This is an issue of dilution and why mass copyright infringement ultimate devalues goods and harms their authors.
Part of the reason why people want certain goods is because not everyone has that good. When suddenly everyone has that good,the willingness of the population to pay top price for the item is significantly reduced; capitalism at work. As a result, once the market becomes diluted, the market price is reduced. This means it has effectively become a commodity item. Worse, when the commodity is commonly received gratis (stolen), the perceived need to actually pay for it is effectively destroyed.
He has none. See my post to the parent. And should they not be able to collect from him, they are a legal creditor who can immediately begin collections and corresponding credit damage.
Depends on the bank. Banks favorite source of new found cash is automatic overdraft protection. Should the attempt to withdraw money which is not funded in your account, your bank may decide to transfer funds from another account (typically checking and then savings in that order) into the other to cover the transfer. Furthermore for doing this favor for you, they'll then charge you $25-$75 (varies from bank to bank) for each occurrence they protected your overdraft. Should you then start bouncing checks elsewhere because their the protection they gave you, they'll then be happy to collecting bounced check charges from you too.
In short, unless your alternate account is with a different institution or you know for a fact your accounts has auto overdraft protection disabled, expect to get shafted.
Someone that's already run in a presidential campaign
Only in her mind. Even in her own state, polls show she doesn't have a chance in hell. She has publicity but is more or less politically dead at the federal level; and likely at the state level after her governorship farce. The more publicity she has received the less political credibility she maintains.
And ignoring all that, presidents, by decree of law, can not execute or have someone assassinated for political gain. Wikileaks most certainly falls under current laws.
To say there is any reasonable chance of Assange ever being executed by the US right up there with you having an orgy with the world's hottest models in your lifetime. Not impossible but extremely improbable - such that its pragmatically impossible.
If Android is any indication of Google's commitment to security, a free wallpaper application will be able to read all your text messages and track your location in real-time.
Only true in the most vague of the meaning. As most people will read that statement, its implications are completely untrue. Android is extremely secure and has the best security model of all mobile OSs.
A wallpaper may read contacts and track your location but only, and I mean ONLY, if the user specifically accepts the associated permissions which very clearly say the application has such capabilities. To blame Android for user stupidity, it say you're not trolling.
Simply put, when you install an Android application it forces you to review the list of permissions the application is requesting. It can't, however, force the user to actually read them. If a user is dumb enough to install a wallpaper which requires access to the Internet and your contacts as well as the GPS, well, that's strictly on the user. Faulting Android for user stupidity is stupidity in of itself.
I very much appreciate the clarification. I'm happy to hear the ham is not a dying beast.
I actually knew about APRS. Someone I know tested it from his plane and compared it against more modern geo reporting services. It actually surpassed several commercial services (for his test) where coverage existed. Obviously flying where APRS coverage is not available resulted in no position reports. Just the same, some of those commercial offers had even worst reporting. Seems visibility and location within the aircraft made huge differences in reporting.
Many people are surprised to hear that hams and pilots have a lot in common for emergencies. Frequently after disasters, hams are the first to report out. Afterwards, based on those reports, private pilots are frequently the first in (supplies in and people out) ; typically beating the National Guard.
That's only true for music. Its not true for most other forms of copyright.
Besides, subverting income to artists is hardly a way to show support for the artist. Which oddly enough is the majority's backward logic. Even more so, ignorantly, most people are actually advocating socialism or at the very least anti-capitalism with their piracy. The cost of product almost never has any bearing on the consumer price in a capitalist market. Suddenly its become popular to circumvent the capitalistic market price and "create your own" (which is usually free) all supposedly to support the artist by ensuring he doesn't get paid for what been "consumed", so as to shaft those who ultimately pay the artist.
And consistently when asked, pirates say being paid for copyright is wrong but absolutely refuse to pay the several magnitudes more for purchases which are otherwise required without the copyright model.
I suspect most pirates don't really realize they are advocating socialism or at the very least anti-capitalism. Furthermore, I doubt they are advocating a huge price increase on the extremely reasonably priced good they are currently giving a finger too.
And if, as you assert, the real contention is about longevity of copyright, how is punishing the live artists going to change things when you beef is with the long dead artists, to which you're supposedly railing against.
I got that impression from endless articles over the last decade or more which has consistently asserted the number of hams have been on a steady decline.
