While some of the above in both posts are probably true, much of it really isn't all that "new" either.
Generally as many have mentioned, simply the economy likely limits some opportunity that perhaps existed before. You could also probably add a sub-reason to that with the pregnancy scare/fear. In the past, well if something unplanned occurred, you could be relatively secure in just settling down and starting a life. However children are not cheap, and if there are no good paying jobs, and you live with your parents, we'll you not in the best position to raise a family. Also don't forget perhaps the influence the parents might have reiterating that they better not get anyone pregnant, as they may not be looking forward to raising more children than they already have in their twilight years.
Also as sort of alluded to above, with technological advances, I'd suggest that simple boredom plays a part. In that there has never been more to do for people than today. No one I don't think is every totally within something that could be occupying themselves with very easily. I think in the past, in many cases people who would be board would find "entertainment" with each other. Likewise a lot of courting took place simply because it was something interesting and fun to do. However (to use the latest example) I can go off by myself for hours playing Pokemon Go and this is easy and fun and may occupy my time (not that I do, just using an example).
I suspect the gigantic floss lobby is behind all of this!
Seriously though, update your studies already. Lazy science. Likely the dental associations never bothered because they were never required to.
Also horrible analogy and pretty insulting from a medical point of view. Kinda like saying we have no proof, but think it helps anyway, here I'll site a poor analogy that makes no sense yet give you the impression that you should just take my word for it because I think it is common sense...
Meh. Trump has intentionally branded himself as being non-diplomatic. So this shouldn't really surprise anyone. At the same time him saying what he did really changes nothing. He mentioning China while being undiplomatic is also something that is obvious to anyone on Slashdot so I don't see how that can upset anyone. I doubt any of it is really true to be honest. However both countries, and in particular China, have had many accusations towards them in hacking, espionage etc... It is just that is publicly "said" it.
I'm sure if Russia did hack the DNC or Hillary it was probably just because of curiosity while watching the shitshow that is the American politics the last year or so. Kinda like someone might hack a network to see the next crazy episode of some reality show (which is probably way Trump is doing so well, he's figured out early that he can just treat this as a reality show which he has a lot of experience at).
Putin: OK I gotta know what happens next it's killing me! Russian Hackers Assemble!
First of all comparing either Hillary or Trump to Stalin or Hitler is a bit much. Neither of them are anywhere close. For specific example, Hitler had 6 million Jews killed, and Stalin killed 20 million land owners. To compare Hillary who may be a bit of a Wall Street shill, who will do little to change the status quo of wealth inequality, but may advance a few aspects of women;s rights is absurd. Likewise comparing the bombastic Trump who will say a lot of outrageous things, but will likely accomplish very little (other than be entertaining) in office should he manage to get there because there are plenty of democratic checks and balances is also a bit much. At most he could use is veto power to make sure even less is accomplished during his term.
As a side note, I wonder who people compared Stalin and Hitler to before there was Stalin and Hitler to compare people to?
1) BB has always maintained that they will cooperate with the legal privacy practices within the countries they operate in. Within Canada that means that if the RCMP want to take a peak they will need to get a judge to give them a warrant to do so. I believe there is an exception where they would have to prove there is "imminent" risk to life, which due to a somewhat recent ruling is likely difficult to do. If you think it is otherwise for any other phone, you are fooling yourself.
2) Technically they said the "phone" is the most secure. They said nothing of their servers which may be recording everything and open for inspection!:)
I've never had a BB and I doubt I would get one. However on the topic of security, if you are depending on any companies claims you probably will be disappointed. If you want to be truly secure, you need to do that personally and there are ways to achieve that both in technology and process. It likely won't be very convenient, as security never is, but that really depends how important it is to you. For most people (99.99999%) there is no need for ultra iron clad security anyway, nothing I say or do is really all that important really.
