I've seen those cartoons. I cannot see how Charlie Hebdo is not 'hate speech', surely its a paradigm example of 'hate speech'.
There are passages in the Koran which are unquestionably interpreted by many Muslims as advocating unspeakably evil acts. I'm fairly certain that if you had to label one of those two works as hate speech, it wouldn't be the French one.
If there are to be 'hate speech' laws, at least let them be impartial. Or don't have them at all.
I'm not saying that I agree with the existance of 'hate speech' laws, I don't.
I'm just saying that its difficult (for me) to see how 'hate speech laws' could reasonably be formulated such that Charlie Hebdo doesn't fall foul of them.
The law should be able to be applied impartially without looking like an ass(hole).
How knowledgeable are you about French politics and, in particular, the specific people they were satirizing? Because they often look offensive to an outsider, but people who know what's going on understand the message.
There were references to certain historical personages couched in a way which certainly appeared intended to provoke hatred and anger.
No, look, if Charlie Hebdo hadn't published their 'hate speech' then those terrorist attacks wouldn't have happened. So they've fixed the 'problem', by getting rid of the 'hate speech'.
I've seen those cartoons. I cannot see how Charlie Hebdo is not 'hate speech', surely its a paradigm example of 'hate speech'.
I'm curious, what exactly would the difference in a document be between code and data, or preferably how would your implementation look like to prevent executing malware?
Because the word processor or spreadsheet doesn't have any ability to execute anything outside of its own document?
Why the fucking fuck would a word processor or spreadsheet need to execute anything or operate in any way outside of their own document? What could possibly go wrong? Oh... wait...
You are exactly correct. Distros will have the final say in conf defaults. I don't see many holding onto the yes value for server branded versions of their distros, way too much breakage. For desktop and workstation, maybe, we will have to see. But seriously, this whole thing is a massive overreaction to a value that can be changed in a text editor in less than two seconds. But of course we all know that any systemd news instantly makes front page because of the massive knee jerk Slashdot has for systemd.
Its something that, if you are unaware of the change, can break things badly, perhaps even messing up ability to remotely administer a server and have to call for remote hands. So IMO its something, the default behavior of which, should not change within a major release version.
However its also the sort of thing I could see a Debian package maintainer deciding is a 'security patch' and pushing it out to stable that way. Similar to what happened with sudo.
"screen" will work exactly as it always have, even with the new defaults.
Except that the way you describe is not the way that screen has always worked. Instead of the straightforward invocation screen on the command line, now it has to be prefixed with all kinds of systemd-specific stuff that wasn't there before.
The first thing I thought of when I saw the headline was "Has Poettering heard of or used screen?" Evidently he's heard of it but doesn't seem to be a user.
This is yet another example of violation of the Principle of Least Surprise on the part of the systemd team.
Buying a phone that only phones home to China sounds more attractive, especially since they only want to steal my secrets, but won't SPAM me and resell my data to everyone who pays.
You trust the Chinese government more than the American government?! Traitor!
I'd trust pretty much any government more than the 5 eyes data whores.
It's pathetically hilarious when legislators or "patriotic citizen" low information types rant about evil Chinese companies making the products and demand only 'Murrican brands.
Ah yes, buy 'Murcan! I recall a wonderful story about the city that needed to buy a bunch of tractors or some such. They had a choice between Toyota and John Deere. They went with the 'Murcan brand, John Deere. And then later found out that the Toyota tractors were completely built and assembled in 'Murca while the John Deere ones were imported from Korea.
Rex Lex - the king is the law. What is legal in your country does not matter if the United States threatens economic war with you if your country doesn't do exactly what the united states wants. It's easier to hand over a single individual or domain name, than it is to suffer through the economic sanctions. It's the reason Snowden cannot gain asylum anywhere but Russia. The state department threatened to cancel a trade treaty with Ecuador for their primary exports (which would financially cripple the country), and to stop sharing intel with Germany if they so much as let him into the country. Their US temper tantrums over the pirate bay are not any different.
