You know, the quote button is an excellent choice for good answers to stupid questions - then you can be modded up and he modded to oblivion, while retaining everything that was written...;-)
To put it very simply, servers need to be able to resist things like Blue Pill and other advanced persistent threats. This is vital for secure data processing and storage, and therefore needed by many organisations, businesses and governments.
I can't wait until the first good, fairly inexpensive servers come with this option. That's the point at which I'm changing career paths over to Sales;-)
I'd try to withdraw as much money as i can using ATMs in the first 3 hours, after that burn all debit/credit cards.
I'd give the cards and the PIN to some random teenager about to head on a bus to elsewhere, preferably on a journey lasting several hours. Causes much more confusion than the electronic traces just vanishing.
That said, I don't particularly think that Hadopi is 'draconian'. I think some of its elements are questionable at best, but the core principle that you get warned a few times before your connection gets cut off isn't 'draconian'. If anything it's like (and yes, comparisons fail every single time) telling a thief that he was caught stealing and please don't steal again 2 times and only actually punish them the 3rd time.
What makes HADOPI draconian is that you don't have to get caught, you just have to get accused 3 times and you lose your internet for 2 months to 1 year. Yes, you can go to court, but only *after* this, and then you have the uphill battle of proving your innocence.
As such, HADOPI is in complete conflict with the principle of presumption of innocence - that the burden of proof should lay on the accused. This is a complete contravention of literally over a millennium of recognized legal tradition, and I hardly think calling it draconian is overstating it...
As to copyright extensions, literally hundreds of thousands of work were stolen that were humanity's common property - for the benefit of commercial entities. That you can pay to see (some of) your stolen objects doesn't mean they weren't stolen. With the latest US copyright extensions, and the secret treaties that they won't let us see, it's become completely clear that copyright is no longer about promoting progress of science and useful arts. It's about letting the rent-seeking parasites, who by the nature of their businesses are so profitable they can give vast amounts of money in buying useful laws, continue to rent our own culture to us for their profit.
I also think it's pretty damn close to a crime against humanity to let vast amounts of our culture simply vanish by neglect - they're copyrighted, so you can't copy them, and the company that owns them couldn't give less of a damn because they haven't been making the company money for 50 years.
"Hare writes that the difference between sociopathy and psychopathy may "reflect the user's views on the origins and determinates of the disorder." The term sociopathy may be preferred by sociologists that see the causes as due to social factors. The term psychopathy may be preferred by psychologists who see the causes as due to a combination of psychological, genetic, and environmental factors." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathy
Research suggests that, “psychopaths are a stable proportion of any population, can be from any segment of society, may constitute a distinct taxonomical class forged by frequency-dependent natural selection, and that the muting of the social emotions is the proximate mechanism that enables psychopaths to pursue their self-centered goals without felling the pangs of guilt. Sociopaths are more the products of adverse environmental experiences that affect autonomic nervous system and neurological development that may lead to physiological responses similar to those of psychopaths. Antisocial personality disorder is a legal/clinical label that may be applied to both psychopaths and sociopaths” (Walsh & Wu, 2008). http://blogs.psychcentral.com/forensic-focus/2010/07/sociopathy-vs-psychopathy/
And if you want a bit more about the history of socio/psychopaths, reading this article about sherlock holmes not being a sociopath might also be helpful.
Let's be honest - if copyright duration were reduced to those 5 years, or even 3, do you honestly believe that a significant portion of current 'pirates' would stop 'pirating' material that is not yet 3 years old?
No. I believe that if the powers that be hadn't committed the largest theft in the history of mankind - stealing the vast majority of our cultural works and hiding them away behind their paywalls (those they don't just let rot and vanish from the face of the earth so they won't compete with their new works), piracy would never have risen to the levels it's at now - and would be much harder to justify.
Now? It's too late. We've already got several generations hooked on easy, free, downloads. And strangely, when they succeed in lowering the rates of piracy by draconian measures (See France, Hadopi), it turns out that consumers end up buying *much less* of their products than before...
In addition to removing it from device administrators. Which is like 2 actual steps. It's very tame compared to what it _could_ take.
