Basically everyone in the world is living longer. World is better for humans. Has been for decades. Better, in war, in disease, in nutrition. The surprise is that the doom-and-gloom press is surprised.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The "most onerous portions of USA copyright law" are tiddlywinks compared to the "most onerous portions" of Japanese copyright law (citation Fuji vs. Jazz Camera, Lexmark vs. Arizona Cartridge Manufacturers). Unfortunately, Japan's interpretation of protecting OEM rights internationally ("e-waste" takeback laws were invented in Japan for reasons having NOTHING to do with environmental destiny and EVERYTHING to do with re-manufacture and reverse-engineering) seems to have metastasized in Asia. EFF is on the right side of this, but pulling TPP's finger from the hole in the dike may result in "the perfect is the enemy of the good", ie if the USA was the strongest proponent to protect copyright - Disney lobbyists aside - then it's speculation whether TPP "could have done more".
I'm not an expert in TPP, or what concessions USA made or even brought to the table to protect USA lobbyists. But I'm above average as expert in the fact that trade is generally anti-protectionism, and protectionism is generally anti-trade, and TPP, NAFTA, TAP, etc. are generally trying to remove barriers. Glad EFF is there, but when I interviewed them about Chinese and Japanese law they said they didn't have enough bandwidth to be experts in that, and since the point of TPP is to leverage Japan vs. China (which despite certain idiot comments is NOT PART OF TPP), we had to find common ground, ie try to compromise with Japan.
" DigiTimes, a Taiwan-based publication with connections to the PC industry over there (but also a very mixed record of accuracy) said the new devices would come in the third quarter of this year."
Digitimes mainly reports on the incredibly extensive second and third party research of display technology industry from Chinese (Taipei) language technical journals, and has been one of the best tech sector news journals I've relied on over 20 years. Sure, sometimes predictions and schedules reported to Digitimes don't happen but that's usually the fault of the industry source whom Digitimes quotes.
I would feel nit-picky making this point, but at Slashdot of all places, which regularly cites blogs as news articles, the slap at Digitimes comes across as cringeworthy. I hesitate to play the "r" card, but it reminds me of all the other BS we are constantly reading about Taiwan and Hong Kong "primitive processes" and "child labor" and "suicide nets" etc. Digitimes is the one of the best news sources ever cited on/., if not the most "articulate", and dinging it with the unnecessary parenthetical rubs me the wrong way.
In an online poll of existing clients, given a choice between "Yes", "Yes", and "No", roughly 2/3 of respondents answered "yes". Upper end (74% slightly above margin of error) may be attributable to people who don't subscribe (and cannot be polled) because it was important for them to access Netflix offline when they chose not to subscribe.
Back in my dad's day on Madison Avenue, we hired real ladies with short skirts and tall hair to physically answer the phone and say, over and over again, "Thanks for your message, I'll deliver it to Mr. Draper in the morning. And thanks for calling". Dagnab world is going to hell, autoreply my ass. Get offa my lawn
The idea to "copyright" the physical description of the device, and hence repair instructions, was a legal maneuver to end-run the warranty laws after Vance Packard's 1960 seminal expose "The Waste Makers" described efforts to insert parts that would fail and other "planned obsolescence" laws. By the 1990s, Hitachi was the only electronics manufacturer to allow its repair manuals to be issued online.
This is a major reason that used electronics get exported to countries where repair is common and $100 legal stationery is ignored. And a major reason congresspeople like Gene Green of Dell - oops - I mean Texas keeps reintroducing laws to ban export of said repairable devices (not "fully functioning") with a sole exception of OEMs sending for warranty repair (because they realize the repair market was driven overseas - they just don't want us to know about it).
1. Intimidate and price-out domestic reuse and repair markets
Can't remember the specific problems I had with it, but yeah, I owned one. I'm surprised to see it lauded since they don't sell all that well on ebay; my recycling company has huge boxes of them but they move very slowly, and the only wholesale volume markets offer scrap value only. But I admit they do sell, one by one, individually, for about $9.99 plus shipping, which is ok for old, used, non-antique (vintage) electronics, but not scaleable and not in the same league with other tech of the same vintage. Now take a Wyse-55 dumb terminal monitor, on the other hand, that will fetch $100 easy. Wish I would have kept the 5,000 or so of those we scrapped 15 years ago... and the PS1 IBM "clicky" keyboards sell for hundreds of dollars. I guess I don't see how the Linksys WRT54GL merits this attention as compared to (chills!) Okidata Microline dot matrix printers. I'd trade all our Linksys WRT54GL for a solid Oki 520.
