Good analogy, and these guys seem unwilling to acknowledge how creepy this is! Even though it's anonymised, it's still stalking and building up a little profile of my online activities.
How far does one have to go before Rothenberg considers this to be stalking? Tying to real names? Rothenberg posting his semen soaked toenail clippings through the letterbox of that girl he one day follow on the bus until she reached her home?
And of course there's nothing stopping Rothenberg's bunch of self-entitled wastes of skin from producing their own browser! The AdBrowser could be designed with no blocking of cookies, tracking enabled by default and no blocking of Flash or pop-up windows.
The group in question is the Interactive Advertising Bureau, which is paid to rail against pretty much anything that makes it harder for advertisers to track people online.
I don't want these shitbags tracking my browsing history, which is why I block or otherwise restrict most cookies, and block web bugs. I'm fine though with adverts - just not Randall Rothenberg's view of spying being an acceptable price for free content. Bloody hell, even his name makes him sound like some 19th century mad industrialist, busy earning a fortune from grinding childrens' bones in to cosmetics.
Local law applies when you do business in that region. You can't relocate your servers to the fucking moon and then claim immunity to all earthly laws. The only way MS can evade US law is to relocate and to stop doing business in the US.
For the purposes of illustration, suppose the US was able to listen in on a North Korean spy that had just delivered a load of man portable anti-aircraft missiles to an al Qaida cell*. If the al Qaida leader had told the North Korean spy that he had a plan to shoot down a passenger jet at San Francisco airport, and the spy reported that back to headquarters, the US could intercept that message and know about it. There might be enough information in the spy's report (to whom the missiles were delivered, where, when, what they would be used for) to lead to an arrest of the terrorist. But if the source of the information leading to the arrest was made public, then North Korea would know that it didn't have secure communications with its spies in the field, and would change its codes and/or communication procedures. If it did that, the US would lose its ability to conduct surveillance of the spies of a hostile nation, which would be a pretty important thing to lose. There can be plenty of conundrums that arise from this sort of thing.
It is a problem, but even arresting the guy would could have the same impact. It's not as if his chums will assume that the SEALs came on account of those outstanding speeding tickets. Of course I understand that merely arresting the guy won't necessarily tip them off to the source.
I see a bigger problem in the form of evidence being kept secret and used against someone in a trial. That's a bigger risk, as at that point we may as well employ the Star Chamber for "terrorism".
I'm fine with evidence being kept secret for limited operational reasons, with suitable judicial oversight and disclosure of volume and reasons for these request, but not for it to allow Guantanamo Bay-like limbos to spring up.
I think he was more asking if you would notice such modifications just reading a book? It's very unlikely you would notice additional spaces added to a couple of hundred of pages of justified text.
Of course you could search for additional spaces, and whatever else they add. The point is that is it'd be additional work for you to perform searches/analysis, and hopefully a deterrent against copyright infringement. Ironically though I'd say the people who actually know this exists, and could be deterred by it, are the ones likely to know how to remove the DRM.
Reminds me of a discussion I had some time back, with a friend who tossed out the whole spiel on how suicide is cowardly and selfish, and that it's basically a conscious lack of will. Oddly enough their theory is slow in catching on among mental healthcare professionals and neurologists.
Yeah, it's heartbreaking when a friend has this anxiety thing. Can't reason them out of the lows, just have to be there for them. Oddly enough gaming is one of the ways a friend of mine deals with this stuff.
The telegram was from A.P. Tripathi, who runs an anticorruption nonprofit in Lucknow. Addressed to the president, prime minister, the minister for communications, and others, it said that he would engage in a Gandhian fast unto death if telegram services were shut down, and if he died, then the addressed officials would be responsible.
Man threatens to starve himself to death and claims that I'm the one to blame. I can't see any way to respond to this other than to say "sure, sounds good".
Slash is a news aggregator, and it's best to assume that summaries submitted by the the public will be of a pretty low standard. A Slashdot editor only has two things to do before posting a story.
