Countries that do not like freedom of expression will do a lot to prevent it, including going into conflicts or trying to push treaties and international agreements that conflate freedom of expression and terrorism.
No country likes freedom of expression. Why would they? It's always easier to control people for your benefit if they're ignorant and unorganized. And to make matters worse, most countries are also infested by powerful corporations that much prefer the ability to censor any negative reviews on their products or *gasp* calls for social justice.
Freedom of expression is good for the people as a whole, while censorship is good for the rich and the powerful. The latter pull the shots everywhere, thus the brief day of freedom is coming to an end as the night of tyranny falls once again to cover the whole planet with an iron heel, just like it has for most of human history. In the end, humanity can't rise above its true nature.
Yet the owners with the highest number of shares, the Waltons (all 4 of them), each walk away with billions per year, while the people working there live just below the poverty line.
Well, that is the whole point of Capitalism: it's Feudalism 2.0, with some of the dogma changed to a new wording - for example, rather than talking about the Divine Right of Kings, they talk about Property Rights, and rather than talking about God, they talk about the Invisible Hand of the Market. But it all works out to the same: the nobility benefits at the expense of everyone else.
I think this is an abuse of the DMCA (some would argue that any use of it is abuse, but that's a different topic.)
No, that's not a different topic. The purpose of DMCA is to make it convenient for corporations to censor any and all information that they find inconvenient. There's no imaginable use of the DMCA that isn't abuse; that means that the law is bad and the people who passed it are corrupt.
In other words, this isn't abuse of the DMCA, this is using it exactly as intended.
While you are correct,/. is comprised of a shocking number of aspiring and succeeding Chairman Bobs.
Slashdot is comprised of a shocking number of John Galt wannebes with some succesful consultants thrown in, and a few people running a business employing a few persons. Chairmen congregate on business magazines websites, where they whine about the eeeevil minimum wage laws and unemployment benefits eating into their profits since they make the masses less desperate.
But don't worry, Bobbys of this world: we'll return to your feudal utopia soon enough. Libertarians and other right-wing scum won't rest until the powerful are free to oppress the without interference.
So, what does it matter of the grocer's overhead went down $30 an hour or if Chairman Bob had to mortgage his house and sell his daughter into prostitution? You get those benefits either way, and the prices you pay will have little to do with whether or not they offer automated checkouts.
The more money Chairman Bob gets, the more bribes he can afford to give to the politicians, thus pushing this ever closer to feudalism. After all, Chairman Bob can make even more money if he gets those pesky minimum wage and employee rights and protection laws repealed.
Chairman Bob is your enemy. You have to deal with him, but you should be mindful of how these interactions increase his power. It matters, because all that power will be used against you, sooner or later.
Class warfare is alive and well, and you're losing.
Grey Goose is grain vodka, it is also crappy overpriced vodka.
How can you have crappy vodka? It's just alcohol and water. As long as both are reasonably pure, it should be impossible to tell one vodka from another, since there is no difference.
It makes no sense that "other people should be doing this for me" when all it involves is pressing a couple of buttons, and in the end the result is far more convenient - and should result in savings for you when the store or whatever has to employ less staff.
You won't get any savings, the owners pocket those. Also, since the store doesn't need that much staff, unemployment increases and depresses wages. Finally, if there's any kind of problem, you have no one to solve it.
Once again, profits are private, damage is collective. And people wonder why I'm leaning more and more towards communism the older I get...
Forgive my ignorance, as I don't use Twitter, but they're supposed to be massive and they make these sorts of mistakes? It's a simple message board, no?
Twitter is a simple message board, but it's accessed with virtual machines that were never designed but just kinda happened - in other words, modern browsers. Combine that with the attitude some people still have that you need to filter - enumerate all bad things and check for them - rather than simply escape the user-input string, and it shouldn't be a surprise that these things keep on happening.
Not that it really matters. An exploited website is like graffiti in real life: much ado about nothing.
I genuinely wonder if wholesale copy/paste of articles would be considered copyright infringement.
