Yes, we should be more inclusive, but this is a very necessary step in the right direction, and I'd rather have this passed than add more to whatever law is proposed and have it stall.
And before someone says that the issue will be buried and forgotten if only Americans are included, remember that there really is such a thing as gaining legislative momentum, as the current U.S. president has demonstrated. A smaller step in the right direction is still a good one.
And, can we expect this ruling to be appealed? From TFA:
The watchdog organization Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington had sued under FOIA. The group expressed disappointment in the ruling and said it is appealing the decision.
"Hey." "Hey." "I'm sending you a stenographically encrypted file through this call." "Oh, okay."... "Uh, hello?" "Sorry, I gotta give it enough talk time to transmit." "Oh, gotcha."... "So, how's the family?"
Definitely the band playing while riding up a public escalator. Most of that part was obviously not footage from a CCTV, but still really funny to watch.
Comcast admits to keeping a list of users that access porn sites and using it for targeted ads, claims they aren't checking which pictures they're looking at so it's not a violation of privacy.
The article isn't terribly specific about which nitrogen compounds react to the spray, only providing a couple of examples. If I worked in my garden 5 days before a flight, am I going to get hazed by TSA because I didn't eliminate every last speck of fertilizer from my clothes?
Wow. I guess slashdotters don't appreciate sarcasm today. Let's see if I can be more straightforward:
By hosting videos from terrorist organizations, YouTube could be construed as providing communication for terrorists, which constitutes material support for terrorists. In some previous cases of alleged material support for terrorism, the government has acted aggressively (example). Of course this case will be handled differently, because Google is a well known organization commonly in the public eye, but I suspect the US would be much more aggressive about this "request" if it were a lesser known company. I think applying the law evenly to all potential offenders would expose the problems with current laws.
This screams antitrust and conflict of interest. It screams it from every cell phone tower and internet backbone.
No, we don't have a problem with P2P...as long as you're using ours. Yeah, I know, people will always find a way around it as long as there's a network somehow connecting two computers, but that's not the point.
Also, I wonder when this will become cost effective for cars. I suspect it's going to be a long time before (cost of self-healing frame) - (cost of normal frame) < (cost to repair normal frame). That being said, this is going to be a fantastic option for a lot of industrial applications.
Thank you! I'm disappointed that the almost universal response here is that the survey must be flawed in some way because it was taken in China, and of course any information coming out of China must be untrustworthy. We (read: Westerners (read: Americans)) don't get to take the moral highground on this, at least not anymore.
It seems very difficult for us to accept the fact that not not everyone in the world agrees with us on what is right, and we can't ram our ideas down their throats in the name of "freedom." Well, I guess we can, but it doesn't mean freedom anymore. Sound familiar?
This is also assuming every single packet that an ISP manages goes through a single physical location. So unless Comcast routes every packet to their headquarters at the top of Mt. Doom for inspection before delivery, they're going to need a lot more of these.
You can paint this thing as a device that connects you to a buddy who wants to keep you safe and help you graduate, or as a device that connects you to a Buddy who wants to keep you safe and help you obey the rules.
This is the first time I've seen a project that combined distributed computation, using human minds for intelligence and processing power, and connecting the two with an interface that is intended to be entertaining and pleasant. I'm eager to see if they get any good results. If this is successful, it may set a precedent for using large numbers of people to crunch the kind of problems that computers find prohibitively difficult.
Wait a sec...distributed computation, human minds, pleasant interface...starting to sound like teh Matrix.
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A link to an old writeup from one of my favorite professors: http://people.wallawalla.edu/~Rob.Frohne/Airport/Primestar/Primestar.html
Also, ditto on the !news.
Filed under the ever growing folder labeled "It works because of lasers".
Let's see, scanning.....scanning....yep, not a single Borg or Krag reference.
I'm looking forward to my brain being transplanted to a titanium frame so my life can continue as an evil overlord in the Technodrome.
