Go for broke, I say. Get Facebook, Wiki(m|p)edia, Youtube, and Twitter to go dark for a day. Hell, they could go dark for an hour and still the world would riot. I don't like how integral these sites have become to day-to-day life for most people, when ten years ago none even existed,[1] but for Congress to think that the people in this country or this world care one iota about "e-parasites" when put up against Honey Badger and Farmville is just bogus. Show Washington what this bill actually means for America and they'll all change. You can't get reelected on "I voted to shut down Facebook and Youtube."
1. Okay fine, Wikipedia was around, but few knew about it. Besides, it's for the sake of the narrative!
Great book, one of my favorites. Not what I expected someone to reference, though. In Songs, the trick is that everyone has pretty much the same upbringing, education and opportunity-wise. There's no one that is more suited or capable of doing the job than anyone else, so it can be completely random.
I think that Hitchhiker's Guide is a much more appropriate source. There, they recognize that the only people who want to be leaders (i.e. President of the Galaxy) are precisely those who are least fit to do so. Thus they create the obvious solution: Elect really showy Presidents who have no power actual power to distract people from the secret guy hidden away somewhere who makes all the important decisions.
Quite right, but that's not what these researchers found. Instead, they found that a given justice could be modeled solely on his or her eight colleagues. Not the case, not the law, but how the others voted.
In reality, it's not surprising. Harvard, Yale, and Columbia dominate the SCOTUS, and right now New York City has four of the nine. Take what you will from that, but toss in a two-party system and one really wouldn't expect to see a wide diversity of opinions on the court. If eight have made up their minds, it should be clear how the last will vote.
This reminds me of the (semi) recent story about how CraigsList is a "cesspool of crime" and, more specifically, CL's response.
AIM group “documents” 330 crimes that it says occurred in connection with use of CL in the US over a 12 month period. Sounds scary until you compare that number to the 570 million classified ads posted by 100 million or more US craigslist users during that same time span, generating literally BILLIONS of human interactions, many involving face-to-face meetings between users who do not know one another...[snip]
James Temple at the SF Chronicle is reporting that, in terms of crime rate, or incidence of crime, craigslist is roughly 11,000 times safer than the city of Oakland. And as he has now updated, there is no reason to pick on his hometown of Oakland, the 11,000x incidence ratio would likely apply to any major city in the US.
Sure, some stinkers get through and sure, a lot of bad things happen on Facebook, but given 25 billion actions a day, an immensely low rate of incidence will give a very high number of incidents. Roswell, NM has a much higher murder rate than New York City (even after accounting for aliens, I hear) but we don't talk about all the murder in New Mexico.
Anyone with a Facebook account can participate to verify if everyone is on average approximately six steps away from any other person on Earth. You’ll be asked to select one of your Facebook friends whom you believe is most likely to know the “target person” that has been assigned to you. A message will then be sent from friend to friend until you get it to the “target person.” The goal is to do this in as few steps as possible. [snip] Yahoo and Facebook hope to attract many times more participants than has ever been attempted before. The study is intended as academic social research and will be published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal.
Seems like a really poor way to go about doing it. Might as well just do the calculations themselves. Much faster, and will produce a vastly more reliable answer.
1. Brand recognition. The iPhone name is huge, and instantly recognizable, especially as the "cool, slick, hip" thing it has been marketed as. Saying "Smartphones can read tattoo ink" is boring and "Charges can read tattoo ink" can be confusing. 2. News people are here to attract you. No matter what your opinion of the phones themselves may be, there's no denying that iPhone breeds more interest than any other.
If you'd followed the proceedings you should have. The oral arguments are worth checking out for everybody, and there are a few choice quotes. The reference to Mortal Kombat is lovely, but my personal favorite is where (page 57) Sotomayor points out that since the law only covers violence against humans, "a video game that portrayed a Vulcan as opposed to a human being, being maimed and tortured" would be totally scott-free.
For the same reason people doesn't listen to greenpeace.
Speak for yourself. I don't listen to Greenpeace because they do things like drive motorboats back and forth across the English Channel to prevent oil from coming into the UK.
The WikiLove campaign has been around for ages, with the goal being simply to encourage friendliness and a positive learning/working environment. Various user scripts have been around for a while, this is just an implicit acceptance of that concept, as the feature will now be built-in instead of an option feature you have to search for.
Possibly. In the US, the Bridgeman V Corel case decided that copies of public domain works are not copyrightable, but that of course has no bearing in the UK. There is a sense there that the ruling is reasonable, but straight up copies are definitely deemed copyrighted works thanks to (imho, inane) concepts like lighting and photogenicity. In this case, nobody's likely to complain, and surely not Google, but image copyright in the UK lies in the act of taking the photo and not generally in the creativity involved therein.
CC-BY-SA doesn't mean you can't profit from it, just that derivatives have to also be shared under the same license. While I won't miss hearing Friday on Wikipedia, the WMF had a great repository of audio and video that YouTube could gave had access to had they gone with SA.
