This person is pushing towards totalitarianism like they have in China. Someone (or something) checking what you are doing every step of the way. This is great for the powerful, bad for the people. Good for the copyright holders, bad for spreading culture. Good for dictators and spies (ie. hacking team), bad for Wikileaks.
The hackability and "lack of friction" is a feature, it gives the people a fighting chance. Good days when the engineers of the internet had good ideology on their code.
Chinese streaming services go for $1-3 (usd). Subscribing to a dozen isn't a problem then. You can find the some shows repeated on many of them, so picking a few services that best match your preferences isn't so hard.
The problem is that the US have a few big content owners that keep their content as an exclusivity, so you don't have dozens of streaming services to chose from, you have a few, very expensive choices (yes, $15/month for a fraction of what you'd like to see is too expensive).
It's time copyright's "limited time" of exclusive rights start reducing to the reasonable 5 years it once was.
They are now defending that it's ok for Apple to hide from the user that the devices had security problems. Update notes should include what changed, specially security changes. It doesn't matter that most people would update anyway. The people not updating might read the notes and understand that it is just to slow their phones down so that they buy a new one (a very common complain on iphone users) when in reality there as a legit reason to update.
Letter from US House Representatives to President Moreno That's a top Democrat and a Republican from the House of Representatives Committee on foreign Affairs telling Ecuador's president that Assange is a dangerous criminal that should be stripped from citizenship and handed over. Strong arming the other country, meddling with their internal affairs (human rights respect). Three days ago. TFA is about JA suing over censorship in a "free" country after USA's vice-president visited said country.
How can such a stupid post, so far removed from reality, be modded insightful? Is this place filled with government crooks?
Google was keeping it for free in exchange of not allowing competition. Now, not only Google is forbidden of stopping competition, but it also decided to give them a push the other way.
With this, hopefully, smartphone makers will start giving the consumers a choice between the Goggle version and the Free version.
IMO, Google would have higher moral by censoring in China than it does by censoring in America.
In China, censorship is the law. The Chinese people chose their leaders and they approved censorship law. People's representatives also decide what should be censored and they have voluntary armies of people working on censorship. They also have the legislative means (although difficult) to change that (censorship or what should be censored). That's not to say it is democratic, as the representation of minorities and of opposing views is part of true democracy, but censoring in China would mean abiding by the rules and the prevailing morals of the people (over there), pushing the interests of their representatives (not the people's interests IMO).
In the US, when google censors or apply "the very same values of control over the populace", they are doing so to favor the interests of a very small minority, in opposition to the country's claimed values. They hide behind the flag of freedom (freedom to not make business) to effectively censor opposing views ("censorship is not illegal if it's not the government") and control the population to push policies and world views they want. I don't know how people in the US could have any say on what they will censor or stop private censorship.
I not only agree that they are not forfeiting any values in China, but also think that the shit they are pulling in the US should be cause for much more alarm, concern and response.
Decided to log in cause my previous AC comments have disappeared.
There is no indication that these people are dodging Russian spies. There is no proof Kaspersky was in fact used as a vector by Russian spies, just an accusation. It was accused by a foreign spy agency that it (kaspersky) was related to the spying of someone that should be spied on. Contrary to US and UK intelligence, we don't know for a fact that Russia spies on every area and call everything "national security" (remember Petrobras, the oil company?). There is no indication that these companies that are changing AVs were being spied on to start with, and even less that this AV was being used. Besides that, since there is no indication that the AV is being used as a vector for spies, IF they are being spied by Russians, they probably will continue to be, there is no dodging at all. This headline to say they are dodging Russian spies is to validate their unfounded fears, making them feel good in believing the FUD.
A decent person would headline this as "After US spread FUD, customers are leaving Kaspersky".
Slashdot was fine when I started here, as an AC a few years back, but I'm gonna leave for a while. Reading this kind of BS is stupid and irritating.
Capitalizing in events of this nature to implement ways to control what people see or think. To claim that theories that doesn't come from mainstream media are "conspiracy theories" that should not be believed.
At least they are going after their own clients. They successfully lobbied for DRM on HTML standards, that fucked up the Internet for everyone. Netflix is no better than any cable company pushing for censorship online. I already canceled them all.
