Obviously this means we should abdicate (forcibly, if necessary) all control over our computing devices to large corporations with a vested interest in denying us the ability to use them as we see fit.
You buy stuff from trusted sources. There are a few trusted ones, and none of them have addresses in China. The people getting these infected apps knew damn well what they were doing. They had to make at lease one nonstandard setting, download in a nonstandard way, and launch the installation in a nonstandard way. Looking for Porn is my guess. I have very little sympathy.
The point is no one falls into this trap using the Google market or the upcoming Amazon market, or a couple others.
What this actually does is accept the fact that a corporate merger can specify what is blocked and what isn't. This is actually a dangerous trend for network neutrality, because we are seeing the Justice Department agree with the idea that what is blocked and what isn't is a matter of contractual language between corporations, instead of the inherent right to a free internet.
I fully agree, this construction of regulations via piecemeal contracts is a bad way to go.
This is not all that unusual as anyone who has ever signed a government contract will know, they almost always come with boilerplate committing you (the contractor) to follow laws that were never intended to apply to you specifically. Even County or City contracts can end up encumbering you with all sorts of regulations passed down from the federal level.
The bad part is that these restrictions can be waived at any time with no public notice by subsequent DOJ actions or by simply sneaking it into some other application or routine paperwork on the part of Comcast. You will never know when this happens.
Its nice to see the DOJ taking a proactive approach but this can be reversed at the whim of some mid-level bureaucrat at any time.
I downloaded Ubuntu a while back because it was simple to install, it was straightforward to use, and it meant I didn't have to spend my time doing sysadmin-y things.
But what is all this bullshit about integrated mp3 stores? I want a fucking operating system with some basic general-purpose tools. If I want to buy mp3's I'll go do that; I don't want my operating system worrying about how I should. (Of course, I expect my distribution to include a media/player/ -- that's something else entirely.)
Oh, climb down from that ledge before you hurt yourself.
You don't have to have anything to do with the mp3 store. Its a feature, not a requirement. You can install anything you want, and buy music any way you want, or not buy at all.
OSS programmers who finally find a way to get some meager return on their investment ought to at least use it to get some smoking good hardware in return. Even if it doesn't pay all the bills, donating ALL it to someone else's project seems pointless.
Giving it all away to GNOME never made any sense in the first place. And the few shekels won't even show up on Gannonical's bottom line.
But more to the point, this type of funding arrangement, where a couple cents here are earned, essentially as a sales commission, or from embedded ads, are becoming the norm in many Android Apps.
Do we want it in Linux as well? Will Libre Office start carrying banner ads from Google? Should more apps have a Donate button?
Terrific. And then when you try to pass these inoperable bills at Walmart they'll run them by a scanner to see if they are real and then refuse to accept them as valid currency. Congratulations! You just literally threw away perfectly good money in a fit of paranoia.
Nope.
Money is legal tender even if degraded.
That Crinkled, defaced, partially torn dollar is still a dollar. If it was valid the day it was issued its valid until destroyed. Even partially burned bills are still valid if they have enough characteristics intact to prove that they were valid when issued.
That their electronic device failed in service is not your fault, (even when it is your fault). There is no statute that enables them to track every bill, and declare your money invalid when that tracking device fails.
O, I don't know. Seems like 12 seconds in the microwave, or under a steam iron, or maybe thru the delicate cycle in the washer would pretty much render these inoperable.
>>> 4,000-line HOSTS files like I used to back in 1983,
Size Matters
Mine is 19,046 long.
Right, and any reasonably useful hosts file would several orders of magnitude larger and take several seconds to parse on the fastest of machines.
The assumption that we could do without DNS is ludicrous in this day and age. That the GP would suggest this on the same site that has been singing the praises of IPV6 after the exhaustion of IPV4 is totally asinine.
Yes there can be (and there are) alternative DNS roots, you could choose to use. But the suggestion we revert to hosts files for anything but the tiny specialized networks is useful as suggesting we all direct dial the New York Times to have the news read to us each morning.
From the article: "Splintering DNS forks the Internet so that Internet users might never know where to go to get domains, or what they might get. If they connected to some DNS directories, they might enter Coke.com and get Pepsi. Chaos could ensue. All for what Vixie sees as not a noble question to uphold the free spirit of the Internet but instead a self-serving marketing stunt intended to promote Kashpureff's own business. Some things, writes Vixie, should just work, and DNS is one of them."
