How many feel safe in a car driven by a stranger (taxi or otherwise)? I know I personally feel safer when I'm driving my car at high speeds on the highway compared to riding with someone else driving.
The question is while the punishment might be filled and dues paid per law. A lot of sex offenders are repeat offenders. They can go years and sometimes decades between offenses and then they get caught with their pants down
Then it sounds like the current method of justice is not rehabilitating people properly. The solution isn't to let the person back on the street wearing a scarlet letter for the rest of their life. If the punishment isn't long enough, increase the jail time. If a jail doesn't have any effect on it (a mental issue), then consoling or other methods should be used. If the convict isn't safe to be around children in his current state, how is the "correct solution" to let him potentially get near children and then publish a bulletin to warn people?
I heard about one where a drunk couldn't get his keycard to work at a hotel, walked down stairs. Told the hire staff the wrong room number. They gave him a new card for the wrong room and he climbed into bed with whom he thought was his SO and instead was a little girl.
Sounds like extreme negligence on the hotel's part here. They issued a room key to someone and made no attempt to verify the person was the occupant of the room. He could have been a bugler looking to steal guests' valuables instead.
My former employer, as US company, had us attend an event with customers, where we would be sitting at tables 8 people mixed employees and customers, and there would be a collection going around for a charity. When I declined to contribute, things got pretty chilly at the table; people were in shock that I wasn't donating my private earnings towards a charity in order to make my employer look good.
Little late now, but you could have responded that you already contribute to the charity outside of the company. A lie? Yes. But it wouldn't have been one they could have proven or held against you.
Also from TFA, the letter explicitly states "Your contribution is important to all of us, but I want to emphasize that all contributions are voluntary and have no impact on your job status, performance review, compensation, or employment." and "Any amount given or the decision not to give will not advantage or disadvantage you." How much of that is going to be reflected in practice -- Disney using other 'justifications' for giving a worker crappier shifts, keep them from receiving performance awards, etc. -- to create a de facto but not de jure requirement to contribute has yet to be seen
Easiest way to guarantee this: make contributions anonymous. But I bet they wont think of doing that.
get the new foreign workers to pay for it all as part of their contracts.
To add to that -- lower H-1B wages means less disposable income to pay back to Disney for copyright fight. Cuts both way, doesn't it Disney?
On the other hand, Disney as no need to be asking for handouts as with their new overseas workforce they're saving a bundle. Why don't they just redirect those saved payroll dollars to their legal department?
No. It's ATT making up a story that others will screw up their equipment. It would be exceedingly poor PR for Google to come in and wreck other people's connectivity and get caught doing it.
Ironically, I know from professional experience that this does happen -- only it's the other way around. The incumbent provider will damage the infrastructure of the "new guy in town" instead. I used to work for a cable overbuilder in the Southern California and the larger entrenched provider, one of the "Big Three", was found to be cutting our lines.
Is the point that government agencies should always use less secure phones so the public can access their salient details?
I think they are trying to use the potential loss of their business to coerce Apple into complying with the FBI. A decision being made by some administrator who has an inflated idea of how much business they really provide, or thinks they will touch off some "revolution" amongst other organizations to follow suit.
I buy the blu-ray of a movie I like, then download it off a pirate website. I don't even own a blu-ray player. It's just that I have a home media server and would prefer to have movies in a format I can stream throughout my house. But Hollywood insists on only letting you stream movies over the Internet. No simple way to have a local copy which plays on all my devices.
I gotta say UR DOING IT WRONG.
If you're buying the discs you can just rip them with direct stream copying using MakeMKV. Then you get full blu-ray quality instead of some encoder's interpretation of "great picture and sound". This also keeps you off torrents, so you wont get targeted for any extortion attempts (even if it's legal for you to download the movie since you own the disc, the movie studios can lock you up in court for so long you lose even if you win). And ripping your own purchased copy to get versions for your personal use is going to look more legal than what you're doing to start with.
Maybe they mean we're reached a point where most people who want cell phones already have one, and some people even have old ones that still work but they upgraded from to a newer model. So there's a market of used phones and people getting them for free because family handing down older devices.
The third-party hardware has to interface with the phone -- and the software on it. That means all sorts of legal considerations. Probably licensing for each product -- can't have a rogue add-ons stealing mobile payment platform credentials or using phone features for nefarious purposes.
