An aspect of this, is the government spending a LOT of money developing artists, book/movie production houses, etc. This conflict between Netflix and the CRTC is tied to that.
Um... the issue here is just as nasty as it would be in America: Entrenched interests are trying to control the market. Rogers being one of those interests.
This has nothing to do with Socialism and building a better society.
...retains the corresponding master private key (referred to as master key).
So we have a Master Public Key and a Master Private Key but we refer to the Master Private Key as only Master.
What kind of hand-waving smoke and mirrors bullshit is going on here?
To obtain a corresponding private key, the party authorized to use the identity ID contacts the PKG, which uses the master private key to generate the private key for identity ID.
Contacts the PKG which uses the Master Private Key?
Really. What. The fuck. Ever. Did I miss something here? How is this in ANY way a good idea? "But if you trust..." I trust NOBODY. I barely even trust myself and only because I have to.
and having a private key generator do some wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey stuff to generate a secure private key out if it.
This is another one of those fucked up "articles" isn't it... Perhaps it is time I left. What the HELL is up with this crap? When I arrived here back in 99 there were very few articles that insulted me. Lately, it seems that one out of every 5 articles is insulting me. Did I miss a memo or something?
I don't think there are many dreams of futures without some form of life extension.
Absolutely NOT. People need to die. If I found the secret to eternal life, I would destroy it immediately and never tell anyone.
Nothing would ever change. We would end up with a single person on top of everyone else stamping down on their faces forever. I would rather die than allow such people to live.
Let's Godwin this now: Could you imagine if Pol Pot or Stalin were still alive and in charge?
If you have good genes and have taken care of yourself 75 can be a no-brainer.
My body has been through the meat grinder. Starting out in poverty and having fucked up parents is not the start of a path towards a long and healthy life. Honestly, I am surprised that I am still alive. I am not entirely certain I will make it to 70. Yowsa.
I dunno. Once I hit 40, I felt I had lived a very interesting life and I feel like if I die now, there would be no tragedy in it. I, of course, do not WANT to die, but I have accepted that the inevitable will occur and it is not to be dreaded. What will come will come.
So, a long long time ago in a galaxy far far away, I was an Amiga owner. I bought a 486 laptop and put Linux on it. Well, my friend had this brand new operating system called Windows 95 (32 floppy disks IIRC) so I decided to try it out. I installed it at his house and then went home and booted up my laptop. I looked at the root partition, known as C: and saw this huge mess of random files in addition to directories that I was expecting to see... so I decided to clean it up. It was ugly. Command.com, autoexec.bat, and config.sys had no business just sitting there messing up my hard drive. They should go inside of directories or be deleted so I deleted them...
So yeah. I went back to Linux. I only had 12 megabytes of RAM so X was not ideal but Windows 95 was NOT suitable.
Honestly, I think the thing that horrified me the most was, after I got it running again, I installed some software (I do not recall what) and the installation dialog said it was writing stuff into the operating system directories. I just about had a cow. Then, I found out that it was normal, expected, and encouraged behavior. All versions of Windows have been considered, at best, poorly implemented toys since that experience. I mean, really, they STILL do that. Just wow. Why would they allow an application to write into the operating system directories? It is an application! It should NEVER be allowed to touch those directories. Ever. Under ANY circumstances. Just wow.
- Mix ammonia and bleach in a dish, put a penny in the bottom, and blow into a straw to grow crystals.
I know what the ammonia and bleach does... but why the penny? They are not even copper anymore... what does the penny do or is it just a distraction to the poison gas portion of it?
Trouble with technicians is that they believe their own myths.
Interesting thing happened to me a month or two ago: I bought a local equivalent of "cup-o-noodles" and tore off the lid, put water in it, and placed it in the microwave.
As it turns out, the underside of the paper lid is in all actuality some sort of foil. Even once I tore that off, there were small amounts embedded around the edge.
So what happened? Lots of lights, fire, and a permanently scarred microwave. All from a VERY small amount of foil embedded in paper on the lip of the "cup".
Yeah.... about those myths. Keep on sticking metal shit in your microwave and enjoying the light show.
I am normally the guy nodding his head and agreeing with you... but I have begun to learn that there really are people whose minds are slower than mine. By a LOT. Should I really be so Darwinian about these kinds of things? Shouldn't I feel upset at the person who leads them in this direction?
