The Win8 interface is only an improvement if you use a touch screen. It's intellectually dishonest and blatant corporate shilling to make a factual assertion that it's an improvement without qualifying for which use case, because for non-touch mouse and keyboard, whether it's an improvement is anything but objectively true. What's particularly sad is how many people would mod that up. In the old days that would have been modded into oblivion.
All traffic sniffing will do is show they are talking to a TOR entree node. Everything is wrapped in multiple layeres of encryption between you and each of the nodes in between. Maybe they could tell from traffic analysis what type of traffic it is based on traffic profiling, streaming your pr0n over to will have a different profile than browseing a webpage wich will in tun be different than ssh, but they still won't know the end point and what the content is.
Assuming you can view every page and do what you need to do without ever turning on Javascript. Which is quite the tall order. For example, there is no e-mail service on this planet that allows signup and use without JS turned on for at least one step or payment (this sounds ridiculous, but go and try it. There used to be. They've all been changed or shut down.). And it's been clearly established all it takes is one malicious script to unmask your IP while on tor.
Yes but they would have to have had access to your computer to insert the hardware bugs. If you say pick up a cheap laptop at walmart paid for with cash they won't know who has it, and would not have inserted the bugs as they could not have known who would end up wih the computer.
Actually they would have a picture of your face and could go from there. A component serial number is discovered, which leads to the manufacturer, which leads to what store sold it; then their inventory systems can tell you what time it was sold, then you can match that up to security camera footage. This has been documented with burner phones, no reason it couldn't be done with computers.
Technically true. However you have to trust something, and as long as there has been know oppertunity to tamper with the computer you can assume your safe for most things.
It's like you missed the last year and still think this stuff is the fantasy of conspiracy nuts. Or work for the NSA and want to lull everyone into thinking they're safe.
That is why we have cryptographic signatures on repositories and iso images. If they can break a 4092 bit key in polynomial time we are f***ed anyway
It's a real shame that the original Visual Basic lineage was dumped in favor of.NET. It's like Windows XP... there's still plenty of people using VB6 to this day. I'm one of them. People never fail to underestimate the power of that language. The last version was released in 1998; yet I'm here on 64-bit Windows 7 and finding not only does the original stuff still work, but I have no trouble using API and Type Libraries to access all sorts of new Win7 things like libraries (music, docs, etc), damn near any other interface, and the latest common controls. Hell there's even a way to include straight assembly code if there was no other way for something. And adapting this ancient language to work with modern features is still light years easier than learning.NET.
We were hit hard by Hurricane Sandy. The power at my house was out for 6 days. But cell towers were up the entire time (the closest one was down 12hrs, but calls could still be made with a weaker signal), and as soon as the water allowed physical access, Verizon rolled out trucks that parked at a few places in the neighborhood from 10am to 10pm where people could plug in power strips. About 100 people plugged in at any given time. Gave us a chance to talk to our neighbors, and recharge our devices to get on Facebook, which was the major method the city government used to communicate with us. Power updates, food/water relief, shelter info, transit updates, etc were all on Facebook. Not just government updates either; updates from people around town in the comments were critical. Phone numbers always had outdated info. I used to live in a more rural area. Yeah we had working POTS, but nothing else. Hurricane Charlie hit us hard there; I wish we had cells and local government on facebook. I think people really overestimate the value of POTS, especially if you don't know what numbers to call or local government sucks at providing info. The resources used to maintain POTS could be put towards emergency restoration of more useful services.
Are you talking about quality? Because if you think Netflix 1080p (where they even offer it) even approaches Bluray quality, you've obviously never had experience with top quality viewed correctly (screen size/distance, etc).
But beyond that, even if Netflix did offer true 1080p, they still fall way short of what pirates offer:
Selection Quantity. Netflix's selection is the widest, and is still god awful by any reasonable measure. Legit music stores have finally exceeded pirated selections. Why can't movies/tv?
Permanence: If you only ever watch a movie or show once, this might not matter, but lots of people want to actually buy a movie or show so they can watch it again. Whenever. Nobody offers a DRM-free download of top quality besides pirates.
