In regards to rootkits, I think the real issue with them is when they get in the firmware and then lock the firmware.
I believe apple products were shown to have a vulnerability where a rootkit could get into the firmware and then write lock the firmware.
My only real worry with nonsense like this is that it can't be fixed. I'm not so worried about rootkits unless I can't get rid of them. So long as the firmware can't be writelocked BY the firmware... I'm happy. Ideally some sort of hardware button override during boot to get access to the firmware in the event that we do want a write locking feature if only to prevent rootkits from intruding.
As to secureboot, from what I can see, windows 10 has it. So there you go.
As to transparent encryption, I can think of a few products that do this actually. I mean... you have to install and configure them but then they just do what you want. I'm not a fan of full drive encryption because I've seen that go horribly wrong especially on the system drive. But encrypting partitions with your data is reasonable. My email, documents, finance information, firefox profile, etc is all on an encrypted partition.
I suppose it isn't transparent in my case because I do prompt to mount and unmount that partition but I actually like that. My machine loads without a password when it is turned on. I don't want a thief to reformat my drive. I want it to be super easy for him to use my machine so that the tracking apps I installed can be accessed by ME. Using those apps, I MIGHT be able to track the person that stole my machine and possibly recover it. But if I can't... they won't get my data.
As to backing up on the cloud. I don't really trust the cloud with my backups. I push all my data at a home file server.
Once every six months, my system drive is ghosted to the file server. And my critical files are updated every day. I don't just overwrite the old download. I use a GFS backup script that maintains versions of my files going back a month. Grandfather backs up once a month. Father backs up every 7 days. Son backs up every day and three copies are permitted in that case. If I don't catch a corruption that is over three days old, then the Father has to catch it from 7 days back. And if that isn't sufficient then the grandfather from a month ago gets it.
I do some other tricky things with my back ups. The files on the file server are duplicated to two external drives and there are error codes up the whazoo if there is a problem such as drive having problems or being unplugged. And those errors are sent to my phone as a text message and to my email.
I haven't had to tweak the system for years really. It just works. But if I need to make a change... the whole thing is just a script so I can really change anything about it.
I've found that people that can't explain things simply tend to not actually understand the issue themselves.
I myself can explain nearly everything I know about a given subject in summary in a sentence or three.
I've talked to many very brilliant people and a great many frauds and idiots. And what I've found is that the clever and the wise can translate their complex learning into something readily intelligible while the frauds cannot.
As to the CD being alive at your house, that hardly matters to the music industry unless others agree. And not enough do.
The CD is dead.
As to dodgy copies, if you download a FLAC file you're getting a Lossless copy of the disc. A full CD is about 200-300 MB using that compression.
My music needs to be digital regardless. If I bought a CD, I'd just have to digitize it to add it to my home music library. Drives cost about 50 USD per terabyte... so I can store about 4000 albums on a single 50 dollar 1 terabyte drive with LOSSLESS compression.
CD libraries are by comparison quite annoying... they take up a lot of space, you have, you have to deal with all the CD books, backing them up is a pain in the ass and you can't stream them.
I can stream my home media library to any machine in the world. CDs can't compete with that.
As to music being disposable, you've actually missed what has happened in music... no offense. There is no centralized unitary music culture anymore. The rock gods are gone and what is filling their place in so far as the studios are concerned is a lot of preprocessed pop crap. Its basically as if every single band were the Monkeys. There are relatively few people writing the music that these bands ultimately play and that has the consequence that all of these pop bands sound the same because they're basically just playing the music from a small group of writers.
That is the big studios. They are producing drek. If you go out of your way to avoid that shit then you'll find that there is plenty of talent and good music out there that is as worthy of surviving as anything from the 60s. HOWEVER, because there is no centralization these artists are HIGHLY fragmented. There are arguably hundreds of music genres active right now. Far more diversity then anything in the 60s. And that doesn't mean you'll like much of it... but there is something there for everyone.
The issue is getting people to listen to things to see what people like and what they don't like. An artist that has a thousand people that buy his music in these ratified environments is doing pretty well. The point is not to be a rock god. The rock gods are dead.
The point is to perhaps get enough of a following that you can do the starving artist thing for awhile until you maybe can move up a notch. But just a notch.
There are good and bad things about this... the good is that the bar to entry is very low and that means you get more people making music. The bad is that it is very hard for anyone to actually make a living at it, there is quite a lot of shitty music because the bar is perhaps a little too low, and it is almost impossible to audit it all.
