"And we only want people to have just enough so that we can sell you more of it."
Aaron was, by every measure, an extraordinarily brilliant individual and we collectively suffered a great loss earlier this year. He was a champion of the kind of freedom that the forefathers of any free country would have themselves admired. Were it not for him, we might have been seeing people with ten-year prison sentences for downloading movies by today.
MIT feared him because because of this brilliance and brazenness. They knew he was on the fast track to upsetting the establishment. Then they continued acting like cowards and looked the other way while the full force of the US Government sought to destroy his life for the "horrible crime" of publicizing publicly-funded research (with an added dose of vindictiveness for doing the same with PACER... also publicly-funded knowledge).
Aaron, like many of us, was frustrated and angered at how the establishment deliberately moves at a snail's pace and seeks to hold knowledge at ransom. Knowledge that gives the people power. They fear people with this power. This, apparently, includes MIT and they should be ashamed of themselves. After all, an intelligence organization that fears intelligence? Historically, not awesome.
And, if you want to honestly talk about the dangers of exercising the power technology gives you, there's a three-letter government agency I'd like to bring to your attention who's been dangerously and recklessly abusing the power of technology in all sorts of ways. Maybe you've heard of them, they've been in the news a lot lately.
Which is a complete bullshit stipulation, given that "server" and "client" are really just a way of expressing which machine is initiating a connection.
In a perfect world, net neutrality would outlaw such clauses.
Also, I wish I could find the link, but do you not remember the guy who crossed out certain terms in the EULA for a product and it was determined reasonable by a court of law? Makes sense: it's not really an "agreement" unless both parties are making compromises.
Greetings are made not by waiving, but giving a thumbs up (anyone giving thumbs down will be publicly beaten)
Everyone is needy and constantly pesters you to be their "friend"
The town bulletin board is full of trite comics and jokes (and nothing useful)
Traveling salesmen do recon by eavesdropping on all your conversations and then show up at your door to sell you everything they think you want to buy
Every few weeks, someone walks into a stranger's home after dark, takes off all their clothes and tells everyone about embarrassing personal matters before they realize they got off at the wrong bus stop
The population numbers are inflated because everyone uses multiple identities and fake IDs
Public works tears down all the infrastructure and rebuilds everything from scratch every year (the townsfolk protest about it for 5 minutes before relenting)
I completely agree with the sentiment of your comment, but I gotta nitpick here... actual zero gravity? So they actually escaped Earth's orbit in an actual spacecraft, filmed the whole thing there and slingshotted around the moon to shoot that scene where Tom Hanks says "I've seen it"?
Naw, I'm preeeetty sure they were inside an aircraft doing parabolic flight patterns to counter gravity and create simulated weightlessness;) The effect is the same, but the cause is very different (gravity is still acting on the plane and it's occupants, which you'd notice quickly if it made a sudden leveling or climb)
Additionally, astronauts in orbiting spacecrafts (shuttle, ISS, etc.) technically experience extremely limited gravity (near weightlessness, close enough that you wouldn't notice the difference), which is why the ISS needs thrusters to periodically adjust altitude/attitude.
Netflix, Amazon, Kindles, Steam... are not the fundamental constructs of the web that affect every person online.
What the W3C failed to do is call the copyright cartel's bluff. What are they gonna do, make their own internet with all the glorious DRM they can fathom? Yeah, good luck with that. Berner's-Lee has performed a grave disservice and is no longer worthy of this responsibility.
The point is to end the balkanization of media players and let everything work in your vanilla browser. That sounds good to me.
Such technology, capabilities and standards have existed for years. The insurmountable problem here is removing the copyright cartel's head from the firm position in it's ass.
This current era of design trends -- the flattened, one-dimensional, oversimplified, pastel, decontextualized paradigm -- is one of the worst in design history.
Windows 8, ThinkPad chiclet keyboards, the Facebook timeline, achingly elongated iOS transitions... it's not just form before function anymore, it's "fuck function, make it pretty!"
The whole reason I went with iOS over Android was the snappier UI.
This may have been true a few years ago with Android handsets generally being underpowered, but the hardware caught up a while ago already.
