Um, no. There is already existing laws that pertain to automotive replicas (specifically car design does not qualify for copyright protection).
That wa sthis argument and he lost, because he wasn't simply copying a line of cars but one very specific model, down to Batman logos and color schemes. He may have been ok since the Batmobile had simply been a a production car with some added trim and over 25 years old but that was not the case.
The question is to whether the branding "Batman" should qualify for protection moreso than "A/C Cobra".
The Cobra was a production car over 25 years old, based on the A/C chassis with a Ford drivetrain' a very different scenario than the Batmobile. In addiotn, AFAIK Cobra replica manufacturers don't attach Shelby logo. If you want a real Shelby you need to buy it from Carroll Shelby International, Inc who still make the Shelby Cobra.
If there is a way to be an asshole in public, someone in the GOP will do it. And the rest will follow, otherwise they might get kicked out of the pack for being "too librul".
There used to be decent Republicans in office; ones who understood that having a different viewpoint didn't make you evil and who would work with the Democrats to find common ground and actually do things that were good for the country. They had some core principles but understood compromise was what got things done. They could argue long and hard on the floor and afterwards go get a drink and figure out what common ground let them come up with a solution both sides could live with. Somewhere along the line compromise became a bad word and a synonym for traitor. The Republicans thought they could control first the religious right and later the Tea Party and are discovering they were wrong; especially given the shift in the US electorate's makeup. They used code words to say things they couldn't say in public but that their audience understood; Trump is just saying it out loud now.
Heck, Trump just told the public he is well hung during a presidential debate. For the Republicans a "big tent" means that any level of stupid is allowed. The fact that so many Republicans hold elected office is a measure of the blind idiocy of the American public.
Maybe he just wanted to ensure the tent is big enough to "accommodate" him.
The difficulties in extraction are the only reason gold holds its value as you point out. The total amount mined is estimated at 171000 tons. By contrast, there are 20 million tons in the ocean you just cant extract it economicslly. If that could be economically extrater gold would go the way of aluminum and cease to be a way to store value.
> Ad blocking is not a long-term sustainable model.
[[Citation]]
> Sites that produce original content need to be funded in some way.
Somebody call the waaambulance. Repeat after me, It's not my job to support your broken business model.
True, and it's not their job to provide you content on the terms you want. That's why I like Forbes' model. You block ads and they don't serve up their pages.If you find who Forbes choses to display adds and run JS objectionable then continue to block it and be blocked form their site. A very fair solution. Each side gets to decide on their own what they find acceptable.
If there is a demand for more skilled workers, then why are companies replacing existing skilled labor with foreign workers on the H1-B visa program? The CTO of Jackthreads makes no sense whatsoever. The H1-B visa program is all about trying to save corporations money at the expense of domestic skilled workers. The argument about a lack of skilled programmers is baloney.
Exactly, it increases the supply of cheaper labor. Unfortunately, until people vote someone out over the H1B issue little will be done.
Subpoenas and court orders to cooperate in investigations have always been along the lines of "come to the courthouse and testify" and "Let us look at your records/books/transaction logs/call logs/records/and any other collection of facts you have within your possession." NEVER has a court order gone so far as to order a company to completely engineer a tool that does not exist.
I believe that is the reason for the writ and legal action. A terrorist case makes for good pr when you attempt to set a precedent; because no company wants to help terrorists. Win this case and you know have a precedent to force companies to assist in unlocking; district attorneys have said as much about having hundreds of phones waiting to be unlocked and hope to have Apple do so if the DOJ wins. A DOJ win would establish a new, and dangerous, precedent.
Oh, never existed: the advertiser has no contract with the user using Shine.
No contract, no tort interference.
The one between the advertiser and ad server as well as tye website and ad server Shine and the ISP are the thurd parties interfering with the contracts.
How does it manage the uplink? Nothing about that in TFA, from what I can see.
There you go interjecting logic into/. If they pointed out your 200 Gbps becomes 40MBs when it hits your ISP there breakthrough becomes a lot less impressive to the masses.
