It actually does mean that. The EU moves a bit slow, but EU-citizen's data on US servers and maybe even on servers owned by US companies will be a thing of the past very soon.
Lets hope people now finally realize this. The US cannot support itself on its crappy education system and dumb population. Time to stop bringing in foreigners to support the US. Have a nice economic collapse!
I think this was honest stupidity and incompetence, i.e. he had no clue what the effects of his executive order would be. Now Trump being Trump, he cannot admit having fucked up badly, so he will continue to claim that this was exactly what he intended. The good thing is that he will have learned nothing from this and will continue to fuck up badly. Until enough people have had enough.
Au contraire! I think president Trump is displaying great vision and great awareness of the US role in history! Its current role is to decline and eventually collapse. Trump has realized this and is doing his very best to ensure it is happening soonest, no matter the cost. I, for one, salute his efforts!
Copyright violations have ALWAYS BEEN & WILL ALWAYS BE an symptom of something else than what the MPAA/RIAA want to admit. They are caused by either scarcity or there too low of a value proposition.
Very much this. Were I live, private downloading is legally tolerated, and I have hand instances were I bought the whole DVD-collection but found it unwatchable because of all the crap they put in there and the bad UI. So I download the hassle-free, good-quality, plays-everywhere "pirated" version in addition. Recently, I have been running more and more into the problem that a legal version was not even available. In that case, I regretfully download the pirated version without compensation to the creators or I ignore the show. But the real problem for the content industry is that I download more and more things that turn out to just be abysmally bad, and that I stop watching after 10 minutes or so and just delete it. Much of it is supposedly "AAA" content, but I do not even find it worth my time.
The morons in the content industry have created a combined scarcity and low-quality problem, just as most monopolies in history have. And, just like any other monopoly in history that overdid it, they are getting bypassed because people just do not see any good reason why they should feed that monopoly. There are by now enough people that self-publish, without DRM, and that can live just fine off their content. Who cares if only 1 in 10 pays, if the money that comes in to the creator is enough. Of course, they do not have each to feed 10 stupid, fat and arrogant "big content" people that think nothing would get created without them.
So essentially, these idiots are doing it to themselves.
They will simply do without your content if you manage to stop them. They will never, ever pay for it. And, surprise!, it is actually much worse for you to have them not watch your stuff at all than to have them watch it for free. But it takes some minimal understanding of how a market works and how word-of-mouth works. You do not have that.
One exception: All the really, really bad "AAA" stuff would profit from people not downloading it early, because then people would go to cinemas unaware how their time will get wasted and their money essentially stolen. But since that morally amounts to fraud on your side, I cannot find it in me to see that any injustice is done to you there.
I am not worried about people "wasting away in front of their TV". Those are harmless, if tragic. I am more worried about those that become, for example, fanatics just to find some goal in life or that turn to crime for some thrills. If these are only a few, no problem. But if these start to become a lot, things look different.
Incidentally, teaching is nice. I do some academic teaching (IT Security), because they needed somebody urgently and I do not have to work full-time anyways. It sometimes is a pain (still have to prepare an exam this weekend), but it is nice helping people to learn something useful.
Anything that moves or vibrates radiates some energy. Hence such crystals would provide "free" energy and that is very, very, very unlikely to be possible in this universe.
I agree, sort of. I can find enough interesting things to do without a job. You probably can too. (I also have one of the jobs that will go away very late or never and most likely not in my lifetime.) I am not so sure about the general population. Enough people fall into a deep dark hole when they retire and that may be a problem with providing everybody with a work-independent basic income. People that are old sort-of expect this to happen and they usually do not have much ambition and drive left. But what happens when an increasing number of young adults are told "society does not need you, here is $2000 per month, just take it and get out of sight", I am not sure.
I do fully agree that the number of available jobs will shrink and that this can only be delayed or slowed down, but not prevented. The speed of the shrinkage and what happens until a basic income has been established will be critical. What happens after may or may not be a problem. And things will decidedly get interesting.
Nuclear takes a while. For example Japan already has had the job-growth with really good long-term perspectives for the Fuckupshima event. The US messed up Harrisburg and some others, but I predict it will get it 500 year cleanup project as well.
If you want your society to survive, you will make damn sure that there are enough jobs. Of course, if you are just in it for the short-term profits, then you have a point.
