One has to wonder why TVs have built in browsers. I'm kind of worried since my TV is smart even though I've never used such things and thus never updated the firmware (you can't really find dumb models anymore nowadays). The bright part is that it has no wireless connection, only an wired network port so at the very least it won't be doing anything funny if it's compromised. No, seriously, let the TVs do what they do best: convert signals into images. If I need anything smarter I have a plethora of much better devices to choose from. Yay for the INEPT?
Reminding everybody that what the law doesn't forbid the citizens can do but the Government must have explicit permission by law or the Constitution to do something.
Of course you can always be Salvador Dali and treat rocks as molten clocks and everything is allowed as long as there are molten clocks and saxophone-headed elephants in the law.
I stream what the heck I want. In any case, I'm avoiding this game. If they want to (try) to impose restrictions and issue threats (veiled or not) then I have no interest in the game.
That would be an interesting way of dealing with copyright trolling. Pay only to the artist and ask said artist if he;she is happy that a fan had been screwed and will not be, you know, a fan anymore. I can't imagine many artists that would keep letting third party copyright collectors manage their portfolio.
Trivial if the platforms support an alternate way. But from experience the alternate way is usually Google and nothing else. There are costs related to integrating your business to those authentication systems so most folks won't bother going for a third, 4th, 5th system. What could be done and actually must be done is to set up a standard in which such systems can be integrated easily to any site. That would be more useful than fighting against some of them becoming too dominant.
In any case, I do sympathize with the guy. One of the reasons I still have a FB account is the fact I need it to authenticate into a few useful services.
Just like the possessive husband that beats his wife into the hospital but claims it's because he loves her. My ass. Pai is a dipshit who couldn't care less about anything other than his own interests. Much like Trump. They all claim they want to protect the poor, the people but they actually are disgusted by those lowly peasants, they just care about the "great america" (translate: rich. I'd add white and Christian but Pai is Indian-American so it would be weird).
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Comments like yours are what help make things better. A while back someone (I believe Leigh) explained they try to deliver better ads but sometimes some trash goes through because they are not the ones that select the ads.
I'll add my own 2 cents here: Troy Hunt went with some sort of curation model. He got rid of the ads altogether and now has a neat sponsorship bar with a text ad for the sponsor. Maybe TD could reduce the number of ads using a mixed system. Things like what you mentioned will still happen but at least random ads will not be the lions share of the mix.
"Even if both those fail and every such case gets tossed out, prosecutors face no substantial sanction for this stunt, and they did manage to imprison the accused for months (sometimes years) on, effectively, no demonstrable legal basis."
By then the damage has been done if you got the wrong person either by accident or on purpose. Of course the system is broken but the people inside are not better if they are abusing it.
At some point the Arabs were more advanced, the Chinese, the Egyptian, then Aztecs. It just happened that the West was in the vanguard in a time where technology advanced really fast. Obviously it's the result of bright minds but it's also some luck. We are seeing the rest of the world quickly catching up.
"The protection of society from serious criminal activity is equally important to the maintenance of a functioning democracy."
No it is not. Because the definition of crime seems to shift at the whims of the current Government. Ensuring everybody has their rights protected before talking about crime is what is important to the maintenance of a functioning democracy.
It's no surprise there are very, very few functioning democracies today. And Canada isn't one of them.
If you need to justify something that much chances are you are wrong. Or you are an activist trying to change historic problems (racism, chauvinism etc). I personally think the ISPs mentioned above are not 'activists'.
This need a lot of publicity to prevent the laziness from acquiring a very problematic precedent while skipping the courts. He needs financial help. Does he have some crowdfunding campaign?
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Lying to a court? If he said 5, 6 times it would still be a lie but at least it would be closer to the truth. Ahem.
/jk but not too much
I admit I giggled like a high school boy when I read that.
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Your definition of minority is quite weird, it fits into 'majority' according to the dictionary.
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Re: I am so confused.
Of course you can always be Salvador Dali and treat rocks as molten clocks and everything is allowed as long as there are molten clocks and saxophone-headed elephants in the law.
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In any case, I do sympathize with the guy. One of the reasons I still have a FB account is the fact I need it to authenticate into a few useful services.
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I see what you did there. So this bill promotes Americans to USA citizens again when within 100 miles from the border, eh?
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Just wait for the lasers! In any case it seems blue lives need not to fear anymore, they can kill at will without ever being threatened!
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Re: Great Reporting, but I'm a Little Disappointed
I'll add my own 2 cents here: Troy Hunt went with some sort of curation model. He got rid of the ads altogether and now has a neat sponsorship bar with a text ad for the sponsor. Maybe TD could reduce the number of ads using a mixed system. Things like what you mentioned will still happen but at least random ads will not be the lions share of the mix.
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By then the damage has been done if you got the wrong person either by accident or on purpose. Of course the system is broken but the people inside are not better if they are abusing it.
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No it is not. Because the definition of crime seems to shift at the whims of the current Government. Ensuring everybody has their rights protected before talking about crime is what is important to the maintenance of a functioning democracy.
It's no surprise there are very, very few functioning democracies today. And Canada isn't one of them.
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I'd say lucky.
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That's $11 million + to the pockets of select people. Let's not forget the MAFIAAs of the world have had their toes deep into the office for years.
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