But I'm not sure the analogy is completely apt if you're pushing electronic journal updates to a bunch of other people.
I suppose it would depend on how many people, how complete the updates are, and how ephemeral the "pushing" is. It's a question I'd leave to a judge, but the argument might be enough to get a foot in the door.
Dread Pirate Roberts has just provided a perfect blueprint to tax the black market, destroy huge and powerful criminal orgs, provide safety and security to something we should have all decided we cannot stop a long time ago.
Do you have a bank account. If so, is it your property?
Hmm... interesting point.
The "account" itself isn't. It's a bunch of meta-data and transaction history rather than anything that can be transferred around in a tangible fashion.
The funds held in the account are certainly property, virtual or otherwise. But access to financial assets of an estate have a whole host of estate laws behind it, while access to other kinds of virtual assets... not so much.
I suppose that the writings in an online account could be considered unpublished works under copyright law and thus owned by the estate. I wonder if anyone's tried that legal angle yet?
There's nothing to inherit, if the Parent held title to all property and accounts in the first place.
Property, sure. Accounts... are they really personal property?
It seems to me that they're the property of the service provider. You've got certain rights to that property (privacy, etc) in some jurisdictions, and you (probably) own the copyrights to any content you've created with the account, but everything else comes down to the terms of service with the provider. Which may or may not allow the parents of a deceased minor to access the account. The police could probably get access if they investigated is as a suicide, but why should the parents?
If they stay true to form, they'll introduce a phone with an interface optimized for a mouse and keyboard then act bewildered when no one wants it
No, no, they tried that many years ago with WinCE.
This time, I predict they'll go with an interface optimized for gesture. You haven't read an ebook until you've read an ebook on a device with "shake to scroll"...
Suing a hospital for malpractice is a lot easier than suing a bank for losing your life savings.
The other part of it is that finance is, by necessity, a connected adversarial environment, so there's a lot of incentive for people to game banking robots. That's basically what high speed trading is about. There's not a lot of incentive for people to mess with surgical robots... I'm sure some might do it for kicks, but there's not a lot of money in it.
Either way, I can think of few things more obnoxious than prerecorded voicemails. It's bad enough I don't even know why marketers would want to do so in the first place
Marketers are all about exploiting loopholes in peoples attention filters, and they're really, really bad at considering consequences. They think they've found a new trick and they're going to exploit it good and hard. What they aren't considering is that voicemail is likely the least preferred offline communications mechanism people have available. If you asked the average person to rank email, texting, IP messaging services and voicemail, I expect 90% or more would have voicemail at the bottom.
Fill voicemail with spam and people will just drop it.
Ninety percent of coding is taking some business specs and translating them into computer logic.
I think everyone has encountered code-written-to-spec at one point or another. And had to rewrite code such that it violates the spec in order to match reality.
That aside, a more interesting question is "which programming language will those AI-compatible business specs be written in?"
I prefer to call the bigger ones "vans", and the smaller ones mini-vans. Jeep drivers seem to be particularly sensitive about it...
That being said, my criteria for "truck" is "owner is willing to transport fresh manure in the cargo area". If someone is crazy enough to fill the trunk of their Dodge Neon with horse shit, I'm not going to criticize their choice of labels.
I never understood this fascination with having stuff you can't use to its fullest extent.
You, sir, have obviously never tried to haul a trunk load of concrete in a Hyundai Accent. I expect with 808hp, the Dodge Challenger will be the workhorse of the American contractor.
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Yeah, I don't get it either. On the other hand, it's far less aggravating that people who call their SUV "my truck"...
...why? Because dynamic translation technology is getting worse in time?
I'd imagine it's got to do more with the relative performance difference between the two architectures. x86 emulating PPC worked because the x86's they were shipping were more powerful than the PPC's they replaced. Ditto for the PPC's emulating 68k. x86 emulates ARM without breaking a sweat.
ARM trying to handle the x86 instruction set... yes, it can be done, but whether it can be done well or run enough of the Windows application ecosystem to be worthwhile/marketable is questionable.
Hours? It was 1997. A new site that had a signup option was lucky to get a signup per day.
