I also think Cox should establish a reasonable handling charge for investigating and dealing with these automated complaints
Whoa - you don't want to go there! Cox treats Rightscorp's settlement notices to users as spam, which is exactly how they should be dealt with, but
turns out many other ISPs are going along with this bullshit from Rightscorp. That got me thinking - why? My guess is that maybe they are getting paid - maybe in some cases, well paid. Seems logical to me that would make a good strategy for the copyright maximalists if they can show that most ISPs go along with their agenda. Then when they take an ISP like Cox to court it makes them look better. It's like Microsoft and their "Android patents" scam. They make every licensee sign an NDA so they can go around bullying other Android OEMs and tell them all these others are paying up big so they better pay up big too. In reality, in most cases we have no idea how much royalty was paid, if any.
"...this one just guides it directly towards your emmitter (and hands), which it will then presumably slice through without problems."
Yea but you would quickly learn to avoid sliding your hand up past the hilt guard. After you made a couple slips you would never make that same mistake again.
Imagine the world 10 or 20 tears into the future, when the IoT is becoming fully realized. Our homes and businesses have become a large network of every manner of "thing". Due to "network effects", the value of this technology and its ability to transform our lives has grown exponentially, way beyond what we could ever imagine. We are very bit as dependent on The Internet of Things as we were on the Internet of decades ago.
The Reality Today
The Internet, with all its wonders it has brought us, is out of our control. It appears there is no way to secure it. There is no end to hacks and vulnerabilities. Spam, viruses, malware, credit card breaches by the millions, military secrets stolen, loss of privacy on massive scale, DoS attacks, hacking into peoples web cams and microphones, entire systems p0wnd (Sony lately), billions upon billions of dollars in losses and damages. How can we go on like this? All the brilliant ideas of our best computer scientists to protect our computers and systems seem useless. The criminals are always one step ahead of us, no matter what we do.
If we could have predicted all the problems with the Internet as it is today, back when - would we have embraced it as we do now?
It can only get worse with the IoT. Imagine when every day items start attacking you like some scene from a horror movie. It will become our worst nightmare.
We need to pause, step back, and look at the bigger picture.
Unfortunately, I have no answers. All I have are questions.
This app just popped up on my wife's phone, wanting to update itself. I had no idea what it is, so Googled it... "SuperSU is a Superuser management tool for rooted devices". "SuperSU Brings Better SuperUser Root Permission Management to Android" I still don't have a clue as what I would actually do with such an app. Everything I read about it just leaves me more confused. I have two questions - what is it doing on my wife's phone, that I recently did a factory reset on, and 2.) Would this app somehow allow one to control permissions of apps after installation?
http://www.addictivetips.com/m...https://plus.google.com/+Chain...
Oops. That was me. It appears that clicking on the "You are posting as" check box works backwards to what is intuitive. In fact, that is a funny UI, where there is what appears to be a check box to post by your account name, and a little gear symbol to post as Anon. I would expect standard radio buttons instead of this original invention. Maybe Web UI has different conventions then software? Can't be. This UI makes no sense and is unintuitive.
From the FA: "hydrogen atoms are stripped of their electrons, leaving the positively-charged protons behind". So I wonder where they get the hydrogen atoms? Hydrogen doesn't like to exist in atomic form. It much prefers company, in the form of H2. I don't think you can have a bottle of hydrogen atoms, as opposed to hydrogen molecules. Ionizing hydrogen molecules does not break apart the molecules, I wouldn't think. Maybe the article misspoke?
Especially when you lack experience, that is a setup for disaster. Instead, just start developing a marketable product out of your home. If you need help, contract someone over the internet. Grow organically from there, one step at a time. When you finally have a marketable product, then maybe you need to start worrying about sales and lawyers and all the overhead that goes with a business. By that time, your thinking will have matured.
"Do not feed their useless parasitism on our culture and public domain."
That is exactly it - the copyright maximalists have hijacked our culture. While I entirely agree with your sentiment, this statement reveals exactly why your proposal is impractical. Refusing to participate in our own culture is something we cannot do any more than we can voluntarily stop breathing. Here's the thing... The moment a "work" is publicly performed, it becomes a part of our culture. I hear a tune on the radio and I can't stop it from going around in my head, or maybe even singing it in the shower. Once that tune entered my consciousness, it became a part of me. Not only that, but it has become a part of our language. I may find myself employing a phase from the lyrics that succinctly expresses a feeling for which I didn't have words before.
