with legislation: (a) that this must be documented (what, where to,...) and (b) how to switch it off. However that will not happen: (1) most of the legislators do not understand the problem; (2) those that do realise that this would stop $OurCountry products from doing this at the behest of GCHQ/NSA/... So it shall be ignored.
There might be some movement when some government high ups are, through one of these, exposed: in bed with a hooker; snorting white powder; accepting money\Wcampaign-contributions from a known crook;... although I suspect that it will be easier to sue/bribe the media than fix the problem.
I suspect that this will not be enforced when $LargeMediaCorp rips off pictures from a small, independent photographer and private individuals (& other similar).
Then the issue becomes, "Who will want to use Three's service when all the sites I like to use aren't available?"
Simple: Three puts up a user controllable switch labelled: "Preserve my monthly data allowance for what I want to download (useless adverts blocked)". Enough people will not flip the switch that the advert encumbered sites won't want to block Three completely. This will also tell their users why some sites look different.
There is a silly obsession with sex. At the same time they ignore things that can really harm a developing mind, eg:
* films of people killing each other; I would rather that my kids watched people fucking each other than shooting/stabbing/... each other
* religion. How much damage does religious indoctrination do to kids. Gets them believing all sorts of whacky ideas, eg: that sex is bad; that people of a different religion or sect are bad; that you must waste a lot of your time going to church/synagogue/mosque/...; that you give lots of money to religious people in fancy robes; other things sect dependent: evolution is rubbish, etc; oh, and that cloud faeries exist - on the basis of no evidence
Once every day or so: "here are the Microsoft packages installed, are there any updates ?" That does not include: non Microsoft packages, hardware info (other than needed to choose packages), disk/net/cpu/... usage, local account/user info, package usage/popularity, lists of: file names, web sites visited,...
You must be running Linux, why don't you just be safe and come back to Microsoft, all hardware vendors make sure that their kit works with Microsoft Windows. Oh, wait.....
laptop compatibility is not guaranteed unless it's from an explicitly Linux-friendly manufacturer such as System76.
That it a bit pessimistic. A quick google will tell you what issues, if any, others have had installing Linux on your hardware. I find that most works well.
that the next guy who thinks of blowing the gaff on government wrong doing will think hard and probably not expose what he knows. Is this not terrorism by the government of the USA, or maybe just a protection racket "Nice little life you have there, it would be a pity if you ended up in jail" ?
What happens if you say 'yes' and then decline to accept the new license agreement. Does it give up with the new install, or does that leave you with a bricked PC ?
If they know how much a machine is used then they must be able to tell how many machines no longer report back to them. Some of these will be broken hardware, but others (like mine) will be because MS Windows has been wiped and Linux installed. The curious thing was that I did not see this number mentioned....
I suspect that the value is not in answering the question "who the hell wrote this - which programmer in Internet land ?" but in identification a programmer out of a small group of suspects, eg "was this written by the known malware team in Boston, Beijing or Kiev ?". So: it will further narrow the field out of an already small group of suspects.
This has an interesting implication on GPL enforcement. Today if Nasty Corp Inc takes a large chunk of code from Git Hub and makes it part of a proprietary product (eg: sell it & do not provide source), then even if you suspect that they have taken your code it is hard to prove it; yes you may be able to get disclosure by going to court but that costs a lot of money and is hard if they are in a different jurisdiction. Now you will be able to get a good idea if the code is yours before spending significant time and money chasing Nasty Corp.
The article claims that apple is going to lose. This is wrong: it will be the apple fan boys who will have to shell out for an overly expensive bit of wire. Still: probably a small fraction of what they have already paid in over priced kit.
They get a slice of the transaction when you pay via plastic (the trader pays 1-3%). They get a bit when you pay in cash since the retailer will have to pay the bank a bit (cash handling charge) when they pay in at the end of the day. However bankers get nothing on many payments: the man who mows the lawn, the baby sitter, the window cleaner,... many of these will spend what they earn as cash - so several transactions that the banks do not get the chance to bacon slice.
OK: this might not be a large part of the economy, but all those free transactions must be annoying them!
The best way of combating bad ideas is through open discussion, not by making them forbidden -- which just makes them seem more exciting. If, in the process of that discussion, we find that our ideas are less than perfect: we must admit this and either change what we say or openly acknowledge our limitations.
I might use Fahrenheit to describe how warm my living room is, but for a star, a scientific measurement, -- Centigrade or Kelvin has been the unit for many years.
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with legislation: (a) that this must be documented (what, where to, ...) and (b) how to switch it off. However that will not happen: (1) most of the legislators do not understand the problem; (2) those that do realise that this would stop $OurCountry products from doing this at the behest of GCHQ/NSA/... So it shall be ignored.
There might be some movement when some government high ups are, through one of these, exposed: in bed with a hooker; snorting white powder; accepting money\Wcampaign-contributions from a known crook; ... although I suspect that it will be easier to sue/bribe the media than fix the problem.