Seriously, not everyone understands what microwave energy is. This is especially sadistic because of the new "magical" inductive chargers that exist now.
Honestly, I think it is evil to guide ignorant people towards pain and suffering. Now if they thought of it on their own, I will be laughing my ass off... but to guide them towards it or to just shrug when you see someone else guiding them towards it... just evil.
I pretty much agree with you. I would rather do without than suffer this copyright bullshit. I do enjoy those "big" movies and I am willing to put up with some amount of copyright laws if that will allow me to enjoy those movies... but this forever copyright regime with the insane "enforcement" scheme is beyond the pale. It is better to burn it all to ashes.
As for games, I recently wanted to buy a few games on stream, but they demanded a copy of my id because my card was issued in another country than the one I live in at the moment. Fine, goodbye. Downloaded the games at TPB instead.
There are two other very good reasons to use TPB, Very recently, I downloaded Civ V from TPB. I have not enjoyed any of the series since Civ 2 but this one seemed to have enduring good feedback so I wanted to try it out. I downloaded it and started playing it. I looked at my clock and realized I was 20 hours into my first session. My how time flies. I went ahead and bought it on Steam. By the by, I do not currently reside in the country my card is issued from. apparently, if you hit cancel (back?) and submit enough, it becomes confused and allows the transaction anyways.
The other reason I use the TPB is to have a copy of a game that I already own that does not have to "install". I just zip up the directory along with a.reg file and whenever I move to another computer, I unzip it and run the.reg file if necessary and WHAM. Instantly playable. Screw installing StarForce and trying to authenticate against a server which no longer exists. I paid for the game and I will play it. On my terms. My access to the game does not stop just because someone wants to shut down their authentication servers. That is fraud on their part. They should release a patch to not require authentication if they do not feel like running the servers anymore.
What is so wrong with a project failing? I really don't get it.
There is nothing wrong with a project failing.
The problem is this: How do you determine failure while honestly trying to succeed vs failure due to never trying to succeed (e.g. scam)?
If it was all about projects failing while giving a good honest effort, I do not think many people would mind. They knew the risks and they tried it anyways. C'est la vie.
What is with all of the offensive articles lately? Nobody is neutral? We are talking about the neutrality of handling packets. Either you want packets to be handled neutrally or you do not. By framing it the way he has, he implies that nobody is for handling packets in a neutral manner... and that is FUCKING FALSE.
Jesus fucking christ people. Stop this shit. Stop it NOW. Stop INTENTIONALLY POLLUTING. YOU, yes YOU are absolutely the epitome of evil! Just shut up already.
Almost. Science is the way by which we find things which are false.
I am glad to see someone who understands. The whole "Capital-S Science is the pursuit of capital-T Truth." really offended me. Deeply. This is not Religious Beliefs class 101. Leave Truth to the Philosophers and religious freaks to argue about. Leave Science out of it.
You think you know what science is, and this article is confusing because you're wrong and can't even recognize what you're wrong about.
Really? From the summary:
Capital-S Science is the pursuit of capital-T Truth.
He, and by extension, you, are absolutely wrong. Science can never find Truth. Science can only exclude certain falsehoods. Furthermore, Science is not even about Truth. There is nothing in the mission statement of Science about finding Truth. Hell, we do not even call Laws by the term of Laws anymore because we recognize that Science is not about Truth.
If you don't understand, you need to stop talking about science until you do.
No. You shut up.
You are damaging the cause for science by treating it like a belief system, so just stop.
No. He, and by extension you, are treating it like a belief system. Truth is a belief and both you and he think that Science can find this Truth. It can not. Now be silent.
Grrrr. Here I am without mod points and you DEFINITELY deserve them. You are only +3 currently but need +5 so everyone can see your incredibly insightful and informative comment.
All that you can really say is that all evidence seems to point to the Universe being created through a process that we call "Big Bang".
I do not believe in the Big Bang and neither should anyone else. Everyone else SHOULD understand that it is the best explanation available given all currently available evidence.
Me too. Who are all of these absolute fucking idiots who assume I am (we are) all idiots like them? I would also like to wonder why they get ANY airtime. Seriously. What. The. Fuck?
