No, it won't "just charge at the maximum available speed". Unlike previous cables where the host could just keep a 5v potential across two pins while providing no-more-than 500mA, these cables literally have chips in them to handle signaling and negotiation with the host device with regards to capabilities, i.e. speed and power and whatever else. USB power delivery (USB-PD) literally has a table of different voltage and current profiles:
The vast majority of the (consumer) public refuses to pay anything for any of these online services that they're so damn enamored with, or, if they will pay, the service only works for/can provide that "at scale" (Spotify, Netflix, other vertically integrated product platforms).
Your sane markets for a new digital product feel, largely, like businesses at this point.
Statist is probably preferable.
The left-right spectrum is NOT about politically liberal to conservative.
Itâ(TM)s about âoeforceâ - just like this, âoedo what we sayâ - to âoenot-forceâ, i.e. freedom. The fact that political parties have co-opted and distorted this until âoewar is peaceâ-level cognitive dissonance is the minds of the general public is just another symptom of the problem.
The best commentary from a software company that I've seen so far is that it was costing them a non-trivial amount to deal with the support requests from "customers" who cracked software, then thought that they should get support from the company.
How can we help avoid situations like this, especially for smaller companies? I'm sure it can be done, and *believe* that DRM isn't the answer, but I'm not sure how to best... do it. If you only accept support requests online (maybe only *opening* them online?) then you can refuse to start a request for someone who isn't logged in with a registered copy of the software, I guess. Hmm...
I was under the impression that once it was "sold" to you, it remained in your library even if the store stopped selling it.
Does some license say otherwise? If not, aren't we back to "fraud"?
I mean, you can try. In the end, you'd have to use total monopoly power, pretty much, and stomp on anyone who wouldn't comply. And you're going to obsolete all those players, etc. that exist now. And people can still write open software, and crack your encryption just like they do now.
And consumer adoption of things like DivX went so well, too.
A distributed ledger is only a distributed ledger, not a control mechanism, and they seem to be missing this - there's nothing "new" that they get in terms of DRM from spending a lot of money trying to bake in "blockchain". If Sony-and-only-Sony controls the ledger, how is it any different from Sony-and-only-Sony controlling the "license key" server, or "WMA DRM certificate-issuing" server, or anything else that they can already do? Openness? As in, they're going to let the entire world look at their ledger/sales numbers/who bought what combination of things? Nah.
Yes, Windows 10 is a [...redacted...].
The document you're looking for is here, if you're stuck with it:
Try again.
He entered Taiwan legally; the US *revoked* his passport after he was there, at which point Taiwan booted him for "not having a valid passport".
You didn't even have to RTFA; it as right IN the story that he's not accused of anything illegal in Taiwan other than "getting fucked by the US":
"Taiwan has no formal extradition treaty with the U.S., and Wilson was not said to have been doing anything directly criminal in Taiwan, the press there reports that he was arrested without incident because the U.S. had revoked his passport, making his mere presence in Taiwan illegal"
These attempts to postpone the coming technological singularity and save their own... everything will not be successful, and are not acceptable.
Accelerate.
Right, and for "benefit commensurate with expenditure" Microsoft should be paying the poor people who use Windows 10 for doing so. It doesn't (I think you agree with me, while child comments don't) provide useful new functionality for the most part, removes *lots* of functionality in the form of shitty "apps" that are inconsistent with other parts of the OS and its settings, places what is effectively ad-ware in your paid-for product, and collects information in a non-negotiable manner.
It's pretty easy to see *who* exactly is receiving benefit from this "upgrade"...
The phrase I believe you're looking for is "pour encourager les autres", which yes... one would hope that this will do.
OTOH, if Charter isn't filing for an injunction in court by Monday to stay the order pending, uh... "negotiation of financial instruments which definitely aren't going to the politician over there watching from the corner" I will be *shocked*.
More details (since I immediately thought of PDO) at Wikipedia on designated origin, etc. in the EU:
Well, one suspects that they will be seeing a lawsuit - *in* US court(s) - soon, and I forsee damages not-in-their-favor...
I call BS.
Defining an employee as exempt has a test, and in no way will all employees meet it.
Additionally, labor law requires that if an exempt and salaried employee works ANY hours in the period, they get paid salary (with some exceptions involving benefit-defined days off).
What you're talking about would have a state employment office all over them like a cured diabetic on chocolate cake.
*Suppose* that this were one particular franchise, and you'd be doing the world a favor by reporting them. Yesterday.
The hardest part of climbing the ladder of success is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
