You don't. Even in the heart of SV, you can rent your own room for about $1000/month.
Or you can buy a decent house here for that. So am I surprised most software developers don't live in Silicon Valley? No. For the same reason I never moved there.
Aside from that, as mcmonkey quite correctly pointed out, most of everything is outside of Silicon Valley. Most of anything is outside of any given city.
You do realize the proper alternative for the landlord would have been to just have someone come around every year or two and bulldoze the kids' racetrack a lot sooner, don't you?
Worse, some people are pissed off that someone else isn't continuing keep servers running at their expense to keep giving stuff away.
It's not "vandalism" to stop offering a service. It might be akin to vandalism to damage someone ELSE offering a service, but that's not happening here. Someone's just feeling entitled and whining.
...but how many people are actually good at it? That's why this isn't going to happen. I might be willing to read your 3 line quip about politics. I am absolutely not listening to some rambling uh, ah, filled nonsense rant about politics.
Bottom line: Don't put up with shitty/ilegal contracts. It's that simple.
Sure, this, when it's only a small percentage of companies that do things like this. Stuff like this is concerning because if it becomes widespread, "don't put up with shitty/illegal contracts" becomes "don't rent anywhere". I put mandatory arbitration agreements in this category. If you don't want to accept a mandatory arbitration agreement, that's synonymous with not having a credit card, for example.
What is good about process is that while in many cases it's not required its good at rounding up the edge cases. It assures fairness in opportunity.
This is so not true. I've worked for giant companies most of my career. They all have "processes". Those performance review processes have been universally terrible at actually rewarding performance. In one of those companies, I'd swear there was zero correlation between my performance and my raise/compensation/incentive/whatever. You know what actually did make a difference? Having a good manager.
It's a time when a manager can tell you that if you want a certain new job what you need to change to get it.
If you need a formalized time once a year for your manager to tell you how you're doing, you don't need a process, you need a better manager.
I'm very pro-self driving cars, but the thought of Microsoft, with their unenviable record on security and stability, running the thing? Oh, hell no. I'd walk first.
Let's see some proof that the data is only used for advertising, then destroyed.
That doesn't make sense. I buy books for reading, but don't burn them when I'm done. If I collect data on you to use in advertising, it's quite likely that I'll want to use that same data again later, or in aggregate.
It doesn't require some nefarious purpose to see why advertisers (which Google certainly is) keep data around. Storing data is also cheap, so there's not a lot of incentive to figure out which parts aren't worth keeping anymore.
Putting a libertarian in office isn't going to imperil any of those things.
Certainly, there are libertarian crackpots out there. I met one who kept referring to schools as "child prisons", for example. Nearly all of the US government is composed of not-libertarians, though, so all you're doing by voting some in is getting some voices to counterbalance notions like it being OK to read our email without a warrant.
No, it's not misleading at all. You're answering a different question. You're answering "What kind of trouble are you likely to get in for downloading a file?" Sure, that's complicated, and definitively outside my area of expertise, so I'm not going there. I'm answering "is downloading a file (without permission) a copyright violation?" Yes. And unless I misread, you agree.
I remember seeing a sign when I grew up warning people of a $1,000 fine for littering. That road often had lots of litter. This is much the same. If you throw some trash on the ground, what's going to happen to you? Probably nothing. Almost certainly nothing. Nevertheless, is it against the law? Yes.
You're gonna need some citations, since you're wrong and all.
Yeah?
"Subject to sections 107 through 122, the owner of copyright under this title has the exclusive rights to do and to authorize any of the following: (1) to reproduce the copyrighted work in copies or phonorecords; (2) to prepare derivative works based upon the copyrighted work; (3) to distribute copies or phonorecords of the copyrighted work to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending; (4) in the case of literary, musical, dramatic, and choreographic works, pantomimes, and motion pictures and other audiovisual works, to perform the copyrighted work publicly; (5) in the case of literary, musical, dramatic, and choreographic works, pantomimes, and pictorial, graphic, or sculptural works, including the individual images of a motion picture or other audiovisual work, to display the copyrighted work publicly; and (6) in the case of sound recordings, to perform the copyrighted work publicly by means of a digital audio transmission."