The technologies in question allow you to take it public - but do so in a safe manner. That's entirely the point. That's entirely why people in Iran are in prison right now.
You think the government HAS to provide access to the entire web through its "guest" service
So the government censoring your content is okay just because its available to the public? So anything the government provides to you, as part of the public, should or can be censored? At what point to you expect uncensored information?
I'm not real sure on the legality but it sure seems to well past the line.
Google's already removed the field from a newer version of the entry form. will not store any collected numbers, and has explained the need for the city of birth (to help prove US citizenship as required by the contest).
Normally I'm defending Google from the insane paranoia which seems to permeate slashdot these days. But none of that is a valid explanation. Its extremely unlikely they were doing this for any reason other than to farm social security numbers.
If proof of citizenship were in fact important, it would only be required at time of prize collection. But they didn't do that. Rather, they farmed ever entry. This is how just about all other contests are conducted. Furthermore, normally only the child's information and basic parental consent is required. Everything else is obtained at the time prizes are rewarded.
If proof of citizenship were in fact important, they would ask for proof of citizenship. Stating a city is in no way proof of citizenship. With their "proof", every illegal citizen currently in the US is now a citizen. Again, only makes sense they used it to farm children's social security numbers.
Unless they have some really good explanation, far, far, better than the obviously transparent lies, in this case, Google absolutely was up to evil.
Well thankfully we know the report is completely bogus because repeatedly over the last decade various slashdotters have rabidly and repeatedly insisted, despite lots and lots of evidence to the contrary, this is impossible because all of the radiation is completely blocked by skin and therefore impossible to interact with anything other than skin.
Goes to show what has become common today, popular ignorance is still ignorance.
Could you really organise a revolution with those tools though?
Yes. That's one of their primary intents. In fact, had others used them, they likely would not be in jail today. Tools such as Tor allow for encrypted access to the Internet such that, in theory, it can't be tracked back to the originator.
The other tools are intended to allow secret and/or anonymous communication. It really boils down to the structure and sophistication of the parties involved and how successful their revolution will be. If you're not very sure of victory and you're non-anonymously posting revolutionary statements in a totalitarian country, you should not be the least bit surprised when you're murdered and/or imprisoned.
For what its worth, I get the feeling he's a full time troll. Some of his other posts are also very trollish and my response was somewhat troll moderated.
First we'll construct the vehicle out of obtainium. Using it we'll then obtain the unobtainium. Then we'll coat the vehicle with the unobtainium we obtained with the obtainium.
Is there anything obtainium can't help you obtain.
I completely agree. Its really sad the ham operator is going the way of dinosaurs. In the case of emergencies, they have a long and proud history of really pulling through for their communities.
I'm sorry to hear that. That's not typical across the US. If the base service simply isn't reliable where you're at, that's certainly understandable. Having said that, for most people, land lands are rock solid and rarely, if ever, go down.
For what its worth, there are literally cities in the US which have worse power service than Iraq during its constant black and brown outs. No exaguration either.
Some of what you said makes sense. Lots of what you said doesn't. Worse, some of what you said is nothing but ignorance.
Phone lines are used to established contact with the outside world. Sometimes its used to get help. Other times its used to assure loved ones you're okay.
You're also down playing the likelihood of cell going down versus land line. I every major emergency I've been in, either wireless went down or was so beyond capacity it was impossible to place a call. Receiving a call are iffy, but possible. Land lines, on the other hand, worked flawlessly so long as the attached phone didn't require power (this is another gotcha which gets lots of people).
As for truly having an emergency, you're just being silly. If I have a dire medical need, getting help is pretty important. Without contact to the outside world, I may not get help at all.
Of course, all this assumes that local emergency services doesn't pull a Katrina and
1) flee first
2) show up and confiscate your supplies
3) outright rob you and/or shoot you in the back if you resist.
This is in fact, the ONLY SMART AND PROPER THING THEY CAN DO. PERIOD. I hate that stupid people have constantly spread so much ignorance about Katrina. Which is smarter? Leaving emergency crews and equipment to be destroyed and killed, effectively ensuring no assistance is available to anyone. Or, move them, as ALL EMERGENCY CREWS ARE TRAINED, to safe areas such that they can return and effectively do their job. The rest did happen but is hyperbole and has no basis in the current discussion. That's what happens when your police force are known to be criminals and the governor spits on the US Constitution.
