"The referendum had a 72.2% turnout. That makes the final results 37.5% leave, 34.7% remain, 27.8% abstain. That's a really crappy majority to claim that you have a mandate."
No it bloody well isn't. The date of the referendum was announced LONG before it happened. There was NO excuse for any fir and healthy person not to vote either directly or by post, and if they didn't then it was clearly because they didn't give a damn one way or the other. So YES, the 37.5% leave IS a good mandate and its a damn site better than you get in any general election for the winning party.
Bollocks! The ones that abstained basically signalled with their abstention that they don't give a sh*t so that renders them irrelevant. That leaves the leavers and the remainers and a margin of 2% of one of those group over the other is not an overwhelming mandate, it isn't even a good mandate, that's a "by the skin of your teeth" mandate. Even Nigel Farage, went on record saying that a 52/48 result would solve nothing and that he would demand another referendum if that happened. Predictably, he saw no need for a do-over when the referendum went 52/48 in his favour. When you are deciding an issue by plebiscite that is as divisive as the EU membership is you want to get a really powerful mandate and the entry level percentage for that is about 60% of those that chose not to abstain. Britain will be torn up by this issue because of the weak mandate the leavers got in that referendum for decades and that incessant bickering will hurt your country badly.
Bullshit. This was the only possible outcome. The British constitution (which is a complicated written but not codified body of things from the Magna Carta onwards) is very clear that Parliament is sovereign. Nothing overrides that. People complaining that it's undemocratic seem to have forgotten several things:
We elect MPs and we can vote them out next time if they don't do what we want. The idea that the executive mustn't bypass the legislature is not undemocratic (and there's a really easy Godwin here).
Democracy is not the same as mob rule. We have no precedent in the UK that we must do things just because slightly more than half of the population thinks we should. We have a representative democracy for a reason. Reintroducing the death penalty has a far higher public approval rating than Brexit in the UK, yet I've not heard anyone claim that we absolutely must do it because it's the will of the people.
The referendum had a 72.2% turnout. That makes the final results 37.5% leave, 34.7% remain, 27.8% abstain. That's a really crappy majority to claim that you have a mandate.
Given the demographics of the voters in the referendum, I would expect that most MPs will vote to invoke Article 50, but it would set a very dangerous precedent if the Prime Minister could do so without their vote.
The Brexiteers have been screaming their heads off for years about the erosion of democracy because of that 'un-elected tyrannical empire that is the EU'. Now that they have gotten an undiluted intravenous injection of democracy they are suddenly screaming their heads off about how unhappy they are about that. Democracy has a habit of turning into a bitch when it shoots a torpedo into your pet project.
The batteries will probably still explode and the phone will probably still run an outdated version of Android. Using one of those phones will almost certainly be hazardous to your privacy, security, and your health. Who cares about garbage Android phones? It's Linux, and Linux is shit.
Don't be so pessimistic. At least you'll literally be getting lots of bang for your buck.
Security is always a moving target. While it's possible your leading edge phone is as secure as the leading iphone, what matters to security is how many people are running an older OS. Androids are always going to be running non-updatable OS just because of the bussiness model. So in terms of numbers of exploitable phones, swaths of the andorid ecosystem will be less secure than Apple ecosystem.
The thing is that the overwhelming majority of iOS users is usually at the latest OS version after a while and most of the rest are at the second oldest, after that the usage percentage drops off a cliff: https://david-smith.org/iosver...
For Android users the picture is different, only about a third of users is at the latest version with the rest being at older versions: http://www.droid-life.com/tag/...
This is to be expected since Android is open source, it gets used by a whole slew of manufacturers and while you can point to ones that do a good job with updates like Google it self or a somewhat reasonable one like Samsung (have had some bad experiences with their orphaned Android devices), there is a vast number of Android device makers that either orphan devices or drag their feet excessively with updates or just orphan devices as a matter of course. So while there are manufacturers that do a bang-up-job of keeping their Android devices secure, making shure the the entire Android fleet can match the update stats of iOS is a practical impossibility the way things stand at the moment. The only way to really change this is for Google to make sure that the underlying OS is provided by them, updated from their servers and the device manufacturer only gets to mess around with the GUI. If the manufacturer wants to make changes to the underlying system Google has to make them sign agreements obligating them to implement a certain protocol guaranteeing QA and that they will push regular updates over the lifespan of the device. Unless they do something like that the reputation of Android will always be ruined by sloppy device makers who drop the ball on security.
