This can actually be undone because we have the technology.
I'm sorry, I do enjoy your optimism, but it's fantasy. We do not have the technology to remove the billions of tons of CO2 we've pumped into the atmosphere. We are not even slowing down on pumping ever more CO2 out. And you think we're going to be able to remove it? We can't even curtail the emissions we have now. Quite the opposite, ever since Al Gore's movie, we've done nothing. We're just making it increasingly worse. We knew about this in the late 60's early 70's. We've done nothing. What makes you so optimistic that we're suddenly going to do something? Setting aside the fact, it's waaaay too late in the game.
Green energy is fine and dandy, I'm all for it. But it's not going to do jack about the CO2 ALREADY in the atmo. Billions of tons of it. Not going to change our diesel ships and trucks. Coal is still a big deal for energy generating plants. Electric cars and such, it's a step sideways, not forward. The energy we're pumping into these electric cars is still mostly coming from dirty power generation.
Everyone is too afraid of the actual solution: Nuclear power. Fine.. be afraid, but then you have to accept the consequences of the supposedly safer coal, oil and gas plants.
Fantasy is all this is. Accept that we've triggered some unstoppable consequences and adapt. Or die.
I'd like to log that 2018 is the first year I started receiving spam SMS. Not a lot, but a few. I'd also like to report, I have stopped telemarketers from calling me.
My secret? Abusive behavior. Lots of swearing and belittling the human on the other end of the phone, encouraging them to question their life's choices. They stopped calling.
And no, no sympathy for telemarketers. You sign up for that job and call me, I will run you into the ground.
This is dumb. The exploit requires you break into the system by other means. And if you're successful with that, why the hell would you need this after you've already compromised the system?
Completely neutralize the monopolies, and net neutrality isn't a problem.
Yeah, I dunno about that. There's a lot of competition in the mobile broadband market presently. And they're playing games, with caps, unlimited that isn't unlimited, throttling and zero-rating preferred partners.
Competition doesn't magically make Net Neutrality issues disappear. ISPs will be ISPs and they are businesses looking to maximize profits. Those profits only come from one place: You.
Bing is returning search results with questionable content? I really hope people realize this is not Bing's issue, it's the sites with the questionable content that have been indexed by Bing's crawler.
Wagging your finger at Microsoft is pretty silly, they did nothing wrong, they just indexed what's out there, same as any other search engine.
If people want this kind of stuff to go away, perhaps you should thank Bing for exposing it for you, then go after the sites where the content is actually hosted.
Should it be expected for every householder to buy a domain name so that the web interface of his router, printer, and NAS can be issued a certificate for HTTPS?
I shivered when I read that. why would you even want your router or NAS web config accessible from outside your LAN?
For that matter, why the heck would you do HTTPS on internal LAN? Wasting CPU cycles on something that shouldn't even be accessible from the outside world at all. Hell, if you want HTTPS on your LAN addresses, just generate your own certs and install your own root cert on client machines.
I had previously predicted someone would do this. Looks like they did.
My feelings are mixed. It's a cool technology that would enable older devices to run new games, but yeah, this probably won't be cheap and you get locked in to a 'remote system' you can't touch.
I think this qualifies for a 'Good luck with that!'
This $17 million amount is more than Vizio made by licensing the data collected, according to a source with knowledge of the deal.
That's the important part. For these sorts of things to have any impact on corporations the punishment must be more than the profit from doing it.
I would have liked it to be some multiple of what they made off it, like perhaps 3X or 5X profits are fined away. But this is a step in the right direction, so maybe as time goes on, the penalties for doing stuff like this will become increasingly painful.
Running Linux in a Virtual machine under Windows is nothing new. In my opinion, if you're going to run two operating systems together in this fashion, this is the preferred direction to do it, because Linux traditionally runs waaaay better as a guest than Windows does.
But in the real world, at least my experience, there's not a lot of usefulness to this. It's not like there's anything Linux can do, that Windows cannot do natively. And for the somewhat rare circumstances that a Linux-like utility is needed, like, grep, or perl, or something like that, I've always found cygwin is the best solution for this sort of niche of Linux tools within Windows.
It's laughable the defenses I hear when I call Bitcoin what it is.
