Corporate Espionage hurts the economy. It reduces taxable income for businesses and it can reduce the number of jobs that are generating income tax revenue. If someone can crank out cheap iPhone clones, apple is going to sell less of them. That's less sales people in stores selling iphones.
Either the government acts as the police or the companies are going to hire people to be their police (think railroad cops back in the day). You don't cost a company large amounts of money without that company doing something about it. I'd rather it was being done by groups answerable (at least in theory) to the citizenry.
Bounty hunters (contract fugitive recovery agents) are exempt from having to respect some of your constitutional rights (per the Supreme Court). That's what you get when you having companies hiring their own type of police force.
Can a Nest thermostat not be adjusted by hand? I haven't used any of their hardware so I have no idea. I can't imagine that there isn't a way to make adjustments manually...
A monopoly doesn't necessarily mean 100% market share. It can also define an overwhelming market share that impedes or denies competitive entry into a market.
Google is more tentacled that you probably realize.. They are tracking everything. I can't remember the last time I visited a website that didn't have that Google Analytics code buried in the HTML.
What are the real competitors to Google? Bing and Yahoo are about it, as far as I can tell.. DuckDuckGo uses Google as a backend, so.. not sure they really count as competition.
Just did a quick search on "Search Engine Market Share" for "United States", and Google has 88%. Bing is at 5.2%, and Yahoo is trailing with 4.9%. DuckDuckGo (that I would already exclude) is at 0.81%.
Google has a monopoly... It's even worse in Europe where Google is carrying a 93.41% share.
Still want to go with:
Google doesn't hold a monopoly on search. Not within the US anyways.
? If not, where would you draw the line to define a monopoly? 99%? 90%? 95%?
Abuse need not be economic.. Abuse can be as simple as saying "We've got 99%, we think RFCs and web standards are a pain in the ass, so we're gonna do it our way". If you are rocking 99% market share, who's gonna want to go through the extra effort to ensure that the remaining 1% have a good web experience? Monopoly breeds arrogance.
Sure they would. What's your point? Any sane person doesn't want ANYONE to control the web, be in Google or Mozilla.. The "Arrogance of the Monopoly" rarely tends to benefit the customer/consumer/user.
Ideally we'd have 3 or 4 browsers with about 25-33% market share each.. This would help to insure adherence to standards as well as preventing any one company from introducing unsupported features (a la Microsoft). Embrace, extend, extinguish is a tactic used by more companies than just the one in Redmond.
Too many browsers, each with it's own glitches/quirks isn't too desirable, nor is too few. I suspect somewhere between 3-5 browsers would be okay, but certainly at least 3.
I did specifically mention "services" as something people tend to be okay with paying for in a subscription scenario. Few people divorce the phone from the service. i.e. not a whole lot of folks are carrying around a phone that has no phone service and is used like a tablet or something.
While the phone is "locked" insofar as you can't twiddle with the inner code/guts, the phone itself is not rented. Your iphone is purchased. You may pay Verizon a fee for service, but the phone itself doesn't require continual payments to Apple to boot up. That's more the scenario that we were discussing..
Your CPU could be "sold" on a subscription basis, if it can't verify that you've paid your subscription your hardware won't power up.
It's been my experience that people are much more resistant to schemes, like the example you provide, when it is applied to something tangible versus something intangible.
i.e. They'll put up with subscriptions for software or services (in the real world and in cyberspace) because the items are intangible.. You can't hold a program, you can't touch a TV signal, and you can't view the calories burned by your maid as she engaged in her labors.
But, they'll bitch and moan, to no end, if you suggest that a physical object, that they get to take home, can only be rented and never bought, no-matter-what. A CPU can be seen, it can be touched. It occupies a physical space in someone's home (or work).
I suspect (and hope) that people will throw huge fits if/when (most likely when) some asshole actually tries to implement your example.
Note: If an end-user or agent fails to enter their password correctly ten times in a row, they are locked out and cannot sign in again until they reset their password.
Am I missing something? I get locking an IP address out of a system if too many incorrect login attempts are tried, but locking the whole account down? Doesn't this just give, to anyone, the ability to lock anyone's account that they know the username, but not password, for?
