I would think that any circular references would be self-correcting by the Wikipedia community.
Unfortunately, that's not easy. While Wikipedia cites its sources (if they are known), most journalists don't. And if they cite, they probably don't want to cite Wikipedia. So, it's hard to tell if a newspaper checked the information or just look the Wikipedia article up.
This is not new, and it is a real problem for Wikipedia, since WP became more and more popular. It happens all the time; iirc this was also the case with a statement in the xkcd article.
Ebay policy prohibits sale of stolen items and parts of a F-14 are obviously stolen if on Ebay. So, consequence one will be removal of the auction. Consequence two is, that now Ebay has the IP-Adresses of those people and they properly will give it to the military. They better used Tor or live in a country far far away.
This behavior is IMHO incredibly stupid. If you manage to steal such items, one would think that you also manage to sell them somewhere else than on Ebay.
Being a Wikipedian myself, I looked for some extension to let me go directly to a Wikipedia article, and I eventually found it: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/443 The way I configured this extension, you can just enter some lemma in the address bar and then Ctrl-Enter takes you to the Wikipedia article. It is quite useful because you don't have to use the mouse to go to the Google/Yahoo/Wikipedia-field. And if the article does not exist, it goes to the site anyway and doesn't redirect to the Wikipedia search (which I find somewhat annoying).
I once browsed a propaganda site by the film industry with the domain respectcopyrights.de (German). By chance I came across a PDF that had explications that sounded familiar... they were exact copies of some articles on Wikipedia! This is clearly a copyright infringement, as Wikipedia is licensed unter the GNU Free Documentation License and there are special conditions for redistributions of GFDL content which where not fulfilled.
Some cynical emails by me later and they eventually removed the content (they properly didn't want to include the GFDL into their propaganda material, as it would be quite contrary to all the pro-copyright stuff). This shows us: even those who try to make us believe copyright is important don't really care much about it when _they_ want to copy something.
You can already get his picture on T-Shirts (The protesters call the current political course "Stasi 2.0")
But the whole point of this is actually the E-Pass which contains fingerprints and is supposed to be absolutely safe. And the CCC has shown ways to make a fake fingerprint with some glue in less than an hour.
The name "Quantum Wikipedia" is complete bullshit. There is a huge difference between a Wiki (which is a way of creating content) and Wikipedia (which is a free encyclopedia). The submitter confused those two (the linked website got it right).
Dude, where/when are you living? I happen to live in Germany and I can tell you that there is only a tiny minority of extremists (US has this probably, too). Educate yourself just a tiny bit, please. Imho the amount of assholes in the world is fairly distributed around the world. But prejudice never seems to vanish...
Now a few words about the actual story: First, it's only partially a victory for privacy. Both the supporters and the opponents of strict security laws count this judgment a success. That's because the Bundesverfassungsgericht (Federal Constitutional Court of Germany) didn't forbid online spying in principle. They found this specific law to be against the constitution, and they ruled that there have to be some security measures (such as authorization by judge in each case), but in principle it is possible for the German government to spy on people.
On the other hand, they ruled for the first time, that there is a Grundrecht auf Vertraulichkeit und Integrität informationstechnischer Systeme (something like basic right for trust and integrity of IT systems) even though I am not really sure what consequences this will have.
Steve Fossett has been missing for 5 months and his chances of survival are very close to zero. It must be a huge psychological stress waiting for your probable-dead husband, so I really can understand that his wife wanted to put a stop to this uncertainty. Sure, it's just something bureaucratic, but now everyone can say that Steve Fossett is dead, instead of just thinking it.
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Unfortunately, that's not easy. While Wikipedia cites its sources (if they are known), most journalists don't. And if they cite, they probably don't want to cite Wikipedia. So, it's hard to tell if a newspaper checked the information or just look the Wikipedia article up.
This is not new, and it is a real problem for Wikipedia, since WP became more and more popular. It happens all the time; iirc this was also the case with a statement in the xkcd article.