That $25 a month in your landline would probably be better spent on ammunition, candles, blankets, a fire extinguisher, or even a well trained dog.
Not all. I have ammo, candles, blankets, and fire extinguisher. Using your logic, a dog is not cost effective. Nothing about this need be an either-or. And, candles, blankets, etc., are not going to get you medical care, fire assistance, police, or let your loved ones know you're okay. With your supplies, I'll safely see that I'm warm while I die. Attempting to argue against it is dumb.
Cell phones were working again before land lines in many areas. Phones are not security in bad weather.
The problem with cell phones is they are far, far more likely to reach capacity limits before land lines. Not to mention they require charging. And when towers go down, the phone goes into maximum TX power to reach a tower, which can drain a battery in hours, leaving you with no phone at all, even after high priority items like towers are brought back on line.
While not always true, as your story illustrates, land lands have a very long, long history of reliability in the worst of conditions. This is not even close to true for cell technology.
Things like this are one of the main reasons we pay ~$25/mo for a land line despite having 5 active cell phones in the house on 2 separate networks (not to mention a few inactive ones that can still call 911) I know that if the excrement hits the air circulator that I will have more options to reach people than finicky mobile networks.
Keep in mind, they said, "Verizon", not, "Verizon Wireless." That likely means your land line would have had its 911 calls dropped too.
Like you, emergencies are the only reason I still have a land line. Its a good bet to hedge. But even land lands can fail in a variety of ways. On the other side of the spectrum are those who have services like Vonage. When the power is out, so is your phone. So its really the worst or false security.
I find it hilarious how us hackers imagine anti-regime rebels equipped with Freenet, GPG, trusted rings and other crypto tools when the reality is that people use facebook over plaintext http and public twitter.
Tell that to the people of Iran who are still in jail.
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This is an issue of dilution and why mass copyright infringement ultimate devalues goods and harms their authors.
Part of the reason why people want certain goods is because not everyone has that good. When suddenly everyone has that good,the willingness of the population to pay top price for the item is significantly reduced; capitalism at work. As a result, once the market becomes diluted, the market price is reduced. This means it has effectively become a commodity item. Worse, when the commodity is commonly received gratis (stolen), the perceived need to actually pay for it is effectively destroyed.
There's more to a security model than asking the user to confirm application privileges.
He has none. See my post to the parent. And should they not be able to collect from him, they are a legal creditor who can immediately begin collections and corresponding credit damage.
Depends on the bank. Banks favorite source of new found cash is automatic overdraft protection. Should the attempt to withdraw money which is not funded in your account, your bank may decide to transfer funds from another account (typically checking and then savings in that order) into the other to cover the transfer. Furthermore for doing this favor for you, they'll then charge you $25-$75 (varies from bank to bank) for each occurrence they protected your overdraft. Should you then start bouncing checks elsewhere because their the protection they gave you, they'll then be happy to collecting bounced check charges from you too.
In short, unless your alternate account is with a different institution or you know for a fact your accounts has auto overdraft protection disabled, expect to get shafted.
Someone that's already run in a presidential campaign
Only in her mind. Even in her own state, polls show she doesn't have a chance in hell. She has publicity but is more or less politically dead at the federal level; and likely at the state level after her governorship farce. The more publicity she has received the less political credibility she maintains.
And ignoring all that, presidents, by decree of law, can not execute or have someone assassinated for political gain. Wikileaks most certainly falls under current laws.
To say there is any reasonable chance of Assange ever being executed by the US right up there with you having an orgy with the world's hottest models in your lifetime. Not impossible but extremely improbable - such that its pragmatically impossible.
If Android is any indication of Google's commitment to security, a free wallpaper application will be able to read all your text messages and track your location in real-time.
Only true in the most vague of the meaning. As most people will read that statement, its implications are completely untrue. Android is extremely secure and has the best security model of all mobile OSs.
A wallpaper may read contacts and track your location but only, and I mean ONLY, if the user specifically accepts the associated permissions which very clearly say the application has such capabilities. To blame Android for user stupidity, it say you're not trolling.
Simply put, when you install an Android application it forces you to review the list of permissions the application is requesting. It can't, however, force the user to actually read them. If a user is dumb enough to install a wallpaper which requires access to the Internet and your contacts as well as the GPS, well, that's strictly on the user. Faulting Android for user stupidity is stupidity in of itself.
