For a sample size of one (myself), I agree...I often prefer their original content over the giant list of 80s and 90s 1-star movies that are mind-numbing drek.
Also, is it just me, or do most people spend more time searching for something worthwhile to watch on Netflix than actually watching? Sometimes I just give up in frustration after searching for 20 minutes trying to find something that looks worth watching.
At this point, I figure that if I'm annoying you I must be on about the right track
Yes, you're an annoying asshole, we can certainly all agree on that. It seems to be the one thing in life that you've managed to master. You've no job, no wife/girlfriend, no family, no home, no career, but you're tops in the "annoying asshole" dept. Good job, goober!
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In other words, I made an argument you can't hope to rebut, so you fling poo instead.
No, everyone else here has debunked your 'argument' so there's no need for me to humiliate you further.
Every nurse I've ever known (both male and female) has told me the exact opposite. The schedules are usually managed centrally and switching them around is a nightmare, especially if you're not a senior member of the staff. Maybe they were all lying just to try and keep me from entering the nursing field and sucking up all the good schedule slots.
If women choose not to go into computing fields, why should they be forced (or even encouraged) to do so?
Why isn't there a similar push to get men into kindergarten education or nursing?
How about letting people pick the field(s) they want to go into without telling them what they "ought" to do based on a pointless metric or percentage?
I categorically refuse to buy any firearm that depends on electronics to fire. A gun needs to work when you need it, with no tucking around.
-jcr
Exactly. I'm an EDC for over 30 years, and there's no way I'd ever carry a gun that needs a battery to function. When I pull the trigger, I don't want a low-battery message, I want it to go "bang", period.
The fact is that 99.999999999% of firearm owners DO NOT want this "feature".
I've said it before and I'll say it again: when I pull the trigger on my sidearm, I want it to go "bang". I don't want a beep or a chime or a low-battery error message, I want it to go "bang", plain and simple. I've carried daily for over 30 years, and I won't carry any firearm that requires a battery to fire.
I don't give a flying fuck how enthusiastic other people are for my gun to have a fingerprint reader, I don't want it. I don't want any electronics in or on my gun that could possibly cause it to malfunction when I pull the trigger, period. After 50+ years of experience with electronics, from consumer-grade junk to mil-spec gear, there is no electronic doodad that I'd trust not to malfunction at a critical moment.
If these are so great, let the military and the police use them for a decade or two, then I'll think about following suit.
Where does copyright infringement enter into this? This is about proving intent, which any lawyer will tell you can be very, very difficult.
They may catch some people doing this, but the majority will not be affected nor deterred by this poorly thought out law. As I keep saying, if they really want to throttle the renting of AirBnB places, they should craft a law that specifies something like "no more than 30 days rental allowed in any 6-month period". That would be much easier to track and enforce.
If an ISP as a whole is being a problem then all you have to do is block their v6 allocations, which is no harder than blocking their v4 allocations.
You're talking about blocking 10 million or maybe 100 million IP addresses, and in that range are going to be some (or even many) legitimate users. Also, there's no guarantee that the address space will be contiguous, it may be broken up into various blocks. If they have their way then it will almost certainly be spread across many, many different blocks of IP addresses.
And finally, in addition to being spread out over many ISPs and many blocks, they'll almost certainly be using IP-shifting, fast-flux, or other masking techniques that will make this a whack-a-mole problem that anti-spam services will never be able to keep up with.
These people aren't amateurs, they know what they're doing, they have lots and lots of money and talented people at their disposal, and they're thinking ahead. And that's just the RBN.
To think that this is going to be solved by blocking a few ranges of IPs is really kind of naive.
I think it'd be pretty easy to prove once Air BnB's records show that you had already rented the room in advance
But that's just it, you're not renting it in advance. You'd be relisting it as soon as the current renter vacated the property or upon notice that they were leaving. People will do this and it'll be a never-ending cat and mouse game that the authorities won't win due to manpower and time constraints. Sure, they may pick off a few of the obvious cases but it'll be like drug smuggling- they'll get 1% of the violators and the other 99% will slide by.
Again, if they want to throttle AirBnB renting they should craft a law that specifies "no more than 30 days rental allowed in any 6-month period" or something like that.
It's not that uncommon to simply cut through the frame of a high end bike, pinch the whole thing then sell off the parts. Bike thieves are scum.
True and true.
In Seattle they'll sometimes cut away part of the bike stand (the part you lock the bike to) and then cover the cut out part with some decorative metal tape. You lock your bike up, they come along later and slit the tape, then slide the bike and the lock right off the stand through the cut. They're clever little scumbags, I'll give them that.
You walk out of a store with something you didn't pay for once. You do it ten times a day.
Are they the same thing?
Lol, with all due respect, that's a terrible analogy.