With ZFS that gives me a mirrored 1TB pool for redundancy working anywhere. 2 SSD drives are 2 OS drives or an OS drive and scratch SSD drive.
2 Wifi cards allows you to connect to separate networks or turn one into an access point. (For those hotels that only allow 1 device on their network at a time.)
So what? You have a an unusual usage cycle for which you buy an unusual laptop. Then you come here to bitch and moan about bog-standard consumer laptops being a bad fit for you and how Apple is a crap company because they don't make a model with 32GB of RAM, 4 hard drives, 2 wifi cards, IEEE1394, 5x USB, eSata, Display Port, VGA, and HDMI for you and the 0.1% of the laptop using public that actually needs a machine like that.
Who is the genius at Apple that thought of making the Power Button and Touch ID the same? It's comedic. Give that guy his own show on Comedy Central. How many people will inadvertently shut off their Mac?
They will need a software fix. But can they make it work properly when stuff is frozen?
You get a nag screen if you push the off button on a Mac much like you get in Windows and most Linuxes today. I'd be pretty surprised if inadvertently shutting the thing down via Touch ID would cause it to shut down without warning and nix all your work.
Are we in the Carribean? Why is it not named the Viking Party, anyway?
The word 'Viking' means something akin to 'maritime raider' in Scandinavian languages which makes it more or less synonymous with 'pirate' and I say more or less because vikings tended to be large amphibious raiding parties or even armies while pirates operated as single ships or small fleets. Your ship or village got robbed by pirates, your entire country could get invaded and occupied by Vikings. Unfortunately the word 'Viking' has also become synonymous with 'medieval Nordic person' so 'Pirate' party is a better name for that party. Calling Nordic people 'Vikings' is a bit like referring to all Americans as 'Hells Angels' or something. I'm avoiding the word 'Scandinavian' here because the hairsplitters will immediately point out that Scandinavians covers only Norwegians/Swedes and Danes to which I usually respond that Scandinavian comes from the Roman word Scandia, which is a name for Norway and Sweden which the Romans thought was an island they named (surprise, surprise...) Scandia. The Danes as far as the Romans were concerned were one of the backwaters of 'Germania Magna' and thus not 'Scandians' or 'Scandinavians'. The Icelanders have a better claim to calling themselves 'Scandinavians' than the Danes since most of their ancestors actually came from 'Scandia' with a significant sprinkling of Scots and Irish. All of this is useless trivia of course but I like to throw it out there because nothing pisses of hairsplitters more than when you hairsplit their hairsplitting..
we just finished prosecuting a mine exec for ignoring safety. It was a big deal because he'll do some jail time, which has almost never happened. The saddest thing is that somewhere is somebody who'll argue we shouldn't have prosecuted that guy because this is what will happen. E.g. it's better to have a job you get killed at than no job at all. Even when there's no good reason for that job to exist anymore. People just can't get over the idea that if you don't work you don't eat.
Actually, the saddest thing is that when they do switch to robots, somebody criminally neglects mine safety and 100 million dollars worth of robots get crushed the consequences for the executives in question will be swifter and harsher than if they'd caused thousands of human workers to die a slow and agonising death from some respiratory disease or toxic poisoning of some kind in which case the consequences would have been an all expenses paid legal defence and golden parachute. As for the workers, I think a good number of them will get work repairing or working with the robots and will be spared respiratory disease and toxic chemicals a whole bunch of others will become dispossessed urban poor and vote for the next Donald Trump.
That was my exact first thought. I'm far from an Apple fanboy, but why the hell is the story framed to sound like they're surreptitiously sharing customer data with the NSA or something
Because that way they get more clicks as the members of the self appointed Apple critics brigade pile in here to vent their rage?
How can they be blamed for bad performance when they are beating earnings expectations? One would think that exceeding expectations should be enough. Shit happens and profits fall once in a while, expecting profits to do nothing but rise year after year is dumb.
Russia is also in the list of top weapons selling companies.
At least Russia didn't sell weapons / training to the Afghan mujahideen, the Saudis, most of the dictators in latin america for the past couple centuries, or Syran opposition who openly collaborate with terrorists.
