...election campaign would've done a lot more for their cause than millions of dollars in lobbying. Instead, they went all in for Hillary, and fought tooth and nail for her. Don't be surprised if the current administration is rather pissed off at them. Elections have consequences. Backing the wrong side in elections has bad consequences.
> The PTL Club's fund-raising activities between 1984â"1987 underwent scrutiny > by The Charlotte Observer newspaper, eventually leading to criminal charges > against Jim Bakker. From 1984 to 1987, Bakker and his PTL associates sold > $1,000 "lifetime memberships," which entitled buyers to a three-night stay > annually at a luxury hotel at Heritage USA. According to the prosecution at > Bakker's later fraud trial, tens of thousands of memberships had been sold, > but only one 500-room hotel was ever completed. Bakker sold more > "exclusive partnerships" than could be accommodated, while raising more > than twice the money needed to build the actual hotel.
I don't hate "mainstream" per se. I dislike crap. I *HATE* "new and improved" crap that becomes "mainstream" enough to force its way onto my machine.
1) I started using ICEWM on my home machine in January or February 2010. Since then my "desktop" has remained basically unchanged. System configuration on my machine has remained basically similar, with text files in/etc.
At work, before I retired, I went through Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000, and Windows XP. Every few years, even power users were reduced to noobs who had to go through basic training on the "new and improved" UI. System settings were even worse. It was basically "everything you know is wrong" after each "new and improved" system. Apparently, GNOME and KDE users go through a similar nightmare every year or two. I use my computer to do stuff, not to be constantly learning new interfaces.
2) Firefox *USED TO BE* a great little browser. I used it from day 1, back when I had to build "Phoenix" as a subset of "Mozilla", back around the time of "Mozilla 1.0". Remember how AOL destroyed Netscape by trying to turn it into an abstraction-layer/pseudo-OS that would run on top of Windows or linux? Mozilla foundation similarly destroyed Firefox by turning it into a an emacs-like pseudo-OS... that lacked a lightweight web-browser. WebRTC, Hello, Pocket, etc, etc, were piled on.
The last straw for me was the Atrocious^H^H^H^H^H^H Austraulis interface. I heard rumblings that there was a new interface that many people didn't like. I wasn't concerned, because I always set up a customized version to my liking anyways. I was shocked when it it hit the release version, and I found I could not customize it away. The UI-hipsters knew that people would hate it, so they went out of their way to remove the ability for a regular user to customize it away. For several months, the most popular Firefox extension was a "classic-UI restorer". It accessed stuff deeper down "under the hood" and restored the classic interface. But that was too late. I had left for SeaMonkey, and then eventually Pale Moon when it got a linux version.
3) PulseAudio and systemd may work OK *TODAY*. But they were beta-quality when they were first released. I avoided them, and the pain of being the linux equivalant of a Windows user, acting as a guinea-pig for beta quality software.
This is part of a bigger problem. See http://money.cnn.com/2013/12/1... It's possible to *BUY* lists of rape victims, HIV sufferers, police officers, etc, etc. This data shouldn't be available in the first place.
The problem is that this data is sometimes used to determine whether you get a loand or a job, etc, etc. It's bad enough that you can be denied a loan or a job for something irrelavant. What's horrifying is that these lists often have major errors http://money.cnn.com/2013/09/0... which may play a part in denying you loans or jobs.
This could be a showstopper. Simple explanation...
* when you scale up a propeller-driven aircraft by a factor of N, the area swept out by the propeller(s) increases by a factor of N^2
* but the craft's width, height, and length each increase by N, so the aircraft's volume, and therefore weight, increases by a factor of N^3
Double the scale of the aircraft; propellors sweep out 4 times the area, but the body weighs 8 times as much
Triple the scale of the aircraft; propellors sweep out 9 times the area, but the body weighs 27 times as much
Oops. Ever wonder why toy drones have dinky little propellors, relatively speaking, compared to real-life helicopters which have a gigantic overhead rotor?
> I just deactivate IPv6 at all dual stack machines, that should fix this...
