I think the judges are applying a little-known standard called "do you have any wires"
The legislation that causes cable companies to need to pay broadcasters to re-distribute their broadcasts should apply equally to businesses that "don't have any wires" connecting them directly to their customers.
Just because you don't have any wires that belong to you and connect you directly with some customers ("the last mile"),
even if you can't pull a Comcast and charge Netflix for the privilege of reaching your customers who pay to receive "The Internet" which Netflix is a part of,
doesn't mean you shouldn't be responsible for bearing some of the cost of funding broadcast activities that you derive your business from. Sure they are broadcast signals, and "anyone" can get them for free, but if you take them away, you don't have a business... then the court says you have to pay for them.
You think the same people are both buying and selling spaces? I envision a person driving around looking for spaces all day and pulling into them, bringing up the app on their way back from the newsstand to re-sell the space as soon as they have secured one for free/with some delay so as to promote some appearance of not being a plain old squatter abusing the commons and rent-seeking with free public resources. A second person with more money than time enables him by installing the app and buying the space from him, because it's easier than driving around looking for their own space during prime-time parking hours. Especially now that we have this app!
At no point did I imagine anyone buying a space who has enough time to wait around for someone else to buy it back from them later.
I am pretty sure you can get away with inspecting your car only once, when you buy it, even still in New Hampshire. They are probably not the only state. Don't know about liability insurance, but I don't know if I'd want to drive (or walk, or even be near a road) in a place where individuals were allowed to wing around a half ton of metal at 50+MPH without carrying some automotive liability insurance.
Then I would wager that you are not a member of the affected class of workers. I promise you they didn't collude to keep our salaries low because they just don't care about profits and their shareholders told them not to worry because they already had enough money in the bank for dividends.
Yes, agreed, we are TW Telecom customers and my boss, who has been around long enough to know, reminds me every time I say "Time Warner" that "It's Not Time Warner". The name of the company is TW Telecom or TWTC. It has nothing to do with Time Warner or Time Warner Cable these days. Submitter.Insert(foot,mouth), Editor.Shame()
He's talking about re-crypting the data on disk, not taking a backup copy of the (encrypted or decrypted) master key.
In other words, if any of the more important bits are lifted by someone (presumably someone who knows your passphrase to decrypt them, or they wouldn't be much use at all) you can't just re-key the store. You change your passphrase, they can still access the data with that master key. Need to create a whole new store now.
Am I the only one who thought this might be an announcement about Portland, ME? Or any one of the 25 places called Portland in the US alone? I guess they must have already fixed the headline, they've started fixing these things as they get reported (apparently they actually do care about looking like buffoons).
If that's what you heard, well... I heard that it wasn't an informal understanding so much as it was a Real Actual "Schedule 1" license to house and manufacture the most illegal chemicals known to man and laws, and it was revoked (informally or ostensibly because of the publishing of PIHKAL and TIHKAL) after a raid where they destroyed his lab because they managed to get a soil test from around his place that showed slightly elevated levels of mercury. In other words, a snow job.
Presumably there's some concept of a CA / revocation list where infected nodes can find messages in a public channel or forum of some kind that tell where to reach the new C&C servers. I'm struggling with this as well, but it seems reasonable to assume from the quoted text that those machines are checking in regularly with the C&C servers, which the authorities now control, and they are checking in less frequently (every 2 weeks) with some other channel that is not controlled by the authorities, where The Highest Bidder with The Official Keys (not a part of the regular everyday C&C architecture) gets to put out new instructions that supersede the old.
I have just made all of this up from my imagination without any research, I'm just thinking, "if I was the one who did it, that's how I'd do it".
And if Google would just put up Download links on every video that didn't require some obscure special software that just us nerds know to use, many artists from their target market would pack up their videos and leave. You have to imagine that a lot of artists want to be able to broadcast without enabling free copying for everyone, even when that sounds just as obviously technically impossible as say... uniquely identifying a person across repeated visits without actually storing any token of their identity.
So now, in a world where someone can be arrested and driven to suicide by law enforcement just for following all of the links and downloading all of the things to a place where they can be easily re-indexed and consumed en-masse by public, you're saying it's actually not enough to just provide a free service that abides by copyright law and pays copyright owners and does not use DRM, and that you actually have to put up the download links where uneducated people can find them, and actively enable/promote this kind of free-copy bypass-the-advertising behavior, or you're "just as evil as DRM"?