Have you failed to read the story? This is not what we are talking about. We are talking about a device that claims to let ordinary users do this. Your remark is both obvious and irrelevant.
True, but that does not make it any better. It just shows that this supposedly enlightened age is anything but. Still the same failed human beings in power as always.
On the plus side, we have finally found the person to represent this pathetic epoch of human existence. Nobody represents the caveman-in-power better then Trump and that is why he will get a place in the history-books.
Why should USB cables that can burn your house down be treated differently? The consumer should not have to know better unless they buy direct from China or something.
There is also the little problem, that this devices does not help at all finding such cables. That requires measuring the resistance of the cable and the temperature resistance of the isolation material used. Also a cable may just have a small stretch that heats up (broken stands), so some x-raying may be in order, or at least temperature measurements with a heat-camera.
All of that is wayyyy out of what an ordinary consumer can do. I fully agree with you. Dangerous cables should be illegal.
Voltage regulation and current-limit are solely the task of the USB port. The cable does not come into it at all. The only thing the cable does is tell the device about itself, and of course that information can be wrong. However if that fries the device, the device is at fault for incompetent protection circuitry design and not the cable.
I do not see how this gadget helps at all. IT seems to be a simple USB power meter, vastly over-priced.
Very much this. Adobe had a good run, when they invented Postscript and later PDF and they had some good tools. By now, they are just lingering around as an utterly incompetent tech-zombie that needs to die.
I wonder if Microsoft realizes how much trouble Windows is in.
I think they have some clue with their frantic efforts to re-image and re-invent Windows, that however mostly just piss people off and makes Win10 a complete no-go for large enterprises (no stable UI). They now have botched 2 Windows versions. My take is that unless they urgently stabilize Win10 and remove spying and forced updates, Windows is history.
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It actually does mean that. The EU moves a bit slow, but EU-citizen's data on US servers and maybe even on servers owned by US companies will be a thing of the past very soon.
Lets hope people now finally realize this. The US cannot support itself on its crappy education system and dumb population. Time to stop bringing in foreigners to support the US. Have a nice economic collapse!
I think this was honest stupidity and incompetence, i.e. he had no clue what the effects of his executive order would be. Now Trump being Trump, he cannot admit having fucked up badly, so he will continue to claim that this was exactly what he intended. The good thing is that he will have learned nothing from this and will continue to fuck up badly. Until enough people have had enough.
Au contraire! I think president Trump is displaying great vision and great awareness of the US role in history! Its current role is to decline and eventually collapse. Trump has realized this and is doing his very best to ensure it is happening soonest, no matter the cost. I, for one, salute his efforts!
Copyright violations have ALWAYS BEEN & WILL ALWAYS BE an symptom of something else than what the MPAA/RIAA want to admit. They are caused by either scarcity or there too low of a value proposition.
Very much this. Were I live, private downloading is legally tolerated, and I have hand instances were I bought the whole DVD-collection but found it unwatchable because of all the crap they put in there and the bad UI. So I download the hassle-free, good-quality, plays-everywhere "pirated" version in addition. Recently, I have been running more and more into the problem that a legal version was not even available. In that case, I regretfully download the pirated version without compensation to the creators or I ignore the show. But the real problem for the content industry is that I download more and more things that turn out to just be abysmally bad, and that I stop watching after 10 minutes or so and just delete it. Much of it is supposedly "AAA" content, but I do not even find it worth my time.
The morons in the content industry have created a combined scarcity and low-quality problem, just as most monopolies in history have. And, just like any other monopoly in history that overdid it, they are getting bypassed because people just do not see any good reason why they should feed that monopoly. There are by now enough people that self-publish, without DRM, and that can live just fine off their content. Who cares if only 1 in 10 pays, if the money that comes in to the creator is enough. Of course, they do not have each to feed 10 stupid, fat and arrogant "big content" people that think nothing would get created without them.
So essentially, these idiots are doing it to themselves.
They will simply do without your content if you manage to stop them. They will never, ever pay for it. And, surprise!, it is actually much worse for you to have them not watch your stuff at all than to have them watch it for free. But it takes some minimal understanding of how a market works and how word-of-mouth works. You do not have that.
