Totally agree, there's zero need to trim a cat's claws if they have sufficient outlets to take care of them themselves (scratch pads, cat trees, etc). If you play with your cats regularly then they'll learn not to play so hard with you that it breaks skin.
Google Shopping is often enough just as easy to find the lowest price for a product and do so efficiently, though it will depend somewhat on the site that has the lowest price. Most sites seem to accept paypal these days, which is a good way to keep from plugging in your credit card information on sites that you don't trust.
Sure, you can block a domain name from resolving to an IP address on your DNS servers or you can block an IP address from being accessed on your network, but what good does either of those actually do? TPB mirrors would just crop up all over the place with different IPs and different urls.
In order to effectively block any site like TPB they would have to put in actual content filtering which would require a huge amount of hardware to ensure that it didn't adversely affect network speeds. Even then, throw HTTPS at it and if it's not doing a man in the middle negotiation (thereby compromising the security of all the traffic that passes through it) it can't read the content to see if it should block it.
A lot of the self-driving car development atm is based around normal highway and town/city driving speeds. There's some valuable research data that stands to be gathered by testing self-driving cars at higher speeds, and one of the ways to encourage that development would be to make a competition out of it. If they can recoup some of that development cost by tapping into whatever entertainment value the spectacle presents, what's wrong with that?
Banning steroids and other performance enhancing drugs doesn't stop them from being used in sports whenever the person/team thinks they can get away with it. It will be the same with gene manipulation if they find ways to make it lead to smarter, stronger, faster human beings. There are plenty of wealthy individuals out there that would want every advantage for their children regardless of any ethical barriers.
That's a good point, I know here in Pennsylvania most automated traffic incident stations are broadcast in AM, not FM. It's about the only time I actually turn on the radio in my car.
The administration doesn't care at all about the lying, or the violation of the Logan Act. The only reason Flynn got dismissed is because the media got wind of it and it made Trump/Pence look weak, foolish, and/or impotent if they continued to do nothing. That's the one thing Trump won't stand for.
I guess on the flip side, if this is as rampant as you claim, it points to natural-born American women being extremely deficient that so many men are willing to date, marry, and have kids with women who aren't legal immigrants.
I don't think I would say that American women are extremely deficient, more like overly picky. There is a subset of men that local women simply aren't interested in, or are otherwise unattached due to other factors, and these men are easy prey for any good/decent looking foreign female that wants to show interest in them and take advantage of their loneliness.
Anecdotal evidence is still anecdotal evidence though, we'd need some real statistical research numbers to determine exactly how or if the practice is truly that rampant.
DRM does not deter casual pirates. Casual pirates never do any of the leg work, they just wait for hacking groups to release the torrents and then download and play. Steam and services like it have significantly reduced the number of casual pirates though. They did this not through DRM but by making PC Gaming consumer friendly, convenient, and cost competitive. They gave the consumers what they wanted: easy and convenient access to their game libraries, a plethora of frequent sales and discounts, cloud saves, a social network tie in, and a collective marketplace where they can find just about any PC game imaginable. It's the same way that Netflix has reduced video piracy. When you give the consumers what they want in the format they want it and at a price they can afford, they are willing to pay for it.
I think they've automated their disc handling systems to such an extent I don't think that there's any human checking of returned discs any more. I consistently see blu-rays cracked in the same or similar manner that actually makes me think that either the USPS postal system is cracking them, or Netflix's own robots are. I've had to send probably about two dozen discs back for replacement that had an 1/8" to 1/4" crack at the very edge.
And I think the above comment is absolutely right: they don't make any effort to replace broken inventory. Once most/all copies of a movie are broken, they remove it from their available library. I have 36 movies stuck in my saved section now with "Unknown" availability, only a few of which are yet to be released new movies.
After the advent of DVDs and burnable optical media, I always thought that rental agencies aught to be allowed to purchase a set amount of stock, ie a license to own a set number of copies of a movie, and if any of that rental stock was destroyed just burn a new copy. But, copyright law being such as it is and disc duplication being impossible with breaking the encryption on the discs such a common sense thing would never be allowed to happen.
Technically I don't see why they need "An App" when the mobile version of the dvd.com website allows queue maintenance just fine. Although after some of the shitty rendering bugs I've seen crop up in the latest versions of iOS, maybe they decided it was the only way to get around Apple's idiocy.
It's not just obscure/non-US movies, but new releases as well. Where PPV services like Amazon Video, Google Play, Vudo, etc get access to rent new releases at or even before physical disc releases, Netflix Streaming hardly gets access to anything new at the same time it's released for wide distribution elsewhere.
Now to be fair that's because Netflix streaming has continued to drop the ball by not establishing a competitive PPV service for new releases (ie to compete with Amazon's model) alongside their subscription model service.