As I recall, copyright protects against redistribution without permission, which would apply to the uploaders but not the downloaders, no?
No, copyright restricts your rights to copy, as well as some other things, which include distribution, performance, etc. A lot of people get this wrong.
When did downloading a file become a copyright violation?
The relevant law in the US was enacted in 1947, so downloading a copyrighted file without the copyright holder granting the right would have been a copyright violation as soon as downloading was invented.
After all, parameterized SQL queries have been the norm for at least eight or ten years, which means that for this to be accidental, either the software would have to be as old as Windows Vista or the developers would have to be so grossly incompetent that they would never be able to hold down a job writing database software for more than a week or two.
Oh, I don't know. Plenty of software is written by people who don't know what parameterized queries are, or who think "it's behind a firewall" is adequate security. If you actually work somewhere you don't see stuff like this, you're either not looking or very, very lucky and you should never quit your job, because literally everywhere else is worse.
Inspiring interest in either of the above, or any related field?
Learning in general?
I learned how to shoot a bow and arrow in middle school. I learned how to paint and draw (badly). I learned about music I don't especially like written by dead people hundreds of years ago. I wrote reports about books written by dead Russians. None of it was useful to me, though archery was fun, but some people go on to be artists, musicians, writers, etc.
Part of the point of primary education is to show people a lot of doors so they'll see what options exist. This is far from the most useless subjects to be pursued in a school.
Agreed, this is appalling. I have two encrypted databases on my phone. Why two? Because I forgot the password to the first one and had to start over. No power in the world can compel me to unlock that first one. Believe me, I tried.
The notion that I could be put in jail forever because I legitimately don't remember a password is insane.
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Or you can buy a decent house here for that. So am I surprised most software developers don't live in Silicon Valley? No. For the same reason I never moved there.
Aside from that, as mcmonkey quite correctly pointed out, most of everything is outside of Silicon Valley. Most of anything is outside of any given city.
You do realize the proper alternative for the landlord would have been to just have someone come around every year or two and bulldoze the kids' racetrack a lot sooner, don't you?
Worse, some people are pissed off that someone else isn't continuing keep servers running at their expense to keep giving stuff away.
It's not "vandalism" to stop offering a service. It might be akin to vandalism to damage someone ELSE offering a service, but that's not happening here. Someone's just feeling entitled and whining.
...but how many people are actually good at it? That's why this isn't going to happen. I might be willing to read your 3 line quip about politics. I am absolutely not listening to some rambling uh, ah, filled nonsense rant about politics.
Belief != religion.
Next.
Sure, this, when it's only a small percentage of companies that do things like this. Stuff like this is concerning because if it becomes widespread, "don't put up with shitty/illegal contracts" becomes "don't rent anywhere". I put mandatory arbitration agreements in this category. If you don't want to accept a mandatory arbitration agreement, that's synonymous with not having a credit card, for example.
This is so not true. I've worked for giant companies most of my career. They all have "processes". Those performance review processes have been universally terrible at actually rewarding performance. In one of those companies, I'd swear there was zero correlation between my performance and my raise/compensation/incentive/whatever. You know what actually did make a difference? Having a good manager.
If you need a formalized time once a year for your manager to tell you how you're doing, you don't need a process, you need a better manager.
I'm very pro-self driving cars, but the thought of Microsoft, with their unenviable record on security and stability, running the thing? Oh, hell no. I'd walk first.
That doesn't make sense. I buy books for reading, but don't burn them when I'm done. If I collect data on you to use in advertising, it's quite likely that I'll want to use that same data again later, or in aggregate.
It doesn't require some nefarious purpose to see why advertisers (which Google certainly is) keep data around. Storing data is also cheap, so there's not a lot of incentive to figure out which parts aren't worth keeping anymore.
