There are plenty of files that are miscategorized or misnamed on a search are they not? If someone downloads band x, and then renames/redescribes the file does it still keep the same hash? If so, the person downloading the trojan could be attempting to download a non-infringing file, ergo no crime has been commited or even attempted.
Schools tend to do well proportionally to the degree that parents push their children to study and succeed. Money can change that very slightly by overfunding, or slightly by underfunding. What funding seems to mostly accomplish is deciding whether teachers are fairly paid for their efforts, or are effectively subsidized by their spouse's salary. Teachers unions are not that powerful, especially compared to say, corrections officers or teamsters. A large part of that is that they usually can not strike without community backlash. Accountability is a great idea in theory, but sadly it's usually the parents who need to be held accountable for the failures of their children. We have a great reluctance to acknowledge that some children will use up as many resources as you can throw at them and do very little learning, merely distracting the other kids.
I was about to say you don't get it, until I read the last paragraph. I've been saying the same for years, and it applies similarly to cable, power, water, and gas lines.
Check out povray.org before you talk about raytracing. My main beef with raytracing is not it's technical capabilities, but the culture of raytracing. Just because overly clean looking effects litter sci-fi and space movies does not mean that's the extent of ray tracings capabilities. I'm not sure if noise functions (pseudo-random tweaks to the way light bounces of the surfaces) are too computationally expensive, or if it's an intentional aesthetic (one that I don't like).
I think increased gov't regulation takes the 'utility' analogy too far. We don't see much regulation of ISPs, datacenters, and DSL providers, even where they line up with traditional regional monopolies and could probably benifit from some playing field leveling regulation.
Having set up a lot of high-availability solutions on windows at relatively small companies, I can definitely say I feel like I'm on the short end of the stick as far as HW economy of scale goes. It costs a lot of $$$ to set up a DB cluster on two boxes with class A datacenter infrastructure underlying it, so you pretty much have to outsource some of the datacenter and IT function. At that point you may be your own DBA, but any real control is pretty much illusory despite SLAs with teeth. I wouldn't trust most businesses with my whole IT infrastructure, but IBM usually delivers (albeit expensively), and with a $10 billion investment, hopefully they'll come up with enough multiple layers of redundancy / management software / status alerts / audits to do a better job than I would. Still, I wouldn't make the decision to move without some kind of trial period to show they could actually deliver. Including of course several tests ( yanking power/network/scsi cables/ taking processors offline / deadlocking & race condition simulation at the OS and application level, etc... ).
Re-read the press release. This is not a cost in addition to the hardware-software, this is changing the cost of computing to a usage based model. Don't get too obsessed with the 'supercomputing' example, it looks like this will also apply to databases, web services, authentication servers, and any and all other computer resources that are not client side (maybe some of those as well). It would be idiotic to target this at the consumer level, but for enterprise solutions it could be potentially be quite attractive. Especially if they can come up with secure shared high-availability clusters which pull in redundancy from a pool of idle servers. No more paying $200,000 for an extra db server which runs idle at all times. Instead you pay for what you are using at a given moment. You can focus on the quality of your software instead of having to make a bunch of infrastructure decisions all the time. Let them worry about availability, dead end technology and economy of scale issues.
In addition to entertainment, 'font software', source code, educational textbooks, design concepts, and 'architectual work' are copyrighted. An indefinite extension to copyright of such items will harm education efforts, the ability of musicians, artists, designers, and architects to create 'derivative' works, or incorporate design elements of varied themes, and the ability of archivists and librarians to capture such work in a meaningful way that lets us preserve history and culture.
In my opinion, a lot of the failures of the world wide web to capture all information (especially educational or 'high quality' content) in a searchable manner are related to our attitudes towards copyright and IP.
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And then there are the insightful Rest of Us who know that any group has diverse members, some good, some bad, but are also aware that none of the Pro Choice people are running around murdering others for their political views or the medicine they practice.
Or, according to the Anti-choice crowd, everyone in the Pro Choice movement is running around murdering others (fetuses).
This is exaxtly why I miss Alta Vista advanced search. I could frequently drill down with much more precision than Google will allow. The only reason I switched to Google was because they started indexing more pages than AV, and Alta Vista eliminated the all text version of their search page.
If we were talking about _someone's_ private property, we probably wouldn't be having this discussion. BeOS was the product of a corporation, if the individual creator's had rights to the project (instead of work for hire) they'd probably have too much of a sense of pride and accomplishment to see it destroyed to protect some narrow market niche.