Seems, to me, that this policy just begs for denial-of-service attacks against entire lists of usernames..
I was never impressed with 3.51. NT4 was pretty good, but it had its moments.. Win2000 was rock solid for me, for all the years I used it. I don't think I moved to XP until 2006 or maybe 2007.. I still have a VM instance of Win2000 that I use for running a single program. The boot-up (in the VM) is under 10 seconds..
You really think that's what happened, that the CIA "tricked" us into invading Iraq? No wonder you back this clown.
As opposed to the other side which is trying to convince us that boys can become girls and girls can become boys? No thanks... I'm not a huge fan of Trump, I think he could do better, and I think he's gotten some things correct, but I try to give him the benefit of the doubt. But, the other side is absolutely fucking loony. Not to mention the fact that the extreme left is the biggest bunch of racists I've ever personally met.. It's either "white people are the source of all the worlds problems" or it's "We have to look out for minorities because they can't stand up for themselves and need a bunch of white leftists to be their voice". Both are insulting... You don't combat racism with more racism.
The machine with Midori is quite old. It's my field laptop. HP Elitebook 8440p. And no, I'm not worried about getting Firefox to launch faster. I use Firefox on that machine sometimes, but Midori (no matter the machine) is going to launch a lot faster. It's a much smaller program.
I don't think I'll ever go back to Windows. I have had Linux Mint on my work laptop for about 4 years now and finally installed it on my home laptop. I've been very happy with the stability and ease of use. I don't ever feel like I'm "fighting" my computer to get it to do something that I want it to do.
I've also noticed that, even after 4 years of use and updates, the work laptop doesn't feel significantly slower than the day I installed the OS. Windows has a nasty habit of slowing down, over time, as the registry slowly bloats up.
I haven't been able to divorce myself from Windows completely, hence the VM install, but I have no desire to go back to a bare metal install of any version of Windows.
I ditched my last Windows install (mostly) about 2 or 3 months ago. I keep a VM instance of Win7 around for a few specific programs (RadioMobile (the best RF mapping software) and Illustrator / Photoshop / InDesign / plus a few others. I honestly can say I don't miss it. Perhaps it's because my current career has absolutely no need for a dedicated Windows computer or maybe I'm just getting old... I miss Win2000.. Loved that OS, but everything since (Win7 not included) has been a steaming pile of crap.
Holy crap. I actually used Midori today (long story), and legitimately wondered "How many people can possibly be using this butt-ugly browser?". I didn't think I'd actually ever hear of anyone else using it.
It's ugly as sin but performs as a "different" browser when I need to ensure some weird result I'm getting isn't a glitch in Chromium. Firefox (which I'm glad is around) is much more memory intensive than Midori. I can launch Midori in a few seconds versus tens of seconds for Firefox.
Well, it is possible I'm simply mis-remembering what I read. I don't deny that possibility. It had to have been something I just came across, as most medical stuff isn't particularly interesting to me so I don't actively seek it out. I may read it if it catches me eye...
A thought did occur to me while reading your response; some vaccines aren't given to children until a certain age, unless things have changed recently. I recall taking my son in for some of his shots around the age of 2 (23 years ago, so....). That's certainly a consideration vis-a-vis the anti-vaxxers who can be dragging that crap around and manage to get babies sick before they even have the chance to be vaccinated.
Anyways, it seems we both agree that the anti-vaccine crowd are mostly ignorant, mislead, or morons. Take your pick:)
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Are you trying to spell "parties"?
Corporate Espionage hurts the economy. It reduces taxable income for businesses and it can reduce the number of jobs that are generating income tax revenue. If someone can crank out cheap iPhone clones, apple is going to sell less of them. That's less sales people in stores selling iphones.
Either the government acts as the police or the companies are going to hire people to be their police (think railroad cops back in the day). You don't cost a company large amounts of money without that company doing something about it. I'd rather it was being done by groups answerable (at least in theory) to the citizenry.
Bounty hunters (contract fugitive recovery agents) are exempt from having to respect some of your constitutional rights (per the Supreme Court). That's what you get when you having companies hiring their own type of police force.