It's not just like putting DRM on your products. It's actually just like not putting DRM on them.
OK, but youtube-dl is much older than two months. So, it's legal free video downloads (assuming these "active countermeasures" are not classified as "devices for copyright control" in the DMCA/trafficking sense of the word), supported by community efforts. The fact is it's broken every few months, and also fixed again, for a couple of years running now. They have not implemented any "strong" copyright protection measures that would prevent its fixing. Where is the netflix-dl?
I know that Wikipedia is of course the one and only best primary source, but here goes anyway:
"Tesla produced the Roadster until January 2012, when its supply of Lotus Elise gliders ran out, as its contract with Lotus Cars for 2,500 gliders expired at the end of 2011."
So, if you're trying to say that Lotus never made parts for the Model S, fine. You're the first person to use the designation "Model S" anywhere in this thread. Tesla made other cars, before the Model S.
That sounds like a winning plan. When the competition comes, just give the whole market to them, at whatever prices they planned to charge. Don't even try to compete, just leave!
Put that in your 10 year plan. I'm sure it'll go over great with the board at the next annual shareholders meeting.
(I know you're trying to say, they would still make a profit on this new better service at reduced prices, but I'm not so sure. I shop at Amazon and WalMart, and I think there are really such things as Loss Leaders. They honestly don't want Google to get a foothold in their currently held monopoly broadband markets. That is a simpler explanation, IMHO.)
I don't know, did you try googling it? I get some URL shorteners, a korean site that appears to be selling Gucci sneakers, and a place next to "nude japanese lolitas" if I add 'sac' to the query
Come on, you can't tell us you had SACCS and BALLS in your place of work and then fail to tell us what either of these acronyms actually stand for. What am I supposed to do, google this stuff?
How long was your bike sitting there? Are you sure it wasn't impounded? Many places have winter bike rack / bike parking restrictions. You mention a flat bed truck, it may be that the rack was taken away for the winter, with everything attached to it.
It was actually a rack full of bikes, with one surgically removed (mine) and only the lock left behind, a medium cable obviously cut with some tools. I don't know how they took it away, but the cop who took the report guessed it was someone taking a joyride home eg. cable cutters in the backpack, and not some flatbed operation at all, because other junky bikes were left behind and they are not even locked. Mine probably was the one that did fit,
I am surprised because I thought I moved to a safer place, but even here, there are thieves apparently. I put the lock back out where kids could find it labeled "fuck you" because I was so pissed someone would honestly steal my bike from the rack, next to other bikes, but they did. Then that's why it was taken (because, it fit) and other bike-shaped objects were left behind. It did come from Target and it was the only bike they had, if I recall. It did need work, no doubt.
Maybe true that you need to know how to pick one that fits for yourself too, and once you know...? You can find it! This new one has 29" tires, larger than one I rode before that got stolen, and me too larger than when I rode it then, too.
I can't imagine buying a larger bike than this 29" behemoth. Or, bike-shaped object. I actually looked at close to 50 bikes, and picked one out after eliminating maybe eight before it, and tried to see the things that would make the price go up. They go low, I'm talking $79. I looked at the $79 and I had to look and try to convince myself that the welds were not as sound, and the frame wouldn't actually hold, but I didn't take it off the shelf either. Having found one already, that seemed to have fit!
And none of them fit you, had even marginally decent components, or were assembled by competent people. You got what you paid for. You are only fooling yourself if you think you'll do better with a different BSO from WalMart.
WalMart BSOs are one-size-fits-none, without exception. They are most often sized for people who are 4'11" with unusual length femurs and very short arms. There is no such thing as a WalMart BSO that correctly fits a fully grown adult. None has ever been made, and none ever will.
Look at it this way. WalMart sees no incentive in actually stocking BSOs of different sizes. It would be additional inventory to carry and it would require them teaching their employees how to address different sizes (even if they never teach them how to fit a customer, they still would need to know how to identify the size of a BSO). They just buy whatever bizarre BSO size their terrible manufacturers are making that month and send it out. They also know that the vast majority of their customers will treat the cheap BSOs like garbage and replace them when lost/stolen/destroyed, which perpetuates the business model.
