Airbnb wasn't supposed to be about renting entire spaces. it was meant to be for renting rooms in homes. i.e. you were home to keep things 'safe'. Legislators need to get their shit together and simply rule that renting entire apartments/houses for individual nights means 'hotel' subject to all the local and higher levels of regulation that that involves. Get it back to what it was meant for - stop causing damage to others through the use of a fancy name and a web app to hide your activities. Man up that if you're running a damn business, follow the rules.
Many places already have laws like that, but like with Uber, AirBnB have in many places managed to get out of it, because the drivers/landlords are the ones breaking the law not the international organization organizing the crime. And then they say it is not their job to police their platform, and keep listings from cities where all their listings are illegal.
It has taken years to kick Uber out of many countries, or force them to obey the law. Only now is Airbnb also under scrutiny. And in both cases only a few select honest countries actually bother trying to update or enforce laws against popular law breakers.
When "hosts" leave a bunch of valuable stuff around for their "guests" it's little wonder they care more about protecting their crap than the privacy of the guests.
Stop renting out space that has your stuff in it.
Nothing of value should be in the property, everything should be documented and have proper insurance.
Or you could use AIrBnB the way they claim it is supposed to be used: To rent out an extra room or a couch. If you are also living there at the same time, you don't need a camera..
But of course 90% of AirBnB is just unlicenced hotels.
If that were true, then one could stand out by producing variety and get bigly rich.
You can, but only in some countries, and mostly in Europe. At the moment there is a bit of strangle hold on getting exposure in the US (and a handfull of other countries), you need the right contacts or lots of money to even get played in the radio or in the big club, and shit music do pay to be played which is why pop music is much worse in the US. The shit is actually forced on consumer regardless of whether they like it or not.
Pop music is pretty close to dead due to lack of variety
Heh. Pop music is by the most varried of ALL genres. Other genres limit themselves to certain structures, where pop music just needs to be popular, and can take crossovers from any other genre if it is widely accessible enough.
He is the quintessential hacker, albeit in the aureal sense rather than computer sense.
Yeah, I respect music nerds. Try watching some of 12tone's videos on YouTube, and you finally know what it feels like for an IT semi-illiterate to listen to IT nerds talk shop:D
It's hard to believe one person could completely shut down a company like this. I'm hoping the judge isn't some 75 year old who doesn't even know how to turn on a computer.
"Live by the sword, die by the sword."
I couldn't have happened to a better company.
Maybe some day they will advocate for sensible IP laws.... but I doubt it.
If WinRAR were open source, this would never have happened!
In this case the problem was libace being closed source (-ish), at least they used an old unmaintained binary of libace, instead of dropping it or using a maintained open source version.
It's been discussed here on/. many times. Unless you believe that phone companies have no idea who to bill when someone makes a call, spoofing CAN be stopped.
They can't even connect the call unless they know the right caller. The metadata generally carries both the real caller and the caller-id, though you might lose the real caller if the call comes from another network/country, but you can still check if the called-id is one you would normally route to that network/country if called.
Because phonons aren't real elementary particles. They are artifacts of the structure of real elementary particles that make up the medium.
It's a nice useful construct, but don't confuse information meta-space with real space.
And we have a winner. And if you calculate the mass of the medium out, then waves of lower density which temporarily thins the medium, will carry a negative mass if perceives as particles.
Is it ok if I sneak my friend into the movie theater as long as he sits on my lap? I appreciate that there is some uncertainty about how many people would be willing to pay for their own account, and this theft isn't exactly a physical thing stolen from a shelf. They are certainly violating the spirit of their use agreement, if not the letter.
If I have to buy a two person ticket to get a good seat, and then chooses actually to take somebody with me to enjoy that second seat. YES THAT IS FUCKING OKAY, I PAID FOR IT!
"Blockchain" was the buzzword last year with VC and Angel investors. At trade shows / conferences / etc where entrepreneurs were demoing products / services many investors could not help themselves, they had to ask about and ponder if "blockchain" could somehow be "incorporated" into the product / service in order to make it a more viable investment.
Using the word "blockchain" in 2018 was like using the word "internet" in 1999. It made every business venture "better". Lets see how 2019 goes.
That said, blockchain is useful, just like the internet. Useful as a public ledger, but not everything needs a public ledger.
More like XML in 2000. It can do anything!!! But doesn't actually help outside of a few specific cases, and in those cases just reworking your storage format to something sane would help just as much.
I'm a little confused here. WebKit has had a back-forward cache for as long as I can remember, and Chrome forked off of that. How is this not already part of Chrome?
The WebKit implementation was incompatible with their multi-process model, so they had to rewrite it. Though I am kind of shocked they didn't do this YEARS ago.
Well, there are two or three ways of doing this. Storing all the fields, storing final DOM, and never deleting the active page, but just putting it to sleep.
Safari and Firefox has been doing the latter since 2003 or so, but will fall back to one of the others under memory pressure or when the entry is old enough in history, and this is what Google is now implementing 17 years later.
