From TFA: "Magazine and newspaper subscriptions, as well as digital versions of the Bible, will be exempt from the digital downloads tax."
What... the Torah, Quran, and Bhagavad Gita and hundreds of others need not apply? Nice lawsuit trolling there.
Pretty sure this is right out of the gates, unconstitutional. Doesn't equal protection apply here? Calling out the bible specifically and not other religious texts is financial discrimination against everybody who doesn't believe in zombie jebuz on a stick. Also, unworkable: How can you identify which bits and bytes I am downloading are bible bits and bytes, and which ones are the porn version of 'The last temptation of Christ'. Seems unenforceable.
I like to write down fake passwords on post-its and leave them laying around for would be hackers to find. Most people probably aren't that cunning though.
I would hire mysidia over you any day. The whole point of common library functions is someone writes something once, and make it perfect, and then re-use it until the end of time. A good programmer can re-invent the wheel. A great programmer knows where all the wheel stores are, and the pros and cons of each one. This isn't 1988 anymore where you have to write all your own header files from scratch in isolation.
Well spoken. The real story here is that a Russian dictator is trying very hard to influence our election for his own ends. This should interest and/or worry people given Putin's apparent designs.
First off, by referring to the question I asked as a 'conspiracy theory', you are suggesting that asking questions about the chain of evidence and motives of the parties involved is somehow a crazy crank idea. Subtle straw man type suggestion, there spanky.
It is possible that the DNC isn't saying anything on the advice of lawyers, or at the request of the FBI, CIA, NSA, military or other federal agencies, who are undoubtedly investigating the hell out of this. This was a cyber attack by a hostile foreign intelligence agency, not some script kiddies defacing a AOL web page, so there are going to be a lot of people looking into this.
It is also possible that the DNC is still trying to work out what is real and what isn't. A smart way to manipulate this sort of info is to leave 99% alone, and just change a few key things so there is an air of authenticity about it. It would take a little time to properly work out the dif of the two streams.
To be clear: I never said that the email isn't 100% authentic. I am just pointing out that only a truly stupid person wouldn't start asking a lot of questions about this info considering the source.
The real issue is the fact that DNC tried to stop Bernie with a few underhanded tactics.
Did they? Curious how you are completely willing to believe the authenticity of data that has been revealed to have come from Russian Intel. They are willing to hack into a server to influence US elections, but they aren't above altering content here and there to sew dissent?
Conspiring to violate 18 USC/599 is a federal crime.
Assuming that the e-mail is authentic. It might well be, but there should be some serious scrutiny of any evidence that has been 'dug up' by Russian intelligence running false flag ops to influence US elections. They might just be up to something....
Trump and Putin, what a pair they would make...I bet they would get on like Hitler and Mussolini...
I am having problems with the whole 'embrace/extend/extinguish' as a business plan. Here is the problem:
This is essentially behaving as a predatory monopoly. If anyone ever was to come forward and testify that this was the actual marching orders for a government, MS would get wrecked. While they have vast resources at their disposal, a few irate senators and judges have the power of the entire government.
Now, if this was a small company, they might be able to keep a lid on such designs, but this is a large, multinational company that has been around for the past thirty plus years. If you are telling me that they have the operational security to keep this plan hushed up for that long, with that many people involved, they are better at keeping secrets than every spy agency on the planet.
Remember, just ONE person who has knowledge of these plans has to go blab to ruin everything. It looks to me that MS is mostly blundering around like a drunk bull in a china shop, occasionally wrecking a former partner who happened to be in their path. These people aren't the cylons, they certainty dont have a plan...
it's incredible how much better some of my cousins can handle the heat better than I can. That wasn't the case when I lived there. I remember reading about it taking a few weeks for your blood to become thinner and more capillaries to grow in your skin which helps you cool off.
I am so very glad to hear that the people over there have the infrastructure and acclimation to handle it so well. They won't mind then if I crank up the thermostat another 10 degrees Fahrenheit, because it can get a little chilly up here in the north during the winters....
