Dear Mark Z. - Please define "hate speech" and how you and / or Angela M.'s legions of government bureaucrats plan on not trampling all over legitimate free speech (e.g., "I disagree with Germany's immigration policy because it takes an unrealistic stance on available resources, and I want the immigrants to go home,").
These days the word 'hate' is being used in a massively exaggerated way, as is 'phobia'.
'hate' and 'phobia' are used to describe everything from disapproval through dislike and actual hate.
Eg 'homophobe' is used to describe people who, rather than fearing homosexuals, disapprove of it on moral grounds. These people do not fear homosexuals.
People who disapprove of mass immigration are described as 'race-haters'. These people do not hate people of other races.
This dilutes the value of the words 'hate' and 'phobia' so much that the abuse of these terms will have the reverse effect that their users would want.
You just described how the statute of fraud works, even in the US: Burroughs got sued for shipping machines so unspeakably bad they were "not suitable for the purpose sold", and lost. See http://www.nytimes.com/1981/10...
I think the UK version is actually stronger; it doesn't have to just be fit for the purpose that it was made for. If the customer specifies a novel use case in the shop and the shop says it can fulfil that specific use case and it can't thats a refund.
So you can lug around 40 pounds of short range ammo, and if you want to do a distance shot you're screwed, or you can lug around normal ammo and take any shot you like? Hmm, which would I choose... ?
It looks to me like its more a way to make quasi-legal incendiary ammo!
I was about to post the exact same thing. I'm glad the foreign company was censured for its bad security practices, but when does our home-grown American company get the same?
This hasn't been true of MS for some time. They are actually pretty good now.
This post is about to be modded to oblivion as a troll, but I'll say it anyway. Last year OSX and iOS each had more security vulnerabilities than any Microsoft product. They had more vulnerabilities than FLASH.
(Yes, on/. a factual statement is a troll if it casts Apple in a bad light)
We don't want caveat emptor for this shit, we want companies who are accountable for the security of the products they make.
Do you want to live in a world where security boils down to "too bad, suckers"?
Sounds like North America. Coming from the UK to North America is a bit of a shock from a consumer protection point of view. In the UK a product must be, among other things, fit for the specific purpose it was bought for. So if I go to a shop and pick up some widget and ask the shop person "Can I use this widget for this specific job (explaining the purpose)?" and he says "Yes." and I buy it and find that it doesn't work for that specific job then I get to go back and get a refund. No bullshitting me with "You can buy another thing from our shop and we'll give you credit" an actual REFUND. Thats just one example.
You have to be SO careful shopping in North America. Its totally a 'caveat emptor' kind of place.
"diminishing my experience of advertising" is not something the average user concerns themselves with. The users are not going to sites to view their ads, they are going to view the site's actual content. Ads are at best mildly interesting but are increasingly considered an annoyance or even dangerous. So the users have responded by saying their best "experience of advertising" is to block it and not experience it at all. The advertisers should be taking this as a lesson but apparently they are still deluding themselves thinking people want to see their ads. They will listen sooner or later or their industry will come crashing down around them.
No, he meant that it was diminishing HIS experience of advertising.
Isn't it just Squid running as a transproxy and with a few blocked domains in the.conf file?
You can do even cooler stuff with squid. Like turn all the images on a site upside down. Or blur them. Progressively. So they start being normal and become progressively more blurred over time.
I had an employer who wanted me to develop a MITM HTTPS proxy to do this kind of modification of secure web pages (with a * cert distributed via group policy, really dirty stuff). I tried explaining to them that such a proxy would allow me to make it appear that they had no money in their online banking sites or to make it so they in fact had no money... This didn't put them off at all.
But turning the images in facebook, over https, upside down was a hoot.
There's no reason for ad bidding to take more than a few milliseconds. If it takes longer, then the intermediary supplying the ad has broken software. I'm pretty sure this is a complete non-issue.
'broken' from who's perspective though? Delaying the ad bidding is usually a mechanism for increasing ad revenue, NOT a mistake, NOT broken software, its deliberate.
Broken from the perspective of the site visitor but not, apparently, for the site owner or advertisers.
