Ok, just so we are all on the same page, the problem is that local broadcasters in Canada need more funding for localized news and content:
“The funding will be directed to areas of immediate need in the Canadian broadcasting system, such as local news on radio and television"
And the funding will be raised by:
The fee systems effectively mirrors the fees already imposed on local broadcasters.
Um...ok....
I'm no financial wizard, but I believe I might have a suggestion that would increase funds available to local broadcasters, without awakening the ire of streaming media companies.
Parents should approve their teen’s app downloads, and we support federal legislation that requires app stores to get parents’ approval whenever their teens under 16 download apps.
Congratulations! You win a free dunce cap!
I work at a school. Not one kid under 16 has a phone that wasn't bought and set up by one of their parents, on their parents' account, with absolutely no knowledge of what those kids actually do, or how they do it.
Sure, maybe a couple of parents might try to see if there is a way to tell the phone that the kid is under 16, but since most of these kids were given phones to relieve the parents of the burden of parenting, there's really no reason to think they'll start now.
How's that V-chip working out?
My daughter was 12 years old when we gave her her first phone. It wasn’t an easy decision, and I agonized over whether it was the right time.
You are supposed to be the parent. If you give your 12 year-old child a phone with full, unfettered access to the internet, you are 100% responsible for whatever nasty horrors that befall that kid as a result.
Ok, so who wants to break it to these bozos that the majority of the AI produced work that many of us have been subjected to has been in their own publications?
My take has always been very simple: mods are good for gamers and even better for game makers. Why? Simple, mods serve to extend the useful life of video games by adding new ways to play them and therefore making them more valuable, they can serve to fix or make better the original game thereby doing some of the game makers work for them for free, and can simply keep a classic game relevant decades later thanks to a dedicated group of fans of a franchise that continues to be a cash cow to this day.
You kinda answered your own question. Why would game publishers want anybody keeping their old games going?
To simplify: any time and effort that gamers waste creating/playing mods to older games are nothing but distractions and obstacles that get in the way of selling newer releases.
Instead, prosecutors take the seized property to court. Literally. Legal actions are brought against inanimate objects,
One of the most baffling aspects of civil asset forfeiture is the peculiar notion of prosecuting the property, not the person in possession of it. If objects can be guilty of crime, can we get a grand jury together and start indicting and arresting firearms?
"Both sides" journalism is a fantasy. Stories that claim to represent both sides almost always present the preferred viewpoint with carefully chosen words and phrases design to imbue a sense of authority, clarity, and accuracy. Then, more often that not, the other half of the "both sides" reporting is crafted from words an phrases that seem clouded, unsure, or just plain nutty. They might as well just say it outright, "Here are the facts of why this event is good for all humanity, and in the spirit of good 'both sides' writing, we crossed to the other side of the aisle to find out if recent events have shaken any braincells loose over at the old dunce farm, or are they still struggling with the challenges of trying to promote their nutty ideas about what is right or wrong with the world today... "
...that it is not feasible to conduct live explosives testing in airports. Further, while it is relatively easy to temporarily transfer smaller screening technologies, such as explosives trace detection units, to a controlled setting for live explosives testing, it would not be feasible to transfer larger installed units, such as advanced imaging technology.
If any of the servers or networks I am responsible for were to get hacked and crypto locked by Russian hackers, I will use this response as a template, and carefully explain that it simply isn't feasible to transport the entire network over to Russia to test any of these security products or procedures that I have been paid to install, so of course it's not my fault that none of it worked. Duh.
If adding an extra few bucks to my bill meant I could actually have uninterrupted service and receive phone calls throughout my 20 minute commute less that 20 miles from D.C., I would be happy about it. I suspect, however, that once again, I will receive nothing but disappointment.
and plexiglass doors should be the actual benchmark to beat, not to disregard. By a significant margin. You cannot offset the required cost by third-party ads since unrelated information will directly kill the usefulness.
I think that the installation costs of these types of advertising systems tend to be mostly covered by the company that makes them, with the promise of profit sharing in exchange for the locations and exposure.
The fact that they actually block customers from seeing what's in the cooler is...fucking idiotic. Is one expected to stand there and wait for the screen to cycle through its presentation of options, interspersed with ads from third parties?
If I walked into a store and saw those large, nearly floor to ceiling screens, there's a pretty good chance I would just see them as advert screens, ignore them, and continue looking for a glass front fridge before walking out, trying to figure out why the store no longer stocked refrigerated items.
