"When you purchase a prepaid or "burner" cellphone, the cellphone company will require your name, address and other pertinent information in order to activate your burner phone."
This is not really true. There are phones that require no such thing, and for the ones that do require it then you can simply lie.
"exactly *how much* time and money are companies expected to spend finding ways around stupid government regulations?"
Exactly as much as is necessary to make the product desirable to their target market. Whether or not this is a good business decision for them remains to be seen.
Personally, I have yet to see a consumer router whose software I both trust and meets my needs, so not being able to provide my own firmware is a showstopper. It's not that I expect TP-Link to put the time and money into making this possible, it's that if they don't then I will simply buy a different router.
"Is this really any different, except in terms of polish, from so many other politicians who when faced with a tough question devolve into non-answer, irrelevant, canned response, sound-bite platitudes?"
In a sense, not really. Which is part of the point. But his responses aren't just lacking polish, they're incoherent.
So you have to ask why? Is it because he's an arrogant, egotistical blowhard who truly has no concept of his ignorance, or is he cynically manipulating people who want to believe that's what he is?
This is exactly correct, although I wouldn't say that it's a result of programmers sucking as much as it is a result of companies being overly aggressive in terms of cost reduction. Time-to-market and reducing manpower costs are the only things that matter in most of the industry. Quality means little. You can see the systemic nature of this by looking at the most commonly used tools and languages: they are all designed to speed production at the expense of quality.
This is a big reason the software industry is in the dismal state it is in (from a technical point of view), producing poor quality, bloated, badly designed and implemented crap.
On the other hand, customers seem to be OK with buying poor quality, bloated, badly designed and implemented crap -- so a lot of the blame falls there, too.
I see. But as The Wanderer pointed out, the word "bigotry" in no way implies race specifically. It's possible to be bigoted about pretty much anything.
Lots of people don't associate "folks" with some sort of stereotyped suspender-wearing country folk. I know that image is the furthest thing from my mind when I hear the term. In my part of the nation, it's just a casual way of saying "people" and implies nothing more than that.
But I have no idea if Comey (or Mike) read it differently.
"I'm guessing that the US has no equivalent law, and I can legally give a speech that says, "i'd like you all to attack brown people, just, not right now, okay?""
I think that would not be on legally safe ground in the US, gut it would fall into a gray area. Most people who want to incite violence but don't want to risk arrest take a slightly different tack by saying something like "Those people deserve to be attacked".
The fault here is not Azer Koculu, kik, Javascript, or even IP law.
The fault is that there are far too many developers who are engaging in the terrible practice of including run-time dependencies on code that they aren't in control over.
That is always a very risky thing to do. Those developers took a risk and it the chips fell the wrong way.
Yes, but that's a relatively recent change in US copyright law (part of a whole batch of terrible changes). Copyright used to require registration. The law needs to be fixed to require it again. The entire point of registration is so that people can find out if something is under copyright and, if so, who owns it.
In the absence of registration, the entire system becomes even more unworkable.
What would happen is some variation of this: the trust would not press a complaint about the cheapie short, but would about a commercially viable film.
The filmmaker might be able to get a preliminary ruling, but the trust would just say that the ruling only applied to the short and the commercially viable film must be considered separately.
That's pretty good. Even better would be that no public or private agency that handles data about private citizens should be permitted to use any cloud services to do so.
A small correction to the small correction. The actual quote is from the Bible, Timothy 6:10. The KJV has it as
For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
We can't stop beating them because if we do then they'll realize that we never really needed to beat them in the first place and they'll riot over the years of beatings they've been given?
That sounds like prison administration logic. I suspect the reality is that the vast majority of prisoners have been very well aware that they've been getting screwed the entire time. Having it stop will not make them realize anything they didn't already know.
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Gravity does not appear to be a "force" like light, radio waves, etc. Rather, it appears to be an effect of geometry. As such it does not "transmit" over distance at all.
(Although debate continues over whether there is a particle associated with gravity, like there is with electromagnetism, our current observations seem to support the Einsteinian view of gravity.)
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This is not really true. There are phones that require no such thing, and for the ones that do require it then you can simply lie.
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Exactly as much as is necessary to make the product desirable to their target market. Whether or not this is a good business decision for them remains to be seen.
Personally, I have yet to see a consumer router whose software I both trust and meets my needs, so not being able to provide my own firmware is a showstopper. It's not that I expect TP-Link to put the time and money into making this possible, it's that if they don't then I will simply buy a different router.
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It's long been a fundamental truth in computer security that if someone has access to the hardware then all security bets are off.
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In a sense, not really. Which is part of the point. But his responses aren't just lacking polish, they're incoherent.
So you have to ask why? Is it because he's an arrogant, egotistical blowhard who truly has no concept of his ignorance, or is he cynically manipulating people who want to believe that's what he is?
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This is a big reason the software industry is in the dismal state it is in (from a technical point of view), producing poor quality, bloated, badly designed and implemented crap.
On the other hand, customers seem to be OK with buying poor quality, bloated, badly designed and implemented crap -- so a lot of the blame falls there, too.
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But I have no idea if Comey (or Mike) read it differently.
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I think that would not be on legally safe ground in the US, gut it would fall into a gray area. Most people who want to incite violence but don't want to risk arrest take a slightly different tack by saying something like "Those people deserve to be attacked".
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The fault is that there are far too many developers who are engaging in the terrible practice of including run-time dependencies on code that they aren't in control over.
That is always a very risky thing to do. Those developers took a risk and it the chips fell the wrong way.
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In the absence of registration, the entire system becomes even more unworkable.
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What would happen is some variation of this: the trust would not press a complaint about the cheapie short, but would about a commercially viable film.
The filmmaker might be able to get a preliminary ruling, but the trust would just say that the ruling only applied to the short and the commercially viable film must be considered separately.
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A small correction to the small correction. The actual quote is from the Bible, Timothy 6:10. The KJV has it as
*pedant mode off*
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That sounds like prison administration logic. I suspect the reality is that the vast majority of prisoners have been very well aware that they've been getting screwed the entire time. Having it stop will not make them realize anything they didn't already know.
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Re: Re: Re: there's not enough matter, because universe expansion is accelerating
(Although debate continues over whether there is a particle associated with gravity, like there is with electromagnetism, our current observations seem to support the Einsteinian view of gravity.)
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