Once again the topic of piracy and an article's implied reasoning that each illegal stream took directly away from revenue. It's been discussed for well over a decade now, and I'm still convinced that true fans and people who can pay for some form of entertainment do so, even considering illegal alternatives.
Likewise, those with merely a passing interest in a form of entertainment and only participate in that form of entertainment if they can do so free, would not pay ever, even if there were no other way to participate. They would just go without because they don't care enough.
Digital piracy is not a 1 to 1 loss. Not even close.
As I've got older my lust for head to head competition in video games - and effort to become competitive - has diminished greatly.
I'm finding I enjoy single player games more now that have some real depth to yhier story or solid strategy. Witcher 3 and Stellaris are recent gems. Fallout 4 was fun exploration even if story was weak.
Not quite as drastic as it sounds. In 2010 or so Xerox bought a service company called ACS in a multi billion dollar deal. Trying to stay in competition with with Dell and HP as they bought up big service companies. Turned out to not be as profitable as they hoped among other problems.
The "split" or spin off company is nothing more than the old ACS being made it's own company again, with a name change. Very little of it ever had anything to do with the Xerox printer portion of the company.
The biggest problem with not raising the minimum wage, imo, is that if it's low enough that a full time employee on minimum wage qualifies for state assistance then the reality is that the tax payers are footing part of the paycheck for the company involved.
To few comprehend the enormous amount of corporate welfare going on as tax payers fund the lives of minimum wage workers, while the corporation reaps the profit.
The minimum wage should always be set high enough that someone working full time earning it would not qualify for government assistance.
That's like someone having terminal cancer and just taking pain killers to 'fix' it. You have the fix the root of the problem, if you really want things to be fixed. That means halting global warming. And that means drastic action to limit Carbon and Methane emissions by humanity's machines and realistically a healthy dose of atmosphere engineering at this point to pull those molecules out of the air.
While the space would be amazing for backups, if a single head can only write to the media within similar speed ranges of modern tape drives then this tech would be severely limited in actual day to day use in a data center. Large, static data. Which don't get me wrong there is plenty of need for backups for - but it couldn't replace your entire data center's backup strategy with a few drives. At least not without very high write speeds.
"We need to ensure the Internet is not used as a dark place for bad people to hide their criminal activities from the law"
vs.
"We need to ensure the Internet is not used as a dark place for government organizations to abuse and violate citizens privacy by those who are above the law"
I thought the iPhone was a huge gimik when it came out. I was very dismissive of a phone with no tactile keyboard buttons.... and then I used one for 10 min at lunch one day. My co-worker had bought it that morning. By the time I handed it back I knew it was a better than any cell/smart phone I had used to date. It's configuration options put blackberry's quagmire to shame. It's smoothness in function and even typing on the glass surface was astounding.
You start throwing words around like quantum and computer and annealing with massive levels of qubits - this is obviously where we are headed... right guys? RIGHT!?
Nuclear energy is the crazy hot girlfriend of energy. She may be nice, kind, and wonderful for days, months, or years - maybe decades. But someday, somehow, she's going to go berserk on you. 100% chance. And cleaning up the mess at that point will leave you with a very long term scar.
Good to see that it at least is taking shape to kick ass for that price. (FYI that's the price of the program to build something around 1500 of them. North of 1 Trillion US dollars I've read).
My work badge has an RFID component to it for opening certain high security doors within the building I work in. I have a metal wallet, and when I have my badge within that wallet the RFID badge readers won't detect my badge. I have to remove it first. So I would guess this also means it makes my cards less susceptible to RFID scammers.
This is a link to model of wallet I currently use if you want to see what it looks like.
1- Have spotless offline backups of everything 2- Lock down share permissions 3- Lock down admins on permissions domain level 4- Lock down admins on local machine level 5- Pray
I had to deal with this garbage once earlier this year on a custom domain with awful permissions management. It was bad enough from a single source\spread to shares perspective. I can't imagine the damn thing acting like a worm at the same time. Potentially career ending because 1- your enterprise gets owned so hard and 2- you never want to touch a computer again once you have to try to clean it up.
There is something to be said about using ancient tech when it works well. Extremely few people out there able to exploit it. As long as it does the job it needs to do reliably, why go ape $*&^ and start trying to spend time and money running it all on new, vulnerability riddles OS's and networked programs. I think any of us in the IT world have seen the latest and greatest ruin a good, smooth process permanently.
The huge consideration here being that the old tech is indeed reliable, efficient, and functional.
Remember envisioning a future where everyone was flying around in their own flying car under their own control? Yeah that's not going to happen.
HOWEVER, I do believe that we will see the skies filled with autonomous flying "drone cars". Out of the hands of commuter's control.
- 5 years from now - It won't be uncommon to see autonomous semi trucks and some autonomous passenger vehicles on the freeways. - 15 years from now - You will be able to call in, ride in, and get dropped off by an autonomous road car serving as a taxi service. No more car ownership needed. - 50 years from now - same thing will be available, but with commuter distance flying option as well.
