Also, just because you can make it yourself doesn't mean it is legal to do so, or possess it, or carry it, or use it.
Actually, if we are talking about firearms, as long as you give it a serial number, and keep it as a single shot, sub.50 round, that's exactly what it means. It's when you try to distribute it that Uncle Sam has a problem.
Try making something with your hands sometime, and then imagine some bureaucrat telling you that it's toooooo scary, and you can't keep it. Imagine he demands you have to give it to him. That's the sort of behavior that the 2nd was written for.
There used to be an outfit in California that would sell responsible gun owner-to-bes raw stock, and teach them how to use their in house machine shop to make their own firearms, all in order to get around all the ridiculous CA gun laws. Information really does want to be free. Anybody remember the name of that joint? They used to get raided by the ATF all the time, and come out the other end spick and span.
I've printed and fired the liberator myself. With a string. At the end of the day, guns are not scary, 3d printed guns are. They are pretty much a useless a novelty, but now that the plans can be found and modified without cloak and dagger webcrawling, progress may yet be made.
Because he's made fools of the police, the FBI, and pretty much the entire media- for decades. Add to that the fact that he's become sort of a folk legend/hero and there is absolutely no chance of pardon.
If he was to come forward they would nail him to the wall for all to see, and then go after his family for the 200k adjusted for inflation with interest and tax evasion and everything else they can come up with.
If he lived, I expect he a doddering old mastermind at this point. I'm hoping his dying breath spills the beans while he flips them the bird.
For the past 20 years, ANYBODY younger than 40 today has been dealing with a completely one sided job market, and it's been known for decades that that's just the way it goes. There's always somebody else.... be happy for a job, and my personal favorite "Dammit, I gotta get something to pay this $3500 rent bill, and still be able to eat. I guess I'll have suck it up and take this terribly underpaid faceless corporate drone position three cities over."
Now the labor pool is mostly made up of us. We're the ones that spent a fortune on so much unnecessary education that we suddenly find ourselves qualified for higher end positions that the ones we've been training for, and we know it. We also know that we're the ones that have spent our lives being lesser beings under some sneering boomer pulling twice our rate. We know we're the ones that have been getting the shaft from every direction since greed killed the economy AND the safety net.
You want a sysadmin, but your job requirements state you're looking for a contracting bachelors in computer science and 10+ years experience managing databases and sorting big data. You also expect 5-10 industry certs that are marginally related to the advertised role, at best, and offer no health insurance or bennies of any kind.
"Your" candidate may have accepted your sysadmin job, only to be offered the DBA position on the other side of town with full bennies and twice the salary, that has the same requirements. Sorry, maybe next time you aught to be a little more realistic with your job requirements, or pay appropriately.
We've been eating shit for so long now that we all just assume your going to screw us anyway. It's not the '00s anymore, suddenly there are actually jobs. Some of us have grown QUITE good at our own little lanes over a few decades of shit eating, and we're now discovering that you need us as much as we need you.
Time to come back to reality. In the words of my least favorite douche-manager ever, "This is just business, it's not personal. What are you so worried about?You've got a lot to offer, and I'm sure you will find something." (Fuck you Mike, I hope you choked on the bonus I earned you)
When I take my family out to eat I expect everybody to interact. That's part of why I'm taking them all out to begin with, that shit aint cheap.
I always move the stupid thing to another table before we sit down. Sometimes, the waitstaff will switch it back to my table after accepting our orders, like they are doing me a favor. It's funny, they always point it at the youngest person at my table, who is automatically going to search it for games, find them, and beg for the 2 bucks or whatever to play them instead of spend time with us on this expensive outing.
I get that some people like them. They appeal to young people. yadda yadda.
I wish they would ask if I wanted one. "OK! Table for 6, tablet or non?"
With google voice hooked up to a phone number, you can make and receive calls, as well as sms directly from google hangouts on any compatible computer system.