I'm more productive than a lot of people at my job, that's why I'm in the position I'm currently at, with no risk of losing it. Sometimes I can't sleep properly and when it goes on for several days it does affect my job. But I'm still productive even on six hours a day. That's not being delusional. I'm not on my best performance, but still more productive than others.
The title could be right if it said "you are deluding yourself if you think you are your most productive on six hours of sleep" (that's a lot of yous). But it doesn't say that, so it's wrong. Also it is not what the expert said. In the summary they quote the expert saying you're less productive in your work when sleep deprived. Being less productive is different from not being productive. Then comes the delusional part:
And those people who claim they can survive on six hours of sleep or less, unfortunately, are deluding themselves and their health.
He didn't correlate the productivity with people "deluding themselves". He was talking about health. The author of TFA made up (wrong) affirmations in the name of the expert, none of the editors decided to call him on that.
Does your keyboard have Chinese? I actually have two google keyboards, not that I trust google, it's just that the standard keyboard doesn't have Chinese and Microsoft bought swiftkey.
But if you look at the big example of a phone with ONE keyboard, it doesn't offer swipe/slide to type (or at least it didn't for a very long time, I have no idea about how iphones are these days). It also still doesn't have decent autocorrection.
Different keyboards focus on different things. Better predictive text, better emojis, better interaction.
The fact that he's a knight means he was of service to the empire. And now he's being of service to another empire...What's happening here is that Berners-Lee and Jeff Jaffee have convinced themselves that by making this a standard, they will make the injustice of DRM smoother and less annoying in minor ways. And they've convinced themselves that that's the purpose of their lives...
He should handle it by saying no. But he can't really. And the reason is he set up an organization which is controlled by the businesses that want to put in the most money... By structuring it so it's controlled by the businesses, they've structured it so it wouldn't defend us from those businesses.
He is right, and TBL is an evil asshole destroying what he helped to create (he didn't create it alone like people like to say).
Because he has other things to do in the Internet that requires it to be DRM free (like surfing safely). While the only point he is seeing for these corporations is easily bypassed.
Of course not everyone, that's a strawman. But to try to imply that a significant portion would rather have iOS is also incredibly incorrect. Most people who buys cheap Androids are either fine or would rather have an expensive Android. People who really want an iphone are buying 4s and 5s iphones now. I know a bunch of them, it's sad.
When I was a Windows user, the fact that they consistently discovered government deployed malware and attacks (including Chinese and Russian but mostly five eyes) was the reason I bought their software. Because I felt that the people capable of detecting and working against state actors were more capable than the rest. Also, I wanted to financially support companies that do that (tackle the big criminals). Lastly, because they used to look good on detection comparisons (I don't know if they still do), it was not like I was trading my security for supporting them. My experience was fine, I never got infected with anything that I found later by using other anti-viruses. Their antivirus is good for as much as we know, and the only ones claiming otherwise are known criminals that were caught by Kaspersky multiple times, showing no technical proof, while being called on to do so.
We don't know if we can trust them, it's not verified free software, but we know for sure that the USG actively works on crippling the security of our computers (e.g.: RSA).
Now I use Linux, and have no false sense of security. I'm aware that if the spooks decide to hack or murder me they will. Also, my computer works really well and at least I didn't sign an EULA saying I agree with their spying against me. That's pretty good.
The NSA and the security advisors have full access to every computer from the USG? I thought there were other sectors in the government. I also thought that Wikileaks just published CIA's ExpressLane project, showing the "cyber operations the CIA conducts against liaison services", which includes the NSA, DHS and the FBI, proving that this kind of group does hack into other sectors of the USG too (and not just innocent foreigners in their own homes). Even if they could walk in and get the computers, being able to hack gives them much more power. It's funny that when the Chinese government wants people using IE everybody knows that it is to keep people hackeable, but when the USG does similar things most Americans just fall for it, as if they had the people's best interests in mind and the habit of following the law. How much proof that they are more interested in obtaining more power than in protecting the American people do Americans need?
The linked article is talking about something that the author thinks is valuable, and if you read it, you might agree (the story about Roger Moore).
People's history have value, most of us see that and the Internet Archive creators and maintainers certainly see that way too. It's pretty arrogant to say that people's posts are less valuable than some storage space. And contrary to the direction the world is moving too.
