Yup, I backed up my old floppies as well. Who knows if I'll ever use them. I've had plenty of discs go bad though -- mostly movies since I haven't played the old console games in ages. These were regular movies professionally pressed and sold through stores, and they were stored either in their original cases or in a binder. They just degrade and go bad faster than people want to give them credit for.
OT: Hey, aren't you the bad guy in that Eye of the World novel?
He might be. Shaitan is a word borrowed from Islam, usually referring to evil/corrupting spirits. It's also sometimes a general Arabic name for the Devil (Satan and Shaitan), though Iblis is also a name given to that entity.
Giant conspiracies are stupid. I'm not a conspiracy nutter, and hate them when I see them. But it's pretty obvious what's going on here. We have a long and varied history, at least in the US, of trying to put as many blocks and trackers on pornography as we can -- stop shops from being able to operate anywhere. Use public shaming of anyone who partakes. The absolute worst of the many over-reaching, eventually struck down laws here were sold under the "think of the children" banner, because it's a lot easier to sell something to parents if you think it'll help protect their kids from the big, bad other that is out of their control.
Yes, the is a well founded security concern about their revolutionary guard infiltrating our infrastructure. But so do the Israelis and that doesn't stop them from being hired
Probably because most people in the US want the nation of Israel to succeed, and are not interested in the same for the government of Iran. IE, if some secrets get leaked to the Israeli Government, they don't particularly care.
It also means jack if someone uploads your photo to an American, Chinese, or Russian site.
But every site is a multinational now. The big boys are not content to operate only in the US, or China, or Europe. They want to operate EVERYWHERE, so they have to follow everyone's laws.
No, it's because "dorks in the states" have this idea that users should be able to upload content without having it have to be curated first. The copyright law requires sites to actively filter -- no more "take down content found to be infringing," the new regulations are "make sure no one CAN post anything deemed to be under copyright." Expect any sort of fair use, which yes, does exist, to disappear, because businesses can't afford to police any of that.
AOC has little actual influence. However, she does have attention and press, for the exact same reasons that Donald Trump got attention and press four years ago: despite a startling lack of insight or knowledge of any subject she talks about, she's loud and angry and on the attack. She says startling things that get people talking ("Can you believe she said THAT?") that are fairly compelling to her ignorant base.
Unfortunately for her, she didn't start with a pile of cash, she doesn't have Donald's media manipulation skills, and she doesn't have a good three decades of con-artist work to bolster her with a false image of competency.
Have you seen the clips from the hearing where the D's try to insinuate that Candace Owens (a black woman) is a white nationalist and Hitler supporter?
What, just because she said that Hitler finally went too far when he attacked countries outside of Germany? Sure, nothing wrong with that.
$800 wtf? I will stick to my $200 iPhone SE. Privacy matters.
Do either of those phones come with a contract? Usually, phones with contracts are much cheaper because the cost of the phone is moved to the contract itself.
Funny thing is that even the teacher didn't have a clue. I guess the systems were pretty open back then.
Back then, yes.:-) Every Linux distro I know of now has had 'xhost -' as part of its startup. If you can set your DISPLAY to an IP and its X server accepts that, well you have just as much access to everything, including devices, as a regular user does. You can watch their screen, keylog, etcetc.
6% ? That's actually more than I thought it would be. But you can't change energy use by dismissing one part and say "well, doing something about this would be a pretty small thing." Well of course it's a small thing, but add up a bunch of small things and now you have a big thing. It's not like anyone is saying "if only we could switch to LEDs, well then, this whole reduced energy usage problem is solved!" No, it's one of many steps taken in many different parts of our lives.
He wasn't dead, he was hibernating. Did you see him during the presidential campaign? He was so sleepy. Now he's had his nap and you're going to see a whole new Ben Carson.
Well, if you're going to use the utilities, you're going to have to go through an ISP. Unless you think you're going to do this over wireless, in which case any robust network will be easily traceable, and you'll find yourself on the wrong side of the FCC really quickly.
