Unfortunately the highest court in the land (who's job it is to decide whether lesser laws violate the highest law in the land) decided in Eldred v. Ashcroft that the US copyright law is in fact constitutional.
Good luck getting the right mix of judges on the bench (and the right case going all the way to the highest court) to get that ruling overturned.
If they can identify the comments and demonetize or restrict the video, surely they can give creators the option to instead opt for the comments to be deleted or blocked when they are detected. Some way that creators can choose to have the inappropriate comments removed to prevent demonetization.
The problem is that the unhealthy crap sold by fast food joints and convenience stores and dollar stores and the like is cheaper (thanks to farm subsidies and other factors that distort the market) than the good healthy stuff.
So the retailers who sell the healthy stuff can't complete with the retailers selling the crap which leads to "food deserts" in these lower-class areas where there just aren't healthy options.
All that the right-to-repair laws I have seen require is that the manufacturer provide to 3rd parties anything (tools, diagnostic hardware and software, spare parts, consumables, whatever) that they provide to their own service shops or to manufacturer-authorized service shops.
So if John Deere authorized service centres can buy replacement transmissions from John Deere and can get the tools/hardware/software to reset the tractor computer so it will accept the new transmission, anyone who wants to repair tractors would be able to buy that and replace transmissions on a John Deere tractor.
Or if Toyota service centres can buy replacement keys and parts (key blanks, new transponders, new remotes, new housing etc) from Toyota and can get the software/hardware/instructions to create new keys for a Toyota, 3rd party repair shops and locksmiths and such would be able to get that same information.
Or if Apple has a machine that allows the fingerprint sensor or screen on an iPhone to be replaced without the OS throwing an error or refusing to accept/use the new hardware, anyone who wants to repair iPhones should be able to get both the replacement parts and the machine.
None of the laws I have seen require manufacturers to change their devices to make them easier to repair or to start making things available that they dont currently provide to authorized repair shops (if Apple doesn't make new iPhone batteries for a particular model available to its own repair shops, it isn't going to be required to make those batteries available to others either).
Except that if you believe the statements from our government (statements that they can't back up with any evidence), all the Chinese stuff is compromised and feeding all your data back to the Communists.
If you own a Blu-Ray Player or Blu-Ray disks you are using Java (Blu-Ray disks use a variant of Java ME for all their menus and interactive stuff and whatever else) Cable set top boxes that use OCAP for interactivity and stuff (common in America) also use a variant of Java ME.
And I am sure there are still other embedded Java systems out there in use.
All the law needs to do is to require that if a manufacturer of a product (whether that be a combine harvester, a chest freezer, a cellphone or a commercial airliner) provides parts, tools, diagnostic equipment, service manuals, service updates, repair guides, software or anything else to manufacturer repair shops or authorized service centres they have to provide those same items to anyone else who wants to run a repair shop or repair items.
No exemptions, no restrictions, no "sorry you can't buy that unless you have a license to act as a motor vehicle repair shop" or other crap and no charging huge prices for things (with an appropriate government agency given powers to act if a manufacturer is charging prices above what is reasonable)
If you want a good example of why this stuff is broken, I have seen reports of videos on the official VHTelevision Van Halen channel (videos uploaded by or with full permission of the band themselves) being blocked by copyright crap.
Why not just make USB sticks that contain the game files plus an installer that copies the lot to your HDD. USB sticks are cheap enough these days for that to be viable.
We will never have a truly secure internet so long as western governments (and their agencies) continue to prioritize both mass surveillance and targeted cracking of devices and protocols over actual security.
Unless we can get the 5-eyes intelligence agencies to give up their wholesale data collection and spying and their attempts to get back doors, the forces pushing for insecurity will outweigh the forces pushing for security.
And I have no doubt that the Japanese intelligence agencies are just as focused on insecurity and data collection as the rest of them...
Its obvious that a TV commercial is exactly that, an ad for the product being advertised.
But if Ford is giving Wheel of Fortune a free/cheap/discounted/whatever car to give away on the show in return for promotion of the car by Wheel of Fortune, Wheel should absolutely be required to tell people that they have received that stuff from Ford.
