You have to expect this, when the only legal and moral duty that directors and managers of their companies are to look after their shareholders. And even then, the shareholders get raped by the boss class.
As a society, we reap what we sow, when we let them get sufficiently powerful, that they can simply buy favourable laws and regulations and tell the world to get fucked.
This will be the undoing of Western civilisation -- our inability to contain the power of a feral, out-of-control overclass.
The copyright cartel are very skilled at propaganda; it follows that they would invent emotive and abusive terms for copyright infringement, like 'theft', 'stealing', 'piracy', 'criminal', etc.
What's truly criminal, is is the abusive, corrupt practice of bribing lawmakers (sorry, 'lobbying', or 'campaign contributions') to buy favourable laws and regulations to prop up failing business models.
You're assuming that people are rational economic actors.
Look at China's track record of allowing senior military leaders to say hawkish things in public -- it's obvious for every person out there who thinks they're a rational economic actor, there is somebody who who thinks completely with their dick.
With 5-10% of the population of France being Muslim, that's a massive potential fifth column that potentially needs to be dealt with. I think this sends a message to the Muslims that any subversion will be swiftly detected and dealt with. Not such a bad thing, imho.
I'd rather take the chance of mass surveillance being misused, than having a Muslim jackboot on my neck.
Telstra snatched victory from the jaws of defeat, and have not only managed to force everyone to pay (again) for their decaying copper network that they themselves ran into the ground, they've now weedled their white-shoe conservative mates in Canberra into letting them set up a tollroad for all Australians far into the future.
And Murdoch and his evil empire gets to maintain his complete and utter dominance of Australian TV, newspapers and cable.
Win-win-win all round for all the white shoe tory criminals.
Fun fact: the City of London (as opposed to Greater London and its boroughs outside the square mile) is a dictatorship with a mayor annually appointed by the businesses that operate in the City of London.
Smacks of fascism? Yes. They pride themselves as "business friendly", and never met a plutocrat they didn't like. The City of London police is basically a militia for the rich and powerful. They are also in cahoots with Scientology -- some senior officers are Scientologists, and the City of London Police have been known to do their dirty work for them, as previously reported on Slashdot.
While few normal people would begrudge the bailout for saving everyone even greater costs down the road, Anglo Saxon style capitalism has a BIG problem holding while-collar bludgers and thieves accountable for taking profits in good times, dumping liabilities, socialising losses and making society pay for their fuckups.
Failure must be punished ruthlessly, but we fail to do so miserabley.
The government should've rounded up all the senior managers, and garrotted them all in public for their crimes.
Goes to show what amoral shitstains these people are. He's made only a couple of million profit, by causing several orders of magnitude of damage in the process. A bit like those arseholes who steal copper cables off the train network, flog them for a few quid, but disrupt the commutes of thousands of people and rack up huge repair bills. In the animal kingdom, such entities are known as "parasites".
Some questions have to be asked about why it took the Russian Interior Ministry so long to track Paunch and his crew down. Given Putin's "power vertical" and his penchant for interfering in the Russian judiciary and wielding it as a weapon against his perceived enemies, you have to wonder what it was all in aid of -- and what Paunch did to get himself arrested. Maybe the bribes weren't big enough?
It wasn't obvious to me how to get that LED talking USB over that microcontroller.
That said, £15 does seem a lot, when far more capable Arduino kits are selling at Maplin for not much more. But probably reasonable if they're amortizing their costs over only a few units.
Impressively tiny device. Had no idea that it was possible to build a device that interfaces to USB in so few components (it does USB in software on a tiny microcontroller, and the firmware is around 1kb in size...)
The instructions look easier than falling off a log.
Question for anybody who knows: would it be possible to generalize this design to drive an array, of -- say -- 10 or 20 RGB LEDs ? This would be a lot more useful for me, as then, I could rig my server case with a string of LEDs to tell the status of all my hard drives, network, load (amongst other things).
I see oldspace are busy busy busy slagging off Elon.
There was an ad by Astrotech (or something similar) in the trade press, publically accusing SpaceX of talking a big game but not delivering.
With this GTO commercial satellite launch -- these old, cost-plus, subsidy-munching dinosaurs should be shitting themselves by now. It'll be fun to watch them squirm.
I think foreigners could be forgiven for thinking that constitutional fetishism is some kind of strange cult. Like the tinfoil hatters and "sovereign citizens" could read the minds of men dead for 240 years...
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You have to expect this, when the only legal and moral duty that directors and managers of their companies are to look after their shareholders. And even then, the shareholders get raped by the boss class.
As a society, we reap what we sow, when we let them get sufficiently powerful, that they can simply buy favourable laws and regulations and tell the world to get fucked.
This will be the undoing of Western civilisation -- our inability to contain the power of a feral, out-of-control overclass.
The copyright cartel are very skilled at propaganda; it follows that they would invent emotive and abusive terms for copyright infringement, like 'theft', 'stealing', 'piracy', 'criminal', etc.