I hate Apple as much as the next anti-Apple-fan boy, but come on. Literally EVERY OS has this concern. I wouldn't call it a backdoor anymore than I would suggest that having a window not made out of bulletproof glass is an open invitation for robbers into your house. In other words, this is sort of like "duhhhhhhh" material and hardly newsworthy. Now having an open and honest discussion about the security of update services for OS and the security methodologies employed, would be a fantastic article.
Yeah sure, no problem. Then, having confirmed that they can do this they get an endless stream of secret 'national security letters' and iphones for them to break into.
I'd like to eat regularly at Maxim's, shelter at the Ritz, bathe in Veen and use all the electricity I want. Since you think I'm entitled to that, are you going to pay for it?
OMG is that what this person was asking for?? No wonder they got fired then.
Oh wait? That isn't what they were asking for and you are egregiously making shit up in order to sound like you actually have a reasonable argument?
AH yes the old "WINDOWS JUST GETS SO MANY VIRUSES BECAUSE IT'S POPULAR" and yet still the iPhone platform has been relatively damn secure through its life (and I say this as someone who doesn't otherwise like Apple products that much).
WordPress gets so much shit re security because it is so shit re security. It is popular because of inertia and because the options aren't any better - again, just like Windows through the '90s and early '00s.
Last year iOS and OSX each had more security vulnerabilities than Flash.
So there's no way you need a 10kW for tracking; anything far enough away that you need a 10kW laser to track it would be way out of range of your guns.
Actually, it pays more to "not work" in our socialistic economy than it does to work. The unmarried unemployed couple with two children can receive around $75,000 in benefits and credits. Why would anyone want to work?
I can't imagine being unemployed with two kids.
Oh wait, yes I can. I can imagine being driven completely insane by being bottled up with my spouse and two kids all fucking day long. Work provides valuable time out from the hell of home life!
If you were unemployed with a spouse and two kids you better have a very supportive spouse otherwise it'll be a freakin nightmare.
The other great part about this is... its because people are cheaping out on a repair for a $650+ device. People are idiots. Buy a cheap repair, you deserve your phone bricked for stupidity.
You are travelling and in some 3rd world location.
The third world contry with enough power points to keep your phone charged all the time while travelling and has a bunch of iphone repair shops all over the place.
Absolutely. But not, typically, ones that have been blessed by Apple to repair the Holy Apple Hardware. Hence the bricking.
Oh, by third world, you must mean, outside of any major city in the us of a. And not everyone can get away from work long enough during the workday to take their i phone to an authorized shop, but there are the other phone shops that have a simular, as in made by the same company, in the same plant, in the same run, etc but put on a different phone, at half the price, and installed for maybe even less the half the price. Damn, that sounds familiar...
The USA is a 3rd world country with a bunch of 1st world city-states.
The other great part about this is... its because people are cheaping out on a repair for a $650+ device. People are idiots. Buy a cheap repair, you deserve your phone bricked for stupidity.
You are travelling and in some 3rd world location, it might be for your job. You might need your phone for survival (trust me, if you travel in out of the way places a smart phone really can be a survival accessory). The screen breaks. Shipping it to a certified Apple repair place might take months and cost rather a lot, what with secure shipping etc. So you get it repaired locally. It happens and its not 'cheaping out'.
A Trump / McAfee ticket is the closest thing we can get to having President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho in real life.
My God, McAfee as Trumps running mate. This would virtually guarantee that Trump wouldn't get assassinated in office. The only thing that could be better is if Trump had a Hispanic running mate.
If they manage to get Netflix to clamp down on out-of-region customers then those people will become former customers
The content creators want Netflix to PAY MORE to license the content in these extra countries.
Regional restrictions are about generating more $$$ by allowing the content to be priced higher in other areas according to their local market conditions and to force companies that need worldwide usage to jump through many hoops and pay a heck of a lot more.
The thing is they aren't going to get more, they are going to get nothing at all.
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Dear Mark Z. - Please define "hate speech" and how you and / or Angela M.'s legions of government bureaucrats plan on not trampling all over legitimate free speech (e.g., "I disagree with Germany's immigration policy because it takes an unrealistic stance on available resources, and I want the immigrants to go home,").
These days the word 'hate' is being used in a massively exaggerated way, as is 'phobia'.
'hate' and 'phobia' are used to describe everything from disapproval through dislike and actual hate.
Eg 'homophobe' is used to describe people who, rather than fearing homosexuals, disapprove of it on moral grounds. These people do not fear homosexuals.
