That's not the point. There is plenty of cheap land, but all of it remains under control of one government or another. I remember a group of Randists toying with the idea of building their own Laissez-faire City, and were in talks with a Latin American government to lease the necessary land for 100 years and free of most rules... but even there that government would not allow a complete freedom of prevailing laws of the land. On the high seas however... There are some rules there too, but it's not one government setting them or enforcing them.
The biggest deception in this debate was the invention of the term "intellectual property". Copyright was created for the same reason that patents were set up: to encourage creators and inventors to publish and share their work for the benefit of society, not by turning their work into property, but by granting them a temporary monopoly on their work that allows them to make a living. The arrangement was primarily for the benefit of society; the revenues were meant to convince the author to publish instead of sit on their creation or not even bothering to create it in the first place. And the arrangement was always meant to be temporary, something that was apparently even set down in the US constitution.
There's no reason to extend copyright beyond the life of the author. Copyright exists to encourage that author to publish more, but when the author is gone, there's no one to encourage. There is ZERO benefit to society in keeping copyright beyond the life of the author, or even a negative benefit: look at how some heirs continue to meddle with whatever others choose to do with the material (see: Tolkien estate). Maybe the idea that copyright doesn't pass down to his heirs will dissuade an author from doing his best, but personally I find that a rather far-fetched notion. The heirs are still welcome to whatever fortune the author made from his works during his lifetime, but they have no rights to the works themselves.
Wasn't that casino mostly paid for by other investors? If you're a little bit crooked and play your cards right, you can make money on failures if you get other people to invest significant amounts.
Electronic controllers in most appliances are a snap to replace. Unfortunately most manufacturers charge exorbitant fees for replacement boards. €300 - €600 for things like washing machines or central heating is not uncommon.
Facebook can be useful. Very useful to some people. And dropping FB has little or no correlation with "doing something constructive with your life". Even so, you can do without. And the more of you that decide to go without, the easier that choice becomes for the remaining members.
The fact that he used computers to do it shouldn't increase the punishment
I agree. But this is a bit more serious than sneakily messing with the grade book between classes. More like having the janitor called away from his office on some pretext, sneaking in there to steal his keys, duplicating them, then using the keys to break into the school at night and change the grade book.
Still, not something that warrants a felony charge. With kids, focus of the sentence should be on rehabilitation rather than retribution. How this this work with minors in the USA anyway, does a juvie conviction stay on one's permanent record?
I haven't had extensive experience with these new keyboards. But my expectation of any keyboard is that it keeps working even if it gets a little dirty. My work laptop (an MSI with a thin "scissor" type keyboard) deals well with dirt, if a breadcrumb works its way under a key and blocks it, I just mash the key to break the crumb and keep working, and vacuum out the debris later. From what I hear, these Apple keyboards are very susceptible to dirt and mashing the keys doesn't help.
There are some special rules that law enforcement has to abide by, and rightly so. With that said, if marketers can simply access this information, is law enforcement allowed to do so as well or do they need a warrant? And if they do, why are the Securus execs not being tracked by this tech in their very own jail cell right now?
Fully agree: universal healthcare, or healthcare that is well-regulated to the point were it is affordable, is a good thing. But not if it comes with a list of commandments.
So if they foist some universal health care package on me, which I didn't ask for, they can then dictate pretty much all aspects of my life? No thanks. That is why socialized anything should NEVER come with the automatic assumption that they have the right to prevent.
Well, he already got ads with ladies showing too much skin banned, and I am not so sure what problem that ban was supposed to solve... But if you can ban ads for violating your idea of morality or decency, then you can certainly ban them to prevent people form making stupid choices.
Exactly, large entities do NOT need blockchain for this. Sure, banks are using blockchain now? My guess is that they want to try new - perhaps highly mobile - financial services, and they use clockchain to get around their existing cumbersome infrastructure with 1 year development cycles.
The national non-emergency police line has a bot that asks in which region you'd like to contact the police. I'd call the cops on it for illegally recording my voice, but I can't get past it on the phone...
Silicon Valley is ethically lost, rudderless and has not learned a thing
Wow, exaggerate much? All that may be true, mind. But using such hyperbole when voicing concerns does nothing for the guy’s credibility. He comes across as someone who has already made up his mind about SV companies a long time ago, and sees every new issue only as something that confirms his fears, as something that’s part of a bigger plot to rape the planet and enslave humanity.
If you can accidentally bypass it without even realising you've done so, I don't think it ought to qualify.