Yes, we should be more inclusive, but this is a very necessary step in the right direction, and I'd rather have this passed than add more to whatever law is proposed and have it stall.
And before someone says that the issue will be buried and forgotten if only Americans are included, remember that there really is such a thing as gaining legislative momentum, as the current U.S. president has demonstrated. A smaller step in the right direction is still a good one.
They've only got, like, a billion people, and they're all needed to work the rice patties. They can't spare anyone to learn teh hax0rz.
Magnetar? Sorry, I'm not really into Pokemon.
"Hey." ... ...
"Hey."
"I'm sending you a stenographically encrypted file through this call."
"Oh, okay."
"Uh, hello?"
"Sorry, I gotta give it enough talk time to transmit."
"Oh, gotcha."
"So, how's the family?"
Definitely the band playing while riding up a public escalator. Most of that part was obviously not footage from a CCTV, but still really funny to watch.
s/obscene/dissenting/g
Comcast admits to keeping a list of users that access porn sites and using it for targeted ads, claims they aren't checking which pictures they're looking at so it's not a violation of privacy.
Stop it, you're freaking me out.
The article isn't terribly specific about which nitrogen compounds react to the spray, only providing a couple of examples. If I worked in my garden 5 days before a flight, am I going to get hazed by TSA because I didn't eliminate every last speck of fertilizer from my clothes?
In related news, it turns out you don't have to do anything the courts say anymore.
Wow. I guess slashdotters don't appreciate sarcasm today. Let's see if I can be more straightforward:
By hosting videos from terrorist organizations, YouTube could be construed as providing communication for terrorists, which constitutes material support for terrorists. In some previous cases of alleged material support for terrorism, the government has acted aggressively (example). Of course this case will be handled differently, because Google is a well known organization commonly in the public eye, but I suspect the US would be much more aggressive about this "request" if it were a lesser known company. I think applying the law evenly to all potential offenders would expose the problems with current laws.
Google is clearly acting in support of terrorism and is therefore itself a terrorist organization. We need to drop some injunction on that.
This screams antitrust and conflict of interest. It screams it from every cell phone tower and internet backbone.
No, we don't have a problem with P2P...as long as you're using ours. Yeah, I know, people will always find a way around it as long as there's a network somehow connecting two computers, but that's not the point.
In before Terminator jokes.
Also, I wonder when this will become cost effective for cars. I suspect it's going to be a long time before (cost of self-healing frame) - (cost of normal frame) < (cost to repair normal frame). That being said, this is going to be a fantastic option for a lot of industrial applications.
Thank you! I'm disappointed that the almost universal response here is that the survey must be flawed in some way because it was taken in China, and of course any information coming out of China must be untrustworthy. We (read: Westerners (read: Americans)) don't get to take the moral highground on this, at least not anymore.
It seems very difficult for us to accept the fact that not not everyone in the world agrees with us on what is right, and we can't ram our ideas down their throats in the name of "freedom." Well, I guess we can, but it doesn't mean freedom anymore. Sound familiar?
This is also assuming every single packet that an ISP manages goes through a single physical location. So unless Comcast routes every packet to their headquarters at the top of Mt. Doom for inspection before delivery, they're going to need a lot more of these.
At almost a million dollars a pop, is it really saving money for ISPs to use these? How many would a major ISP need to shape all of their traffic?
You can paint this thing as a device that connects you to a buddy who wants to keep you safe and help you graduate, or as a device that connects you to a Buddy who wants to keep you safe and help you obey the rules.
Any examples that you know of?
This is the first time I've seen a project that combined distributed computation, using human minds for intelligence and processing power, and connecting the two with an interface that is intended to be entertaining and pleasant. I'm eager to see if they get any good results. If this is successful, it may set a precedent for using large numbers of people to crunch the kind of problems that computers find prohibitively difficult.
Wait a sec...distributed computation, human minds, pleasant interface...starting to sound like teh Matrix.