Wrong. If your ISP doesn't support IPV6, you can still get IPV6 via a "tunnel broker". Packets get tunnelled over an encrypted connection to IPV6-land. I know this is Slashdot, but please RTFA https://www.itnews.com.au/news...
> The researchers developed proofs of concept with tunnel-based IPv6 transition tools over > IPv4-only, or IPv4/IPv6 dual-stack networks, that were able to pass traffic undetected by > common network intrusion detection systems (NIDS) such as Snort, Suricata, Bro and Moloch.
> Speaking for myself restoring the Internet to a viable network of PEERs where everyone has > the capability if desired to directly address everyone else is of upmost importance to countering > the proliferation of centralized manure currently waging war against *my* Internet.
I have a paranoid iptables firewall. Having said that, DID (Defense In Depth) always helps. I don't have a complacent "it can't happen to me attitude". I *WANT* a NAT'ing router between my home machines and the internet for an extra layer of protection.
> IPv6 is well worth any initial hardship or annoyance. Even if everyone hides > behind an SPI anyway the ability to trivially prime direct connections with > a 1:1 map is an absolutely priceless capability by itself without getting to global > costs of dealing with IPv4 scarcity or people being forced into CGN land.
I hope somebody comes out with a NAT'ing IPV6 ADSL router that NATs multiple machines behind it to one publically visible address. It'll be worth it just to watch all those internet hippies' heads explode.
> Do we really expect everyone to obsess over every system to prevent idiots > from hacking them or should we focus on punishing those who do the hacking.
When "idiots" can compromise a warning system, and potentially cause a lot of deaths,YES!
> Its like saying people who paint graffiti are not the > issue, we should make walls that do not accept graffiti.
People who paint graffiti are *AN* issue. The problem is that there are a lot of assholes, and just plain evil people, out there. And that's just in the USA. There are 7 billion people on the planet. If you allow all of them access to your systems, there'll be someone who hates you enough to screw you over... * Kim Jong Un * or some random Russian criminal who wants some bitcoins to restore your documentation files * or the thousands of islamic militants who are perfectly willing to blow themselves up if they can kill several "infidels" in the process * etc, etc
It's not paranoia if they really are out to get you. The correct answer is similar to the military's "need to know" approach. Ask yourself "who *REALLY* needs to access this system", and then only allow them access.
> In these days of shifting from "Cable is King" to Cord Cutters... well, as far as I know, > they did get the cable companies to put emergency interrupt capability in every > fucking channel. But it's a bit hard to do that with Netflix, or even an https request.
That's where AM and FM radio excel. Turn it on and listen. They both have longer range than cellphone cells, and continue functioning when the cell network gets overloaded. While we're at it, most smartphones *SHOULD* be capable of FM radio reception. But many smartphones in the USA are deliberately crippled, due to cell carriers demading this from OEMs. This is greed, pure and simple. The carriers want people to pay through the nose for data over-usage, rather than listening to FM radio for free. https://yro.slashdot.org/story...
ssh/putty and RDP handle linux/unix/bsd and Windows remote administration perfectly well. The major difference is that you can't set up an sshd/putty/RDP server on your machine by clicking on an email attachment. Question... what legitimate use-cases are there which ssh/putty/RDP don't handle?
> In 2003, Savage had enlisted a digital army to tie Santorum's name with > an...unpleasant sexual definition...and then "Google bomb" the Republican > until the new term became the top search result for "Rick Santorum."
And we're supposed to trust their "fact checking"? NOT!
> There is a pretty high correlation to trump supporters and people who argue against fact-checking. Just saying.
There's a pretty high correlation between lib-left (Clintons and Dems) and people who argue for internet gatekeeping... just saying.
The lib-left loves their lapdog MSM... * The same lapdog MSM that kept quiet despite knowing that JFK was screwing more women than Bill Clinton could ever dream of. * The same lapdog MSM that suppressed the story of Bill Clinton's sexcapades.
Actually, if the MSM had broken the Clinton/Lewinsky story, Matt Drudge would've remained a nobody. Instead, the Clinton/Lewinsky story proved that the MSM couldn't be trusted, and that "alternate media" (e.g. Drudge Report) was more reliable at times. The MSM have only themselves to blame for people trusting alternate media more than MSM.
