Greed, its all about greed. How can we get something for nothing. In this case energy. If any project steals energy from the waves, the whole eco-system and energy system is changed. What's at stake, fisheries, the gulf stream, the weather, whatever interacts with that energy system currently. I doubt that anyone has done extensive research on what the effects might be except on the bottom line. The ones that will make the money off this one are certainly selling it.
Lets see, I think cutting down the Cedars of Lebanon were a good example that triggered the desertification of parts of the Middle East. The bad farming practices of the U.S. midwest building up to the Dust Bowl. China's killing of birds all over China in the middle of last century because they thought they ate crops, followed by insect plauges that did eat crops. We can be so stupid with simple Mass solutions. Now we have massive computer technology to simulate some of these systems, we should before we embark on large scale projects that could have large scale effects (remember the butterfly effect, a small change here can have a big change somewhere else, like a pin prick on a ballon, small action big reaction, our climate is going through some stresses now, the number of species alive is dwindling, rain forrests are disapearing. Oh lets just go out and harvest some free energy in from the Oceans, the fish won't mind.
Dumb, really Dumb to go into things with a blindfold on. or start a project as a large project.
I think there are differences between public places and private places. Certainly you don't have the right if you are say a public resturant to exclude people because of ethnicity. If you let the public in you loose some rights. If your a private club, thats different, private clubs can exclude Blacks say and do. I ran into that in Huston some years ago, being from Chicago I was totally taken back, this was around 1970.
So its not exactly true about your property if your property is open to the public, so the same does not go for corporations and I suspect that is true with internet public places. Either they are set up as private places but they let everyone in, or they are public and they loose some control about what rules they can enforce.
I can see it now, you can have your account debited by a certain amount when a pickpocket goes to get your virtual wallet, and his virtual wallet can be updated with the theft in real time. Awsome!
And for an extra charge you can send an alert to law enforcement about the time and GPS coordinates of the crime, and link to sky cams in the vacinity to start the case documentation folder.
Damn, I got it wrong, I thought that Free Speech was a right that could not be abridged by anyone, not even a Corporation. Are you absolutely sure of your facts? Now there is a contract involved with YouTube the EULA and thats what give them the right to abridge your freedom of speech, They don't have the right, outright to do anything they want to muzzle speech. They have a prior legal agreement with the poster on You Tube.
So be careful that you view it correctly. Corporations do not have the right to do anything they want. But you can give up your rights by agreement, but not always deemed legal even then, as in some rental contract provisions are deemed illegal, so they leave that language in to scare you but have a disclaimer that says if any individual provision is found to be illegal, that does not affect other provisions of the contract.
It seems to me this is a bad idea. If for no other reason than when all the different programs are together in larger clusters of applications and data storage, it makes it easier for someone in the government (or someone hacked in) to do more cross application data browsing. I'm not sure that we trust the government or the security of a data government data center to make private information secure. Not to mention covert clandestine operations we don't know about.
The second bad idea is that governement programs come and go. When the computing resources are closer to the program, it is easier to manage and in some cases turn off if defunded. With all the computation and data storage co-mingled, which is how you get the savings, then boundries and clean removal of all aspects of a project will be much much more difficult. Not to mention the nightmare of accounting for the resources used by one project vs another.
I remember hearing the story (I don't know if it is true) that AMTrak or one of its ancestor incarnations did an accounting dance, charging the passenger lines passing over track 100% of the maintenence cost whereas they did not charge any of that to the freight traffic over the same track. As I understand basically wanted to find a way to kill the passenger service by loading it up with expenses. The Chicago CTA did something similar I understand with switching the sides of two CTA runs, giving one of the lines the two least used ends and the other parallel route the most used. They then tried to claim losses on that line and planned on shutting it down. Luckily the Government stepped in and said, no problem, just pay back all the money from the Government that was given with the condition that those lines be kept open. We still have both lines, one it the one that goes close to my house.
So combined facilities means games with cost accounting that may or may not favor one type of application over another and may also be used for hiding black budgets more easily.
