Honest question -- who wants to stream media?? Why?
At home I do not have good internet and I often watch stuff while traveling (flights, buses, coffee shops).
I'd be more likely to pay for a service that can pre-load things for future use. Example: I can't even find hi-def movie trailers that don't insist on streaming themselves every time. Even for free stuff that they (presumably) want me to watch, I have to work hard to get a local copy for myself. But I don't know why.
app cannot disrupt or interfere with devices, networks or other parties' apps and services.
Oooh, ooh, can an app mess with my internet connection by loading many ads? So anything that uses the device bandwidth excessively could also be banned now?
I think I would rather just pay the $10, OR NOT PARK ILLEGALLY AND GET THE FINE in the first place!
You must live in a wonderful place where fines are only given to illegally parked cars. Over time, I've gotten a number of tickets both for a reason and without
When I got a $100+ "parked in emergency zone" ticket for no reason, I went to court and had it removed. But for regular parking tickets it is definitely not worth my time. Problem is -- there is zero penalty for giving a bogus ticket.
One thing I noted from the description was that the 25% goes to Vigilant, pure profit for them. But if the person can't pay, it's arrest and probably jail, bail, and all that - which is a public cost. I'm sure vigilant isn't seeing any of those costs.
Also, for anyone who is accidentally getting on this "debt" list, these people can either pay the fee or fight it at their own expense. There is no downside to either police or Vigilant to falsely list someone
I'd be surprised if they don't regularly add a few people at random. If the person can afford it, they will pay the fine rather than spend day in court to prove their innocence. Worst case scenario, nothing is collected.
If they can convince the content owners that the VPN problem cannot be solved, all the better for both Netflix and the users.
Or maybe it should be illegal to do Geo-blocking, particularly if it applies to customers who reside in the correct region but happen to be traveling this month. Why should they even need to use VPN to access their paid-for account while traveling??
I am certainly amazed that DVD region restrictions are (apparently) legal. Why does globalization (e.g. H1-B) only work for corporations?
This is just the usual bullshit from people that get starry-eyes when fantasizing how the future will be, but have no clue how reality actually works.
Oh, I don't think so. It's not starry-eye people at all
Facebook is hoping you would replace your phone with a Facebook (TM) app. And Windows is surely hoping that your Windows Live (TM) login would serve the same function (after you login to your Windows account on your desktop/laptop/phone/car, your calls should just carry over via Skype, right?)
Other venues are hoping for the same thing, but don't have the penetration to seriously expect this.
they have destroyed any goodwill and trust they built up in recent years.
What "goodwill" and "trust" have they built up in recent years? Somehow a newly bought (about a year ago) laptop crashes hard during installation off Win7 disk. This has to be at least semi-intentional.
if they expect people to buy into their new software-as-a-service approach
Hopefully that will severely damage Office (one can dream). This idea of having cloud-based office documents and paying an annual subscription fee for the honor is not so great for the users. And they are pushing that hard too.
There should also be punishments or reprimands if the device is turned off during a shift (malfunctions aside).
That's a key part right there. If there is no punishment, then videos would exonerate when helpful and "disappear" when not so helpful.
From what I understand there was at least one incident when something like 16 different dashboard car cameras all simultaneously "malfunctioned" during a beating incident.
there's no way this sort of decision should be being made by the President.
Indeed, quote below has my emphasis added
Obama would devote $500 million more in federal funding to treating mental illness -- a move that could need congressional approval
When did the President gain the ability to budget things directly without Congress? Same goes for investing money into other things in the TFA (additional background check staff for FBI, etc).
Oh, don't worry -- Office 365 will be in the cloud and kept current by MS.
Of course your car may stop or lose vital features if you don't have internet access and can't confirm your MS login, but everyone is always connected, so it won't be a problem.
The Uber drivers are already paying registration fees, and fuel taxes, which are proportional to mileage
The Uber riders already pay a "safe rides" fee and, in Chicago, a "Chicago" fee and an "Airport or Navy Pier destination" fee, the latter one being $5.