If you didn't know what was special about Shine compared to ublock or adblock like me then Shine is an ISP level blocking system. It's not something that gets installed on end users machines but further upstream. This is why people like google and yahoo are so disturbed by this. It means that even completely clueless users will have ads blocked.
As much as I dislike the plethora of ads websites serve up, Shine's approach strikes at the concept of net neutrality. The ISP is deciding what traffic to deliver to the end user; while it may be the blocking Amy be desirable to users it still means teh ISP is favoring some traffic over other traffic. The next step is offer to selectively deliver, for a small fee, some ads.I can decide quite nicely for myself what sites I want to let deliver ads, based on my assessment of the site's value. There are a number of sites that I whitelist because their content is of value and I want them to be able to make mone and keep delivering content; and I don't want my ISP unilaterally deciding I don't need to see those ads and thus depriving teh site of revenue.
If you value net neutrality you can't say "don't prioritize any traffic" and then say "go ahead and block ads." Ads may be junk traffic but it still traffic.
It would not surprise me if they implement it in the US, Stripe, and an ISP, get sued for tortious interference, since they are interfering with a lawful contract between two parties; the question would be is it improper interference or an acceptable business practice.
" the Bahamas, where FBI agents took him into custody". There - and I thought that it was an independent country. Will they be getting Medicare soon?
The FBI has agents in embassies around the world, where ether coordinate with local law enforcement. The Bahamas probably simply decided to let the FBI take them rather than arrest them themselves and then go through extradition proceedings.
(mainly because they screwed up forecasting costs)
Whenever I see the words "projections", "forecasts", or "estimations" when it comes to financial issues, I treat what I'm about to read or hear as a fairy tale. Finance is NOT a natural science where the numbers are based on physical reality. Calculating the orbit of a moon is nowhere the same as projecting sales and revenues.
It's a pet peeve of mine that folks see numbers and they immediately treat it as an undeniable fact without considering context.
How true. I think computers have made it worse because people simply plug in numbers without thinking about what results make sense; and thus blindly accept whatever results they get.
And engineers are just as bad as everyone else; maybe worse because they were trained to trust numbers and calculations
If an engineer's training taught them to trust numbers and calculations something was lacking in their education. I was taught to always questions the results to see if they made sense, the trust was not s much in numbers and calculations but that the theory was correct and would produce the correct results if the numbers were right and calculations were correctly done. Or, as one of my professors put it "Mother Nature doesn't give a damn about your calculations, she's going to do whatever she wants..."
Karma's "unlimited" users weren't pleased the first time the plan changed, and now they're practically through the roof.
If a company can't afford to deliver the product as sold, and they aren't bound to a contract to deliver that product as sold for more than one billing period, then what do these users think is going to happen - Karma Wireless is going to continue to provide a loss making service until the company goes under with massive debts?
Karma Wireless tried something, it failed (mainly because they screwed up forecasting costs) and now they are moving on.
There product probably attracted a disproportionate number of high bandwidth users who knew they would be heavy users and thus attracted to Neverstop. For light users there are too many cheaper options than Karma. For example, T-mobile offers 200mb / month for free, 6GB with BingeOn for $35, and 15GB of tethering for $50 on a phone plan. As you point out, their business model simply is not sustainable as originally conceived.
I just don't have the time for incompatibility for the sake of incompatibility.
You've hit on the crux of the issue with alternatives to MS Office. People expect to be able to open a document to and have it look right, and if it doesn't it's the senders fault, not theirs. In a work environment. That's a show stopper. Sure PDFs are great but if you have to send an editable document your SOL. I used to recommend a free OSS Office product to friends who were sending kids to school since for most of what they needed to do, at zero cost, that solution works as long as they remember to save it as a.doc file; but since many schools now offer Office360 for free that's a better solution since it simply works.
The issues in not progress but deviating from a long standing standard way of presenting information. People expect it to respond in a certain manner when they operate it and so do not realize they are not doing what they actually think they are doing. This isn't unique to Chrysler or the auto industry; many others have suffered from the same problem of poor human factors engineering.