Does anyone have a decent remote kit for actually delousing Android phones? I've tried LogMeIn Rescue but the only thing their (premium, $79,- mo) mobile access for Rescue (which is £550 per user or so)...
The only thing this "cloud" application supports for Android is the ability to change network settings (which might be useful for reconfiguring devices, but hardly for rescuing them), and to set MMS settings.
Way to fail at that, LogMeIn. Fortunately, they let you trial it first, and I *did* end up buying Rescue itself.
Everything I've seen that even remotely works seem to demand full physical access to the phone, which seems a horrid oversight for a networked device ending up more and more often in Enterprise.
Any solutions? Anything at all for a (hypothetical) stressed-out SysAdmin who's suddenly gotten Android support in his lap? Please explain in detail, if possible:-)
Embassies universally have a lot of internal safeties. Tunnels out, many stories of bunkers under the main building or complex, secured rooms for destroying materials in the event of an attack, and a plethora of secret rooms and content-destroying safes. I doubt even little Ecuador has missed out on this.
There is probably already a plan in place. Assanage is on a lower level and has instructions on where to go if they get the intercom that the UK authorities HAVE truly lost their minds and are storming the place. In the time it takes them to get anywhere near him in the building, he'll be in a place that would take a crew with penetrating radar several days to find, assuming he's not long gone out a tunnel.
While your version undoubtedly would make a better action movie, I think your realism level suffers as a result.:-P
I'm in the Norwegian system, and we're fairly well covered. I got really really ill 3 years back, you see. Turned out, there were these infections in my brain. 7 of them. And the reason my head hurt was that they were all expanding so fast I was heading into a coma. That's what I was told later, though. The first night:
After being rushed into the ER and immidiately have 5 ER nurses and doctors (not sure how many was which) descend on me the moment I entered the ER, I was sent to a CT scan. She came back out, looked at me, and went back in to take another. Afterwards she told me: "You have had a small brain infarction", and my life ended. I thought.
After 3 days, they sent me to another, bigger, hospital. Because, as I gathered the reasoning was, they could *also* open up my brain to check out the infections, but this other hospital could put me back together afterwards, so that's where I was going.
During the next 5 weeks I am dying from one of the most common causes of my kind, runaway brain infections. As it turns out, after several doctors have taken a break from their vacation to answer important question... In fact, there were doctors all over Norway taking part in my diagnosis from the first night I was in hospital.
3 weeks in they've taken enough MR pictures, and tried enough antibiotics and anti-tuberculosis and... Well. I especially liked the one that made me vomit every time I took it after 30m-2hrs. It made all my bodily fluids completely red. I still feel a little sorry for whoever had to repeatedly clean the bathroom right next to the hospital smoking room after I'd been there... A couple of times it looked like a massacre, and when I tried to rub it off with paper it just smeared.
Suffice to say I was medicated, and to this day am I grateful for stereoids. They literally kept me alive for 5 weeks.
As I was saying, after 3 weeks they had enough MR pictures to program the robot that was to enter my brain, take a sample, and exit. I had to be awake for the brain surgery. One of the reasons is that if my kind gets full anaesthetic there's a 40% chance we never rise again.
They started by bolting a crown to my head. Just a circle, and bolts, all of which were drawn hard enough to stand firm in my cranium. Then, they started drilling. And I shall remember this feeling until the day I die. The universe was vibrating, and there was a sound that was more than a sound. And that sound was not entirely unlike a dental drill multiplied by... Something nicely logarithmic. I can't really even estimate it.
Then they asked me questions now and again. I was doped to the gills, and mostly was very bored and wanted it to be over... When it was over, they added morphine. Vast amounts of morphine. Unlike all the other patients in the communal waking room, I wasn't sleeping. I was just in gradually^H^H rapidly rising pain.