Slashdot was already extremely popular by the time they added user accounts, and they went pretty quickly. I don't think I waited more than a week, and look where I ended up.
I got a short user name as a consolation prize, so I'm not at all bitter. At all.
That may well be, but the aspect of Trudeau's personality that I was referring to is that he is an imbecile.
No, he's not. If that's what you believe, you're dumber than you think he is.
Just like nice guys don't get to the level of running countries, imbeciles don't either. He may not be a genius, but he's smart enough to have outmanoeuvred his political rivals, worked his way to the head of his party, and then won a major election against a very experienced and motivated opposition.
I don't know what it is about people who seriously call out their political opposition as "stupid". Especially when the opposition won.
Similarly, Trump isn't dumb. He's ruthless, cunning, impulsive, playing a completely different game from any politician we've ever seen, doesn't give a shit about who he steps on, isn't entirely sane, and doesn't appear to have the skills or interests needed to be a competent president, but he's definitely not stupid.
As for your opinion as a Canadian on this, I'll take it for all it's worth: nothing.
That's the most encouraging thing I've seen from you say so far.
Well, not every nation can be blessed with such "sane and competent", not to mention pretty, leadership as you:
Well, duh. Trudeau is a politician. Nice guys do not claw their way to the level of running entire countries. You'll never catch me saying that we don't have any problems with our leadership. It's not all lollipops and unicorns up here.
As for Castro... I fully agree with you, he was exactly the sort of dictator the United States is happy to make friends with. He just wasn't on your side.
There is nuance, the maximum prison term has increased but it doesn't mean you will get 10 years for watching your favorite TV series on a illegal streaming website.
No, you'll be threatened with 10 years watching your favorite TV series on a illegal streaming website when you're given the "opportunity" to settle/plea bargain, and if you don't think the threat of ridiculous penalties doesn't cause people (criminals or innocents) to agree to seemingly insane things then you need to get out of your cave a lot more often.
A search warrant cannot compel you to testify against yourself, but it absolutely can, and very often does, compel you to give police access to locations, items or data that can incriminate you....
The key difference from a password is that in all those examples you provided, the things that you could be compelled to provide are also things which, if it came down to it, someone could just go and take without your cooperation. It might be messy, expensive and slower, but it's entirely feasible,
In the case of passwords, "feasible" is less clear. Theoretically any security can be cracked, but is that on the same level as cracking a safe when the owner refuses to give up the combination?
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I suppose it would depend on how many people, how complete the updates are, and how ephemeral the "pushing" is. It's a question I'd leave to a judge, but the argument might be enough to get a foot in the door.
Things like personal letters and journals are considered unpublished works in many jurisdictions.
He sounds overqualified.
Hmm... interesting point.
The "account" itself isn't. It's a bunch of meta-data and transaction history rather than anything that can be transferred around in a tangible fashion.
The funds held in the account are certainly property, virtual or otherwise. But access to financial assets of an estate have a whole host of estate laws behind it, while access to other kinds of virtual assets... not so much.
I suppose that the writings in an online account could be considered unpublished works under copyright law and thus owned by the estate. I wonder if anyone's tried that legal angle yet?
Property, sure. Accounts... are they really personal property?
It seems to me that they're the property of the service provider. You've got certain rights to that property (privacy, etc) in some jurisdictions, and you (probably) own the copyrights to any content you've created with the account, but everything else comes down to the terms of service with the provider. Which may or may not allow the parents of a deceased minor to access the account. The police could probably get access if they investigated is as a suicide, but why should the parents?
No, no, they tried that many years ago with WinCE.
This time, I predict they'll go with an interface optimized for gesture. You haven't read an ebook until you've read an ebook on a device with "shake to scroll"...
Suing a hospital for malpractice is a lot easier than suing a bank for losing your life savings.
The other part of it is that finance is, by necessity, a connected adversarial environment, so there's a lot of incentive for people to game banking robots. That's basically what high speed trading is about. There's not a lot of incentive for people to mess with surgical robots... I'm sure some might do it for kicks, but there's not a lot of money in it.
