If the glitch is due to a video being slashdotted, then the complaint becomes Facebook's lack of transparency about the cause. I imagine that a notice to the following effect might have been better received: "This video has become incredibly popular. Please wait a moment while we prepare to handle the crowd."
And how the hell did anyone come up with this, as if YouTube suddenly disappeared overnight?
Facebook: "Welcome to Facebook" YouTube: "The site youtube.com does not participate in your plan's zero rating program. Your account has 0 MB remaining. To continue to youtube.com, please enter your payment information."
Facebook is transmitted over airwaves that are leased/owned by private telecom companies. The public has little say in what these common carriers are allowed to transmit in cases like this.
Even if the telecom companies choose to include Facebook and Wikipedia without charge but bill the user by the bit for viewing any other website? The public, as lessor of the airwaves, can impose "net neutrality" rules to end this practice.
Then perhaps I misconstrued the presence or absence of hidden meaning in your comment. I took "Linux once again provides forced [obsolescence] to my i386 devices" to mean "which makes it no better than Apple". To be clear: is this what you intended?
The difference between iOS dropping old devices and what Canonical is doing to Ubuntu in the 16.10-18.04 cycle is that PC users can jump ship to another GNU/Linux distribution that keeps i386 support active. With an iPad, on the other hand, you're stuck with whatever iOS distribution Apple signs.
It was then I found out Apple forces all browsers on iOS to use Safari's rendering engine.
All but one. Opera Mini gets around this limit by acting as a remote display for a browser running on servers operated by Opera. It'd be like RDPing to a PC running Firefox.
How should people compose replies that back claims with sources using only the on-screen keyboard of a smartphone? Or is the concept of backing claims with sources also in decline? And if so, why is this decline desirable?
Many countries offer design registration that confers exclusive rights in a typeface for a term between 14 years (United States) and 25 years (Great Britain). But you're correct that after this expires, it becomes legal to launder the typeface a font with the print-scan-trace method, so long as you A. don't refer to the original font's control points in your trace and B. don't use a similar name for your font. Instead derive the control points from the rules set forth in the "Digitizing" chapter of Apple's TrueType Reference Manual: one on-curve point on every corner, vertical or horizontal tangent, point of inflection, or large change in curvature, and at least one intermediate point every 45 degrees. Then the off-curve point between each pair of on-curve points goes at the intersection of the lines tangent to those points.
if only there was free video hosting available online that could handle spikes...
Some video hosts can handle spikes but will take down videos at the drop of a hat, especially when Tetris clones are involved. Arika Co., Ltd, developer of an official Tetris game, sent a bunch of DMCA takedown notices to YouTube in May 2009, and one of these videos was a video about The Tetris Company's copyright enforcement practices.
What makes you think your Xbox One console isn't spying on you just as much?
Oh, don't get me wrong, I got off the Microsoft train at the 360 station
What makes you think your PlayStation 3, Wii U, or PlayStation 4 console isn't spying on you just as much?
Problem is, in order to be sure a game will run on a "Steam Machine", you have to restrict your list to the titles that run on Linux
I concede that the existence of titles not ported to Linux and games' varying minimum CPU/GPU/RAM requirements could cause consumer confusion. But because a Steam Machine can act as a Steam Link endpoint, you can run a game on a compatible Windows PC elsewhere on your home LAN and display it on your Steam Machine's monitor.
if you start calling Windows-based machines Steam Machines, you also have to look out for what small percentage of titles don't run on Windows.
There are four possibilities for a Steam game: Windows-only; Windows and Linux; Windows and macOS; or Windows, macOS, and Linux. Though this begins to sound reminiscent of Monty Python's SPAM sketch, my point is that Valve forbids the other three possibilities (macOS and Linux, macOS-only, and Linux-only). From Greenlight FAQ:
To remain in Steam Greenlight and qualify for distribution via Steam, your game must at least run on a Windows PC. You can also be developing for any other platform you like, but we are only able to support PC, Mac and Linux releases at this time.
If your game is macOS-only, you should be selling it in the Mac App Store rather than Steam.
There are a number of strict liability crimes that have significant jail sentences. The most common of which is statutory rape.
In United States v. Kantor, an actress deliberately misrepresented her age to appear in an erotic film. The Ninth Circuit used this as grounds to find the film's producer not guilty of child pornography. The result appears consistent with the unclean hands doctrine: someone guilty of forgery is unjustified in pressing charges on grounds of reliance on a forged document. (See "Good Faith Defenses: Reshaping Strict Liability Crimes" by Laurie L. Levinson.) Applying the logic of Kantor to statutory rape would raise the bar on statutory rape to negligence. Or in which post-Kantor cases has such a defense already been unsuccessfully applied?
People either are never taught or choose to ignore the idea that you should never borrow to pay for a depreciating asset unless that asset helps you be more productive than you would be without it by a margin greater than the financing cost.