If people where like you the Internet Archive would probably not exist, only Wikipedia. Remember Geocities? It wasn't the pinnacle of insightful speech either, but it was history.
The Internet Archive is a nonprofit digital library, and home to a giant archive of the public web since 1996. Our web archive is viewable for free via the Wayback Machine. GeoCities was an important outlet for personal expression on the Web for almost 15 years, but was discontinued on October 26, 2009.
Of course I understand that budget constrictions would make it impossible to keep the whole Facebook on the IA, but that's not a subject of importance or value, but of real possibilities. If we could keep the pages that someone thinks is important enough to save to the archive and make public (like the one in the article), that would be a great improvement over the current situation.
Will they censor videos supporting the military invasion of other countries? Will they censor videos supporting groups of proud people who make night raids and murder entire villages? Inciting people to join them?
Isn't the murder of thousands extremist?
I'm waiting to see what these "super flaggers" think.
Because copyright is not a real right. It is actually a limitation on someone else's right of speech and of movement. I cannot move my fingers on a piano in a way that reproduces a song protected by copyright., or talk words written by others, or paint an image that is similar to someone else's picture. This "protection" is actual physical restraint over people's bodies. It is a limitation over natural rights. Such violence shouldn't be accepted even for a period of time, people that do not want to be copied should keep their stuff in secret, but the claim is that because society will benefit from the sharing (publishing) of said information, it is reasonable to apply such limitation on everyone for "promoting the progress of science and useful arts".
“NSA identified a risk and communicated it to Microsoft, who put out an immediate patch,” Mike McNerney, a former Defense Department cybersecurity official, told the Post.
It became public that they were stolen in August, when did they warn Microsoft? The "immediate patch" came in march, 8 months after everybody knowing about it.
They are, the NSA, they gave away the vulnerability. They didn't warn M$ when they found the vulnerability. They didn't warn M$ as soon as their weapon was stolen.
Of course there is no reason to believe any official statements made by them, but the least they should do in this case is to shut up.
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This person is pushing towards totalitarianism like they have in China. Someone (or something) checking what you are doing every step of the way.
This is great for the powerful, bad for the people. Good for the copyright holders, bad for spreading culture. Good for dictators and spies (ie. hacking team), bad for Wikileaks.
The hackability and "lack of friction" is a feature, it gives the people a fighting chance. Good days when the engineers of the internet had good ideology on their code.
Chinese streaming services go for $1-3 (usd). Subscribing to a dozen isn't a problem then. You can find the some shows repeated on many of them, so picking a few services that best match your preferences isn't so hard.
The problem is that the US have a few big content owners that keep their content as an exclusivity, so you don't have dozens of streaming services to chose from, you have a few, very expensive choices (yes, $15/month for a fraction of what you'd like to see is too expensive).
It's time copyright's "limited time" of exclusive rights start reducing to the reasonable 5 years it once was.
More reason to regulate them like an utility. Also, prohibit them from looking into traffic.
They are now defending that it's ok for Apple to hide from the user that the devices had security problems.
Update notes should include what changed, specially security changes. It doesn't matter that most people would update anyway. The people not updating might read the notes and understand that it is just to slow their phones down so that they buy a new one (a very common complain on iphone users) when in reality there as a legit reason to update.
Letter from US House Representatives to President Moreno
That's a top Democrat and a Republican from the House of Representatives Committee on foreign Affairs telling Ecuador's president that Assange is a dangerous criminal that should be stripped from citizenship and handed over. Strong arming the other country, meddling with their internal affairs (human rights respect). Three days ago.
TFA is about JA suing over censorship in a "free" country after USA's vice-president visited said country.
How can such a stupid post, so far removed from reality, be modded insightful? Is this place filled with government crooks?
Google was keeping it for free in exchange of not allowing competition. Now, not only Google is forbidden of stopping competition, but it also decided to give them a push the other way.
With this, hopefully, smartphone makers will start giving the consumers a choice between the Goggle version and the Free version.
IMO, Google would have higher moral by censoring in China than it does by censoring in America.
In China, censorship is the law. The Chinese people chose their leaders and they approved censorship law. People's representatives also decide what should be censored and they have voluntary armies of people working on censorship. They also have the legislative means (although difficult) to change that (censorship or what should be censored). That's not to say it is democratic, as the representation of minorities and of opposing views is part of true democracy, but censoring in China would mean abiding by the rules and the prevailing morals of the people (over there), pushing the interests of their representatives (not the people's interests IMO).
