Apparently the CIA has learned a lesson, though probably not the one you think. I doubt they now believe that torture is inhumane and lowers us to the level of those we fight against. What they learned is that torture is completely ineffective at yielding usable intelligence. Prisoners will say anything to make it stop, including making stuff up. Since the made up stuff is exactly what the torturer expects to hear, they often give it more credibility than any actual intelligence that is obtained.
ISPs already have limited liability due to their status as a common carrier. The only reason ISPs might agree to this scheme is as a way to manage traffic (cutting off illegal downloaders who are heavy bandwidth users). Even then, ISPs already have ways of doing that which don't involve shady third parties like RightsCorp.
This is the part that I don't understand. Why can't the right-holders charge a flat-fee for streaming rights and let more than one entity stream them?
Some do (Star Trek for example, streams on multiple services). However, most rights-holders feel they can get more money by charging a lot to one service for exclusive rights rather then getting a little money from many services. Likewise, the streaming services are willing to pay more to deny their competitors access to the same show.
Steaming music subscription instead of MP3s/CDs. Video streaming subscription instead of DVDs. Satellite radio instead of free radio. Cable TV instead of OTA. Pay-to-play games instead of one-time-cost games. Office365 instead of MS Office Suite. Hell, Windows 10 is the last Windows OS that you can "own" instead of "rent" (where "own" means a perpetual license and "rent" means time-limited license). This is all part of a wider trend to a Rentier Economy where ownership is a privilege only the very rich can afford and everyone else is on a treadmill of ever-increasing subscription fees.
Both options would've sounded phantastical to the framers of the Constitution, but they are quite analogous to, for example, demanding a landlord's cooperation in opening up a tenant's apartment, or a bank required to open up a customer's safe deposit box.
Only if that key opens up EVERY customer's safe deposit box.
Frankly, stats would not be my choice as a follow-up, but rather a combination of critical thinking courses and civics.
My choice for an alternate math course would be economics; and I don't mean the monetary theory stuff, just basic budgeting and calculating loan amortizations. You would not believe how many people out there think they are financially responsible because they are making the minimum payment on their credit card debt every month.
Does this mean the scifi trope of using a machine to put knowledge in your head and getting years of education in matter of moments might actually be feasible?
At 0.1 m/s it would take over a second to get from one end or your brain to the other, so even if it could be used for a man-machine interface it would definitely not be a high-speed interface.
But if they modify it, market the heck out of it, get everyone hooked on the modified version and then lock it all up - then they will have (in effect) taken away the original design and locked it up so nobody can have access to it.
Except they can't lock it up because it's hardware, not software. Even without a schematic, it's a trivial matter to reverse engineer the hardware and copy it. That's how the IBM PC compatibles were made (the only tricky part being the BIOS which is software). In a very real sense, ALL hardware is Open Hardware.
GP didn't say he was a socialist, he said he was afraid of being demonized as a "socialist". Believing capitalism should be regulated doesn't make you a socialist any more than believing too much red meat is unhealthy makes you a vegetarian.
Price controls and a ban on doctor kickbacks are the real things needed.
I suspect this is what's really driving doctors to want the ads banned. In the old days, pharma companies would "market" to doctors (i.e. kickbacks) to promote their drugs. Now they've cut out the middleman and market directly to the consumers.
Go back to your tea party Libertard, the big bad government does NOT certify engineers. They certify themselves through professional organizations much like doctors and lawyers, the costs of which are paid for by membership fees, NOT taxes.
A more accurate statement would be "old talent is too busy working to learn new stuff" or "management thinks it's cheaper to hire new grads than invest in existing talent" or "management doesn't recognize self-taught skills that don't have a certification" or "old talent has been around long enough to know that currently trendy buzzword is not an appropriate solution".
Theoretically possible perhaps, but what incentive would "lone wolf" coders have for making the mechanical engineers look good? Even if the mechanical engineers who designed the engine and pollution control systems didn't know about the code changes, they should have had a good idea of what the approximate test results should have been, and if they were way better than expected it should have raised major red flags. Same goes for QA. Even if the change wasn't caught in a code review, the too-good-to-be-true results alone should have raised questions. I bet lots of people knew about this and either didn't want to risk their jobs by asking about it or were told "don't worry about it, it's a decision made above your pay grade". Unfortunately, we live in a world that demonizes whistle-blowers.
This partnership says more about Elsevier than it does about Wikipedia. With so many researchers abandoning them, they are willing to make deals with Wikipedia, an organization they would have laughed at just a few years ago, just to maintain some kind of relevancy. I think it shows how desperate they truly are.
Latency is only really an issue with certain applications like on-line gaming or VOIP. For web browsing, file downloading, even video/audio streaming, latency isn't a big deal.
Slack is a currently-trendy, corporate messaging/notification/collaboration system. DMs would be the Direct Messaging (person-to-person) subset of that.
I've been forced to work with LibreOffice for the last year after working in MS Office for a decade. For me the problem with LibreOffice is not features but stability. LibreOffice Calc will frequently freeze and/or crash if I'm working with large data sets (no complicated calculations, just a lot of raw data that Excel can handle without problems). LibreOffice Write is okay (in fact, it handles old versions of MS Word documents better than the new version of Word) but random weirdness with images and tables moving around makes it hard to trust. Fancy features I can live without, but the lack of stability drives me crazy.
Agreed. Any threat to security and intellectual property that is posed by PEDs is also posed by eyeballs & ears. If you don't hire trustworthy people, you're screwed no matter what policies you put in place.
