This. My first thought upon reading TFS was, how did this ever pass peer review and testing to get into the "stable" kernel? They do still perform peer review and unit testing, don't they?
Testing? Who does that anymore? That is the user's job.
Guess you haven't used uTorrent lately, they advertise often enough for BitGuard, which is a very easy point and click VPN service. Any idiot could set it up.
erm correction: So offer us both, simultaneously, an online release and theater release, so the shy people can enjoy the movie WITHOUT the need to wait 6 months or steal it.
Under CCMA there is no limit on the number of notifications that must legally be forwarded to ‘offending’ ISP customers, which has led to a 69.6% reduction in infringements at Bell Canada, with Rogers, TekSavvy, Telus and Shaw all reporting notable reductions in piracy (or, theoretically, greater uptake of VPNs).
I'm willing to bet after the first notification, people just move to a VPN service to hide behind... Fix the inaccessibility issues involving movie and show availability, and I think you'll see piracy drop a lot faster than trying to punish people. People really just don't care, they just want their movie or show, so make it accessible and affordable. Market is just waiting on you guys to fix the issues IMHO.
Some people also don't want to go to a theater with a bunch of other people and pay astronomical prices for a bag of popcorn. On the other hand, some people really like that theater experience. So offer us both, simultaneously, an online release and theater release, so the shy people can enjoy the movie with the need to wait 6 months or steal it.
Personally I'd like to see the environmental nightmare of the Keurig and Tassimo curl up and die.
Enh, I've always used a filter basket and normal coffee grounds with my Keurig. I love the thing personally. I have an older one without DRM silliness. They really are nice appliances when used intelligently.
At last, a serious blow to the pocket book for companies employing stupid DRM crap.
Consumers voted with their wallets and Keurig learns a valuable lesson. Let's hope other industries learn from their mistake and consumer continue to take a stance against this garbage.
This is nothing new. Microsoft has been dealing with this issue for...ever? Older hardware can't run the newer versions of operating systems. So what? Some people may not want to upgrade, or can't.
Not really sure why Android is being singled out for such accusations, Windows suffers the same issues, and has always had problems getting people to upgrade. Windows 10 is almost out, or is it out yet? I can't recall, I'm still on Windows 7 myself. Works for me. Many people don't see a point to upgrading for a very simple reason: If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
There's still a lot of Windows XP installations going too. So I dunno what the point of this article is.
Well said, also no one seems to be calculating in the environmental costs of conventional power, or the benefits to society as a whole when those environmental costs are reduced *IF* more and more of us switch over to such systems.
No. This is EXACTLY the way people need to look at it.
Short sighted retard thinking. Which is the problem with Americans, can't see past your own short life spans. If I pay for such a system and install it on my property, sure, I may never 'recoup' the cost of the system in my life span, but my property is off the grid, for whoever gets it after I'm gone.
Libertarians do not endorse limited liability as a concept - it breaks liberalism.
What do LLC's have to do with monopolistic behavior from corporations? Apples and oranges. I ran an LLC for a few years. And I did it because if something horrific happened to my business, I didn't want to lose my house.
the things he did to people makes the worlds most notorious criminals seem like saints.
I never said Carnegie was a bad person. He did great things with his wealth after he sold out to Morgan. But you're totally missing the point.
Bill Gates is doing good things with his amassed wealth too, so what? Irrelevant to the matter at hand.
Would sure be nice if a lot of our 1%ers would step up to the plate and use their amassed wealth in the ways Carnegie did and Gates does. Though I think Gates could do a lot more, especially domestically.
Have you calculated the cost difference in hourly rates, your yearly use and the total price of such a setup? How long will it take to pay itself back before you see any financial gains?
IMHO, this is totally the wrong way to look at this technology. Personally I don't care if it's more expensive than conventional power, if I could install a small wind turbine and a few solars on my property and charge this battery, it's off the grid for my acre. Totally worth it. People need to stop thinking in terms of 'its more expensive than conventional power.' That is the wrong way to look at this, IMHO.
It may very well be that we would all be better off with the libertarian ideal of a free and open market where individual liability and property concerns keep everything self-regulated...
Uh we tried that once you know. Ended up with things like Standard Oil and Carnegie Steel, and the anti-trust laws that followed and broke up the monopolies. Free and open markets do self-regulate, right into monopolies and all sorts of abuse. That would be much worse than what we have now. We've been there, we done this already. We have scars to show for it. If you need a more recent example, take at look at what Bell was doing before the government stepped in. Free and open markets simply do not work, regulation is absolutely required. I mean if people need to be taught this lesson YET AGAIN, please go ahead and let it happen.
Maybe the UK consider to take Microsoft to court in case something happens and sue them under product responsibility laws or something.