What's truly criminal, is is the abusive, corrupt practice of bribing lawmakers (sorry, 'lobbying', or 'campaign contributions') to buy favourable laws and regulations to prop up failing business models.
This guy gets to be yet another example.
You're assuming that people are rational economic actors.
Look at China's track record of allowing senior military leaders to say hawkish things in public -- it's obvious for every person out there who thinks they're a rational economic actor, there is somebody who who thinks completely with their dick.
With 5-10% of the population of France being Muslim, that's a massive potential fifth column that potentially needs to be dealt with. I think this sends a message to the Muslims that any subversion will be swiftly detected and dealt with. Not such a bad thing, imho.
I'd rather take the chance of mass surveillance being misused, than having a Muslim jackboot on my neck.
The plutocrats prevailed.
Telstra snatched victory from the jaws of defeat, and have not only managed to force everyone to pay (again) for their decaying copper network that they themselves ran into the ground, they've now weedled their white-shoe conservative mates in Canberra into letting them set up a tollroad for all Australians far into the future.
And Murdoch and his evil empire gets to maintain his complete and utter dominance of Australian TV, newspapers and cable.
Win-win-win all round for all the white shoe tory criminals.
Fun fact: the City of London (as opposed to Greater London and its boroughs outside the square mile) is a dictatorship with a mayor annually appointed by the businesses that operate in the City of London.
Smacks of fascism? Yes. They pride themselves as "business friendly", and never met a plutocrat they didn't like. The City of London police is basically a militia for the rich and powerful. They are also in cahoots with Scientology -- some senior officers are Scientologists, and the City of London Police have been known to do their dirty work for them, as previously reported on Slashdot.
While few normal people would begrudge the bailout for saving everyone even greater costs down the road, Anglo Saxon style capitalism has a BIG problem holding while-collar bludgers and thieves accountable for taking profits in good times, dumping liabilities, socialising losses and making society pay for their fuckups.
Failure must be punished ruthlessly, but we fail to do so miserabley.
The government should've rounded up all the senior managers, and garrotted them all in public for their crimes.
Goes to show what amoral shitstains these people are. He's made only a couple of million profit, by causing several orders of magnitude of damage in the process. A bit like those arseholes who steal copper cables off the train network, flog them for a few quid, but disrupt the commutes of thousands of people and rack up huge repair bills. In the animal kingdom, such entities are known as "parasites".
Some questions have to be asked about why it took the Russian Interior Ministry so long to track Paunch and his crew down. Given Putin's "power vertical" and his penchant for interfering in the Russian judiciary and wielding it as a weapon against his perceived enemies, you have to wonder what it was all in aid of -- and what Paunch did to get himself arrested. Maybe the bribes weren't big enough?
APK is a well-known Slashdot nutter, and the regulars are more-or-less used to him by now.
Jenny McCarthy, genius
So... this is what happens when you don't use your brain -- and you take medical advice from a stripper.
Poe.
"Probiotic" is the little Shibboleth that makes this smell like woo.
I'm reminded of a whole mountain of crackpottery peddled by violently unethical shysters and borderline criminal pseudoscientists, for private profit.
This is JUST the ticket. Awesome, thanks!
They must've broken the sound barrier getting here to post.
I did.
I'm not sure if daisy-chaining a bunch of USB hubs to get a few LEDs going is necessarily the most elegant way of solving this problem though.
It wasn't obvious to me how to get that LED talking USB over that microcontroller.
That said, £15 does seem a lot, when far more capable Arduino kits are selling at Maplin for not much more. But probably reasonable if they're amortizing their costs over only a few units.
Impressively tiny device. Had no idea that it was possible to build a device that interfaces to USB in so few components (it does USB in software on a tiny microcontroller, and the firmware is around 1kb in size...)
The instructions look easier than falling off a log.
Question for anybody who knows: would it be possible to generalize this design to drive an array, of -- say -- 10 or 20 RGB LEDs ? This would be a lot more useful for me, as then, I could rig my server case with a string of LEDs to tell the status of all my hard drives, network, load (amongst other things).
... for offending our rich libertarian overlords.
Bow down before your masters, peon.
I see oldspace are busy busy busy slagging off Elon.
There was an ad by Astrotech (or something similar) in the trade press, publically accusing SpaceX of talking a big game but not delivering.
With this GTO commercial satellite launch -- these old, cost-plus, subsidy-munching dinosaurs should be shitting themselves by now. It'll be fun to watch them squirm.
It's time for the subsidy queens to eat crow.
Sure.
And some Guardian-reading idiot leftie will use that to justify why we should throw open our borders to all comers.
There's "freedom of speech". Then there's "freedom after speech". Even China and the old USSR guaranteed the former.
And you're a moron.
I think foreigners could be forgiven for thinking that constitutional fetishism is some kind of strange cult. Like the tinfoil hatters and "sovereign citizens" could read the minds of men dead for 240 years...
Probably for entertainment value.