>As a content provider my self (photographer), it's disheartening to see my work pop up on social media in numbers without end and I only get compensation from the tiny Internet real estate that I initially did business with.
Mate, none of those people sharing your images on social media would have paid you to do that anyway. You realise that, right? Nothing, as such, not even the *opportunity* to make money from those images, has been lost in that respect.
One problem with IP law and the mentality that can surround it is that it gives some people the false impression that creative cultural expression is exactly the same as tangible material property. And it isn't.
I'm not saying that commercial operations should be free to use any image as they see fit without financial and legal obligations to the coyright holder, but I am saying that to expect people who use non-licensed copyrighted material casually on social media the same as if they should have paid for a license, is ridiculous.
European law, with this new copyright law, as well as others such as the so-called 'right to be forgotten' law, has shown itself to still hold to a pre-digital, pre-internet mentality. Copyright is not fit for the modern age, and laws such as the one just passed are, if anything, a step backward.
Stuckists stamping around in their sabots. Except this time, it's not the working classes calling a halt to the new age, it's the establishment and factory owners (which is why it's succeeding and will probably get a lot worse).
The problem is the opaqueness of what Google and other service providers, advertisers and tracking companies do. It's all secretive and so very well hidden from their users/customers/targets.
This surveillance, monitoring and logging needs to be made readily available to anyone whose interested in knowing, a couple of clicks and it's all laid out to see. Until that happens, you're damn right people aren't going to realise the extent. Why would they? How can they possibly know all the stuff scripts and cookies are doing behind the scenes?
As for asking questions about how much people really care about this sort of thing, I would say this: how can they know how much to care about it all if they have no idea what it is that's going on and the extent of it all?
People need to be made aware and become informed, and only then can they decide if they're happy about it all.
Christianity may have reformed itself by superseding the Old Testament with the New Testament, but modern Christianity in the United States can often be little different from the unreformed version, and in many ways, in the attitudes and behaviours of its members , resembles little more than some old world war cult.
It sometimes appears that American Jesus is little more than Odin in a kaftan.
No email authentication (pretty basic, no?) so people can sign up with your email address. Near-constant friend request spam (from bots/scammers). No social 'facilities' beyond basic friends list and basic chat. It's not a social network, it's just a platform where people can meet in a game and maybe get together on a proper social network elsewhere.
Also, fuck Epic for their exclusivity deals on their shitty platform.
Because the Slashdot editors are such stellar professionals and the "alternative source" to the paywalled site goes to an article on actual fucking spaghetti (with no connection to the main story at all) (ffs), here's the main article's text:
Fast-Growth Chickens Produce New Industry Woe: ‘Spaghetti Meat’ Jacob Bunge March 10, 2019
Chicken companies spent decades breeding birds to grow rapidly and develop large breast muscles. Now the industry is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to deal with the consequences ranging from squishy fillets known as “spaghetti meat,” because they pull apart easily, to leathery ones known as “woody breast.”
The abnormalities pose no food safety risk, researchers and industry officials say. They are suspected side effects of genetic selection that now allows meat companies to raise a 6.3-pound bird in 47 days, roughly twice as fast as 50 years ago, according to the National Chicken Council.
That efficiency drive has helped U.S. meat giants such as Tyson Foods Inc., Pilgrim’s Pride Corp. , Perdue Farms Inc. and Sanderson Farms Inc. produce a record 42 billion pounds of chicken nuggets, tenders and other products in 2018. Now, it’s adding an estimated $200 million or more in annual industry expenses to identify and divert breast fillets that are too tough, too squishy or too striped with bands of white tissue to sell in restaurants or grocery stores, according to researchers at the University of Arkansas.
“There is proof that these abnormalities are associated with fast-growing birds,” said Dr. Massimiliano Petracci, a professor at the University of Bologna in Italy, who leads a team of researchers investigating the chicken breast problems in breeds used in commercial farms.
Two poultry-breeding firms—Cobb-Vantress, owned by Tyson, and Aviagen Inc.—supply the bulk of breeding stock for the world’s chicken companies, industry officials said. Years of matching up genetic lines has boosted each bird’s yield of breast muscle, the white meat that sells for a roughly 13% premium to overall wholesale chicken meat prices, according to U.S. Agriculture Department data.
Researchers and breeders are still trying to pin down the exact cause of problems, a Tyson spokesman said. “While there are some factors linked to the occurrence—including bird weight, feed ingredients and the time of year the bird is grown—even a combination of these factors will not necessarily produce the same issues consistently,” he said.