Yeah thats not going to last. The buying power of the US is going down all the time, their economic efficiency is just dreadful and their productivity has been in decline for 40 years.
Frankly I think anytime someone has to pair the word "technically" with legal or illegal its a strong indicator their arguments is fundamentally dishonest and intellectually incomplete.
Maybe they are referring to the concept 'spirit of the law' vs 'strict interpretation of the law'?
Eg; 'under strict interpretation of the law its illegal, but that might be against the spirit under which the law was drafted; just an obtuse and over-pedantic interpretation and the people who actually drafted that law might be surprised that this is technically illegal'.
I don't think theres any dishonesty there, nor intellectual incompleteness nor weasel words.
The entire point of codified laws was so that people living in society could know what was legal and what was not and so the rules could be applied consistently and without bias.
Yes, that was a nice try Hammurabi. But now we have lawyers and lawmakers and people whose purpose in life is to ensure that everyone is guilty of something and to craft an intricate network of federal laws, state laws, county laws, regulations, by-laws etc etc such that anyone wishing earnestly to avoid breaking the law should need to walk around with an army of lawyers and, even then, there may be some jurisdiction in which walking around with an army of lawyers is illegal...
No they don't. Use a distributed database like the bitcoin blockchain. Instead of storing transaction data like bitcoin does, store torrent information and comments. The bitcoin network distributes blocks peer-to-peer, just like bittorrent. When you want to look for a particular torrent, you can access your local copy, or do a lookup across the network from your peers.
Blockchains keep growing. IIRC the blockchain for bitcoin is now over 20GB. A blockchain of torrents could get real big as the individual data items are much bigger than anything bitcoin needs. Thats potentially a big investment in disk space and in initial download just to search torrents and includes just SO much data that you will never ever need (ie torrents for files you aren't interested in).
1. Thats what the 'multi' in 'multinational' means. 2. US citizens are required to pay tax on earnings they make while resident in another country and paying taxes in that country as well. North Korea has the same policy. The USA and North Korea have this in common.
IANAL... but it's my understanding that in most cases the costs for class action lawsuits is fronted by the law firm and they get a large cut of the settlement in recompense. So it's in the "plaintiff" firms' interest to secure a fast settlement.
I'd think that the size of the cut of the settlement might be linked to the amount of time the law firm spent on the case? Or is it set up front?
Expect the prices of these things to soar as their liability insurance costs far outweigh their costs of production and advertising.
I worked for a pacemaker company in the 90's. The potential cost of litigation was enormous. Particularly in the light that literally every customer was trying to die from the condition that necessitated the product purchase in the first place.
Stupid U.S. tort law dramatically ran up the costs. For example, if a device failed because of bad software and the pacemaker company went bankrupt, every company involved with the manufacture is liable. So in this case, Dow Chemical might have supplied a gasket or something. Plaintiffs can go after Dow even though everyone agrees that they had no contribution to the failure. Because of that idiocy every vendor related to the device charges astronomical prices for any component.
Complex laws/regulations plus the insurance and litigation scams must hurt the US economy so badly. Healthcare in the US is more expensive than anywhere else in the developed world and yet Americans get so little for their money, life expectancy around the lowest in the developed world; the people who profit most are the lawyers and insurers and they are absolutely milking the American people.
The same applies in pretty much every field of endeavor in North America; liability insurance, various other kinds of insurance, legal fees and fees for permits to get around the nightmare of regulations. Its a wonder you can run a profitable non-lawyer, non-insurance business at all.
Yeah, but of course the lawyers for Fitbit are going to say it's a bad study. One, they are supposed to zealously defend their client, and two, they're hardly likely to fold this early in this thing, based off of one study, no matter how accurate it may be. Attack by opinion is the unfortunate standard.
Of course they won't want to fold early! The lawyers on both sides will be milking their clients for all they are worth!
