I know its overly popular these days to call any malware, trojan or other malicious bit of software a virus, but they really dont meet the definition. Frankly, I cant think of a real virus being released in quite some time. Which just seems lazy to me.
Get over it. The real question is: Do you know what they mean? Methinks you do know what it means. It's like the word "organic" and "chemical" at your local Whole Foods. I mean, wtf, if you dump a fertilizer with anything derived from petroleum (a mix of organic compounds) in it, it's not organic, but if you dump water on it (an inorganic chemical, gasp!) then it can still be called organic. The real question is, if you see the word, are you able to determine from context what it means? In the case of computer "viruses" and "organic" food, I think the answer is yes, so you might as well suck it up and get used to the fact that those words mean something different to the layperson than what they really mean in more precise context.
2.5. Global warming is happening, but humans couldn't possibly have anything to do with it. 3. Global warming is happening, and humans are causing it, but it's no big deal and we'll adapt. The serfs can either grow flippers or move to higher ground. And we can burn even more fossil fuel to generate electricity for air conditioning!
Doesn't matter. If there is a chance you did something illegal, in the new United States, you are automatically convicted and will serve out the maximum sentence until proven innocent.
Unless you have millions of dollars to spend on lawyers.
When I clicked on the article I was wholly unsurprised to find Ron Wyden was one of the senators. Every time there's something in the news about a bit of sanity coming from a senator, it seems to have Ron Wyden's name. It's encouraging that there's a senator like that out there, but it's discouraging that it's only 1% of them. I wish we could get one or two of those for my state.
Most ISP's in the US (which is about the only place netflix works anyways) are the same companies that have been trying to destroy netflix to save their cable-TV interests.
I think you're half right. It seems like most people in most areas have the option of their cable TV provider or their phone company as an ISP. Obviously Comcast wants to get your money from their streaming services, and presumably other cable providers would rather you buy PPV movies from them instead of watching Netflix, but phone companies don't generally offer their own PPV service. If the phone company ISPs go for this in places where the cable TV companies have a significantly larger market share, thus offering better Netflix service, perhaps this will be good for competition?
Just because Oracle was wrong doesn't make them a troll, by most common definitions of a troll anyway. Even though Oracle's case was idiotic for so many reasons that have already been beaten to death, at least they actually make stuff. They lost their idiotic case, so at least to some degree the system sorta-kinda worked. From their prospective, they did what they did to protect their own stuff.
Lodsys, on the other hand, doesn't make anything. They do what they do, not to protect their own stuff, but for the sole purpose of suing people. Worse yet, they go after the users (at least Oracle went after Google, not everyone with a phone) who they know don't have the resources to defend themselves. They are using the so-called justice system for extortion. That they even exist is a clear sign that the justice system is horribly broken. Oracle is like the mentally retarded Lenny who happens to murder somebody who was in his path out of uncontrolled stupidity (still an evil act), while Lodsys is like Freddy Krueger, whose sole purpose of existence is to murder people in their sleep.
Expatriates from every country have family, friends, and historical ties to the country they came from.
With the extra $67million he's saving by avoiding taxes on $4billion, I think he'll have no problem paying for airfare and 5-star hotels for his family and friends to come visit him.
He's not getting kicked it, he's choosing to leave. If you dump your girlfriend because you owe her a ton of money, don't expect to get a booty call anytime you want. Oh yeah, car analogy: If you sell your car because you don't want to pay for maintenance, don't expect to get to drive it anymore.
If you're breeding for food purposes, I don't think longevity matters that much. Dolly lived for much longer than the usual term for lamb that are bred for meat.
Except that breeding the old fashioned way is probably a lot cheaper than cloning and genetic modification. I would think that ideally, you'd want to clone/modify a few and then breed them.
Oh, and just 'P.S.', the philipines right now is experiencing a rise in extremism amongst its muslim population due to high unemployment and low literacy; this program was enacted specifically to address that problem as an informal 'thank you' to that country for being a major supporter of our anti-terrorism efforts after 9/11, particularly in Iraq. So you could say with a straight face that Bishop is supporting terrorism in order to garner more votes in this election. Sick, isn't it?