An Aviagen spokeswoman had no comment.
Spaghetti meat—a name researchers have given chicken breast fillets that can be picked up and pulled apart by hand, or punctured easily with a fingertip—began appearing in 2015 and now can be detected in around 4% to 5% of breast meat samples, researchers said.
“It looks like spaghetti noodles,” said Dr. Casey Owens, a University of Arkansas professor, adding that the affected muscle fibers have a stringy texture.
Researchers also began observing white striping in commercially raised chickens around 2010, with woody breast appearing on the scene around 2013, Dr. Petracci said. Woody breast has been found in around 10% of samples, while white striping occurs in around 30% of chicken breasts sampled, he said. The severity of the problems can vary widely and often doesn’t affect the entire breast, researchers said.
Meat scientists said they suspect the rapid growth rate of commercially raised chickens may lead breast muscle tissue to outgrow the oxygen supply provided by chickens’ developing circulatory systems, at which point muscle fibers can degrade. That can alter the density and texture of the meat, they said.
Some restaurant and grocery companies aren’t waiting for chicken companies to solve the problems. Burger chain Wendy’s Co. in 2016 noticed toughness in some of its grilled chicken sandwiches. The chain in 2017
The idea that Facebook would give its users anything which Facebook couldn't exploit by datamining is laughable; a fairytale for children and the feeble-minded.
Everything Facebook has ever done can attest to this. If you use their platform, you will have value extracted from your useage, your privacy will be breached and any and all assurances to the contrary will prove to be false.
This is the same bullshit as during the 2015 election: Trump and Hilary are the same.
Nope. They're not. The Chinese, who torture and murder their citizens and put them in correctional camps are not the same as the leaders here.
Our leaders might be shiity and corrupt and fail to live up to our expectations, but just a cursory glance at the way the Chinese state treats its citizens shows such claims of equivalence to be grossly ignorant and utterly false.
Automatic song-end technology was came in toward the end of tape's meaningful life (so you could fast-forward without overshooting, although it wasn't perfect). Auto-reverse cassette players were the norm for a good deal longer, and not just in portable cassette players.
Cassettes were the solution to a small form factor need, which later made the portable, personal music revolution possible.
The limitations of technology gave it it's less-than ideal mechanics, but for millions of people, being able to take your music with you and listen to it in public was truly transformative.
Sure, it's an obsolete technology now, but to describe it as "the worst" is to overlook, to the point of blindness, the amazing personal and cultutral musical revolution it enabled: one which it's tech-privilleged modern-day critics seem to be ignorant of.
Of course, you'd have to be a fucking idiot to use one now.:)
I had problems signing into slashdot the last couple of days. I kept getting stuck in a loop, punctuated only by some GDPR form, but whenever I hit enter, I'd get sent right back to the login screen. No matter what scripts I allowed, cookies cleared, or settings I adjusted, I couldn't sign in. Was it the GDPR form? Was it the website? My browser? I kinda resigned myself to not using slashdot any more (despite it being one of the first sites I used when I got onto the internet many years ago) after it all got me thinking about how little use I get from the site these days. Dropping by is more habit than anything. It was a little sad, but, y'know... whatever; all things must pass and all that.
But it's content like "Microsoft Says Discovers Hacking Targeting Democratic Institutions in Europe" and the taxing intellectual puzzle it presents, firing all my neurons in a despetrate attempt at pattern-matching, as I try to figure out what the author is actually trying to say, that made me remember why I just can't quit you, Slashdot!
I'M BACK BABY!
(Actually I'm back because the login unfucked itself.)
Data is not a natural resource, because that data is generated not by a natural phenomenon to whom all have access, it is (typically) generated by people.
In that sense, data is more like blood.
Which would make Google and Facebook more like vampires and us, their victims.
Sunlight, if anything, would be the GDPR and other regulations, shining a light on their activities, which is the last thing they want.
Doesn't that make more sense than Google's skewed, self-serving analogy?
Tested one website to try it out and it broke the website quite comprehensively, with no way to get it to work (no plugins I could disable, no scripts or permissions I could grant to get it to work (as I do when using firefox with ublock and umatrix).
It also inserts 'epicupdater' into my startup without permission, which I DO NOT like.
That's just my first impression. Not *that* great.
My group of friends started with AD&D and then, rather quickly, moved on to Chaosium games and played often little else.
