After I got a warning email from HBO by my ISP, I just decided to Stream instead of Downloading. I'd like to see them monitor that.
I'd like to get this straightened out: when you torrent, the file divided up into pieces and sent to your computer in more-or-less random order, where it's reassembled and stored. when you stream, the file is divided up into pieces and sent to your computer sequentially, and the pieces are deleted after you see them. Aside from not having the pieces afterwards, how is this different in terms of their tracking you? In both cases the files are sent to you. Do you mean "use a proxy"? Or is the difference that a streaming viewer isn't sending pieces to other viewers and you believe that watching it illegally is less criminal than watching it and distributing it?
As an Australian, I have no alternative but to torrent GOT. If I was burning the episodes to disc and selling them at the Caribbean Gardens Market on the weekends, that would be piracy. I consider what I'm doing to be "previewing" - if I think the content is worth it, I'll buy it on DVD, if and when they get around to actually SELLING the discs down here, to show my support for good content.
Do ambulances automatically get higher priority than rich people in their cars, or does the ambulance's allowed speed depend on the bank balance of the patient?
Will people who are allowed to go faster than everyone else be taxed appropriately, or can rich people pretend to be poor when it suits them?
You know damn well, they'll simply reduce the crypto till it can be broken.
Right around then, politicians world-wide will start to regret all those "teach the kids how to code" initiatives, because the kids will write their OWN crypto. Sure, most of it will contain newbie mistakes and will be breakable.. and some of it will work.
"I know dis defies da law of gravity... but I never studied law!" - Bugs Bunny
Mr Turnbull has. What is with politicians today making nonsensical statements like this? I would have thought to get to the position of Prime Minister - or President - you'd at least have to have had some experience in thinking before opening your yap.
Every app developer pays $100 month for what essentially costs Apple pennies. If they can get 500,000 Indian dudes to sign up as developers, that's some decent revenue...
agreed, but how long will 500,000 Indian appy app app app (Jesus, I have to stay away from that word, it's dangerous) coders will pay $100 a month to stay in a field that's saturated and unprofitable for them? It's like the real estate marketing market - not the sale of houses, but the training and licensing of people who sell houses. That market is so saturated, I'm expecting to see them crystallize into a higher form of life.
So Apple will make some quick cash until their pigeons catch on, and by then, hopefully, some other scam will present itself? That's the logic of a parasite whose host is close to death.
I get the impression that a lot of people at Apple (well, okay, not just Apple) believe that there is a never-ending supply of app ideas that just need to be mined, refined, developed and sold, and that this will never change. What other app ideas can possibly be left? There would be new apps to take advantage of new hardware, but wouldn't the development of that hardware come first? Why aren't they encouraging people to enter that field instead of joining the millions who are already churning out appy app apps for the appy app market? APPS!
Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment; but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply, and multiply, until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer on this planet, you are a plague.
(Agent Smith then proceeds to make billions of copies of himself)
You should probably reevaluate your outlook on life. If someones job determines if you would help them or not when they were in a life threatening situation, your brain is broken and you should probably seek some help.
"God created cold so we could burn more Catholics!"
My best guess would be like the diagram on the back of that Brian Eno album that showed how to connect a third speaker to your stereo. Except in software. No... I think they're hand-waving, because of the lack of details available anywhere for any of the things they're pushing. I tend to rail a lot against assholes who blurt technobabble in press releases, particularly the assholes who appear to believe their own bullshit, and this appears to be a prime example.
30 seconds.
Did you catch all of the heatsinking on the back?
Oh yeah.
"The huge RED camera logo on the back is surrounded by more fins that are meant to evoke a heatsink (it would be pretty cool if these were functional)."
Because you want the heat fins to be poking in to the palm of your hand.
In fact the child robot could keep track of the owner, at the same time reporting the owner's browsing habits for sale to Amazon, Google and the NSA. Heck, why not have a robot child watching EVERYONE? Sure, it's creepy, but that's the price you pay for eternal vigilance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/With_Folded_Hands
Those guys weren't very tall. ''to serve and obey and guard men from harm".
What about the first time they hit some turbulence?
In the event of turbulence, the pilot is instructed to dive sharply so that the passengers are in free-fall, and they can bounce around safely like in those space shuttle training flights.
... yeah, I wouldn't want to clean up after it, either.
Apple is raising the bar, but the problem with biometric authentication is always the same: once someone has made a 3D copy of your face, you cannot revoke your authentication credentials.
One of the reasons I'm against the idea of fingerprint-based biometric authentication is because I think it'll lead to criminals either forcibly using, or even removing, the user's fingers. I don't want to think about them removing faces... messy.
Or perhaps the phone won't recognise you after the criminal has beaten you senseless and broken your nose.
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After I got a warning email from HBO by my ISP, I just decided to Stream instead of Downloading. I'd like to see them monitor that.
I'd like to get this straightened out: when you torrent, the file divided up into pieces and sent to your computer in more-or-less random order, where it's reassembled and stored. when you stream, the file is divided up into pieces and sent to your computer sequentially, and the pieces are deleted after you see them. Aside from not having the pieces afterwards, how is this different in terms of their tracking you? In both cases the files are sent to you. Do you mean "use a proxy"? Or is the difference that a streaming viewer isn't sending pieces to other viewers and you believe that watching it illegally is less criminal than watching it and distributing it?
As an Australian, I have no alternative but to torrent GOT. If I was burning the episodes to disc and selling them at the Caribbean Gardens Market on the weekends, that would be piracy. I consider what I'm doing to be "previewing" - if I think the content is worth it, I'll buy it on DVD, if and when they get around to actually SELLING the discs down here, to show my support for good content.
