Well, need to do something about those looming defense budget cuts.
What's better and cheaper than 30 or so blimps visible from anywhere across Washington to remind all: be afraid, be very afraid, this is serious? Yep, dark steampunk look may be a good suggestion: after all it's not the tourists in Washington that approve the budgets.
We really have to start requiring the DMCA takedown notice sources to bring the burden of proof, or this will just become business as usual. Particularly as you don't even have to be resident in the country to abuse the system.
Alternatively, HUGE fines for incorrect takedowns and use of the perjury provisions for submitting an incorrect takedown notice need to be assessed / used. Actually, in a just world, this would be in addition to requiring burden of proof from the takedown notice source.
Nothing less than our entire culture is at stake.
A culture in which almost nobody thinks running a blog from their computer at home will always be a bit fragile (yes, I fully understand that the bandwidth for a home connection may not be large enough for a popular site... yet).
(a 7 digits ID that knows about Usenet and NNTP. Ah, another 6 digits ID which still haven't learned that only a 5-or-less digit ID tell something about the age of the poster; for the rest... your mileage may vary).
Well, what? How about moderation, user voting and those rosette-shaped icons... these are the new(-ish) cool features, where are you letting them? They so much worth it.. for example, "Google groups" is useless for a discussion without them!
And who needs a distributed system like Usenet when a single Web server is sufficient?
You are after increases in our experimental capabilities, but mbkennel is talking about something else. The materials and processes relevant to our lives on earth are largely understood at a fundamental level. That is a major difference that isn't going to be changed by more precise experiments. Say we can measure collisions at 500 TeV rather than 8 TeV currently. It may produce a breakthrough in particle physics. But what materials and processes relevant to our lives will be revolutionized? (Now of course we can't predict the behavior of many things relevant to our lives, and there are major breakthroughs available there, but it won't be in fundamental physics).
Ah, I see... we are squabbling over the groundbreaking advances (your position: we know enough about them) or groundshattering (my position: there's more than what we have on Earth).
As for how much would the later influence our life, I'm a lot more optimistic than you... say for example, as the result of a correct ToE, the teleportation is shown as possible and feasible... it wouldn't be long until we would stop worrying about NK experimenting with rockets (one less worry, a happier life <grin>).
Today they do have good knowledge about virtually all materials and energetic processes typically occurring and observable on Earth, That's a difference from the 19th century.
Derived consequence: progress will be slow until we'll see a jump at least one order of magnitude (if not more) in either:
1. energies available to use during an experiment; or 2. capacity to sense and sift the irrelevant from what the universe throws at us
Without the above to confirm/falsify the theories, everything is a matter of "scientific faith" (the "church of strings", the "congregation of super-string", the "church of the standard model")
The nanopaper transistor also showed excellent optical transmittance up to 83.5%. The device configuration can be applied to many other semiconductor materials toward flexible green electronics.
This is confusing. Is it green or is it transparent? Maybe it's a light green. Just make up your mind.
From TFA:
Only a 10% decrease in mobility was observed when the nanopaper transistors were being bent.
Well, one fact is certain: the paper transistor is very much like a crocodile, as it is more flexible than it is green (it's 90% flexible and at most 16.5% green).
(just in case you wonder what's the relevance of the article I linked: the same relevance papyrus has for nanopaper. And that's a fact. Does it hurt you?)
This is the Canadian armed forces who are so chronically underfunded and undersupported by their government that their submarines blow up on their remaidened voyage, that their special forces capture and torture to death children caught stealing from their base in Somalia.
Well, afterwards they can extend the experience to Mounties, I hear they ride some aircrafts too. And, you know?... horses are pretty expensive too; maybe some sims would lower the pressure on the budget.
They intentionally facilitate piracy. It's one thing to have the ability to back up and copy your own data between devices. It's another thing all together when you allow sharing of data without better control.
Google is intentionally facilitating piracy. Both their Chrome browser (as a software), their search engine and their messaging services (gmail, Instant messaging and and Google Voice) allow users to share pirate data and Google knows this and allows it with little (if any) control.
(Stop blaming the tools and the providers of the tools for how their tools are used!!!)
All the more reason to run an open hotspot with your router.
I'll do it when (or... is it if?) the "cyberwar", criminal copyright infringement and "think of the children" will cease to be words a politician would think get him advantages.
I'm curious why repeated attacks "by the Chinese" have invoked no response from the government? It seems odd that we have US Companies being attacked on US soil and there's not even a peep about it.
"Citizen, you want to be safe of intrusion? Well, it's mandatory everybody releases to us their private encryption key..."