Now we are in a serious conundrum. While we do want to incentivize our artists and performers and give them a reasonable return on their efforts, at the same time, they need to understand and be sensitive to this paradox. This is where all the friction is coming from. This is why we need a major overhaul of the copyright system - a whole new fresh, out-of-the-box reform. Because what we have now is not serving us.
"Uber is a bootleg taxi service, and the laws being applied have applied to all commercial car services for a very long time."
Ahh... but Uber is NOT a taxi service. Uber facilitates a connection between people needing a ride and a driver.
We could say Uber is like Facebook or Google+, or perhaps Craig's List in that they provide a platform for people to connect.
Just like Aereo operated community antennas for people, rather than acting as a cable television provider.
Unfortunately, in the case of Aereo, the powers that be arbitrarily declared that Aereo was something other than a community antenna.
Next they will want to legislate a more rational value for Pi to simplify calculations for us.
Good one! I have heard Rob Ford accused of a lot of things, but not being THE Robert Ford who killed Jesse James (aka Mr. Howard).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J...
"Robert Ford, who killed Jesse, was James' gang member. Mr. Howard was the alias that James lived under in Saint Joseph, Missouri at the time of his killing."
Of course I never knew anything about this until I Googled it just now.
"The science data they set out to collect was still obtained." Do we really know yet if the probes and drills actually reached down below the surface? It appeared that lander was sticking up and I have my doubts. I think it would be wonderful if they actually got the samples they hoped they would get, but I am not convinced. There is an article behind a pay wall in the WSJ that says an instrument discovered an organic compound that was first detected in the comet’s atmosphere. Says the molecule was detected by an instrument on the lander "sniffing" the comet's atmosphere. Seems there is no more information than that. Hard to say if we can take that to mean they actually got their samples. Sniffing the comet's atmosphere != soil samples.
Step 1.) Put a motor on the crank.
Step 2.) Read the output into your computer with an optical mouse in place of the pen.
Step 3.) Figure out a way to automate programming of the input.
Step 4.) Sell it as a coprocessor!
Step 5.) Profit!
Do you realize the flux of neutrinos we endure day in, day out? Thousands of these little suckers go whizzing right through our bodies every single day. Some, apparently, at superluminal velocities. If one of those hits you, look out - you'll feel the sting even before it happens! And if one if these should strike the nucleus of one of the atoms of which your body is composed, unlike WiFi radiation, it is ionizing. I demand that our school be shielded to prevent these neutrinos from entering our classrooms. Think of the children!
I do regret flaming like a troll. I post so rarely on Slashdot these days that I lost that discipline that made me stop and slow down and think a bit before I post. I do feel the same, however, but I should be able to give a more reasoned response now that I am calmed down.
What you give as your thesis, I see as simply the party line. Microsoft knows that it cannot erase or change the indelible history of its past, so they have gone off on a different tangent. That strategy is to try to say that they are no worse than anybody else, and pointing fingers at everybody around them. Then the next step, as you have taken, is to say, well gee, in comparison, Microsoft isn't so bad, then finally, turn it all around and say hey, Microsoft is really one of the good guys.
I see this repeated in comments all over the internet. It is called "establishing a meme." I am not saying you personally are a shill, but I am suggesting you have bought into this propaganda, perhaps without even realizing it. Hence my question "What cool aid are you drinking?".
Your original comment asks "Which is worse, anti-competitive behavior or driving around capturing everyone's network traffic...?" I would respond with a resounding: Anticompetitive behaviour! What Google did was inadvertent and they did nothing with the data they collected. In the end, it did no harm. Come on now, if people leave their routers unsecured, they are broadcasting their data to the world. I think every router on the market encourages the user to set up a secure connection, and people ignore that. They obviously are not too concerned about it.
Anticompetitive behaviour, however, is much more sinister, because by definition, it hurts the competitors. To this day we don't have a bustling market in Linux netbooks, and it appears we will not have Android netbooks either because of Microsoft's anticompetitive behaviour. Ever since this propaganda began to be distributed about the "new, kinder, gentler, more open Microsoft", there have been incidents from time to time that completely negated any such statements. Why do I get riled up about this? After all, it is a tough world out there, with many big multinationals playing hard ball all the time. What upsets me, however, is that Microsoft is still a monopoly. They still control some 94% of the desktop market, and that is a very frightening thought. No matter how much Microsoft and their supporters cast dispersions at Google, for me that only serves to contrast the behaviour between the two companies. Google really tries to "do no Evil" whereas Microsoft really tries to do evil. They can't help it - it is in their DNA.