Offline: Guess what? Sometimes I want to watch without being online. Maybe I'm traveling and a steady fast connection isn't there. Nothing beats a portable local copy that can be easily converted to any format. I have a 60Mbps connection in a major city, yet am still plagued by BUFFERING like it's RealPlayer ReBorn.
Availability: All the legit players are constantly changing whats available. You see shows you like, you pay to subscribe, then at some point they just decide to stop carrying it. This is absolutely unacceptable.
Experience: No legit store can compete with the quality of experience of downloading a file with no hassles, no drm, no ads, no previews, no commercials, no Silverlight bs... just download and play from a huge selection of formats and subtitles.
It took a long time, but legit music offerings are finally all around better than pirate offerings. And it's been a fantastic financial success. It's crystal clear what gets consumers to pay. Netflix is nowhere near satisfying for anyone who values the things I listed, which is a non-trivial percent of people. Everyone who comes over my house is absolutely astounded that I have 80+ full TV shows (nearly 1/3rd in HD, mostly because HD sources are not available) and 500+ HD movies all able to be played any time, on either my monitor or the tv, or copied to any device, going straight into the program, with a single click. They've never experienced anything like it. And there's no amount of money I could pay to have it legally. (although few consumers would even want a setup that requires 12TB of disk space and NAS, but they certainly would like the benefits on a smaller collection).
And right there is where they could rake in the cash from even a dedicated pirate like me: Offer me the dozens of shows in HD that aren't able to be pirated, and the other dozen that need remastering in hd... and I'd pay. I have paid. Unfortunately it was to a cyberlocker because no public torrent existed, no paid legit offer existed... but there it was, 5 seasons all in full HD, on uploaded.com.
What you're speaking of is jury nullification, something which is extraordinarily rare these days. If a juror indicates he's aware of it, he's dismissed (they WILL ask). If it comes out that he lied about awareness of it to get on the jury, it's a mistrial. Same if a lawyer for either side brings it up, which they don't even try because they'd face trouble. Judges are explicitly dishonest and instruct jurors they are not allowed to return not guilty for disagreeing with the law in general or the law in this case. If you tell a juror about it, or hand out literature where a juror is likely to see it, you can be arrested for jury tampering among other charges. All of these things have stood through appeals. The right to nullify is still there, but good luck trying to get off on those grounds.
I see you've had very limited interaction with the police, and certainly not outside of a majority white middle to upper class environment. If anything it would be underreported out of fear of retaliation.
Comments like that tend to get modded down because they're WRONG. Most cops are NOT good people. First off the notion that cops become cops to bring flowers and sunshine to the world is incredibly naive. At *best*, they're there to catch 'bad guys', not help their community. But motives aren't really important, actions are. All cops arrest and support obtaining criminal convictions for victimless, consensual acts at some point in their career. People like to say 'well, that's the law'... that's no different than 'just following orders'. It's wrong, period.
Even if you disagree with that point, you need to consider that while not all cops perpetrate illegal acts or civil rights violations, you better believe they know at least one other officer who has, and kept their mouth shut. Covering up for someone else's abuse makes you a bad person.
These cameras need to be on every officer, always rolling, and most important: if the camera "breaks" or the footage is "lost", the version of events given by the civilian should be considered more credible.
An important, relevant detail you skipped is that, to be held accountable in reality, an officer's behavior has to be so outrageously over the line, with overwhelming evidence that's not just civilian witnesses, that a normal citizen would get 30+ years for it. Then, MAYBE, the officer will be fired or sentenced to 5 or less. And holding an officer personally liable in a civil case? Even higher burden.
I think you're really overstating the significance of MtGox. BitInstant was a much bigger deal for me and most other people I know, and that incident didn't destroy bitcoin. In fact there's also several other incidents that were a much bigger deal.
I'd imagine it falls under the commerce clause. Remember, the drug war and countless other prohibitions is based on the fact that the government can arrest you for something you grow in your house and consume only yourself, because that affects interstate commerce since you might have otherwise bought it from a source that might cross state lines. Given that expansive interpretation, which the courts have upheld every time except one, how is everything that happens on a plane actually crossing state lines not fair game? And you might think this is wrong and support pot legalization, but it's also equally applicable to cocaine and heroin. Which come from plants, by the way. Plants which I can grow entirely on my land, extract alkaloids, sell to no one, and be thrown in prison for the rest of my life for. But guns on the other hand... perhaps someone can help me reconcile US v. Lopez with the constitutionality of the CSA as applied to wholly intrastate actions.