As to pick and mix, personally there isn't an artist that has ever been able to do that. Every album in my experience has a shitty track that I don't care for and if I don't care for it then I'd rather not have it in my playlist.
What is more, I like the freedom of being able to compose my own playlists. I often mix and match artists because I find their various songs play with each other better then works by a single artist. It also keeps the music fresher that way. The music in a different context is different and that is interesting.
I am one of those people that craves new experiences. I will listen to music from anyone a few times just to really get it set in my mind... and then I might not listen to it again either ever again or not for years.
This applies to any artist.
In regards to only giving your music your full attention... I've always had a hard time with that. The human mind has many parts. Different lobes that do different things. And music rarely engages enough of my mind to make me feel like I'm doing something. I just get bored unless I'm doing something else. This doesn't mean I can't appreciate good music. But other parts of my mind that are not musical can only twiddle their metaphorical thumbs if I just sit there.
In regards to sweeping statements... I was talking about the econom
The whole field of psychology is an increasingly weak science.
Mostly because they can't conduct experiments. Ethical issues with fucking with people's minds. But absent that it just boils down to a lot of theories that aren't especially testable.
Most of the music uploads don't have a video component. They'll have some still image... which the compression nicely cuts down to the bandwidth required to transmit that image ONCE and not much more. So basically they already do that.
Sometime it is a music video but that is increasingly less common as MTV becomes less relevant.
Phoned/emailed warnings of someone with a gun should be taken with a grain of salt.
I had a friend that was playing with a pellet gun. A neighbor saw it and thought it was rifle or something. And even if it had been... so what? But it was a pellet gun.
This is Los Angeles... birth place of the SWAT team, so the police showed up with helicopters, dogs, and tactical teams.
Because of a kid playing with a pellet gun.
The police need to chill out on some reports. They also need to come down on people making false calls like the hammer of god. Link them over to the NSA if they have to... contact the ISPs... track it down to a person. If people know that those sorts of calls mean jail time they'll be less inclined to use the police as a weapon.
Am I right in thinking that in a discussion about a world event they'd shift between teaching literature, economics, math, geography, etc?
The whole concept baffles me.
The problem with this approach from what I would guess is that you're not going to get a functional foundation in the "skills" people go to school to learn.
I'm going to assume it isn't as stupid as it sounds... I wish them well.
Some aspects of the studio are good. Getting an agent is still a good idea. Getting some sort of mentoring is good. Having an agency that can jam a lot of talented people together to form a more marketable product is good. This guy can sing, this guy plays the drums, this guy plays the guitar... you all are in a band now... come up with a name by the time I get back and we'll see if we need to buy some songs from some song writers.
Etc.
There's value in the institution. But the institution needs to get over the rock gods being a thing of the past. It needs to go back to its roots and start over.
You could get paid on the radio as well. Just not very well and you did better to use the radio to promote your music instead.
Which is something they should do with the internet radio people. The problem is that they're seeing spotify as a type of record sale or lease or rent. It isn't.
As to information gathering... clicks... fine, spotify is happy to provide that regardless.
As to it being harder to record things off spotify...
1. No it isn't. There are lots of software packages that will do it easily. 2. Who needs to do that? If I want to pirate the music, I can just download it off a torrent or rip the sound directly from their Youtube video.
Here is something content providers need to understand:
You cannot stop piracy. Can't.
So what you need to focus on is making people not WANT to pirate. Not forbid them from doing it... you can't stop them from doing it. You have to make them not WANT to do it.
Its marketing.
instead of calling their lawyers and hiring IT companies to go after fucking billion people pirating... instead, call your marketing and ad people in and talk about how you make people not WANT to do it.
The music industry has almost destroyed themselves by not understanding the internet and new technology. And fucking with the internet radio people is just one more fuck up amongst many.
As to getting those features on a laptop... if you have very specific requirements you could set it up once and then ghost the image. There after, the only thing you'd have to do is manage some drivers if you installed it on a new machine.
Explain to me the utility of Secure Boot? When you say transparent encryption, what do you mean? What reprovisioning are you doing on a chrome book? Most OS's have automated updates.
Because... universal has hosted every single song in its library on Youtube.... for free.
And I don't have to deal with some shitty streaming service deciding what it is going to play next. I can just play the exact songs I want.
And those ads on youtube? Well, adblock kills them. I try to keep adblock off if I want to support the person that posts the video... but if I either don't care or I actively want them to make no money... then adblock is happening.
Here is the thing, Universal... the CD is dead. The Record is dead.
What did you people do before records? You existed and your people made money.