People who disapprove of mass immigration are described as 'race-haters'. These people do not hate people of other races.
This dilutes the value of the words 'hate' and 'phobia' so much that the abuse of these terms will have the reverse effect that their users would want.
"Hate speech"-- now there's a term that shouldn't exist in a free country.
Indeed. Look at Thailand and disrespectful speech about the monarchy. Same kind of thing.
You just described how the statute of fraud works, even in the US: Burroughs got sued for shipping machines so unspeakably bad they were "not suitable for the purpose sold", and lost. See http://www.nytimes.com/1981/10...
I think the UK version is actually stronger; it doesn't have to just be fit for the purpose that it was made for. If the customer specifies a novel use case in the shop and the shop says it can fulfil that specific use case and it can't thats a refund.
So you can lug around 40 pounds of short range ammo, and if you want to do a distance shot you're screwed, or you can lug around normal ammo and take any shot you like? Hmm, which would I choose... ?
It looks to me like its more a way to make quasi-legal incendiary ammo!
OK, is Microsoft next?
I was about to post the exact same thing. I'm glad the foreign company was censured for its bad security practices, but when does our home-grown American company get the same?
This hasn't been true of MS for some time. They are actually pretty good now.
This post is about to be modded to oblivion as a troll, but I'll say it anyway. Last year OSX and iOS each had more security vulnerabilities than any Microsoft product. They had more vulnerabilities than FLASH.
(Yes, on /. a factual statement is a troll if it casts Apple in a bad light)
We don't want caveat emptor for this shit, we want companies who are accountable for the security of the products they make.
Do you want to live in a world where security boils down to "too bad, suckers"?
Sounds like North America. Coming from the UK to North America is a bit of a shock from a consumer protection point of view. In the UK a product must be, among other things, fit for the specific purpose it was bought for. So if I go to a shop and pick up some widget and ask the shop person "Can I use this widget for this specific job (explaining the purpose)?" and he says "Yes." and I buy it and find that it doesn't work for that specific job then I get to go back and get a refund. No bullshitting me with "You can buy another thing from our shop and we'll give you credit" an actual REFUND. Thats just one example.
You have to be SO careful shopping in North America. Its totally a 'caveat emptor' kind of place.
Problem is that we're the wife in that relationship.
sooner or later the wife-beater is going to beat on the concubine too!
"diminishing my experience of advertising" is not something the average user concerns themselves with. The users are not going to sites to view their ads, they are going to view the site's actual content. Ads are at best mildly interesting but are increasingly considered an annoyance or even dangerous. So the users have responded by saying their best "experience of advertising" is to block it and not experience it at all. The advertisers should be taking this as a lesson but apparently they are still deluding themselves thinking people want to see their ads. They will listen sooner or later or their industry will come crashing down around them.
No, he meant that it was diminishing HIS experience of advertising.
As an advertiser, not as a site visitor.
you cannot get divorce according to shariah law
But you can treat your wife like a slave and get a concubine!
Isn't it just Squid running as a transproxy and with a few blocked domains in the .conf file?
You can do even cooler stuff with squid. Like turn all the images on a site upside down. Or blur them. Progressively. So they start being normal and become progressively more blurred over time.
I had an employer who wanted me to develop a MITM HTTPS proxy to do this kind of modification of secure web pages (with a * cert distributed via group policy, really dirty stuff). I tried explaining to them that such a proxy would allow me to make it appear that they had no money in their online banking sites or to make it so they in fact had no money... This didn't put them off at all.
But turning the images in facebook, over https, upside down was a hoot.
There's no reason for ad bidding to take more than a few milliseconds. If it takes longer, then the intermediary supplying the ad has broken software. I'm pretty sure this is a complete non-issue.
'broken' from who's perspective though? Delaying the ad bidding is usually a mechanism for increasing ad revenue, NOT a mistake, NOT broken software, its deliberate.
Broken from the perspective of the site visitor but not, apparently, for the site owner or advertisers.
I hate Apple as much as the next anti-Apple-fan boy, but come on. Literally EVERY OS has this concern. I wouldn't call it a backdoor anymore than I would suggest that having a window not made out of bulletproof glass is an open invitation for robbers into your house. In other words, this is sort of like "duhhhhhhh" material and hardly newsworthy. Now having an open and honest discussion about the security of update services for OS and the security methodologies employed, would be a fantastic article.
