Presumably there's some concept of a CA / revocation list where infected nodes can find messages in a public channel or forum of some kind that tell where to reach the new C&C servers. I'm struggling with this as well, but it seems reasonable to assume from the quoted text that those machines are checking in regularly with the C&C servers, which the authorities now control, and they are checking in less frequently (every 2 weeks) with some other channel that is not controlled by the authorities, where The Highest Bidder with The Official Keys (not a part of the regular everyday C&C architecture) gets to put out new instructions that supersede the old.

I have just made all of this up from my imagination without any research, I'm just thinking, "if I was the one who did it, that's how I'd do it".

And if Google would just put up Download links on every video that didn't require some obscure special software that just us nerds know to use, many artists from their target market would pack up their videos and leave. You have to imagine that a lot of artists want to be able to broadcast without enabling free copying for everyone, even when that sounds just as obviously technically impossible as say... uniquely identifying a person across repeated visits without actually storing any token of their identity.

So now, in a world where someone can be arrested and driven to suicide by law enforcement just for following all of the links and downloading all of the things to a place where they can be easily re-indexed and consumed en-masse by public, you're saying it's actually not enough to just provide a free service that abides by copyright law and pays copyright owners and does not use DRM, and that you actually have to put up the download links where uneducated people can find them, and actively enable/promote this kind of free-copy bypass-the-advertising behavior, or you're "just as evil as DRM"?

It's not just like putting DRM on your products. It's actually just like not putting DRM on them.

OK, but youtube-dl is much older than two months. So, it's legal free video downloads (assuming these "active countermeasures" are not classified as "devices for copyright control" in the DMCA/trafficking sense of the word), supported by community efforts. The fact is it's broken every few months, and also fixed again, for a couple of years running now. They have not implemented any "strong" copyright protection measures that would prevent its fixing. Where is the netflix-dl?

How much personal information are you really putting into Google+?

Have you heard of youtube-dl? It is actually possible to download videos from YouTube.

I think you mean curried... you curry favor, you curtail bad behavior.

I know that Wikipedia is of course the one and only best primary source, but here goes anyway:

"Tesla produced the Roadster until January 2012, when its supply of Lotus Elise gliders ran out, as its contract with Lotus Cars for 2,500 gliders expired at the end of 2011."

So, if you're trying to say that Lotus never made parts for the Model S, fine. You're the first person to use the designation "Model S" anywhere in this thread. Tesla made other cars, before the Model S.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T...

That sounds like a winning plan. When the competition comes, just give the whole market to them, at whatever prices they planned to charge. Don't even try to compete, just leave!

Put that in your 10 year plan. I'm sure it'll go over great with the board at the next annual shareholders meeting.

(I know you're trying to say, they would still make a profit on this new better service at reduced prices, but I'm not so sure. I shop at Amazon and WalMart, and I think there are really such things as Loss Leaders. They honestly don't want Google to get a foothold in their currently held monopoly broadband markets. That is a simpler explanation, IMHO.)

I don't know, did you try googling it? I get some URL shorteners, a korean site that appears to be selling Gucci sneakers, and a place next to "nude japanese lolitas" if I add 'sac' to the query

Come on, you can't tell us you had SACCS and BALLS in your place of work and then fail to tell us what either of these acronyms actually stand for. What am I supposed to do, google this stuff?

It was actually a rack full of bikes, with one surgically removed (mine) and only the lock left behind, a medium cable obviously cut with some tools. I don't know how they took it away, but the cop who took the report guessed it was someone taking a joyride home eg. cable cutters in the backpack, and not some flatbed operation at all, because other junky bikes were left behind and they are not even locked. Mine probably was the one that did fit,

I am surprised because I thought I moved to a safer place, but even here, there are thieves apparently. I put the lock back out where kids could find it labeled "fuck you" because I was so pissed someone would honestly steal my bike from the rack, next to other bikes, but they did. Then that's why it was taken (because, it fit) and other bike-shaped objects were left behind. It did come from Target and it was the only bike they had, if I recall. It did need work, no doubt.

Maybe true that you need to know how to pick one that fits for yourself too, and once you know...? You can find it! This new one has 29" tires, larger than one I rode before that got stolen, and me too larger than when I rode it then, too.

I can't imagine buying a larger bike than this 29" behemoth. Or, bike-shaped object. I actually looked at close to 50 bikes, and picked one out after eliminating maybe eight before it, and tried to see the things that would make the price go up. They go low, I'm talking $79. I looked at the $79 and I had to look and try to convince myself that the welds were not as sound, and the frame wouldn't actually hold, but I didn't take it off the shelf either. Having found one already, that seemed to have fit!

They have bikes of different sizes, and their employees absolutely don't try to fit you with a bike, or profess to know what size is right for you, or address the different sizes one bit at all. There is a wall with like 50 bikes, and I got dirty looks when I asked one employee to help take a bike down off the shelf that I liked, and tighten up some things that were obviously loose and wrong with the individual bike itself. And they don't even try to sell you or send you home with a wrench, I remember when bike shaped objects were sold to kids of when I were kids era, all came with tools that you could use to take them down to bits and bolts. Yet these are billed as 'pre-assembled' when it's really just un-boxed and put together halfassedly by some part-time asshole who really works at Wal-Mart - what a joke! I would rather get a box of parts to be perfectly honest, but it seems that's not an option anymore.

