I am going to neutralize the mod point here because the system seriously screwed up. I marked this as +1 insightful because it is correct both historical and logical. Yet the system decides you are trolling. You are not..
If I could mod you up I would. People forget that places outside of US, Japan and Scandinavia don't have super fast net. I am unsure of anywhere outside the US that actually has unmetered internet for a flat rate (well considering parts of the us are now metered and capped at half a terabyte)
'Some people need to have the browser dumbed down?' No, if they are that STUPID then they don't need a computer to begin with. And to my experience with those STUPID enough to actually click on a setting to disable Javascript, and has no clue they even did it, or indeed, what Javascript even is, when I repaired their computer, I charged them double. You are EXPECTED to understand basics on how your computer works, just like you are expected to know how to pump gas and change your oil. If you don't know what it is don't touch it. That is what adblock and no script are for. (also those who don't want the above about:config link). JS is not nor will ever be a trivial thing. Finally I have absolutely no issue with BURNING THE WITCH! who rounded corners on my UI. My screen isn't rounded so why should my UI be? Basic things people. However, I also sometimes wonder why so many people have such a stick shoved up their butts. So when did you put yours up there?
Has China or Iran produced content that the rest of the world wants to consume? No, it hasn't. As for ownership of the backbone its mostly european and US companies who do produce content. When the eu decides to wall itself off then we have issues until them, there isn't anything that can't be routed around or retrived through tor and that includes dark evil items.
define causal piracy. First of all piracy is a shipboard attack of another ship. So there is no such thing. Since you meant causal copyright infringement (they hate that term) what is that? any movie can be digitized. Think about it. All you need is a guy working in a theater who knows the owner/ owner or boss doesn't care and will run movies once late. Movies then can go to internet clean. Will the industry figure this out? Yea but not as fast as you think. Even the slip and slide of normal cammers guarantee that someone always gets a movie. Look at the horrible came of world war z. It was done in an arabic country, FFS! Computers are to the point that enough skill to maintain your system is enough to download what you want. Only those unwilling, the fearful and unbelieving won't. And us who do buy more. I would buy a copy of Dance Academy if it was available in my area (it is in seattle and am getting someone to send it to me) Once the concept of artificial scarcity dies the amount of infringement will drop off.
Saddest part of all those quotes is they are begging us to let them post their crap and not free it so they can continue to have their business the way they have had it for the last century. Unlike the music industry they know that a) without the internet there is no hope for sales with their target audience high enough to consider it profitable. B) They don't want to do the all at once everywhere and with all media because that kills off their money stream. If the movie is crap, then no one will buy any of it and they wont make enough money for it to be profitable. This is actually their last attempt at getting some form of copy protection on it. Those execs want their money. I say let them wall themselves off. Those who choose to embrace the new order will live, accept that it will be some what free and use those uploads and downloads as a popularity meter. Everyone else can go away
I gather he's referencing the TSA body scanners. Certain airports too small to have the them still have metal detectors. And yes you could use them to get to LA.
Do you really want me to spam this with the list of websites that post photos of candids? From creepshots.com to revenge porn through the paps who make money you very much can publish a photo of someone without their consent. They are in a public place (not a gym, bathroom, federal facility excluding airports) they can't come after you. I can't count the amount of times enquirer and star have won against celebs who didn't want pictures taken in public.
I would love to give a high five to those how are modded this. On to the question. 'Do you really not see that there are different implications and potential consequences to those two scenarios, and that maybe understanding and protection of privacy needs to evolve along with understanding and development of technology?' That request for understanding and protection of privacy is based on a fallacy The fallacy is you have a right to privacy on the internet. 'He went on to explain that based on current laws citizens do not have a right to be removed from search indexes within the framework of the Data Protection Directive. 'The Directive does not establish a general "right to be forgotten." 'The internet is a public park. You know this. We all do. When you log in and communicate you give by logging in the right to have things about you archived. You do not have the right to control how those things are used after you give them out until you a) are a politician b) a person who makes their living on their image or c) wealthy enough to crush others through litigation or monetary payoff. So guess what the people who figured out how to monetize the internet want your information. You can give it to them or you can not participate at all. However, understanding won't change to what you want because it won't make people money. Privacy makes no one money and that is what this is all about. Making money and controlling info. Like on WarGames: The only way to win is not to play.
I suggest you look up how Banking got started. It links nicely to the conspiracies of the Illuminati. Bankers do actually run the world. read the book 'Blood, money and greed."
seriously? I still use top tabs. And force everything to stay at the top and keep the address bar. That's what is pissing me off. I need the address bar.
I would be more worried about the people who built their tech. NSA can't build their own systems. This isn't q here. Reality they are more like Get smart. I would be concerned with Google far more.
"It's completely and utterly intellectually dishonest." And that describes our government for the last 50 yrs but most especially the current administration and those who elected it.
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Pre-internet when this was built that wasn't stupid thinking. It was called redundancy. Yes it should have been updated.
Why would anyone need a Barrel of lube? What, you're a porn star now? (55 gallons is a standard barrel)
What is cheaper? Chromium. Google will win this by extending the Android platform to laptops (which they have already) and to desktops.
I am going to neutralize the mod point here because the system seriously screwed up. I marked this as +1 insightful because it is correct both historical and logical. Yet the system decides you are trolling. You are not..
