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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
Anyone who says that you don't need to disclose personal information to buy a firearm in the US is either joking or uninformed, and I suspect he was joking.
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@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden Can't take guns on a plane either. Thanks a lot GDPR
Hey, you're on a roll!
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden I'm not an expert on the relevant regulation, but I don't think gun shaped oranges would be compliant. It might work for other weapons, though
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@brie said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden said in In other news today...:
@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@Rhywden Can't take guns on a plane either. Thanks a lot GDPR
Hey, you're on a roll!
Barrel roll. We've got a theme to uphold, y'know?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
Aliens must have hit the reset button.
NASA had better keep a close watch on it... luckily, there are no brains on Mars, but any future Martian explorers should come prepared to decapitate it if necessary.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/neo-nazi-groups-leader-black-man-vows-dissolve-61424125
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$ dig A goatse.dev
; <<>> DiG 9.11.3-1ubuntu1.3-Ubuntu <<>> A goatse.dev
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 50397
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 1;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;goatse.dev. IN A;; ANSWER SECTION:
goatse.dev. 452 IN A 184.168.131.241;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
goatse.dev. 2648 IN NS ns34.domaincontrol.com.
goatse.dev. 2648 IN NS ns33.domaincontrol.com.;; Query time: 0 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
;; WHEN: Sat Mar 02 23:29:50 UTC 2019
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 110
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Apple is working on the iBomb
I was about to post this... My favourite being
As for AirPods, rumours suggest we could see the AirPods 2 soon, in new colours — such as black —
Yeah that's some serious innovation. He fucking having a seance and talking to Ford?
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Somewhat unrelated to this but I have a theory about the downward trend in piracy (or theft as it should be called) mostly based on my own experience. Netflix, Spotify and Amazon are a big part of it. They just made it easier to get a hold of content. but as I grew older I realised that if I don't pay for shit noone is going to keep making the stuff I like. Pirates in their teens and twenties just grew up and now have disposable income. However a big part I think is the newer generation while able to use a computer or smartphone just aren't that tech savvy. Over Christmas my second cousin was complaining about missing a few episodes of the walking dead. just torrent it was my response and I was met with a vacant stare. I honestly don't think the upcoming generations will be savvy enough to do anything that isn't handed to them on a plate in an app.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
I honestly don't think the upcoming generations will be savvy enough to do anything that isn't handed to them on a plate in an app.
We're the vanguard of the new tech priesthood.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
I honestly don't think the upcoming generations will be savvy enough to do anything that isn't handed to them on a plate in an app.
We're the vanguard of the new tech priesthood.
More like the grumpy old timer complaining about the good old days.
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https://tech2.org/germany/accident-with-a-dead-hamburg-taxi-thief-is-silent-on-the-allegations/
I cannot find any English articles on the follow-up but our constitutional court has found that the verdict by the lower courts will stand. The verdict handed down? Murder.
In contrast to the earlier case from Cologne where two morons were racing down the street, were also convicted of murder with their verdict being overturned later on (due to the prosecution not doing their homework and proving intent), this time the conviction was upheld because driving in the face of incoming traffic was sufficient to prove intent.
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Apple is working on the iBomb
OMG!!! Apple is working with the military just like Microsoft!!!!
(runs around like a chicken with its head cut off)
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
@dkf said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
I honestly don't think the upcoming generations will be savvy enough to do anything that isn't handed to them on a plate in an app.
We're the vanguard of the new tech priesthood.
More like the grumpy old timer complaining about the good old days.
There's a difference?
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@DogsB article neglects to mention that Netflix's official position is "go right ahead, we don't care. You'll buy a subscription eventually."
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piracy
mooching off someone else's accountDear Netflix or whoever conflated those things: Go fuck yourself.
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@hungrier How so? You're attempting to get what you didn't pay for. It isn't against Netflix's terms of service, but if it was that'd totally count as piracy.
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@pie_flavor said in In other news today...:
@hungrier How so? You're attempting to get what you didn't pay for. It isn't against Netflix's terms of service, but of it was that'd totally count as piracy.
Sharing is explicitly allowed in Netflix's business model. You pay more (sublinearly) for being able to share with more people. Max is 4 iirc.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
Sharing is explicitly allowed in Netflix's business model. You pay more (sublinearly) for being able to share with more people. Max is 4 iirc.
You pay for up to 4 devices at the same time within the same household.
https://help.netflix.com/legal/termsofuse
4.2. The Netflix service and any content viewed through the service are for your personal and non-commercial use only and may not be shared with individuals beyond your household.
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my grandkids are 12, 10 and eight years old and are all third-generation Flat Earthers. […] When their science teacher was telling the kids the Earth spins at a thousand miles an hour and goes around the sun, the class erupted, with about a third of the class saying, ‘No, it doesn’t.’