I'm with Vixie on this one. You shouldn't jack with one of the fundamentals of the internet.
What you should or shouldn't do is all fine and dandy. Gentlemen do not read other Gentlemen's mail, and all that.
The fact that it could be done and was done so easily is something only a fool would ignore and hand waive away. Self serving stunt? Was there any clear and viable intent to profit? No. He knew the powers that be would have to act. His was an act of digital civil disobedience, which resulted (after far too long) in measures to prevent the hijacking.
There are plenty of reasons to dictate certain thing, wheels location for stability and transportability (bridge widths, RORO lash points) and be recoverable with current equipment., frames for strength, and driver position for consistency in convoys if nothing else. Engines as well, because somebody has to have training and spare parts and interchangeability is a good thing.
Right now is a pretty good time to be designing this sort of thing because we have a lot of guys with in-theater experience, and we JUST finished making what was a Jeep replacement into an armored vehicle at great expense in terms of money and lives. We've got guys in combat zones with widely differing terrain.
If we can guard against making the perfect vehicle for desert environments, (and thereby building an army perfectly suited to fighting the LAST war) we should be ok.
On the contrary, Mr Pontification, I have tried, and I Can't tell the difference. And no amount of badgering and blame shifting on your part is going to change that.
Its exactly YOUR attitude that has lead to the "backlash" (if that is how you insist on characterizing it).
Sometimes the emperor really is stark fucking naked.
But that never stopped the young from wasting far too much money on "high end" stereos for their car, then tune the exhaust so loud and run tires so stiff they can't even here their own music. (Although you can hear them coming for 4 blocks).
The amount you are willing to pay for stereo equipment seems to peak at 23, and from then on, is inversely proportionality to your age.
All the music I want is in my pocket. I'm done with the days of having to enjoy music only in one place, after insisting everybody else in the house STFU and learn to like MY CHOICE of music.
Packaged with seeds in the tongue doesn't sound too promising either. People wash sneakers. (Well, ok, Moms wash sneakers). And it rains. I'm not sure walking around with feet looking like a Chia Pet is going to be that big of a fashion statement.
Still there is a wide variety of what people consider biodegradable. Rock is biodegradable. Years ago several grocery chains came out with biodegradable plastic bags which they claimed would be degraded by sunlight.
Stapled to the side of my house, they showed not the slightest sign of weathering or degrading for 5 years till my wife made me take them down.
Out of sight out of mind. But how long in the ground?
Seriously, 10,000 911 calls is a huge number, even if 911 is being abused there were no doubt a lot of calls from people trapped in their homes (for people who have ditched their landlines) or cars.
Yes, a huge number. But the story doesn't indicate any source for that number.
Do they have pen data for that? Do they have calls that arrived, were answered, and then disconnected? And were they able to trace each of these numbers to verizon phones?
Or did they count 10k abandoned (oddly parked) cars and assume they all had Verizon?
But you can write a book or an article about Steve Jobs, and you can write w work of fiction that includes Steve Jobs as a central character. This is done every day of the week.
They are claiming a right to manage their own publicity. I have no idea where they got the idea such a right exists, but according to the summary and TFA, that is exactly what they care claiming.
But this story suggests this is not a copyrights issue, but rather a "publicity rights" issue.
the Tolkien estate,... alleged that it had a property right to commercially exploit the name and likeness of J.R.R. Tolkien. The estate also alleged that the cover art and typefaces in "Mirkwood" were similar to Tolkien's work to a degree that it would provoke unfair competition.
They are inventing a new right, apparently out of whole cloth, but certainly not based on copyright law. One can't copyright one's existence, and thereby prevent, say, a biography, a news report, or tabloid coverage.
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What makes you so sure a hacker written app would follow those rules?
Obviously this means we should abdicate (forcibly, if necessary) all control over our computing devices to large corporations with a vested interest in denying us the ability to use them as we see fit.
You buy stuff from trusted sources. There are a few trusted ones, and none of them have addresses in China.
The people getting these infected apps knew damn well what they were doing. They had to make at lease one nonstandard setting, download in a nonstandard way, and launch the installation in a nonstandard way. Looking for Porn is my guess. I have very little sympathy.
The point is no one falls into this trap using the Google market or the upcoming Amazon market, or a couple others.
What this actually does is accept the fact that a corporate merger can specify what is blocked and what isn't. This is actually a dangerous trend for network neutrality, because we are seeing the Justice Department agree with the idea that what is blocked and what isn't is a matter of contractual language between corporations, instead of the inherent right to a free internet.
