If this is such a wonderful idea why doesn't he get a bunch of artists, musicians and writers to donate their own work to this project and actually prove the concept works?
Work for who? I think you are still confused from the dotcom era still. You must be thinking that "change society and business" means that scanning the entire LoC can make someone money (advertising??)
The important part in this case is the changing society part of the statement, which is what the vast potential of the net is capable of doing. It won't help you make money based on a bad idea (in fact, it may only help you lose money faster!) but it does have the potential to change the way a society views and deals with information.
Right now there is a vast amount of knowledge in the LoC that is effectively out of the ordinary citizen's hands. That is not how it should be. If knowledge is power, there is a storehouse of power waiting to be unleashsed by giving everyone access to what is being stockpiled. It won't happen over night, or in a few years, but eventually it will have a ripple effect. Historians lament the loss of the Great Library of Alexandria, but what difference would it have made if only a few could actually use the information that was contained?
Since Is there a different choice, that has a snowball's chance in hell of winning, that you can vote for??? Unfortunately there is not a "None of the above" option.
I am not saying most people join for that reason, I am saying that those who do are perhaps too stupid to be given explosives.
Perhaps they are but that is how things are done. On a submarine, for example, the lowliest person on the boat is given the job to drive. People are tricked (perhaps too strong a word, but basically true) into joining the military based on all sorts of reasons other than "go kill people" and then conditioned into following orders exactly.
They did, in truth, volunteer for what they are doing. At the same time, they should be supported and honored for doing something that the majority of people are not willing to do.
My point is that a volunteer military distances the hardship and sacrifice from the general populace. This makes waging a war easier - which is the wrong direction to take things. We shouldn't say "war is the last resort" and then glorify it (video games, movies, etc.), not show the consequences (editted newscasts), and shelter those people in whose name the war is being fought (U.S citizens.)
The answer is most likely not a draft - partly for the reasons that others have posted (inefficient, non-willing soldiers are not the ideal choice) but giving the military and government the wherewithal and freedom to fight in our name, without the checks and balances that a draft puts in place, is not a good idea. As the military becomes more high-tech and less people are needed to make war, this will become an even bigger problem.
This is plain wrong, the military is not around to teach skills and provide scholership, the military is around to fight wars!
And this is how the Army advertises to get people to sign up? Didn't think so. Most people do NOT join the military thinking they will get the chance to go be shot at or kill someone. Most join because they couldn't afford to go to college, weren't smart enough, or some other reason. A large portion do join because they understand the military and want to be part of it - that is NOT the majority. $35,000 or whatever it is now, along with a marketable skill, is why people join, right or wrong.
And maybe, if you force enough people to serve against their will, the general public will get interested enough to do something about a war which they don't support.
As it is now, anytime someone wants to speak out against the war, someone will say "what about the troops" or "you should support the troops". Screw that. Those people are there voluntarily. This makes it very, very easy for those back at home to "support" the war because it doesn't cause any pain. (Those directly impacted by someone serving is a different matter...)
War should be painful. Not for those that volunteered for the armed forces because they wanted to learn a skill and maybe earn some scholarship money. It should be painful for everyone in the country that decided war - especially a preemptive war! - was necessary.
That is what reinstating the draft would accomplish. Along with getting enough troops to do the whole thing right; something which anyone serving should want to happen. To say that draftees are no good at fighting spits in the face of many, many veterans that have served in past wars (WWI,WWII, Vietnam...) and performed admirably. As a veteran I can speak for myself (and not everyone else, as you seemed to think you are entitled) when I say that everyone in a democracy should be forced to serve - if not in the military, then in some form of civil duty - to enforce the need to participate. Maybe then we would not have presidents elected with less than half of the voters, which compromise less than half the eligible voting population!
So when you use false information to avoid SPAM or protect your privacy are you committing fraud?
Yes. You are depriving the company supported by the SPAM of revenue, according to the logic used by the RIAA, and, as a result, should be fine the sum total amount of all lost penis enlargement sales that would have resulted if you provided the correct contact information in your WHOIS registration and not committed fraud.
This guy needs to get out more. I set up monitoring of all my spam and total message traffic for the last couple years. My current average is around 350-450 spams per day.
If you have a plan for military intervention in North Korea that doesn't lead to the virtual annihilation of Seoul within hours of the start of the war, please, we're all ears.
Recent events have given some people ideas how military intervention could occur quick enough...
The logic behind the US's preemptive strike strategy boggles the mind. All we have done is solidify the opinion that the only way to deal with the US on anything close to a even standing is to develop nuclear weapons - real weapons and not "nuclear weapon related programs" - or you are fair game for some major bullying from the US government.
Now that the world has seen how we handled Iraq and North Korea in parallel - one a real threat, one a fake threat - it is obvious that being as strong as North Korea is preferrable to being like Iraq (all bark, no bite.)
Looks like more interesting times are headed our way...
The article argues that you'll save money by not having to pay TiVo a monthly fee. Besides, for some of us, building a cool machine is an end in and of itself.