Uhhh.. no one is forcing them to continue to use ancient software. They're quite welcomed and encouraged to upgrade to something newer and better. Certainly not Microsoft's problem. Microsoft and most of the rest of the world have long since moved on.
Seems to me, everytime they talk about this kind of thing, it does exactly what I want. Raise crypto awareness. Keep trying guberment. The more you preach for backdoors, the more people you make aware of the usefulness of crypto. Streisand effect anyone?
I wish Hollywood's influence was limited to the simple-minded "masses." When you get a chance, go ask Justice Scalia about his hero, Jack Bauer.
Last I checked, being a simple-minded idiot doesn't disqualify you from serving on the Supreme Court. You just have to convince congress critters you aren't. Which probably isn't too difficult considering the simple-mindedness idiocy we have serving as congress critters.
Politicians that're smart intelligent people is long gone, it's just a big popularity contest now, and unfortunately, being popular isn't a very good qualification for serving in congress, but most people seem to think it is.
All boils down to: Beware of stupid people in large groups.
For instance, FAT32. No device maker uses FAT32 because it's a good file system. They use it because of the Microsoft desktop monopoly.
Actually I think that's an incorrect observation. Everyone is using FAT32 because everyone is using FAT32. Much the same reason every uses certain screw drivers, because all the screws are that shape.
We must burn all the Three Stooges reels! And Tom and Jerry? My god!
Not burn. But definitely see a lack of the violent type of cartoons that were much more prevalent in the 60's and 70's now. I think someone figured out exposing our children to such blatant acts of violence teaches children that violence is ok. And now you don't see all those old Looney Tunes and Tom and Jerry cartoons in easy to find places for children. I mean really, what did you expect to come out of showing children senseless acts of violence, even by animated characters on each other? As an adult, I find this stuff still rather hilarious, but I'm an adult now and can easily discern it's just for fun. A child? Influential. They don't know better yet.
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This. My first thought upon reading TFS was, how did this ever pass peer review and testing to get into the "stable" kernel? They do still perform peer review and unit testing, don't they?
Testing? Who does that anymore? That is the user's job.
MMO's and Microsoft have made it so.
Earth is not a stable static thing. It changes. All the time.
Excuses. The market's response to excuses: Steal it if you won't make it available.
Guess you haven't used uTorrent lately, they advertise often enough for BitGuard, which is a very easy point and click VPN service. Any idiot could set it up.
erm correction: So offer us both, simultaneously, an online release and theater release, so the shy people can enjoy the movie WITHOUT the need to wait 6 months or steal it.
From TFA:
Under CCMA there is no limit on the number of notifications that must legally be forwarded to ‘offending’ ISP customers, which has led to a 69.6% reduction in infringements at Bell Canada, with Rogers, TekSavvy, Telus and Shaw all reporting notable reductions in piracy (or, theoretically, greater uptake of VPNs).
I'm willing to bet after the first notification, people just move to a VPN service to hide behind... Fix the inaccessibility issues involving movie and show availability, and I think you'll see piracy drop a lot faster than trying to punish people. People really just don't care, they just want their movie or show, so make it accessible and affordable. Market is just waiting on you guys to fix the issues IMHO.
Some people also don't want to go to a theater with a bunch of other people and pay astronomical prices for a bag of popcorn. On the other hand, some people really like that theater experience. So offer us both, simultaneously, an online release and theater release, so the shy people can enjoy the movie with the need to wait 6 months or steal it.
Personally I'd like to see the environmental nightmare of the Keurig and Tassimo curl up and die.
Enh, I've always used a filter basket and normal coffee grounds with my Keurig. I love the thing personally. I have an older one without DRM silliness. They really are nice appliances when used intelligently.
At last, a serious blow to the pocket book for companies employing stupid DRM crap.
Consumers voted with their wallets and Keurig learns a valuable lesson. Let's hope other industries learn from their mistake and consumer continue to take a stance against this garbage.
This is nothing new. Microsoft has been dealing with this issue for...ever? Older hardware can't run the newer versions of operating systems. So what? Some people may not want to upgrade, or can't.
Not really sure why Android is being singled out for such accusations, Windows suffers the same issues, and has always had problems getting people to upgrade. Windows 10 is almost out, or is it out yet? I can't recall, I'm still on Windows 7 myself. Works for me. Many people don't see a point to upgrading for a very simple reason: If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
There's still a lot of Windows XP installations going too. So I dunno what the point of this article is.
Well said, also no one seems to be calculating in the environmental costs of conventional power, or the benefits to society as a whole when those environmental costs are reduced *IF* more and more of us switch over to such systems.