They have bikes of different sizes, and their employees absolutely don't try to fit you with a bike, or profess to know what size is right for you, or address the different sizes one bit at all. There is a wall with like 50 bikes, and I got dirty looks when I asked one employee to help take a bike down off the shelf that I liked, and tighten up some things that were obviously loose and wrong with the individual bike itself. And they don't even try to sell you or send you home with a wrench, I remember when bike shaped objects were sold to kids of when I were kids era, all came with tools that you could use to take them down to bits and bolts. Yet these are billed as 'pre-assembled' when it's really just un-boxed and put together halfassedly by some part-time asshole who really works at Wal-Mart - what a joke! I would rather get a box of parts to be perfectly honest, but it seems that's not an option anymore.
Each of these things happened once, with the exception of theft.
Ever lived with a dirtbag on welfare and unemployment with no car? They love to borrow bikes, and they won't leave you alone until you let them. You can choose between either not owning a bike, or agreeing to lend the bike for a few hours at a time. They'll try everything. Of course when it's eventually stolen and it is their fault, they will tell you it's not their fault and there's no point in arguing as they can't pay for it anyway. I've had bikes stolen from inside my house, parked in the living room. I thought it was stupid to lock a bike in my own living room, but as I learned years ago, it's not.
I've had bikes that were locked to my front porch stolen because they figured out they could break the porch, and the lock wasn't actually through both the tire and the frame. I've even had a crappy old bike stolen by someone who must have either been carrying heavy cable cutters in their backpack, or loaded it onto a flatbed truck. This was in the middle of the damn winter while it was properly locked to a bike rack outside my office window. Who the fuck steals a bike on January 28th? In contrast I've only been hit by a car once, and only left a bike on the front of a bus once. Both times were my own stupid mistakes I will not likely repeat. Bike thieves on the other hand are absolutely everywhere, and resourceful.
I have invested now in a U-lock with additional heavy cable, and if this bike is ever stolen I will probably step up and get a Pee-Wee Herman style lock assembly for the next one. I've bought cheap bikes for long enough to know how they are, and I'm still waiting for one to actually hard-fail and cost more than $70 or $90 to fix, once or twice, before somebody eventually gets around to stealing it, usually right along with the lock.
I will keep Craigslist in mind, I realize that all I have right now is a Bike Shaped Object, but I got to choose from at least 50 bike-shaped-objects, and I didn't have to drive around town in order to do it. You really must have worked in a bike shop, if you can honestly tell me that what I'm riding now doesn't fit me, even without ever seeing it once, or me on it.
You hit the main reason why I go to Walmart for the bike in the first place. I don't want to spend $600 at all. And Walmart won't even let me. Their highest priced bike was $349. They want me to take one off the shelf and ride it up to the checkout aisle with no salesperson involved, but I know better, they have some idiot come in and assemble bikes for a few hours every other weekend and he doesn't care how many steps he skips or if the pedals both fall off while I'm riding down the side of a busy highway. I'm going to find someone who looks like he knows what he's doing, and they're going to look at it for a minute before I go out of the store.
Then that person and I will have a rapport when I have to come back for some reason, because we both know I shouldn't have to spend $75 first thing for a tune-up at a Real Bike Shop, no matter how cheap the damn thing was wherever I bought it. The person at the Walmart checkout didn't even offer me the $20 warranty for three years, and I wouldn't have bought it, because I know above all else, I don't want to spend any more time in Walmart than I absolutely have to. In my mind at that moment, if it's a choice between spending $20 at Walmart and having to come back to Walmart for service, or spending $45 on the street to get it fixed once, with a chance of spending $45 again twice before the warranty would have expired, I'm still not going back to Walmart.
It's much easier to have this conversation with a person like you, who obviously can see where I'm coming from, while at the same time we both know I'm only going to get a shit sandwich no matter what it is that I am shopping for at Walmart anyway, so get ready to take a big nasty bite, amiright?
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I think the judges are applying a little-known standard called "do you have any wires"
The legislation that causes cable companies to need to pay broadcasters to re-distribute their broadcasts should apply equally to businesses that "don't have any wires" connecting them directly to their customers.