And yet US corporations can pretty much ignore this?
Why would you call a company incorporated in Ireland a "US corporation?" That's like saying a German citizen is a US citizen. Brands that do business all around the world and are comprised of companies chartered and operated out of multiple countries aren't anything like US citizens. Regardless, if you think that being a publicly traded company means you're not dealing with incomprehensibly onerous reporting requirements and scrutiny, then you need to spend a little time working with such a company and watching what they go through. The real tax they pay is the gigantic (non-productive) cost of compliance in that regard. Untold billions every year, chasing itself around in circles, with only lawyers and CPAs benefiting (well, and the car dealers and realtors that have those people as customers).
Listed on their stock exchanges? But I'd think listing on an exchange in a country is a way for a corporation to declare their national citizenship. As with actual human people, you can have dual or multi-nationality. Thats why they can be multinationals.
But my main issue is with the deplorable situation that US citizens are put in, and their banks too! No other country does this, except North Korea.
The "cash" they hold isn't held as actual cash, it's just very liquid investments. Even if they did hold it in "cash" it wouldn't be cash, it would be a current account balance with a bank.
That bank is VERY busy investing that money elsewhere - so the fact that they hold "cash" (liquid investments) is utterly irrelevant to whether or not that money is ACTUALLY being invested somewhere.
Not a financial expert by any stretch of the imagination but...?
I'd think shares wouldn't count, right? Because if you have a million shares and you start to sell them, the process of selling them could change the price so you couldn't really gauge how much those million shares really were worth in the beginning. Ie you can sell the shares for $10 each. So you might think those million shares means you have 10 million dollars. But say after you've sold the first 100k you can only sell the remaining shares for $5 each. And after another 100k shares its down to $2.50 each, and so on.
I seriously doubt that even if the corporate income tax were 10%, it'd incentivize companies to repatriate cash.
The real problem with voluntary repatriation is that your competition doesn't have to do it. If both of you have 10B in assets overseas and only one of you brings it into the US, your competition has more cash than you to invest and/or leverage.
This is why all this "Apple/Google should pay taxes outcry" is a bunch of empty BS. The *only* effective way to have companies pay corporate income tax is to fix the tax laws. That way, everyone's playing by the same rules and it doesn't hurt a company competitively to repatriate cash. This is a Congress problem, not a corporate problem.
That being said, the current rate of US corporate income tax is kinda ludicrous; it's the highest in the world.
What seems odd is that human beings, as opposed to corporations, who are US citizens and who live and work in other countries, have rather onerous requirements on reporting their income to the US and paying tax on it. It is so onerous that the US demands that overseas banks report earnings from their customers who are US citizens, actually driving some overseas banks to tell US citizens that they are not welcome as customers.
And yet US corporations can pretty much ignore this?
WTF? If I were a US citizen I'd be looking for somewhere else to get citizenship. If I were head of a US based corporation I'd probably be thinking of doing a Burger King deal with some Canadian corp. Just gtfo the USA while you can.
If you don't move to Windows 10 then you deserve all the security problems you will inevitably have. GUI and "principle" issues aside - it is a smart move.
Most people should be forced to switch. If you are too dumb to prevent the switch then you are in the camp of people who should be forced to switch. The tears mean its working.
Windows 10 fits more criteria for "malware" than the most well-known malware suites do. Forcefully installs itself? Check. Spies on you? Check. Displays ads to you? Check. Uninstalls competitors' programs? Check. Doles out your security keys to people on your contact list? Check.
It's one step away from literally being ransomware.
Bitlocker will be enabled by default. If you don't keep subscribing to Windows 10 your bitlocker keys are deleted.
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There are passages in the Koran which are unquestionably interpreted by many Muslims as advocating unspeakably evil acts. I'm fairly certain that if you had to label one of those two works as hate speech, it wouldn't be the French one.
If there are to be 'hate speech' laws, at least let them be impartial. Or don't have them at all.
