Still do you think the complete lack of an explanation is acceptable? Certainly there is still harm here because of loss of service for the time the account was not accessible.
In any case Amazon is certainly not the only case where people have lost access to DRM laden media.
Yes, I would like the non-DRM version too. Let me know when legal movies come without DRM and I'll buy them.
Meanwhile I'm preferring non-DRM physical media to DRM digital media. I buy books, not ebooks, and CDs, not DRM'ed digitial music. I have purchased some non-DRM digital music and archived it by burning it to archival CDs though. That is perfectly acceptable to me.
As far as requiring devices to play them back, I really don't think you can playback digital media without a device either.
There are lots of tools out there that can be used to remove DRM. Very shaky from a legal perspective.
> And your Blue Ray collection can burn in a house fire or get stolen.
Your digital media storage device can burn up or get stolen too.
> Chances are you won't even remember you owned the thing
There are lots of disks I don't remember owning (my CD collection was started 30 years ago) but since I have the physical item I can get a reminder by looking at the collection.
PLUS I can sell the ones I have decided I don't want any more. Good luck doing that with your stuff.
> People don't want to screw with discs.
Speak for yourself.
> Talking about wills and inheritance. Just give them the account and password.
That isn't a legal transfer of ownership. You've just violated the T&C of the owner of the stuff (not you) plus made pirates and felons of your beneficiaries. Good work!
I really have come to despise watching TV on most channels because of the overwhelming advertising content, so generally I wait until shows are available for streaming. And then BINGE.
The last binge I went on was Breaking Bad. Watched the entire 5 year series over 3 days. It was a great experience.
The first binge I did was watching LOST over a 4 day period. That was really cool too.
The exceptions are mostly shows that are on HBO or PBS - which are aired without commercials. These I can tolerate.
Eventually I imagine I will cut the cord, but there are a few things like live sports that I haven't found a way to get around the franchises for.
Ah, so really you are not using solar generated electricity to heat your home at night. You are using grid juice.
It seems to me that under those circumstances you would be better off economically using a more efficient light bulb and burning something to keep warm.
The stock certificates are a representation of the ownership right to the company. When you sell a share of stock you are selling your interest in the company.
So the shares of stock DID exist previously, in the form of the property rights of the people who own the company.
When the owners sell their stock you can bet damn well they have to pay a tax on that sale. The magnitude of that tax can be huge. It's one of the reasons people like Zuck take out loans rather than sell their stock.
Once the conversion is done the new residence will already have long life bulbs in it. So it seems to me that it will eventually become economically neutral.
That's not right. Current law (ECPA) allows LEO access without warrant to the CONTENT of emails stored for over 180 days by third parties.
This is outrageous. It is clearly a violation of a reasonable expectation of privacy if you extent the analogy of physical mail to email. Some members of Congress believe this and have filed legislation to end this practice.
The other aspect of this is that collection of ALL one's metadata in this age is a very different proposition to collecting the addresses on the outside of a few envelopes. The former provides a very deep insight, the latter quite limited.
Some judges have expressed opinions of this type, for example ruling that a physical 'tail' on an individual may not require a warrant, however tracking a person by planing a GPS device on their car does.
And finally the idea of general authorization of any collection activity is something the founders would deny.
Dammit I don't mind him getting the metadata he actually needs tp defend the United States. What I object to is the idea that he gets ALL the metadata without showing any need for the vast majority of it.
The 4th Amendment was written with the express intent of forbidding general warrants. Yet that's what we have.
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Their theories predict all this assholery with stunning accuracy.
This is why that time is called the Enlightenment.
Another one is sorely needed.
That's interesting.
Still do you think the complete lack of an explanation is acceptable? Certainly there is still harm here because of loss of service for the time the account was not accessible.
In any case Amazon is certainly not the only case where people have lost access to DRM laden media.
Yes, I would like the non-DRM version too. Let me know when legal movies come without DRM and I'll buy them.
Meanwhile I'm preferring non-DRM physical media to DRM digital media. I buy books, not ebooks, and CDs, not DRM'ed digitial music. I have purchased some non-DRM digital music and archived it by burning it to archival CDs though. That is perfectly acceptable to me.
As far as requiring devices to play them back, I really don't think you can playback digital media without a device either.
There are lots of tools out there that can be used to remove DRM. Very shaky from a legal perspective.
> And your Blue Ray collection can burn in a house fire or get stolen.
Your digital media storage device can burn up or get stolen too.
> Chances are you won't even remember you owned the thing
There are lots of disks I don't remember owning (my CD collection was started 30 years ago) but since I have the physical item I can get a reminder by looking at the collection.
PLUS I can sell the ones I have decided I don't want any more. Good luck doing that with your stuff.
> People don't want to screw with discs.
Speak for yourself.
> Talking about wills and inheritance. Just give them the account and password.
That isn't a legal transfer of ownership. You've just violated the T&C of the owner of the stuff (not you) plus made pirates and felons of your beneficiaries. Good work!
I wants a weapon that I can attach to my phone which will cause instant annihilation of any robocall system that happens to call me.
I've never seen either a mortar round or UAV incoming. However I get multiple incoming robocalls per day.
WORK ON SOMETHING RELEVANT!!
Maybe there is hope for the Yangs and the E Pleb Neesta yet.
Um no.
They actually exchanged fire with the perps.
If a President is going to have War Powers, shouldn't there be a war going on?
Last I looked Congress are the ones that get to say when that is.
This doesn't stop Amazon from just cancelling your account anytime they feel like it.
http://www.theguardian.com/money/2012/oct/22/amazon-wipes-customers-kindle-deletes-account
Or maybe just dropping their video biz.