Now I have gone to a lot of effort here to give a reasoned reply, because you spoke reasonably with me. However, I most likely will not discuss this further with you. I see so many comments like yours on Slashdot and on the Internet at large everyday, it is really hard for me to believe that I am really even speaking to a individual like myself, as opposed to some automated bot working out of Microsoft psy-ops bunker. Besides, nobody will likely ever see this comment anyhow, so what is the point?
Finally I would like to apologize to Slashdot staff for shooting my mouth off at them. I believe them to be a group dedicated to providing the very best forum for technical discussion on the web, and over the years have seen every evidence of their caring about the participants on their site. However, I am at loss to explain how what I refer to as the "Microsoft shills" came to dominate this site over the past couple of years, when this site had such a solid history of a place where a guy could go whenever he wanted to take a good bashing at Microsoft. I think they were pressured by Microsoft to allow their shills to operate unhindered. "Nice forum you have here - it would be a pity if someone broke it." I used to enjoy participating on this site immensely for many years, but when I see these kinds comments I get too upset. I still drop in regularly to read the FAs, but do my best to avoi
Yes actually, Microsoft are actually one of the good guys these days.
What kind of cool aid have you been drinking? Note to Slashdot staff - this kind of comment is exactly why I haven't posted on Slashdot for the past year. There has been no change in Microsoft's behaviour whatsoever. They are the same old evil company they always were, only now, they have shills posting this kind of nauseating drivel on Slashdot every day, and that is why I don't post here any more. Slashdot has been bought out by the Vole. Now watch my karma evaporate in 1, 2, 3...
I recall said contract's second amendment* said something about selling the copyrights to SCO if they could show a reason that they would need them during the course of administering the UNIX license program.
It said nothing of the sort. What it did say was...
All copyrights and trademarks... required for SCO to exercise its rights with respect to the acquisition of UNIX and UnixWare technologies.
with respect to the acquisition of UNIX and UnixWare technologies... These technologies were acquired a long time ago, and this amendment is dead.
Wouldn't it be simpler just to use a different browser? geez - they could have pointed that out in the FA. I was about to add a comment to that effect there - then I saw, written above the comment box "Sponsored by Microsoft". I guess that's why they didn't recommend trying a different browser...
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Just teach them to Swype. For me it is faster than any other input method.
Who needs napkins? All you need is a good swipe from the back of your hand or your sleeve.
Hey, what's wrong with T & A?
I also think Cox should establish a reasonable handling charge for investigating and dealing with these automated complaints
Whoa - you don't want to go there! Cox treats Rightscorp's settlement notices to users as spam, which is exactly how they should be dealt with, but turns out many other ISPs are going along with this bullshit from Rightscorp. That got me thinking - why? My guess is that maybe they are getting paid - maybe in some cases, well paid. Seems logical to me that would make a good strategy for the copyright maximalists if they can show that most ISPs go along with their agenda. Then when they take an ISP like Cox to court it makes them look better. It's like Microsoft and their "Android patents" scam. They make every licensee sign an NDA so they can go around bullying other Android OEMs and tell them all these others are paying up big so they better pay up big too. In reality, in most cases we have no idea how much royalty was paid, if any.
"...this one just guides it directly towards your emmitter (and hands), which it will then presumably slice through without problems."
Yea but you would quickly learn to avoid sliding your hand up past the hilt guard. After you made a couple slips you would never make that same mistake again.
The Seduction
Imagine the world 10 or 20 tears into the future, when the IoT is becoming fully realized. Our homes and businesses have become a large network of every manner of "thing". Due to "network effects", the value of this technology and its ability to transform our lives has grown exponentially, way beyond what we could ever imagine. We are very bit as dependent on The Internet of Things as we were on the Internet of decades ago.
The Reality Today
The Internet, with all its wonders it has brought us, is out of our control. It appears there is no way to secure it. There is no end to hacks and vulnerabilities. Spam, viruses, malware, credit card breaches by the millions, military secrets stolen, loss of privacy on massive scale, DoS attacks, hacking into peoples web cams and microphones, entire systems p0wnd (Sony lately), billions upon billions of dollars in losses and damages. How can we go on like this? All the brilliant ideas of our best computer scientists to protect our computers and systems seem useless. The criminals are always one step ahead of us, no matter what we do.
If we could have predicted all the problems with the Internet as it is today, back when - would we have embraced it as we do now? It can only get worse with the IoT. Imagine when every day items start attacking you like some scene from a horror movie. It will become our worst nightmare.
We need to pause, step back, and look at the bigger picture.