This assumes that 100% of the moochers would have paid for an account if they didn't mooch. I don't know what proportion of people would actually have paid for an account, but I'm guessing more than 10% and less than 50%? Still a lot, but the presence of that glaring error in the conclusions makes me wonder how much the study authors are biasing their assumptions to make the most headline-grabbing number possible, rather than engaging in a good-faith effort to find out how much money these companies are really losing.
Also assumes they someone didn't pay for the extra seats in the account. The way Netflix works is that you have to buy multiple seats, so ofcourse when you legally buy them, and then actually use them.. That shouldn't count as piracy, but now apparently does..
Watching things that are paid for, is now piracy....
What do states spying on states have to do with states spying for businesses? States spying on each other is fair game and it has been no secret the US spies on everyone and everyone spies on the US since at least the 80's. The only surprising thing with the leaks is how successful they are at it but what they don't generally do is bring government sized and capabilities to promote private interests (except maybe in a rare instance where it a security interest). China is a different beast with the state and business tightly coupled.
The US done the same an been caught doing it on numerous occasions. Not that want to defend, fuck both US and China on mixing national and business espionage.
Why would Google want to go through the effort of creating and maintaining a waiver system? Google doesn't care if they're serving up EU news sites or US news sites.
Oh they do care.. Google is all about context, they want to know where everything is from what it is about, what language it is in, who it might interest and what kind of ads they can slap on top of it. C
Why would it even need weather? It controls the temperature inside the home. All it needs is a schedule and an easy way to override for when you're not going to be there.
To anticipate load and/or pricing spikes. For example, Nest will overshoot (undershoot?) cooling if it sees that the temperature will increase in the next few hours, because overall it's cheaper and more energy efficient to cool in advance and let the temperature gradually rise, rather than play catch up all day.
No, it is not cheaper. It is more expensive. The bigger the temperature difference the bigger the energy leak, so preemptively lowering temperatures will only cause more cold to be leaked, and thus cause a higher energy usage.
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Welcome to anti EU news. Often entirely made up. All that bullshit makes it so difficult to fight the real issues.
Well GCC uses some LISP internally. So in a way
No concepts that clean up template metaprogramming are is already in C++20. It is agreed on just not ready in compilers other than gcc yet
That's silly. It's urea for crying out loud! Unzip, relieve yourself, and you're good to go for another thousand miles....
Well you need to filter it too, add antifreeze and color it blue :)
Or you can buy it at tank-station for cents.
Airbnb wasn't supposed to be about renting entire spaces. it was meant to be for renting rooms in homes. i.e. you were home to keep things 'safe'. Legislators need to get their shit together and simply rule that renting entire apartments/houses for individual nights means 'hotel' subject to all the local and higher levels of regulation that that involves. Get it back to what it was meant for - stop causing damage to others through the use of a fancy name and a web app to hide your activities. Man up that if you're running a damn business, follow the rules.
Many places already have laws like that, but like with Uber, AirBnB have in many places managed to get out of it, because the drivers/landlords are the ones breaking the law not the international organization organizing the crime. And then they say it is not their job to police their platform, and keep listings from cities where all their listings are illegal.
It has taken years to kick Uber out of many countries, or force them to obey the law. Only now is Airbnb also under scrutiny. And in both cases only a few select honest countries actually bother trying to update or enforce laws against popular law breakers.
When "hosts" leave a bunch of valuable stuff around for their "guests" it's little wonder they care more about protecting their crap than the privacy of the guests.
Stop renting out space that has your stuff in it.
Nothing of value should be in the property, everything should be documented and have proper insurance.
Or you could use AIrBnB the way they claim it is supposed to be used: To rent out an extra room or a couch. If you are also living there at the same time, you don't need a camera..
But of course 90% of AirBnB is just unlicenced hotels.
If that were true, then one could stand out by producing variety and get bigly rich.
You can, but only in some countries, and mostly in Europe. At the moment there is a bit of strangle hold on getting exposure in the US (and a handfull of other countries), you need the right contacts or lots of money to even get played in the radio or in the big club, and shit music do pay to be played which is why pop music is much worse in the US. The shit is actually forced on consumer regardless of whether they like it or not.
Pop music is pretty close to dead due to lack of variety
Heh. Pop music is by the most varried of ALL genres. Other genres limit themselves to certain structures, where pop music just needs to be popular, and can take crossovers from any other genre if it is widely accessible enough.
He is the quintessential hacker, albeit in the aureal sense rather than computer sense.
Yeah, I respect music nerds. Try watching some of 12tone's videos on YouTube, and you finally know what it feels like for an IT semi-illiterate to listen to IT nerds talk shop :D
It's hard to believe one person could completely shut down a company like this. I'm hoping the judge isn't some 75 year old who doesn't even know how to turn on a computer.
"Live by the sword, die by the sword."
I couldn't have happened to a better company.
Maybe some day they will advocate for sensible IP laws.... but I doubt it.