Wouldn't most people just treat these things like teenagers treat regular refrigerators at home? Walk in, swing it open, and just browse, sparing not one iota of concern for the electricity wasted as the fridge warms up?
I guess it's been long enough that retailers have forgotten that wasted energy and warm fridges were 90% of the motivation for glass doors in the first place.
You still seem to be under the misapprehension that the government gives two fucks about the constitution.
It only takes is the right person in the right place to quietly utter the word "terrorism", and all that pesky nonsense about probable cause, due process, fair trials, and even habeas corpus will be brushed aside, because when delusions of push come to the imaginings of shove, we are "governed" by the Patriot act, and the damage it has wrought that still spiderwebs its way through the legal system.
The problem with this case isn't what the feds did or didn't search, how they managed to install software, nor whatever their method of targeting might have been. For the sake of argument, assume that all The feds did is use the botnet itself to send out a nugget of code to a bunch of machines already infected with botnet code. Once that nugget of code is there, the next step would be to consult any data that The bot might have left behind in order to find other infected computers. The real world equivalent would be that the fbi would need individual warrants for each point of entry, and then individual warrants to search each location listed by each discovered bot, at an exponential rate. This is obviously impossible.
The problem is that if one were to believe that the fbi were indeed honestly trying to dismantle a dangerous botnet, then perhaps this weapons-grade shit-pile of a warrant might seem acceptable, but in reality, now that this turd has been delivered and carefully planted in the US legal system, it will slowly mature and ferment, until it can be dug up, refined, distilled, and bottled so when the next major blanket rights violation comes up, we will all be given a nice bottle of artisan, hand-crafted, slow-brewed precedent bullshit that will convince us all to relax and continue our mindless grazing in the wonderful green pastures of ignorance.
All right, maybe I went off the rails there, but you get my point. It's the precedent that fucks you in the end.
This reads more like the government wants to pass some liability laws to make it possible to do what this site is always talking about, which is the hold some of these data collection whores liable for their shitty security practices, or total disregard for any type of security. The twist being that if you actually adhere to the proposed set of guidelines the government believes are the best practices for secure data handling, then you would be shielded from liability.
In other words, they want you to follow their programming standards, and if you do, you can be protected from liability if your software gets hacked. It actually seems pretty reasonable, if that is the correct interpretation.
Well, LAPD, you're not getting away with it this time. The Feds are here to give a thorough investigation, and you will all be punished to the fullest extent of whatever the consent decree might suggest, if that's ok with everyone, of course.
Try to remember that if any of you are placed on "Administrative Leave" pending further investigation, it's a punishment, not paid vacation, so please refrain from enjoying yourselves.
Fuck your surgery, fuck your cancer, fuck your tattoos, and fuck your fucking bananas! I still can't receive fucking phone calls for half of my 20 minute commute, less than 5 miles from D.C.
How about we concentrate on fixing that?
Ok
"how to break ceilings that you may not know are in front of you."
A ceiling that is in front of you is called a "wall".
"I’m living this right now. As a dad of three adolescent girls, I’m in this and with respect to the opposition, the words I have for you are shame on you."
Allow me to offer a more accurate edit:
"I'm living this right now. As a father of three girls to whom I have happily given pocket sized personal gateways to all of the horrors humanity has to offer, I'm in this, and with feigned respect to those who oppose my grandstanding power grab, the words I have for you are shame on you for believing that as a parent, I should perhaps spend a moment or two looking into some content filtering or any of the monitoring software options. How dare any of you suggest that I should in some way be a parent and keep an eye on what my kids are up to."
Shame on us, indeed.
In the past, Microsoft had quite the history of withholding certain DOS and Windows api documentation from publication in order to keep them reserved for their own software developers to have an advantage over other companies. So...this article...is about Microsoft being ok with Sony withholding info from competing developers...etc...need I go on?
Why wouldn't Microsoft endorse the practice of keeping some details and APIs of their platform reserved for their own developers, don't they get some licensing fees every time another company follows the formula Microsoft pioneered in the 90's?
I live less than 3 miles from Washington D.C., and I work less than 10 miles from D.C.
For the last 12 years, all I have wanted is the ability to receive calls, or possibly make a call or two during my commute.
I have a 5G phone with T-Mobile service, and yet with all of these technological advancements, I still don't receive some calls, and dialed calls often take upwards of thirty seconds of 5g to 4g to Volte or 2g logo switching at the top of the screen before a call is either dropped or poorly connected.
I don't give a fuck how many G's there are, how about they just put some effort into making the fucking thing work!
