"commercial providers of online pornography will be required to carry out "robust" age verification checks on users"
Sounds like all this does is kill the commercial pronography industry in the UK. Amature poronography, sites like pornhub that have tonnes of free content sound like they are exempt. And of course, commercial poronography in the rest of the entire world won't be affected. Its a quick plane ride to many other countries where the UK porn companies could easily set up shop.
"Websites that refuse to implement the checks face being blocked by UK internet service providers or having their access to payment services withdrawn."
I cannot imagine this would work in real life. Do they not know how much porongraphy is out there? And what a DNS block? a firewall block? some sort of mandatory proxy? who the heck could possibly maintain a list of all the pornography on the internet. Most likely it will be just targeting registered in the UK porn houses and decimate their own local industry.
I can see plenty of man made objects, satellites, the ISS when it flies by... So I think this is not only possible but inevitable with the shitty capitalist model. But heck, doesn't even have to be for profit. Russia or the USA could put something up there for propaganda. Play your jingoistic cards right and the public might even end up justifying it!
"the younger generation seems to have lost the ability to discern the abysmal video quality of streaming services from the usually way better video quality from physical media."
Most people who arent videophiles get used to whatever they are watching within a few minutes. The content is what matters most, for most people, and a way to relax. Heck how many people watch straight up cams, or did, back before web rips and the rapid release cycle made me never have to wait more than 6 months for any sort of show or movie in perfect digital quality at any bitrate i want.
I just got a new 1080p projector (Upgrade from 720 that i had for 10 years) and it looks fantastic. Its all relative man.
Anyone old, remembers all the shitty formats of the past, from vhs to dvd, so they also would theoretically have no problem with streaming services.. I guess i challenge your premise that this is: a) limited to "the young" and b) actually a problem
"Our business is lagging behind on Windows 10 feature updates. They have to be initiated manually and take hours to install for each PC, which makes it very difficult to schedule with the users, especially since most of them have portables."
You need to buy system center to fix this problem. You need to install the updates with system center.
"Also the latest version of Windows 10 (1809) broke unattended installs where a batch file calls exe programs residing on a server location, which is typical for our large CAD software deployments."
This might be because of hardened paths, which have been there a while. part of my install is to whitelist the ones that i dont want any security on like so: https://serverfault.com/a/7549...
otherwise its another setting and configurable. Win10 is garbage but there are ways to make it work in a way approaching usability.
"Naw, what this proposal would accomplish (if it actually passed and wasn't just a campaign talking point) is to increase the level of executive pay for anyone who might be caught and prosecuted under the law. Less people on the margin who want the job becomes less competition for the job becomes higher compensation for the job to attract the best candidates"
Sorry, have you never met a poor criminal before? I guarantee they would jump at the chance to make 150k per year, despite the threat of possible jail. They are a criminal, so they already live with that threat daily.
You are basically saying that no one risks going to jail for low amounts of money which is hilariously not true. People take shit jobs for 30k a year and you don't think you can find someone to do a cushy executive one for far more than that?
"Basic economics, which Warren hasn't ever demonstrated she understands"
Some people will always want to be in a highly paid executive position. And you are saying she is the one doesn't understand basic economics?
"It is impossible to completely prevent a data breach and coming as close to it as you can would make it impossible for a company to actually operate."
Your post reads as "welp, massive data breaches are inevitable!"
I am glad i don't work for any company you work for!
Punishing executives *finally* would reign in these corporations. It sends a message; get your shit together or get out of the fucking game.
assuming your date is not next week (ie in the future), if you haven't rebooted in that long than windows is probably all kinds of fucked. theres probably 2gb of updates since January... or are you on a 2 year old version which stupidly is "end of life", and thus you have no updates to apply (Problem solved i guess??)
I can never reboot a win2k machine either, it doesnt mean that its safe or secure. Microsoft has broken 30 years of precedent, or more, about what it means to run windows with this release. I use it every day and its fucking garbage and getting worse with every feature update.
Honestly at this point, i think its just easier for these devs to make a new feature than fix an old one. Thats not when they are "fixing" things that were never broken in the first place! (every metro application, calc, paint, etc, have all gotten worse (when they even run...))
I am not sure its even purposeful, but the result of being lazy. It takes me personally more effort to troubleshoot things than it does to just bang out a new feature, especially if it doesn't have to be perfect. Just meet some arbitrary 6mo deadline..