Unfortunately, I have no answers. All I have are questions.
Thanks - that explanation really helps.
This app just popped up on my wife's phone, wanting to update itself. I had no idea what it is, so Googled it... "SuperSU is a Superuser management tool for rooted devices". "SuperSU Brings Better SuperUser Root Permission Management to Android" I still don't have a clue as what I would actually do with such an app. Everything I read about it just leaves me more confused. I have two questions - what is it doing on my wife's phone, that I recently did a factory reset on, and 2.) Would this app somehow allow one to control permissions of apps after installation? http://www.addictivetips.com/m... https://plus.google.com/+Chain...
Oops. That was me. It appears that clicking on the "You are posting as" check box works backwards to what is intuitive. In fact, that is a funny UI, where there is what appears to be a check box to post by your account name, and a little gear symbol to post as Anon. I would expect standard radio buttons instead of this original invention. Maybe Web UI has different conventions then software? Can't be. This UI makes no sense and is unintuitive.
From the FA: "hydrogen atoms are stripped of their electrons, leaving the positively-charged protons behind". So I wonder where they get the hydrogen atoms? Hydrogen doesn't like to exist in atomic form. It much prefers company, in the form of H2. I don't think you can have a bottle of hydrogen atoms, as opposed to hydrogen molecules. Ionizing hydrogen molecules does not break apart the molecules, I wouldn't think. Maybe the article misspoke?
Especially when you lack experience, that is a setup for disaster. Instead, just start developing a marketable product out of your home. If you need help, contract someone over the internet. Grow organically from there, one step at a time. When you finally have a marketable product, then maybe you need to start worrying about sales and lawyers and all the overhead that goes with a business. By that time, your thinking will have matured.
"Do not feed their useless parasitism on our culture and public domain." That is exactly it - the copyright maximalists have hijacked our culture. While I entirely agree with your sentiment, this statement reveals exactly why your proposal is impractical. Refusing to participate in our own culture is something we cannot do any more than we can voluntarily stop breathing. Here's the thing... The moment a "work" is publicly performed, it becomes a part of our culture. I hear a tune on the radio and I can't stop it from going around in my head, or maybe even singing it in the shower. Once that tune entered my consciousness, it became a part of me. Not only that, but it has become a part of our language. I may find myself employing a phase from the lyrics that succinctly expresses a feeling for which I didn't have words before. Now we are in a serious conundrum. While we do want to incentivize our artists and performers and give them a reasonable return on their efforts, at the same time, they need to understand and be sensitive to this paradox. This is where all the friction is coming from. This is why we need a major overhaul of the copyright system - a whole new fresh, out-of-the-box reform. Because what we have now is not serving us.
"Uber is a bootleg taxi service, and the laws being applied have applied to all commercial car services for a very long time." Ahh... but Uber is NOT a taxi service. Uber facilitates a connection between people needing a ride and a driver. We could say Uber is like Facebook or Google+, or perhaps Craig's List in that they provide a platform for people to connect. Just like Aereo operated community antennas for people, rather than acting as a cable television provider. Unfortunately, in the case of Aereo, the powers that be arbitrarily declared that Aereo was something other than a community antenna. Next they will want to legislate a more rational value for Pi to simplify calculations for us.
Good one! I have heard Rob Ford accused of a lot of things, but not being THE Robert Ford who killed Jesse James (aka Mr. Howard). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J... "Robert Ford, who killed Jesse, was James' gang member. Mr. Howard was the alias that James lived under in Saint Joseph, Missouri at the time of his killing." Of course I never knew anything about this until I Googled it just now.
"The science data they set out to collect was still obtained." Do we really know yet if the probes and drills actually reached down below the surface? It appeared that lander was sticking up and I have my doubts. I think it would be wonderful if they actually got the samples they hoped they would get, but I am not convinced. There is an article behind a pay wall in the WSJ that says an instrument discovered an organic compound that was first detected in the comet’s atmosphere. Says the molecule was detected by an instrument on the lander "sniffing" the comet's atmosphere. Seems there is no more information than that. Hard to say if we can take that to mean they actually got their samples. Sniffing the comet's atmosphere != soil samples.
The comment above was mine.
They need this machine to sort through all the data the NSA has been collecting, which must be doubling every year.
Step 1.) Put a motor on the crank. Step 2.) Read the output into your computer with an optical mouse in place of the pen. Step 3.) Figure out a way to automate programming of the input. Step 4.) Sell it as a coprocessor! Step 5.) Profit!
