this is the same line of thinking that has working class people railing against "elites" at their local University in the form of doctors, scientists, economist and sociologists but then somehow convinced that the likes of the Koch brothers and Donald Trump are regular Joes like them.
It's a narrative used to manipulate the working class into accepting less pay and fewer benefits. It's easy to push that narrative because the actual elites, the billionaires who run things, also own all the media. Bezos for example owns the Washington Post. Koch media is huge (heck, if you play videogames odds are you're playing with your Koch:), they own multiple studios ). And don't get me started on Sinclair media, we'll be here listening to me rant all day.
at launch. A lot of times the patches remove the DRM, since they charge per install and why keep paying for DRM 3-6 months after launch day when the pirates have moved on. But that means I'm buying on Gog or on sale, and a lot of games don't launch day 1 on Gog if at all.
I have it on good authority from random posters on/. that self driving cars are 20 years away and that taxi cab and Uber drivers have nothing to worry about.
you're thinking like an adult with a job. As a kid I'd pirate because it was easier than begging for new games. Kids are still a significant amount of game sales.
To be fair though I'd be free to play, especially Fortnight, is hurting way more than piracy every did in that market.
killer robots are coming whether you and I like it or not. If you want to do something about it now's the time.
I don't think "less government" is the answer either. That just leaves a power vacuum. We need more democracy. We also need to take care of our workers. Make a decent living into a right, not a privilege. Stop getting played against one another. The notion that some people are born to suffer is antiquated and needs to die.
I seem to remember several folks tracing performance problems in Batman Arkham Knight to Denuvo, but I could be wrong. I know they swear it doesn't impact performance but I find that tough to believe given how it works (it encrypts the entire game and decrypts it on the fly).
The wikipedia article says they did it with Proof of work. Am I just misunderstanding here? I thought the proof of work that solves the Byzantine General problem and not the blockchain itself; and that the Proof of Work step was what used all the electricity and time....
Again, I could just be misunderstanding everything. I've never found a really good explanation. Part of the problem I suspect is that money is involved and people get weird when money's involved.
and it's just about to go kaput. That's 15 years more. When it dies there's a good chance it'll be parted out to keep other 25 year old cars running. It might even make it down to Mexico. Ever see those pictures of cars in Cuba? Those things are from the 60s and still going.
It's not impossible to do that with an EV, but it requires a lot more tech that poor don't necessarily have access to. About the only thing I can't do on my car is the engine & transmission overhaul, but that's mostly due to a lack of skill. I knew lots of poor blue collar guys who could do their own engines and a few that did their own transmissions. The trouble with Battery packs is cost. Lots of specialized gear and chemicals. It's not just steel and iron. You can't just brute force it with welding and ingenuity. You need the tech, which the poor don't have. So when that car dies instead of spending 2 or 3 weekends rebuilding a transmission they'll have to come up with $2k+ to get a battery professionally rebuilt.
completely. Treat the hard stuff (Meth/Heroine/Cocaine) as a medical condition. Let addicts go to gov't clinics for their fixes and the as soon as they come down from their high they go into rehab. Netherlands did this and it works. It'll kill the primary use for Bitcoin.
Then crack down on money laundering and you're pretty much set. This crack down is coming btw. Police are slow to react to new tech, but it's not hard to trace money laundering through Bitcoin. It works today because the police haven't caught up. They will in a few years. There's already been a few folks nailed for money laundering via bitcoin and they'll be more soon.
Anyway do those two things and Bitcoin goes back to being a curiosity and a hobby toy for anarchists. It's too slow for regular transactions and the solutions to the speed problem all have centralized authorizes similar to how the Credit Card companies work or they're easy for hackers to break.
tampering without the large computation requirement (and matching power requirement)? And if it's not public why not just use a regular database?
I guess I still don't understand the point of blockchain by itself. I get the idea of having a distributed database. You can make your customers' computers do your database computation for you. It'd be like Bit Torrent for databases. You'd shift those costs onto your customers and they probably wouldn't notice since it's a few bucks a year in aggregate.