Later that night, when I was back in my very comfortable single room, I went to the bathroom, and fell partially asleep... This is my morphine-fueled dream:
The interplanetary patent office, due to a severe temporal/causal blunder, has released the iPhone 12 instead of the iPhone 2 (which actually was releasing that day or one of the immidiately surrounding ones). I was holding an iPhone 12. This new model especially had this very interesting function I wanted to test. If you flipped your phone over to the left, it replicated, instantaneously creating a perfect copy of itself that you could lend to a friend. This copy would last for 12 hours. Unfortunately, the phone I'd gotten was bugged, and when I flipped it over to the left it just Made My Head Hurt Really Bad.
All in all, the state spent... I don't know: Ambulance, 7 km. Air ambulance, 1hr30m. 10 weeks, mostly in solitary room in the most expensive department of the hospital. Infections. The room I slept in part of the time there probably cost many times what my house did. Unknown number of doctors * unknown number of hours, bu
Citation needed. Can't find anything about that. (That some anti-psychotics are addictive? Yes. But that they're the most addictive drugs in the world?)
How does this get to +5 informative without a single citation? At a glance it looks like something you'd pick up at a Scientology seminar...
This is Lamar Smith [...] Also I'm making sure Half Life 3 is only released on Origin.
You think YOUR petty Congressman can make MY Valve Corporation release their own game not on their OWN Steam network but only on the cesspit-from-hell-that-is-EA's awful platform!?
Screw Net Neutrality, screw internet surveillance - THIS would actually get the geeks revolting!;-)
I've bought quite a lot of games and apps on my Android phone. [...]I have never come up against and form of annoying DRM. What ARE you talking about?
If you don't have an internet connection on your Android* for a while and use certain programs (that verify Android DRM almost every time), you will certainly experience what Android DRM is all about...
(* Like, if you use prepaid and run out of data, you fall outside your carrier's 3g network, you only use your wifi at home to download programs and use your android mostly for games on the bus... In these cases you will, eventually, run into the DRM system in a head-meets-wall kind of way that won't let you use the program/game until you reestablish a connection to the Internet.)
Might want to update your belief system: Androids sold - ~900 million iOS gadgets sold - ~100 million
Might want some actual facts to back that up with: June 27th, Google I/O: "Google during its annual I/O Developer Conference in San Francisco on Wednesday unveiled that 400 million Android devices have now been activated and a total of one million new Andro id devices are activated each day. "
March 7th, Apple Event "While we wait for the new iPad to officially take the stage in San Francisco, Apple CEO Tim Cook has just taken the opportunity to rattle off some impressive numbers for the company’s iOS devices. The company has sold a total of 315 million iPads, iPhones, and iPod Touches, with a full 62 million of those iOS-powered devices being sold in Q4 2011 alone."
So Google is winning...? Maybe? Depends what Apple rattles off at the next IOS fanboy rapture event. Apple is certainly winning in profitability, although Samsung isn't doing so badly either.
In the entire mobile phone market (a somewhat different market than Android VS IOS) in 2011, Apple made ~70% of the profit, while Samsung made ~20%.
These will in all likelihood be internet-connected, to allow people to browse YouTube and whatnot.
So, in 4 easy steps: 1: Hack TV, stream all video to your server 2: Discard any pictures not showing enough skin tone (reverse porn filter) 3: Blackmail person owning the TV, "If you don't pay us, all your Facebook friends will receive these naked pictures/pictures of you masturbating" 4: Profit
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You know, the quote button is an excellent choice for good answers to stupid questions - then you can be modded up and he modded to oblivion, while retaining everything that was written... ;-)
To put it very simply, servers need to be able to resist things like Blue Pill and other advanced persistent threats.
This is vital for secure data processing and storage, and therefore needed by many organisations, businesses and governments.
I can't wait until the first good, fairly inexpensive servers come with this option. That's the point at which I'm changing career paths over to Sales ;-)
I'd try to withdraw as much money as i can using ATMs in the first 3 hours, after that burn all debit/credit cards.
I'd give the cards and the PIN to some random teenager about to head on a bus to elsewhere, preferably on a journey lasting several hours. Causes much more confusion than the electronic traces just vanishing.