Exactly. That’s why IIRC our (Dutch) laws explicitly state this in their definition of “secured”. It’s the same as trespassing on private property that looks like it might be public, has no gate, and no “private property” sign. Not punishable.
If you think you are helping homeless persons by giving them a home and then leaving them to their own devices, think again. In most cases you'll also need to deal with one or (often) more issues like: criminal friends, psychological problems, alcohol and drug habits, lack of credit and unable to get a bank account, or simply having forgotten how to run a more or less normal household. Better to build them decent shelters and fund a comprehensive outreach program.
According to TFA, these guys are stepping up their game though. They use phishing techniques, get company servers infected with some commodity malware that lets them snoop around, then they can spear-phish using intraoffice email. If you have access to someone's inbox and a rough idea about the company's inner workings, it's not at all hard to impersonate that person convincingly. Perhaps enough to re-route some cash or get some account numbers changed. Or - especially in smaller companies - they simply intercept emails with payment details and change the data.
Scams like those might be prevented with proper security and procedures, but they are way outside the realm of simple idiocy.
Sounds like a great tool for those clickbaity websites that pretend they have info on a topic I'm searching for by worming their way into my Google search results. Now they can - perhaps for a few pieces of silver to Google - target me directly. No thanks.
It depends on how onerous the GDPR really is. The biggest one is the requirement to have a Data Protection Officer, but this is required "only for those controllers and processors whose core activities consist of processing operations which require regular and systematic monitoring of data subjects on a large scale or of special categories of data or data relating to criminal convictions and offences." For the rest it is pretty basic stuff: you need to be aware of the rules, and prepared to take action e.g. in case of a data leak. A lot of it really is common sense stuff, that is if you're a conscientious operator.
The big companies will have no trouble complying, paying lip service or working around the rules. The smaller companies might at first decide to forget about Europe. This happened with a couple of smaller service providers when the EU VAT rules were changed: I got a few notices that such-and-such company was no longer able to provide their service in Europe. However they probably looked at the amount of business they were getting from Europe, had another look at the rules and found them not that hard to comply with, and removed the block.
So basically he is launching the exact same thing he sold to Twitter, and investors aren't biting this time around. Somehow I am not as disappointed as that Verge editor...
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That's... a really good and simple description of every ICO ever.
That's not the point. There is plenty of cheap land, but all of it remains under control of one government or another. I remember a group of Randists toying with the idea of building their own Laissez-faire City, and were in talks with a Latin American government to lease the necessary land for 100 years and free of most rules... but even there that government would not allow a complete freedom of prevailing laws of the land. On the high seas however... There are some rules there too, but it's not one government setting them or enforcing them.
The biggest deception in this debate was the invention of the term "intellectual property". Copyright was created for the same reason that patents were set up: to encourage creators and inventors to publish and share their work for the benefit of society, not by turning their work into property, but by granting them a temporary monopoly on their work that allows them to make a living. The arrangement was primarily for the benefit of society; the revenues were meant to convince the author to publish instead of sit on their creation or not even bothering to create it in the first place. And the arrangement was always meant to be temporary, something that was apparently even set down in the US constitution.
There's no reason to extend copyright beyond the life of the author. Copyright exists to encourage that author to publish more, but when the author is gone, there's no one to encourage. There is ZERO benefit to society in keeping copyright beyond the life of the author, or even a negative benefit: look at how some heirs continue to meddle with whatever others choose to do with the material (see: Tolkien estate). Maybe the idea that copyright doesn't pass down to his heirs will dissuade an author from doing his best, but personally I find that a rather far-fetched notion. The heirs are still welcome to whatever fortune the author made from his works during his lifetime, but they have no rights to the works themselves.
He'd probably prefer to be compared to Tesla...
Wasn't that casino mostly paid for by other investors? If you're a little bit crooked and play your cards right, you can make money on failures if you get other people to invest significant amounts.
Electronic controllers in most appliances are a snap to replace. Unfortunately most manufacturers charge exorbitant fees for replacement boards. €300 - €600 for things like washing machines or central heating is not uncommon.
Facebook can be useful. Very useful to some people. And dropping FB has little or no correlation with "doing something constructive with your life". Even so, you can do without. And the more of you that decide to go without, the easier that choice becomes for the remaining members.
The fact that he used computers to do it shouldn't increase the punishment
I agree. But this is a bit more serious than sneakily messing with the grade book between classes. More like having the janitor called away from his office on some pretext, sneaking in there to steal his keys, duplicating them, then using the keys to break into the school at night and change the grade book.
Still, not something that warrants a felony charge. With kids, focus of the sentence should be on rehabilitation rather than retribution. How this this work with minors in the USA anyway, does a juvie conviction stay on one's permanent record?
