The only profit here is for your ISP, as the porn will get downloaded twice. What do you think, that a kid today doesn't know how to avoid blocks and get to stuff he wants? Unless you go with a nazi whitelist, there's no way to stop the kid from getting to something as ubiquitous as porn. And a forbidden fruit is all the sweeter.
Woooh... amazing! Looks like the last non-spam piece of mail my mail server received over IPv4 was three days ago, most of legitimate mail I receive comes on IPv6. On the other hand, the last piece of spam not over IPv4 was on 2012-12-26 (from 2604:e800:184::6d0e:3a91).
This seems to be a random fluke as it's quite rare to not get anything via gmail in three days (it was the culprit that broke the streak), but fluke or not, that's what's on the top of my logs right now.
Indian A sets up a store in a reservation, and stocks up all sorts of goods. This is an official business. Indian B takes money from non-indians (unofficially), purchases the goods and delivers them to the real customers. A and B may take some extra cut, no one has to pay the sales tax.
The DNS registrars make TURKTRUST seem like fort knox, why the hell would anyone want to go from one lot of incompetent arseholes to an even worse lot?
You can select the best registrar, and others can't harm you. With CAs, you're only as secure as the worst CA out of a few hundred.
What you want is DANE. Sadly it's hardly supported in browsers at all yet, but it allows throwing out all the CA crap, replacing them with just three parties to trust: ICANN, your country's DNS registry, and your registrar.
Wait, so all you need is to get an Indian guy to buy everything for you, and you pay no tax? Either I understand you wrong or it's broken beyond repair (and that's before even getting to the racism).
The only customers who are confused are tourists from outside North America. Everyone here understands that when the price says $6.99 they will be expected to pay more than $6.99 - So no, there's no confusion.
Which is a problem if you have only a small amount of cash on you, and don't know whether you're ok or you'll need to run to an ATM machine.
Money printing is nothing but a tax, that even worse, skirts whatever constitutional/etc rules countries have on taxes. However, most of the gains from this tax go to banks (ie, are lost to the society) rather than the central budget (where they could feed, among waste, some actually useful things).
Going back to the gold standard would fix the former, but as long as fractional reserve banking is legal, won't fix the latter (and thus would be mostly useless). And since financial responsibility would limit abuses of both the government and the Wall Street, neither is not going to happen.
I still can't fathom how posting "prices" that are different from what you actually pay may be considered a good idea.
It adds to customer confusion, cashier's work, and the benefit is... what? That it stresses how much the government gouges you for? That's not useful for anything but a political statement, and if so, it should note the credit card robbery as well.
The karma system is irrelevant except for weeding out sock-puppet accounts. Anyone who's not new here, and not either an idiot or intentionally trolling, will hit the karma cap quickly and hover there.
s/take/buy at a price you demand/. Wasn't the whole officially stated point of copyright[1] to make sure the author is properly rewarded for his work?
As for the value of something going down -- if the monopoly rights in a given work no longer generate that much profit, this means any further blocking of the public is no longer in society's interest. That the work generated profits before proves it is valuable, and if ways of monetizing that value are drying out, it's time for the public to benefit.
[1]. The true point was to ensure a stream of bribes for the king from printing outfits. Same for patents, you can read of an early attempt to limit king's abuse here.
The mafia started as a self-help group, protecting people against corrupt government forces. It's nearly exclusively bad by now, but it has at least traces of good. So please don't disrespect the mafia by comparing it with the Church of Scientology (or RIAA+MPAA, for that matter).
This is an interesting idea. While I'd rather see copyright abolished completely, what about this:
* if you hold copyright on work X, you declare how much it is worth * a periodic tax is levied, based on the value you declared * at any moment, you may declare a higher value. It can go up but never down (valuable works that are no longer profitable should go public). * at any moment, you may abandon the copyright, irrevocably putting the work into public domain * anyone may buy the copyright from you for the listed price * if the other party intends to buy it to keep (as opposed to freeing it to the public), you may instead raise the value [1] * the tax rate increases with time
[1]. You could have immediately bought it back for the same price, this rule merely resolves such a loop for the benefit of the old holder.