... the only way to reconcile free speech with copyright's ability to restrict who may utter certain words and expressions is fair use and other exemptions to copyright, which means that laws that don't take fair use into account fail to pass constitutional muster."
Why would you even need to do that? I don't recall copyright having an amendment. Don't Constitutional rights trump pretty much everything else, period? Remind me when this happened exactly? Copyright/patents are a short term monopoly IN EXCHANGE for sharing creative works and discoveries with society. That means that you have to explain everything completely. If you don't like that, you can always just keep your creations & inventions private. (Coke's formula is a trade secret for example).
Take the damned battery out! Hasn't anybody seen NCIS!
power off device completely. Remove battery (if possible). Remove tinfoil hat and wrap phone. That should pretty much solve the problem unless I am missing something, and it gets that goofy tinfoil hat off your head so people stop looking at you strangely.
Interestingly, this is yet another reason to never buy DRM controlled music. Not only do you have to worry about all the usual problems with DRM schemes, you also have to pay attention to EULAs. Does the company have the right (not just the ability) to alter your content? In what ways? Have they modified the terms of the EULA since you signed up for it? NEVER BUY DRM CRIPPLED MUSIC, PEOPLE!
I am beginning to wonder if the Gun Nuts have the right idea...no, I am not in any way worried about the government becoming corrupt and needing to be overthrown. I ain't scared of the government. I am worried about the lawyers needing to be overthrown...
Think this is stupid? Read this bit and think very carefully about it:
Create an autonomous A.I. system that can "hunt for security vulnerabilities that hackers can exploit to attack a computer, create a fix that patches that vulnerability and distribute that patch -- all without any human interference.
Yahoo Tech notes that it takes an average of 312 days before security vulnerabilities are discovered -- and 24 days to patch it. "if all goes well, the CGC could mean a future where you don't have to worry about viruses or hackers attacking your computer, smartphone or your other connected devices.
Suppose you can write a learning system that grows and adapts to find new vulnerabilities and create fixes for them. That very same system can also be used to find and exploit vulnerabilities at a much faster rate too. Criminal organizations and hostile states will have a new arrow in their quiver to attack with. I suspect that if you build such a system (very hard but doable in theory) you will have the same arms race between black hats and white hats that you have now, it will just be faster paced.
Oh, there are numerous flaws with this line of thinking. Why would the US & Japan, both of who poses advanced spy satellite technology need to get video game data to try to collect info on military bases? You think that they don't already have that info?
Moreover, why would we want to attack a country with a huge population, and massive standing land army? Isn't there some sort of old saying about land wars in Asia? I thought our plan was to just seduce them with freedom and material goods and let them toss out their own government because they think it sucks. You know, say like eastern Europe and Russia?
At this point, it should be pretty obvious that the US isn't really interested in what other countries do with their governments as long as they don't engage in wars of conquest or wholesale slaughter of their own people, so I just wonder what this person is thinking.
More over, if I recall correctly, Any part of a contract being illegal invalidates the whole thing. Some contracts or TOS agreements will have text in them to the effect that says in jurisdictions where clauses are null and void, that they are to be disregard those specific clauses to weasel past that.
More to the point, a company can (and will) fire you w/o notice if they feel like it. Why should you not be able to 'fire' them in the same fashion?
Companies are sociopath entities that are only as good to you as they least friendly person to you in any position of power. They don't care anything about you or your well being. People within the company might, but the company does not, it exists to make money. You might owe people loyalty, but never a company.
I really hate this whole line of AI driver philosophy, because it seems to me to be largely pointless blather about nothing. We live in a world where gigahertz processors are cheap and plentyful. To a computer, that can take data samples thousands of times per second, a 60 mph car is traveling at a glacial speed. What kind of crazy, concocted scenario are you coming up with where the AI controlling the car has to make a Boolean decision that kills people? It might happen, but I would argue that if it was properly programmed, it wouldn't let itself be put into this sort of situation in the first place, slowing down to appropriate speeds around people.
Debating this sort of bullshit situation is like making financial plans for 'in case I win the lottery'. Yeah it could happen, but if you sink any time into it, it is basically wasted time.
