But copy protection for cassettes was actually inherent. Each generational copy got worse and worse, so digital media actually CAUSED the DRM revolution... Sort of.
Oh come now, most of us figured out that mastering was critical pretty quickly. You just had to know who bought the original of each tape you wanted and get the copy from them. Even 3rd generation mastering was not "too" bad if you had good recording gear.
Did the actress herself have a page that displayed the data, and/or was a Wikipage available for her? Legitimately asking, I don't know. Even C/D/E/F list celebrities tend to have as much information as possible, because that is how they get jobs. Their resume is name recognition, not technical projects and tenures at various establishments.
If IMDb is simply sourcing other data, sucks to be her. You want to be in showbiz, there is a price for fame (and the quest for such).
I'm not that into following actors and actresses, and not much of a movie goer. That said, every time I have looked someone up they have a Wiki page which displays their birth date. Often with accompanying stories of childhood, family, and other personal notes. If the information is already available, why is it only IMDb that can't display it or calculate today-birth date = current age?
Going a bit further, acting already discriminates on all kinds of issues. Casting requires it. How popular would Buffy the Vampire Hunter been if the actress was 45 years old? How about the 40 year old virgin played by Sean Connery in his 70s? Like a whole lot of political issues coming out of CA, I question the sanity of this one.
It is perfectly reasonable to write the complaint for public review without naming the person. People inside the company interested will know who the message is about if there is a history of that sort of thing. The exit interview is the place to name the specifics.
The company taking a hit because of bad reputation is not something they can sue for without specific conditions. E.G. Article states that the company policy dictated that type of behavior, management encourage that sort of behavior, etc... Even then, it's a difficult case for the company to make.
All you need to provide at the polling station is a name and address. It is illegal to ask people for ID in California, and I know of several polling stations (publicized on 870AM LA morning show) who chastised people who volunteered ID.
This is why it's so hard to prove voter fraud, especially in places that refuse to implement a requirement for ID at polling stations.
California suffers from numerous problems. 1. Illegal voters 2. Voter intimidation 3. Voter depression
Are those three things enough to make up for the difference in votes? We don't have a way to measure those things accurately, but they surely played a big role. I work in SF, and the majority of the people I discussed politics with either didn't vote or voted Trump. The majority of the non-voters were afraid to vote Trump for fear of being blackballed.
The vendor is to blame for this much more than Google. They could have set up a landing page which said not available yet, and even given a release date. That said, I'm not big on blaming the vendor for this type of thing either. People will download and install things without doing any validation and/or testing, and it happens all the time.
Should we have constant PSAs on TV, Radio, Youtube, etc..? Or perhaps consider the wisdom of Bill Engval "You can't fix stupid!"
Just because a bunch of people in marketing said it was the "next big thing" does not make it true. 3D has been around for longer than I have worked with computers and it's never been a "big" thing even though we periodically go through the hype and marketing claims.
There are numerous reasons why it's a niche market and will remain a niche market. Off the top of my head, little is gained by 3D compared to the costs and negative side effects. Too much depth and people are in discomfort, too little and there is no depth so no visible 3D for people to enjoy. The camera is the only way to see the perspective, so anyone sitting out of center camera view is getting skewed displays. Computer generated 3D is nothing like real 3D so the overall "wow" factor diminishes after a few viewings.
Like the overly hyped Apple Watch and Google glass 3D will remain a niche market. I think it's fair to predict the same for IoT.
There are three kinds of lies. "Lies", "Damn Lies", and Statistics.
Fake numbers are used so often that I simply assume a provider of any type is lying and half their numbers (at least). In addition to creating bogus (aka "test) accounts and forging numbers, companies today can go to a PR firm overseas and have them create a ton of bogus accounts for you.
Facebook claims to have more accounts than there are people with Internet access in the world, and LinkedIn claims that there are hundreds of thousands of jobs for people with my background in the SF Bay area. Hyperbole without bad intention? Perhaps. Can it cause legal issues if taken literally? Not very often.
The lawsuit is done, as is SCO. The complaint from SCO boiled down to them LYING! Hence, they lost every single lawsuit and appeal. I'm not sure if you are a shill or just completely ignorant, but in the case of the latter there is a site called Groklaw which covered the cases start to finish. With I'll add, an exceptional paralegal pulling down PACER files, and numerous attorneys adding commentary and explanation to the proceedings.