1) Confirm the subject matter is kind of relevant and/or will generate some activity 2) Check for illegal or offensive content (including clicking the links).
No need to fact-check a story. In the future it's a job that'll be done by scripts, if that's not already the case. I welcome our robot overlords and would send them a congratulatory telegram if only telegrams existed anywhere outside of India.
Well considering the telegram would have to be 47 years from now, Charles would have to live to 111. Must be a frustrating life, he's now 64 and in an age where most are looking to settle into retirement he's still waiting for the "job" he's been chosen to do from birth. And if her mother is anything like her mother again, it might still take another 15 years because I definitively think this is going to be one of those "over my dead body" successions.
I know a lot of us are hoping that Liz outlives Charles. Charles is a nutjob who hasn't found an alternative medicine he doesn't like, and he earns a decent penny selling all kinds of woo.
We are one elderly woman's heartbeat away from having a fraudster and a lunatic as a head of state. Granted that'd probably improve relations
1) Is this broadly representative of the record business, or is it like my arguing for lower pensions across the board by citing the example of some rich London pensioner who lives in a palace and has loads of dogs?
2) Really, all of this decline is due to file sharing? Nothing else happening there? Is he reliant on a segment of the market that's being disproportionately affected by file sharing? Is he a drinker? Is he almost entirely focussed on disco music, and for some odd reason has seen his revenues steadily decline since the 80s? How about 9/11? Oddly enough my income in the IT industry has more than doubled since 9/11. Thanks, Osama!
I agree with you that creators should be allowed to assert control over their works (for a way shorter time period than we currently see). I just think your story of this producer is a bit "my cousin Billy said..."
Surely this level of pandering is an extremely bad thing?
Not necessarily. If the benefits of GNOME 3 aren't worth the costs of retraining, and GNOME 2 is sustainable for a reasonable period of time, then why switch?
Seems most sensible though when there's some planning for the future. Will GNOME 2 support their needs for the foreseeable future, and is this dallying nothing more than short term cost saving with no consideration given for the future?
Exactly! Yes they should get subpoenas. Is there some reason why police need to urgently check this at the scene? Worried that a driver would walk away from the crash and ten minutes later be speeding down the road while texting?
He could at least add a terrorist threat angle to this bullshittery.
Seems to be something that needs to, at least in part, be governed by a contract with the supplier. You might find yourself the scapegoat if off your own back you buile q Wallace & Gromit inspired steam-powered Kill'O'Network contraption.
Also, what exactly does he think these 10 iPads are going to do? Magically maintain themselves while also writing a compatibility layer to allow all the shitty in-house windows-only (sometimes DOS-only) applications to run on them?
Of course not. They'd have Capita or EDS come on board as consultants for the deployment. The consultants would fill their pockets, and some politicians and high-up civil servants would ensure a job on leaving office. Employees, struggling with a severely impractical but sexy solution would switch to using post-it notes and pens, thus reducing government spending on treatments for RSI and similar computer-caused ailments. The savings made here would reduce the overall annual cost per device to £8000, down from £10,000, which is only £2000 more than the current inefficient, non-sexy solution.
Even though it would seem that the new solution is in fact more expensive, through PFI costs can be amortised over a long period of time, bringing the annual cost per device down to £5000, which when interest payments and overhead are included, brings annual cost to just £7000 per head. By then selling the employees to the consultancy company and buying them back on a hire purchase scheme, wages of the employees can be reduced to help pay for the increased annual costs of running the new devices. I'd be pretty confident projected costs can be reduced to £6000, which will of course increase due to a combination of government management moving the goalposts and the consultants running hopelessly over-budget due to their incredibly low bid winning over an existing organisation with reasonable costs and a proven track record.
This doesn't make sense. Random bits are of the same as bits that can be decrypted. To follow your reasoning, taking a picture and slicing it in to tiny jigsaw piece would be equivalent to blank paper and bottles of ink.
