People ignorant about upholding their rights will lose them. In DRM and in democracy. Same reason, same course.
Upholding rights is costly and entities ignoring or waiving rights can always undercut the exchange that preserves more rights.
Therefore, unneeded or unwanted rights will quickly erode. Gaining them back is extremely costly. Arm, leg, first born or life costly, sometimes.
But people are currently giving away their on-the-job passwords (whose secrecy protects their jobs and livelihood) for bars of chocolate, so any fight is helpless.
Pirates have been getting not only a low or zero price, but actually a product that is vastly superior to a "legit" copy. Have been for years.
Actually, people are now glad to actually PAY for un-jailed, un-protected, user-operation-un-prohibited goods.
Supply and demand are kickass tools to show the DRM-infested crapware companies the door. People ARE voting with their wallets and they're not choosing the pirated merchandise for being "free as in beer". It's not free as in speech, but at least free as in "mind your own damn business and let me use what I bought".
All I see is an article that is applauding Apple for doing infrequent security updates for Safari, contrasted with Firefox, that does security updates with an - for that blogger - absolutely unbearable frequency and install time. Though, in objective reality, Firefox releases an update every two months or so and the update takes about a minute on any recent PC.
Also, I remember the rabid verbal attacks on Microsoft for NOT updating their browser fast and often enough. But Apple isn't perceived to leave known vulnerabilities unpatched like Microsoft did, they are seen as to spare their users from annoyances.
And there are a handful of wonderful keyrings designed to support just that: click together only the key rings you need on your trip into a nice combined keyring.
There are dozens more for less than its 20 bucks, this one is just the first Google hit for "key chain detachable". Solves many problems, no lost keys, no giant keyrings, no worn out pockets, not a huge mess if I really need all keys for one day.
Other than that, common sense tells us that most of the time - car and bike keys can be separated with one at home. - if you drive the same car to work, you can leave the office keys in your car - keyfob for garage front door and parking lot never need to leave the car - keys for attic, mailbox, toolsheds never need to leave the house
Everything that weakens Apple's monopoly and their grip on "their" devices (which people pay for and therefore mistakenly believed to be owned by them) is hurting Apple.
Apple has tasted the fruit of monopoly ROIs just like Microsoft did in the 1980s.
They have a CEO that is highly intelligent, equally paranoid and known to have left the reasonable limits of ethical behavior towards employees, customers and enemies. They have an army of rabid lawyers, worse than SCO's. They have an incredibly large and unbelievably loyal customer base, supplying them with endless amounts of cash and defense-in-depth.
Like Grizzly bears that have tasted human flesh, they will not hold back, not take any advice and not be stopped and let go of it, not as long as Steve Jobs is alive. This will get worse.
When all battles are won and the store is dominated, one could introduce a tiny licensing fee of a few cents per app and download and suddenly all those free apps perish or drive in serious cash in an epic flood of pennies.
There's a YouTube app on all smartphones sold today, so that's not the point.
The point probably is that using Flash, one could create all kinds of apps that circumvent the iPhones AppStore. Free Flash games are everywhere on the net of sometimes exceptional quality and there's tons of possibilities to create any possible app in Flash.
As proprietary as it may be, Flash still has a Turing-complete language behind it. It can do most of the things that Java can. Embed it in a web page and you have a perfectly portable app that can do anything, only slower than native code.
Even Steve Jobs can't control the Internet and shut down all the competing apps that could be written in Flash - so they probably want to "protect" "their" endpoints from using apps outside of Apple's iron grip on.
If they did, we'd see a platform like "www.mp3.ru" spring up a Flash-based music store targeted at iPhones within days.
And seeing his cash cow monopoly break would ruin Steve Jobs mood and health, so they have to do whatever it takes to stop that. Including having the police kick in doors of American citizens and the corporate security of Chinese supplier companies bully employees into suicide if new products are leaked. (ref. FoxConn, Shenzhen) - and I wouldn't even be surprised if someone assisted in that suicide.
My Thinkpad came with Vista installed, with a free Windows 7 coupon, just pay for shipping of the DVDs. I was extremely eager to replace Vista with Windows 7 once the DVDs would arrive, and barely made any customization or tuning to the pre-installed Vista, knowing it would be gone for good in a few weeks.
Guess what?