There was a fun report some time back, about the US Dept of Defense funding a couple of academic researchers to study what could be learned about US military forces solely from publicly-available published sources. They spent some months collecting publications, wrote up their report, sent it to the DoD -- and within a couple of days it had a Secret classification.;-)
That's not necessarily as odd as it sounds. A bunch of open source information, compiled and interpreted, can become classified. What's interesting is what is collected and what it is used for, not that all the sources were unclassified.
Apps using JSPatch are already violating the app store rules anyway. Apple prohibits any app that downloads unapproved code from somewhere and runs it (or did last time I checked)
Yes, the question appears to be "Is Apple rejecting such apps?" TFA states developers are currently using it so the answer a[[ears to be No; so I wonder if Apple is simply not looking for JSPatch or has decided to let it go.
the gun sellers and buyers. They have a huge database of gun owners as well as those iterated in buying waiting to be targeted. Advertisers as well as law enforcement might pay good money for that information.
Users and content creators should have control of the internet, and carriers should be blind carriers of data. That's the entire point of net neutrality.
That's fine, but the result is metering and higher costs.
Some streaming content. Not all (though it will throttle all. Yeah, slowed down and still counts against data). not really "neutral".
They should offer Binge On content at lower resolution as they do now, all the rest without the resolution changed but metered with the option to run Binge On content on the same terms. Then there should be no issue about net neutrality.
I've seen quite a few xfinity wifi spots around, but in order to use them they require my Comcast credentials. I never use them because I'm not sure if it's honeypot built to steal my credentials. I could install an app to confirm if the hotspot is real, but doing so requires giving Comcast invasive permission to access data on my phone.
Gee, who'd setup a hotspot called xfinitywifi with no logon required just to sniff the traffic that comes across it? or use it for a man in the middle attack?
Just have medicare for all and get rid of the overpriced priced bills that have A single aspirin for $25
You hit on one of the numbers behind the $40 billion in unpaid bills. Hospitals jack up bills because they have to cover the costs on un or under insured patients; so you see $25 aspirins. Insurance companies pay no where near those prices; for example when I look at a bill a $500.00 bill becomes about $125 once all the negotiated prices are reflected in the bill. Hospitals have the high rack rates to try cover costs from those who can pay and don't have insurance. Even someone who doesn't have insurance wouldn't necessarily pay those rates either; an MD I knew, pre ACA, would negotiate medical bills prior to entering the hospital and pay up front in cash, resulting in a significant discount, for pre-planned care. The MD carried a high deductible insurance plan for an unplanned catastrophic event, just in case. Of course, it helped to know what insurance companies paid so you could negotiate around that price while offering a no hassle payment up front to avoid all the paperwork that goes into a claim.
This is why I love living in the UK and will defend the NHS until my death.
Here in the UK I don't have to worry about the cost of my healthcare, and if I want it quicker or I want a nicer bed then I always have the option of paying privately anyway.
I'm a fan of the two tier system as well. Assured basic coverage from a national system and the option to pay extra if you want a different service level. The big thing would be to get all the non-emergency patients out of the emergency room and into the system where they belong; since ER care is probably the most expensive in the hospital. Of course, it's not just a simple as offering free care elsewhere but ensuring they can navigate the system and have a way to get to the appointment; otherwise they'll still go to the ER because it's convenient, free to them, and they know they'll eventually be seen.
That's right. It's not our problem if the government of the people locks out a portion of the population over ideological reasons for purely technical aspects that could otherwise easily be tackled. In fact, it serves them right for thinking differently about their freedoms and whatnot. Those type of people need to either conform of be left out.
Now where amis that damn sarcasm tag when you need it.
The problem is cost. The Adobe solution, while limiting works; going to another to support multiple platforms would require coding, support, and testing, so rathe rattan spend money agencies go with what is cheap and works.
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Um, no. There is already existing laws that pertain to automotive replicas (specifically car design does not qualify for copyright protection).
