"...You can even sometimes see a story summary contradict it's own headline even
without digging into the story itself."
The headline - body/summary contradiction is a very old fenomenon:
Setting tha headline is a job for a higher paygrade with the aim to draw attention and viewers. Whitch means he doesn't need to read the article.
"I've been talking a lot lately about the concept of protocols over platforms as a way to limit the dominance of giant platforms"
Never thought about similarities/differences between protocols and APIs. Until now, when both are mentioned as means for competition.
Of course they can't be exclusive as their purpose is to be used as methods to communicate. How would our society be like if how to read peoples' behavior or how to be polite or how to be understood could be protocols own by therapists and coaches?
I believe Annette Hurst is simply an actress playing a role. What bothers me is that she is acting outside the stage, stubbornly proposing her fiction is the reality.
"Mind this system will only prevent driveby scanning when parked and nothing when driving."
And in that lies it's value. Where the car is parked is revealing much more than what roads are traveled, even if whole routes are caught.
You have a point though, parking in a public place requires visible plates. But it maybe it could be tilted or rotated or something else to prevent scanning but still readable.
" And if they'd photoshop'd his ears, then they might have really looked like the robber's, too."
Ears are among the hardest to fake, eyes are easy to make up but I guess ears are details vittnesses seldome have in memory.
The different looking ears (not obvious in the mug shot though) proves that they weren't interested in catching the real robber, just this guy, obviously.
Perhaps that's how they work; go for some look alike guy they think have done something they couldn't prove, and when they eventually come across the real robber they just use next crime.
In addition to P&L, companies will need to develop, measure, and report environmental/community/employee/supplier/customer impacts in quarterly and annual reports.
Your suggestion also fits a political solution to reduce unemployment numbers:
Put more administrative burdens on all companies in order to force extra employments, for small companies at the external firms they seek for help to comply.
But by the seventies, finance types were taking over chief executive roles,
AFAIR, it all started when those finance types began to challenge the executive engineer's statements that the fine tuning of the production they'd made couldn't be more efficient and there wasn't anything left to do that could cut down the production costs to save the company more money.
Back then it was common that large public corporations were lead by people who had an engineering background with knowledge of both production and the business area the company operated in. The economical details were delegated to the department where the economics degrees ruled.
All that the finance types had to do to win and take over of the helm, was to cut a penny somewhere in the production and multiply by the number of produced items.
The executive engineer stood corrected and the company board usually replaced him with someone more focused on finance.
Yes, most of these types of measures used on a website can easily be circumvented by disabling javascript, certain plugins or just accessing the page's source code.
Or use the keyboard to select and capture anything on the page.
Just one more reason to have javascript disabled by default. Even browser vendors start to think javascript abuse need to be dealt with on browser level.
One would hope that EU bureaucrats either at the EU Commission who brought forth this proposal, or in the EU Parliament who will vote on it next week, will be required to answer those questions before this monstrosity moves forward.
The answer would probably be that this negligence to act on reports from EU law reinforcement entities proves the regulation is necessary and that it's natural that platforms would otherwise hesitate to confirm their own inability to keep their platforms safe.
That the reports were in fact false would only be waved away as examples made to show how little platforms currently cares about EU officials' requests. And when a target platform eventually choose to react, maybe a week later as these examples show, the harm is already done.
I expect the recent procedure will occur again to ensure this will be voted accordingly.
You simply don't get every major country in the world launching an unprecedented attack against open technology and freedom of expression in the same time period by coincidence!
No, you don't. But if there was a multi national lobby organisation with close and cosy relations to governments in those countries, it could work them to choose solutions that fit their different agendas and also are best suited to be (ab)used in its members' interests.
So, if there was such a global lobbying you would be able see some common components in the local governments' solutions that would be useful for its members to advance their positions.
Why not mention the most obvious detail here; the original file name of the image. I mean the Creative Commons license requires attribution to the author and a link to the original work.
How come he didn''t search Flickr using the original link?
The tag cloud for the post could easly fit belove the byline, I´ve seen no article too short for a tag extended byline. I really miss to notice what tags are set for deeper reads
As we noted in our post, many people we know cheered on this kind of "protest," but I wrote that we should not, as it appeared to be a clear net neutrality violation.
I believe this is a valid protest, inserting a temporary redirection in order to inform visitors to the site of the company that got a court to order the ISP to block sites they didn't want people to visit.
This is of course a violation itself. I therefor expect the authorities to sentence the ISP to some fine for breaking the net neutrality rules. This is hopefully also Bahnhof's wish. and maybe a desire to become a victim for consciously fighting for net neutrality.
(Yes I'm Swedish and I was a Bahnhof customer when the dialup modems sounded like on the protest page. They were one of the first ISPs in Sweden.)
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It's a long story
Through the years Techrights has published many stories about corruption nepotism and abuse at the EPO.