MS just taking a page out of the Apple playbook and their walled garden. Years ago I had an Apple iPhone (3GS). One of the most frustrating things about it I found was being forced to use iTunes which was a huge POS (by design I later found). One of the things iTunes liked to do was break links to music not bought on iTunes. You could repair the links, but only manually, and only one at a time... Just broken enough to annoy you into using iTunes more. When I searched for answers, found that this was a "bug" that has been identified by the user community like 5 years prior, never fixed. Community was so frustrated with Apple, they built an open source java fix themselves. However each and every successive iTunes release would find a way to break the 3rd party fix. Forcing the guy who maintained it to eventually just give up in frustration. If was shortly after figuring all this out, I decided to make the move to Android.
So my advice for Steam is to really work towards Linux/Android. MS will almost certainly play their games (pardon pun). However there is a good chance that MS will almost certainly be even worse than Apple, and frustrate people. If you have an alternative available that people can use, I'm guessing the capitalization on that could be pretty big.
That would be probably the biggest improvement. However I will go one better. Since moving from 7 to 10, I *HAD* to find a WMC replacement. I found Plex.
MS should just take some of the money they have sitting in the bank, go out and buy Plex the company, re-brand it as MS, release the Pro version and mobile apps for free to everyone with Windows 10. Done. Many happy people.
Plex is way better than WMC ever was.
Of course that is assuming that MS doesn't immediately wreak Plex. On second though forget I said anything...
I think this has more to do with millennials being saddled with more job insecurity than ever before. It would simple make sense to have a side job (or side hustle, whatever stupid hipsters) when the job you're in could end at any time.
All those employment statistics that people see fail to really show how many of those "created" jobs are part-time, short term, contract, consults, etc... The side job also basically gives you more experience when you inevitably have to start looking for a new job every 6 months. Between outsourcing, insourcing, weakening unions, companies wanting "flexible" work forces, etc... it is no wonder really.
I don't think it is totally about money (though I'm sure that's part of it), boredom, or liking some hobby in particular, or dream job. I think perhaps that some may seen value in doing something the actually enjoy on the side just in case they can get it to pan out. Not only are they doing this on "their" time which has meaning, but also they'll be more motivated to stick with it if they do, and understand that it likely has more experience value than just getting shifts in retail or service.
For example: You could be a fresh young coder out of school, you manage to land a coding job, but it is long hours, contract, doesn't pay great, and you are constantly looking at job postings to keep employed with the next coding gig. However you are also an artist, so you do that on your own time/dime, but try to make a go of it as best you can say using social media and a web store you created, while trying to sell some original works where ever you can. You probably don't make a lot of money doing it, but enjoy it so it isn't so bad. Thinking down the road, perhaps you'll be involved in a project or a job competition where they are looking for an artist for a video game where coding might be an asset (or vice versa). You may have made a bit of a history of work and have a portfolio to show and be an established (somewhat) successful artist. I believe in investing it is called having a diversified portfolio...
Anyway just my take on it. I think if I was put in the same situation that is how I might approach it.
So today we see that the company Yahoo is to be sold for less than 5 Billion, and we also see that Nintendo mentions it is only part owner of the creators of the Pokemon Go game and looses over 6 Billion in value.
That has got to be some salt in the wound of Yahoo I have to think. Your worth exactly less than part of a company that owns a small part of another company that made a popular video game. Internet Empire!
No to defend Trump, but this was always something that bugged me. It seemed the media liked the soundbite more than the actual facts. Bankruptcy isn't really all that uncommon in business, and in many cases all it is just a way to protect yourself (corporation) from creditors, while you restructure and realign the business into a more successful one. Not all of them as I understand it lead to a sell off of all assets and dissolution of everything. In addition to all that, as you say Trump has had more than a few businesses over the years, it is to be expected that some of them would fail. Indeed it sounds like a lot of ventures he wasn't really all that involved with, but his partnership pretty much just included the "Trump" name, which when they fail isn't great for his "brand", but probably have little other impact.