Ah, yes, Russia the good guy that never sells weapons to morally questionable governments. Actually they just recently made deals to sell weapons to the Saudis and have also sold weapons to Iran, they have sold weapons to S-America: Venezuela, Peru, they sold plenty of weapons to Cuba during the past few decades (not sure where you are going with centuries there) as well as the mafia that passes for Syria's government, the Genocidal maniacs that pass for Sudan's government, the Junta in Myanmar... would you like me to go on?
you.... do know "CERN" is NOT a European city right??
Sure, CERN is an organisation headquartered in Geneva, a European city. Now stop screaming in such a shrill voice over a simple typo, it makes our ears ache.
This is such a shill response. The difference is Facebook isn't a news outlet. You watch Fox or CNN knowing that its right or left biased.
Facebook welcomes people right, left, up, down, purple, green, magenta, and so on. Its an open platform for dialogue. If heads of that company are giving advantages to one candidate over another and are leveraging their platform to do so, or enforcing rules more strictly towards those with a different point of view, then that's what this article is referring to.
When Biff Tanner for President says the election is rigged, he doesn't mean voter fraud/rigging. He means the whole election process, campaigns, media coverage, etc.. to drown out opposing views, ignore the controversies about their person of choice, and further push a pre-determined collaborated narrative under the illusion of independent or neutral platforms. Vote manipulation happened within the primaries. Enough with this Russia crap already.
Evidence has come out again and again that these emails were not altered (thank you, DKIM), and that James Clapper, the one who lied under oath about NSA domestic spying, and pushed the false narrative of WMD's, is the one saying that. Do you really think the Coast Guard, Department of Energy, DEA, US Marine Corps Intel, etc.. are supporting this claim despite being out of their scope? Russia seems to be the scapegoat that she loves to use over and over again, even against Bernie according to the leaks.
Well now you know, Facebook is left/liberal biased (which was kind of obvvious before this stunning revalation) much like the overwhming majority of the tech sector. Get over it. They are doing nothing the right wing media and players like the Koch brothers haven't been doing for years.
If this pans out (have my doubts), even if the capacity is only increased five fold, there will be two kinds of car companies, those that go electric and those who go the way of camera manufacturers who bet on film cameras being the future and waited too long to go digital.
If you think that's news you are beyond naïve. Karl Rove, the Republican's master of dirty political tricks, probably watched the news of that one break and thought to himself 'You screwed the republican candidate and your democrat rival with the same gimmick? That's a good one Hillary, respect...'.
If the watermark is only added to one sound channel, the required processing power is not that large.
Eventually content providers will learn that people who watch a pirated stream will not pay for the content when the pirate stream is somehow prevented, so money spend on preventing piracy has a negative ROI.
That is a tired argument and it is not true. I pirate Amazon Prime shows because "We are sorry but Amazon Prime is not available in your region.". I subscribe to Netflix because they have no such bullshit policy although the size of their catalog depends on agreements with rights holders in each country. When I go to the UK, for example, the number of films and shows I can view grows much larger but I still get BS like being able to watch all the Harry Potter films but not numbers 3,4 and 6 because of licensing/rights issues. Which is another reason I pirate stuff, I was able to watch the first season of "The 100" and wanted to see the rest but in 'my region' seasons 2 and 3 are not available because local right holders don't want to give them to Netflix because they are not through re-running them in weekly instalments on cable TV so, being once again left with no alternative, I pirated them. Finally I subscribe to video streaming services simply because I can't be bothered with the annoyances that come with torrenting like malware and simply having to download three or four torrent files before finding one that actually gives me a decent download speed. I would gladly pay for a bundle of streaming subscriptions because the bundle would cost me less monthly than my current cable subscription and I would get more value for my money out of streaming services. The more of their own content these video streaming services create the happier I will be with their service since Netflix at least makes their own content available everywhere without bullshit regional restrictions due to licensing agreements.
Yeah, imagine the sales pitch (in a heavy Russian accent): Let your sat nav guide you into the Moskva river, enjoy a river cruise and take a bath while travelling to work! Just don't forget to install an outboard motor in the boot of your car and mind the airliners when you drive across the runways at Sheremetyevo airport.
This is why I always felt JDAMs were a bad idea in the long run because their INS is less accurate without GPS assistance and a discrepancy like this must really screw up the guidance if GPS assistance is switched on.
The problem with original content, from anyone, is that, for the most part, such original content will suck to high heaven. For each hit like, say, Cheers, there are hundreds of flops that, justly, remain in oblivion. I am all for new shows and movies - but I want access to classic hits. Complete access, not this garbage whereby things appear and disappear more or less randomly. Until this happens, piracy will carry on rampant.