Even if that were true, then why should we spend those dollars educating them specifically to take US jobs? If we're going to give them education aid, why not put that money towards general education? Why not educate them to be productive without specifically taking away American jobs?
This whole unlocking thing should be mandated as soon as the contract paying for the phone is signed.
FTFY. If I want to travel to Europe and drop in a prepaid SIM card while I travel, or if I want to switch phones and sell mine to somebody on another provider, what business is it of theirs? I'm already either paying the same amount monthly, or paying an early termination fee.
Modern reactors already do the things this guy is suggesting. This guy is decades late to the party. I'm sure there will be 100 comments saying this by the time I hit submit, but the real lesson should be to build new plants with modern reactors, so that once built the old ones can be decommissioned *after* the new ones are built. The kind of attitude this guy has (I'm sure his real motivation is just to get attention) obviously scares people into not wanting new nuke plants built.
On the other hand, he's not very specific in the TFA. Perhaps is real life he has suggested a specific way to retrofit existing reactors with backup generators? Or is he just regurgitating crap that we were reading the day after the tsunami?
And Business Breakthrough University? SERIOUSLY? WTF is that? It reminds me of all those high priced fat loss pills that were developed by places like the "fat loss institute." Apparently anyone can file a DBA with the word institute or university in it. Does anybody really regard this clown as Japan's top management guru? Or am I wrong and this guy is actually dean of an accredited university?
Obviously, as seen in other issues (i.e. ACTA) the MPAA has the president in their pocket. Isn't it true that movie theaters make all their money on concessions, because they give nearly all of the money from ticket sales to the studios? If you post calories then people buy less popcorn, so you reduce concession sales. If the movie theaters can't stay in business selling concessions, will more of the ticket price have to be kept by the theater, thus reducing the profits of the MPAA members?
My middle school aged daughter recently wrote a paper that was autograded. I think it was an experiment by her teacher to see how well the autograder worked, since half the grade was to come from the autograder and the other half from the teacher actually reading it. At least she was allowed to run it through the autograder as much as she wanted to before handing it in.
Her first round before I read the paper, the autograder gave her a 92%. I read the paper, and it was hideous (sorry). The grammatical structure may have been technically correct, but the organization was awful, it was horribly confusing, and just didn't make much sense. I ran it through my own grader (a red pen), she fixed it, and it was clear, made sense, well organized, and still had correct grammar and spelling. The autograder gave it a 73%. Why? Because she didn't use advanced enough words. The words she used were perfectly appropriate for a middler-schooler or even a high schooler. So what does she naturally do? Pulls up a thesaurus, inserts a bunch of big words, and gets a 95%. I took a look and the words she used were not at all in the right context. I had to explain to her that, as she well knows, thesauruses don't provide *exact* synonyms, and the autograder is retarded.
So...I'm all for letting students run their paper through a set algorithms to give them hints about what *might* need changing, but relaying (that word passes spell checker and an autograder would have been happy with it) on an autograder to grade a papyrus is puerile (see, an autograder would have given me a 99% because I used those words from the thesaurus even though they're not in the right context). Also, as I think other commentors have pointed out, if you know a human is going to read your paper, even if you don't like your teacher and your teacher doesn't care, you're more likely to put more effort into getting your points across.
I'm not saying a more durable screen wouldn't be great, but perhaps it would be cheaper for you to buy a decent case once instead of buying a whole new kindle 4 times?
It's a token effort that only large ISPs are making. My guess is that they are doing this in exchange for something... cheap deals on digital content, or something of the sort. In reality they will do very little to enforce this. The second this starts costing them customers they'll drop it like a hot potato. Remember, they have absolutely no incentive to help the dieing media industry police their content.
Dunno about where you live, but where I live I think they'd love excuses to reduce bandwidth usage. TFA mentions they'll be issuing various levels of warnings. I'm sure they'd love to stop customers using P2P to download and serve movies, since they're already over-promising speeds. I can download a big file fast or stream a Netflix movie at good quality at 1am, but god forbid I would want to watch a Netflix movie (which I'm paying a subscription fee for) at 8pm when everyone else is trying to do the same thing while the neighbor's kids are downloading the latest Justin Beiber music video. Obviously they should either upgrade their infrastructure or stop over-promising speeds, but it's probably a lot cheaper just to send out a bunch of letters.