That's a pretty cynical view, of the kind normally espoused by the personality that'd seeks to tie all current failings to some injustice, perceived or real, in the distant past.
In grinding this axe you're ignoring the most obvious barriers to round-robin systems for science fairs: Travel and administration costs.
Will all competitors travel around the country (or even just the state) for each contest, or will they be held in a central location to which every single entrant must attend? Remote conferencing could mitigate some costs, yet it's still going to be a big investment to develop and maintain a workable solution.
While a round robin system in theory is better in terms of finding the truly best entries, the logistics and costs would surely affect lower income families. I don't doubt that there's some expediency pushed by "bureaucrats". I'm just not bitter or cynical enough to ignore the obvious cost and logistical issues inherent to round robin structures. I'd suggest you get over whatever happened to you in school.
It sounds so fucking dated, like a rich white guy wandering in to the projects, asking the kids: "hey, do you like the hip hops? Snoopy Doo is my favourite!"
Cybernauts! That's the proper name for those of us who surf the information superhighway.
How do you imagine it? Sitting next to the kid and watching over her/his shoulder?
How about we grow up as a society and rely on education instead of prohibition? How about explaining to a child what porn is and how it relates to sex and leave her/him make decisions.
But no, it could be awkward, stressful and demand something like actual parenting. Forget it, censor this shit off my internets!
The child can learn about sex on their wedding night. Prior to that no-one really has much of an interest anyway and certainly won't be finding ways to slake that curiosity.
Steam has root access? That's news to me. I run as a non-admin user, and have never seen elevated privileges outside of Steam client updates. Games are stored in ~/Library so there's no higher access needed for installing and updating games. I don't see any kexts or system level daemons.
What makes you suspect Steam is doing what you claim?
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Good analogy, and these guys seem unwilling to acknowledge how creepy this is! Even though it's anonymised, it's still stalking and building up a little profile of my online activities.
How far does one have to go before Rothenberg considers this to be stalking? Tying to real names? Rothenberg posting his semen soaked toenail clippings through the letterbox of that girl he one day follow on the bus until she reached her home?
And of course there's nothing stopping Rothenberg's bunch of self-entitled wastes of skin from producing their own browser! The AdBrowser could be designed with no blocking of cookies, tracking enabled by default and no blocking of Flash or pop-up windows.
I'm sure it'd be popular.
The group in question is the Interactive Advertising Bureau, which is paid to rail against pretty much anything that makes it harder for advertisers to track people online.
I don't want these shitbags tracking my browsing history, which is why I block or otherwise restrict most cookies, and block web bugs. I'm fine though with adverts - just not Randall Rothenberg's view of spying being an acceptable price for free content. Bloody hell, even his name makes him sound like some 19th century mad industrialist, busy earning a fortune from grinding childrens' bones in to cosmetics.
Local law applies when you do business in that region. You can't relocate your servers to the fucking moon and then claim immunity to all earthly laws. The only way MS can evade US law is to relocate and to stop doing business in the US.
Market != platform
For the purposes of illustration, suppose the US was able to listen in on a North Korean spy that had just delivered a load of man portable anti-aircraft missiles to an al Qaida cell*. If the al Qaida leader had told the North Korean spy that he had a plan to shoot down a passenger jet at San Francisco airport, and the spy reported that back to headquarters, the US could intercept that message and know about it. There might be enough information in the spy's report (to whom the missiles were delivered, where, when, what they would be used for) to lead to an arrest of the terrorist. But if the source of the information leading to the arrest was made public, then North Korea would know that it didn't have secure communications with its spies in the field, and would change its codes and/or communication procedures. If it did that, the US would lose its ability to conduct surveillance of the spies of a hostile nation, which would be a pretty important thing to lose. There can be plenty of conundrums that arise from this sort of thing.
It is a problem, but even arresting the guy would could have the same impact. It's not as if his chums will assume that the SEALs came on account of those outstanding speeding tickets. Of course I understand that merely arresting the guy won't necessarily tip them off to the source.