But you are not everybody and most people do not want to watch old stuff over and over again. Most of the Netflix original content ranges from excellent to pretty OK and my only response to the idea of them making more of it is that it can't happen fast enough and the same goes for every other similar service out there. The thing that is currently holding up these streaming services is, as you point out, the tangled up cluster-fuck of a legal spiderweb that is visual media licensing. Some licensing agreement expires and a bunch of titles disappear from Netflix because Rupert Murdoch or some other dickhead media oligarch wants to shield his TV networks from competition. Another example is, say that I move from, oh... Germany to Austria and a bunch of stuff disappears from my favourites list because the local rights owners in Austria did not want to give Netflix access to stuff Netflix hat access to in Germany. This kind of thing is just going to force two developments in services like Netflix. Firstly visual streaming services will start making their own material because they have to in order to survive. Secondly they will augment their own stuff by buying material directly form indie content creators. Visual media services are not going away if content rights owners starve them anymore than music streaming went away when rights holders killed off Napster. What happened when they killed off Napster is iTunes, Spotify, and friends and they are to a large extent outside of the control of the music industry's old gatekeepers. Those guys found themselves replaced by new gate keepers and distributors. Similarly visual media streaming services will kill off traditional TV and the harder the old guard tries to prevent that, and the bigger the library of their own original content services like Netflix build up, the faster traditional TV will die and quite frankly... good riddance.
You don't seem to understand. Everyone now knows that Samsung is the evil devil and Apple is their saviour who could do no wrong. Samsung's phones explode because the company is actively trying to kill off it's foreign customers. If an iPhone ever exploded it would be entirely because the user was containing the energy wrong.
I thought this entire exploding Samsung phone thing was Apples fault? Pray, enlighten me oh bitter and hateful one... I am confused.
Facebook once forgot to renew some certificate on one of its user tracking systems. For about half a day I could not go anywhere on the internet with the exception of a few really ancient pages written in archaic HTML without getting at least three nag-windows complaining about an expired Facebook SSL certificate.
Slashdot Mirror
Google Rejects EU Antitrust Charges, Says Evidence is Lacking
They and everybody else ever accused of anti trust violations.
"The referendum had a 72.2% turnout. That makes the final results 37.5% leave, 34.7% remain, 27.8% abstain. That's a really crappy majority to claim that you have a mandate."
No it bloody well isn't. The date of the referendum was announced LONG before it happened. There was NO excuse for any fir and healthy person not to vote either directly or by post, and if they didn't then it was clearly because they didn't give a damn one way or the other. So YES, the 37.5% leave IS a good mandate and its a damn site better than you get in any general election for the winning party.
Bollocks! The ones that abstained basically signalled with their abstention that they don't give a sh*t so that renders them irrelevant. That leaves the leavers and the remainers and a margin of 2% of one of those group over the other is not an overwhelming mandate, it isn't even a good mandate, that's a "by the skin of your teeth" mandate. Even Nigel Farage, went on record saying that a 52/48 result would solve nothing and that he would demand another referendum if that happened. Predictably, he saw no need for a do-over when the referendum went 52/48 in his favour. When you are deciding an issue by plebiscite that is as divisive as the EU membership is you want to get a really powerful mandate and the entry level percentage for that is about 60% of those that chose not to abstain. Britain will be torn up by this issue because of the weak mandate the leavers got in that referendum for decades and that incessant bickering will hurt your country badly.
Bullshit. This was the only possible outcome. The British constitution (which is a complicated written but not codified body of things from the Magna Carta onwards) is very clear that Parliament is sovereign. Nothing overrides that. People complaining that it's undemocratic seem to have forgotten several things:
Given the demographics of the voters in the referendum, I would expect that most MPs will vote to invoke Article 50, but it would set a very dangerous precedent if the Prime Minister could do so without their vote.
The Brexiteers have been screaming their heads off for years about the erosion of democracy because of that 'un-elected tyrannical empire that is the EU'. Now that they have gotten an undiluted intravenous injection of democracy they are suddenly screaming their heads off about how unhappy they are about that. Democracy has a habit of turning into a bitch when it shoots a torpedo into your pet project.