Can you also sue a bar for entrapment, when you get nailed for driving drunk, when the bar could have simply stopped serving you after one drink?
Under normal circumstances, of course not. But if the bar has worked out a deal with law enforcement to call them if you have more than one drink, then they might be acting as an agent for said law enforcement agency. If the bartender encourages you to drink more, knowing that you're gonna be driving home, then calls the cops, while acting as an agent for those cops, then that could be entrapment. I'm not saying it's an exact analogy...but just pointing that out.
Now..a better analogy might be a BYOB bar, where they take a sip of everything you drink to determine alcohol content, then report you to the cops if the alcohol content is too high. It's the sampling of my drink, whether or not it was alcoholic, that I would have a problem with. The difference is that if a bar did that, I simply wouldn't go to that bar, and I doubt many other people would either. With Internet access, most of us don't have the luxury of options.
One thing I want to know is: What methods are they going use to determine if somebody is pirating?
He's selling a great idea, but it's kind of like the Fountain of Youth. It ain't there, vaporware.
Is he actually trying to sell a mature product, or is he just showing something cool? I'm not sure where the innovation is, if it's in being able to train text-to-speech to sound like your voice, preserving intonations and such across the translation (even though it's obviously not great at it yet), or if it's just in putting a few existing technologies together, but you have speech recognition, and a translator, and text to speech that sounds like your voice, then this is what you can have. Include preserving the intonation and you have something cool. So what if it's just showing off a cool application of existing technologies?
Translators aren't great but are getting better...speech recognition isn't great but is getting better. Preserving intonation across the translation and including in text-to-speech in a voice that sounds kinda like your own can probably get better too. Put the 3 together and you get something useful. I think that's all it's trying to show, and I think as these technologies get better we could end up with something pretty cool.
If this was a something out of any other company, would the same people be criticizing it?
Well, in the first place: A claim by an AC, about a sister, has no veracity
Right, because if you're not posting as AC, it automatically means you're telling the truth. I'm sure nobody would ever lie when they are logged in. I say this as I sit here on my private jet filled with gorgeous naked women. And, since I have an IQ of 320, you must know that I'm telling the truth about that.
Does the Canadian constitution guarantee due process like the US's does? If so, does Canada ignore the constitution as readily as the US does? That said, this isn't really news, is it? They've been trying in the US, trying in the EU, etc, so of course they're gonna try in Canada. The news will be how well they succeed.
Why not use hydrogen? Are there other reasons not use hydrogen other than the thing might go up in flames (honest question)? I'm assuming we know how to safely handle it on the ground, since it's been done with hydrogen powered cars. As long as there aren't humans aboard, what's the big deal if you loose some small percentage of flights? Also, isn't hydrogen less dense that helium?
What exactly does "restricted area" mean in this case? If this means ships are prohibited from dropping anchor there and the ship did anyway, what is the consequence to the captain and ship owner? Loss of license for the captain for violating restricted area? Jail time for vandalism? Ship's owner on the hook for the cost of repair? Seems like if this sort of thing is becoming common than some severe punishment might encourage others to be more careful in the future...especially if it means loss of career and/or freedom for the captain and significant loss of money to the owner.
90% of the idiotic masses are going to call their ISP and scream at some poor script reader in India who probably knows nothing about this.
Vs. 99% who would call their ISP if they were suddenly unable to reach Google and Facebook? Seems like a redirect with instructions on what to do about it would generate fewer calls than disconnecting, and any ISP with even the tiniest bit of competence should update their Indian scripts so the Indians can tell the customers what to do.
Also, as far as your 90% goes, shouldn't you be happy if people are cautious and aware enough to be concerned that what they are reading might be a scam and not blindly click things?