It's useful, so probably yes. After all, the purpose of copyright law is to inconvenience people as much as possible so that "copyright holders" get more opportunities to exctract profit.
Yes, it's those shades that keep the blinding light of the sun out of my eyes when flying above the clouds. I imagine only the floor would be transparent one would hope so that passengers could actually enjoy a comfortable flight without worry about having to suffer permanent blindness.
Carefully feel above and below your eyes. Feel those flaps of skin? They're called eyelids. You can close them whenver you want to reduce the level of light that enters your eyes. Try it now. Don't use your fingers, they come with their own muscles. You might need to exercise those muscles if you haven't used them previously.
It use to be awesome, then got more and more bloated and slow.
ZoneAlarm was never awesome. It worked for TCP, but choked on UDP. The whole machine slowed to a crawl if you tried using an UDP-heavy application with ZoneAlarm active.
What usually happens is that it encourages the production of more fuel-efficient vehicles. Every time we've had an "energy crisis" since the 70's, and everyone starts buying smaller cars, crude prices magically drop so that we'll start buying the big boys again. Insane.
Not insane. It's perfectly rational for every player in this game. The correct word is evil.
I'm willing to bet that you know lots of people with both guns AND carry permits, but they're well aware of your irrational fear of inanimate objects so they just don't tell you.
Or it could be that they're normal people who have carry permits and own guns yet don't feel any need to brag about that, and the subject's simply never come up.
And guns should be feared, just like any power tools should. Accidents are almost always caused by someone getting overly comfortable and doing something really dumb because his fear no longer forces him to think what he's doing. It's exactly the same principle as with cars: drivers with a year or so of experience are the most accident-prone, since they're no longer afraid of crashing yet only have a year of experience.
Fear exists for a reason: to keep you alive. It's a minesweeper between your ears. Do not let it go numb, or you might get and lose something else between them instead.
The beauty of this situation is that now it protects Intel's revenue stream while doing absolutely nothing to protect the media people who thought they would benefit from the protection.
The media people get to blame this crack for their profits falling short of their projections, and use it to lobby for ever more draconian copyright laws and taxes on storage space.
In this statement, Intel is making it clear that they intend to use the DMCA to enforce licensing requirements against any manufacturers who might think this means they don't have to license HDCP anymore.
Is this legal? It sure sounds like classical monopoly abuse.
Or they are honest cops, trying to determine if you have violated the rules.
You see, the problem with this argument is that honest cops...
Contrary to popular opinion, "The Man" is not always ready, willing, and able to administer a beating.
...are still perfectly willing to let their less than honest brothers-in-arms administer said beatings.
At this point, I sincerely doubt there are any truly honest cops left. Either they are corrupt themselves, or they are helping hide their friend's corruption, or they know there's corruption in their station but refuse to do anything about it. And "The Man" is infamous for outsourcing torture to foreign lands to work around pesky human rights and other hinderances.
No, you need to avoid drawing any attention in the first place. And you need a false trail of some minor offense to throw to the cops so they don't frame you for anything major, in the likeness of a lizard cutting off its tail when cornered by a bloodthirsty predator. If you're actually doing anything illegal, you'll need stronger precautions still.
There is an element of frog boiling to it, but honestly if the people involved actually respected others as human beings instead of seeing them as marks it would be clearly apparent that they had gone too far.
If a marketer respected others as human beings he wouldn't be peddling crap to them. Being a succesful salesman requires you to see people as prey.
We may be in the process of finding out how long a society can hold together when it's based on mutual dis-respect.
The aristocrats have ever considered the serfs as servants at best and farm animals at worst. The serfs, in turn, hate their vampiric masters and rejoice whenever they face trouble and death. That's how it's always been, that's how it'll always be. Never once in human history has society been based on anything but oppression of the weak by the powerful, the excuses used to justify that, and the resulting hatred.
Even so, you don't need a shell to execute arbitrary code. You just need to be able overflow a buffer or some other kind of attack.
Yeah. If only we had some way to prevent that - some kind of programming language feature where all buffer accesses were automatically checked by the machine. But Real Men Manually Manage Memory, and usually badly.