From Runequest (2nd. ed), which was our main game (3rd edition was quickly discovered to be crap after they outsourced it) and we branched out into almost all the others: Stormbringer, Hawkmoon, Elf Quest, Call of Cthulhu, Ringworld, and Pendragon. The rule system (basic role playing) and it's variations weren't overly cumbersome and didn't get in the way of a good adventure, and the worlds were amazing to live in.
These games enriched our lives. I can't imagine my teenage (+) years without them.
There are also risks with antibiotics these days, depending on the particular antibiotic.
Destruction of gut flora can be massively debilitating and the medical community hasn't yet fully grasped how to deal with the consequences of such a thing (fecal transpalants are not widely known about or widely practiced).
In this case, however, she bought the movies and then deleted them from her system. She was relying on Apple's service to be able to re-download them again.
These are two seperate things.
If she had kept her local copies, Apple would not have removed these items from her computer; they were, however, unable to re-supply her with copies of the movies she'd bought via their service because thye'd lost the licensing rights to distribute said movies.
Imagine a store that you buy a DVD from that also allows you to stream a copy of the same DVD from their servers. If you lose the DVD, or destroy it, you can stream the movie until they lose licensing rights. If you don't lose or destroy the DVD, you don't have to rely on this third party.
The person in the story 'destroyed their DVD' and then their streaming provider lost their distribution rights.
She relied on a third party backup. She thought this was a guaranteed service. She was wrong.
None of this, however, has anything to do with buying vs leasing/licensing/renting and companies telling you you bought something when you merely licensed or rented it (although this remains an issue in digital consumer law in any number of countries). If she'd kept her downloaded copy, she'd still have it.
Holy crap that Techcrunch website is a piece of shit.
Scroll to the bottom of the article you're reading and it puts you on their index page and you have to hit 'back' to get back to the article you were reading.
Slashdot Mirror
>As a content provider my self (photographer), it's disheartening to see my work pop up on social media in numbers without end and I only get compensation from the tiny Internet real estate that I initially did business with.
Mate, none of those people sharing your images on social media would have paid you to do that anyway. You realise that, right? Nothing, as such, not even the *opportunity* to make money from those images, has been lost in that respect.
One problem with IP law and the mentality that can surround it is that it gives some people the false impression that creative cultural expression is exactly the same as tangible material property. And it isn't.
I'm not saying that commercial operations should be free to use any image as they see fit without financial and legal obligations to the coyright holder, but I am saying that to expect people who use non-licensed copyrighted material casually on social media the same as if they should have paid for a license, is ridiculous.
European law, with this new copyright law, as well as others such as the so-called 'right to be forgotten' law, has shown itself to still hold to a pre-digital, pre-internet mentality. Copyright is not fit for the modern age, and laws such as the one just passed are, if anything, a step backward.
Stuckists stamping around in their sabots. Except this time, it's not the working classes calling a halt to the new age, it's the establishment and factory owners (which is why it's succeeding and will probably get a lot worse).
The problem is the opaqueness of what Google and other service providers, advertisers and tracking companies do. It's all secretive and so very well hidden from their users/customers/targets.
This surveillance, monitoring and logging needs to be made readily available to anyone whose interested in knowing, a couple of clicks and it's all laid out to see. Until that happens, you're damn right people aren't going to realise the extent. Why would they? How can they possibly know all the stuff scripts and cookies are doing behind the scenes?
As for asking questions about how much people really care about this sort of thing, I would say this: how can they know how much to care about it all if they have no idea what it is that's going on and the extent of it all?
People need to be made aware and become informed, and only then can they decide if they're happy about it all.
Christianity may have reformed itself by superseding the Old Testament with the New Testament, but modern Christianity in the United States can often be little different from the unreformed version, and in many ways, in the attitudes and behaviours of its members , resembles little more than some old world war cult.
It sometimes appears that American Jesus is little more than Odin in a kaftan.
Epic Game Store is shit though.
No email authentication (pretty basic, no?) so people can sign up with your email address. Near-constant friend request spam (from bots/scammers). No social 'facilities' beyond basic friends list and basic chat. It's not a social network, it's just a platform where people can meet in a game and maybe get together on a proper social network elsewhere.
Also, fuck Epic for their exclusivity deals on their shitty platform.
Because the Slashdot editors are such stellar professionals and the "alternative source" to the paywalled site goes to an article on actual fucking spaghetti (with no connection to the main story at all) (ffs), here's the main article's text:
Fast-Growth Chickens Produce New Industry Woe: ‘Spaghetti Meat’
Jacob Bunge March 10, 2019
Chicken companies spent decades breeding birds to grow rapidly and develop large breast muscles. Now the industry is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to deal with the consequences ranging from squishy fillets known as “spaghetti meat,” because they pull apart easily, to leathery ones known as “woody breast.”