I know they were on the radio... I know they were doing concerts. I know they were singing in advertising. I know they were getting cast in movies or used by movies to do singing bits.
That is what you're going back to.
Because the CD is dead.
Spotify etc are at best like the radio of old. And the radio didn't charge listeners to listen. You tune in and listen. Put an ad in there if that makes you happy. What money you get is going to come by taking a percentage of that revenue.
If that isn't a lot... don't know what to tell you. The ad companies are rating the VALUE of your listeners as that amount of money.
If reaching those people with an ad is worth 2 cents then your music is likely not worth a great deal more than that.
Get over it.
Find something else for your artists to do to make money besides make records. Records are dead.
So you say but you won't tell me what I lied about.
I have challenged you repeatedly to just EXPLAIN what you meant.
You have refused and instead want to get vague with insults. The reason being that if you tell me what you were talking about I can start to take it apart logically... and your argument won't survive that because you know YOU are the one that is lying.
I have no fear of the truth or engaging in debate because I don't lie or mislead. That isn't how I win.
I win by being right, by being smarter than you, and by knowing how to prove it.
When you have all those things, as I have them... one does not need to lie.
Your consistent reliance on such is merely an admission that you're an idiot and you know it.
What I guess you're too stupid to grasp is that I KNOW IT AS WELL. It is quite obvious. Your pathetic attempts to deceive me are a waste of time. You're not very good at this and everything you've done is quite transparent.
It is just too easy. So by all means, throw out another stupid insult... all you're doing is further confessing your weakness.
The issue is not farmers over using water but cities expanding without increasing infrastructure.
The farmers have water rights that go back generations. They stay within those rights.
And because the cities were incompetent by allowing their cities to expand without increasing water resources... they are now stealing water from the farmers and basically trying to drive them out of business.
This notion of "pricing water" for example would make all Californian agricultural exports non-economical which would kill the farmers. All farmers including the wineries.
No where in this is it acknowledged that cities must STOP zoning expansion of ANY KIND until such time as they expand water resources.
Notice they take NO responsibility what so ever for their own incompetence. Rather, they simply blame others and then come up with rational to steal their resources.
Its fucked up.
And while California probably won't split into separate states, it really needs to... so that the portions of the state creating problems are separated from the people they presume to exploit to solve those problems. Solve your own fucking problems by investing in an aqueduct or two.
California for a few billion dollars could run a pipe from the other side of the Rockies to California. Pumping in a river's worth of water. Really, huge amounts of water that are wasted throughout the country by just going into the sea could be moved around the country using pipes to provide water to the dry portions.
The cost and planning is nothing compared to the gains.
The Romans moved water hundreds of miles 2000 years ago. One would think that in the 21st century the world's largest super power could manage moving it a bit farther than that within its own territory.
Absent that, limit growth in the dry portions until such time as they solve the problem. Period.
And it only knows your name because you TELL it your name.
If it asks my name and I say "bruce wayne" then the taxi company thinks my name is bruce wayne. Same thing with everything else.
It isn't a big deal because the taxi companies have been getting this information since ALWAYS. The only difference is that they're trying to remove the dispatchers which means the driver gets it instead of the dispatcher. Why is that problem?
As to taxi drivers harassing customers... you give you information to people every day. How often do you get harassed by any of them?
And again, the taxi company is not getting any information that they weren't getting anyway.
As to there being no need to joke about rape, I disagree. Rape is a crime and I don't support it at all but the campaigns have gotten absurdly sanctimonious on the issue. A-fucking-nough.
Dudes get murdered in the street every day and there's no national campaign to stop that despite their brains getting blown out.
Put your bullshit in perspective. "This" is bullshit.
Look up a category of products called "Dynamic DNS".. the concept is that your router or your home server pings a third party every ten minutes. That associates a subdomain on their system with your current IP. You can this service for free. It doesn't really cost them anything.
Exactly. I'm just tired of bullshit. Once you've taken the red pill you see the corruption and patterns of behavior everywhere.
It isn't even always a conspiracy. It moves like a fad or a meme... it is the wave that goes around a stadium. A mindless and generally meaningless reaction that forms a pattern of behavior.
This whole "uber causes rape" meme has been flowing around the world. And YES I know this article is not about Uber... but it is a result of that meme.
The point of the apps is to bypass the dispatch operators and permit taxi drivers to interact directly with passengers prior to pick up. There's nothing wrong with that. The Taxi driver also already knew where he was picking you up and where he was dropping you off. If they wanted to stock you then they could have done that since always. The only thing they're getting now that they didn't have before is your phone number. OH NOES.
