I would add that the entertainment industry, including by way of example, but not by way of limitation, video, audio, and text, charges way too damned much for their shit.
CEOs and shareholders are greedy and profit margins are insane.
That's true for sports ranging from college to pro, as well.
Those industries are incapable of controlling their IP, so they are working with governments to tamp down piracy.
That will never work, no matter what's done.
When IP is digitized, it becomes available to the public domain by way of the fact that people with computers are way smarter than other people with computers.
While looking at my post, (on a Windows-based machine) press Ctrl+F (Find) and search for "doubt" "Hillary" "she" "entertainment" "industry" "money" "Clinton" "Foundation."
I've posted to the wrong thread before, so I feel yer pain.
However, here's this:
"...Republicans made it clear they wouldn't consider it during the lame duck session."
and
"The TPP, which had been championed by Republicans just a year ago, fell victim to a wave of opposition to globalization..."
Australia has its own entertainment infrastructure but citizens want American shit to watch.
Geo-fencing enforces what amounts to a continental monopoly as in, "We don't allow no foreign entertainment here, so eat what we put on the table in support of the domestic economy."
Australians are willing and able to pay for American content, and Australia doesn't have anything America (or Aussies) want.
Queue the secondary access methods.
The news here isn't that Aussie piracy has decreased.
The news (found elsewhere) is that legal access to American content has increased.
Notice our riots. We use stone-age weapons. Literally.
There's big talk about how the Second Amendment will allow us to overthrow our own government, but it's illegal to even express the intent.
As for what we're going to do: We will do nothing except let democracy work.
And, it will.
Presidential candidates promise things that are beyond the scope of the Executive branch.
Immigration, abortion, taxes, economy, jobs, walls, immigration, foreign policy, tariffs, and treaties... all of those are administered and funded by the Legislative branch of government.
The only assist a President can give to Congress is to refuse to veto legislation.
The President is the person who steps forward when someone wants to speak to "America."
Mostly, the job consists of expressing sorrow for the mass shooting du jour and vowing to take action that's not in their job description.
--
For reference, witness the last 7.5 years of the "do nothing" Congress that obstructed the current administration from getting anything done.
This election went the way it did because pissed-off people want something different even if it's a fucking pussy-grabbing batshit crazy white trash scam artist.
If we're lucky, the new administration will be right-wing Evangelical Christian anti-diversity, pro-business to the point that the courts and Congress will pee down both legs.
If that happens, we can right the Congressional ship in mid-term 2018 and unfurl the mainsails in 2020.
Mom and Pop don't want to be a goddam self-inflated script kiddie like you pretend to be.
They just want to sign up for stuff and use all that crap like it was an appliance.
When Google pulls the plug on a single Gmail account, it can have far-reaching consequences.
Mom and Pop don't know that Google owns YouTube where they stored all the kid's birthday parties, Google+ where they keep in touch with kids and grand kids, Google Docs where they share out documents, Google Drive where they store very important family photos, videos, etc., and there's another huge risk:
They don't know that they risked a LOT by using their Gmail account to sign up to log in to their bank, cable, insurance, medical, Android, Kindle, smart phone, and they don't appreciate that they used that same risk-infested Gmail account as a password-recovery back door to other sites.
The big fuck-up here was hitting the end user. That's the CUSTOMER. They should have stopped recourse with the NH re-seller.
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This.
"...CanIRank used the opinions of four people..."
What the simple fuck?
I agree with you.
I would add that the entertainment industry, including by way of example, but not by way of limitation, video, audio, and text, charges way too damned much for their shit.
CEOs and shareholders are greedy and profit margins are insane.
That's true for sports ranging from college to pro, as well.
Those industries are incapable of controlling their IP, so they are working with governments to tamp down piracy.
That will never work, no matter what's done.
When IP is digitized, it becomes available to the public domain by way of the fact that people with computers are way smarter than other people with computers.
... is: "..a CIA-backed social-media monitoring platform.."
... because those of us who dabble in this space have been banned too many times to count.
We just put on a hoodie, grab a freemail and get back into the game.
Those guys are still grabbing data and selling it.
While looking at my post, (on a Windows-based machine) press Ctrl+F (Find) and search for "doubt" "Hillary" "she" "entertainment" "industry" "money" "Clinton" "Foundation."
I've posted to the wrong thread before, so I feel yer pain.
However, here's this:
"...Republicans made it clear they wouldn't consider it during the lame duck session."
and
"The TPP, which had been championed by Republicans just a year ago, fell victim to a wave of opposition to globalization ..."
--
From here.
The basic problem is not price, but availability.
Australia has its own entertainment infrastructure but citizens want American shit to watch.
Geo-fencing enforces what amounts to a continental monopoly as in, "We don't allow no foreign entertainment here, so eat what we put on the table in support of the domestic economy."
Australians are willing and able to pay for American content, and Australia doesn't have anything America (or Aussies) want.
Queue the secondary access methods.
The news here isn't that Aussie piracy has decreased.
The news (found elsewhere) is that legal access to American content has increased.
... not Trump.
They weren't going to approve it anyway.
It's like Trump declaring that, on day one, he'll adjust the atmospheric composition to be 78% nitrogen and 21% oxygen.
I agree with you.
