Thousands of science stories published in a wide variety of media are faithful to the research, yet still interesting and topical. Still, one of the hardest things about science journalism is convincing the scientists you want to interview that you'll report accurately on their work.
And then some jackass like this comes along and pees in the pool. I hope he was fired, at least.
It's 'way past time for governments to make the commitment to open source software for information storage. It's the only way to ensure that public data gathered at taxpayers' expense is freely available to members of the public or their elected representatives.
I'm not sure where things stand now, but originally "goodwill" in an accounting context was anything but a fictitious asset. If I were to buy a business called "Dave and Sons Whatevers" that had been providing great service to the local community for 30 years, I'd pay extra to keep the name and the good will of the community that went with it.
Not everybody is going to know that Dave and his kids have retired, so they'll keep coming back, expecting the same high level of service they've been getting. Even those that do know the facts also know Dave would have a huge sign in his window saying "We're out of here" and sure as hell wouldn't allow his name to stay on the store if the new owners were crooks or idiots. If I started a new Whatevers business, even in the same building, just as D & S is shutting down, I'm going to have to prove myself to a skeptical community. Even if I do pretty well, there's going to be stories going around about how much better things were back in the days of Dave & Sons.
So I fork out extra bucks for the direct or implied blessing of Dave and the boys. By accepting the extra money, they're in effect saying, "This guy's OK. You can keep coming to our old shop and he'll take good care of you.
That's "Goodwill", and it's definitely worth some bucks.
I guess you didn't notice when Burma shut down the whole cell phone network to stop pictures and video from getting out. As soon as the Western press wasn't getting spoon-fed a lot of free content, it dropped the story like a hot potato and the Burmese government happily went back to slaughtering monks.
P2P doesn't exist in a vaccuum. And because it's so pervasive, controlling copyright means significant intrusion of the state into peoples' lives in one way or another. If you want to go up against armed thugs waving a dead cell phone around and telling them, "If you kill me, I'll take pictures", you go right ahead.
Should some of those instances of illegal wiretapping ever go to court, this should nicely torpedo any argument by the telcoms that they only whored themselves out to the Bush administration out of a sense of patriotism.
How wonderful to consider that this animal's descendants walk among us to this very day. Chubby, piggish little creatures. Omnivorous. Voracious. Almost invulnerable due to their incredibly tough skin. Scavenging when they must, picking off a vulnerable or unwary victim when they can.
This is one of those times when it would be wonderful to distill the best of the questions and concerns expressed here and take them directly to the inventor for responses.
Is there a Slashdotter in the house with really good contacts in this area?
So these wankers at the FTC have been sitting around with their thumbs up their butts for 10 years instead of offering some legally-defensible "green" definitions that could have been whipped off in a few days. Now they're concerned that companies are seeking to take advantage of peoples' concern for the environment because they've been throwing money toward wind and solar energy, and the like.
Go back to sleep, you useless pack of oxygen wasters. We'll work it out for ourselves. I guess they're really concerned that a penny spent on enviro-fraud is a penny not spent on fossil-fraud.
Yes, that's definitely the nose of a camel you see poised at the entrance to your tent.
If ISP's start "filtering", just watch the way interpretation of copyright law expands. All the major corporations can afford to buy access to the courts, and you'll see one case after another work its way through the system, each stealing a little more from us.
You thought the RIAA was bad? Wait 'til these scumbags set their lawyers loose.
This is pure eyewash. Kevin Martin's track record indicates that he never met a corporation he didn't like or a consumer who, in his judgement, didn't deserve to be shafted.
I hope you folks who are writing programs to randomly search millions of domain names on Whois or whatever do one thing: at least initially, limit your search to the more useless ones, such as those starting with three consonants in a row and such.
By all means progress to more useful ones as time passes, but let's at least start with getting these thieves to throw their money away on really unusable site names. As they adapt, have something left in the tank to keep adaptively screwing with them.
Actually, I did notice (just as I hit the "Post" button, of course). I decided it didn't make that much difference. If the Russians send a sealed unit along with assurances that it's been decontaminated (not unlikely, I think), I doubt whether the Europeans would pry it apart to do the job over again. And are you SURE the mission isn't called "Laplaceski".
Did you even read what I wrote? I said nothing about whether or not the Russians were good. I said they would cut corners. Cutting corners is what you do to save money, and the Russians are famous for it. They did it early on in the space program, and the only reason you didn't see how many of their projects screwed up is that they weren't exactly forthcoming about their failures. And FYI, they didn't send any "rovers" to Venus. Landers. Not rovers. There's a difference, and not an insignificant one.