As one example, SCO tried to sue for source code they claimed to own that was released by AT&T before AT&T lost their lawsuit trying to recapture source code they gave away so that people would improve the AT&T code for free. The AT&T lawsuit ended up in the branches of BSD and System V(5).
SCO tried very hard to play the patent troll game and lost. Most of us in the world are happy about it, and better off because of it. Go do your homework, or shill back at the Junior High schools where people may believe the trolls.
I realize fact finding is hard in the modern age of the Internet, but the leaders of both Mexico and Canada both stated that they are willing to renegotiate NAFTA with the Trump administration. If they don't find common ground, the treaty dies. We have plenty of history of this scenario playing out with various results (some positive, some negative).
Assuming the agreements are favorable to the US and your allegation that Congress would not approve are true, I expect we will see a large change in Congress in the next election.
If your point was that Trump is not a dictator I would agree, but if that was your point it was extremely poor in representation.
Fact: The DNC colluded to _install_ Hillary as the candidate even though Sanders had far more visible support. Trump was colluded against by the RNC, but _STILL_WON. So who exactly is the better and worse candidate? Facts are not that hard.
Fact: Numerous studies show that people DO become more conservative with age. Link that you probably won't look at since you hate facts.
I'm sure you do your Junior High School proud though.
You're not. It's become so blatantly Republican/Russian (Republissian?) that I come to this site to see what the Trump-camp talking points are for any given situation.
Just like leftist media, you are attempting to slander people because you can't win the argument. Democrats ran a horrible candidate, much worse than the Republican. Russia did not make the Democratic party push Hillary into the mix, behave questionably (at best) even with their own party members, to prop her up as the candidate. The Democratic party did this all on their own, and it failed. Pick a better candidate, a better platform, and try again next election.
Republicans, even Trump, is not for Russia, and your conflation makes you just as bad as CNN or any other crap media outlet spreading BS because their "chosen" candidate lost. Republicans like America, and just like Democrats of a couple decades ago, push for Americanism. The ideology being pushed by Trump matches much of Kennedy and other Democrats and Republicans. Peace through Strength is not a Trump thing. Negotiating with countries we are not necessarily friendly with is also not a Trump thing (Look at President Obama for pity sake). Populism and Nationalism are centuries old ideologies.
Now, as to why so many people here are now "Republican", at least in leanings, has much to do with age. The older people get, the more they tend to be conservative in their political views. The Democratic candidate, and the media handling of her, probably accelerated countless people into the Republican camp. That, and the fear most Republicans have of posting in public has been largely diminshed.
It's really a shame that instead of having dialogue and being accountable, the Democratic party and media simply slander everyone who disagrees with them. You AC, are included in that shameful act.
While written with snarky vitriol, your point has merit. The problem is mostly that the populace in China is uneducated and extremely poor, meaning belief in magic and magical cures is still rampant. An educated society is dangerous, so don't look for this to change any time soon.
I pointed out the logic failure and gave the analogy. So not only are you sure you can somehow prove a negative, but demonstrate a belief that circular logic will make your position valid. Double fail.
By your same logic, it would be fine for someone to claim that an invisible entity sits in the clouds and hurls lighting down. Having an effect does not prove the cause, and Flat Earth should be all you need to study to see how massive amounts of Scientists got stuff wrong for centuries.
Science _should_ welcome skepticism, yet when it comes to certain topics skepticism is shunned by a surprising number of people. That makes it a Religion, not Science.
People tell me that AI is ready to be on the roads and already safer than a human so this must all be worked out.
People lie all the time. Unfortunately none of this has been resolved to my knowledge, which is the reason numerous people are pushing back against the technology being pushed onto consumers. Another common lie is that you have to be a Luddite if you disagree with people pushing the tech. Money over Ethics, unfortunately.
There are a tremendous amount of accidents caused by people trying to avoid pets. This leads to the indirect question of ethics most people have with self driving anything. Do you avoid the dog and hit the pedestrian, or avoid the pedestrian and hit the dog? I think we all know the conclusion that would be programmed in, but what happens when someone hacks the system and changes the code?