I fully agree, this construction of regulations via piecemeal contracts is a bad way to go.
This is not all that unusual as anyone who has ever signed a government contract will know, they almost always come with boilerplate committing you (the contractor) to follow laws that were never intended to apply to you specifically. Even County or City contracts can end up encumbering you with all sorts of regulations passed down from the federal level.
The bad part is that these restrictions can be waived at any time with no public notice by subsequent DOJ actions or by simply sneaking it into some other application or routine paperwork on the part of Comcast. You will never know when this happens.
Its nice to see the DOJ taking a proactive approach but this can be reversed at the whim of some mid-level bureaucrat at any time.
They don't work in the dark.
They cost a forest and a polluted river.
They require huge structures to house them, constant vigilance to watch for mold and deterioration, mice and fire.
Caves are not where you find books.
They bring jack booted thugs to demand their surrender for burning.
Books have to be carried around, you can never carry very many of them. Moving house is a bitch.
Shipping them is expensive. Printing them is expensive. This leads to a artificial scarcity of ideas and knowledge.
Books out of print may never come back into print. If you didn't buy it then, it may not be possible ever again.
Long after the copyright has expired, the Physical DRM encumbering books still hinders their distribution and replication.
ok, I'll get off your lawn now.....
I downloaded Ubuntu a while back because it was simple to install, it was straightforward to use, and it meant I didn't have to spend my time doing sysadmin-y things.
But what is all this bullshit about integrated mp3 stores? I want a fucking operating system with some basic general-purpose tools. If I want to buy mp3's I'll go do that; I don't want my operating system worrying about how I should. (Of course, I expect my distribution to include a media /player/ -- that's something else entirely.)
Oh, climb down from that ledge before you hurt yourself.
You don't have to have anything to do with the mp3 store. Its a feature, not a requirement.
You can install anything you want, and buy music any way you want, or not buy at all.
Dammit, where are my mod points when I need them.
OSS programmers who finally find a way to get some meager return on their investment ought to at least use it to get some smoking good
hardware in return. Even if it doesn't pay all the bills, donating ALL it to someone else's project seems pointless.
Giving it all away to GNOME never made any sense in the first place. And the few shekels won't even show up
on Gannonical's bottom line.
But more to the point, this type of funding arrangement, where a couple cents here are earned, essentially as a sales
commission, or from embedded ads, are becoming the norm in many Android Apps.
Do we want it in Linux as well? Will Libre Office start carrying banner ads from Google? Should more apps
have a Donate button?
Terrific. And then when you try to pass these inoperable bills at Walmart they'll run them by a scanner to see if they are real and then refuse to accept them as valid currency. Congratulations! You just literally threw away perfectly good money in a fit of paranoia.
Nope.
Money is legal tender even if degraded.
That Crinkled, defaced, partially torn dollar is still a dollar. If it was valid the day it was issued its valid until destroyed. Even partially burned bills are still valid if they have enough characteristics intact to prove that they were valid when issued.
That their electronic device failed in service is not your fault, (even when it is your fault). There is no statute that enables them to track every bill, and declare your money invalid when that tracking device fails.
Don't shop at Walmart.
O, I don't know. Seems like 12 seconds in the microwave, or under a steam iron, or maybe thru the delicate cycle in the washer would pretty much render these inoperable.
>>> 4,000-line HOSTS files like I used to back in 1983,
Size Matters
Mine is 19,046 long.
Right, and any reasonably useful hosts file would several orders of magnitude larger and take several seconds to parse on the fastest of machines.
The assumption that we could do without DNS is ludicrous in this day and age. That the GP would suggest this on the same site that has been singing the praises of IPV6 after the exhaustion of IPV4 is totally asinine.
Yes there can be (and there are) alternative DNS roots, you could choose to use. But the suggestion we revert to hosts files for anything but the tiny specialized networks is useful as suggesting we all direct dial the New York Times to have the news read to us each morning.
From the article: "Splintering DNS forks the Internet so that Internet users might never know where to go to get domains, or what they might get. If they connected to some DNS directories, they might enter Coke.com and get Pepsi. Chaos could ensue. All for what Vixie sees as not a noble question to uphold the free spirit of the Internet but instead a self-serving marketing stunt intended to promote Kashpureff's own business. Some things, writes Vixie, should just work, and DNS is one of them."