"When it comes to product design, the significance of aesthetics, the way its design looks and feels, determines the choice of the customer once the functionalities of multiple devices are more or less similar."
Linux developers should stick this on their monitors and say it aloud like a prayer before they sit down to do some work on a project. Linux is inevitably looking more and more like Windows. Imagine something prettier than Vista that actually works, and runs rings around it performance-wise.
Damn...I was thinking about that, but since you seem to be one step ahead of me, it seems kind of redundant.
I'll leave the elements for you to polish up and use if you like: If you're thinking about creating a model of your favorite porn star, women will stand to benefit from this a bit more than the guys. Might go through a bit more construction material, though.
Everything I've seen so far indicates it will be incredibly difficult and expensive to thoroughly decontaminate a spacecraft in order to ensure that Earth-based organisms don't "piss on the Petri Dish". The Russians are notorious for cutting corners, and their prime motivation for this exercise is political. The chance that they'll spend the extra millions of dollars to ensure the sterility of a Europa lander is non-existent.
I see a serious potential for compromising what appears to be one of the better spots in the solar system to look for extraterrestrial life.
I am writing you on behalf of the Edsel Sonybeta Museum to request that you offer us the right of first refusal should you decide to dispose of that external drive with the Vista image.
It is our belief that an actual, working copy of Vista will in the not-too-distant future earn a place of honour in our Horace Q. Buggywhip Hall of Anachronisms & Quaint Curiosities.
I wish I could promise that I would be in the happy position of being able to offer you a great deal of money for this snapshot of a soon-to-be-bygone age. Sadly, I must say that it is unlikely ever to be worth what you paid for it.
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Thousands of science stories published in a wide variety of media are faithful to the research, yet still interesting and topical. Still, one of the hardest things about science journalism is convincing the scientists you want to interview that you'll report accurately on their work.
And then some jackass like this comes along and pees in the pool. I hope he was fired, at least.
Thanks...you said it better than I did (only a bit longer :) )
The original...played in a bar where my buddy and I were doing some serious underage drinking.
It's 'way past time for governments to make the commitment to open source software for information storage. It's the only way to ensure that public data gathered at taxpayers' expense is freely available to members of the public or their elected representatives.
Duke Nukem Forever is to Vapourware as Skycar is to......
I'm not sure where things stand now, but originally "goodwill" in an accounting context was anything but a fictitious asset. If I were to buy a business called "Dave and Sons Whatevers" that had been providing great service to the local community for 30 years, I'd pay extra to keep the name and the good will of the community that went with it.
Not everybody is going to know that Dave and his kids have retired, so they'll keep coming back, expecting the same high level of service they've been getting. Even those that do know the facts also know Dave would have a huge sign in his window saying "We're out of here" and sure as hell wouldn't allow his name to stay on the store if the new owners were crooks or idiots. If I started a new Whatevers business, even in the same building, just as D & S is shutting down, I'm going to have to prove myself to a skeptical community. Even if I do pretty well, there's going to be stories going around about how much better things were back in the days of Dave & Sons.
So I fork out extra bucks for the direct or implied blessing of Dave and the boys. By accepting the extra money, they're in effect saying, "This guy's OK. You can keep coming to our old shop and he'll take good care of you.
That's "Goodwill", and it's definitely worth some bucks.
I guess you didn't notice when Burma shut down the whole cell phone network to stop pictures and video from getting out. As soon as the Western press wasn't getting spoon-fed a lot of free content, it dropped the story like a hot potato and the Burmese government happily went back to slaughtering monks.
P2P doesn't exist in a vaccuum. And because it's so pervasive, controlling copyright means significant intrusion of the state into peoples' lives in one way or another. If you want to go up against armed thugs waving a dead cell phone around and telling them, "If you kill me, I'll take pictures", you go right ahead.
Some people remember their dreams, some don't.
I don't.
But I have to assume I dream about trees, because I certainly wake up with wood sometimes.
Should some of those instances of illegal wiretapping ever go to court, this should nicely torpedo any argument by the telcoms that they only whored themselves out to the Bush administration out of a sense of patriotism.
How wonderful to consider that this animal's descendants walk among us to this very day. Chubby, piggish little creatures. Omnivorous. Voracious. Almost invulnerable due to their incredibly tough skin. Scavenging when they must, picking off a vulnerable or unwary victim when they can.