If you recall American Companies GM and Chrysler recently went through Bankruptcy. However they are still around and worth hundreds of billions employing hundreds of thousands of people. Even Ford who managed to avoid it, did go through it twice in its early years. Considering likely most of Trump's assets are in real estate, and given the housing issues around the same time, it is hardly all that surprising.
WOW! So now Verizon owns both AOL AND Yahoo... The 1990's called. They want their technology back!
Though likely the most valuable assets were the 15 percent interest in Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba, what's left of the Yahoo user base, and the real estate (which was probably all purchased at the height of Yahoo's value)...
Agreed. Politics aside, I found all the people making a point of Trump's "Bankruptcies" either A) stupid and do not understand what that word actually means, or B) simply using it in a disingenuous manner in the assumption that their audience really doesn't know what it means.
I don't think at any time Trump ever declared *personal* bankruptcy, but rather one of the very many corporations he either runs or has associations with. Looking at the business and corporate world, this isn't even all that uncommon. People always seems to be spouting that entrepreneurs can't be afraid of "failure", and that each leads to more opportunities and growth etc...
What it actually means is protection from creditors for a corporate identify while financial restructuring is made to realign the business into a more successful one. I think one of the more notable ones were during the auto crisis. Guess what, they are still around making billions.
That said, on the actual topic, I doubt Russia cares either way. In fact were I to guess I think they would likely prefer Clinton, in that they already pretty much know what she will do, and probably doubt she would do anything rash (i.e. just the status quo). Whereas with Trump, who the hell knows what his reaction might be to anything (i.e. much more of a wildcard)? So simply from a perspective of predicted responses to intended actions I think they would much prefer Clinton. Also she's a woman so she can't be tough right? (jk, but perhaps from the largely male perspective of Russian politics maybe).
Agreed. Alternatives need to mature more before being used as primaries. Weird USB connectors aside, Bluetooth or something akin to it needs to simply work better. Also things need to get much less expensive. You can buy some 5$ earbuds and use a 3.5mm jack and reasonably expect it to work (sound quality aside).
I don't have an electrical outlet on my back deck, so I have tried a number of portable wireless devices for music as an alternative. If you read the box of any product with Bluetooth, it will list the "official" specifications. They state that there will be a range of 33 feet or 10 meters. I've yet to see ANY working device actually achieve that specification. I've tried "cheap" 70$ devices that literally had a range of a few inches. You had to have your phone sitting right beside it, which is ironic because the devices would also have a 3.5mm aux port also which you could use wired at a even greater distance. At that range it would even be useless with headphones and your phone in your pocket unless you taped it to your head. My current device is actually pretty good, but I had to pay a couple of hundred dollars for it, and even it doesn't max out the specification distance, and will have significant sound issues (cutting out and noise), as you approach it's own max distance. Mind you that would be sufficient for personal use for headphones, but again you are paying significantly for it.
So before they go pretty much totally wireless they really need to mature and refine the technology first as otherwise you will have a more expensive less useful product that is only going to frustrate users. Pairing can also be frustrating, and in many cases the technology is pretty rudimentary in actually functionality, which could be a software thing, but may have to do with the actual standards themselves needing some work. As mentioned I have a bunch of Bluetooth devices, some work better than others... Who knows perhaps Apple will implement a really good design, I just know my current experiance has been wildly inconsistent.
If there is something that Communism is good at it is very large projects, long term goals, important but possibly unpopular reforms.
Less authoritarian systems have difficulty beyond the 4-5 year political cycle (or even half of that as that is now when politicians start campaigning). Private sector seems to have even less forward thinking, maybe a year for some, quarterly for many.
So while there are obviously some serious flaws with "working" (as opposed to the ideal that never really existed) Communism, it does have some significant "positives" as well (depending on your point of view).
In his most recent comical rant had a bit about how religions and not atheists kill people...