I'm with Vixie on this one. You shouldn't jack with one of the fundamentals of the internet.
What you should or shouldn't do is all fine and dandy. Gentlemen do not read other Gentlemen's mail, and all that.
The fact that it could be done and was done so easily is something only a fool would ignore and hand waive away.
Self serving stunt? Was there any clear and viable intent to profit? No. He knew the powers that be would have
to act. His was an act of digital civil disobedience, which resulted (after far too long) in measures to prevent
the hijacking.
They have their own special definition of the word "found".
Take a lesson from Egypt.
There are plenty of reasons to dictate certain thing, wheels location for stability and transportability (bridge widths, RORO lash points) and be recoverable with current equipment., frames for strength, and driver position for consistency in convoys if nothing else. Engines as well, because somebody has to have training and spare parts and interchangeability is a good thing.
Right now is a pretty good time to be designing this sort of thing because we have a lot of guys with in-theater experience, and we JUST finished making what was a Jeep replacement into an armored vehicle at great expense in terms of money and lives. We've got guys in combat zones with widely differing terrain.
If we can guard against making the perfect vehicle for desert environments, (and thereby building an army perfectly suited to fighting the LAST war) we should be ok.
I've had teenagers.
They've had sneakers.
So.... Yeah, not only a good idea, but an absolute necessity.
On the contrary, Mr Pontification, I have tried, and I Can't tell the difference. And no amount of badgering and blame shifting on your part is going to change that.
Its exactly YOUR attitude that has lead to the "backlash" (if that is how you insist on characterizing it).
Sometimes the emperor really is stark fucking naked.
Very true
But that never stopped the young from wasting far too much money on "high end" stereos for their car, then tune the exhaust so loud and run tires so stiff they can't even here their own music. (Although you can hear them coming for 4 blocks).
The amount you are willing to pay for stereo equipment seems to peak at 23, and from then on, is inversely proportionality to your age.
All the music I want is in my pocket. I'm done with the days of having to enjoy music only in one place, after insisting everybody else in the house STFU and learn to like MY CHOICE of music.
With my middle of the road $100 Clarion car speakers I can tell the difference between a 128kbps mp3 and a CD.
Just you wait whipper-snapper.
Packaged with seeds in the tongue doesn't sound too promising either.
People wash sneakers. (Well, ok, Moms wash sneakers). And it rains.
I'm not sure walking around with feet looking like a Chia Pet is going to be that big of a fashion statement.
Still there is a wide variety of what people consider biodegradable. Rock is biodegradable. Years ago
several grocery chains came out with biodegradable plastic bags which they claimed would be degraded by sunlight.
Stapled to the side of my house, they showed not the slightest sign of weathering or degrading for
5 years till my wife made me take them down.
Out of sight out of mind. But how long in the ground?
And apparently no control group talked on a land line (wired either).
Seriously, 10,000 911 calls is a huge number, even if 911 is being abused there were no doubt a lot of calls from people trapped in their homes (for people who have ditched their landlines) or cars.
Yes, a huge number. But the story doesn't indicate any source for that number.
Do they have pen data for that? Do they have calls that arrived, were answered, and then disconnected?
And were they able to trace each of these numbers to verizon phones?
Or did they count 10k abandoned (oddly parked) cars and assume they all had Verizon?
Editorial = Commercial.
Only internet bloggers work for free.
But you can write a book or an article about Steve Jobs, and you can write w work of fiction that includes Steve Jobs as a central character.
This is done every day of the week.
Pay up. Fact or fiction isn't the issue.
They are claiming a right to manage their own publicity. I have no idea where they got the idea such a right exists, but according to the summary and TFA, that is exactly what they care claiming.
But this story suggests this is not a copyrights issue, but rather a "publicity rights" issue.
the Tolkien estate, ... alleged that it had a property right to commercially exploit the name and likeness of J.R.R. Tolkien. The estate also alleged that the cover art and typefaces in "Mirkwood" were similar to Tolkien's work to a degree that it would provoke unfair competition.
They are inventing a new right, apparently out of whole cloth, but certainly not based on copyright law.
One can't copyright one's existence, and thereby prevent, say, a biography, a news report, or tabloid coverage.
Some counties in WA vote exclusively by mail in ballots already
MOST counties in Washington vote by mail. 38 of Washington's 39 counties vote by mail. Pierce County still maintains poll sites.
http://wei.secstate.wa.gov/osos/en/voterinformation/Pages/VotebyMailFAQ.aspx