There has always been an issue with MMS, but from reading the summary, this looks like an announcement of capabilities that have existed for years already.
That's easy to say on front end, but culture has a way of showing it's value years later- Generally, memes are the distilled essence of whatever subculture.
You re-release perfectly good games with new DRM and always on internet requirements. You release a stripped down version of the game and sell the rest as DLC You expect every title to be paid for again on every platform. You abandon your hardware You cut off the servers You require extra sales funnel installations You install spyware You completely change games core mechanics with no notice. You make up silly numbers and complain about piracy. You take gamers to court You charge monthly fees on top of full retail price. You make micro-transactions mandatory. You re-release and ruin classics.
If you're so easily swayed by images and sound bytes that it's unrealistic for you to make your own damn decisions, or act in your own self interests, then maybe turn off the screens and decompress for a while.
When you give up your personal responsibility, you are a prisoner to those responsible for you.
If all it takes is marketing tricks to separate you from your own self interest, then the problem is your weak will.
Will is like a muscle. The more you use it, the stronger it gets.
Like bit-torrent, the cat is out of the bag. No amount of flailing or FUD is going to make it go away. These devices are too easy to setup. Media prices and availability are convoluted and over priced, and laws so one sided that nobody respects them.
Over and over I see copyright terms extended for no good reason. Theft of the public domain for YEARS is what led directly to where we are today. FCC can maybe try to regulate the sale of preconfigured boxes, but this software runs on so many different devices, and is so easy to setup that there is really nothing they can do about it. For the most part, it's open source, and community developed, so there is no company they can sue into oblivion. No end-game.
It's funny, In my lifetime, I can remember the same flailing over VHS, Napster, TeVo, torrents, streaming, digital downloads... the list goes on and on. The tech never goes away. Sometimes there is a company to go after, sometimes they even lose, but aside from somebody losing ill-gotten profit, and a company closing its doors, the tech never goes away.
The lawyers get paid, content keeps moving, and tech slowly evolves around whatever roadblocks and DRM is put into place. Copyright is extended, more ways to pirate are developed and the cycle continues.
Even when they come up with a format or standard to stop the direct ripping and sharing of content, it ALWAYS fails. The floodgates open.
Comcast knows everything about you. Verizon knows everything about you. Comcast knows everything about you. IRS knows everything about you. Google knows everything about you. Facebook knows everything about you. Uber knows everything about you. Grocery stores know everything about you. Credit agencies know everything about you.
Kent, WA, is far from Park Ave. no worries there, we are full of Aerospace manufacturing and supporting industries. I'd be more worried about the powder-coating shop across the street.
Please, don't ruin everything that is great about the net because a vocal minority has no damn self control. It seems the same people that have been blowing off a decade of warnings have suddenly decided we were right all along, and now they need to make a few power moves to save face.
Please guys, enjoy your expensive coffee, your avocado toast, and your 6 figure salaries while they last, but don't bring the rest of us down with you when the chickens finally come home to roost. Believe it or not, even though YOU'VE BECOME ADDICTED to your own supply, the majority of us have been quietly avoiding the dumpster-fire that is social media. You don't hear us because we are not playing. Please don't invite governments to "fix" whats not broken. Fix yourselves.
This guy has all but given the finger to the publicin public> . Of course he's 100 kinds of wrong in what he had considered private communications. Of course he balks at releasing it, and of course it's going to come out anyway.
This dude is stalling while he and his legal team work out a plan to somehow mitigate the coming shitstorm.
I own my personal information, and for me, it is more valuable than shitty webmail, and social platforms. I will not trade it for (most) those things, and those that take it without my consent are stealing from me. All of the same reasoning that is used to claim the right to sell access to aggregated collected data should be valid for the opposite as well. If my data is a product, I should be able to choose not to sell. If you guess, and get it wrong, I should have recourse when you choose to sell access to wrong data in relation to me.
