So you think it's worth spending the man hours to ensure your spam block is done right too? Cause with thousands of video submits per second on youtube it's the same problem only that videos are up to ten minutes long which you have to check all while a spam mail is about 2 pages tops and a lot faster to scan.
It obviously doesn't have the right. It's fair use for the purpose of reporting news.
This is simple collateral damage when you use software to automatically flag copyright violations and then act on that software's flagging automatically too cause humans are simply too expensive to police it all manually. Happens all the time. All the usual slashdot tropes of printers which do torrents, grandmas that get notices, openoffice that gets removed from ftp servers, etc.
Youtube and your mail client's spamfilter have the same problem: false positives. Both use an automated system to flag violations of policy and in both cases it mostly works but never 100%. You cannot demand from youtube or the RIAA to flag it all manually, just like you can't really flag all your spam manually: if you do, either Youtube goes out of business cause their business model does not allow that many employees and still serve you videos for "free". Or the major labels go out of business since they have to hire people to police youtube and demand even more per song. I'm sure many/.ers would like this 2nd outcome but it's not really realistic or actually desirable either.
So Tech News should alert youtube to unblock their video and move on. Oh I forgot: better to post it to slashdot frontpage so Tech News can get a few thousand more hits! Genius! The RIAA is evil after all.
Marketing is a big part of it. As with Radiohead, they proved only that if the marketing money is already spent, you can coast.
He can figure web hosting and the cost of the venue and filming into his accounts, but he didn't take into account the money that was spent making him famous: spots on Letterman, Showtime specials, etc.
Unknown people try this experiment every single day on Myspace and Jango and such, and if they're lucky a musician will make enough money to pay for the studio time. They're not famous to start with and can't pay for TV time to make themselves famous.
The best selling authors on the Kindle like Amanda Hock weren't known before either but they still proved: you can become famous AND financially succesful over the Internet. She had no marketing money behind here as you allege. However, because there is no billlion dollar publishing house or major record label which does an expensive marketing campaign, there are no more "one hit wonders" which sell millions of copies of their first opus, the 2nd one flops horribly and you never hear from them again. Instead the artist has to consistently produce quality over a longer time.
If it's really a Botnet, then Twitter can't be inactive, or they risk botwars for all kinds of controversial topics in the future. Twitter will then very soon become a wasteland of botnet #topic wars and real humans will leave in droves since they can't get any useful info anymore and Twitter, the company, will crater. As long as this presumable russian government botnet was not widely known, Twitter could have ignored it since the public didn't know that Twitter was gamed by special interests. Now however, they have to act or rather give the impression of acting. Acting in this case means to stop the Botnet of course, the other still existing botnets won't be affected since they've not been exposed (yet).
It's not a technical problem. The problem is facebook, google+, reddit, etc behaviour. That means it's a social or economic thing, and laws are the thing to regulate those. It won't solve the issue, but it's the normal way to mitigate it. Just like we put laws around the behaviour of murder, theft and fraud, so we can put laws around the behaviour of user tracking.
What you are suggesting is a technical solution to a social problem. Ask about DRM creators about that one.
Try and prove that statement incorrect. I would be very interested in actual proof that the world has no more oil available. Don't forget to look 20 miles into the Earth's crust, we can't ignore any potential new source, now can we?
That's not what's needed for Peak Oil. Peak Oil means even with higher demand, as we have now, there won't be more Oil on the market. And that's exactly what happens since around 2005/2006: the absolute amount of oil extracted and sold sinks slowly every year, while before that it increased always except in times of severe crisis, economic or price hikes (1970s). That 20.000 leagues under the Sea oil is more and more expensive to extract and therefore less and less is sold. In 2005 to 2008 we had a very much expanding economy and still there was less oil extracted.
Easy: either they consistently have the data from the decrypted drives and use it to prosecute you or they don't. If they lie to the courts about having the data, ie they have it and use it secretly but don't tell the judge and defense, then you have bigger problems: a corrupt justice system. Then encrypted data won't help you to avoid a guilty verdict.
Companies have the rights to passwords to company data and property. And courts cannot order the defendant to give a password if this would incriminate the defendant: 5th amendment.