Ran out of points - mod parent up
That said, I don't particularly think that Hadopi is 'draconian'. I think some of its elements are questionable at best, but the core principle that you get warned a few times before your connection gets cut off isn't 'draconian'. If anything it's like (and yes, comparisons fail every single time) telling a thief that he was caught stealing and please don't steal again 2 times and only actually punish them the 3rd time.
What makes HADOPI draconian is that you don't have to get caught, you just have to get accused 3 times and you lose your internet for 2 months to 1 year.
Yes, you can go to court, but only *after* this, and then you have the uphill battle of proving your innocence.
As such, HADOPI is in complete conflict with the principle of presumption of innocence - that the burden of proof should lay on the accused.
This is a complete contravention of literally over a millennium of recognized legal tradition, and I hardly think calling it draconian is overstating it...
As to copyright extensions, literally hundreds of thousands of work were stolen that were humanity's common property - for the benefit of commercial entities. That you can pay to see (some of) your stolen objects doesn't mean they weren't stolen. With the latest US copyright extensions, and the secret treaties that they won't let us see, it's become completely clear that copyright is no longer about promoting progress of science and useful arts.
It's about letting the rent-seeking parasites, who by the nature of their businesses are so profitable they can give vast amounts of money in buying useful laws, continue to rent our own culture to us for their profit.
I also think it's pretty damn close to a crime against humanity to let vast amounts of our culture simply vanish by neglect - they're copyrighted, so you can't copy them, and the company that owns them couldn't give less of a damn because they haven't been making the company money for 50 years.
"Hare writes that the difference between sociopathy and psychopathy may "reflect the user's views on the origins and determinates of the disorder." The term sociopathy may be preferred by sociologists that see the causes as due to social factors. The term psychopathy may be preferred by psychologists who see the causes as due to a combination of psychological, genetic, and environmental factors."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathy
Research suggests that, “psychopaths are a stable proportion of any population, can be from any segment of society, may constitute a distinct taxonomical class forged by frequency-dependent natural selection, and that the muting of the social emotions is the proximate mechanism that enables psychopaths to pursue their self-centered goals without felling the pangs of guilt. Sociopaths are more the products of adverse environmental experiences that affect autonomic nervous system and neurological development that may lead to physiological responses similar to those of psychopaths. Antisocial personality disorder is a legal/clinical label that may be applied to both psychopaths and sociopaths” (Walsh & Wu, 2008).
http://blogs.psychcentral.com/forensic-focus/2010/07/sociopathy-vs-psychopathy/
And if you want a bit more about the history of socio/psychopaths, reading this article about sherlock holmes not being a sociopath might also be helpful.
Let's be honest - if copyright duration were reduced to those 5 years, or even 3, do you honestly believe that a significant portion of current 'pirates' would stop 'pirating' material that is not yet 3 years old?
No. I believe that if the powers that be hadn't committed the largest theft in the history of mankind - stealing the vast majority of our cultural works and hiding them away behind their paywalls (those they don't just let rot and vanish from the face of the earth so they won't compete with their new works), piracy would never have risen to the levels it's at now - and would be much harder to justify.
Now? It's too late. We've already got several generations hooked on easy, free, downloads.
And strangely, when they succeed in lowering the rates of piracy by draconian measures (See France, Hadopi), it turns out that consumers end up buying *much less* of their products than before...
In addition to removing it from device administrators. Which is like 2 actual steps. It's very tame compared to what it _could_ take.
Does anyone have a decent remote kit for actually delousing Android phones? I've tried LogMeIn Rescue but the only thing their (premium, $79,- mo) mobile access for Rescue (which is £550 per user or so)...
The only thing this "cloud" application supports for Android is the ability to change network settings (which might be useful for reconfiguring devices, but hardly for rescuing them), and to set MMS settings.
Way to fail at that, LogMeIn. Fortunately, they let you trial it first, and I *did* end up buying Rescue itself.
Everything I've seen that even remotely works seem to demand full physical access to the phone, which seems a horrid oversight for a networked device ending up more and more often in Enterprise.
