I mean, I'm aware the DMCA is awful. They should just do something about that. Maybe say, we're going to repeal and replace it? Introduce the All-new Copyright Act, or ACA for short?
Sorry. The DMCA is Republican creation. Republicans are only opposed to laws created by Democrats.
Plus, this gouging will get Gov't involved - they are asking for repeat of breakup of Bell.
You obviously have been in a coma for a while.
Der Trumpenfuhrer and the Republicans who control congress are absolutely opposed to anything that prevents ISPs and the big media companies from screwing consumers as much as possible.
Thanks to unlimited approval of mergers, the biggest ISPs, who have monopoly control of Internet access, are also owners of most of the content creators.
making information and truth more accessible, and policing the content in an open and rigorous way,
Except, none of the money they take in is used for that. All the actual work that makes Wikipedia useful is done by unpaid volunteers. All of the money -- more than $60 Million a year -- is wasted on unnecessary bullshit.
And you aren't concerned that a foreign country directly altered the outcome of an election here?
Assuming, for the sake of argument, that it was a foreign country, and not some 400 pound guy sitting on his bed, it doesn't bother me in the least.
Why? Because there was no actual "hacking" of the election. Contrary to what the Democrats would like you to believe, the only thing that actually happened was revealing the truth -- all the dirty shit that Hillary Clinton and the Democrats were up to. All the dirty shit that the Democrats didn't want the public to know about.
In actual practice it will be full of easily exploitable security holes, due to the fact that doing actual QA and actually giving two shits about security would cut into profits (ie, the CEO's bonus).
Don't like it? Then you should support the reform of the electoral college. But what you can't do, and what reasonable people shouldn't allow people like you to get away with, is laud the electoral college system ("that's how it's supposed to work, we're a nation of states not a nation of individuals, blah blah oversimplified cliches blah") and handwave away the popular vote as irrelevant, and then turn around and imply that it would be breaking or rigging the system if the electors voted differently.
If the electors vote differently then they ARE rigging the system. The majority of people in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania voted for Donald Trump. And now you are proposing that the electors in those states should say to the voters "fuck off, your votes don't matter. We're giving our electoral votes to Hillary Clinton because she got more votes in California and New York."
What is the format of this file? JPG? PNG? How, precisely, is it exploiting the image viewer? Via buffer overrun?
Details are not available yet. According to one story, the people who discovered the exploit are not talking about details until it has been patched. I don't know if it's relevant but the story specifically mentions SVG and today i learned that you can embed Javascript code into an SVG image file. Since the only SVG image viewer that most people have is a web browser, this could be one possible attack vector.
When everything is USC-C then this whole argument about having the right dongle inverts. Right now I have storage bins filled with various saved cables converting between all different USB plugs, DVI, HDMI, VGAWall warts with all different diameter plugs, firewire, thunderbolt... I'm sure I have over 100 cables to cover all the possible ports on the vavious machines in my office.
Standardizing on one port for the next 5 to ten years is going to be a joy.
Except that's not how it works. By the time USB-C becomes ubiquitous, USB-D will be introduced and the whole thing starts all over again.
The law is there because the city is missing out on the tourist taxes hotels collect. Higher prices means more tax for the city, a win for everyone except the tourist. If Airbnb finds a way to pay the taxes these laws won't spread.
There's nothing to prevent AirBnB from paying those taxes now. But the whole purpose of AirBnB's existence is to be in the house/apartment rental business but but pretend that they aren't so they can *AVOID* all the rules and fees that everyone else has to pay. Same with Uber and all the others. They just want to be a middleman who does nothing but skim a few dollars from every transaction, with no accountability to anyone.
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I mean, I'm aware the DMCA is awful. They should just do something about that. Maybe say, we're going to repeal and replace it? Introduce the All-new Copyright Act, or ACA for short?
Sorry. The DMCA is Republican creation. Republicans are only opposed to laws created by Democrats.
Plus, this gouging will get Gov't involved - they are asking for repeat of breakup of Bell.
You obviously have been in a coma for a while.
Der Trumpenfuhrer and the Republicans who control congress are absolutely opposed to anything that prevents ISPs and the big media companies from screwing consumers as much as possible.
Thanks to unlimited approval of mergers, the biggest ISPs, who have monopoly control of Internet access, are also owners of most of the content creators.
An upvote for you, sir.
