An interesting experiment, to be sure, and I'm glad that someone has the money to try it out.
It's hard to know until you're actually in the situation, of course, but I think that if I had a minimum income in addition to what I make now, I'd drop down to working part time and spend the balance volunteering and pursuing music again.
How does it "stop doing business in France", except by attempting to block IP addresses that originate from France? What do you do when someone uses a proxy or VPN to access Facebook? Who is at fault then? How can you enforce that? Does France plan to build their own Great Firewall?
What does "doing business in France" even mean? The servers are located in other countries.
Again, if I have a blog up somewhere that violates a law in France, with the server hosted in Botswana, how can I be fined for "doing business" especially when there's no monetary action between my site and the visitor?
But unless servers are hosted inside of France, does French law really apply? Can it be enforced? They can levy all the fines they want, but unless Facebook exists as an entity inside of that country, does that country really have any jurisdiction?
I run a few sites hosted in the US and I know that they would violate laws of Saudi Arabia. Can they come sue me?
Many porn sites show nipples and the tips of penises. Can they be sued by Japan, who demands such things be covered by little black boxes?
If a local town here in the US were to pass a law saying, I don't know, that you must pay a Website Tax in order to operate a website, then can they try to collect that tax from any website they access from the town?
I consider myself to be a US national politics nerd. I follow this stuff daily. There's more to being a nerd than generating electricity from trees or arguing over whether Han shot first.
What if there was a site dedicated to this purpose? One micropayment site that multiple websites could integrate with. Hell, if there was a micropayment standard, with a single sign on service, then you could easily have multiple micropayment sites. Then you keep a balance on the micropayment site, the site keeps track of how many people have paid for a site's content that day, and they cut a check every month.
While true, this kind of effort can help scientists discover things that they have overlooked.
I know that it is difficult to believe, but scientists are generally human and they're not omniscient. Their experiments often have some kind of problem.
Ted Cruz and Rand Paul both oppose mass government surveillance and want the government to get a warrant - just as our constitution dictates.
Rand Paul, however, has dropped out of the race.
Many of the other candidates have the same stance on this as Rubio - Christie, Bush, Kasich, and I believe (but I don't know 100%) Carson as well. Not sure where Carly Fiorina stands on it, I hear so very little about her because she doesn't tell advertisements on the networks the way Trump does.
If this issue is important to you, then there's really only one candidate left who is on the side of privacy - and that is really, really sad. It should be all of them.
If you want the public to be able to view all footage, all the time, at no additional cost, then the police department is going to have to spend the money to make all of that video available.
That costs money.
So the city will need to:
A: Raise taxes to pay for the program B: Cut other parts of the department (likely officers) C: Cut other city services
There is no such thing as free. If nothing else, there's always opportunity cost.
You pick. Me, I'd rather pay for just the portions of video that are of interest. It's a hell of a lot less money than a blanket availability of everything.
Remember that these videos need to be reviewed and modified to remove the faces of minors and things like that. It takes time and resources. This ain't free.
Reading the article, it will take about 304 hours, at $120 an hour.
This is for an office to review all of the video and make the proper privacy redactions (probably blurring children's faces, license plates, stuff like that).
$120 an hour does still seem excessive, though. Seems like you could hire 2-4 other non-officer people with the appropriate experience and education to do the work, and keep that officer on the street instead of behind the desk.
Nope. That's not what I'm saying. The question is meant to b'e taken quite literally: "systemd seems to have quite a lot of flaws, so why are so many distributions accepting it so quickly?" I apologize if you ended up taking more meaning out of that than what was intended - it's really that simple a question.
I did a bit of searching around and found this, but it seems tin-foil-hatty and I don't have the deep, low-level linux experience to tell if it is true or not.
The whole open source thing is great, in that people can integrate new pieces as they see fit, but the whole systemd thing just seemed to appear one day and take everything over. If one man, or one company, is able to force this kind of change then perhaps Linux is not nearly as healthy or independent as we may think it is.
There's one thing about systemd that I don't understand: If it is terrible (and I have no doubt that it is, from its philosophy to its implementation), why have almost all of the major Linux distributions moved to it?
Cry me a river, George, with your billions of dollars, knowing that you've had a huge impact on world entertainment, sparked imagination and wonder in millions of minds, and created many thousands of jobs because of one single piece of intellectual property.