No, I haven't talked to LG about a new "gamechanger" product I want to develop. But I also live in the land of reality where LG is a corporation looking to make money.
LG is planning on creating some sort of open ecosystem for third-party hardware. What exactly that means is yet to be seen...
It means it will be like Apple... anyone is free to develop products for the proprietary, non interoperable interface, you just have to pay LG a nice fee to do so.
I thought this would be a slashvertisement for a smartphone when I saw it in my RSS feed. Discussion of new VR gear is a little bit different. Maybe once VR is a common thing on the market I'll agree this is is just an ad, but for right now it's still News for Nerds.
Okay, I see. So he created a situation where one cannot own the album outright -- only stream it. Forcing the consumer into paying in perpetuity for a service he is part owner in.
That makes even less sense. He's an owner in Tidal so his response to a sudden interest in his service (most likely people wanting to get his album) is to pull the album from the site? Now who's the cause of "loss of income"?
I would wonder if he is just dead-set on people buying physical copies -- except the summary implies it's not available that way.
...West announced that his new album, The Life of Pablo, would be sold exclusively as a download from his website and the artist-driven streaming music service Tidal. The news sent Tidal to No. 1 on the U.S. Apple App Store, so West pulled the album from his site...
Is something worded incorrectly here? This is written like he pulled his album because Tidal was suddenly really popular on the Apple App Store. But then it says he pulled his album from his site. Wouldn't that only leave it available on Tidal?
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How many feel safe in a car driven by a stranger (taxi or otherwise)?
I know I personally feel safer when I'm driving my car at high speeds on the highway compared to riding with someone else driving.
The question is while the punishment might be filled and dues paid per law. A lot of sex offenders are repeat offenders. They can go years and sometimes decades between offenses and then they get caught with their pants down
Then it sounds like the current method of justice is not rehabilitating people properly. The solution isn't to let the person back on the street wearing a scarlet letter for the rest of their life. If the punishment isn't long enough, increase the jail time. If a jail doesn't have any effect on it (a mental issue), then consoling or other methods should be used. If the convict isn't safe to be around children in his current state, how is the "correct solution" to let him potentially get near children and then publish a bulletin to warn people?
I heard about one where a drunk couldn't get his keycard to work at a hotel, walked down stairs. Told the hire staff the wrong room number. They gave him a new card for the wrong room and he climbed into bed with whom he thought was his SO and instead was a little girl.
Sounds like extreme negligence on the hotel's part here. They issued a room key to someone and made no attempt to verify the person was the occupant of the room. He could have been a bugler looking to steal guests' valuables instead.
The hack broadcasts on restricted frequencies; replicate at your own risk.
Same as taking an FM transmitter meant for linking to a personal vehicle stereo and hooking the antenna to an amplifier.
You realize the month of March is the 3rd month of the year? ;-)
Which knows more about you, an OS you wont give feedback on, or a website you spill your guts to?
The major Chinese ISPs are the major telecom providers. Aren't those State owned?
Would anyone really have the guts to complain to the government.
My former employer, as US company, had us attend an event with customers, where we would be sitting at tables 8 people mixed employees and customers, and there would be a collection going around for a charity.
When I declined to contribute, things got pretty chilly at the table; people were in shock that I wasn't donating my private earnings towards a charity in order to make my employer look good.
Little late now, but you could have responded that you already contribute to the charity outside of the company. A lie? Yes. But it wouldn't have been one they could have proven or held against you.
From TFA:
Also from TFA, the letter explicitly states "Your contribution is important to all of us, but I want to emphasize that all contributions are voluntary and have no impact on your job status, performance review, compensation, or employment." and "Any amount given or the decision not to give will not advantage or disadvantage you." How much of that is going to be reflected in practice -- Disney using other 'justifications' for giving a worker crappier shifts, keep them from receiving performance awards, etc. -- to create a de facto but not de jure requirement to contribute has yet to be seen
Easiest way to guarantee this: make contributions anonymous. But I bet they wont think of doing that.
get the new foreign workers to pay for it all as part of their contracts.
To add to that -- lower H-1B wages means less disposable income to pay back to Disney for copyright fight.
Cuts both way, doesn't it Disney?
