Do you think DropBox is an illegal file sharing service?
Dropbox or any other cloud-based storage do not market themselves as an illegal file sharing service, but that doesn't mean they can't be used for that. You can quite easily make a shared dropbox/box/seafile folder only accesible to people with the link, and share the link with whoever you like.
This is quite true. If Facebook is all video, then that means people can no longer view Facebook at work, or any other place where you don't want to draw attention to yourself. The day Facebook is all video is the day their user base starts to drop.
yeah, nobody pays for subscriptions to consumer grades software.... except for anyone who plays WOW.
Yeah, and that subscription rate has been going down for the last few years.
There is also a BIG difference between paying for a subscription to a MMORPG that can be played on your computer, and an app that can be played on a phone or tablet. I played WoW for several years until I got bored of the game, and the lack of any new or interesting game play. I have yet to see any game for the phone that would be worth paying a subscription for, and if I am going to pay for a game, I don't want to be limited to playing it on my phone.
Aggregating those scores to get a "number" that's supposed to be meaningful is the big mistake.
The problem is that without these numbers, they would not know why a particular show was being rated poorly. If the majority of the shows that cater to women are
getting poor reviews, it may be because a large number of men are bringing down the score. Similarly, if fewer women are (poorly) rating "men's" shows, then those shows would have higher ratings (presuming that men are rating them high).
The 'whoosh' here is that he's being pedantic about the fact that data transfers are usually measured in megabits per second (Mbps) not megabytes per second (MBps)
That's exactly what the courts do today. Decide the truth of matters.
That is not what the courts do. The courts decide the law, not the truth. How many stories have we seen about people being wrongly sentenced for crimes they did not commit? How many times have criminals gone free because the case was dismissed because of poor investigation or evidence handling? The court certainly did not find the truth in those cases.
In other words, simply finding those files, unencrypted on his hard drive might have a defense of "someone put them there", but his ability to decrypt the files would mean that not only did he have the files, but he processed the files.
Not necessarily. These are not "encrypted files", but an encrypted hard drive, so anyone could have put the files there while it was un-encrypted. He could have decrypted the hard drive, and then walked out of the room, and someone else put the files there. Or there could have been a malware that copied the files. Just because someone can decrypt the hard drive does not mean they are solely responsible for all of the contents on the drive.
At the point that you have enough evidence for a warrant, you would have enough for a conviction so the only reason for going through that much trouble would be if the case was part of a larger operation which it doesn't appear to be
I don't think that's how it works at all. The whole point of a warrant, is so that you can look for more evidence in order to help your case so you can get a conviction.
The (game developer) problem I have come across as a game player, is that the developer needs a way to make money to support themselves. Since most phone game players are cheap, and don't want to pay for games, the developer needs to make them free with "in-app" methods to make money. These usually involve things like "You ran out of moves! Buy 5 more moves for only $.99". Usually, I already spent 40 moves to get where I am, and it's not worth it to spend a buck, for something that is only good for one level try, and is not even guaranteed to beat the level.
Sometimes the developer tries to make money by offering in-game help (free lives, coins, etc) to watch a short video ad. I generally don't mind those, because I can put the phone down for a minute while the ad plays, and when it's done, we both win. I get the free game stuff, and the developer gets their cut of the ad revenue.
What I can't stand, is the developers who, in addition to offering you ads for free game stuff, will periodically FORCE you to see an ad for 5 seconds, WITHOUT any compensation in the game. I immediately delete any app that tries to do this.
What the game developers need to do, is make the free version of these games with all of their in-app purchases and ads, AND have a paid version of the app that does not have those things. I'm more than willing to shell out a couple of bucks for a game that I like, especially if it removes the ads, and removes the "start with 5 lives, which regenerate every 20 minutes" bullshit. Angry Birds did this with their first few games, but they eventually moved to the free-with-in-app model.
All of the Video Streaming services need to get better. If music subscription based services worked like video did, everyone would be back to pirating. With Music subscriptions you get 100% of the library, not a subset of their chosen flavor of the month.
That's a problem with the movie studios, not the streaming providers. The movie and television studios are charging higher and higher prices for streaming providers to access their content, that the providers can't afford to pay for them all. That is why all of the providers (Netflix, Amazon, Hulu) are resorting to making their own movies and shows so that they don't have to pay any royalties.
I don't have any problem with the account verification though - it's just a variant of the 2-factor authentication so don't complain too much, it may prevent you from getting your account hijacked.