Just like dashcams right? Instead I think we'll just see 4 Google Glass fail at the same time instead of 4 dash cams failing at the same time, at the exact time abuse is alleged to have occurred.
I guess the >95% of people that want the whole thing scratched, taking a tiny amount of time, are being contradicted by the tiny minority that wants a new, dumbed down design, which takes a long time. And you listen to the latter. Fantastic management.
You can stick all the flowers you want in a pile of shit, it's still going to smell like shit. GET IT THROUGH YOUR HEADS: INCREMENTALLY IMPROVING SOMETHING THAT EVERYONE WHO CONTRIBUTES WANTS ENTIRELY GONE WILL KILL THE PART OF THE USERBASE THE REST OF THE WORLD COMES HERE FOR.
The purpose of criminal justice is to keep bad people from harming society.
Yes, and politicians act out of the common good to serve the interest of society as a whole. And a Good and Just Lord protects all the little babies and bunny rabbits from harm.
On a cursory search, the first charts seem to suggest that at a viewing distance of 10' (hardly super close), that 4k becomes visible with a display as small as 25-35". At 20', between 50-60", which due to falling prices is quite a common screen size for new tvs. Some other charts vary a bit, but you're definitely exaggerating.
Personally I think we all ought to skip 4k and go straight to 8k, because 4k isn't enough of an improvement.
Pretty good folk would never drag you off in chains, imprison you, and brand you with life-destroying felon labels for something you do alone in the privacy of your own home. Every cop has done or would do this. End of story.
And if that compartment is actually full of drugs and you didn't know? (This sort of thing has in fact happened).
Personally I think laws against both are unconstitutional, but that's not the best argument. Good luck ever convincing anyone in the legal system you didn't know.
I second that. It's well established that intelligence is associated with strong belief in social justice and right/wrong in general. There's a very strong argument that taking drugs is not wrong, and drug laws are a great social injustice in countless ways. How can you respect laws that are so obviously wrong if your morality isn't based on external dictations?
As a hoarder, my downloading has slowed down quite a bit. I've downloaded every TV show and movie I'd ever be interested in watching, in HD if available. Now the only downloading I do is new episodes or new movies (and of course when something I like comes out higher quality). I am indeed quite satisfied with my 10TBs of 281 movies and 82 full series.
But streaming/pay services for video in their current form will never see a penny from me. For the way I consume media, their shortcomings are a deal breaker:
Streaming is wholly unacceptable since it requires an internet connection. Offline viewing, and viewing without "buffering..." if it drops out for a minute, is important. Even "1080p" streams are noticeably worse than actual Blurays (and 12gb rips for that matter). Streaming should be AN option, not the only one.
Permanent copies in a non-DRM'd format are still not the norm for movies/tv. They haven't learned from music.
There's no excuse for such poor selections and different services offering different things. It's a blatant example of corporate greed preventing what consumers want.
So are all types of geographic limitations/delays.
Even more infuriating is when items available are removed from the service. And when the service itself up and shuts down.
None of these are limits of technology, and all of these are why legit offerings can't compete with illegal ones, regardless of price. Fix all of those, and add what is lacking in pirated sources (bonus materials, dl speed on some stuff, ease of access), and you'll find that like audio, legit video can also successfully compete with free.
Some public defenders are good. A lot aren't. And they're almost universally saddled with far more case work than they can effectively handle. In my experience, they decide who is deserving of a break and focus more on their case. And this is first hand experience from inside the system.
This should be modded informative, not funny. The reality is that if you're travelling with any large amount of currency, the cops can and routinely do seize it. They've even seized bail money brought to the police station. It's done under civil forfeiture laws, and you then have to prove in court that the money came from legitimate activities. Often at an expense that exceeds the value of what you're trying to get back.
