Don't worry, slowly but surely other companies will accept that the time to compete with Netflix was 2003, not 2014. Live streaming is a good area for others to focus, but not if it has to happen from a specific hardware platform. I do like what PBS and some other networks have done, and I appreciate the online availability, it's just hard to monetize. There is room in the market for multiple players, but even Amazon Instant Video has so so far disappointed me. When the say 40,000 titles available to watch on Amazon I have to wonder if they are including the pay per view titles and not just the Prime eligible. I got Prime for my grandmother since it was easier to give as a gift for a year, but I'm not impressed with the selection or the interface of the iPad app. I knew the fight was done the day I bought a Blue-ray player with a dedicated Netflix button on the remote. For that industry, getting the status of a dedicated button was like when Google became a verb. Yahoo! was dead the moment the mass media started using "Google" as the verb for search instead of "Search" or "Use as search engine". When I did the gift for Grandma I also noticed that my relatives could not grasp "Prime is just like Netflix". It was like "Netflix" was in English and any other service was something foreign they couldn't grasp.
The days when it seemed that Microsoft could have the whole pie all to itself is long gone. I'll call the steps they are taking progress. Office 365 availability on Linux and.Net opening up to Linux as open source sets a pretty good stage for real openness of choice. I hear from regular people all the time how much they like the Surface for work or how they wish they bough a Surface rather than iPad for work. They have stopped trying to hold back change, because that outright failed. They now at least seem to be embracing change. Now the real test is if they can affect change and actually lead at least with the piece of the pie where they can still fit. Windows Mobile may wander the desert without followers for many years, but if Windows 10 is well received they may actually survive the death of the desktop.
I like that argument and I hope it gets heard in front of a judge. I do wonder though since it is actually the packet from the upstream server that is modified and the sender is downgrading their security to accommodate, then sending an unmodified message is there a violation? Is their any legal protection that would stop an ISP from modifying the parameters, but not substance of the upstream mail server's packet? It seams like the upstream mail service provider is the one truly being wronged because the intent of their transmission has not been honored and has been modified without consent such as their ability to provide a secure service to their customer has been harmed.
On face value I agree with gun registration, but in practice it is bad for our rights. As someone in a state where we have to register everything, it's next to impossible to get a carry permit and we now have to get a permit to buy ammo I'd say if I were in a state where the government didn't have a list of what I own I'd fight like hell to stop them from changing it. Gun control advocates and people who know absolutely nothing about guns are happy to enact overreaching regulations. It's clearly at the point now where having a gun in some parts of the country is more a legal liability than it is a protection for life and liberty. The Shot-spotter kind of technology has potential, but if they really want to do something about prevention then we have to stop giving media fame to violent idiots that are desperately seeking attention.
Obnoxious as their behavior is, I don't think the copyright violation holds. Worst case they aren't decrypting it, they are just causing the option to encrypt not to be presented. If the sending side agrees to send unencrypted, then it is effectively consenting to send in the clear. No matter what happens between your client and the server there is always a chance a server in the forwarding chain will not preserve the TLS connection, nor is there any guarantee in most cases that the message recipient will access the message over an encrypted channel. God help us all, because corporations sure can't help themselves.
I'm glad Yahoo uses a different port as you mentioned if you POP you mail down encrypted. This at least allowed me to to pull multiple years worth of email off of Yahoo's servers which obviously can't be trusted anymore.
When you say stop using STARTTLS are you advocating PGP as the alternative?
I've discovered as I get older that a hipster is anyone under 30 that goes out of their way to adopt any sort of style that would not have had a definable context label 20 years ago.
Exactly. I gave MayDay PAC $100, but I said the same at the time, $10 Million isn't enough to do much of anything. Maybe one state election at best. We are up against huge spending year after year. I'd really like to see a cap on total election spending for any office to reign it in to a sane level. We have people competing for jobs that pay in six figure multiples, spending millions upon millions to get the job and we actually expect them not to owe favors left and right to special interests?
We have rights to many things not specifically enumerated by the Constitution. Having a right and having the political and judicial support to protect it, are different things. If we are to save our democracy more of us are going to have to be vocal, actually vote and actually donate money to candidates that support the kinds of change we would like to see. It may also be necessary to force Washington to allow candidates into the presidential primary debates even if the candidate isn't hand picked and rubber stamped by the party leadership. I'm personally sick of the current illusion of choice.