Well we do peer to peer communications over roads, and telephones and the mail. And illegal activity happens over all of those. They would not shut these down. Make laws to make certain practices illegal yes but shut them down no. Why not? Because they are used by everyone, especially the law makers. If someone found a way to get these system more integrated into society then they would have the same protections by lawmakers. Just ask an NRA Senator if anyone should take away his/her gun?
Obviously are not releasing details until the Patent application goes through and the Patent Troll company set up. They certainly would not release the information so other people could just steal their idea. Maybe they will package it in sealed application and rent it out. Hmmmm anyone remember the Chess Playing Mechanical Turk? (1770).
Sorry, getting caught through social engineering is not stupidity, its a con with evil people preying on innocent people. If you are saying it is criminal to be innocent, or shall we say, trust no one, don't believe anything anyone says, think ill of everything and everybody, then I say Sorry no. That is not a world anyone should live in, and people who prey on others are no good selfish greedy basdards and bitched and deserve jail time.
You can see it with viruses. There is always someone trying to find another path to cheap riches at someone elses expense. Find one way to stop it and they look for another way. So to blame the victim for someone finding a way to use their good nature to screw them, I say not their fault, ever.
I taught CS at a major University for 27 years in the evening. I ended up weighting the midterm and final equally and 50% of the grade. I gave 2 quizes between and a number of assignments. That set was equally weighted and represented the other half. The first quiz was the wake up call for the format and difficulty of the Midterm and final.
The 50% was because that was much harder to fake, you at least in class have to show what you know, and given descriptions of problems to solve you get to see organization, approach, problem solving, knowledge and understanding at the same time.
The issue is that CS is a technology and I would tell classes this formula.
and that if you missed either the necessary Rolyalties or Attribution you would get kicked out of school.
As a technology you build off the knowledge and work of the past to extend the idea's into the future. And for most programs you are implementing a known common algorithms, which should mean that your code should be very similar to others if you are being efficient and following common coding practice.
If you give a varied set of difficult, conceptually programs it is harder to get code to copy. I did however give an assignment that did have a variation in some text books. I would warn that the text book version did not implement the same idea, but invariably I would get a few that pulled not only the algorithm but the code from the book, and no attibution.
One time I got two programs for an assignment, neither worked, both had identical code portions with the very same bug. That one was easy to spot, for god's sake copy working code!
Shades of the 50's when organizations got books banned from libraries. Same group different era. Oh and yes we need to ban any reference to the Bible because of the references in the book to incest (Lot and his daughters), Ban it!
Maybe you know, I accidentally got caught clicking through the approval for update and the WGA started installing on an old XP machine. I cancel the update (when it asks to continue each frigging time I reboot). I would like to kill the update so That does not happen and I don't want to install WGA. Any thoughts on how or where to kill the in process installation?
Well lets not forget the speach you love and the speach you are so, so about and the speach you fall asleep to. Lets not limit it to the speach you hate.
Its more like you have a 2 year locked in contract with an early withdrawal fee and that is your internet access, and it is being censored. Not unlike what China is doing. Its not like you can pick another phone or have the choice to. People are locked into their contracts. They don't tell you when you buy the unlimited Internet contract that well its unlimited time but only on the sites we think you should go to. Bait and switch I say.
I did read the article and it did not make sense to me. Maybe because I am unfamiliar with Video Furnace or whatever that is and how it works. The article never said who owned the copyright, who was threatening to sue. The group that notified the University seemed to be like RIAA for teachers, the Association for the Information Media and Equipment, can not be the copyrighter certainly, it is a non-profit membership organization offering copyright information and support to teachers, librarians, media center directors, producers and distributors of informational film, video, interactive technologies, computer software and equipment. So they are the RIAA in this case not the copyright owner. We know its not the teachers, they were trying to post their course. It's not UCLA they backed down, its not the media center. No where in the article does it say who owns the copyright, no where.
I did RTFA, and thank you for asking. BTW RTFA before making such a claim about my claim that that was not information given in the article.
My confusion comes too from the fact that I taught for 27 years and did some video classroom work.