So what happens when I have my own terms of use for my personal data, say it's available on my website, and goes something like "Accepting legal tender from me implies acceptance of my terms. I may also change these terms at time, and this agreement supersedes all previous agreements entered... yaddaa yaddaa yadda...." The same standard crap from EULAs..
It seems to me, the more these companies collect, and the more they spend buying laws, and crafting EULAs that allow them ownership and license rights to personal and demographic data,then the easier it should for everyday guy to leverage the same rules and laws to not give up data, and sue those who take it without consent.
Does the fact that I could have traded my data for services highly valued (and chose not to) show material loss when my personal data is used anyway?
The question: If I'm willing to fight for it, accept no EULAs, and instead issue my own, can I really own my own data?
Every time I see the word "unveil", I first wonder, how long was it veiled to begin with? Then I wonder, how many more iterations are still "veiled", awaiting the perfect time to "unveil", so as to maximize profits?
I imagine a bunch of marble pedestals with thin white sheets over them, each with red LCD displays counting down...... every now and then an alarm goes off and the room full of monkeys next door starts typing till they come up with a name......
Sometimes good things happen for bad reasons. Billionaires don't want to be eaten, hence, the never-ending flow of money into bigger, and more cheap, and more tasteless (less tasteful?) foods.
I think GMOs are great. No matter the taste, hunger is always the best sauce.
Are there still starving children in Africa?
I would also like to be filthy rich one day, and would rather not be eaten.
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Also, just because you can make it yourself doesn't mean it is legal to do so, or possess it, or carry it, or use it.
Actually, if we are talking about firearms, as long as you give it a serial number, and keep it as a single shot, sub .50 round, that's exactly what it means. It's when you try to distribute it that Uncle Sam has a problem.
Try making something with your hands sometime, and then imagine some bureaucrat telling you that it's toooooo scary, and you can't keep it. Imagine he demands you have to give it to him. That's the sort of behavior that the 2nd was written for.
There used to be an outfit in California that would sell responsible gun owner-to-bes raw stock, and teach them how to use their in house machine shop to make their own firearms, all in order to get around all the ridiculous CA gun laws. Information really does want to be free. Anybody remember the name of that joint? They used to get raided by the ATF all the time, and come out the other end spick and span.
I've printed and fired the liberator myself. With a string. At the end of the day, guns are not scary, 3d printed guns are. They are pretty much a useless a novelty, but now that the plans can be found and modified without cloak and dagger webcrawling, progress may yet be made.
Because he's made fools of the police, the FBI, and pretty much the entire media- for decades. Add to that the fact that he's become sort of a folk legend/hero and there is absolutely no chance of pardon.
If he was to come forward they would nail him to the wall for all to see, and then go after his family for the 200k adjusted for inflation with interest and tax evasion and everything else they can come up with.
If he lived, I expect he a doddering old mastermind at this point. I'm hoping his dying breath spills the beans while he flips them the bird.
For the past 20 years, ANYBODY younger than 40 today has been dealing with a completely one sided job market, and it's been known for decades that that's just the way it goes. There's always somebody else.... be happy for a job, and my personal favorite "Dammit, I gotta get something to pay this $3500 rent bill, and still be able to eat. I guess I'll have suck it up and take this terribly underpaid faceless corporate drone position three cities over."
Now the labor pool is mostly made up of us. We're the ones that spent a fortune on so much unnecessary education that we suddenly find ourselves qualified for higher end positions that the ones we've been training for, and we know it. We also know that we're the ones that have spent our lives being lesser beings under some sneering boomer pulling twice our rate. We know we're the ones that have been getting the shaft from every direction since greed killed the economy AND the safety net.
You want a sysadmin, but your job requirements state you're looking for a contracting bachelors in computer science and 10+ years experience managing databases and sorting big data. You also expect 5-10 industry certs that are marginally related to the advertised role, at best, and offer no health insurance or bennies of any kind.