Anyway, I'm not sure even the most ardent libertarian wouldn't make a distinction between physical and intellectual property. No intellectual property exists in this country without borrowing it's basis from other people's ideas. RMS is a libertarian, and a believer in Open Source. How do you think he rationalizes this? Essentially everyone who has contributed (or whose predecessors have) to any project have some _faint_ right to the intellectual property. Think of it as a 99 year lease on common land. If you build a house on it, and don't remove it before the lease is up, it reverts to community property.
Besides if it were real property, wouldn't we have to pay propert tax on the assessed value? I think this would be a great idea for forcing intellectual works to either make a profit or move into the public domain. However, I could see it stifling innovation if not done exactly right, and it wouldn't be done right by any government I've heard of:-).
Shunra has been doing this for a couple of years with "the cloud" and storm. http://www.shunra.com. But either way, it's a must have for testing mission critical distributed or client-server apps.
The rumor I heard (originating from NorthPoint employee) was that all circuits would be cut in 3 days. I didn't hear if it was business days or days days.
I think the author maybe was talking about some kind of funky brain transplant. What do you think the morality implications would be of intentionally growing a clone of yourself with a rudimentary brains stem, and no brain to use for parts?
As a fellow insulin dependent diabetic, I quite agree. BTW - look at stem cell research if you haven't already. Stem cells are like the body equivalent of FPGA's, only they take to dang long to differentiate.
I'd definitely like to be able to produce insulin again, preferably in a better than human normal way.
Screw pharmaceuticals though, for genetic engineering I want more neural tissue, better sex, hyper acute / adjustable senses, better bone structure, stronger, faster than before, etc...
I do like Bruce Sterling's idea (from distraction) about being able to maintain multiple states of consciousness at the same time, but I'd want to be able to back out of it. (especially if you could get deadlock or race conditions - shudder.)
The all text ( + one banner if you aren't using Proxomitron ) version of AltaVista advanced search is:
http://www.altavista.com/cgi-bin/query?kl=en&pg= aq&text=yes&sc=on
I personally prefer using boolean searches, because I can hone in on exactly what I want with no search ambiguity. I've constructed exceedingly elaborate search strings with 2-3 levels of nested parens, NEAR OR AND and AND NOT statements, etc... in order to track down exactly the obscure reference I want. Additionally, I've used the domain:com or domain:org to restrict searches to a given top level domain. When I first looked at Google, it offered very little of this functionality. Frankly, the times I've used it I've gotten interesting results, but not the very precise but obscure results that I sometimes want.
Actually, this could be quite useful if they made it past the almost impossible adoption hurdles.
1) Support. Support for _any_ product you own. Just scan the barcode, and boom-badda-bing your on the sony vaio model whatever tech support page.
2) Accessorize. Same as above, but buy power supplies for your laptop, spare hard drives, USB hubs, etc...
3) Associate. ISBN code scanned, pops up amazon.com, and shows list of books by author / other books bought by people who bought that book, etc...
Yes I know all of the above can be accomplished by typing in the URLs, but if a company has a sufficiently broad product base with slight permutations it's a lot more complicated. I can go to Dell or Compaq, and get to the support page for any machine in about 10-12 clicks, but that's because I've been there before. Other companies may not have that slick an interface. If Radio Shack could position this, they could take away a lot of the product support burden, and be an uber catalog portal for associates.
All that aside, I think these things are not going to be adopted by anybody but slashdot hackers who want to inventory their cd collections or some such. Before you say you've converted all of your cd's to mp3's, let me remind you that a lot of geeks are burning mp3 loaded cd's and using mp3/cd players.
Why wouldn't this thing be a wearable stereo-optic widget instead?
Also, I don't want my whole house on one computer, I wan't lots of embedded devices that talk to each other using _very_ simple easy to secure protocols. That way viruses don't crank my thermostat up to ultra bake, close all windows, and flick the lights on and off until I have a dang seizure.
What would be cool is if the dialog box had a text box at the bottom which produced and updated the command line string as you checked and unchecked boxes, pulldowns, etc. That way it would gateway the user into understanding the 'quicker' (not always the case) command line syntax, but present them with a graphical interface until they learned.
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There are plenty of files that are miscategorized or misnamed on a search are they not? If someone downloads band x, and then renames/redescribes the file does it still keep the same hash? If so, the person downloading the trojan could be attempting to download a non-infringing file, ergo no crime has been commited or even attempted.