I think taxes will be levied until the price is the same for both cabs and Uber rides. Airport cost (Chicago downtown to Midway airport) went from ~$18 to ~$25 in the last few months.
Buses are supposed to check it too, although they don't (yet?)
Concord trailways certainly does check for ID, requiring it for the person traveling. At least on the routes involving Logan airport, Boston South Station and Portland, Maine. They have been doing this for a few years, and I am yet to figure out why (is there a law?)
Australia used to have the same problem, but a conservative government managed to introduce gun restricts at the cost of the next election, and gun violence and accidents dropped sharply.
Citation?
Does restriction mean ban of specifics kinds of guns? Bans in specific areas? More control over purchases?
Also, is there analysis of why it worked or what kind of gun violence was reduced? Public shootings like this or targeted murders? Both?
There is really not enough information here, I would be very interested to have some actual meaningful data as a reference.
The debate over such shootings rages every time (ban guns, stop banning guns, make more gun-free zones, have fewer gun-free zones, teach everyone to shoot and give out free guns, have better mental health care, etc, Did I miss anything?).
But I am yet to see anyone change their pre-existing opinion as a result of these discussions.
Smart move by Blackberry to differentiate their product that way!
Blackberries are still being made? Rather, are they still being sold??
I thought that they had a historical hold on corporate world -- and I thought that even that was pretty much gone (Liberty Mutual has made a switch, at least in some departments, a couple of years ago).
Reads like?:) It is not even marginally disguised as they usually are. The only difference is that it advertises 3 different manufacturers and some random "deal" website (so it is actually 4 ads rolled into 1).
I think we need to down-mod the article posters, not just stories.
Law enforcement can request them. Private companies can buy them to do research - without your consent.
neccesarily means that
The state owns your DNA.
Surely it should be possible to establish that individuals own their DNA, particularly from the perspective of private companies that may want to buy them from the state. Lawsuit time?
He got in touch with someone who sorted out the issue.
That's not the point. He filed a copyright dispute response with Youtube, including a quote from his contract explaining why he is in the right on this issue. And after that he just got a note:
A day or so after filing my dispute, I checked the status of the claim on YouTube and found a status update explaining that "The claimaint (Sony Music) has reviewed their claim and confirmed it was valid"
So Sony was apparently not required to substantiate any of their claims (at least not to him) even after he filed a counter-claim with evidence. So the process is not biased at all...
...utterly failing to serve the people who voted for them.
People don't vote for someone, at least not recently. People either vote against the person/party they hate most or they vote for [R or D]-affiliated candidate.
They have said that they will prioritize Data Hogs such that other customers retain some kind of decent up/down speed. "Unlimited" does not mean you get the whole pipe.
So how much should you get?
Do you also consider people who pig out at buffets to be Food Hogs?
Where do you draw the line? 5G? 10G? 15G? 23G? And if Verizon can name that line, why don't they sell 23G fast + unlimited slow internet?
That's what I have from T-Mobile now (10G fast and then significantly throttled for the rest of the month), but surprisingly T-Mobile actually sells it as a 10G plan.
never vote for someone just because they "understand technology",
Also keep in mind that if someone makes decisions about technology that you don't like, they probably know exactly what they are doing. They have someone on staff who can explain. You want someone who supports your position, not necessarily someone who "understands technology"
And if you're worried about online-only games being unavailable in offline mode, why aren't you asking if Blizzard has a contingency for WoW players if Blizzard goes out of business, or if CCP has a contingency for Eve Online players in case CCP goes out of business?
That is part of the reason I personally only buy games with single-player mode support.
Still, MMORPG games are a very special case which actually deserves different treatment. Game price is not really the cost of the game.
You would pay a monthly fee (at least for WoW, I am less sure how Eve Online works). So it is understood that once servers go down, you won't be able to play. You also won't be paying monthly fees for ongoing gaming after that.
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Pirate bay just raised the bar...
Honest question -- who wants to stream media?? Why?
At home I do not have good internet and I often watch stuff while traveling (flights, buses, coffee shops).
I'd be more likely to pay for a service that can pre-load things for future use.