Where, exactly, is the theft in renting the property? No one is "walking out" of anything without paying, and both parties (the owner and the renter) get exactly what they want. Now the city might get its panties in a bunch, but again they'd have to track all this and prove that the whole thing was intentional. I think that would be harder to do in a court of law than it seems.
Joe Sixpack rents a place, but then he "has to cancel" and leave early *cough*. He pays the owner an "early-termination penalty", and then the owner would, of course, relist the room to be rented.
Where is the crime, and how would anyone prove that anything illegal had occurred? Yes, if this happened every week for a year it *might* be evidence of a pattern, but then again, it might not. There's some plausible deniability there.
Again, if they really want to throttle the renting of AirBnB places, they should craft a law that specifies something like "no more than 30 days rental allowed in any 6-month period". That would be much easier to track and enforce.
But, if you offer the property (and accept renters) for every week with a 60 day overlapping term, the first time someone accepted your offer and discovered they couldn't stay because the prior renter decided not to exercise their "early out" option and stayed for their full 60 days, they will (rightfully) excoriate you on Airbnb
I may not have been clear in my explanation, so let me try again.
If someone rents the property and it's supposed to be for a 60 day period, they can use that full 60 days if they want (after all, that was the agreement). They can also leave after a week if they want, and pay some minor "penalty" for leaving early.
The owner won't offer the property as "available" again until the renter actually vacates the property, whether that's the full 60 days or after a single week. As soon as the property is available, the owner simply relists it again as open for booking. In short, no conflicting bookings would be made. It only becomes available for renting after it's been vacated.
The sudden, "unplanned" availability may even work in the owner's favor in some cases, since suddenly there's a rental available in an area that may not have had an opening the day before. "Hey, honey, look- a place on the upper East side just became available, let's grab it!" And *boom*, it's rented again.
"Dan Drew, chief security officer at Level 3 Communications, says the attack is at least in part being mounted from a "botnet" of Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices."
Gee, who could have seen this coming? Oh, that's right, lots of people, including me.
The IoT (Internet of Terrors) is upon us. Buckle up, baby. It's going to be a bumpy ride and it's going to get worse before it gets better...if it ever does, that is.
Personally I'm not holding out much hope- the damage is done. Millions and millions of craptastic insecure IoT gadgets are out there right now, happily botting away.
Even if starting tomorrow every single new gadget sold was 100% secure, it's too late- the world's infrastructure is already infected with mountains of this consumer-grade garbage that will be around for a long, long time.
Except that in reality some ISPs are owned by the Russian Business Network (RBN), and they'll be given 100 million IPs to play with, and then another 100 million, and so on. The RBN owns lots of ISPs that are known for their friendliness towards "bulletproof" hosting companies and for working hand-in-hand with spammers.
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The spammer would either need a new block of addresses from the ISP or a new ISP, effectively the same situation you have now with IPv4.
No, it's not the same situation because the address space that will be available to these criminal ISPs will be magnitudes of order larger than with IPV4. An ISP now may have a hundred thousand IPs to allocate (if that many), but now they'll have tens or hundreds of millions.
Seriously, this is going to be a problem, and more than a few security professionals have been discussing this problem for a while now.
If it happens on a weekly basis, let me tell you, lawyers nor are judges are that naive.
I'm not so sure. They'd have to prove that was your intent, and I don't see how they could do that. Some rentals DO end prematurely and in an area with high-turnover who's to say this isn't exactly what's happening?
If they want to throttle the renting they should craft a law that specifies "no more than 30 days rental allowed in any 6-month period" or something like that.
and you now have no renters lined up because you couldn't put it on the market until the one-week guy gave you your $20 cancellation fee and left (because you had made a commitment to the full 60 day term).
I don't think AirBnB locks you out of relisting it for the proposed rental time if a rental is taken and then ends prematurely, I think you just go in and mark it as available again. If I'm mistaken, let me know.
Yeah, you may lose a few days here and there, but then again maybe not- it all depends on the demand. If it's available on short notice, so much the better for some people.
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Once 99.999% of people realized that smartwatches were useless over-hyped bullshit, the word got out and even the gadget-whores stopped buying them.
Smartwatches were a 'solution' in search of a problem that didn't exist. Virtually all of them are gathering dust in drawers, forgotten and forsaken.
For a sample size of one (myself), I agree...I often prefer their original content over the giant list of 80s and 90s 1-star movies that are mind-numbing drek.
Also, is it just me, or do most people spend more time searching for something worthwhile to watch on Netflix than actually watching? Sometimes I just give up in frustration after searching for 20 minutes trying to find something that looks worth watching.
1) Your link doesn't work. Can't you even manage that?
2) Your pointless drivel is the reason everyone on this site thinks you're a dimwit.
Some people are hard of hearing, but you're hard of thinking.