Why would they not have the copyright to the movies of their classes? Is Video furnace a movie production company that comes in and videos the classes (av staff) or just some software used to create the movies?
No, there is no excuse for a crime. None. You can not be blamed for leaving your car unlocked. You should not have to lock your car. Out in the rural area's people don't lock their cars or their houses. That is the way it should be. There the same rule holds.
It would be like you were saying, you did not buy automobile insurance so you deserve to get in an accident.
I'm confused. The professors were posting the video's, you would figure they owned the copyright to their material. Some universities have you sign a paper that says that they own your course material. While I totally disagree with the concept of buying copyrights from the original authors, I can understand this. But here is said the University was back down, from whom? Who is threatening to sue? Who thinks they own the rights to UCLA's professors course material???
Please someone tell me whats wrong with this picture.
But I guess my point is that the time limit is probably reasonable, but the pro-active , we will shut down your system at random times part is Jacking around your testing community. Recognize that they are doing your a favor, Microsoft, by doing the final shakedown of your system and getting the expereince and word out into the community. Don't treat them to earthquake type tramma, just to push them into paying you money.
With Ubantu and other free OS's around, the free ride argument starts to be weak.
I'm sick and tired of this attitude that makes victims responsible for the crimes against them. Like well its her fault for dressing up so attractivily, she deserved what she got. Or doesn't he know not to walk in that neighborhood, he deserved what he got. Or didn't he do exhaustive checking with all sorts of agencies before investing with Maddoff, oh wait, he did and they all said things were good, well he deserved to get cheated.
That puts blame where it does not belong. It is the argument used by those that break into peoples computers. Well they should not have let me steal from them, they are dumb and deserve it. Very wrong headed, lets not forget, people who commit crimes are at fault, period.
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Greed, its all about greed. How can we get something for nothing. In this case energy. If any project steals energy from the waves, the whole eco-system and energy system is changed. What's at stake, fisheries, the gulf stream, the weather, whatever interacts with that energy system currently. I doubt that anyone has done extensive research on what the effects might be except on the bottom line. The ones that will make the money off this one are certainly selling it.
Lets see, I think cutting down the Cedars of Lebanon were a good example that triggered the desertification of parts of the Middle East. The bad farming practices of the U.S. midwest building up to the Dust Bowl. China's killing of birds all over China in the middle of last century because they thought they ate crops, followed by insect plauges that did eat crops. We can be so stupid with simple Mass solutions. Now we have massive computer technology to simulate some of these systems, we should before we embark on large scale projects that could have large scale effects (remember the butterfly effect, a small change here can have a big change somewhere else, like a pin prick on a ballon, small action big reaction, our climate is going through some stresses now, the number of species alive is dwindling, rain forrests are disapearing. Oh lets just go out and harvest some free energy in from the Oceans, the fish won't mind.
Dumb, really Dumb to go into things with a blindfold on. or start a project as a large project.
I think there are differences between public places and private places. Certainly you don't have the right if you are say a public resturant to exclude people because of ethnicity. If you let the public in you loose some rights. If your a private club, thats different, private clubs can exclude Blacks say and do. I ran into that in Huston some years ago, being from Chicago I was totally taken back, this was around 1970.
So its not exactly true about your property if your property is open to the public, so the same does not go for corporations and I suspect that is true with internet public places. Either they are set up as private places but they let everyone in, or they are public and they loose some control about what rules they can enforce.
I can see it now, you can have your account debited by a certain amount when a pickpocket goes to get your virtual wallet, and his virtual wallet can be updated with the theft in real time. Awsome!
And for an extra charge you can send an alert to law enforcement about the time and GPS coordinates of the crime, and link to sky cams in the vacinity to start the case documentation folder.
Another case of life imitating Animation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBOQcQO0IFI&feature=related
They must have been watching this.
Damn, I got it wrong, I thought that Free Speech was a right that could not be abridged by anyone, not even a Corporation. Are you absolutely sure of your facts? Now there is a contract involved with YouTube the EULA and thats what give them the right to abridge your freedom of speech, They don't have the right, outright to do anything they want to muzzle speech. They have a prior legal agreement with the poster on You Tube.