Which ignores China, Russia, and North Korea to name a few... I'm sure there were also a bunch of pretty secular despots of some smaller nations throughout history that killed a bunch of people as well... So one could probably include communism as well as simply power really.
Not that I totally disagree with the sentiment, only that it isn't exactly totally factual correct really.
So what you are saying is that Donald Trump is more in touch with all American voters when he says he is going to build a wall and make somebody else pay for it?
Montreal eh? Somehow I find that less surprising than most answers that could have been...
Though as an ISP they're more of a business/corporate solution than personal/individual. Probably used the guise of a company or something I guess. As far as their network goes, "BELL" is the only thing I would recognize as a personal ISP and even then it is likely their B2B type function.
Anyway it seems a lot less exciting than if it was actually something most people might know or even use commonly as an ISP. So not much to see here, move along...
For those not willing to sort though the links/doc:
Name of the Canadian ISP seems intentionally omitted, as it is repeatedly referred to only as that (Canadian ISP).
As to the details, it is really only referred to as a "request" and doesn't really get into exactly what information was used. I suspect most of what is in the criminal compliant (up to that particular point), which is quite long and you'd probably have to be a lawyer to figure if that was adequate justification or not. Below is the quote from the 48 page document:
On or about April 12, 2016, in response to a Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty request to the Central Authority of Canada, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police received the business records and made a forensic image of the original hard drives associated with the KAT Canadian IP Addresses. Thereafter, those records and forensic images were turned over to HSI.
Would still like to know exactly which ISP was involved regardless. Was it one of the big guys like Bell or Rogers, or one of the small independents? Privacy (or lack thereof) works both ways I suppose as one could probably do an FOI request to actually find out...
That was my 2nd thought. Really, the guy that runs KAT has an iTunes account and thought that was a good idea? He had to know that Apple would be one of the main groups gunning for him. Kinda ballsy, or stupid.
My first thought was what "Canadian ISP" gave up his personal information? We are supposed to have strong privacy laws in Canada, what exactly happened here? A Canadian ISP would be legally obligated if given a Canadian Warrant, not an American one. The US (RIAA/MPAA) has in the past repeatedly tried to use exactly that method along with a bunch of "John Doe" IP addresses, and it was my understanding that the ISP's told them to take a hike.
This sounds like a potential violation of privacy law in Canada. Devil is in the details likely in that a request would have to go to Canadian law enforcement, to obtain and serve a warrant, and if they were given enough justification and evidence to do so legally (or did the ISP just give up the information voluntarily).
Like so many things, this is a general principle of why change is hard. Take electoral reform. The weaker party always wants electoral reform because they have trouble getting elected in the current system. However the folks that more less have the ability to make the change just used said system to get elected so why would it be in their best interest to change anything? Hence we've been stuck with first past the post electoral system for so long. Reverse the situation, and now the once weaker party will have second doubts about making the change as they are now in the dominate position. Rinse, and repeat....
Meanwhile it is the voters, or in this case the console users who suffer.
Head scarfs aren't really all that exotic, if perhaps just largely outdated. All sorts of other non-Muslim religions had variations (nuns for example), and societies, and if you look into the not so distant past, it was pretty common place (bonnets for example), if you look at a lot of old timey photos you will see them pretty commonly on women. It was just a more puritan time for many cultures around the world (perhaps even just a device women used with little access to hair product and hygiene now enjoyed!).
That said, the big difference here is the reaction to non-conformance and the violence. I'm pretty sure even in the old timey version of such you might be shunned, shamed and labeled a harlot or something, but I doubt their was quite the same violent reaction for those that refused to wear the stuff. I think it is archaic myself, but if someone *wants* to wear it, I don't see the big deal, but as you say being more less forced to is not so great.
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While some of the above in both posts are probably true, much of it really isn't all that "new" either.