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I know its overly popular these days to call any malware, trojan or other malicious bit of software a virus, but they really dont meet the definition. Frankly, I cant think of a real virus being released in quite some time. Which just seems lazy to me.
Get over it. The real question is: Do you know what they mean? Methinks you do know what it means. It's like the word "organic" and "chemical" at your local Whole Foods. I mean, wtf, if you dump a fertilizer with anything derived from petroleum (a mix of organic compounds) in it, it's not organic, but if you dump water on it (an inorganic chemical , gasp!) then it can still be called organic. The real question is, if you see the word, are you able to determine from context what it means? In the case of computer "viruses" and "organic" food, I think the answer is yes, so you might as well suck it up and get used to the fact that those words mean something different to the layperson than what they really mean in more precise context.
2.5. Global warming is happening, but humans couldn't possibly have anything to do with it.
3. Global warming is happening, and humans are causing it, but it's no big deal and we'll adapt. The serfs can either grow flippers or move to higher ground. And we can burn even more fossil fuel to generate electricity for air conditioning!
If they'd had Google Maps Coordinate this wouldn't have happened.
Doesn't matter. If there is a chance you did something illegal, in the new United States, you are automatically convicted and will serve out the maximum sentence until proven innocent.
Unless you have millions of dollars to spend on lawyers.
When I clicked on the article I was wholly unsurprised to find Ron Wyden was one of the senators. Every time there's something in the news about a bit of sanity coming from a senator, it seems to have Ron Wyden's name. It's encouraging that there's a senator like that out there, but it's discouraging that it's only 1% of them. I wish we could get one or two of those for my state.
Most ISP's in the US (which is about the only place netflix works anyways) are the same companies that have been trying to destroy netflix to save their cable-TV interests.
I think you're half right. It seems like most people in most areas have the option of their cable TV provider or their phone company as an ISP. Obviously Comcast wants to get your money from their streaming services, and presumably other cable providers would rather you buy PPV movies from them instead of watching Netflix, but phone companies don't generally offer their own PPV service. If the phone company ISPs go for this in places where the cable TV companies have a significantly larger market share, thus offering better Netflix service, perhaps this will be good for competition?
Just because Oracle was wrong doesn't make them a troll, by most common definitions of a troll anyway. Even though Oracle's case was idiotic for so many reasons that have already been beaten to death, at least they actually make stuff. They lost their idiotic case, so at least to some degree the system sorta-kinda worked. From their prospective, they did what they did to protect their own stuff.
Lodsys, on the other hand, doesn't make anything. They do what they do, not to protect their own stuff, but for the sole purpose of suing people. Worse yet, they go after the users (at least Oracle went after Google, not everyone with a phone) who they know don't have the resources to defend themselves. They are using the so-called justice system for extortion. That they even exist is a clear sign that the justice system is horribly broken. Oracle is like the mentally retarded Lenny who happens to murder somebody who was in his path out of uncontrolled stupidity (still an evil act), while Lodsys is like Freddy Krueger, whose sole purpose of existence is to murder people in their sleep.
...he's helping destroy the credibility of the economic system...
How do you destroy something that doesn't exist?
Expatriates from every country have family, friends, and historical ties to the country they came from.
With the extra $67million he's saving by avoiding taxes on $4billion, I think he'll have no problem paying for airfare and 5-star hotels for his family and friends to come visit him.
He's not getting kicked it, he's choosing to leave. If you dump your girlfriend because you owe her a ton of money, don't expect to get a booty call anytime you want. Oh yeah, car analogy: If you sell your car because you don't want to pay for maintenance, don't expect to get to drive it anymore.
If you're breeding for food purposes, I don't think longevity matters that much. Dolly lived for much longer than the usual term for lamb that are bred for meat.
Except that breeding the old fashioned way is probably a lot cheaper than cloning and genetic modification. I would think that ideally, you'd want to clone/modify a few and then breed them.
Oh, and just 'P.S.', the philipines right now is experiencing a rise in extremism amongst its muslim population due to high unemployment and low literacy; this program was enacted specifically to address that problem as an informal 'thank you' to that country for being a major supporter of our anti-terrorism efforts after 9/11, particularly in Iraq. So you could say with a straight face that Bishop is supporting terrorism in order to garner more votes in this election. Sick, isn't it?