If you wanted to keep such a tight grip on what happened with your stuff you never should have sold it. You sold it to DISNEY of all companies, you know that they only produce the most shallow of crap these days (but then again, so does most of Hollywood), you knew what was coming.
I don't want to hear you bitch and complain about what happens in an imaginary universe.
I've heard about the Dabiq publication but I never really spent the time to look for it. Since you posted a convenient link, I decided to go take a look.
I gotta say - this is not some low budget, crappy publication. It's a very high quality production.
The most important thing to keep in mind: They believe that they're fighting a holy war. Yes, it may seem crazy to you and I, but it doesn't matter what WE think. What matters is what THEY think. What THEY think is what is driving their actions.
The Great Experiment hasn't completely failed - we still have a chance to turn this boat around.
We can still vote. You may say that it doesn't matter, but it does. Stop voting for people that you know are crooked. Stop voting for people who use fear as an excuse for everything. Stop voting for people who have "a pen and a phone" to get things done, and damn what the laws say.
Start voting for people who know the constitution and use it to guide their decisions. It will take time to flush all the shit down the toilet, but after a few election cycles, flooding the government with people of principal will make a difference. A huge difference.
Educate yourself. Then educate your family. Then educate your friends. It doesn't take very much.
The failure of education and the rise of apathy is our biggest enemy right now. The government is only as shitty as it is because we, as a citizenry, keep electing the same people over and over and over again. We bitch and moan, but then next time we do it again anyway.
There is a way out and there is still time - just not much.
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That's how I felt, too. I guess it has something to do with graphics.
An interesting experiment, to be sure, and I'm glad that someone has the money to try it out.
It's hard to know until you're actually in the situation, of course, but I think that if I had a minimum income in addition to what I make now, I'd drop down to working part time and spend the balance volunteering and pursuing music again.
How does it "stop doing business in France", except by attempting to block IP addresses that originate from France? What do you do when someone uses a proxy or VPN to access Facebook? Who is at fault then? How can you enforce that? Does France plan to build their own Great Firewall?
What does "doing business in France" even mean? The servers are located in other countries.
Again, if I have a blog up somewhere that violates a law in France, with the server hosted in Botswana, how can I be fined for "doing business" especially when there's no monetary action between my site and the visitor?
But unless servers are hosted inside of France, does French law really apply? Can it be enforced? They can levy all the fines they want, but unless Facebook exists as an entity inside of that country, does that country really have any jurisdiction?
I run a few sites hosted in the US and I know that they would violate laws of Saudi Arabia. Can they come sue me?
Many porn sites show nipples and the tips of penises. Can they be sued by Japan, who demands such things be covered by little black boxes?
If a local town here in the US were to pass a law saying, I don't know, that you must pay a Website Tax in order to operate a website, then can they try to collect that tax from any website they access from the town?
I consider myself to be a US national politics nerd. I follow this stuff daily. There's more to being a nerd than generating electricity from trees or arguing over whether Han shot first.
$1 per week is not that great a deal, considering they already sell a 2 year subscription, website and print, for $30. Plus you get a hat.
What if there was a site dedicated to this purpose? One micropayment site that multiple websites could integrate with. Hell, if there was a micropayment standard, with a single sign on service, then you could easily have multiple micropayment sites. Then you keep a balance on the micropayment site, the site keeps track of how many people have paid for a site's content that day, and they cut a check every month.
When I reach the "10 Article Limit" on a site I just clear my cookies and continue reading.
While true, this kind of effort can help scientists discover things that they have overlooked.
I know that it is difficult to believe, but scientists are generally human and they're not omniscient. Their experiments often have some kind of problem.
Ted Cruz and Rand Paul both oppose mass government surveillance and want the government to get a warrant - just as our constitution dictates.
Rand Paul, however, has dropped out of the race.
Many of the other candidates have the same stance on this as Rubio - Christie, Bush, Kasich, and I believe (but I don't know 100%) Carson as well. Not sure where Carly Fiorina stands on it, I hear so very little about her because she doesn't tell advertisements on the networks the way Trump does.
If this issue is important to you, then there's really only one candidate left who is on the side of privacy - and that is really, really sad. It should be all of them.
What about the port you stick the power cable into?
