Re: "... and next on the agenda it looks like we have a vegan with their presentation, 'Eating Death: The Balance Between Meat and Veggies' "
Actually, it's worse.
Because privacy is part of security, but surveillance is counter to it.
We can make technology secure for everyone, or we can make it insecure for everyone, so everyone can spy. And with insecure technology, we're opening up our infrastructure to attack, not just from out own spooks, but from everybody else.
We can't choose a world where the US gets to spy but China doesn't, or even a world where governments get to spy and criminals don't. We need to choose, as a matter of policy, communications systems that are secure for all users, or ones that are vulnerable to all attackers. It's security or surveillance.
Actually, books in electronic form are way too expensive.
Because they somehow took the paper version as a price-model, which works completely different.
With E-books, there's a (rather low) price where you can sell such a lot that your profits will be much higher than if you sold at the much higher price near the paper version. I'd guess this "sweet" price where you can make the most profit would be around $1-$4; depending a bit on the book. But it won't be even NEAR $10, let alone $12 or $15, except for the most popular and anticipated new books.
Both of those concepts that have been default (or at least common) in the *nix world for decades. If MS is finally getting its head out of its ass and at least trying to do things the right way, that's a win, imo.
Some people don't even realise they're dependant on the internet, because they have all their staff doing the work -- depending on the internet -- on their behalf.
However, I absolutely cannot fathom for one second Microsoft wouldn't send the hounds after me if I took all their APIs, wrote my own OS, used those APIs, and competed with Windows.
Oh yeah? It already happened. http://reactos.com/ And Microsoft hasn't sued them.
And neither did they sue https://www.winehq.org/ who basically implemented all the user-space APIs of Windows on Unix.
Google should have written its own APIs, even if they performed identically to the Java APIs.
Then they are the same. They wrote libraries, by themselves, without copying the inner workings. And in order to be compatible to Java programs, they NEED to provide the same APIs. "perform identically" with regards to APIs means "are exactly the same".
But since they only covered a part of Java, and didn't base it on the Java source, they needed to rename it for trademark reasons.
"Why is it not possible to live in a country with 2nd amendment rights AND not have mass shooting all the time?"
I really have no idea. Especially if I compare this to other countries with huge amounts of firearms available to people, like Greenland, Canada, Switzerland.
As for shootings in general, there seems to be one big factor, that's sadly not visible in the statistics: Handguns versus rifles. All the other countries with a high firearm proliferation have very little handguns available. Most of the guns are shotguns and rifles.
But mass shootings? You'd expect them to be mostly done with long guns, and people in the USA don't have a lot more of those than people in other countries; but mass shootings still are not as common as in the USA. Maybe it's a cultural thing...
Re: Re: We need to ban it because a mass murderer featured it, so.....
As you point out, while there are some dark chapters in America's history - as with all countries - the American flag stands for many great things to be very proud of.
Yes, Germany banned all representations of Nazi insignia.
And they're behaving just as stupid as the guys who want to ban the confederate flag. You can't even kill Nazis in Wolfenstein, they had to change the flag.
The irony is of course, that the whole world is now actively embracing Nazi ideology with mass surveillance and oppressing dissent.
Including the lie that the CIA was using vaccinations as a cover-up to get DNA samples. A lie that's now leading to a huge problem in Pakistan and Afghanistan because people believe vaccinations in general to be a CIA plot.
What we really see here is a worldwide re-arising of fascism (by any other name).
It doesn't matter whether it's "communists" or "jews" or "terrorists" that are used to justify it, these are just the scapegoats. The goal is the same, total control of the population.
a disadvantage if other countries were not subject to the same restrictions
Envy. Doesn't it ever work?
It's the reason Switzerland has a patent-law. Because Swiss companies had to pay patent royalties to French companies, and they thought it unfair, so they wanted the French companies make them pay as well.
Despite of just about every economist (including the president of the Swiss Industrial Union "Vorort") in Switzerland decrying patents as useless and harmful.
This was in the 1880ies, we and the rest of the world are still suffering.
Re: Re: Terrorists already won the war, unless we get rid of these laws.
You're wrong. Terrorist are perfectly happy if you do something that makes your population miserable, including enacting fascist laws like the patriot act.
And it doesn't really matter if you're more aggressive, as the only thing that will do is produce more unhappy people on their side that will take up terrorism.
That doesn't mean you shouldn't do anything against terrorism, but you've got to be very careful. All collateral damage you do will play into their hands.
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Re: "... and next on the agenda it looks like we have a vegan with their presentation, 'Eating Death: The Balance Between Meat and Veggies' "
Because privacy is part of security, but surveillance is counter to it.
We can make technology secure for everyone, or we can make it insecure for everyone, so everyone can spy. And with insecure technology, we're opening up our infrastructure to attack, not just from out own spooks, but from everybody else.
