At this point, there should be FTTP of every conceivable home, and also the moon, given what they have collected and have been additionally subsidized.
I find the solution touches on many salient points of printer behavior, not just the DRM issue in the article, for which the lack of internet connection is definitely a relevant solution, all other things being equal. (Gawd, why do we connect them to the internet anyway.)
Ink-devouring machines have all sorts of other weird behavior, such as claiming the ink is empty when it isn't, refusing to print when one cartridge is out, refusing to scan with no ink, milking prodigious quantities of ink via "cleaning", sometimes repeatedly between continuous print jobs (which also ends up leaving ink smeared all over the head and page due to the gallons of wet ink on the pads and wipers).
Maybe i am truly a nexus of entropy, and i just happen to see the worst behavior possible all the time. I have to imagine, though, that i am not so terribly unique.
Remember the old Sunsites and Ibiblio? Some of the "newer" gopher query engines are not too bad, also. Found it rather interesting when browsers dropped support for the gopher protocol.
But yeah, as much of the older internet that disappeared, there is an awful lot of it still around.
I would be curious to make from source on any distro. I poked at elementary once, some time back. Seemed interesting, maybe even a better replacement for outdated machines used by people who only know the proprietary systems.
That is exactly how we do a lot of things. It's the "I have to do _something_!" attitude. Completely ignoring the 500 other ways already available to do something, some of them actually helpful or constructive. This behavior is then co-opted by those who really want to have the power to do something about something else entirely, going along for the ride in hopes of getting the extra power and tools.
For some, it is desperation. Or a sense of taking power over something wrong. For others it is a coldly calculated manipulation. Both believers and non-believers are equally stupid at some scale.
If only one could do away with title screens, period. How many times do you need to see the same dreck when booting up a game? It's great y'all worked on this, and you licensed shit from these other guys. I paid for this and i don't give a damn after a certain point. If you are actually loading the game in the background, although i am not sure i can count on the fact that you are, how about randomized art or slap something like Electric Sheep on there.
Not all games are awful "offenders" here, but some are incredibly painful not to be able to skip past after a while. Apologies for wishing to ignore your insanely impressive logo after the two-hundredth time.
It is also completely normal in the States*. What isn't is businesses regularly forwarding logs of everyone they have done business with on a given day.
*Except high-end outfits which like to protect the privacy of their wealthy clientele, because they deserve the privacy and right which others do not, apparently.
It's actually pretty insightful, displaying exactly what motivates things like federal laws: Fact-free feelings and opinions, even when the resultant law is counter-productive to their own cause. Sure, let's base laws on what we think someone's reputation is, whether deserved or manufactured.
I wonder when the reputation of other sectors will cause existing rules to even be enforced. Oh, wait, we are throwing out all of those. I guess the "tech" sector really is so much worse. And apparently there is nothing to do about bad things that can be facilitated using IT, aside from writing totally bad laws. I mean, except enforcing the extant laws such as they are already doing...
"Authoritarian" or some other relevant descriptor shared by Nazi's and the intended target of comparison (assuming the case is even valid and not simply an insult) just doesn't have the same ring as calling something or someone "Nazi". "Nazi" is lazily overused to push people's buttons. (So are other horrible dictatorship-related party and figurehead names.)
You really encounter discussions being shut down when there are valid comparisons, via overuse of Godwin's Law claims? I can't imagine a discussion being vital and also capable of being shut down by this or other issues or derailment. I haven't been everywhere, but i have been a lot of different places on the net for a very long time, and i haven't encountered this. I have seen an occasional feeble attempt, but these have hardly had any effect other than to add to discussion how Godwin's Law may or may not apply.
Many components of Nazism were always with us. Of course they still exist. I hardly argue that Godwin should be misused, but there are plenty of other comparisons if any are, in fact, needed. This is a thing in itself - people distance or remain ignorant of the actions and history of their own cultures, states, etc., because comparing something to a fairly remote and "dead" episode of world history is easier. Sometimes i personally find a nazi comparison pointless, where something is bad enough in its own right. Would one have called Stalin / the Soviet Communist party "nazis" at the time? The brutal authoritarian natures which we like to use for these comparisons are essentially the same.
Apparently i find this highly interesting. Sorry about the wall of text.
It's like the patent argument. Because the item in question is a word machine. "On a computer" or "On the internet" seems to be a reasonable distinguishing argument for some.
The other distinguishing thing is... the distance at which the "copying" is done from the user. Although i believe this has been covered by rulings regarding cable companies with "remote DVR" features. It matters where the copying is done because we say so. (I.e., we will make any damn argument we can over trivial differences just because we can. This subtle nuance without a difference has not been ruled upon in this particular use case yet.)
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Ink-devouring machines have all sorts of other weird behavior, such as claiming the ink is empty when it isn't, refusing to print when one cartridge is out, refusing to scan with no ink, milking prodigious quantities of ink via "cleaning", sometimes repeatedly between continuous print jobs (which also ends up leaving ink smeared all over the head and page due to the gallons of wet ink on the pads and wipers).
Maybe i am truly a nexus of entropy, and i just happen to see the worst behavior possible all the time. I have to imagine, though, that i am not so terribly unique.
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But yeah, as much of the older internet that disappeared, there is an awful lot of it still around.
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"Poorly grounded fear?"
Never mind the claims of a poorly grounded fear, what fucking loophole?
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For some, it is desperation. Or a sense of taking power over something wrong. For others it is a coldly calculated manipulation. Both believers and non-believers are equally stupid at some scale.
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Staffer abuse.
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Not all games are awful "offenders" here, but some are incredibly painful not to be able to skip past after a while. Apologies for wishing to ignore your insanely impressive logo after the two-hundredth time.
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*Except high-end outfits which like to protect the privacy of their wealthy clientele, because they deserve the privacy and right which others do not, apparently.
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I wonder when the reputation of other sectors will cause existing rules to even be enforced. Oh, wait, we are throwing out all of those. I guess the "tech" sector really is so much worse. And apparently there is nothing to do about bad things that can be facilitated using IT, aside from writing totally bad laws. I mean, except enforcing the extant laws such as they are already doing...
lol, reputation.
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You really encounter discussions being shut down when there are valid comparisons, via overuse of Godwin's Law claims? I can't imagine a discussion being vital and also capable of being shut down by this or other issues or derailment. I haven't been everywhere, but i have been a lot of different places on the net for a very long time, and i haven't encountered this. I have seen an occasional feeble attempt, but these have hardly had any effect other than to add to discussion how Godwin's Law may or may not apply.
Many components of Nazism were always with us. Of course they still exist. I hardly argue that Godwin should be misused, but there are plenty of other comparisons if any are, in fact, needed. This is a thing in itself - people distance or remain ignorant of the actions and history of their own cultures, states, etc., because comparing something to a fairly remote and "dead" episode of world history is easier. Sometimes i personally find a nazi comparison pointless, where something is bad enough in its own right. Would one have called Stalin / the Soviet Communist party "nazis" at the time? The brutal authoritarian natures which we like to use for these comparisons are essentially the same.
Apparently i find this highly interesting. Sorry about the wall of text.
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The other distinguishing thing is... the distance at which the "copying" is done from the user. Although i believe this has been covered by rulings regarding cable companies with "remote DVR" features. It matters where the copying is done because we say so. (I.e., we will make any damn argument we can over trivial differences just because we can. This subtle nuance without a difference has not been ruled upon in this particular use case yet.)
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In some dialects, the tense conjugation is chucking.
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