Name ONE statement made by Glenn Beck that any sane person would consider 'hate speech.' It just ain't him.
Just ain't him, huh? He had been giving a increasing amounts of time on his show over to conspiracy theorists with barely-hidden anti-semitic views. I think Fox finally canned him because they were afraid he was just one episode away from spewing actual hate speech, or agreeing with someone else's hate speech while on-air.
My thinking is if you could for the easy case input hex by selectively contacting four fingers of one hand and turn the motor function of the hand of with a switch. You could also expand this to ternary input by using contacting and extending allowing full ASCII.
If only this were true. Libraries don't infringe. They buy legit copies and loan them out. The newspapers preserve the advertisements and the authors get paid. If only the same thing could be said about the P2P sites.
All the libraries I know of contain photocopiers, i.e. weapons of mass copyright infringement.
Back when they thought the car could just flip out and accelerate wildly, a Prius was a man's car! Oh, "I need some groceries, I guess I'll drive to the store in my ticking time bomb death machine!" You just can't get much manlier than that!
Now it's back to being a wussy hippiemobile.
Sigh.
Their problem is quickly becoming one of choosing a poison. ...
If there aren't enough young people to care for the old people you either need to import more young people or find another solution. What that solution is I don't know...
Y'know, I think you may have stumbled upon the solution already...
Don't forget the ITExampleCorp that has 1500 legit copies of XP running on 1500 machines, but when the BSA come a-knockin' can't definitively prove that each machine has a valid license. Say, the machines started out OK, but over the course of business they got wiped, reinstalled, cloned, moved, repurposed, etc... There may still be 1500 licenses and 1500 machines, but that won't cut it when dealing with the BSA. In the end, ITExampleCorp is coerced into shelling out even more money to appease the BSA and be deemed "legit", even though they did nothing wrong.
And it's all Sony's fault.
If Sony had anyone with half a brain in their marketing or legal department, they would have foreseen this chain of events. It's dead simple to realize that removing the previously-advertised OtherOS feature would piss off a bunch of very tech-minded people, and give them a motive to crack the whole system wide open (to get their old functionality back). That this would then pave the way for people less interested in OtherOS and more interested in piracy is an easy logical step from there.
So why did they do it? Were they too stupid to predict this chain of events, or were they too stupidly arrogant to believe that their console could be cracked?
Plenty of people have been working on "intelligence similar to humans" for a long time, and we're barely any closer than we were 20 years ago. Hell, we have a tough time getting the computer to play a good game of Go.
So, when I hear something like 'DARPA said the program, known as Mind's Eye, should generate the ability for machines to have the "perceptual and cognitive abilities for recognizing and reasoning about the actions it sees and report or act upon it."', my eyes roll involuntarily.
Is it somehow better to have North Korea stay permanently a backwards totalitarian government to avoid destabilization?
Yes. So we Americans have something to point at and say "at least we don't have it as bad as over there", as we line up for our mandatory pre-commute cavity search.
In the case of a company, you have to either subvert or plant employees there. Doing that without a court order would be illegal. It also has to go on undetected, of course, and that is much harder since the employee works physically at the company. Then there's the problem that if it becomes known, you may have a lawsuit on your hands, or congressional inquiry, and so on. Big companies wield a lot of power and would likely not be amused in the slightest.
I disagree. It would be very easy for a government agency to approach a big company and say: "We'd like a backdoor in your software. If you don't add one, or if you tell anyone we asked you to do this, you can say goodbye to any juicy government contracts you may have, as well as any hope of getting said contracts in the future." Somehow, I don't think the company is going to fight it.
There is a concept called the Silver Cord. It's basically a metaphysical link between your physical body and the astral plane. Some call the astral plane a singularity of consciousness, God, and/or the spirit world. In short, your "spirit" doesn't live in your brain. Rather, your brain is controlled from the astral plane via the Silver Cord. In short, we are all puppet masters.