Who the heck knows about your freaky american units. My friends hybrid toyota vehicle gets 4L/100km in the city. I get like 12 or 13. So its 3x more efficient than my 20 year old 170hp gas sedan, in the city.
Yet another reason that the metric system is far far far more intuitive. Language dictates reality and if you have confusing language, its no wonder americans are so confused about things like the proper size of vehicle to drive. At least i know my car is wasting money, and by exactly how much.
Yeah exactly. To my mind, no one from the west has been held accountable for the iraq war. Certainly not the american executive at the time. People forget about wars and the guilty go unpunished. George w bush is still living it up playing golf and shit.
If people don't get punished, bad behaviour continues and the imperialists keep going with tacit approval.
All i can say, is that i hope that it is because canadian police departments are better funded.
Thing is, that most police sit in the same spots all the time. There is only so many spots in the city to sit at. Its never about surprise. Most people quickly learn where to speed and where not to. And yes i do find they place speed traps in the city at high collision locations most times if i think about it, which of course makes sense. Almost always at a light at the end of a long straightaway.
If you are looking to catch a fish, head down to the water. If you are looking to stop collisions, enforce more at high collision locations.
"In the past year or so, the engagement has been combative, with abrupt, disruptive policy changes that are being held without consultation, and, unusually, with absolutely no room for negotiation or even deadline extensions"
This could be a synopsis of the current american government just as well. What goes around comes around and people just don't trust america anymore.
"There isn't too many features past office 97 that I really need. Why can't I use office 97 for work."
Sigh... You may not use anything past office 97, however You are also not most businesses. You are an individual. Businesses have IT departments, and standards, and reasons for doing what they do. Do you use teams? Outlook? Exchange? skype for business? Onedrive? These technologies all work together to provide a modern business with tools so that people can collaborate and get work done. They interface with many third party products as well. I get wanting to not change an old version of software in the home life, but its irresponsible in the corporate world, to insist on using old, insecure software, with bugs never to be fixed, that is older than some of my staff members.
If you are a personal user, why not use open office? I'm sure they patch it at the very least. Me personally, I use notepad++ for most things, except manuals, which i write in a web browser.
If you knew anything about the hard drug scene you would know that all heroin and most cocaine is laced with fent these days. Its stupid cheap to obtain from the hundreds of chinese labs who synthesize it.
Look, its stupid ok, giving people internet connected things, with one of the main selling points being how easy it is to use, and then not expecting normal simple folk to use them.
People are in so many databases. Databases will all be leaked eventually. People do not give a fuck about passwords, except that they are annoying. All these stories are an opportunity for engineers to solve the password problem. Its real, its multiplying, and you cant really blame the users that much for reusing the odd password (or 10) when they may have 100 password protected accounts of some sort these days.
Your post is an example of something thats 100% correct, but yet does not reflect reality.
users, in the real world, do not back up shit. Users expect the cloud to save them. Users are barely aware of the concept of files or a file system, or where their shit is stored.
At the same time, there is additional content there with youtube videos. You may have a back and forth comments, extra content, that youtube is removing. Sure you could back up all those posts, but absolutely no user will do that. The problem is obviously the takedown system, and people gaming the system to steal money from "celebrities".
I fully support a death sentence for anyone who ransoms someone else. Its the lowest level of cowardice.
I'll take "not" for 500 alex. The original sentence was "Once Google starts stopping adblocking in Chromium".
You for sure can start stopping. "Pressing the pedal slowly to the floor, miguel starts the process of stopping the car"
Now, I may write it as "begins" stopping, but really its not wrong enough to glaringly stand out. At least not to me. Infact i read the same words and did not notice. But the reason i am responding is just to say that its really not worth the nazing just so you can feel smug in your own chemise. The obvious real point of near all grammar naziing (except me who only uses my powers to call out other grammer nazis)
"Huawei has been the target of a broad U.S. crackdown, including allegations it sold telecommunications equipment that could be used by the China's Communist Party for spying."
China stealing IP from the NSA? sounds about right...
America has completely lost the 'ethical spying' moral high ground a long long time ago. This "scandal" is more likely about some billionaires pissing contest with another billionaire. States seem to only exist these days as a drama modifier in the battle between corporations. Which is really just the battle between rich individual actors and cabals, if you look at who is really in control of those nested corporations.