I was about to post the same sentiment. When your entire business model revolves around a crowd of people who don't have the funds and/or desire to actually buy the media they consume - trying to obtain donations from such a crowd is a fool's errand.
"Good luck convincing many citizens to do actual work".
IMO the huge majority of people who would be perfectly happy to sit around doing nothing with a basic income wouldn't be producing any work/effort of significance anyhow even with our current day standard of "no money with no job". Call center lifers. Fast food lifers. Minimum wage lifers in general.
Add to this the fact that you would then completely scrap the current unemployment/disability benefit systems and the increase in cost across society in tax load wouldn't increase as much as feared. It would increase. Especially on companies and the richest 10% of people.
You have to take into consideration the expense + day to day usability desires of the people/families involved.
The 'at home' plan may be cheaper, but they aren't willing to abandon their mobile device. They would be tied down to sitting at home for internet only, with no data enabled cell phone.
People are willing to pay for the wireless plan because they can use it anywhere and then cut the at home internet line to save SOME money.
Then we'd see the exact same arguments for and against these jobless numbers amongst the exact same people - with the major caveat that the exact same people would be a the polar opposite ends of the argument spectrum.
That's how stupid factional political identification has become.
This seems like the most obvious thing in the world. But the lawyers and executives of the entertainment world don't want to accept the reality that when someone pirates their stuff it doesn't equal a lost sale. Not even close. The majority of the pirates would not suddenly go drop money on the product if they could not pirate. They would just do without because they don't care that much.
If you care and you can afford it you buy the product. If you care and you can't afford it you don't buy the product. If you don't care and can afford it you don't buy the product. If you don't care and you can't afford it you don't buy the product.
At least if it's story and characters that matter. Fallout 4 is great as an open world game, and may indeed hold more playable hours in it than Witcher 3... but the depth of the RPG experience in Witcher 3 is hands down superior.
Anyone who ever helped their grandma or mother with their laptop could see this disaster coming from the invention of the term "IoT". IPv4 security + millions of people just plug and playing internet facing equipment = L. O. L. levels of an ugly mix of executive stupidity, investor greed, and public ignorance.
Well I can't speak for what the creator/maintainer of the giant Malvertiser DNS list may or may not do with post board spamming. But I do know I have very few adds show up on any site I visit, and know for sure they don't load because they all point to 0.0.0.0 when they try. And it's been working like that for years. And that's all that matters to me.
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Once again the topic of piracy and an article's implied reasoning that each illegal stream took directly away from revenue. It's been discussed for well over a decade now, and I'm still convinced that true fans and people who can pay for some form of entertainment do so, even considering illegal alternatives.
Likewise, those with merely a passing interest in a form of entertainment and only participate in that form of entertainment if they can do so free, would not pay ever, even if there were no other way to participate. They would just go without because they don't care enough.
Digital piracy is not a 1 to 1 loss. Not even close.
As I've got older my lust for head to head competition in video games - and effort to become competitive - has diminished greatly.
I'm finding I enjoy single player games more now that have some real depth to yhier story or solid strategy. Witcher 3 and Stellaris are recent gems. Fallout 4 was fun exploration even if story was weak.
Not quite as drastic as it sounds. In 2010 or so Xerox bought a service company called ACS in a multi billion dollar deal. Trying to stay in competition with with Dell and HP as they bought up big service companies. Turned out to not be as profitable as they hoped among other problems.
The "split" or spin off company is nothing more than the old ACS being made it's own company again, with a name change. Very little of it ever had anything to do with the Xerox printer portion of the company.
The biggest problem with not raising the minimum wage, imo, is that if it's low enough that a full time employee on minimum wage qualifies for state assistance then the reality is that the tax payers are footing part of the paycheck for the company involved.
To few comprehend the enormous amount of corporate welfare going on as tax payers fund the lives of minimum wage workers, while the corporation reaps the profit.
The minimum wage should always be set high enough that someone working full time earning it would not qualify for government assistance.
That's like someone having terminal cancer and just taking pain killers to 'fix' it. You have the fix the root of the problem, if you really want things to be fixed. That means halting global warming. And that means drastic action to limit Carbon and Methane emissions by humanity's machines and realistically a healthy dose of atmosphere engineering at this point to pull those molecules out of the air.
While the space would be amazing for backups, if a single head can only write to the media within similar speed ranges of modern tape drives then this tech would be severely limited in actual day to day use in a data center. Large, static data. Which don't get me wrong there is plenty of need for backups for - but it couldn't replace your entire data center's backup strategy with a few drives. At least not without very high write speeds.
"We need to ensure the Internet is not used as a dark place for bad people to hide their criminal activities from the law"
vs.
"We need to ensure the Internet is not used as a dark place for government organizations to abuse and violate citizens privacy by those who are above the law"
For men shall be... Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
Track and analyze your life to the smallest fraction we will. Soon. sooooooooon. MMHEHEHEHE!