Schools tend to do well proportionally to the degree that parents push their children to study and succeed. Money can change that very slightly by overfunding, or slightly by underfunding. What funding seems to mostly accomplish is deciding whether teachers are fairly paid for their efforts, or are effectively subsidized by their spouse's salary. Teachers unions are not that powerful, especially compared to say, corrections officers or teamsters. A large part of that is that they usually can not strike without community backlash. Accountability is a great idea in theory, but sadly it's usually the parents who need to be held accountable for the failures of their children. We have a great reluctance to acknowledge that some children will use up as many resources as you can throw at them and do very little learning, merely distracting the other kids.
I was about to say you don't get it, until I read the last paragraph. I've been saying the same for years, and it applies similarly to cable, power, water, and gas lines.
And if they had to lay off 12.6% of their company that'd be at least 6,000 people out of work.
Check out povray.org before you talk about raytracing. My main beef with raytracing is not it's technical capabilities, but the culture of raytracing. Just because overly clean looking effects litter sci-fi and space movies does not mean that's the extent of ray tracings capabilities. I'm not sure if noise functions (pseudo-random tweaks to the way light bounces of the surfaces) are too computationally expensive, or if it's an intentional aesthetic (one that I don't like).
I think increased gov't regulation takes the 'utility' analogy too far. We don't see much regulation of ISPs, datacenters, and DSL providers, even where they line up with traditional regional monopolies and could probably benifit from some playing field leveling regulation.
Having set up a lot of high-availability solutions on windows at relatively small companies, I can definitely say I feel like I'm on the short end of the stick as far as HW economy of scale goes. It costs a lot of $$$ to set up a DB cluster on two boxes with class A datacenter infrastructure underlying it, so you pretty much have to outsource some of the datacenter and IT function. At that point you may be your own DBA, but any real control is pretty much illusory despite SLAs with teeth. I wouldn't trust most businesses with my whole IT infrastructure, but IBM usually delivers (albeit expensively), and with a $10 billion investment, hopefully they'll come up with enough multiple layers of redundancy / management software / status alerts / audits to do a better job than I would. Still, I wouldn't make the decision to move without some kind of trial period to show they could actually deliver. Including of course several tests ( yanking power/network/scsi cables/ taking processors offline / deadlocking & race condition simulation at the OS and application level, etc... ).
Re-read the press release. This is not a cost in addition to the hardware-software, this is changing the cost of computing to a usage based model. Don't get too obsessed with the 'supercomputing' example, it looks like this will also apply to databases, web services, authentication servers, and any and all other computer resources that are not client side (maybe some of those as well). It would be idiotic to target this at the consumer level, but for enterprise solutions it could be potentially be quite attractive. Especially if they can come up with secure shared high-availability clusters which pull in redundancy from a pool of idle servers. No more paying $200,000 for an extra db server which runs idle at all times. Instead you pay for what you are using at a given moment. You can focus on the quality of your software instead of having to make a bunch of infrastructure decisions all the time. Let them worry about availability, dead end technology and economy of scale issues.
Actually, I've heard rumors that a great deal of the Oracle code at the heart of their is exactly the same as what was originally licensed from IBM.
Anyway, most of the big companies don't seem to crank out much more than 10 lines of code per programmer/day.
In addition to entertainment, 'font software', source code, educational textbooks, design concepts, and 'architectual work' are copyrighted. An indefinite extension to copyright of such items will harm education efforts, the ability of musicians, artists, designers, and architects to create 'derivative' works, or incorporate design elements of varied themes, and the ability of archivists and librarians to capture such work in a meaningful way that lets us preserve history and culture.
In my opinion, a lot of the failures of the world wide web to capture all information (especially educational or 'high quality' content) in a searchable manner are related to our attitudes towards copyright and IP.
And then there are the insightful Rest of Us who know that any group has diverse members, some good, some bad, but are also aware that none of the Pro Choice people are running around murdering others for their political views or the medicine they practice.
Or, according to the Anti-choice crowd, everyone in the Pro Choice movement is running around murdering others (fetuses).
This is exaxtly why I miss Alta Vista advanced search. I could frequently drill down with much more precision than Google will allow. The only reason I switched to Google was because they started indexing more pages than AV, and Alta Vista eliminated the all text version of their search page.
If we were talking about _someone's_ private property, we probably wouldn't be having this discussion. BeOS was the product of a corporation, if the individual creator's had rights to the project (instead of work for hire) they'd probably have too much of a sense of pride and accomplishment to see it destroyed to protect some narrow market niche.
:-).
Anyway, I'm not sure even the most ardent libertarian wouldn't make a distinction between physical and intellectual property. No intellectual property exists in this country without borrowing it's basis from other people's ideas. RMS is a libertarian, and a believer in Open Source. How do you think he rationalizes this? Essentially everyone who has contributed (or whose predecessors have) to any project have some _faint_ right to the intellectual property. Think of it as a 99 year lease on common land. If you build a house on it, and don't remove it before the lease is up, it reverts to community property.
