If it's "Non-commercial" then why is there an agreement?
I suspect that, if Sony was going to use the site, they realize most people will never update their TVs, so they had to have some assurances that the site and its format, API, etc... would remain the same. Why would wikia agree to that? Oh sure Sony, out of the kindness of our hearts we'll maintain this in-perpetuity for you! No... Sony's giving them money to maintain the site in the certain way. It's clearly commercial.
Any site claiming so is lying. The owners want mindshare and eyeballs, i.e. you. You are the ultimate product despite whatever you may believe about a site. The owners how to get a large enough audience to get noticed by a bigger player, who them will come in and buy the business. The owners leave to live a happy wealthy life, the users, bitch and moan as normal.
My sites free. I pay to host it. Anyones free to go there, download my content. I've no intention of ever applying ANY license to any of it. You can even use it for commercial purposes if you like. I don't care. If you want to be nice you should throw in an attribution though.
and no, I'm not going to provide a link. I'd prefer to be able to continue to rant on Slashdot with pseudo-anonymity:-D
Thank God for Valve. The gaming industry would be terrible if they weren't around. Any other company would have just pushed this out the door and made their quick buck... hell, no other company would have even tried to make an open gaming platform. If Valve ever offers an IPO I'll be first in line. They're one of the few tech companies out there that are actually doing something I'd consider of value.
This is how all major contact negotiations work. I'm involved with them all the time and this is almost assuredly the publishers fault.
The rule is, you have the contract done and signed before the previous one expires. If you don't, it puts you in a precarious situation... like this. If the previous contract was still in place, Amazon couldn't do what they're doing. All of the pricing, etc... is set in the contract. It's very very precise language. Once the contract runs out, if they haven't come to an agreement yet, it's standard for the one or both of the companies involved to flex their muscle, just like amazon did here. The message is clear "You have no leverage over us. We can just stop selling your product, we still keep making money, oh look at your stock price..." etc... If Hachett doesn't like it, they can stop doing business with amazon, or agree to the terms.
And before you get all sad for Hatchett, you should know they're a $2 billion company, that contain parts of the publishing of CBS, Disney and Time Warner. They are not the friendly do-good book publisher you think they are.
But TrueCrypt doesn't have master keys as I understand it. It's not like Dropbox. There's nothing an NSL (plague be upon whoever got the idea to legalize that) could discover that would do NSA/DHS/USA any good.
The NSA would just need to force them to install the NSA's code. Keep in mind, we have no idea what their capabilities are. They're probably the highest payer for almost every exploit out there. The NSA is likely also very adept at obfuscating their code. I don't know if this is the case here, but I put no limits on their capabilities. I'm in full on paranoia mode now.
You submit more stories than you comment. Once again, this is basically a rant on a topic with no references, no links. Slashdot is about NEWS and FACTS, and then we all comment, flame, troll... etc... It's fun. I don't want to comment on a comment... or at least one that came out of nowhere.
Who are you, why should we care, where would we go if we WANTED to read this personal musing (not here, I'm guessing). Seriously.
I don't want to rain on your parade, but honestly Slashdot is not a "weblog". This kind of post is much better suited to your blog, but I'm guessing it doesn't get any hits when you post it there. Your amateur rendition of why the world should be your way is of no interest to me. It's not even tech-related, to be honest.
It's junk like this that TURNS PEOPLE OFF this website.
Right. This entire premise is dumb from the start. And he ends with:
In 2013 I wrote about low-tech tablet hacks including #2, using C-clamps to mount a shelf to another bookshelf, and then attach a tablet holder to hold a tablet above my head while watching movies in bed, which is still to this day the most comfortable way I've ever found to watch a movie.
Really? So this entire post is a summary of all of your other posts, your opinion on the comments section of each, and you're conclusion is you can clamp a tablet or DVD player to your headboard and it's almost as good... So you've stuck it to the industry overlords whos only real goal is to make you unhappy?
I'm sorry... but the fact that this post got through when ANY of my submissions didn't is insulting to say the least. I dont mind if you don't think what I'm interested in today isn't of interest to the general Slashdot community... but this is? Really? I'd have been more interested in what a 2yr old produced by pounding on the keyboard than this self aggrandizing drivel.
A physical keyboard is far superior to an on-screen keyboard, swype included. Too bad Blackberry sucks.
It would also be fair to say a pen is far superior then a computer keyboard... and the statement would be just as accurate as yours. Try and draw a picture of a horse using your keyboard... yea, you could pull it off, but it would be a total pain and would look terrible. That probably summarizes every argument you'd have to backup your statement as well.