Or if Nike is paying a studio to have a character in a sitcom wear Nike shoes (and to show those Nike shoes off on camera) the studio should be required to tell the audience that Nike has paid for those shoes to be in there.
Just like if someone running a PC-related YouTube channel is required to tell someone that the Gigabyte motherboard they are using in their video was donated by Gigabyte. Or that the promotion of Squarespace on the channel is in fact paid promotion.
Maybe if universities stopped spending so much money on things like massive football stadiums (and the teams, coaches, players, marching bands and other things that go with them) they would have more money to put into actual education...
I am adding this to the long list of reasons why I will not own any Sony produced electronics or hardware period.
My gaming is done on a PC but if for some reason I did want a console, it would probably be an xbox because Microsoft are (at least right now) the least anti-consumer of the lot.
Online gambling is already illegal in the US, why is it not illegal to run ads for it? YouTube should be pushed into adding a clause to their terms of service that prevents anyone from running ads or sponsors for things that are otherwise illegal.
We already know from the Snowden leaks that the US government has the capabilities to do most of the things on that list for network gear from the likes of Cisco, HP, Juniper and other US manufacturers. And given how much more power the Chinese have over Chinese companies and their employees (unlike the US, the Chinese government has no problems telling people "do what we want or your family will be executed") its logical to assume China can do everything the US can and more.
That said, what the hell are governments and big corporations and others doing on these networks (internet, cellular etc) whereby a compromised bit of network gear is even able to steal valuable data and why aren't they encrypting anything that the Chinese (or anyone else) might want to steal?
Al Gore didn't invent the Internet. He did however lead the way in creating and passing legislation that lead to the expansion of the NSFNet and the creation of the Internet as the true "network of networks" that we know it as today.
The problem isn't with single-payer healthcare, the problem is with the Polish implementation.
Here in Australia it works pretty good (even if the current government wants to ruin things) and according to people I know over there (including some in the medical profession) it seems to work pretty well in Canada too.
If the US wanted to implement single-payer, copying the Canadian system would seem to me to be a good place to start.
Too many once great businesses have been killed by Wall Street greed. Sears (and K-Mart). Toys R Us. Dick Smith here in Australia. And no doubt others.
There is also the Leste project which takes Devuan Ascii (i.e. Debian without Systemd) and merges it with bits of the old Maemo and Meego platform stuff. Right now it can run (to varying degrees) on the Nokia N900, Nokia N9, Nokia N950, Motorola Droid 4, Raspberry Pi and a few other things.
Not only are they not continuing with the remakes (I for one would be very interested in a Nintendo 64 classic so I can play Super Mario 64 the way it was meant to be played rather than trying to throw Bowser off the ledge using arrow keys pretending to be an analog stick) but they aren't bringing any proper Virtual Console to the switch either. Given how popular the Virtual Console options have been on the Wii and Wii U and DS line, it seems stupid not to have all the same stuff available for the Switch as well.
I have watched many videos on YouTube of people who buy palettes of "Amazon Customer Returns" and end up with stuff that has been bought, used and returned. Halloween costumes that were bought, used once and returned. Pool toys that were bought, used all summer and then returned. LEGO sets that were bought, opened, all the good bits taken out and then returned.
Amazon (and other retailers) need to stop taking returns of items that have been bought and opened and used and then returned.
If you bought a new Ford from a dealer and drove it for a few months you wouldn't expect the dealer (or Ford) to take it back and give you a full refund just because you decided you didn't like it or you wanted another color or you no longer needed the car. Why should Amazon take back items you bought and used and want to return just because you no longer need it or you have decided to buy something else?
The media companies also want to control what flows over the internet (usually with help from governments e.g. Article 13 in Europe) in an attempt to put the genie back in the bottle and maintain control over the way content gets distributed (both so people have to watch their content instead of the online alternatives and so they can suppress news and factual content that goes against the narrative the media organizations want to spread)
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Unfortunately the highest court in the land (who's job it is to decide whether lesser laws violate the highest law in the land) decided in Eldred v. Ashcroft that the US copyright law is in fact constitutional.