Seems like every job these days conducts a criminal background check. But what that actually means varies widely. Some jobs will of course bar anyone with any felony whatsoever, but the proposed regulations are somewhat more reasonable:
"Any felony criminal conviction within seven years prior to the date of the background check for driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol, fraud, use of a motor vehicle to commit a felony, a violent crime or act of terror, a sexual offense, a crime involving property damage, and/or theft will make the applicant ineligible to be a TNC driver."
The "zero tolerance" policy on the other hand is much more onerous. Apparently they want to require the apps to have a feature to report suspected intoxication, and a single such report will trigger an automatic suspension until it's investigated further (implicitly until they complete a drug/alcohol test). While it may sound reasonable on the face of it, consider the potential for false reports based both on good intentions and worse, bad intentions ("that guy disagreed on [random political issue]! click, suspended!"). The training program isn't detailed, but that could certainly dissuade non-professionals if it requires actual online/offline classes.
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The Win8 interface is only an improvement if you use a touch screen. It's intellectually dishonest and blatant corporate shilling to make a factual assertion that it's an improvement without qualifying for which use case, because for non-touch mouse and keyboard, whether it's an improvement is anything but objectively true. What's particularly sad is how many people would mod that up. In the old days that would have been modded into oblivion.
All traffic sniffing will do is show they are talking to a TOR entree node. Everything is wrapped in multiple layeres of encryption between you and each of the nodes in between. Maybe they could tell from traffic analysis what type of traffic it is based on traffic profiling, streaming your pr0n over to will have a different profile than browseing a webpage wich will in tun be different than ssh, but they still won't know the end point and what the content is.
Assuming you can view every page and do what you need to do without ever turning on Javascript. Which is quite the tall order. For example, there is no e-mail service on this planet that allows signup and use without JS turned on for at least one step or payment (this sounds ridiculous, but go and try it. There used to be. They've all been changed or shut down.). And it's been clearly established all it takes is one malicious script to unmask your IP while on tor.
Yes but they would have to have had access to your computer to insert the hardware bugs. If you say pick up a cheap laptop at walmart paid for with cash they won't know who has it, and would not have inserted the bugs as they could not have known who would end up wih the computer.
Actually they would have a picture of your face and could go from there. A component serial number is discovered, which leads to the manufacturer, which leads to what store sold it; then their inventory systems can tell you what time it was sold, then you can match that up to security camera footage. This has been documented with burner phones, no reason it couldn't be done with computers.
Technically true. However you have to trust something, and as long as there has been know oppertunity to tamper with the computer you can assume your safe for most things.
It's like you missed the last year and still think this stuff is the fantasy of conspiracy nuts. Or work for the NSA and want to lull everyone into thinking they're safe.
That is why we have cryptographic signatures on repositories and iso images. If they can break a 4092 bit key in polynomial time we are f***ed anyway
Yes because that's the weak part. *sigh*
It's a real shame that the original Visual Basic lineage was dumped in favor of .NET. It's like Windows XP... there's still plenty of people using VB6 to this day. I'm one of them. People never fail to underestimate the power of that language. The last version was released in 1998; yet I'm here on 64-bit Windows 7 and finding not only does the original stuff still work, but I have no trouble using API and Type Libraries to access all sorts of new Win7 things like libraries (music, docs, etc), damn near any other interface, and the latest common controls. Hell there's even a way to include straight assembly code if there was no other way for something. And adapting this ancient language to work with modern features is still light years easier than learning .NET.
We were hit hard by Hurricane Sandy. The power at my house was out for 6 days. But cell towers were up the entire time (the closest one was down 12hrs, but calls could still be made with a weaker signal), and as soon as the water allowed physical access, Verizon rolled out trucks that parked at a few places in the neighborhood from 10am to 10pm where people could plug in power strips. About 100 people plugged in at any given time. Gave us a chance to talk to our neighbors, and recharge our devices to get on Facebook, which was the major method the city government used to communicate with us. Power updates, food/water relief, shelter info, transit updates, etc were all on Facebook. Not just government updates either; updates from people around town in the comments were critical. Phone numbers always had outdated info.
I used to live in a more rural area. Yeah we had working POTS, but nothing else. Hurricane Charlie hit us hard there; I wish we had cells and local government on facebook. I think people really overestimate the value of POTS, especially if you don't know what numbers to call or local government sucks at providing info. The resources used to maintain POTS could be put towards emergency restoration of more useful services.
