PodVoters looks to me like a much better idea (IMO), because it's an online system for selecting candidates, according to a process that should yield much better candidates, than we get at present. It's not about users directly managing the entire legislative process which is too burdensome for most (any?) citizen.
My collegue Alok wrote a fantastic essay on this issue which everyone here should appreciate as it starts with the basic principles of how the internet works and then analyzes a conception of net neutrality and more importantly extends the debate to consider different possibilities for net prejudice i.e. prejudicial packet treatment (also called QoS, etc.).
The basic conclusion is that legislation should be enacted (and can be defined and implemented effectively and easily) based on an analysis of technology as well as business motivations of telco.s not to project net neutrality but rather to prevent pernicious types of net prejudice. This would protect best telco., consumer and engineering interests.
You can read the essay at scribd:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/938752/Against-FeeBased-and-other-Pernicious-Net-Prejudice-An-Explanation-and-Examination-of-the-Net-Neutrality-Debate
Here's Alok's summary of his argument: defining net neutrality as the idea that every packet must be treated equally, there's an alternative, net prejudice, in which packets can be treated prejudicially (or preferentially depending on your perspective!). Through analyzing the kinds of technologies involved in sincere and rent-seeking net prejudice by telco.s, the essay arrives at conclusions that protections are needed (e.g. legislation) not so much to protect net neutrality but rather to protect against pernicious net prejudice, and these protections won't inhibit any technological innovation (e.g. IPv6 which provides for quality of service or net prejudice) nor provide any disincentives to telecommunications infrastructure investment.
Yes, to some extent, until someone re-engineers your code. And like patents, not sharing code is considered evil too!
Though I'm not against Open Source neither against Free Software, I consider it good enough too be able to keep you code closed if you really want to and other people should understand that. I even consider patents not evil until they are not to generic.
The reason that "free" sounds good and tastes good (if you manage to get free beer) is you are not paying for it. But understand that "free" is a very simple term to describe the economics around Open Source and Free Software. Somewhere someone has spent time (thus money) building it and that "someone" has a tummy which he needs to fill up, and he needs money for that.
Before brickbats are thrown at me and I get modded down:) , just for the information sake, I too have contributed in my own right to the Open Source community. Here's the link http://xstress.sourceforge.com/ to one of my projects apart from other small efforts of mine.
The reason for posting the above link it not to boast, as the code and the concept are very trivial, it is there just to show that I'm not against Open Source or Free Software, but just to make a point that Free as in beer is free for you but not for the one who serves it to you.
Can I like, not open the cease-and-desist letter and tell the judge that since I didn't open the letter so that I do not violate copyright? Reason being, I too write such letters, and since I didn't opened the letter, I have the right not to "cease-and-desist"? Since I can never know what is inside the letter, and I really do not want to know, so that my creativity and originality while writing such letter is not affected (corrupted?)?.. I'm exempted, am I?
Court orders and judgments too should be copyrighted, any other judge, if he/she is not creative enough to craft his own flowery words for the judgment should be tried for copy-right violations!
You certainly have made valid observations and comments.
Perhaps, the "radical" changes that have been brought into Perl 6 make it almost a new language. I don't know if this analogy will fit in here, but it is quite similar to what we had with VB6 and VB.NET . Whenever there is a radical change in a programming language, eyebrows are bound to raise and apprehension would definitely be the first emotion. And adding to it the fact that it took such long for Perl 6 to materialize it doesn't do good to the language.
I haven't gone through the entire new feature list, but I read somewhere that they do have a Perl 5 compatibility mode. So I guess we can still run perl5 scripts using the perl5 interpreter.
I'm yet to download Perl6, so will come-back when I'm done playing with it!
As a final word, I hope (and pray) that they have not twisted Perl so much that it isn't Perl anymore.
I Know (with some element of guess that) "Tata" maybe a slang or a real word in different languages with meanings ranging from simple "waving of hand" to something obscense:)... But here it is the surname of the owner of Tata group of Companies. His name is Ratan Tata.
Heck I just copy-pasted the article!
The linked article is seems to be highly overrated
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I still can't figure out how the hell the so called "hacker" was able to install the so called "snoopware" into their new phones??... were these people soooo stupid to have their Bluetooth turned on, or installing any xyz application sent by a person they don't even know??
May be the MMS or SMS they received with the "snoopware" had the title "P0rn"...