Ebay policy prohibits sale of stolen items and parts of a F-14 are obviously stolen if on Ebay. So, consequence one will be removal of the auction. Consequence two is, that now Ebay has the IP-Adresses of those people and they properly will give it to the military. They better used Tor or live in a country far far away.
This behavior is IMHO incredibly stupid. If you manage to steal such items, one would think that you also manage to sell them somewhere else than on Ebay.
Have a look at this. Wikipedia has about 100 times more traffic than slashdot.
Oh, and how are Robots supposed to use a gun, if they have to obey Law 1?
Being a Wikipedian myself, I looked for some extension to let me go directly to a Wikipedia article, and I eventually found it: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/443
The way I configured this extension, you can just enter some lemma in the address bar and then Ctrl-Enter takes you to the Wikipedia article. It is quite useful because you don't have to use the mouse to go to the Google/Yahoo/Wikipedia-field. And if the article does not exist, it goes to the site anyway and doesn't redirect to the Wikipedia search (which I find somewhat annoying).
I once browsed a propaganda site by the film industry with the domain respectcopyrights.de (German). By chance I came across a PDF that had explications that sounded familiar... they were exact copies of some articles on Wikipedia! This is clearly a copyright infringement, as Wikipedia is licensed unter the GNU Free Documentation License and there are special conditions for redistributions of GFDL content which where not fulfilled.
Some cynical emails by me later and they eventually removed the content (they properly didn't want to include the GFDL into their propaganda material, as it would be quite contrary to all the pro-copyright stuff). This shows us: even those who try to make us believe copyright is important don't really care much about it when _they_ want to copy something.
You can already get his picture on T-Shirts (The protesters call the current political course "Stasi 2.0")
But the whole point of this is actually the E-Pass which contains fingerprints and is supposed to be absolutely safe. And the CCC has shown ways to make a fake fingerprint with some glue in less than an hour.
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The name "Quantum Wikipedia" is complete bullshit. There is a huge difference between a Wiki (which is a way of creating content) and Wikipedia (which is a free encyclopedia). The submitter confused those two (the linked website got it right).
There is actually a flight simulator in Excel, see this previous comment (or skip right to the page)
Florence sues Wikipedia? Kind of ironic, isn't it?
Indeed, that was part of the famous talk "Sie haben das Recht zu schweigen" (Download) (meaning something like "you have the right to be silent") at the 23C3.
Dude, where/when are you living? I happen to live in Germany and I can tell you that there is only a tiny minority of extremists (US has this probably, too). Educate yourself just a tiny bit, please. Imho the amount of assholes in the world is fairly distributed around the world. But prejudice never seems to vanish...
Now a few words about the actual story: First, it's only partially a victory for privacy. Both the supporters and the opponents of strict security laws count this judgment a success. That's because the Bundesverfassungsgericht (Federal Constitutional Court of Germany) didn't forbid online spying in principle. They found this specific law to be against the constitution, and they ruled that there have to be some security measures (such as authorization by judge in each case), but in principle it is possible for the German government to spy on people.
On the other hand, they ruled for the first time, that there is a Grundrecht auf Vertraulichkeit und Integrität informationstechnischer Systeme (something like basic right for trust and integrity of IT systems) even though I am not really sure what consequences this will have.
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Cross platform? Is that an intersexual person? And are you sure this person has _always_ been virus-free?
Or: We could activate the other core only partially, let's say it runs on 14,159% capacity. This way, we'd have a -Core!
Steve Fossett has been missing for 5 months and his chances of survival are very close to zero. It must be a huge psychological stress waiting for your probable-dead husband, so I really can understand that his wife wanted to put a stop to this uncertainty. Sure, it's just something bureaucratic, but now everyone can say that Steve Fossett is dead, instead of just thinking it.
Why would they need a section for that? I thought wasting away geeks' time was the whole point of Slashdot.
"Users" of countries are also called "citizen" sometimes :-)
What I had in mind was the iPhone and similar devices, where the manufacturer tries to stop you from modifying them.
The XO has no such restrictions - the source is free and changeable, so you can do whatever you want with it.
After all, the XO is designed to be hackable (unlike most hardware today, unfortunately).
Ever heard of the Streisand effect?