I'm not saying that I agree with the existance of 'hate speech' laws, I don't.
I'm just saying that its difficult (for me) to see how 'hate speech laws' could reasonably be formulated such that Charlie Hebdo doesn't fall foul of them.
The law should be able to be applied impartially without looking like an ass(hole).
How knowledgeable are you about French politics and, in particular, the specific people they were satirizing? Because they often look offensive to an outsider, but people who know what's going on understand the message.
There were references to certain historical personages couched in a way which certainly appeared intended to provoke hatred and anger.
Don't particularly care about French politics.
No, look, if Charlie Hebdo hadn't published their 'hate speech' then those terrorist attacks wouldn't have happened. So they've fixed the 'problem', by getting rid of the 'hate speech'.
I've seen those cartoons. I cannot see how Charlie Hebdo is not 'hate speech', surely its a paradigm example of 'hate speech'.
I'm curious, what exactly would the difference in a document be between code and data, or preferably how would your implementation look like to prevent executing malware?
Because the word processor or spreadsheet doesn't have any ability to execute anything outside of its own document?
Why the fucking fuck would a word processor or spreadsheet need to execute anything or operate in any way outside of their own document? What could possibly go wrong? Oh... wait...
You are exactly correct. Distros will have the final say in conf defaults. I don't see many holding onto the yes value for server branded versions of their distros, way too much breakage. For desktop and workstation, maybe, we will have to see. But seriously, this whole thing is a massive overreaction to a value that can be changed in a text editor in less than two seconds. But of course we all know that any systemd news instantly makes front page because of the massive knee jerk Slashdot has for systemd.
Its something that, if you are unaware of the change, can break things badly, perhaps even messing up ability to remotely administer a server and have to call for remote hands. So IMO its something, the default behavior of which, should not change within a major release version.
However its also the sort of thing I could see a Debian package maintainer deciding is a 'security patch' and pushing it out to stable that way. Similar to what happened with sudo.
Except that the way you describe is not the way that screen has always worked. Instead of the straightforward invocation screen on the command line, now it has to be prefixed with all kinds of systemd-specific stuff that wasn't there before.
The first thing I thought of when I saw the headline was "Has Poettering heard of or used screen?" Evidently he's heard of it but doesn't seem to be a user.
This is yet another example of violation of the Principle of Least Surprise on the part of the systemd team.
Snowcrash.
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Buying a phone that only phones home to China sounds more attractive, especially since they only want to steal my secrets, but won't SPAM me and resell my data to everyone who pays.
You trust the Chinese government more than the American government?! Traitor!
I'd trust pretty much any government more than the 5 eyes data whores.
It's pathetically hilarious when legislators or "patriotic citizen" low information types rant about evil Chinese companies making the products and demand only 'Murrican brands.
Ah yes, buy 'Murcan! I recall a wonderful story about the city that needed to buy a bunch of tractors or some such. They had a choice between Toyota and John Deere. They went with the 'Murcan brand, John Deere. And then later found out that the Toyota tractors were completely built and assembled in 'Murca while the John Deere ones were imported from Korea.
Rex Lex - the king is the law.
What is legal in your country does not matter if the United States threatens economic war with you if your country doesn't do exactly what the united states wants. It's easier to hand over a single individual or domain name, than it is to suffer through the economic sanctions.
It's the reason Snowden cannot gain asylum anywhere but Russia. The state department threatened to cancel a trade treaty with Ecuador for their primary exports (which would financially cripple the country), and to stop sharing intel with Germany if they so much as let him into the country. Their US temper tantrums over the pirate bay are not any different.
Yeah thats not going to last. The buying power of the US is going down all the time, their economic efficiency is just dreadful and their productivity has been in decline for 40 years.
Frankly I think anytime someone has to pair the word "technically" with legal or illegal its a strong indicator their arguments is fundamentally dishonest and intellectually incomplete.
