Drop Box is nothing more than a gussied up repackaging of a SFTP or FTPS and a nice fancy ol' GUI. Drop Box does not do anything radically different or innovative. If you don't like the way drop box works, it's trivial to roll your own solution or have someone do it for you. You set up a server for SFTP or FTPS and download a nice, friendly little program called FileZilla. Viola! Your own secure solution without being totally at the whim of a corporation. You can even get a virtual server for basically peanuts per month to facilitate this through providers like VPSCheap.net.
The entire political system is broken! We need smaller government across the board - not just where it is politically inconvenient. I say start by getting rid of most of the bloated executive branch. Do we really need so many law enforcement agencies? Let's also get rid of the spying agencies. Then let's start by axing the judicial branch. No more Supreme Court appointments - justices must be elected every 6 years with a two term limit.
I think it's worse that we preach innocent until proven guilty while behaving just the opposite. As an American citizen, we are ripe for another revolution or civil war. The reset button desperately needs to be pressed as we are basically at society's blue screen of death.
I'm glad to hear Carter's stance on NSA and spying but I'm deeply disappointed that he stopped short of exoneration for Snowden. In my mind, Snowden is a patriot. No country should sacrifice liberty for security. When this happens, the terrorists win. Yes, they win and win big.
You know, I honestly don't care anymore. If there's a war brewing over how to deliver media content over the web and into our homes, fuck it. At this point, perhaps the only winning move is to not play. I have better things to do with my time anyways.
Just my 2 cents.
You have a good point. The best way to beat this is by not paying to play. However, you and I would be in a minority because most folks out there are enthralled with media content and games. The reality of this is that we would be pretty hard pressed to convince most to do without this. Therefore, people may gripe and grumble, but in the end, it's all a bunch of hot air.
This is very sad news indeed. The internet was founded on an open, neutral platform. This is just pure and simple greed on the part of Big Telecom. I will chalk the defeat of net neutrality up to another one of the Obama Administration's growing list of failures. By that same token, I think a Republican would have failed equally. The U.S. political system is broken and dysfunctional.
These days journalism is a lot of opinion and drama designed to lure readers or television viewers. Very often the stories lack fact checking and verification and are subject to quite a bit of hyperbole. Good, objective journalism has died with a large thank you to Rupert Murdoch who promoted the news as a business versus a true information source.
And technically, you aren't correct either. The patent is published to provide legal protection and remedy for the inventor. People cannot necessarily improve on it without violating the law. They can obtain licenses to use and improve on the original product but the patent holder gets compensated.
The developer stole nothing, one element necessary for theft is intentionally depriving the owner of their property and the owner was never deprived of their property. This is conversion
In an interesting sense, you are technically correct because the owner is not being deprived of anything. The owner, Microsoft, still has the code and is thus deprived of nothing. This fits better under industrial espionage law. Unfortunately, case law precedent makes it possible to prosecute the actor under theft statutes.
It just goes to show that corporations will go at huge lengths to not fix shitty products and using the legal system to protect their own marketing efforts. I believe the 1980s predictions of the corporations governing the world are coming true. It's sad.
The idiocy of this entire thing is that the smarter of the criminals will adapt and overcome. The funny thing is that most of us are in very little danger of foreign terrorist attacks. The real danger is domestic and not terrorism either. The real danger is our political system causing an implosion.
Mod the parent up! This is so true. The same end is also reached by allowing your elected officials to think for you instead of making them your servants.
These efforts are a call to arms for private citizens to build their own networks far away from the prying eyes of government. The technology is now a commodity. Anyone who wants to do this, has the ability.
I have not only noticed this with Google but I've also seen something similar on legitimate file download sites like FileHippo, CNET, and others. They plaster the site with download links and you might not actually be downloading the original file(s) that you have intended but adware. It's actually hard to decipher the download link that you actually want to click. I have lost count of the number of computers I've had to clean up because of this. It's really dishonest.
Wasn't she the Queen Bitch that was complaining about CIA spying on her computers? Wow, talk about hypocritical. Guess when it happens to you, it isn't so trivial anymore.
Rather than spying on American citizens, the CIA is actually spying on our elected officials. This makes me smile even more. I would really like the CIA to release this data. This is, no sarcasm, a good use of the CIA. Our elected idiots need to be reigned in.
They can have all the speed in the world but it honestly doesn't amount to a scrap heap of shit. I'd be more interested in better, more reliable broadband for consumers and small business. Our broadband is still late 1990s, early 2000s technology while the rest of the world can boast gigabit to the home. I have a friend in England who has a full 100MB symmetric line for what I'm paying Verizon 50 down and 25 up and he even gets an, OMG wait for it, a static IP without bandwidth caps and port blocking. I'm sick of hearing telcos brag about their "high speed" is the best. The truth is, and no surprise here, they suck!
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How will the UN enforce this? This is nothing more than a symbolic gesture as I don't think sanctions are likely to hurt Japan all that much.
Drop Box is nothing more than a gussied up repackaging of a SFTP or FTPS and a nice fancy ol' GUI. Drop Box does not do anything radically different or innovative. If you don't like the way drop box works, it's trivial to roll your own solution or have someone do it for you. You set up a server for SFTP or FTPS and download a nice, friendly little program called FileZilla. Viola! Your own secure solution without being totally at the whim of a corporation. You can even get a virtual server for basically peanuts per month to facilitate this through providers like VPSCheap.net.