The abnormalities pose no food safety risk, researchers and industry officials say. They are suspected side effects of genetic selection that now allows meat companies to raise a 6.3-pound bird in 47 days, roughly twice as fast as 50 years ago, according to the National Chicken Council.
That efficiency drive has helped U.S. meat giants such as Tyson Foods Inc., Pilgrim’s Pride Corp. , Perdue Farms Inc. and Sanderson Farms Inc. produce a record 42 billion pounds of chicken nuggets, tenders and other products in 2018. Now, it’s adding an estimated $200 million or more in annual industry expenses to identify and divert breast fillets that are too tough, too squishy or too striped with bands of white tissue to sell in restaurants or grocery stores, according to researchers at the University of Arkansas.
“There is proof that these abnormalities are associated with fast-growing birds,” said Dr. Massimiliano Petracci, a professor at the University of Bologna in Italy, who leads a team of researchers investigating the chicken breast problems in breeds used in commercial farms.
Two poultry-breeding firms—Cobb-Vantress, owned by Tyson, and Aviagen Inc.—supply the bulk of breeding stock for the world’s chicken companies, industry officials said. Years of matching up genetic lines has boosted each bird’s yield of breast muscle, the white meat that sells for a roughly 13% premium to overall wholesale chicken meat prices, according to U.S. Agriculture Department data.
Researchers and breeders are still trying to pin down the exact cause of problems, a Tyson spokesman said. “While there are some factors linked to the occurrence—including bird weight, feed ingredients and the time of year the bird is grown—even a combination of these factors will not necessarily produce the same issues consistently,” he said.
An Aviagen spokeswoman had no comment.
Spaghetti meat—a name researchers have given chicken breast fillets that can be picked up and pulled apart by hand, or punctured easily with a fingertip—began appearing in 2015 and now can be detected in around 4% to 5% of breast meat samples, researchers said.
“It looks like spaghetti noodles,” said Dr. Casey Owens, a University of Arkansas professor, adding that the affected muscle fibers have a stringy texture.
Researchers also began observing white striping in commercially raised chickens around 2010, with woody breast appearing on the scene around 2013, Dr. Petracci said. Woody breast has been found in around 10% of samples, while white striping occurs in around 30% of chicken breasts sampled, he said. The severity of the problems can vary widely and often doesn’t affect the entire breast, researchers said.
Meat scientists said they suspect the rapid growth rate of commercially raised chickens may lead breast muscle tissue to outgrow the oxygen supply provided by chickens’ developing circulatory systems, at which point muscle fibers can degrade. That can alter the density and texture of the meat, they said.
Some restaurant and grocery companies aren’t waiting for chicken companies to solve the problems. Burger chain Wendy’s Co. in 2016 noticed toughness in some of its grilled chicken sandwiches. The chain in 2017
Sounds like slavery.
The idea that Facebook would give its users anything which Facebook couldn't exploit by datamining is laughable; a fairytale for children and the feeble-minded.
Everything Facebook has ever done can attest to this. If you use their platform, you will have value extracted from your useage, your privacy will be breached and any and all assurances to the contrary will prove to be false.
Fuck the Zuck.
>Our leaders are exactly the same.
This is the same bullshit as during the 2015 election: Trump and Hilary are the same.
Nope. They're not. The Chinese, who torture and murder their citizens and put them in correctional camps are not the same as the leaders here.
Our leaders might be shiity and corrupt and fail to live up to our expectations, but just a cursory glance at the way the Chinese state treats its citizens shows such claims of equivalence to be grossly ignorant and utterly false.
Automatic song-end technology was came in toward the end of tape's meaningful life (so you could fast-forward without overshooting, although it wasn't perfect). Auto-reverse cassette players were the norm for a good deal longer, and not just in portable cassette players.
Cassettes were the solution to a small form factor need, which later made the portable, personal music revolution possible.
The limitations of technology gave it it's less-than ideal mechanics, but for millions of people, being able to take your music with you and listen to it in public was truly transformative.
Sure, it's an obsolete technology now, but to describe it as "the worst" is to overlook, to the point of blindness, the amazing personal and cultutral musical revolution it enabled: one which it's tech-privilleged modern-day critics seem to be ignorant of.