But we DO know that putting guns into law abiding hands LOWERS violent crime rates (such as shootings)
No it doesn't. It just allows people to try to return fire. It does nothing as a deterrent.
This is the sort of soft headed thinking that got us into the current mess. Guns are not shields, they are swords. Swords don't protect you from harm, they just allow you to stab back.
The "benefits" are supposed to help people who need money for food, shelter, clothing or child support, not get their next fix.
Money is labor, time and resources captured into a easily tradeable form. The wealthy, by being allowed to be wealthy, are being entrusted with the resources of society. If you are going to assume the role of moral arbiter of poor people and put constraints on how they spend their money, you could just as easily claim the same rights for the wealthy, and in fact it is probably mush more important to do so.
Moreover, it almost doesn't matter if some poor person blows $100 on some weed. But it certainly will affect the larger society if the CEO of Apple or Google makes a bad business decision while coked off their ass.
I ultimately cannot see them doing much useful with it.
Everyone posting to this topic is slamming them buying LI as a business product. You are totally missing the point if you think of it as a product. This was a brilliant move by MS and here is why:
There is a hiring war that MS has been fighting with Google, Facebook, Amazon and a few other big companies for the better part of a decade. There is limited top notch tech talent, and whoever can control it has a real edge. MS now owns what is probably the #1 repository for resumes. Think of what this could do to help them hire and retain devs. That is on top of any benefit of getting their foot in the social media game. Also, LI is way more vital to society than FB will ever be. Nobody needs to post pictures of their cat for their friends, but everyone needs a job. I'd bet on LI outlasting FB any day of the week.
Watch MS and see if they follow up on this by trying to buy up Dice.com and or Glassdoor. It will be interesting to see what they do next....
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From TFA: "Magazine and newspaper subscriptions, as well as digital versions of the Bible, will be exempt from the digital downloads tax."
What... the Torah, Quran, and Bhagavad Gita and hundreds of others need not apply? Nice lawsuit trolling there.
Pretty sure this is right out of the gates, unconstitutional. Doesn't equal protection apply here? Calling out the bible specifically and not other religious texts is financial discrimination against everybody who doesn't believe in zombie jebuz on a stick. Also, unworkable: How can you identify which bits and bytes I am downloading are bible bits and bytes, and which ones are the porn version of 'The last temptation of Christ'. Seems unenforceable.
I like to write down fake passwords on post-its and leave them laying around for would be hackers to find. Most people probably aren't that cunning though.
I would hire mysidia over you any day. The whole point of common library functions is someone writes something once, and make it perfect, and then re-use it until the end of time. A good programmer can re-invent the wheel. A great programmer knows where all the wheel stores are, and the pros and cons of each one. This isn't 1988 anymore where you have to write all your own header files from scratch in isolation.
Is sedition still a chargeable offense? Wow, the shit that Trump says....
Well spoken. The real story here is that a Russian dictator is trying very hard to influence our election for his own ends. This should interest and/or worry people given Putin's apparent designs.
The Russians want Trump to be President. That bears repeating a couple of times. Just think about why that might be.
'Bears' repeating? Lolololoolllffppfppfffffffttttss......Russians.....bears....hahahahahaha.....
First off, by referring to the question I asked as a 'conspiracy theory', you are suggesting that asking questions about the chain of evidence and motives of the parties involved is somehow a crazy crank idea. Subtle straw man type suggestion, there spanky.
It is possible that the DNC isn't saying anything on the advice of lawyers, or at the request of the FBI, CIA, NSA, military or other federal agencies, who are undoubtedly investigating the hell out of this. This was a cyber attack by a hostile foreign intelligence agency, not some script kiddies defacing a AOL web page, so there are going to be a lot of people looking into this.
It is also possible that the DNC is still trying to work out what is real and what isn't. A smart way to manipulate this sort of info is to leave 99% alone, and just change a few key things so there is an air of authenticity about it. It would take a little time to properly work out the dif of the two streams.
To be clear: I never said that the email isn't 100% authentic. I am just pointing out that only a truly stupid person wouldn't start asking a lot of questions about this info considering the source.