On the other hand, Disney as no need to be asking for handouts as with their new overseas workforce they're saving a bundle. Why don't they just redirect those saved payroll dollars to their legal department?
Too big to fail - if they shutdown the plant and Manhattan has to institute rolling blackouts, lots of people will be very unhappy.
If this keeps up they wont need electric lights to see in the dark.
No. It's ATT making up a story that others will screw up their equipment. It would be exceedingly poor PR for Google to come in and wreck other people's connectivity and get caught doing it.
Ironically, I know from professional experience that this does happen -- only it's the other way around. The incumbent provider will damage the infrastructure of the "new guy in town" instead. I used to work for a cable overbuilder in the Southern California and the larger entrenched provider, one of the "Big Three", was found to be cutting our lines.
Is the point that government agencies should always use less secure phones so the public can access their salient details?
I think they are trying to use the potential loss of their business to coerce Apple into complying with the FBI. A decision being made by some administrator who has an inflated idea of how much business they really provide, or thinks they will touch off some "revolution" amongst other organizations to follow suit.
I buy the blu-ray of a movie I like, then download it off a pirate website. I don't even own a blu-ray player. It's just that I have a home media server and would prefer to have movies in a format I can stream throughout my house. But Hollywood insists on only letting you stream movies over the Internet. No simple way to have a local copy which plays on all my devices.
I gotta say UR DOING IT WRONG.
If you're buying the discs you can just rip them with direct stream copying using MakeMKV. Then you get full blu-ray quality instead of some encoder's interpretation of "great picture and sound". This also keeps you off torrents, so you wont get targeted for any extortion attempts (even if it's legal for you to download the movie since you own the disc, the movie studios can lock you up in court for so long you lose even if you win). And ripping your own purchased copy to get versions for your personal use is going to look more legal than what you're doing to start with.
They could do it this time, and then release an iOS update later that disables the ability for Apple to apply firmware updates in this fashion.
Maybe they mean we're reached a point where most people who want cell phones already have one, and some people even have old ones that still work but they upgraded from to a newer model. So there's a market of used phones and people getting them for free because family handing down older devices.
The third-party hardware has to interface with the phone -- and the software on it. That means all sorts of legal considerations. Probably licensing for each product -- can't have a rogue add-ons stealing mobile payment platform credentials or using phone features for nefarious purposes.
No, I haven't talked to LG about a new "gamechanger" product I want to develop. But I also live in the land of reality where LG is a corporation looking to make money.
LG is planning on creating some sort of open ecosystem for third-party hardware. What exactly that means is yet to be seen...
It means it will be like Apple... anyone is free to develop products for the proprietary, non interoperable interface, you just have to pay LG a nice fee to do so.
I was pleasantly surprised, actually.
I thought this would be a slashvertisement for a smartphone when I saw it in my RSS feed.
Discussion of new VR gear is a little bit different. Maybe once VR is a common thing on the market I'll agree this is is just an ad, but for right now it's still News for Nerds.
How would that make it any different from a regular lawyer?
They already know how it's going to turn out, because it is all just theatre, Apple will comply again because they already have complied in the past.
That was with older versions of iOS that had weaker security. Since iOS 8 Apple has not had the same degree of access.
Yeah, the author should ENHANCE this story a bit.
Okay, I see.
So he created a situation where one cannot own the album outright -- only stream it. Forcing the consumer into paying in perpetuity for a service he is part owner in.
he owns it
That makes even less sense. He's an owner in Tidal so his response to a sudden interest in his service (most likely people wanting to get his album) is to pull the album from the site? Now who's the cause of "loss of income"?
I would wonder if he is just dead-set on people buying physical copies -- except the summary implies it's not available that way.
...West announced that his new album, The Life of Pablo, would be sold exclusively as a download from his website and the artist-driven streaming music service Tidal. The news sent Tidal to No. 1 on the U.S. Apple App Store, so West pulled the album from his site...
Is something worded incorrectly here? This is written like he pulled his album because Tidal was suddenly really popular on the Apple App Store. But then it says he pulled his album from his site. Wouldn't that only leave it available on Tidal?
Trying to make an analogy without using automobiles as a reference point is like trying to fry a fish with a tape recorder.
It's not hard to do if your aquarium full of betas.