If you want the public to be able to view all footage, all the time, at no additional cost, then the police department is going to have to spend the money to make all of that video available.
That costs money.
So the city will need to:
A: Raise taxes to pay for the program
B: Cut other parts of the department (likely officers)
C: Cut other city services
There is no such thing as free. If nothing else, there's always opportunity cost.
You pick. Me, I'd rather pay for just the portions of video that are of interest. It's a hell of a lot less money than a blanket availability of everything.
Remember that these videos need to be reviewed and modified to remove the faces of minors and things like that. It takes time and resources. This ain't free.
It's actually not $200 an hour.
Reading the article, it will take about 304 hours, at $120 an hour.
This is for an office to review all of the video and make the proper privacy redactions (probably blurring children's faces, license plates, stuff like that).
$120 an hour does still seem excessive, though. Seems like you could hire 2-4 other non-officer people with the appropriate experience and education to do the work, and keep that officer on the street instead of behind the desk.
Nope. That's not what I'm saying. The question is meant to b'e taken quite literally: "systemd seems to have quite a lot of flaws, so why are so many distributions accepting it so quickly?" I apologize if you ended up taking more meaning out of that than what was intended - it's really that simple a question.
I did a bit of searching around and found this, but it seems tin-foil-hatty and I don't have the deep, low-level linux experience to tell if it is true or not.
The whole open source thing is great, in that people can integrate new pieces as they see fit, but the whole systemd thing just seemed to appear one day and take everything over. If one man, or one company, is able to force this kind of change then perhaps Linux is not nearly as healthy or independent as we may think it is.
There's one thing about systemd that I don't understand: If it is terrible (and I have no doubt that it is, from its philosophy to its implementation), why have almost all of the major Linux distributions moved to it?
This is one of the reasons I've stayed away from Drupal. The community is pretty awful, in my experience.
Now that I know they had a patch to move their update request to HTTPS back in 2012 - and ignored it - I'm definitely staying away.
That's truly amateur hour.
You mean like an FFL, a Federal Firearms License?
Tell me more about your novel ideas.
...where what you say in public can be recorded and kept indefinitely.
Like the evening news. Or some person with a cell phone recording a speech. Or you publish an article in a magazine or newspaper.
Hey, so, like, when you put something out for the public, then it's... public.
Sorry, but doing what HTML+JavaScript was doing 20 years ago, just in a different container, is not innovative.
No kidding.
Cry me a river, George, with your billions of dollars, knowing that you've had a huge impact on world entertainment, sparked imagination and wonder in millions of minds, and created many thousands of jobs because of one single piece of intellectual property.
If you wanted to keep such a tight grip on what happened with your stuff you never should have sold it. You sold it to DISNEY of all companies, you know that they only produce the most shallow of crap these days (but then again, so does most of Hollywood), you knew what was coming.
I don't want to hear you bitch and complain about what happens in an imaginary universe.
The more important question, of course, is not "how big was the universe when it was first born," but "what gave birth to the universe?"
So, as a typical corporate software engineer, should I care at all about quantum computing?
You may jest, but the man does wield great political and economic power - often through multiple layers of organizations.
I've heard about the Dabiq publication but I never really spent the time to look for it. Since you posted a convenient link, I decided to go take a look.
I gotta say - this is not some low budget, crappy publication. It's a very high quality production.
The most important thing to keep in mind: They believe that they're fighting a holy war. Yes, it may seem crazy to you and I, but it doesn't matter what WE think. What matters is what THEY think. What THEY think is what is driving their actions.
The Great Experiment hasn't completely failed - we still have a chance to turn this boat around.
We can still vote. You may say that it doesn't matter, but it does. Stop voting for people that you know are crooked. Stop voting for people who use fear as an excuse for everything. Stop voting for people who have "a pen and a phone" to get things done, and damn what the laws say.
Start voting for people who know the constitution and use it to guide their decisions. It will take time to flush all the shit down the toilet, but after a few election cycles, flooding the government with people of principal will make a difference. A huge difference.
Educate yourself. Then educate your family. Then educate your friends. It doesn't take very much.
The failure of education and the rise of apathy is our biggest enemy right now. The government is only as shitty as it is because we, as a citizenry, keep electing the same people over and over and over again. We bitch and moan, but then next time we do it again anyway.
There is a way out and there is still time - just not much.