> California-based adult content-maker Dreamroom Productions claims it has made it much harder for producers to hunt down and flag infringing material, since the videos are not shared publicly.
Of course it's harder to find infringers when they aren't advertising to you that they're doing it.
Yeah, it's basically equivalent to using private trackers to share pirated movies, music and TV shows using the bittorrent protocol. You're much less likely to get an infringement notice that way.
Couldn't it be the case that Blu-Ray and not Netflix is killing DVD sales? DVDs only have 480 line resolution vs. Blu-Ray's 1080. Why would people be buying DVDs anyway? You might as well hypothesize that Netflix is killing VHS sales of movies.
It will probably get harder and harder to find a TV without these "smart" features. If you don't want them, just don't give the TV your wifi password.
I've heard of TVs sniffing around for open access WiFi connections. So if any of your neighbors has open WiFi, or the coffee shop at the end of the street offers free public WiFi, your TV could be connecting anyway. And don't forget, the GPS in the TV will let them know where you live, so it won't give you any anonymity either.
I really think it is worth the extra money to get a non-smart TV if you can find one.
The goal is to stop mass surveillance. If GCHQ or the NSA really want that data, they will hack the site anyway.
By using HTTPS everywhere it just makes their job harder, so they can't spy on everyone by default.
Wrong. The NSA only needs to hack the CAs. Once they do that once, it takes no further effort on their part to engage in the kind of mass surveillance they did before people started using encryption for their web surfing. You're only fooling yourself if you think that using https is going to make the job any more difficult for the NSA.
Think of all those people who are going to die because of all those other people who aren't going to die!
Actually, people can donate not just one, but several organs: two kidneys, a liver, a heart, two lungs, etc. In other words, one person dead in an auto accident can translate to half a dozen or more lives saved. So yes, as paradoxical as it might sound, saving more lives on the road can actually lead to a total net loss of life.
Why would games be different than any form of artistic expression, like books, movies, music, paintings, sculpture, architecture? Different people value different things, and sometimes even when there's some critical consensus, you might radically disagree with the critics. Check out
Rotten Tomatoes sometime to see if there's any 95% fresh movies you hate or 37% fresh movies you love. I'm sure you'll find that there are indeed some.
As someone who does book design for a living, I always hated typographical abominations like straight quotes, fake small caps, non-use of ligatures on fonts that really need them (Bembo, Caslon, etc.), but I thought that since Microsoft Word (which like it or not is pretty much the standard word processor/text editor for ordinary civilians) has had "smart quotes" since Word 2003 (or even earlier) that straight quotes would become a thing of the past. I'm still hopeful that they will, especially with Unicode becoming more prevalent. (Slashdot is an obvious exception to the Unicode everywhere rule.) I do wish, however, people would stick with plain ASCII in (English language) emails, as my e-mail reader does tend to choke on Unicode, but I do recognize that's my fault for using old software.
You don't need to use Steam. You don't need to use Photoshop. What's that? You like the features or the convenience of the walled garden? Oh well in that case I guess computing really does suck.
You seem to suggest that a walled garden is necessary to enjoy those features. The fact is, Photoshop, and other software in the Creative Suite used to be available for purchase. Now, it's rent only. I think that's what he was complaining about. I, too, am irritated by this. I still use CS6, the last version of Creative Suite you could buy. I refuse to use rented software.
In addition there is the bayron number. For instance a neutron has no charge and is composed of quarks. An anti-neutron also has no charge but is made up of anti-quarks and has a bayron number of -1 instead of 1.
But the previous poster talked about color charge, and the baryon number is just the sum R+B+G where R, G, and B are the red, green, and blue color charge respectively. Actually, the individual color charges themselves are not constant, since they are scrambled around by the gluon field, but their sum, R+B+G which is just the baryon number is.
If they're terrorists or involved with/sympathetic to terrorist organizations, they'll lie, or have 'clean' social media accounts to present.
That's EXACTLY what they're hoping people will do. The DHS officials will then check out the "clean" profiles, and ask Twitter/Facebook or whatever for the IP address associated with those "clean" accounts, as well as any other accounts which log in from the same address. They'll then look very closely at those other accounts. People will think they're fooling the DHS, when in reality, it will be the other way around.
The reason is that an anti-particle is a particle with opposite charge (both electric and colour) compare to its partner. So an anti-electron has opposite charge to a normal electron, and an anti-quark has opposite colour-charge and electric charge to a normal quark.
A photon does not have any charge, so an anti-photon would have identical properties to a normal photon - they would be identical, and so it makes no sense to talk about them as being different entities.