I thought the iPhone was a huge gimik when it came out. I was very dismissive of a phone with no tactile keyboard buttons. ... and then I used one for 10 min at lunch one day. My co-worker had bought it that morning. By the time I handed it back I knew it was a better than any cell/smart phone I had used to date. It's configuration options put blackberry's quagmire to shame. It's smoothness in function and even typing on the glass surface was astounding.
You start throwing words around like quantum and computer and annealing with massive levels of qubits - this is obviously where we are headed... right guys? RIGHT!?
Nuclear energy is the crazy hot girlfriend of energy. She may be nice, kind, and wonderful for days, months, or years - maybe decades. But someday, somehow, she's going to go berserk on you. 100% chance. And cleaning up the mess at that point will leave you with a very long term scar.
Good to see that it at least is taking shape to kick ass for that price. (FYI that's the price of the program to build something around 1500 of them. North of 1 Trillion US dollars I've read).
My work badge has an RFID component to it for opening certain high security doors within the building I work in. I have a metal wallet, and when I have my badge within that wallet the RFID badge readers won't detect my badge. I have to remove it first. So I would guess this also means it makes my cards less susceptible to RFID scammers.
This is a link to model of wallet I currently use if you want to see what it looks like.
http://www.trayvax.com/collect...
This stuff is nasty.
1- Have spotless offline backups of everything
2- Lock down share permissions
3- Lock down admins on permissions domain level
4- Lock down admins on local machine level
5- Pray
I had to deal with this garbage once earlier this year on a custom domain with awful permissions management. It was bad enough from a single source\spread to shares perspective. I can't imagine the damn thing acting like a worm at the same time. Potentially career ending because 1- your enterprise gets owned so hard and 2- you never want to touch a computer again once you have to try to clean it up.
There is something to be said about using ancient tech when it works well. Extremely few people out there able to exploit it. As long as it does the job it needs to do reliably, why go ape $*&^ and start trying to spend time and money running it all on new, vulnerability riddles OS's and networked programs. I think any of us in the IT world have seen the latest and greatest ruin a good, smooth process permanently.
The huge consideration here being that the old tech is indeed reliable, efficient, and functional.
Remember envisioning a future where everyone was flying around in their own flying car under their own control? Yeah that's not going to happen.
HOWEVER, I do believe that we will see the skies filled with autonomous flying "drone cars". Out of the hands of commuter's control.
- 5 years from now - It won't be uncommon to see autonomous semi trucks and some autonomous passenger vehicles on the freeways.
- 15 years from now - You will be able to call in, ride in, and get dropped off by an autonomous road car serving as a taxi service. No more car ownership needed.
- 50 years from now - same thing will be available, but with commuter distance flying option as well.
That's my uneducated prediction anyhow
I was about to post the same sentiment. When your entire business model revolves around a crowd of people who don't have the funds and/or desire to actually buy the media they consume - trying to obtain donations from such a crowd is a fool's errand.
"Good luck convincing many citizens to do actual work".
IMO the huge majority of people who would be perfectly happy to sit around doing nothing with a basic income wouldn't be producing any work/effort of significance anyhow even with our current day standard of "no money with no job". Call center lifers. Fast food lifers. Minimum wage lifers in general.
Add to this the fact that you would then completely scrap the current unemployment/disability benefit systems and the increase in cost across society in tax load wouldn't increase as much as feared. It would increase. Especially on companies and the richest 10% of people.
You have to take into consideration the expense + day to day usability desires of the people/families involved.
The 'at home' plan may be cheaper, but they aren't willing to abandon their mobile device. They would be tied down to sitting at home for internet only, with no data enabled cell phone.
People are willing to pay for the wireless plan because they can use it anywhere and then cut the at home internet line to save SOME money.
Then we'd see the exact same arguments for and against these jobless numbers amongst the exact same people - with the major caveat that the exact same people would be a the polar opposite ends of the argument spectrum.
That's how stupid factional political identification has become.
This seems like the most obvious thing in the world. But the lawyers and executives of the entertainment world don't want to accept the reality that when someone pirates their stuff it doesn't equal a lost sale. Not even close. The majority of the pirates would not suddenly go drop money on the product if they could not pirate. They would just do without because they don't care that much.
If you care and you can afford it you buy the product.
If you care and you can't afford it you don't buy the product.
If you don't care and can afford it you don't buy the product.
If you don't care and you can't afford it you don't buy the product.
At least if it's story and characters that matter. Fallout 4 is great as an open world game, and may indeed hold more playable hours in it than Witcher 3... but the depth of the RPG experience in Witcher 3 is hands down superior.
Anyone who ever helped their grandma or mother with their laptop could see this disaster coming from the invention of the term "IoT". IPv4 security + millions of people just plug and playing internet facing equipment = L. O. L. levels of an ugly mix of executive stupidity, investor greed, and public ignorance.
Well I can't speak for what the creator/maintainer of the giant Malvertiser DNS list may or may not do with post board spamming. But I do know I have very few adds show up on any site I visit, and know for sure they don't load because they all point to 0.0.0.0 when they try. And it's been working like that for years. And that's all that matters to me.