That's just horrifying
The worst part is the whole "it's a conspiracy" aspect in which people are told to completely distrust authority. So rather than a typical reaction of "oh, that's not what I've heard" followed by independent research, it's "you're an NWO shill you liar" end of story.
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
may not be shared with individuals beyond your household
The day they start enforcing that is the day my subscription will go down to 2 screens only, since I share it with my daughter and sister who don't live with me.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
The problem with this kind of estimates is they assume the people who get their way around the barrier would otherwise buy the service. No, they wouldn't. Maybe a few, but most wouldn't.
@pie_flavor said in In other news today...:
@DogsB article neglects to mention that Netflix's official position is "go right ahead, we don't care. You'll buy a subscription eventually."
Which is only reasonable. Those who care mostly eventually will, the rest won't no matter what they'd do anyway.
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
The problem with this kind of estimates is they assume the people who get their way around the barrier would otherwise buy the service. No, they wouldn't. Maybe a few, but most wouldn't.
That's the oldest and most tired excuse for piracy. "I wouldn't buy it anyway, so it's not theft".
Actually you did pay for it, with effort to get it and with time to consume it. You did want the content, so "I don't care" defense is just not true.
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@MrL said in In other news today...:
@Bulb said in In other news today...:
The problem with this kind of estimates is they assume the people who get their way around the barrier would otherwise buy the service. No, they wouldn't. Maybe a few, but most wouldn't.
That's the oldest and most tired excuse for piracy. "I wouldn't buy it anyway, so it's not theft".
Actually you did pay for it, with effort to get it and with time to consume it. You did want the content, so "I don't care" defense is just not true.That wasn't the argument.
The argument was that those that still pirate media wouldn't buy it anyway, so it is not lost income to the business that is having it's stuff pirated. Some of it, yes, but not all.
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
That wasn't the argument.
The argument was that those that still pirate media wouldn't buy it anyway, so it is not lost income to the business that is having it's stuff pirated. Some of it, yes, but not all.I know that's the argument, and I say it's bullshit.
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
Netflix may be losing $192M per month from piracy
@Bulb said in In other news today...:
@DogsB article neglects to mention that Netflix's official position is "go right ahead"
If account sharing is allowed by Netflix, then it isn't piracy.
Piracy is ripping a show from a streaming service and then sharing it online.
Before you know it, having your friends around to watch TV will count as piracy, or hearing a few stray notes of music whilst walking around in the street.
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There was some discussion in Poland some months ago about people using 'family plan' when not being a family at all. Netflix spokeperson commented on this "Go right ahead, use it if you want. We are happy that you're with us".
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@MrL said in In other news today...:
That's the oldest and most tired excuse for piracy. "I wouldn't buy it anyway, so it's not theft".
Piracy is not theft
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@MrL said in In other news today...:
That's the oldest and most tired excuse for piracy. "I wouldn't buy it anyway, so it's not theft".
Piracy is not theft
Just like plagiarism, eh?
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@MrL said in In other news today...:
Just like plagiarism, eh?
Plagiarism is not theft.
Theft: the felonious taking and removing of personal property with intent to deprive the rightful owner of it.
Piracy doesn't deprive the rightful owner of it.
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@TimeBandit
In the case of piracy, you are depriving the rightful owner of the software of the property of the license revenue for his software (or service).One could argue that plagarism is depriving the rightful owner of the reputation gain from being credited for using his work, but that's probably a stretch of the definition of "personal property".
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
In the case of piracy, you are depriving the rightful owner of the software of the property of the license revenue for his software (or service).
Technically, it'd be theft of opportunity, but pricing the loss there is hard.
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@MrL said in In other news today...:
Just like plagiarism, eh?
Plagiarism is not theft.
Theft: the felonious taking and removing of personal property with intent to deprive the rightful owner of it.
Piracy doesn't deprive the rightful owner of it.
My colleague says "it's not illegal to download content, only if I share it with someone else".
Nitpicking at definitions, musings about no harm done, legality arguments, "information wants to be free!" - whatever works to avoid being called a thief.
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@MrL said in In other news today...:
My colleague says "it's not illegal to download content, only if I share it with someone else".
In Canada, downloading copyright music from peer-to-peer networks is legal, but uploading those files is not. We have a private copying levy, which grants the right to make personal, noncommercial copies of sound recordings. Canada has imposed levies on recording mediums like blank CDs. These levies are used to fund musicians and songwriters for revenues lost due to consumer copying.
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Theft: the felonious taking and removing of personal property with intent to deprive the rightful owner of it.
If I take your wallet from your pocket my intent is to use your money, not to deprive you from using it. Therefore, I wouldn't have stolen your wallet.