I have a Nexus 4 and, aside from the rare hangup which happens on any OS, everything is just instant. Transitions are smooth and clean, apps load effortlessly, scrolling is incredibly responsive.
My dad's iPhone feels sluggish and cumbersome by comparison.
Because they used an electronic gadget in the commission of a crime? This was a social engineering ploy, the tech played a minor role. Even TFA (yes, I read it) explained that the technology involved was "crude."
The "tech expert" they interviewed is just adding fuel to the idiot fire by explaining that antivirus won't help, giving undeserved credence to the notion that this was a technological attack.
Stop prefixing e- and cyber- and other bullshit to make yourself sound modern because you actually sound like an old fart bitching about "newfangled gizmos" that they don't understand.
Harper has proven himself an ignorant, unworthy, corporate-serving and ego-driven jackass. Too bad he can't be thrown out of the PMO via non-confidence in the same way his party rose to power.
This is what fascist governments (and their lapdogs) do, be they Chinese, American or Swedish. They doctor up charges of a very stigmatized crime when you publish information that you don't like, turning the public against them because, "ew, he's a perv, who cares what he thinks?"
Nikon is particularly dickbagish when it comes to international warranties. They are just begging you to void it.
You could buy a 100% genuine Nikon product from an authorized reseller in another country, and they will not honor the warranty. You could buy the same item in your *own* country, but if it wasn't from an "authorized reseller", they will refuse to honor the warranty, even if it is 100% genuine Nikon product. They won't even service it if you PAY THEM. It's like no one can be arsed to take the tiny extra step of sightly routing around the standard procedure to provide customer service.
They're the polar opposite of IBM/Lenovo, who will bend over backwards to ensure that a ThinkPad purchased anywhere in the world will be supported and serviced anywhere in the world. I'll praise them for this everyday, even if I still don't recommend their purchase anymore because of the dumbass keyboards.
Slashdot Mirror
"And we only want people to have just enough so that we can sell you more of it."
Aaron was, by every measure, an extraordinarily brilliant individual and we collectively suffered a great loss earlier this year. He was a champion of the kind of freedom that the forefathers of any free country would have themselves admired. Were it not for him, we might have been seeing people with ten-year prison sentences for downloading movies by today.
MIT feared him because because of this brilliance and brazenness. They knew he was on the fast track to upsetting the establishment. Then they continued acting like cowards and looked the other way while the full force of the US Government sought to destroy his life for the "horrible crime" of publicizing publicly-funded research (with an added dose of vindictiveness for doing the same with PACER ... also publicly-funded knowledge).
Aaron, like many of us, was frustrated and angered at how the establishment deliberately moves at a snail's pace and seeks to hold knowledge at ransom. Knowledge that gives the people power. They fear people with this power. This, apparently, includes MIT and they should be ashamed of themselves. After all, an intelligence organization that fears intelligence? Historically, not awesome.
And, if you want to honestly talk about the dangers of exercising the power technology gives you, there's a three-letter government agency I'd like to bring to your attention who's been dangerously and recklessly abusing the power of technology in all sorts of ways. Maybe you've heard of them, they've been in the news a lot lately.
Which is a complete bullshit stipulation, given that "server" and "client" are really just a way of expressing which machine is initiating a connection.
In a perfect world, net neutrality would outlaw such clauses.
Also, I wish I could find the link, but do you not remember the guy who crossed out certain terms in the EULA for a product and it was determined reasonable by a court of law? Makes sense: it's not really an "agreement" unless both parties are making compromises.
Greetings are made not by waiving, but giving a thumbs up (anyone giving thumbs down will be publicly beaten)
Everyone is needy and constantly pesters you to be their "friend"
The town bulletin board is full of trite comics and jokes (and nothing useful)
Traveling salesmen do recon by eavesdropping on all your conversations and then show up at your door to sell you everything they think you want to buy
Every few weeks, someone walks into a stranger's home after dark, takes off all their clothes and tells everyone about embarrassing personal matters before they realize they got off at the wrong bus stop
The population numbers are inflated because everyone uses multiple identities and fake IDs
Public works tears down all the infrastructure and rebuilds everything from scratch every year (the townsfolk protest about it for 5 minutes before relenting)
In the movie world, they're destroyed by bad casting decisions.