Everyone who doesn't want to get tracked by Facebook please change his name to Joe_NoFacebook Smith. Everyone who doesn't want to get tracked by Google +, add a "noPlus" instead. And everyone who doesn't want to get tagged by the Facebook picture recognition will please use a neon green colored "F" tattoo on their forehead.
Thank you for your cooperation.
Is anyone at Google still thinking anything? Do no Evil my ass.
I read this a lot of times, but repetition doesn't make bullshit right. According to Wikipedia: "The Constitution was adopted on September 17, 1787" and we all know the French Revolution started with the assault on the Bastille on July 14th, 1789. So how can a piece of written paper borrow ideals from a revolution that started almost 2 years later?
Both the French Revolution and the US Constitution are products of the Enlightenment Era or Age of Reason as it's also called.
Firefox will run fine on 128MB and has some RAM left over. I tried it on a PII 233 laptop with that amount of RAM. It was godawful slow rendering and forget any Javascript but RAM usage was ok. This however is a much faster CPU. There are Linux distros with browsers that start with 16MB machines so 128MB is a lot to work with. Just don't look at bloated general purpose distros like Ubuntu which need a 3D accelerator to start properly.
Of course it's about software-as-a-service compilers. The only way MSFT can give you this ability to look what the compiler does is by keeping the compiler binary from you (compiling as a service by MSFT) or giving you much more insight on how the compiler works, basically open sourcing it. The latter is obviously anathema, so they provide it as a service. And if it catches on, it's another awesome lock-in capability by MSFT. Awesome!
Maybe you should ask router manufacturers. For them, "DD-WRT compatible" has gotten a marketing point to have. I wouldn't necessarily call flashing DD-WRT "hacking" tho. Neither is flashing a prebuilt cyanogenmod.
We all know it will be used by governments when they revoke ultra-secret clearance, companies when they want to keep R&D for themselves, dictatorships when they want to neutralize dissidents.
Tell this the swiss. Their centuries old tradition of direct democracy was wrong all along! I'm sure they will gratefully adopt only representative democracy so they can be saved from their abject poverty and misery.
PS: it's likely the Swiss will stop using nuclear power in the near future as well.
There are tons of cheapo phones, tablets and the like which don't pay a dime to Google. They simply don't ship Google Maps and Mail, aren't allowed on the Android Marketplace. Just ask the likes of nook, Archos, and lots of manufacturers of awfully crappy tablets (500MHz Arm7 and 256MB with 2 hours battery life variety).
The only exception from the above so far is Honeycomb. All other Android versions were used a lot by OEMs for free.
Limiting hardware and exercising very stringent control has worked for Microsoft so well with Windows Phone 7 and was obviously the reason their OSes didn't sell.
The reason DOS and later Windows took off was exactly that every Tom, Dick and Harry from the shadiest backroom company could slap together something to sell. Many of those things didn't sell, many of them were and maybe still are atrocious piece of kit. But they simply swamped the market, drove prices to rock bottom and made MSFT's software have 90%+ marketshare, made the current and former CEOs of Microsoft multibillionaires, etc. Additionally they drove Apple nearly to extinction since they just couldn't compete with true mass production.
But this time around everything is different. Learning from Apple means more profit and success!
AMD doesn't own any Fab anymore and GlobalFoundries (the former AMD Fabs) have most/all of their technology like SoI from IBM anyways. Last but not least the most shaders AMD has put into Fusion APUs so far is 400 when a new console needs at least 5 times as much. There just isn't enough room on a die to put a higher end GPU and a mediocre CPU which is what a gaming console needs. What MSFT or AMD can do is putting CPU, memory controller and all the other I/O (usb, sata, etc) on a single chip. So they will have a 2 Chip solution: GPU + all the rest.
Who cares as long as this gives me a much more powerful hardware at lower prices thanks to the volume shipped of these new things? Currently a Beagle board costs >100$ while a Seagate Dockstar which has a more powerful hardware costs less than half at the next electronics store.
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So you think it's worth spending the man hours to ensure your spam block is done right too? Cause with thousands of video submits per second on youtube it's the same problem only that videos are up to ten minutes long which you have to check all while a spam mail is about 2 pages tops and a lot faster to scan.
It obviously doesn't have the right. It's fair use for the purpose of reporting news.
