If the problem is a lot of people congregating in one place, one solution is to have more checkpoints and spread them out so there are fewer people in any one area.
I just thought I'd point out that one of the first things Canada's latest Prime Minister did was un-muzzle our scientists. It's sad to see the UK not learning from our past mistakes.
This could be a timing thing - with a new movie and series on the way CBS may simply have decided they need to more closely manage their brand. If the fan film took the ST universe in a direction that differs from their plans the result could be negative for CBS.
Agreed. Any good parent knows that positive reinforcement should be employed much more than threats and punishment when teaching children (and animals, for that matter) good behaviour.
In a very real sense people are being childish when they lash out on the internet - rationality goes out the window - so better to use these techniques for them too.
I'm generally against copyright and for Aereo but suggesting the difference between Aereo and a local recording box is merely cable length is simple-minded at best.
Yes the internet is effectively a wire but on the other end is a paid service, not just an antenna. They're receiving, transcoding and transmitting digital video, not just piping RF signals down copper.
They knew they were on shaky ground, they played their hand, they lost. It sucks but c'est la vie. This was never a way to bring about copyright reform.
Mike, it's pretty sad that you're letting your personal views of Apple get in the way of your job once again. You're advocating for malware to be developed that could expose hundreds of millions of devices to attack. It's bad enough that Android has so many attack vectors, you do no service to your readers trying to add one to the more secure iOS.
The scanner on the iPhone uses optics and RF, it won't be fooled by photos, gummi bears or cut off fingers. The stored scan data is more like a hash than an image; the NSA hacking your phone and grabbing that data doesn't do them much good.
As for the tinfoil hats, Apple is a hardware and services company, they have little incentive to steal your data or allow it to be stolen. As opposed to, say, a mobile operating system developer who is also the world's largest ad network.
With communism the government owns the corporations. What you have is a system where the corporations own the government. That's capitalism - everyone hails the almighty dollar. It's also very conservative (as opposed to liberal)
While I agree there's the potential for this spying to be used against political adversaries, I think it's a bit tinfoil hatish to say that's happening already, and given this system was put in place during the Bush administration it clearly wasn't designed to keep Obama in power.
I'm not sure I agree that just because something is publicly available on the internet that anyone else can copy and post that information on their own site, particularly for commercial gain. What if instead of ads these were pictures or videos? Would it still be ok in your mind, Mike, for some other site to scrape that content and publish it themselves, even if with attribution?
I'm not a fan of litigation over these sorts of things in general but I can't help but see CL's point here.
The iPad was a good call, it's by far the best and most popular tablet. The problem is that so much news can be had for free, so why pay for it? Apps like Flipboard and Pulse launched while thy were trying to convince people to pay. Oops.
Mike you'd look a lot more like a real journalist if you left your anti-Apple bias out of your writing.
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Spread out
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Canada
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Brand management
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Impressively drunk
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Think of the children
In a very real sense people are being childish when they lash out on the internet - rationality goes out the window - so better to use these techniques for them too.
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It's not just the cable
Yes the internet is effectively a wire but on the other end is a paid service, not just an antenna. They're receiving, transcoding and transmitting digital video, not just piping RF signals down copper.
They knew they were on shaky ground, they played their hand, they lost. It sucks but c'est la vie. This was never a way to bring about copyright reform.
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Grammar
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Conflict?
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So...
Be sure to let us know when it's done.
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Re:
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No.
As for the tinfoil hats, Apple is a hardware and services company, they have little incentive to steal your data or allow it to be stolen. As opposed to, say, a mobile operating system developer who is also the world's largest ad network.
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Re: Re: Capitalism
While I agree there's the potential for this spying to be used against political adversaries, I think it's a bit tinfoil hatish to say that's happening already, and given this system was put in place during the Bush administration it clearly wasn't designed to keep Obama in power.
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Capitalism
Mike, you forgot to mention Apple in your short list of companies who fought against joining your fine country's spying scheme.
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Accessible == redistributable?
I'm not a fan of litigation over these sorts of things in general but I can't help but see CL's point here.
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Old news
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Follow the money
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Mike you'd look a lot more like a real journalist if you left your anti-Apple bias out of your writing.
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