Regarding public surveillance, how about a t-shirt that has a smiley face, but instead says "Fuck You" when viewed with infrared video. Effective, perhaps not, but it would bring me joy.
Yes, please go with Title 2 reclassification. There is no other way to get Comcast to stop this delusion they seem to hold. People don't pay their bill so they can have high bandwidth from their home to Comcast. They pay so they can have high bandwidth from their home to the internet and to whatever it is on the internet they choose to access. It's not the bandwidth at the last mile that creates good service for the customer. It's the amount of bandwidth available to get out of Comcast's network and to the desired resource, end to end that matters. Anti-competitive behavior in the delivery of the service should not be tolerated from a service provider.
Most of the people who install IP cameras exposed to the internet want to be able to view them remotely. I'm sorry to see the people are such idiots that they think a live video feed of a child's bedroom is a good thing to put online, especially with a default password. I'm sure what insecam.com has done is illegal at least in the US, but it is the right thing to do bring attention to the massive issue. If their intentions are good then they should shut it down as soon as it gets main stream media coverage which shouldn't take long. I really hope this also prompts cam manufacturers to make choosing a new password part of the initial setup process or ship units with unique passwords like some of the WiFi routers have started doing.
The EFF doesn't mess around, good for them. I almost wish my Verizon phone did that tracking. I'd love to be included in that class action. I'd have to make a copy of the $10 check I'd get in two years so I could frame it. I pay Verizon well over a $100 a month. If they think they need to sell out their users privacy on top of that revenue then screw them.
I wonder how much longer our Indians would have lasted if they just killed Columbus and his crew. If they never made it back to Spain it might have bought the indigenous people another 100 years.
If these people actually looked at where these URLs are going to take them (granted, less likely on mobile) and realized that being prompted for a password on a site where you are already logged in is suspicious, the impact would be much reduced. Facebook is basically a public website and all advertising and user supplied content has to be treated with the needed caution.
I am curious how Facebook checks advertiser content and user posts for malicious behavior if anyone has details.
Life is miserable, for the miserable. I know people who live in houses with dirt floors and have nothing, that are happier than you or I will ever be. It's not the circumstances that create the happiness. I'm sure there is plenty of misery even in the hereditary ruling class you envy.
Great article, agreed "Girls and Software" should be mandatory reading. Please, give us more engineers like that. Give me women that can handle themselves in uncontrolled social environments. Give me women who can handle conflict logically. Give me women that really know their shit. Give me women who can pick up a screw gun and rack mount equipment. When those women show up to the interview I'll be happy to hire them.
Good for them, the only way to become an engineer is to forge your own path and follow your own interest and ambition. I'm sure plenty of people had negative things to say to my Grandmother when she decided to be a police officer in the 1950s, but that didn't stop her.
Hillary, hopefully not. I want the democrats to have a fighting chance and Hillary cannot win. Not enough support even with democrats. Despite being a democrat I still won't vote for them if they don't understand the 2nd amendment is part of the constitution they swear to support and defend.
...and please make it a thoughtful and respectful hand written letter. From what I hear those actually get more attention. Then of course many politicians are actually starting to pay a lot of attention to Twitter.
There is definitely a shortage of senior people who really have a clue. Everyone I know that I would ever recommend hiring, already has a job and they have jobs at "A" companies. The companies really having trouble getting "A" people are the "C" companies. Companies are going to have to stop writing off everyone that failed to get back on the horse immediately after the recession ended. Companies are going to have to give young people a chance to enter the industry and actually help them develop. When everyone outsourced every job they could to offshore vendors in 2003-2010, they killed the pool of candidates for the long term. Many of those workers who had a ton of experience left and never came back. Many of those young workers never got the chance to develop into senior workers. Companies now want nobody with less than 8-10 years experience yet there aren't enough "A" or even "B" players that entered the industry at that time. More H1-Bs is only a cop-out to bandage a systemic problem that business doesn't know how to hire, develop and retain people to maintain the pipeline.
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Better tools don't fix bad communication.
Is it too much to ask to get sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads?