But then you throw in heavy users. If it's a currency you get lots of those and the chain stays "democratic" for lack of a better word; e.g. no one person can take control of the chain and make updates. But if I understand things correctly it's a mess if one person has too many nodes on the chain. They can start controlling what gets committed to the chain.
Again, I haven't looked that closely into it (I mostly cared because I was shopping for a graphics card a year ago and couldn't find one for less than $500 bucks). But it just seems like Blockchain doesn't really do what people wanted it to do. Bitcoin works because, let's face it, it's being used to launder money and buy drugs, so it's always got a market. But I don't see any other practical applications. By "practical" I mean, "it's the best solution to this problem".
it makes it sound like they left a billion dollars on the table, but give a company a completely different set of management and you'll get different results. The Rockstar we have today wouldn't be the Rockstar that made GTA. Especially if they were owned by a record company.
That's not really forcing the threat to be removed per se, but, well, it might as well be. BTW, the same is true if you do the same to your spouse (man or women). You'll then have a bail hearing to decide if you're a present danger and if you are you'll be jailed and possibly referred for psychiatric evaluation.
to incite violence yes and it is. What matters is intent. How do you prove intent? With a jury. That's censorship. Facebook, OTOH, banning users they don't like isn't censorship. If you'd like it to be you need to nationalize Facebook.
And I don't think I could have been much clearer, but here's trying: I'm afraid we're going to start killing Jews. Or Muslims. Or Blacks. Or some other minority when the economy gets bad enough. It's not just about normalizing violence and racial hatred, it's about the economy. The Germans were ready to turn on the Jews because they didn't have food security. Give us 50,60% unemployment and you'll see that here. With automation + wealth inequality that's a real possibility. Eventually those 60% unemployed not eating will find themselves a strong man to organize them into not just a mob, but an actual army. Then he'll point them at some minority or another. The Germans were by no means the first to do this and there's no reason why they have to be the last.
every had a cart that wouldn't play? Ever blow on the cart? That didn't help. What _would_ help is cutting the pin to the lockout chip to by pass Nintendo's DRM. See, what was happening is that not all the pins were making good contact, but most of the time you didn't _need_ perfect contact, except for that darn lockout chip. That thing was sensitive. It had to be or it'd be easy to bypass.
I don't want DRM in my products because not only does it mean the device isn't really mine but it means I've got one more thing to break and when it does it'll likely kill the device completely.
but it had nothing to do with giving $10k to an anti-Hilary group. The kind of folks who run Facebook couldn't care less which side won. Hilary, like the rest of the "Clinton" Democrats is basically just like a Republican. Same trickle down economics and corporate welfare.
Now if he donated $10k to a pro-Bernie group and got shit canned I could believe it. But really, the only difference between Trump & Hilary is Roe v Wade.
it's not much of a problem because when China comes to collect their money they'll ask "Well what did you spend it all on?" and we'll just answer "Well, all these bombs".
Seriously though, gov't debt doesn't really function like household debt. Most of it (2/3rds) we "owe" to ourselves. This is the one and only thing Trump got right. Deficits don't really matter all that much. They're a boogieman of the right. Google "starve the beast" sometime. It's a trick to get you to accept education and healthcare cuts while they raid the public coffers for their cronies.
post a threat to kill the president of the United States and see how long until you get a visit from Uncle Sam and his G-Men.
There's nothing wrong with censoring threats of violence, and I saw nothing in the articles to indicate anything more was being proposed. Now, to be fair both articles were lite on substance but we could do with a bit more of a swing in the other direction. Where I am (America) we've got bi-weekly mass shootings and daily shootings, many of which are racially motivated. I'm getting more than a bit nervous and I'm a white guy. I don't want us being the next Reich.
Hate speech, e.g. outright calls for violence, is and should be illegal in all civilized societies. Making threats, including thinly veiled ones, illegal isn't so much censorship as preserving public order.