Basic Tivo Unit: $99
Lifetime of service: $299
Having paid only $400 for a working, warranteed, my-wife-can-use-it, consumer product: Priceless
The only real argument for putting this together is because it can be done. Which is a good reason in almost any case, this one included, I agree. To pitch a DIY PVR as though it is cheaper and easier than a Tivo is just silly though.
You mean pro athletes have to boycott the Olympics because thier employerer does not allow them to go?!?
That is partly my main complaint - the Olympics, from the athletic perspective, are not longer about the ametuers coming to compete in a friendly environment. It is all about the pros, with their sponsors, putting on a spectacle. The IOC is just one more cog in the great corporate machine. The Olympics are tired and old - the Goodwill Games have more spirit.
There was an important lesson in this situation for me. I just wish I knew what it was. Other than that bosses (even ones with PhDs) are stupid.
How can you blame your bosses for being stupid when you were the one that didn't know doing busy work and making people think of you "as their maid or their mom" was not the way to get ahead in life. Looking for things to do is good, if they are the right things to do. Sure, the floor may have needed sweeping but that doesn't mean you need to do it. Making yourself appear so busy that you are not available to do the "real" work is the wrong way to go about things in life - not just at your job.
So, they aren't in the top 100 but they are close enough to feel the need to give a ranking range? Why not just say "107th largest law firm" or some such nonsense. How large, anyway? Is that revenue, number of lawyers, lawsuits handled, what?!
This is only one person's, or law firm's, opinion regarding the legality of EULA's and how well they will hold up in court. What we need is a case to actually, you know, go to court. That way this whole mess will be worked out and the law will be intepreted one way or the other. This being in limbo, with companies thinking you have signed away all right just by breaking the seal on a shrinkwrapped box and consumers not even reading said contract, needs to end before someone makes a terrible mistake...
Is there any real evidence to support the notion that our population growth is out of control? Now that it looks like the more "advanced" nations are having a problem with population decline (e.g. Japan and USA), what does this mean for other nations. Might the growth just appear to be explosive now and once technology and culture catch up, it might slow down to a sustainable level?
Land is a scarce commodity through unnatural reasons. If we allowed humans to live every that was not used for farming, the amount of growth that could be sustained is probably a lot more than what we currently have. Even food shortages are more of a logistical or political issue, not a supply issue.
The question is not whether a company should report that their website was infected or not - the most obvious answer is that, unless they are a overly honest company, they will not divulge anything embarrassing that may affect their stock price unless required by law. The real issue here is that supposed news websites were complicit in this by not reporting the affected websites when they supposedly knew which ones they were. What, other than advertising dollars, would prevent a news organization from reporting something that would be useful and important for the customers of said news organization to know?!?
That is the troubling information that comes from this type of misreporting and nondisclosure when it comes to security issues involving computers. Other posters have compared this to food poisoning incidents at a restaurant. While not completely accurate, the real comparison would be if a newspaper stated that some restaurants had bad meat but they wouldn't report it due to the bad image this may give those businesses.
News organizations should not be concerned with the impact on a business's image!
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You forgot to ask if he participates in auto-erotica and if it is awkward. That is in a car, right? Or atleast it can be...
Work for who? I think you are still confused from the dotcom era still. You must be thinking that "change society and business" means that scanning the entire LoC can make someone money (advertising??)
The important part in this case is the changing society part of the statement, which is what the vast potential of the net is capable of doing. It won't help you make money based on a bad idea (in fact, it may only help you lose money faster!) but it does have the potential to change the way a society views and deals with information.
Right now there is a vast amount of knowledge in the LoC that is effectively out of the ordinary citizen's hands. That is not how it should be. If knowledge is power, there is a storehouse of power waiting to be unleashsed by giving everyone access to what is being stockpiled. It won't happen over night, or in a few years, but eventually it will have a ripple effect. Historians lament the loss of the Great Library of Alexandria, but what difference would it have made if only a few could actually use the information that was contained?
Since Is there a different choice, that has a snowball's chance in hell of winning, that you can vote for??? Unfortunately there is not a "None of the above" option.
Perhaps they are but that is how things are done. On a submarine, for example, the lowliest person on the boat is given the job to drive. People are tricked (perhaps too strong a word, but basically true) into joining the military based on all sorts of reasons other than "go kill people" and then conditioned into following orders exactly.
They did, in truth, volunteer for what they are doing. At the same time, they should be supported and honored for doing something that the majority of people are not willing to do.
My point is that a volunteer military distances the hardship and sacrifice from the general populace. This makes waging a war easier - which is the wrong direction to take things. We shouldn't say "war is the last resort" and then glorify it (video games, movies, etc.), not show the consequences (editted newscasts), and shelter those people in whose name the war is being fought (U.S citizens.)
The answer is most likely not a draft - partly for the reasons that others have posted (inefficient, non-willing soldiers are not the ideal choice) but giving the military and government the wherewithal and freedom to fight in our name, without the checks and balances that a draft puts in place, is not a good idea. As the military becomes more high-tech and less people are needed to make war, this will become an even bigger problem.