The Windows 7 DVDs arrived and I didn't bother even until now to install them. I've been running Vista 32 for Christ's sake, probably the worst OS from Redmond since Windows ME.
Funny thing is, it doesn't crash and after disabling UAC, it's largely usable. Everything works, Dollar-store-bought hardware from the smallest crappiest shops in rural China have suitable drivers and it's good enough to not make me spend even two hours of my spare time to update to Windows 7 64.
So much for anecdotes. Maybe it's only the build quality of the main system that matters for system stability - some Thinkpad series are at least equal in workmanship and build quality to MacBooks, they're just made for understatement.
On the other hand, disgruntled admins now have not only their old rm / -f weapon of mass destruction, but the ultimate superweapon of doom.
Corporate risk management will now become a nightmare, when 2.5 million names in a database equal 12.5 billion USD in damages if leaked. All these names fit in a 128mb USB stick. Uncompressed. A LZMA2 7z file will probably be around 30mb. 12.5 billion USD in damages caused in 0.5 seconds over a T1 by one admin gone rogue.
I fully expect admins now to have tenure for life. They will probably never be fired anymore, only taken behind the barn and shot.
The Apple defense (aka "Feel free to prove the contrary.") "Your Internet or network connection was unreliable." "You made unauthorized changes to the firmware or the system."
Marketing's wet dream: "The PS4 has been out for two months now. As a courtesy, we will give you a 30 percent discount when you purchase a PS4 within the next 3 weeks"
The "Microsoft" variant "We will send you a refurbished unit. Shipping fee is 100 EUR/USD. If you send in your bricked unit, we will discount 30 percent of it."
From the first gangs of thugs smashing bootleg cinemas in the 1920, the rise of Hollywood accounting up until now, strong arm tactics, legal wrangling and outright deceit are a staple and everyday item of the American way of doing entertainment business.
Trick question: Who owns the CDs you buy? You? Why are you prohibited from playing it in front of a large audience? How many times do you need to re-buy the White Album when another format comes out? Why are you allowed to lend your CD to a friend, while you're not allowed to lend your downloaded music?
If most customers accept that and pay outrageous amounts for the latest shiny things without verifying that they indeed own it afterward, no one can help them.
Apple, Sony et al are selling the digital variant of the Brooklyn Bridge and customers are camping for days to pay for it.
You cannot agree to unlimited future amendments. No matter what you say or what button you click, future contract amendments cannot be agreed beforehand.
Example:
EULA 1.0 demanding agreement that future EULAs can be amended in any way they want. You could agree to EULA 1.0 or demand a refund. EULA 2.0 comes a year later, demands one of your kidneys donated to Sony. You could agree to EULA2.0 or lose your investment in the device.
Would that be fair?
Would it be any fairer if EULA 2.0 only demanded additional payments or only took away some rights you had under EULA 1.0?
They don't lease their consoles but reserve all rights to its firmware because of the same legal schism that underlies the major rest of Sony's business.
Simple story: Sony sells CDs at Walmart. John Doe buys a CD. Complex law: Has John Doe just bought a "license to listen" or did he buy a "shiny disc of plastic"?
Currently, Sony and all other music and video publishers have all the advantages, while John Doe has the disadvantages of both.
If the media fails, he loses his rights to listen to the music. This would be acceptable, when he bought the "shiny disc" model. However, he lacks the right to make a backup for the music he licensed, robbing him of the benefits of the "license to listen" model.
John Doe is now suffers the limits of a license and the limits of its media, while Sony enjoys the benefits of both.
This business model works like a charm for CD and DVD publishers , legally speaking, so why not extend it to game consoles? We now have those "license-and-media" chimeras (CDs, smartphones, games, anything with a more complex firmware) sold everywhere.
People currently just hack and crack it instead of legally attacking its schizoid roots or simply refusing to buy that restrictive stuff. I know, if it works, it isn't stupid, but with encryption hoisted to ridiculous heights on all fronts, it's not going to work for long anymore.
Audio CD protection was a joke, cracked with a Sharpie on release day. DVD protection was funny, cracked within weeks by a 16 year old Norwegian.
BluRay and iPhone-esque protection are still a headache, years after release.
Future protections will be impervious. All devices will have some.
When GGP complained about a lack of personal and economic freedom, GP answered with an insult-covered version of what is very similar to "You're not stuffed into ovens yet, so shut up."