You're exactly right, but there is one other quantum number involved in particle/anti-particle duality, and that is lepton number. That is why neutrinos and anti-neutrinos are distinct particles despite having no electric or color charge: they have opposite lepton number.
I know your comment was meant to be humorous, but it does raise an important point. There really is no such thing as an anti-laser since lasers produce photons, and photons are their own anti-particle. I.e. there's no such thing as an anti-photon, or to be more precise, a photon and anti-photon are the same thing! That's why an ordinary laser can be used in this experiment.
The bigger issue is that anyone who leaves their laptop unattended for a short period of time can have their laptop stolen, and the thief can actually gain access to it.
Not necessarily a bigger issue. Sometimes having your data exposed can be far more serious than having your hardware stolen.
The word revolution also contains the word evolution, and you might have noticed that we've evolved past the point of calling a paper printer a necessary component of computing today.
And the word "internet" contains the word "tern", so clearly it is built upon angry arctic birds with sharp beaks that dive bomb anyone who gets too close to their nesting grounds.
Well, that would explain the Angry Birds phenomenon of a few years ago.
Anybody successfully cloning appliance parts with a 3D printer at home could find professional work for a substantial amount more than they'll save making the occasional part for the refrigerator.
Likely as soon as you start making replacement parts commercially based on the original parts, you'll run into patent and design copyright issues.
(Assuming you're not logged in at the time, of course!)
Well guess what?? You're logged in as SYSTEM while updates are installing!!! How else do you think updates even work???!
From what I understand, in Windows 10 home edition, you don't need to be logged in as system. Updates happen automatically and you can't easily turn them off. I could be wrong though.
Shift-F10 has existed for lots of years know. Requires physical access. Windows build updates require to decrypt the drive.
"Requires physical access"???? The WHOLE POINT of hard disk encryption is to protect you in the event someone gains physical access to your computer! (Assuming you're not logged in at the time, of course!)
Value Added Tax is an acronym used in many, but not all countries. USA for instance, has no equivalent of the VAT, instead they have various state sales taxes. Canada has something called the HST (harmonized sales tax), but nothing called VAT. So, unless you do business with the UK, Australia, New Zealand, or other countries with something called VAT, there's no reason you'd know what it is.
Or better yet, harden your computer against hacking. As a side effect, it will also help when the bad guys try to hack your computer to get your bank account or credit card info as well. Seriously, the bigger story here shouldn't be the over broad warrant, but the fact that most people are using vulnerable computers. I'm less concerned about the FBI getting a warrant to hack my computer as I am concerned about the fact that my computer is vulnerable to hacking in the first place.
This technique will soon be used by law enforcement to profile persons with encrypted phones, especially at the borders. I will be sure to stick mine up my ass before handing it to them.
But that technique, if I understand it, would work on just about anything regularly touched by the subject: wristwatch, glasses, pen, wallet... It doesn't seem this should be unique to a phone, encrypted or otherwise. The article seems to be making a big deal about hair products for instance: If you're interested in that, just take a strand of the subject's hair!
Have you ever walked on trampoline or any other springed surface? It makes it harder to walk.
Actually, a springy surface is easy to walk on cause the springs return the energy back to you when you lift your feet. An energy absorbing material would be more like walking on sand, which is very difficult cause as you compress the sand when you walk, the energy is converted to heat and wasted. Try running on a sandy beach, and you'll see what I mean. I imagine walking on this sort of floor will be somewhat like walking on sand: very tiring.
That NIT, which many security experts have dubbed as malware, used a Tor exploit of some kind to force the browser to return the user's actual IP address,
Does anyone know if that exploit has been fixed or is it still unpatched? If the FBI can use this exploit to catch child pornographers then other, possibly malicious, people can use the same exploit.
Our national economic health is measured by the total health of our companies. The welfare of the citizens is an afterthought in these calculations,
And there's the basic fallacy of liberal economics. It's corporations vs. people. I have news for you: the corporations are the people. Those citizens you speak of, for the most part have jobs. They work for corporations, or perhaps, help to run them. If the corporations leave the country, the jobs go with them, leaving behind unemployed citizens. How is that good for their welfare?
I don't particularly care what happens to Apple. The government shouldn't either. The government should look after its people.
Well you should care what happens to Apple and companies like it, because they are what make America unique. They are the reason we have the strongest economy in the world. Apple is the people, and the people are Apple (and companies like it.)
If the people benefit while Apple has to struggle in world markets, would that be a bad thing?
It will be a very bad thing if Apple leaves America to go elsewhere!
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> California-based adult content-maker Dreamroom Productions claims it has made it much harder for producers to hunt down and flag infringing material, since the videos are not shared publicly.