Even if that were true, then why should we spend those dollars educating them specifically to take US jobs? If we're going to give them education aid, why not put that money towards general education? Why not educate them to be productive without specifically taking away American jobs?
This whole unlocking thing should be mandated as soon as the contract paying for the phone is signed.
FTFY. If I want to travel to Europe and drop in a prepaid SIM card while I travel, or if I want to switch phones and sell mine to somebody on another provider, what business is it of theirs? I'm already either paying the same amount monthly, or paying an early termination fee.
Modern reactors already do the things this guy is suggesting. This guy is decades late to the party. I'm sure there will be 100 comments saying this by the time I hit submit, but the real lesson should be to build new plants with modern reactors, so that once built the old ones can be decommissioned *after* the new ones are built. The kind of attitude this guy has (I'm sure his real motivation is just to get attention) obviously scares people into not wanting new nuke plants built.
On the other hand, he's not very specific in the TFA. Perhaps is real life he has suggested a specific way to retrofit existing reactors with backup generators? Or is he just regurgitating crap that we were reading the day after the tsunami?
And Business Breakthrough University? SERIOUSLY? WTF is that? It reminds me of all those high priced fat loss pills that were developed by places like the "fat loss institute." Apparently anyone can file a DBA with the word institute or university in it. Does anybody really regard this clown as Japan's top management guru? Or am I wrong and this guy is actually dean of an accredited university?
Obviously, as seen in other issues (i.e. ACTA) the MPAA has the president in their pocket. Isn't it true that movie theaters make all their money on concessions, because they give nearly all of the money from ticket sales to the studios? If you post calories then people buy less popcorn, so you reduce concession sales. If the movie theaters can't stay in business selling concessions, will more of the ticket price have to be kept by the theater, thus reducing the profits of the MPAA members?
My middle school aged daughter recently wrote a paper that was autograded. I think it was an experiment by her teacher to see how well the autograder worked, since half the grade was to come from the autograder and the other half from the teacher actually reading it. At least she was allowed to run it through the autograder as much as she wanted to before handing it in.
Her first round before I read the paper, the autograder gave her a 92%. I read the paper, and it was hideous (sorry). The grammatical structure may have been technically correct, but the organization was awful, it was horribly confusing, and just didn't make much sense. I ran it through my own grader (a red pen), she fixed it, and it was clear, made sense, well organized, and still had correct grammar and spelling. The autograder gave it a 73%. Why? Because she didn't use advanced enough words. The words she used were perfectly appropriate for a middler-schooler or even a high schooler. So what does she naturally do? Pulls up a thesaurus, inserts a bunch of big words, and gets a 95%. I took a look and the words she used were not at all in the right context. I had to explain to her that, as she well knows, thesauruses don't provide *exact* synonyms, and the autograder is retarded.
So...I'm all for letting students run their paper through a set algorithms to give them hints about what *might* need changing, but relaying (that word passes spell checker and an autograder would have been happy with it) on an autograder to grade a papyrus is puerile (see, an autograder would have given me a 99% because I used those words from the thesaurus even though they're not in the right context). Also, as I think other commentors have pointed out, if you know a human is going to read your paper, even if you don't like your teacher and your teacher doesn't care, you're more likely to put more effort into getting your points across.
I'm not saying a more durable screen wouldn't be great, but perhaps it would be cheaper for you to buy a decent case once instead of buying a whole new kindle 4 times?
It's a token effort that only large ISPs are making. My guess is that they are doing this in exchange for something... cheap deals on digital content, or something of the sort. In reality they will do very little to enforce this. The second this starts costing them customers they'll drop it like a hot potato. Remember, they have absolutely no incentive to help the dieing media industry police their content.