Don't worry, slowly but surely other companies will accept that the time to compete with Netflix was 2003, not 2014. Live streaming is a good area for others to focus, but not if it has to happen from a specific hardware platform. I do like what PBS and some other networks have done, and I appreciate the online availability, it's just hard to monetize. There is room in the market for multiple players, but even Amazon Instant Video has so so far disappointed me. When the say 40,000 titles available to watch on Amazon I have to wonder if they are including the pay per view titles and not just the Prime eligible. I got Prime for my grandmother since it was easier to give as a gift for a year, but I'm not impressed with the selection or the interface of the iPad app. I knew the fight was done the day I bought a Blue-ray player with a dedicated Netflix button on the remote. For that industry, getting the status of a dedicated button was like when Google became a verb. Yahoo! was dead the moment the mass media started using "Google" as the verb for search instead of "Search" or "Use as search engine". When I did the gift for Grandma I also noticed that my relatives could not grasp "Prime is just like Netflix". It was like "Netflix" was in English and any other service was something foreign they couldn't grasp.
The days when it seemed that Microsoft could have the whole pie all to itself is long gone. I'll call the steps they are taking progress. Office 365 availability on Linux and .Net opening up to Linux as open source sets a pretty good stage for real openness of choice. I hear from regular people all the time how much they like the Surface for work or how they wish they bough a Surface rather than iPad for work. They have stopped trying to hold back change, because that outright failed. They now at least seem to be embracing change. Now the real test is if they can affect change and actually lead at least with the piece of the pie where they can still fit. Windows Mobile may wander the desert without followers for many years, but if Windows 10 is well received they may actually survive the death of the desktop.
I like that argument and I hope it gets heard in front of a judge. I do wonder though since it is actually the packet from the upstream server that is modified and the sender is downgrading their security to accommodate, then sending an unmodified message is there a violation? Is their any legal protection that would stop an ISP from modifying the parameters, but not substance of the upstream mail server's packet? It seams like the upstream mail service provider is the one truly being wronged because the intent of their transmission has not been honored and has been modified without consent such as their ability to provide a secure service to their customer has been harmed.
On face value I agree with gun registration, but in practice it is bad for our rights. As someone in a state where we have to register everything, it's next to impossible to get a carry permit and we now have to get a permit to buy ammo I'd say if I were in a state where the government didn't have a list of what I own I'd fight like hell to stop them from changing it. Gun control advocates and people who know absolutely nothing about guns are happy to enact overreaching regulations. It's clearly at the point now where having a gun in some parts of the country is more a legal liability than it is a protection for life and liberty. The Shot-spotter kind of technology has potential, but if they really want to do something about prevention then we have to stop giving media fame to violent idiots that are desperately seeking attention.
Obnoxious as their behavior is, I don't think the copyright violation holds. Worst case they aren't decrypting it, they are just causing the option to encrypt not to be presented. If the sending side agrees to send unencrypted, then it is effectively consenting to send in the clear. No matter what happens between your client and the server there is always a chance a server in the forwarding chain will not preserve the TLS connection, nor is there any guarantee in most cases that the message recipient will access the message over an encrypted channel. God help us all, because corporations sure can't help themselves.
I'm glad Yahoo uses a different port as you mentioned if you POP you mail down encrypted. This at least allowed me to to pull multiple years worth of email off of Yahoo's servers which obviously can't be trusted anymore.
When you say stop using STARTTLS are you advocating PGP as the alternative?
I've discovered as I get older that a hipster is anyone under 30 that goes out of their way to adopt any sort of style that would not have had a definable context label 20 years ago.
Exactly. I gave MayDay PAC $100, but I said the same at the time, $10 Million isn't enough to do much of anything. Maybe one state election at best. We are up against huge spending year after year. I'd really like to see a cap on total election spending for any office to reign it in to a sane level. We have people competing for jobs that pay in six figure multiples, spending millions upon millions to get the job and we actually expect them not to owe favors left and right to special interests?
We have rights to many things not specifically enumerated by the Constitution. Having a right and having the political and judicial support to protect it, are different things. If we are to save our democracy more of us are going to have to be vocal, actually vote and actually donate money to candidates that support the kinds of change we would like to see. It may also be necessary to force Washington to allow candidates into the presidential primary debates even if the candidate isn't hand picked and rubber stamped by the party leadership. I'm personally sick of the current illusion of choice.