Just as they love their lapdog MSM, the lib-left hate/fear "alternate media". http://www.breitbart.com/big-j... > Three years before Matt Drudge changed the world and how news > would be consumed, President Bill Clinton's White House feared > that the Internet was allowing average citizens, especially conservatives, > to bypass legacy gatekeepers and access information that > had previously been denied to them by the mainstream press.
Like husband, like wife; fast-forward to 2016... http://dailycaller.com/2016/08... > Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton's campaign has sent out a > fundraising email arguing the website Breitbart News has no "right to exist," > and suggests that if elected, the website will be shut down entirely.
Using direct jet power to taxi at 10 mph from the gate to the runway, and visa versa, is damn inefficient, fuelwise. One commonly-quoted factoid is that a Concorde would use more fuel taxiing from gate to runway, than a standard airliner would use in an entire short-haul European flight. Even ordinary jetliners waste a lot of fuel in the process.
Electric motors connected to the wheels might be a more economical way to move the the plane around on the ground. We'd have to compare fuel saved taxi-ing, versus weight of batteries+electrical gear. The electrical motor gearing would have to be disengaged when the plane comes in for landing... but wait a minute... could the plane use re-generative braking to partially recharge its batteries whilst landing?
There are 2 possible implementations of electrical taxi-ing
1) A battery. That would be the heavier solution.
2) An induction-powered motor drawing power from cables just beneath the runway surface. That would eliminate the need for batteries.
> If you seriously don't have a smart phone I will give you an old iphone > 4 and help set you up with a $12/month plan with minutes/data/sms. > Or you can buy a decent low end smartphone for well under $50
Used smartphones are cheap. Here in Canada, our wallets get raped for smartphone plans. *DISCOUNT CARRIERS* are $30 per month if you want 100 MEGAbytes of data; $40 to $45 per month if you want 3-to-5 gigabytes of data. And you need data to download the app and actually use it.
* Spend an hour driving halfway across the city. * Pay insane price for parking. * Stand in line for 30 minutes for movie tickets. * Pay insane price for tickets. * Cramped seat. * Freeze in over-air-conditioned cinema. * 30 minutes of ads and trailers before the movie begins. * Movie screening starts at an inconvenient time for me. * Insane food prices. * Yakking loudmouths and screaming kids. * Effing * L O U D * volume to drown out all the cellphone yakkers
and screaming kids. It literally hurts my ears. * Other patrons engaging in chemical warfare with strong body odour and/or horrible "perfume". * Cellphones beeping and screens lighting up in my field of view. * Feet stick to the floor. * Miss some action if I have to go to the bathroom. * Dirty bathroom. * Curtains occasionally blocking left or right edge of screen. * Scratches+artifacts on older movies. * Asshole kid behind you kicking the back of your chair. * Take 20 minutes to get out of parking lot after the movie. * Another hour to drive home.
> Not only can currency be lost or stolen, but it also does not earn interest, whereas a bank deposit does.
This is not 1980, with 20%+ prime rate. http://www.fedprimerate.com/wa... Banks pay very low interest rates on deposits today. To add insult to injury, you pay income tax on what little interest you do get. You're lucky if you can earn enough interest, net after taxes, to pay monthly bank fees.
> The only disease here is little shit bags like you that > think they are entitled to the handwork of other for free.
I do not "pirate content". If Netflix etal want to write their own custom DRM plug-ins or custom viewer programs, go for it. I object to "rights-holders" that think they're entitled to have browser programmers do their grunt work for them.
Anti DRM-circumvention laws were originally enacted to penalize copying of audio and video from physical platforms like CDs and DVDs. When audio and video streaming came to the web, those laws still applied.
A video store can legally sell a legal copy of a Hollywood movie full of sex and profanity. But if they pay for the copy, edit out the sex and violence, and sell the edited copy, that's illegal. See https://freedom-to-tinker.com/...
