If I take a gearbox out of a Ford (one that's got a Ford logo stamped into the case) and replace a bunch of warn or broken gears inside with new gears made by a third party before selling that gearbox as refurbished (and being totally open about the fact that its a refurbished job and what was done to it) should Ford have the right to stop you just because its got a Ford logo on the case?
If a guy holding people hostage in a Cafe, waiving terrorist flags around and making claims about ties to Islamic State counts as a terrorist attack, Australia absolutely does have terrorists.
Ok so the creators of this music are upset that they get less money when their music is played on a streaming service than they do when their music is played via more traditional means. The answer then is to increase the royalties streaming services have to pay for using this music to the same level as for traditional means of distributing content.
Music publishers get the money they used to get before streaming exists and consumers aren't hit with some big new tax.
The biggest problems with updating kernels are vendors who don't comply with the GPL (not releasing kernel source at all, releasing incomplete kernel source, releasing kernel source that doesn't match the shipping binaries, taking forever to release kernel source after a new update to the device, stuff like that) and vendors who lock down the devices so that replacing the kernel isn't possible.
Taking carbon from the atmosphere, turning it into fuel and burning it is better in terms of climate change than taking carbon trapped in the ground, turning it into fuel and burning it. Especially if the energy used to produce the fuel from the atmospheric carbon came from a renewable source.
Why do you think airlines (e.g. Virgin), aircraft manufacturers (e.g. Boeing) and others (US military for example) are spending big bucks to look for more sustainable replacements for jet fuels?
A number of jet flights have taken place using either 100% biofuels or biofuel blends and a lot more work is being done.
Any attempts to reclassify Schedule 1 drugs will probably never happen because the big pharma companies are strongly opposed (since all the things on Schedule 1 are drugs that the big pharma companies can't patent or control and that any drug maker would be able to produce)
Plus you have the anti-drugs campaigners who would argue that (as with weed) the harmful effects of hallucinogenic drugs outweigh any medical benefits.
What needs to happen is for someone to come up with a way to see all the content available to them (cable TV, cable co video on demand, streaming services, all of it) and be able to easily find everything you have access to (without displaying content you dont have access to)
The real problem here is that the cable companies don't want their content to become just another option in a list of available options (since they want you to watch their content and their ads rather than the other guys stuff) and they dont want it to be easy to hide/ignore the cable company-supplied channels and content you dont have access to (since they want you to have to flip past it all the time so you see what's on and become tempted to buy the extra packages)
The problem with your idea is that by the time someone has seen what's going on and decided that the guys with the big guns are in fact needed, the bad guys inside might have a chance to escape via their secret escape tunnel or be ready to defend themselves with some help from Mr Smith and Mr Wesson. (or something bigger than that)
Catching the criminals by surprise may be the only way to prevent an escape, an attack on law enforcement or destruction of evidence.
The people who have the job of going after the people who run public companies and the people who have the job of going after unwanted Mexicans are totally different. Its very much possible for the US government to be doing both things at once.
I dont think "right to repair" means companies have to change their designs. What it means is that anything the company gives to its own shops or to its authorized repairers must be made available to anyone who wants to buy one and do repairs.
Right now Apple only sells replacement iPhone screens to Apple's own service centres and Apple Authorized Service Centers. Same with whatever gear you need to actually do the replacement and have everything continue to work. Under "right to repair" Apple would be forced to sell genuine screens to anyone who wants it as well as providing the tools, manuals and other stuff needed to allow anyone to replace these screens.
Apple has also (on a number of occasions) gone after people importing and using iPhone screens who aren't Apple Authorized Service Centers (with Apple claiming that if you take a broken iPhone screen and replace the cracked glass with new glass its somehow now a knock-off part or something ridiculous like that) and they have otherwise made it harder for 3rd party repair shops to do repairs.