Not hard to see why you're trolling anonymously.
I've heard lots of jazz that was far, far worse.
I very much appreciate the clarification. I'm happy to hear the ham is not a dying beast.
I actually knew about APRS. Someone I know tested it from his plane and compared it against more modern geo reporting services. It actually surpassed several commercial services (for his test) where coverage existed. Obviously flying where APRS coverage is not available resulted in no position reports. Just the same, some of those commercial offers had even worst reporting. Seems visibility and location within the aircraft made huge differences in reporting.
Many people are surprised to hear that hams and pilots have a lot in common for emergencies. Frequently after disasters, hams are the first to report out. Afterwards, based on those reports, private pilots are frequently the first in (supplies in and people out) ; typically beating the National Guard.
That's only true for music. Its not true for most other forms of copyright.
Besides, subverting income to artists is hardly a way to show support for the artist. Which oddly enough is the majority's backward logic. Even more so, ignorantly, most people are actually advocating socialism or at the very least anti-capitalism with their piracy. The cost of product almost never has any bearing on the consumer price in a capitalist market. Suddenly its become popular to circumvent the capitalistic market price and "create your own" (which is usually free) all supposedly to support the artist by ensuring he doesn't get paid for what been "consumed", so as to shaft those who ultimately pay the artist.
And consistently when asked, pirates say being paid for copyright is wrong but absolutely refuse to pay the several magnitudes more for purchases which are otherwise required without the copyright model.
I suspect most pirates don't really realize they are advocating socialism or at the very least anti-capitalism. Furthermore, I doubt they are advocating a huge price increase on the extremely reasonably priced good they are currently giving a finger too.
And if, as you assert, the real contention is about longevity of copyright, how is punishing the live artists going to change things when you beef is with the long dead artists, to which you're supposedly railing against.
I got that impression from endless articles over the last decade or more which has consistently asserted the number of hams have been on a steady decline.
No, Tor is for resistance and privacy
That's my point!
My point is that until you take it public
The technologies in question allow you to take it public - but do so in a safe manner. That's entirely the point. That's entirely why people in Iran are in prison right now.
You think the government HAS to provide access to the entire web through its "guest" service
So the government censoring your content is okay just because its available to the public? So anything the government provides to you, as part of the public, should or can be censored? At what point to you expect uncensored information?
I'm not real sure on the legality but it sure seems to well past the line.
Google's already removed the field from a newer version of the entry form. will not store any collected numbers, and has explained the need for the city of birth (to help prove US citizenship as required by the contest).
Normally I'm defending Google from the insane paranoia which seems to permeate slashdot these days. But none of that is a valid explanation. Its extremely unlikely they were doing this for any reason other than to farm social security numbers.
If proof of citizenship were in fact important, it would only be required at time of prize collection. But they didn't do that. Rather, they farmed ever entry. This is how just about all other contests are conducted. Furthermore, normally only the child's information and basic parental consent is required. Everything else is obtained at the time prizes are rewarded.
If proof of citizenship were in fact important, they would ask for proof of citizenship. Stating a city is in no way proof of citizenship. With their "proof", every illegal citizen currently in the US is now a citizen. Again, only makes sense they used it to farm children's social security numbers.
Unless they have some really good explanation, far, far, better than the obviously transparent lies, in this case, Google absolutely was up to evil.
Well thankfully we know the report is completely bogus because repeatedly over the last decade various slashdotters have rabidly and repeatedly insisted, despite lots and lots of evidence to the contrary, this is impossible because all of the radiation is completely blocked by skin and therefore impossible to interact with anything other than skin.
Goes to show what has become common today, popular ignorance is still ignorance.
Could you really organise a revolution with those tools though?
Yes. That's one of their primary intents. In fact, had others used them, they likely would not be in jail today. Tools such as Tor allow for encrypted access to the Internet such that, in theory, it can't be tracked back to the originator.
The other tools are intended to allow secret and/or anonymous communication. It really boils down to the structure and sophistication of the parties involved and how successful their revolution will be. If you're not very sure of victory and you're non-anonymously posting revolutionary statements in a totalitarian country, you should not be the least bit surprised when you're murdered and/or imprisoned.
Informative post. Clearly underrated.