To quote Bruce Schneier from https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/03/the_democratiza_1.html
We can't choose a world where the US gets to spy but China doesn't, or even a world where governments get to spy and criminals don't. We need to choose, as a matter of policy, communications systems that are secure for all users, or ones that are vulnerable to all attackers. It's security or surveillance.
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Re: Back in the USA
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The "sweet" price
Because they somehow took the paper version as a price-model, which works completely different.
With E-books, there's a (rather low) price where you can sell such a lot that your profits will be much higher than if you sold at the much higher price near the paper version. I'd guess this "sweet" price where you can make the most profit would be around $1-$4; depending a bit on the book. But it won't be even NEAR $10, let alone $12 or $15, except for the most popular and anticipated new books.
I've written about this:
On Ebooks and pricing
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Re: Re: Drug War. . .
Obviously, because who is going to profit from them?
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Re: Re:
Here's my list from 2009 What's wrong with windows.
Apparently 2 of those get fixed until 2015, which means Windows should finally be usable somewhere around 2050.
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it does not "spy" on companies....
And it does not spy on average citizens either, it just happens with all that traffic they collect, there's that data in there.
But it does not spy on them.
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Secretary Syndrome
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:
Oh yeah? It already happened. http://reactos.com/ And Microsoft hasn't sued them.
And neither did they sue https://www.winehq.org/ who basically implemented all the user-space APIs of Windows on Unix.
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Re: Re: Re:
Google should have written its own APIs, even if they performed identically to the Java APIs.
Then they are the same. They wrote libraries, by themselves, without copying the inner workings. And in order to be compatible to Java programs, they NEED to provide the same APIs. "perform identically" with regards to APIs means "are exactly the same".
But since they only covered a part of Java, and didn't base it on the Java source, they needed to rename it for trademark reasons.
So there is absolutely nothing "nefarious".
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Re: Ex Post Facto
To a "State of law" several things like "due process" and "innocent until proven guilty" are necessary, and that all laws must be made public.
Applying laws retroactively is contrary to that. It's actually destroying the base of the state itself. People doing this should arrested for treason.
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Re:
I really have no idea. Especially if I compare this to other countries with huge amounts of firearms available to people, like Greenland, Canada, Switzerland.
As for shootings in general, there seems to be one big factor, that's sadly not visible in the statistics: Handguns versus rifles. All the other countries with a high firearm proliferation have very little handguns available. Most of the guns are shotguns and rifles.
But mass shootings? You'd expect them to be mostly done with long guns, and people in the USA don't have a lot more of those than people in other countries; but mass shootings still are not as common as in the USA. Maybe it's a cultural thing...
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Re: Re: We need to ban it because a mass murderer featured it, so.....
I guess the flag does also stand for slaughtering indians?
https://finnegan2749.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/ok2zd00z.jpg
Or imprisoning people without due process (like, you know, slaves)?
http://www.jtfgtmo.southcom.mil/xWEBSITE/photos/photos/2011/01january/110110-N-4936C-012.jpg
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Re:
And they're behaving just as stupid as the guys who want to ban the confederate flag. You can't even kill Nazis in Wolfenstein, they had to change the flag.
The irony is of course, that the whole world is now actively embracing Nazi ideology with mass surveillance and oppressing dissent.
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Re: Let's ban the skull and crossbones from the stores
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jolly_Roger
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Re: Re: Re: Copy failed, file in use
Apart from about the Top 100 of all supercomputers worldwide, which run Linux, and things like the M1 Abrams?
Well, the US Navy ditched Unix on some ships, this is what happened:
http://gcn.com/Articles/1998/07/13/Software-glitches-leave-Navy-Smart-Ship-dead-in-the-wate r.aspx
http://archive.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/1998/07/13987
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Re: Re:
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v37/n10/seymour-m-hersh/the-killing-of-osama-bin-laden
Including the lie that the CIA was using vaccinations as a cover-up to get DNA samples. A lie that's now leading to a huge problem in Pakistan and Afghanistan because people believe vaccinations in general to be a CIA plot.
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Re:
Of course we have no proof the Jews did any of this. We just publish what we believe to be the position of the German government.
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Fascism on the rise
It doesn't matter whether it's "communists" or "jews" or "terrorists" that are used to justify it, these are just the scapegoats. The goal is the same, total control of the population.
Sad times.
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a disadvantage if other countries were not subject to the same restrictions
It's the reason Switzerland has a patent-law. Because Swiss companies had to pay patent royalties to French companies, and they thought it unfair, so they wanted the French companies make them pay as well.
Despite of just about every economist (including the president of the Swiss Industrial Union "Vorort") in Switzerland decrying patents as useless and harmful.
This was in the 1880ies, we and the rest of the world are still suffering.
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Re: Re: Terrorists already won the war, unless we get rid of these laws.
And it doesn't really matter if you're more aggressive, as the only thing that will do is produce more unhappy people on their side that will take up terrorism.
That doesn't mean you shouldn't do anything against terrorism, but you've got to be very careful. All collateral damage you do will play into their hands.
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