This is simple collateral damage when you use software to automatically flag copyright violations and then act on that software's flagging automatically too cause humans are simply too expensive to police it all manually. Happens all the time. All the usual slashdot tropes of printers which do torrents, grandmas that get notices, openoffice that gets removed from ftp servers, etc.
Youtube and your mail client's spamfilter have the same problem: false positives. Both use an automated system to flag violations of policy and in both cases it mostly works but never 100%. You cannot demand from youtube or the RIAA to flag it all manually, just like you can't really flag all your spam manually: if you do, either Youtube goes out of business cause their business model does not allow that many employees and still serve you videos for "free". Or the major labels go out of business since they have to hire people to police youtube and demand even more per song. I'm sure many /.ers would like this 2nd outcome but it's not really realistic or actually desirable either.
So Tech News should alert youtube to unblock their video and move on. Oh I forgot: better to post it to slashdot frontpage so Tech News can get a few thousand more hits! Genius! The RIAA is evil after all.
Marketing is a big part of it. As with Radiohead, they proved only that if the marketing money is already spent, you can coast.
He can figure web hosting and the cost of the venue and filming into his accounts, but he didn't take into account the money that was spent making him famous: spots on Letterman, Showtime specials, etc.
Unknown people try this experiment every single day on Myspace and Jango and such, and if they're lucky a musician will make enough money to pay for the studio time. They're not famous to start with and can't pay for TV time to make themselves famous.
The best selling authors on the Kindle like Amanda Hock weren't known before either but they still proved: you can become famous AND financially succesful over the Internet. She had no marketing money behind here as you allege. However, because there is no billlion dollar publishing house or major record label which does an expensive marketing campaign, there are no more "one hit wonders" which sell millions of copies of their first opus, the 2nd one flops horribly and you never hear from them again. Instead the artist has to consistently produce quality over a longer time.
If it's really a Botnet, then Twitter can't be inactive, or they risk botwars for all kinds of controversial topics in the future. Twitter will then very soon become a wasteland of botnet #topic wars and real humans will leave in droves since they can't get any useful info anymore and Twitter, the company, will crater.
As long as this presumable russian government botnet was not widely known, Twitter could have ignored it since the public didn't know that Twitter was gamed by special interests. Now however, they have to act or rather give the impression of acting. Acting in this case means to stop the Botnet of course, the other still existing botnets won't be affected since they've not been exposed (yet).
It's not a technical problem. The problem is facebook, google+, reddit, etc behaviour. That means it's a social or economic thing, and laws are the thing to regulate those. It won't solve the issue, but it's the normal way to mitigate it. Just like we put laws around the behaviour of murder, theft and fraud, so we can put laws around the behaviour of user tracking.
What you are suggesting is a technical solution to a social problem. Ask about DRM creators about that one.
Try and prove that statement incorrect. I would be very interested in actual proof that the world has no more oil available. Don't forget to look 20 miles into the Earth's crust, we can't ignore any potential new source, now can we?
That's not what's needed for Peak Oil. Peak Oil means even with higher demand, as we have now, there won't be more Oil on the market. And that's exactly what happens since around 2005/2006: the absolute amount of oil extracted and sold sinks slowly every year, while before that it increased always except in times of severe crisis, economic or price hikes (1970s).
That 20.000 leagues under the Sea oil is more and more expensive to extract and therefore less and less is sold. In 2005 to 2008 we had a very much expanding economy and still there was less oil extracted.
Easy: either they consistently have the data from the decrypted drives and use it to prosecute you or they don't. If they lie to the courts about having the data, ie they have it and use it secretly but don't tell the judge and defense, then you have bigger problems: a corrupt justice system. Then encrypted data won't help you to avoid a guilty verdict.
Companies have the rights to passwords to company data and property.
And courts cannot order the defendant to give a password if this would incriminate the defendant: 5th amendment.
Everyone who doesn't want to get tracked by Facebook please change his name to Joe_NoFacebook Smith. Everyone who doesn't want to get tracked by Google +, add a "noPlus" instead. And everyone who doesn't want to get tagged by the Facebook picture recognition will please use a neon green colored "F" tattoo on their forehead.
Thank you for your cooperation.