Dunno about where you live, but where I live I think they'd love excuses to reduce bandwidth usage. TFA mentions they'll be issuing various levels of warnings. I'm sure they'd love to stop customers using P2P to download and serve movies, since they're already over-promising speeds. I can download a big file fast or stream a Netflix movie at good quality at 1am, but god forbid I would want to watch a Netflix movie (which I'm paying a subscription fee for) at 8pm when everyone else is trying to do the same thing while the neighbor's kids are downloading the latest Justin Beiber music video. Obviously they should either upgrade their infrastructure or stop over-promising speeds, but it's probably a lot cheaper just to send out a bunch of letters.
Can you also sue a bar for entrapment, when you get nailed for driving drunk, when the bar could have simply stopped serving you after one drink?
Under normal circumstances, of course not. But if the bar has worked out a deal with law enforcement to call them if you have more than one drink, then they might be acting as an agent for said law enforcement agency. If the bartender encourages you to drink more, knowing that you're gonna be driving home, then calls the cops, while acting as an agent for those cops, then that could be entrapment. I'm not saying it's an exact analogy...but just pointing that out.
Now..a better analogy might be a BYOB bar, where they take a sip of everything you drink to determine alcohol content, then report you to the cops if the alcohol content is too high. It's the sampling of my drink, whether or not it was alcoholic, that I would have a problem with. The difference is that if a bar did that, I simply wouldn't go to that bar, and I doubt many other people would either. With Internet access, most of us don't have the luxury of options.
One thing I want to know is: What methods are they going use to determine if somebody is pirating?
I found this for you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_illness
He's selling a great idea, but it's kind of like the Fountain of Youth. It ain't there, vaporware.
Is he actually trying to sell a mature product, or is he just showing something cool? I'm not sure where the innovation is, if it's in being able to train text-to-speech to sound like your voice, preserving intonations and such across the translation (even though it's obviously not great at it yet), or if it's just in putting a few existing technologies together, but you have speech recognition, and a translator, and text to speech that sounds like your voice, then this is what you can have. Include preserving the intonation and you have something cool. So what if it's just showing off a cool application of existing technologies?
Translators aren't great but are getting better...speech recognition isn't great but is getting better. Preserving intonation across the translation and including in text-to-speech in a voice that sounds kinda like your own can probably get better too. Put the 3 together and you get something useful. I think that's all it's trying to show, and I think as these technologies get better we could end up with something pretty cool.
If this was a something out of any other company, would the same people be criticizing it?
Well, in the first place: A claim by an AC, about a sister, has no veracity
Right, because if you're not posting as AC, it automatically means you're telling the truth. I'm sure nobody would ever lie when they are logged in. I say this as I sit here on my private jet filled with gorgeous naked women. And, since I have an IQ of 320, you must know that I'm telling the truth about that.
Does the Canadian constitution guarantee due process like the US's does? If so, does Canada ignore the constitution as readily as the US does? That said, this isn't really news, is it? They've been trying in the US, trying in the EU, etc, so of course they're gonna try in Canada. The news will be how well they succeed.
Why not use hydrogen? Are there other reasons not use hydrogen other than the thing might go up in flames (honest question)? I'm assuming we know how to safely handle it on the ground, since it's been done with hydrogen powered cars. As long as there aren't humans aboard, what's the big deal if you loose some small percentage of flights? Also, isn't hydrogen less dense that helium?
What exactly does "restricted area" mean in this case? If this means ships are prohibited from dropping anchor there and the ship did anyway, what is the consequence to the captain and ship owner? Loss of license for the captain for violating restricted area? Jail time for vandalism? Ship's owner on the hook for the cost of repair? Seems like if this sort of thing is becoming common than some severe punishment might encourage others to be more careful in the future...especially if it means loss of career and/or freedom for the captain and significant loss of money to the owner.
90% of the idiotic masses are going to call their ISP and scream at some poor script reader in India who probably knows nothing about this.
Vs. 99% who would call their ISP if they were suddenly unable to reach Google and Facebook? Seems like a redirect with instructions on what to do about it would generate fewer calls than disconnecting, and any ISP with even the tiniest bit of competence should update their Indian scripts so the Indians can tell the customers what to do.
Also, as far as your 90% goes, shouldn't you be happy if people are cautious and aware enough to be concerned that what they are reading might be a scam and not blindly click things?