Yes. Twitter is an excellent networking tool. The best way to use it is through the "search" box at the top right. Just now I typed in "Utah 3d Printer" https://twitter.com/search?q=U... and found stories about a Utah surgery and find https://3dprint.com/139265/bea... a story about use of 3d printers to use CAT scans to print a copy of her kidney, revealing the hidden tumor. If I was in Utah and involved in 3d printing, I'd now have a list of users who "tweeted" the story and some of them might likely become part of a useful network. I have actual examples as well where it has been of tremendous usefulness to me.
I see you aren't making much use of your @AnonymousCoward handle. For sure, there are many people on Twitter who don't know how to make most effective use of it... perhaps proportional to the internet community at large.
I'm a huge fan of EFF, iFixit, and other groups that supported and pushed this legislation. I hope my Monday morning quarterbacking isn't misconstrued. But I studied the USA's warranty and repair laws passed in the 1960s (Ralph Nader's origins), which were in response to Vance Packard's 1960 book "The Waste Makers". The allegations of "planned obsolescence" really alarmed people and led to the strongest car and electronics warranty laws in the world. Those laws are all completely out of date (predating software), but trying to start from scratch may be a tactical error.
Today's repair advocates, are in the right place... but perhaps missing out by by not recruiting some Consumer Rights veterans. Maybe they could market this to the retired people who remember the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act of 1975 etc. Seniors who, replaced their own auto spark plugs, they tend to vote in high numbers and could have been sending a signal to legislators. The advocacy I saw for this Right to Repair law was promoted by a younger, cooler, Makerspace set, I didn't see many allies from Ralph Nader's generation. It would be hard to win funding of VA hospitals without marketing it to/through the war Veterans. Just my 2 cents.
I was thinking, I hope they are planning a date figure, so in the future we can see street maps by date and year or decade. In the future it would be interesting to visit not just a place but a year. In the same way that old maps have value because political lines have changed, I hope Google Maps is investing in keeping the older data as the lines change. It would be good to see what Florida was like before it was submerged in water, for example.
In the 1990s, there was a hydropulper (paper mill tech) in the basement of the Pentagon. Unfortunately they didn't have the rollers etc to produce recycled content paper out of it, but were halfway there.
Don't you miss the days of the big attacks? 9/11, Timothy McVeigh in Oklahoma, embassy bombings?
If the definition of "effective policy" is "terror doesn't make the news" then there can be no effective policy. Because whatever happens, however small, if it's the biggest outrage of the year, becomes the news cycle.
The number of deaths from violence, as a percentage of human deaths, goes down every century. We now mourn ten year wars whose total casualty counts for military are less than a single week in World War 1 or II. The press is trying to define "policy failure" as "something bad happened", and whatever the worst thing happens floats above the fold. The Orlando shootings were by a rather odorous loser that women don't like, who was obsessed about filming his first person shooter rampage on his smartphone. There's no indication of any potential by the guy to ever do anything as bad as Timothy McVeigh. But there will always be kids shooting 9 people in a church or something, and the papers will always lead with that story. It's the same trend that lends to "micro-aggression" at colleges, so many real threats have been solved that we need to "drill down" to have something to be concerned about.
Wherever the data is stored, in the cloud or at a terminal accessed by employees or printed on paper en route to a shredder, it's potentially exposed. The important thing is how it is stored. There should be a program to "camouflage" the data, give false positives or false negatives to everyone for everything, and create a million fake names to boot. The computer accessing could have a program filter key to remove the fake information. Maybe someone can think of something even more effective. What they should also be doing is selling fake and bad data anyplace data is being traded. Nature evolves camouflage, not invisibility, and that's probably good enough for my medical data.