I suspected as much... I can't imagine anyone buying a thermostat that is stuck in one position while the internet is down/off. Anon GP is an idiot.
By your logic "Lottery Player" would be a perfectly legitimate "job"
Who is paying you to play the lottery? Fans pay recording artists by buying albums or attending concerts.
If you can find someone to pay you to scratch lottery tickets, then yeah, it's a job.
Can a Nest thermostat not be adjusted by hand? I haven't used any of their hardware so I have no idea. I can't imagine that there isn't a way to make adjustments manually...
Why don't you just mute the audio for the whole computer?
A monopoly doesn't necessarily mean 100% market share. It can also define an overwhelming market share that impedes or denies competitive entry into a market.
Google is more tentacled that you probably realize.. They are tracking everything. I can't remember the last time I visited a website that didn't have that Google Analytics code buried in the HTML.
What are the real competitors to Google? Bing and Yahoo are about it, as far as I can tell.. DuckDuckGo uses Google as a backend, so.. not sure they really count as competition.
Just did a quick search on "Search Engine Market Share" for "United States", and Google has 88%. Bing is at 5.2%, and Yahoo is trailing with 4.9%. DuckDuckGo (that I would already exclude) is at 0.81%.
Google has a monopoly... It's even worse in Europe where Google is carrying a 93.41% share.
Still want to go with:
Google doesn't hold a monopoly on search. Not within the US anyways.
? If not, where would you draw the line to define a monopoly? 99%? 90%? 95%?
Abuse need not be economic.. Abuse can be as simple as saying "We've got 99%, we think RFCs and web standards are a pain in the ass, so we're gonna do it our way". If you are rocking 99% market share, who's gonna want to go through the extra effort to ensure that the remaining 1% have a good web experience? Monopoly breeds arrogance.
Long story short: A corporation gets big or powerful enough, they WILL become abusive and controlling.
Just like people and/or governments
Sure they would. What's your point? Any sane person doesn't want ANYONE to control the web, be in Google or Mozilla.. The "Arrogance of the Monopoly" rarely tends to benefit the customer/consumer/user.
Ideally we'd have 3 or 4 browsers with about 25-33% market share each.. This would help to insure adherence to standards as well as preventing any one company from introducing unsupported features (a la Microsoft). Embrace, extend, extinguish is a tactic used by more companies than just the one in Redmond.
Too many browsers, each with it's own glitches/quirks isn't too desirable, nor is too few. I suspect somewhere between 3-5 browsers would be okay, but certainly at least 3.
I did specifically mention "services" as something people tend to be okay with paying for in a subscription scenario. Few people divorce the phone from the service. i.e. not a whole lot of folks are carrying around a phone that has no phone service and is used like a tablet or something.
While the phone is "locked" insofar as you can't twiddle with the inner code/guts, the phone itself is not rented. Your iphone is purchased. You may pay Verizon a fee for service, but the phone itself doesn't require continual payments to Apple to boot up. That's more the scenario that we were discussing..
Your CPU could be "sold" on a subscription basis, if it can't verify that you've paid your subscription your hardware won't power up.
It's been my experience that people are much more resistant to schemes, like the example you provide, when it is applied to something tangible versus something intangible.
i.e. They'll put up with subscriptions for software or services (in the real world and in cyberspace) because the items are intangible.. You can't hold a program, you can't touch a TV signal, and you can't view the calories burned by your maid as she engaged in her labors.
But, they'll bitch and moan, to no end, if you suggest that a physical object, that they get to take home, can only be rented and never bought, no-matter-what. A CPU can be seen, it can be touched. It occupies a physical space in someone's home (or work).
I suspect (and hope) that people will throw huge fits if/when (most likely when) some asshole actually tries to implement your example.
2. ZenDesk basic plans allow user passwords to be any five characters.
WTF? From ZenDesk
Note: If an end-user or agent fails to enter their password correctly ten times in a row, they are locked out and cannot sign in again until they reset their password.