Example: I can't even find hi-def movie trailers that don't insist on streaming themselves every time. Even for free stuff that they (presumably) want me to watch, I have to work hard to get a local copy for myself. But I don't know why.
app cannot disrupt or interfere with devices, networks or other parties' apps and services.
Oooh, ooh, can an app mess with my internet connection by loading many ads? So anything that uses the device bandwidth excessively could also be banned now?
I think I would rather just pay the $10, OR NOT PARK ILLEGALLY AND GET THE FINE in the first place!
You must live in a wonderful place where fines are only given to illegally parked cars. Over time, I've gotten a number of tickets both for a reason and without
When I got a $100+ "parked in emergency zone" ticket for no reason, I went to court and had it removed. But for regular parking tickets it is definitely not worth my time. Problem is -- there is zero penalty for giving a bogus ticket.
One thing I noted from the description was that the 25% goes to Vigilant, pure profit for them. But if the person can't pay, it's arrest and probably jail, bail, and all that - which is a public cost. I'm sure vigilant isn't seeing any of those costs.
Also, for anyone who is accidentally getting on this "debt" list, these people can either pay the fee or fight it at their own expense. There is no downside to either police or Vigilant to falsely list someone
I'd be surprised if they don't regularly add a few people at random. If the person can afford it, they will pay the fine rather than spend day in court to prove their innocence. Worst case scenario, nothing is collected.
Google will pay 130M UK Pounds in back taxes representing tax on sales since 2005.
Isn't UK worried about bankrupting Google into going out of business?
The agreement, which comes after a six-year HMRC investigation
Is it at all possible that they spent more than 130M worth investigating this?
Did Google kill the address bar? No.
Google did kill most of the market for "catchy" domain names and reduced the market share of "mistyped" URLs.
If they can convince the content owners that the VPN problem cannot be solved, all the better for both Netflix and the users.
Or maybe it should be illegal to do Geo-blocking, particularly if it applies to customers who reside in the correct region but happen to be traveling this month. Why should they even need to use VPN to access their paid-for account while traveling??
I am certainly amazed that DVD region restrictions are (apparently) legal. Why does globalization (e.g. H1-B) only work for corporations?
This is just the usual bullshit from people that get starry-eyes when fantasizing how the future will be, but have no clue how reality actually works.
Oh, I don't think so. It's not starry-eye people at all
Facebook is hoping you would replace your phone with a Facebook (TM) app. And Windows is surely hoping that your Windows Live (TM) login would serve the same function (after you login to your Windows account on your desktop/laptop/phone/car, your calls should just carry over via Skype, right?)
Other venues are hoping for the same thing, but don't have the penetration to seriously expect this.
they have destroyed any goodwill and trust they built up in recent years.
What "goodwill" and "trust" have they built up in recent years? Somehow a newly bought (about a year ago) laptop crashes hard during installation off Win7 disk. This has to be at least semi-intentional.
if they expect people to buy into their new software-as-a-service approach
Hopefully that will severely damage Office (one can dream). This idea of having cloud-based office documents and paying an annual subscription fee for the honor is not so great for the users. And they are pushing that hard too.
you can be sued for telling other how to bypass the ad block block.
I wonder, can Forbes be sued for the damage that they have facilitated?
If users can demonstrate that infection came from them?
There should also be punishments or reprimands if the device is turned off during a shift (malfunctions aside).
That's a key part right there. If there is no punishment, then videos would exonerate when helpful and "disappear" when not so helpful.
From what I understand there was at least one incident when something like 16 different dashboard car cameras all simultaneously "malfunctioned" during a beating incident.
there's no way this sort of decision should be being made by the President.
Indeed, quote below has my emphasis added
Obama would devote $500 million more in federal funding to treating mental illness -- a move that could need congressional approval
When did the President gain the ability to budget things directly without Congress? Same goes for investing money into other things in the TFA (additional background check staff for FBI, etc).
I keep my cars a lot longer than my computers.
Oh, don't worry -- Office 365 will be in the cloud and kept current by MS.