A car helps you be productive because it helps you get to and from work. And if it's your first job during or out of high school, or sometimes even out of college, you lack wealth to acquire it without financing, and you lack experience to make your labor attractive to legitimate work-from-home opportunities. For many, the bus isn't an acceptable substitute because bus drives have nights and Sundays off. Bosses have threatened to lay employees off unless the employee agrees to fill in a night or Sunday shift.
And if you do have wealth, you probably have good enough credit to buy a car at an interest rate lower than the inverse P/E ratio of the company that makes it. This means your money can be productive. For example, Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F) has a price to earnings ratio in the neighborhood of 6.6 (source), for an expected APY of 100 / 6.6 = 15%. So if you can finance a Ford vehicle for less than 15% APR, then you can buy a car, put everything but the down payment into a long position in F, sell a few shares every year to make the car payments, and still come out ahead because your dividends will exceed the interest.
Goods transport, people transport, older kids, elderly and others with medical conditions that prevent them from holding a license, I think.
That and $5,000 invoice from a driving school to get the required 100+ hours of verifiable supervised driving practice that some states require of learners (source). Not everybody has parents who both drive and live nearby.
If you live in a city whose bus drivers have nights, Sundays, and major holidays off (source: fwcitilink.com), and your boss assigns you hours on Sundays, is car sharing practical to use every Sunday to commute to work?
So intent is now needed to be prosecuted for a crime?
Mens rea is part of due process for imprisonable crimes. The only crimes without a mens rea requirement are strict liability offenses whose penalty is a fine, such as traffic violations.
Console gaming typically implies a level playing field were all gamers (local or online) have the same controller, same platform/specs, and the same resolution.
And the same vanilla game, without user-created mods. Without mods for Half-Life, there wouldn't be a Team Fortress Classic or Counter-Strike.
Slashdot Mirror
If the glitch is due to a video being slashdotted, then the complaint becomes Facebook's lack of transparency about the cause. I imagine that a notice to the following effect might have been better received: "This video has become incredibly popular. Please wait a moment while we prepare to handle the crowd."
And how the hell did anyone come up with this, as if YouTube suddenly disappeared overnight?
Facebook: "Welcome to Facebook"
YouTube: "The site youtube.com does not participate in your plan's zero rating program. Your account has 0 MB remaining. To continue to youtube.com, please enter your payment information."
People treat facebook as if it is the entire fucking web; they have this power only because people have given it to them (intentionally or not).
It's intentional. See Internet.org Free Basics.
Facebook is transmitted over airwaves that are leased/owned by private telecom companies. The public has little say in what these common carriers are allowed to transmit in cases like this.
Even if the telecom companies choose to include Facebook and Wikipedia without charge but bill the user by the bit for viewing any other website? The public, as lessor of the airwaves, can impose "net neutrality" rules to end this practice.
If people are getting all their information through Facebook, then THAT's the real problem.
To what extent is ISPs' exclusion of Facebook traffic from subscribers' monthly data allowance one of the causes of that problem? Zero rating has contributed to misuse of Wikimedia Commons to share infringing copies of non-free video.
Then perhaps I misconstrued the presence or absence of hidden meaning in your comment. I took "Linux once again provides forced [obsolescence] to my i386 devices" to mean "which makes it no better than Apple". To be clear: is this what you intended?
The difference between iOS dropping old devices and what Canonical is doing to Ubuntu in the 16.10-18.04 cycle is that PC users can jump ship to another GNU/Linux distribution that keeps i386 support active. With an iPad, on the other hand, you're stuck with whatever iOS distribution Apple signs.
It was then I found out Apple forces all browsers on iOS to use Safari's rendering engine.
All but one. Opera Mini gets around this limit by acting as a remote display for a browser running on servers operated by Opera. It'd be like RDPing to a PC running Firefox.
Which 10 inch netbook designed for 64 bit use should I buy to replace my 6 year old Dell Inspiron mini 1012?
How should people compose replies that back claims with sources using only the on-screen keyboard of a smartphone? Or is the concept of backing claims with sources also in decline? And if so, why is this decline desirable?
Many countries offer design registration that confers exclusive rights in a typeface for a term between 14 years (United States) and 25 years (Great Britain). But you're correct that after this expires, it becomes legal to launder the typeface a font with the print-scan-trace method, so long as you A. don't refer to the original font's control points in your trace and B. don't use a similar name for your font. Instead derive the control points from the rules set forth in the "Digitizing" chapter of Apple's TrueType Reference Manual : one on-curve point on every corner, vertical or horizontal tangent, point of inflection, or large change in curvature, and at least one intermediate point every 45 degrees. Then the off-curve point between each pair of on-curve points goes at the intersection of the lines tangent to those points.
if only there was free video hosting available online that could handle spikes...