Just because you don't have any wires that belong to you and connect you directly with some customers ("the last mile"),
even if you can't pull a Comcast and charge Netflix for the privilege of reaching your customers who pay to receive "The Internet" which Netflix is a part of,
doesn't mean you shouldn't be responsible for bearing some of the cost of funding broadcast activities that you derive your business from. Sure they are broadcast signals, and "anyone" can get them for free, but if you take them away, you don't have a business... then the court says you have to pay for them.
You think the same people are both buying and selling spaces? I envision a person driving around looking for spaces all day and pulling into them, bringing up the app on their way back from the newsstand to re-sell the space as soon as they have secured one for free/with some delay so as to promote some appearance of not being a plain old squatter abusing the commons and rent-seeking with free public resources. A second person with more money than time enables him by installing the app and buying the space from him, because it's easier than driving around looking for their own space during prime-time parking hours. Especially now that we have this app!
At no point did I imagine anyone buying a space who has enough time to wait around for someone else to buy it back from them later.
I am pretty sure you can get away with inspecting your car only once, when you buy it, even still in New Hampshire. They are probably not the only state. Don't know about liability insurance, but I don't know if I'd want to drive (or walk, or even be near a road) in a place where individuals were allowed to wing around a half ton of metal at 50+MPH without carrying some automotive liability insurance.
Then I would wager that you are not a member of the affected class of workers. I promise you they didn't collude to keep our salaries low because they just don't care about profits and their shareholders told them not to worry because they already had enough money in the bank for dividends.
I actually recognized this as Trading Places :D a movie that came out before I was born
Wow, who knew, the best way to get people to read your comment was to be wrong!
The last time I had this many replies to a comment was ... probably never!
Hey editors, when Fall in a sentence refers to the season, it's capitalized.
Yes, agreed, we are TW Telecom customers and my boss, who has been around long enough to know, reminds me every time I say "Time Warner" that "It's Not Time Warner". The name of the company is TW Telecom or TWTC. It has nothing to do with Time Warner or Time Warner Cable these days. Submitter.Insert(foot,mouth), Editor.Shame()
OK, so Portland Oregon is almost 10x larger than Portland Maine. The more you know...
He's talking about re-crypting the data on disk, not taking a backup copy of the (encrypted or decrypted) master key.
In other words, if any of the more important bits are lifted by someone (presumably someone who knows your passphrase to decrypt them, or they wouldn't be much use at all) you can't just re-key the store. You change your passphrase, they can still access the data with that master key. Need to create a whole new store now.
Am I the only one who thought this might be an announcement about Portland, ME? Or any one of the 25 places called Portland in the US alone? I guess they must have already fixed the headline, they've started fixing these things as they get reported (apparently they actually do care about looking like buffoons).
If that's what you heard, well... I heard that it wasn't an informal understanding so much as it was a Real Actual "Schedule 1" license to house and manufacture the most illegal chemicals known to man and laws, and it was revoked (informally or ostensibly because of the publishing of PIHKAL and TIHKAL) after a raid where they destroyed his lab because they managed to get a soil test from around his place that showed slightly elevated levels of mercury. In other words, a snow job.
Presumably there's some concept of a CA / revocation list where infected nodes can find messages in a public channel or forum of some kind that tell where to reach the new C&C servers. I'm struggling with this as well, but it seems reasonable to assume from the quoted text that those machines are checking in regularly with the C&C servers, which the authorities now control, and they are checking in less frequently (every 2 weeks) with some other channel that is not controlled by the authorities, where The Highest Bidder with The Official Keys (not a part of the regular everyday C&C architecture) gets to put out new instructions that supersede the old.
I have just made all of this up from my imagination without any research, I'm just thinking, "if I was the one who did it, that's how I'd do it".
And if Google would just put up Download links on every video that didn't require some obscure special software that just us nerds know to use, many artists from their target market would pack up their videos and leave. You have to imagine that a lot of artists want to be able to broadcast without enabling free copying for everyone, even when that sounds just as obviously technically impossible as say... uniquely identifying a person across repeated visits without actually storing any token of their identity.
