If the day comes that I can be guilty of obstruction of justice by preventing Dutch police from breaking into my computer... Then we have truly lost our freedoms and it is time to start using the proverbial fourth box quite liberally.
And, really, if the police in my own jurisdiction would find my unwillingness to let them break into my computer, the same would be true.
When the Dutch figure their cops should be able to break into, and tamper with, computers anywhere in the world, then the Dutch might discover the rest of the world figures they are fair game.
This is bordering on either scary or ridiculous, I can't decide which.
Robocalls, "do not call" list, and such apply to US companies. So they now call from Canada. Since it's the same phone system, the calls cost about the same from Canada as from the US.
Converseley, much of the calls we receive are from the US, or at least appear to be. California and Florida are codes are what I see a lot. Then there's the ones obviously calling from international call centers who can barely speak English. And caller IDs which look like those big long VOIP strings get ignored.
One thing they could do is to implement something which prevents callers from providing bogus caller id information. Most of the time the caller ID is a lie anyway... so you don't really have a clue where it's coming from anyway -- it could literally be *anywhere*. It must be possible to say "your number doesn't match the number you're calling from" and ensure the call doesn't go through.
Of course, I'm sure a bunch of lobbyists would howl loudly and say how absolutely critical it is that they be able to call with a fake caller id -- I disagree of course, but I'm sure they would come up with a list of reasons.
I've reached the point that any number which is an Unknown Caller, an area code I don't recognize, or even a name I don't recognize... I probably won't answer the phone (well, I must answer and hang up).
I'm still amazed by the people who have one of the many exemptions... I'm on the do not call list, just because you feel it's your right to call me, don't expect me to be polite. I've told more than a few charities to go fsck themselves because they call day in and day out.
And I don't trust anybody who phones me and claims to be anybody unless I can call them back at a number I can get from a verified source. All cold callers are either hung up on, or told that I don't believe what they're claiming (and then told to fsck off hung up on).
Overwhelmingly, the calls I get are usually fraudulent these days. Evens someone claiming to be from a company I do business with gets told if they can't send it in paper mail that I don't believe them.
The same can be said for the Windows fanboys, the Android fanboys, and every other damned fanboy... that's pretty much the definition of fanboy; "my manufacturer makes awesome products and would never do anything wrong, yours are evil doodie heads who make crap".
I see just as many people mindlessly defending Microsoft on Slashdot. And, let's face it, Google's "do no evil" has become more of a joke than anything of late.
Throw in the telecoms carriers (*cough* Verizon *cough*), and someone is going to be trying to screw you over at every step of the chain.
And, if you think the free software folks are any better, well, Canonical wants to embed some extra crap from Amazon.
every new subscriber is sent a confirmation message by email, and they have to reply to that message, confirming that they really want to subscribe to the emails, before being added to the list
Sooner or later people forget they signed up, stop giving a damn, or otherwise get tired of what you're sending.
If they can't figure out how to get out of it (because, really, who is going to respond to something they think is spam to make it stop), they'll flag you as spam.
Or, something automated comes along and decides that whatever you're sending is spam.
As long as it stops coming when people get tired of it... they really don't give a crap about what happens to you.
Maybe because the F stands for food and the D stands for drug?
Except, medical devices of all kinds are supposed to go through some fairly rigorous hurdles before they can be approved by the FDA. Even more so for the implantable kind.
That this is actually possible means either someone didn't fully grasp the impact of being able to get into these things remotely, or went for a "security by obscurity" approach. (Yes, they do need to be remotely accessible by the doctors, but you'd think they'd need to be somewhat more secure than this.)
We're talking about teenagers here... hiding or working on your vision loss come to mind as possible reasons.;-)
And, really, do kids eat vegetables any more? Between the cafeteria food and the McDonald's and all of the other junk they eat, I doubt many of them actually do.
I mean, sure, someone decreed that ketchup is a vegetable and all, but I suspect the diet of the average American teenager is nothing but garbage these days.
I'm going to assume you're mostly joking or trying to prove something by absurdity, but I have no idea of what it is.
All I'm saying is given the rate at which we find out more about how complex and varied the universe is... I find it hard to believe that there isn't some Bladarian Moon Slug out there somewhere or at least some form of multi-cellular life. It doesn't need to be intelligent. It doesn't even need to be close. We don't even need to ever encounter it.
But the initial assumptions were that there would only be a small number of planets in the universe is proving to be quite false. Drastically so. In fact, compared to what was believed in the 90's, I'd say orders of magnitude so.