I assume they would use their spy networks to learn of the perpetrator or deconstruct the payload, like how kaspersky found that the NSA was behind stuxxnet (Which they then paid the price for by having their reputation destroyed in the marketplace, thus confirming the suspicion).
There are only so many players out there after all.
They're basically required to service areas that will never be profitable, below their costs of delivery, can't spin off unprofitable business segments, they're not allowed to charge more to cover their costs, etc.
Easy solution, have all utilities owned by the government or crown corporation. Then they can never fail, and dont need to make a profit. This solves all problems.
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Sounds like all this does is kill the commercial pronography industry in the UK. Amature poronography, sites like pornhub that have tonnes of free content sound like they are exempt. And of course, commercial poronography in the rest of the entire world won't be affected. Its a quick plane ride to many other countries where the UK porn companies could easily set up shop.
I cannot imagine this would work in real life. Do they not know how much porongraphy is out there? And what a DNS block? a firewall block? some sort of mandatory proxy? who the heck could possibly maintain a list of all the pornography on the internet. Most likely it will be just targeting registered in the UK porn houses and decimate their own local industry.
I can see plenty of man made objects, satellites, the ISS when it flies by... So I think this is not only possible but inevitable with the shitty capitalist model. But heck, doesn't even have to be for profit. Russia or the USA could put something up there for propaganda. Play your jingoistic cards right and the public might even end up justifying it!
Most people who arent videophiles get used to whatever they are watching within a few minutes.
The content is what matters most, for most people, and a way to relax. Heck how many people watch straight up cams, or did, back before web rips and the rapid release cycle made me never have to wait more than 6 months for any sort of show or movie in perfect digital quality at any bitrate i want.
I just got a new 1080p projector (Upgrade from 720 that i had for 10 years) and it looks fantastic. Its all relative man.
Anyone old, remembers all the shitty formats of the past, from vhs to dvd, so they also would theoretically have no problem with streaming services.. I guess i challenge your premise that this is:
a) limited to "the young"
and
b) actually a problem
Self driving cars are going to be a pipe dream. One accident with no one to blame and thats it.
Its one of those futurey things that sounds easy, but ends up being really fucking hard without sometimes killing people.
You need to buy system center to fix this problem. You need to install the updates with system center.
This might be because of hardened paths, which have been there a while. part of my install is to whitelist the ones that i dont want any security on like so:
https://serverfault.com/a/7549...
otherwise its another setting and configurable. Win10 is garbage but there are ways to make it work in a way approaching usability.
Sorry, have you never met a poor criminal before? I guarantee they would jump at the chance to make 150k per year, despite the threat of possible jail. They are a criminal, so they already live with that threat daily.
You are basically saying that no one risks going to jail for low amounts of money which is hilariously not true. People take shit jobs for 30k a year and you don't think you can find someone to do a cushy executive one for far more than that?
Some people will always want to be in a highly paid executive position. And you are saying she is the one doesn't understand basic economics?
Your post reads as "welp, massive data breaches are inevitable!"
I am glad i don't work for any company you work for!
Punishing executives *finally* would reign in these corporations. It sends a message; get your shit together or get out of the fucking game.
assuming your date is not next week (ie in the future), if you haven't rebooted in that long than windows is probably all kinds of fucked. theres probably 2gb of updates since January...
or are you on a 2 year old version which stupidly is "end of life", and thus you have no updates to apply (Problem solved i guess??)
I can never reboot a win2k machine either, it doesnt mean that its safe or secure. Microsoft has broken 30 years of precedent, or more, about what it means to run windows with this release. I use it every day and its fucking garbage and getting worse with every feature update.
Honestly at this point, i think its just easier for these devs to make a new feature than fix an old one. Thats not when they are "fixing" things that were never broken in the first place! (every metro application, calc, paint, etc, have all gotten worse (when they even run...))
I am not sure its even purposeful, but the result of being lazy. It takes me personally more effort to troubleshoot things than it does to just bang out a new feature, especially if it doesn't have to be perfect. Just meet some arbitrary 6mo deadline..
Who the heck knows about your freaky american units. My friends hybrid toyota vehicle gets 4L/100km in the city. I get like 12 or 13. So its 3x more efficient than my 20 year old 170hp gas sedan, in the city.
Yet another reason that the metric system is far far far more intuitive. Language dictates reality and if you have confusing language, its no wonder americans are so confused about things like the proper size of vehicle to drive. At least i know my car is wasting money, and by exactly how much.
