These people live for the moment they can convince a judge they have the right to walk on US soil without being bound to any state or federal law. In their fantasies, they come up with such a carefully worded defense that a judge throws his hands up in the air and says "this guy got us, the state cannot use their monopoly of force to collect the taxes that pay my salary as a judge, shut the whole thing down!".
Most people won't go to a nerd with a screwdriver to fix a phone that works. For example, an Android 5.1.1 phone appears to the owner to work "just fine", despite missing several security patches. Again, Google's own dashboard is pretty telling on the state of the Android ecosystem when it comes to security patching. Every pre-Nougat device you see there is running unpatched (but appears to be running just fine to the owner).
Nope, most people won't do a procedure not endorsed by the manufacturer such as flashing an unofficial ROM, a procedure that is user unfriendly to begin with. They 'll just keep using their unpatched devices. A look at Google's own distribution chart is enough to prove this point. Any pre-Nougat devices shown there are guaranteed to be unpatched and hence potentially vulnerable to a "golden" exploit.
That moment I realized the HTC One M7 and HTC One Max phones I bought "like-new" a while ago classify as self-destructing art due to the camera getting purple haze due to hear soak and the device being unrepairable, and for being the most striking phones ever made (this is were the 'art' part comes into play) Though I didn't buy them as daily drivers so the purple haze hasn't happened to me yet...
The only thing I dislike more than artists who make pseudointellectual and highly pretentious art (like Banksy) are the people who buy this kind of stuff. Respects to banksy. Too bad there isn't a video of the actual moment when the painting goes through the shredder.
The only thing I dislike more than artists who make pseudointellectual and highly pretentious art intended (like Banksy) are the people who buy this kind of stuff. Respects to banksy. Too bad there isn't a video of the actual moment when the painting goes through the shredder.
Every other operating system (Android, Windows Mac OS X, iOS, even frickin' AmigaOS) works the normal way, aka the developer creates the package and either uploads it to some website or to some "store". Only Desktop Linux (and to a lesser degree Unix) imposes the need of repository middlemen who will repackage applications (it's not a security fiasco waiting to happen, honest) or forces the user to package the application himself. Stop acting as if this is something normal. PS: I will believe Snaps or Flatpack when I see them working for more than a handful of apps.
I on the other hand don't understand neckbeards who still pretend Windoze should not be the preference of "tech people". Mac OS X is an elitist OS with slow hardware uptake, and unless the Desktop Linux people solve the problem of "my 2.5-year old LTS cannot get the latest VLC because the repository middle-men haven't repackaged it yet", I am not going nowhere near Desktop Linux, thank you very much. And so will 98% of the populance, tech people or not. Stop trying to pretend Desktop Linux is the natural home of "tech people". The release candidate of Windows 7 managed to get more "tech people" to install it than the entirety of Desktop Linux ecosystem, despite not being marketed by Microsoft in any way. Those were "tech people" who actively avoided and still avoid Desktop Linux despite being free.
Have a good graphics card? Windows is a supplementary product. Also, Windows gets better battery life on laptops. Plus there are lots of applications that only work on Windows. And the only real alternatives are Mac OS X (which runs only on Apple machines) and Ubuntu, which has problems like having to wait for repository middle-men to repackage apps like VLC before you can get them. Microsoft has the desktop and laptop market by the balls and they know it. Still, nobody plays Candy Crush on a frickin' laptop, so Microsoft, in their attempt to turn their "store" into a passive income source are needlessly burning goodwill...
A contract that includes only a SIM and a service plan, aka no "subsidized" device. I prefer prepaid bundles personally, but UK networks like GiffGaff specialise in SIM-only service plans.
What I find amusing is that no manufacturer that decides to go with a notch understands the reason behind the iPhone X's notch. Hint: It doesn't have to do with a couple of decimals in a screen-to-body ratio spec. The notch in the iPhone X made possible for Apple to shave off the bottom chin and make all bezels (except the notch area) the same width around the phone, giving it its treademark looks. So, of course copying the notch without the lack of bottom chin would end up ugly, so of course most Android phones with a notch and a bottom chin are an aesthetic mess. BTW, the Essential phone had a completely different type of notch, it doesn't house any IR or proximity sensors...
Yeah, the IR face recognition stuff is "bland", sure sure. Apple is the only company moving forward the state of the art for phone hardware, Pixel phones are behind the curve and Samsung phones are the previous iteration with a spec bump.
Hey hey, capitalism is doing great despite all those people in the world overbreeding in an unsustainable manner because their religion says so. At the very least, the concepts of capital and borders allows smart people with no more than two children to not have to share their wealth.
Google have too much attack surface for governments to target and they don't want to lose another market like they lost China. True evilness is banning YouTube downloader plugins. Anywho, Google is now too big to support the open web or a truly free browser. And Firefox Quantum doesn't look bad at all...
Not really. Nintendo just didn't have much of a commercial interest in those games in the past, so their legal team was occupied with sending takedowns for other more recent games. Now they have a commercial interest in those old games so they send takedowns for ROMs of these old games too. The DMCA has created an environment where there are infinite nerds in front of infinite keyboards uploading unathorized material all the time but Nintendo has so many people sending takedown requests.
Even if it is theft, most of us "normies" don't really care. That's right if we are stealing from some corporation at the other end of the world that we are not afflicated with. If I could trick Amazon's ordering system to send me a couple of Alienware laptops without paying, I would do it.
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These people live for the moment they can convince a judge they have the right to walk on US soil without being bound to any state or federal law. In their fantasies, they come up with such a carefully worded defense that a judge throws his hands up in the air and says "this guy got us, the state cannot use their monopoly of force to collect the taxes that pay my salary as a judge, shut the whole thing down!".