It's very similar to the defenses of BitTorrent. Oh sure, it's cool, it's useful, lots of great stuff you can do with it. I can defend BitTorrent all day, it's fantastic really.
But that doesn't change anything about what BitTorrent is actually used for, like 99%-1%... it's used for software piracy.
So they're basically saying, you will be paying your life insurance premium and they get to spy on everything you do basically.
Sounds recipe for making it easier for insurance companies to deny claims and nothing more.
And if you're a good little insured person, they'll give you swag. Seriously? Like the same types of swag we used to get from Marlboro miles? No thanks.
You do realize the word 'steal' has no context in discussions about infringing copyright? Calling it stealing means you dont know what you are talking about, and have no place in this discussion. Infringement is never theft, its infringement. We make this distinction as to remind everyone that we are talking about ephemera, not actual tangible goods.
It's theft. It's theft of time and effort. When a person or company invests time, money and effort into creating something people will want to see, read, or play, they don't get compensated as their creation is created. They get compensated when the work is complete and they begin to sell copies of it to interested people. You stole that compensation I would have gotten if you hadn't stolen it. Doesn't matter if the person getting the copy could or couldn't actually purchase the copy. Every copy made is a potential compensation I lost. You stole it.
You do realize, if the world worked the way you imagine it working, no one would create anything of interest. There's no motivation to do so. Why would anyone pour their heart and soul into some creative work when they're starving and living on the street cuz no one wants to pay for it?
What is really needed here is for copyright law to return to it's original format, where the author of a creative work is granted exclusive distribution of that work for I believe the original term was 20 years. This is fair compensation for the author's effort. But now, it's completely broken cuz copyright protect is far far too long (it's basically endless, thanks Disney!), works are never going into the public domain like they used to, and authors are abusing their exclusive distribution rights they've bribed our government to grant indefinitely.
1. You keep using this word "steal". It doesn't mean what you think it does. The original author STILL has their effort.
Of course. But you did steal something from me, by copying and distributing my work without my permission. You stole the time and effort that I could have gotten from others by giving them my hard work to enjoy.
I'm sorry you can't seem to wrap your head around the value of intellectual property, and the time and effort that goes into creating content, like books, movies, television, games, or whatever other entertainment work you have decided shouldn't have value because you think I've done my work and now that I've finished it, I no longer deserve any further compensation. Bullshit.
The only thing that's truly broken is the constantly extending copyright protection that is prohibiting older works from falling into the public domain. It was never meant to last forever, that was how it was supposed to work, you pour your heart and soul into a work, and you get exclusive rights to distribute it for I think the original term was 20 years. But now everything is fucked up cuz the term is now what, death of the author + 70 years or someshit? This is what's broken, not the fact intellectual property has value and we should pay for it. If copyright law was working as intended, we wouldn't even be having this discussion.
Copying should not be a crime. Copying is a natural right, it does a great deal of good and the so-called harm it causes is a figment of delusional thinking
This is where you are wrong. When a person or company invests time (money) and effort (also money) into creating something, they should be compensated for their time and effort. That's how economics work, I do something, someone else gives money for my time and effort, so I can use that to buy other people's time and effort. Intellectual property is no different than anything else. It's tangible, and people have shown time and time again to be willing to trade some of their time and effort for such works. Just because you don't doesn't mean others feel the same way. The majority of human civilization feels intellectual property does have value.
Copying is stealing someone's time and effort, copying and giving it away is no different. Just because I didn't lose something you think I didn't deserve in the first place changes nothing about what has occurred. I have lost something, someone elses time and effort I could have traded for mine, you took it away.
Do you realize that education is a massive copying of knowledge into children's memories?
This is the most retarded argument for stealing IP I've seen in a while. You do realize we have two separate concepts of intellectual property: Public and private. Of course things like language, math and history, that's public knowledge. Hell, even a lot of 'public knowledge' isn't free. I suggest you head down to your town hall or records department to see that even public knowledge housed within will cost you to have copies made of, for you. Now what happens in the next episode of Game of Thrones, you need to give up some time and effort to find out.
URLs should be displayed as they are, not interpreted, not dumbed down for dumb users, not altered in any way.