I completely agree with the sentiment of your comment, but I gotta nitpick here ... actual zero gravity? So they actually escaped Earth's orbit in an actual spacecraft, filmed the whole thing there and slingshotted around the moon to shoot that scene where Tom Hanks says "I've seen it"?
;) The effect is the same, but the cause is very different (gravity is still acting on the plane and it's occupants, which you'd notice quickly if it made a sudden leveling or climb)
Naw, I'm preeeetty sure they were inside an aircraft doing parabolic flight patterns to counter gravity and create simulated weightlessness
Additionally, astronauts in orbiting spacecrafts (shuttle, ISS, etc.) technically experience extremely limited gravity (near weightlessness, close enough that you wouldn't notice the difference), which is why the ISS needs thrusters to periodically adjust altitude/attitude.
What the W3C failed to do is call the copyright cartel's bluff. What are they gonna do, make their own internet with all the glorious DRM they can fathom? Yeah, good luck with that. Berner's-Lee has performed a grave disservice and is no longer worthy of this responsibility.
Such technology, capabilities and standards have existed for years. The insurmountable problem here is removing the copyright cartel's head from the firm position in it's ass.
And something to do with fire definitely came to mind, but it nothing to do with charging the battery.
This current era of design trends -- the flattened, one-dimensional, oversimplified, pastel, decontextualized paradigm -- is one of the worst in design history.
Windows 8, ThinkPad chiclet keyboards, the Facebook timeline, achingly elongated iOS transitions ... it's not just form before function anymore, it's "fuck function, make it pretty!"
God help us.
It's #927 in case you're wondering.
I think the one you're looking for is: before pointing out the spec in someone's eye, take the plank out of your own.
Shitting on the spirit.
No, you're not the only one
They're pissed about the press leaks and out for blood, so he gets the longest ever sentence for leaking classified information.
But the kiddie porn charges? Nah, just pay a fine.
Wow.
Why Can't You Use Phones on Planes?
PR Manager
The whole reason I went with iOS over Android was the snappier UI.
This may have been true a few years ago with Android handsets generally being underpowered, but the hardware caught up a while ago already.
I have a Nexus 4 and, aside from the rare hangup which happens on any OS, everything is just instant. Transitions are smooth and clean, apps load effortlessly, scrolling is incredibly responsive.
My dad's iPhone feels sluggish and cumbersome by comparison.
Because they used an electronic gadget in the commission of a crime? This was a social engineering ploy, the tech played a minor role. Even TFA (yes, I read it) explained that the technology involved was "crude."
The "tech expert" they interviewed is just adding fuel to the idiot fire by explaining that antivirus won't help, giving undeserved credence to the notion that this was a technological attack.
Stop prefixing e- and cyber- and other bullshit to make yourself sound modern because you actually sound like an old fart bitching about "newfangled gizmos" that they don't understand.
It's like giving your computer AIDS.
See: the copyright wars
Because that worked out so well for the rest of the internet.
The longer you live, the longer they can siphon your data for ad revenue and sell you shiny things!
Harper has proven himself an ignorant, unworthy, corporate-serving and ego-driven jackass. Too bad he can't be thrown out of the PMO via non-confidence in the same way his party rose to power.
This is what fascist governments (and their lapdogs) do, be they Chinese, American or Swedish. They doctor up charges of a very stigmatized crime when you publish information that you don't like, turning the public against them because, "ew, he's a perv, who cares what he thinks?"
is that they're doing it for exactly the same reason the government claims to be?
Nikon is particularly dickbagish when it comes to international warranties. They are just begging you to void it.
You could buy a 100% genuine Nikon product from an authorized reseller in another country, and they will not honor the warranty. You could buy the same item in your *own* country, but if it wasn't from an "authorized reseller", they will refuse to honor the warranty, even if it is 100% genuine Nikon product. They won't even service it if you PAY THEM. It's like no one can be arsed to take the tiny extra step of sightly routing around the standard procedure to provide customer service.
They're the polar opposite of IBM/Lenovo, who will bend over backwards to ensure that a ThinkPad purchased anywhere in the world will be supported and serviced anywhere in the world. I'll praise them for this everyday, even if I still don't recommend their purchase anymore because of the dumbass keyboards.