Maybe they are referring to the concept 'spirit of the law' vs 'strict interpretation of the law'?
Eg; 'under strict interpretation of the law its illegal, but that might be against the spirit under which the law was drafted; just an obtuse and over-pedantic interpretation and the people who actually drafted that law might be surprised that this is technically illegal'.
I don't think theres any dishonesty there, nor intellectual incompleteness nor weasel words.
The entire point of codified laws was so that people living in society could know what was legal and what was not and so the rules could be applied consistently and without bias.
Yes, that was a nice try Hammurabi. But now we have lawyers and lawmakers and people whose purpose in life is to ensure that everyone is guilty of something and to craft an intricate network of federal laws, state laws, county laws, regulations, by-laws etc etc such that anyone wishing earnestly to avoid breaking the law should need to walk around with an army of lawyers and, even then, there may be some jurisdiction in which walking around with an army of lawyers is illegal...
No they don't. Use a distributed database like the bitcoin blockchain. Instead of storing transaction data like bitcoin does, store torrent information and comments. The bitcoin network distributes blocks peer-to-peer, just like bittorrent. When you want to look for a particular torrent, you can access your local copy, or do a lookup across the network from your peers.
Blockchains keep growing. IIRC the blockchain for bitcoin is now over 20GB. A blockchain of torrents could get real big as the individual data items are much bigger than anything bitcoin needs. Thats potentially a big investment in disk space and in initial download just to search torrents and includes just SO much data that you will never ever need (ie torrents for files you aren't interested in).
1. Thats what the 'multi' in 'multinational' means.
2. US citizens are required to pay tax on earnings they make while resident in another country and paying taxes in that country as well. North Korea has the same policy. The USA and North Korea have this in common.
IANAL ... but it's my understanding that in most cases the costs for class action lawsuits is fronted by the law firm and they get a large cut of the settlement in recompense. So it's in the "plaintiff" firms' interest to secure a fast settlement.
I'd think that the size of the cut of the settlement might be linked to the amount of time the law firm spent on the case? Or is it set up front?
Expect the prices of these things to soar as their liability insurance costs far outweigh their costs of production and advertising.
I worked for a pacemaker company in the 90's. The potential cost of litigation was enormous. Particularly in the light that literally every customer was trying to die from the condition that necessitated the product purchase in the first place.
Stupid U.S. tort law dramatically ran up the costs. For example, if a device failed because of bad software and the pacemaker company went bankrupt, every company involved with the manufacture is liable. So in this case, Dow Chemical might have supplied a gasket or something. Plaintiffs can go after Dow even though everyone agrees that they had no contribution to the failure. Because of that idiocy every vendor related to the device charges astronomical prices for any component.
Complex laws/regulations plus the insurance and litigation scams must hurt the US economy so badly. Healthcare in the US is more expensive than anywhere else in the developed world and yet Americans get so little for their money, life expectancy around the lowest in the developed world; the people who profit most are the lawyers and insurers and they are absolutely milking the American people.
The same applies in pretty much every field of endeavor in North America; liability insurance, various other kinds of insurance, legal fees and fees for permits to get around the nightmare of regulations. Its a wonder you can run a profitable non-lawyer, non-insurance business at all.
Yeah, but of course the lawyers for Fitbit are going to say it's a bad study. One, they are supposed to zealously defend their client, and two, they're hardly likely to fold this early in this thing, based off of one study, no matter how accurate it may be. Attack by opinion is the unfortunate standard.
Of course they won't want to fold early! The lawyers on both sides will be milking their clients for all they are worth!
And yet US corporations can pretty much ignore this?
Why would you call a company incorporated in Ireland a "US corporation?" That's like saying a German citizen is a US citizen. Brands that do business all around the world and are comprised of companies chartered and operated out of multiple countries aren't anything like US citizens. Regardless, if you think that being a publicly traded company means you're not dealing with incomprehensibly onerous reporting requirements and scrutiny, then you need to spend a little time working with such a company and watching what they go through. The real tax they pay is the gigantic (non-productive) cost of compliance in that regard. Untold billions every year, chasing itself around in circles, with only lawyers and CPAs benefiting (well, and the car dealers and realtors that have those people as customers).