You have a choice on whether you will put yourself in that situation. That makes it not inevitable by definition.
Oh, sure: you can choose to take the risk and do it, or refuse to do it, get fired and be unable to find a new job because you got a reputation for not doing risky jobs. Given the permanent high unemployment caused by modern technology making more and more jobs redundant, you've better be prepared to live in abject poverty the rest of your life.
We need to take the harness if we want to continue to improve ourselves, and the path of genetic modification seems the inevitable one.
Genetic modification still limits you to a body of flesh and blood. I'd say that mind uploading is the way to go. Apart from solving the problem of mortality, it would allow your mind to grow without worrying about the limits imposed by the size of your skull. And it only becomes a better bargain as we begin to expand into space.
Gimp is a good example, as it actually a good program that runs fine on Windows
Apart from having to reset the "extended input devices" every now and then for my Wacom Bamboo tablet to be recogniced, yes.
This is not acceptable for production environment or, really, any environment. And the fact tha Gimp for Windows is unsupported doesn't really help anything.
So are you saying any form of spam filtering is censorship?
No, because I either have access to the "spam folder" where the messages tagged as spam go, or the filter is under my own control.
Do you consider anti virus software as censorship software?
No, because an anti-virus program is installed by me, and when it finds a virus it tells me what was blocked, why, and how to access the blocked content if I want to.
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No country likes freedom of expression. Why would they? It's always easier to control people for your benefit if they're ignorant and unorganized. And to make matters worse, most countries are also infested by powerful corporations that much prefer the ability to censor any negative reviews on their products or *gasp* calls for social justice.
Freedom of expression is good for the people as a whole, while censorship is good for the rich and the powerful. The latter pull the shots everywhere, thus the brief day of freedom is coming to an end as the night of tyranny falls once again to cover the whole planet with an iron heel, just like it has for most of human history. In the end, humanity can't rise above its true nature.
I don't fancy them trumping all other rights.
Well, that is the whole point of Capitalism: it's Feudalism 2.0, with some of the dogma changed to a new wording - for example, rather than talking about the Divine Right of Kings, they talk about Property Rights, and rather than talking about God, they talk about the Invisible Hand of the Market. But it all works out to the same: the nobility benefits at the expense of everyone else.
No, that's not a different topic. The purpose of DMCA is to make it convenient for corporations to censor any and all information that they find inconvenient. There's no imaginable use of the DMCA that isn't abuse; that means that the law is bad and the people who passed it are corrupt.
In other words, this isn't abuse of the DMCA, this is using it exactly as intended.
Slashdot is comprised of a shocking number of John Galt wannebes with some succesful consultants thrown in, and a few people running a business employing a few persons. Chairmen congregate on business magazines websites, where they whine about the eeeevil minimum wage laws and unemployment benefits eating into their profits since they make the masses less desperate.
But don't worry, Bobbys of this world: we'll return to your feudal utopia soon enough. Libertarians and other right-wing scum won't rest until the powerful are free to oppress the without interference.
The more money Chairman Bob gets, the more bribes he can afford to give to the politicians, thus pushing this ever closer to feudalism. After all, Chairman Bob can make even more money if he gets those pesky minimum wage and employee rights and protection laws repealed.
Chairman Bob is your enemy. You have to deal with him, but you should be mindful of how these interactions increase his power. It matters, because all that power will be used against you, sooner or later.
Class warfare is alive and well, and you're losing.
How can you have crappy vodka? It's just alcohol and water. As long as both are reasonably pure, it should be impossible to tell one vodka from another, since there is no difference.
You won't get any savings, the owners pocket those. Also, since the store doesn't need that much staff, unemployment increases and depresses wages. Finally, if there's any kind of problem, you have no one to solve it.
Once again, profits are private, damage is collective. And people wonder why I'm leaning more and more towards communism the older I get...
Twitter is a simple message board, but it's accessed with virtual machines that were never designed but just kinda happened - in other words, modern browsers. Combine that with the attitude some people still have that you need to filter - enumerate all bad things and check for them - rather than simply escape the user-input string, and it shouldn't be a surprise that these things keep on happening.