Is anyone at Google still thinking anything? Do no Evil my ass.
I read this a lot of times, but repetition doesn't make bullshit right.
According to Wikipedia: "The Constitution was adopted on September 17, 1787" and we all know the French Revolution started with the assault on the Bastille on July 14th, 1789. So how can a piece of written paper borrow ideals from a revolution that started almost 2 years later?
Both the French Revolution and the US Constitution are products of the Enlightenment Era or Age of Reason as it's also called.
Firefox will run fine on 128MB and has some RAM left over. I tried it on a PII 233 laptop with that amount of RAM. It was godawful slow rendering and forget any Javascript but RAM usage was ok. This however is a much faster CPU. There are Linux distros with browsers that start with 16MB machines so 128MB is a lot to work with.
Just don't look at bloated general purpose distros like Ubuntu which need a 3D accelerator to start properly.
You should have looked at your $50 monitor more carefully: it only has a VGA input and won't work on a raspberry pi
You mean they coded everything in .net for the first 2 years of Vista development and then trashed it all when it didn't work as intended?
Of course it's about software-as-a-service compilers. The only way MSFT can give you this ability to look what the compiler does is by keeping the compiler binary from you (compiling as a service by MSFT) or giving you much more insight on how the compiler works, basically open sourcing it. The latter is obviously anathema, so they provide it as a service. And if it catches on, it's another awesome lock-in capability by MSFT. Awesome!
CPUs are made of monocrystalline Si, solar panels are made by polychristalline Si. Dotation (sp?) is most certainly different as well.
Maybe you should ask router manufacturers. For them, "DD-WRT compatible" has gotten a marketing point to have. I wouldn't necessarily call flashing DD-WRT "hacking" tho. Neither is flashing a prebuilt cyanogenmod.
And now tell me how this is different to the NSA having special rooms in AT&T buildings. For what exactly?
We all know it will be used by governments when they revoke ultra-secret clearance, companies when they want to keep R&D for themselves, dictatorships when they want to neutralize dissidents.
Tell this the swiss. Their centuries old tradition of direct democracy was wrong all along!
I'm sure they will gratefully adopt only representative democracy so they can be saved from their abject poverty and misery.
PS: it's likely the Swiss will stop using nuclear power in the near future as well.
Yes, cause spammers who run scams are frightened about big bad Apple suing them!
Only applies if the raffle sponsor (re)imports the devices. Not if they go to Newegg and mailorder 100 IPads
There are tons of cheapo phones, tablets and the like which don't pay a dime to Google. They simply don't ship Google Maps and Mail, aren't allowed on the Android Marketplace. Just ask the likes of nook, Archos, and lots of manufacturers of awfully crappy tablets (500MHz Arm7 and 256MB with 2 hours battery life variety).
The only exception from the above so far is Honeycomb. All other Android versions were used a lot by OEMs for free.
Limiting hardware and exercising very stringent control has worked for Microsoft so well with Windows Phone 7 and was obviously the reason their OSes didn't sell.
The reason DOS and later Windows took off was exactly that every Tom, Dick and Harry from the shadiest backroom company could slap together something to sell. Many of those things didn't sell, many of them were and maybe still are atrocious piece of kit. But they simply swamped the market, drove prices to rock bottom and made MSFT's software have 90%+ marketshare, made the current and former CEOs of Microsoft multibillionaires, etc. Additionally they drove Apple nearly to extinction since they just couldn't compete with true mass production.
But this time around everything is different. Learning from Apple means more profit and success!
AMD doesn't own any Fab anymore and GlobalFoundries (the former AMD Fabs) have most/all of their technology like SoI from IBM anyways.
Last but not least the most shaders AMD has put into Fusion APUs so far is 400 when a new console needs at least 5 times as much. There just isn't enough room on a die to put a higher end GPU and a mediocre CPU which is what a gaming console needs. What MSFT or AMD can do is putting CPU, memory controller and all the other I/O (usb, sata, etc) on a single chip. So they will have a 2 Chip solution: GPU + all the rest.
Who cares as long as this gives me a much more powerful hardware at lower prices thanks to the volume shipped of these new things?
Currently a Beagle board costs >100$ while a Seagate Dockstar which has a more powerful hardware costs less than half at the next electronics store.