The batteries will probably still explode and the phone will probably still run an outdated version of Android. Using one of those phones will almost certainly be hazardous to your privacy, security, and your health. Who cares about garbage Android phones? It's Linux, and Linux is shit.
Don't be so pessimistic. At least you'll literally be getting lots of bang for your buck.
Security is always a moving target. While it's possible your leading edge phone is as secure as the leading iphone, what matters to security is how many people are running an older OS. Androids are always going to be running non-updatable OS just because of the bussiness model. So in terms of numbers of exploitable phones, swaths of the andorid ecosystem will be less secure than Apple ecosystem.
The thing is that the overwhelming majority of iOS users is usually at the latest OS version after a while and most of the rest are at the second oldest, after that the usage percentage drops off a cliff:
https://david-smith.org/iosver...
For Android users the picture is different, only about a third of users is at the latest version with the rest being at older versions:
http://www.droid-life.com/tag/...
This is to be expected since Android is open source, it gets used by a whole slew of manufacturers and while you can point to ones that do a good job with updates like Google it self or a somewhat reasonable one like Samsung (have had some bad experiences with their orphaned Android devices), there is a vast number of Android device makers that either orphan devices or drag their feet excessively with updates or just orphan devices as a matter of course. So while there are manufacturers that do a bang-up-job of keeping their Android devices secure, making shure the the entire Android fleet can match the update stats of iOS is a practical impossibility the way things stand at the moment. The only way to really change this is for Google to make sure that the underlying OS is provided by them, updated from their servers and the device manufacturer only gets to mess around with the GUI. If the manufacturer wants to make changes to the underlying system Google has to make them sign agreements obligating them to implement a certain protocol guaranteeing QA and that they will push regular updates over the lifespan of the device. Unless they do something like that the reputation of Android will always be ruined by sloppy device makers who drop the ball on security.
Because you know my usage cycle best?
With ZFS that gives me a mirrored 1TB pool for redundancy working anywhere. 2 SSD drives are 2 OS drives or an OS drive and scratch SSD drive.
2 Wifi cards allows you to connect to separate networks or turn one into an access point. (For those hotels that only allow 1 device on their network at a time.)
So what? You have a an unusual usage cycle for which you buy an unusual laptop. Then you come here to bitch and moan about bog-standard consumer laptops being a bad fit for you and how Apple is a crap company because they don't make a model with 32GB of RAM, 4 hard drives, 2 wifi cards, IEEE1394, 5x USB, eSata, Display Port, VGA, and HDMI for you and the 0.1% of the laptop using public that actually needs a machine like that.
Who is the genius at Apple that thought of making the Power Button and Touch ID the same? It's comedic. Give that guy his own show on Comedy Central. How many people will inadvertently shut off their Mac?
They will need a software fix. But can they make it work properly when stuff is frozen?
You get a nag screen if you push the off button on a Mac much like you get in Windows and most Linuxes today. I'd be pretty surprised if inadvertently shutting the thing down via Touch ID would cause it to shut down without warning and nix all your work.
Are we in the Carribean? Why is it not named the Viking Party, anyway?
The word 'Viking' means something akin to 'maritime raider' in Scandinavian languages which makes it more or less synonymous with 'pirate' and I say more or less because vikings tended to be large amphibious raiding parties or even armies while pirates operated as single ships or small fleets. Your ship or village got robbed by pirates, your entire country could get invaded and occupied by Vikings. Unfortunately the word 'Viking' has also become synonymous with 'medieval Nordic person' so 'Pirate' party is a better name for that party. Calling Nordic people 'Vikings' is a bit like referring to all Americans as 'Hells Angels' or something. I'm avoiding the word 'Scandinavian' here because the hairsplitters will immediately point out that Scandinavians covers only Norwegians/Swedes and Danes to which I usually respond that Scandinavian comes from the Roman word Scandia, which is a name for Norway and Sweden which the Romans thought was an island they named (surprise, surprise...) Scandia. The Danes as far as the Romans were concerned were one of the backwaters of 'Germania Magna' and thus not 'Scandians' or 'Scandinavians'. The Icelanders have a better claim to calling themselves 'Scandinavians' than the Danes since most of their ancestors actually came from 'Scandia' with a significant sprinkling of Scots and Irish. All of this is useless trivia of course but I like to throw it out there because nothing pisses of hairsplitters more than when you hairsplit their hairsplitting..
we just finished prosecuting a mine exec for ignoring safety. It was a big deal because he'll do some jail time, which has almost never happened. The saddest thing is that somewhere is somebody who'll argue we shouldn't have prosecuted that guy because this is what will happen. E.g. it's better to have a job you get killed at than no job at all. Even when there's no good reason for that job to exist anymore. People just can't get over the idea that if you don't work you don't eat.