Now let's apply this to the web. A website puts weak HTML-DRM on its entire webpage, including ads. If you block ads, pupups, autoplaying garbage, etc, to get a cleaned-up webpage, you're subject to prosecution, just like the outfit that sold cleaned-up DVDs. If the web doesn't have built-in DRM, that becomes a lot less likely.
> I really don't understand the FSF anymore. "Let's go after the symptoms instead of the disease!
DRM *IS THE DISEASE*. That's what people are so mad about.
> Let's act like if we just pretend that if DRM isn't an official web-spec, it won't > still be a de-facto web-spec!" What difference will any of that make, really?
Thanks to Chrome and Windowa 10, snooping, privacy-invading browser and OS are "de-facto specs". Do you want everyone to fall in line? Do you want Firefox, Pale Moon, and linux in general to start snooping on you? "But Mom, all the other kids are doing it".
> But that means charging less for distribution so the theatres don't > have to rape you on popcorn and soda to turn a profit, and that might > in turn mean paying actors less than tens of millions for a movie.
^ This. Do you realize that first-run movies cost the movie theatres 95% to 100% of ticket revenue for the first week?!?! http://www.themovieblog.com/20...
> For instance, 2 movie theatre managers told me that for Star Wars Episode II: Attack > of the Clones, the studio took 100% of the box office take for the first week of release.
> So if you ever wondered why a $0.15 bag of popcorn is costing you $5, > and a $0.08 cup of Coke is running you another $4⦠itâ(TM)s because the > economics of the industry system is so screwed up that the concession > stand is where theaters have to make most of their money.
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...election campaign would've done a lot more for their cause than millions of dollars in lobbying. Instead, they went all in for Hillary, and fought tooth and nail for her. Don't be surprised if the current administration is rather pissed off at them. Elections have consequences. Backing the wrong side in elections has bad consequences.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
> The PTL Club's fund-raising activities between 1984â"1987 underwent scrutiny
> by The Charlotte Observer newspaper, eventually leading to criminal charges
> against Jim Bakker. From 1984 to 1987, Bakker and his PTL associates sold
> $1,000 "lifetime memberships," which entitled buyers to a three-night stay
> annually at a luxury hotel at Heritage USA. According to the prosecution at
> Bakker's later fraud trial, tens of thousands of memberships had been sold,
> but only one 500-room hotel was ever completed. Bakker sold more
> "exclusive partnerships" than could be accommodated, while raising more
> than twice the money needed to build the actual hotel.
I don't hate "mainstream" per se. I dislike crap. I *HATE* "new and improved" crap that becomes "mainstream" enough to force its way onto my machine.
1) I started using ICEWM on my home machine in January or February 2010. Since then my "desktop" has remained basically unchanged. System configuration on my machine has remained basically similar, with text files in /etc.
At work, before I retired, I went through Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000, and Windows XP. Every few years, even power users were reduced to noobs who had to go through basic training on the "new and improved" UI. System settings were even worse. It was basically "everything you know is wrong" after each "new and improved" system. Apparently, GNOME and KDE users go through a similar nightmare every year or two. I use my computer to do stuff, not to be constantly learning new interfaces.
2) Firefox *USED TO BE* a great little browser. I used it from day 1, back when I had to build "Phoenix" as a subset of "Mozilla", back around the time of "Mozilla 1.0". Remember how AOL destroyed Netscape by trying to turn it into an abstraction-layer/pseudo-OS that would run on top of Windows or linux? Mozilla foundation similarly destroyed Firefox by turning it into a an emacs-like pseudo-OS... that lacked a lightweight web-browser. WebRTC, Hello, Pocket, etc, etc, were piled on.
The last straw for me was the Atrocious^H^H^H^H^H^H Austraulis interface. I heard rumblings that there was a new interface that many people didn't like. I wasn't concerned, because I always set up a customized version to my liking anyways. I was shocked when it it hit the release version, and I found I could not customize it away. The UI-hipsters knew that people would hate it, so they went out of their way to remove the ability for a regular user to customize it away. For several months, the most popular Firefox extension was a "classic-UI restorer". It accessed stuff deeper down "under the hood" and restored the classic interface. But that was too late. I had left for SeaMonkey, and then eventually Pale Moon when it got a linux version.