Heck, they have even made it hard for Apple Authorized Service Centers to do work on Apple products in that they wont sell spare parts to those service centres except as part of a specific work order (where the repair shop submits details of the exact device to be fixed). This is supposedly so parts dont end up on the open market.
Blame the way laws on things like fuel economy and emissions (in the US and probably elsewhere) are written to favor big-ass SUVs over more sensible options like station wagons.
The #1 reason the piece of garbage known as the Chrysler PT Cruiser exists is because it takes advantage of loopholes in the law allowing it to be classified as a "light truck".
Its way past time to ban scalping completly. And not just penalties for the scalpers but penalties for the sites that allow scalping to take place like Viagogo and others.
A check of my records shows the last thing I bought from EA was The Ultimate Collection with all the C&C games in it. And (with the exception of the abomination that is C&C4) those games aren't terrible and are actually good to play (plus I bought it 2012 before EA went full scumbag with loot boxes etc).
My most recent gaming purchases have been Bethesda titles (Fallout 3, Fallout New Vegas and Fallout 4) and some old stuff on Gog (the System Shock games specifically)
I wonder if this is the exploit the FBI were using a while back (the one where they decided to let a scumbag pedophile off the hook rather than reveal how they were able to catch the guy) or if its a different exploit and the FBI one is still a problem...
Considering the number of times that hacked save games have been used to exploit consoles (even on Nintendo's own systems) it makes sense to lock it all down.
What about if that.git folder (and the website's source code) included private keys for stuff. Or credentials/API keys for 3rd party services. Or credentials for database and other servers.
Even if the government could prove (to a standard that would hold up in court) that backdoors in widely available software would save the lives of innocent people, I wouldn't support such backdoors.
If anyone out there is talking to politicians and trying to convince them why all this stuff is a bad idea, point them at the excellent Bruce Schneier book Data and Goliath. It spells out in language that even a politician could probably understand exactly why all this crap is bad (IIRC there are even arguments that this stuff makes the world LESS safe)
The problem is that the laws in China are such that at any time China could order Huawei or ZTE to use their installed gear to provide backdoors into western telecommunications networks. And if they say no all their top people will end up in the Chinese version of Federal Pound me in the A** Prison (which probably makes the US version look like a 5 star hotel) or in front of a firing squad.
The western governments don't want to allow gear into their networks that could be opened up to the Chinese government and their version of the NSA at any time because (for reasons I cant understand) they think the Chinese care about what us Aussies are doing on our phones (anyone sending anything classified, sensitive, commercially valuable or otherwise worth stealing is going to be encrypting it or not using public 5G networks at all so I dont get what the Chinese are supposedly going to be able to steal if they have these backdoors)
The way the laws are going (especially in Europe), even the bargain basement crapboxes will be required to have these communication systems (the argument they are using is that the stuff that automatically contacts emergency services in an accident is good for saving lives)
Many Australia ISPs offer plans on the NBN at the 50Mbps or 100Mbps speed tiers with genuinely unlimited data. TPG (just as one example) will give you unlimited data on the 50Mbps speed tier for AU$70/month or on the 100Mbps speed tier for AU$90/moth.
IINet, iPrimus, Optus, Belong, Dodo, Telstra and others all offer NBN plans with unlimited data on the 50Mbps speed tier, the 100Mbps speed tier or both.
I have DSL and am currently syncing at 9 down and 1 up and its plenty for even high quality streams and downloads. For me 25 down and 3 up would be more than adequate provided I can actually GET that speeds at the times I want to use it.
They should keep the definition at 25 x 3 but ban the use of terms like "up to" and require providers to demonstrate that people can actually GET the advertised speed (e.g. via speed tests). For reference, a speed test on my DSL connection shows 7.85 down and 0.87 up (try getting that on a highly congested cable line in peak times when everyone is using it...)
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If I take a gearbox out of a Ford (one that's got a Ford logo stamped into the case) and replace a bunch of warn or broken gears inside with new gears made by a third party before selling that gearbox as refurbished (and being totally open about the fact that its a refurbished job and what was done to it) should Ford have the right to stop you just because its got a Ford logo on the case?