Of course your car may stop or lose vital features if you don't have internet access and can't confirm your MS login, but everyone is always connected, so it won't be a problem.
The Uber drivers are already paying registration fees, and fuel taxes, which are proportional to mileage
The Uber riders already pay a "safe rides" fee and, in Chicago, a "Chicago" fee and an "Airport or Navy Pier destination" fee, the latter one being $5.
I think taxes will be levied until the price is the same for both cabs and Uber rides. Airport cost (Chicago downtown to Midway airport) went from ~$18 to ~$25 in the last few months.
Buses are supposed to check it too, although they don't (yet?)
Concord trailways certainly does check for ID, requiring it for the person traveling. At least on the routes involving Logan airport, Boston South Station and Portland, Maine. They have been doing this for a few years, and I am yet to figure out why (is there a law?)
Australia used to have the same problem, but a conservative government managed to introduce gun restricts at the cost of the next election, and gun violence and accidents dropped sharply.
Citation?
Does restriction mean ban of specifics kinds of guns? Bans in specific areas? More control over purchases?
Also, is there analysis of why it worked or what kind of gun violence was reduced? Public shootings like this or targeted murders? Both?
There is really not enough information here, I would be very interested to have some actual meaningful data as a reference.
But I am yet to see anyone change their pre-existing opinion as a result of these discussions.
Smart move by Blackberry to differentiate their product that way!
Blackberries are still being made? Rather, are they still being sold??
I thought that they had a historical hold on corporate world -- and I thought that even that was pretty much gone (Liberty Mutual has made a switch, at least in some departments, a couple of years ago).
This story reads like a pure ad,
Reads like? :) It is not even marginally disguised as they usually are. The only difference is that it advertises 3 different manufacturers and some random "deal" website (so it is actually 4 ads rolled into 1).
I think we need to down-mod the article posters, not just stories.
Law enforcement can request them. Private companies can buy them to do research - without your consent.
neccesarily means that
The state owns your DNA.
Surely it should be possible to establish that individuals own their DNA, particularly from the perspective of private companies that may want to buy them from the state. Lawsuit time?
He got in touch with someone who sorted out the issue.
That's not the point. He filed a copyright dispute response with Youtube, including a quote from his contract explaining why he is in the right on this issue. And after that he just got a note:
A day or so after filing my dispute, I checked the status of the claim on YouTube and found a status update explaining that "The claimaint (Sony Music) has reviewed their claim and confirmed it was valid"
So Sony was apparently not required to substantiate any of their claims (at least not to him) even after he filed a counter-claim with evidence.
So the process is not biased at all...
...utterly failing to serve the people who voted for them.
People don't vote for someone, at least not recently.
People either vote against the person/party they hate most or they vote for [R or D]-affiliated candidate.
They have said that they will prioritize Data Hogs such that other customers retain some kind of decent up/down speed. "Unlimited" does not mean you get the whole pipe.
So how much should you get?
Do you also consider people who pig out at buffets to be Food Hogs?
Where do you draw the line? 5G? 10G? 15G? 23G? And if Verizon can name that line, why don't they sell 23G fast + unlimited slow internet?
That's what I have from T-Mobile now (10G fast and then significantly throttled for the rest of the month), but surprisingly T-Mobile actually sells it as a 10G plan.
never vote for someone just because they "understand technology",
Also keep in mind that if someone makes decisions about technology that you don't like, they probably know exactly what they are doing.
They have someone on staff who can explain. You want someone who supports your position, not necessarily someone who "understands technology"
And if you're worried about online-only games being unavailable in offline mode, why aren't you asking if Blizzard has a contingency for WoW players if Blizzard goes out of business, or if CCP has a contingency for Eve Online players in case CCP goes out of business?
That is part of the reason I personally only buy games with single-player mode support.
Still, MMORPG games are a very special case which actually deserves different treatment. Game price is not really the cost of the game. You would pay a monthly fee (at least for WoW, I am less sure how Eve Online works). So it is understood that once servers go down, you won't be able to play. You also won't be paying monthly fees for ongoing gaming after that.