3) PulseAudio and systemd may work OK *TODAY*. But they were beta-quality when they were first released. I avoided them, and the pain of being the linux equivalant of a Windows user, acting as a guinea-pig for beta quality software.
This is part of a bigger problem. See http://money.cnn.com/2013/12/1... It's possible to *BUY* lists of rape victims, HIV sufferers, police officers, etc, etc. This data shouldn't be available in the first place.
The problem is that this data is sometimes used to determine whether you get a loand or a job, etc, etc. It's bad enough that you can be denied a loan or a job for something irrelavant. What's horrifying is that these lists often have major errors http://money.cnn.com/2013/09/0... which may play a part in denying you loans or jobs.
I run Pale Moon browser. In about:config,change 2 settings...
media.autoplay.allowscripted; false
media.autoplay.enabled; false
Voila; no more autoplay. The only downside is that some Youtube videos have to be clicked 2 or 3 times to get them to play.
This could be a showstopper. Simple explanation...
* when you scale up a propeller-driven aircraft by a factor of N, the area swept out by the propeller(s) increases by a factor of N^2
* but the craft's width, height, and length each increase by N, so the aircraft's volume, and therefore weight, increases by a factor of N^3
Double the scale of the aircraft; propellors sweep out 4 times the area, but the body weighs 8 times as much
Triple the scale of the aircraft; propellors sweep out 9 times the area, but the body weighs 27 times as much
Oops. Ever wonder why toy drones have dinky little propellors, relatively speaking, compared to real-life helicopters which have a gigantic overhead rotor?
> I just deactivate IPv6 at all dual stack machines, that should fix this...
Wrong. If your ISP doesn't support IPV6, you can still get IPV6 via a "tunnel broker". Packets get tunnelled over an encrypted connection to IPV6-land. I know this is Slashdot, but please RTFA https://www.itnews.com.au/news...
> The researchers developed proofs of concept with tunnel-based IPv6 transition tools over
> IPv4-only, or IPv4/IPv6 dual-stack networks, that were able to pass traffic undetected by
> common network intrusion detection systems (NIDS) such as Snort, Suricata, Bro and Moloch.
> Speaking for myself restoring the Internet to a viable network of PEERs where everyone has
> the capability if desired to directly address everyone else is of upmost importance to countering
> the proliferation of centralized manure currently waging war against *my* Internet.
I have a paranoid iptables firewall. Having said that, DID (Defense In Depth) always helps. I don't have a complacent "it can't happen to me attitude". I *WANT* a NAT'ing router between my home machines and the internet for an extra layer of protection.
> IPv6 is well worth any initial hardship or annoyance. Even if everyone hides
> behind an SPI anyway the ability to trivially prime direct connections with
> a 1:1 map is an absolutely priceless capability by itself without getting to global
> costs of dealing with IPv4 scarcity or people being forced into CGN land.
I hope somebody comes out with a NAT'ing IPV6 ADSL router that NATs multiple machines behind it to one publically visible address. It'll be worth it just to watch all those internet hippies' heads explode.
> Do we really expect everyone to obsess over every system to prevent idiots
> from hacking them or should we focus on punishing those who do the hacking.
When "idiots" can compromise a warning system, and potentially cause a lot of deaths,YES!
> Its like saying people who paint graffiti are not the
> issue, we should make walls that do not accept graffiti.
People who paint graffiti are *AN* issue. The problem is that there are a lot of assholes, and just plain evil people, out there. And that's just in the USA. There are 7 billion people on the planet. If you allow all of them access to your systems, there'll be someone who hates you enough to screw you over...
* Kim Jong Un
* or some random Russian criminal who wants some bitcoins to restore your documentation files
* or the thousands of islamic militants who are perfectly willing to blow themselves up if they can kill several "infidels" in the process
* etc, etc
It's not paranoia if they really are out to get you. The correct answer is similar to the military's "need to know" approach. Ask yourself "who *REALLY* needs to access this system", and then only allow them access.