They do have a Google Authenticator app for your phone. When you log in from a new device it makes you enter a one-time PIN before you get logged in.
When you submit a CSR (Cert Signing Request), you generate the private key and keep it private; all you submit to the CA is the public key, which they sign. They never see the private key.
If this were really run by the NSA, they could quite easily create their own signed certificate and install it on a SSL decryption proxy, and then they can SSL man-in-the-middle your website to see what your website is doing. Since the "fake" signed certificate is signed by the same CA that the real one is, nobody would know the difference unless you look at the cert's serial number and fingerprint.
Depends on the State. If police show up sans warrant and try to force entry to your home without probable cause, you can defend the home with deadly force if necessary.
[citation needed]
You really think that you can use deadly force against the sworn police department and not have any ill-effects? I'm betting that the police are better trained in firearm usage than you are and you will likely end up dead if you start a shootout.
The person who asked the question doesn't understand how computing works.
... and the person that thinks there is only one answer probably doesn't understand how encryption works. You can put data in "the cloud" and still keep it private.
Exactly. I use Dropbox to sync data between PCs, and I use a TrueCrypt vault (maybe should be changed since TC went away) that I can open from any of the PCs.
Ahem... House of Cards (US), Orange is the New Black, Marco Polo... won't find those in the "bargain bin".
Those are all Netflix original programs, so they do not need to pay anyone else for the right to broadcast them. If they were to try and get new episodes of cable TV shows, then they would have to pay the same way that Hulu and Comcast do.
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Do you think DropBox is an illegal file sharing service?
Dropbox or any other cloud-based storage do not market themselves as an illegal file sharing service, but that doesn't mean they can't be used for that. You can quite easily make a shared dropbox/box/seafile folder only accesible to people with the link, and share the link with whoever you like.
This is quite true. If Facebook is all video, then that means people can no longer view Facebook at work, or any other place where you don't want to draw attention to yourself. The day Facebook is all video is the day their user base starts to drop.
Premature optimization presumes that software will be done. You can optimize when a function stops changing.
Premature optimization
yeah, nobody pays for subscriptions to consumer grades software.... except for anyone who plays WOW.
Yeah, and that subscription rate has been going down for the last few years.
There is also a BIG difference between paying for a subscription to a MMORPG that can be played on your computer, and an app that can be played on a phone or tablet. I played WoW for several years until I got bored of the game, and the lack of any new or interesting game play. I have yet to see any game for the phone that would be worth paying a subscription for, and if I am going to pay for a game, I don't want to be limited to playing it on my phone.
seems to be working quite well. I wonder if they are using the ship based or satellite based?
I think it's shark-based.
I don't know how fit you are going to get doing only 15 seconds of exercise...
Aggregating those scores to get a "number" that's supposed to be meaningful is the big mistake.
The problem is that without these numbers, they would not know why a particular show was being rated poorly. If the majority of the shows that cater to women are getting poor reviews, it may be because a large number of men are bringing down the score. Similarly, if fewer women are (poorly) rating "men's" shows, then those shows would have higher ratings (presuming that men are rating them high).
The 'whoosh' here is that he's being pedantic about the fact that data transfers are usually measured in megabits per second (Mbps) not megabytes per second (MBps)
You realize that Trump is a democrat right?
You realize that Trump is being nominated by the wrong party?
Trump is secretly being backed by the Democrats because they want him to go up against Hillary so that Hillary can win the election.
That's exactly what the courts do today. Decide the truth of matters.
That is not what the courts do. The courts decide the law, not the truth. How many stories have we seen about people being wrongly sentenced for crimes they did not commit? How many times have criminals gone free because the case was dismissed because of poor investigation or evidence handling? The court certainly did not find the truth in those cases.
In other words, simply finding those files, unencrypted on his hard drive might have a defense of "someone put them there", but his ability to decrypt the files would mean that not only did he have the files, but he processed the files.
Not necessarily. These are not "encrypted files", but an encrypted hard drive, so anyone could have put the files there while it was un-encrypted. He could have decrypted the hard drive, and then walked out of the room, and someone else put the files there. Or there could have been a malware that copied the files. Just because someone can decrypt the hard drive does not mean they are solely responsible for all of the contents on the drive.