You seem to be doing some form of reductio ad absurdum, but in reverse by injecting arbitrary complexity.
I'm not trying to say anything more than "somewhere out there, at least some form of pond scum must have evolved because the closer that we look, the more there are gazillions of planets in hugely varied conditions".
I'm not entirely sure of what you're trying to say.
And it serves to consistently push up the values of some of the terms in Drake's equation.
Back in the early 90's when I hung out with astronomers, the idea of finding exoplanets was still pretty new, and now it seems pretty commonplace.
To me, even if it's not intelligent life we'll ever make contact with, the likelihood that life has evolved on other planets seems like it would pretty much be a near certainty -- to me it has always seemed improbable that only our planet in the arse end of a galaxy would have done so.
Granted, the universe is a fairly hostile place that has lots of ways to wipe out a budding intelligent species. But the notion that we're singularly unique in terms of evolving life in all of that vastness seems improbable.
Hiding the pain of broken ribs from a midnight horse race after a night of drinking at Pancho Barnes' Happy Bottom Riding Club, Yeager squeezed into the aircraft with no safe way to bail out.
If that isn't proof he's sporting a huge pair and was one tough son of a bitch, I don't know what is.
I'm not sure why you wold think int would decrease obesity.
Probably because you wouldn't be able to grow cheese burgers, but vegetables.
Generally speaking, unless you're deep frying, slathering in butter or cheez whiz... few people are going around saying vegetables cause obesity. In fact, usually quite the opposite.
If it was possible, Nike would already be "extruding" the whole thing.
It isn't possible on a commercial scale yet, but people are definitely working on being able to do 3D printing with multiple materials. I give you citation -- 14 materials in a single print job. You don't think you could make a pair of shoes out of that?
The fact that Nike can't use this for commercial production yet (sweat shops are still cheaper) doesn't mean that industries who make things which could be printed at home wouldn't put up a stink.
If we're talking about adding DRM to 3D printers, it stands to reason that if we could print these things on an affordable scale, then we would be having this exact same conversation. I think the likelihood of being able to do it 'relatively soon' is pretty high -- we may already be doing it.
Depending on the actual power requirements you may not be able to sustain yourself at all with a system like this.
I've always wondered how much some of those power panels I see at farms and rural houses lately provide.
Some of them look like they're about 30x15 feet or so, and mounted on swivels which track with the sun. A couple of smaller ones hooked direct to the greenhouse.
I've got two little 1100mAh ones I use to charge phones and stuff. Though, I know we're a long way from being self sufficient with just solar.
Not really... at the end of the day it's just a greenhouse with some fancy bits thrown in. My father's greenhouse has some temperature sensitive pneumatic (hydraulic?) arms which will open and close the roof to regulate the temperature.
For purposes of food, it simply means no pesticides and other things. You're not actually going to eat the Arduinos one assumes.
Organic doesn't mean luddite, it means cutting out the chemicals and other stuff.
they'll likely add algorithms to compare similarity.
Yeah, and then nobody will be able to print anything... Nike will claim that all shoes are too similar. Basically every industry will say that you can't make products which compete with them.
It *will* be buggy-whip makers all over again as everybody tries to entrench that their product is protected.
But what harm came to the copyright holder? At worst it was $0.
Well, the way the IP folks have been arguing this is that since they didn't get paid at all, the damage is what they would have charged you if you had asked to license the track.
Since you didn't license it, then clearly the damage is the ridiculous statutory damages of eleventy-trillion dollars.
Remember, someone out there still bristles at the idea that someone could sing Happy Birthday in a restaurant and not getting paid.
And I'm sure studio execs have been trying to figure out a way to charge everybody in the room if I turn on my stereo when I have friends over.
Translation: Go see your corp lawyers. FYI, you're about to get spanked.
Slightly more neutral translation: now that you have been officially informed we will not be marking it as non-GPL, if you use it, you are in violation of copyright. And your having been told means you don't have a legal leg to stand on if you ignore this.
"Performing oral sex or having sex without a condom may benefit both mental and physical health in women, according to scientists who analyzed the effects of semen's "mood-altering chemicals."
Citation needed on that.
Desperately!
I can't speak to the accuracy of the claims, but here. Pretty much verbatim.
Anecdotally, I know what being on the receiving end does for my mood though.;-)
Or are we now in an age where the popularity of a candidate on Facebook now is part of how we determine the candidate's potential for office?
If people are buying fake Twitter followers, and talking about how many Facebook likes you have... then someone seems to believe that's a valid metric.
I bet it even bumped his Klout score. Which, again, someone believes means something.