Banning computing methods to hospitals just raises the cost of health care. Hospitals have already been sold a bill of goods on destruction of hard disks and paper shredding, or at least I've never seen evidence that the risk of data leakage from old hard drives and paper is anywhere close to the billions of dollars being spent on "certified" destruction. The point being, whenever there is a scintilla of a risk, there is a potential billion dollar industry to be created out of rigamarole. I'm not saying HIPPA isn't without value, but hospitals could save billions by hosing the paper records (soaking them to clunky clods) rather than shredding them, or by dropping the hard drives from 4 feet in the air. You don't have to ensure the data is safe from the Soviet spy who would access the POTUS computer, you have to ensure that the cost and time of accessing it is not economical. Thieves are rather more attuned to cost benefit than spies are, which is why spies are only after a fraction of a percentage of user data.
Slashdot now posts Kremlin "news"? The wikileaks article is nowhere nearly as specific as RT, mainly known for having English language newscasters quit on air live over being ordered to report false stories. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I think of the mass shootings the way I think of domestic abuse... not that much political thought going into it, it's mostly just anger and power displays. Islam has a particular problem with beaten women - sisters, mothers, daughters, wives. But that's actually more of an Arab issue, there really isn't the same wife-beating in muslim Bangladesh, Malaysia, Indonesia. It's worse in those countries than in the USA or EU, it's not that different from India, Nepal, China, etc.
I suspect most violence is committed by men that most women don't like. Timothy McVeigh couldn't get a date. Many muslims are losers with women, but it is being a loser with women, not the religion, which predicts the behavior. If you want a society which condemns mass violence, find one that successfully integrates women. If you want a serious boiling over incident, put a male authority mindset into a powerless position in a female-positive society. People are looking for commonalities "assault weapons" and "Islam". I think weakened males and empowered females creates a recipe for hopeless angry meaningless violence.
Timothy McVeigh was a dickless loser who fawned over Waco's Koresh. Dylann Roof was clearly dickless. The Boston marathon bombers had no dicks. And Syria is absent women, men only get women by committing war crimes and being awarded kidnapped Kurds. Society is getting better because women are more empowered, and the losers are the guys who thought "at least I'm not a woman" who suddenly find they are not only the bottom of the male gene pool, they are totally bottom. Even guys wouldn't kiss that asshole.
Last month I went to Taipei to interview a retired display device geek for a story I'm writing. He explained that the touch display technology was originally German, and that his mentor bought it from the German firm hoping to use it in touch screen ATM (CRT based, I think) when the German company went chapter 11 ("They had a great technology, but no application"). They got it to work on small LCDs, and the Taiwanese group pitched it to a company making Ipods for touch displays, he's not sure how it went from there to telephones. Apple got the guys mentor to open a shop in Vancouver to claim the device was independently developed there rather than Taiwan. I still don't have all the history covered, still grey areas, and I've been studying this for years. I don't understand the utility of asking juries to award $400M patent awards based on "telephones" with "rounded corners".
If DEA collects metadata, they can find which pharmacists, doctors, etc. are dishing out the opiods. I share peoples concern over DEA getting private data to go after buyers, but I was pretty freaked out by the sting that netted 140 pharmacists in a distribution ring in my home state of Arkansas last year. https://www.justice.gov/usao-e...
The shrillness of the anti-trade deal folks on the right and left try to make up in volume what they lack in economics. The USA lost nearly all of its textile jobs two decades ago, and the result was excellent. The textile unions had been unable to recruit younger people to work there, and people had to pay $65 for a pair of USA made blue jeans. Moving those jobs through NAFTA and other deals was uncomfortable for the people who lost those jobs, but 2 decades later it would not have mattered. Google supports TPP because they are intelligent and probably have seen the TED talks by Hans Rosling which pretty much demonstrate that everyone in the world has benefitted immensely from freer trade. https://www.ted.com/talks/hans... Most people on Slashdot agreed 15 years ago, it's strange to see this place go protectionist. Nationalism and protectionism suck.
Actually, it's precisely what got Apple in trouble in the early 90s.
IBM and Microsoft played nicely with Taiwanese and other white box manufactures, allowing common ATX parts and even reused components to lower the cost of the PC, while Apple refused to integrate. Foxconn and Android are about to give Apple some wicked deja vu.