If they really need to fix this issue, worst case they can route all call through some third party phone call anonymizing agent that associates a each passenger and taxi driver with some ID code in the system. Passenger calls the automated dispatch, types in a 4 digit driver ID code and the call is forwarded to the taxi driver. Taxi driver calls the automated dispatch and dials the temporary 4 digit ID code and the call is forwarded to the passenger. The programming for something like that is trivial. There is probably an off the shelf option available that could be set up in an afternoon to do it.
If you really need to fix it... then take a day and do that. I'm just tired of the "taxi app causes rape" meme flowing around. It's fucking bullshit.
I was aware... but it is all linked to the general backlash against changes to the taxi system which is linked to Uber etc.
This isn't happening in a vacuum. Should a taxi driver see your phone number? The taxi dispatch operator has your phone number.
How is it better for that to happen? The dispatch operator also knows where you were picked up and where you were dropped off.
No one minds the dispatch operator having that information but the taxi driver? No... that's a violation of my privacy. Give me a fucking break.
If THAT concerns you then you must just go through every day convinced you're going to get raped by anyone. And if that is your attitude, then get a gun or learn kung fu or something. Just deal with it.
There was a prominent lesbian that dressed as man for few months to learn what it is like to be a man. What she noticed was that men actually deal with more actual threats of violence than women on a regular basis. They just deal with it differently. Men go through situations all the time where they know if they do the wrong thing they're going to get the shit beaten out of them, robbed, or killed.
This is the 21st century. I think we're past the point where women expect to be protected from the realities of the world in general.
Men defend themselves. And no, they don't do it with raw physical power... most guys aren't strong enough in any case. And a surprise attack is very hard to deal with in general. They deal with it by not being a target.
It isn't about victim blaming. It is about not being a victim. You don't show weakness. You do not provoke attack. You do not do stupid shit.
It isn't rocket science. Again... 21st century. It is only getting hairier from here on in.
They should be afraid. They aren't offering competitive service. They have that "in" of being a weapons contractor which opens a lot of doors.
Possibly spaceX should develop some missiles. Seriously. It might help them. Maybe produce some cruise missiles or something. There are close ties between the Pentagon and NASA. NASA likes to pretend they're not there but you can see it in the budget. Programs are shifted between the two organizations dynamically depending on which ever one has more room in their budget for something.
A couple NASA projects were recently moved into the "defense" budget. They flow back and forth both ways... and never forget that quite a few of the astronauts come out of the air force.
So... maybe spaceX needs to make some friends in the DoD.
I'm fucking tired of this shit. Dudes deal with seedy bullshit all the time but the ladies want to be in little isolated soap bubbles.
Just enough. Another idea might be requiring that women passengers use female taxi drivers. Will that mean paying significantly more for a taxi? I can't control the market value. Maybe it will be an empowering experience and the female drivers will get a good financial opportunity. Who knows.
But really, this whole ongoing whine has become tiresome. If you want to use a normal yellow cab, then use one of those. If you want to use the the rape mobiles which is apparently character assassination being tried against Uber etc... then you know what you were getting in for.
Seriously done with it. No woman HAS to use an Uber cab. They can use a yellow cab or whatever was there before Uber. Use that, climb into the back of some grimy cab that smells like stale cigarette smoke driven in all likelihood by some hairy guy that is OF COURSE never going to rape you or make inappropriate comments. He isn't working for Uber, so he's safe.
And then enjoy your rape free environment. But if you use the Uber cab... I don't want to hear about it. I'm tapped out of care.
I'm familiar with them, I just don't use them because email clients are superior.
As to not working on a chromebox... why would I use such a thing. They're trash. I can get a laptop for the same money that can run real software. The only value of the chrome box is that it is arbitarily limited in its ability. And I can get the same effect by installing a Kiosk GUI ontop of windows or linux. So there's no point to the chromeboxes. I've looked at them a few times and that anyone buys them can only be attributed to ignorance.
As to smartphones that don't have email clients... there is no such thing. Any smartphone either android or iOS or blackberry has email clients.
As to doing it on a client not being useful elsewhere, wrong. I use IMAP boxes which means the desktop client sorts the email on the email server which any other system passively profits from.
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In regards to rootkits, I think the real issue with them is when they get in the firmware and then lock the firmware.
I believe apple products were shown to have a vulnerability where a rootkit could get into the firmware and then write lock the firmware.