At this point, I figure that if I'm annoying you I must be on about the right track
Yes, you're an annoying asshole, we can certainly all agree on that. It seems to be the one thing in life that you've managed to master. You've no job, no wife/girlfriend, no family, no home, no career, but you're tops in the "annoying asshole" dept. Good job, goober!
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In other words, I made an argument you can't hope to rebut, so you fling poo instead.
No, everyone else here has debunked your 'argument' so there's no need for me to humiliate you further.
Obviously you are going to define this as a problem that society has foisted upon women. No matter what the other arguments may be.
If you expect any logic or common sense from serviscope_minor, you're going to be disappointed. He could easily be replaced by a machine that flushes.
and it also allows flexible scheduling
Every nurse I've ever known (both male and female) has told me the exact opposite. The schedules are usually managed centrally and switching them around is a nightmare, especially if you're not a senior member of the staff. Maybe they were all lying just to try and keep me from entering the nursing field and sucking up all the good schedule slots.
I'm pretty sure you were trying to intentionally misinterpret my post there. Kind of sad to see you got modded up for it.
It's really just more of an indication that you're an irredeemable and thoroughly predictable fucktard.
I knew the moment I saw that you'd replied to my comment that it would be some dickhole bullshit, spun up from your gun-slit view of the world.
Why the fuck are you so ignorant?
Why are you so tightly wound?
If women choose not to go into computing fields, why should they be forced (or even encouraged) to do so?
Why isn't there a similar push to get men into kindergarten education or nursing?
How about letting people pick the field(s) they want to go into without telling them what they "ought" to do based on a pointless metric or percentage?
Exactly. I'm a cowardly bitch for over 30 years...
...says the Anonymous Coward. O DA IRONY.
I categorically refuse to buy any firearm that depends on electronics to fire. A gun needs to work when you need it, with no tucking around.
-jcr
Exactly. I'm an EDC for over 30 years, and there's no way I'd ever carry a gun that needs a battery to function. When I pull the trigger, I don't want a low-battery message, I want it to go "bang", period.
Not this bullshit again....
The fact is that 99.999999999% of firearm owners DO NOT want this "feature".
I've said it before and I'll say it again: when I pull the trigger on my sidearm, I want it to go "bang". I don't want a beep or a chime or a low-battery error message, I want it to go "bang", plain and simple. I've carried daily for over 30 years, and I won't carry any firearm that requires a battery to fire.
I don't give a flying fuck how enthusiastic other people are for my gun to have a fingerprint reader, I don't want it. I don't want any electronics in or on my gun that could possibly cause it to malfunction when I pull the trigger, period. After 50+ years of experience with electronics, from consumer-grade junk to mil-spec gear, there is no electronic doodad that I'd trust not to malfunction at a critical moment.
If these are so great, let the military and the police use them for a decade or two, then I'll think about following suit.
Technically, copyright infringement isn't theft.
Where does copyright infringement enter into this? This is about proving intent, which any lawyer will tell you can be very, very difficult.
They may catch some people doing this, but the majority will not be affected nor deterred by this poorly thought out law. As I keep saying, if they really want to throttle the renting of AirBnB places, they should craft a law that specifies something like "no more than 30 days rental allowed in any 6-month period". That would be much easier to track and enforce.
If an ISP as a whole is being a problem then all you have to do is block their v6 allocations, which is no harder than blocking their v4 allocations.
You're talking about blocking 10 million or maybe 100 million IP addresses, and in that range are going to be some (or even many) legitimate users. Also, there's no guarantee that the address space will be contiguous, it may be broken up into various blocks. If they have their way then it will almost certainly be spread across many, many different blocks of IP addresses.
And finally, in addition to being spread out over many ISPs and many blocks, they'll almost certainly be using IP-shifting, fast-flux, or other masking techniques that will make this a whack-a-mole problem that anti-spam services will never be able to keep up with.
These people aren't amateurs, they know what they're doing, they have lots and lots of money and talented people at their disposal, and they're thinking ahead. And that's just the RBN.
To think that this is going to be solved by blocking a few ranges of IPs is really kind of naive.
Good thing they're not being evil about it. *cough*
I think it'd be pretty easy to prove once Air BnB's records show that you had already rented the room in advance
But that's just it, you're not renting it in advance. You'd be relisting it as soon as the current renter vacated the property or upon notice that they were leaving. People will do this and it'll be a never-ending cat and mouse game that the authorities won't win due to manpower and time constraints. Sure, they may pick off a few of the obvious cases but it'll be like drug smuggling- they'll get 1% of the violators and the other 99% will slide by.
Again, if they want to throttle AirBnB renting they should craft a law that specifies "no more than 30 days rental allowed in any 6-month period" or something like that.
It's not that uncommon to simply cut through the frame of a high end bike, pinch the whole thing then sell off the parts.
Bike thieves are scum.
True and true.