Actually, the saddest thing is that when they do switch to robots, somebody criminally neglects mine safety and 100 million dollars worth of robots get crushed the consequences for the executives in question will be swifter and harsher than if they'd caused thousands of human workers to die a slow and agonising death from some respiratory disease or toxic poisoning of some kind in which case the consequences would have been an all expenses paid legal defence and golden parachute. As for the workers, I think a good number of them will get work repairing or working with the robots and will be spared respiratory disease and toxic chemicals a whole bunch of others will become dispossessed urban poor and vote for the next Donald Trump.
That was my exact first thought. I'm far from an Apple fanboy, but why the hell is the story framed to sound like they're surreptitiously sharing customer data with the NSA or something
Because that way they get more clicks as the members of the self appointed Apple critics brigade pile in here to vent their rage?
Microsoft is desperate both to get their hands on some decent PCs, and also to get rid of Surfaces...
That offer would be pretty nice if the Surface came preloaded with Linux.
How can they be blamed for bad performance when they are beating earnings expectations? One would think that exceeding expectations should be enough. Shit happens and profits fall once in a while, expecting profits to do nothing but rise year after year is dumb.
At least Russia didn't sell weapons / training to the Afghan mujahideen, the Saudis, most of the dictators in latin america for the past couple centuries, or Syran opposition who openly collaborate with terrorists.
Ah, yes, Russia the good guy that never sells weapons to morally questionable governments. Actually they just recently made deals to sell weapons to the Saudis and have also sold weapons to Iran, they have sold weapons to S-America: Venezuela, Peru, they sold plenty of weapons to Cuba during the past few decades (not sure where you are going with centuries there) as well as the mafia that passes for Syria's government, the Genocidal maniacs that pass for Sudan's government, the Junta in Myanmar... would you like me to go on?
you.... do know "CERN" is NOT a European city right??
Sure, CERN is an organisation headquartered in Geneva, a European city. Now stop screaming in such a shrill voice over a simple typo, it makes our ears ache.
Good thing comparisons don't change the fact that most of the world hates the USA and Russia equally, and don't excuse either being such assholes.
No, not equally. The USA is bad Russia is worse.
This is such a shill response. The difference is Facebook isn't a news outlet. You watch Fox or CNN knowing that its right or left biased.
Facebook welcomes people right, left, up, down, purple, green, magenta, and so on. Its an open platform for dialogue. If heads of that company are giving advantages to one candidate over another and are leveraging their platform to do so, or enforcing rules more strictly towards those with a different point of view, then that's what this article is referring to.
When Biff Tanner for President says the election is rigged, he doesn't mean voter fraud/rigging. He means the whole election process, campaigns, media coverage, etc.. to drown out opposing views, ignore the controversies about their person of choice, and further push a pre-determined collaborated narrative under the illusion of independent or neutral platforms. Vote manipulation happened within the primaries. Enough with this Russia crap already.
Evidence has come out again and again that these emails were not altered (thank you, DKIM), and that James Clapper, the one who lied under oath about NSA domestic spying, and pushed the false narrative of WMD's, is the one saying that. Do you really think the Coast Guard, Department of Energy, DEA, US Marine Corps Intel, etc.. are supporting this claim despite being out of their scope? Russia seems to be the scapegoat that she loves to use over and over again, even against Bernie according to the leaks.
Well now you know, Facebook is left/liberal biased (which was kind of obvvious before this stunning revalation) much like the overwhming majority of the tech sector. Get over it. They are doing nothing the right wing media and players like the Koch brothers haven't been doing for years.
If this pans out (have my doubts), even if the capacity is only increased five fold, there will be two kinds of car companies, those that go electric and those who go the way of camera manufacturers who bet on film cameras being the future and waited too long to go digital.
People on the Democratic payroll (MoveOn, specifically) were responsible for staging the violence at Trump rallies and then blamed Sanders supporters for it.
If you think that's news you are beyond naïve. Karl Rove, the Republican's master of dirty political tricks, probably watched the news of that one break and thought to himself 'You screwed the republican candidate and your democrat rival with the same gimmick? That's a good one Hillary, respect ...'.
