Posts by Charles 9

Is it corruption to protect you self and safeguard your potential campaign? Is it corruption for a hodunk politician to refuse to pass a critical piece of legislation without some compensation demanded of his/her constituents?

Re: The other guy

There's one thing worse than pissing off an average voter: pudding off a RICH voter, especially one rich enough to influence average voters. Trump is ONE of the rich, and he didn't really piss the rest of them off.

Re: @Kev99 Federal public lands law

Screw the laws, he has enough money to keep the courts tied up for years. Plus I have friends the mayor doesn't want to piss off with a gubernatorial election coming up.

Re: @Ian, close but no cigar... All you really need

Even from public property, you still can't Disturb The Peace. As for the city turning a blind eye, there could be phone calls. Remember the gubernatorial election coming up.

He'll just counter with Disturbing The Peace complaints, and this time he may have a case.

Re: @AC GET OFF MY LAWN

And since this is no skin off his nose, he also doesn't care if he gets stuck with a Vexatious Litigant declaration. He can pay the other side's legal fees just as easily and knows the mayor doesn't want to tick off the VERY influential residents with a gubernatorial election coming up. The mayor can't take the most direct action while they have him by the short-and-danglies.

Re: "manufacturers drop out of the market"

"That's just a typical savage capitalist argument, and it's bullshit. Companies might make their kit more expensive to cover extra costs (if their main competitors did the same), but they wouldn't pull out as it just leaves free space for their competition to move into."

Not if the cost of compliance bleeds out any chance for profit. Economics 101: if you can't make a profit, pull out of the market. And there is such a phrase as "strangled by red tape".

Re: which will post their own updates in time, hopefully.

Manufacturer's cruft, without which they would never have sold the phones in the first place, which in turn would've meant Apple would've become the lone player in the smartphone market. IOW, necessary evil.

Or you'll see no more phones (or support) as manufacturers drop out of the market (and the EU, to avoid the fines by way of sovereign immunity).

Then explain MIL SPEC erasure standards. The military historically doesn't respond to theoretical threats, and I'm pretty sure I've read of forensics labs able to recover data through their equipment that can work at the physical level.

Re: So for personal backup...

For now, your only hope is to use rust. USB drives or a personal NAS, RDX if you're richer and need a better assurance for cold storage.

Is that command certified to work on SSDs that have their own internal logic, meaning you can't be sure an erase to a sector isn't going to another part of the drive, including parts that may have been set aside for redundancy? Now, granted, drives with internal encryption are very easy to securely erase, but what about the rest of the lot?

Then you HEAR the beeping as the space gets rejected, and you then find out someone ELSE changed the software in your absence.

Re: Supposedly a true story

Then, of course, "That can't be right. I'M Phillip Smith!"

Re: Hilarious!

Oh, what if the arguer happens to be the guy who wrote the RFC that REVISED the original RFC? IOW, the v1.0 man trying to talk to the v1.1 man.

Re: The easy way to get around this* (*most of the time)

I wouldn't be too surprised if a site like that hid all the content with white-on-white text collapsed by a CSS tag which only opens when the same JavaScript that enables the ads us enabled. Found something like that on a site. Tried removing the "screen" only to be left with a blank page.

Re: Dumb will as dumb does

Guess you never watch free TV, then. ALL ads are forced there, and then there's Product Placement which is part and parcel with the content.

Re: Remember... I still pay for the bandwidth

They respond, "So do we, and unlike you, we don't get the buffet deal."

Re: The Solution is Simple

And I think it not so plausible. Otherwise, it would've already appeared. Instead, you have the opposite: "bulletproof" providers who provide legal protection and plausible deniability.

Re: On the other hand...

I don't trust HOSTS files that much. I've run into too many false positives. One list blocked my credit union.

Re: Now why do you think the advertising industry doesn't try to sell that solution instead?

And given how much of a killing they make, they seem to have a very salient point.

Re: Why doesn't someone

Still saps your data allowance and bandwidth, and for some, one or both are at a premium. Plus, many ads tie themselves well into the article itself, meaning trying to cut out the ads will probably result in getting part of the content cut as well.

Re: The Solution is Simple

There's ALWAYS a limit, as matter and energy are still finite. And in this case, there are the infrastructure costs. Think about it. What happened to Tripod and GeoCities? Pretty sure sooner or later ANY user-generated content will HAVE to go through some money-grubber because there will be no other free self-publish sites anymore. Then what?

Re: The Solution is Simple

Problem is, you could LOSE the war, and EVERYTHING can end up behind walls or full of ads too tightly coupled to the content (think Product Placement) to safely remove. Will people start abandoning the Internet and go back to international robocalls, non-returnable junk mail, and billboards?

Trouble is, those systems usually run afoul of false positives and "ostriching". Eventually, ad men will make ads that fall below the noise floor and can't be distinguished from actual content (think product placement in TV shows).

Well, when it comes to broadband, geography matters. It's not like any country bigger than the US is doing any better rolling out to the sticks. The ROI simply isn't there without a sweetener.

Re: Nice L3 cache you've got there

Even with EFI-based systems?

Re: Gamers?

Doesn't the support chipset provide additional lanes for lower-priority stuff?

Re: As the originator of net neutrality

Not if they're vertically integrated like say AT&T, a Tier 1 and endpoint provider.

Re: Not for profit

Two things, though.

One, no one expects ANYTHING run by the government to be efficient and well-maintained. Name one where private, profit-driven enterprise can't do any better.

Two, that smacks of Socialism, and in America, Socialism might as well be a four-letter word.