No. This is EXACTLY the way people need to look at it.
Short sighted retard thinking. Which is the problem with Americans, can't see past your own short life spans. If I pay for such a system and install it on my property, sure, I may never 'recoup' the cost of the system in my life span, but my property is off the grid, for whoever gets it after I'm gone.
Libertarians do not endorse limited liability as a concept - it breaks liberalism.
What do LLC's have to do with monopolistic behavior from corporations? Apples and oranges. I ran an LLC for a few years. And I did it because if something horrific happened to my business, I didn't want to lose my house.
Yep, and Carnegie was a horrific evil man.
the things he did to people makes the worlds most notorious criminals seem like saints.
I never said Carnegie was a bad person. He did great things with his wealth after he sold out to Morgan. But you're totally missing the point.
Bill Gates is doing good things with his amassed wealth too, so what? Irrelevant to the matter at hand.
Would sure be nice if a lot of our 1%ers would step up to the plate and use their amassed wealth in the ways Carnegie did and Gates does. Though I think Gates could do a lot more, especially domestically.
Have you calculated the cost difference in hourly rates, your yearly use and the total price of such a setup? How long will it take to pay itself back before you see any financial gains?
IMHO, this is totally the wrong way to look at this technology. Personally I don't care if it's more expensive than conventional power, if I could install a small wind turbine and a few solars on my property and charge this battery, it's off the grid for my acre. Totally worth it. People need to stop thinking in terms of 'its more expensive than conventional power.' That is the wrong way to look at this, IMHO.
It may very well be that we would all be better off with the libertarian ideal of a free and open market where individual liability and property concerns keep everything self-regulated...
Uh we tried that once you know. Ended up with things like Standard Oil and Carnegie Steel, and the anti-trust laws that followed and broke up the monopolies. Free and open markets do self-regulate, right into monopolies and all sorts of abuse. That would be much worse than what we have now. We've been there, we done this already. We have scars to show for it. If you need a more recent example, take at look at what Bell was doing before the government stepped in. Free and open markets simply do not work, regulation is absolutely required. I mean if people need to be taught this lesson YET AGAIN, please go ahead and let it happen.
Maybe the UK consider to take Microsoft to court in case something happens and sue them under product responsibility laws or something.
Uhhh.. no one is forcing them to continue to use ancient software. They're quite welcomed and encouraged to upgrade to something newer and better. Certainly not Microsoft's problem. Microsoft and most of the rest of the world have long since moved on.
Seems to me, everytime they talk about this kind of thing, it does exactly what I want. Raise crypto awareness. Keep trying guberment. The more you preach for backdoors, the more people you make aware of the usefulness of crypto. Streisand effect anyone?
OK maybe it is nerdy for some of us. Posting my original comment was totally worth the rebuttals. Well played.
Well Google does have their remote desktop control app. I've used it to control my Windows PC from an Android tablet. So yeah.
This shouldn't have been let out of the firehose. WTF is nerdy about this? Bad metamoderators!
I wish Hollywood's influence was limited to the simple-minded "masses." When you get a chance, go ask Justice Scalia about his hero, Jack Bauer.
Last I checked, being a simple-minded idiot doesn't disqualify you from serving on the Supreme Court. You just have to convince congress critters you aren't. Which probably isn't too difficult considering the simple-mindedness idiocy we have serving as congress critters.
Politicians that're smart intelligent people is long gone, it's just a big popularity contest now, and unfortunately, being popular isn't a very good qualification for serving in congress, but most people seem to think it is.
All boils down to: Beware of stupid people in large groups.
For instance, FAT32. No device maker uses FAT32 because it's a good file system. They use it because of the Microsoft desktop monopoly.
Actually I think that's an incorrect observation. Everyone is using FAT32 because everyone is using FAT32. Much the same reason every uses certain screw drivers, because all the screws are that shape.
What are the actual MS patents for which these Android companies are paying royalties? TFS and every one of TFAs don't say, don't even hint.
Look here?
We must burn all the Three Stooges reels! And Tom and Jerry? My god!
Not burn. But definitely see a lack of the violent type of cartoons that were much more prevalent in the 60's and 70's now. I think someone figured out exposing our children to such blatant acts of violence teaches children that violence is ok. And now you don't see all those old Looney Tunes and Tom and Jerry cartoons in easy to find places for children. I mean really, what did you expect to come out of showing children senseless acts of violence, even by animated characters on each other? As an adult, I find this stuff still rather hilarious, but I'm an adult now and can easily discern it's just for fun. A child? Influential. They don't know better yet.
You think Hollywood invented it? Are you horribly naive?
Maybe they didn't invent it, but the sure as heck made it socially acceptable in the minds of the masses.