My only real worry with nonsense like this is that it can't be fixed. I'm not so worried about rootkits unless I can't get rid of them. So long as the firmware can't be writelocked BY the firmware... I'm happy. Ideally some sort of hardware button override during boot to get access to the firmware in the event that we do want a write locking feature if only to prevent rootkits from intruding.
As to secureboot, from what I can see, windows 10 has it. So there you go.
As to transparent encryption, I can think of a few products that do this actually. I mean... you have to install and configure them but then they just do what you want. I'm not a fan of full drive encryption because I've seen that go horribly wrong especially on the system drive. But encrypting partitions with your data is reasonable. My email, documents, finance information, firefox profile, etc is all on an encrypted partition.
I suppose it isn't transparent in my case because I do prompt to mount and unmount that partition but I actually like that. My machine loads without a password when it is turned on. I don't want a thief to reformat my drive. I want it to be super easy for him to use my machine so that the tracking apps I installed can be accessed by ME. Using those apps, I MIGHT be able to track the person that stole my machine and possibly recover it. But if I can't... they won't get my data.
As to backing up on the cloud. I don't really trust the cloud with my backups. I push all my data at a home file server.
Once every six months, my system drive is ghosted to the file server. And my critical files are updated every day. I don't just overwrite the old download. I use a GFS backup script that maintains versions of my files going back a month. Grandfather backs up once a month. Father backs up every 7 days. Son backs up every day and three copies are permitted in that case. If I don't catch a corruption that is over three days old, then the Father has to catch it from 7 days back. And if that isn't sufficient then the grandfather from a month ago gets it.
I do some other tricky things with my back ups. The files on the file server are duplicated to two external drives and there are error codes up the whazoo if there is a problem such as drive having problems or being unplugged. And those errors are sent to my phone as a text message and to my email.
I haven't had to tweak the system for years really. It just works. But if I need to make a change... the whole thing is just a script so I can really change anything about it.
I like having control.
yes, so they can make 5 records a year for nostalgia instead of 2.
Give me a break.
I've found that people that can't explain things simply tend to not actually understand the issue themselves.
I myself can explain nearly everything I know about a given subject in summary in a sentence or three.
I've talked to many very brilliant people and a great many frauds and idiots. And what I've found is that the clever and the wise can translate their complex learning into something readily intelligible while the frauds cannot.
Just my own personal experience.
Now can you explain the issue? Or not?
There were things like ascap though...
As to the CD being alive at your house, that hardly matters to the music industry unless others agree. And not enough do.
The CD is dead.
As to dodgy copies, if you download a FLAC file you're getting a Lossless copy of the disc. A full CD is about 200-300 MB using that compression.
My music needs to be digital regardless. If I bought a CD, I'd just have to digitize it to add it to my home music library. Drives cost about 50 USD per terabyte... so I can store about 4000 albums on a single 50 dollar 1 terabyte drive with LOSSLESS compression.
CD libraries are by comparison quite annoying... they take up a lot of space, you have, you have to deal with all the CD books, backing them up is a pain in the ass and you can't stream them.
I can stream my home media library to any machine in the world. CDs can't compete with that.
As to music being disposable, you've actually missed what has happened in music... no offense. There is no centralized unitary music culture anymore. The rock gods are gone and what is filling their place in so far as the studios are concerned is a lot of preprocessed pop crap. Its basically as if every single band were the Monkeys. There are relatively few people writing the music that these bands ultimately play and that has the consequence that all of these pop bands sound the same because they're basically just playing the music from a small group of writers.
That is the big studios. They are producing drek. If you go out of your way to avoid that shit then you'll find that there is plenty of talent and good music out there that is as worthy of surviving as anything from the 60s. HOWEVER, because there is no centralization these artists are HIGHLY fragmented. There are arguably hundreds of music genres active right now. Far more diversity then anything in the 60s. And that doesn't mean you'll like much of it... but there is something there for everyone.
The issue is getting people to listen to things to see what people like and what they don't like. An artist that has a thousand people that buy his music in these ratified environments is doing pretty well. The point is not to be a rock god. The rock gods are dead.
The point is to perhaps get enough of a following that you can do the starving artist thing for awhile until you maybe can move up a notch. But just a notch.
There are good and bad things about this... the good is that the bar to entry is very low and that means you get more people making music. The bad is that it is very hard for anyone to actually make a living at it, there is quite a lot of shitty music because the bar is perhaps a little too low, and it is almost impossible to audit it all.