Just because you can do more with a tool, doesn't mean that tool is better for every given situation. For what I do on my phone, the touchscreen is the best tool currently out there. If you're doing stuff on your phone that requires a physical keyboard, you're using the wrong tool for the job... and they keyboards not what I'm talking about.
Our school board is in an old mall so it still is done. For a School it is harder to do that? Where do you put the play ground?
Don't. Gym shouldn't be part of school.
ok, ok, that's a different argument. Let's see... an abandon JC Penny would make a great gym. Turn on the escalator and have the kids walk up a never ending staircase!
Yea, I'm not very familiar with all the pertinent laws. I have been on the receiving end of the city changing zoning and kicking me off my land though. We lost our family farm because the city wanted to develop the area. It was strait forward "You're moving" They offered my father a pretty poor deal... he turned it down... they offered him even less... he turned it down... then they used eminent domain. This was decades ago though, things may have changed.
In regards to the building regulations... relax them. How dangerous are temporary trailers? Don't kids go to the supermarket? I've never liked regulations for this very reason. They're inflexible and often make little sense. "We're afraid the old mall might have lead paint, so rather than test it we're going to put all the kids in "PODS" containers we've rented out back with no aircon for the next 10yrs while we keep telling you we have plans to build a new facility but really we're just waiting for the expected population to decrease in 2020"
No... you're not the target audience. The kindle is perfect for what it was designed to do which is sell you books. It's incredibly easy to search for, find and read books on the device. All the additional features you're talking about would get in the way of those core functions. I have 3 kindles, and I spend the majority of my time in each of them actually reading. (who'd have thunk?) The touch capable ones are super annoying because... well... touching the screen does stuff... and while reading a 2000+ page book I'm bound to occasionally brush the screen. The same goes for the kindle with the keyboard. I dont want those extra buttons! The best kindle I have (I dont know the model) has buttons to turn pages forward and back... a home button and some directional arrows. It's basically impossible to hit the wrong button, it's easy to read, easy to find books and I only have to charge it once every few months.
A wise engineer once said: The more they overthink the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain.
I'll never understand this. In my city there are at LEAST 4 abandon super markets. There are many other abandon commercial spaces. In one grocery store they abandon, they actually built new businesses in the parking lot, feet away from the front door, making the building totally unusable. These are not run down, older buildings infested with rats. In many cases they are less than 20yrs old!
When this country was founded, government functions were held in local business buildings. Often older buildings were taken over by the city government for use rather than let them turn to blight. Why aren't we doing this now? I could WALK to a 50,000sq/ft building that's been abandon for over 5yrs from where I'm sitting right now. The primary function of city government is zoning. If there is an abandon commercial building they should tell the owner to either develop it, tare it down and turn it residential or sell it to the city to be used for things like emergency classrooms.
Well, that's not the example given. The president certainly could have a single person killed for some arbitrary reason, he's already doing it. Which is what the OP had suggested. We've no idea how widespread the governments clandestine activities have gone. People disappear in this country all the time. 1 in 100 are in prison right now. How do we know a lot of that isn't politically motivated? If you'd have suggested such a thing to me a few years ago I'd have laughed. But ever since Snowden and the drone strikes on US citizens? It's all out the window. I've no idea what they're up to or even capable of. If they feel justified in murder without trial on US citizens overseas, I just don't see a line between that and me sitting in my living room other than "The president's discretion" which, quite frankly, is not enough of a line for my tastes.
This is dumb. They shouldn't be considering alternatives to a locked in OS. They should getting rid of the entire premise and going OS Agnostic. Then they can switch OS's at will.
1 account only was hacked? This sounds like someone who was trying to prove that a flaw exists in their security.
I'm guessing there is more to this story to come - this sounds like they are setting things up to go after this 'hacker'' that caused the security breach. If it was someone trying to do something malicious there would be more accounts pulled. Even if it was someone who was just curious to see if they could do it wouldn't have just stopped at one but someone who is trying to playing the role of a white hat would potentially only do this on one single account.
I'll be really disappointed if that's what it turns out to be and Spotify decides to prosecute.
Or the person hacked was a high level employee who had the same password for his music account as he did for his corporate account. Keys to the kingdom and all...
I have no idea where that link is supposed to take you, it's entirely wrong (way to go editors) But here's the start of a 4 part talk by Eben Moglen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
The fact that you're making that comment is a pretty strong statement about the (un)likelihood of that actually happening.
As long as the guy getting killed without due process isn't you it's cool right? We've been through this before. If they can take someone elses rights away, they can take yours away to. It's as simple as that.
To be completely fair, it's been my experience that most medical doctors don't adhere to evidence-based medicine either.
