I don't like the partisan stupidity and I commend TD for avoiding any mention of parties in the article, specially considering there's bullshit in all political spectrum. That said and I'm certainly not a fan of Democrats, my first thought when I first read about this abhorrent piece of crappy bill was "Republicans" and it didn't fail on me because it was introduced by them. There are these types of groups everywhere, here we have more political parties so there are 3 or 4 that would fit in the Republican way of being worse than the others. Even though I had a special disdain reserved for Bush (the last one) because of the Patriot Act and inexistent mass destruction weapons being used to justify military intervention I personally didn't have anything too bad against the party itself that I couldn't find in Democrats as well. But heck this administration and R's behavior in the legislative branch for the recent years earned them the Golden Turd of bullshit and assholeness. I can see there are good people in the party but really, they should leave and found a third party along with the good that there is in the Democrats...
As for the bill itself I think it might find resistance even among the Republicans (the good ones I mentioned) and being so broad may be it's weak point and eventual demise. We need to stay tuned and mount resistance though. With the current administration no amount of caution and activism is enough.
Actually no. It depends on the importance, value of the thing as well. I do read them all to the end though, which includes TOS and EULAs for stuff I deem important enough that I don't want to be locked out, screwed out of. Of course I don't own any business or anything that could go to a judicial hell like this one..
I didn't comment on the last article because it was some Hell already so I won't delve into the specifics but I will say that I'd have got a decent lawyer waaaaay before Green decided to get one. Even if he didn't know how bad it would turn, when you start having disputes like that you need one lawyer. Actually, it would be wise to ask for legal review on any contract. I always go for counseling if there's anything weird, something I don't understand or long contracts. Specially the long ones.
What we saw was a display of extremism by both sides. Of course the white supremacists side ideas are very flawed, twisted and generally wrong but the episode showed how you can be an extremist idiot even if you are right.
I'm amused when people engage discussions about left and right as if there weren't abuses on one or another. Same with religions. Anything will be wrong and harmful if taken to the extreme, fundamentalist level.
Not. If they use something that's patented they'll get sued for it. If it's Open Source it's not developed anywhere else. There are plenty of examples of projects that were nuked due to patents. And plenty of patented stuff that got green light to be used and developed at will as if it was open source (which invalidates your point about patents quite nicely). Elon Musk and Tesla mean something to you?
If this site was based on bleeding edge open source and free tech he'd find another non-issue to cling on. I kind of feel sorry for the guy, it must be quite the burden the hatred he is carrying.
Brace yourselves, a bad "Masnick censors my posts" trollstorm is coming!
Just in case let's leave it here with emphasis:
"What they shouldn't be met with is calls for *****the government***** to step in and tell everyone what sort of speech is permitted."
God bless ACLU for their excellent work in the middle of all this bs. Let's see if the 1st survives the current political climate and polarization in the US.
I hope it succeeds and dwarves the other traditional patents. Maybe then politicians will fix the system by creating a patent pool that has clear rules and cost to use and make the process of granting some patent much stricter.
One is regular updating by the companies. Microsoft does it and I believe they are doing a good security job (much better than, say, 10 years ago actually).
Then there's the end user. How the fucking fucks do they expect anybody to protect themselves against undisclosed exploits that don't even need real user input to get in? I mean, even if you could prevent by being completely paranoid about security not everybody would have the expertise to take these added steps even if you disconsider the added hassle to operate the system that comes with it.
No, the problem is you shouldn't be hoarding exploits. If you must, just use them, gather some intel and disclose as soon as possible.
Well, if you consider that many 'cracks' use hosts entries and general blockades against authentication servers this might actually make sense as an argument. If you consider that the anti-adblocking is there to allow monetization over copyrighted content then it may be legal (while not particularly right or ethic).
And seriously, just list the domains in some separated file so the users can add manually and problem solved.
Finally we are getting rid of the stigma games have carried for so long. Of course, once the old men yelling at the cloud got replaced by old gamers this was only natural.
I think people were too harsh on the guy. The way things happened is not how you make someone change his/her mind. I still believe a discussion recognizing that yes, biological aptitude exists but it's very far from determinant and that it pales when compared to our patriarchal society that actively drives women to "girl stuff" as if there is such a thing as stuff that only women or men should do would have been more productive.
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As for the bill itself I think it might find resistance even among the Republicans (the good ones I mentioned) and being so broad may be it's weak point and eventual demise. We need to stay tuned and mount resistance though. With the current administration no amount of caution and activism is enough.
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What we saw was a display of extremism by both sides. Of course the white supremacists side ideas are very flawed, twisted and generally wrong but the episode showed how you can be an extremist idiot even if you are right.
I'm amused when people engage discussions about left and right as if there weren't abuses on one or another. Same with religions. Anything will be wrong and harmful if taken to the extreme, fundamentalist level.
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Just in case let's leave it here with emphasis:
"What they shouldn't be met with is calls for *****the government***** to step in and tell everyone what sort of speech is permitted."
God bless ACLU for their excellent work in the middle of all this bs. Let's see if the 1st survives the current political climate and polarization in the US.
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The current system is irreversibly broken.
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Here's hoping John Oliver has the right sequence :D
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One is regular updating by the companies. Microsoft does it and I believe they are doing a good security job (much better than, say, 10 years ago actually).
Then there's the end user. How the fucking fucks do they expect anybody to protect themselves against undisclosed exploits that don't even need real user input to get in? I mean, even if you could prevent by being completely paranoid about security not everybody would have the expertise to take these added steps even if you disconsider the added hassle to operate the system that comes with it.
No, the problem is you shouldn't be hoarding exploits. If you must, just use them, gather some intel and disclose as soon as possible.
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And seriously, just list the domains in some separated file so the users can add manually and problem solved.
And this is yet one more reason to scrap IP laws.
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