As to pick and mix, personally there isn't an artist that has ever been able to do that. Every album in my experience has a shitty track that I don't care for and if I don't care for it then I'd rather not have it in my playlist.
What is more, I like the freedom of being able to compose my own playlists. I often mix and match artists because I find their various songs play with each other better then works by a single artist. It also keeps the music fresher that way. The music in a different context is different and that is interesting.
I am one of those people that craves new experiences. I will listen to music from anyone a few times just to really get it set in my mind... and then I might not listen to it again either ever again or not for years.
This applies to any artist.
In regards to only giving your music your full attention... I've always had a hard time with that. The human mind has many parts. Different lobes that do different things. And music rarely engages enough of my mind to make me feel like I'm doing something. I just get bored unless I'm doing something else. This doesn't mean I can't appreciate good music. But other parts of my mind that are not musical can only twiddle their metaphorical thumbs if I just sit there.
In regards to sweeping statements... I was talking about the econom
The whole field of psychology is an increasingly weak science.
Mostly because they can't conduct experiments. Ethical issues with fucking with people's minds. But absent that it just boils down to a lot of theories that aren't especially testable.
Most of the music uploads don't have a video component. They'll have some still image... which the compression nicely cuts down to the bandwidth required to transmit that image ONCE and not much more. So basically they already do that.
Sometime it is a music video but that is increasingly less common as MTV becomes less relevant.
Phoned/emailed warnings of someone with a gun should be taken with a grain of salt.
I had a friend that was playing with a pellet gun. A neighbor saw it and thought it was rifle or something. And even if it had been... so what? But it was a pellet gun.
This is Los Angeles... birth place of the SWAT team, so the police showed up with helicopters, dogs, and tactical teams.
Because of a kid playing with a pellet gun.
The police need to chill out on some reports. They also need to come down on people making false calls like the hammer of god. Link them over to the NSA if they have to... contact the ISPs... track it down to a person. If people know that those sorts of calls mean jail time they'll be less inclined to use the police as a weapon.
Am I right in thinking that in a discussion about a world event they'd shift between teaching literature, economics, math, geography, etc?
The whole concept baffles me.
The problem with this approach from what I would guess is that you're not going to get a functional foundation in the "skills" people go to school to learn.
I'm going to assume it isn't as stupid as it sounds... I wish them well.
Some aspects of the studio are good. Getting an agent is still a good idea. Getting some sort of mentoring is good. Having an agency that can jam a lot of talented people together to form a more marketable product is good. This guy can sing, this guy plays the drums, this guy plays the guitar... you all are in a band now... come up with a name by the time I get back and we'll see if we need to buy some songs from some song writers.
Etc.
There's value in the institution. But the institution needs to get over the rock gods being a thing of the past. It needs to go back to its roots and start over.
You could get paid on the radio as well. Just not very well and you did better to use the radio to promote your music instead.
Which is something they should do with the internet radio people. The problem is that they're seeing spotify as a type of record sale or lease or rent. It isn't.
As to information gathering... clicks... fine, spotify is happy to provide that regardless.
As to it being harder to record things off spotify...
1. No it isn't. There are lots of software packages that will do it easily.
2. Who needs to do that? If I want to pirate the music, I can just download it off a torrent or rip the sound directly from their Youtube video.
Here is something content providers need to understand:
You cannot stop piracy. Can't.
So what you need to focus on is making people not WANT to pirate. Not forbid them from doing it... you can't stop them from doing it. You have to make them not WANT to do it.
Its marketing.
instead of calling their lawyers and hiring IT companies to go after fucking billion people pirating... instead, call your marketing and ad people in and talk about how you make people not WANT to do it.
The music industry has almost destroyed themselves by not understanding the internet and new technology. And fucking with the internet radio people is just one more fuck up amongst many.
The intent is not to offend but to be honest.
As to getting those features on a laptop... if you have very specific requirements you could set it up once and then ghost the image. There after, the only thing you'd have to do is manage some drivers if you installed it on a new machine.
Explain to me the utility of Secure Boot? When you say transparent encryption, what do you mean? What reprovisioning are you doing on a chrome book? Most OS's have automated updates.
Because... universal has hosted every single song in its library on Youtube.... for free.
And I don't have to deal with some shitty streaming service deciding what it is going to play next. I can just play the exact songs I want.
And those ads on youtube? Well, adblock kills them. I try to keep adblock off if I want to support the person that posts the video... but if I either don't care or I actively want them to make no money... then adblock is happening.
Here is the thing, Universal... the CD is dead. The Record is dead.
