I just assume the NSA has so many backdoors already they won't really benefit much from whatever additional monitoring possibilities DRM offers.
The backdoors that may exist cannot be legally used in court to prosecute somebody. If the entire Internet has DRM, then that allows law enforcement to legally and easily track user browsing and use it in court.
Because they will sell the data that they collect from you to other companies that want the data. Much like with Facebook and Google, YOU (and the data about you) are the product, and the customer is the other companies buying that data from MoviePass.
There isn't enough bitcoin for it to be the single worldwide currency. According to coindesk, the market cap of bitcoin is $0.146T, or $146 billion. Apple alone has more cash than that, so it is not feasible for bitcoin to ever be the single worldwide currency.
The loss of revenue may not have a big impact to Facebook. What will impact them is if other advertisers agree with Mozilla, and also decide to pull their ads from Facebook.
I have no social need to appear 'cool' on the Internet; I'm not that weak.
The people doing the leaking, are not doing it to be cool on the Internet. They do it because they get some compensation ($$) from the person they leak the information to.
And of course.... the browser makers such as Google and Firefox had to be complicit in changing from the original defaults which was to Refuse to interpret Punycode under Latin TLDs.
Brian Krebs wrote punycode yesterday. Chrome and Microsoft Edge and IE will not display the punycode, but rather the ascii representation of it. Firefox does show the punycode by default, but you can change it in settings.
it's a good investment since the money going to the principal is building equity... aka savings.
You do realize that for about the first 15 years of a 30 year mortgage, most of the monthly payment is going towards interest, not principal? At about 15 years, you have only paid down about 15% of the mortgage, and then the amount increases dramatically from years 15-30.
...pyramid schemes are based on network marketing, where each part of the pyramid takes a piece of the pie / benefits, forwarding the money to the top of the pyramid. They fail simply because there aren't sufficient people. Ponzi schemes, on the other hand, are based on the principle of "Robbing Peter to pay Paul"—early investors are paid their returns through the proceeds of investments by later investors
This was neither a pyramid, nor a ponzi scheme. It was just plain fraud.
In August 2015, police in Denmark announced they had arrested a man in his thirties said to be the operator of a Popcorn Time-focused website. Popcorntime.dk was subsequently shut down and its domain placed under the control of the state prosecutor.
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PopcornTime.dk was an information resource, offering news on Popcorn Time-related developments, guides, plus tips on how to use the software while staying anonymous.
Not really. The Whoppers were already made. They are selling the service of delivering the Whopper. Just like net neutrality. There service of delivering the product is also a monopoly.
The more accurate analogy would be ordering Burger King from GrubHub. You already paid BurgerKing for the food, and you paid GrubHub to deliver the food, but in order to get your food while it is still hot, Burger King would need to pay GrubHub to have the driver deliver their food to their customers before they deliver food from other restaurants.
Facilitating copyright infringement. Specifically, providing means to perform copyright infringement in a way that makes finding the infringers exceptionally difficult.
Citation needed.
What trial convicted him of that crime? Oh... it's just your uninformed opinion then? Nothing to see then... moving along...
This action is among the largest criminal copyright cases ever brought by the United States and directly targets the misuse of a public content storage and distribution site to commit and facilitate intellectual property crime.
The post you are replying to is talking about the crimes he was alleged to have done. Nobody is saying that he did them, but what he is charged with.
The researchers estimate that a ready-made (and highly calorific) all-day breakfast sandwich generates 1441g of carbon dioxide equivalent -- equal to the emissions created by driving a car for 12 miles (19km).
Wow, we didn't even have to ask for a car analogy.
Which is why I have no compunction about using ad-blocking software.
I think that Google, and maybe more likely this engineer, are realizing that web-based ads are becoming less lucrative as more people decide to ignore or block them. If Google kept all their eggs (engineers) working in one basket (ads) then when the bottom falls out, they are left with nothing. Google has to come up with new revenue streams to serve as backups if/when the advertising market falls flat.
This is why they created Alphabet; to be the holding company of their cash cow (Google) and all of their other innovating companies. If you think that Google is not innovative, then transfer to one of the other bets that are more innovative.
You are certainly free to not buy anything that doesn't have the specs you want. Unfortunately, there are millions of people who don't care about those specs, and will still buy the phone anyway. Once the manufacturers see that people are buying them, they will never go back to putting the ports in. The success of the headphone-jack-less phone has cemented their decision to remove it, and never put it back in.
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The wristband might be a bit of a no-go since it requires the kid to wear something, but I could see this approach being useful.
I was thinking the same thing. Why not just make a sensor that know when an object larger than a twig falls into the water?
I just assume the NSA has so many backdoors already they won't really benefit much from whatever additional monitoring possibilities DRM offers.
The backdoors that may exist cannot be legally used in court to prosecute somebody. If the entire Internet has DRM, then that allows law enforcement to legally and easily track user browsing and use it in court.
I don't see how they can stay in business.
