I don't think he went far enough. Humans are prone to corruption and crime, I mean that's why we need the 24/7/365 surveillance. What we need to do is work on creating smart computer systems that can take over the monitoring of these tracking systems. They'd need to be able to identify criminal acts in progress and get that reported to human police officers.
And that would just be the beginning! We'll be living in Utopia in no time.
If I were to try to define artistic value I would first probably look to see where the item in question is meant to be displayed/used. Context is vital to me. If you've got a magazine that is full of gossip and other questionable 'facts' that appeal to the lowest common denominator I would be hard pressed to buy that there was any artistic intent behind a page of half-naked women. Which is why I think that this guy suing Apple is kind of an idiot. You're not going to get a lot of people to believe that a trashy magazine has anything artistic about it.
I was under the impression that Apple's app approval requirements were not clear and well known, actually. That said, a tabloid with 'racy' pictures that don't even pretend to have artistic value doesn't sound like a good trial case.
I've got a mutual agreement with a couple of different friends. They'll be able to access and attend to my accounts, and I theirs, whenever one of us dies. Not just online stuff, but dealing with personal computer stuff that family really doesn't need to be dealing with. We're all single, and happy to remain that way, so we won't have spouses to do that for us.
In my social circle two people have died in the past 5 years and have had their blog account memorialized. I'm not one for sentiment, but it helps that the accounts were neither deleted nor just left without explanation. Granted, this wasn't on facebook, but presumably people who use that service frequently would feel similarly.
they have us on it this year. All it saved me doing was dropping the survey in the mail or handing it in at the baliff's office. If I had needed to get out of going downtown I could have entered my reason on-line, but the notice itself came in the physical mail.
As I have the past two years, I was dismissed before we even got into a court-room for the lawyers to talk to us. I donated my $6 to help at risk youth.
They don't even have to successfully bring a suit against someone. The corporations are able to throw that money at lawyers and bankrupt the regular people they suspect are guilty. Win or lose the court case, the labels win.
You're not uploading music files unless you're a musician. Users are primarily 'uploading' the song play data that their media player generates. This is not entrapment.
Honestly, I think it would be detrimental. I get twitchy and irritated if I don't spend a few minutes every day spinning elaborate day dreams. The topic isn't terribly important, but the break from my routine thoughts is quite important. It gives me breathing room.
Well, that would work some of the time, yes. For sites that I do want to support but some of their ads cause browser problems, that'd be great. However, there are some sites that I have no desire to support but that I still have to interact with. If ABP doesn't allow me the option to Block All of a site, then ABP is no longer of any use to me.
So you even forget that most of the Internet relies on the ads for support.
No, I don't. I really, really don't. For sites that I visit frequently (or even infrequently) that I wish to support I turn off ABP. Some of those sites do not have advertising and turning off ABP does not alter anything. Some of those sites do, and now I'll see advertisements. Again, this is something I'm capable of doing all on my own.
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I was thinking more of Asimov's and Herbert's books, but that works too. I've only seen THX 1138 once ages ago.
I don't think he went far enough. Humans are prone to corruption and crime, I mean that's why we need the 24/7/365 surveillance. What we need to do is work on creating smart computer systems that can take over the monitoring of these tracking systems. They'd need to be able to identify criminal acts in progress and get that reported to human police officers.
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And that would just be the beginning! We'll be living in Utopia in no time.
Right?
Thank you. I was deriving my knowledge from the hissy fits I'd seen rejected developers throw.
If I were to try to define artistic value I would first probably look to see where the item in question is meant to be displayed/used. Context is vital to me. If you've got a magazine that is full of gossip and other questionable 'facts' that appeal to the lowest common denominator I would be hard pressed to buy that there was any artistic intent behind a page of half-naked women. Which is why I think that this guy suing Apple is kind of an idiot. You're not going to get a lot of people to believe that a trashy magazine has anything artistic about it.
I was under the impression that Apple's app approval requirements were not clear and well known, actually. That said, a tabloid with 'racy' pictures that don't even pretend to have artistic value doesn't sound like a good trial case.
I've got a mutual agreement with a couple of different friends. They'll be able to access and attend to my accounts, and I theirs, whenever one of us dies. Not just online stuff, but dealing with personal computer stuff that family really doesn't need to be dealing with. We're all single, and happy to remain that way, so we won't have spouses to do that for us. In my social circle two people have died in the past 5 years and have had their blog account memorialized. I'm not one for sentiment, but it helps that the accounts were neither deleted nor just left without explanation. Granted, this wasn't on facebook, but presumably people who use that service frequently would feel similarly.
I'm sorry I don't have mod points to give you for this post.
Ceilingcat, his eyes uncovered.
Damn, I am spending too much time with cat macros. I had absolutely no problem reading that at all. It didn't even slow me down.
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EMI's argument is, in part, that the EFF brief is tl;dr? Sounds like they're getting into internet culture after all.
I don't know, that spells it out a little too clearly. Something like that might not fool enough people to avoid scrutiny.
At the very least I question that we're getting anything close to the full story.
You're not, my mind keeps trying to "auto-correct" the spelling to cloaca as well.
they have us on it this year. All it saved me doing was dropping the survey in the mail or handing it in at the baliff's office. If I had needed to get out of going downtown I could have entered my reason on-line, but the notice itself came in the physical mail. As I have the past two years, I was dismissed before we even got into a court-room for the lawyers to talk to us. I donated my $6 to help at risk youth.
Good comparison. Twitter isn't meant for long conversations anyway.
Like this? http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1594360&cid=31607530
I thought they changed their name to SyFi.
No, SyFy
They don't even have to successfully bring a suit against someone. The corporations are able to throw that money at lawyers and bankrupt the regular people they suspect are guilty. Win or lose the court case, the labels win.
What planet are you from and can I go there? Yes, all of that is in theory true. But in practice it just, sadly, isn't.
You're not uploading music files unless you're a musician. Users are primarily 'uploading' the song play data that their media player generates. This is not entrapment.
Honestly, I think it would be detrimental. I get twitchy and irritated if I don't spend a few minutes every day spinning elaborate day dreams. The topic isn't terribly important, but the break from my routine thoughts is quite important. It gives me breathing room.
That sounds like a fair compromise, definitely.
Well, that would work some of the time, yes. For sites that I do want to support but some of their ads cause browser problems, that'd be great. However, there are some sites that I have no desire to support but that I still have to interact with. If ABP doesn't allow me the option to Block All of a site, then ABP is no longer of any use to me.
So you even forget that most of the Internet relies on the ads for support. No, I don't. I really, really don't. For sites that I visit frequently (or even infrequently) that I wish to support I turn off ABP. Some of those sites do not have advertising and turning off ABP does not alter anything. Some of those sites do, and now I'll see advertisements. Again, this is something I'm capable of doing all on my own.