(perhaps I should have replied to the OS24Ever OP) I'm a bit sick of the "being at war" ethos. In which:
* every attack is categorized as "being at war", disregarding how harmless or serious the attack actually is (I'd see Aaron Swartz as a victim of such a mentality: from where else the need "to make an example of him"?)
* "war on concepts" are no longer just metaphors
Without being a symptom that's unique and defining the "disease", it is highly consistent with "former giants about to fall": inability to control any longer the "great destiny that once was" and the unwillingness to rationally accept this situation; a combination mostly manifesting itself as an aggressive pride.
(I'd suggest a change in you signature. I feel the "The land of the repossessed home. Free of the brave" describe more accurate the situation).
So.... tell me. How many volunteers do you think you are liable to get, that are willing to take the financial risks involved with financially supporting copyright infringers?
Ummmm.. I don't know, but you may be surprised. I mean... a scheme of insurance against fare fines was quite successful until threatened. And it was a scheme that offered probably a much lower rate: something like 1:15 ($20/month insurance premium against... say 30 day x $10/day trip fares=$300).
Would you prefer them to pay taxes, buy property etc (stimulating the local market) in USA, or in China/India/...?
Personally, I'd prefer to buy properties in China/India. Reason: the demand for them is still growing there and it has better chances to grow for quite a while given their population.
No comments yet?
How the hell am i supposed to spend my lunch break? I read other articles and comments already!
If you have spare time, I'd appreciate a digest of the RTFA: I tried reading it, my (sole) neuron got curly with the effort and I skipped to the end where I read:
This work was supported by grants from the United Kingdom’s Economic and Social Research Council and from the US National Science Foundation.
The software I have written for my odd specialized purposes is similar to the software my colleagues write: It's spaghetti code written with custom libraries which are not better than common ones and it has no documentation at all.
Yes, I know the feeling of "source code like the underwear: if it's dirty, better not show it to anybody".
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Well, need to do something about those looming defense budget cuts.
What's better and cheaper than 30 or so blimps visible from anywhere across Washington to remind all: be afraid, be very afraid, this is serious? Yep, dark steampunk look may be a good suggestion: after all it's not the tourists in Washington that approve the budgets.
We really have to start requiring the DMCA takedown notice sources to bring the burden of proof, or this will just become business as usual. Particularly as you don't even have to be resident in the country to abuse the system.
Alternatively, HUGE fines for incorrect takedowns and use of the perjury provisions for submitting an incorrect takedown notice need to be assessed / used. Actually, in a just world, this would be in addition to requiring burden of proof from the takedown notice source.
Nothing less than our entire culture is at stake.
A culture in which almost nobody thinks running a blog from their computer at home will always be a bit fragile (yes, I fully understand that the bandwidth for a home connection may not be large enough for a popular site... yet ).
(a 7 digits ID that knows about Usenet and NNTP.
Ah, another 6 digits ID which still haven't learned that only a 5-or-less digit ID tell something about the age of the poster; for the rest... your mileage may vary).
Uh... (my sarcasm was too subtle. my whole post above would be summarized by: "Discourse? What is/was wrong with Usenet?")
I wonder if it will ever have an NNTP gateway
This can't possible mean you want to go back on the ages of Usenet, extended with Web2news interface, can it?
Well, what? How about moderation, user voting and those rosette-shaped icons... these are the new(-ish) cool features, where are you letting them? They so much worth it.. for example, "Google groups" is useless for a discussion without them!
And who needs a distributed system like Usenet when a single Web server is sufficient?
You are after increases in our experimental capabilities, but mbkennel is talking about something else. The materials and processes relevant to our lives on earth are largely understood at a fundamental level. That is a major difference that isn't going to be changed by more precise experiments. Say we can measure collisions at 500 TeV rather than 8 TeV currently. It may produce a breakthrough in particle physics. But what materials and processes relevant to our lives will be revolutionized? (Now of course we can't predict the behavior of many things relevant to our lives, and there are major breakthroughs available there, but it won't be in fundamental physics).
Ah, I see... we are squabbling over the groundbreaking advances (your position: we know enough about them) or groundshattering (my position: there's more than what we have on Earth).
As for how much would the later influence our life, I'm a lot more optimistic than you... say for example, as the result of a correct ToE, the teleportation is shown as possible and feasible... it wouldn't be long until we would stop worrying about NK experimenting with rockets (one less worry, a happier life <grin>).
Today they do have good knowledge about virtually all materials and energetic processes typically occurring and observable on Earth,
That's a difference from the 19th century.
Derived consequence: progress will be slow until we'll see a jump at least one order of magnitude (if not more) in either:
1. energies available to use during an experiment; or
2. capacity to sense and sift the irrelevant from what the universe throws at us
Without the above to confirm/falsify the theories, everything is a matter of "scientific faith" (the "church of strings", the "congregation of super-string", the "church of the standard model")
This is confusing. Is it green or is it transparent? Maybe it's a light green. Just make up your mind.