Because they will sell the data that they collect from you to other companies that want the data. Much like with Facebook and Google, YOU (and the data about you) are the product, and the customer is the other companies buying that data from MoviePass.
You don't need to be dead for the cops to force you to unlock your phone with your fingerprint.
There isn't enough bitcoin for it to be the single worldwide currency. According to coindesk, the market cap of bitcoin is $0.146T, or $146 billion. Apple alone has more cash than that, so it is not feasible for bitcoin to ever be the single worldwide currency.
The loss of revenue may not have a big impact to Facebook. What will impact them is if other advertisers agree with Mozilla, and also decide to pull their ads from Facebook.
I have no social need to appear 'cool' on the Internet; I'm not that weak.
The people doing the leaking, are not doing it to be cool on the Internet. They do it because they get some compensation ($$) from the person they leak the information to.
And of course.... the browser makers such as Google and Firefox had to be complicit in changing from the original defaults which was to Refuse to interpret Punycode under Latin TLDs.
Brian Krebs wrote punycode yesterday. Chrome and Microsoft Edge and IE will not display the punycode, but rather the ascii representation of it. Firefox does show the punycode by default, but you can change it in settings.
This is really a hidden feature so that shy guys can get a girl to laugh at their jokes.
Many responded to the cackling sounds by unplugging their Alexa-enabled devices.
That is the best way to use an Alexa-enabled device.
It's sad that this still happens in 2018.
This happened in 2016.
Create a new cryptocurrency called bofa-coin. It worked for Evil-Corp.
There is a monetary reward for those who report SEC violations if the violations are ultimately proved true and defendants are convicted.
citation
Yes, But if I argue with you, I must take up a contrary position.
No you don't.
it's a good investment since the money going to the principal is building equity... aka savings.
You do realize that for about the first 15 years of a 30 year mortgage, most of the monthly payment is going towards interest, not principal? At about 15 years, you have only paid down about 15% of the mortgage, and then the amount increases dramatically from years 15-30.
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...pyramid schemes are based on network marketing, where each part of the pyramid takes a piece of the pie / benefits, forwarding the money to the top of the pyramid. They fail simply because there aren't sufficient people. Ponzi schemes, on the other hand, are based on the principle of "Robbing Peter to pay Paul"—early investors are paid their returns through the proceeds of investments by later investors
This was neither a pyramid, nor a ponzi scheme. It was just plain fraud.
In August 2015, police in Denmark announced they had arrested a man in his thirties said to be the operator of a Popcorn Time-focused website. Popcorntime.dk was subsequently shut down and its domain placed under the control of the state prosecutor.
...
PopcornTime.dk was an information resource, offering news on Popcorn Time-related developments, guides, plus tips on how to use the software while staying anonymous.
Not really. The Whoppers were already made. They are selling the service of delivering the Whopper. Just like net neutrality. There service of delivering the product is also a monopoly.
The more accurate analogy would be ordering Burger King from GrubHub. You already paid BurgerKing for the food, and you paid GrubHub to deliver the food, but in order to get your food while it is still hot, Burger King would need to pay GrubHub to have the driver deliver their food to their customers before they deliver food from other restaurants.
Facilitating copyright infringement. Specifically, providing means to perform copyright infringement in a way that makes finding the infringers exceptionally difficult.
Citation needed.
What trial convicted him of that crime? Oh... it's just your uninformed opinion then? Nothing to see then... moving along...
Citation.
This action is among the largest criminal copyright cases ever brought by the United States and directly targets the misuse of a public content storage and distribution site to commit and facilitate intellectual property crime.
The post you are replying to is talking about the crimes he was alleged to have done. Nobody is saying that he did them, but what he is charged with.
The researchers estimate that a ready-made (and highly calorific) all-day breakfast sandwich generates 1441g of carbon dioxide equivalent -- equal to the emissions created by driving a car for 12 miles (19km).
Wow, we didn't even have to ask for a car analogy.
Which is why I have no compunction about using ad-blocking software.
I think that Google, and maybe more likely this engineer, are realizing that web-based ads are becoming less lucrative as more people decide to ignore or block them. If Google kept all their eggs (engineers) working in one basket (ads) then when the bottom falls out, they are left with nothing. Google has to come up with new revenue streams to serve as backups if/when the advertising market falls flat.
This is why they created Alphabet; to be the holding company of their cash cow (Google) and all of their other innovating companies. If you think that Google is not innovative, then transfer to one of the other bets that are more innovative.
Vote with your wallet against this crap.
You are certainly free to not buy anything that doesn't have the specs you want. Unfortunately, there are millions of people who don't care about those specs, and will still buy the phone anyway. Once the manufacturers see that people are buying them, they will never go back to putting the ports in. The success of the headphone-jack-less phone has cemented their decision to remove it, and never put it back in.
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If every user of the Internet were to buy a domain name and VPS hosting for a VPN for his personal use, how much would that cost per year?
Why do you need to buy a domain to create your own VPN? You can connect a VPN to an IP address just the same as a hostname.