We call them "lawyers".
This is one of those times when it would be wonderful to distill the best of the questions and concerns expressed here and take them directly to the inventor for responses.
Is there a Slashdotter in the house with really good contacts in this area?
So these wankers at the FTC have been sitting around with their thumbs up their butts for 10 years instead of offering some legally-defensible "green" definitions that could have been whipped off in a few days. Now they're concerned that companies are seeking to take advantage of peoples' concern for the environment because they've been throwing money toward wind and solar energy, and the like.
Go back to sleep, you useless pack of oxygen wasters. We'll work it out for ourselves. I guess they're really concerned that a penny spent on enviro-fraud is a penny not spent on fossil-fraud.
Phone...pr0n...only a typo apart, soon to be one.
Yes, that's definitely the nose of a camel you see poised at the entrance to your tent.
If ISP's start "filtering", just watch the way interpretation of copyright law expands. All the major corporations can afford to buy access to the courts, and you'll see one case after another work its way through the system, each stealing a little more from us.
You thought the RIAA was bad? Wait 'til these scumbags set their lawyers loose.
Well, you could always ask somebody to come over and play with your Wii.
This is pure eyewash. Kevin Martin's track record indicates that he never met a corporation he didn't like or a consumer who, in his judgement, didn't deserve to be shafted.
I hope you folks who are writing programs to randomly search millions of domain names on Whois or whatever do one thing: at least initially, limit your search to the more useless ones, such as those starting with three consonants in a row and such.
By all means progress to more useful ones as time passes, but let's at least start with getting these thieves to throw their money away on really unusable site names. As they adapt, have something left in the tank to keep adaptively screwing with them.
How many Barry Manilow fans know what MP3 is?
Actually, I did notice (just as I hit the "Post" button, of course). I decided it didn't make that much difference. If the Russians send a sealed unit along with assurances that it's been decontaminated (not unlikely, I think), I doubt whether the Europeans would pry it apart to do the job over again. And are you SURE the mission isn't called "Laplaceski".
Did you even read what I wrote? I said nothing about whether or not the Russians were good. I said they would cut corners. Cutting corners is what you do to save money, and the Russians are famous for it. They did it early on in the space program, and the only reason you didn't see how many of their projects screwed up is that they weren't exactly forthcoming about their failures. And FYI, they didn't send any "rovers" to Venus. Landers. Not rovers. There's a difference, and not an insignificant one.
http://www.russianspaceweb.com/spacecraft_planetary_venus.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_space_program#Failures
I might note in passing that it sometimes pays to do a little research before running one's mouth. It's a good way to avoid seeming "assinine".
"When it comes to product design, the significance of aesthetics, the way its design looks and feels, determines the choice of the customer once the functionalities of multiple devices are more or less similar."
Linux developers should stick this on their monitors and say it aloud like a prayer before they sit down to do some work on a project. Linux is inevitably looking more and more like Windows. Imagine something prettier than Vista that actually works, and runs rings around it performance-wise.
Damn...I was thinking about that, but since you seem to be one step ahead of me, it seems kind of redundant.
I'll leave the elements for you to polish up and use if you like: If you're thinking about creating a model of your favorite porn star, women will stand to benefit from this a bit more than the guys. Might go through a bit more construction material, though.
Everything I've seen so far indicates it will be incredibly difficult and expensive to thoroughly decontaminate a spacecraft in order to ensure that Earth-based organisms don't "piss on the Petri Dish". The Russians are notorious for cutting corners, and their prime motivation for this exercise is political. The chance that they'll spend the extra millions of dollars to ensure the sterility of a Europa lander is non-existent.
I see a serious potential for compromising what appears to be one of the better spots in the solar system to look for extraterrestrial life.
When you or I do it, it's called "perjury".
Dear Sir:
I am writing you on behalf of the Edsel Sonybeta Museum to request that you offer us the right of first refusal should you decide to dispose of that external drive with the Vista image.
It is our belief that an actual, working copy of Vista will in the not-too-distant future earn a place of honour in our Horace Q. Buggywhip Hall of Anachronisms & Quaint Curiosities.
I wish I could promise that I would be in the happy position of being able to offer you a great deal of money for this snapshot of a soon-to-be-bygone age. Sadly, I must say that it is unlikely ever to be worth what you paid for it.
Sincerely,
Winslow P. Fluker, Esq.