You could ague about the validity of the slippery slope argument, but unilaterally amendable contracts are in fact an oppressive element. Since freedom was usually not lost in one piece, but in a slow war of attrition, the opinion of GGP deserves more thoughtful arguments than that.
But silencing people that complain about a small loss of their freedom by citing the suffering of people who have lost all of it is dishonest and disgraceful.
Would you tell someone "Stop complaining about your headache, it is an insult to the millions that die of cancer every year."?
A contract that allows one or more parties, but not all, to change it at will, whenever they like, to whatever they want, to is probably void.
Contracts represent the consent and mutual agreement. A contract with that is amendable by party A without recourse for party B cannot be mutually agreed beforehand, because party B cannot agree to something they don't know and cannot reasonably expect.
One could say that after all the issues about rootkits and such, anyone dealing with Sony *should* reasonably expect to be required to donate a kidney to party A, but that's not the point here.
Point is, an agreement between two parties is always limited in scope. An agreement where one party can extend the scope of the contract without compensation or recourse for the other party is tantamount to slavery, for all intents and purposes.
"You agree to giving me A and I agree to give you compensation in the form of B. I can change your responsibilities under A and my due compensation under B as I see fit."
Or in other words:
Would you agree that The Coca Cola Company is allowed to freely change the contents of your Coke bottle after the sale, including but not limited to substituting it with water? Would you buy a Coke if the store clerk was allowed to pour it on the floor after you paid for it?
And dustproof pitot tubes, which are impossible by definition.
Other than that, they will not suffer half as much, since they don't have that much bypass air going through extremely large intakes into extremely fine turbines. And that ash is not rammed in, head-on, at 900kph.
Niki Lauda of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauda_Air_Flight_004 fame and Air Berlin are actually begging to get airborne again. They would do test flights with their own equipment, they announced.
They probably figured out their planes only have 2 engines now so it's cheaper to replace them if they are clogged with a molten slurry of glass and ash.
It's the prehistoric brain. Evolved in several hundred millennia.
Women: look for berries, plan meal, take care of kid 1, kid 2, kid 3, watch the surroundings for danger, maintain relations with the rest of the tribe, upsell your DNA to the fittest male, acquire protection for kids and you from as many males as you can without causing drama. Men: maintain squad coordination, attack target (threat, enemy, food, bounty or booty).
No political agenda will re-wire that piece of hardware in a sensible amount of time. But we *can* create a lot of misery for all the parties involved through trying to.
We could just accommodate for people that are wired differently, and be done with it, but the "normally wired" hordes would subdue them. So we subdue the majority. Good plan.
Ugly and pretty are now irrelevant because it could hurt ugly people's feelings?
All people and all errm body parts are not created equally in terms of beauty. People find it pleasant to look at things that are pleasant to the eye, which is probably no coincidence.
You can of course keep looking at ugly body parts of ugly people if it makes you fell well. When the sense of smug righteousness wears off after a while you will realize you wasted your time to the benefit of no one.
I always thought MY parents and their generation paid for my education with their taxes and with my taxes, I will pay for the education of the current kids, mine and those of everyone else.
This is beneficial without resorting to political vehicles of questionable efficacy and efficiency like the "intergenerational contract" you described. Intergenerational contracts don't even work on the family level, with the kids more often than not deciding against continuing the business or home of their parents. Hoping to uphold intergenerational contracts on the national level, with dozens of presidencies and Congresses in between is completely unrealistic, since the old generation has absolutely no recourse should the young generation default.
(Which they do, incidentally, in Western Europe: they simply choose to not enter the workforce for anything else but their dream job at stratosphere-level pay. They still blame the eeevil capitalists for not offering those jobs, though.)
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People ignorant about upholding their rights will lose them. In DRM and in democracy. Same reason, same course.
Upholding rights is costly and entities ignoring or waiving rights can always undercut the exchange that preserves more rights.
Therefore, unneeded or unwanted rights will quickly erode. Gaining them back is extremely costly. Arm, leg, first born or life costly, sometimes.
But people are currently giving away their on-the-job passwords (whose secrecy protects their jobs and livelihood) for bars of chocolate, so any fight is helpless.
Pirates have been getting not only a low or zero price, but actually a product that is vastly superior to a "legit" copy. Have been for years.