Indeed - immediately after that section in TFA, it tells you never to buy it from the manufacturer, and then promptly links you to websites from which to buy nice, cheap RAM.
A lot of the copying of commercial software is done by people who can't afford it. You'll get students that want to play with 3DSMax or something but can't really swing the $3,500 asking price so they'll download it. That is NOT a lost sale, if it was impossible to copy, they'd simply do without because they haven't the money.
That's been the perceived argument behind a lot of the truly expensive arts-related software, like Photoshop, that has been "pirated" widely. Nobody learning a tool can afford any of them, but if that person has a free copy when the time comes that they actually need to use it for a for-profit/professional enterprise they or their company will pay for it. Same goes for a lot of Microsoft's products. Sure, pirated copied abound, but at least that means they're locked into your system. Half a loaf of bread is better than none.
Face is what we see. The portion of the moon that is being lit by the sun is constantly changing, but we only have the pleasure of seeing the same portion of the moon, no matter what. When the sun is lighting up that portion - full moon. When the sun is lighting up the opposite portion - new/no moon. Everything else is in between.
There's more to distance and height, of course, but as long as we're counting you'll note that the Apollo missions, specifically Apollo 13, took humans the furthest from Earth. We've spent the last 40 years not reaching higher and higher.
The revelation that [paraphrase] "college students have little loyalty to news programs, and rarely watch TV or read a newspaper" is far from it. TV and newspapers are expensive when you're in school, and are often tricky to negotiate in a dorm, which you don't own and are limited in space. What college students DO do a lot of is watch TV programs, but they do it for free on Hulu or network websites or for very cheap through Netflix and iTunes. If people look at the internet and attached devices as enabling a lot more interaction and getting of news, they really can take the place of traditional media sources. Maybe it's of a different type, but choice is a Good Thing.
It was just the solar array they had concerns about. Everything else was supposed to last the ages they have, but engineers were just unsure about the apparatus providing power. They turned out to be terribly wrong in their expectations and the panels performed admirably for years.
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Go for broke, I say. Get Facebook, Wiki(m|p)edia, Youtube, and Twitter to go dark for a day. Hell, they could go dark for an hour and still the world would riot. I don't like how integral these sites have become to day-to-day life for most people, when ten years ago none even existed,[1] but for Congress to think that the people in this country or this world care one iota about "e-parasites" when put up against Honey Badger and Farmville is just bogus. Show Washington what this bill actually means for America and they'll all change. You can't get reelected on "I voted to shut down Facebook and Youtube."
1. Okay fine, Wikipedia was around, but few knew about it. Besides, it's for the sake of the narrative!
Great book, one of my favorites. Not what I expected someone to reference, though. In Songs, the trick is that everyone has pretty much the same upbringing, education and opportunity-wise. There's no one that is more suited or capable of doing the job than anyone else, so it can be completely random.
I think that Hitchhiker's Guide is a much more appropriate source. There, they recognize that the only people who want to be leaders (i.e. President of the Galaxy) are precisely those who are least fit to do so. Thus they create the obvious solution: Elect really showy Presidents who have no power actual power to distract people from the secret guy hidden away somewhere who makes all the important decisions.
Much more like reality.
Quite right, but that's not what these researchers found. Instead, they found that a given justice could be modeled solely on his or her eight colleagues. Not the case, not the law, but how the others voted.
In reality, it's not surprising. Harvard, Yale, and Columbia dominate the SCOTUS, and right now New York City has four of the nine. Take what you will from that, but toss in a two-party system and one really wouldn't expect to see a wide diversity of opinions on the court. If eight have made up their minds, it should be clear how the last will vote.
...What?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright_brothers#Patent_war
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Edison_patents
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlieb_Daimler (just search for "patent")
Not quite sure what your point was but I feel safe it was mistaken.
This reminds me of the (semi) recent story about how CraigsList is a "cesspool of crime" and, more specifically, CL's response.
AIM group “documents” 330 crimes that it says occurred in connection with use of CL in the US over a 12 month period. Sounds scary until you compare that number to the 570 million classified ads posted by 100 million or more US craigslist users during that same time span, generating literally BILLIONS of human interactions, many involving face-to-face meetings between users who do not know one another...[snip]
James Temple at the SF Chronicle is reporting that, in terms of crime rate, or incidence of crime, craigslist is roughly 11,000 times safer than the city of Oakland. And as he has now updated, there is no reason to pick on his hometown of Oakland, the 11,000x incidence ratio would likely apply to any major city in the US.
Sure, some stinkers get through and sure, a lot of bad things happen on Facebook, but given 25 billion actions a day, an immensely low rate of incidence will give a very high number of incidents. Roswell, NM has a much higher murder rate than New York City (even after accounting for aliens, I hear) but we don't talk about all the murder in New Mexico.
Everyone is too busy celebrating National Corndog Day.