But beyond that, even if Netflix did offer true 1080p, they still fall way short of what pirates offer:
It took a long time, but legit music offerings are finally all around better than pirate offerings. And it's been a fantastic financial success. It's crystal clear what gets consumers to pay. Netflix is nowhere near satisfying for anyone who values the things I listed, which is a non-trivial percent of people. Everyone who comes over my house is absolutely astounded that I have 80+ full TV shows (nearly 1/3rd in HD, mostly because HD sources are not available) and 500+ HD movies all able to be played any time, on either my monitor or the tv, or copied to any device, going straight into the program, with a single click. They've never experienced anything like it. And there's no amount of money I could pay to have it legally. (although few consumers would even want a setup that requires 12TB of disk space and NAS, but they certainly would like the benefits on a smaller collection).
And right there is where they could rake in the cash from even a dedicated pirate like me: Offer me the dozens of shows in HD that aren't able to be pirated, and the other dozen that need remastering in hd... and I'd pay. I have paid. Unfortunately it was to a cyberlocker because no public torrent existed, no paid legit offer existed... but there it was, 5 seasons all in full HD, on uploaded.com.
What you're speaking of is jury nullification, something which is extraordinarily rare these days. If a juror indicates he's aware of it, he's dismissed (they WILL ask). If it comes out that he lied about awareness of it to get on the jury, it's a mistrial. Same if a lawyer for either side brings it up, which they don't even try because they'd face trouble. Judges are explicitly dishonest and instruct jurors they are not allowed to return not guilty for disagreeing with the law in general or the law in this case. If you tell a juror about it, or hand out literature where a juror is likely to see it, you can be arrested for jury tampering among other charges. All of these things have stood through appeals. The right to nullify is still there, but good luck trying to get off on those grounds.
I see you've had very limited interaction with the police, and certainly not outside of a majority white middle to upper class environment. If anything it would be underreported out of fear of retaliation.
Comments like that tend to get modded down because they're WRONG. Most cops are NOT good people. First off the notion that cops become cops to bring flowers and sunshine to the world is incredibly naive. At *best*, they're there to catch 'bad guys', not help their community. But motives aren't really important, actions are. All cops arrest and support obtaining criminal convictions for victimless, consensual acts at some point in their career. People like to say 'well, that's the law'... that's no different than 'just following orders'. It's wrong, period.
Even if you disagree with that point, you need to consider that while not all cops perpetrate illegal acts or civil rights violations, you better believe they know at least one other officer who has, and kept their mouth shut. Covering up for someone else's abuse makes you a bad person.
These cameras need to be on every officer, always rolling, and most important: if the camera "breaks" or the footage is "lost", the version of events given by the civilian should be considered more credible.
An important, relevant detail you skipped is that, to be held accountable in reality, an officer's behavior has to be so outrageously over the line, with overwhelming evidence that's not just civilian witnesses, that a normal citizen would get 30+ years for it. Then, MAYBE, the officer will be fired or sentenced to 5 or less. And holding an officer personally liable in a civil case? Even higher burden.
I think you're really overstating the significance of MtGox. BitInstant was a much bigger deal for me and most other people I know, and that incident didn't destroy bitcoin. In fact there's also several other incidents that were a much bigger deal.
I'd imagine it falls under the commerce clause. Remember, the drug war and countless other prohibitions is based on the fact that the government can arrest you for something you grow in your house and consume only yourself, because that affects interstate commerce since you might have otherwise bought it from a source that might cross state lines. Given that expansive interpretation, which the courts have upheld every time except one, how is everything that happens on a plane actually crossing state lines not fair game? And you might think this is wrong and support pot legalization, but it's also equally applicable to cocaine and heroin. Which come from plants, by the way. Plants which I can grow entirely on my land, extract alkaloids, sell to no one, and be thrown in prison for the rest of my life for.
But guns on the other hand... perhaps someone can help me reconcile US v. Lopez with the constitutionality of the CSA as applied to wholly intrastate actions.
Just like dashcams right? Instead I think we'll just see 4 Google Glass fail at the same time instead of 4 dash cams failing at the same time, at the exact time abuse is alleged to have occurred.