That wa sthis argument and he lost, because he wasn't simply copying a line of cars but one very specific model, down to Batman logos and color schemes. He may have been ok since the Batmobile had simply been a a production car with some added trim and over 25 years old but that was not the case.
The question is to whether the branding "Batman" should qualify for protection moreso than "A/C Cobra".
The Cobra was a production car over 25 years old, based on the A/C chassis with a Ford drivetrain' a very different scenario than the Batmobile. In addiotn, AFAIK Cobra replica manufacturers don't attach Shelby logo. If you want a real Shelby you need to buy it from Carroll Shelby International, Inc who still make the Shelby Cobra.
And just how long did that last?
If there is a way to be an asshole in public, someone in the GOP will do it. And the rest will follow, otherwise they might get kicked out of the pack for being "too librul".
There used to be decent Republicans in office; ones who understood that having a different viewpoint didn't make you evil and who would work with the Democrats to find common ground and actually do things that were good for the country. They had some core principles but understood compromise was what got things done. They could argue long and hard on the floor and afterwards go get a drink and figure out what common ground let them come up with a solution both sides could live with. Somewhere along the line compromise became a bad word and a synonym for traitor. The Republicans thought they could control first the religious right and later the Tea Party and are discovering they were wrong; especially given the shift in the US electorate's makeup. They used code words to say things they couldn't say in public but that their audience understood; Trump is just saying it out loud now.
Heck, Trump just told the public he is well hung during a presidential debate. For the Republicans a "big tent" means that any level of stupid is allowed. The fact that so many Republicans hold elected office is a measure of the blind idiocy of the American public.
Maybe he just wanted to ensure the tent is big enough to "accommodate" him.
The difficulties in extraction are the only reason gold holds its value as you point out. The total amount mined is estimated at 171000 tons. By contrast, there are 20 million tons in the ocean you just cant extract it economicslly. If that could be economically extrater gold would go the way of aluminum and cease to be a way to store value.
> Ad blocking is not a long-term sustainable model.
[[Citation]]
> Sites that produce original content need to be funded in some way.
Somebody call the waaambulance. Repeat after me, It's not my job to support your broken business model.
True, and it's not their job to provide you content on the terms you want. That's why I like Forbes' model. You block ads and they don't serve up their pages.If you find who Forbes choses to display adds and run JS objectionable then continue to block it and be blocked form their site. A very fair solution. Each side gets to decide on their own what they find acceptable.
If there is a demand for more skilled workers, then why are companies replacing existing skilled labor with foreign workers on the H1-B visa program? The CTO of Jackthreads makes no sense whatsoever. The H1-B visa program is all about trying to save corporations money at the expense of domestic skilled workers. The argument about a lack of skilled programmers is baloney.
Exactly, it increases the supply of cheaper labor. Unfortunately, until people vote someone out over the H1B issue little will be done.
Subpoenas and court orders to cooperate in investigations have always been along the lines of "come to the courthouse and testify" and "Let us look at your records/books/transaction logs/call logs/records/and any other collection of facts you have within your possession." NEVER has a court order gone so far as to order a company to completely engineer a tool that does not exist.
I believe that is the reason for the writ and legal action. A terrorist case makes for good pr when you attempt to set a precedent; because no company wants to help terrorists. Win this case and you know have a precedent to force companies to assist in unlocking; district attorneys have said as much about having hundreds of phones waiting to be unlocked and hope to have Apple do so if the DOJ wins. A DOJ win would establish a new, and dangerous, precedent.
Oh, never existed: the advertiser has no contract with the user using Shine.
No contract, no tort interference.
The one between the advertiser and ad server as well as tye website and ad server Shine and the ISP are the thurd parties interfering with the contracts.
How does it manage the uplink? Nothing about that in TFA, from what I can see.
There you go interjecting logic into /. If they pointed out your 200 Gbps becomes 40MBs when it hits your ISP there breakthrough becomes a lot less impressive to the masses.
