When a person uses the Internet, the user's actions are no longer in his or her physical home... All materials stored online, whether they are e-mails or remotely stored documents, are physically stored on servers owned by an ISP
Yes, just like: - Mail - Safe deposit boxes - Bank accounts - Voice mails - Telephone conversations - Storage units
As far as I know, all of the above things are subject to the 4th amendment. WTF???!!!
Part of the issue is that in American society, physical violence is treated differently from verbal abuse. Scenario: - Nerd: You don't even know what Plank's constant is? You are a meathead idiot! - Jock: *punch* - Principal takes Jock to detention, but not Nerd.
In my oversimplified ideal example, both Nerd and Jock used their own skills to assault the other. But the physical attack is treated differently. This may account for some of the social differences.
The terms liberal and conservative have been destroyed as meaningful terms. This is somewhat because of pundits abusing the terms, but also with the fact that political ideas are more complex than a spectrum with absolute endpoints. Plus, people can be economically conservative but socially liberal and all various combinations. So assigning them a single value only confuses things.
Describing someone's beliefs as "conservative" should convey as much meaning as calling them "red" or "tall"
They did it because the existing router hardware and wireless network card hardware was not capable of AES. It was a temporary solution that no one should be using any longer. WPA2 is the current established secure protocol, and it uses AES which is not a specialized algorithm.
And they put icons in the desktop, the quick launch, the top of the start menu, and inside a group on the start menu. Yes, I really need 4 icons to access a program like Adobe Reader which automatically runs anyway when it is needed.
Also annoying is when they make a start menu group with only one icon, or with the app and the uninstall (which is centralized under add/remove programs anyway).
Your cynicism is dead on, but maybe that is exactly why this is a good idea. At Slashdot, we get constant discussion about how IT departments are stupid. So maybe having a few really big data centers that are well run is better than this idea of every company having it's own data center and IT department. There just wasn't enough bandwidth to do this in the past.
Google translate is a cheesy free tool that does not compare with professional translation tools. Last time I checked, the state of the art was to obtain documents written in multiple languages, and train a neural network (or something similar) based on those manual translations. It's orders of magnitude better than Google translate.
If all the studios are considering this at that same time, then it sounds like they discussed it amongst each other? If so, isn't that collusion? That is is illegal in the United States, and probably elsewhere.
Any time I hear a business model where depriving customers of something increases sales, I start looking for the anti-competitive practices are happening.
I figured since that information is on FaceBook, then the person making the fake obituary probably knows it too. Seems like it would only prevent you from making a fake obituary for someone you didn't know.
t there is a company (can't remember the name off the top of my head) that holds a bunch of over-broad patents on most of what we think of as "duh" innovations in home automation. They don't license or sell their tech. They just sue people who try to make stuff.
I don't think they meant that people who joined the internet during or after Geocities are n00bs. It meant that Geocities was a way for n00bs to join the internet. Geocities was a point of entry for people who wanted a web page but didn't know HTML, or know what an ISP was, and couldn't pay monthly fees. It was a place where the tag found popularity, full of obnoxious backgrounds, and embedded sound effects. It was a place for n00bs.
If I copy something that an artist produced, it doesn't cost that artist either time or effort. The time and effort has already been spent, they have no way of getting it back.
That same logic applies to physical goods too. Or labor. By your logic, you don't have to pay for anything. "That guy ALREADY mowed my lawn so why should I pay him?" "Bose already spent the time and effort to build that stereo system, so by not paying for it, they lose nothing."
Seems like we have a lot of industries are split into creators, publishers, and distributors. Publishers are a middle-man, and they sometimes help, but sometimes get in the way. The biggest problems arise when the publisher is completely unnecessary, so they try to block creators and distributors from meeting. This is the RIAA situation today: Anyone can put their music onto iTunes if they want to, and RIAA companies are becoming marginalized. So they respond by trying to strangle the industry.
In that case, they should link to links to copyrighted works.:-)
All kidding aside, this is so far the best response to piracy I've seen yet. It *almost* makes sense. Since they can't go after the people actually committing the crime, they order the informants to stop informing.
Pardon me for being horribly American here, but... there the EU has a a tax on books? Why? (Yes, I know I pay taxes on books indirectly via sales taxes)
This isn't just a security vulnerability - those things happen. This is gross negligence. There are 3 simultaneous absolutely bone-headed things here:
- PUBLIC facing web configuration? I have never, ever, ever, seen a router that did that. Not even cheesy home routers. - JAVASCRIPT is their security? That was dumb back in 1998, but who does that now? - CLEAR TEXT username/password? There was this great technique we used back in 1975 called hashing. Look it up. Why does it even write the username/password out anyway?
This is one of those cases of just too many stupid things all at once for it to be a mistake.
Actually, because of their DRM scheme, iTunes has to use QuickTime for MP3/AAC decoding.
Really, we shouldn't know or care what they use. The only reason it matters is because they package QuickTime as an awful standalone app a well, instead of treating it as a private library.
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When a person uses the Internet, the user's actions are no longer in his or her physical home... All materials stored online, whether they are e-mails or remotely stored documents, are physically stored on servers owned by an ISP
Yes, just like:
- Mail
- Safe deposit boxes
- Bank accounts
- Voice mails
- Telephone conversations
- Storage units
As far as I know, all of the above things are subject to the 4th amendment. WTF???!!!