I see a bigger problem in the form of evidence being kept secret and used against someone in a trial. That's a bigger risk, as at that point we may as well employ the Star Chamber for "terrorism".
I'm fine with evidence being kept secret for limited operational reasons, with suitable judicial oversight and disclosure of volume and reasons for these request, but not for it to allow Guantanamo Bay-like limbos to spring up.
I think he was more asking if you would notice such modifications just reading a book? It's very unlikely you would notice additional spaces added to a couple of hundred of pages of justified text.
Of course you could search for additional spaces, and whatever else they add. The point is that is it'd be additional work for you to perform searches/analysis, and hopefully a deterrent against copyright infringement. Ironically though I'd say the people who actually know this exists, and could be deterred by it, are the ones likely to know how to remove the DRM.
Reminds me of a discussion I had some time back, with a friend who tossed out the whole spiel on how suicide is cowardly and selfish, and that it's basically a conscious lack of will. Oddly enough their theory is slow in catching on among mental healthcare professionals and neurologists.
Yeah, it's heartbreaking when a friend has this anxiety thing. Can't reason them out of the lows, just have to be there for them. Oddly enough gaming is one of the ways a friend of mine deals with this stuff.
The telegram was from A.P. Tripathi, who runs an anticorruption nonprofit in Lucknow. Addressed to the president, prime minister, the minister for communications, and others, it said that he would engage in a Gandhian fast unto death if telegram services were shut down, and if he died, then the addressed officials would be responsible.
Man threatens to starve himself to death and claims that I'm the one to blame. I can't see any way to respond to this other than to say "sure, sounds good".
In this case the actual story is itself incorrect. Still, it wouldn't have been too difficult to research this one:
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=telegrams
Slash is a news aggregator, and it's best to assume that summaries submitted by the the public will be of a pretty low standard. A Slashdot editor only has two things to do before posting a story.
1) Confirm the subject matter is kind of relevant and/or will generate some activity
2) Check for illegal or offensive content (including clicking the links).
No need to fact-check a story. In the future it's a job that'll be done by scripts, if that's not already the case. I welcome our robot overlords and would send them a congratulatory telegram if only telegrams existed anywhere outside of India.
Well considering the telegram would have to be 47 years from now, Charles would have to live to 111. Must be a frustrating life, he's now 64 and in an age where most are looking to settle into retirement he's still waiting for the "job" he's been chosen to do from birth. And if her mother is anything like her mother again, it might still take another 15 years because I definitively think this is going to be one of those "over my dead body" successions.
I know a lot of us are hoping that Liz outlives Charles. Charles is a nutjob who hasn't found an alternative medicine he doesn't like, and he earns a decent penny selling all kinds of woo.
We are one elderly woman's heartbeat away from having a fraudster and a lunatic as a head of state. Granted that'd probably improve relations
Heh heh. Best typo of the day.
Women are beautiful. Men like looking at them. Women like looking at them. Who is complaining?
My girlfriend if I look at those women.
I'm just not seeing causation in your story.
1) Is this broadly representative of the record business, or is it like my arguing for lower pensions across the board by citing the example of some rich London pensioner who lives in a palace and has loads of dogs?
2) Really, all of this decline is due to file sharing? Nothing else happening there? Is he reliant on a segment of the market that's being disproportionately affected by file sharing? Is he a drinker? Is he almost entirely focussed on disco music, and for some odd reason has seen his revenues steadily decline since the 80s? How about 9/11? Oddly enough my income in the IT industry has more than doubled since 9/11. Thanks, Osama!
I agree with you that creators should be allowed to assert control over their works (for a way shorter time period than we currently see). I just think your story of this producer is a bit "my cousin Billy said..."
Surely this level of pandering is an extremely bad thing?
Not necessarily. If the benefits of GNOME 3 aren't worth the costs of retraining, and GNOME 2 is sustainable for a reasonable period of time, then why switch?