What did you people do before records? You existed and your people made money.
I know they were on the radio... I know they were doing concerts. I know they were singing in advertising. I know they were getting cast in movies or used by movies to do singing bits.
That is what you're going back to.
Because the CD is dead.
Spotify etc are at best like the radio of old. And the radio didn't charge listeners to listen. You tune in and listen. Put an ad in there if that makes you happy. What money you get is going to come by taking a percentage of that revenue.
If that isn't a lot... don't know what to tell you. The ad companies are rating the VALUE of your listeners as that amount of money.
If reaching those people with an ad is worth 2 cents then your music is likely not worth a great deal more than that.
Get over it.
Find something else for your artists to do to make money besides make records. Records are dead.
Yeah, because ignorance and incompetence is sexy, right?
Its people like you that herald the idiocracy.
So you say but you won't tell me what I lied about.
I have challenged you repeatedly to just EXPLAIN what you meant.
You have refused and instead want to get vague with insults. The reason being that if you tell me what you were talking about I can start to take it apart logically... and your argument won't survive that because you know YOU are the one that is lying.
I have no fear of the truth or engaging in debate because I don't lie or mislead. That isn't how I win.
I win by being right, by being smarter than you, and by knowing how to prove it.
When you have all those things, as I have them... one does not need to lie.
Your consistent reliance on such is merely an admission that you're an idiot and you know it.
What I guess you're too stupid to grasp is that I KNOW IT AS WELL. It is quite obvious. Your pathetic attempts to deceive me are a waste of time. You're not very good at this and everything you've done is quite transparent.
It is just too easy. So by all means, throw out another stupid insult... all you're doing is further confessing your weakness.
The issue is not farmers over using water but cities expanding without increasing infrastructure.
The farmers have water rights that go back generations. They stay within those rights.
And because the cities were incompetent by allowing their cities to expand without increasing water resources... they are now stealing water from the farmers and basically trying to drive them out of business.
This notion of "pricing water" for example would make all Californian agricultural exports non-economical which would kill the farmers. All farmers including the wineries.
No where in this is it acknowledged that cities must STOP zoning expansion of ANY KIND until such time as they expand water resources.
Notice they take NO responsibility what so ever for their own incompetence. Rather, they simply blame others and then come up with rational to steal their resources.
Its fucked up.
And while California probably won't split into separate states, it really needs to... so that the portions of the state creating problems are separated from the people they presume to exploit to solve those problems. Solve your own fucking problems by investing in an aqueduct or two.
California for a few billion dollars could run a pipe from the other side of the Rockies to California. Pumping in a river's worth of water. Really, huge amounts of water that are wasted throughout the country by just going into the sea could be moved around the country using pipes to provide water to the dry portions.
The cost and planning is nothing compared to the gains.
The Romans moved water hundreds of miles 2000 years ago. One would think that in the 21st century the world's largest super power could manage moving it a bit farther than that within its own territory.
Absent that, limit growth in the dry portions until such time as they solve the problem. Period.
Be more specific.
The taxi company always knows these things.
And it only knows your name because you TELL it your name.
If it asks my name and I say "bruce wayne" then the taxi company thinks my name is bruce wayne. Same thing with everything else.
It isn't a big deal because the taxi companies have been getting this information since ALWAYS. The only difference is that they're trying to remove the dispatchers which means the driver gets it instead of the dispatcher. Why is that problem?
As to taxi drivers harassing customers... you give you information to people every day. How often do you get harassed by any of them?
And again, the taxi company is not getting any information that they weren't getting anyway.
As to there being no need to joke about rape, I disagree. Rape is a crime and I don't support it at all but the campaigns have gotten absurdly sanctimonious on the issue. A-fucking-nough.
Dudes get murdered in the street every day and there's no national campaign to stop that despite their brains getting blown out.
Put your bullshit in perspective. "This" is bullshit.
Look up a category of products called "Dynamic DNS".. the concept is that your router or your home server pings a third party every ten minutes. That associates a subdomain on their system with your current IP. You can this service for free. It doesn't really cost them anything.
Exactly. I'm just tired of bullshit. Once you've taken the red pill you see the corruption and patterns of behavior everywhere.
It isn't even always a conspiracy. It moves like a fad or a meme... it is the wave that goes around a stadium. A mindless and generally meaningless reaction that forms a pattern of behavior.
This whole "uber causes rape" meme has been flowing around the world. And YES I know this article is not about Uber... but it is a result of that meme.