If you want to have a conversation about something but you can't do it without threats of violence then be prepared to give up the rest of the trappings of civilized society. Sometimes that's necessary (like a revolution) but most of the time it's just political violence and terrorism.
at establishing regulations for the internet, to fight such online threats as cyber attacks, hate speech and online censorship
I suppose they could be lying though. But there's plenty of folks in America complaining about Alex Jones or Gab getting censored. And if China's not signing on then I'm inclined to think they're serious about combating online censorship.
In the literal sense of the world ("proceeding in a gradual, subtle way, but with harmful effects.").
You don't have to do those thing, but you'll be pressured until you do. Your boss will harass you to sleep with him and you'll do it to keep your job. There aren't any different employers because mergers and acquisitions mean there's few companies left. The cop'll beat you if you get uppity and demand change. You can't buy nice homes because of zoning.
The wealthy of North figured out what the South didn't: Slaves are a raw deal. You spend money on a slave. You tie up capital in a slave. Better to have a completely disposable workforce with the illusion of freedom but none of the actual power that comes with it.
it's retirement. If you find yourself out of work sick for a while (or caring for a loved one) you'll burn through your retirement savings and everything else you have until you or they either get better or die. Then you'll find yourself in your 40s with little or nothing to your name. Meanwhile if you follow the other two links I sent you'll find folks trying to end Medicare and Social Security. They claim only for folks under 55, but it's naive to think they'll stop there. It's too much money, and they want it for themselves.
the left favors tariffs and labor protection. That said we want to do it carefully. Trade wars are _not_ easy to win.
Now, Clinton Democrats (e.g. the right wing of our party that followed Bill & Hilary into becoming Republican Lite) are happy to have open borders. Hell, Hilary got caught outright saying she wanted to eliminate the borders. It was one of the reasons she lost.
but that's not what we're doing. So far the tariffs have been a give away to the Steel industry (who donated heavily) and a rather childish middle finger to the Chinese electronics industry (which we are in no way shape or form prepared to take over even if the companies wanted to put factories here). What we have _not_ done is demand China improve environmental, safety and labor pay in order to bring their workers up to parity with US workers. Canada OTOH has done this.... to America.
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that Manbearpig isn't real. I for one am relieved.
this is the same line of thinking that has working class people railing against "elites" at their local University in the form of doctors, scientists, economist and sociologists but then somehow convinced that the likes of the Koch brothers and Donald Trump are regular Joes like them.
:), they own multiple studios ). And don't get me started on Sinclair media, we'll be here listening to me rant all day.
It's a narrative used to manipulate the working class into accepting less pay and fewer benefits. It's easy to push that narrative because the actual elites, the billionaires who run things, also own all the media. Bezos for example owns the Washington Post. Koch media is huge (heck, if you play videogames odds are you're playing with your Koch
at launch. A lot of times the patches remove the DRM, since they charge per install and why keep paying for DRM 3-6 months after launch day when the pirates have moved on. But that means I'm buying on Gog or on sale, and a lot of games don't launch day 1 on Gog if at all.
I have it on good authority from random posters on /. that self driving cars are 20 years away and that taxi cab and Uber drivers have nothing to worry about.
you're thinking like an adult with a job. As a kid I'd pirate because it was easier than begging for new games. Kids are still a significant amount of game sales.
To be fair though I'd be free to play, especially Fortnight, is hurting way more than piracy every did in that market.
killer robots are coming whether you and I like it or not. If you want to do something about it now's the time.
I don't think "less government" is the answer either. That just leaves a power vacuum. We need more democracy. We also need to take care of our workers. Make a decent living into a right, not a privilege. Stop getting played against one another. The notion that some people are born to suffer is antiquated and needs to die.
I seem to remember several folks tracing performance problems in Batman Arkham Knight to Denuvo, but I could be wrong. I know they swear it doesn't impact performance but I find that tough to believe given how it works (it encrypts the entire game and decrypts it on the fly).
The wikipedia article says they did it with Proof of work. Am I just misunderstanding here? I thought the proof of work that solves the Byzantine General problem and not the blockchain itself; and that the Proof of Work step was what used all the electricity and time....