Actually, people are now glad to actually PAY for un-jailed, un-protected, user-operation-un-prohibited goods.
Supply and demand are kickass tools to show the DRM-infested crapware companies the door. People ARE voting with their wallets and they're not choosing the pirated merchandise for being "free as in beer". It's not free as in speech, but at least free as in "mind your own damn business and let me use what I bought".
All I see is an article that is applauding Apple for doing infrequent security updates for Safari, contrasted with Firefox, that does security updates with an - for that blogger - absolutely unbearable frequency and install time. Though, in objective reality, Firefox releases an update every two months or so and the update takes about a minute on any recent PC.
Also, I remember the rabid verbal attacks on Microsoft for NOT updating their browser fast and often enough. But Apple isn't perceived to leave known vulnerabilities unpatched like Microsoft did, they are seen as to spare their users from annoyances.
Their marketing dept is godlike.
And there are a handful of wonderful keyrings designed to support just that: click together only the key rings you need on your trip into a nice combined keyring.
They look like this:
http://www.amazon.com/KYR60-MC-Troika-Valet-Keyring/dp/B00009R4CM/
There are dozens more for less than its 20 bucks, this one is just the first Google hit for "key chain detachable". Solves many problems, no lost keys, no giant keyrings, no worn out pockets, not a huge mess if I really need all keys for one day.
Other than that, common sense tells us that most of the time
- car and bike keys can be separated with one at home.
- if you drive the same car to work, you can leave the office keys in your car
- keyfob for garage front door and parking lot never need to leave the car
- keys for attic, mailbox, toolsheds never need to leave the house
Against Apple = Flamebait, Troll, Offtopic, Overrated :) you know The Party Line
Everything that weakens Apple's monopoly and their grip on "their" devices (which people pay for and therefore mistakenly believed to be owned by them) is hurting Apple.
Apple has tasted the fruit of monopoly ROIs just like Microsoft did in the 1980s.
They have a CEO that is highly intelligent, equally paranoid and known to have left the reasonable limits of ethical behavior towards employees, customers and enemies. They have an army of rabid lawyers, worse than SCO's. They have an incredibly large and unbelievably loyal customer base, supplying them with endless amounts of cash and defense-in-depth.
Like Grizzly bears that have tasted human flesh, they will not hold back, not take any advice and not be stopped and let go of it, not as long as Steve Jobs is alive. This will get worse.
Exactly. It is about control and dominance.
When all battles are won and the store is dominated, one could introduce a tiny licensing fee of a few cents per app and download and suddenly all those free apps perish or drive in serious cash in an epic flood of pennies.
There's a YouTube app on all smartphones sold today, so that's not the point.
The point probably is that using Flash, one could create all kinds of apps that circumvent the iPhones AppStore. Free Flash games are everywhere on the net of sometimes exceptional quality and there's tons of possibilities to create any possible app in Flash.
As proprietary as it may be, Flash still has a Turing-complete language behind it. It can do most of the things that Java can. Embed it in a web page and you have a perfectly portable app that can do anything, only slower than native code.
Even Steve Jobs can't control the Internet and shut down all the competing apps that could be written in Flash - so they probably want to "protect" "their" endpoints from using apps outside of Apple's iron grip on.
If they did, we'd see a platform like "www.mp3.ru" spring up a Flash-based music store targeted at iPhones within days.
And seeing his cash cow monopoly break would ruin Steve Jobs mood and health, so they have to do whatever it takes to stop that. Including having the police kick in doors of American citizens and the corporate security of Chinese supplier companies bully employees into suicide if new products are leaked. (ref. FoxConn, Shenzhen) - and I wouldn't even be surprised if someone assisted in that suicide.
My Thinkpad came with Vista installed, with a free Windows 7 coupon, just pay for shipping of the DVDs. I was extremely eager to replace Vista with Windows 7 once the DVDs would arrive, and barely made any customization or tuning to the pre-installed Vista, knowing it would be gone for good in a few weeks.
Guess what?
The Windows 7 DVDs arrived and I didn't bother even until now to install them. I've been running Vista 32 for Christ's sake, probably the worst OS from Redmond since Windows ME.