Such a scheme would ensure any copyright is taxed based on its fair market valuation.
A small town, Poland. I guess it's a combination of you painting things in way too rose colours and me in way too black, together with me not being up to date on new developments. For now I'll stay with something that works and has no downsides in my climate while you ahmericans figure a replacement out, but thanks for letting me know it's not as bad as I quite recently found out.
You're talking about some fancy good LEDs that are either prototypes or can be found only in civilized parts of the world. Around here, all you can get are CFLs or cheapest chinese crap LEDs.
I guess, I could hunt down something reasonable, but for now, incadescent bulbs just work. And their waste heat is welcome most of the year.
Or ~three months if you don't waste power by having them on 24/7. Power cycling kills them dead. Add being harsh on eyes and making colors look like crap (neighbour post can tell you more).
It will have plenty of foreign visitors providing heat.
I was there this August. I've seen plenty of hotties there, and from the looks, mostly locals rather than immigrants. Of course, during winter, when the heat is needed, all the hotness is covered by clothes.
SecureBoot was never about security If it was, Microsoft would put at least some token effort towards blacklisting drivers with ring 0 holes. The point since day one was to hinder the spread of non-commercial alternatives.
FreeBSD kernel: perhaps. It's userland, though... What I remember about IRIX was nicer to use than current BSD, and that was aeons ago. I have no need for BSD at the moment, but if I did, it'd be a toss-up between Debian/kFreeBSD and unstable hacks.
A vast majority of tax money, though, goes either to waste or to things that are outright harmful for the taxpayer. And even for police and judges, a big part is spent gathering the driving without disrupting traffic flow tax, and to patent/etc litigation, respectively.
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The only profit here is for your ISP, as the porn will get downloaded twice. What do you think, that a kid today doesn't know how to avoid blocks and get to stuff he wants? Unless you go with a nazi whitelist, there's no way to stop the kid from getting to something as ubiquitous as porn. And a forbidden fruit is all the sweeter.
the killer app for ipv6 is going to be spam
Woooh... amazing! Looks like the last non-spam piece of mail my mail server received over IPv4 was three days ago, most of legitimate mail I receive comes on IPv6. On the other hand, the last piece of spam not over IPv4 was on 2012-12-26 (from 2604:e800:184::6d0e:3a91).
This seems to be a random fluke as it's quite rare to not get anything via gmail in three days (it was the culprit that broke the streak), but fluke or not, that's what's on the top of my logs right now.
Indian A sets up a store in a reservation, and stocks up all sorts of goods. This is an official business. Indian B takes money from non-indians (unofficially), purchases the goods and delivers them to the real customers. A and B may take some extra cut, no one has to pay the sales tax.
onto a mobile handset or any other hardware device except a personal computer
My N900 is for all purposes a personal computer.
You don't need to pick YOUR country's top level domain.
The DNS registrars make TURKTRUST seem like fort knox, why the hell would anyone want to go from one lot of incompetent arseholes to an even worse lot?
You can select the best registrar, and others can't harm you. With CAs, you're only as secure as the worst CA out of a few hundred.
Do I need to point out how this can be exploited?
What you want is DANE. Sadly it's hardly supported in browsers at all yet, but it allows throwing out all the CA crap, replacing them with just three parties to trust: ICANN, your country's DNS registry, and your registrar.
Wait, so all you need is to get an Indian guy to buy everything for you, and you pay no tax? Either I understand you wrong or it's broken beyond repair (and that's before even getting to the racism).
The only customers who are confused are tourists from outside North America. Everyone here understands that when the price says $6.99 they will be expected to pay more than $6.99 - So no, there's no confusion.
Which is a problem if you have only a small amount of cash on you, and don't know whether you're ok or you'll need to run to an ATM machine.
Money printing is nothing but a tax, that even worse, skirts whatever constitutional/etc rules countries have on taxes. However, most of the gains from this tax go to banks (ie, are lost to the society) rather than the central budget (where they could feed, among waste, some actually useful things).