From TFA:
Only a 10% decrease in mobility was observed when the nanopaper transistors were being bent.
Well, one fact is certain: the paper transistor is very much like a crocodile, as it is more flexible than it is green (it's 90% flexible and at most 16.5% green).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papyrus
Paper can cut. Facts can hurt those who are ignorant and arrogant.
No shit, Watson!
(just in case you wonder what's the relevance of the article I linked: the same relevance papyrus has for nanopaper. And that's a fact. Does it hurt you?)
This is the Canadian armed forces who are so chronically underfunded and undersupported by their government that their submarines blow up on their remaidened voyage, that their special forces capture and torture to death children caught stealing from their base in Somalia.
Well, afterwards they can extend the experience to Mounties, I hear they ride some aircrafts too. ... horses are pretty expensive too; maybe some sims would lower the pressure on the budget.
And, you know?
Being paid to fly in a really fancy simulation game... Yes, they will find plenty of recruits. :-)
Except that's not very interesting... it seems there's a lot of grinding.
Competing with what/which/who?
They intentionally facilitate piracy. It's one thing to have the ability to back up and copy your own data between devices. It's another thing all together when you allow sharing of data without better control.
Google is intentionally facilitating piracy. Both their Chrome browser (as a software), their search engine and their messaging services (gmail, Instant messaging and and Google Voice) allow users to share pirate data and Google knows this and allows it with little (if any) control.
(Stop blaming the tools and the providers of the tools for how their tools are used!!!)
We're all speculators now, friends...
pension/superannuation funds.Yes, want it or not, we are all speculators ever since the currency was floated.
All the more reason to run an open hotspot with your router.
I'll do it when (or... is it if?) the "cyberwar", criminal copyright infringement and "think of the children" will cease to be words a politician would think get him advantages.
Deprivation of Internet - a common cause of picking bad eating habits at low ages for Homo sapiens.
I'm curious why repeated attacks "by the Chinese" have invoked no response from the government? It seems odd that we have US Companies being attacked on US soil and there's not even a peep about it.
"Citizen, you want to be safe of intrusion? Well, it's mandatory everybody releases to us their private encryption key..."
Would you still want govt to step in?
I like your music, lady, but sheesh, cry me a river, will ya?
Except that she's not crying: it seems that the NYT took quite a lot of the context from what she was saying.
(perhaps I should have replied to the OS24Ever OP) I'm a bit sick of the "being at war" ethos. In which:
* every attack is categorized as "being at war", disregarding how harmless or serious the attack actually is (I'd see Aaron Swartz as a victim of such a mentality: from where else the need "to make an example of him"?)
* "war on concepts" are no longer just metaphors
Without being a symptom that's unique and defining the "disease", it is highly consistent with "former giants about to fall": inability to control any longer the "great destiny that once was" and the unwillingness to rationally accept this situation; a combination mostly manifesting itself as an aggressive pride.
(I'd suggest a change in you signature. I feel the "The land of the repossessed home. Free of the brave" describe more accurate the situation).
How many attacks like this have to happen before people realize what kind of war we are in?
You don't feel good you don't define a situation as being "at war", don't you?
So.... tell me. How many volunteers do you think you are liable to get, that are willing to take the financial risks involved with financially supporting copyright infringers?
Ummmm.. I don't know, but you may be surprised.
I mean... a scheme of insurance against fare fines was quite successful until threatened. And it was a scheme that offered probably a much lower rate: something like 1:15 ($20/month insurance premium against... say 30 day x $10/day trip fares=$300).
Would you prefer them to pay taxes, buy property etc (stimulating the local market) in USA, or in China/India/...?
Personally, I'd prefer to buy properties in China/India. Reason: the demand for them is still growing there and it has better chances to grow for quite a while given their population.
Do they want Computer Science or Computer Technology, because I doubt primary children are capable of Computer Science.
I have a hunch they actually want to sell the damn'd Surface somewhere.
No comments yet?
How the hell am i supposed to spend my lunch break? I read other articles and comments already!
If you have spare time, I'd appreciate a digest of the RTFA: I tried reading it, my (sole) neuron got curly with the effort and I skipped to the end where I read:
This work was supported by grants from the United Kingdom’s Economic and Social Research Council and from the US National Science Foundation.
Yay, that's a factoid I could grasp.
The software I have written for my odd specialized purposes is similar to the software my colleagues write: It's spaghetti code written with custom libraries which are not better than common ones and it has no documentation at all.
Yes, I know the feeling of "source code like the underwear: if it's dirty, better not show it to anybody".