For what its worth, I get the feeling he's a full time troll. Some of his other posts are also very trollish and my response was somewhat troll moderated.
unobtainium?
First we'll construct the vehicle out of obtainium. Using it we'll then obtain the unobtainium. Then we'll coat the vehicle with the unobtainium we obtained with the obtainium.
Is there anything obtainium can't help you obtain.
I don't know how people lived and worked down here prior to the invention of AC, especially with all the damned clothes they work back then...whew.
Add to that a corset and now you know why women were constantly fainting back then.
I completely agree. Its really sad the ham operator is going the way of dinosaurs. In the case of emergencies, they have a long and proud history of really pulling through for their communities.
I'm sorry to hear that. That's not typical across the US. If the base service simply isn't reliable where you're at, that's certainly understandable. Having said that, for most people, land lands are rock solid and rarely, if ever, go down.
For what its worth, there are literally cities in the US which have worse power service than Iraq during its constant black and brown outs. No exaguration either.
Some of what you said makes sense. Lots of what you said doesn't. Worse, some of what you said is nothing but ignorance.
Phone lines are used to established contact with the outside world. Sometimes its used to get help. Other times its used to assure loved ones you're okay.
You're also down playing the likelihood of cell going down versus land line. I every major emergency I've been in, either wireless went down or was so beyond capacity it was impossible to place a call. Receiving a call are iffy, but possible. Land lines, on the other hand, worked flawlessly so long as the attached phone didn't require power (this is another gotcha which gets lots of people).
As for truly having an emergency, you're just being silly. If I have a dire medical need, getting help is pretty important. Without contact to the outside world, I may not get help at all.
Of course, all this assumes that local emergency services doesn't pull a Katrina and
1) flee first
2) show up and confiscate your supplies
3) outright rob you and/or shoot you in the back if you resist.
This is in fact, the ONLY SMART AND PROPER THING THEY CAN DO. PERIOD. I hate that stupid people have constantly spread so much ignorance about Katrina. Which is smarter? Leaving emergency crews and equipment to be destroyed and killed, effectively ensuring no assistance is available to anyone. Or, move them, as ALL EMERGENCY CREWS ARE TRAINED, to safe areas such that they can return and effectively do their job. The rest did happen but is hyperbole and has no basis in the current discussion. That's what happens when your police force are known to be criminals and the governor spits on the US Constitution.
That $25 a month in your landline would probably be better spent on ammunition, candles, blankets, a fire extinguisher, or even a well trained dog.
Not all. I have ammo, candles, blankets, and fire extinguisher. Using your logic, a dog is not cost effective. Nothing about this need be an either-or. And, candles, blankets, etc., are not going to get you medical care, fire assistance, police, or let your loved ones know you're okay. With your supplies, I'll safely see that I'm warm while I die. Attempting to argue against it is dumb.
And as an aside, my phone line costs $14/mo.
Cell phones were working again before land lines in many areas. Phones are not security in bad weather.
The problem with cell phones is they are far, far more likely to reach capacity limits before land lines. Not to mention they require charging. And when towers go down, the phone goes into maximum TX power to reach a tower, which can drain a battery in hours, leaving you with no phone at all, even after high priority items like towers are brought back on line.
While not always true, as your story illustrates, land lands have a very long, long history of reliability in the worst of conditions. This is not even close to true for cell technology.
Things like this are one of the main reasons we pay ~$25/mo for a land line despite having 5 active cell phones in the house on 2 separate networks (not to mention a few inactive ones that can still call 911) I know that if the excrement hits the air circulator that I will have more options to reach people than finicky mobile networks.
Keep in mind, they said, "Verizon", not, "Verizon Wireless." That likely means your land line would have had its 911 calls dropped too.
Like you, emergencies are the only reason I still have a land line. Its a good bet to hedge. But even land lands can fail in a variety of ways. On the other side of the spectrum are those who have services like Vonage. When the power is out, so is your phone. So its really the worst or false security.
Some jurors have been threated when contempt if the nullification effort was not changed.
Keep in mind, judges are gods in their court room. If they want to have you locked up without a trial, they are literally judge and jury.
I find it hilarious how us hackers imagine anti-regime rebels equipped with Freenet, GPG, trusted rings and other crypto tools when the reality is that people use facebook over plaintext http and public twitter.
Tell that to the people of Iran who are still in jail.