The real issue is the fact that DNC tried to stop Bernie with a few underhanded tactics.
Did they? Curious how you are completely willing to believe the authenticity of data that has been revealed to have come from Russian Intel. They are willing to hack into a server to influence US elections, but they aren't above altering content here and there to sew dissent?
Conspiring to violate 18 USC/599 is a federal crime.
Assuming that the e-mail is authentic. It might well be, but there should be some serious scrutiny of any evidence that has been 'dug up' by Russian intelligence running false flag ops to influence US elections. They might just be up to something....
Trump and Putin, what a pair they would make...I bet they would get on like Hitler and Mussolini...
I am having problems with the whole 'embrace/extend/extinguish' as a business plan. Here is the problem:
This is essentially behaving as a predatory monopoly. If anyone ever was to come forward and testify that this was the actual marching orders for a government, MS would get wrecked. While they have vast resources at their disposal, a few irate senators and judges have the power of the entire government.
Now, if this was a small company, they might be able to keep a lid on such designs, but this is a large, multinational company that has been around for the past thirty plus years. If you are telling me that they have the operational security to keep this plan hushed up for that long, with that many people involved, they are better at keeping secrets than every spy agency on the planet.
Remember, just ONE person who has knowledge of these plans has to go blab to ruin everything. It looks to me that MS is mostly blundering around like a drunk bull in a china shop, occasionally wrecking a former partner who happened to be in their path. These people aren't the cylons, they certainty dont have a plan...
it's incredible how much better some of my cousins can handle the heat better than I can. That wasn't the case when I lived there. I remember reading about it taking a few weeks for your blood to become thinner and more capillaries to grow in your skin which helps you cool off.
I am so very glad to hear that the people over there have the infrastructure and acclimation to handle it so well. They won't mind then if I crank up the thermostat another 10 degrees Fahrenheit, because it can get a little chilly up here in the north during the winters....
Why would you even need to do that? I don't recall copyright having an amendment. Don't Constitutional rights trump pretty much everything else, period? Remind me when this happened exactly? Copyright/patents are a short term monopoly IN EXCHANGE for sharing creative works and discoveries with society. That means that you have to explain everything completely. If you don't like that, you can always just keep your creations & inventions private. (Coke's formula is a trade secret for example).
Take the damned battery out! Hasn't anybody seen NCIS!
power off device completely. Remove battery (if possible). Remove tinfoil hat and wrap phone. That should pretty much solve the problem unless I am missing something, and it gets that goofy tinfoil hat off your head so people stop looking at you strangely.
Oh, and by "we", I mean "baby boomers". I'm gen X and wasn't old enough to vote when all this shit really started in the 80s.
Its ok man. We will get those boomers back by putting them in shitty elderly care facilities and never going to visit them.
Interestingly, this is yet another reason to never buy DRM controlled music. Not only do you have to worry about all the usual problems with DRM schemes, you also have to pay attention to EULAs. Does the company have the right (not just the ability) to alter your content? In what ways? Have they modified the terms of the EULA since you signed up for it? NEVER BUY DRM CRIPPLED MUSIC, PEOPLE!
I am beginning to wonder if the Gun Nuts have the right idea...no, I am not in any way worried about the government becoming corrupt and needing to be overthrown. I ain't scared of the government. I am worried about the lawyers needing to be overthrown...
Well, there is that whole burning down the White House thing...
That isn't why we are upset, its the fact they forgot to burn down the the Senate building before they left.
Think this is stupid? Read this bit and think very carefully about it:
Create an autonomous A.I. system that can "hunt for security vulnerabilities that hackers can exploit to attack a computer, create a fix that patches that vulnerability and distribute that patch -- all without any human interference.
Yahoo Tech notes that it takes an average of 312 days before security vulnerabilities are discovered -- and 24 days to patch it. "if all goes well, the CGC could mean a future where you don't have to worry about viruses or hackers attacking your computer, smartphone or your other connected devices.