Did they fix it to show the full URL, including http:/// or https:/// ? Because the Chrome I have strips the http/https:// uri. I disabled the url mangling thing in settings.
This is why I prefer UV for my movie purchases online. When Flixster went belly up, VUDU took over and my entire UV library that used to exist on Flixster was available on VUDU.
I really wish Google and Microsoft would stop one-upping each other on how obnoxiously they can nag users to try the other guys offerings. GO AWAY.
I will choose my browser. You don't get a say. Make the better browser and people will use it. Nag us, and we're likely to turn away from BOTH of them. People don't like to be nagged. Stop it. Offer it, and let it sit there, people will decide on their own.
At the end of the day, does this bull even matter? There's very little difference between the three main browsers in use today: Firefox, Edge, and Chrome.
Is anyone really surprised Microsoft can get the final word in the nag-war, since nearly everyone uses Windows? And what the hell is the point? All the browsers are free, who the fuck cares which one you use, be thankful a person is browsing your website AT ALL. Is there any actual point to nagging users to switch? Browsers themselves don't have ads or anything like that, it's not like there's any special advantage you get from having users use your browser.
Some numbers on how serious this problem really is would have been nice.
As an anecdote, I've been working at an outfit that recycles electronics here in the US, for about 3 years now. We've never had a fire from lithium batteries or any other battery.
I imagine now we'll see internet meme in those awful fonts with twisted up letters that we humans can figure out in microseconds, but a computer is completely baffled.
An even better solution would be, locate your server outside the EU, so it is not under their jurisdiction. Place a gateway within the EU which runs a tunnel to your actual server.
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This can actually be undone because we have the technology.
I'm sorry, I do enjoy your optimism, but it's fantasy. We do not have the technology to remove the billions of tons of CO2 we've pumped into the atmosphere. We are not even slowing down on pumping ever more CO2 out. And you think we're going to be able to remove it? We can't even curtail the emissions we have now. Quite the opposite, ever since Al Gore's movie, we've done nothing. We're just making it increasingly worse. We knew about this in the late 60's early 70's. We've done nothing. What makes you so optimistic that we're suddenly going to do something? Setting aside the fact, it's waaaay too late in the game.
Green energy is fine and dandy, I'm all for it. But it's not going to do jack about the CO2 ALREADY in the atmo. Billions of tons of it. Not going to change our diesel ships and trucks. Coal is still a big deal for energy generating plants. Electric cars and such, it's a step sideways, not forward. The energy we're pumping into these electric cars is still mostly coming from dirty power generation.
Everyone is too afraid of the actual solution: Nuclear power. Fine.. be afraid, but then you have to accept the consequences of the supposedly safer coal, oil and gas plants.
Fantasy is all this is. Accept that we've triggered some unstoppable consequences and adapt. Or die.
I'd like to log that 2018 is the first year I started receiving spam SMS. Not a lot, but a few. I'd also like to report, I have stopped telemarketers from calling me.
My secret? Abusive behavior. Lots of swearing and belittling the human on the other end of the phone, encouraging them to question their life's choices. They stopped calling.
And no, no sympathy for telemarketers. You sign up for that job and call me, I will run you into the ground.
We've already crossed several thresholds on the climate, the damage we've done will take hundreds of years to undo, if it's undoable at all.
Humanity just better get used to a hotter world, cuz that ship sailed a long time ago. We're fucked.
This is dumb. The exploit requires you break into the system by other means. And if you're successful with that, why the hell would you need this after you've already compromised the system?
Insects are annoying. They are also extremely adaptable. They will adapt, or other insects will fill the void left by those that don't.
The world changes, fucking duh. Ecosystems change. Climate changes. Even when we're not involved.
Completely neutralize the monopolies, and net neutrality isn't a problem.
Yeah, I dunno about that. There's a lot of competition in the mobile broadband market presently. And they're playing games, with caps, unlimited that isn't unlimited, throttling and zero-rating preferred partners.
Competition doesn't magically make Net Neutrality issues disappear. ISPs will be ISPs and they are businesses looking to maximize profits. Those profits only come from one place: You.