I also use Canon for the same reason. Good quality and I haven't heard of any attempts to specifically block 3rd party cartridges.
They make great cameras too (all the way from point & shoot up to high-end professional gear)
If a guy holding people hostage in a Cafe, waiving terrorist flags around and making claims about ties to Islamic State counts as a terrorist attack, Australia absolutely does have terrorists.
Does this mean Linux can now support ExFat? (the new file system that replaced Fat32 as standard for things like memory cards)
Ok so the creators of this music are upset that they get less money when their music is played on a streaming service than they do when their music is played via more traditional means. The answer then is to increase the royalties streaming services have to pay for using this music to the same level as for traditional means of distributing content.
Music publishers get the money they used to get before streaming exists and consumers aren't hit with some big new tax.
The biggest problems with updating kernels are vendors who don't comply with the GPL (not releasing kernel source at all, releasing incomplete kernel source, releasing kernel source that doesn't match the shipping binaries, taking forever to release kernel source after a new update to the device, stuff like that) and vendors who lock down the devices so that replacing the kernel isn't possible.
Taking carbon from the atmosphere, turning it into fuel and burning it is better in terms of climate change than taking carbon trapped in the ground, turning it into fuel and burning it. Especially if the energy used to produce the fuel from the atmospheric carbon came from a renewable source.
Why do you think airlines (e.g. Virgin), aircraft manufacturers (e.g. Boeing) and others (US military for example) are spending big bucks to look for more sustainable replacements for jet fuels?
A number of jet flights have taken place using either 100% biofuels or biofuel blends and a lot more work is being done.
Any attempts to reclassify Schedule 1 drugs will probably never happen because the big pharma companies are strongly opposed (since all the things on Schedule 1 are drugs that the big pharma companies can't patent or control and that any drug maker would be able to produce)
Plus you have the anti-drugs campaigners who would argue that (as with weed) the harmful effects of hallucinogenic drugs outweigh any medical benefits.
What needs to happen is for someone to come up with a way to see all the content available to them (cable TV, cable co video on demand, streaming services, all of it) and be able to easily find everything you have access to (without displaying content you dont have access to)
The real problem here is that the cable companies don't want their content to become just another option in a list of available options (since they want you to watch their content and their ads rather than the other guys stuff) and they dont want it to be easy to hide/ignore the cable company-supplied channels and content you dont have access to (since they want you to have to flip past it all the time so you see what's on and become tempted to buy the extra packages)
The problem with your idea is that by the time someone has seen what's going on and decided that the guys with the big guns are in fact needed, the bad guys inside might have a chance to escape via their secret escape tunnel or be ready to defend themselves with some help from Mr Smith and Mr Wesson. (or something bigger than that)
Catching the criminals by surprise may be the only way to prevent an escape, an attack on law enforcement or destruction of evidence.
The people who have the job of going after the people who run public companies and the people who have the job of going after unwanted Mexicans are totally different. Its very much possible for the US government to be doing both things at once.
I dont think "right to repair" means companies have to change their designs. What it means is that anything the company gives to its own shops or to its authorized repairers must be made available to anyone who wants to buy one and do repairs.
Right now Apple only sells replacement iPhone screens to Apple's own service centres and Apple Authorized Service Centers. Same with whatever gear you need to actually do the replacement and have everything continue to work. Under "right to repair" Apple would be forced to sell genuine screens to anyone who wants it as well as providing the tools, manuals and other stuff needed to allow anyone to replace these screens.
Apple has also (on a number of occasions) gone after people importing and using iPhone screens who aren't Apple Authorized Service Centers (with Apple claiming that if you take a broken iPhone screen and replace the cracked glass with new glass its somehow now a knock-off part or something ridiculous like that) and they have otherwise made it harder for 3rd party repair shops to do repairs.
