The same reason the news media doesn't talk about all the bribes the Bushes accepted from the Saudi government. It's yesterday's news. There's a new ass-clown in charge who make all the previous ass-clowns look saintly in comparison.
Do you have any data that the artist will make more money from donations vs royalty payments? Also will you continue to pay the artist for your favorite song over the next 20 years? Or will that one song that you loved so much be the end of that artist. Because after getting paid for that song, they will no longer have an income because their other songs are not so popular.
How on earth did artists ever survive back in the days when you just paid them once for a record/tape/CD that you could play over and over for the next 20 years without paying them again? Especially when the studio/distributor/retailers took the lion's share of that money?
It has slightly better image quality than JPG for the same file size, but the main benefit is that it allows multiple photos in a single file. This can either be a very short movie (Apple calls it Live Photo on the iPhone) or the same photo in multiple exposures or focal lengths (I believe photographers call this "bracketing") allowing you to fix a bad photo after the fact or do other creative things.
If MS built PDF into their OS, there would immediately be cries that they were abusing their monopoly position to try to kill Adobe and third-party PDF apps.
You want someone arrested for a natural disaster? There's a big difference between losing power in a storm and someone INTENTIONALLY trying to disable the power system.
And for your second "point", if someone robs your house, that's illegal and they should be arrested. It doesn't matter if you had the latest security system, or no security system. Blaming the victim is what criminals do to excuse their own horrible behavior.
First a history lesson. Cellphones caused Payphones to disappear. Phone Booths started disappearing long before that (there's a scene in the 1979 film Superman where Clark Kent looks around for a place to change into his costume but can only find boothless payphones). The booths were targets of vandalism and the homeless used them as shelters and/or public toilets. That is why they disappeared.
As for these new booths, the lack of phone isn't the main difference; it's the fact that they are located in private rather than public spaces. They are not in any way a replacement for phone booths, they are really a replacement for the private office space that disappeared when companies started embracing open-plan offices.
While the warning is a step in the right direction, the problem was not with loot boxes in general but loot boxes that contain items of random value such that you have to keep buying to get the item you want. This is essentially gambling, thus deserving of the dreaded AO (Adults Only) rating.
The aliens are coming here, they're bringing disease, they're rapists, but some, I'm sure, are good people. We need to build a wall around the Earth; a huge, tremendous, beautiful wall, and we're going to make the aliens pay for it.
There are many kinds of regulation. It could be as simple as forcing sellers to educate buyers on the risks associated with Bitcoin; controls on advertising; placing limits on "transaction fees", etc. None of that has anything to do with how cryptocurrency works, just how it's sold.
There's so many variables that are poorly tracked. Some people retire willingly at 55; others are still working (willingly or otherwise) at 75. Some people quit temporarily to look after children or aging parents. Some are physically or mentally unable to work. Some go back to school or try to start their own businesses. Some work for cash in the underground economy. Then there's underemployment where people work one (or more) part-time or "gig" jobs when they would rather be working full-time. A single percentage number cannot capture everything that's going on in the workforce.
I'm more worried about the close relationship between the US government and US technology firms, like Verizon corporate douche-bag Ajit Pai becoming head of the FCC.
Cable television giant Comcast is suing the Vermont Public Utility Commission over the panel's decision to require the company to expand its network...
But Ajit Pai told us the only thing stopping network expansion was net neutrality. Now that that's gone, Comcast should be eager to expand, unless of course Pai was lying to us.
Don't worry, Verizon has an "inside man" at the FCC to make sure there will be no consequences to violating the agreement. So much for "draining the swamp".
Wikipedia (just like Encyclopedia Britannica back in the dead tree days) is a secondary source (i.e. it contains no original research and every fact in it should come from some other, cited, primary source). Secondary sources are not typically cited in a research paper, not because of concerns about accuracy, but because primary sources are always preferred.
That would depend on the age of the children. Sharpening knives is not a task any responsible parent would assign to a pre-schooler; and pre-schoolers are the target audience of the YouTube Kids app. Older children can easily figure out how to get to the real YouTube and find all the cutlery-based entertainment they want.
How many Slashdot sysadmins would be fine with a competitor's engineer messing with the fiber runs in your data center...
But that's the point; utility poles aren't on the property of the ISP. They are on municipal property (or private property with municipal easements) and the municipality has every right to regulate how they are maintained and who can use them. In many places, the poles were originally installed by the electrical utility and telcos and cable companies are just free-riders.
Rely on a cloud and you will eventually get rained on. It's hard to believe that people keep moving to off-site processing and storage at exactly the time that local processing and storage has never been cheaper.
Perhaps when most humans were nomadic hunter gatherers, climate change wasn't a major issue; just move to a more suitable area. However, over the last few thousand years we've invested a lot of time and wealth into building non-movable structures along coastlines. We can either spend trillions fixing global warming or spend trillions protecting or moving our coastal cities (probably both).
Don't expect one company's walled garden to allow tools to help you detect other company's walled gardens. These walled gardens are becoming more like the hedge maze at the Overlook Hotel.