If I could mod you up I would. People forget that places outside of US, Japan and Scandinavia don't have super fast net. I am unsure of anywhere outside the US that actually has unmetered internet for a flat rate (well considering parts of the us are now metered and capped at half a terabyte)
And remember, ActiveX was promoted by the same company that decided that it was a good idea to execute email attachments by default.
And remove the start button, menu and render the desktop in all beautiful squares like its first commercial OS and call it new.
If he/she does that, it might fall out.
faery? That explains alot as to why the fae are always pissed at us.They have to do all the leg work carrying all those bits at supersonic speeds.
Inspect element defeats any right click block nicely. and if you hold down the back button you usually can bypass the block there too.
'Some people need to have the browser dumbed down?' No, if they are that STUPID then they don't need a computer to begin with. And to my experience with those STUPID enough to actually click on a setting to disable Javascript, and has no clue they even did it, or indeed, what Javascript even is, when I repaired their computer, I charged them double. You are EXPECTED to understand basics on how your computer works, just like you are expected to know how to pump gas and change your oil. If you don't know what it is don't touch it. That is what adblock and no script are for. (also those who don't want the above about:config link). JS is not nor will ever be a trivial thing.
Finally I have absolutely no issue with BURNING THE WITCH! who rounded corners on my UI. My screen isn't rounded so why should my UI be? Basic things people.
However, I also sometimes wonder why so many people have such a stick shoved up their butts. So when did you put yours up there?
Books are text, it never worked on it because its on paper. DRM on paper is rotflol.
Has China or Iran produced content that the rest of the world wants to consume? No, it hasn't. As for ownership of the backbone its mostly european and US companies who do produce content. When the eu decides to wall itself off then we have issues until them, there isn't anything that can't be routed around or retrived through tor and that includes dark evil items.
define causal piracy. First of all piracy is a shipboard attack of another ship. So there is no such thing. Since you meant causal copyright infringement (they hate that term) what is that? any movie can be digitized. Think about it. All you need is a guy working in a theater who knows the owner/ owner or boss doesn't care and will run movies once late. Movies then can go to internet clean. Will the industry figure this out? Yea but not as fast as you think. Even the slip and slide of normal cammers guarantee that someone always gets a movie. Look at the horrible came of world war z. It was done in an arabic country, FFS!
Computers are to the point that enough skill to maintain your system is enough to download what you want. Only those unwilling, the fearful and unbelieving won't. And us who do buy more. I would buy a copy of Dance Academy if it was available in my area (it is in seattle and am getting someone to send it to me)
Once the concept of artificial scarcity dies the amount of infringement will drop off.
Saddest part of all those quotes is they are begging us to let them post their crap and not free it so they can continue to have their business the way they have had it for the last century. Unlike the music industry they know that a) without the internet there is no hope for sales with their target audience high enough to consider it profitable. B) They don't want to do the all at once everywhere and with all media because that kills off their money stream. If the movie is crap, then no one will buy any of it and they wont make enough money for it to be profitable.
This is actually their last attempt at getting some form of copy protection on it. Those execs want their money. I say let them wall themselves off. Those who choose to embrace the new order will live, accept that it will be some what free and use those uploads and downloads as a popularity meter. Everyone else can go away
I gather he's referencing the TSA body scanners. Certain airports too small to have the them still have metal detectors. And yes you could use them to get to LA.
Do you really want me to spam this with the list of websites that post photos of candids? From creepshots.com to revenge porn through the paps who make money you very much can publish a photo of someone without their consent. They are in a public place (not a gym, bathroom, federal facility excluding airports) they can't come after you. I can't count the amount of times enquirer and star have won against celebs who didn't want pictures taken in public.
I would love to give a high five to those how are modded this. On to the question. 'Do you really not see that there are different implications and potential consequences to those two scenarios, and that maybe understanding and protection of privacy needs to evolve along with understanding and development of technology?'
That request for understanding and protection of privacy is based on a fallacy The fallacy is you have a right to privacy on the internet. 'He went on to explain that based on current laws citizens do not have a right to be removed from search indexes within the framework of the Data Protection Directive. 'The Directive does not establish a general "right to be forgotten." 'The internet is a public park. You know this. We all do. When you log in and communicate you give by logging in the right to have things about you archived. You do not have the right to control how those things are used after you give them out until you a) are a politician b) a person who makes their living on their image or c) wealthy enough to crush others through litigation or monetary payoff.
So guess what the people who figured out how to monetize the internet want your information. You can give it to them or you can not participate at all. However, understanding won't change to what you want because it won't make people money. Privacy makes no one money and that is what this is all about. Making money and controlling info.
Like on WarGames: The only way to win is not to play.
except the international bankers, the FED and the illuminati. No sir they don't like it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDGlN6mluGA
It's Slashdot, the truth tends to piss people off around here.
Your statement pisses me off.
Which is why his statement is true.
Banking itself is a ponzi scheme. We believe it works because the shells have never stopped.
I suggest you look up how Banking got started. It links nicely to the conspiracies of the Illuminati. Bankers do actually run the world. read the book 'Blood, money and greed."
seriously? I still use top tabs. And force everything to stay at the top and keep the address bar. That's what is pissing me off. I need the address bar.
I would be more worried about the people who built their tech. NSA can't build their own systems. This isn't q here. Reality they are more like Get smart. I would be concerned with Google far more.
And I believe the Myraid case was 2 and we got 1 to guarantee it doesn't happen again.
"It's completely and utterly intellectually dishonest." And that describes our government for the last 50 yrs but most especially the current administration and those who elected it.