Of course it's harder to find infringers when they aren't advertising to you that they're doing it.
Yeah, it's basically equivalent to using private trackers to share pirated movies, music and TV shows using the bittorrent protocol. You're much less likely to get an infringement notice that way.
Couldn't it be the case that Blu-Ray and not Netflix is killing DVD sales? DVDs only have 480 line resolution vs. Blu-Ray's 1080. Why would people be buying DVDs anyway? You might as well hypothesize that Netflix is killing VHS sales of movies.
It will probably get harder and harder to find a TV without these "smart" features. If you don't want them, just don't give the TV your wifi password.
I've heard of TVs sniffing around for open access WiFi connections. So if any of your neighbors has open WiFi, or the coffee shop at the end of the street offers free public WiFi, your TV could be connecting anyway. And don't forget, the GPS in the TV will let them know where you live, so it won't give you any anonymity either.
I really think it is worth the extra money to get a non-smart TV if you can find one.
The goal is to stop mass surveillance. If GCHQ or the NSA really want that data, they will hack the site anyway.
By using HTTPS everywhere it just makes their job harder, so they can't spy on everyone by default.
Wrong. The NSA only needs to hack the CAs. Once they do that once, it takes no further effort on their part to engage in the kind of mass surveillance they did before people started using encryption for their web surfing. You're only fooling yourself if you think that using https is going to make the job any more difficult for the NSA.
Think of all those people who are going to die because of all those other people who aren't going to die!
Actually, people can donate not just one, but several organs: two kidneys, a liver, a heart, two lungs, etc. In other words, one person dead in an auto accident can translate to half a dozen or more lives saved. So yes, as paradoxical as it might sound, saving more lives on the road can actually lead to a total net loss of life.
Why would games be different than any form of artistic expression, like books, movies, music, paintings, sculpture, architecture? Different people value different things, and sometimes even when there's some critical consensus, you might radically disagree with the critics. Check out Rotten Tomatoes sometime to see if there's any 95% fresh movies you hate or 37% fresh movies you love. I'm sure you'll find that there are indeed some.
As someone who does book design for a living, I always hated typographical abominations like straight quotes, fake small caps, non-use of ligatures on fonts that really need them (Bembo, Caslon, etc.), but I thought that since Microsoft Word (which like it or not is pretty much the standard word processor/text editor for ordinary civilians) has had "smart quotes" since Word 2003 (or even earlier) that straight quotes would become a thing of the past. I'm still hopeful that they will, especially with Unicode becoming more prevalent. (Slashdot is an obvious exception to the Unicode everywhere rule.) I do wish, however, people would stick with plain ASCII in (English language) emails, as my e-mail reader does tend to choke on Unicode, but I do recognize that's my fault for using old software.
You don't need to use Steam. You don't need to use Photoshop. What's that? You like the features or the convenience of the walled garden? Oh well in that case I guess computing really does suck.
You seem to suggest that a walled garden is necessary to enjoy those features. The fact is, Photoshop, and other software in the Creative Suite used to be available for purchase. Now, it's rent only. I think that's what he was complaining about. I, too, am irritated by this. I still use CS6, the last version of Creative Suite you could buy. I refuse to use rented software.
In addition there is the bayron number. For instance a neutron has no charge and is composed of quarks. An anti-neutron also has no charge but is made up of anti-quarks and has a bayron number of -1 instead of 1.
But the previous poster talked about color charge, and the baryon number is just the sum R+B+G where R, G, and B are the red, green, and blue color charge respectively. Actually, the individual color charges themselves are not constant, since they are scrambled around by the gluon field, but their sum, R+B+G which is just the baryon number is.
If they're terrorists or involved with/sympathetic to terrorist organizations, they'll lie, or have 'clean' social media accounts to present.
That's EXACTLY what they're hoping people will do. The DHS officials will then check out the "clean" profiles, and ask Twitter/Facebook or whatever for the IP address associated with those "clean" accounts, as well as any other accounts which log in from the same address. They'll then look very closely at those other accounts. People will think they're fooling the DHS, when in reality, it will be the other way around.
With NSLs it doesn't matter whether they're public, private, free, or paid. The problem is the politicians who are passing abusive laws.
Okay, then an offshore paid service might be the answer.
The reason is that an anti-particle is a particle with opposite charge (both electric and colour) compare to its partner. So an anti-electron has opposite charge to a normal electron, and an anti-quark has opposite colour-charge and electric charge to a normal quark.
A photon does not have any charge, so an anti-photon would have identical properties to a normal photon - they would be identical, and so it makes no sense to talk about them as being different entities.