Generally as many have mentioned, simply the economy likely limits some opportunity that perhaps existed before. You could also probably add a sub-reason to that with the pregnancy scare/fear. In the past, well if something unplanned occurred, you could be relatively secure in just settling down and starting a life. However children are not cheap, and if there are no good paying jobs, and you live with your parents, we'll you not in the best position to raise a family. Also don't forget perhaps the influence the parents might have reiterating that they better not get anyone pregnant, as they may not be looking forward to raising more children than they already have in their twilight years.
Also as sort of alluded to above, with technological advances, I'd suggest that simple boredom plays a part. In that there has never been more to do for people than today. No one I don't think is every totally within something that could be occupying themselves with very easily. I think in the past, in many cases people who would be board would find "entertainment" with each other. Likewise a lot of courting took place simply because it was something interesting and fun to do. However (to use the latest example) I can go off by myself for hours playing Pokemon Go and this is easy and fun and may occupy my time (not that I do, just using an example).
Also it's hard to get laid when you live in your Mom's basement...
I suspect the gigantic floss lobby is behind all of this!
Seriously though, update your studies already. Lazy science. Likely the dental associations never bothered because they were never required to.
Also horrible analogy and pretty insulting from a medical point of view. Kinda like saying we have no proof, but think it helps anyway, here I'll site a poor analogy that makes no sense yet give you the impression that you should just take my word for it because I think it is common sense...
:)
And by "mission" I mean to siphon as much money from the taxpayer into into Lockheed Martin's bank accounts...
Emphasis on *could*. Sure, she *could*. *Will* she? Probably not.
Meh. Trump has intentionally branded himself as being non-diplomatic. So this shouldn't really surprise anyone. At the same time him saying what he did really changes nothing. He mentioning China while being undiplomatic is also something that is obvious to anyone on Slashdot so I don't see how that can upset anyone. I doubt any of it is really true to be honest. However both countries, and in particular China, have had many accusations towards them in hacking, espionage etc... It is just that is publicly "said" it.
I'm sure if Russia did hack the DNC or Hillary it was probably just because of curiosity while watching the shitshow that is the American politics the last year or so. Kinda like someone might hack a network to see the next crazy episode of some reality show (which is probably way Trump is doing so well, he's figured out early that he can just treat this as a reality show which he has a lot of experience at).
Putin: OK I gotta know what happens next it's killing me! Russian Hackers Assemble!
Would be being killed by Foodles Production. Am I the only one that found it hard to read such a serious thing with such a ridiculous name?
First of all comparing either Hillary or Trump to Stalin or Hitler is a bit much. Neither of them are anywhere close. For specific example, Hitler had 6 million Jews killed, and Stalin killed 20 million land owners. To compare Hillary who may be a bit of a Wall Street shill, who will do little to change the status quo of wealth inequality, but may advance a few aspects of women;s rights is absurd. Likewise comparing the bombastic Trump who will say a lot of outrageous things, but will likely accomplish very little (other than be entertaining) in office should he manage to get there because there are plenty of democratic checks and balances is also a bit much. At most he could use is veto power to make sure even less is accomplished during his term.
As a side note, I wonder who people compared Stalin and Hitler to before there was Stalin and Hitler to compare people to?
1) BB has always maintained that they will cooperate with the legal privacy practices within the countries they operate in. Within Canada that means that if the RCMP want to take a peak they will need to get a judge to give them a warrant to do so. I believe there is an exception where they would have to prove there is "imminent" risk to life, which due to a somewhat recent ruling is likely difficult to do. If you think it is otherwise for any other phone, you are fooling yourself.
2) Technically they said the "phone" is the most secure. They said nothing of their servers which may be recording everything and open for inspection! :)
I've never had a BB and I doubt I would get one. However on the topic of security, if you are depending on any companies claims you probably will be disappointed. If you want to be truly secure, you need to do that personally and there are ways to achieve that both in technology and process. It likely won't be very convenient, as security never is, but that really depends how important it is to you. For most people (99.99999%) there is no need for ultra iron clad security anyway, nothing I say or do is really all that important really.