In the US, when google censors or apply "the very same values of control over the populace", they are doing so to favor the interests of a very small minority, in opposition to the country's claimed values. They hide behind the flag of freedom (freedom to not make business) to effectively censor opposing views ("censorship is not illegal if it's not the government") and control the population to push policies and world views they want. I don't know how people in the US could have any say on what they will censor or stop private censorship.
I not only agree that they are not forfeiting any values in China, but also think that the shit they are pulling in the US should be cause for much more alarm, concern and response.
Decided to log in cause my previous AC comments have disappeared.
There is no indication that these people are dodging Russian spies. There is no proof Kaspersky was in fact used as a vector by Russian spies, just an accusation. It was accused by a foreign spy agency that it (kaspersky) was related to the spying of someone that should be spied on.
Contrary to US and UK intelligence, we don't know for a fact that Russia spies on every area and call everything "national security" (remember Petrobras, the oil company?). There is no indication that these companies that are changing AVs were being spied on to start with, and even less that this AV was being used. Besides that, since there is no indication that the AV is being used as a vector for spies, IF they are being spied by Russians, they probably will continue to be, there is no dodging at all.
This headline to say they are dodging Russian spies is to validate their unfounded fears, making them feel good in believing the FUD.
A decent person would headline this as "After US spread FUD, customers are leaving Kaspersky".
Slashdot was fine when I started here, as an AC a few years back, but I'm gonna leave for a while. Reading this kind of BS is stupid and irritating.
Synaptic?
If it runs Debian... That's what I use.
Capitalizing in events of this nature to implement ways to control what people see or think. To claim that theories that doesn't come from mainstream media are "conspiracy theories" that should not be believed.
At least they are going after their own clients. They successfully lobbied for DRM on HTML standards, that fucked up the Internet for everyone.
Netflix is no better than any cable company pushing for censorship online. I already canceled them all.
I'm more productive than a lot of people at my job, that's why I'm in the position I'm currently at, with no risk of losing it. Sometimes I can't sleep properly and when it goes on for several days it does affect my job.
But I'm still productive even on six hours a day. That's not being delusional. I'm not on my best performance, but still more productive than others.
The title could be right if it said "you are deluding yourself if you think you are your most productive on six hours of sleep" (that's a lot of yous). But it doesn't say that, so it's wrong. Also it is not what the expert said.
In the summary they quote the expert saying you're less productive in your work when sleep deprived. Being less productive is different from not being productive.
Then comes the delusional part:
And those people who claim they can survive on six hours of sleep or less, unfortunately, are deluding themselves and their health.
He didn't correlate the productivity with people "deluding themselves". He was talking about health.
The author of TFA made up (wrong) affirmations in the name of the expert, none of the editors decided to call him on that.
Does your keyboard have Chinese?
I actually have two google keyboards, not that I trust google, it's just that the standard keyboard doesn't have Chinese and Microsoft bought swiftkey.
But if you look at the big example of a phone with ONE keyboard, it doesn't offer swipe/slide to type (or at least it didn't for a very long time, I have no idea about how iphones are these days). It also still doesn't have decent autocorrection.
Different keyboards focus on different things. Better predictive text, better emojis, better interaction.
The fact that he's a knight means he was of service to the empire. And now he's being of service to another empire...What's happening here is that Berners-Lee and Jeff Jaffee have convinced themselves that by making this a standard, they will make the injustice of DRM smoother and less annoying in minor ways. And they've convinced themselves that that's the purpose of their lives...
He should handle it by saying no. But he can't really. And the reason is he set up an organization which is controlled by the businesses that want to put in the most money... By structuring it so it's controlled by the businesses, they've structured it so it wouldn't defend us from those businesses.
He is right, and TBL is an evil asshole destroying what he helped to create (he didn't create it alone like people like to say).
"Richard Stallman" - Lunduke Hour - Apr 14, 2017 the interview.
Because he has other things to do in the Internet that requires it to be DRM free (like surfing safely). While the only point he is seeing for these corporations is easily bypassed.
