So, i just looked at my portfolio, and apparently i own about 3 dozen shares of yahoo. I think i picked them up because they were cheap, and i figured at some point they would do something interesting enough to make them worth selling again.
So, if Yahoo works for the shareholders, i'd like to register my opinion that this is a dick move and doomed to failure. But hopefully they'll make it look good so i can dump the stock and make a couple hundred bucks.
you know, from everything i've seen NOT coming from some asshole trying to scare up a budget, it seems like critical infrastructure systems, aren't usually connected to the open internet.
Kind of falls under the "just how stupid do you think we are" category. Hell, even Iran managed that, stuxnet required infected USB's as i remember.
the problem with the roku sticks is that any TV they'll work on, is almost certainly already a smart tv. It needs an upgraded usb port to work as i remember. And my kids are hooked on angry birds on the Roku2, the dongle doesn't do motion control.
I don't want my TV smart, i want a GIANT, Ultra high def, monitor. with lots of hdmi ports to play with.
I managed to get a 60 inch sharp aquos for 800 black friday and i'm ecstatic. It's not 3d, it's not smart, it's just ginourmous. and it looks great.
Everything else is an upsell for ignorant consumers who don't understand how to geek it together themselves.
it's not the targeted advertising i find creepy, it's not knowing who else has access to the data, how well secured it is, how thorough they are about eliminating identifying information... same things i worry about giving any information, to anyone, ever.
first we comply with a few. then some asshole starts sending dozens, then hundred or thousands. so we mirror the site, redirect to a new domain and burn the old contact emails.
Lesson learned, thats the last time those admins will deal with your nonsense.
you have to accept one basic tenet of reality for any of this to make sense.
Copying is easy. Sharing is easy. Piracy is never going away.
Your only hope for the future is to move past that, and figure out how to monetize peoples attention.
Cory Doctorow put it very well recently with his story about "now you have two problems": http://joshuawise.com/28c3-transcript (transcript CES speech, good stuff)
none of this would be possible unless we could control how people use their computers and the files we transfer to them. After all, it was well and good to talk about selling someone the 24 hour right to a video, or the right to move music onto an iPod, but not the right to move music from the iPod onto another device, but how the Hell could you do that once you'd given them the file? In order to do that, to make this work, you needed to figure out how to stop computers from running certain programs and inspecting certain files and processes. For example, you could encrypt the file, and then require the user to run a program that only unlocked the file under certain circumstances.
395.8 But as they say on the Internet, “now you have two problems”. You also, now, have to stop the user from saving the file while it's in the clear, and you have to stop the user from figuring out where the unlocking program stores its keys, because if the user finds the keys, she'll just decrypt the file and throw away that stupid player app.
416.6 And now you have three problems [audience laughs], because now you have to stop the users who figure out how to render the file in the clear from sharing it with other users, and now you've got *four!* problems, because now you have to stop the users who figure out how to extract secrets from unlocking programs from telling other users how to do it too, and now you've got *five!* problems, because now you have to stop users who figure out how to extract secrets from unlocking programs from telling other users what the secrets were!
in fairness, no one involved in this SPECIFIC case, was saying "its for the artists". That would be a strawman created by mike to further his point, that lawyers are vicious bloodsucking scum, who'll eat their mother if given a chance.
I'm not trolling, just pointing out that we have taken two unrelated things and created a correlation here. I'm quite certain the lawyers suing the ghost rider guy never claimed they were doing it for the content creators...they were working on behalf of their clients business and legal interests.
damned straight, it's in google's best interest to have the entire world connected with a fat, unobstrycted, pipe. That's in my interests too. Government no longer serves my interests, nor has them at heart...time to redraw some digital constituencies. How can we all get adopted by Senator Wyden?
"dear constituent- because that's politics, and because we can. Would you rather they were dictating to us? what are you, some kind of commy terrorist? Why do you hate america? How long have you worked for al qauida?
Stay where you are, someone will be along to collect you soon. We have some questions about that lawn fertilizer you purchased last year. Also, those dodgy websites we've noticed you looking at
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yeah, to allow netflix and facebook to work together. I don't really care. nor am i sure why i should. It would be a useful service. Obviously Facebook is evil, but it's not like i've given them my real name or information.
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So, if Yahoo works for the shareholders, i'd like to register my opinion that this is a dick move and doomed to failure. But hopefully they'll make it look good so i can dump the stock and make a couple hundred bucks.
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On that note, let's breed a bug that makes meth...
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morons. what's that old definition of insanity?
Ah well, if they ever stopped slamming their collective dicks in a drawer, what would we come to read about on techdirt?
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Kind of falls under the "just how stupid do you think we are" category. Hell, even Iran managed that, stuxnet required infected USB's as i remember.
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I don't want my TV smart, i want a GIANT, Ultra high def, monitor. with lots of hdmi ports to play with.
I managed to get a 60 inch sharp aquos for 800 black friday and i'm ecstatic. It's not 3d, it's not smart, it's just ginourmous. and it looks great.
Everything else is an upsell for ignorant consumers who don't understand how to geek it together themselves.
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From my experience on the other side...
first we comply with a few. then some asshole starts sending dozens, then hundred or thousands. so we mirror the site, redirect to a new domain and burn the old contact emails.
Lesson learned, thats the last time those admins will deal with your nonsense.
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Copying is easy. Sharing is easy. Piracy is never going away.
Your only hope for the future is to move past that, and figure out how to monetize peoples attention.
Cory Doctorow put it very well recently with his story about "now you have two problems":
http://joshuawise.com/28c3-transcript (transcript CES speech, good stuff)
none of this would be possible unless we could control how people use their computers and the files we transfer to them. After all, it was well and good to talk about selling someone the 24 hour right to a video, or the right to move music onto an iPod, but not the right to move music from the iPod onto another device, but how the Hell could you do that once you'd given them the file? In order to do that, to make this work, you needed to figure out how to stop computers from running certain programs and inspecting certain files and processes. For example, you could encrypt the file, and then require the user to run a program that only unlocked the file under certain circumstances.
395.8 But as they say on the Internet, “now you have two problems”. You also, now, have to stop the user from saving the file while it's in the clear, and you have to stop the user from figuring out where the unlocking program stores its keys, because if the user finds the keys, she'll just decrypt the file and throw away that stupid player app.
416.6 And now you have three problems [audience laughs], because now you have to stop the users who figure out how to render the file in the clear from sharing it with other users, and now you've got *four!* problems, because now you have to stop the users who figure out how to extract secrets from unlocking programs from telling other users how to do it too, and now you've got *five!* problems, because now you have to stop users who figure out how to extract secrets from unlocking programs from telling other users what the secrets were!
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I'm not trolling, just pointing out that we have taken two unrelated things and created a correlation here. I'm quite certain the lawyers suing the ghost rider guy never claimed they were doing it for the content creators...they were working on behalf of their clients business and legal interests.
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I'm sorry. i just couldn't help myself.
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Stay where you are, someone will be along to collect you soon. We have some questions about that lawn fertilizer you purchased last year. Also, those dodgy websites we've noticed you looking at
respectfully, your lord and master,
Uncle Sam."
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