Concur. I have an issue with the record industry stealthily foisting off fair-use disabled CD's on the public. But if they label them clearly as such, where's the beef?
. . . you and I, as US citizens, can choose to have an ID card or not to have one.
Until right about the time that to conduct practically any business (e.g. connect utilities to your home, pay with any instrument other than cash, rent bowling shoes), the entity with whom you are dealing requires this card or the number therefrom. A voluntary national ID would be voluntary like the income tax is voluntary.
Draconian, which should be capitalized when it is used, is derived from the name of a Greek powermonger, c. 620 B.C.E. Here is a relevant quote from a Greek history site:
The seafaring city-state of Athens, meanwhile, was still in the hands of aristocrats, and a failed coup attempt by a would-be tyrant led the legislator Draco to draw up his infamous laws in 620 BC. These were so punitive that even the theft of a cabbage was punished by death (hence the word "draconian").
By calling that a "double opt-in," instead of what it is, opt-in with confirmation (i.e. making sure that the person doing the opting-in is in control of the email address so opted), you are linguistically playing right into the hands of the spam-meisters.
Or, better yet, start retrieving the ad, and abort the connection once the server knows you've requested it, and save your bandwidth, too. This assumes separate TCP connections a la HTTP 1.0.
By escalating the battle, the advertisers are only making more people that didn't know about it before aware that there is ad blocking software. See also RIAA vs. MP3, et al.
Don't want content downloaded and stored? Then don't make it publicly available on the Internet. If you'd like a closed network for timed viewing of your precious content, get out your checkbook and build your own.
If you're not a locksmith, it's illegal to posess lock picks in many jurisdictions. The analogy to debugging tools is left as an exercise for the reader.
Is it still easy to spot even after being reprinted onto photographic paper? I can fathom that Photoshop leaves a "smoking gun" in a digital image, but I wonder how well the eye could perceive manipulation once the picture's on paper. Of course, photographic retouching's been with us since there's been photography--it's just never been so easy.
I hadn't heard about the cut-and-paste in the Scientology case--thanks!
Except that when the call was traced back to the VoIP provider, they check their logs, see your IP logged in, and dialing out to the target machine, and BAM, you're busted (assuming this 1337 cr@x0r1|\|g is taking place from home or work). And I seriously doubt you'd get a 56Kbps modem connection out of a codec optimized for voice:).
Playing devil's advocate here, but if Adobe perceives Linux users as people who won't pay for their software to begin with, why would they care what we think? Are we going to tell the graphic artists at our employers "Sorry, no Adobe products; we're boycotting them because they harassed a small developer" and that they should use GIMP instead? Probably not.
I hope you're right, but current events don't bear that out. Tried to rent a car without a credit card? Or a hotel room? We're not talking about inconvenience here, we're talking about "If you want to stay in anything other than a roach-infested firetrap for the night, you have to give us a CC#."
I agree that government should not mandate the use of an MSID or similar mechanism. I believe, however, that government should mandate that no business may require one as a condition of conducting business. (I also believe this about SSN's.)
If I thought true free association were possible and that businesses engaging in intrusive practices would die on their own, I might think differently. I'm not that optimistic, though.
Nice writeup, but free association implies symmetry of power. There ain't no such animal in today's world, and you know it. When there's an oligopoly of corporations telling you they aren't going to deal with you without an MSID, then you aren't going to be able to live without that MSID. It would be free association for them, but not for you.
According to this page, Open Financial Exchange (which Quicken uses) is "publicly available for implementation by any financial institution or vendor." Thus, the only thing standing in the way of this happening is a brave soul to code it up.
The specification can be downloaded here, bypassing the annoying requirement to provide information for their database before downloading.
We will each end up with "trusted" computers and electronics that use a "secure media path" all the way to the speakers and screen. Each individual will have to get their own copies, digitally signed to their account number and device id's. Of course when you buy a new Movie player youll have to buy your movies all over again- because the old ones will only play on your old player.
When this happens, I'm going to be spending lots of time at the library, if it still exists, or rereading my books. I don't need packaged entertainment badly enough to put up with any of this--as one poster said in another thread "any data processed on my computer is by my sufferance," which sums up my sentiments nicely. If I have to use a C-64 to play games rather than using "individually rented streamed 'games on demand,'" then so be it.