If you didn't know what was special about Shine compared to ublock or adblock like me then Shine is an ISP level blocking system. It's not something that gets installed on end users machines but further upstream. This is why people like google and yahoo are so disturbed by this. It means that even completely clueless users will have ads blocked.
As much as I dislike the plethora of ads websites serve up, Shine's approach strikes at the concept of net neutrality. The ISP is deciding what traffic to deliver to the end user; while it may be the blocking Amy be desirable to users it still means teh ISP is favoring some traffic over other traffic. The next step is offer to selectively deliver, for a small fee, some ads.I can decide quite nicely for myself what sites I want to let deliver ads, based on my assessment of the site's value. There are a number of sites that I whitelist because their content is of value and I want them to be able to make mone and keep delivering content; and I don't want my ISP unilaterally deciding I don't need to see those ads and thus depriving teh site of revenue.
If you value net neutrality you can't say "don't prioritize any traffic" and then say "go ahead and block ads." Ads may be junk traffic but it still traffic.
It would not surprise me if they implement it in the US, Stripe, and an ISP, get sued for tortious interference, since they are interfering with a lawful contract between two parties; the question would be is it improper interference or an acceptable business practice.
" the Bahamas, where FBI agents took him into custody". There - and I thought that it was an independent country. Will they be getting Medicare soon?
The FBI has agents in embassies around the world, where ether coordinate with local law enforcement. The Bahamas probably simply decided to let the FBI take them rather than arrest them themselves and then go through extradition proceedings.
(mainly because they screwed up forecasting costs)
Whenever I see the words "projections", "forecasts", or "estimations" when it comes to financial issues, I treat what I'm about to read or hear as a fairy tale. Finance is NOT a natural science where the numbers are based on physical reality. Calculating the orbit of a moon is nowhere the same as projecting sales and revenues.
It's a pet peeve of mine that folks see numbers and they immediately treat it as an undeniable fact without considering context.
How true. I think computers have made it worse because people simply plug in numbers without thinking about what results make sense; and thus blindly accept whatever results they get.
And engineers are just as bad as everyone else; maybe worse because they were trained to trust numbers and calculations
If an engineer's training taught them to trust numbers and calculations something was lacking in their education. I was taught to always questions the results to see if they made sense, the trust was not s much in numbers and calculations but that the theory was correct and would produce the correct results if the numbers were right and calculations were correctly done. Or, as one of my professors put it "Mother Nature doesn't give a damn about your calculations, she's going to do whatever she wants..."
If a company can't afford to deliver the product as sold, and they aren't bound to a contract to deliver that product as sold for more than one billing period, then what do these users think is going to happen - Karma Wireless is going to continue to provide a loss making service until the company goes under with massive debts?
Karma Wireless tried something, it failed (mainly because they screwed up forecasting costs) and now they are moving on.
There product probably attracted a disproportionate number of high bandwidth users who knew they would be heavy users and thus attracted to Neverstop. For light users there are too many cheaper options than Karma. For example, T-mobile offers 200mb / month for free, 6GB with BingeOn for $35, and 15GB of tethering for $50 on a phone plan. As you point out, their business model simply is not sustainable as originally conceived.
I just don't have the time for incompatibility for the sake of incompatibility.
You've hit on the crux of the issue with alternatives to MS Office. People expect to be able to open a document to and have it look right, and if it doesn't it's the senders fault, not theirs. In a work environment. That's a show stopper. Sure PDFs are great but if you have to send an editable document your SOL. I used to recommend a free OSS Office product to friends who were sending kids to school since for most of what they needed to do, at zero cost, that solution works as long as they remember to save it as a .doc file; but since many schools now offer Office360 for free that's a better solution since it simply works.
The issues in not progress but deviating from a long standing standard way of presenting information. People expect it to respond in a certain manner when they operate it and so do not realize they are not doing what they actually think they are doing. This isn't unique to Chrysler or the auto industry; many others have suffered from the same problem of poor human factors engineering.
Question - "Who or what can make more money with my money without me having to do a damn thing".