Bing is returning search results with questionable content? I really hope people realize this is not Bing's issue, it's the sites with the questionable content that have been indexed by Bing's crawler.
Wagging your finger at Microsoft is pretty silly, they did nothing wrong, they just indexed what's out there, same as any other search engine.
If people want this kind of stuff to go away, perhaps you should thank Bing for exposing it for you, then go after the sites where the content is actually hosted.
Besides, there are plenty of legitimate reasons to access network-attached storage over the Internet.
This is what VPNs are for. Use one.
Should it be expected for every householder to buy a domain name so that the web interface of his router, printer, and NAS can be issued a certificate for HTTPS?
I shivered when I read that. why would you even want your router or NAS web config accessible from outside your LAN?
For that matter, why the heck would you do HTTPS on internal LAN? Wasting CPU cycles on something that shouldn't even be accessible from the outside world at all. Hell, if you want HTTPS on your LAN addresses, just generate your own certs and install your own root cert on client machines.
I had previously predicted someone would do this. Looks like they did.
My feelings are mixed. It's a cool technology that would enable older devices to run new games, but yeah, this probably won't be cheap and you get locked in to a 'remote system' you can't touch.
I think this qualifies for a 'Good luck with that!'
This $17 million amount is more than Vizio made by licensing the data collected, according to a source with knowledge of the deal.
That's the important part. For these sorts of things to have any impact on corporations the punishment must be more than the profit from doing it.
I would have liked it to be some multiple of what they made off it, like perhaps 3X or 5X profits are fined away. But this is a step in the right direction, so maybe as time goes on, the penalties for doing stuff like this will become increasingly painful.
Running Linux in a Virtual machine under Windows is nothing new. In my opinion, if you're going to run two operating systems together in this fashion, this is the preferred direction to do it, because Linux traditionally runs waaaay better as a guest than Windows does.
But in the real world, at least my experience, there's not a lot of usefulness to this. It's not like there's anything Linux can do, that Windows cannot do natively. And for the somewhat rare circumstances that a Linux-like utility is needed, like, grep, or perl, or something like that, I've always found cygwin is the best solution for this sort of niche of Linux tools within Windows.
So is this actually more useful than cygwin?
Bitcoin has a lot of valid legitimate uses,
It's laughable the defenses I hear when I call Bitcoin what it is.
It's very similar to the defenses of BitTorrent. Oh sure, it's cool, it's useful, lots of great stuff you can do with it. I can defend BitTorrent all day, it's fantastic really.
But that doesn't change anything about what BitTorrent is actually used for, like 99%-1%... it's used for software piracy.
Can we please just change the name of Bitcoin to CrimeCoin already? That's the only thing it's good for.
So they're basically saying, you will be paying your life insurance premium and they get to spy on everything you do basically.
Sounds recipe for making it easier for insurance companies to deny claims and nothing more.
And if you're a good little insured person, they'll give you swag. Seriously? Like the same types of swag we used to get from Marlboro miles? No thanks.
You do realize the word 'steal' has no context in discussions about infringing copyright? Calling it stealing means you dont know what you are talking about, and have no place in this discussion. Infringement is never theft, its infringement. We make this distinction as to remind everyone that we are talking about ephemera, not actual tangible goods.
It's theft. It's theft of time and effort. When a person or company invests time, money and effort into creating something people will want to see, read, or play, they don't get compensated as their creation is created. They get compensated when the work is complete and they begin to sell copies of it to interested people. You stole that compensation I would have gotten if you hadn't stolen it. Doesn't matter if the person getting the copy could or couldn't actually purchase the copy. Every copy made is a potential compensation I lost. You stole it.
You do realize, if the world worked the way you imagine it working, no one would create anything of interest. There's no motivation to do so. Why would anyone pour their heart and soul into some creative work when they're starving and living on the street cuz no one wants to pay for it?
What is really needed here is for copyright law to return to it's original format, where the author of a creative work is granted exclusive distribution of that work for I believe the original term was 20 years. This is fair compensation for the author's effort. But now, it's completely broken cuz copyright protect is far far too long (it's basically endless, thanks Disney!), works are never going into the public domain like they used to, and authors are abusing their exclusive distribution rights they've bribed our government to grant indefinitely.