At the point that you have enough evidence for a warrant, you would have enough for a conviction so the only reason for going through that much trouble would be if the case was part of a larger operation which it doesn't appear to be
I don't think that's how it works at all. The whole point of a warrant, is so that you can look for more evidence in order to help your case so you can get a conviction.
Haven't you ever watched Dateline?
The (game developer) problem I have come across as a game player, is that the developer needs a way to make money to support themselves. Since most phone game players are cheap, and don't want to pay for games, the developer needs to make them free with "in-app" methods to make money. These usually involve things like "You ran out of moves! Buy 5 more moves for only $.99". Usually, I already spent 40 moves to get where I am, and it's not worth it to spend a buck, for something that is only good for one level try, and is not even guaranteed to beat the level.
Sometimes the developer tries to make money by offering in-game help (free lives, coins, etc) to watch a short video ad. I generally don't mind those, because I can put the phone down for a minute while the ad plays, and when it's done, we both win. I get the free game stuff, and the developer gets their cut of the ad revenue.
What I can't stand, is the developers who, in addition to offering you ads for free game stuff, will periodically FORCE you to see an ad for 5 seconds, WITHOUT any compensation in the game. I immediately delete any app that tries to do this.
What the game developers need to do, is make the free version of these games with all of their in-app purchases and ads, AND have a paid version of the app that does not have those things. I'm more than willing to shell out a couple of bucks for a game that I like, especially if it removes the ads, and removes the "start with 5 lives, which regenerate every 20 minutes" bullshit. Angry Birds did this with their first few games, but they eventually moved to the free-with-in-app model.
All of the Video Streaming services need to get better. If music subscription based services worked like video did, everyone would be back to pirating. With Music subscriptions you get 100% of the library, not a subset of their chosen flavor of the month.
That's a problem with the movie studios, not the streaming providers. The movie and television studios are charging higher and higher prices for streaming providers to access their content, that the providers can't afford to pay for them all. That is why all of the providers (Netflix, Amazon, Hulu) are resorting to making their own movies and shows so that they don't have to pay any royalties.
Literally federal marshalls can come in and sit behind you at your desk with guns at your head and 'make' you perform... Shoot you if you do not.
You may want to look it up.
[citation needed]
Never buy from a company that releases a product and then pushes it.
So you never by from any company, ever?
Going to be lots of false positives on this one.
So I can easily avoid this trap by never hosting any code on Github?
Does it come with a free TV warranty to fix the cracks in the screen from firing AirSoft pellets at the TV?
Even so... no reason for them to be able to look out my windows.
If you ran Linux, they couldn't look out your Windows.
I don't have any problem with the account verification though - it's just a variant of the 2-factor authentication so don't complain too much, it may prevent you from getting your account hijacked.
They do have a Google Authenticator app for your phone. When you log in from a new device it makes you enter a one-time PIN before you get logged in.
When you submit a CSR (Cert Signing Request), you generate the private key and keep it private; all you submit to the CA is the public key, which they sign. They never see the private key.
If this were really run by the NSA, they could quite easily create their own signed certificate and install it on a SSL decryption proxy, and then they can SSL man-in-the-middle your website to see what your website is doing. Since the "fake" signed certificate is signed by the same CA that the real one is, nobody would know the difference unless you look at the cert's serial number and fingerprint.
Depends on the State. If police show up sans warrant and try to force entry to your home without probable cause, you can defend the home with deadly force if necessary.
[citation needed]
You really think that you can use deadly force against the sworn police department and not have any ill-effects? I'm betting that the police are better trained in firearm usage than you are and you will likely end up dead if you start a shootout.
The person who asked the question doesn't understand how computing works.
... and the person that thinks there is only one answer probably doesn't understand how encryption works. You can put data in "the cloud" and still keep it private.
Exactly. I use Dropbox to sync data between PCs, and I use a TrueCrypt vault (maybe should be changed since TC went away) that I can open from any of the PCs.
Ahem... House of Cards (US), Orange is the New Black, Marco Polo... won't find those in the "bargain bin".
Those are all Netflix original programs, so they do not need to pay anyone else for the right to broadcast them. If they were to try and get new episodes of cable TV shows, then they would have to pay the same way that Hulu and Comcast do.
We announced that a free upgrade for Windows 10 will be made available to customers running Windows 7, Windows 8.1, and Windows Phone 8.1 who upgrade in the first year after launch.*
*Hardware and software requirements apply. No additional charge. Feature availability may vary by device. Some editions excluded. More details at http://www.windows.com./