I would like to hear somebody explain logically why they think the behavior of other modern non-human species provides more insight into human behavior, than simply studying human behavior directly.
Because the ones performing the study can not shut their mouths and open their minds while observing other humans.
The reason why they can not do this is because of what they might out about their own selves.
Because the people who would listen to the scientist performing the work do not want to hear what the scientist may say.
The reason they do not want to hear what the scientist has to say is because they do not want to find out about their own selves.
Essentially, there is a scary dark entity inside of all of us. We would be shocked, shocked I say, to find out that we could revel in killing and sex (amongst other things) indiscriminately.
Very few people want to look in a mirror and see their own soul laid bare.
About 5 years ago I stopped investing in Chinese companies. Why? Because I didn't want to support even indirectly a regime that, without apology, oppressed Tibet...
Yeah, I thought the same thing too... but then I found out that the people who ruled Tibet before China were not exactly wonderful to live under either.
Really, it is a wash for the people of Tibet: Live under one tyranny or live under another.
Any company that tries to have their managers both retain top notch technical skills using the latest technologies AND be a competent manager is doing it WRONG.
Every manager should fully understand and be able to fully perform any job that they are overseeing someone else perform. Anything less will allow all sorts of nasty and inefficient things to occur.
This is NOT an argument about good leadership vs technical skills. I am saying if you do not have BOTH, then you should not be a manager.
Being placed in a management position should not be a handout after so many years of toiling in the trenches. There is a purpose and reason for management and each appointment to management ranks should ensure that the purpose and reason are fully justified.
Braveheart (1995); ius primae noctis is invoked by Edward Longshanks in an attempt to breed the Scots out. This was one of the many inaccuracies cited by critics of the film.
So because Braveheart was historically inaccurate, primae noctis never existed and never was used. It was just a pipe dream that seemed to hover around our collective imaginations for hundreds and hundreds of years. Weird how a thing like that works.
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An aspect of this, is the government spending a LOT of money developing artists, book/movie production houses, etc. This conflict between Netflix and the CRTC is tied to that.
Um... the issue here is just as nasty as it would be in America: Entrenched interests are trying to control the market. Rogers being one of those interests.
This has nothing to do with Socialism and building a better society.
What the FUCK?!
...retains the corresponding master private key (referred to as master key).
So we have a Master Public Key and a Master Private Key but we refer to the Master Private Key as only Master.
What kind of hand-waving smoke and mirrors bullshit is going on here?
To obtain a corresponding private key, the party authorized to use the identity ID contacts the PKG, which uses the master private key to generate the private key for identity ID.
Contacts the PKG which uses the Master Private Key?
Really. What. The fuck. Ever. Did I miss something here? How is this in ANY way a good idea? "But if you trust..." I trust NOBODY. I barely even trust myself and only because I have to.
Meh
and having a private key generator do some wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey stuff to generate a secure private key out if it.
This is another one of those fucked up "articles" isn't it... Perhaps it is time I left. What the HELL is up with this crap? When I arrived here back in 99 there were very few articles that insulted me. Lately, it seems that one out of every 5 articles is insulting me. Did I miss a memo or something?
I don't think there are many dreams of futures without some form of life extension.
Absolutely NOT. People need to die. If I found the secret to eternal life, I would destroy it immediately and never tell anyone.
Nothing would ever change. We would end up with a single person on top of everyone else stamping down on their faces forever. I would rather die than allow such people to live.
Let's Godwin this now: Could you imagine if Pol Pot or Stalin were still alive and in charge?
If you have good genes and have taken care of yourself 75 can be a no-brainer.
My body has been through the meat grinder. Starting out in poverty and having fucked up parents is not the start of a path towards a long and healthy life. Honestly, I am surprised that I am still alive. I am not entirely certain I will make it to 70. Yowsa.
We'll see how he feels when he's 75.
I dunno. Once I hit 40, I felt I had lived a very interesting life and I feel like if I die now, there would be no tragedy in it. I, of course, do not WANT to die, but I have accepted that the inevitable will occur and it is not to be dreaded. What will come will come.