Each of these things happened once, with the exception of theft.

Ever lived with a dirtbag on welfare and unemployment with no car? They love to borrow bikes, and they won't leave you alone until you let them. You can choose between either not owning a bike, or agreeing to lend the bike for a few hours at a time. They'll try everything. Of course when it's eventually stolen and it is their fault, they will tell you it's not their fault and there's no point in arguing as they can't pay for it anyway. I've had bikes stolen from inside my house, parked in the living room. I thought it was stupid to lock a bike in my own living room, but as I learned years ago, it's not.

I've had bikes that were locked to my front porch stolen because they figured out they could break the porch, and the lock wasn't actually through both the tire and the frame. I've even had a crappy old bike stolen by someone who must have either been carrying heavy cable cutters in their backpack, or loaded it onto a flatbed truck. This was in the middle of the damn winter while it was properly locked to a bike rack outside my office window. Who the fuck steals a bike on January 28th? In contrast I've only been hit by a car once, and only left a bike on the front of a bus once. Both times were my own stupid mistakes I will not likely repeat. Bike thieves on the other hand are absolutely everywhere, and resourceful.

I have invested now in a U-lock with additional heavy cable, and if this bike is ever stolen I will probably step up and get a Pee-Wee Herman style lock assembly for the next one. I've bought cheap bikes for long enough to know how they are, and I'm still waiting for one to actually hard-fail and cost more than $70 or $90 to fix, once or twice, before somebody eventually gets around to stealing it, usually right along with the lock.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I will keep Craigslist in mind, I realize that all I have right now is a Bike Shaped Object, but I got to choose from at least 50 bike-shaped-objects, and I didn't have to drive around town in order to do it. You really must have worked in a bike shop, if you can honestly tell me that what I'm riding now doesn't fit me, even without ever seeing it once, or me on it.

You hit the main reason why I go to Walmart for the bike in the first place. I don't want to spend $600 at all. And Walmart won't even let me. Their highest priced bike was $349. They want me to take one off the shelf and ride it up to the checkout aisle with no salesperson involved, but I know better, they have some idiot come in and assemble bikes for a few hours every other weekend and he doesn't care how many steps he skips or if the pedals both fall off while I'm riding down the side of a busy highway. I'm going to find someone who looks like he knows what he's doing, and they're going to look at it for a minute before I go out of the store.

Then that person and I will have a rapport when I have to come back for some reason, because we both know I shouldn't have to spend $75 first thing for a tune-up at a Real Bike Shop, no matter how cheap the damn thing was wherever I bought it. The person at the Walmart checkout didn't even offer me the $20 warranty for three years, and I wouldn't have bought it, because I know above all else, I don't want to spend any more time in Walmart than I absolutely have to. In my mind at that moment, if it's a choice between spending $20 at Walmart and having to come back to Walmart for service, or spending $45 on the street to get it fixed once, with a chance of spending $45 again twice before the warranty would have expired, I'm still not going back to Walmart.

It's much easier to have this conversation with a person like you, who obviously can see where I'm coming from, while at the same time we both know I'm only going to get a shit sandwich no matter what it is that I am shopping for at Walmart anyway, so get ready to take a big nasty bite, amiright?

You know I wonder sometimes why they don't just sell you the hex wrench for the $50 if they're too busy to look at something? I gladly pay $10 to have a professional make an adjustment, but when he breaks something that was already working fine without fixing what was wrong in the first place, and his cow-orker tells you "you got a bonus, free second adjustment" "This is why I tell him, don't do anything you're not being paid for"

If I do need to buy the wrench, I can tell you after that noise I'll be buying it at Walmart.

This all makes sense, but doesn't change the fact that I can probably buy and return three $200 bikes in a week and eventually find one I like, having still spent only $200 plus my time and gas taking trips to and from Walmart.

The $695 bikes at the bike shop are the low end of what they offer. I am sure that as a fat person who needs a bike and suffers from chronic bike theft/hit by car syndrome, I am almost as likely to just sit down wrong on a $700 item from a heap of one of those quality parts at the Real Bike Shop and break it due to my own overweight, or see my investment go down the toilet because it's stolen or destroyed and un-insured (I don't have to pay for theft or breakage insurance on a $200 bike either).

Or maybe I see it driving away on the front of an RTS bus as I step onto the curb and walk away with my bike still on the front of it.

I've lost four bikes or more in ten years. There are all kinds of ways this can happen, and if any of them cost $695 or $1295, I would have been pissed. Some were used/hand-me-down, some were won in contests, all were much cheaper than $695, and I am fairly sure that given all that, I still haven't spent $695 on bikes in ten years. I'm not going cross-country.

So if I come into your bike shop for an adjustment, please do spare me the "you're gonna spend $600 on that piece of crap before you're done with it." There are other bike shops, unfortunately there are not any in my town so they can probably afford to have this attitude, as I'm either here paying you $10 per adjustment, or I'm back in Walmart, and I gladly pay some money not to have to go back to Walmart.