So what can we, the public, do about it? Clearly our feedback to the FCC is little more than a tempest in a teapot. Do we need to vote out anyone with an R by their name in November? How do we encourage more Ron Wydens to take up political careers?
There ought to be stronger and quicker blow-back for politicians who fail to properly represent their constituency. Something more effective than the elections themselves. The general populous is too dumb to vote anything but their party line. Maybe we need to do away with the party system and make everyone run on their own platform. Do away with lobbyists, too. And retract citizenship for corporations. Now how to accomplish that?
If you take your own implied advice I presume you also never fly, you don't drive and probably never leave your house. Or perhaps you stay in a hotel miles away from home because everyone knows most accidents occur close to home. Even using a computer to post your messages here is a risk.
Living in fear is no way to live. We'll never be 100% safe. That's life.
Anything you plug into a wall carries a risk of fire. Unless that risk is significant why worry? Slow cookers certainly aren't a significant risk.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Techdirt's characteristic contextless numbers. -- How many of those suits are false and unmerited? How many go to trial? How many are merited as proved by a settlement?
I was genuinely interested in your answer. It was no attack. When called to the mat you refuse to converse and then accuse me of being off-topic. True as it may be why did you wait until now to use that as a defense?
I guess I can continue to write off anything you post as pointless. Just flag and move on since you're not interested in a real discussion. It's no wonder you abandoned your username; There's an off chance someone will read what you post if it's not preceded by a warning.
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You fanboys
Flagged as trolling.
First state why YOU spend so much time on site.
I'm here because I like [most of] the articles, even those I disagree with. And because most of the commenters here can engage in intelligent debate without resorting to childish behavior.
Now, care to answer my question? Or is it easier to veer off-topic and throw insults and accusations?
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Techdirt's characteristic contextless numbers. -- How many of those suits are false and unmerited? How many go to trial? How many are merited as proved by a settlement?
Also, if the site is such a joke, why do you spend so much time here? Is it that important to sway everyone here to agree with you or do you just enjoy trolling?
Re: Re: Re: Techdirt's characteristic contextless numbers. -- How many of those suits are false and unmerited? How many go to trial? How many are merited as proved by a settlement?
If your choices are:
A) Defend (even successfully) at a cost of $40k+ B) Settle for $1k and let them think they won
Which do you choose? If you chose A then you're likely in the 1%.
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I'd flag any comment with that kind of name calling.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Techdirt's characteristic contextless numbers. -- How many of those suits are false and unmerited? How many go to trial? How many are merited as proved by a settlement?
When you start off with insults, name-calling, claims without citation and general ranting nobody takes you seriously. That you don't seem to realize what a joke you've become here is half the joke.
If you want people to engage in meaningful debate and conversation, try starting off in a civil tone and with clear speech not muddied up with unnecessary punctuation and misplaced caps. Then add a dash of reality and you're set. Until then, you're nothing but noise.
I still don't see how they're so different. Yes, Coinhive stands to make potentially more from abuse of its platform than does Google (though with the cost of ads that's a subject for more investigation). And maybe Coinhive's platform is much more easily abused, something the developers should and possibly did recognize.
But scale isn't really part of the equation here. They're both platforms that can be abused and through which both providers profit from abuse and non-abuse alike. If you condemn one you condemn both.
I'm no fan of Coinhive and how it can be abused but I'd urge caution before lighting up the torches and taking the pitchforks out for a stroll. Where is the line drawn clearly enough that some legislator out to make a name for him/herself can't abuse /that/?
An Onymous Coward (profile), 15 Feb 2018 @ 11:18am
I have to ask, Karl, how this differs from people posting offensive, libelous, or otherwise inappropriate content on YouTube given Google's complicity in that they also benefit from the additional content. It seems a double standard to expect Coinhive to police all the uses of its product but not expect Google to police theirs.
Re: Having made NO study at all, YOU are definitely just making it up. -- Do you think the target audience will heed better with a study that'd meet your requirement for absolute proof? Or should a warning be in no uncertain terms?
Nowhere did anyone say file sharing sites were totally safe. There wasn't even an implication in this story. But FUD helps nobody (except perhaps the RIAA/MPAA, your leash-holders) so please take your barely-legible and largely irrational rants elsewhere.