> In these days of shifting from "Cable is King" to Cord Cutters... well, as far as I know,
> they did get the cable companies to put emergency interrupt capability in every
> fucking channel. But it's a bit hard to do that with Netflix, or even an https request.
That's where AM and FM radio excel. Turn it on and listen. They both have longer range than cellphone cells, and continue functioning when the cell network gets overloaded. While we're at it, most smartphones *SHOULD* be capable of FM radio reception. But many smartphones in the USA are deliberately crippled, due to cell carriers demading this from OEMs. This is greed, pure and simple. The carriers want people to pay through the nose for data over-usage, rather than listening to FM radio for free. https://yro.slashdot.org/story...
ssh/putty and RDP handle linux/unix/bsd and Windows remote administration perfectly well. The major difference is that you can't set up an sshd/putty/RDP server on your machine by clicking on an email attachment. Question... what legitimate use-cases are there which ssh/putty/RDP don't handle?
> 31% of Americans are white men. The rest are definitely affected by "social justice."
White males need a catchy phrase, too. Women of Color... meet Clitorally Challenged Persons Of Palor
http://www.npr.org/2016/02/25/...
> In 2003, Savage had enlisted a digital army to tie Santorum's name with
> an...unpleasant sexual definition...and then "Google bomb" the Republican
> until the new term became the top search result for "Rick Santorum."
And we're supposed to trust their "fact checking"? NOT!
> There is a pretty high correlation to trump supporters and people who argue against fact-checking. Just saying.
There's a pretty high correlation between lib-left (Clintons and Dems) and people who argue for internet gatekeeping... just saying.
The lib-left loves their lapdog MSM...
* The same lapdog MSM that kept quiet despite knowing that JFK was screwing more women than Bill Clinton could ever dream of.
* The same lapdog MSM that suppressed the story of Bill Clinton's sexcapades.
Actually, if the MSM had broken the Clinton/Lewinsky story, Matt Drudge would've remained a nobody. Instead, the Clinton/Lewinsky story proved that the MSM couldn't be trusted, and that "alternate media" (e.g. Drudge Report) was more reliable at times. The MSM have only themselves to blame for people trusting alternate media more than MSM.
Just as they love their lapdog MSM, the lib-left hate/fear "alternate media". http://www.breitbart.com/big-j...
> Three years before Matt Drudge changed the world and how news
> would be consumed, President Bill Clinton's White House feared
> that the Internet was allowing average citizens, especially conservatives,
> to bypass legacy gatekeepers and access information that
> had previously been denied to them by the mainstream press.
Like husband, like wife; fast-forward to 2016... http://dailycaller.com/2016/08...
> Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton's campaign has sent out a
> fundraising email arguing the website Breitbart News has no "right to exist,"
> and suggests that if elected, the website will be shut down entirely.
In Soviet Amerika, facebook fucks you.
> I'm a heavy facebook user,
Hi; I'm "M". Here's a list of gyms and Weight Watchers groups in your area.
Using direct jet power to taxi at 10 mph from the gate to the runway, and visa versa, is damn inefficient, fuelwise. One commonly-quoted factoid is that a Concorde would use more fuel taxiing from gate to runway, than a standard airliner would use in an entire short-haul European flight. Even ordinary jetliners waste a lot of fuel in the process.
Electric motors connected to the wheels might be a more economical way to move the the plane around on the ground. We'd have to compare fuel saved taxi-ing, versus weight of batteries+electrical gear. The electrical motor gearing would have to be disengaged when the plane comes in for landing... but wait a minute... could the plane use re-generative braking to partially recharge its batteries whilst landing?
There are 2 possible implementations of electrical taxi-ing
1) A battery. That would be the heavier solution.
2) An induction-powered motor drawing power from cables just beneath the runway surface. That would eliminate the need for batteries.
> If you seriously don't have a smart phone I will give you an old iphone
> 4 and help set you up with a $12/month plan with minutes/data/sms.
> Or you can buy a decent low end smartphone for well under $50
Used smartphones are cheap. Here in Canada, our wallets get raped for smartphone plans. *DISCOUNT CARRIERS* are $30 per month if you want 100 MEGAbytes of data; $40 to $45 per month if you want 3-to-5 gigabytes of data. And you need data to download the app and actually use it.