Of course not everyone, that's a strawman. But to try to imply that a significant portion would rather have iOS is also incredibly incorrect. Most people who buys cheap Androids are either fine or would rather have an expensive Android. People who really want an iphone are buying 4s and 5s iphones now. I know a bunch of them, it's sad.
When I was a Windows user, the fact that they consistently discovered government deployed malware and attacks (including Chinese and Russian but mostly five eyes) was the reason I bought their software. Because I felt that the people capable of detecting and working against state actors were more capable than the rest. Also, I wanted to financially support companies that do that (tackle the big criminals). Lastly, because they used to look good on detection comparisons (I don't know if they still do), it was not like I was trading my security for supporting them.
My experience was fine, I never got infected with anything that I found later by using other anti-viruses. Their antivirus is good for as much as we know, and the only ones claiming otherwise are known criminals that were caught by Kaspersky multiple times, showing no technical proof, while being called on to do so.
We don't know if we can trust them, it's not verified free software, but we know for sure that the USG actively works on crippling the security of our computers (e.g.: RSA).
Now I use Linux, and have no false sense of security. I'm aware that if the spooks decide to hack or murder me they will.
Also, my computer works really well and at least I didn't sign an EULA saying I agree with their spying against me. That's pretty good.
The NSA and the security advisors have full access to every computer from the USG? I thought there were other sectors in the government.
I also thought that Wikileaks just published CIA's ExpressLane project, showing the "cyber operations the CIA conducts against liaison services", which includes the NSA, DHS and the FBI, proving that this kind of group does hack into other sectors of the USG too (and not just innocent foreigners in their own homes).
Even if they could walk in and get the computers, being able to hack gives them much more power. It's funny that when the Chinese government wants people using IE everybody knows that it is to keep people hackeable, but when the USG does similar things most Americans just fall for it, as if they had the people's best interests in mind and the habit of following the law.
How much proof that they are more interested in obtaining more power than in protecting the American people do Americans need?
The linked article is talking about something that the author thinks is valuable, and if you read it, you might agree (the story about Roger Moore).
People's history have value, most of us see that and the Internet Archive creators and maintainers certainly see that way too. It's pretty arrogant to say that people's posts are less valuable than some storage space. And contrary to the direction the world is moving too.
If people where like you the Internet Archive would probably not exist, only Wikipedia. Remember Geocities? It wasn't the pinnacle of insightful speech either, but it was history.
The Internet Archive is a nonprofit digital library, and home to a giant archive of the public web since 1996. Our web archive is viewable for free via the Wayback Machine.
GeoCities was an important outlet for personal expression on the Web for almost 15 years, but was discontinued on October 26, 2009.
Of course I understand that budget constrictions would make it impossible to keep the whole Facebook on the IA, but that's not a subject of importance or value, but of real possibilities. If we could keep the pages that someone thinks is important enough to save to the archive and make public (like the one in the article), that would be a great improvement over the current situation.
Will they censor videos supporting the military invasion of other countries? Will they censor videos supporting groups of proud people who make night raids and murder entire villages? Inciting people to join them?
Isn't the murder of thousands extremist?
I'm waiting to see what these "super flaggers" think.
Because copyright is not a real right. It is actually a limitation on someone else's right of speech and of movement.
I cannot move my fingers on a piano in a way that reproduces a song protected by copyright., or talk words written by others, or paint an image that is similar to someone else's picture.
This "protection" is actual physical restraint over people's bodies. It is a limitation over natural rights.
Such violence shouldn't be accepted even for a period of time, people that do not want to be copied should keep their stuff in secret, but the claim is that because society will benefit from the sharing (publishing) of said information, it is reasonable to apply such limitation on everyone for "promoting the progress of science and useful arts".
“NSA identified a risk and communicated it to Microsoft, who put out an immediate patch,” Mike McNerney, a former Defense Department cybersecurity official, told the Post.
It became public that they were stolen in August, when did they warn Microsoft? The "immediate patch" came in march, 8 months after everybody knowing about it.
*I realize there was no official statement.
They are, the NSA, they gave away the vulnerability. They didn't warn M$ when they found the vulnerability. They didn't warn M$ as soon as their weapon was stolen.
Of course there is no reason to believe any official statements made by them, but the least they should do in this case is to shut up.
undoing misclick...
Mod parent up