The entire political system is broken! We need smaller government across the board - not just where it is politically inconvenient. I say start by getting rid of most of the bloated executive branch. Do we really need so many law enforcement agencies? Let's also get rid of the spying agencies. Then let's start by axing the judicial branch. No more Supreme Court appointments - justices must be elected every 6 years with a two term limit.
I think it's worse that we preach innocent until proven guilty while behaving just the opposite. As an American citizen, we are ripe for another revolution or civil war. The reset button desperately needs to be pressed as we are basically at society's blue screen of death.
Well, maybe more work could be done to develop hydrogen as a fuel cell vehicle. Then, you would really and truly have a much cleaner solution.
I'm glad to hear Carter's stance on NSA and spying but I'm deeply disappointed that he stopped short of exoneration for Snowden. In my mind, Snowden is a patriot. No country should sacrifice liberty for security. When this happens, the terrorists win. Yes, they win and win big.
So, I wonder if there are some sort of kickbacks and incentives shared between the credit bureaus and big data ....
Then law enforcement using drones should be illegal too.
You know, I honestly don't care anymore. If there's a war brewing over how to deliver media content over the web and into our homes, fuck it. At this point, perhaps the only winning move is to not play. I have better things to do with my time anyways.
Just my 2 cents.
You have a good point. The best way to beat this is by not paying to play. However, you and I would be in a minority because most folks out there are enthralled with media content and games. The reality of this is that we would be pretty hard pressed to convince most to do without this. Therefore, people may gripe and grumble, but in the end, it's all a bunch of hot air.
This is very sad news indeed. The internet was founded on an open, neutral platform. This is just pure and simple greed on the part of Big Telecom. I will chalk the defeat of net neutrality up to another one of the Obama Administration's growing list of failures. By that same token, I think a Republican would have failed equally. The U.S. political system is broken and dysfunctional.
These days journalism is a lot of opinion and drama designed to lure readers or television viewers. Very often the stories lack fact checking and verification and are subject to quite a bit of hyperbole. Good, objective journalism has died with a large thank you to Rupert Murdoch who promoted the news as a business versus a true information source.
And technically, you aren't correct either. The patent is published to provide legal protection and remedy for the inventor. People cannot necessarily improve on it without violating the law. They can obtain licenses to use and improve on the original product but the patent holder gets compensated.
The developer stole nothing, one element necessary for theft is intentionally depriving the owner of their property and the owner was never deprived of their property. This is conversion
In an interesting sense, you are technically correct because the owner is not being deprived of anything. The owner, Microsoft, still has the code and is thus deprived of nothing. This fits better under industrial espionage law. Unfortunately, case law precedent makes it possible to prosecute the actor under theft statutes.
I believe they conspire with physicians to not emphasize cures. There is no long term profit in a cure.
It just goes to show that corporations will go at huge lengths to not fix shitty products and using the legal system to protect their own marketing efforts. I believe the 1980s predictions of the corporations governing the world are coming true. It's sad.
Well then Nancy Pelosi is a chicken shit - pure and simple!
The idiocy of this entire thing is that the smarter of the criminals will adapt and overcome. The funny thing is that most of us are in very little danger of foreign terrorist attacks. The real danger is domestic and not terrorism either. The real danger is our political system causing an implosion.
Mod the parent up! This is so true. The same end is also reached by allowing your elected officials to think for you instead of making them your servants.
These efforts are a call to arms for private citizens to build their own networks far away from the prying eyes of government. The technology is now a commodity. Anyone who wants to do this, has the ability.
My old employer did it! Technically, it is a violation of HIPAA if employees do anything related to their benefits on the corporate network.
I have not only noticed this with Google but I've also seen something similar on legitimate file download sites like FileHippo, CNET, and others. They plaster the site with download links and you might not actually be downloading the original file(s) that you have intended but adware. It's actually hard to decipher the download link that you actually want to click. I have lost count of the number of computers I've had to clean up because of this. It's really dishonest.
Wasn't she the Queen Bitch that was complaining about CIA spying on her computers? Wow, talk about hypocritical. Guess when it happens to you, it isn't so trivial anymore.
Yes, it is wholesale spying! But, in this case, it's a good thing. Let the politicos sweat for a while.
Rather than spying on American citizens, the CIA is actually spying on our elected officials. This makes me smile even more. I would really like the CIA to release this data. This is, no sarcasm, a good use of the CIA. Our elected idiots need to be reigned in.
They can have all the speed in the world but it honestly doesn't amount to a scrap heap of shit. I'd be more interested in better, more reliable broadband for consumers and small business. Our broadband is still late 1990s, early 2000s technology while the rest of the world can boast gigabit to the home. I have a friend in England who has a full 100MB symmetric line for what I'm paying Verizon 50 down and 25 up and he even gets an, OMG wait for it, a static IP without bandwidth caps and port blocking. I'm sick of hearing telcos brag about their "high speed" is the best. The truth is, and no surprise here, they suck!