But it's still a fact that Netflix's only real access to newly released content is via it's disc rental service.
Ford did some simple supply and demand economics calculations and decided it was more profitable to expand their production of highly profitable big trucks and SUVs in their current US based plants than it was to open up a new small cars plant in Mexico. Instead of opening a new plant, they're just cutting their overall small cars production so that their existing Mexico plant can manufacture both car lines.
Honestly this wouldn't even be a news worthy headline if people weren't trying to use it to prop up Trump.
Plus every time Nintendo gimps their hardware like this all they do is chase off third party support. Why should a third party give a rats ass about a Nintendo console when their 1080P 60FPS game that works great on PC, PS4, and XBone has to have its visuals slashed in half or further and needs a ton of other adjustments just to run on Nintendo's offering?
The only way they get third party support is if they get a large install base, but without hefty third party support getting that install base is nigh impossible. It's a devilish chicken and egg scenario. They'll get their die hard and first party exclusive fans to buy in, but at this point is that really going to give them an install base big enough to entice the major third party developers?
I'm sure robots maintaining other robots will eventually be on the horizon.
Realistically the loss of unskilled and repetitive jobs to various forms of automation should come as a surprise to _no one_. And it's not something that the government can reasonably legislate against either. It can't order a company to staff its factories with humans instead of robots, especially while its running around ordering that companies to maintain all kinds of safety regulations and provide all kinds of benefits for their human employees. As long as the product at the end of the line meets or exceeds regulatory standards, the government has no say about who vs what put it together. The more costly human employees become to a company the more incentive they have to embrace automating them out of the picture.
There is coming a point where unskilled and untrained humans are going to be left behind on the sidelines. Whether or not the government is there to catch them with programs like universal health care, universal basic income, free job training and etc we'll have to see.
I wonder if it could be related to a design problem with the Hyperloop, ie if the Hyperloop system was unable to easily adapt to mountains and other terrain features while it might otherwise easily go under them instead.
Or maybe he's planning to go asteroid mining after he gets setup on Mars.
Yes, the internet is everything you describe it as being. However, consumers have the right to opt out of that kind of invasion being done at the OS level of their own computer (particularly if they pay for a license instead of accepting one of MS's first year "beta-ware" freebies). Granted, they'd be better off doing so by not using Windows at all.
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Totally agree, there's zero need to trim a cat's claws if they have sufficient outlets to take care of them themselves (scratch pads, cat trees, etc). If you play with your cats regularly then they'll learn not to play so hard with you that it breaks skin.
Google Shopping is often enough just as easy to find the lowest price for a product and do so efficiently, though it will depend somewhat on the site that has the lowest price. Most sites seem to accept paypal these days, which is a good way to keep from plugging in your credit card information on sites that you don't trust.
Sure, you can block a domain name from resolving to an IP address on your DNS servers or you can block an IP address from being accessed on your network, but what good does either of those actually do? TPB mirrors would just crop up all over the place with different IPs and different urls.
In order to effectively block any site like TPB they would have to put in actual content filtering which would require a huge amount of hardware to ensure that it didn't adversely affect network speeds. Even then, throw HTTPS at it and if it's not doing a man in the middle negotiation (thereby compromising the security of all the traffic that passes through it) it can't read the content to see if it should block it.
A lot of the self-driving car development atm is based around normal highway and town/city driving speeds. There's some valuable research data that stands to be gathered by testing self-driving cars at higher speeds, and one of the ways to encourage that development would be to make a competition out of it. If they can recoup some of that development cost by tapping into whatever entertainment value the spectacle presents, what's wrong with that?
Banning steroids and other performance enhancing drugs doesn't stop them from being used in sports whenever the person/team thinks they can get away with it. It will be the same with gene manipulation if they find ways to make it lead to smarter, stronger, faster human beings. There are plenty of wealthy individuals out there that would want every advantage for their children regardless of any ethical barriers.
That's a good point, I know here in Pennsylvania most automated traffic incident stations are broadcast in AM, not FM. It's about the only time I actually turn on the radio in my car.
The administration doesn't care at all about the lying, or the violation of the Logan Act. The only reason Flynn got dismissed is because the media got wind of it and it made Trump/Pence look weak, foolish, and/or impotent if they continued to do nothing. That's the one thing Trump won't stand for.
NVidia showed off a 4K triple screen laptop prototype at CES this year. https://www.razerzone.com/proj...
I guess on the flip side, if this is as rampant as you claim, it points to natural-born American women being extremely deficient that so many men are willing to date, marry, and have kids with women who aren't legal immigrants.
I don't think I would say that American women are extremely deficient, more like overly picky. There is a subset of men that local women simply aren't interested in, or are otherwise unattached due to other factors, and these men are easy prey for any good/decent looking foreign female that wants to show interest in them and take advantage of their loneliness.