Again, I could just be misunderstanding everything. I've never found a really good explanation. Part of the problem I suspect is that money is involved and people get weird when money's involved.
and it's just about to go kaput. That's 15 years more. When it dies there's a good chance it'll be parted out to keep other 25 year old cars running. It might even make it down to Mexico. Ever see those pictures of cars in Cuba? Those things are from the 60s and still going.
It's not impossible to do that with an EV, but it requires a lot more tech that poor don't necessarily have access to. About the only thing I can't do on my car is the engine & transmission overhaul, but that's mostly due to a lack of skill. I knew lots of poor blue collar guys who could do their own engines and a few that did their own transmissions. The trouble with Battery packs is cost. Lots of specialized gear and chemicals. It's not just steel and iron. You can't just brute force it with welding and ingenuity. You need the tech, which the poor don't have. So when that car dies instead of spending 2 or 3 weekends rebuilding a transmission they'll have to come up with $2k+ to get a battery professionally rebuilt.
completely. Treat the hard stuff (Meth/Heroine/Cocaine) as a medical condition. Let addicts go to gov't clinics for their fixes and the as soon as they come down from their high they go into rehab. Netherlands did this and it works. It'll kill the primary use for Bitcoin.
Then crack down on money laundering and you're pretty much set. This crack down is coming btw. Police are slow to react to new tech, but it's not hard to trace money laundering through Bitcoin. It works today because the police haven't caught up. They will in a few years. There's already been a few folks nailed for money laundering via bitcoin and they'll be more soon.
Anyway do those two things and Bitcoin goes back to being a curiosity and a hobby toy for anarchists. It's too slow for regular transactions and the solutions to the speed problem all have centralized authorizes similar to how the Credit Card companies work or they're easy for hackers to break.
tampering without the large computation requirement (and matching power requirement)? And if it's not public why not just use a regular database?
I guess I still don't understand the point of blockchain by itself. I get the idea of having a distributed database. You can make your customers' computers do your database computation for you. It'd be like Bit Torrent for databases. You'd shift those costs onto your customers and they probably wouldn't notice since it's a few bucks a year in aggregate.
But then you throw in heavy users. If it's a currency you get lots of those and the chain stays "democratic" for lack of a better word; e.g. no one person can take control of the chain and make updates. But if I understand things correctly it's a mess if one person has too many nodes on the chain. They can start controlling what gets committed to the chain.
Again, I haven't looked that closely into it (I mostly cared because I was shopping for a graphics card a year ago and couldn't find one for less than $500 bucks). But it just seems like Blockchain doesn't really do what people wanted it to do. Bitcoin works because, let's face it, it's being used to launder money and buy drugs, so it's always got a market. But I don't see any other practical applications. By "practical" I mean, "it's the best solution to this problem".
it makes it sound like they left a billion dollars on the table, but give a company a completely different set of management and you'll get different results. The Rockstar we have today wouldn't be the Rockstar that made GTA. Especially if they were owned by a record company.
That's not really forcing the threat to be removed per se, but, well, it might as well be. BTW, the same is true if you do the same to your spouse (man or women). You'll then have a bail hearing to decide if you're a present danger and if you are you'll be jailed and possibly referred for psychiatric evaluation.
to incite violence yes and it is. What matters is intent. How do you prove intent? With a jury. That's censorship. Facebook, OTOH, banning users they don't like isn't censorship. If you'd like it to be you need to nationalize Facebook.
And I don't think I could have been much clearer, but here's trying: I'm afraid we're going to start killing Jews. Or Muslims. Or Blacks. Or some other minority when the economy gets bad enough. It's not just about normalizing violence and racial hatred, it's about the economy. The Germans were ready to turn on the Jews because they didn't have food security. Give us 50,60% unemployment and you'll see that here. With automation + wealth inequality that's a real possibility. Eventually those 60% unemployed not eating will find themselves a strong man to organize them into not just a mob, but an actual army. Then he'll point them at some minority or another. The Germans were by no means the first to do this and there's no reason why they have to be the last.
