Posts by Criminny Rickets 193 publicly visible posts • joined 8 Oct 2009
Wasn't the point of shutting down TikTok or divesting Chinese ownership was to protect US National Security interests. Well there you go, easy fix, If they don't want the Chinese to know any national security secrets, don't post them to TikTok. There you go Donald, I just saves you 20 billion dollars. You can send some of those savings my way.
Every time a student reads a book, they are copying the information from the book into their brains. Every time one of those students goes on to create something based on what they learned from those books, it is creating a new work.
The AI is not reproducing the original book word for word, the same way a student when doing something, is not reproducing what they learned word for word.
I do quite a bit of shopping on Amazon myself. The biggest reasons I do so is that a number of the things I am looking for I am unable to find locally, or I can get a much better price for it on Amazon. I would rather pay an Amazon reseller $100.00 for something than pay a local company $500.00 for the same item.
Usually though, If I can get it locally at a decent price, I will buy local first.
There's also Yahoo Search, DuckDuckGo and a few others. How is Google monopolistic if people decide to use them for doing their searches? Do they send squads out and force people to not use other search engines? It's peoples freedom of choice which search engine they use, so why should a company such as Google be penalized for people utilizing their own freedom of choice?
Software requirements.
I currently work at a place that uses a cloud based front end system. The system requirements are Windows 8.1 or Windows 10 version 1607 or higher, Microsoft.NET framework, and either Internet Explorer 11, Microsoft Edge or Google Chrome must be set as the default browser on the system, though they highly recommend Internet Explorer.
Google should just pay the fine and negotiate a fee with the publishers, of course Google can then turn around and charge these same publishers a "nominal" fee for driving web traffic to their sites. If that fee Google charges the sites happens to be more than the publishers are charging Google, well, that is the cost of doing business on the web.
"signed a sweeping executive order directing government agencies to take steps"
So basically smoke and mirrors. Biden is directing the agencies to do something, but it is up to those agencies of whether to follow through. and by how much. So Biden can now say he did something, and if things don't happen the way people expect, he can turn around and say that he wasn't to blame.
Now I don't know the full story about the hate on for Richard Stallman and am only going on the words attributed to him from this article..
"Stallman suggested Minsky might somehow not have known she'd been forced to do"
" he also referred to Epstein's victims as a "harem."
What is so bad about suggesting Minksy maybe not knowing the girl was forced?
As for the "harem" comment, if Epstein had a stable of girls, willing or not, that would still technically be a harem, so Stallman was not out of line with this comment.
Now I realize there is probably more to the story, but from just reading this article, I do not see anything that warrants these people being upset at the FSF over Stallman\s reinstatement.
I wish, especially considering it has the look and feel of a program from the early 1990's. Like how can you have a program that can run only instance at a time. If I am using the editor, I can't open something else until I first close the editor. So I am not surprised that it requires Internet Explorer to run.
Being from the other side of the pond, I was never a Demon subscriber, but do fondly remember, back in the day, visiting some sites on that domain. The yearly cost of a domain is not that much, and, as far as I know, it does not cost anything to have an extra domain on a mailserver. So my question is, why couldn't they just have kept the demon.co.uk subdomain running for the people that had that address, without accepting any new users of that domain?
My older laptop has been acting up lately and I've been looking into getting a new one. My problem, they are asking WAY too much for what I am looking for. I'm not looking for a high end machine, just something I can read install Linux Mint on, read email, browse the web (with a few tabs open) , listen to music and watch or stream videos on. I also want to use it offline, which rules out Chromebooks. However, I am not going to pay over $600.00 CDN (354 GBP) for it.
Wow, if she actually did as described in the story about doing the hack then logging into her Github account from the same VPN connection, the police didn't have to follow any breadcrumbs, they just had to follow the BIG red arrows the the words "Hacker Here" pointed right at her.
"If they store data of Europeans it applies regardless of where they are based"
What if a pay grumble website is in a country with relaxed laws that says someone only needs to be 15 to view the content. Yet, in the EU, the law is that one has to be 18 to view such content. Does that website have to restrict people under 18 from seeing the content as it violated European law, even though it is legal in the country is is based? Can the EU fine that website for allowing under 18 yo's to get a subscription and view the content of the site, even though it is not based in the EU and is following the local laws?
Government is not taking over. The Net Neutrality rules do not regulate the Internet, they regulate the providers of said Internet to do just the opposite of net regulation. Net Neutrality says that providers cannot do anything to discriminate against internet traffic, be it VOIP, video sharing, file sharing, gaming etc. It is basically telling the providers that just as the government cannot, they also are not allowed to regulate the Internet.
I was thinking along similar lines. Why not, when someone is registering a domain, have a clearly seen notice, notifying the person registering the domain of the following?
By continuing the domain name registration process, you implicitly agree to allowing your personal information such as name, address and phone number, to be publicly available to look up, in conjunction with your domain name. If you do not agree, you may cancel the domain registration. In addition, if at any point after registering, you change your mind and wish to make your information private, you may submit a domain cancellation and personal information purge request to your registrar. It may take up to 7 business days for information to be purged, to allow for propagation through the Internet backbone.
Another that won't be ported, that I use quite frequently, is the ......
Update, I was going to say that DownThemAll Download Manager would not be ported, but upon checking the authors website, found that he will be doing so after all. but due to limitations in WebExtensions, it will be a scaled back version.
This is part of what he had to say...
Progress?
September 27, 2017
I decided to make a “lite” DTA web extension after all.
Of course, it will have serious limitations and far fewer features, but that’s a limitation of WebExtensions and what can you do?
On a maybe positive, it should be easy enough to support Chrome too (and Opera, etc?)
You make some good points. I agree that as long as it is being used by a few people, it is still worth developing. However, at what point is it no longer worth the time and effort to work on something. According to the article, money is not the reason they are dropping support, but because most of their clients do not use that platform, and the ones that do use Solaris, are migrating away. So if none of your clients are even using Solaris, why put the time and effort into developing software that is never going to be used?
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