False dichotomy. The US is only "part" of the problem and can only be "part" of the solution. Since there is no such thing as a One World Government it can not be regulation by One Government to fix issues.
Your plan to reduce population is what exactly? Your plan had best contain "me first" in the doctrine or I'll consider you a quack. Ted Turner for example claimed that well over 9/10ths of the population needs to be killed off, yet he has 5 kids. Double what sustaining population requires. I don't take him seriously because he's not offering up any of his children or himself to the sacrifice, he only want's people of less economic status than himself dead.
So lets hear your great plan.
Oh, and when your plan to avert long term disaster omits the majority of the humans on Earth, your plan is doomed to fail. How about your plan to "fix" global warming? I'm anxious to hear that one too.
Your analogy is wrong. You believe that somehow "Global" warming only impacts America? You must similarly believe that the US is the only ones that can, and need to, somehow solve the problem. I have no idea how you ignore China, India, Pakistan, and Russia, and quite frankly the majority of what we call "Developing Nations" (most of the planet) who have been increasing pollutants and industrialization over the same time the West has done the opposite. Governments of the West want their populaces to pay into Tax systems with no Government plans to address anything.
Sure, the problems are vast. No, demanding taxes and a halt of productivity in the West is not the answer. Hillary is not for fixing global climate issues, she is anti American. The same can be said for numerous politicians who despise the US Constitution and believe somehow their socialist plans will be better than any other socialist plan ever conceived. No, it's not just a R versus D issue. Both sides have people with similar beliefs demonstrated by the current state of Politics in the US.
We have already seen people hack into cars and do things like turn off brakes, accelerate, and steer despite the driver trying to maintain control. Car to Car increases an already insecure point and could result in massive problems. Forget "I'm 6 inches away", consider "I'm a mile away" and the problems this will lead to on a busy freeway. How about "my speed is 55" when in fact it is 25, so your car crashes into them.
Yet another example of why IoT is not a good idea for mass consumption. It never will be, because humans are humans. Not all of us are good, and not all of us are bad. We can't ignore the latter extreme when considering technology.
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But copy protection for cassettes was actually inherent. Each generational copy got worse and worse, so digital media actually CAUSED the DRM revolution... Sort of.
Oh come now, most of us figured out that mastering was critical pretty quickly. You just had to know who bought the original of each tape you wanted and get the copy from them. Even 3rd generation mastering was not "too" bad if you had good recording gear.
No, that would be from 10-14. Your numbers are a 240% increase.
Did the actress herself have a page that displayed the data, and/or was a Wikipage available for her? Legitimately asking, I don't know. Even C/D/E/F list celebrities tend to have as much information as possible, because that is how they get jobs. Their resume is name recognition, not technical projects and tenures at various establishments.
If IMDb is simply sourcing other data, sucks to be her. You want to be in showbiz, there is a price for fame (and the quest for such).
I'm not that into following actors and actresses, and not much of a movie goer. That said, every time I have looked someone up they have a Wiki page which displays their birth date. Often with accompanying stories of childhood, family, and other personal notes. If the information is already available, why is it only IMDb that can't display it or calculate today-birth date = current age?
Going a bit further, acting already discriminates on all kinds of issues. Casting requires it. How popular would Buffy the Vampire Hunter been if the actress was 45 years old? How about the 40 year old virgin played by Sean Connery in his 70s? Like a whole lot of political issues coming out of CA, I question the sanity of this one.
It is perfectly reasonable to write the complaint for public review without naming the person. People inside the company interested will know who the message is about if there is a history of that sort of thing. The exit interview is the place to name the specifics.
The company taking a hit because of bad reputation is not something they can sue for without specific conditions. E.G. Article states that the company policy dictated that type of behavior, management encourage that sort of behavior, etc... Even then, it's a difficult case for the company to make.
All you need to provide at the polling station is a name and address. It is illegal to ask people for ID in California, and I know of several polling stations (publicized on 870AM LA morning show) who chastised people who volunteered ID.
This is why it's so hard to prove voter fraud, especially in places that refuse to implement a requirement for ID at polling stations.
Yes I threw awa my mod points to post this stupid comment.
You said it, not me.