Going back to the gold standard would fix the former, but as long as fractional reserve banking is legal, won't fix the latter (and thus would be mostly useless). And since financial responsibility would limit abuses of both the government and the Wall Street, neither is not going to happen.
I still can't fathom how posting "prices" that are different from what you actually pay may be considered a good idea.
It adds to customer confusion, cashier's work, and the benefit is... what? That it stresses how much the government gouges you for? That's not useful for anything but a political statement, and if so, it should note the credit card robbery as well.
The karma system is irrelevant except for weeding out sock-puppet accounts. Anyone who's not new here, and not either an idiot or intentionally trolling, will hit the karma cap quickly and hover there.
s/take/buy at a price you demand/. Wasn't the whole officially stated point of copyright[1] to make sure the author is properly rewarded for his work?
As for the value of something going down -- if the monopoly rights in a given work no longer generate that much profit, this means any further blocking of the public is no longer in society's interest. That the work generated profits before proves it is valuable, and if ways of monetizing that value are drying out, it's time for the public to benefit.
[1]. The true point was to ensure a stream of bribes for the king from printing outfits. Same for patents, you can read of an early attempt to limit king's abuse here.
The mafia started as a self-help group, protecting people against corrupt government forces. It's nearly exclusively bad by now, but it has at least traces of good. So please don't disrespect the mafia by comparing it with the Church of Scientology (or RIAA+MPAA, for that matter).
This is an interesting idea. While I'd rather see copyright abolished completely, what about this:
* if you hold copyright on work X, you declare how much it is worth
* a periodic tax is levied, based on the value you declared
* at any moment, you may declare a higher value. It can go up but never down (valuable works that are no longer profitable should go public).
* at any moment, you may abandon the copyright, irrevocably putting the work into public domain
* anyone may buy the copyright from you for the listed price
* if the other party intends to buy it to keep (as opposed to freeing it to the public), you may instead raise the value [1]
* the tax rate increases with time
[1]. You could have immediately bought it back for the same price, this rule merely resolves such a loop for the benefit of the old holder.
Such a scheme would ensure any copyright is taxed based on its fair market valuation.
A small town, Poland. I guess it's a combination of you painting things in way too rose colours and me in way too black, together with me not being up to date on new developments. For now I'll stay with something that works and has no downsides in my climate while you ahmericans figure a replacement out, but thanks for letting me know it's not as bad as I quite recently found out.
You're talking about some fancy good LEDs that are either prototypes or can be found only in civilized parts of the world. Around here, all you can get are CFLs or cheapest chinese crap LEDs.
I guess, I could hunt down something reasonable, but for now, incadescent bulbs just work. And their waste heat is welcome most of the year.
Worry not for them, there's already FBI+DHS+police+banksters infiltrating that torch bearing mob.
expect them to last at least 25000 hours
Or ~three months if you don't waste power by having them on 24/7. Power cycling kills them dead. Add being harsh on eyes and making colors look like crap (neighbour post can tell you more).
It will have plenty of foreign visitors providing heat.
I was there this August. I've seen plenty of hotties there, and from the looks, mostly locals rather than immigrants. Of course, during winter, when the heat is needed, all the hotness is covered by clothes.
SecureBoot was never about security If it was, Microsoft would put at least some token effort towards blacklisting drivers with ring 0 holes. The point since day one was to hinder the spread of non-commercial alternatives.
FreeBSD kernel: perhaps. It's userland, though... What I remember about IRIX was nicer to use than current BSD, and that was aeons ago. I have no need for BSD at the moment, but if I did, it'd be a toss-up between Debian/kFreeBSD and unstable hacks.
he is definitely not an immigrant. He was born in 1922 on American soil, in New York City.
Pshaw! I bet his long-form birth certificate is a forgery.
A vast majority of tax money, though, goes either to waste or to things that are outright harmful for the taxpayer. And even for police and judges, a big part is spent gathering the driving without disrupting traffic flow tax, and to patent/etc litigation, respectively.