Yeah exactly. To my mind, no one from the west has been held accountable for the iraq war. Certainly not the american executive at the time. People forget about wars and the guilty go unpunished. George w bush is still living it up playing golf and shit.
If people don't get punished, bad behaviour continues and the imperialists keep going with tacit approval.
All i can say, is that i hope that it is because canadian police departments are better funded.
Thing is, that most police sit in the same spots all the time. There is only so many spots in the city to sit at. Its never about surprise. Most people quickly learn where to speed and where not to. And yes i do find they place speed traps in the city at high collision locations most times if i think about it, which of course makes sense. Almost always at a light at the end of a long straightaway.
If you are looking to catch a fish, head down to the water. If you are looking to stop collisions, enforce more at high collision locations.
This could be a synopsis of the current american government just as well. What goes around comes around and people just don't trust america anymore.
Super intelligent machines are no worse than a few bumbling airline employees from the 70s?
Sigh... You may not use anything past office 97, however You are also not most businesses. You are an individual. Businesses have IT departments, and standards, and reasons for doing what they do. Do you use teams? Outlook? Exchange? skype for business? Onedrive? These technologies all work together to provide a modern business with tools so that people can collaborate and get work done. They interface with many third party products as well. I get wanting to not change an old version of software in the home life, but its irresponsible in the corporate world, to insist on using old, insecure software, with bugs never to be fixed, that is older than some of my staff members.
If you are a personal user, why not use open office? I'm sure they patch it at the very least. Me personally, I use notepad++ for most things, except manuals, which i write in a web browser.
If you knew anything about the hard drug scene you would know that all heroin and most cocaine is laced with fent these days. Its stupid cheap to obtain from the hundreds of chinese labs who synthesize it.
Almost all ip kvms run java. there are two companies that don't as far as i can tell.
java in embedded things is a nightmare.
Look, its stupid ok, giving people internet connected things, with one of the main selling points being how easy it is to use, and then not expecting normal simple folk to use them.
People are in so many databases. Databases will all be leaked eventually. People do not give a fuck about passwords, except that they are annoying. All these stories are an opportunity for engineers to solve the password problem. Its real, its multiplying, and you cant really blame the users that much for reusing the odd password (or 10) when they may have 100 password protected accounts of some sort these days.
what a depressing hellscape society has become when turning video cameras on your family for the purposes of monitoring is considered normal.
Your post is an example of something thats 100% correct, but yet does not reflect reality.
users, in the real world, do not back up shit. Users expect the cloud to save them. Users are barely aware of the concept of files or a file system, or where their shit is stored.
At the same time, there is additional content there with youtube videos. You may have a back and forth comments, extra content, that youtube is removing. Sure you could back up all those posts, but absolutely no user will do that. The problem is obviously the takedown system, and people gaming the system to steal money from "celebrities".
I fully support a death sentence for anyone who ransoms someone else. Its the lowest level of cowardice.
Easy one, a solar flare takes us all back to zero.
I'll take "not" for 500 alex. The original sentence was "Once Google starts stopping adblocking in Chromium".
You for sure can start stopping. "Pressing the pedal slowly to the floor, miguel starts the process of stopping the car"
Now, I may write it as "begins" stopping, but really its not wrong enough to glaringly stand out. At least not to me. Infact i read the same words and did not notice. But the reason i am responding is just to say that its really not worth the nazing just so you can feel smug in your own chemise. The obvious real point of near all grammar naziing (except me who only uses my powers to call out other grammer nazis)
China stealing IP from the NSA? sounds about right...
America has completely lost the 'ethical spying' moral high ground a long long time ago. This "scandal" is more likely about some billionaires pissing contest with another billionaire. States seem to only exist these days as a drama modifier in the battle between corporations. Which is really just the battle between rich individual actors and cabals, if you look at who is really in control of those nested corporations.
I assume they would use their spy networks to learn of the perpetrator or deconstruct the payload, like how kaspersky found that the NSA was behind stuxxnet (Which they then paid the price for by having their reputation destroyed in the marketplace, thus confirming the suspicion).
There are only so many players out there after all.
Easy solution, have all utilities owned by the government or crown corporation. Then they can never fail, and dont need to make a profit. This solves all problems.
Hopefully you are arguing in that direction.