil or natural gas are more cost efficient, so there's that....
But its not very unethical to call a miner a "networked space heater" --- if its been programmed to work as one; because thats essentially what it is;
on the other hand concealing the nature of its network usage might be unethical, particularly if it utilizes significant bandwidth.
Otherwise you could just distribute black box units to your co-workers to run as space heaters throughout the winter ---- Make an iPhone/Android app required to be used to turn on the heater and adjust its settings (network connectivity required to enable), and Alexa or Google Home integration for reading the current temperature, and i'm sure they'd appreciate that.
When it comes to installing equipment on telephone poles and street lights, it's all tightly regulated.
Erhm... Its not just that. Private property: the federal government doesn't own it, they can't load crap on those poles.
The state or municipality owns the land the poles are on, generally. If they're on private property, then the landowner's permission is required to put something on the poles, and nobody can just hang streetlights or cameras, or whatever they feel like without permission of the property owner.
Poles on public land or the right of way --- this is municipality or county/parish-owned land, not federally owned land, so the feds don't have any authority or rights to do anything with it. For public land: municipality or electric company that put the poles in place owns the poles, generally --- in some cases the deal is by installing the pole on right of way the PoCo has to let other utility cabling ride the pole.
That leaves basically two possibilities: (1) They are in cahoots with some cities, or (2) The DEA themself are breaking the law or doing something fraudulent --- for example, by doing clandestine jobs at night where they replace hardware with bugged hw in secret, or corrupting municipalitys' supply chains by covertly introducing bugged units that when plugged into power have a hidden camera that works without infrastructure
Chances are its (1)..... "Here, let us save you some $$$ on streetlights --- we'll provide a certain percentage of the units you need for your city; in exchange we might do some shady things with some of them, but you go by no questions asked, and the feds will cut you in on for $$$ on some of the action"
The places are publicly owned and accessible.
Things that happen there CAN still be private: when you look around, and see that no other person is there or nearby, then you have a reasonable expectation of almost complete privacy.
Also, if somebody records your voice without the consent of at least one party to the conversation, then you have what is called an illegal recording; A.K.A. illegal unauthorized wiretap.
I don't think many people will have sympathy for your intolerance of a car door closing
It's NOT a car door closing -- its part a sonic boom that they Claim in their words to be similar in ordinary sounding in their hopes to a car door closing - they aren't supplying a maximum number of decibels on the ground --- they ask different people to rank the loudness, and some people say they hear a Medium-Loud, and others say they hear a Loud boom.....
Guess how loud it's going to sound to you outside, if you are at a heightened elevation; if it sounds like a "Car door closing" when indoors at sea level?
It's going to be friggin' loud, that's what.
The boom varies; today it might be a thump, and tomorrow they may maneuver their plane differently and you have the potential to be one one of the unlucky 2 or 3 to get a sonic blast that shatters your windows ----- that's a bit unsettling and what you call a nuisance; you're part of an unwanted human experiment where you're at risk, and consent was never granted for this.
Sensitive little snowflake that doesn't mind thunder that can crack windows
You're the melodramatic snowflake here --- there's no thunder that cracks windows, and the sound is natural.
Generally, when it thunders that occurs at predictable times and it's raining, and I go indoors when it's raining, anyways.
There's a difference between acts of god and manmade disturbances coming out of the blue.
This is tantamount to a craft brewer complaining he can't put his beer in Walmart's aisle coolers.
No.... this is tantamount to officials from your local flea market coming up to your permanent booth that you've been selling from for years informing you "We're going to have to close you down, because you've been selling reconditioned brand X products, and we've signed an exclusivity deal with brand X that only businesses authorized by brand X officials can sell brand X products at this market.".
This SEEMS like Antitrust, because Amazon != Apple, and Amazon is in the business of allowing 3rd party sellers to sell pretty much any kind of product on their website, which only a few general exceptions.... this is Not normal like Walmart refusing to allow a 3rd party to stock goods in their store. The Amazon marketplace is more like eBay..... it would be like Apple signing a deal with eBay requiring eBay to remove/block listings for all Apple-branded products unless the seller is pre-approved with Apple as "permitted to sell".