Ad revenue. If you watch a movie on youtube, they can get paid to show you ads. If you copy the movie to your computer, they can't.
Putting a libertarian in office isn't going to imperil any of those things.
Certainly, there are libertarian crackpots out there. I met one who kept referring to schools as "child prisons", for example. Nearly all of the US government is composed of not-libertarians, though, so all you're doing by voting some in is getting some voices to counterbalance notions like it being OK to read our email without a warrant.
That's exactly the catch. Yes, I think it should be legal to sell your copy. No, you shouldn't be able to sell A copy while keeping the original.
No, it's not misleading at all. You're answering a different question. You're answering "What kind of trouble are you likely to get in for downloading a file?" Sure, that's complicated, and definitively outside my area of expertise, so I'm not going there. I'm answering "is downloading a file (without permission) a copyright violation?" Yes. And unless I misread, you agree.
I remember seeing a sign when I grew up warning people of a $1,000 fine for littering. That road often had lots of litter. This is much the same. If you throw some trash on the ground, what's going to happen to you? Probably nothing. Almost certainly nothing. Nevertheless, is it against the law? Yes.
Yeah?
"Subject to sections 107 through 122, the owner of copyright under this title has the exclusive rights to do and to authorize any of the following:
(1) to reproduce the copyrighted work in copies or phonorecords;
(2) to prepare derivative works based upon the copyrighted work;
(3) to distribute copies or phonorecords of the copyrighted work to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending;
(4) in the case of literary, musical, dramatic, and choreographic works, pantomimes, and motion pictures and other audiovisual works, to perform the copyrighted work publicly;
(5) in the case of literary, musical, dramatic, and choreographic works, pantomimes, and pictorial, graphic, or sculptural works, including the individual images of a motion picture or other audiovisual work, to display the copyrighted work publicly; and
(6) in the case of sound recordings, to perform the copyrighted work publicly by means of a digital audio transmission."
https://www.law.cornell.edu/us...
That's the actual law in question.
So, like I said, copy right restricts your right to copy (#1 above), as well as some other things. Distribution (#3), performance (#4, #6).
No, copyright restricts your rights to copy, as well as some other things, which include distribution, performance, etc. A lot of people get this wrong.
The relevant law in the US was enacted in 1947, so downloading a copyrighted file without the copyright holder granting the right would have been a copyright violation as soon as downloading was invented.
+1
I had some initial optimism about the direction our new benevolent overlords were taking, but I'm changing my mind.
True, but then again, so is learning how to post your comment under the right story.
Oh, I don't know. Plenty of software is written by people who don't know what parameterized queries are, or who think "it's behind a firewall" is adequate security. If you actually work somewhere you don't see stuff like this, you're either not looking or very, very lucky and you should never quit your job, because literally everywhere else is worse.
Oh, that's a totally different question. No. It is needlessly complicated and incredibly stupid.
Learning about aeronautics?
Learning about technology?
Inspiring interest in either of the above, or any related field?
Learning in general?
I learned how to shoot a bow and arrow in middle school. I learned how to paint and draw (badly). I learned about music I don't especially like written by dead people hundreds of years ago. I wrote reports about books written by dead Russians. None of it was useful to me, though archery was fun, but some people go on to be artists, musicians, writers, etc.
Part of the point of primary education is to show people a lot of doors so they'll see what options exist. This is far from the most useless subjects to be pursued in a school.
...half of teens don't know what "addicted" means.
You say that like you're explaining something, when you're really just illustrating the problem.
Most startups valued at over $1 billion aren't really worth $1 billion.
Agreed, this is appalling. I have two encrypted databases on my phone. Why two? Because I forgot the password to the first one and had to start over. No power in the world can compel me to unlock that first one. Believe me, I tried.
The notion that I could be put in jail forever because I legitimately don't remember a password is insane.
Seriously. Completely immersive movie with beautiful detail, then there's a geek joke that takes you right out of it.