That's weird.
making information and truth more accessible, and policing the content in an open and rigorous way,
Except, none of the money they take in is used for that. All the actual work that makes Wikipedia useful is done by unpaid volunteers. All of the money -- more than $60 Million a year -- is wasted on unnecessary bullshit.
So where does all of the money go??
200+ employees, who do nothing of value.
Expensive office space in San Francisco.
Giving away money in the form of "grants" which produce nothing of value.
And you aren't concerned that a foreign country directly altered the outcome of an election here?
Assuming, for the sake of argument, that it was a foreign country, and not some 400 pound guy sitting on his bed, it doesn't bother me in the least.
Why? Because there was no actual "hacking" of the election. Contrary to what the Democrats would like you to believe, the only thing that actually happened was revealing the truth -- all the dirty shit that Hillary Clinton and the Democrats were up to. All the dirty shit that the Democrats didn't want the public to know about.
Its actually a very good idea. In theory.
In actual practice it will be full of easily exploitable security holes, due to the fact that doing actual QA and actually giving two shits about security would cut into profits (ie, the CEO's bonus).
Don't like it? Then you should support the reform of the electoral college. But what you can't do, and what reasonable people shouldn't allow people like you to get away with, is laud the electoral college system ("that's how it's supposed to work, we're a nation of states not a nation of individuals, blah blah oversimplified cliches blah") and handwave away the popular vote as irrelevant, and then turn around and imply that it would be breaking or rigging the system if the electors voted differently.
If the electors vote differently then they ARE rigging the system. The majority of people in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania voted for Donald Trump. And now you are proposing that the electors in those states should say to the voters "fuck off, your votes don't matter. We're giving our electoral votes to Hillary Clinton because she got more votes in California and New York."
That's called rigging an election.
WTF is a "maliciously coded image file"?
What is the format of this file? JPG? PNG? How, precisely, is it exploiting the image viewer? Via buffer overrun?
Details are not available yet. According to one story, the people who discovered the exploit are not talking about details until it has been patched. I don't know if it's relevant but the story specifically mentions SVG and today i learned that you can embed Javascript code into an SVG image file. Since the only SVG image viewer that most people have is a web browser, this could be one possible attack vector.
No, but one is a threat and one is not.
The internet needs to be forked for the purposes of non-profit, non-competitive use.
Feel free to spend a couple hundred billion $$ on the infrastructure for that.
"Trump blithely compared net neutrality to the FCC's old Fairness Doctrine"
Actually, Trump wasn't complete wrong about that.
Net neutrality is about "open, unfettered access to the internet". The Fairness Doctrine was about unfettered access to differing political opinions.
The problem is that he opposes both.
Obviously Firefox needs to be made to look even more like Chrome.
Ironically, under American law as I understand it this makes them liable for everything else that they don't censor.
No it doesn't.
As a private business, Facebook can prohibit, or "censor" anything they want.
This x 1000
When everything is USC-C then this whole argument about having the right dongle inverts. Right now I have storage bins filled with various saved cables converting between all different USB plugs, DVI, HDMI, VGAWall warts with all different diameter plugs, firewire, thunderbolt... I'm sure I have over 100 cables to cover all the possible ports on the vavious machines in my office.
Standardizing on one port for the next 5 to ten years is going to be a joy.
Except that's not how it works. By the time USB-C becomes ubiquitous, USB-D will be introduced and the whole thing starts all over again.
the polls (if you want to believe ANY of them now)
Is there any particular reason to not believe the polls?
Other than the polls rarely being right, no.
Well, that was $30 Million well spent.
The law is there because the city is missing out on the tourist taxes hotels collect. Higher prices means more tax for the city, a win for everyone except the tourist. If Airbnb finds a way to pay the taxes these laws won't spread.
There's nothing to prevent AirBnB from paying those taxes now. But the whole purpose of AirBnB's existence is to be in the house/apartment rental business but but pretend that they aren't so they can *AVOID* all the rules and fees that everyone else has to pay. Same with Uber and all the others. They just want to be a middleman who does nothing but skim a few dollars from every transaction, with no accountability to anyone.
"Because it takes courage to take a fall"
- Tim Cook, 2016
From 2012 through 2016, Apple's total revenue was $960 Billion.
I'm sure the pile of money cushioned his fall.
Will Amazon sue?
Hopefully they'll do just that with the Note 8.
Sorry, a removable battery would allow you to only replace the battery instead of having to buy a new phone. That's can't be allowed.
What in the world do those 3700 people do?
Certainly not anything that generates any profit.
How can one make a barely or unreadable post?
Ask this guy
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