Which, unfortunately, doesn't really mesh with a reality where humans can be - and are all too often - a pack of idiotic, violent, tribal animals. If we were able to see the big picture more often, and work towards bettering humanity instead of fighting amongst ourselves, that "Silver Cord" concept would probably have more "pull".
...oh, unless the "spirit world"/"astral plane"/whatever is in just as sorry a state as our physical world, which is something I'd rather not think about.
Y'know, we've discovered so much about how the human body works, it's kind of funny that when it comes to the organ that tells the body how it should work, we're still in the "poke it and see what it does" phase of exploration.
It will be very interesting to see what the next 50 years bring the field of neuroscience. I expect it to be similar to the golden age of astronomy we're experiencing now, where new inventions allow us to discover new and astonishing things at breakneck speeds.
Huh? How is providing healthcare to those that can't afford it wealth redistribution?
It is most certainly wealth redistribution, as it gives poor people access to healthcare that would otherwise be beyond their means. If you call it "unfair", though, you are both technically correct and a horrible human being.
Nobody's going to argue THAT. People on Slashdot may have different opinions on noncommercial piracy on the individual level, but just about everyone absolutely hates the sort of commercial piracy you just described.
How about the 30-in-1/60-in-1/160-in-1 Electronic Project Lab? The 60-in-1 was what got me interested in electronics as a kid. Plus, if they like it, you can give them the next step up (the 200-in-1 or 300-in-1) for a gift later.
I ended up with two of the 300-in-1s, and I still open up the boxes occasionally when scrounging for parts.
No DRM on GOG software. I'm buying the damn game, not licensing it.
It shouldn't be shocking that they can sell games sans DRM. These are, after all, Good Old Games. The people who would pirate them instead of paying have already done so, years ago.
"Interesting", thinks Shuttleworth,
"Will devote resources to the project, hopefully shift to using it in a year, but will focus on maintaining compatibility with X applications", says Shuttleworth on his blog,
"OMG, UBUNTU DUMPS X!!!", reports Slashdot.
I don't think Ubuntu is trying for an even larger share of the current Linux desktop market so much as they're trying to grow the Linux desktop market itself. Much like how the Wii was derided by existing gamers, yet made a killing because it drew in people who had never even considered buying a game system before, Ubuntu aims to draw in people who had never even considered running Linux before.
And the only way to do that is to push changes like this. Let's be honest, X is usable and well-established, but it's not exactly desktop-user-friendly. I can't count the number of times I've been stuck on the command line trying to get X back into working condition. Throw average users into that situation, and they'd run screaming back to Windows.
Meanwhile, the Linux users simply download the torrent - or hook up their Netflix-streaming game console to a PVR - and laugh at the media companies and their precious DRM.
This is Oracle we are talking about here. Might as well hope for interstellar space travel by tomorrow or Bill Gates to personally write them a check for a billion dollars.
Hmmm, I hear Gates and Ballmer were friends, but clashed over the share of power at Microsoft. Does Gates still like Ballmer and the way he's running MS? Maybe we could hope for a big "Up Yours, Steve" OSS donation...
No, see, Windows isn't bad... for us. We're tech-literate, we know how to keep our systems running smoothly.
They don't. I never thought I'd see a fresh Windows 7 install on a powerful laptop get bogged down to an unusable mess in under a month, but they made it happen!
You could argue that Linux would have the same problems if it became a more popular desktop OS, but I would disagree. I think Linux is simply more resistant against that sort of crap.
It's been years, and the "dedicated desktop guys" of GNOME still haven't figured out how to make the items in my panel show up in a consistent order each time I boot up.
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Name ONE statement made by Glenn Beck that any sane person would consider 'hate speech.' It just ain't him.
Just ain't him, huh? He had been giving a increasing amounts of time on his show over to conspiracy theorists with barely-hidden anti-semitic views. I think Fox finally canned him because they were afraid he was just one episode away from spewing actual hate speech, or agreeing with someone else's hate speech while on-air.