* Spend an hour driving halfway across the city.
* Pay insane price for parking.
* Stand in line for 30 minutes for movie tickets.
* Pay insane price for tickets.
* Cramped seat.
* Freeze in over-air-conditioned cinema.
* 30 minutes of ads and trailers before the movie begins.
* Movie screening starts at an inconvenient time for me.
* Insane food prices.
* Yakking loudmouths and screaming kids.
* Effing * L O U D * volume to drown out all the cellphone yakkers
and screaming kids. It literally hurts my ears.
* Other patrons engaging in chemical warfare with strong body odour and/or horrible "perfume".
* Cellphones beeping and screens lighting up in my field of view.
* Feet stick to the floor.
* Miss some action if I have to go to the bathroom.
* Dirty bathroom.
* Curtains occasionally blocking left or right edge of screen.
* Scratches+artifacts on older movies.
* Asshole kid behind you kicking the back of your chair.
* Take 20 minutes to get out of parking lot after the movie.
* Another hour to drive home.
> Not only can currency be lost or stolen, but it also does not earn interest, whereas a bank deposit does.
This is not 1980, with 20%+ prime rate. http://www.fedprimerate.com/wa... Banks pay very low interest rates on deposits today. To add insult to injury, you pay income tax on what little interest you do get. You're lucky if you can earn enough interest, net after taxes, to pay monthly bank fees.
> The only disease here is little shit bags like you that
> think they are entitled to the handwork of other for free.
I do not "pirate content". If Netflix etal want to write their own custom DRM plug-ins or custom viewer programs, go for it. I object to "rights-holders" that think they're entitled to have browser programmers do their grunt work for them.
Anti DRM-circumvention laws were originally enacted to penalize copying of audio and video from physical platforms like CDs and DVDs. When audio and video streaming came to the web, those laws still applied.
A video store can legally sell a legal copy of a Hollywood movie full of sex and profanity. But if they pay for the copy, edit out the sex and violence, and sell the edited copy, that's illegal. See https://freedom-to-tinker.com/...
Now let's apply this to the web. A website puts weak HTML-DRM on its entire webpage, including ads. If you block ads, pupups, autoplaying garbage, etc, to get a cleaned-up webpage, you're subject to prosecution, just like the outfit that sold cleaned-up DVDs. If the web doesn't have built-in DRM, that becomes a lot less likely.
> I really don't understand the FSF anymore. "Let's go after the symptoms instead of the disease!
DRM *IS THE DISEASE*. That's what people are so mad about.
> Let's act like if we just pretend that if DRM isn't an official web-spec, it won't
> still be a de-facto web-spec!" What difference will any of that make, really?
Thanks to Chrome and Windowa 10, snooping, privacy-invading browser and OS are "de-facto specs". Do you want everyone to fall in line? Do you want Firefox, Pale Moon, and linux in general to start snooping on you? "But Mom, all the other kids are doing it".
> But that means charging less for distribution so the theatres don't
> have to rape you on popcorn and soda to turn a profit, and that might
> in turn mean paying actors less than tens of millions for a movie.
^ This. Do you realize that first-run movies cost the movie theatres 95% to 100% of ticket revenue for the first week?!?!
http://www.themovieblog.com/20...
> For instance, 2 movie theatre managers told me that for Star Wars Episode II: Attack
> of the Clones, the studio took 100% of the box office take for the first week of release.
> So if you ever wondered why a $0.15 bag of popcorn is costing you $5,
> and a $0.08 cup of Coke is running you another $4⦠itâ(TM)s because the
> economics of the industry system is so screwed up that the concession
> stand is where theaters have to make most of their money.
> Not if you have NoScript blocking all of the facebook domains.
I block their IP ranges at the firewall. I block the following both for input and output in IPTABLES...
31.13.24.0/21
31.13.64.0/18
66.220.144.0/20
69.63.176.0/20
69.171.224.0/19
74.119.76.0/22
103.4.96.0/22
173.252.64.0/18
204.15.20.0/22