"Adhere" and "Completely ignore" are 2 entirely different things. I can understand a doctor suggesting a treatment that's only based on anecdotal evidence. For example, Chronic Dehydration is a problem that at least 20% of the population has, but it's very hard to test for and very hard to diagnose because its symptoms are so diverse. A doctor could suggest you drink more water to help with just about any symptom you have and he'd only know that anecdotally there was a 20%+ chance of you being dehydrated. That's not evidence based but there's definitely a chance it will help you.
But there's direct scientific studies that refute the entire field of Osteopathy. At best it's helpful in the same way scented candles, messages and chiropracty are helpful.
the practice of osteopathy does not always adhere to evidence-based medicine
and
In general, the results of randomized, controlled clinical trials have not proven osteopathy to be an effective therapy. Reviews of scientific literature produce little evidence that osteopathic manipulation is effective for the treatment of musculoskeletal pain,[21] or for pediatric conditions.[22]
A 2013 Cochrane Review reviewed six randomized controlled trials which investigated the effect of four types of chest physiotherapy (including OMT) as adjunctive treatments for pneumonia in adults and concluded that "based on current limited evidence, chest physiotherapy might not be recommended as routine additional treatment for pneumonia in adults."[23]
In the United Kingdom, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence only recommend osteopathy for the treatment of persistent lower back pain. They say there is insufficient scientific evidence that osteopathy is effective for non-musculoskeletal conditions, or that osteopathy is an effective treatment for neck pain, shoulder pain, or limb pain.[3]
That's a great innovation. Unfortunately Samsung made the corners of the icon used for their new application rounded so Apples filing for an injunction.
If your brain mistakes a rustle of bushes for a tiger, so what? I'd rather have it misinform me, erring on the side of tiger, than wait for all information to be in before making a 100% accurate decision.
As someone whose brain does err on the side of tiger regularly, and there are no tigers, I'd like to point out that it's not nearly as harmless as you may think.
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If it's "Non-commercial" then why is there an agreement?
I suspect that, if Sony was going to use the site, they realize most people will never update their TVs, so they had to have some assurances that the site and its format, API, etc... would remain the same. Why would wikia agree to that? Oh sure Sony, out of the kindness of our hearts we'll maintain this in-perpetuity for you! No... Sony's giving them money to maintain the site in the certain way. It's clearly commercial.
Any site claiming so is lying. The owners want mindshare and eyeballs, i.e. you. You are the ultimate product despite whatever you may believe about a site. The owners how to get a large enough audience to get noticed by a bigger player, who them will come in and buy the business. The owners leave to live a happy wealthy life, the users, bitch and moan as normal.
My sites free. I pay to host it. Anyones free to go there, download my content. I've no intention of ever applying ANY license to any of it. You can even use it for commercial purposes if you like. I don't care. If you want to be nice you should throw in an attribution though.
and no, I'm not going to provide a link. I'd prefer to be able to continue to rant on Slashdot with pseudo-anonymity :-D
Thank God for Valve. The gaming industry would be terrible if they weren't around. Any other company would have just pushed this out the door and made their quick buck... hell, no other company would have even tried to make an open gaming platform. If Valve ever offers an IPO I'll be first in line. They're one of the few tech companies out there that are actually doing something I'd consider of value.
I'll just leave this here...
http://booksprung.com/dear-hac...
Thanks Amazon ;-)
Guess I'll be broadening my shopping horizons.
This is how all major contact negotiations work. I'm involved with them all the time and this is almost assuredly the publishers fault.
The rule is, you have the contract done and signed before the previous one expires. If you don't, it puts you in a precarious situation... like this. If the previous contract was still in place, Amazon couldn't do what they're doing. All of the pricing, etc... is set in the contract. It's very very precise language. Once the contract runs out, if they haven't come to an agreement yet, it's standard for the one or both of the companies involved to flex their muscle, just like amazon did here. The message is clear "You have no leverage over us. We can just stop selling your product, we still keep making money, oh look at your stock price..." etc... If Hachett doesn't like it, they can stop doing business with amazon, or agree to the terms.
And before you get all sad for Hatchett, you should know they're a $2 billion company, that contain parts of the publishing of CBS, Disney and Time Warner. They are not the friendly do-good book publisher you think they are.
FTFA:
Amazon indicates that it considers books to be like any other consumer good. They are not.
My rebuttal: Yes they are.
The entire reason we have a first sale doctrine is because a publisher was trying to artificially inflate the price of a book.
Hype.
Apple used to be good at making it.
Then Jobs died.
Now they have to buy it.