Funny thing is, it doesn't crash and after disabling UAC, it's largely usable. Everything works, Dollar-store-bought hardware from the smallest crappiest shops in rural China have suitable drivers and it's good enough to not make me spend even two hours of my spare time to update to Windows 7 64.
So much for anecdotes. Maybe it's only the build quality of the main system that matters for system stability - some Thinkpad series are at least equal in workmanship and build quality to MacBooks, they're just made for understatement.
I will downgrade my geek card as appropriate.
On the other hand, disgruntled admins now have not only their old rm / -f weapon of mass destruction, but the ultimate superweapon of doom.
Corporate risk management will now become a nightmare, when 2.5 million names in a database equal 12.5 billion USD in damages if leaked. All these names fit in a 128mb USB stick. Uncompressed. A LZMA2 7z file will probably be around 30mb. 12.5 billion USD in damages caused in 0.5 seconds over a T1 by one admin gone rogue.
I fully expect admins now to have tenure for life. They will probably never be fired anymore, only taken behind the barn and shot.
The Apple defense (aka "Feel free to prove the contrary.")
"Your Internet or network connection was unreliable."
"You made unauthorized changes to the firmware or the system."
Marketing's wet dream:
"The PS4 has been out for two months now. As a courtesy, we will give you a 30 percent discount when you purchase a PS4 within the next 3 weeks"
The "Microsoft" variant
"We will send you a refurbished unit. Shipping fee is 100 EUR/USD. If you send in your bricked unit, we will discount 30 percent of it."
Guess what: we have had that for many decades.
From the first gangs of thugs smashing bootleg cinemas in the 1920, the rise of Hollywood accounting up until now, strong arm tactics, legal wrangling and outright deceit are a staple and everyday item of the American way of doing entertainment business.
Trick question: Who owns the CDs you buy? You? Why are you prohibited from playing it in front of a large audience?
How many times do you need to re-buy the White Album when another format comes out?
Why are you allowed to lend your CD to a friend, while you're not allowed to lend your downloaded music?
If most customers accept that and pay outrageous amounts for the latest shiny things without verifying that they indeed own it afterward, no one can help them.
Apple, Sony et al are selling the digital variant of the Brooklyn Bridge and customers are camping for days to pay for it.
You cannot agree to unlimited future amendments. No matter what you say or what button you click, future contract amendments cannot be agreed beforehand.
Example:
EULA 1.0 demanding agreement that future EULAs can be amended in any way they want. You could agree to EULA 1.0 or demand a refund.
EULA 2.0 comes a year later, demands one of your kidneys donated to Sony. You could agree to EULA2.0 or lose your investment in the device.
Would that be fair?
Would it be any fairer if EULA 2.0 only demanded additional payments or only took away some rights you had under EULA 1.0?
They don't lease their consoles but reserve all rights to its firmware because of the same legal schism that underlies the major rest of Sony's business.
Simple story: Sony sells CDs at Walmart. John Doe buys a CD.
Complex law: Has John Doe just bought a "license to listen" or did he buy a "shiny disc of plastic"?
Currently, Sony and all other music and video publishers have all the advantages, while John Doe has the disadvantages of both.
If the media fails, he loses his rights to listen to the music. This would be acceptable, when he bought the "shiny disc" model. However, he lacks the right to make a backup for the music he licensed, robbing him of the benefits of the "license to listen" model.
John Doe is now suffers the limits of a license and the limits of its media, while Sony enjoys the benefits of both.
This business model works like a charm for CD and DVD publishers , legally speaking, so why not extend it to game consoles? We now have those "license-and-media" chimeras (CDs, smartphones, games, anything with a more complex firmware) sold everywhere.
People currently just hack and crack it instead of legally attacking its schizoid roots or simply refusing to buy that restrictive stuff. I know, if it works, it isn't stupid, but with encryption hoisted to ridiculous heights on all fronts, it's not going to work for long anymore.
Audio CD protection was a joke, cracked with a Sharpie on release day. DVD protection was funny, cracked within weeks by a 16 year old Norwegian.
BluRay and iPhone-esque protection are still a headache, years after release.
Future protections will be impervious. All devices will have some.
Good luck, dvdjohns of the world.
When GGP complained about a lack of personal and economic freedom, GP answered with an insult-covered version of what is very similar to "You're not stuffed into ovens yet, so shut up."