Good luck getting the right mix of judges on the bench (and the right case going all the way to the highest court) to get that ruling overturned.
If they can identify the comments and demonetize or restrict the video, surely they can give creators the option to instead opt for the comments to be deleted or blocked when they are detected. Some way that creators can choose to have the inappropriate comments removed to prevent demonetization.
The problem is that the unhealthy crap sold by fast food joints and convenience stores and dollar stores and the like is cheaper (thanks to farm subsidies and other factors that distort the market) than the good healthy stuff.
So the retailers who sell the healthy stuff can't complete with the retailers selling the crap which leads to "food deserts" in these lower-class areas where there just aren't healthy options.
All that the right-to-repair laws I have seen require is that the manufacturer provide to 3rd parties anything (tools, diagnostic hardware and software, spare parts, consumables, whatever) that they provide to their own service shops or to manufacturer-authorized service shops.
So if John Deere authorized service centres can buy replacement transmissions from John Deere and can get the tools/hardware/software to reset the tractor computer so it will accept the new transmission, anyone who wants to repair tractors would be able to buy that and replace transmissions on a John Deere tractor.
Or if Toyota service centres can buy replacement keys and parts (key blanks, new transponders, new remotes, new housing etc) from Toyota and can get the software/hardware/instructions to create new keys for a Toyota, 3rd party repair shops and locksmiths and such would be able to get that same information.
Or if Apple has a machine that allows the fingerprint sensor or screen on an iPhone to be replaced without the OS throwing an error or refusing to accept/use the new hardware, anyone who wants to repair iPhones should be able to get both the replacement parts and the machine.
None of the laws I have seen require manufacturers to change their devices to make them easier to repair or to start making things available that they dont currently provide to authorized repair shops (if Apple doesn't make new iPhone batteries for a particular model available to its own repair shops, it isn't going to be required to make those batteries available to others either).
Except that if you believe the statements from our government (statements that they can't back up with any evidence), all the Chinese stuff is compromised and feeding all your data back to the Communists.
If you own a Blu-Ray Player or Blu-Ray disks you are using Java (Blu-Ray disks use a variant of Java ME for all their menus and interactive stuff and whatever else)
Cable set top boxes that use OCAP for interactivity and stuff (common in America) also use a variant of Java ME.
And I am sure there are still other embedded Java systems out there in use.
All the law needs to do is to require that if a manufacturer of a product (whether that be a combine harvester, a chest freezer, a cellphone or a commercial airliner) provides parts, tools, diagnostic equipment, service manuals, service updates, repair guides, software or anything else to manufacturer repair shops or authorized service centres they have to provide those same items to anyone else who wants to run a repair shop or repair items.
No exemptions, no restrictions, no "sorry you can't buy that unless you have a license to act as a motor vehicle repair shop" or other crap and no charging huge prices for things (with an appropriate government agency given powers to act if a manufacturer is charging prices above what is reasonable)
If you want a good example of why this stuff is broken, I have seen reports of videos on the official VHTelevision Van Halen channel (videos uploaded by or with full permission of the band themselves) being blocked by copyright crap.
If the USB sticks are loaded in-store from a kiosk at purchase they could be loaded with whatever the latest patch is at that point.
Why not just make USB sticks that contain the game files plus an installer that copies the lot to your HDD. USB sticks are cheap enough these days for that to be viable.
We will never have a truly secure internet so long as western governments (and their agencies) continue to prioritize both mass surveillance and targeted cracking of devices and protocols over actual security.
Unless we can get the 5-eyes intelligence agencies to give up their wholesale data collection and spying and their attempts to get back doors, the forces pushing for insecurity will outweigh the forces pushing for security.
And I have no doubt that the Japanese intelligence agencies are just as focused on insecurity and data collection as the rest of them...
Its obvious that a TV commercial is exactly that, an ad for the product being advertised.
But if Ford is giving Wheel of Fortune a free/cheap/discounted/whatever car to give away on the show in return for promotion of the car by Wheel of Fortune, Wheel should absolutely be required to tell people that they have received that stuff from Ford.
