No what we are saying is we shouldn't only abolish copyright for venture capitalists who have a few billion to throw around. If Joe consumer can be slapped with $250k per willful infraction for seeding a torrent, then let's hit up Google for a few trillion. Either that or do away with copyright altogether. I'd be cool with that too.
Merit should always consider strictly value.
Then you have an entitlement for Windows 11 on your Microsoft account. Windows 11 licenses are something that you still absolutely have to buy.
Go back in time 20 years and get people to have more babies. Also maybe curb the housing crisis and make salaries keep up with inflation so they can afford those kids. Oh, also maybe do something about the cost of college.
Or just liberalize immigration now. Do those other things, but if we need workers now, you can't magic more people into existence.
Are they a pariah among their peers for reporting the corrupt ones? no? Then they are part of the problem. They might be "normal people", but they are willingly perpetuating a horrible system.
The $5K a year just gives you a $300 per person per visit discount. So pays itself back in 15 visits or so.
Plenty of us nerds can afford this and want to see news about this.
indexing != making and retaining a copy of, and then using for commercial purposes.
OPNSense lets you define an alias of type=BGP ASN. Then you just use the alias as the target in a block rule.
The next step will be to force ISPs to block ipsec and other VPN protocols as well as connections to well know VPN endpoints.
It's 95% secure as long as you OR a person at the phone company doesn't fall for social engineering. Unfortunately SIM cloning is a thing and has been used as an attack vector to steal 2FA sent via SMS. TOTP is much more secure as the credential is only sent once when establishing the symmetric key.
That "reward" comes from the money the merchant pays, and then they just raise the price of the product to compensate for their calculated loss.
All that means is that you are punished for NOT using a rewards card. The merchant has already baked the cost of doing business with the CC reward companies into their price, so if you pay with a simple debit or a card that offers no rewards, you are paying the higher price to no benefit. I pay off my CC bill every month anyway. I might as well get 1% or whatever pittance back as an Amazon gift card or whatever every few months. It is better than paying the same price and getting nothing.
YT has really gone down hill. The algorithms show kids some real trash by default.
I really wish they had something more granular than "kid" vs "normal" account. I'd like to be able to whitelist a curated set of channels for my kids. Setting an account to a kid's account allows in all kinds of AI trash and excludes a lot of great educational content.
If you're having trouble flip the premise on its head and ask yourself why people aren't in the street, then ask yourself what people would do if they aren't on social media, and that'll let you know why the premise of your post that this will have a negative affect on people is bullshit.
Banning social media won't get kids outside. I've talked to parents of my son's peers. They don't let their kids out of the house unsupervised. I'm the weirdo in the sense that I think a 10 year old can walk a mile to a friend's house or go play street hockey or whatever without a parent hovering over their shoulder. If you take away social media, all those kids will be watching TV or their parents will send them to aftercare or judo lessons or whatever. You'll just be removing ALL social interaction for kids whose parents don't want to pay by the hour to keep them entertained.
My experience is the US, mind, not AU, so things are probably somewhat different there. But with that caveat in mind: At least on school days, the ONLY social interaction my 10 year old son gets with his peers is online through "social media". I've sent him outside to "bike around the neighborhood and find someone to play with" and he reported that there wasn't anyone. I walked around with him and sure enough, the streets were deserted @ 3:00 on a weekday afternoon. All the kids are kept inside or at some structured after school activity. If I want him to go to a friend's house that is not in walking distance my wife or I have to take time off to drive him there and pick him up. In my day you could just hop on your friend's bus and get off at his stop with him, but they don't allow that anymore (even with a not from the parents: I checked with the school).
Now that it is summer, everyone is in "camp", so again, no playmates if you don't also send your kid to "camp". I guess no one fucks around in each other's yard, plays pickup baseball, or goes fishing anymore. I've tried to raise my kids to have active independent childhoods, but without the network effect of other parents giving their kids the same freedoms, it just ain't happening.
So his friend group mostly coordinates through discord on their iPads to play minecraft and other online activities together as their main form of play. I understand that a lot of these social media platforms are not healthy for kids, but for many it is their ONLY outlet. To the extent social media gets regulated, it should be to curb predatory practices by the platform. That plus good parenting and supervision should be sufficient. But an outright ban is overkill.
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