Not that it really matters. An exploited website is like graffiti in real life: much ado about nothing.
So why not get one in the first place?
It's useful, so probably yes. After all, the purpose of copyright law is to inconvenience people as much as possible so that "copyright holders" get more opportunities to exctract profit.
Then again, who cares?
Carefully feel above and below your eyes. Feel those flaps of skin? They're called eyelids. You can close them whenver you want to reduce the level of light that enters your eyes. Try it now. Don't use your fingers, they come with their own muscles. You might need to exercise those muscles if you haven't used them previously.
ZoneAlarm was never awesome. It worked for TCP, but choked on UDP. The whole machine slowed to a crawl if you tried using an UDP-heavy application with ZoneAlarm active.
Not insane. It's perfectly rational for every player in this game. The correct word is evil.
Or it could be that they're normal people who have carry permits and own guns yet don't feel any need to brag about that, and the subject's simply never come up.
And guns should be feared, just like any power tools should. Accidents are almost always caused by someone getting overly comfortable and doing something really dumb because his fear no longer forces him to think what he's doing. It's exactly the same principle as with cars: drivers with a year or so of experience are the most accident-prone, since they're no longer afraid of crashing yet only have a year of experience.
Fear exists for a reason: to keep you alive. It's a minesweeper between your ears. Do not let it go numb, or you might get and lose something else between them instead.
The media people get to blame this crack for their profits falling short of their projections, and use it to lobby for ever more draconian copyright laws and taxes on storage space.
Is this legal? It sure sounds like classical monopoly abuse.
You see, the problem with this argument is that honest cops...
...are still perfectly willing to let their less than honest brothers-in-arms administer said beatings.
At this point, I sincerely doubt there are any truly honest cops left. Either they are corrupt themselves, or they are helping hide their friend's corruption, or they know there's corruption in their station but refuse to do anything about it. And "The Man" is infamous for outsourcing torture to foreign lands to work around pesky human rights and other hinderances.
No, you need to avoid drawing any attention in the first place. And you need a false trail of some minor offense to throw to the cops so they don't frame you for anything major, in the likeness of a lizard cutting off its tail when cornered by a bloodthirsty predator. If you're actually doing anything illegal, you'll need stronger precautions still.
If a marketer respected others as human beings he wouldn't be peddling crap to them. Being a succesful salesman requires you to see people as prey.
The aristocrats have ever considered the serfs as servants at best and farm animals at worst. The serfs, in turn, hate their vampiric masters and rejoice whenever they face trouble and death. That's how it's always been, that's how it'll always be. Never once in human history has society been based on anything but oppression of the weak by the powerful, the excuses used to justify that, and the resulting hatred.
In other words: 10,000 years and counting.
Yeah. If only we had some way to prevent that - some kind of programming language feature where all buffer accesses were automatically checked by the machine. But Real Men Manually Manage Memory, and usually badly.
Oh, sure: you can choose to take the risk and do it, or refuse to do it, get fired and be unable to find a new job because you got a reputation for not doing risky jobs. Given the permanent high unemployment caused by modern technology making more and more jobs redundant, you've better be prepared to live in abject poverty the rest of your life.
Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
Genetic modification still limits you to a body of flesh and blood. I'd say that mind uploading is the way to go. Apart from solving the problem of mortality, it would allow your mind to grow without worrying about the limits imposed by the size of your skull. And it only becomes a better bargain as we begin to expand into space.
Apart from having to reset the "extended input devices" every now and then for my Wacom Bamboo tablet to be recogniced, yes.
This is not acceptable for production environment or, really, any environment. And the fact tha Gimp for Windows is unsupported doesn't really help anything.
No, because I either have access to the "spam folder" where the messages tagged as spam go, or the filter is under my own control.
No, because an anti-virus program is installed by me, and when it finds a virus it tells me what was blocked, why, and how to access the blocked content if I want to.
Really? I though the US was found on opposition to East Indian Company and its bought laws.
It's truly a pity when the lessons of history are forgotten: a large enough business is indistinguishable from any other empire.