Some video hosts can handle spikes but will take down videos at the drop of a hat, especially when Tetris clones are involved. Arika Co., Ltd, developer of an official Tetris game, sent a bunch of DMCA takedown notices to YouTube in May 2009, and one of these videos was a video about The Tetris Company's copyright enforcement practices.
even the copyright industry didn't try to make the bible copyrighted.
All well-known translations of the Bible into modern English are copyrighted with a non-free license except one: the World English Bible.
Was it more of a "redact the message and send the unclassified portions"?
What makes you think your Xbox One console isn't spying on you just as much?
Oh, don't get me wrong, I got off the Microsoft train at the 360 station
What makes you think your PlayStation 3, Wii U, or PlayStation 4 console isn't spying on you just as much?
Problem is, in order to be sure a game will run on a "Steam Machine", you have to restrict your list to the titles that run on Linux
I concede that the existence of titles not ported to Linux and games' varying minimum CPU/GPU/RAM requirements could cause consumer confusion. But because a Steam Machine can act as a Steam Link endpoint, you can run a game on a compatible Windows PC elsewhere on your home LAN and display it on your Steam Machine's monitor.
if you start calling Windows-based machines Steam Machines, you also have to look out for what small percentage of titles don't run on Windows.
There are four possibilities for a Steam game: Windows-only; Windows and Linux; Windows and macOS; or Windows, macOS, and Linux. Though this begins to sound reminiscent of Monty Python's SPAM sketch, my point is that Valve forbids the other three possibilities (macOS and Linux, macOS-only, and Linux-only). From Greenlight FAQ:
If your game is macOS-only, you should be selling it in the Mac App Store rather than Steam.
Involuntary manslaughter requires at least criminal negligence.
There are a number of strict liability crimes that have significant jail sentences. The most common of which is statutory rape.
In United States v. Kantor, an actress deliberately misrepresented her age to appear in an erotic film. The Ninth Circuit used this as grounds to find the film's producer not guilty of child pornography. The result appears consistent with the unclean hands doctrine: someone guilty of forgery is unjustified in pressing charges on grounds of reliance on a forged document. (See "Good Faith Defenses: Reshaping Strict Liability Crimes" by Laurie L. Levinson.) Applying the logic of Kantor to statutory rape would raise the bar on statutory rape to negligence. Or in which post-Kantor cases has such a defense already been unsuccessfully applied?
People either are never taught or choose to ignore the idea that you should never borrow to pay for a depreciating asset unless that asset helps you be more productive than you would be without it by a margin greater than the financing cost.
A car helps you be productive because it helps you get to and from work. And if it's your first job during or out of high school, or sometimes even out of college, you lack wealth to acquire it without financing, and you lack experience to make your labor attractive to legitimate work-from-home opportunities. For many, the bus isn't an acceptable substitute because bus drives have nights and Sundays off. Bosses have threatened to lay employees off unless the employee agrees to fill in a night or Sunday shift.
And if you do have wealth, you probably have good enough credit to buy a car at an interest rate lower than the inverse P/E ratio of the company that makes it. This means your money can be productive. For example, Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F) has a price to earnings ratio in the neighborhood of 6.6 (source), for an expected APY of 100 / 6.6 = 15%. So if you can finance a Ford vehicle for less than 15% APR, then you can buy a car, put everything but the down payment into a long position in F, sell a few shares every year to make the car payments, and still come out ahead because your dividends will exceed the interest.
Goods transport, people transport, older kids, elderly and others with medical conditions that prevent them from holding a license, I think.
That and $5,000 invoice from a driving school to get the required 100+ hours of verifiable supervised driving practice that some states require of learners (source). Not everybody has parents who both drive and live nearby.
If you live in a city whose bus drivers have nights, Sundays, and major holidays off (source: fwcitilink.com), and your boss assigns you hours on Sundays, is car sharing practical to use every Sunday to commute to work?
So intent is now needed to be prosecuted for a crime?
Mens rea is part of due process for imprisonable crimes. The only crimes without a mens rea requirement are strict liability offenses whose penalty is a fine, such as traffic violations.
Console gaming typically implies a level playing field were all gamers (local or online) have the same controller, same platform/specs, and the same resolution.
And the same vanilla game, without user-created mods. Without mods for Half-Life, there wouldn't be a Team Fortress Classic or Counter-Strike.
And I'm talking about putting a gaming PC in another room so that you don't even need the game console under the TV.
nobody wants a box that sounds like a jet engine under the TV.
A Steam Link thin client doesn't "sound[] like a jet engine". Put your PC in a separate room and run Cat6 to it and your TV.
I just want my quiet little $4-$500 tv box upgraded every few years
You could always buy a $50 TV box that relays audio and video from your PC over Ethernet.