An Onymous Coward (profile), 14 Feb 2018 @ 11:01am
Re: Hang on! Universal fix coming soon! -- HTML5, chock full of DRM will make BOTH advertising AND "mining" unavoidable! Long while back, TD jeered my notion that version 5 is sheerly for advertising, and you'll still jeer because...
Foil is on sale this week at Costco. Better go stock up!
Re: Re: Re: Re: So? You accept risks by going into business -- wherever. An online "platform" don't make ya special in law so should be immune from all that you're hosting.
Still missing the point that the "publisher" is the person posting the child porn online, not the platform they posted it on. An internet platform is equivalent to the printing press. You don't sue the machinery, you sue the responsible party.
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There ought to be stronger and quicker blow-back for politicians who fail to properly represent their constituency. Something more effective than the elections themselves. The general populous is too dumb to vote anything but their party line. Maybe we need to do away with the party system and make everyone run on their own platform. Do away with lobbyists, too. And retract citizenship for corporations. Now how to accomplish that?
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Pretty much that.
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Living in fear is no way to live. We'll never be 100% safe. That's life.
Anything you plug into a wall carries a risk of fire. Unless that risk is significant why worry? Slow cookers certainly aren't a significant risk.
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I was genuinely interested in your answer. It was no attack. When called to the mat you refuse to converse and then accuse me of being off-topic. True as it may be why did you wait until now to use that as a defense?
I guess I can continue to write off anything you post as pointless. Just flag and move on since you're not interested in a real discussion. It's no wonder you abandoned your username; There's an off chance someone will read what you post if it's not preceded by a warning.
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Flagged as trolling.
I'm here because I like [most of] the articles, even those I disagree with. And because most of the commenters here can engage in intelligent debate without resorting to childish behavior.
Now, care to answer my question? Or is it easier to veer off-topic and throw insults and accusations?
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Techdirt's characteristic contextless numbers. -- How many of those suits are false and unmerited? How many go to trial? How many are merited as proved by a settlement?
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Re: Re: Re: Techdirt's characteristic contextless numbers. -- How many of those suits are false and unmerited? How many go to trial? How many are merited as proved by a settlement?
A) Defend (even successfully) at a cost of $40k+
B) Settle for $1k and let them think they won
Which do you choose? If you chose A then you're likely in the 1%.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Techdirt's characteristic contextless numbers. -- How many of those suits are false and unmerited? How many go to trial? How many are merited as proved by a settlement?
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Techdirt's characteristic contextless numbers. -- How many of those suits are false and unmerited? How many go to trial? How many are merited as proved by a settlement?
If you want people to engage in meaningful debate and conversation, try starting off in a civil tone and with clear speech not muddied up with unnecessary punctuation and misplaced caps. Then add a dash of reality and you're set. Until then, you're nothing but noise.
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I still don't see how they're so different. Yes, Coinhive stands to make potentially more from abuse of its platform than does Google (though with the cost of ads that's a subject for more investigation). And maybe Coinhive's platform is much more easily abused, something the developers should and possibly did recognize.
But scale isn't really part of the equation here. They're both platforms that can be abused and through which both providers profit from abuse and non-abuse alike. If you condemn one you condemn both.
I'm no fan of Coinhive and how it can be abused but I'd urge caution before lighting up the torches and taking the pitchforks out for a stroll. Where is the line drawn clearly enough that some legislator out to make a name for him/herself can't abuse /that/?
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Re: Having made NO study at all, YOU are definitely just making it up. -- Do you think the target audience will heed better with a study that'd meet your requirement for absolute proof? Or should a warning be in no uncertain terms?
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Re: Hang on! Universal fix coming soon! -- HTML5, chock full of DRM will make BOTH advertising AND "mining" unavoidable! Long while back, TD jeered my notion that version 5 is sheerly for advertising, and you'll still jeer because...
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Re: HA! Same day as I pointed out the prior four ANOTHER SIX YEAR GAP ZOMBIE POPS UP! -- And who better attracts them than Geigner?
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Re: Re: Will software be next?
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Re: The Democrats part.
That's precious.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: So? You accept risks by going into business -- wherever. An online "platform" don't make ya special in law so should be immune from all that you're hosting.
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