So, a long long time ago in a galaxy far far away, I was an Amiga owner. I bought a 486 laptop and put Linux on it. Well, my friend had this brand new operating system called Windows 95 (32 floppy disks IIRC) so I decided to try it out. I installed it at his house and then went home and booted up my laptop. I looked at the root partition, known as C: and saw this huge mess of random files in addition to directories that I was expecting to see... so I decided to clean it up. It was ugly. Command.com, autoexec.bat, and config.sys had no business just sitting there messing up my hard drive. They should go inside of directories or be deleted so I deleted them...
So yeah. I went back to Linux. I only had 12 megabytes of RAM so X was not ideal but Windows 95 was NOT suitable.
Honestly, I think the thing that horrified me the most was, after I got it running again, I installed some software (I do not recall what) and the installation dialog said it was writing stuff into the operating system directories. I just about had a cow. Then, I found out that it was normal, expected, and encouraged behavior. All versions of Windows have been considered, at best, poorly implemented toys since that experience. I mean, really, they STILL do that. Just wow. Why would they allow an application to write into the operating system directories? It is an application! It should NEVER be allowed to touch those directories. Ever. Under ANY circumstances. Just wow.
- Mix ammonia and bleach in a dish, put a penny in the bottom, and blow into a straw to grow crystals.
I know what the ammonia and bleach does... but why the penny? They are not even copper anymore... what does the penny do or is it just a distraction to the poison gas portion of it?
Trouble with technicians is that they believe their own myths.
Interesting thing happened to me a month or two ago: I bought a local equivalent of "cup-o-noodles" and tore off the lid, put water in it, and placed it in the microwave.
As it turns out, the underside of the paper lid is in all actuality some sort of foil. Even once I tore that off, there were small amounts embedded around the edge.
So what happened? Lots of lights, fire, and a permanently scarred microwave. All from a VERY small amount of foil embedded in paper on the lip of the "cup".
Yeah.... about those myths. Keep on sticking metal shit in your microwave and enjoying the light show.
I am normally the guy nodding his head and agreeing with you... but I have begun to learn that there really are people whose minds are slower than mine. By a LOT. Should I really be so Darwinian about these kinds of things? Shouldn't I feel upset at the person who leads them in this direction?
Seriously, not everyone understands what microwave energy is. This is especially sadistic because of the new "magical" inductive chargers that exist now.
Honestly, I think it is evil to guide ignorant people towards pain and suffering. Now if they thought of it on their own, I will be laughing my ass off... but to guide them towards it or to just shrug when you see someone else guiding them towards it... just evil.
I pretty much agree with you. I would rather do without than suffer this copyright bullshit. I do enjoy those "big" movies and I am willing to put up with some amount of copyright laws if that will allow me to enjoy those movies... but this forever copyright regime with the insane "enforcement" scheme is beyond the pale. It is better to burn it all to ashes.
As for games, I recently wanted to buy a few games on stream, but they demanded a copy of my id because my card was issued in another country than the one I live in at the moment. Fine, goodbye. Downloaded the games at TPB instead.
There are two other very good reasons to use TPB, Very recently, I downloaded Civ V from TPB. I have not enjoyed any of the series since Civ 2 but this one seemed to have enduring good feedback so I wanted to try it out. I downloaded it and started playing it. I looked at my clock and realized I was 20 hours into my first session. My how time flies. I went ahead and bought it on Steam. By the by, I do not currently reside in the country my card is issued from. apparently, if you hit cancel (back?) and submit enough, it becomes confused and allows the transaction anyways.
The other reason I use the TPB is to have a copy of a game that I already own that does not have to "install". I just zip up the directory along with a .reg file and whenever I move to another computer, I unzip it and run the .reg file if necessary and WHAM. Instantly playable. Screw installing StarForce and trying to authenticate against a server which no longer exists. I paid for the game and I will play it. On my terms. My access to the game does not stop just because someone wants to shut down their authentication servers. That is fraud on their part. They should release a patch to not require authentication if they do not feel like running the servers anymore.
What is so wrong with a project failing? I really don't get it.
There is nothing wrong with a project failing.
The problem is this: How do you determine failure while honestly trying to succeed vs failure due to never trying to succeed (e.g. scam)?
If it was all about projects failing while giving a good honest effort, I do not think many people would mind. They knew the risks and they tried it anyways. C'est la vie.
