Comment Re:Encryption is a WEAPON (Score 1) 221
Indeed... the last time I encrypted someone, they were unrecognizable when I was finished with them.
Indeed... the last time I encrypted someone, they were unrecognizable when I was finished with them.
I've got a slightly different observation:
So it's bad (no questions asked) when citizens have loose interpretations of the law, but you misapplying (or ignoring) the laws that are supposed to govern law enforcement is OK?
If a Canadian drives to the US to buy products in a US store, don't they have to declare them to customs? I think they mostly don't care about the bottle of Coca-Cola in your cup holder, but if you buy something expensive they might charge you some kind of import duty and/or taxes on it.
I think this is the kind of argument the Bell Media person was more or less trying to make. She owns the exclusive rights to a basket of content in Canada. If someone is going overseas to acquire this content, they are doing basically the same thing that a physical shopper is doing when they go to the US to buy a product that some Canadian store also wants to sell.
I think the purpose of tarrifs and duties is to specifically hinder this kind of ad-hoc cross-border arbitrage. Of course it's well nigh impossible to do for intellectual content.
There are good arguments to be made that Bell Media is just greedy and using monopoly position to extract rent from Canadians.
But there may be other arguments -- Bell's costs may be higher for reasons outside their control (ie, higher taxes, weak exchange rate, etc).
Actually, NAFTA means that Canadians/Americans/Mexicans generally don't have to pay customs fees when crossing the border. What Canadians pay when coming back from the US is GST (federal tax) on the value of the products purchased outside the country.
And if a Canadian buys a NetFlix subscription, the GST is added on in Canada. So there's no theft from this angle.
No, you misunderstand... Bell Media owns the Canadian equivalent of Hulu. They're trying to knock NetFlix Canada out of action, but then realized that most people are watching NetFlix US anyway.
That had better be a Canadian violin, or else you are stealing.
The curious want to know: what is she playing on the violin? And does she have licenses to a) have a copy of the music and b) perform in public?
I'd rather go about this a different way. If the president of Bell Media wants to call infringement stealing, I'd like to compile a list of things stolen by Bell Media.
If the definition of "stealing" is that loose, we can surmise that the president of Bell Media:
Has stolen US programming -- it is also available from Bell Media under license, which steals from the US: after all, residents can step over the border and legally view the programming, so Bell Media is stealing viewers from the US.
Has stolen broadcasting technologies from people everywhere -- You know that TCP/IP? It wasn't invented in Canada. You stole it.
Has likely stolen all sorts of documentation -- a quick pass through the office would be enough for me to find multiple cases of infringement.
Just because Bell Media has come to an agreement with US distributors of media doesn't mean that individuals have to go through Bell, no matter what Bell ExpressVu was able to pass into law regarding satellite broadcasts.
So is this basically a framework that allows people to port all their Flash games to the console? Because at the end of the day, that's what it sounds like.
Adding another layer of abstraction means adding another layer of non-optimization in the coding process. For desktop apps, that's not too big an issue; but consoles have a longer upgrade cycle and a restricted memory footprint.
So for games that don't push the hardware in the first place, this should work fine -- such as porting a bunch of Web Flash games. But for doing anything serious, you're going to want to get as close to the metal as possible.
What I'd REALLY like to see for consoles is an asset optimization system -- something that will package up game assets in the optimal format for storage/loading on each platform. Then the coding becomes much simpler.
Your digital voice assistant app is incompetent.
hunched in the fetal position, thumb in mouth.
Do you have to be such a douche about it?
It was written by a computer... give it some slack.
I'd like to see if it can do anything with "Can waze show me the way to my ways and means meeting?"
What we have just learned is that SoundHound has better comprehension than some Slashdot commenters
Something that makes it more interesting is infrastructure sharing. In China, you'll often get a plant that was set up to produce reliable parts for some global corp where someone who works at the factory sets up an independent company that comes in at night with lower-grade source materials and uses the exact same facilities with a different staff. Kickbacks then go to the management of the original company.
As a result, you can get precision-crafted products that look just like top-of-the-line materials, but are made with alloys etc. that are total junk.
And even worse, every once in a while, some of the "night shift" stock accidentally makes it into the "day shift" pipeline -- which is where you get the unexplainable runs of super-sub-par stuff coming out with odd serial numbers.
China is a developing nation, and they are still relatively new to the way companies play it in the West
Their GDP is twice as big as Japan's, the #3 economy in the world. At what point do they stop getting to play the "we're just a poor developing country, we can't be expected to follow the rules" card?
When their military is more powerful than that of the US?
Is that software written BY males, software written FOR males, or software written ABOUT males?
And to be a bit more serious, make sure you use this when accusing software of being malware; it's a pretty good reference:
https://www.microsoft.com/secu...
As to the pilot having his gun taken from him... we need to clarify where and how that happens.
If the gun is being taken while the pilot is off the airplane, I can come up with a lot of really easy ways to make the gun useless off the plane.
If we're talking about the gun being taken from the pilot WHILE he is on the plane... I don't see that because you'd have to get into the cabin to do that.
So what is your concern? Off the plane or on the plane? If you can get into the pilot's cabin to take his gun then you're already too close.
Main concern is off the plane. Agreed that if you can take the gun away in-cabin, the gun doesn't really make a difference one way or the other.
As to electrified clothing... if they get close enough to touch me, I'm calling that a total failure.
Yes, that's why I included all staff in this; it would be more useful for attendants, to make them another large self-aware obstacle between the attacker and the cockpit.
As to depressurizing the cabin and forcing the hijacker to sit in a seat sucking oxygen... that's a good point. I'd still recommend the defense training and the taser.
Me too
I've been training people to recognize pitch for years. I'm not sure who the "we" is here, but I've had no problems teaching adults pitch OR tempo, which is actually more difficult to master, and goes away faster than pitch if not practiced.
The techniques behind mastering pitch and tempo are hardly new, and have been used for centuries. Maybe the newbie developmental psychologists just forgot to involve musicians in their previous studies?
"More software projects have gone awry for lack of calendar time than for all other causes combined." -- Fred Brooks, Jr., _The Mythical Man Month_