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Apparently the CIA has learned a lesson, though probably not the one you think. I doubt they now believe that torture is inhumane and lowers us to the level of those we fight against. What they learned is that torture is completely ineffective at yielding usable intelligence. Prisoners will say anything to make it stop, including making stuff up. Since the made up stuff is exactly what the torturer expects to hear, they often give it more credibility than any actual intelligence that is obtained.
ISPs already have limited liability due to their status as a common carrier. The only reason ISPs might agree to this scheme is as a way to manage traffic (cutting off illegal downloaders who are heavy bandwidth users). Even then, ISPs already have ways of doing that which don't involve shady third parties like RightsCorp.
I've never heard anyone say either. Is it a British thing? "on-site" is the common term I've heard.
Some do (Star Trek for example, streams on multiple services). However, most rights-holders feel they can get more money by charging a lot to one service for exclusive rights rather then getting a little money from many services. Likewise, the streaming services are willing to pay more to deny their competitors access to the same show.
All they need now is a "Mission Accomplished!" banner.
Steaming music subscription instead of MP3s/CDs. Video streaming subscription instead of DVDs. Satellite radio instead of free radio. Cable TV instead of OTA. Pay-to-play games instead of one-time-cost games. Office365 instead of MS Office Suite. Hell, Windows 10 is the last Windows OS that you can "own" instead of "rent" (where "own" means a perpetual license and "rent" means time-limited license). This is all part of a wider trend to a Rentier Economy where ownership is a privilege only the very rich can afford and everyone else is on a treadmill of ever-increasing subscription fees.
Only if that key opens up EVERY customer's safe deposit box.
May I suggest Canada? It's nice and close, we speak English, and I bet you could buy all those empty Blackberry buildings pretty cheap.
I'm just going to download and store a local copy of the internet. Then I can cancel my ISP service.
Translation... The NSA/CIA is already able to break into iPhones without Apple's help and we don't want to share our advantage with the FBI.
My choice for an alternate math course would be economics; and I don't mean the monetary theory stuff, just basic budgeting and calculating loan amortizations. You would not believe how many people out there think they are financially responsible because they are making the minimum payment on their credit card debt every month.
At 0.1 m/s it would take over a second to get from one end or your brain to the other, so even if it could be used for a man-machine interface it would definitely not be a high-speed interface.
Except they can't lock it up because it's hardware, not software. Even without a schematic, it's a trivial matter to reverse engineer the hardware and copy it. That's how the IBM PC compatibles were made (the only tricky part being the BIOS which is software). In a very real sense, ALL hardware is Open Hardware.
GP didn't say he was a socialist, he said he was afraid of being demonized as a "socialist". Believing capitalism should be regulated doesn't make you a socialist any more than believing too much red meat is unhealthy makes you a vegetarian.
I suspect this is what's really driving doctors to want the ads banned. In the old days, pharma companies would "market" to doctors (i.e. kickbacks) to promote their drugs. Now they've cut out the middleman and market directly to the consumers.
Doubleclick is owned by Google, I doubt they have anything to do with Microsoft other than perhaps serving ads for them.
Go back to your tea party Libertard, the big bad government does NOT certify engineers. They certify themselves through professional organizations much like doctors and lawyers, the costs of which are paid for by membership fees, NOT taxes.
A more accurate statement would be "old talent is too busy working to learn new stuff" or "management thinks it's cheaper to hire new grads than invest in existing talent" or "management doesn't recognize self-taught skills that don't have a certification" or "old talent has been around long enough to know that currently trendy buzzword is not an appropriate solution".
Theoretically possible perhaps, but what incentive would "lone wolf" coders have for making the mechanical engineers look good? Even if the mechanical engineers who designed the engine and pollution control systems didn't know about the code changes, they should have had a good idea of what the approximate test results should have been, and if they were way better than expected it should have raised major red flags. Same goes for QA. Even if the change wasn't caught in a code review, the too-good-to-be-true results alone should have raised questions. I bet lots of people knew about this and either didn't want to risk their jobs by asking about it or were told "don't worry about it, it's a decision made above your pay grade". Unfortunately, we live in a world that demonizes whistle-blowers.
Either that or Trump arranged to have a little something added to his water bottle.
This partnership says more about Elsevier than it does about Wikipedia. With so many researchers abandoning them, they are willing to make deals with Wikipedia, an organization they would have laughed at just a few years ago, just to maintain some kind of relevancy. I think it shows how desperate they truly are.
Latency is only really an issue with certain applications like on-line gaming or VOIP. For web browsing, file downloading, even video/audio streaming, latency isn't a big deal.
Slack is a currently-trendy, corporate messaging/notification/collaboration system. DMs would be the Direct Messaging (person-to-person) subset of that.
I've been forced to work with LibreOffice for the last year after working in MS Office for a decade. For me the problem with LibreOffice is not features but stability. LibreOffice Calc will frequently freeze and/or crash if I'm working with large data sets (no complicated calculations, just a lot of raw data that Excel can handle without problems). LibreOffice Write is okay (in fact, it handles old versions of MS Word documents better than the new version of Word) but random weirdness with images and tables moving around makes it hard to trust. Fancy features I can live without, but the lack of stability drives me crazy.
Agreed. Any threat to security and intellectual property that is posed by PEDs is also posed by eyeballs & ears. If you don't hire trustworthy people, you're screwed no matter what policies you put in place.