Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 7 Oct 2015 @ 11:51am
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grab a kindle. grab calibre. problem solved.
Well, sure, one problem solved.... except the solution can (at least theoretically) get you sued for 46 quadrillion dollars, or some other pointless amount.
But more to the point, it doesn't solve the root problem: We're talking about text for &^$&$^'s sake!!! The ability to put it on any device from a piece of paper to the Vulcan supercomputer, via a circa 1990 mobile phone or modern tablet or anything else, should be inherent. As soon as it's not, that's the problem.
Never mind adding value or innovating, morons have actually managed to make e-books less accessible than paper ones.
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 24 Sep 2015 @ 3:40pm
Well, that worked then
Well done FACT, you've totally managed to stop me pirating "SPECTRE". What's that you say? Your brilliant campaign? Well...... kinda...
Having been more utterly underwhelmed by Skyfall (when I finally bothered to borrow it off someone) than by pretty much any film ever, my expectation wasn't high in the first place, so you're safe from me downloading it.
Given a trip for 2 to the cinema is usually the guts of £40 (um $60?), there's a whole list if other things to spend that kind of money on than being annoyed by rude people, (though, as an aside, people recording films are among the more pleasant cinema-goers being as they are usually quiet and still), but hey, it might have been a possibility.
The casual threat of "drilling down who is in the auditorium", however, has had the presumably desired effect of making it certain I will be no-where near one. Not that I've ever recorded or want to record a film (and why would I when there's usually a gazillion copies from the master or promotional pre-releases floating around within days if not before release?), just that I hate the shitty way you do business and have no desire to give you my money.
So well done, that's one less person that might possibly have virtually cost you virtual sales had they actually shown up in a cinema. On the other hand, good luck getting any money out of me at all for a film you've made me vehemently not care about, but it's nice to have won the "moral" battle.... right?
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 5 Sep 2015 @ 3:53am
Just had a thought on this...
Maybe a lawyer out there can answer this one: Since pretty much everything is copyrighted as soon as it's created, is it not a DMCA breach to circumvent, for example, the encryption on an encrypted email? I guess it'd never manage to apply to government spying, but would it not apply to, for example, unscrupulous mobile carriers who have used such things to insert advertising?
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 4 Sep 2015 @ 8:07am
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and they're not always stored in logical locations so can easily be forgotten.
Oh my, yes. For example, even after "years of practice" I still maintain that the M$ office layout since 2007 is way less usable than those before it. (Caveat: I haven't tried the latest abortion yet).
All too often, even in Windows, the command line is actually the easiest and certainly quickest way to do a task, but many seem too enamoured of the mindless-pointy-clickyness of it all to bother to find out how. Hell, the number of people who work on computers who don't even bother with keyboard shortcuts for copy-pasta etc is scary enough!
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 3 Aug 2015 @ 6:38am
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Because he is a censorious totalitarian who wants to impose the morals he thinks people should have on them.
This.....
The only other possibilities I can see are: 1/ Shouting about a pointless, ineffectual "moral crusade" is a good way to distract from all the other truly awful and stupid policies of the government and is a good bait-and-switch for removing even more freedom from the "free" country that is the trying-to-catch-up-with-China UK
2/ He really is stupid enough to think that a law passed in Westminster is going to have more effect than generating a laugh for the 95+% of porn sites that aren't based in the UK.
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 15 Jul 2015 @ 6:31am
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"magic TLA superwatch" or whatever and they didn't say we don't have it, but here's the "super FLA megawatch
Maybe annoying, but can you imagine the level of coding needed to sort out human-entered search terms into "specific item" vs. "general search for watches like this"? It'd need to be AI!
Either you get exactly what you asked for and nothing else (which means you're in trouble if you mis-spell it) or you get stuff like what you asked for. This is why Google allows you to modify your search to force the presence of terms (+thing +brandname or whatever) in the result, but even it's tenuous because of cross references. I've no idea of Amazon implements this 'coz I've never cared enough to find out...
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 6 Jul 2015 @ 9:07am
Do these guys play deliberately dumb?
Rogers said a framework to allow law enforcement agencies to gain access to communications is in place within the phone system in the United States and other areas, so "why can't we create a similar kind of framework within the internet and the digital age?"
Is it artful or dumb to mistake infrastructure for data like this? He's talking about physical intercept of phonecalls - something that it seems the NSA still have on the internet more-or-less as they hoover up all passing traffic at some of the key nodes.
This has nothing to do with encryption - in his phone scenario; sure you can intercept the call, but if the guy on the other end says, "The Pork-chop Express rides when the Ptarmigan flies South" you're still not going to be any the wiser.
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 5 Jul 2015 @ 3:14pm
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industry creates a site that allows the audience to easily find where they can legally watch a given program
This would be that DRM-ridden piece of junk that you can't use on 1/2 of the devices you want, cripples the devices it does work on and still has massively limited content, right?
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 3 Jul 2015 @ 4:05am
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The idea that the winner of an election has any sort of mandate from the voters is ridiculous from the outset.
Be fair; the winner usually has a mandate from the "voters" that contributed hundreds of thousands of pounds to his election campaign - the handful of them that are actually British citizens and eligible to vote that is.
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 2 Jul 2015 @ 10:06am
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When the majority has no issue with an elected official to allow them to carry on with their antics, there's no reason to be concerned
When the guy was elected by about 20% of the population and less than 35% of those who bothered to vote, it's hardly a sweeping mandate, is it? And if you disagree with the moron, what's your alternative your election choices are between a gaggle of largely corrupt monkeys?