So now, in a world where someone can be arrested and driven to suicide by law enforcement just for following all of the links and downloading all of the things to a place where they can be easily re-indexed and consumed en-masse by public, you're saying it's actually not enough to just provide a free service that abides by copyright law and pays copyright owners and does not use DRM, and that you actually have to put up the download links where uneducated people can find them, and actively enable/promote this kind of free-copy bypass-the-advertising behavior, or you're "just as evil as DRM"?
It's not just like putting DRM on your products. It's actually just like not putting DRM on them.
OK, but youtube-dl is much older than two months. So, it's legal free video downloads (assuming these "active countermeasures" are not classified as "devices for copyright control" in the DMCA/trafficking sense of the word), supported by community efforts. The fact is it's broken every few months, and also fixed again, for a couple of years running now. They have not implemented any "strong" copyright protection measures that would prevent its fixing. Where is the netflix-dl?
How much personal information are you really putting into Google+?
Have you heard of youtube-dl? It is actually possible to download videos from YouTube.
I think you mean curried... you curry favor, you curtail bad behavior.
I know that Wikipedia is of course the one and only best primary source, but here goes anyway:
"Tesla produced the Roadster until January 2012, when its supply of Lotus Elise gliders ran out, as its contract with Lotus Cars for 2,500 gliders expired at the end of 2011."
So, if you're trying to say that Lotus never made parts for the Model S, fine. You're the first person to use the designation "Model S" anywhere in this thread. Tesla made other cars, before the Model S.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T...
That sounds like a winning plan. When the competition comes, just give the whole market to them, at whatever prices they planned to charge. Don't even try to compete, just leave!
Put that in your 10 year plan. I'm sure it'll go over great with the board at the next annual shareholders meeting.
(I know you're trying to say, they would still make a profit on this new better service at reduced prices, but I'm not so sure. I shop at Amazon and WalMart, and I think there are really such things as Loss Leaders. They honestly don't want Google to get a foothold in their currently held monopoly broadband markets. That is a simpler explanation, IMHO.)
I don't know, did you try googling it? I get some URL shorteners, a korean site that appears to be selling Gucci sneakers, and a place next to "nude japanese lolitas" if I add 'sac' to the query
Come on, you can't tell us you had SACCS and BALLS in your place of work and then fail to tell us what either of these acronyms actually stand for. What am I supposed to do, google this stuff?
How long was your bike sitting there? Are you sure it wasn't impounded? Many places have winter bike rack / bike parking restrictions. You mention a flat bed truck, it may be that the rack was taken away for the winter, with everything attached to it.
It was actually a rack full of bikes, with one surgically removed (mine) and only the lock left behind, a medium cable obviously cut with some tools. I don't know how they took it away, but the cop who took the report guessed it was someone taking a joyride home eg. cable cutters in the backpack, and not some flatbed operation at all, because other junky bikes were left behind and they are not even locked. Mine probably was the one that did fit,
I am surprised because I thought I moved to a safer place, but even here, there are thieves apparently. I put the lock back out where kids could find it labeled "fuck you" because I was so pissed someone would honestly steal my bike from the rack, next to other bikes, but they did. Then that's why it was taken (because, it fit) and other bike-shaped objects were left behind. It did come from Target and it was the only bike they had, if I recall. It did need work, no doubt.
Maybe true that you need to know how to pick one that fits for yourself too, and once you know...? You can find it! This new one has 29" tires, larger than one I rode before that got stolen, and me too larger than when I rode it then, too.
I can't imagine buying a larger bike than this 29" behemoth. Or, bike-shaped object. I actually looked at close to 50 bikes, and picked one out after eliminating maybe eight before it, and tried to see the things that would make the price go up. They go low, I'm talking $79. I looked at the $79 and I had to look and try to convince myself that the welds were not as sound, and the frame wouldn't actually hold, but I didn't take it off the shelf either. Having found one already, that seemed to have fit!
And none of them fit you, had even marginally decent components, or were assembled by competent people. You got what you paid for. You are only fooling yourself if you think you'll do better with a different BSO from WalMart.
WalMart BSOs are one-size-fits-none, without exception. They are most often sized for people who are 4'11" with unusual length femurs and very short arms. There is no such thing as a WalMart BSO that correctly fits a fully grown adult. None has ever been made, and none ever will.