Heated Claws.
every had a cart that wouldn't play? Ever blow on the cart? That didn't help. What _would_ help is cutting the pin to the lockout chip to by pass Nintendo's DRM. See, what was happening is that not all the pins were making good contact, but most of the time you didn't _need_ perfect contact, except for that darn lockout chip. That thing was sensitive. It had to be or it'd be easy to bypass.
I don't want DRM in my products because not only does it mean the device isn't really mine but it means I've got one more thing to break and when it does it'll likely kill the device completely.
but it had nothing to do with giving $10k to an anti-Hilary group. The kind of folks who run Facebook couldn't care less which side won. Hilary, like the rest of the "Clinton" Democrats is basically just like a Republican. Same trickle down economics and corporate welfare.
Now if he donated $10k to a pro-Bernie group and got shit canned I could believe it. But really, the only difference between Trump & Hilary is Roe v Wade.
it's not much of a problem because when China comes to collect their money they'll ask "Well what did you spend it all on?" and we'll just answer "Well, all these bombs".
Seriously though, gov't debt doesn't really function like household debt. Most of it (2/3rds) we "owe" to ourselves. This is the one and only thing Trump got right. Deficits don't really matter all that much. They're a boogieman of the right. Google "starve the beast" sometime. It's a trick to get you to accept education and healthcare cuts while they raid the public coffers for their cronies.
post a threat to kill the president of the United States and see how long until you get a visit from Uncle Sam and his G-Men.
There's nothing wrong with censoring threats of violence, and I saw nothing in the articles to indicate anything more was being proposed. Now, to be fair both articles were lite on substance but we could do with a bit more of a swing in the other direction. Where I am (America) we've got bi-weekly mass shootings and daily shootings, many of which are racially motivated. I'm getting more than a bit nervous and I'm a white guy. I don't want us being the next Reich.
Hate speech, e.g. outright calls for violence, is and should be illegal in all civilized societies. Making threats, including thinly veiled ones, illegal isn't so much censorship as preserving public order.
If you want to have a conversation about something but you can't do it without threats of violence then be prepared to give up the rest of the trappings of civilized society. Sometimes that's necessary (like a revolution) but most of the time it's just political violence and terrorism.
I suppose they could be lying though. But there's plenty of folks in America complaining about Alex Jones or Gab getting censored. And if China's not signing on then I'm inclined to think they're serious about combating online censorship.
In the literal sense of the world ("proceeding in a gradual, subtle way, but with harmful effects.").
You don't have to do those thing, but you'll be pressured until you do. Your boss will harass you to sleep with him and you'll do it to keep your job. There aren't any different employers because mergers and acquisitions mean there's few companies left. The cop'll beat you if you get uppity and demand change. You can't buy nice homes because of zoning.
The wealthy of North figured out what the South didn't: Slaves are a raw deal. You spend money on a slave. You tie up capital in a slave. Better to have a completely disposable workforce with the illusion of freedom but none of the actual power that comes with it.
it's retirement. If you find yourself out of work sick for a while (or caring for a loved one) you'll burn through your retirement savings and everything else you have until you or they either get better or die. Then you'll find yourself in your 40s with little or nothing to your name. Meanwhile if you follow the other two links I sent you'll find folks trying to end Medicare and Social Security. They claim only for folks under 55, but it's naive to think they'll stop there. It's too much money, and they want it for themselves.
the left favors tariffs and labor protection. That said we want to do it carefully. Trade wars are _not_ easy to win.
Now, Clinton Democrats (e.g. the right wing of our party that followed Bill & Hilary into becoming Republican Lite) are happy to have open borders. Hell, Hilary got caught outright saying she wanted to eliminate the borders. It was one of the reasons she lost.
but that's not what we're doing. So far the tariffs have been a give away to the Steel industry (who donated heavily) and a rather childish middle finger to the Chinese electronics industry (which we are in no way shape or form prepared to take over even if the companies wanted to put factories here). What we have _not_ done is demand China improve environmental, safety and labor pay in order to bring their workers up to parity with US workers. Canada OTOH has done this.... to America.