My thinking is if you could for the easy case input hex by selectively contacting four fingers of one hand and turn the motor function of the hand of with a switch. You could also expand this to ternary input by using contacting and extending allowing full ASCII.
I think Google beat you to that idea
If only this were true. Libraries don't infringe. They buy legit copies and loan them out. The newspapers preserve the advertisements and the authors get paid. If only the same thing could be said about the P2P sites.
All the libraries I know of contain photocopiers, i.e. weapons of mass copyright infringement.
I am very disappointed with these findings...
Back when they thought the car could just flip out and accelerate wildly, a Prius was a man's car! Oh, "I need some groceries, I guess I'll drive to the store in my ticking time bomb death machine!" You just can't get much manlier than that!
Now it's back to being a wussy hippiemobile.
Sigh.
Their problem is quickly becoming one of choosing a poison.
...
If there aren't enough young people to care for the old people you either need to import more young people or find another solution. What that solution is I don't know...
Y'know, I think you may have stumbled upon the solution already...
Don't forget the ITExampleCorp that has 1500 legit copies of XP running on 1500 machines, but when the BSA come a-knockin' can't definitively prove that each machine has a valid license. Say, the machines started out OK, but over the course of business they got wiped, reinstalled, cloned, moved, repurposed, etc... There may still be 1500 licenses and 1500 machines, but that won't cut it when dealing with the BSA. In the end, ITExampleCorp is coerced into shelling out even more money to appease the BSA and be deemed "legit", even though they did nothing wrong.
So, yeah, suing a customer.
And it's all Sony's fault.
If Sony had anyone with half a brain in their marketing or legal department, they would have foreseen this chain of events. It's dead simple to realize that removing the previously-advertised OtherOS feature would piss off a bunch of very tech-minded people, and give them a motive to crack the whole system wide open (to get their old functionality back). That this would then pave the way for people less interested in OtherOS and more interested in piracy is an easy logical step from there.
So why did they do it? Were they too stupid to predict this chain of events, or were they too stupidly arrogant to believe that their console could be cracked?
Plenty of people have been working on "intelligence similar to humans" for a long time, and we're barely any closer than we were 20 years ago. Hell, we have a tough time getting the computer to play a good game of Go.
So, when I hear something like 'DARPA said the program, known as Mind's Eye, should generate the ability for machines to have the "perceptual and cognitive abilities for recognizing and reasoning about the actions it sees and report or act upon it."', my eyes roll involuntarily.
Is it somehow better to have North Korea stay permanently a backwards totalitarian government to avoid destabilization?
Yes. So we Americans have something to point at and say "at least we don't have it as bad as over there", as we line up for our mandatory pre-commute cavity search.
In the case of a company, you have to either subvert or plant employees there. Doing that without a court order would be illegal. It also has to go on undetected, of course, and that is much harder since the employee works physically at the company. Then there's the problem that if it becomes known, you may have a lawsuit on your hands, or congressional inquiry, and so on. Big companies wield a lot of power and would likely not be amused in the slightest.
I disagree. It would be very easy for a government agency to approach a big company and say: "We'd like a backdoor in your software. If you don't add one, or if you tell anyone we asked you to do this, you can say goodbye to any juicy government contracts you may have, as well as any hope of getting said contracts in the future." Somehow, I don't think the company is going to fight it.
I, too, look forward to the Playstation Phone.
Not to buy it, of course. It's just fun watching how many times they try to make people re-buy the same content.
Playing devil's advocate: It's not hypocritical if their metric only cares about American lives...
There is a concept called the Silver Cord. It's basically a metaphysical link between your physical body and the astral plane. Some call the astral plane a singularity of consciousness, God, and/or the spirit world. In short, your "spirit" doesn't live in your brain. Rather, your brain is controlled from the astral plane via the Silver Cord. In short, we are all puppet masters.