If the watermark is only added to one sound channel, the required processing power is not that large. Eventually content providers will learn that people who watch a pirated stream will not pay for the content when the pirate stream is somehow prevented, so money spend on preventing piracy has a negative ROI.
That is a tired argument and it is not true. I pirate Amazon Prime shows because "We are sorry but Amazon Prime is not available in your region.". I subscribe to Netflix because they have no such bullshit policy although the size of their catalog depends on agreements with rights holders in each country. When I go to the UK, for example, the number of films and shows I can view grows much larger but I still get BS like being able to watch all the Harry Potter films but not numbers 3,4 and 6 because of licensing/rights issues. Which is another reason I pirate stuff, I was able to watch the first season of "The 100" and wanted to see the rest but in 'my region' seasons 2 and 3 are not available because local right holders don't want to give them to Netflix because they are not through re-running them in weekly instalments on cable TV so, being once again left with no alternative, I pirated them. Finally I subscribe to video streaming services simply because I can't be bothered with the annoyances that come with torrenting like malware and simply having to download three or four torrent files before finding one that actually gives me a decent download speed. I would gladly pay for a bundle of streaming subscriptions because the bundle would cost me less monthly than my current cable subscription and I would get more value for my money out of streaming services. The more of their own content these video streaming services create the happier I will be with their service since Netflix at least makes their own content available everywhere without bullshit regional restrictions due to licensing agreements.
This is a feature not a bug.
Yeah, imagine the sales pitch (in a heavy Russian accent): Let your sat nav guide you into the Moskva river, enjoy a river cruise and take a bath while travelling to work! Just don't forget to install an outboard motor in the boot of your car and mind the airliners when you drive across the runways at Sheremetyevo airport.
This is why I always felt JDAMs were a bad idea in the long run because their INS is less accurate without GPS assistance and a discrepancy like this must really screw up the guidance if GPS assistance is switched on.
The problem with original content, from anyone, is that, for the most part, such original content will suck to high heaven. For each hit like, say, Cheers, there are hundreds of flops that, justly, remain in oblivion. I am all for new shows and movies - but I want access to classic hits. Complete access, not this garbage whereby things appear and disappear more or less randomly. Until this happens, piracy will carry on rampant.
But you are not everybody and most people do not want to watch old stuff over and over again. Most of the Netflix original content ranges from excellent to pretty OK and my only response to the idea of them making more of it is that it can't happen fast enough and the same goes for every other similar service out there. The thing that is currently holding up these streaming services is, as you point out, the tangled up cluster-fuck of a legal spiderweb that is visual media licensing. Some licensing agreement expires and a bunch of titles disappear from Netflix because Rupert Murdoch or some other dickhead media oligarch wants to shield his TV networks from competition. Another example is, say that I move from, oh... Germany to Austria and a bunch of stuff disappears from my favourites list because the local rights owners in Austria did not want to give Netflix access to stuff Netflix hat access to in Germany. This kind of thing is just going to force two developments in services like Netflix. Firstly visual streaming services will start making their own material because they have to in order to survive. Secondly they will augment their own stuff by buying material directly form indie content creators. Visual media services are not going away if content rights owners starve them anymore than music streaming went away when rights holders killed off Napster. What happened when they killed off Napster is iTunes, Spotify, and friends and they are to a large extent outside of the control of the music industry's old gatekeepers. Those guys found themselves replaced by new gate keepers and distributors. Similarly visual media streaming services will kill off traditional TV and the harder the old guard tries to prevent that, and the bigger the library of their own original content services like Netflix build up, the faster traditional TV will die and quite frankly... good riddance.
You don't seem to understand. Everyone now knows that Samsung is the evil devil and Apple is their saviour who could do no wrong. Samsung's phones explode because the company is actively trying to kill off it's foreign customers. If an iPhone ever exploded it would be entirely because the user was containing the energy wrong.
I thought this entire exploding Samsung phone thing was Apples fault? Pray, enlighten me oh bitter and hateful one... I am confused.
Facebook once forgot to renew some certificate on one of its user tracking systems. For about half a day I could not go anywhere on the internet with the exception of a few really ancient pages written in archaic HTML without getting at least three nag-windows complaining about an expired Facebook SSL certificate.
... I would have gone and bought another kettle and then spent those 11 hours on some other pursuit.