So be careful that you view it correctly. Corporations do not have the right to do anything they want. But you can give up your rights by agreement, but not always deemed legal even then, as in some rental contract provisions are deemed illegal, so they leave that language in to scare you but have a disclaimer that says if any individual provision is found to be illegal, that does not affect other provisions of the contract.
Just be clear about your rights.
It seems to me this is a bad idea. If for no other reason than when all the different programs are together in larger clusters of applications and data storage, it makes it easier for someone in the government (or someone hacked in) to do more cross application data browsing. I'm not sure that we trust the government or the security of a data government data center to make private information secure. Not to mention covert clandestine operations we don't know about.
The second bad idea is that governement programs come and go. When the computing resources are closer to the program, it is easier to manage and in some cases turn off if defunded. With all the computation and data storage co-mingled, which is how you get the savings, then boundries and clean removal of all aspects of a project will be much much more difficult. Not to mention the nightmare of accounting for the resources used by one project vs another.
I remember hearing the story (I don't know if it is true) that AMTrak or one of its ancestor incarnations did an accounting dance, charging the passenger lines passing over track 100% of the maintenence cost whereas they did not charge any of that to the freight traffic over the same track. As I understand basically wanted to find a way to kill the passenger service by loading it up with expenses. The Chicago CTA did something similar I understand with switching the sides of two CTA runs, giving one of the lines the two least used ends and the other parallel route the most used. They then tried to claim losses on that line and planned on shutting it down. Luckily the Government stepped in and said, no problem, just pay back all the money from the Government that was given with the condition that those lines be kept open. We still have both lines, one it the one that goes close to my house.
So combined facilities means games with cost accounting that may or may not favor one type of application over another and may also be used for hiding black budgets more easily.
Well we do peer to peer communications over roads, and telephones and the mail. And illegal activity happens over all of those. They would not shut these down. Make laws to make certain practices illegal yes but shut them down no. Why not? Because they are used by everyone, especially the law makers. If someone found a way to get these system more integrated into society then they would have the same protections by lawmakers. Just ask an NRA Senator if anyone should take away his/her gun?
Obviously are not releasing details until the Patent application goes through and the Patent Troll company set up. They certainly would not release the information so other people could just steal their idea. Maybe they will package it in sealed application and rent it out. Hmmmm anyone remember the Chess Playing Mechanical Turk? (1770).
Sorry, getting caught through social engineering is not stupidity, its a con with evil people preying on innocent people. If you are saying it is criminal to be innocent, or shall we say, trust no one, don't believe anything anyone says, think ill of everything and everybody, then I say Sorry no. That is not a world anyone should live in, and people who prey on others are no good selfish greedy basdards and bitched and deserve jail time.
You can see it with viruses. There is always someone trying to find another path to cheap riches at someone elses expense. Find one way to stop it and they look for another way. So to blame the victim for someone finding a way to use their good nature to screw them, I say not their fault, ever.
I taught CS at a major University for 27 years in the evening. I ended up weighting the midterm and final equally and 50% of the grade. I gave 2 quizes between and a number of assignments. That set was equally weighted and represented the other half. The first quiz was the wake up call for the format and difficulty of the Midterm and final.
The 50% was because that was much harder to fake, you at least in class have to show what you know, and given descriptions of problems to solve you get to see organization, approach, problem solving, knowledge and understanding at the same time.
The issue is that CS is a technology and I would tell classes this formula.
Plagerism + Royalties + Proper Attirbution = Productivity
and that if you missed either the necessary Rolyalties or Attribution you would get kicked out of school.
As a technology you build off the knowledge and work of the past to extend the idea's into the future. And for most programs you are implementing a known common algorithms, which should mean that your code should be very similar to others if you are being efficient and following common coding practice.
If you give a varied set of difficult, conceptually programs it is harder to get code to copy. I did however give an assignment that did have a variation in some text books. I would warn that the text book version did not implement the same idea, but invariably I would get a few that pulled not only the algorithm but the code from the book, and no attibution.