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If the day comes that I can be guilty of obstruction of justice by preventing Dutch police from breaking into my computer ... Then we have truly lost our freedoms and it is time to start using the proverbial fourth box quite liberally.
And, really, if the police in my own jurisdiction would find my unwillingness to let them break into my computer, the same would be true.
When the Dutch figure their cops should be able to break into, and tamper with, computers anywhere in the world, then the Dutch might discover the rest of the world figures they are fair game.
This is bordering on either scary or ridiculous, I can't decide which.
Wait, they're not? I thought that's why we had millions of monkeys posting.
Converseley, much of the calls we receive are from the US, or at least appear to be. California and Florida are codes are what I see a lot. Then there's the ones obviously calling from international call centers who can barely speak English. And caller IDs which look like those big long VOIP strings get ignored.
One thing they could do is to implement something which prevents callers from providing bogus caller id information. Most of the time the caller ID is a lie anyway ... so you don't really have a clue where it's coming from anyway -- it could literally be *anywhere*. It must be possible to say "your number doesn't match the number you're calling from" and ensure the call doesn't go through.
Of course, I'm sure a bunch of lobbyists would howl loudly and say how absolutely critical it is that they be able to call with a fake caller id -- I disagree of course, but I'm sure they would come up with a list of reasons.
I've reached the point that any number which is an Unknown Caller, an area code I don't recognize, or even a name I don't recognize ... I probably won't answer the phone (well, I must answer and hang up).
I'm still amazed by the people who have one of the many exemptions ... I'm on the do not call list, just because you feel it's your right to call me, don't expect me to be polite. I've told more than a few charities to go fsck themselves because they call day in and day out.
And I don't trust anybody who phones me and claims to be anybody unless I can call them back at a number I can get from a verified source. All cold callers are either hung up on, or told that I don't believe what they're claiming (and then told to fsck off hung up on).
Overwhelmingly, the calls I get are usually fraudulent these days. Evens someone claiming to be from a company I do business with gets told if they can't send it in paper mail that I don't believe them.
The same can be said for the Windows fanboys, the Android fanboys, and every other damned fanboy ... that's pretty much the definition of fanboy; "my manufacturer makes awesome products and would never do anything wrong, yours are evil doodie heads who make crap".
I see just as many people mindlessly defending Microsoft on Slashdot. And, let's face it, Google's "do no evil" has become more of a joke than anything of late.
Throw in the telecoms carriers (*cough* Verizon *cough*), and someone is going to be trying to screw you over at every step of the chain.
And, if you think the free software folks are any better, well, Canonical wants to embed some extra crap from Amazon.
But ... but ... french fries and ketchup are two vegetables aren't they?
What fat kid doesn't love fries and ketchup?
And, by "value your privacy", you mean commoditize and make money from, right?
Sooner or later people forget they signed up, stop giving a damn, or otherwise get tired of what you're sending.
If they can't figure out how to get out of it (because, really, who is going to respond to something they think is spam to make it stop), they'll flag you as spam.
Or, something automated comes along and decides that whatever you're sending is spam.
As long as it stops coming when people get tired of it ... they really don't give a crap about what happens to you.
Except, medical devices of all kinds are supposed to go through some fairly rigorous hurdles before they can be approved by the FDA. Even more so for the implantable kind.
That this is actually possible means either someone didn't fully grasp the impact of being able to get into these things remotely, or went for a "security by obscurity" approach. (Yes, they do need to be remotely accessible by the doctors, but you'd think they'd need to be somewhat more secure than this.)
We're talking about teenagers here ... hiding or working on your vision loss come to mind as possible reasons. ;-)
And, really, do kids eat vegetables any more? Between the cafeteria food and the McDonald's and all of the other junk they eat, I doubt many of them actually do.
I mean, sure, someone decreed that ketchup is a vegetable and all, but I suspect the diet of the average American teenager is nothing but garbage these days.
I'm going to assume you're mostly joking or trying to prove something by absurdity, but I have no idea of what it is.
All I'm saying is given the rate at which we find out more about how complex and varied the universe is ... I find it hard to believe that there isn't some Bladarian Moon Slug out there somewhere or at least some form of multi-cellular life. It doesn't need to be intelligent. It doesn't even need to be close. We don't even need to ever encounter it.
But the initial assumptions were that there would only be a small number of planets in the universe is proving to be quite false. Drastically so. In fact, compared to what was believed in the 90's, I'd say orders of magnitude so.
You seem to be doing some form of reductio ad absurdum, but in reverse by injecting arbitrary complexity.