Listed on their stock exchanges? But I'd think listing on an exchange in a country is a way for a corporation to declare their national citizenship. As with actual human people, you can have dual or multi-nationality. Thats why they can be multinationals.
But my main issue is with the deplorable situation that US citizens are put in, and their banks too! No other country does this, except North Korea.
And NEVER EVER buy gear made in China. That is just asking Bill Cosby for three blue pills and wine.
VOTE TRUMP 2016
Better yet, never buy gear that has ANY components made in China! May as well go Amish.
The "cash" they hold isn't held as actual cash, it's just very liquid investments. Even if they did hold it in "cash" it wouldn't be cash, it would be a current account balance with a bank.
That bank is VERY busy investing that money elsewhere - so the fact that they hold "cash" (liquid investments) is utterly irrelevant to whether or not that money is ACTUALLY being invested somewhere.
Not a financial expert by any stretch of the imagination but...?
I'd think shares wouldn't count, right? Because if you have a million shares and you start to sell them, the process of selling them could change the price so you couldn't really gauge how much those million shares really were worth in the beginning. Ie you can sell the shares for $10 each. So you might think those million shares means you have 10 million dollars. But say after you've sold the first 100k you can only sell the remaining shares for $5 each. And after another 100k shares its down to $2.50 each, and so on.
I seriously doubt that even if the corporate income tax were 10%, it'd incentivize companies to repatriate cash.
The real problem with voluntary repatriation is that your competition doesn't have to do it. If both of you have 10B in assets overseas and only one of you brings it into the US, your competition has more cash than you to invest and/or leverage.
This is why all this "Apple/Google should pay taxes outcry" is a bunch of empty BS. The *only* effective way to have companies pay corporate income tax is to fix the tax laws. That way, everyone's playing by the same rules and it doesn't hurt a company competitively to repatriate cash. This is a Congress problem, not a corporate problem.
That being said, the current rate of US corporate income tax is kinda ludicrous; it's the highest in the world.
What seems odd is that human beings, as opposed to corporations, who are US citizens and who live and work in other countries, have rather onerous requirements on reporting their income to the US and paying tax on it. It is so onerous that the US demands that overseas banks report earnings from their customers who are US citizens, actually driving some overseas banks to tell US citizens that they are not welcome as customers.
And yet US corporations can pretty much ignore this?
WTF? If I were a US citizen I'd be looking for somewhere else to get citizenship. If I were head of a US based corporation I'd probably be thinking of doing a Burger King deal with some Canadian corp. Just gtfo the USA while you can.
...taxes you don't like, that is ;-)
If only people could have some say in what their tax money is spent on!
"None of my tax $$$ is to be spent on hookers and blow"
"None of my tax $$$ is to be spent funding overseas military interventions"
etc
I could give you many reasons for why you are wrong, but it's simpler to tell a troll like you to go f*ck yourself.
Microsoft are deeply ashamed of all the Windows that came before 10 and would prefer everyone forget they ever existed. I kind of feel for them.
If you don't move to Windows 10 then you deserve all the security problems you will inevitably have. GUI and "principle" issues aside - it is a smart move.
Most people should be forced to switch. If you are too dumb to prevent the switch then you are in the camp of people who should be forced to switch. The tears mean its working.
Windows 10 fits more criteria for "malware" than the most well-known malware suites do. Forcefully installs itself? Check. Spies on you? Check. Displays ads to you? Check. Uninstalls competitors' programs? Check. Doles out your security keys to people on your contact list? Check.
It's one step away from literally being ransomware.
Bitlocker will be enabled by default. If you don't keep subscribing to Windows 10 your bitlocker keys are deleted.
Thats 2 steps but totally doable.