What is with all of the offensive articles lately? Nobody is neutral? We are talking about the neutrality of handling packets. Either you want packets to be handled neutrally or you do not. By framing it the way he has, he implies that nobody is for handling packets in a neutral manner... and that is FUCKING FALSE.
Jesus fucking christ people. Stop this shit. Stop it NOW. Stop INTENTIONALLY POLLUTING. YOU, yes YOU are absolutely the epitome of evil! Just shut up already.
Absolutely not. Science is indeed in pursuit of Truth.
Try this on for size:
http://science.slashdot.org/co...
Almost. Science is the way by which we find things which are false.
I am glad to see someone who understands. The whole "Capital-S Science is the pursuit of capital-T Truth." really offended me. Deeply. This is not Religious Beliefs class 101. Leave Truth to the Philosophers and religious freaks to argue about. Leave Science out of it.
You think you know what science is, and this article is confusing because you're wrong and can't even recognize what you're wrong about.
Really? From the summary:
Capital-S Science is the pursuit of capital-T Truth.
He, and by extension, you, are absolutely wrong. Science can never find Truth. Science can only exclude certain falsehoods. Furthermore, Science is not even about Truth. There is nothing in the mission statement of Science about finding Truth. Hell, we do not even call Laws by the term of Laws anymore because we recognize that Science is not about Truth.
If you don't understand, you need to stop talking about science until you do.
No. You shut up.
You are damaging the cause for science by treating it like a belief system, so just stop.
No. He, and by extension you, are treating it like a belief system. Truth is a belief and both you and he think that Science can find this Truth. It can not. Now be silent.
Grrrr. Here I am without mod points and you DEFINITELY deserve them. You are only +3 currently but need +5 so everyone can see your incredibly insightful and informative comment.
The big bang is how the universe was created.
Prove it. You can not.
All that you can really say is that all evidence seems to point to the Universe being created through a process that we call "Big Bang".
I do not believe in the Big Bang and neither should anyone else. Everyone else SHOULD understand that it is the best explanation available given all currently available evidence.
Me too. Who are all of these absolute fucking idiots who assume I am (we are) all idiots like them? I would also like to wonder why they get ANY airtime. Seriously. What. The. Fuck?
I am honestly offended by this. Full stop.
I would like to hear somebody explain logically why they think the behavior of other modern non-human species provides more insight into human behavior, than simply studying human behavior directly.
Because the ones performing the study can not shut their mouths and open their minds while observing other humans.
The reason why they can not do this is because of what they might out about their own selves.
Because the people who would listen to the scientist performing the work do not want to hear what the scientist may say.
The reason they do not want to hear what the scientist has to say is because they do not want to find out about their own selves.
Essentially, there is a scary dark entity inside of all of us. We would be shocked, shocked I say, to find out that we could revel in killing and sex (amongst other things) indiscriminately.
Very few people want to look in a mirror and see their own soul laid bare.
About 5 years ago I stopped investing in Chinese companies. Why? Because I didn't want to support even indirectly a regime that, without apology, oppressed Tibet...
Yeah, I thought the same thing too... but then I found out that the people who ruled Tibet before China were not exactly wonderful to live under either.
Really, it is a wash for the people of Tibet: Live under one tyranny or live under another.
Any company that tries to have their managers both retain top notch technical skills using the latest technologies AND be a competent manager is doing it WRONG.
Every manager should fully understand and be able to fully perform any job that they are overseeing someone else perform. Anything less will allow all sorts of nasty and inefficient things to occur.
This is NOT an argument about good leadership vs technical skills. I am saying if you do not have BOTH, then you should not be a manager.
Being placed in a management position should not be a handout after so many years of toiling in the trenches. There is a purpose and reason for management and each appointment to management ranks should ensure that the purpose and reason are fully justified.
They are lucky they have not done this to some gun nut. Proof: No police offers or district attorneys are dead yet.
Braveheart (1995); ius primae noctis is invoked by Edward Longshanks in an attempt to breed the Scots out. This was one of the many inaccuracies cited by critics of the film.
So because Braveheart was historically inaccurate, primae noctis never existed and never was used. It was just a pipe dream that seemed to hover around our collective imaginations for hundreds and hundreds of years. Weird how a thing like that works.