Look at it this way. WalMart sees no incentive in actually stocking BSOs of different sizes. It would be additional inventory to carry and it would require them teaching their employees how to address different sizes (even if they never teach them how to fit a customer, they still would need to know how to identify the size of a BSO). They just buy whatever bizarre BSO size their terrible manufacturers are making that month and send it out. They also know that the vast majority of their customers will treat the cheap BSOs like garbage and replace them when lost/stolen/destroyed, which perpetuates the business model.
They have bikes of different sizes, and their employees absolutely don't try to fit you with a bike, or profess to know what size is right for you, or address the different sizes one bit at all. There is a wall with like 50 bikes, and I got dirty looks when I asked one employee to help take a bike down off the shelf that I liked, and tighten up some things that were obviously loose and wrong with the individual bike itself. And they don't even try to sell you or send you home with a wrench, I remember when bike shaped objects were sold to kids of when I were kids era, all came with tools that you could use to take them down to bits and bolts. Yet these are billed as 'pre-assembled' when it's really just un-boxed and put together halfassedly by some part-time asshole who really works at Wal-Mart - what a joke! I would rather get a box of parts to be perfectly honest, but it seems that's not an option anymore.
Each of these things happened once, with the exception of theft.
Ever lived with a dirtbag on welfare and unemployment with no car? They love to borrow bikes, and they won't leave you alone until you let them. You can choose between either not owning a bike, or agreeing to lend the bike for a few hours at a time. They'll try everything. Of course when it's eventually stolen and it is their fault, they will tell you it's not their fault and there's no point in arguing as they can't pay for it anyway. I've had bikes stolen from inside my house, parked in the living room. I thought it was stupid to lock a bike in my own living room, but as I learned years ago, it's not.
I've had bikes that were locked to my front porch stolen because they figured out they could break the porch, and the lock wasn't actually through both the tire and the frame. I've even had a crappy old bike stolen by someone who must have either been carrying heavy cable cutters in their backpack, or loaded it onto a flatbed truck. This was in the middle of the damn winter while it was properly locked to a bike rack outside my office window. Who the fuck steals a bike on January 28th? In contrast I've only been hit by a car once, and only left a bike on the front of a bus once. Both times were my own stupid mistakes I will not likely repeat. Bike thieves on the other hand are absolutely everywhere, and resourceful.
I have invested now in a U-lock with additional heavy cable, and if this bike is ever stolen I will probably step up and get a Pee-Wee Herman style lock assembly for the next one. I've bought cheap bikes for long enough to know how they are, and I'm still waiting for one to actually hard-fail and cost more than $70 or $90 to fix, once or twice, before somebody eventually gets around to stealing it, usually right along with the lock.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I will keep Craigslist in mind, I realize that all I have right now is a Bike Shaped Object, but I got to choose from at least 50 bike-shaped-objects, and I didn't have to drive around town in order to do it. You really must have worked in a bike shop, if you can honestly tell me that what I'm riding now doesn't fit me, even without ever seeing it once, or me on it.
You hit the main reason why I go to Walmart for the bike in the first place. I don't want to spend $600 at all. And Walmart won't even let me. Their highest priced bike was $349. They want me to take one off the shelf and ride it up to the checkout aisle with no salesperson involved, but I know better, they have some idiot come in and assemble bikes for a few hours every other weekend and he doesn't care how many steps he skips or if the pedals both fall off while I'm riding down the side of a busy highway. I'm going to find someone who looks like he knows what he's doing, and they're going to look at it for a minute before I go out of the store.
Then that person and I will have a rapport when I have to come back for some reason, because we both know I shouldn't have to spend $75 first thing for a tune-up at a Real Bike Shop, no matter how cheap the damn thing was wherever I bought it. The person at the Walmart checkout didn't even offer me the $20 warranty for three years, and I wouldn't have bought it, because I know above all else, I don't want to spend any more time in Walmart than I absolutely have to. In my mind at that moment, if it's a choice between spending $20 at Walmart and having to come back to Walmart for service, or spending $45 on the street to get it fixed once, with a chance of spending $45 again twice before the warranty would have expired, I'm still not going back to Walmart.
It's much easier to have this conversation with a person like you, who obviously can see where I'm coming from, while at the same time we both know I'm only going to get a shit sandwich no matter what it is that I am shopping for at Walmart anyway, so get ready to take a big nasty bite, amiright?