Marketers are all about exploiting loopholes in peoples attention filters, and they're really, really bad at considering consequences. They think they've found a new trick and they're going to exploit it good and hard. What they aren't considering is that voicemail is likely the least preferred offline communications mechanism people have available. If you asked the average person to rank email, texting, IP messaging services and voicemail, I expect 90% or more would have voicemail at the bottom.
Fill voicemail with spam and people will just drop it.
I think everyone has encountered code-written-to-spec at one point or another. And had to rewrite code such that it violates the spec in order to match reality.
That aside, a more interesting question is "which programming language will those AI-compatible business specs be written in?"
I prefer to call the bigger ones "vans", and the smaller ones mini-vans. Jeep drivers seem to be particularly sensitive about it...
That being said, my criteria for "truck" is "owner is willing to transport fresh manure in the cargo area". If someone is crazy enough to fill the trunk of their Dodge Neon with horse shit, I'm not going to criticize their choice of labels.
You, sir, have obviously never tried to haul a trunk load of concrete in a Hyundai Accent. I expect with 808hp, the Dodge Challenger will be the workhorse of the American contractor.
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Yeah, I don't get it either. On the other hand, it's far less aggravating that people who call their SUV "my truck"...
I'd imagine it's got to do more with the relative performance difference between the two architectures. x86 emulating PPC worked because the x86's they were shipping were more powerful than the PPC's they replaced. Ditto for the PPC's emulating 68k. x86 emulates ARM without breaking a sweat.
ARM trying to handle the x86 instruction set... yes, it can be done, but whether it can be done well or run enough of the Windows application ecosystem to be worthwhile/marketable is questionable.
Slashdot was already extremely popular by the time they added user accounts, and they went pretty quickly. I don't think I waited more than a week, and look where I ended up.
I got a short user name as a consolation prize, so I'm not at all bitter. At all.
It definitely puts things in perspective. If only you'd signed up a few hours earlier...
Yes, we know; we find it cute how you treat us just like other Americans.
I think at this point, most of us would be happy if the US just stays the US.
Well, I can only suggest you disconnect yourself from the Internet. It's the only sure way to be sure you won't be influenced by foreigners.
So, let me see if I understand this... a foreigner stating opinions about US politics is equivalent in your mind with interfering in US politics?
Yep.
Will you stop making arguments from false premises?
No, he's not. If that's what you believe, you're dumber than you think he is.
Just like nice guys don't get to the level of running countries, imbeciles don't either. He may not be a genius, but he's smart enough to have outmanoeuvred his political rivals, worked his way to the head of his party, and then won a major election against a very experienced and motivated opposition.
I don't know what it is about people who seriously call out their political opposition as "stupid". Especially when the opposition won.
Similarly, Trump isn't dumb. He's ruthless, cunning, impulsive, playing a completely different game from any politician we've ever seen, doesn't give a shit about who he steps on, isn't entirely sane, and doesn't appear to have the skills or interests needed to be a competent president, but he's definitely not stupid.
That's the most encouraging thing I've seen from you say so far.
Well, duh. Trudeau is a politician. Nice guys do not claw their way to the level of running entire countries. You'll never catch me saying that we don't have any problems with our leadership. It's not all lollipops and unicorns up here.
As for Castro... I fully agree with you, he was exactly the sort of dictator the United States is happy to make friends with. He just wasn't on your side.
Too bad Bozo wasn't on the ballot; the USA might've had a shot at sane and competent leadership.
No, you'll be threatened with 10 years watching your favorite TV series on a illegal streaming website when you're given the "opportunity" to settle/plea bargain, and if you don't think the threat of ridiculous penalties doesn't cause people (criminals or innocents) to agree to seemingly insane things then you need to get out of your cave a lot more often.
The key difference from a password is that in all those examples you provided, the things that you could be compelled to provide are also things which, if it came down to it, someone could just go and take without your cooperation. It might be messy, expensive and slower, but it's entirely feasible,
In the case of passwords, "feasible" is less clear. Theoretically any security can be cracked, but is that on the same level as cracking a safe when the owner refuses to give up the combination?