California suffers from numerous problems. 1. Illegal voters 2. Voter intimidation 3. Voter depression
Are those three things enough to make up for the difference in votes? We don't have a way to measure those things accurately, but they surely played a big role. I work in SF, and the majority of the people I discussed politics with either didn't vote or voted Trump. The majority of the non-voters were afraid to vote Trump for fear of being blackballed.
The vendor is to blame for this much more than Google. They could have set up a landing page which said not available yet, and even given a release date. That said, I'm not big on blaming the vendor for this type of thing either. People will download and install things without doing any validation and/or testing, and it happens all the time.
Should we have constant PSAs on TV, Radio, Youtube, etc..? Or perhaps consider the wisdom of Bill Engval "You can't fix stupid!"
Just because a bunch of people in marketing said it was the "next big thing" does not make it true. 3D has been around for longer than I have worked with computers and it's never been a "big" thing even though we periodically go through the hype and marketing claims.
There are numerous reasons why it's a niche market and will remain a niche market. Off the top of my head, little is gained by 3D compared to the costs and negative side effects. Too much depth and people are in discomfort, too little and there is no depth so no visible 3D for people to enjoy. The camera is the only way to see the perspective, so anyone sitting out of center camera view is getting skewed displays. Computer generated 3D is nothing like real 3D so the overall "wow" factor diminishes after a few viewings.
Like the overly hyped Apple Watch and Google glass 3D will remain a niche market. I think it's fair to predict the same for IoT.
There are three kinds of lies. "Lies", "Damn Lies", and Statistics.
Fake numbers are used so often that I simply assume a provider of any type is lying and half their numbers (at least). In addition to creating bogus (aka "test) accounts and forging numbers, companies today can go to a PR firm overseas and have them create a ton of bogus accounts for you.
Facebook claims to have more accounts than there are people with Internet access in the world, and LinkedIn claims that there are hundreds of thousands of jobs for people with my background in the SF Bay area. Hyperbole without bad intention? Perhaps. Can it cause legal issues if taken literally? Not very often.
The lawsuit is done, as is SCO. The complaint from SCO boiled down to them LYING! Hence, they lost every single lawsuit and appeal. I'm not sure if you are a shill or just completely ignorant, but in the case of the latter there is a site called Groklaw which covered the cases start to finish. With I'll add, an exceptional paralegal pulling down PACER files, and numerous attorneys adding commentary and explanation to the proceedings.
As one example, SCO tried to sue for source code they claimed to own that was released by AT&T before AT&T lost their lawsuit trying to recapture source code they gave away so that people would improve the AT&T code for free. The AT&T lawsuit ended up in the branches of BSD and System V(5).
SCO tried very hard to play the patent troll game and lost. Most of us in the world are happy about it, and better off because of it. Go do your homework, or shill back at the Junior High schools where people may believe the trolls.
I realize fact finding is hard in the modern age of the Internet, but the leaders of both Mexico and Canada both stated that they are willing to renegotiate NAFTA with the Trump administration. If they don't find common ground, the treaty dies. We have plenty of history of this scenario playing out with various results (some positive, some negative).
Assuming the agreements are favorable to the US and your allegation that Congress would not approve are true, I expect we will see a large change in Congress in the next election.
If your point was that Trump is not a dictator I would agree, but if that was your point it was extremely poor in representation.
What you just summarized is that you hate facts.
Fact: The DNC colluded to _install_ Hillary as the candidate even though Sanders had far more visible support. Trump was colluded against by the RNC, but _STILL_WON. So who exactly is the better and worse candidate? Facts are not that hard.
Fact: Numerous studies show that people DO become more conservative with age. Link that you probably won't look at since you hate facts.
I'm sure you do your Junior High School proud though.
You're not. It's become so blatantly Republican/Russian (Republissian?) that I come to this site to see what the Trump-camp talking points are for any given situation.
Just like leftist media, you are attempting to slander people because you can't win the argument. Democrats ran a horrible candidate, much worse than the Republican. Russia did not make the Democratic party push Hillary into the mix, behave questionably (at best) even with their own party members, to prop her up as the candidate. The Democratic party did this all on their own, and it failed. Pick a better candidate, a better platform, and try again next election.