Any solutions? Anything at all for a (hypothetical) stressed-out SysAdmin who's suddenly gotten Android support in his lap? :-)
Please explain in detail, if possible
Embassies universally have a lot of internal safeties. Tunnels out, many stories of bunkers under the main building or complex, secured rooms for destroying materials in the event of an attack, and a plethora of secret rooms and content-destroying safes. I doubt even little Ecuador has missed out on this.
There is probably already a plan in place. Assanage is on a lower level and has instructions on where to go if they get the intercom that the UK authorities HAVE truly lost their minds and are storming the place. In the time it takes them to get anywhere near him in the building, he'll be in a place that would take a crew with penetrating radar several days to find, assuming he's not long gone out a tunnel.
While your version undoubtedly would make a better action movie, I think your realism level suffers as a result. :-P
I've run out of mod points, so mod parent up.
I'm in the Norwegian system, and we're fairly well covered. I got really really ill 3 years back, you see. Turned out, there were these infections in my brain. 7 of them. And the reason my head hurt was that they were all expanding so fast I was heading into a coma. That's what I was told later, though. The first night:
After being rushed into the ER and immidiately have 5 ER nurses and doctors (not sure how many was which) descend on me the moment I entered the ER, I was sent to a CT scan. She came back out, looked at me, and went back in to take another. Afterwards she told me: "You have had a small brain infarction", and my life ended. I thought.
After 3 days, they sent me to another, bigger, hospital. Because, as I gathered the reasoning was, they could *also* open up my brain to check out the infections, but this other hospital could put me back together afterwards, so that's where I was going.
During the next 5 weeks I am dying from one of the most common causes of my kind, runaway brain infections. As it turns out, after several doctors have taken a break from their vacation to answer important question... In fact, there were doctors all over Norway taking part in my diagnosis from the first night I was in hospital.
3 weeks in they've taken enough MR pictures, and tried enough antibiotics and anti-tuberculosis and... Well. I especially liked the one that made me vomit every time I took it after 30m-2hrs. It made all my bodily fluids completely red. I still feel a little sorry for whoever had to repeatedly clean the bathroom right next to the hospital smoking room after I'd been there... A couple of times it looked like a massacre, and when I tried to rub it off with paper it just smeared.
Suffice to say I was medicated, and to this day am I grateful for stereoids. They literally kept me alive for 5 weeks.
As I was saying, after 3 weeks they had enough MR pictures to program the robot that was to enter my brain, take a sample, and exit. I had to be awake for the brain surgery. One of the reasons is that if my kind gets full anaesthetic there's a 40% chance we never rise again.
They started by bolting a crown to my head. Just a circle, and bolts, all of which were drawn hard enough to stand firm in my cranium.
Then, they started drilling. And I shall remember this feeling until the day I die. The universe was vibrating, and there was a sound that was more than a sound. And that sound was not entirely unlike a dental drill multiplied by... Something nicely logarithmic. I can't really even estimate it.
Then they asked me questions now and again. I was doped to the gills, and mostly was very bored and wanted it to be over... When it was over, they added morphine. Vast amounts of morphine. Unlike all the other patients in the communal waking room, I wasn't sleeping. I was just in gradually^H^H rapidly rising pain.
Later that night, when I was back in my very comfortable single room, I went to the bathroom, and fell partially asleep... This is my morphine-fueled dream:
The interplanetary patent office, due to a severe temporal/causal blunder, has released the iPhone 12 instead of the iPhone 2 (which actually was releasing that day or one of the immidiately surrounding ones). I was holding an iPhone 12. This new model especially had this very interesting function I wanted to test. If you flipped your phone over to the left, it replicated, instantaneously creating a perfect copy of itself that you could lend to a friend. This copy would last for 12 hours. Unfortunately, the phone I'd gotten was bugged, and when I flipped it over to the left it just Made My Head Hurt Really Bad.
All in all, the state spent... I don't know:
Ambulance, 7 km. Air ambulance, 1hr30m. 10 weeks, mostly in solitary room in the most expensive department of the hospital. Infections. The room I slept in part of the time there probably cost many times what my house did.
Unknown number of doctors * unknown number of hours, bu
While we're at it, we might set up domain names like .fishing.net, .volleyball.net, and so on.