Do you realize the flux of neutrinos we endure day in, day out? Thousands of these little suckers go whizzing right through our bodies every single day. Some, apparently, at superluminal velocities. If one of those hits you, look out - you'll feel the sting even before it happens! And if one if these should strike the nucleus of one of the atoms of which your body is composed, unlike WiFi radiation, it is ionizing. I demand that our school be shielded to prevent these neutrinos from entering our classrooms. Think of the children!
I do regret flaming like a troll. I post so rarely on Slashdot these days that I lost that discipline that made me stop and slow down and think a bit before I post. I do feel the same, however, but I should be able to give a more reasoned response now that I am calmed down.
What you give as your thesis, I see as simply the party line. Microsoft knows that it cannot erase or change the indelible history of its past, so they have gone off on a different tangent. That strategy is to try to say that they are no worse than anybody else, and pointing fingers at everybody around them. Then the next step, as you have taken, is to say, well gee, in comparison, Microsoft isn't so bad, then finally, turn it all around and say hey, Microsoft is really one of the good guys.
I see this repeated in comments all over the internet. It is called "establishing a meme." I am not saying you personally are a shill, but I am suggesting you have bought into this propaganda, perhaps without even realizing it. Hence my question "What cool aid are you drinking?".
Your original comment asks "Which is worse, anti-competitive behavior or driving around capturing everyone's network traffic...?" I would respond with a resounding: Anticompetitive behaviour! What Google did was inadvertent and they did nothing with the data they collected. In the end, it did no harm. Come on now, if people leave their routers unsecured, they are broadcasting their data to the world. I think every router on the market encourages the user to set up a secure connection, and people ignore that. They obviously are not too concerned about it.
Anticompetitive behaviour, however, is much more sinister, because by definition, it hurts the competitors. To this day we don't have a bustling market in Linux netbooks, and it appears we will not have Android netbooks either because of Microsoft's anticompetitive behaviour. Ever since this propaganda began to be distributed about the "new, kinder, gentler, more open Microsoft", there have been incidents from time to time that completely negated any such statements. Why do I get riled up about this? After all, it is a tough world out there, with many big multinationals playing hard ball all the time. What upsets me, however, is that Microsoft is still a monopoly. They still control some 94% of the desktop market, and that is a very frightening thought. No matter how much Microsoft and their supporters cast dispersions at Google, for me that only serves to contrast the behaviour between the two companies. Google really tries to "do no Evil" whereas Microsoft really tries to do evil. They can't help it - it is in their DNA.
Now I have gone to a lot of effort here to give a reasoned reply, because you spoke reasonably with me. However, I most likely will not discuss this further with you. I see so many comments like yours on Slashdot and on the Internet at large everyday, it is really hard for me to believe that I am really even speaking to a individual like myself, as opposed to some automated bot working out of Microsoft psy-ops bunker. Besides, nobody will likely ever see this comment anyhow, so what is the point?
Finally I would like to apologize to Slashdot staff for shooting my mouth off at them. I believe them to be a group dedicated to providing the very best forum for technical discussion on the web, and over the years have seen every evidence of their caring about the participants on their site. However, I am at loss to explain how what I refer to as the "Microsoft shills" came to dominate this site over the past couple of years, when this site had such a solid history of a place where a guy could go whenever he wanted to take a good bashing at Microsoft. I think they were pressured by Microsoft to allow their shills to operate unhindered. "Nice forum you have here - it would be a pity if someone broke it." I used to enjoy participating on this site immensely for many years, but when I see these kinds comments I get too upset. I still drop in regularly to read the FAs, but do my best to avoi
What kind of cool aid have you been drinking? Note to Slashdot staff - this kind of comment is exactly why I haven't posted on Slashdot for the past year. There has been no change in Microsoft's behaviour whatsoever. They are the same old evil company they always were, only now, they have shills posting this kind of nauseating drivel on Slashdot every day, and that is why I don't post here any more. Slashdot has been bought out by the Vole. Now watch my karma evaporate in 1, 2, 3...
Perhaps this is why we have never seen any Neptunians?
A Space Shuttle analogy - I like that. Sure beats a car analogy. Slashdot has entered the Space Age with its analogies now.
It said nothing of the sort. What it did say was...
with respect to the acquisition of UNIX and UnixWare technologies... These technologies were acquired a long time ago, and this amendment is dead.
Wouldn't it be simpler just to use a different browser? geez - they could have pointed that out in the FA. I was about to add a comment to that effect there - then I saw, written above the comment box "Sponsored by Microsoft". I guess that's why they didn't recommend trying a different browser...