Not to mention you can't transfer ownership, will it to your kids etc.
Sorry DRM is stupid all day. Give me the physical media every time.
I really have come to despise watching TV on most channels because of the overwhelming advertising content, so generally I wait until shows are available for streaming. And then BINGE.
The last binge I went on was Breaking Bad. Watched the entire 5 year series over 3 days. It was a great experience.
The first binge I did was watching LOST over a 4 day period. That was really cool too.
The exceptions are mostly shows that are on HBO or PBS - which are aired without commercials. These I can tolerate.
Eventually I imagine I will cut the cord, but there are a few things like live sports that I haven't found a way to get around the franchises for.
Ah, so really you are not using solar generated electricity to heat your home at night. You are using grid juice.
It seems to me that under those circumstances you would be better off economically using a more efficient light bulb and burning something to keep warm.
The stock certificates are a representation of the ownership right to the company. When you sell a share of stock you are selling your interest in the company.
So the shares of stock DID exist previously, in the form of the property rights of the people who own the company.
When the owners sell their stock you can bet damn well they have to pay a tax on that sale. The magnitude of that tax can be huge. It's one of the reasons people like Zuck take out loans rather than sell their stock.
Once the conversion is done the new residence will already have long life bulbs in it. So it seems to me that it will eventually become economically neutral.
Prostitutes have a higher approval rating than Congressmen, no it isn't an improvement.
You have a pretty unique setup. I've never heard of anyone heating their home using solar generated electricity at night.
Left to their own people dump their garbage and waste in the street rather than pay for proper disposal.
http://dpw.lacounty.gov/epd/illdump/
Yes, and if North America was politically united it would even be larger than a united Europe.
Not to mention that China and India are already united, and larger than a united Europe would be.
Columbine had two armed officers on site during the shooting. They were quite ineffective.
It's not just a matter of having somebody armed on the premises.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/guardian-editor-defends-publication-of-snowden-files/2013/12/03/8204608e-5c49-11e3-8d24-31c016b976b2_story.html
Total 58,000 files.
Boston, Indiana??
That's nothing compared to Claude Shannon's master's thesis which laid out the use of boolean logic to solve general problems.
Here's a list (just from MIT, which is one of the 100 or so universities in Metro Boston).
1802 -- Modern navigation -- Bowditch
1886 -- Management consulting -- Little
1901 -- Disposable safety razor -- Gillette et al.
1914 -- "Tech"nicolor -- Founded in Boston by Kalmus et al.
1919 -- Trans-Atlantic aircraft -- Hunsaker et al.
1929- -- Instant photography (Polaroid) -- Land
1931 -- Stroboscopy -- Edgerton, Germeshausen et al.
1937 -- Use of Boolean logic to design "digital" circuits -- Shannon
1940-45 -- Practical radar -- Anglo-American military collaboration at MIT
1944 -- Mark I/II computers and first computer "bug" -- Aiken, Hopper et al.
1945 -- Hypertext -- Vannevar Bush
1951 -- Huffman code
1951 -- Random access memory ("core")-- Project Whirlwind
1953 -- PET scan -- Brownell
1953- -- Doppler radar -- Gordon
1956- -- Chomsky hierarchy
1957- -- Generative grammar -- Chomsky
1957 -- Confocal microscope -- MInsky
1957-61 -- Time-sharing (and some of what we now call virtualization) -- Project MAC
1958 -- LISP -- McCarthy
1961 -- Chaos theory -- Lorenz (and many others)
1961-2 -- Digital videogame (Spacewar!) -- Graetz, Russel, Wiitanen, Kotok
1963 -- CAD -- Sutherland
1964 -- Minicomputer -- DEC
1964-5 -- Electronic mail -- Van Vleck / Morris on CTSS (also network email, Tomlinson in 1971)
1969 -- Apollo guidance computer that navigated to and landed on moon -- Instrumentation (now Draper) Laboratory
1970-90 -- Object-oriented programming and data hiding -- Liskov (and many others)
1972 -- Packet-switching and ARPANET -- Kahn, BBN, etc.
1973 -- Black-Scholes option pricing model -- Black, Scholes, Merton
1978 -- Practical public-key cryptography (RSA) -- Rivest, Shamir, Adelman
1979 -- Spreadsheet -- Bricklin and Frankston
1981-89 -- Copyleft/sharealike, GNU and free software movement -- Stallman
1995- - E-ink -- Jacobsen et al.
2000 -- Zipcar -- Danielson, Chase
That's how State Trooper Charles J. Hanger caught the worst domestic terrorist in US history. Cruisin' down I-35 with no plates.
Dumb. But not dumb enough to blow himself up instead of 168 citizens.
That's not right. Current law (ECPA) allows LEO access without warrant to the CONTENT of emails stored for over 180 days by third parties.
This is outrageous. It is clearly a violation of a reasonable expectation of privacy if you extent the analogy of physical mail to email. Some members of Congress believe this and have filed legislation to end this practice.
The other aspect of this is that collection of ALL one's metadata in this age is a very different proposition to collecting the addresses on the outside of a few envelopes. The former provides a very deep insight, the latter quite limited.
Some judges have expressed opinions of this type, for example ruling that a physical 'tail' on an individual may not require a warrant, however tracking a person by planing a GPS device on their car does.
And finally the idea of general authorization of any collection activity is something the founders would deny.
Dammit I don't mind him getting the metadata he actually needs tp defend the United States. What I object to is the idea that he gets ALL the metadata without showing any need for the vast majority of it.
The 4th Amendment was written with the express intent of forbidding general warrants. Yet that's what we have.
Stop it.
If your income is so low it seems that it is nearly impossible to imagine that the PPACA subsidies won't reduce your costs to near zero.