Ok, just so we are all on the same page, the problem is that local broadcasters in Canada need more funding for localized news and content: “The funding will be directed to areas of immediate need in the Canadian broadcasting system, such as local news on radio and television" And the funding will be raised by: The fee systems effectively mirrors the fees already imposed on local broadcasters. Um...ok.... I'm no financial wizard, but I believe I might have a suggestion that would increase funds available to local broadcasters, without awakening the ire of streaming media companies.
Parents should approve their teen’s app downloads, and we support federal legislation that requires app stores to get parents’ approval whenever their teens under 16 download apps. Congratulations! You win a free dunce cap! I work at a school. Not one kid under 16 has a phone that wasn't bought and set up by one of their parents, on their parents' account, with absolutely no knowledge of what those kids actually do, or how they do it. Sure, maybe a couple of parents might try to see if there is a way to tell the phone that the kid is under 16, but since most of these kids were given phones to relieve the parents of the burden of parenting, there's really no reason to think they'll start now. How's that V-chip working out?
Attn: Antigone Davis.
My daughter was 12 years old when we gave her her first phone. It wasn’t an easy decision, and I agonized over whether it was the right time. You are supposed to be the parent. If you give your 12 year-old child a phone with full, unfettered access to the internet, you are 100% responsible for whatever nasty horrors that befall that kid as a result.
Ok, so who wants to break it to these bozos that the majority of the AI produced work that many of us have been subjected to has been in their own publications?
My take has always been very simple: mods are good for gamers and even better for game makers. Why? Simple, mods serve to extend the useful life of video games by adding new ways to play them and therefore making them more valuable, they can serve to fix or make better the original game thereby doing some of the game makers work for them for free, and can simply keep a classic game relevant decades later thanks to a dedicated group of fans of a franchise that continues to be a cash cow to this day. You kinda answered your own question. Why would game publishers want anybody keeping their old games going? To simplify: any time and effort that gamers waste creating/playing mods to older games are nothing but distractions and obstacles that get in the way of selling newer releases.
Instead, prosecutors take the seized property to court. Literally. Legal actions are brought against inanimate objects, One of the most baffling aspects of civil asset forfeiture is the peculiar notion of prosecuting the property, not the person in possession of it. If objects can be guilty of crime, can we get a grand jury together and start indicting and arresting firearms?
"Both sides" journalism is a fantasy. Stories that claim to represent both sides almost always present the preferred viewpoint with carefully chosen words and phrases design to imbue a sense of authority, clarity, and accuracy. Then, more often that not, the other half of the "both sides" reporting is crafted from words an phrases that seem clouded, unsure, or just plain nutty. They might as well just say it outright, "Here are the facts of why this event is good for all humanity, and in the spirit of good 'both sides' writing, we crossed to the other side of the aisle to find out if recent events have shaken any braincells loose over at the old dunce farm, or are they still struggling with the challenges of trying to promote their nutty ideas about what is right or wrong with the world today... "
Hah
...that it is not feasible to conduct live explosives testing in airports. Further, while it is relatively easy to temporarily transfer smaller screening technologies, such as explosives trace detection units, to a controlled setting for live explosives testing, it would not be feasible to transfer larger installed units, such as advanced imaging technology. If any of the servers or networks I am responsible for were to get hacked and crypto locked by Russian hackers, I will use this response as a template, and carefully explain that it simply isn't feasible to transport the entire network over to Russia to test any of these security products or procedures that I have been paid to install, so of course it's not my fault that none of it worked. Duh.
Well then.
If adding an extra few bucks to my bill meant I could actually have uninterrupted service and receive phone calls throughout my 20 minute commute less that 20 miles from D.C., I would be happy about it. I suspect, however, that once again, I will receive nothing but disappointment.
Well said.
and plexiglass doors should be the actual benchmark to beat, not to disregard. By a significant margin. You cannot offset the required cost by third-party ads since unrelated information will directly kill the usefulness. I think that the installation costs of these types of advertising systems tend to be mostly covered by the company that makes them, with the promise of profit sharing in exchange for the locations and exposure. The fact that they actually block customers from seeing what's in the cooler is...fucking idiotic. Is one expected to stand there and wait for the screen to cycle through its presentation of options, interspersed with ads from third parties? If I walked into a store and saw those large, nearly floor to ceiling screens, there's a pretty good chance I would just see them as advert screens, ignore them, and continue looking for a glass front fridge before walking out, trying to figure out why the store no longer stocked refrigerated items. Wouldn't most people just treat these things like teenagers treat regular refrigerators at home? Walk in, swing it open, and just browse, sparing not one iota of concern for the electricity wasted as the fridge warms up? I guess it's been long enough that retailers have forgotten that wasted energy and warm fridges were 90% of the motivation for glass doors in the first place.