Am I missing something? I get locking an IP address out of a system if too many incorrect login attempts are tried, but locking the whole account down? Doesn't this just give, to anyone, the ability to lock anyone's account that they know the username, but not password, for?
Seems, to me, that this policy just begs for denial-of-service attacks against entire lists of usernames..
I was never impressed with 3.51. NT4 was pretty good, but it had its moments.. Win2000 was rock solid for me, for all the years I used it. I don't think I moved to XP until 2006 or maybe 2007.. I still have a VM instance of Win2000 that I use for running a single program. The boot-up (in the VM) is under 10 seconds..
Windows 2000 was the first truly good Microsoft OS.
I'm afraid that WIndows 7 will be the last.
You and I are in total agreement on this.
I hope she runs again, between her corruption and little miss 1/1024 native american, I don't know which would be funnier to watch.
So do I... I desperately hope the Democrats try to get that nutty cunt into office again.
You really think that's what happened, that the CIA "tricked" us into invading Iraq? No wonder you back this clown.
As opposed to the other side which is trying to convince us that boys can become girls and girls can become boys? No thanks... I'm not a huge fan of Trump, I think he could do better, and I think he's gotten some things correct, but I try to give him the benefit of the doubt. But, the other side is absolutely fucking loony. Not to mention the fact that the extreme left is the biggest bunch of racists I've ever personally met.. It's either "white people are the source of all the worlds problems" or it's "We have to look out for minorities because they can't stand up for themselves and need a bunch of white leftists to be their voice". Both are insulting... You don't combat racism with more racism.
The machine with Midori is quite old. It's my field laptop. HP Elitebook 8440p. And no, I'm not worried about getting Firefox to launch faster. I use Firefox on that machine sometimes, but Midori (no matter the machine) is going to launch a lot faster. It's a much smaller program.
I don't think I'll ever go back to Windows. I have had Linux Mint on my work laptop for about 4 years now and finally installed it on my home laptop. I've been very happy with the stability and ease of use. I don't ever feel like I'm "fighting" my computer to get it to do something that I want it to do.
I've also noticed that, even after 4 years of use and updates, the work laptop doesn't feel significantly slower than the day I installed the OS. Windows has a nasty habit of slowing down, over time, as the registry slowly bloats up.
I haven't been able to divorce myself from Windows completely, hence the VM install, but I have no desire to go back to a bare metal install of any version of Windows.
I ditched my last Windows install (mostly) about 2 or 3 months ago. I keep a VM instance of Win7 around for a few specific programs (RadioMobile (the best RF mapping software) and Illustrator / Photoshop / InDesign / plus a few others. I honestly can say I don't miss it. Perhaps it's because my current career has absolutely no need for a dedicated Windows computer or maybe I'm just getting old... I miss Win2000.. Loved that OS, but everything since (Win7 not included) has been a steaming pile of crap.
If he'd said "He" you'd be accusing him of being a male supremacist or a chauvinist.
Fuck off, snowflake. You can't have your cake and eat it too.
Again? They were never broken up in the first place..
Care to share whatever the hell it is you're smoking?
Holy crap. I actually used Midori today (long story), and legitimately wondered "How many people can possibly be using this butt-ugly browser?". I didn't think I'd actually ever hear of anyone else using it.
It's ugly as sin but performs as a "different" browser when I need to ensure some weird result I'm getting isn't a glitch in Chromium. Firefox (which I'm glad is around) is much more memory intensive than Midori. I can launch Midori in a few seconds versus tens of seconds for Firefox.
Well, it is possible I'm simply mis-remembering what I read. I don't deny that possibility. It had to have been something I just came across, as most medical stuff isn't particularly interesting to me so I don't actively seek it out. I may read it if it catches me eye...
A thought did occur to me while reading your response; some vaccines aren't given to children until a certain age, unless things have changed recently. I recall taking my son in for some of his shots around the age of 2 (23 years ago, so....). That's certainly a consideration vis-a-vis the anti-vaxxers who can be dragging that crap around and manage to get babies sick before they even have the chance to be vaccinated.
Anyways, it seems we both agree that the anti-vaccine crowd are mostly ignorant, mislead, or morons. Take your pick :)