One exception: All the really, really bad "AAA" stuff would profit from people not downloading it early, because then people would go to cinemas unaware how their time will get wasted and their money essentially stolen. But since that morally amounts to fraud on your side, I cannot find it in me to see that any injustice is done to you there.
I am not worried about people "wasting away in front of their TV". Those are harmless, if tragic. I am more worried about those that become, for example, fanatics just to find some goal in life or that turn to crime for some thrills. If these are only a few, no problem. But if these start to become a lot, things look different.
Incidentally, teaching is nice. I do some academic teaching (IT Security), because they needed somebody urgently and I do not have to work full-time anyways. It sometimes is a pain (still have to prepare an exam this weekend), but it is nice helping people to learn something useful.
Saudi Arabia does is a religious dictatorship. The US claims to be the "leader of the free world". There is your difference.
It is not Godwin if it is actually accurate.
Where have I heard statements like this before? Oh, right, history class when we discussed Germany around 1933 and following.
Aehm, Tumb is the source of bad thoughts, all others just follow his lead?
Anything that moves or vibrates radiates some energy. Hence such crystals would provide "free" energy and that is very, very, very unlikely to be possible in this universe.
I agree, sort of. I can find enough interesting things to do without a job. You probably can too. (I also have one of the jobs that will go away very late or never and most likely not in my lifetime.) I am not so sure about the general population. Enough people fall into a deep dark hole when they retire and that may be a problem with providing everybody with a work-independent basic income. People that are old sort-of expect this to happen and they usually do not have much ambition and drive left. But what happens when an increasing number of young adults are told "society does not need you, here is $2000 per month, just take it and get out of sight", I am not sure.
I do fully agree that the number of available jobs will shrink and that this can only be delayed or slowed down, but not prevented. The speed of the shrinkage and what happens until a basic income has been established will be critical. What happens after may or may not be a problem. And things will decidedly get interesting.
Before the stupidity-singularity was just a potential event, now we have it.
Nuclear takes a while. For example Japan already has had the job-growth with really good long-term perspectives for the Fuckupshima event. The US messed up Harrisburg and some others, but I predict it will get it 500 year cleanup project as well.
If you want your society to survive, you will make damn sure that there are enough jobs. Of course, if you are just in it for the short-term profits, then you have a point.
Naaa, that cannot be right. President Tumb knows better!
Have you failed to read the story? This is not what we are talking about. We are talking about a device that claims to let ordinary users do this. Your remark is both obvious and irrelevant.
True, but that does not make it any better. It just shows that this supposedly enlightened age is anything but. Still the same failed human beings in power as always.
On the plus side, we have finally found the person to represent this pathetic epoch of human existence. Nobody represents the caveman-in-power better then Trump and that is why he will get a place in the history-books.
Naaa, that could imply that other countries are doing something wrong! We cannot have that!
What is striking though is that the countries at the top of the list are all small. Also, Switzerland is hardly a "Nordic state".
Why should USB cables that can burn your house down be treated differently? The consumer should not have to know better unless they buy direct from China or something.
There is also the little problem, that this devices does not help at all finding such cables. That requires measuring the resistance of the cable and the temperature resistance of the isolation material used. Also a cable may just have a small stretch that heats up (broken stands), so some x-raying may be in order, or at least temperature measurements with a heat-camera.
All of that is wayyyy out of what an ordinary consumer can do. I fully agree with you. Dangerous cables should be illegal.
Voltage regulation and current-limit are solely the task of the USB port. The cable does not come into it at all. The only thing the cable does is tell the device about itself, and of course that information can be wrong. However if that fries the device, the device is at fault for incompetent protection circuitry design and not the cable.
I do not see how this gadget helps at all. IT seems to be a simple USB power meter, vastly over-priced.
Very much this. Adobe had a good run, when they invented Postscript and later PDF and they had some good tools. By now, they are just lingering around as an utterly incompetent tech-zombie that needs to die.
Indeed.
I wonder if Microsoft realizes how much trouble Windows is in.
I think they have some clue with their frantic efforts to re-image and re-invent Windows, that however mostly just piss people off and makes Win10 a complete no-go for large enterprises (no stable UI). They now have botched 2 Windows versions. My take is that unless they urgently stabilize Win10 and remove spying and forced updates, Windows is history.