And this is how the Army advertises to get people to sign up? Didn't think so. Most people do NOT join the military thinking they will get the chance to go be shot at or kill someone. Most join because they couldn't afford to go to college, weren't smart enough, or some other reason. A large portion do join because they understand the military and want to be part of it - that is NOT the majority. $35,000 or whatever it is now, along with a marketable skill, is why people join, right or wrong.
As it is now, anytime someone wants to speak out against the war, someone will say "what about the troops" or "you should support the troops". Screw that. Those people are there voluntarily. This makes it very, very easy for those back at home to "support" the war because it doesn't cause any pain. (Those directly impacted by someone serving is a different matter...)
War should be painful. Not for those that volunteered for the armed forces because they wanted to learn a skill and maybe earn some scholarship money. It should be painful for everyone in the country that decided war - especially a preemptive war! - was necessary.
That is what reinstating the draft would accomplish. Along with getting enough troops to do the whole thing right; something which anyone serving should want to happen. To say that draftees are no good at fighting spits in the face of many, many veterans that have served in past wars (WWI,WWII, Vietnam...) and performed admirably. As a veteran I can speak for myself (and not everyone else, as you seemed to think you are entitled) when I say that everyone in a democracy should be forced to serve - if not in the military, then in some form of civil duty - to enforce the need to participate. Maybe then we would not have presidents elected with less than half of the voters, which compromise less than half the eligible voting population!
Well, atleast we can all keep things in perspective when really cutting back means suffering with cable internet! I feel for you!
Didn't the US ship some back in the 40's?
Yes. You are depriving the company supported by the SPAM of revenue, according to the logic used by the RIAA, and, as a result, should be fine the sum total amount of all lost penis enlargement sales that would have resulted if you provided the correct contact information in your WHOIS registration and not committed fraud.
Didn't MST3k make fun of those serials precisely becaue they were bad??? How is making an even worse movie in that style considered a good idea?
It looks like you need to get out more!
Recent events have given some people ideas how military intervention could occur quick enough...
The logic behind the US's preemptive strike strategy boggles the mind. All we have done is solidify the opinion that the only way to deal with the US on anything close to a even standing is to develop nuclear weapons - real weapons and not "nuclear weapon related programs" - or you are fair game for some major bullying from the US government.
Now that the world has seen how we handled Iraq and North Korea in parallel - one a real threat, one a fake threat - it is obvious that being as strong as North Korea is preferrable to being like Iraq (all bark, no bite.)
Looks like more interesting times are headed our way...
Not if you use it to vote for Nader it doesn't.
Basic Tivo Unit: $99
Lifetime of service: $299
Having paid only $400 for a working, warranteed, my-wife-can-use-it, consumer product: Priceless
The only real argument for putting this together is because it can be done. Which is a good reason in almost any case, this one included, I agree. To pitch a DIY PVR as though it is cheaper and easier than a Tivo is just silly though.
She unzips...
You mean pro athletes have to boycott the Olympics because thier employerer does not allow them to go?!?
That is partly my main complaint - the Olympics, from the athletic perspective, are not longer about the ametuers coming to compete in a friendly environment. It is all about the pros, with their sponsors, putting on a spectacle. The IOC is just one more cog in the great corporate machine. The Olympics are tired and old - the Goodwill Games have more spirit.
The typical kind of question that involves some topic already explored indepth somewhere else on the web and has a potential solution.
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So, they aren't in the top 100 but they are close enough to feel the need to give a ranking range? Why not just say "107th largest law firm" or some such nonsense. How large, anyway? Is that revenue, number of lawyers, lawsuits handled, what?!
This is only one person's, or law firm's, opinion regarding the legality of EULA's and how well they will hold up in court. What we need is a case to actually, you know, go to court. That way this whole mess will be worked out and the law will be intepreted one way or the other. This being in limbo, with companies thinking you have signed away all right just by breaking the seal on a shrinkwrapped box and consumers not even reading said contract, needs to end before someone makes a terrible mistake...
Is there any real evidence to support the notion that our population growth is out of control? Now that it looks like the more "advanced" nations are having a problem with population decline (e.g. Japan and USA), what does this mean for other nations. Might the growth just appear to be explosive now and once technology and culture catch up, it might slow down to a sustainable level?
Land is a scarce commodity through unnatural reasons. If we allowed humans to live every that was not used for farming, the amount of growth that could be sustained is probably a lot more than what we currently have. Even food shortages are more of a logistical or political issue, not a supply issue.
what shipping method are they using that costs $49 to ship a CD?!
That is the troubling information that comes from this type of misreporting and nondisclosure when it comes to security issues involving computers. Other posters have compared this to food poisoning incidents at a restaurant. While not completely accurate, the real comparison would be if a newspaper stated that some restaurants had bad meat but they wouldn't report it due to the bad image this may give those businesses.
News organizations should not be concerned with the impact on a business's image!