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 20 Jun 2015 @ 10:33am
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Dude, his freaking dad had no choice but to hand over rights for those videos/images while working for CBS and Paramount because the law was written by corporations like that to make sure a simple actor has no rights.
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 17 Jun 2015 @ 7:28am
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the cost/benefit is done by gut feeling.By observation, it's done by hand-waving, random "moral" panic and at best cronyism, rather than anything more based in reality like "gut feeling"... or Ouija boards.
Not an Electronic Rodent (profile), 16 Jun 2015 @ 6:06am
Re: Two possibilities
Or...
3) It really is operationally sensitive because they'd been tracking his porn habits for months and that's how they found him since every copy of "Naughty Jihadists 5" and that month's edition of "Mature Martyrs" have secret CIA GPS chips embedded....
4) The list of porn is all identifiable as coming from the private stash of the CIA used as part of honey trap operations and would show that OBL was really a prisoner before he was caught....
5) Oh, I've run out of conspiracy theories... guess I'll just have to go with the prevailing "They lied" theory :-)
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But more to the point, it doesn't solve the root problem:
We're talking about text for &^$&$^'s sake!!! The ability to put it on any device from a piece of paper to the Vulcan supercomputer, via a circa 1990 mobile phone or modern tablet or anything else, should be inherent. As soon as it's not, that's the problem.
Never mind adding value or innovating, morons have actually managed to make e-books less accessible than paper ones.
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Re: Re: platform figures
Lack of profit would suggest all of their percentage is eaten by running costs, making post-tax "payout" to the platform.... Zero.
Think you spotted the attempted "hand-waving of distraction" there...
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Well, that worked then
Having been more utterly underwhelmed by Skyfall (when I finally bothered to borrow it off someone) than by pretty much any film ever, my expectation wasn't high in the first place, so you're safe from me downloading it.
Given a trip for 2 to the cinema is usually the guts of £40 (um $60?), there's a whole list if other things to spend that kind of money on than being annoyed by rude people, (though, as an aside, people recording films are among the more pleasant cinema-goers being as they are usually quiet and still), but hey, it might have been a possibility.
The casual threat of "drilling down who is in the auditorium", however, has had the presumably desired effect of making it certain I will be no-where near one. Not that I've ever recorded or want to record a film (and why would I when there's usually a gazillion copies from the master or promotional pre-releases floating around within days if not before release?), just that I hate the shitty way you do business and have no desire to give you my money.
So well done, that's one less person that might possibly have virtually cost you virtual sales had they actually shown up in a cinema. On the other hand, good luck getting any money out of me at all for a film you've made me vehemently not care about, but it's nice to have won the "moral" battle.... right?
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Just me?
"Uh... Well, DUH!"
?
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Well, it's basically talking a language, so....
"A method of telling people to do stuff in English"
If it works for C#, why not other languages?
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Just had a thought on this...
Since pretty much everything is copyrighted as soon as it's created, is it not a DMCA breach to circumvent, for example, the encryption on an encrypted email?
I guess it'd never manage to apply to government spying, but would it not apply to, for example, unscrupulous mobile carriers who have used such things to insert advertising?
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All too often, even in Windows, the command line is actually the easiest and certainly quickest way to do a task, but many seem too enamoured of the mindless-pointy-clickyness of it all to bother to find out how. Hell, the number of people who work on computers who don't even bother with keyboard shortcuts for copy-pasta etc is scary enough!
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The only other possibilities I can see are:
1/ Shouting about a pointless, ineffectual "moral crusade" is a good way to distract from all the other truly awful and stupid policies of the government and is a good bait-and-switch for removing even more freedom from the "free" country that is the trying-to-catch-up-with-China UK
2/ He really is stupid enough to think that a law passed in Westminster is going to have more effect than generating a laugh for the 95+% of porn sites that aren't based in the UK.
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Re: Re: Re: So can I sue my Ford Dealer
Either you get exactly what you asked for and nothing else (which means you're in trouble if you mis-spell it) or you get stuff like what you asked for.
This is why Google allows you to modify your search to force the presence of terms (+thing +brandname or whatever) in the result, but even it's tenuous because of cross references. I've no idea of Amazon implements this 'coz I've never cared enough to find out...
On the post: Dept. Of Defense Defends Strong Encryption While Its Impetuous Child -- The NSA -- Continues To Lament The Coming Darkness
Do these guys play deliberately dumb?
He's talking about physical intercept of phonecalls - something that it seems the NSA still have on the internet more-or-less as they hoover up all passing traffic at some of the key nodes.
This has nothing to do with encryption - in his phone scenario; sure you can intercept the call, but if the guy on the other end says, "The Pork-chop Express rides when the Ptarmigan flies South" you're still not going to be any the wiser.
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Predictable
- Sir Humphrey Appleby
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Re: Two possibilities
3) It really is operationally sensitive because they'd been tracking his porn habits for months and that's how they found him since every copy of "Naughty Jihadists 5" and that month's edition of "Mature Martyrs" have secret CIA GPS chips embedded....
4) The list of porn is all identifiable as coming from the private stash of the CIA used as part of honey trap operations and would show that OBL was really a prisoner before he was caught....
5) Oh, I've run out of conspiracy theories... guess I'll just have to go with the prevailing "They lied" theory :-)
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