Is the console tax really that much more than the 30 percent tax that Google, Amazon, and Apple charge in their respective app stores? No. In fact, it's exactly the same, as Apple announced an App Store with a 30 percent tax months after Microsoft announced Xbox Live Indie Games with a 30 percent tax.
The "console tax" is not a fee that Microsoft or Sony charges, it's a price discrepancy between PC/mobile versions of a game and the version that appears on consoles. It's not a consistent thing but more often than not prices are higher on consoles than elsewhere.
Also there's a crap ton of free/free-2-pay-more titles on mobile... kids don't have money, they go where it's free... huge leap in logic there. Also, no console tax.
That's not fair use because you can use it for profit like the times square people or blogging etc. Then there's issues of it negatively affecting your brand, like if crazy Elmo decides to start attacking tourists.
I mean seriously, yes this is possible but you could do damage to a network in innumerable ways. Until the problem is actually happening there's no sense protecting against it. At most I could see someone trying this with a school network to get out of having to do a test or a disgruntled employee... it's not going to be a frequent thing.
That's kinda my point. "wiki" style is really only useful if you have the general public involved. By harvesting the generic data (names/trees) from other databases all it's really doing is indexing sources scientists would already go to for the real data (ie: paywalled information). Without the real data behind it or something for the general public I can't see it being hugely useful to anyone imo.
It'd be cooler if it was general public friendly. Scientists might find it useful but the general public will have no use for something they can't understand. Really though it seems like they're just copying others databases (primarily NCBI and SILVA) which have "trees" of their own.
Actually, they've been cutting spending on the military and veterans as well. They closed many of the veteran service offices, and when it ended up in court, argued that they had no special obligation or "social contract" with veterans, and that it was unfair to bind the current government to promises made nearly a century ago.
Veterans are too much like welfare recipients which right wingers don't like. As to the cutting spending, the F-35 $46 billion, $3.5 billion on new ships for the navy, pay increases for active duty servicemen... hardly cutting costs.
More often than not, 'doxxing' is just compiling information that is already available on the internet. People think they've been 'hacked' or 'stalked' but they often forget that they posted the information in some forum/comment section using the same username they use everywhere. I once had a guy ask me to do it to him because he didn't believe that I could. He'd posted 6 times on the forum in question using that username. I was able to identify 2 or 3 other anonymous accounts he'd used on that forum, pictures of not only the exterior but the interior of his house, his real name/social media profile and all the troves of information that provides. It took me about an hour to tease out his data from a woman in Florida. Why? Because he'd mentioned his cats names in one of those 6 posts. That lady in Florida had the same names for her cats, otherwise it was the only thread I needed to pull to unravel exactly who this guy was.
It seems like a good thing on the surface, except for the reasoning behind it. It's not about collecting/not collecting data, it's about de-funding those who don't vote conservative. It's classic right wing tactics, they funnel money to their supporters by doing things like creating laws that will be struck down by the courts and hiring pro-conservative lawyers to defend them, increased military spending, etc. Those law firms, soldiers, etc. then give back to the conservative party in votes/donations. Then on the de-funding side they slash left-wing programs like libraries, sciences, etc. so those who would support a left-wing party don't have the funds to donate to them. There's also the motto of "rule as badly as you can" which makes government seem incompetent/short sighted which propels their anti-big-government agenda.
Also, unlike the US government, the Canadian government sells non-personal data it collects to businesses instead of giving it away. It's actually a fairly profitable revenue source for the government.
If you consider http://www./ a.com/ politically correct... just some legacy code that rewrites unknown urls to some of the more common TLDs (.com,.org, etc) in an attempt to find a valid URL that matches. Actually a really crappy thing to do as you can use domains of common base folder names like images.com to pickup traffic from incorrect links so//images/whatever.jpg becomes images.com/whatever.jpg... anyone who clicks that link will end up on the wrong site. It has some great potential for some casual phishing.
It seems to me the kid simply used the term "invented" in the incorrect or loose manner. Had he said "creation" instead of "invention" there would be no problem. He created something "new" with parts from two different things. If anything patent law is filled with "inventions" of this type.
If I decline to interact with the music industry, then borrowing their musics is not "stealing" or "pirating" also I guess. To be fair, we have to apply the same logic everywhere...
By stealing/pirating/etc their music you are interacting with the producers of the music because you're using the product they released. You are not interacting with the 3rd party advertisers they may hire for whatever.
That's stealing. It's no different than ripping music. It's no different than pirating movies.
They're stealing my time, and electricity
The funny thing is, neither is stealing! One is a court upheld right to, in the case of third party ads, decline to interact with companies/services as well as to do what you will with documents on your system. The other is the cost of interacting with a program/service you voluntarily engaged with, not stealing of time/electricity.
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Also, no console tax.
Is the console tax really that much more than the 30 percent tax that Google, Amazon, and Apple charge in their respective app stores? No. In fact, it's exactly the same, as Apple announced an App Store with a 30 percent tax months after Microsoft announced Xbox Live Indie Games with a 30 percent tax.
The "console tax" is not a fee that Microsoft or Sony charges, it's a price discrepancy between PC/mobile versions of a game and the version that appears on consoles. It's not a consistent thing but more often than not prices are higher on consoles than elsewhere.
Also there's a crap ton of free/free-2-pay-more titles on mobile... kids don't have money, they go where it's free... huge leap in logic there. Also, no console tax.