I'm not trying to say anything more than "somewhere out there, at least some form of pond scum must have evolved because the closer that we look, the more there are gazillions of planets in hugely varied conditions".
I'm not entirely sure of what you're trying to say.
And it serves to consistently push up the values of some of the terms in Drake's equation.
Back in the early 90's when I hung out with astronomers, the idea of finding exoplanets was still pretty new, and now it seems pretty commonplace.
To me, even if it's not intelligent life we'll ever make contact with, the likelihood that life has evolved on other planets seems like it would pretty much be a near certainty -- to me it has always seemed improbable that only our planet in the arse end of a galaxy would have done so.
Granted, the universe is a fairly hostile place that has lots of ways to wipe out a budding intelligent species. But the notion that we're singularly unique in terms of evolving life in all of that vastness seems improbable.
If that isn't proof he's sporting a huge pair and was one tough son of a bitch, I don't know what is.
These guys were awesome.
Probably because you wouldn't be able to grow cheese burgers, but vegetables.
Generally speaking, unless you're deep frying, slathering in butter or cheez whiz ... few people are going around saying vegetables cause obesity. In fact, usually quite the opposite.
Way too much prior art there. :-P
So all corporate data stored in the cloud not encrypted so much as to be unreachable is also fair game?
I can see a massive exodus from Cloud Computing if it's all fair game for law enforcement.
Welcome to the dystopian future, citizen.
It isn't possible on a commercial scale yet, but people are definitely working on being able to do 3D printing with multiple materials. I give you citation -- 14 materials in a single print job. You don't think you could make a pair of shoes out of that?
The fact that Nike can't use this for commercial production yet (sweat shops are still cheaper) doesn't mean that industries who make things which could be printed at home wouldn't put up a stink.
If we're talking about adding DRM to 3D printers, it stands to reason that if we could print these things on an affordable scale, then we would be having this exact same conversation. I think the likelihood of being able to do it 'relatively soon' is pretty high -- we may already be doing it.
As I said, buggy-whip makers.
I've always wondered how much some of those power panels I see at farms and rural houses lately provide.
Some of them look like they're about 30x15 feet or so, and mounted on swivels which track with the sun. A couple of smaller ones hooked direct to the greenhouse.
I've got two little 1100mAh ones I use to charge phones and stuff. Though, I know we're a long way from being self sufficient with just solar.
Not really ... at the end of the day it's just a greenhouse with some fancy bits thrown in. My father's greenhouse has some temperature sensitive pneumatic (hydraulic?) arms which will open and close the roof to regulate the temperature.
For purposes of food, it simply means no pesticides and other things. You're not actually going to eat the Arduinos one assumes.
Organic doesn't mean luddite, it means cutting out the chemicals and other stuff.
Yeah, and then nobody will be able to print anything ... Nike will claim that all shoes are too similar. Basically every industry will say that you can't make products which compete with them.
It *will* be buggy-whip makers all over again as everybody tries to entrench that their product is protected.
Well, the way the IP folks have been arguing this is that since they didn't get paid at all, the damage is what they would have charged you if you had asked to license the track.
Since you didn't license it, then clearly the damage is the ridiculous statutory damages of eleventy-trillion dollars.
Remember, someone out there still bristles at the idea that someone could sing Happy Birthday in a restaurant and not getting paid.
And I'm sure studio execs have been trying to figure out a way to charge everybody in the room if I turn on my stereo when I have friends over.
The very last paragraph of TFA says "their participation in the MDP and the present application of the HDL are protected under fair use".
I read it as "plaintiff has no legal standing, and even if they did, the actions of the defendant are well within their rights".
But, in all honesty, my eyes glaze over when reading legal documents, and I certainly aint no lawyer. :-P
Slightly more neutral translation: now that you have been officially informed we will not be marking it as non-GPL, if you use it, you are in violation of copyright. And your having been told means you don't have a legal leg to stand on if you ignore this.
Oh, and, FYI, you're about to be spanked. ;-)
I can't speak to the accuracy of the claims, but here. Pretty much verbatim.
Anecdotally, I know what being on the receiving end does for my mood though. ;-)
If people are buying fake Twitter followers, and talking about how many Facebook likes you have ... then someone seems to believe that's a valid metric.
I bet it even bumped his Klout score. Which, again, someone believes means something.
In Canada, first you get the syrup, then you get the power, then you get the women.
So, a court actually found that there was such a thing as fair use?
I fully expect the IP lobbyists to start going pretty postal over that ... in their world view, there's no such thing.