MS just taking a page out of the Apple playbook and their walled garden. Years ago I had an Apple iPhone (3GS). One of the most frustrating things about it I found was being forced to use iTunes which was a huge POS (by design I later found). One of the things iTunes liked to do was break links to music not bought on iTunes. You could repair the links, but only manually, and only one at a time... Just broken enough to annoy you into using iTunes more. When I searched for answers, found that this was a "bug" that has been identified by the user community like 5 years prior, never fixed. Community was so frustrated with Apple, they built an open source java fix themselves. However each and every successive iTunes release would find a way to break the 3rd party fix. Forcing the guy who maintained it to eventually just give up in frustration. If was shortly after figuring all this out, I decided to make the move to Android.
So my advice for Steam is to really work towards Linux/Android. MS will almost certainly play their games (pardon pun). However there is a good chance that MS will almost certainly be even worse than Apple, and frustrate people. If you have an alternative available that people can use, I'm guessing the capitalization on that could be pretty big.
That would be probably the biggest improvement. However I will go one better. Since moving from 7 to 10, I *HAD* to find a WMC replacement. I found Plex.
MS should just take some of the money they have sitting in the bank, go out and buy Plex the company, re-brand it as MS, release the Pro version and mobile apps for free to everyone with Windows 10. Done. Many happy people.
Plex is way better than WMC ever was.
Of course that is assuming that MS doesn't immediately wreak Plex. On second though forget I said anything...
I think this has more to do with millennials being saddled with more job insecurity than ever before. It would simple make sense to have a side job (or side hustle, whatever stupid hipsters) when the job you're in could end at any time.
All those employment statistics that people see fail to really show how many of those "created" jobs are part-time, short term, contract, consults, etc... The side job also basically gives you more experience when you inevitably have to start looking for a new job every 6 months. Between outsourcing, insourcing, weakening unions, companies wanting "flexible" work forces, etc... it is no wonder really.
I don't think it is totally about money (though I'm sure that's part of it), boredom, or liking some hobby in particular, or dream job. I think perhaps that some may seen value in doing something the actually enjoy on the side just in case they can get it to pan out. Not only are they doing this on "their" time which has meaning, but also they'll be more motivated to stick with it if they do, and understand that it likely has more experience value than just getting shifts in retail or service.
For example: You could be a fresh young coder out of school, you manage to land a coding job, but it is long hours, contract, doesn't pay great, and you are constantly looking at job postings to keep employed with the next coding gig. However you are also an artist, so you do that on your own time/dime, but try to make a go of it as best you can say using social media and a web store you created, while trying to sell some original works where ever you can. You probably don't make a lot of money doing it, but enjoy it so it isn't so bad. Thinking down the road, perhaps you'll be involved in a project or a job competition where they are looking for an artist for a video game where coding might be an asset (or vice versa). You may have made a bit of a history of work and have a portfolio to show and be an established (somewhat) successful artist. I believe in investing it is called having a diversified portfolio...
Anyway just my take on it. I think if I was put in the same situation that is how I might approach it.
So today we see that the company Yahoo is to be sold for less than 5 Billion, and we also see that Nintendo mentions it is only part owner of the creators of the Pokemon Go game and looses over 6 Billion in value.
That has got to be some salt in the wound of Yahoo I have to think. Your worth exactly less than part of a company that owns a small part of another company that made a popular video game. Internet Empire!
No to defend Trump, but this was always something that bugged me. It seemed the media liked the soundbite more than the actual facts. Bankruptcy isn't really all that uncommon in business, and in many cases all it is just a way to protect yourself (corporation) from creditors, while you restructure and realign the business into a more successful one. Not all of them as I understand it lead to a sell off of all assets and dissolution of everything. In addition to all that, as you say Trump has had more than a few businesses over the years, it is to be expected that some of them would fail. Indeed it sounds like a lot of ventures he wasn't really all that involved with, but his partnership pretty much just included the "Trump" name, which when they fail isn't great for his "brand", but probably have little other impact.