I agreed until the utopic free market, free to start your own services, bit. Sure you "can", until everyone colludes to ruin you.
This is the downside of free speech. Sure, you have "free speech." But "freedom of association" also means people can make judgments about you from your speech and decide you're the sort of person they want to have no interaction with.
Came here to post exactly that - are they stuck in 1994 and still think a megabit connection is "high speed" and thus "fuels piracy"? Here's a free clue for them: Speed neither "prevents" nor "drives" piracy. Look elsewhere, dumbasses.
Well, I will say that when I had slow AT&T DSL, saturating the bandwidth made the connection pretty much unusable for the rest of the household. So a game update downloading, windows update downloading. Trying to push through a sizable upload, all cause horrible amounts of lag until the operation is done. That is what life is still like for those with DSL. Running bittorrent was almost unthinkable -- almost, because the better clients allow you to cap how much upload and download capacity you use. Most ISP routers do not do any type of QoS, and when the problem is that bad, QoS only helps a little anyway. So yeah, once I got fiber, P2P was more of an option, because it was always optional before and there were other uses for the network that were more important. Now that I CAN use the network for whatever I want... I do.
So peer to peer sharing has no uploaders, only downloaders.
If you are a peer-to-peer sharer, then you are uploader and downloader. Well, if you're a leech, then you're a downloader-only. While you can set your client to do that, it's a practice that's frowned upon, so is the exception rather than the rule.
Uploader may refer to the original seeder as well. But if you are sending this information from your p2p client, you are by definition an uploader. Upload: person who has the information, and is sending it to others. Download: person who does not have the information, and is receiving it from others. In this case, "information" is packet based, not whole-file based.
Like many security issues, piracy often leverages insider leaks.
Indeed. Most high-quality captures of movies before they have a dvd/streaming release came from theaters where whomever had access to the physical reels could scan the individual frames. With digital projection, it's changed a bit in that encrypted hard drives are being shipped, not 35mm film cans, but you can still get a decent video by plugging in an audio recorder to the sound in the projection booth, and an HD camera aimed at the screen.
Or The Spy Who Loved Me, if you want to see Roger Moore's one good Bond movie. Or Skyfall, if you want a decent Craig as Bond film. Did Pierce Brosnan have any good Bond movies? At all? Maaaaybe Goldeneye and even that's a bit rocky. Then he started making movies where we're supposed to buy that Denise Richards is a nuclear physicist.
What about all the authors of the information these few editors are denying voice by taking Wikipedia hostage for a day?
The point is to drive home the fact that if these copyright rules are implemented by member states in the intended form, a hell of a lot more damage will be done to the wikis than just being down for one day. Article 13 in particular will screw over an immense number of sites, not just Wikipedia: pretty much any web site that deals with user-uploaded content.
The I figured out what reactions were and why they were a thing, is that, at least for the ones "doing it right," they're trying to forge a connection between viewer and reader. IE, they're you're "friends," whether they are in reality or not. Have you ever enjoyed showing a movie or TV series to someone, watching it with them even though you've already seen it because you want to experience it again with then? And you wanted to see how they liked the show? A reaction is sortof an Internet version of that.
They're hoping that you like the reactors and like experiencing things with them. A bad reactor, and there are a ton of them, either give no reaction, or just nod, and they're like "cool" at the end. There's really no way to bond with that. On the other extreme of bad are the fakers, people giving fake reactions hoping their wildness will give them more views. But the more interesting reactors are folks you get to know, whose reaction to "amazing episode 15" or whatnot of your favorite series you end up looking forward to. The ones with moderators in the comments sections to prevent them from becoming a toxic cesspool or full of spoilers. It's just another way to create a (very loose) community and bond over a shared love of pop culture.
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Yup, I backed up my old floppies as well. Who knows if I'll ever use them.
I've had plenty of discs go bad though -- mostly movies since I haven't played the old console games in ages.
These were regular movies professionally pressed and sold through stores, and they were stored either in their original cases or in a binder. They just degrade and go bad faster than people want to give them credit for.