Apart from this.. the article seems too far fetched from reality! (IMO)
I don't mind in-game ads, until they become too intrusive as TV ads are. As for their effect, they might, if they gel with the game and are properly placed. (IMO)
Like If (hypothetically) I have to pick a bike in HalfLife or Halo and, I get to choose from some branded ones!:)
cheers
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I happen to stumble upon something similar here : http://podvoters.org/
:)
PodVoters looks to me like a much better idea (IMO), because it's an online system for selecting candidates, according to a process that should yield much better candidates, than we get at present. It's not about users directly managing the entire legislative process which is too burdensome for most (any?) citizen.
just my two cents
My collegue Alok wrote a fantastic essay on this issue which everyone here should appreciate as it starts with the basic principles of how the internet works and then analyzes a conception of net neutrality and more importantly extends the debate to consider different possibilities for net prejudice i.e. prejudicial packet treatment (also called QoS, etc.). The basic conclusion is that legislation should be enacted (and can be defined and implemented effectively and easily) based on an analysis of technology as well as business motivations of telco.s not to project net neutrality but rather to prevent pernicious types of net prejudice. This would protect best telco., consumer and engineering interests. You can read the essay at scribd: http://www.scribd.com/doc/938752/Against-FeeBased-and-other-Pernicious-Net-Prejudice-An-Explanation-and-Examination-of-the-Net-Neutrality-Debate Here's Alok's summary of his argument: defining net neutrality as the idea that every packet must be treated equally, there's an alternative, net prejudice, in which packets can be treated prejudicially (or preferentially depending on your perspective!). Through analyzing the kinds of technologies involved in sincere and rent-seeking net prejudice by telco.s, the essay arrives at conclusions that protections are needed (e.g. legislation) not so much to protect net neutrality but rather to protect against pernicious net prejudice, and these protections won't inhibit any technological innovation (e.g. IPv6 which provides for quality of service or net prejudice) nor provide any disincentives to telecommunications infrastructure investment.
Thanx AC! My apologies, I posted the incorrect URL. .com instead of .net :)
http://xstress.sourceforge.net/
Yes, to some extent, until someone re-engineers your code. And like patents, not sharing code is considered evil too!
:) , just for the information sake, I too have contributed in my own right to the Open Source community. Here's the link http://xstress.sourceforge.com/ to one of my projects apart from other small efforts of mine.
Though I'm not against Open Source neither against Free Software, I consider it good enough too be able to keep you code closed if you really want to and other people should understand that. I even consider patents not evil until they are not to generic.
The reason that "free" sounds good and tastes good (if you manage to get free beer) is you are not paying for it. But understand that "free" is a very simple term to describe the economics around Open Source and Free Software. Somewhere someone has spent time (thus money) building it and that "someone" has a tummy which he needs to fill up, and he needs money for that.
Before brickbats are thrown at me and I get modded down
The reason for posting the above link it not to boast, as the code and the concept are very trivial, it is there just to show that I'm not against Open Source or Free Software, but just to make a point that Free as in beer is free for you but not for the one who serves it to you.
Can I like, not open the cease-and-desist letter and tell the judge that since I didn't open the letter so that I do not violate copyright? Reason being, I too write such letters, and since I didn't opened the letter, I have the right not to "cease-and-desist"? Since I can never know what is inside the letter, and I really do not want to know, so that my creativity and originality while writing such letter is not affected (corrupted?)? .. I'm exempted, am I?
Court orders and judgments too should be copyrighted, any other judge, if he/she is not creative enough to craft his own flowery words for the judgment should be tried for copy-right violations!
You certainly have made valid observations and comments.
Perhaps, the "radical" changes that have been brought into Perl 6 make it almost a new language. I don't know if this analogy will fit in here, but it is quite similar to what we had with VB6 and VB.NET . Whenever there is a radical change in a programming language, eyebrows are bound to raise and apprehension would definitely be the first emotion. And adding to it the fact that it took such long for Perl 6 to materialize it doesn't do good to the language.
I haven't gone through the entire new feature list, but I read somewhere that they do have a Perl 5 compatibility mode. So I guess we can still run perl5 scripts using the perl5 interpreter.
I'm yet to download Perl6, so will come-back when I'm done playing with it!
As a final word, I hope (and pray) that they have not twisted Perl so much that it isn't Perl anymore.
I Know (with some element of guess that) "Tata" maybe a slang or a real word in different languages with meanings ranging from simple "waving of hand" to something obscense :) ... But here it is the surname of the owner of Tata group of Companies. His name is Ratan Tata.
Heck I just copy-pasted the article!
I still can't figure out how the hell the so called "hacker" was able to install the so called "snoopware" into their new phones?? ... were these people soooo stupid to have their Bluetooth turned on, or installing any xyz application sent by a person they don't even know??
...
.. the article seems too far fetched from reality! (IMO)
May be the MMS or SMS they received with the "snoopware" had the title "P0rn"
Apart from this
....(blah ... blah blah) ... Wrong number! >:)
Happy holidays!
I don't mind in-game ads, until they become too intrusive as TV ads are. As for their effect, they might, if they gel with the game and are properly placed. (IMO) Like If (hypothetically) I have to pick a bike in HalfLife or Halo and, I get to choose from some branded ones! :)
cheers
Mozilla team is losing focus!
The lean and mean broswer is becoming fat and bad.
Size does matter, leaner the better. They should leave out extra features as plugins.
At least, this is what I think.
- xk0der
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