I haven't had extensive experience with these new keyboards. But my expectation of any keyboard is that it keeps working even if it gets a little dirty. My work laptop (an MSI with a thin "scissor" type keyboard) deals well with dirt, if a breadcrumb works its way under a key and blocks it, I just mash the key to break the crumb and keep working, and vacuum out the debris later. From what I hear, these Apple keyboards are very susceptible to dirt and mashing the keys doesn't help.
There are some special rules that law enforcement has to abide by, and rightly so. With that said, if marketers can simply access this information, is law enforcement allowed to do so as well or do they need a warrant? And if they do, why are the Securus execs not being tracked by this tech in their very own jail cell right now?
Fully agree: universal healthcare, or healthcare that is well-regulated to the point were it is affordable, is a good thing. But not if it comes with a list of commandments.
So if they foist some universal health care package on me, which I didn't ask for, they can then dictate pretty much all aspects of my life? No thanks. That is why socialized anything should NEVER come with the automatic assumption that they have the right to prevent.
Well, he already got ads with ladies showing too much skin banned, and I am not so sure what problem that ban was supposed to solve... But if you can ban ads for violating your idea of morality or decency, then you can certainly ban them to prevent people form making stupid choices.
Exactly, large entities do NOT need blockchain for this. Sure, banks are using blockchain now? My guess is that they want to try new - perhaps highly mobile - financial services, and they use clockchain to get around their existing cumbersome infrastructure with 1 year development cycles.
In this election, Lemon Pledge actually was the smarter choice...
Meh. They are both right and both wrong. May I suggest that they simply fork libc...
The national non-emergency police line has a bot that asks in which region you'd like to contact the police. I'd call the cops on it for illegally recording my voice, but I can't get past it on the phone...
Silicon Valley is ethically lost, rudderless and has not learned a thing
Wow, exaggerate much? All that may be true, mind. But using such hyperbole when voicing concerns does nothing for the guy’s credibility. He comes across as someone who has already made up his mind about SV companies a long time ago, and sees every new issue only as something that confirms his fears, as something that’s part of a bigger plot to rape the planet and enslave humanity.
If you can accidentally bypass it without even realising you've done so, I don't think it ought to qualify.
Exactly. That’s why IIRC our (Dutch) laws explicitly state this in their definition of “secured”. It’s the same as trespassing on private property that looks like it might be public, has no gate, and no “private property” sign. Not punishable.
Works for the police... but what about entering the USA, especially as a non US citizen?
If you think you are helping homeless persons by giving them a home and then leaving them to their own devices, think again. In most cases you'll also need to deal with one or (often) more issues like: criminal friends, psychological problems, alcohol and drug habits, lack of credit and unable to get a bank account, or simply having forgotten how to run a more or less normal household. Better to build them decent shelters and fund a comprehensive outreach program.
According to TFA, these guys are stepping up their game though. They use phishing techniques, get company servers infected with some commodity malware that lets them snoop around, then they can spear-phish using intraoffice email. If you have access to someone's inbox and a rough idea about the company's inner workings, it's not at all hard to impersonate that person convincingly. Perhaps enough to re-route some cash or get some account numbers changed. Or - especially in smaller companies - they simply intercept emails with payment details and change the data.
Scams like those might be prevented with proper security and procedures, but they are way outside the realm of simple idiocy.
Sounds like a great tool for those clickbaity websites that pretend they have info on a topic I'm searching for by worming their way into my Google search results. Now they can - perhaps for a few pieces of silver to Google - target me directly. No thanks.
It depends on how onerous the GDPR really is. The biggest one is the requirement to have a Data Protection Officer, but this is required "only for those controllers and processors whose core activities consist of processing operations which require regular and systematic monitoring of data subjects on a large scale or of special categories of data or data relating to criminal convictions and offences." For the rest it is pretty basic stuff: you need to be aware of the rules, and prepared to take action e.g. in case of a data leak. A lot of it really is common sense stuff, that is if you're a conscientious operator.
The big companies will have no trouble complying, paying lip service or working around the rules. The smaller companies might at first decide to forget about Europe. This happened with a couple of smaller service providers when the EU VAT rules were changed: I got a few notices that such-and-such company was no longer able to provide their service in Europe. However they probably looked at the amount of business they were getting from Europe, had another look at the rules and found them not that hard to comply with, and removed the block.
So basically he is launching the exact same thing he sold to Twitter, and investors aren't biting this time around. Somehow I am not as disappointed as that Verge editor...