"Your" candidate may have accepted your sysadmin job, only to be offered the DBA position on the other side of town with full bennies and twice the salary, that has the same requirements. Sorry, maybe next time you aught to be a little more realistic with your job requirements, or pay appropriately.
We've been eating shit for so long now that we all just assume your going to screw us anyway. It's not the '00s anymore, suddenly there are actually jobs. Some of us have grown QUITE good at our own little lanes over a few decades of shit eating, and we're now discovering that you need us as much as we need you.
Time to come back to reality. In the words of my least favorite douche-manager ever, "This is just business, it's not personal. What are you so worried about?You've got a lot to offer, and I'm sure you will find something." (Fuck you Mike, I hope you choked on the bonus I earned you)
Sorry, not sorry.
I predict--- The meaning of life will keep changing as we make discoveries throughout the timeline of mankinds exploration.
When I take my family out to eat I expect everybody to interact. That's part of why I'm taking them all out to begin with, that shit aint cheap.
I always move the stupid thing to another table before we sit down. Sometimes, the waitstaff will switch it back to my table after accepting our orders, like they are doing me a favor. It's funny, they always point it at the youngest person at my table, who is automatically going to search it for games, find them, and beg for the 2 bucks or whatever to play them instead of spend time with us on this expensive outing.
I get that some people like them. They appeal to young people. yadda yadda.
I wish they would ask if I wanted one. "OK! Table for 6, tablet or non?"
It only seems to deliver to certain carriers.
With google voice hooked up to a phone number, you can make and receive calls, as well as sms directly from google hangouts on any compatible computer system.
There has always been an issue with MMS, but from reading the summary, this looks like an announcement of capabilities that have existed for years already.
Am I missing something?
This is what a smear campaign looks like.
Sigh. Political games are not headlines, but I guess the morning show folks need something to cluck about.
That's easy to say on front end, but culture has a way of showing it's value years later- Generally, memes are the distilled essence of whatever subculture.
Somebody is misunderstanding memes, social-media and the internet in general.
Imagine the flood of memes regarding the takedown notices of memes.
I;m dealing with pretty much the same scenario in Western WA.
You re-release perfectly good games with new DRM and always on internet requirements.
You release a stripped down version of the game and sell the rest as DLC
You expect every title to be paid for again on every platform.
You abandon your hardware
You cut off the servers
You require extra sales funnel installations
You install spyware
You completely change games core mechanics with no notice.
You make up silly numbers and complain about piracy.
You take gamers to court
You charge monthly fees on top of full retail price.
You make micro-transactions mandatory.
You re-release and ruin classics.
Sorry, not sorry.
It's called "Personal responsibility"
If you're so easily swayed by images and sound bytes that it's unrealistic for you to make your own damn decisions, or act in your own self interests, then maybe turn off the screens and decompress for a while.
When you give up your personal responsibility, you are a prisoner to those responsible for you.
If all it takes is marketing tricks to separate you from your own self interest, then the problem is your weak will.
Will is like a muscle. The more you use it, the stronger it gets.
Like bit-torrent, the cat is out of the bag. No amount of flailing or FUD is going to make it go away. These devices are too easy to setup. Media prices and availability are convoluted and over priced, and laws so one sided that nobody respects them.
Over and over I see copyright terms extended for no good reason. Theft of the public domain for YEARS is what led directly to where we are today. FCC can maybe try to regulate the sale of preconfigured boxes, but this software runs on so many different devices, and is so easy to setup that there is really nothing they can do about it. For the most part, it's open source, and community developed, so there is no company they can sue into oblivion. No end-game.
It's funny, In my lifetime, I can remember the same flailing over VHS, Napster, TeVo, torrents, streaming, digital downloads... the list goes on and on. The tech never goes away. Sometimes there is a company to go after, sometimes they even lose, but aside from somebody losing ill-gotten profit, and a company closing its doors, the tech never goes away.