Republicans, even Trump, is not for Russia, and your conflation makes you just as bad as CNN or any other crap media outlet spreading BS because their "chosen" candidate lost. Republicans like America, and just like Democrats of a couple decades ago, push for Americanism. The ideology being pushed by Trump matches much of Kennedy and other Democrats and Republicans. Peace through Strength is not a Trump thing. Negotiating with countries we are not necessarily friendly with is also not a Trump thing (Look at President Obama for pity sake). Populism and Nationalism are centuries old ideologies.
Now, as to why so many people here are now "Republican", at least in leanings, has much to do with age. The older people get, the more they tend to be conservative in their political views. The Democratic candidate, and the media handling of her, probably accelerated countless people into the Republican camp. That, and the fear most Republicans have of posting in public has been largely diminshed.
It's really a shame that instead of having dialogue and being accountable, the Democratic party and media simply slander everyone who disagrees with them. You AC, are included in that shameful act.
While written with snarky vitriol, your point has merit. The problem is mostly that the populace in China is uneducated and extremely poor, meaning belief in magic and magical cures is still rampant. An educated society is dangerous, so don't look for this to change any time soon.
I pointed out the logic failure and gave the analogy. So not only are you sure you can somehow prove a negative, but demonstrate a belief that circular logic will make your position valid. Double fail.
By your same logic, it would be fine for someone to claim that an invisible entity sits in the clouds and hurls lighting down. Having an effect does not prove the cause, and Flat Earth should be all you need to study to see how massive amounts of Scientists got stuff wrong for centuries.
Science _should_ welcome skepticism, yet when it comes to certain topics skepticism is shunned by a surprising number of people. That makes it a Religion, not Science.
People tell me that AI is ready to be on the roads and already safer than a human so this must all be worked out.
People lie all the time. Unfortunately none of this has been resolved to my knowledge, which is the reason numerous people are pushing back against the technology being pushed onto consumers. Another common lie is that you have to be a Luddite if you disagree with people pushing the tech. Money over Ethics, unfortunately.
There are a tremendous amount of accidents caused by people trying to avoid pets. This leads to the indirect question of ethics most people have with self driving anything. Do you avoid the dog and hit the pedestrian, or avoid the pedestrian and hit the dog? I think we all know the conclusion that would be programmed in, but what happens when someone hacks the system and changes the code?
False dichotomy. The US is only "part" of the problem and can only be "part" of the solution. Since there is no such thing as a One World Government it can not be regulation by One Government to fix issues.
Your plan to reduce population is what exactly? Your plan had best contain "me first" in the doctrine or I'll consider you a quack. Ted Turner for example claimed that well over 9/10ths of the population needs to be killed off, yet he has 5 kids. Double what sustaining population requires. I don't take him seriously because he's not offering up any of his children or himself to the sacrifice, he only want's people of less economic status than himself dead.
So lets hear your great plan.
Oh, and when your plan to avert long term disaster omits the majority of the humans on Earth, your plan is doomed to fail. How about your plan to "fix" global warming? I'm anxious to hear that one too.
Good grief, do a simple goddamn Google search you troll. Try a really complex string of words like "hack into self driving cars".
Your analogy is wrong. You believe that somehow "Global" warming only impacts America? You must similarly believe that the US is the only ones that can, and need to, somehow solve the problem. I have no idea how you ignore China, India, Pakistan, and Russia, and quite frankly the majority of what we call "Developing Nations" (most of the planet) who have been increasing pollutants and industrialization over the same time the West has done the opposite. Governments of the West want their populaces to pay into Tax systems with no Government plans to address anything.
Sure, the problems are vast. No, demanding taxes and a halt of productivity in the West is not the answer. Hillary is not for fixing global climate issues, she is anti American. The same can be said for numerous politicians who despise the US Constitution and believe somehow their socialist plans will be better than any other socialist plan ever conceived. No, it's not just a R versus D issue. Both sides have people with similar beliefs demonstrated by the current state of Politics in the US.
We have already seen people hack into cars and do things like turn off brakes, accelerate, and steer despite the driver trying to maintain control. Car to Car increases an already insecure point and could result in massive problems. Forget "I'm 6 inches away", consider "I'm a mile away" and the problems this will lead to on a busy freeway. How about "my speed is 55" when in fact it is 25, so your car crashes into them.
Yet another example of why IoT is not a good idea for mass consumption. It never will be, because humans are humans. Not all of us are good, and not all of us are bad. We can't ignore the latter extreme when considering technology.