You could ague about the validity of the slippery slope argument, but unilaterally amendable contracts are in fact an oppressive element. Since freedom was usually not lost in one piece, but in a slow war of attrition, the opinion of GGP deserves more thoughtful arguments than that.
But silencing people that complain about a small loss of their freedom by citing the suffering of people who have lost all of it is dishonest and disgraceful.
Would you tell someone "Stop complaining about your headache, it is an insult to the millions that die of cancer every year."?
A contract that allows one or more parties, but not all, to change it at will, whenever they like, to whatever they want, to is probably void.
Contracts represent the consent and mutual agreement. A contract with that is amendable by party A without recourse for party B cannot be mutually agreed beforehand, because party B cannot agree to something they don't know and cannot reasonably expect.
One could say that after all the issues about rootkits and such, anyone dealing with Sony *should* reasonably expect to be required to donate a kidney to party A, but that's not the point here.
Point is, an agreement between two parties is always limited in scope. An agreement where one party can extend the scope of the contract without compensation or recourse for the other party is tantamount to slavery, for all intents and purposes.
"You agree to giving me A and I agree to give you compensation in the form of B. I can change your responsibilities under A and my due compensation under B as I see fit."
Or in other words:
Would you agree that The Coca Cola Company is allowed to freely change the contents of your Coke bottle after the sale, including but not limited to substituting it with water? Would you buy a Coke if the store clerk was allowed to pour it on the floor after you paid for it?
Air filters. Really good air filters.
And dustproof pitot tubes, which are impossible by definition.
Other than that, they will not suffer half as much, since they don't have that much bypass air going through extremely large intakes into extremely fine turbines. And that ash is not rammed in, head-on, at 900kph.
Niki Lauda of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauda_Air_Flight_004 fame and Air Berlin are actually begging to get airborne again. They would do test flights with their own equipment, they announced.
They probably figured out their planes only have 2 engines now so it's cheaper to replace them if they are clogged with a molten slurry of glass and ash.
It's the prehistoric brain. Evolved in several hundred millennia.
Women: look for berries, plan meal, take care of kid 1, kid 2, kid 3, watch the surroundings for danger, maintain relations with the rest of the tribe, upsell your DNA to the fittest male, acquire protection for kids and you from as many males as you can without causing drama.
Men: maintain squad coordination, attack target (threat, enemy, food, bounty or booty).
No political agenda will re-wire that piece of hardware in a sensible amount of time. But we *can* create a lot of misery for all the parties involved through trying to.
We could just accommodate for people that are wired differently, and be done with it, but the "normally wired" hordes would subdue them. So we subdue the majority. Good plan.
You need to remember one thing:
"If it works, it isn't stupid."
You will need that phrase more than once in your life, trust me.
"increasing numbers of completely normal girls are asking to get bits cut off"
I think there's a severe oxymoron in there but I can't just completely normally pinpoint it.
In other words, I take it as a warning: don't emphasize beauty, because some braindead bimbos will be provoked to do some braindead things.
Great. Now can we ban YouTube please, all these extreme sports videos are threatening to cull the herd.
90% of "Fixing up bits where nature wasn't good enough" can be completed with a shower, a hairbrush and a shave.
No wonder Hippies don't like any of these three.
Ugly and pretty are now irrelevant because it could hurt ugly people's feelings?
All people and all errm body parts are not created equally in terms of beauty. People find it pleasant to look at things that are pleasant to the eye, which is probably no coincidence.
You can of course keep looking at ugly body parts of ugly people if it makes you fell well. When the sense of smug righteousness wears off after a while you will realize you wasted your time to the benefit of no one.
I always thought MY parents and their generation paid for my education with their taxes and with my taxes, I will pay for the education of the current kids, mine and those of everyone else.
This is beneficial without resorting to political vehicles of questionable efficacy and efficiency like the "intergenerational contract" you described. Intergenerational contracts don't even work on the family level, with the kids more often than not deciding against continuing the business or home of their parents. Hoping to uphold intergenerational contracts on the national level, with dozens of presidencies and Congresses in between is completely unrealistic, since the old generation has absolutely no recourse should the young generation default.
(Which they do, incidentally, in Western Europe: they simply choose to not enter the workforce for anything else but their dream job at stratosphere-level pay. They still blame the eeevil capitalists for not offering those jobs, though.)