The NSA must really love this feature. They can view any encrypted conversation held via skype AND it gets translated automagically for them? Amazing!
But TrueCrypt doesn't have master keys as I understand it. It's not like Dropbox. There's nothing an NSL (plague be upon whoever got the idea to legalize that) could discover that would do NSA/DHS/USA any good.
The NSA would just need to force them to install the NSA's code. Keep in mind, we have no idea what their capabilities are. They're probably the highest payer for almost every exploit out there. The NSA is likely also very adept at obfuscating their code. I don't know if this is the case here, but I put no limits on their capabilities. I'm in full on paranoia mode now.
You submit more stories than you comment.
Once again, this is basically a rant on a topic with no references, no links.
Slashdot is about NEWS and FACTS, and then we all comment, flame, troll... etc... It's fun.
I don't want to comment on a comment... or at least one that came out of nowhere.
Who are you, why should we care, where would we go if we WANTED to read this personal musing (not here, I'm guessing). Seriously.
I don't want to rain on your parade, but honestly Slashdot is not a "weblog". This kind of post is much better suited to your blog, but I'm guessing it doesn't get any hits when you post it there. Your amateur rendition of why the world should be your way is of no interest to me. It's not even tech-related, to be honest.
It's junk like this that TURNS PEOPLE OFF this website.
Right. This entire premise is dumb from the start.
And he ends with:
In 2013 I wrote about low-tech tablet hacks including #2, using C-clamps to mount a shelf to another bookshelf, and then attach a tablet holder to hold a tablet above my head while watching movies in bed, which is still to this day the most comfortable way I've ever found to watch a movie.
Really? So this entire post is a summary of all of your other posts, your opinion on the comments section of each, and you're conclusion is you can clamp a tablet or DVD player to your headboard and it's almost as good... So you've stuck it to the industry overlords whos only real goal is to make you unhappy?
I'm sorry... but the fact that this post got through when ANY of my submissions didn't is insulting to say the least. I dont mind if you don't think what I'm interested in today isn't of interest to the general Slashdot community... but this is? Really? I'd have been more interested in what a 2yr old produced by pounding on the keyboard than this self aggrandizing drivel.
A physical keyboard is far superior to an on-screen keyboard, swype included. Too bad Blackberry sucks.
It would also be fair to say a pen is far superior then a computer keyboard... and the statement would be just as accurate as yours. Try and draw a picture of a horse using your keyboard... yea, you could pull it off, but it would be a total pain and would look terrible. That probably summarizes every argument you'd have to backup your statement as well.
Just because you can do more with a tool, doesn't mean that tool is better for every given situation. For what I do on my phone, the touchscreen is the best tool currently out there. If you're doing stuff on your phone that requires a physical keyboard, you're using the wrong tool for the job... and they keyboards not what I'm talking about.
Our school board is in an old mall so it still is done.
For a School it is harder to do that? Where do you put the play ground?
Don't. Gym shouldn't be part of school.
ok, ok, that's a different argument. Let's see... an abandon JC Penny would make a great gym. Turn on the escalator and have the kids walk up a never ending staircase!
Yea, I'm not very familiar with all the pertinent laws. I have been on the receiving end of the city changing zoning and kicking me off my land though. We lost our family farm because the city wanted to develop the area. It was strait forward "You're moving" They offered my father a pretty poor deal... he turned it down... they offered him even less... he turned it down... then they used eminent domain. This was decades ago though, things may have changed.
In regards to the building regulations... relax them. How dangerous are temporary trailers? Don't kids go to the supermarket? I've never liked regulations for this very reason. They're inflexible and often make little sense. "We're afraid the old mall might have lead paint, so rather than test it we're going to put all the kids in "PODS" containers we've rented out back with no aircon for the next 10yrs while we keep telling you we have plans to build a new facility but really we're just waiting for the expected population to decrease in 2020"
No... you're not the target audience. The kindle is perfect for what it was designed to do which is sell you books. It's incredibly easy to search for, find and read books on the device. All the additional features you're talking about would get in the way of those core functions. I have 3 kindles, and I spend the majority of my time in each of them actually reading. (who'd have thunk?) The touch capable ones are super annoying because... well... touching the screen does stuff... and while reading a 2000+ page book I'm bound to occasionally brush the screen. The same goes for the kindle with the keyboard. I dont want those extra buttons! The best kindle I have (I dont know the model) has buttons to turn pages forward and back... a home button and some directional arrows. It's basically impossible to hit the wrong button, it's easy to read, easy to find books and I only have to charge it once every few months.
A wise engineer once said: The more they overthink the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain.