Do you make a big deal about what kind of printer people use to print papers?
I depends if it is one of the printers that adds yellow dots
I suspect that this will not be enforced when $LargeMediaCorp rips off pictures from a small, independent photographer and private individuals (& other similar).
Comodo Anti-virus on all iPhones, "it is irresponsible of Apple to not protect its users using this fine software" -- next week's news.
Then the issue becomes, "Who will want to use Three's service when all the sites I like to use aren't available?"
Simple: Three puts up a user controllable switch labelled: "Preserve my monthly data allowance for what I want to download (useless adverts blocked)". Enough people will not flip the switch that the advert encumbered sites won't want to block Three completely. This will also tell their users why some sites look different.
There is a silly obsession with sex. At the same time they ignore things that can really harm a developing mind, eg:
* films of people killing each other; I would rather that my kids watched people fucking each other than shooting/stabbing/... each other
* religion. How much damage does religious indoctrination do to kids. Gets them believing all sorts of whacky ideas, eg: that sex is bad; that people of a different religion or sect are bad; that you must waste a lot of your time going to church/synagogue/mosque/...; that you give lots of money to religious people in fancy robes; other things sect dependent: evolution is rubbish, etc; oh, and that cloud faeries exist - on the basis of no evidence
Once every day or so: "here are the Microsoft packages installed, are there any updates ?" That does not include: non Microsoft packages, hardware info (other than needed to choose packages), disk/net/cpu/... usage, local account/user info, package usage/popularity, lists of: file names, web sites visited, ...
You must be running Linux, why don't you just be safe and come back to Microsoft, all hardware vendors make sure that their kit works with Microsoft Windows. Oh, wait .....
laptop compatibility is not guaranteed unless it's from an explicitly Linux-friendly manufacturer such as System76.
That it a bit pessimistic. A quick google will tell you what issues, if any, others have had installing Linux on your hardware. I find that most works well.
OK: not jail time, but he still loses his living.
that the next guy who thinks of blowing the gaff on government wrong doing will think hard and probably not expose what he knows. Is this not terrorism by the government of the USA, or maybe just a protection racket "Nice little life you have there, it would be a pity if you ended up in jail" ?
Snowden tried, was ignored, went public.
due to a software error, but not the rooms that the computers are in.
I thought that that is what gravity was supposed to do.
What happens if you say 'yes' and then decline to accept the new license agreement. Does it give up with the new install, or does that leave you with a bricked PC ?
So: your computer is acting against your instructions; a deliberate act by Microsoft. Time for a class action to recover those toll charges ?
If they know how much a machine is used then they must be able to tell how many machines no longer report back to them. Some of these will be broken hardware, but others (like mine) will be because MS Windows has been wiped and Linux installed. The curious thing was that I did not see this number mentioned ....
I suspect that the value is not in answering the question "who the hell wrote this - which programmer in Internet land ?" but in identification a programmer out of a small group of suspects, eg "was this written by the known malware team in Boston, Beijing or Kiev ?". So: it will further narrow the field out of an already small group of suspects.
This has an interesting implication on GPL enforcement. Today if Nasty Corp Inc takes a large chunk of code from Git Hub and makes it part of a proprietary product (eg: sell it & do not provide source), then even if you suspect that they have taken your code it is hard to prove it; yes you may be able to get disclosure by going to court but that costs a lot of money and is hard if they are in a different jurisdiction. Now you will be able to get a good idea if the code is yours before spending significant time and money chasing Nasty Corp.
The article claims that apple is going to lose. This is wrong: it will be the apple fan boys who will have to shell out for an overly expensive bit of wire. Still: probably a small fraction of what they have already paid in over priced kit.
They get a slice of the transaction when you pay via plastic (the trader pays 1-3%). They get a bit when you pay in cash since the retailer will have to pay the bank a bit (cash handling charge) when they pay in at the end of the day. However bankers get nothing on many payments: the man who mows the lawn, the baby sitter, the window cleaner, ... many of these will spend what they earn as cash - so several transactions that the banks do not get the chance to bacon slice.
OK: this might not be a large part of the economy, but all those free transactions must be annoying them!
If I am forbidden from hacking my car's software will I be unable to stop it when:
This opens up a the whole idea of what was agreed to during the relationship as being void afterwards:
Oh, the lawyers are going to be able to buy lots of goodies with the money that they will make over this!
It was a warning, not an instruction manual.
The best way of combating bad ideas is through open discussion, not by making them forbidden -- which just makes them seem more exciting. If, in the process of that discussion, we find that our ideas are less than perfect: we must admit this and either change what we say or openly acknowledge our limitations.
Where are my mod points ... please vote parent up. What is the point in having a treaty which everyone can just ignore!
I might use Fahrenheit to describe how warm my living room is, but for a star, a scientific measurement, -- Centigrade or Kelvin has been the unit for many years.