Slashdot Mirror
Basically everyone in the world is living longer. World is better for humans. Has been for decades. Better, in war, in disease, in nutrition. The surprise is that the doom-and-gloom press is surprised. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The "most onerous portions of USA copyright law" are tiddlywinks compared to the "most onerous portions" of Japanese copyright law (citation Fuji vs. Jazz Camera, Lexmark vs. Arizona Cartridge Manufacturers). Unfortunately, Japan's interpretation of protecting OEM rights internationally ("e-waste" takeback laws were invented in Japan for reasons having NOTHING to do with environmental destiny and EVERYTHING to do with re-manufacture and reverse-engineering) seems to have metastasized in Asia. EFF is on the right side of this, but pulling TPP's finger from the hole in the dike may result in "the perfect is the enemy of the good", ie if the USA was the strongest proponent to protect copyright - Disney lobbyists aside - then it's speculation whether TPP "could have done more".
I'm not an expert in TPP, or what concessions USA made or even brought to the table to protect USA lobbyists. But I'm above average as expert in the fact that trade is generally anti-protectionism, and protectionism is generally anti-trade, and TPP, NAFTA, TAP, etc. are generally trying to remove barriers. Glad EFF is there, but when I interviewed them about Chinese and Japanese law they said they didn't have enough bandwidth to be experts in that, and since the point of TPP is to leverage Japan vs. China (which despite certain idiot comments is NOT PART OF TPP), we had to find common ground, ie try to compromise with Japan.
Chiroptera family. Surprised more people don't know about that.
[Oblig] How long before the fricking lasers get attached to the heads of the fricking sharks?
Newspaper editors never did this, right?
" DigiTimes, a Taiwan-based publication with connections to the PC industry over there (but also a very mixed record of accuracy) said the new devices would come in the third quarter of this year."
Digitimes mainly reports on the incredibly extensive second and third party research of display technology industry from Chinese (Taipei) language technical journals, and has been one of the best tech sector news journals I've relied on over 20 years. Sure, sometimes predictions and schedules reported to Digitimes don't happen but that's usually the fault of the industry source whom Digitimes quotes.
I would feel nit-picky making this point, but at Slashdot of all places, which regularly cites blogs as news articles, the slap at Digitimes comes across as cringeworthy. I hesitate to play the "r" card, but it reminds me of all the other BS we are constantly reading about Taiwan and Hong Kong "primitive processes" and "child labor" and "suicide nets" etc. Digitimes is the one of the best news sources ever cited on /., if not the most "articulate", and dinging it with the unnecessary parenthetical rubs me the wrong way.
In an online poll of existing clients, given a choice between "Yes", "Yes", and "No", roughly 2/3 of respondents answered "yes". Upper end (74% slightly above margin of error) may be attributable to people who don't subscribe (and cannot be polled) because it was important for them to access Netflix offline when they chose not to subscribe.
Karl Marx thought of it first.
Back in my dad's day on Madison Avenue, we hired real ladies with short skirts and tall hair to physically answer the phone and say, over and over again, "Thanks for your message, I'll deliver it to Mr. Draper in the morning. And thanks for calling". Dagnab world is going to hell, autoreply my ass. Get offa my lawn
The idea to "copyright" the physical description of the device, and hence repair instructions, was a legal maneuver to end-run the warranty laws after Vance Packard's 1960 seminal expose "The Waste Makers" described efforts to insert parts that would fail and other "planned obsolescence" laws. By the 1990s, Hitachi was the only electronics manufacturer to allow its repair manuals to be issued online.
This is a major reason that used electronics get exported to countries where repair is common and $100 legal stationery is ignored. And a major reason congresspeople like Gene Green of Dell - oops - I mean Texas keeps reintroducing laws to ban export of said repairable devices (not "fully functioning") with a sole exception of OEMs sending for warranty repair (because they realize the repair market was driven overseas - they just don't want us to know about it).
1. Intimidate and price-out domestic reuse and repair markets
2. Racially profile, slander, propaganda "e-waste" export repair markets
3. Legislate against export to those markets
Can't remember the specific problems I had with it, but yeah, I owned one. I'm surprised to see it lauded since they don't sell all that well on ebay; my recycling company has huge boxes of them but they move very slowly, and the only wholesale volume markets offer scrap value only. But I admit they do sell, one by one, individually, for about $9.99 plus shipping, which is ok for old, used, non-antique (vintage) electronics, but not scaleable and not in the same league with other tech of the same vintage. Now take a Wyse-55 dumb terminal monitor, on the other hand, that will fetch $100 easy. Wish I would have kept the 5,000 or so of those we scrapped 15 years ago... and the PS1 IBM "clicky" keyboards sell for hundreds of dollars. I guess I don't see how the Linksys WRT54GL merits this attention as compared to (chills!) Okidata Microline dot matrix printers. I'd trade all our Linksys WRT54GL for a solid Oki 520.