If you recall American Companies GM and Chrysler recently went through Bankruptcy. However they are still around and worth hundreds of billions employing hundreds of thousands of people. Even Ford who managed to avoid it, did go through it twice in its early years. Considering likely most of Trump's assets are in real estate, and given the housing issues around the same time, it is hardly all that surprising.
WOW! So now Verizon owns both AOL AND Yahoo... The 1990's called. They want their technology back!
Though likely the most valuable assets were the 15 percent interest in Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba, what's left of the Yahoo user base, and the real estate (which was probably all purchased at the height of Yahoo's value)...
Agreed. Politics aside, I found all the people making a point of Trump's "Bankruptcies" either A) stupid and do not understand what that word actually means, or B) simply using it in a disingenuous manner in the assumption that their audience really doesn't know what it means.
I don't think at any time Trump ever declared *personal* bankruptcy, but rather one of the very many corporations he either runs or has associations with. Looking at the business and corporate world, this isn't even all that uncommon. People always seems to be spouting that entrepreneurs can't be afraid of "failure", and that each leads to more opportunities and growth etc...
What it actually means is protection from creditors for a corporate identify while financial restructuring is made to realign the business into a more successful one. I think one of the more notable ones were during the auto crisis. Guess what, they are still around making billions.
That said, on the actual topic, I doubt Russia cares either way. In fact were I to guess I think they would likely prefer Clinton, in that they already pretty much know what she will do, and probably doubt she would do anything rash (i.e. just the status quo). Whereas with Trump, who the hell knows what his reaction might be to anything (i.e. much more of a wildcard)? So simply from a perspective of predicted responses to intended actions I think they would much prefer Clinton. Also she's a woman so she can't be tough right? (jk, but perhaps from the largely male perspective of Russian politics maybe).
Agreed. Alternatives need to mature more before being used as primaries. Weird USB connectors aside, Bluetooth or something akin to it needs to simply work better. Also things need to get much less expensive. You can buy some 5$ earbuds and use a 3.5mm jack and reasonably expect it to work (sound quality aside).
I don't have an electrical outlet on my back deck, so I have tried a number of portable wireless devices for music as an alternative. If you read the box of any product with Bluetooth, it will list the "official" specifications. They state that there will be a range of 33 feet or 10 meters. I've yet to see ANY working device actually achieve that specification. I've tried "cheap" 70$ devices that literally had a range of a few inches. You had to have your phone sitting right beside it, which is ironic because the devices would also have a 3.5mm aux port also which you could use wired at a even greater distance. At that range it would even be useless with headphones and your phone in your pocket unless you taped it to your head. My current device is actually pretty good, but I had to pay a couple of hundred dollars for it, and even it doesn't max out the specification distance, and will have significant sound issues (cutting out and noise), as you approach it's own max distance. Mind you that would be sufficient for personal use for headphones, but again you are paying significantly for it.
So before they go pretty much totally wireless they really need to mature and refine the technology first as otherwise you will have a more expensive less useful product that is only going to frustrate users. Pairing can also be frustrating, and in many cases the technology is pretty rudimentary in actually functionality, which could be a software thing, but may have to do with the actual standards themselves needing some work. As mentioned I have a bunch of Bluetooth devices, some work better than others... Who knows perhaps Apple will implement a really good design, I just know my current experiance has been wildly inconsistent.
If there is something that Communism is good at it is very large projects, long term goals, important but possibly unpopular reforms.
Less authoritarian systems have difficulty beyond the 4-5 year political cycle (or even half of that as that is now when politicians start campaigning). Private sector seems to have even less forward thinking, maybe a year for some, quarterly for many.
So while there are obviously some serious flaws with "working" (as opposed to the ideal that never really existed) Communism, it does have some significant "positives" as well (depending on your point of view).