Heck, they have even made it hard for Apple Authorized Service Centers to do work on Apple products in that they wont sell spare parts to those service centres except as part of a specific work order (where the repair shop submits details of the exact device to be fixed). This is supposedly so parts dont end up on the open market.
Blame the way laws on things like fuel economy and emissions (in the US and probably elsewhere) are written to favor big-ass SUVs over more sensible options like station wagons.
The #1 reason the piece of garbage known as the Chrysler PT Cruiser exists is because it takes advantage of loopholes in the law allowing it to be classified as a "light truck".
Its way past time to ban scalping completly. And not just penalties for the scalpers but penalties for the sites that allow scalping to take place like Viagogo and others.
A check of my records shows the last thing I bought from EA was The Ultimate Collection with all the C&C games in it. And (with the exception of the abomination that is C&C4) those games aren't terrible and are actually good to play (plus I bought it 2012 before EA went full scumbag with loot boxes etc).
My most recent gaming purchases have been Bethesda titles (Fallout 3, Fallout New Vegas and Fallout 4) and some old stuff on Gog (the System Shock games specifically)
I wonder if this is the exploit the FBI were using a while back (the one where they decided to let a scumbag pedophile off the hook rather than reveal how they were able to catch the guy) or if its a different exploit and the FBI one is still a problem...
Considering the number of times that hacked save games have been used to exploit consoles (even on Nintendo's own systems) it makes sense to lock it all down.
What about if that .git folder (and the website's source code) included private keys for stuff. Or credentials/API keys for 3rd party services. Or credentials for database and other servers.
Even if the government could prove (to a standard that would hold up in court) that backdoors in widely available software would save the lives of innocent people, I wouldn't support such backdoors.
If anyone out there is talking to politicians and trying to convince them why all this stuff is a bad idea, point them at the excellent Bruce Schneier book Data and Goliath. It spells out in language that even a politician could probably understand exactly why all this crap is bad (IIRC there are even arguments that this stuff makes the world LESS safe)
The problem is that the laws in China are such that at any time China could order Huawei or ZTE to use their installed gear to provide backdoors into western telecommunications networks. And if they say no all their top people will end up in the Chinese version of Federal Pound me in the A** Prison (which probably makes the US version look like a 5 star hotel) or in front of a firing squad.
The western governments don't want to allow gear into their networks that could be opened up to the Chinese government and their version of the NSA at any time because (for reasons I cant understand) they think the Chinese care about what us Aussies are doing on our phones (anyone sending anything classified, sensitive, commercially valuable or otherwise worth stealing is going to be encrypting it or not using public 5G networks at all so I dont get what the Chinese are supposedly going to be able to steal if they have these backdoors)
The way the laws are going (especially in Europe), even the bargain basement crapboxes will be required to have these communication systems (the argument they are using is that the stuff that automatically contacts emergency services in an accident is good for saving lives)
Many Australia ISPs offer plans on the NBN at the 50Mbps or 100Mbps speed tiers with genuinely unlimited data. TPG (just as one example) will give you unlimited data on the 50Mbps speed tier for AU$70/month or on the 100Mbps speed tier for AU$90/moth.
IINet, iPrimus, Optus, Belong, Dodo, Telstra and others all offer NBN plans with unlimited data on the 50Mbps speed tier, the 100Mbps speed tier or both.
Star Trek has inertial dampeners that eliminate the G forces. And they have climate controlled spaceships where you dont need to wear space suits.
I have DSL and am currently syncing at 9 down and 1 up and its plenty for even high quality streams and downloads. For me 25 down and 3 up would be more than adequate provided I can actually GET that speeds at the times I want to use it.
They should keep the definition at 25 x 3 but ban the use of terms like "up to" and require providers to demonstrate that people can actually GET the advertised speed (e.g. via speed tests). For reference, a speed test on my DSL connection shows 7.85 down and 0.87 up (try getting that on a highly congested cable line in peak times when everyone is using it...)