Yes. Twitter is an excellent networking tool. The best way to use it is through the "search" box at the top right. Just now I typed in "Utah 3d Printer" https://twitter.com/search?q=U... and found stories about a Utah surgery and find https://3dprint.com/139265/bea... a story about use of 3d printers to use CAT scans to print a copy of her kidney, revealing the hidden tumor. If I was in Utah and involved in 3d printing, I'd now have a list of users who "tweeted" the story and some of them might likely become part of a useful network. I have actual examples as well where it has been of tremendous usefulness to me.
I see you aren't making much use of your @AnonymousCoward handle. For sure, there are many people on Twitter who don't know how to make most effective use of it... perhaps proportional to the internet community at large.
I'm a huge fan of EFF, iFixit, and other groups that supported and pushed this legislation. I hope my Monday morning quarterbacking isn't misconstrued. But I studied the USA's warranty and repair laws passed in the 1960s (Ralph Nader's origins), which were in response to Vance Packard's 1960 book "The Waste Makers". The allegations of "planned obsolescence" really alarmed people and led to the strongest car and electronics warranty laws in the world. Those laws are all completely out of date (predating software), but trying to start from scratch may be a tactical error.
Today's repair advocates, are in the right place... but perhaps missing out by by not recruiting some Consumer Rights veterans. Maybe they could market this to the retired people who remember the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act of 1975 etc. Seniors who, replaced their own auto spark plugs, they tend to vote in high numbers and could have been sending a signal to legislators. The advocacy I saw for this Right to Repair law was promoted by a younger, cooler, Makerspace set, I didn't see many allies from Ralph Nader's generation. It would be hard to win funding of VA hospitals without marketing it to/through the war Veterans. Just my 2 cents.
I was thinking, I hope they are planning a date figure, so in the future we can see street maps by date and year or decade. In the future it would be interesting to visit not just a place but a year. In the same way that old maps have value because political lines have changed, I hope Google Maps is investing in keeping the older data as the lines change. It would be good to see what Florida was like before it was submerged in water, for example.
just crashed. Thanks Obama
In the 1990s, there was a hydropulper (paper mill tech) in the basement of the Pentagon. Unfortunately they didn't have the rollers etc to produce recycled content paper out of it, but were halfway there.
Don't you miss the days of the big attacks? 9/11, Timothy McVeigh in Oklahoma, embassy bombings?
If the definition of "effective policy" is "terror doesn't make the news" then there can be no effective policy. Because whatever happens, however small, if it's the biggest outrage of the year, becomes the news cycle.
The number of deaths from violence, as a percentage of human deaths, goes down every century. We now mourn ten year wars whose total casualty counts for military are less than a single week in World War 1 or II. The press is trying to define "policy failure" as "something bad happened", and whatever the worst thing happens floats above the fold. The Orlando shootings were by a rather odorous loser that women don't like, who was obsessed about filming his first person shooter rampage on his smartphone. There's no indication of any potential by the guy to ever do anything as bad as Timothy McVeigh. But there will always be kids shooting 9 people in a church or something, and the papers will always lead with that story. It's the same trend that lends to "micro-aggression" at colleges, so many real threats have been solved that we need to "drill down" to have something to be concerned about.
Wherever the data is stored, in the cloud or at a terminal accessed by employees or printed on paper en route to a shredder, it's potentially exposed. The important thing is how it is stored. There should be a program to "camouflage" the data, give false positives or false negatives to everyone for everything, and create a million fake names to boot. The computer accessing could have a program filter key to remove the fake information. Maybe someone can think of something even more effective. What they should also be doing is selling fake and bad data anyplace data is being traded. Nature evolves camouflage, not invisibility, and that's probably good enough for my medical data.