I've wanted there.is.no.net ever since the first Matrix movie...
A misquote, in fact. The real quote refers to military spending.
Citation needed. Can't find anything about that. (That some anti-psychotics are addictive? Yes. But that they're the most addictive drugs in the world?)
How does this get to +5 informative without a single citation? At a glance it looks like something you'd pick up at a Scientology seminar...
1. Buy oil stocks
2. Send fake tweet
3. Sell oil stocks after they go up
4. Profit
Not like it's that hard to figure out?
Alternative 2:
1. Send fake tweet.
2. Short oil stocks after they go up
3. Buy back and return after they go down again.
4. Profit
This is Lamar Smith [...] Also I'm making sure Half Life 3 is only released on Origin.
You think YOUR petty Congressman can make MY Valve Corporation release their own game not on their OWN Steam network but only on the cesspit-from-hell-that-is-EA's awful platform!?
Screw Net Neutrality, screw internet surveillance - THIS would actually get the geeks revolting! ;-)
I've bought quite a lot of games and apps on my Android phone. [...]I have never come up against and form of annoying DRM. What ARE you talking about?
If you don't have an internet connection on your Android* for a while and use certain programs (that verify Android DRM almost every time), you will certainly experience what Android DRM is all about...
(* Like, if you use prepaid and run out of data, you fall outside your carrier's 3g network, you only use your wifi at home to download programs and use your android mostly for games on the bus... In these cases you will, eventually, run into the DRM system in a head-meets-wall kind of way that won't let you use the program/game until you reestablish a connection to the Internet.)
>>>And they wonder why iOS stays on top.
Might want to update your belief system:
Androids sold - ~900 million
iOS gadgets sold - ~100 million
Might want some actual facts to back that up with:
June 27th, Google I/O:
"Google during its annual I/O Developer Conference in San Francisco on Wednesday unveiled that 400 million Android devices have now been activated and a total of one million new Andro
id devices are activated each day. "
March 7th, Apple Event
"While we wait for the new iPad to officially take the stage in San Francisco, Apple CEO Tim Cook has just taken the opportunity to rattle off some impressive numbers for the company’s iOS devices. The company has sold a total of 315 million iPads, iPhones, and iPod Touches, with a full 62 million of those iOS-powered devices being sold in Q4 2011 alone."
So Google is winning...? Maybe? Depends what Apple rattles off at the next IOS fanboy rapture event. Apple is certainly winning in profitability, although Samsung isn't doing so badly either.
In the entire mobile phone market (a somewhat different market than Android VS IOS) in 2011, Apple made ~70% of the profit, while Samsung made ~20%.
IOS device stats: http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/07/tim-cook-talks-ios-device-stats-315-million-sold-62-million-in-q4-alone/
Android device stats: http://www.bgr.com/2012/06/27/1-million-android-devices-activated-each-day-400-million-total/
Profits in mobile phone market: http://www.asymco.com/2012/05/03/the-phone-market-in-2012-a-tale-of-two-disruptions/
I think you're looking for http://www.wherethefuckshouldigotoeat.com/
I just tried it for Oslo, Norway. It directed me to a dentist's office...
Or we could use it to generate power
These will in all likelihood be internet-connected, to allow people to browse YouTube and whatnot.
So, in 4 easy steps:
1: Hack TV, stream all video to your server
2: Discard any pictures not showing enough skin tone (reverse porn filter)
3: Blackmail person owning the TV, "If you don't pay us, all your Facebook friends will receive these naked pictures/pictures of you masturbating"
4: Profit
Whilst dismissing what the Sun is doing...
Yup, the fact that the sun is cooling is definitively the answer to why our planet is getting hotter...
https://tpb.pirateparty.org.uk/
^_^
This proxy claims TPB is down, however connecting directly to thepiratebay.se works perfectly (and has never been faster for me)
*waves hand* These are not the movies you're looking for.
Mod parent up
http://www.ciclops.org/view_media/36124/Tethys_Rev_164_Raw_Preview_1
That's no moon. It's a space station!