1. You keep using this word "steal". It doesn't mean what you think it does. The original author STILL has their effort.
Of course. But you did steal something from me, by copying and distributing my work without my permission. You stole the time and effort that I could have gotten from others by giving them my hard work to enjoy.
I'm sorry you can't seem to wrap your head around the value of intellectual property, and the time and effort that goes into creating content, like books, movies, television, games, or whatever other entertainment work you have decided shouldn't have value because you think I've done my work and now that I've finished it, I no longer deserve any further compensation. Bullshit.
The only thing that's truly broken is the constantly extending copyright protection that is prohibiting older works from falling into the public domain. It was never meant to last forever, that was how it was supposed to work, you pour your heart and soul into a work, and you get exclusive rights to distribute it for I think the original term was 20 years. But now everything is fucked up cuz the term is now what, death of the author + 70 years or someshit? This is what's broken, not the fact intellectual property has value and we should pay for it. If copyright law was working as intended, we wouldn't even be having this discussion.
Copying should not be a crime. Copying is a natural right, it does a great deal of good and the so-called harm it causes is a figment of delusional thinking
This is where you are wrong. When a person or company invests time (money) and effort (also money) into creating something, they should be compensated for their time and effort. That's how economics work, I do something, someone else gives money for my time and effort, so I can use that to buy other people's time and effort. Intellectual property is no different than anything else. It's tangible, and people have shown time and time again to be willing to trade some of their time and effort for such works. Just because you don't doesn't mean others feel the same way. The majority of human civilization feels intellectual property does have value.
Copying is stealing someone's time and effort, copying and giving it away is no different. Just because I didn't lose something you think I didn't deserve in the first place changes nothing about what has occurred. I have lost something, someone elses time and effort I could have traded for mine, you took it away.
Do you realize that education is a massive copying of knowledge into children's memories?
This is the most retarded argument for stealing IP I've seen in a while. You do realize we have two separate concepts of intellectual property: Public and private. Of course things like language, math and history, that's public knowledge. Hell, even a lot of 'public knowledge' isn't free. I suggest you head down to your town hall or records department to see that even public knowledge housed within will cost you to have copies made of, for you. Now what happens in the next episode of Game of Thrones, you need to give up some time and effort to find out.
URLs should be displayed as they are, not interpreted, not dumbed down for dumb users, not altered in any way.
Did they fix it to show the full URL, including http:/// or https:/// ? Because the Chrome I have strips the http/https:// uri. I disabled the url mangling thing in settings.
This is why I prefer UV for my movie purchases online. When Flixster went belly up, VUDU took over and my entire UV library that used to exist on Flixster was available on VUDU.
It then gives you a blue button to click to open Edge, or a grey one you can click to install the browser you actually want to use.
That's a new low.
Sure about that? Hasn't Microsoft in the past, deliberately caused foreign programs, like browsers to malfunction for no reason?
I really wish Google and Microsoft would stop one-upping each other on how obnoxiously they can nag users to try the other guys offerings. GO AWAY.
I will choose my browser. You don't get a say. Make the better browser and people will use it. Nag us, and we're likely to turn away from BOTH of them. People don't like to be nagged. Stop it. Offer it, and let it sit there, people will decide on their own.
At the end of the day, does this bull even matter? There's very little difference between the three main browsers in use today: Firefox, Edge, and Chrome.
Is anyone really surprised Microsoft can get the final word in the nag-war, since nearly everyone uses Windows? And what the hell is the point? All the browsers are free, who the fuck cares which one you use, be thankful a person is browsing your website AT ALL. Is there any actual point to nagging users to switch? Browsers themselves don't have ads or anything like that, it's not like there's any special advantage you get from having users use your browser.
Some numbers on how serious this problem really is would have been nice.
As an anecdote, I've been working at an outfit that recycles electronics here in the US, for about 3 years now. We've never had a fire from lithium batteries or any other battery.
I imagine now we'll see internet meme in those awful fonts with twisted up letters that we humans can figure out in microseconds, but a computer is completely baffled.
An even better solution would be, locate your server outside the EU, so it is not under their jurisdiction. Place a gateway within the EU which runs a tunnel to your actual server.
Problem solved.