Suppose you can write a learning system that grows and adapts to find new vulnerabilities and create fixes for them. That very same system can also be used to find and exploit vulnerabilities at a much faster rate too. Criminal organizations and hostile states will have a new arrow in their quiver to attack with. I suspect that if you build such a system (very hard but doable in theory) you will have the same arms race between black hats and white hats that you have now, it will just be faster paced.
Oh, there are numerous flaws with this line of thinking. Why would the US & Japan, both of who poses advanced spy satellite technology need to get video game data to try to collect info on military bases? You think that they don't already have that info?
Moreover, why would we want to attack a country with a huge population, and massive standing land army? Isn't there some sort of old saying about land wars in Asia? I thought our plan was to just seduce them with freedom and material goods and let them toss out their own government because they think it sucks. You know, say like eastern Europe and Russia?
At this point, it should be pretty obvious that the US isn't really interested in what other countries do with their governments as long as they don't engage in wars of conquest or wholesale slaughter of their own people, so I just wonder what this person is thinking.
More over, if I recall correctly, Any part of a contract being illegal invalidates the whole thing. Some contracts or TOS agreements will have text in them to the effect that says in jurisdictions where clauses are null and void, that they are to be disregard those specific clauses to weasel past that.
More to the point, a company can (and will) fire you w/o notice if they feel like it. Why should you not be able to 'fire' them in the same fashion?
Companies are sociopath entities that are only as good to you as they least friendly person to you in any position of power. They don't care anything about you or your well being. People within the company might, but the company does not, it exists to make money. You might owe people loyalty, but never a company.
I really hate this whole line of AI driver philosophy, because it seems to me to be largely pointless blather about nothing. We live in a world where gigahertz processors are cheap and plentyful. To a computer, that can take data samples thousands of times per second, a 60 mph car is traveling at a glacial speed. What kind of crazy, concocted scenario are you coming up with where the AI controlling the car has to make a Boolean decision that kills people? It might happen, but I would argue that if it was properly programmed, it wouldn't let itself be put into this sort of situation in the first place, slowing down to appropriate speeds around people.
Debating this sort of bullshit situation is like making financial plans for 'in case I win the lottery'. Yeah it could happen, but if you sink any time into it, it is basically wasted time.
But we DO know that putting guns into law abiding hands LOWERS violent crime rates (such as shootings)
No it doesn't. It just allows people to try to return fire. It does nothing as a deterrent.
This is the sort of soft headed thinking that got us into the current mess. Guns are not shields, they are swords. Swords don't protect you from harm, they just allow you to stab back.
But they're not fucking assassinating political candidates or office holders.
The NSA will never engage in political assassination. The CIA doesn't take kindly to other people drinking their shake....
The "benefits" are supposed to help people who need money for food, shelter, clothing or child support, not get their next fix.
Money is labor, time and resources captured into a easily tradeable form. The wealthy, by being allowed to be wealthy, are being entrusted with the resources of society. If you are going to assume the role of moral arbiter of poor people and put constraints on how they spend their money, you could just as easily claim the same rights for the wealthy, and in fact it is probably mush more important to do so.
Moreover, it almost doesn't matter if some poor person blows $100 on some weed. But it certainly will affect the larger society if the CEO of Apple or Google makes a bad business decision while coked off their ass.
I ultimately cannot see them doing much useful with it.
Everyone posting to this topic is slamming them buying LI as a business product. You are totally missing the point if you think of it as a product. This was a brilliant move by MS and here is why:
There is a hiring war that MS has been fighting with Google, Facebook, Amazon and a few other big companies for the better part of a decade. There is limited top notch tech talent, and whoever can control it has a real edge. MS now owns what is probably the #1 repository for resumes. Think of what this could do to help them hire and retain devs. That is on top of any benefit of getting their foot in the social media game. Also, LI is way more vital to society than FB will ever be. Nobody needs to post pictures of their cat for their friends, but everyone needs a job. I'd bet on LI outlasting FB any day of the week.
Watch MS and see if they follow up on this by trying to buy up Dice.com and or Glassdoor. It will be interesting to see what they do next....