Banning computing methods to hospitals just raises the cost of health care. Hospitals have already been sold a bill of goods on destruction of hard disks and paper shredding, or at least I've never seen evidence that the risk of data leakage from old hard drives and paper is anywhere close to the billions of dollars being spent on "certified" destruction. The point being, whenever there is a scintilla of a risk, there is a potential billion dollar industry to be created out of rigamarole. I'm not saying HIPPA isn't without value, but hospitals could save billions by hosing the paper records (soaking them to clunky clods) rather than shredding them, or by dropping the hard drives from 4 feet in the air. You don't have to ensure the data is safe from the Soviet spy who would access the POTUS computer, you have to ensure that the cost and time of accessing it is not economical. Thieves are rather more attuned to cost benefit than spies are, which is why spies are only after a fraction of a percentage of user data.
Slashdot now posts Kremlin "news"? The wikileaks article is nowhere nearly as specific as RT, mainly known for having English language newscasters quit on air live over being ordered to report false stories. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
http://theweek.com/articles/58...
Wife beater.
I think of the mass shootings the way I think of domestic abuse... not that much political thought going into it, it's mostly just anger and power displays. Islam has a particular problem with beaten women - sisters, mothers, daughters, wives. But that's actually more of an Arab issue, there really isn't the same wife-beating in muslim Bangladesh, Malaysia, Indonesia. It's worse in those countries than in the USA or EU, it's not that different from India, Nepal, China, etc.
I suspect most violence is committed by men that most women don't like. Timothy McVeigh couldn't get a date. Many muslims are losers with women, but it is being a loser with women, not the religion, which predicts the behavior. If you want a society which condemns mass violence, find one that successfully integrates women. If you want a serious boiling over incident, put a male authority mindset into a powerless position in a female-positive society. People are looking for commonalities "assault weapons" and "Islam". I think weakened males and empowered females creates a recipe for hopeless angry meaningless violence.
Timothy McVeigh was a dickless loser who fawned over Waco's Koresh. Dylann Roof was clearly dickless. The Boston marathon bombers had no dicks. And Syria is absent women, men only get women by committing war crimes and being awarded kidnapped Kurds. Society is getting better because women are more empowered, and the losers are the guys who thought "at least I'm not a woman" who suddenly find they are not only the bottom of the male gene pool, they are totally bottom. Even guys wouldn't kiss that asshole.
Last month I went to Taipei to interview a retired display device geek for a story I'm writing. He explained that the touch display technology was originally German, and that his mentor bought it from the German firm hoping to use it in touch screen ATM (CRT based, I think) when the German company went chapter 11 ("They had a great technology, but no application"). They got it to work on small LCDs, and the Taiwanese group pitched it to a company making Ipods for touch displays, he's not sure how it went from there to telephones. Apple got the guys mentor to open a shop in Vancouver to claim the device was independently developed there rather than Taiwan. I still don't have all the history covered, still grey areas, and I've been studying this for years. I don't understand the utility of asking juries to award $400M patent awards based on "telephones" with "rounded corners".
If DEA collects metadata, they can find which pharmacists, doctors, etc. are dishing out the opiods. I share peoples concern over DEA getting private data to go after buyers, but I was pretty freaked out by the sting that netted 140 pharmacists in a distribution ring in my home state of Arkansas last year. https://www.justice.gov/usao-e...
The shrillness of the anti-trade deal folks on the right and left try to make up in volume what they lack in economics. The USA lost nearly all of its textile jobs two decades ago, and the result was excellent. The textile unions had been unable to recruit younger people to work there, and people had to pay $65 for a pair of USA made blue jeans. Moving those jobs through NAFTA and other deals was uncomfortable for the people who lost those jobs, but 2 decades later it would not have mattered. Google supports TPP because they are intelligent and probably have seen the TED talks by Hans Rosling which pretty much demonstrate that everyone in the world has benefitted immensely from freer trade. https://www.ted.com/talks/hans... Most people on Slashdot agreed 15 years ago, it's strange to see this place go protectionist. Nationalism and protectionism suck.
Actually, it's precisely what got Apple in trouble in the early 90s.
IBM and Microsoft played nicely with Taiwanese and other white box manufactures, allowing common ATX parts and even reused components to lower the cost of the PC, while Apple refused to integrate. Foxconn and Android are about to give Apple some wicked deja vu.