I wish there were ready-made hosted Plex servers that could accept a file transfer. Buy a movie online and give them your server "address" and they send the movie to your Plex server.
We have been robbed of so many possibilities by copyright bullshit.
Write your local congressman (depending on where you live this position may have a different name). Go to the local political party of your choice and make it known that this is an important issue. Remember votes are more important than money in politics - money can buy votes but only when voters don't care about issues. So if many many people make this an issue things will change.
Copyright itself isn't what's stopping that, but the legal apparatuses and laws surrounding the distribution of digital copyrighted information and the industry protectionism that spawned said laws and legal apparatuses is what's stopping it.
Implementation details. At checkout put in a public key or something similar, at the receiving end accept a dialog to accept film <x> from <y> movie buying site.
Then they should not be quoting from it at all if they are not going to release it in its entirety as without context quote can have completely different meaning.
It is weird. Dan would probably say it's because political or geopolitical topics "have a tendency" to too easily devolve into ridiculousness or nastiness and lead to low quality threads, and because that's not what HN is for, they're mostly avoided.
The flip side I find is sad. A community of bright people who are not (at least in this forum) making their voices heard and crucially debating ideas which are central to society - especially at this time of rapid change.
Even worse, because the kind of long forming and focus that you can get here is denied such topics here, basically the only place to discuss it is X.
But at the same time, it's okay. If there was a solution to this, I'm sure Dan and the community would have already discovered it. I know it seems like censorship (by the community as a whole, somehow ~~ and may it is), but it's probably just for the reasons Dan would say.
Still, I can't help but feel society is a little worse off for the lack of ability to really dig into these topics on this forum, and specifically to have them aired (and even foisted upon) the same people working in technical and engineering fields who are shaping society. It both makes these people more vulnerable to unconsidered ideas in the geo/political space, and makes the work product which shapes society less likely to be well-conceived from the basis of its geo/political and social implications.
And also it's a bit weird how easily such topics do slide into low quality here. I guess it's self-reinforcing in that if you don't practise it, you don't get better. My feeling is YC is distinctly uncomfortable with geo/politics overtly perhaps because of the uncomfortable background of the very overt consequences of startups, but also probably primarily because it would seem such topics would just "get in the way" of the business of doing business in startups.
Things like this are paraded around as helpful for people in oppressive regimes when in reality they're more useful for building a bigger surveillance state in the West.
Devil's advocate here but global spying isn't the same as surveillance state. For in country surveillance there's enough CCTV to not even need satellites
Spying on foreign countries for the US gov is not the same as spying on citizens of foreign countries and providing that information to their government
I'm really a big fan of the technology, but even I have to admit that it can most likely be used for surveillance just as easily as it can be for providing legitimate cell service.
Cellular protocols have a very bad security track record, and this is built on the exact same standards.
Even then he might have escaped further notice if he'd ditched all the incriminating stuff. It's one thing to kind'a look like a guy in a low-quality pic; it's quite another to have the cops checking you out find all your murder gear with you.
Yeah, that part really surprised me too. He had advanced degrees and top grades, so he was clearly a smart guy, so why did he make such a dumb mistake that anyone who's watched a few murder mysteries would know not to do? Like some others have said, it seems like he probably wanted to get caught.
It sounds like he had a mental break. Not saying he didn't have good reasons for doing what he did, but the twitter detectives posted that his family and friends have been looking for him for the past 6 months.
You can be smart and still slip up, especially under pressure (and as we're learning, possibly mental and physical pain). Presumably one of the reasons why professionals are better is that, beyond working experience, they have a lot of practice.
(In Dr. Strangelove voice) "Of course, the whole point of a ghost gun is lost if you keep it!"
Seriously tho, the fact that he went to the trouble of obtaining one shows that he gave that some thought. But then didn't follow through. So yeah, maybe he did want to get caught.
> Even if the cops didn't find anything on him they'd ID him for real
Sure thing. They would know what the guy who kinda look like a photo of a wanted man is called. Doesn’t necessarily means they can pin anything on him. Obviously increases their chances, since they can work both backwards and forwards, but that is about it.
Assuming of course that the “he got just unlucky, a random person recognised them” is true, and not paralel construction for some other mean they don’t want to reveal.
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