Which, unfortunately, doesn't really mesh with a reality where humans can be - and are all too often - a pack of idiotic, violent, tribal animals. If we were able to see the big picture more often, and work towards bettering humanity instead of fighting amongst ourselves, that "Silver Cord" concept would probably have more "pull".
...oh, unless the "spirit world"/"astral plane"/whatever is in just as sorry a state as our physical world, which is something I'd rather not think about.
Y'know, we've discovered so much about how the human body works, it's kind of funny that when it comes to the organ that tells the body how it should work, we're still in the "poke it and see what it does" phase of exploration.
It will be very interesting to see what the next 50 years bring the field of neuroscience. I expect it to be similar to the golden age of astronomy we're experiencing now, where new inventions allow us to discover new and astonishing things at breakneck speeds.
unfairly redistributing wealth (healthcare).
Huh? How is providing healthcare to those that can't afford it wealth redistribution?
It is most certainly wealth redistribution, as it gives poor people access to healthcare that would otherwise be beyond their means. If you call it "unfair", though, you are both technically correct and a horrible human being.
Nobody's going to argue THAT. People on Slashdot may have different opinions on noncommercial piracy on the individual level, but just about everyone absolutely hates the sort of commercial piracy you just described.
How about the 30-in-1/60-in-1/160-in-1 Electronic Project Lab? The 60-in-1 was what got me interested in electronics as a kid.
Plus, if they like it, you can give them the next step up (the 200-in-1 or 300-in-1) for a gift later.
I ended up with two of the 300-in-1s, and I still open up the boxes occasionally when scrounging for parts.
No DRM on GOG software. I'm buying the damn game, not licensing it.
Really? try selling copies of it, then, you'll find quickly enough how much you've "bought".
Ummmm... what? Buying something and being able to sell copies of it are two completely different things.
No DRM on GOG software. I'm buying the damn game, not licensing it.
It shouldn't be shocking that they can sell games sans DRM. These are, after all, Good Old Games. The people who would pirate them instead of paying have already done so, years ago.
"Interesting", thinks Shuttleworth,
"Will devote resources to the project, hopefully shift to using it in a year, but will focus on maintaining compatibility with X applications", says Shuttleworth on his blog,
"OMG, UBUNTU DUMPS X!!!", reports Slashdot.
I don't think Ubuntu is trying for an even larger share of the current Linux desktop market so much as they're trying to grow the Linux desktop market itself. Much like how the Wii was derided by existing gamers, yet made a killing because it drew in people who had never even considered buying a game system before, Ubuntu aims to draw in people who had never even considered running Linux before.
And the only way to do that is to push changes like this. Let's be honest, X is usable and well-established, but it's not exactly desktop-user-friendly. I can't count the number of times I've been stuck on the command line trying to get X back into working condition. Throw average users into that situation, and they'd run screaming back to Windows.
Meanwhile, the Linux users simply download the torrent - or hook up their Netflix-streaming game console to a PVR - and laugh at the media companies and their precious DRM.
This is Oracle we are talking about here. Might as well hope for interstellar space travel by tomorrow or Bill Gates to personally write them a check for a billion dollars.
Hmmm, I hear Gates and Ballmer were friends, but clashed over the share of power at Microsoft. Does Gates still like Ballmer and the way he's running MS? Maybe we could hope for a big "Up Yours, Steve" OSS donation...
No, see, Windows isn't bad... for us. We're tech-literate, we know how to keep our systems running smoothly.
They don't. I never thought I'd see a fresh Windows 7 install on a powerful laptop get bogged down to an unusable mess in under a month, but they made it happen!
You could argue that Linux would have the same problems if it became a more popular desktop OS, but I would disagree. I think Linux is simply more resistant against that sort of crap.
It's been years, and the "dedicated desktop guys" of GNOME still haven't figured out how to make the items in my panel show up in a consistent order each time I boot up.
Too busy removing options, I wager.