In Seattle they'll sometimes cut away part of the bike stand (the part you lock the bike to) and then cover the cut out part with some decorative metal tape. You lock your bike up, they come along later and slit the tape, then slide the bike and the lock right off the stand through the cut. They're clever little scumbags, I'll give them that.
No, because chilli sauce, onion juice etc. can have the same effects.
Yes, but people consume those willingly and deliberately.
If you go around spraying people in the face with chili sauce or onion juice, expect to be arrested for assault and battery.
You walk out of a store with something you didn't pay for once. You do it ten times a day.
Are they the same thing?
Lol, with all due respect, that's a terrible analogy.
Where, exactly, is the theft in renting the property? No one is "walking out" of anything without paying, and both parties (the owner and the renter) get exactly what they want. Now the city might get its panties in a bunch, but again they'd have to track all this and prove that the whole thing was intentional. I think that would be harder to do in a court of law than it seems.
Joe Sixpack rents a place, but then he "has to cancel" and leave early *cough*. He pays the owner an "early-termination penalty", and then the owner would, of course, relist the room to be rented.
Where is the crime, and how would anyone prove that anything illegal had occurred? Yes, if this happened every week for a year it *might* be evidence of a pattern, but then again, it might not. There's some plausible deniability there.
Again, if they really want to throttle the renting of AirBnB places, they should craft a law that specifies something like "no more than 30 days rental allowed in any 6-month period". That would be much easier to track and enforce.
But, if you offer the property (and accept renters) for every week with a 60 day overlapping term, the first time someone accepted your offer and discovered they couldn't stay because the prior renter decided not to exercise their "early out" option and stayed for their full 60 days, they will (rightfully) excoriate you on Airbnb
I may not have been clear in my explanation, so let me try again.
If someone rents the property and it's supposed to be for a 60 day period, they can use that full 60 days if they want (after all, that was the agreement). They can also leave after a week if they want, and pay some minor "penalty" for leaving early.
The owner won't offer the property as "available" again until the renter actually vacates the property, whether that's the full 60 days or after a single week. As soon as the property is available, the owner simply relists it again as open for booking. In short, no conflicting bookings would be made. It only becomes available for renting after it's been vacated.
The sudden, "unplanned" availability may even work in the owner's favor in some cases, since suddenly there's a rental available in an area that may not have had an opening the day before. "Hey, honey, look- a place on the upper East side just became available, let's grab it!" And *boom*, it's rented again.
If you take down critical infrastructure, you should expect law enforcement to shoot to kill.
This works for me. Or can we get a Kickstarter going to fund some hunter-killer teams?
"Dan Drew, chief security officer at Level 3 Communications, says the attack is at least in part being mounted from a "botnet" of Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices."
Gee, who could have seen this coming? Oh, that's right, lots of people, including me.
The IoT (Internet of Terrors) is upon us. Buckle up, baby. It's going to be a bumpy ride and it's going to get worse before it gets better...if it ever does, that is.
Personally I'm not holding out much hope- the damage is done. Millions and millions of craptastic insecure IoT gadgets are out there right now, happily botting away.
Even if starting tomorrow every single new gadget sold was 100% secure, it's too late- the world's infrastructure is already infected with mountains of this consumer-grade garbage that will be around for a long, long time.
Except that in reality the way it works...
Except that in reality some ISPs are owned by the Russian Business Network (RBN), and they'll be given 100 million IPs to play with, and then another 100 million, and so on. The RBN owns lots of ISPs that are known for their friendliness towards "bulletproof" hosting companies and for working hand-in-hand with spammers.
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The spammer would either need a new block of addresses from the ISP or a new ISP, effectively the same situation you have now with IPv4.
No, it's not the same situation because the address space that will be available to these criminal ISPs will be magnitudes of order larger than with IPV4. An ISP now may have a hundred thousand IPs to allocate (if that many), but now they'll have tens or hundreds of millions.
Seriously, this is going to be a problem, and more than a few security professionals have been discussing this problem for a while now.
If it happens on a weekly basis, let me tell you, lawyers nor are judges are that naive.
I'm not so sure. They'd have to prove that was your intent, and I don't see how they could do that. Some rentals DO end prematurely and in an area with high-turnover who's to say this isn't exactly what's happening?
If they want to throttle the renting they should craft a law that specifies "no more than 30 days rental allowed in any 6-month period" or something like that.
and you now have no renters lined up because you couldn't put it on the market until the one-week guy gave you your $20 cancellation fee and left (because you had made a commitment to the full 60 day term).
I don't think AirBnB locks you out of relisting it for the proposed rental time if a rental is taken and then ends prematurely, I think you just go in and mark it as available again. If I'm mistaken, let me know.
Yeah, you may lose a few days here and there, but then again maybe not- it all depends on the demand. If it's available on short notice, so much the better for some people.