There goes.... not only all the legitimate used/refurbished equipment, But generic replacements for things like Macbook power adapters, non-Apple-OEM adapters, lightning cables, thunderbolt cables, etc.
I don't believe there is any such right.
Of course there is... it's literally called a Landowner's Right to Quiet Enjoyment, and
interfering with that results in a legal tort for which one can be sued called Private Nuisance
I recommend that you train animals to make the sound of car doors slamming
I was thinking of fitting helmets with attack lasers onto the heads of some birds and training them to home in on and take out anything that sounds like a door slamming.
"quiet thump," more like the sound of a car door slamming
Please no.... Just because you want to fly your plane a little bit faster.
It's totally unjustifiable forcing me to be exposed to noise equivalent to a car door slamming at random: that's still an unfair violation of my right to seclusion and peaceful enjoyment of my property that is well aways from any city or other place subject to routine manmade noises, and also, especially if i'm trying to record audio of nature, etc --- An unwanted intrusion is an unwanted intrusion --- fly your crap around my land only if you can guarantee no unnatural noise, noise pollution, or other interference or trespass, at all.
CFCs were found in things like spray cans, fridges, foam insulation and air conditioners.
Factories and Spray cans, yes... the rest: pretty much no.
The hole in the Ozone layer wasn't caused by us having CFCs in refrigerators.... it was caused by CFC and Halon Emissions, or the Release of CFCs and Halons. Primarily from the emissions of industrial factories and facilities making the things, Halon gas Fire Suppression systems like those that used to be used in computing centers, and from Spray cans, yes.
Refrigeration equipment, on the other hand.... is designed to contain CFCs, not release them. It's counterproductive to emit the CFCs, because the equipment doesn't work after they leak out, so leaks get patched quickly, and refrigeration is not a significant source of CFC emission. R-12 Freon
is the most suitable refrigerant found, and any of the replacements resulted in equipment that won't work as reliably or efficiently ----
some of the latest replacements being used now to avoid CFC-like chemicals (While lining the pocketbooks of new chemical inventors)
are downright scary.... R1234yf ---- just what we need in the engine compartment of all our cars, a pressurized system with highly-Flammable refrigerant
that costs 100X as much by weight as the R134a HFC that some beancounters or lobbyists in the chemical industry who need more profits by forcing replacement with a newly patented magic formula deemed too CFC-like.
Earlier this year, a United Nations expert on housing called the living conditions of the homeless in the Bay Area "cruel" and "unacceptable."
We've got the UN calling the conditions cruel?
How about we send some relief workers to California to pick these homeless folks up and fly them to Geneva to apply for asylum.
Or at least bring these folks to cities where some decent housing is affordable without a 6-figure income
With the turnout to a typical election less than half.... who wins Is all about who is motivated to vote.
See, all parties have "apathetic voters" who didn't care enough to show up to the polls ---- Selectively prodding ones with certain demographics or
certain party affiliation basically amounts to tampering with the outcomes of elections.
Frankly... This should be illegal. At a personal level, sure, you should encourage your friends to vote, and that should be perfectly fine as long as you are not discriminating based on their party affiliation, etc --- But gaining access to party rosters and using selective pressure or systematic discriminatory aid to different groups (e.g. Republicans, Democrats, people who live in a certain neighborhood are of a certain age range, class, race, gender, etc) - is something that should be banned for fairness in elections.
the researchers used a median of all the values between January 1, 2016 and June 30, 2018
Wait a minute.... Averaging by median starting from 2016 is misleading. The COST TO MINE is not fixed. The cost to mine is a function of difficulty, and the difficulty is affected by hashrate --- how much hashrate people are willing to turn up is based on value but has steadily increased over time.
If you want to "average" the value of a BTC, then you should be doing a weighted average where the weight value is the hash rate: the price of BTC at times when the hashrate were higher are more important for determining the worth ---- or just plain evaluate RECENT values that match up with the recent use of mining power and recent mining proceeds, but anything before November 2017 is too old to be looking at.