Apple's malware costs so much more. If I could afford an iPhone, I'd be worth stealing from.
Do ambulances automatically get higher priority than rich people in their cars, or does the ambulance's allowed speed depend on the bank balance of the patient?
Will people who are allowed to go faster than everyone else be taxed appropriately, or can rich people pretend to be poor when it suits them?
One of the most important attributes of most Australian politicians is to be a technological creten.
*tiny voice* I believe it's spelled "Cretin".
You know damn well, they'll simply reduce the crypto till it can be broken.
Right around then, politicians world-wide will start to regret all those "teach the kids how to code" initiatives, because the kids will write their OWN crypto. Sure, most of it will contain newbie mistakes and will be breakable.. and some of it will work.
Liberty thru marksmanship never caught-hold downunder ...
Y'might wanna tell that to Ned Kelly, mate. He found out all about marksmanship, the hard way.
Wot? Oh, look it up, for Christ's sake, ya dopey seppo. I'm not ya mum.
"I know dis defies da law of gravity... but I never studied law!" - Bugs Bunny
Mr Turnbull has. What is with politicians today making nonsensical statements like this? I would have thought to get to the position of Prime Minister - or President - you'd at least have to have had some experience in thinking before opening your yap.
> There's nothing to regulate.
I'm right, nobody wanted an electric rocket.
*pout* I wanted an electric rocket.
Do you seriously believe that banning it will solve the problem? Has banning something ever stopped people from wanting to do it?
For that matter, has regulation ever solved such a problem, either?
When you get off a horse in Minecraft and it becomes invisible.
"everything that can be invented has been invented." - Charles H. Duell, Commissioner of US patent office, 1899.
Cool.
What's your killer app idea? How about an app that tracks other apps? Wait, that's been done...
$100 year i meant, didn't proof read, been coding all night.
How's that angry birds / candy crush mashup / clone / reboot coming along, then?
Every app developer pays $100 month for what essentially costs Apple pennies. If they can get 500,000 Indian dudes to sign up as developers, that's some decent revenue...
agreed, but how long will 500,000 Indian appy app app app (Jesus, I have to stay away from that word, it's dangerous) coders will pay $100 a month to stay in a field that's saturated and unprofitable for them? It's like the real estate marketing market - not the sale of houses, but the training and licensing of people who sell houses. That market is so saturated, I'm expecting to see them crystallize into a higher form of life.
So Apple will make some quick cash until their pigeons catch on, and by then, hopefully, some other scam will present itself? That's the logic of a parasite whose host is close to death.
I get the impression that a lot of people at Apple (well, okay, not just Apple) believe that there is a never-ending supply of app ideas that just need to be mined, refined, developed and sold, and that this will never change. What other app ideas can possibly be left? There would be new apps to take advantage of new hardware, but wouldn't the development of that hardware come first? Why aren't they encouraging people to enter that field instead of joining the millions who are already churning out appy app apps for the appy app market? APPS!
If you're into planetary-scale goatses, perhaps you'd like to check out the north pole of Saturn some time.
Okay. That didn't come out quite as I'd intended.
Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment; but you humans do not. You move to an area and you multiply, and multiply, until every natural resource is consumed and the only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer on this planet, you are a plague.
(Agent Smith then proceeds to make billions of copies of himself)
We need to reboot the use of the word "reboot".
"... You've had ELEVEN REBOOTS, people! When are you going to get a stable system?"
- Bruce Sterling, closing remarks at Reboot 12
You should probably reevaluate your outlook on life. If someones job determines if you would help them or not when they were in a life threatening situation, your brain is broken and you should probably seek some help.
"God created cold so we could burn more Catholics!"
- Lady Whiteadder
Good lord, how many circuits are there? And when are they going to be combined into one integrated circuit that doesn't generate as much heat?
My best guess would be like the diagram on the back of that Brian Eno album that showed how to connect a third speaker to your stereo. Except in software. No... I think they're hand-waving, because of the lack of details available anywhere for any of the things they're pushing. I tend to rail a lot against assholes who blurt technobabble in press releases, particularly the assholes who appear to believe their own bullshit, and this appears to be a prime example.
30 seconds. Did you catch all of the heatsinking on the back?
Oh yeah.
"The huge RED camera logo on the back is surrounded by more fins that are meant to evoke a heatsink (it would be pretty cool if these were functional)."
Because you want the heat fins to be poking in to the palm of your hand.
You can build a robot that could give consent, unlike real children.
Would it be real consent if the robot was just programmed to give it?
In fact the child robot could keep track of the owner, at the same time reporting the owner's browsing habits for sale to Amazon, Google and the NSA. Heck, why not have a robot child watching EVERYONE? Sure, it's creepy, but that's the price you pay for eternal vigilance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/With_Folded_Hands
Those guys weren't very tall. ''to serve and obey and guard men from harm".
What about the first time they hit some turbulence?
In the event of turbulence, the pilot is instructed to dive sharply so that the passengers are in free-fall, and they can bounce around safely like in those space shuttle training flights.
... yeah, I wouldn't want to clean up after it, either.
Apple is raising the bar, but the problem with biometric authentication is always the same: once someone has made a 3D copy of your face, you cannot revoke your authentication credentials.
One of the reasons I'm against the idea of fingerprint-based biometric authentication is because I think it'll lead to criminals either forcibly using, or even removing, the user's fingers. I don't want to think about them removing faces ... messy.
Or perhaps the phone won't recognise you after the criminal has beaten you senseless and broken your nose.