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Where was that post about USB 3.2 gen 2x2? There's now another new piece to add to that mess:
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@TimeBandit
The fact that Canada tortured its law into allowing for receiving stolen property via file download does not mean you're not receiving stolen property. As evidenced by the fact that Canada's law still recognizes "uploading" to the P2P network as illegal.
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@izzion Good thing it's not stolen property then. Copyrighted works follow exactly zero of the laws pertaining to property insofar as they involve to the copyright holder.
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@DoctorJones said in In other news today...:
hearing a few stray notes of music whilst walking around in the street.
That's public presentation! It already is illegal if you don't have a license!
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
The fact that Canada tortured its law into allowing for receiving stolen property via file download does not mean you're not receiving stolen property.
The music industry lobbied hard to have a tax on blank CDs because, they claimed, people used them to copy music. Since we pay for it, we're allowed to copy music.
Of course, for the couple thousand blank CD I bought, about 99% of them never got used to copy music, but I paid the music levy anyway, even when I used those to put my own copyrighted work on it
Fuck the music industry.
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@Maciejasjmj said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Theft: the felonious taking and removing of personal property with intent to deprive the rightful owner of it.
If I take your wallet from your pocket my intent is to use your money, not to deprive you from using it. Therefore, I wouldn't have stolen your wallet.
Is that the "you wouldn't download a car" analogy?
Because I damn sure would download a car. And I also wouldn't mind you "stealing my wallet" if you didn't actually take money (ignoring for a second both that my wallet also contains things like IDs and private information, and that printing money on large scale also devalues it).Piracy is illegal (in most jurisdictions) and may also cause harm, but it is not theft.
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@izzion said in In other news today...:
The fact that Canada tortured its law into allowing for receiving stolen property via file download does not mean you're not receiving stolen property.
The music industry lobbied hard to have a tax on blank CDs because, they claimed, people used them to copy music. Since we pay for it, we're allowed to copy music.
Of course, for the couple thousand blank CD I bought, about 99% of them never got used to copy music, but I paid the music levy anyway, even when I used those to put my own copyrighted work on it
Fuck the music industry.
We have pretty much the same thing here (sounds like there's no copyright on ideas for lobbying, after all) on all kinds of shit from blank CDs to printers, as compensation for legal private copies1. Doesn't stop them from arguing you're not allowed to make these legal private copies.
On the other hand, I got some nice royalties for my dissertation that I'm pretty sure not a single person on this earth has bought, so .
1 For example I can go to the library and copy a few pages of a book using their copier, but not the whole book (which would probably be more expensive than buying it). Or I can make backup copies of software for which I have the license even though I do not have the copyright. This a priori doesn't exclude "copy protected" stuff, but once they claim there's a copy protection on it's suddenly no longer clear if I can make my legal private copy when it involves a non-functional copy protection.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
Is that the "you wouldn't download a car" analogy"
No, just a joke at the expense of @TimeBandit's (and apparently, Merriam-Webster's) lousy definition. Indeed, even MW offers an alternative one :
an unlawful taking (as by embezzlement or burglary) of property
Theft not only isn't concerned with intent, it doesn't even require the owner to be deprived of the item. If I keep my super secret nuclear missile plans in a briefcase and you take that briefcase you stole the design, even if I have a backup readily available. The problem isn't that I don't have the plans, the problem is that you do, without my permission.
The murky area is what constitutes "unlawful taking", not whether the intent or even the effect is depriving someone of their property.
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@DoctorJones said in In other news today...:
If account sharing is allowed by Netflix, then it isn't piracy.
It isn't allowed outside of the same household.
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
Where was that post about USB 3.2 gen 2x2? There's now another new piece to add to that mess:
How very thoughtful of them. Let someone else fix it!
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
Where was that post about USB 3.2 gen 2x2? There's now another new piece to add to that mess:
From TFA:
We should also take the opportunity to marvel once again at USB-IF's prowess for naming things. While previous versions included a space between "USB" and the version number—giving us "USB 3.2," "USB 2.0," and so on—with USB4 it has for some unfathomable reason decided to discard the space.
I look forward to USB4 .1 gen3x2 revB. (Please note the mandatory space after the four.)
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@cvi Future generations of the USB4 standard:
- USB4 (current)
- USB 4 (twice as fast version)
- USB 4 (more faster version)
- USB 4 rev 0.1 (retroactive name for USB4)
- USB 4 rev 0.2 (retroactive name for USB 4)
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@cvi Future generations of the USB4 standard:
- USB4 (current)
- USB 4 (twice as fast version)
- USB 4 (more faster version)
- USB 4 rev 0.1 (retroactive name for USB4)
- USB 4 rev 0.2 (retroactive name for USB 4)
USB 4 rev 3.2 (retroactive name for USB 3.2, all gens)