If I build a batmobile for myself and get bored of it, is it for profit if I sell it? What about in a bankruptcy or estate sale?
I'm just playing devil's advocate... I think the entire system is absurd.
That's not fair use because you can use it for profit like the times square people or blogging etc. Then there's issues of it negatively affecting your brand, like if crazy Elmo decides to start attacking tourists.
It goes without saying that stuff like this should be copyrighted because it's essentially "fanart" that is being sold. You just can't do that.
Though this makes me wonder about Time Machine-modified Delorean's and Ecto-1's
There goes cosplay.
Hammer breaks computer hardware! News at 11.
Fire destroys shit! OMG
I mean seriously, yes this is possible but you could do damage to a network in innumerable ways. Until the problem is actually happening there's no sense protecting against it. At most I could see someone trying this with a school network to get out of having to do a test or a disgruntled employee... it's not going to be a frequent thing.
That's kinda my point. "wiki" style is really only useful if you have the general public involved. By harvesting the generic data (names/trees) from other databases all it's really doing is indexing sources scientists would already go to for the real data (ie: paywalled information). Without the real data behind it or something for the general public I can't see it being hugely useful to anyone imo.
Why anyone, either in the armed forces or the government, ever bothered to look at a single engine plane is beyond me.
Yet it harvests much of the data from a closed RNA database...
It'd be cooler if it was general public friendly. Scientists might find it useful but the general public will have no use for something they can't understand. Really though it seems like they're just copying others databases (primarily NCBI and SILVA) which have "trees" of their own.
Actually, they've been cutting spending on the military and veterans as well. They closed many of the veteran service offices, and when it ended up in court, argued that they had no special obligation or "social contract" with veterans, and that it was unfair to bind the current government to promises made nearly a century ago.
Veterans are too much like welfare recipients which right wingers don't like. As to the cutting spending, the F-35 $46 billion, $3.5 billion on new ships for the navy, pay increases for active duty servicemen... hardly cutting costs.
More often than not, 'doxxing' is just compiling information that is already available on the internet. People think they've been 'hacked' or 'stalked' but they often forget that they posted the information in some forum/comment section using the same username they use everywhere. I once had a guy ask me to do it to him because he didn't believe that I could. He'd posted 6 times on the forum in question using that username. I was able to identify 2 or 3 other anonymous accounts he'd used on that forum, pictures of not only the exterior but the interior of his house, his real name/social media profile and all the troves of information that provides. It took me about an hour to tease out his data from a woman in Florida. Why? Because he'd mentioned his cats names in one of those 6 posts. That lady in Florida had the same names for her cats, otherwise it was the only thread I needed to pull to unravel exactly who this guy was.
Accept the fact that you allowed your personal information out into the world and are now facing the consequences of that decision.
It seems like a good thing on the surface, except for the reasoning behind it. It's not about collecting/not collecting data, it's about de-funding those who don't vote conservative. It's classic right wing tactics, they funnel money to their supporters by doing things like creating laws that will be struck down by the courts and hiring pro-conservative lawyers to defend them, increased military spending, etc. Those law firms, soldiers, etc. then give back to the conservative party in votes/donations. Then on the de-funding side they slash left-wing programs like libraries, sciences, etc. so those who would support a left-wing party don't have the funds to donate to them. There's also the motto of "rule as badly as you can" which makes government seem incompetent/short sighted which propels their anti-big-government agenda.
Also, unlike the US government, the Canadian government sells non-personal data it collects to businesses instead of giving it away. It's actually a fairly profitable revenue source for the government.
Not exactly a common web domain... cgi.com, www.com, images.com, etc. those are fairly common. account.com would have been a great one for phishing.
No, coding is not hard. Testing is tedious and not sexy enough for hot shot coders who don't take pride in their work.
If you consider http://www./ a.com/ politically correct... just some legacy code that rewrites unknown urls to some of the more common TLDs (.com, .org, etc) in an attempt to find a valid URL that matches. Actually a really crappy thing to do as you can use domains of common base folder names like images.com to pickup traffic from incorrect links so //images/whatever.jpg becomes images.com/whatever.jpg... anyone who clicks that link will end up on the wrong site. It has some great potential for some casual phishing.
Luckily AVG's decline started long ago and many of those people switched their parents/families to avast!
It seems to me the kid simply used the term "invented" in the incorrect or loose manner. Had he said "creation" instead of "invention" there would be no problem. He created something "new" with parts from two different things. If anything patent law is filled with "inventions" of this type.
If I decline to interact with the music industry, then borrowing their musics is not "stealing" or "pirating" also I guess. To be fair, we have to apply the same logic everywhere...
By stealing/pirating/etc their music you are interacting with the producers of the music because you're using the product they released. You are not interacting with the 3rd party advertisers they may hire for whatever.
Permission to copy this post to any and every future topic on the issue with full credit? lol
That's stealing. It's no different than ripping music. It's no different than pirating movies.
They're stealing my time, and electricity
The funny thing is, neither is stealing! One is a court upheld right to, in the case of third party ads, decline to interact with companies/services as well as to do what you will with documents on your system. The other is the cost of interacting with a program/service you voluntarily engaged with, not stealing of time/electricity.
But they are needed for Skynet!
Are you insane?
I guess I'm not "normal" - woohoo!