My bright idea is to have two (2) pass codes on our phones.
The primary lets us get in.
The secondary bricks it.
Ideally, LEO puts in the second and we bitch about breaking our phone.
*Heil
In America, we have the right to bear arms.
We do not have the right to use them.
Notice our riots. We use stone-age weapons. Literally.
There's big talk about how the Second Amendment will allow us to overthrow our own government, but it's illegal to even express the intent.
As for what we're going to do: We will do nothing except let democracy work.
And, it will.
Presidential candidates promise things that are beyond the scope of the Executive branch.
Immigration, abortion, taxes, economy, jobs, walls, immigration, foreign policy, tariffs, and treaties ... all of those are administered and funded by the Legislative branch of government.
The only assist a President can give to Congress is to refuse to veto legislation.
The President is the person who steps forward when someone wants to speak to "America."
Mostly, the job consists of expressing sorrow for the mass shooting du jour and vowing to take action that's not in their job description.
--
For reference, witness the last 7.5 years of the "do nothing" Congress that obstructed the current administration from getting anything done.
This election went the way it did because pissed-off people want something different even if it's a fucking pussy-grabbing batshit crazy white trash scam artist.
If we're lucky, the new administration will be right-wing Evangelical Christian anti-diversity, pro-business to the point that the courts and Congress will pee down both legs.
If that happens, we can right the Congressional ship in mid-term 2018 and unfurl the mainsails in 2020.
It's all moot.
Canada shot itself in the foot on this one.
Replacing coal is very good for the photo-ops, but no leader is using shale oil fields as a backdrop.
People want what people want:
- Anonymity
- Instant gratification
- Narcissism
- Violence
- Bullying
- Sex
- Revenge
- Deniability
- Privacy
- Vapourware
They won't get it because people with a computer are smarter than other people with a computer.
You did this before I did, but it ain't no lie.
This.
In fact, Lifelock CEO Davis was the victim of identity theft in 2007 when a thief used his widely advertised Social Security number to obtain a $500 loan in Davis’ name.
It's much worse than that.
Iraq is an oil war; Afghanistan revenge.
Both played well in response to 9/11.
Let's bring in the pro-lifers while we're at it.
The United States performed several abortions at hospitals in Iraq and Afghanistan when they hit the hospitals there.
While the word, "surgical," applies, they weren't doctors -- they were pilots.
America calls 9/11 an act of terrorism. Forgive the Middle East if the civilians there use the same metric.
Then let's move on to pissing off Muslims.
Go back to the Civil Rights era. I was there.
You piss off Blacks enough, they get radicalized and burn the goddam city down.
Muslims will be justified in doing the same.
If you disrespect me enough, I'll slit your fucking tyres.
... does Google sell?
There's little fruit and related labour in California.
And you have little else.
Mom and Pop don't want to be a goddam self-inflated script kiddie like you pretend to be.
They just want to sign up for stuff and use all that crap like it was an appliance.
When Google pulls the plug on a single Gmail account, it can have far-reaching consequences.
Mom and Pop don't know that Google owns YouTube where they stored all the kid's birthday parties, Google+ where they keep in touch with kids and grand kids, Google Docs where they share out documents, Google Drive where they store very important family photos, videos, etc., and there's another huge risk:
They don't know that they risked a LOT by using their Gmail account to sign up to log in to their bank, cable, insurance, medical, Android, Kindle, smart phone, and they don't appreciate that they used that same risk-infested Gmail account as a password-recovery back door to other sites.
The big fuck-up here was hitting the end user. That's the CUSTOMER. They should have stopped recourse with the NH re-seller.
Thanks for playing.
They didn't.
My vision sucks and the comma and period are next to each other.
My bad.
This changes nothing because it's kind of obvious phones don't store conversations, anyway.
I wrote assembly for the Z-80 back in 1978 on a TRS-80.
I also wrote articles for 80-Microcomputing.
I designed a thermometer and a battery checker using an A-D converter from Analog Devices.
I wrote a sales rep in Houston asking if I could buy a single chip.
They sold for $22 each, in lots of 1.000.
He agreed to sell me one in exchange for rights to use the article after I published.
Great times.
I had heard of the 4004, but I never messed with it.
This.
I've been in the business 49 years starting when the slide rule was the calculator of choice.
"Artificial Intelligence" (AI) started with a basic definition that always circled back to the human brain as a reference for "intelligence."
In later years, a more realistic description of AI required us to drop the human brain part, but many people failed to catch the move.
A machine will only be intelligent when it can commit suicide because Facebook is down.
I can only fail to acknowledge by rejecting that which is presented.
iPhone's market is much larger than the subset population of celebrities.
Additionally, I would like to associate myself with the comment below by KingMotley ( 944240 ) in that you are confused on a point.
... because Apple knows the market wants secure phones.
That market includes EVERYBODY: The consumers, businesses, government, and LEO as well.
If Apple doesn't provide phones that are locked down, someone else will and EVERYBODY will drop iPhone for the new secure kid on the block.
Why aren't Androids in the news?
I'm sure Apple appreciates the publicity.
This whole IoT security stuff is bullshit.
Default passwords should be burners with installation halting until a human changes the password.
How many of us have Googled "default password for (insert router model)?