Now they have a follow up mentioning this particular post: http://techrights.org/2020/03/25/fcc-gets-tabloid-treatment/
Re: It's all ad driven nonsense.
"...You can even sometimes see a story summary contradict it's own headline even
without digging into the story itself."
The headline - body/summary contradiction is a very old fenomenon:
Setting tha headline is a job for a higher paygrade with the aim to draw attention and viewers. Whitch means he doesn't need to read the article.
Protocols and APIs
Never thought about similarities/differences between protocols and APIs. Until now, when both are mentioned as means for competition.
Of course they can't be exclusive as their purpose is to be used as methods to communicate. How would our society be like if how to read peoples' behavior or how to be polite or how to be understood could be protocols own by therapists and coaches?
I believe Annette Hurst is simply an actress playing a role. What bothers me is that she is acting outside the stage, stubbornly proposing her fiction is the reality.
If it really is the "Facebook Supreme Court"...
Can I appeal to Mark Zuckerberg then?
Must listen to the pod.
Re: Re: Re:
And in that lies it's value. Where the car is parked is revealing much more than what roads are traveled, even if whole routes are caught.
You have a point though, parking in a public place requires visible plates. But it maybe it could be tilted or rotated or something else to prevent scanning but still readable.
Re: ...
Ears are among the hardest to fake, eyes are easy to make up but I guess ears are details vittnesses seldome have in memory.
The different looking ears (not obvious in the mug shot though) proves that they weren't interested in catching the real robber, just this guy, obviously.
Perhaps that's how they work; go for some look alike guy they think have done something they couldn't prove, and when they eventually come across the real robber they just use next crime.
Re: So
I agree, it is funny they do that.
Re: To show a commitment to more stakeholders than shareholders
Your suggestion also fits a political solution to reduce unemployment numbers:
Put more administrative burdens on all companies in order to force extra employments, for small companies at the external firms they seek for help to comply.
Re: The changes are irreversable
AFAIR, it all started when those finance types began to challenge the executive engineer's statements that the fine tuning of the production they'd made couldn't be more efficient and there wasn't anything left to do that could cut down the production costs to save the company more money.
Back then it was common that large public corporations were lead by people who had an engineering background with knowledge of both production and the business area the company operated in. The economical details were delegated to the department where the economics degrees ruled.
All that the finance types had to do to win and take over of the helm, was to cut a penny somewhere in the production and multiply by the number of produced items.
The executive engineer stood corrected and the company board usually replaced him with someone more focused on finance.
Re: I wonder
They probably would, the benefits to their audience would be similar in this case too.
I can´t lure out what game the "rights holders" are playing, and who benefits the outcome?
Re: It's one of those who tries to stretch copyright beyond limi
Or use the keyboard to select and capture anything on the page.
Just one more reason to have javascript disabled by default. Even browser vendors start to think javascript abuse need to be dealt with on browser level.
To end this we really need to find the root of the problem
and so shut down Elsevier, once and for all.
Same procedure expected...
The answer would probably be that this negligence to act on reports from EU law reinforcement entities proves the regulation is necessary and that it's natural that platforms would otherwise hesitate to confirm their own inability to keep their platforms safe.
That the reports were in fact false would only be waved away as examples made to show how little platforms currently cares about EU officials' requests. And when a target platform eventually choose to react, maybe a week later as these examples show, the harm is already done.
I expect the recent procedure will occur again to ensure this will be voted accordingly.
Re: A coordinated attack against the internet
No, you don't. But if there was a multi national lobby organisation with close and cosy relations to governments in those countries, it could work them to choose solutions that fit their different agendas and also are best suited to be (ab)used in its members' interests.
So, if there was such a global lobbying you would be able see some common components in the local governments' solutions that would be useful for its members to advance their positions.
Recent examples are...
Ahh, there's my tin hat!
What was the image attribution?
Why not mention the most obvious detail here; the original file name of the image. I mean the Creative Commons license requires attribution to the author and a link to the original work.
How come he didn''t search Flickr using the original link?
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: ...extradition requests...
The law doesn´t seem to apply in the Kim Dotcom case though.
Re: Nope
I love their idea!
I miss the "filed under" tag cloud below the byline
I think what Bahnhof did is a valid protest!
I believe this is a valid protest, inserting a temporary redirection in order to inform visitors to the site of the company that got a court to order the ISP to block sites they didn't want people to visit.
This is of course a violation itself. I therefor expect the authorities to sentence the ISP to some fine for breaking the net neutrality rules. This is hopefully also Bahnhof's wish. and maybe a desire to become a victim for consciously fighting for net neutrality.
(Yes I'm Swedish and I was a Bahnhof customer when the dialup modems sounded like on the protest page. They were one of the first ISPs in Sweden.)
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