If WinRAR were open source, this would never have happened!
In this case the problem was libace being closed source (-ish), at least they used an old unmaintained binary of libace, instead of dropping it or using a maintained open source version.
It's been discussed here on /. many times. Unless you believe that phone companies have no idea who to bill when someone makes a call, spoofing CAN be stopped.
They can't even connect the call unless they know the right caller. The metadata generally carries both the real caller and the caller-id, though you might lose the real caller if the call comes from another network/country, but you can still check if the called-id is one you would normally route to that network/country if called.
Not real mass.
Because phonons aren't real elementary particles. They are artifacts of the structure of real elementary particles that make up the medium.
It's a nice useful construct, but don't confuse information meta-space with real space.
And we have a winner. And if you calculate the mass of the medium out, then waves of lower density which temporarily thins the medium, will carry a negative mass if perceives as particles.
Is it ok if I sneak my friend into the movie theater as long as he sits on my lap? I appreciate that there is some uncertainty about how many people would be willing to pay for their own account, and this theft isn't exactly a physical thing stolen from a shelf. They are certainly violating the spirit of their use agreement, if not the letter.
If I have to buy a two person ticket to get a good seat, and then chooses actually to take somebody with me to enjoy that second seat. YES THAT IS FUCKING OKAY, I PAID FOR IT!
"Blockchain" was the buzzword last year with VC and Angel investors. At trade shows / conferences / etc where entrepreneurs were demoing products / services many investors could not help themselves, they had to ask about and ponder if "blockchain" could somehow be "incorporated" into the product / service in order to make it a more viable investment.
Using the word "blockchain" in 2018 was like using the word "internet" in 1999. It made every business venture "better". Lets see how 2019 goes.
That said, blockchain is useful, just like the internet. Useful as a public ledger, but not everything needs a public ledger.
More like XML in 2000. It can do anything!!! But doesn't actually help outside of a few specific cases, and in those cases just reworking your storage format to something sane would help just as much.
I'm a little confused here. WebKit has had a back-forward cache for as long as I can remember, and Chrome forked off of that. How is this not already part of Chrome?
The WebKit implementation was incompatible with their multi-process model, so they had to rewrite it. Though I am kind of shocked they didn't do this YEARS ago.
No everybody else have been doing it for decades, but Google was just behind, possible because it creates fewer ad views they can bill for.
Well, there are two or three ways of doing this. Storing all the fields, storing final DOM, and never deleting the active page, but just putting it to sleep.
Safari and Firefox has been doing the latter since 2003 or so, but will fall back to one of the others under memory pressure or when the entry is old enough in history, and this is what Google is now implementing 17 years later.
This assumes that 100% of the moochers would have paid for an account if they didn't mooch. I don't know what proportion of people would actually have paid for an account, but I'm guessing more than 10% and less than 50%? Still a lot, but the presence of that glaring error in the conclusions makes me wonder how much the study authors are biasing their assumptions to make the most headline-grabbing number possible, rather than engaging in a good-faith effort to find out how much money these companies are really losing.
Also assumes they someone didn't pay for the extra seats in the account. The way Netflix works is that you have to buy multiple seats, so ofcourse when you legally buy them, and then actually use them.. That shouldn't count as piracy, but now apparently does..
Watching things that are paid for, is now piracy....
What do states spying on states have to do with states spying for businesses? States spying on each other is fair game and it has been no secret the US spies on everyone and everyone spies on the US since at least the 80's. The only surprising thing with the leaks is how successful they are at it but what they don't generally do is bring government sized and capabilities to promote private interests (except maybe in a rare instance where it a security interest). China is a different beast with the state and business tightly coupled.
The US done the same an been caught doing it on numerous occasions. Not that want to defend, fuck both US and China on mixing national and business espionage.
Almost all of those links except one or two is about the US sanctions breach, that no one but the US cares about.
Yeah, somehow the idea of making the down-vote and flag actions ACTUALLY DO SOMETHING, it too much of a stretch for YouTube to imagine.
Why would Google want to go through the effort of creating and maintaining a waiver system? Google doesn't care if they're serving up EU news sites or US news sites.
Oh they do care.. Google is all about context, they want to know where everything is from what it is about, what language it is in, who it might interest and what kind of ads they can slap on top of it. C
It also didnt increase unemployment, which is in itself an important result.
That means it could be useful for simplification of the welfare system.
Why would it even need weather? It controls the temperature inside the home. All it needs is a schedule and an easy way to override for when you're not going to be there.
To anticipate load and/or pricing spikes. For example, Nest will overshoot (undershoot?) cooling if it sees that the temperature will increase in the next few hours, because overall it's cheaper and more energy efficient to cool in advance and let the temperature gradually rise, rather than play catch up all day.
No, it is not cheaper. It is more expensive. The bigger the temperature difference the bigger the energy leak, so preemptively lowering temperatures will only cause more cold to be leaked, and thus cause a higher energy usage.