Or if Nike is paying a studio to have a character in a sitcom wear Nike shoes (and to show those Nike shoes off on camera) the studio should be required to tell the audience that Nike has paid for those shoes to be in there.
Just like if someone running a PC-related YouTube channel is required to tell someone that the Gigabyte motherboard they are using in their video was donated by Gigabyte. Or that the promotion of Squarespace on the channel is in fact paid promotion.
Maybe if universities stopped spending so much money on things like massive football stadiums (and the teams, coaches, players, marching bands and other things that go with them) they would have more money to put into actual education...
Gitlab also offers free private repos without restrictions (I administer one myself)
I am adding this to the long list of reasons why I will not own any Sony produced electronics or hardware period.
My gaming is done on a PC but if for some reason I did want a console, it would probably be an xbox because Microsoft are (at least right now) the least anti-consumer of the lot.
Online gambling is already illegal in the US, why is it not illegal to run ads for it? YouTube should be pushed into adding a clause to their terms of service that prevents anyone from running ads or sponsors for things that are otherwise illegal.
We already know from the Snowden leaks that the US government has the capabilities to do most of the things on that list for network gear from the likes of Cisco, HP, Juniper and other US manufacturers. And given how much more power the Chinese have over Chinese companies and their employees (unlike the US, the Chinese government has no problems telling people "do what we want or your family will be executed") its logical to assume China can do everything the US can and more.
That said, what the hell are governments and big corporations and others doing on these networks (internet, cellular etc) whereby a compromised bit of network gear is even able to steal valuable data and why aren't they encrypting anything that the Chinese (or anyone else) might want to steal?
Al Gore didn't invent the Internet.
He did however lead the way in creating and passing legislation that lead to the expansion of the NSFNet and the creation of the Internet as the true "network of networks" that we know it as today.
The problem isn't with single-payer healthcare, the problem is with the Polish implementation.
Here in Australia it works pretty good (even if the current government wants to ruin things) and according to people I know over there (including some in the medical profession) it seems to work pretty well in Canada too.
If the US wanted to implement single-payer, copying the Canadian system would seem to me to be a good place to start.
Too many once great businesses have been killed by Wall Street greed.
Sears (and K-Mart).
Toys R Us.
Dick Smith here in Australia.
And no doubt others.
There is also the Leste project which takes Devuan Ascii (i.e. Debian without Systemd) and merges it with bits of the old Maemo and Meego platform stuff. Right now it can run (to varying degrees) on the Nokia N900, Nokia N9, Nokia N950, Motorola Droid 4, Raspberry Pi and a few other things.
Not only are they not continuing with the remakes (I for one would be very interested in a Nintendo 64 classic so I can play Super Mario 64 the way it was meant to be played rather than trying to throw Bowser off the ledge using arrow keys pretending to be an analog stick) but they aren't bringing any proper Virtual Console to the switch either. Given how popular the Virtual Console options have been on the Wii and Wii U and DS line, it seems stupid not to have all the same stuff available for the Switch as well.
I have watched many videos on YouTube of people who buy palettes of "Amazon Customer Returns" and end up with stuff that has been bought, used and returned. Halloween costumes that were bought, used once and returned. Pool toys that were bought, used all summer and then returned. LEGO sets that were bought, opened, all the good bits taken out and then returned.
Amazon (and other retailers) need to stop taking returns of items that have been bought and opened and used and then returned.
If you bought a new Ford from a dealer and drove it for a few months you wouldn't expect the dealer (or Ford) to take it back and give you a full refund just because you decided you didn't like it or you wanted another color or you no longer needed the car. Why should Amazon take back items you bought and used and want to return just because you no longer need it or you have decided to buy something else?
The media companies also want to control what flows over the internet (usually with help from governments e.g. Article 13 in Europe) in an attempt to put the genie back in the bottle and maintain control over the way content gets distributed (both so people have to watch their content instead of the online alternatives and so they can suppress news and factual content that goes against the narrative the media organizations want to spread)
Not only did they just buy Github (who created and maintain Electron) but they also use it for a number of their own apps.