You're exactly right, but there is one other quantum number involved in particle/anti-particle duality, and that is lepton number. That is why neutrinos and anti-neutrinos are distinct particles despite having no electric or color charge: they have opposite lepton number.
I know your comment was meant to be humorous, but it does raise an important point. There really is no such thing as an anti-laser since lasers produce photons, and photons are their own anti-particle. I.e. there's no such thing as an anti-photon, or to be more precise, a photon and anti-photon are the same thing! That's why an ordinary laser can be used in this experiment.
The bigger issue is that anyone who leaves their laptop unattended for a short period of time can have their laptop stolen, and the thief can actually gain access to it.
Not necessarily a bigger issue. Sometimes having your data exposed can be far more serious than having your hardware stolen.
And the word "internet" contains the word "tern", so clearly it is built upon angry arctic birds with sharp beaks that dive bomb anyone who gets too close to their nesting grounds.
Well, that would explain the Angry Birds phenomenon of a few years ago.
Anybody successfully cloning appliance parts with a 3D printer at home could find professional work for a substantial amount more than they'll save making the occasional part for the refrigerator.
Likely as soon as you start making replacement parts commercially based on the original parts, you'll run into patent and design copyright issues.
(Assuming you're not logged in at the time, of course!)
Well guess what?? You're logged in as SYSTEM while updates are installing!!! How else do you think updates even work???!
From what I understand, in Windows 10 home edition, you don't need to be logged in as system. Updates happen automatically and you can't easily turn them off. I could be wrong though.
Shift-F10 has existed for lots of years know. Requires physical access. Windows build updates require to decrypt the drive.
"Requires physical access"???? The WHOLE POINT of hard disk encryption is to protect you in the event someone gains physical access to your computer! (Assuming you're not logged in at the time, of course!)
Value Added Tax is an acronym used in many, but not all countries. USA for instance, has no equivalent of the VAT, instead they have various state sales taxes. Canada has something called the HST (harmonized sales tax), but nothing called VAT. So, unless you do business with the UK, Australia, New Zealand, or other countries with something called VAT, there's no reason you'd know what it is.
Maybe you shouldn't do child porn?
Or better yet, harden your computer against hacking. As a side effect, it will also help when the bad guys try to hack your computer to get your bank account or credit card info as well. Seriously, the bigger story here shouldn't be the over broad warrant, but the fact that most people are using vulnerable computers. I'm less concerned about the FBI getting a warrant to hack my computer as I am concerned about the fact that my computer is vulnerable to hacking in the first place.
This technique will soon be used by law enforcement to profile persons with encrypted phones, especially at the borders. I will be sure to stick mine up my ass before handing it to them.
But that technique, if I understand it, would work on just about anything regularly touched by the subject: wristwatch, glasses, pen, wallet... It doesn't seem this should be unique to a phone, encrypted or otherwise. The article seems to be making a big deal about hair products for instance: If you're interested in that, just take a strand of the subject's hair!
Have you ever walked on trampoline or any other springed surface? It makes it harder to walk.
Actually, a springy surface is easy to walk on cause the springs return the energy back to you when you lift your feet. An energy absorbing material would be more like walking on sand, which is very difficult cause as you compress the sand when you walk, the energy is converted to heat and wasted. Try running on a sandy beach, and you'll see what I mean. I imagine walking on this sort of floor will be somewhat like walking on sand: very tiring.
That NIT, which many security experts have dubbed as malware, used a Tor exploit of some kind to force the browser to return the user's actual IP address,
Does anyone know if that exploit has been fixed or is it still unpatched? If the FBI can use this exploit to catch child pornographers then other, possibly malicious, people can use the same exploit.
And here is the basic fallacy of economics.
Our national economic health is measured by the total health of our companies. The welfare of the citizens is an afterthought in these calculations,
And there's the basic fallacy of liberal economics. It's corporations vs. people. I have news for you: the corporations are the people. Those citizens you speak of, for the most part have jobs. They work for corporations, or perhaps, help to run them. If the corporations leave the country, the jobs go with them, leaving behind unemployed citizens. How is that good for their welfare?
I don't particularly care what happens to Apple. The government shouldn't either. The government should look after its people.
Well you should care what happens to Apple and companies like it, because they are what make America unique. They are the reason we have the strongest economy in the world. Apple is the people, and the people are Apple (and companies like it.)
If the people benefit while Apple has to struggle in world markets, would that be a bad thing?
It will be a very bad thing if Apple leaves America to go elsewhere!
I know it's cold in Finland this time of year, but the first day of winter is still a month and a half in the future.
You didn't see the white ravens released from the Citadel last June? Winter is here.