But until they eBay it for next to nothing, they will be running an unpatched phone, as Google Dashboard stats show.
Most people won't go to a nerd with a screwdriver to fix a phone that works. For example, an Android 5.1.1 phone appears to the owner to work "just fine", despite missing several security patches. Again, Google's own dashboard is pretty telling on the state of the Android ecosystem when it comes to security patching. Every pre-Nougat device you see there is running unpatched (but appears to be running just fine to the owner).
Always wondered how binary blobs are even legal with the GPLv2
Nope, most people won't do a procedure not endorsed by the manufacturer such as flashing an unofficial ROM, a procedure that is user unfriendly to begin with. They 'll just keep using their unpatched devices. A look at Google's own distribution chart is enough to prove this point. Any pre-Nougat devices shown there are guaranteed to be unpatched and hence potentially vulnerable to a "golden" exploit.
This. Couldn't have said it better.
That moment I realized the HTC One M7 and HTC One Max phones I bought "like-new" a while ago classify as self-destructing art due to the camera getting purple haze due to hear soak and the device being unrepairable, and for being the most striking phones ever made (this is were the 'art' part comes into play) Though I didn't buy them as daily drivers so the purple haze hasn't happened to me yet...
The only thing I dislike more than artists who make pseudointellectual and highly pretentious art (like Banksy) are the people who buy this kind of stuff. Respects to banksy. Too bad there isn't a video of the actual moment when the painting goes through the shredder.
The only thing I dislike more than artists who make pseudointellectual and highly pretentious art intended (like Banksy) are the people who buy this kind of stuff. Respects to banksy. Too bad there isn't a video of the actual moment when the painting goes through the shredder.
Every other operating system (Android, Windows Mac OS X, iOS, even frickin' AmigaOS) works the normal way, aka the developer creates the package and either uploads it to some website or to some "store". Only Desktop Linux (and to a lesser degree Unix) imposes the need of repository middlemen who will repackage applications (it's not a security fiasco waiting to happen, honest) or forces the user to package the application himself. Stop acting as if this is something normal. PS: I will believe Snaps or Flatpack when I see them working for more than a handful of apps.
It doesn't. Unix weenies think it does.
Most applications are developed as Windows applications, sorry.
I on the other hand don't understand neckbeards who still pretend Windoze should not be the preference of "tech people". Mac OS X is an elitist OS with slow hardware uptake, and unless the Desktop Linux people solve the problem of "my 2.5-year old LTS cannot get the latest VLC because the repository middle-men haven't repackaged it yet", I am not going nowhere near Desktop Linux, thank you very much. And so will 98% of the populance, tech people or not. Stop trying to pretend Desktop Linux is the natural home of "tech people". The release candidate of Windows 7 managed to get more "tech people" to install it than the entirety of Desktop Linux ecosystem, despite not being marketed by Microsoft in any way. Those were "tech people" who actively avoided and still avoid Desktop Linux despite being free.
Have a good graphics card? Windows is a supplementary product. Also, Windows gets better battery life on laptops. Plus there are lots of applications that only work on Windows. And the only real alternatives are Mac OS X (which runs only on Apple machines) and Ubuntu, which has problems like having to wait for repository middle-men to repackage apps like VLC before you can get them. Microsoft has the desktop and laptop market by the balls and they know it. Still, nobody plays Candy Crush on a frickin' laptop, so Microsoft, in their attempt to turn their "store" into a passive income source are needlessly burning goodwill...
Go prepaid perhaps?
A contract that includes only a SIM and a service plan, aka no "subsidized" device. I prefer prepaid bundles personally, but UK networks like GiffGaff specialise in SIM-only service plans.
What I find amusing is that no manufacturer that decides to go with a notch understands the reason behind the iPhone X's notch. Hint: It doesn't have to do with a couple of decimals in a screen-to-body ratio spec. The notch in the iPhone X made possible for Apple to shave off the bottom chin and make all bezels (except the notch area) the same width around the phone, giving it its treademark looks. So, of course copying the notch without the lack of bottom chin would end up ugly, so of course most Android phones with a notch and a bottom chin are an aesthetic mess. BTW, the Essential phone had a completely different type of notch, it doesn't house any IR or proximity sensors...
Yeah, the IR face recognition stuff is "bland", sure sure. Apple is the only company moving forward the state of the art for phone hardware, Pixel phones are behind the curve and Samsung phones are the previous iteration with a spec bump.
Hey hey, capitalism is doing great despite all those people in the world overbreeding in an unsustainable manner because their religion says so. At the very least, the concepts of capital and borders allows smart people with no more than two children to not have to share their wealth.
Yes, it is. And your point is?
Google have too much attack surface for governments to target and they don't want to lose another market like they lost China. True evilness is banning YouTube downloader plugins. Anywho, Google is now too big to support the open web or a truly free browser. And Firefox Quantum doesn't look bad at all...
Not really. Nintendo just didn't have much of a commercial interest in those games in the past, so their legal team was occupied with sending takedowns for other more recent games. Now they have a commercial interest in those old games so they send takedowns for ROMs of these old games too. The DMCA has created an environment where there are infinite nerds in front of infinite keyboards uploading unathorized material all the time but Nintendo has so many people sending takedown requests.
The reaction against PIPA and SOPA showed that even the US political system is not as easy for people looking to impose draconian rules.
Even if it is theft, most of us "normies" don't really care. That's right if we are stealing from some corporation at the other end of the world that we are not afflicated with. If I could trick Amazon's ordering system to send me a couple of Alienware laptops without paying, I would do it.
Your program does not meet the criteria to be copyrightable. This is what you get when slashdoters try to do law...