Regarding public surveillance, how about a t-shirt that has a smiley face, but instead says "Fuck You" when viewed with infrared video. Effective, perhaps not, but it would bring me joy.
Yes, please go with Title 2 reclassification. There is no other way to get Comcast to stop this delusion they seem to hold. People don't pay their bill so they can have high bandwidth from their home to Comcast. They pay so they can have high bandwidth from their home to the internet and to whatever it is on the internet they choose to access. It's not the bandwidth at the last mile that creates good service for the customer. It's the amount of bandwidth available to get out of Comcast's network and to the desired resource, end to end that matters. Anti-competitive behavior in the delivery of the service should not be tolerated from a service provider.
I like Method #22 "Protest disrobings" 40,000 stark naked Brits overrunning their headquarters would be entirely appropriate given the circumstances.
Most of the people who install IP cameras exposed to the internet want to be able to view them remotely. I'm sorry to see the people are such idiots that they think a live video feed of a child's bedroom is a good thing to put online, especially with a default password. I'm sure what insecam.com has done is illegal at least in the US, but it is the right thing to do bring attention to the massive issue. If their intentions are good then they should shut it down as soon as it gets main stream media coverage which shouldn't take long. I really hope this also prompts cam manufacturers to make choosing a new password part of the initial setup process or ship units with unique passwords like some of the WiFi routers have started doing.
I can make it simple. If a company uses Big Data to analyze my behavior I will quit within a year. 100% prediction accuracy. See Big Data works.
I also consider manipulating the impressions Big Data gathers on me to be a fun and engaging hobby.
Your old school logic has no place in the Cloud.
The EFF doesn't mess around, good for them. I almost wish my Verizon phone did that tracking. I'd love to be included in that class action. I'd have to make a copy of the $10 check I'd get in two years so I could frame it. I pay Verizon well over a $100 a month. If they think they need to sell out their users privacy on top of that revenue then screw them.
I wonder how much longer our Indians would have lasted if they just killed Columbus and his crew. If they never made it back to Spain it might have bought the indigenous people another 100 years.
If these people actually looked at where these URLs are going to take them (granted, less likely on mobile) and realized that being prompted for a password on a site where you are already logged in is suspicious, the impact would be much reduced. Facebook is basically a public website and all advertising and user supplied content has to be treated with the needed caution.
I am curious how Facebook checks advertiser content and user posts for malicious behavior if anyone has details.
Life is miserable, for the miserable. I know people who live in houses with dirt floors and have nothing, that are happier than you or I will ever be. It's not the circumstances that create the happiness. I'm sure there is plenty of misery even in the hereditary ruling class you envy.
Great article, agreed "Girls and Software" should be mandatory reading. Please, give us more engineers like that. Give me women that can handle themselves in uncontrolled social environments. Give me women who can handle conflict logically. Give me women that really know their shit. Give me women who can pick up a screw gun and rack mount equipment. When those women show up to the interview I'll be happy to hire them.
Good for them, the only way to become an engineer is to forge your own path and follow your own interest and ambition. I'm sure plenty of people had negative things to say to my Grandmother when she decided to be a police officer in the 1950s, but that didn't stop her.
Hillary, hopefully not. I want the democrats to have a fighting chance and Hillary cannot win. Not enough support even with democrats. Despite being a democrat I still won't vote for them if they don't understand the 2nd amendment is part of the constitution they swear to support and defend.
...and please make it a thoughtful and respectful hand written letter. From what I hear those actually get more attention. Then of course many politicians are actually starting to pay a lot of attention to Twitter.
There is definitely a shortage of senior people who really have a clue. Everyone I know that I would ever recommend hiring, already has a job and they have jobs at "A" companies. The companies really having trouble getting "A" people are the "C" companies. Companies are going to have to stop writing off everyone that failed to get back on the horse immediately after the recession ended. Companies are going to have to give young people a chance to enter the industry and actually help them develop. When everyone outsourced every job they could to offshore vendors in 2003-2010, they killed the pool of candidates for the long term. Many of those workers who had a ton of experience left and never came back. Many of those young workers never got the chance to develop into senior workers. Companies now want nobody with less than 8-10 years experience yet there aren't enough "A" or even "B" players that entered the industry at that time. More H1-Bs is only a cop-out to bandage a systemic problem that business doesn't know how to hire, develop and retain people to maintain the pipeline.