Answer - "Who or what has a proven track record of accomplishing that goal.
Except past performance is no guarantee of future results. This year's hero is next year's bum.
There was a fun report some time back, about the US Dept of Defense funding a couple of academic researchers to study what could be learned about US military forces solely from publicly-available published sources. They spent some months collecting publications, wrote up their report, sent it to the DoD -- and within a couple of days it had a Secret classification. ;-)
That's not necessarily as odd as it sounds. A bunch of open source information, compiled and interpreted, can become classified. What's interesting is what is collected and what it is used for, not that all the sources were unclassified.
Apps using JSPatch are already violating the app store rules anyway. Apple prohibits any app that downloads unapproved code from somewhere and runs it (or did last time I checked)
Yes, the question appears to be "Is Apple rejecting such apps?" TFA states developers are currently using it so the answer a[[ears to be No; so I wonder if Apple is simply not looking for JSPatch or has decided to let it go.
apps using JSPatch?
the gun sellers and buyers. They have a huge database of gun owners as well as those iterated in buying waiting to be targeted. Advertisers as well as law enforcement might pay good money for that information.
Users and content creators should have control of the internet, and carriers should be blind carriers of data. That's the entire point of net neutrality.
That's fine, but the result is metering and higher costs.
Some streaming content. Not all (though it will throttle all. Yeah, slowed down and still counts against data). not really "neutral".
They should offer Binge On content at lower resolution as they do now, all the rest without the resolution changed but metered with the option to run Binge On content on the same terms. Then there should be no issue about net neutrality.
I've seen quite a few xfinity wifi spots around, but in order to use them they require my Comcast credentials. I never use them because I'm not sure if it's honeypot built to steal my credentials. I could install an app to confirm if the hotspot is real, but doing so requires giving Comcast invasive permission to access data on my phone.
Gee, who'd setup a hotspot called xfinitywifi with no logon required just to sniff the traffic that comes across it? or use it for a man in the middle attack?
Just have medicare for all and get rid of the overpriced priced bills that have A single aspirin for $25
You hit on one of the numbers behind the $40 billion in unpaid bills. Hospitals jack up bills because they have to cover the costs on un or under insured patients; so you see $25 aspirins. Insurance companies pay no where near those prices; for example when I look at a bill a $500.00 bill becomes about $125 once all the negotiated prices are reflected in the bill. Hospitals have the high rack rates to try cover costs from those who can pay and don't have insurance. Even someone who doesn't have insurance wouldn't necessarily pay those rates either; an MD I knew, pre ACA, would negotiate medical bills prior to entering the hospital and pay up front in cash, resulting in a significant discount, for pre-planned care. The MD carried a high deductible insurance plan for an unplanned catastrophic event, just in case. Of course, it helped to know what insurance companies paid so you could negotiate around that price while offering a no hassle payment up front to avoid all the paperwork that goes into a claim.
This is why I love living in the UK and will defend the NHS until my death.
Here in the UK I don't have to worry about the cost of my healthcare, and if I want it quicker or I want a nicer bed then I always have the option of paying privately anyway.
I'm a fan of the two tier system as well. Assured basic coverage from a national system and the option to pay extra if you want a different service level. The big thing would be to get all the non-emergency patients out of the emergency room and into the system where they belong; since ER care is probably the most expensive in the hospital. Of course, it's not just a simple as offering free care elsewhere but ensuring they can navigate the system and have a way to get to the appointment; otherwise they'll still go to the ER because it's convenient, free to them, and they know they'll eventually be seen.
That's right. It's not our problem if the government of the people locks out a portion of the population over ideological reasons for purely technical aspects that could otherwise easily be tackled. In fact, it serves them right for thinking differently about their freedoms and whatnot. Those type of people need to either conform of be left out.
Now where amis that damn sarcasm tag when you need it.
The problem is cost. The Adobe solution, while limiting works; going to another to support multiple platforms would require coding, support, and testing, so rathe rattan spend money agencies go with what is cheap and works.