I'm not a millennial so I'm behind the times when it comes to apps. I've never heard of this Chinese Communist selfie app but it doesn't take an app to do a selfie. You've got an Android or iPhone builtin app to do it for you. It even lets you easily share it to Facebook. Who the hell really needs an add-on selfie app?
Both the recent VerticalScope hack and this have one thing in common: vBulletin. It is a pile of junk, and especially since it was acquired by a firm known as Internet Brands. It is awful software, and a forum about an open source product which uses proprietary components is ethically unsound.
Reading about failures like this makes me appreciate that both Canada and the United States have mandatory systems for the interruption of programming across all broadcasters, regardless of platform, in the event of a public emergency. Apps can help disseminate information, but they should not be constitute the only distribution path besides the media.
Section 230.
That is all.
But even with that, I bet you that lawmakers will try and work around it and find a way to make social networking services liable for terrorists using their services, unknowingly or not;
No, they can't pay the license fee. They will no longer sell the license because it is end-of-life, but using it requires a license, hence the software may no longer be used by anyone.
Only the client portion is free software. It only works with a proprietary, Canonical-run package repository. Canonical does not offer source code for the server aspect, and thus, does not offer the ability to create third-party servers. The entire system is subject to Canonical's walled garden.
If Google, Facebook, and Twitter are editorializing content, such as silencing right wing views and anti-immigration sentiments (Zuckerberg met with Merkel to discuss implementation of this, for instance). Then theses companies lose their DMCA Safe Harbor Provisions which safeguard a platform provider from being liable for user generated content. Under the DMCA such media platforms are not responsible for the content posted by their users so long as they are not editorializing the content, such as filtering posts along political lines to present a political bias.
If DMCA Safe Harbor provisions are stripped from Google, Facebook and/or Twitter then THEY ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR SPREADING ISLAMIC TERRORIST PROPAGANDA AND INCITING VIOLENCE.
It's not a DMCA provision. That's a safe harbor for copyrighted material. What you really want is the Section 230 safe harbor, which states that "No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.". A social networking service clearly falls under this provision.
This is actually a side effect of the other changes they are planning; particularly, the deprecation of XUL.
The bug itself has comments dictating that they are not removing the concept entirely, but want to revamp it to fit the new architecture. Theoretically, a new theme system could be built under the new architecture.
"Betting on the performance of individual players", is essentially betting on whether a particular player will do well/score this many points/run for this many yards/etc. They call those "props" in Vegas terms. Daily fantasy is essentially making a combination of props, which is called a "parlay". Look up the memo that Nevada's gaming board published on its similar assertion, and you'll see that calling it "fantasy sports" is literally a smokescreen for the fact that it is essentially betting. Oh, and DraftKings' CEO all but referred to it as being "almost identical to a casino" in a Reddit IamA.
And that's the point.
They're painting these things as games of "skill" because of its thin relation to actual fantasy sports. But there's only skill when you expand the game out long-term; you have to be strategic from week to week, pick players wisely, make good decisions, trade, etc. Daily fantasy takes away almost every element that is remotely skill-based and turns it into something that is pretty much a lottery.
Speaking of that, in Canada, we have legal sports betting, and it's done through the lottery. How we do it has some issues of its own but it's better than nothing.
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I'm not a millennial so I'm behind the times when it comes to apps. I've never heard of this Chinese Communist selfie app but it doesn't take an app to do a selfie. You've got an Android or iPhone builtin app to do it for you. It even lets you easily share it to Facebook. Who the hell really needs an add-on selfie app?
because of filters and stickers and editing stuff
Yet every Canadian broadcaster just takes 15% of them and spreads reruns of them across multiple channels that provide the illusion of variety.
You bought Vizio _JUST_ to destroy it. Nice job.
They keep creating new, redundant services to fufill every variation of a niche rather than just having one.
This is why the mass standardization of Linux is a bad thing
When you get forced to upgrade to 3.0, the installer uninstalls the old version, and then it crashes. That's how it uses less memory.
Major League Baseball already does that, you know.
Both the recent VerticalScope hack and this have one thing in common: vBulletin. It is a pile of junk, and especially since it was acquired by a firm known as Internet Brands. It is awful software, and a forum about an open source product which uses proprietary components is ethically unsound.
Reading about failures like this makes me appreciate that both Canada and the United States have mandatory systems for the interruption of programming across all broadcasters, regardless of platform, in the event of a public emergency. Apps can help disseminate information, but they should not be constitute the only distribution path besides the media.
Could've just renamed it Nintendo Russian Block Stack Game(TM)
Section 230. That is all. But even with that, I bet you that lawmakers will try and work around it and find a way to make social networking services liable for terrorists using their services, unknowingly or not;
They are now services. One that the publisher regulates, and may discontinue at any time. The EULA might as well be called the "terms of service".
You must spy on your users. Except when you're not.
No, they can't pay the license fee. They will no longer sell the license because it is end-of-life, but using it requires a license, hence the software may no longer be used by anyone.
Only the client portion is free software. It only works with a proprietary, Canonical-run package repository. Canonical does not offer source code for the server aspect, and thus, does not offer the ability to create third-party servers. The entire system is subject to Canonical's walled garden.
If Google, Facebook, and Twitter are editorializing content, such as silencing right wing views and anti-immigration sentiments (Zuckerberg met with Merkel to discuss implementation of this, for instance). Then theses companies lose their DMCA Safe Harbor Provisions which safeguard a platform provider from being liable for user generated content. Under the DMCA such media platforms are not responsible for the content posted by their users so long as they are not editorializing the content, such as filtering posts along political lines to present a political bias.
If DMCA Safe Harbor provisions are stripped from Google, Facebook and/or Twitter then THEY ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR SPREADING ISLAMIC TERRORIST PROPAGANDA AND INCITING VIOLENCE.
It's not a DMCA provision. That's a safe harbor for copyrighted material. What you really want is the Section 230 safe harbor, which states that "No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.". A social networking service clearly falls under this provision.
You forgot to mention that said lawsuit also contains redacted statements regarding a second violation.
I bet you the new Moto X will actually be called either the "Moto Razr" or "Moto X Razr"
Watch out for the one that trips off Blizzard's anti-cheat mechanism as soon as you activate it just because that is the joke.
Stop using your phone's in-house launcher.
I'm Chris Hansen from Dateline NBC. Why don't you have a seat over there?
This is actually a side effect of the other changes they are planning; particularly, the deprecation of XUL. The bug itself has comments dictating that they are not removing the concept entirely, but want to revamp it to fit the new architecture. Theoretically, a new theme system could be built under the new architecture.
"Betting on the performance of individual players", is essentially betting on whether a particular player will do well/score this many points/run for this many yards/etc. They call those "props" in Vegas terms. Daily fantasy is essentially making a combination of props, which is called a "parlay". Look up the memo that Nevada's gaming board published on its similar assertion, and you'll see that calling it "fantasy sports" is literally a smokescreen for the fact that it is essentially betting. Oh, and DraftKings' CEO all but referred to it as being "almost identical to a casino" in a Reddit IamA.
And that's the point. They're painting these things as games of "skill" because of its thin relation to actual fantasy sports. But there's only skill when you expand the game out long-term; you have to be strategic from week to week, pick players wisely, make good decisions, trade, etc. Daily fantasy takes away almost every element that is remotely skill-based and turns it into something that is pretty much a lottery. Speaking of that, in Canada, we have legal sports betting, and it's done through the lottery. How we do it has some issues of its own but it's better than nothing.
close enough