And his insurance policy will be cancelled or his rates raised before the ambulance even arrives. What's chilling is that this will start out "innocently," with a "discount" of, say 10% or so, for allowing real-time GPS tracking of your car. Eventually, the "discount" will get higher and higher--it will never be called a "surcharge" for not allowing real-time tracking, but that's what it will be. Only the rich will drive without their whearabouts centrally tracked and stored.
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Concur. I have an issue with the record industry stealthily foisting off fair-use disabled CD's on the public. But if they label them clearly as such, where's the beef?
And filters have been blocking it for quite awhile, for that reason.
I imagine that's not an issue any more for those seriously considering the offer.
Until right about the time that to conduct practically any business (e.g. connect utilities to your home, pay with any instrument other than cash, rent bowling shoes), the entity with whom you are dealing requires this card or the number therefrom. A voluntary national ID would be voluntary like the income tax is voluntary.
By calling that a "double opt-in," instead of what it is, opt-in with confirmation (i.e. making sure that the person doing the opting-in is in control of the email address so opted), you are linguistically playing right into the hands of the spam-meisters.
2. Support this legislation and await its passage.
3. Rake in the money selling "r@r3 pre-ban computers with CD-R drives" on eBay based on the grandfathering in section 101.
4. (optional) Spend the money you made to vacation somewhere and reminisce about the day when information wanted to be free.
By escalating the battle, the advertisers are only making more people that didn't know about it before aware that there is ad blocking software. See also RIAA vs. MP3, et al.
2. Support this legislation and await its passage.
3. Rake in the money on eBay based on the grandfathering in section 101.
4. (optional) Spend the money you made to vacation somewhere and reminisce about the day when information wanted to be free.
Don't want content downloaded and stored? Then don't make it publicly available on the Internet. If you'd like a closed network for timed viewing of your precious content, get out your checkbook and build your own.
You've heard of the object oriented COBOL? It's called ADD 1 TO COBOL GIVING COBOL-PLUS-ONE.
If you're not a locksmith, it's illegal to posess lock picks in many jurisdictions. The analogy to debugging tools is left as an exercise for the reader.
I hadn't heard about the cut-and-paste in the Scientology case--thanks!
In my basement, with the manuals. Haven't tried reading other than the first installation floppy, though.
Meaning that photographic evidence has been useless since Photoshop 1.0?
I realize it takes time, but that doesn't mean you're invincible. That's how dumbasses like you get caught.
Except that when the call was traced back to the VoIP provider, they check their logs, see your IP logged in, and dialing out to the target machine, and BAM, you're busted (assuming this 1337 cr@x0r1|\|g is taking place from home or work). And I seriously doubt you'd get a 56Kbps modem connection out of a codec optimized for voice :).
Playing devil's advocate here, but if Adobe perceives Linux users as people who won't pay for their software to begin with, why would they care what we think? Are we going to tell the graphic artists at our employers "Sorry, no Adobe products; we're boycotting them because they harassed a small developer" and that they should use GIMP instead? Probably not.
I agree that government should not mandate the use of an MSID or similar mechanism. I believe, however, that government should mandate that no business may require one as a condition of conducting business. (I also believe this about SSN's.)
If I thought true free association were possible and that businesses engaging in intrusive practices would die on their own, I might think differently. I'm not that optimistic, though.
Nice writeup, but free association implies symmetry of power. There ain't no such animal in today's world, and you know it. When there's an oligopoly of corporations telling you they aren't going to deal with you without an MSID, then you aren't going to be able to live without that MSID. It would be free association for them, but not for you.
The specification can be downloaded here, bypassing the annoying requirement to provide information for their database before downloading.
When this happens, I'm going to be spending lots of time at the library, if it still exists, or rereading my books. I don't need packaged entertainment badly enough to put up with any of this--as one poster said in another thread "any data processed on my computer is by my sufferance," which sums up my sentiments nicely. If I have to use a C-64 to play games rather than using "individually rented streamed 'games on demand,'" then so be it.
That's what the regional pricing is, in the macro sense.
Maybe, maybe not, but the prior art certainly makes it irrelevant.
And his insurance policy will be cancelled or his rates raised before the ambulance even arrives. What's chilling is that this will start out "innocently," with a "discount" of, say 10% or so, for allowing real-time GPS tracking of your car. Eventually, the "discount" will get higher and higher--it will never be called a "surcharge" for not allowing real-time tracking, but that's what it will be. Only the rich will drive without their whearabouts centrally tracked and stored.