Anecdotal evidence is still anecdotal evidence though, we'd need some real statistical research numbers to determine exactly how or if the practice is truly that rampant.
DRM does not deter casual pirates. Casual pirates never do any of the leg work, they just wait for hacking groups to release the torrents and then download and play. Steam and services like it have significantly reduced the number of casual pirates though. They did this not through DRM but by making PC Gaming consumer friendly, convenient, and cost competitive. They gave the consumers what they wanted: easy and convenient access to their game libraries, a plethora of frequent sales and discounts, cloud saves, a social network tie in, and a collective marketplace where they can find just about any PC game imaginable. It's the same way that Netflix has reduced video piracy. When you give the consumers what they want in the format they want it and at a price they can afford, they are willing to pay for it.
I think they've automated their disc handling systems to such an extent I don't think that there's any human checking of returned discs any more. I consistently see blu-rays cracked in the same or similar manner that actually makes me think that either the USPS postal system is cracking them, or Netflix's own robots are. I've had to send probably about two dozen discs back for replacement that had an 1/8" to 1/4" crack at the very edge.
And I think the above comment is absolutely right: they don't make any effort to replace broken inventory. Once most/all copies of a movie are broken, they remove it from their available library. I have 36 movies stuck in my saved section now with "Unknown" availability, only a few of which are yet to be released new movies.
After the advent of DVDs and burnable optical media, I always thought that rental agencies aught to be allowed to purchase a set amount of stock, ie a license to own a set number of copies of a movie, and if any of that rental stock was destroyed just burn a new copy. But, copyright law being such as it is and disc duplication being impossible with breaking the encryption on the discs such a common sense thing would never be allowed to happen.
Technically I don't see why they need "An App" when the mobile version of the dvd.com website allows queue maintenance just fine. Although after some of the shitty rendering bugs I've seen crop up in the latest versions of iOS, maybe they decided it was the only way to get around Apple's idiocy.
It's not just obscure/non-US movies, but new releases as well. Where PPV services like Amazon Video, Google Play, Vudo, etc get access to rent new releases at or even before physical disc releases, Netflix Streaming hardly gets access to anything new at the same time it's released for wide distribution elsewhere.
Now to be fair that's because Netflix streaming has continued to drop the ball by not establishing a competitive PPV service for new releases (ie to compete with Amazon's model) alongside their subscription model service.
But it's still a fact that Netflix's only real access to newly released content is via it's disc rental service.
Ford did some simple supply and demand economics calculations and decided it was more profitable to expand their production of highly profitable big trucks and SUVs in their current US based plants than it was to open up a new small cars plant in Mexico. Instead of opening a new plant, they're just cutting their overall small cars production so that their existing Mexico plant can manufacture both car lines. Honestly this wouldn't even be a news worthy headline if people weren't trying to use it to prop up Trump.
Plus every time Nintendo gimps their hardware like this all they do is chase off third party support. Why should a third party give a rats ass about a Nintendo console when their 1080P 60FPS game that works great on PC, PS4, and XBone has to have its visuals slashed in half or further and needs a ton of other adjustments just to run on Nintendo's offering?
The only way they get third party support is if they get a large install base, but without hefty third party support getting that install base is nigh impossible. It's a devilish chicken and egg scenario. They'll get their die hard and first party exclusive fans to buy in, but at this point is that really going to give them an install base big enough to entice the major third party developers?
I'm sure robots maintaining other robots will eventually be on the horizon. Realistically the loss of unskilled and repetitive jobs to various forms of automation should come as a surprise to _no one_. And it's not something that the government can reasonably legislate against either. It can't order a company to staff its factories with humans instead of robots, especially while its running around ordering that companies to maintain all kinds of safety regulations and provide all kinds of benefits for their human employees. As long as the product at the end of the line meets or exceeds regulatory standards, the government has no say about who vs what put it together. The more costly human employees become to a company the more incentive they have to embrace automating them out of the picture. There is coming a point where unskilled and untrained humans are going to be left behind on the sidelines. Whether or not the government is there to catch them with programs like universal health care, universal basic income, free job training and etc we'll have to see.
Tack on that it's infected with Always Online DRM on top of that.
They're a US company? Funny, I don't recall them paying the US any realistic taxes on all the money they make.
They were probably expecting something a lot more significant with a $10 price tag.
I wonder if it could be related to a design problem with the Hyperloop, ie if the Hyperloop system was unable to easily adapt to mountains and other terrain features while it might otherwise easily go under them instead. Or maybe he's planning to go asteroid mining after he gets setup on Mars.
Yes, the internet is everything you describe it as being. However, consumers have the right to opt out of that kind of invasion being done at the OS level of their own computer (particularly if they pay for a license instead of accepting one of MS's first year "beta-ware" freebies). Granted, they'd be better off doing so by not using Windows at all.