Oh, and for the record, Darwin Day exists, and was a big deal a couple of years back as 2009 was his 200th and Origin's 150th.
Don't you mean "Mot That There's Amythimg Wromg with That?" From the popular sitcom "Seimfeld?"
Reminds me of hours spent playing Pathways Into Darkness. Those damn banshees gave me hell, at least until I figured out the crystals.
Okay, but in our defense hamburgers are really good.
Yogi Berra?!
FTFA:
Anyone with a Facebook account can participate to verify if everyone is on average approximately six steps away from any other person on Earth. You’ll be asked to select one of your Facebook friends whom you believe is most likely to know the “target person” that has been assigned to you. A message will then be sent from friend to friend until you get it to the “target person.” The goal is to do this in as few steps as possible.
[snip]
Yahoo and Facebook hope to attract many times more participants than has ever been attempted before. The study is intended as academic social research and will be published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal.
Seems like a really poor way to go about doing it. Might as well just do the calculations themselves. Much faster, and will produce a vastly more reliable answer.
I can think of two, very good reasons:
1. Brand recognition. The iPhone name is huge, and instantly recognizable, especially as the "cool, slick, hip" thing it has been marketed as. Saying "Smartphones can read tattoo ink" is boring and "Charges can read tattoo ink" can be confusing.
2. News people are here to attract you. No matter what your opinion of the phones themselves may be, there's no denying that iPhone breeds more interest than any other.
If you'd followed the proceedings you should have. The oral arguments are worth checking out for everybody, and there are a few choice quotes. The reference to Mortal Kombat is lovely, but my personal favorite is where (page 57) Sotomayor points out that since the law only covers violence against humans, "a video game that portrayed a Vulcan as opposed to a human being, being maimed and tortured" would be totally scott-free.
For the same reason people doesn't listen to greenpeace.
Speak for yourself. I don't listen to Greenpeace because they do things like drive motorboats back and forth across the English Channel to prevent oil from coming into the UK.
The WikiLove campaign has been around for ages, with the goal being simply to encourage friendliness and a positive learning/working environment. Various user scripts have been around for a while, this is just an implicit acceptance of that concept, as the feature will now be built-in instead of an option feature you have to search for.
Still, for about 70% of uses I think Dropbox would work more elegantly.
Possibly. In the US, the Bridgeman V Corel case decided that copies of public domain works are not copyrightable, but that of course has no bearing in the UK. There is a sense there that the ruling is reasonable, but straight up copies are definitely deemed copyrighted works thanks to (imho, inane) concepts like lighting and photogenicity. In this case, nobody's likely to complain, and surely not Google, but image copyright in the UK lies in the act of taking the photo and not generally in the creativity involved therein.
CC-BY-SA doesn't mean you can't profit from it, just that derivatives have to also be shared under the same license. While I won't miss hearing Friday on Wikipedia, the WMF had a great repository of audio and video that YouTube could gave had access to had they gone with SA.
Indeed - immediately after that section in TFA, it tells you never to buy it from the manufacturer, and then promptly links you to websites from which to buy nice, cheap RAM.
A lot of the copying of commercial software is done by people who can't afford it. You'll get students that want to play with 3DSMax or something but can't really swing the $3,500 asking price so they'll download it. That is NOT a lost sale, if it was impossible to copy, they'd simply do without because they haven't the money.
That's been the perceived argument behind a lot of the truly expensive arts-related software, like Photoshop, that has been "pirated" widely. Nobody learning a tool can afford any of them, but if that person has a free copy when the time comes that they actually need to use it for a for-profit/professional enterprise they or their company will pay for it. Same goes for a lot of Microsoft's products. Sure, pirated copied abound, but at least that means they're locked into your system. Half a loaf of bread is better than none.
Face is what we see. The portion of the moon that is being lit by the sun is constantly changing, but we only have the pleasure of seeing the same portion of the moon, no matter what. When the sun is lighting up that portion - full moon. When the sun is lighting up the opposite portion - new/no moon. Everything else is in between.
The paper, of course, says no such thing. ibtimes.com, however, is quite silly.
There's more to distance and height, of course, but as long as we're counting you'll note that the Apollo missions, specifically Apollo 13, took humans the furthest from Earth. We've spent the last 40 years not reaching higher and higher.
The revelation that [paraphrase] "college students have little loyalty to news programs, and rarely watch TV or read a newspaper" is far from it. TV and newspapers are expensive when you're in school, and are often tricky to negotiate in a dorm, which you don't own and are limited in space. What college students DO do a lot of is watch TV programs, but they do it for free on Hulu or network websites or for very cheap through Netflix and iTunes. If people look at the internet and attached devices as enabling a lot more interaction and getting of news, they really can take the place of traditional media sources. Maybe it's of a different type, but choice is a Good Thing.
It was just the solar array they had concerns about. Everything else was supposed to last the ages they have, but engineers were just unsure about the apparatus providing power. They turned out to be terribly wrong in their expectations and the panels performed admirably for years.