Awww...that's so cute...
You still seem to be under the misapprehension that the government gives two fucks about the constitution. It only takes is the right person in the right place to quietly utter the word "terrorism", and all that pesky nonsense about probable cause, due process, fair trials, and even habeas corpus will be brushed aside, because when delusions of push come to the imaginings of shove, we are "governed" by the Patriot act, and the damage it has wrought that still spiderwebs its way through the legal system.
Search? Who cares
The problem with this case isn't what the feds did or didn't search, how they managed to install software, nor whatever their method of targeting might have been. For the sake of argument, assume that all The feds did is use the botnet itself to send out a nugget of code to a bunch of machines already infected with botnet code. Once that nugget of code is there, the next step would be to consult any data that The bot might have left behind in order to find other infected computers. The real world equivalent would be that the fbi would need individual warrants for each point of entry, and then individual warrants to search each location listed by each discovered bot, at an exponential rate. This is obviously impossible. The problem is that if one were to believe that the fbi were indeed honestly trying to dismantle a dangerous botnet, then perhaps this weapons-grade shit-pile of a warrant might seem acceptable, but in reality, now that this turd has been delivered and carefully planted in the US legal system, it will slowly mature and ferment, until it can be dug up, refined, distilled, and bottled so when the next major blanket rights violation comes up, we will all be given a nice bottle of artisan, hand-crafted, slow-brewed precedent bullshit that will convince us all to relax and continue our mindless grazing in the wonderful green pastures of ignorance. All right, maybe I went off the rails there, but you get my point. It's the precedent that fucks you in the end.
I read this differently
This reads more like the government wants to pass some liability laws to make it possible to do what this site is always talking about, which is the hold some of these data collection whores liable for their shitty security practices, or total disregard for any type of security. The twist being that if you actually adhere to the proposed set of guidelines the government believes are the best practices for secure data handling, then you would be shielded from liability. In other words, they want you to follow their programming standards, and if you do, you can be protected from liability if your software gets hacked. It actually seems pretty reasonable, if that is the correct interpretation.
Well, LAPD, you're not getting away with it this time. The Feds are here to give a thorough investigation, and you will all be punished to the fullest extent of whatever the consent decree might suggest, if that's ok with everyone, of course. Try to remember that if any of you are placed on "Administrative Leave" pending further investigation, it's a punishment, not paid vacation, so please refrain from enjoying yourselves.
For fuck's sake..
Fuck your surgery, fuck your cancer, fuck your tattoos, and fuck your fucking bananas! I still can't receive fucking phone calls for half of my 20 minute commute, less than 5 miles from D.C. How about we concentrate on fixing that?
Thank you, sir.
Dear Mike Masnick, (((Hugs))) -rich
Umm...
Ok "how to break ceilings that you may not know are in front of you." A ceiling that is in front of you is called a "wall". "I’m living this right now. As a dad of three adolescent girls, I’m in this and with respect to the opposition, the words I have for you are shame on you." Allow me to offer a more accurate edit: "I'm living this right now. As a father of three girls to whom I have happily given pocket sized personal gateways to all of the horrors humanity has to offer, I'm in this, and with feigned respect to those who oppose my grandstanding power grab, the words I have for you are shame on you for believing that as a parent, I should perhaps spend a moment or two looking into some content filtering or any of the monitoring software options. How dare any of you suggest that I should in some way be a parent and keep an eye on what my kids are up to." Shame on us, indeed.
In the past, Microsoft had quite the history of withholding certain DOS and Windows api documentation from publication in order to keep them reserved for their own software developers to have an advantage over other companies. So...this article...is about Microsoft being ok with Sony withholding info from competing developers...etc...need I go on?
Why wouldn't Microsoft endorse the practice of keeping some details and APIs of their platform reserved for their own developers, don't they get some licensing fees every time another company follows the formula Microsoft pioneered in the 90's?
How about this...
I live less than 3 miles from Washington D.C., and I work less than 10 miles from D.C. For the last 12 years, all I have wanted is the ability to receive calls, or possibly make a call or two during my commute. I have a 5G phone with T-Mobile service, and yet with all of these technological advancements, I still don't receive some calls, and dialed calls often take upwards of thirty seconds of 5g to 4g to Volte or 2g logo switching at the top of the screen before a call is either dropped or poorly connected. I don't give a fuck how many G's there are, how about they just put some effort into making the fucking thing work!