Besides if it were real property, wouldn't we have to pay propert tax on the assessed value? I think this would be a great idea for forcing intellectual works to either make a profit or move into the public domain. However, I could see it stifling innovation if not done exactly right, and it wouldn't be done right by any government I've heard of
If I download a music file and Carnivore grabs a copy is it violating the DMCA?
Awesome. I think Slashdot should start a comment hall of fame, and throw this one in there.
Shunra has been doing this for a couple of years with "the cloud" and storm. http://www.shunra.com. But either way, it's a must have for testing mission critical distributed or client-server apps.
They've been doing this since at least 1998. Has no one here played flash games with advertisements like Acrophobia?
The rumor I heard (originating from NorthPoint employee) was that all circuits would be cut in 3 days. I didn't hear if it was business days or days days.
-Aaron
Could this lead to an effective boycott method for UCITA supporters? Buy their product en masse, wait 29 days and return it?
I think the author maybe was talking about some kind of funky brain transplant. What do you think the morality implications would be of intentionally growing a clone of yourself with a rudimentary brains stem, and no brain to use for parts?
Hey, when will I get a search engine which listens to me whistling a tune and then pulls up the relevant song(s)?
Oh, and I'm on the DON'T RELEASE CRITERION side of the fence. The spammers and marketeers own enough of the web thank you very much.
BTW - I'm not sure what all the fuss is about Google. It doesn't seem to return as good results as a well formed query on AltaVista advanced search.
As a fellow insulin dependent diabetic, I quite agree. BTW - look at stem cell research if you haven't already. Stem cells are like the body equivalent of FPGA's, only they take to dang long to differentiate.
I'd definitely like to be able to produce insulin again, preferably in a better than human normal way.
Screw pharmaceuticals though, for genetic engineering I want more neural tissue, better sex, hyper acute / adjustable senses, better bone structure, stronger, faster than before, etc...
I do like Bruce Sterling's idea (from distraction) about being able to maintain multiple states of consciousness at the same time, but I'd want to be able to back out of it. (especially if you could get deadlock or race conditions - shudder.)
The all text ( + one banner if you aren't using Proxomitron ) version of AltaVista advanced search is:= aq&text=yes&sc=on
http://www.altavista.com/cgi-bin/query?kl=en&pg
I personally prefer using boolean searches, because I can hone in on exactly what I want with no search ambiguity. I've constructed exceedingly elaborate search strings with 2-3 levels of nested parens, NEAR OR AND and AND NOT statements, etc... in order to track down exactly the obscure reference I want. Additionally, I've used the domain:com or domain:org to restrict searches to a given top level domain. When I first looked at Google, it offered very little of this functionality. Frankly, the times I've used it I've gotten interesting results, but not the very precise but obscure results that I sometimes want.
Actually, this could be quite useful if they made it past the almost impossible adoption hurdles.
1) Support. Support for _any_ product you own. Just scan the barcode, and boom-badda-bing your on the sony vaio model whatever tech support page.
2) Accessorize. Same as above, but buy power supplies for your laptop, spare hard drives, USB hubs, etc...
3) Associate. ISBN code scanned, pops up amazon.com, and shows list of books by author / other books bought by people who bought that book, etc...
Yes I know all of the above can be accomplished by typing in the URLs, but if a company has a sufficiently broad product base with slight permutations it's a lot more complicated. I can go to Dell or Compaq, and get to the support page for any machine in about 10-12 clicks, but that's because I've been there before. Other companies may not have that slick an interface. If Radio Shack could position this, they could take away a lot of the product support burden, and be an uber catalog portal for associates.
All that aside, I think these things are not going to be adopted by anybody but slashdot hackers who want to inventory their cd collections or some such. Before you say you've converted all of your cd's to mp3's, let me remind you that a lot of geeks are burning mp3 loaded cd's and using mp3/cd players.
Why wouldn't this thing be a wearable stereo-optic widget instead?
Also, I don't want my whole house on one computer, I wan't lots of embedded devices that talk to each other using _very_ simple easy to secure protocols. That way viruses don't crank my thermostat up to ultra bake, close all windows, and flick the lights on and off until I have a dang seizure.
What would be cool is if the dialog box had a text box at the bottom which produced and updated the command line string as you checked and unchecked boxes, pulldowns, etc. That way it would gateway the user into understanding the 'quicker' (not always the case) command line syntax, but present them with a graphical interface until they learned.