OT: Hey, aren't you the bad guy in that Eye of the World novel?
He might be. Shaitan is a word borrowed from Islam, usually referring to evil/corrupting spirits.
It's also sometimes a general Arabic name for the Devil (Satan and Shaitan), though Iblis is also a name given to that entity.
Giant conspiracies are stupid. I'm not a conspiracy nutter, and hate them when I see them.
But it's pretty obvious what's going on here. We have a long and varied history, at least in the US, of trying to put as many blocks and trackers on pornography as we can -- stop shops from being able to operate anywhere. Use public shaming of anyone who partakes. The absolute worst of the many over-reaching, eventually struck down laws here were sold under the "think of the children" banner, because it's a lot easier to sell something to parents if you think it'll help protect their kids from the big, bad other that is out of their control.
Yes, the is a well founded security concern about their revolutionary guard infiltrating our infrastructure. But so do the Israelis and that doesn't stop them from being hired
Probably because most people in the US want the nation of Israel to succeed, and are not interested in the same for the government of Iran. IE, if some secrets get leaked to the Israeli Government, they don't particularly care.
It also means jack if someone uploads your photo to an American, Chinese, or Russian site.
But every site is a multinational now. The big boys are not content to operate only in the US, or China, or Europe. They want to operate EVERYWHERE, so they have to follow everyone's laws.
As member of the "consumer" group: we don't give a fuck about your "great" content.
If you don't care about, don't use it. Everyone's cool.
But if you do want to use it, then you do care about it.
No, it's because "dorks in the states" have this idea that users should be able to upload content without having it have to be curated first. The copyright law requires sites to actively filter -- no more "take down content found to be infringing," the new regulations are "make sure no one CAN post anything deemed to be under copyright." Expect any sort of fair use, which yes, does exist, to disappear, because businesses can't afford to police any of that.
AOC has little actual influence. However, she does have attention and press, for the exact same reasons that Donald Trump got attention and press four years ago: despite a startling lack of insight or knowledge of any subject she talks about, she's loud and angry and on the attack. She says startling things that get people talking ("Can you believe she said THAT?") that are fairly compelling to her ignorant base.
Unfortunately for her, she didn't start with a pile of cash, she doesn't have Donald's media manipulation skills, and she doesn't have a good three decades of con-artist work to bolster her with a false image of competency.
Have you seen the clips from the hearing where the D's try to insinuate that Candace Owens (a black woman) is a white nationalist and Hitler supporter?
What, just because she said that Hitler finally went too far when he attacked countries outside of Germany? Sure, nothing wrong with that.
$800 wtf? I will stick to my $200 iPhone SE.
Privacy matters.
Do either of those phones come with a contract?
Usually, phones with contracts are much cheaper because the cost of the phone is moved to the contract itself.
Funny thing is that even the teacher didn't have a clue. I guess the systems were pretty open back then.
Back then, yes. :-) Every Linux distro I know of now has had 'xhost -' as part of its startup. If you can set your DISPLAY to an IP and its X server accepts that, well you have just as much access to everything, including devices, as a regular user does. You can watch their screen, keylog, etcetc.
white people are adverse to breeding in a political climate that is hostile towards them.
Boy, you really don't understand how biology, reproduction, and humanity in general works.
6% ? That's actually more than I thought it would be.
But you can't change energy use by dismissing one part and say "well, doing something about this would be a pretty small thing." Well of course it's a small thing, but add up a bunch of small things and now you have a big thing. It's not like anyone is saying "if only we could switch to LEDs, well then, this whole reduced energy usage problem is solved!" No, it's one of many steps taken in many different parts of our lives.
He wasn't dead, he was hibernating.
Did you see him during the presidential campaign? He was so sleepy.
Now he's had his nap and you're going to see a whole new Ben Carson.
Well, if you're going to use the utilities, you're going to have to go through an ISP.
Unless you think you're going to do this over wireless, in which case any robust network will be easily traceable, and you'll find yourself on the wrong side of the FCC really quickly.