I guess the >95% of people that want the whole thing scratched, taking a tiny amount of time, are being contradicted by the tiny minority that wants a new, dumbed down design, which takes a long time. And you listen to the latter. Fantastic management.
You can stick all the flowers you want in a pile of shit, it's still going to smell like shit. GET IT THROUGH YOUR HEADS: INCREMENTALLY IMPROVING SOMETHING THAT EVERYONE WHO CONTRIBUTES WANTS ENTIRELY GONE WILL KILL THE PART OF THE USERBASE THE REST OF THE WORLD COMES HERE FOR.
The purpose of criminal justice is to keep bad people from harming society.
Yes, and politicians act out of the common good to serve the interest of society as a whole. And a Good and Just Lord protects all the little babies and bunny rabbits from harm.
Utah folded. Only death row inmates who chose firing squad before the law change in 2004 can still be executed that way. There are 3 presently.
On a cursory search, the first charts seem to suggest that at a viewing distance of 10' (hardly super close), that 4k becomes visible with a display as small as 25-35". At 20', between 50-60", which due to falling prices is quite a common screen size for new tvs. Some other charts vary a bit, but you're definitely exaggerating.
Personally I think we all ought to skip 4k and go straight to 8k, because 4k isn't enough of an improvement.
It's a good thing making something illegal completely stops it from occurring.
By your logic, we should only have one party if votes are to be meaningful, and clearly that is the opposite of the truth.
We do only have one party that can win at the national level. It has two sects which differ slightly on some aspects of some issues.
Pretty good folk would never drag you off in chains, imprison you, and brand you with life-destroying felon labels for something you do alone in the privacy of your own home. Every cop has done or would do this. End of story.
And if that compartment is actually full of drugs and you didn't know? (This sort of thing has in fact happened).
Personally I think laws against both are unconstitutional, but that's not the best argument. Good luck ever convincing anyone in the legal system you didn't know.
I second that. It's well established that intelligence is associated with strong belief in social justice and right/wrong in general. There's a very strong argument that taking drugs is not wrong, and drug laws are a great social injustice in countless ways. How can you respect laws that are so obviously wrong if your morality isn't based on external dictations?
But streaming/pay services for video in their current form will never see a penny from me. For the way I consume media, their shortcomings are a deal breaker:
None of these are limits of technology, and all of these are why legit offerings can't compete with illegal ones, regardless of price. Fix all of those, and add what is lacking in pirated sources (bonus materials, dl speed on some stuff, ease of access), and you'll find that like audio, legit video can also successfully compete with free.
Some public defenders are good. A lot aren't. And they're almost universally saddled with far more case work than they can effectively handle. In my experience, they decide who is deserving of a break and focus more on their case. And this is first hand experience from inside the system.
This should be modded informative, not funny. The reality is that if you're travelling with any large amount of currency, the cops can and routinely do seize it. They've even seized bail money brought to the police station. It's done under civil forfeiture laws, and you then have to prove in court that the money came from legitimate activities. Often at an expense that exceeds the value of what you're trying to get back.
Seems like every job these days conducts a criminal background check. But what that actually means varies widely. Some jobs will of course bar anyone with any felony whatsoever, but the proposed regulations are somewhat more reasonable:
"Any felony criminal conviction within seven years prior to the date of the background check for driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol, fraud, use of a motor vehicle to commit a felony, a violent crime or act of terror, a sexual offense, a crime involving property damage, and/or theft will make the applicant ineligible to be a TNC driver."
The "zero tolerance" policy on the other hand is much more onerous. Apparently they want to require the apps to have a feature to report suspected intoxication, and a single such report will trigger an automatic suspension until it's investigated further (implicitly until they complete a drug/alcohol test). While it may sound reasonable on the face of it, consider the potential for false reports based both on good intentions and worse, bad intentions ("that guy disagreed on [random political issue]! click, suspended!"). The training program isn't detailed, but that could certainly dissuade non-professionals if it requires actual online/offline classes.
Source: Full CPUC Proposed Rulemaking (via TechCrunch) (PDF) http://www.scribd.com/document_downloads/169457749?extension=pdf&from=embed&source=embed