Of course, you'd have to be a fucking idiot to use one now. :)
I had problems signing into slashdot the last couple of days. I kept getting stuck in a loop, punctuated only by some GDPR form, but whenever I hit enter, I'd get sent right back to the login screen. No matter what scripts I allowed, cookies cleared, or settings I adjusted, I couldn't sign in. Was it the GDPR form? Was it the website? My browser? I kinda resigned myself to not using slashdot any more (despite it being one of the first sites I used when I got onto the internet many years ago) after it all got me thinking about how little use I get from the site these days. Dropping by is more habit than anything. It was a little sad, but, y'know ... whatever; all things must pass and all that.
But it's content like "Microsoft Says Discovers Hacking Targeting Democratic Institutions in Europe" and the taxing intellectual puzzle it presents, firing all my neurons in a despetrate attempt at pattern-matching, as I try to figure out what the author is actually trying to say, that made me remember why I just can't quit you, Slashdot!
I'M BACK BABY!
(Actually I'm back because the login unfucked itself.)
Data is not like sunshine.
Data is not a natural resource, because that data is generated not by a natural phenomenon to whom all have access, it is (typically) generated by people.
In that sense, data is more like blood.
Which would make Google and Facebook more like vampires and us, their victims.
Sunlight, if anything, would be the GDPR and other regulations, shining a light on their activities, which is the last thing they want.
Doesn't that make more sense than Google's skewed, self-serving analogy?
Well shit. Google altered the deal, eh? Damn.
Installed and tried it.
Tested one website to try it out and it broke the website quite comprehensively, with no way to get it to work (no plugins I could disable, no scripts or permissions I could grant to get it to work (as I do when using firefox with ublock and umatrix).
It also inserts 'epicupdater' into my startup without permission, which I DO NOT like.
That's just my first impression. Not *that* great.
How are they determining a mobile device is being used and can the identifiers be spoofed?
So, a several-hundred dollar piece of consumer technology now has a lifespan cap of two years. Ridiculous.
Sounds like planned obsolescence to me.
I noticed the Firefox mute icon on a tab doesn't mute Flash audio for me. I don't, however, know if it's the same for other people.
I mean, as long as you don't hook it up to the network, it won't make any difference if it's 'smart' or dumb.
My group of friends started with AD&D and then, rather quickly, moved on to Chaosium games and played often little else.
From Runequest (2nd. ed), which was our main game (3rd edition was quickly discovered to be crap after they outsourced it) and we branched out into almost all the others: Stormbringer, Hawkmoon, Elf Quest, Call of Cthulhu, Ringworld, and Pendragon. The rule system (basic role playing) and it's variations weren't overly cumbersome and didn't get in the way of a good adventure, and the worlds were amazing to live in.
These games enriched our lives. I can't imagine my teenage (+) years without them.
RIP, Greg and thanks for everything.
There are also risks with antibiotics these days, depending on the particular antibiotic.
Destruction of gut flora can be massively debilitating and the medical community hasn't yet fully grasped how to deal with the consequences of such a thing (fecal transpalants are not widely known about or widely practiced).
"LTSB is a licensing option for Windows 10 Enterprise and is available only for customers with a Volume License agreement."
Not such an easy fix.
>Are they gonna finish Walking Dead????
Apparently not. They will be keeping 25 employees on to finish the Miecraft thing they're working on, though.
They're actually in the process of changing this right now, so that 'no fault' divorces can happen.
https://www.theguardian.com/li...
Who hurt you?
In this case, however, she bought the movies and then deleted them from her system. She was relying on Apple's service to be able to re-download them again.
These are two seperate things.
If she had kept her local copies, Apple would not have removed these items from her computer; they were, however, unable to re-supply her with copies of the movies she'd bought via their service because thye'd lost the licensing rights to distribute said movies.
Imagine a store that you buy a DVD from that also allows you to stream a copy of the same DVD from their servers. If you lose the DVD, or destroy it, you can stream the movie until they lose licensing rights. If you don't lose or destroy the DVD, you don't have to rely on this third party.
The person in the story 'destroyed their DVD' and then their streaming provider lost their distribution rights.
She relied on a third party backup. She thought this was a guaranteed service. She was wrong.
None of this, however, has anything to do with buying vs leasing/licensing/renting and companies telling you you bought something when you merely licensed or rented it (although this remains an issue in digital consumer law in any number of countries). If she'd kept her downloaded copy, she'd still have it.
Holy crap that Techcrunch website is a piece of shit.
Scroll to the bottom of the article you're reading and it puts you on their index page and you have to hit 'back' to get back to the article you were reading.
Which cunt thought that was a good idea?