I'll never understand this. In my city there are at LEAST 4 abandon super markets. There are many other abandon commercial spaces. In one grocery store they abandon, they actually built new businesses in the parking lot, feet away from the front door, making the building totally unusable. These are not run down, older buildings infested with rats. In many cases they are less than 20yrs old!
When this country was founded, government functions were held in local business buildings. Often older buildings were taken over by the city government for use rather than let them turn to blight. Why aren't we doing this now? I could WALK to a 50,000sq/ft building that's been abandon for over 5yrs from where I'm sitting right now. The primary function of city government is zoning. If there is an abandon commercial building they should tell the owner to either develop it, tare it down and turn it residential or sell it to the city to be used for things like emergency classrooms.
Well, that's not the example given. The president certainly could have a single person killed for some arbitrary reason, he's already doing it. Which is what the OP had suggested. We've no idea how widespread the governments clandestine activities have gone. People disappear in this country all the time. 1 in 100 are in prison right now. How do we know a lot of that isn't politically motivated? If you'd have suggested such a thing to me a few years ago I'd have laughed. But ever since Snowden and the drone strikes on US citizens? It's all out the window. I've no idea what they're up to or even capable of. If they feel justified in murder without trial on US citizens overseas, I just don't see a line between that and me sitting in my living room other than "The president's discretion" which, quite frankly, is not enough of a line for my tastes.
This is dumb. They shouldn't be considering alternatives to a locked in OS. They should getting rid of the entire premise and going OS Agnostic. Then they can switch OS's at will.
1 account only was hacked? This sounds like someone who was trying to prove that a flaw exists in their security.
I'm guessing there is more to this story to come - this sounds like they are setting things up to go after this 'hacker'' that caused the security breach. If it was someone trying to do something malicious there would be more accounts pulled. Even if it was someone who was just curious to see if they could do it wouldn't have just stopped at one but someone who is trying to playing the role of a white hat would potentially only do this on one single account.
I'll be really disappointed if that's what it turns out to be and Spotify decides to prosecute.
Or the person hacked was a high level employee who had the same password for his music account as he did for his corporate account. Keys to the kingdom and all...
I have no idea where that link is supposed to take you, it's entirely wrong (way to go editors)
But here's the start of a 4 part talk by Eben Moglen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
The fact that you're making that comment is a pretty strong statement about the (un)likelihood of that actually happening.
As long as the guy getting killed without due process isn't you it's cool right?
We've been through this before. If they can take someone elses rights away, they can take yours away to. It's as simple as that.
To be completely fair, it's been my experience that most medical doctors don't adhere to evidence-based medicine either.
"Adhere" and "Completely ignore" are 2 entirely different things. I can understand a doctor suggesting a treatment that's only based on anecdotal evidence. For example, Chronic Dehydration is a problem that at least 20% of the population has, but it's very hard to test for and very hard to diagnose because its symptoms are so diverse. A doctor could suggest you drink more water to help with just about any symptom you have and he'd only know that anecdotally there was a 20%+ chance of you being dehydrated. That's not evidence based but there's definitely a chance it will help you.
But there's direct scientific studies that refute the entire field of Osteopathy. At best it's helpful in the same way scented candles, messages and chiropracty are helpful.
Right? A group of people practicing what is basically a total scam are questioning a site that might threaten their scam publicly?
I suspect the real article they'd like to discredit on Wikipedia is this one:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O...
the practice of osteopathy does not always adhere to evidence-based medicine
and
In general, the results of randomized, controlled clinical trials have not proven osteopathy to be an effective therapy. Reviews of scientific literature produce little evidence that osteopathic manipulation is effective for the treatment of musculoskeletal pain,[21] or for pediatric conditions.[22]
A 2013 Cochrane Review reviewed six randomized controlled trials which investigated the effect of four types of chest physiotherapy (including OMT) as adjunctive treatments for pneumonia in adults and concluded that "based on current limited evidence, chest physiotherapy might not be recommended as routine additional treatment for pneumonia in adults."[23]
In the United Kingdom, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence only recommend osteopathy for the treatment of persistent lower back pain. They say there is insufficient scientific evidence that osteopathy is effective for non-musculoskeletal conditions, or that osteopathy is an effective treatment for neck pain, shoulder pain, or limb pain.[3]
That's a great innovation. Unfortunately Samsung made the corners of the icon used for their new application rounded so Apples filing for an injunction.
If your brain mistakes a rustle of bushes for a tiger, so what? I'd rather have it misinform me, erring on the side of tiger, than wait for all information to be in before making a 100% accurate decision.
As someone whose brain does err on the side of tiger regularly, and there are no tigers, I'd like to point out that it's not nearly as harmless as you may think.