Part of the reason delivery works today is that shops rely on people desperate enough to try to make tip money as drivers during slow hours, essentially burning up gas, smokes and their own car shuttling food around town.
Taking advantage of people with cars desperate to make a few bucks? Hey, that's Uber's business model! Prepare to be sued.
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The same reason the news media doesn't talk about all the bribes the Bushes accepted from the Saudi government. It's yesterday's news. There's a new ass-clown in charge who make all the previous ass-clowns look saintly in comparison.
How on earth did artists ever survive back in the days when you just paid them once for a record/tape/CD that you could play over and over for the next 20 years without paying them again? Especially when the studio/distributor/retailers took the lion's share of that money?
It has slightly better image quality than JPG for the same file size, but the main benefit is that it allows multiple photos in a single file. This can either be a very short movie (Apple calls it Live Photo on the iPhone) or the same photo in multiple exposures or focal lengths (I believe photographers call this "bracketing") allowing you to fix a bad photo after the fact or do other creative things.
If MS built PDF into their OS, there would immediately be cries that they were abusing their monopoly position to try to kill Adobe and third-party PDF apps.
And for your second "point", if someone robs your house, that's illegal and they should be arrested. It doesn't matter if you had the latest security system, or no security system. Blaming the victim is what criminals do to excuse their own horrible behavior.
As for these new booths, the lack of phone isn't the main difference; it's the fact that they are located in private rather than public spaces. They are not in any way a replacement for phone booths, they are really a replacement for the private office space that disappeared when companies started embracing open-plan offices.
Think about it: unruly beard, no girlfriend, lived with his mom til he was 30.
It seems to have worked pretty well for Apple (i.e. OSX & BSD).
- Set up spoofers on the streets behind and paralleling your bank heist escape route to maximum police response time.
- Install a spoofer in your competitor's taxi/uber/delivery van.
- Install spoofers on the route from the pizza place to your house. 30 minutes or it's free?
While the warning is a step in the right direction, the problem was not with loot boxes in general but loot boxes that contain items of random value such that you have to keep buying to get the item you want. This is essentially gambling, thus deserving of the dreaded AO (Adults Only) rating.
The aliens are coming here, they're bringing disease, they're rapists, but some, I'm sure, are good people. We need to build a wall around the Earth; a huge, tremendous, beautiful wall, and we're going to make the aliens pay for it.
There are many kinds of regulation. It could be as simple as forcing sellers to educate buyers on the risks associated with Bitcoin; controls on advertising; placing limits on "transaction fees", etc. None of that has anything to do with how cryptocurrency works, just how it's sold.
There's so many variables that are poorly tracked. Some people retire willingly at 55; others are still working (willingly or otherwise) at 75. Some people quit temporarily to look after children or aging parents. Some are physically or mentally unable to work. Some go back to school or try to start their own businesses. Some work for cash in the underground economy. Then there's underemployment where people work one (or more) part-time or "gig" jobs when they would rather be working full-time. A single percentage number cannot capture everything that's going on in the workforce.
...unless the perpetrator is rich and white, then it's "snitches get stitches!"
It depends on which voting machine you're hacking into.
I'm more worried about the close relationship between the US government and US technology firms, like Verizon corporate douche-bag Ajit Pai becoming head of the FCC.
But Ajit Pai told us the only thing stopping network expansion was net neutrality. Now that that's gone, Comcast should be eager to expand, unless of course Pai was lying to us.
Don't worry, Verizon has an "inside man" at the FCC to make sure there will be no consequences to violating the agreement. So much for "draining the swamp".
Wikipedia (just like Encyclopedia Britannica back in the dead tree days) is a secondary source (i.e. it contains no original research and every fact in it should come from some other, cited, primary source). Secondary sources are not typically cited in a research paper, not because of concerns about accuracy, but because primary sources are always preferred.
That would depend on the age of the children. Sharpening knives is not a task any responsible parent would assign to a pre-schooler; and pre-schoolers are the target audience of the YouTube Kids app. Older children can easily figure out how to get to the real YouTube and find all the cutlery-based entertainment they want.
But that's the point; utility poles aren't on the property of the ISP. They are on municipal property (or private property with municipal easements) and the municipality has every right to regulate how they are maintained and who can use them. In many places, the poles were originally installed by the electrical utility and telcos and cable companies are just free-riders.
Rely on a cloud and you will eventually get rained on. It's hard to believe that people keep moving to off-site processing and storage at exactly the time that local processing and storage has never been cheaper.
Perhaps when most humans were nomadic hunter gatherers, climate change wasn't a major issue; just move to a more suitable area. However, over the last few thousand years we've invested a lot of time and wealth into building non-movable structures along coastlines. We can either spend trillions fixing global warming or spend trillions protecting or moving our coastal cities (probably both).
Don't expect one company's walled garden to allow tools to help you detect other company's walled gardens. These walled gardens are becoming more like the hedge maze at the Overlook Hotel.
Taking advantage of people with cars desperate to make a few bucks? Hey, that's Uber's business model! Prepare to be sued.