Part of the issue is that in American society, physical violence is treated differently from verbal abuse. Scenario:
- Nerd: You don't even know what Plank's constant is? You are a meathead idiot!
- Jock: *punch*
- Principal takes Jock to detention, but not Nerd.
In my oversimplified ideal example, both Nerd and Jock used their own skills to assault the other. But the physical attack is treated differently. This may account for some of the social differences.
The terms liberal and conservative have been destroyed as meaningful terms. This is somewhat because of pundits abusing the terms, but also with the fact that political ideas are more complex than a spectrum with absolute endpoints. Plus, people can be economically conservative but socially liberal and all various combinations. So assigning them a single value only confuses things.
Describing someone's beliefs as "conservative" should convey as much meaning as calling them "red" or "tall"
They did it because the existing router hardware and wireless network card hardware was not capable of AES. It was a temporary solution that no one should be using any longer. WPA2 is the current established secure protocol, and it uses AES which is not a specialized algorithm.
Ironically, some high-school gets paid $100 to remove the crapware that resulted in the $100 discount.
And they put icons in the desktop, the quick launch, the top of the start menu, and inside a group on the start menu. Yes, I really need 4 icons to access a program like Adobe Reader which automatically runs anyway when it is needed.
Also annoying is when they make a start menu group with only one icon, or with the app and the uninstall (which is centralized under add/remove programs anyway).
So we need to either :
- Package human blood into ink cartridges.
- Genetically create an animal that excretes HP ink.
Your cynicism is dead on, but maybe that is exactly why this is a good idea. At Slashdot, we get constant discussion about how IT departments are stupid. So maybe having a few really big data centers that are well run is better than this idea of every company having it's own data center and IT department. There just wasn't enough bandwidth to do this in the past.
So it is a new term for something old. The only difference is that it is actually having an effect.
Google translate is a cheesy free tool that does not compare with professional translation tools. Last time I checked, the state of the art was to obtain documents written in multiple languages, and train a neural network (or something similar) based on those manual translations. It's orders of magnitude better than Google translate.
If all the studios are considering this at that same time, then it sounds like they discussed it amongst each other? If so, isn't that collusion? That is is illegal in the United States, and probably elsewhere.
Any time I hear a business model where depriving customers of something increases sales, I start looking for the anti-competitive practices are happening.
I figured since that information is on FaceBook, then the person making the fake obituary probably knows it too. Seems like it would only prevent you from making a fake obituary for someone you didn't know.
True. And that helps facebook validate the obituary... how?
t there is a company (can't remember the name off the top of my head) that holds a bunch of over-broad patents on most of what we think of as "duh" innovations in home automation. They don't license or sell their tech. They just sue people who try to make stuff.
[citation needed]
Slashdot removed my marquee tag. :-)
"It was a place where <marquee> found popularity."
I think you misunderstood the n00b comment.
I don't think they meant that people who joined the internet during or after Geocities are n00bs. It meant that Geocities was a way for n00bs to join the internet. Geocities was a point of entry for people who wanted a web page but didn't know HTML, or know what an ISP was, and couldn't pay monthly fees. It was a place where the tag found popularity, full of obnoxious backgrounds, and embedded sound effects. It was a place for n00bs.
Basically, it was like MySpace.
If I copy something that an artist produced, it doesn't cost that artist either time or effort. The time and effort has already been spent, they have no way of getting it back.
That same logic applies to physical goods too. Or labor. By your logic, you don't have to pay for anything. "That guy ALREADY mowed my lawn so why should I pay him?" "Bose already spent the time and effort to build that stereo system, so by not paying for it, they lose nothing."
Seems like we have a lot of industries are split into creators, publishers, and distributors. Publishers are a middle-man, and they sometimes help, but sometimes get in the way. The biggest problems arise when the publisher is completely unnecessary, so they try to block creators and distributors from meeting. This is the RIAA situation today: Anyone can put their music onto iTunes if they want to, and RIAA companies are becoming marginalized. So they respond by trying to strangle the industry.
At first, I thought this story was a dupe of the one about irrational decisions.
Ahh, okay, that makes sense. It sounded like ebooks had a specific tax on them or something strange like that.
In that case, they should link to links to copyrighted works. :-)
All kidding aside, this is so far the best response to piracy I've seen yet. It *almost* makes sense. Since they can't go after the people actually committing the crime, they order the informants to stop informing.
Pardon me for being horribly American here, but... there the EU has a a tax on books? Why?
(Yes, I know I pay taxes on books indirectly via sales taxes)
This isn't just a security vulnerability - those things happen. This is gross negligence. There are 3 simultaneous absolutely bone-headed things here:
- PUBLIC facing web configuration? I have never, ever, ever, seen a router that did that. Not even cheesy home routers.
- JAVASCRIPT is their security? That was dumb back in 1998, but who does that now?
- CLEAR TEXT username/password? There was this great technique we used back in 1975 called hashing. Look it up. Why does it even write the username/password out anyway?
This is one of those cases of just too many stupid things all at once for it to be a mistake.
The term "capitalism" does not mean "no government regulation"
Don't confuse capitalism as a more general term with specific variants such as Laissez-faire capitalism or anarcho-capitalism.
Actually, because of their DRM scheme, iTunes has to use QuickTime for MP3/AAC decoding.
Really, we shouldn't know or care what they use. The only reason it matters is because they package QuickTime as an awful standalone app a well, instead of treating it as a private library.