Yeah sure, no problem. Then, having confirmed that they can do this they get an endless stream of secret 'national security letters' and iphones for them to break into.
No, dumb fuck. He was making a point by demonstrating how fucking stupid your position is.
He was successful.
You clearly hadn't noticed that I had no position as I hadn't commented before. The exaggerated claims made by GP were absurd and a straw man.
I'd like to eat regularly at Maxim's, shelter at the Ritz, bathe in Veen and use all the electricity I want. Since you think I'm entitled to that, are you going to pay for it?
OMG is that what this person was asking for?? No wonder they got fired then.
Oh wait? That isn't what they were asking for and you are egregiously making shit up in order to sound like you actually have a reasonable argument?
AH yes the old "WINDOWS JUST GETS SO MANY VIRUSES BECAUSE IT'S POPULAR" and yet still the iPhone platform has been relatively damn secure through its life (and I say this as someone who doesn't otherwise like Apple products that much).
WordPress gets so much shit re security because it is so shit re security. It is popular because of inertia and because the options aren't any better - again, just like Windows through the '90s and early '00s.
Last year iOS and OSX each had more security vulnerabilities than Flash.
So there's no way you need a 10kW for tracking; anything far enough away that you need a 10kW laser to track it would be way out of range of your guns.
Railguns!
That is the same thing - whether they molest anyone doesn't matter since the act of looking is also a crime.
Depending on the jurisdiction it could be pics of 40 year old women in school uniforms...
I've lived and worked in 3rd world nations.
Actually, it pays more to "not work" in our socialistic economy than it does to work. The unmarried unemployed couple with two children can receive around $75,000 in benefits and credits. Why would anyone want to work?
I can't imagine being unemployed with two kids.
Oh wait, yes I can. I can imagine being driven completely insane by being bottled up with my spouse and two kids all fucking day long. Work provides valuable time out from the hell of home life!
If you were unemployed with a spouse and two kids you better have a very supportive spouse otherwise it'll be a freakin nightmare.
The other great part about this is ... its because people are cheaping out on a repair for a $650+ device. People are idiots. Buy a cheap repair, you deserve your phone bricked for stupidity.
You are travelling and in some 3rd world location .
The third world contry with enough power points to keep your phone charged all the time while travelling and has a bunch of iphone repair shops all over the place.
Absolutely. But not, typically, ones that have been blessed by Apple to repair the Holy Apple Hardware. Hence the bricking.
Oh, by third world, you must mean, outside of any major city in the us of a. And not everyone can get away from work long enough during the workday to take their i phone to an authorized shop, but there are the other phone shops that have a simular, as in made by the same company, in the same plant, in the same run, etc but put on a different phone, at half the price, and installed for maybe even less the half the price. Damn, that sounds familiar...
The USA is a 3rd world country with a bunch of 1st world city-states.
i thought the point of this error 53 was to purposely render your data inaccessible in the case where the touchID had been tampered with?
If that was the case it would take effect after the hardware change not months later when you get a system update.
The other great part about this is ... its because people are cheaping out on a repair for a $650+ device. People are idiots. Buy a cheap repair, you deserve your phone bricked for stupidity.
You are travelling and in some 3rd world location, it might be for your job. You might need your phone for survival (trust me, if you travel in out of the way places a smart phone really can be a survival accessory). The screen breaks. Shipping it to a certified Apple repair place might take months and cost rather a lot, what with secure shipping etc. So you get it repaired locally. It happens and its not 'cheaping out'.
You're supposed to be running for president!
A Trump / McAfee ticket is the closest thing we can get to having President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho in real life.
My God, McAfee as Trumps running mate. This would virtually guarantee that Trump wouldn't get assassinated in office. The only thing that could be better is if Trump had a Hispanic running mate.
If they manage to get Netflix to clamp down on out-of-region customers then those people will become former customers
The content creators want Netflix to PAY MORE to license the content in these extra countries.
Regional restrictions are about generating more $$$ by allowing the content to be priced higher in other areas according to their local market conditions and to force companies that need worldwide usage to jump through many hoops and pay a heck of a lot more.
The thing is they aren't going to get more, they are going to get nothing at all.