In his most recent comical rant had a bit about how religions and not atheists kill people...
Which ignores China, Russia, and North Korea to name a few... I'm sure there were also a bunch of pretty secular despots of some smaller nations throughout history that killed a bunch of people as well... So one could probably include communism as well as simply power really.
Not that I totally disagree with the sentiment, only that it isn't exactly totally factual correct really.
So what you are saying is that Donald Trump is more in touch with all American voters when he says he is going to build a wall and make somebody else pay for it?
Montreal eh? Somehow I find that less surprising than most answers that could have been...
Though as an ISP they're more of a business/corporate solution than personal/individual. Probably used the guise of a company or something I guess. As far as their network goes, "BELL" is the only thing I would recognize as a personal ISP and even then it is likely their B2B type function.
Anyway it seems a lot less exciting than if it was actually something most people might know or even use commonly as an ISP. So not much to see here, move along...
For those not willing to sort though the links/doc:
Name of the Canadian ISP seems intentionally omitted, as it is repeatedly referred to only as that (Canadian ISP).
As to the details, it is really only referred to as a "request" and doesn't really get into exactly what information was used. I suspect most of what is in the criminal compliant (up to that particular point), which is quite long and you'd probably have to be a lawyer to figure if that was adequate justification or not. Below is the quote from the 48 page document:
On or about April 12, 2016, in response to a Mutual Legal Assistance
Treaty request to the Central Authority of Canada, the Royal Canadian Mounted
Police received the business records and made a forensic image of the original hard
drives associated with the KAT Canadian IP Addresses. Thereafter, those records
and forensic images were turned over to HSI.
Would still like to know exactly which ISP was involved regardless. Was it one of the big guys like Bell or Rogers, or one of the small independents? Privacy (or lack thereof) works both ways I suppose as one could probably do an FOI request to actually find out...
That was my 2nd thought. Really, the guy that runs KAT has an iTunes account and thought that was a good idea? He had to know that Apple would be one of the main groups gunning for him. Kinda ballsy, or stupid.
My first thought was what "Canadian ISP" gave up his personal information? We are supposed to have strong privacy laws in Canada, what exactly happened here? A Canadian ISP would be legally obligated if given a Canadian Warrant, not an American one. The US (RIAA/MPAA) has in the past repeatedly tried to use exactly that method along with a bunch of "John Doe" IP addresses, and it was my understanding that the ISP's told them to take a hike.
This sounds like a potential violation of privacy law in Canada. Devil is in the details likely in that a request would have to go to Canadian law enforcement, to obtain and serve a warrant, and if they were given enough justification and evidence to do so legally (or did the ISP just give up the information voluntarily).
Like so many things, this is a general principle of why change is hard. Take electoral reform. The weaker party always wants electoral reform because they have trouble getting elected in the current system. However the folks that more less have the ability to make the change just used said system to get elected so why would it be in their best interest to change anything? Hence we've been stuck with first past the post electoral system for so long. Reverse the situation, and now the once weaker party will have second doubts about making the change as they are now in the dominate position. Rinse, and repeat....
Meanwhile it is the voters, or in this case the console users who suffer.
Head scarfs aren't really all that exotic, if perhaps just largely outdated. All sorts of other non-Muslim religions had variations (nuns for example), and societies, and if you look into the not so distant past, it was pretty common place (bonnets for example), if you look at a lot of old timey photos you will see them pretty commonly on women. It was just a more puritan time for many cultures around the world (perhaps even just a device women used with little access to hair product and hygiene now enjoyed!).
That said, the big difference here is the reaction to non-conformance and the violence. I'm pretty sure even in the old timey version of such you might be shunned, shamed and labeled a harlot or something, but I doubt their was quite the same violent reaction for those that refused to wear the stuff. I think it is archaic myself, but if someone *wants* to wear it, I don't see the big deal, but as you say being more less forced to is not so great.