The lawyers get paid, content keeps moving, and tech slowly evolves around whatever roadblocks and DRM is put into place. Copyright is extended, more ways to pirate are developed and the cycle continues.
Even when they come up with a format or standard to stop the direct ripping and sharing of content, it ALWAYS fails. The floodgates open.
Can't stop the signal.
Comcast knows everything about you.
Verizon knows everything about you.
Comcast knows everything about you.
IRS knows everything about you.
Google knows everything about you.
Facebook knows everything about you.
Uber knows everything about you.
Grocery stores know everything about you.
Credit agencies know everything about you.
I can go all day.
How much have the self-driving car manufacturers paid out in liability to date?
Snake handlers eventually get bit. Lion tamers get eaten, and outrage farmers get turned against.
It's the natural order of things.
Kent, WA, is far from Park Ave. no worries there, we are full of Aerospace manufacturing and supporting industries. I'd be more worried about the powder-coating shop across the street.
Please, don't ruin everything that is great about the net because a vocal minority has no damn self control. It seems the same people that have been blowing off a decade of warnings have suddenly decided we were right all along, and now they need to make a few power moves to save face.
Please guys, enjoy your expensive coffee, your avocado toast, and your 6 figure salaries while they last, but don't bring the rest of us down with you when the chickens finally come home to roost. Believe it or not, even though YOU'VE BECOME ADDICTED to your own supply, the majority of us have been quietly avoiding the dumpster-fire that is social media. You don't hear us because we are not playing. Please don't invite governments to "fix" whats not broken. Fix yourselves.
Go outside. I hear the weather is nice in CA.
This little circle-jerk just closed off viable attack vectors that could have been used in a real defense situation.
Retaliation in 3...2....1.....
This guy has all but given the finger to the publicin public> . Of course he's 100 kinds of wrong in what he had considered private communications. Of course he balks at releasing it, and of course it's going to come out anyway.
This dude is stalling while he and his legal team work out a plan to somehow mitigate the coming shitstorm.
I own my personal information, and for me, it is more valuable than shitty webmail, and social platforms. I will not trade it for (most) those things, and those that take it without my consent are stealing from me. All of the same reasoning that is used to claim the right to sell access to aggregated collected data should be valid for the opposite as well. If my data is a product, I should be able to choose not to sell. If you guess, and get it wrong, I should have recourse when you choose to sell access to wrong data in relation to me.
So what happens when I have my own terms of use for my personal data, say it's available on my website, and goes something like "Accepting legal tender from me implies acceptance of my terms. I may also change these terms at time, and this agreement supersedes all previous agreements entered... yaddaa yaddaa yadda...." The same standard crap from EULAs..
It seems to me, the more these companies collect, and the more they spend buying laws, and crafting EULAs that allow them ownership and license rights to personal and demographic data,then the easier it should for everyday guy to leverage the same rules and laws to not give up data, and sue those who take it without consent.
Does the fact that I could have traded my data for services highly valued (and chose not to) show material loss when my personal data is used anyway?
The question: If I'm willing to fight for it, accept no EULAs, and instead issue my own, can I really own my own data?
Every time I see the word "unveil", I first wonder, how long was it veiled to begin with? Then I wonder, how many more iterations are still "veiled", awaiting the perfect time to "unveil", so as to maximize profits?
I imagine a bunch of marble pedestals with thin white sheets over them, each with red LCD displays counting down...... every now and then an alarm goes off and the room full of monkeys next door starts typing till they come up with a name......
Sometimes good things happen for bad reasons. Billionaires don't want to be eaten, hence, the never-ending flow of money into bigger, and more cheap, and more tasteless (less tasteful?) foods.
I think GMOs are great. No matter the taste, hunger is always the best sauce.
Are there still starving children in Africa?
I would also like to be filthy rich one day, and would rather not be eaten.
Works faster than level 3, hello Cloudflare.