One time I got two programs for an assignment, neither worked, both had identical code portions with the very same bug. That one was easy to spot, for god's sake copy working code!
Shades of the 50's when organizations got books banned from libraries. Same group different era. Oh and yes we need to ban any reference to the Bible because of the references in the book to incest (Lot and his daughters), Ban it!
Maybe you know, I accidentally got caught clicking through the approval for update and the WGA started installing on an old XP machine. I cancel the update (when it asks to continue each frigging time I reboot). I would like to kill the update so That does not happen and I don't want to install WGA. Any thoughts on how or where to kill the in process installation?
Thanks,
With a stopwatch!
I have a BB Strorm, uses VWZ I just connected to www.4chan.org successfully, Maybe the block is off. (no wifi here)
Well lets not forget the speach you love and the speach you are so, so about and the speach you fall asleep to. Lets not limit it to the speach you hate.
Its more like you have a 2 year locked in contract with an early withdrawal fee and that is your internet access, and it is being censored. Not unlike what China is doing. Its not like you can pick another phone or have the choice to. People are locked into their contracts. They don't tell you when you buy the unlimited Internet contract that well its unlimited time but only on the sites we think you should go to. Bait and switch I say.
I did read the article and it did not make sense to me. Maybe because I am unfamiliar with Video Furnace or whatever that is and how it works. The article never said who owned the copyright, who was threatening to sue. The group that notified the University seemed to be like RIAA for teachers, the Association for the Information Media and Equipment, can not be the copyrighter certainly, it is a non-profit membership organization offering copyright information and support to teachers, librarians, media center directors, producers and distributors of informational film, video, interactive technologies, computer software and equipment. So they are the RIAA in this case not the copyright owner. We know its not the teachers, they were trying to post their course. It's not UCLA they backed down, its not the media center. No where in the article does it say who owns the copyright, no where.
I did RTFA, and thank you for asking. BTW RTFA before making such a claim about my claim that that was not information given in the article.
My confusion comes too from the fact that I taught for 27 years and did some video classroom work.
Why would they not have the copyright to the movies of their classes? Is Video furnace a movie production company that comes in and videos the classes (av staff) or just some software used to create the movies?
No, there is no excuse for a crime. None. You can not be blamed for leaving your car unlocked. You should not have to lock your car. Out in the rural area's people don't lock their cars or their houses. That is the way it should be. There the same rule holds.
It would be like you were saying, you did not buy automobile insurance so you deserve to get in an accident.
I'm confused. The professors were posting the video's, you would figure they owned the copyright to their material. Some universities have you sign a paper that says that they own your course material. While I totally disagree with the concept of buying copyrights from the original authors, I can understand this. But here is said the University was back down, from whom? Who is threatening to sue? Who thinks they own the rights to UCLA's professors course material???
Please someone tell me whats wrong with this picture.
Let the administration know what you think. He has some control over policy and direction. He should know what this community thinks.
Sorry, No.
Starbuck's Staff have been doing this for years in the mornings with customers.
Winzip is a good example.
But I guess my point is that the time limit is probably reasonable, but the pro-active , we will shut down your system at random times part is Jacking around your testing community. Recognize that they are doing your a favor, Microsoft, by doing the final shakedown of your system and getting the expereince and word out into the community. Don't treat them to earthquake type tramma, just to push them into paying you money.
With Ubantu and other free OS's around, the free ride argument starts to be weak.
I'm sick and tired of this attitude that makes victims responsible for the crimes against them. Like well its her fault for dressing up so attractivily, she deserved what she got. Or doesn't he know not to walk in that neighborhood, he deserved what he got. Or didn't he do exhaustive checking with all sorts of agencies before investing with Maddoff, oh wait, he did and they all said things were good, well he deserved to get cheated.
That puts blame where it does not belong. It is the argument used by those that break into peoples computers. Well they should not have let me steal from them, they are dumb and deserve it. Very wrong headed, lets not forget, people who commit crimes are at fault, period.