I can just see some non-technical IT manager in your average in-house IT department looking at this as a replacement for "expensive" developers. "Hey, look, I can get a bunch of kids and desperate age-discriminated developers to do your job for half the price!" In that way, it is the Uber of coding -- driving out any way to make a living from low-end work.
Any manager with that mentality already outsourced a decade ago.
And many of them have gone out of business by now.
Even before outsourcing was the big thing I worked at a company that considered IT staff as a "necessary evil" that cost money but provided no benefit to the company. Our department got a lecture about how we were all overpayed since we were 10% of the employees, but made 40% of the salaries. "Uhh, yeah boss, that is because our jobs require a college degree, while a good portion of the company did not even graduate high school." I am glad I am at a point where I never have to work for an asshole like that again.
The right tends to want to censor anti-gov't speech.
I do not agree with that at all. Look at the Tea Party and other ultra-right stuff.
Granted they are idiots and the people holding their leash know exactly what they are doing. When right leaning politicans are in power, its all "rah rah murika trust your govmit!" When left leaning politicians are in power its all "keep the government out of my medicare!"
You would think these assholes are smart enough not to try this. One sure way to ramp up the investigations of these things is to switch from inconveniencing idiots that don't backup to murder.
I wasn't really thinking this, but you do have a good point. I was more along the lines of abuse, things that either are fair use or are completely original content getting hit by the DCMA. Google/Youtube enables this, by allowing channels to be auto-banned with no human intervention. I have never heard of anyone getting punished for abusing this.
It isn't just corporations too. Some Youtube users will DCMA anyone that makes a reply video to them if they don't like it. (read: the reply makes a valid point and makes the user look like an idiot)
My point is that they will only protect profitable channels, small fries will continue to get abused by the DCMA.
From a corporate profits perspective this is the prudent thing to do, can't waste dollars protecting things that will never make money. Is it the right thing to do? I don't know. Most youtube content is complete crap, why bother protecting it?
How do we decide what is worth protecting? This I really don't know.
"Google and Youtube really does not care about fair use or the legal rights of their users."
nitehawk214 does not care if you know if that is true, as he has no idea if it is or if it isn't, but he does hate Google, and will write whatever he can against them in hopes that he can sway your opinion of them.
Nobody high up in a big company cares about legacy code and technical debt. Even if cleaning up the codebase would increase customer retention. ERP is not about delivering a product to customers that they want, it is about getting sales to make predatory contracts to squeeze money out of hapless customers.
Google and Youtube really does not care about fair use or the legal rights of their users. All they care about is advertising money. Now that there are some alternatives to Youtube, big channels are threatening to leave if the flood of false DCMA notifications does not stop.
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Once they spit the new companies will be named Dow Du and Pont.
I can just see some non-technical IT manager in your average in-house IT department looking at this as a replacement for "expensive" developers. "Hey, look, I can get a bunch of kids and desperate age-discriminated developers to do your job for half the price!" In that way, it is the Uber of coding -- driving out any way to make a living from low-end work.
Any manager with that mentality already outsourced a decade ago.
And many of them have gone out of business by now.
Even before outsourcing was the big thing I worked at a company that considered IT staff as a "necessary evil" that cost money but provided no benefit to the company. Our department got a lecture about how we were all overpayed since we were 10% of the employees, but made 40% of the salaries. "Uhh, yeah boss, that is because our jobs require a college degree, while a good portion of the company did not even graduate high school." I am glad I am at a point where I never have to work for an asshole like that again.
Slashdot doesn't even support unicode.
It doesn't need to, though, really.
That\u0027s what you think.
I fail to see how your organization failing to upgrade 10+ year out of date software is our problem.
Also... SharePoint. *ding*
I do not agree with that at all. Look at the Tea Party and other ultra-right stuff.
Granted they are idiots and the people holding their leash know exactly what they are doing. When right leaning politicans are in power, its all "rah rah murika trust your govmit!" When left leaning politicians are in power its all "keep the government out of my medicare!"
That is one thing the ultra-left and the ultra-right have in common. They want to censor everything.
Maybe it is simply something that people with vast power need in order to keep their power. The ability to deny speech that does not agree with them.
Exactly.
You don't think a political candidate chanting "shutting down the internet" is not news for Slashdot?
"War does not decide who is right, war decides who is left."
Washington and Jefferson were idealists too. It just took a couple hundred years for them to get "steamrolled".
Your sig is quite relevant to social justice.
Two of doubleporn would be XXXXXXXXXXXX, or X^12.
Double Porn cures everything?
I must have taken the wrong drugs, because all I see is the Internet of Colors.
We could take a break when we hit a creative block.
Teach a man to fish...
You would think these assholes are smart enough not to try this. One sure way to ramp up the investigations of these things is to switch from inconveniencing idiots that don't backup to murder.
He is also the idiot that said "if I am elected president we will all be saying Merry Christmas again"
And I thought Carson was the one that wanted to turn the US into a theocracy.
"troll" mod is slashdotese for "i disagree"
I wasn't really thinking this, but you do have a good point. I was more along the lines of abuse, things that either are fair use or are completely original content getting hit by the DCMA. Google/Youtube enables this, by allowing channels to be auto-banned with no human intervention. I have never heard of anyone getting punished for abusing this.
It isn't just corporations too. Some Youtube users will DCMA anyone that makes a reply video to them if they don't like it. (read: the reply makes a valid point and makes the user look like an idiot)
My point is that they will only protect profitable channels, small fries will continue to get abused by the DCMA.
From a corporate profits perspective this is the prudent thing to do, can't waste dollars protecting things that will never make money. Is it the right thing to do? I don't know. Most youtube content is complete crap, why bother protecting it?
How do we decide what is worth protecting? This I really don't know.
nitehawk214 does not care if you know if that is true, as he has no idea if it is or if it isn't, but he does hate Google, and will write whatever he can against them in hopes that he can sway your opinion of them.
strawman much?
The customers get to pay for support, so if anything, the ERP company makes more by having a shitty product.
Nobody high up in a big company cares about legacy code and technical debt. Even if cleaning up the codebase would increase customer retention. ERP is not about delivering a product to customers that they want, it is about getting sales to make predatory contracts to squeeze money out of hapless customers.
Google and Youtube really does not care about fair use or the legal rights of their users. All they care about is advertising money. Now that there are some alternatives to Youtube, big channels are threatening to leave if the flood of false DCMA notifications does not stop.