Seems most sensible though when there's some planning for the future. Will GNOME 2 support their needs for the foreseeable future, and is this dallying nothing more than short term cost saving with no consideration given for the future?
Exactly! Yes they should get subpoenas. Is there some reason why police need to urgently check this at the scene? Worried that a driver would walk away from the crash and ten minutes later be speeding down the road while texting?
He could at least add a terrorist threat angle to this bullshittery.
And you'd be helping whites or blacks, if one or both of those groups are under-represented in tech.
Seems to be something that needs to, at least in part, be governed by a contract with the supplier. You might find yourself the scapegoat if off your own back you buile q Wallace & Gromit inspired steam-powered Kill'O'Network contraption.
Also, what exactly does he think these 10 iPads are going to do? Magically maintain themselves while also writing a compatibility layer to allow all the shitty in-house windows-only (sometimes DOS-only) applications to run on them?
Of course not. They'd have Capita or EDS come on board as consultants for the deployment. The consultants would fill their pockets, and some politicians and high-up civil servants would ensure a job on leaving office. Employees, struggling with a severely impractical but sexy solution would switch to using post-it notes and pens, thus reducing government spending on treatments for RSI and similar computer-caused ailments. The savings made here would reduce the overall annual cost per device to £8000, down from £10,000, which is only £2000 more than the current inefficient, non-sexy solution.
Even though it would seem that the new solution is in fact more expensive, through PFI costs can be amortised over a long period of time, bringing the annual cost per device down to £5000, which when interest payments and overhead are included, brings annual cost to just £7000 per head. By then selling the employees to the consultancy company and buying them back on a hire purchase scheme, wages of the employees can be reduced to help pay for the increased annual costs of running the new devices. I'd be pretty confident projected costs can be reduced to £6000, which will of course increase due to a combination of government management moving the goalposts and the consultants running hopelessly over-budget due to their incredibly low bid winning over an existing organisation with reasonable costs and a proven track record.
This doesn't make sense. Random bits are of the same as bits that can be decrypted. To follow your reasoning, taking a picture and slicing it in to tiny jigsaw piece would be equivalent to blank paper and bottles of ink.
Call me Fred. It was definitely a Tuesday.
That's a pretty cynical view, of the kind normally espoused by the personality that'd seeks to tie all current failings to some injustice, perceived or real, in the distant past.
In grinding this axe you're ignoring the most obvious barriers to round-robin systems for science fairs: Travel and administration costs.
Will all competitors travel around the country (or even just the state) for each contest, or will they be held in a central location to which every single entrant must attend? Remote conferencing could mitigate some costs, yet it's still going to be a big investment to develop and maintain a workable solution.
While a round robin system in theory is better in terms of finding the truly best entries, the logistics and costs would surely affect lower income families. I don't doubt that there's some expediency pushed by "bureaucrats". I'm just not bitter or cynical enough to ignore the obvious cost and logistical issues inherent to round robin structures. I'd suggest you get over whatever happened to you in school.
It sounds so fucking dated, like a rich white guy wandering in to the projects, asking the kids: "hey, do you like the hip hops? Snoopy Doo is my favourite!"
Cybernauts! That's the proper name for those of us who surf the information superhighway.
How do you imagine it? Sitting next to the kid and watching over her/his shoulder?
How about we grow up as a society and rely on education instead of prohibition? How about explaining to a child what porn is and how it relates to sex and leave her/him make decisions.
But no, it could be awkward, stressful and demand something like actual parenting. Forget it, censor this shit off my internets!
The child can learn about sex on their wedding night. Prior to that no-one really has much of an interest anyway and certainly won't be finding ways to slake that curiosity.
Steam has root access? That's news to me. I run as a non-admin user, and have never seen elevated privileges outside of Steam client updates. Games are stored in ~/Library so there's no higher access needed for installing and updating games. I don't see any kexts or system level daemons.
What makes you suspect Steam is doing what you claim?