Any legitimate need to spoof a number
I don't care if they spoof a number legitimately.... Telecom carriers that accept and send outgoing calls from a customer should be REQUIRED to verify that all Outgoing Caller ID matches a number either (1) Assigned to that customer by the provider, OR (2) Ported in by that customer, OR (3) Supplied by that customer in advance. AND --- If there is not a match re-write/forcibly change the Caller ID to one of the above.
Lists of numbers supplied by the customer in advance shall include a recent invoice from the carrier providing those numbers on an end user service, Or other persuasive proof that additional numbers are owned by that customer as end user.
When peering with another Telecom carrier to accept incoming calls from the PSTN directed to their own customers, the Telecom carrier should be REQUIRED to specify in the agreement that all services provided to other partners, peer networks, or customers of the Peer include the same agreement, and they shall apply this same filtering to any subscriber they provide a Telephone line to.
How exactly do you mandate endpoint authentication for calls originating from Canada, Latin America, South America and overseas?
You don't.... you mandate that the carrier peering with the Canadian carrier check the Caller ID on incoming calls to ensure the calls have an appropriate prefix.
If the prefix is wrong, then you either prepend a prefix or add a flag indicating the Caller ID is spoofed/unreliable.
Then when calling the US they have to choose between only spoofing Canadian numbers, or having their calls "flagged" for possible filtering.
Why? You'd kill class action suits as a way of suing large companies so I'm sure they'd be all in favour of this change.
No.... You'd kill "bullshit" class action suits that are being pursued to line some lawyer or sponsor's pocketbooks while the public doesn't get much benefit.
If the class action is for say 100 Million $$, then the lawyers still get $1 Million.
I'm also in favor of calculating a percentage of the amount in dispute for normal cases that aren't class actions -- civil trials in equity and some related hearings or cases where a plaintiff pursues monetary compensation as the "maximum allowed legal fee".
Example: In order to sue someone: the plaintiff has to deposit 10% of the amount they are suing for into a court escrow account in advance.
If the plaintiff is successful, then half the original deposit is refunded to the plaintiff, and proceeds of the judgement will be collected into
the same account until the balance is 10% of the actual judgement.
Whatever remains in the account will be used to reimburse legal expenses: first to the prevailing party, then
to the losing party, and after all legal expenses are covered -- the remainder is divided by the lawyers of both parties
at a ratio set by the judge.
And before beginning a case, one of the first documents lawyers must sign is that reimbursement from the court
shall be the only permitted compensation for all trial-related services, and any other renumeration must be returned.
The reimbursement is for lawyers and clerical work at a standard rate e.g. $20/Hour for clerical services, $50/Hour for actual work or consultation by an attorney, limited expenses for research, travel, and consultation with other professionals at same standard rates,
and other types of services as reasonable after showing receipt for proof and acceptable written justification.
Neutrality is not the law of the land, but that wasn't good enough for ATT and various lobbyists groups ---
they wanted to appeal to the Supreme Court seeking a ruling that it is not within the FCC's power to impose network neutrality, or, essentially that it is beyond the FCC's power to regulate their industry in the first place.
However, the Supreme Court's time is precious, therefore, they are one of the only courts in the US that gets to decide whether they will
hear a case in the first place.... Those that want to appeal to the court must make a petition for certiorari.
The Supreme Court decided that this wasn't even worth hearing and denied their application for certiorari, therefore:
the supreme court declines to even consider their case, at least for now, therefore they are unable to appeal the lower court's ruling,
therefore, the lower court's 2015 ruling in favor of the FCC stands --- even if the FCC doesn't want to right now: A future administration retains the power to restore the Network Neutrality regulations.
There was an EF-1 Tornado powerful enough to take off roofs..... everyone ought to have evacuated when a warning sounded to a structurally sound room --- makes you wonder what kind of operation Amazon is running there...
no emergency preparedness?
Ads for political purpose are a different animal, as there are a series of laws that must be followed.
Bullshit. The only political ads that are allowed to be limited by the government are those ads actually commissioned by a political candidate Or donations directly to a political candidate, and compliance with the campaign financing rules are the responsibility of that politician's campaign.
From anyone else, Political advertising is protected speech: Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission
And under the supreme court ruling: Facebook's free speech rights mean that they can post any advertisement they want without being subject to any limitation.