The point of the apps is to bypass the dispatch operators and permit taxi drivers to interact directly with passengers prior to pick up. There's nothing wrong with that. The Taxi driver also already knew where he was picking you up and where he was dropping you off. If they wanted to stock you then they could have done that since always. The only thing they're getting now that they didn't have before is your phone number. OH NOES.
If they really need to fix this issue, worst case they can route all call through some third party phone call anonymizing agent that associates a each passenger and taxi driver with some ID code in the system. Passenger calls the automated dispatch, types in a 4 digit driver ID code and the call is forwarded to the taxi driver. Taxi driver calls the automated dispatch and dials the temporary 4 digit ID code and the call is forwarded to the passenger. The programming for something like that is trivial. There is probably an off the shelf option available that could be set up in an afternoon to do it.
If you really need to fix it... then take a day and do that. I'm just tired of the "taxi app causes rape" meme flowing around. It's fucking bullshit.
I was aware... but it is all linked to the general backlash against changes to the taxi system which is linked to Uber etc.
This isn't happening in a vacuum. Should a taxi driver see your phone number? The taxi dispatch operator has your phone number.
How is it better for that to happen? The dispatch operator also knows where you were picked up and where you were dropped off.
No one minds the dispatch operator having that information but the taxi driver? No... that's a violation of my privacy. Give me a fucking break.
If THAT concerns you then you must just go through every day convinced you're going to get raped by anyone. And if that is your attitude, then get a gun or learn kung fu or something. Just deal with it.
There was a prominent lesbian that dressed as man for few months to learn what it is like to be a man. What she noticed was that men actually deal with more actual threats of violence than women on a regular basis. They just deal with it differently. Men go through situations all the time where they know if they do the wrong thing they're going to get the shit beaten out of them, robbed, or killed.
This is the 21st century. I think we're past the point where women expect to be protected from the realities of the world in general.
Men defend themselves. And no, they don't do it with raw physical power... most guys aren't strong enough in any case. And a surprise attack is very hard to deal with in general. They deal with it by not being a target.
It isn't about victim blaming. It is about not being a victim. You don't show weakness. You do not provoke attack. You do not do stupid shit.
It isn't rocket science. Again... 21st century. It is only getting hairier from here on in.
They should be afraid. They aren't offering competitive service. They have that "in" of being a weapons contractor which opens a lot of doors.
Possibly spaceX should develop some missiles. Seriously. It might help them. Maybe produce some cruise missiles or something. There are close ties between the Pentagon and NASA. NASA likes to pretend they're not there but you can see it in the budget. Programs are shifted between the two organizations dynamically depending on which ever one has more room in their budget for something.
A couple NASA projects were recently moved into the "defense" budget. They flow back and forth both ways... and never forget that quite a few of the astronauts come out of the air force.
So... maybe spaceX needs to make some friends in the DoD.
Don't be obtuse
I'm fucking tired of this shit. Dudes deal with seedy bullshit all the time but the ladies want to be in little isolated soap bubbles.
Just enough. Another idea might be requiring that women passengers use female taxi drivers. Will that mean paying significantly more for a taxi? I can't control the market value. Maybe it will be an empowering experience and the female drivers will get a good financial opportunity. Who knows.
But really, this whole ongoing whine has become tiresome. If you want to use a normal yellow cab, then use one of those. If you want to use the the rape mobiles which is apparently character assassination being tried against Uber etc... then you know what you were getting in for.
Seriously done with it. No woman HAS to use an Uber cab. They can use a yellow cab or whatever was there before Uber. Use that, climb into the back of some grimy cab that smells like stale cigarette smoke driven in all likelihood by some hairy guy that is OF COURSE never going to rape you or make inappropriate comments. He isn't working for Uber, so he's safe.
And then enjoy your rape free environment. But if you use the Uber cab... I don't want to hear about it. I'm tapped out of care.
I'm familiar with them, I just don't use them because email clients are superior.
As to not working on a chromebox... why would I use such a thing. They're trash. I can get a laptop for the same money that can run real software. The only value of the chrome box is that it is arbitarily limited in its ability. And I can get the same effect by installing a Kiosk GUI ontop of windows or linux. So there's no point to the chromeboxes. I've looked at them a few times and that anyone buys them can only be attributed to ignorance.
As to smartphones that don't have email clients... there is no such thing. Any smartphone either android or iOS or blackberry has email clients.
As to doing it on a client not being useful elsewhere, wrong. I use IMAP boxes which means the desktop client sorts the email on the email server which any other system passively profits from.
I know what I'm doing, thanks.