I agreed until the utopic free market, free to start your own services, bit. Sure you "can", until everyone colludes to ruin you.
This is the downside of free speech. Sure, you have "free speech." But "freedom of association" also means people can make judgments about you from your speech and decide you're the sort of person they want to have no interaction with.
There's a Jew-hating Democrat
Criticism of Israel and Israel's lobbying practices is not antisemitism.
I think we might be overstating a bit the success that the Chinese people have had against the filters.
Suspecting nutso Russian government crackdowns is being a xenophobic asshole? Yeah, no, I don't recommend anyone operate in Russia either.
Came here to post exactly that - are they stuck in 1994 and still think a megabit connection is "high speed" and thus "fuels piracy"? Here's a free clue for them: Speed neither "prevents" nor "drives" piracy. Look elsewhere, dumbasses.
Well, I will say that when I had slow AT&T DSL, saturating the bandwidth made the connection pretty much unusable for the rest of the household. So a game update downloading, windows update downloading. Trying to push through a sizable upload, all cause horrible amounts of lag until the operation is done. That is what life is still like for those with DSL. Running bittorrent was almost unthinkable -- almost, because the better clients allow you to cap how much upload and download capacity you use. Most ISP routers do not do any type of QoS, and when the problem is that bad, QoS only helps a little anyway. So yeah, once I got fiber, P2P was more of an option, because it was always optional before and there were other uses for the network that were more important. Now that I CAN use the network for whatever I want... I do.
So peer to peer sharing has no uploaders, only downloaders.
If you are a peer-to-peer sharer, then you are uploader and downloader. Well, if you're a leech, then you're a downloader-only. While you can set your client to do that, it's a practice that's frowned upon, so is the exception rather than the rule.
Uploader may refer to the original seeder as well. But if you are sending this information from your p2p client, you are by definition an uploader. Upload: person who has the information, and is sending it to others. Download: person who does not have the information, and is receiving it from others. In this case, "information" is packet based, not whole-file based.
Like many security issues, piracy often leverages insider leaks.
Indeed. Most high-quality captures of movies before they have a dvd/streaming release came from theaters where whomever had access to the physical reels could scan the individual frames. With digital projection, it's changed a bit in that encrypted hard drives are being shipped, not 35mm film cans, but you can still get a decent video by plugging in an audio recorder to the sound in the projection booth, and an HD camera aimed at the screen.
Or The Spy Who Loved Me, if you want to see Roger Moore's one good Bond movie.
Or Skyfall, if you want a decent Craig as Bond film.
Did Pierce Brosnan have any good Bond movies? At all? Maaaaybe Goldeneye and even that's a bit rocky. Then he started making movies where we're supposed to buy that Denise Richards is a nuclear physicist.
What about all the authors of the information these few editors are denying voice by taking Wikipedia hostage for a day?
The point is to drive home the fact that if these copyright rules are implemented by member states in the intended form, a hell of a lot more damage will be done to the wikis than just being down for one day. Article 13 in particular will screw over an immense number of sites, not just Wikipedia: pretty much any web site that deals with user-uploaded content.
The I figured out what reactions were and why they were a thing, is that, at least for the ones "doing it right," they're trying to forge a connection between viewer and reader. IE, they're you're "friends," whether they are in reality or not. Have you ever enjoyed showing a movie or TV series to someone, watching it with them even though you've already seen it because you want to experience it again with then? And you wanted to see how they liked the show? A reaction is sortof an Internet version of that.
They're hoping that you like the reactors and like experiencing things with them. A bad reactor, and there are a ton of them, either give no reaction, or just nod, and they're like "cool" at the end. There's really no way to bond with that. On the other extreme of bad are the fakers, people giving fake reactions hoping their wildness will give them more views. But the more interesting reactors are folks you get to know, whose reaction to "amazing episode 15" or whatnot of your favorite series you end up looking forward to. The ones with moderators in the comments sections to prevent them from becoming a toxic cesspool or full of spoilers. It's just another way to create a (very loose) community and bond over a shared love of pop culture.