I think you misread the article.
The idea is not to submit 5 original stories a day, but to submit 5 interesting links per day. These submitters won't be writing original content; just identifiying interesting content on the web and submitting links to it.
Churning out 5 new (quality) articles per day is exceedingly difficult; but 5 new links/day is quite manageable, if you surf the web a lot.
Re:Editorial Oversight != Truth (i.e. FOX News)
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What distinguishes FOX News is that it reports both the Left and Right sides of issues.
You've got to be kidding me!
Fox News (pronounced "Faux News" if you want to use call by value) actively goes out of its way to suppress any news that it thinks could harm the current Administration, or the Republicans in general. Fox has shown absolutely no interest in presenting a balanced view, regardless of how often the mantras "Fair and Balanced" and "We report, you decide" are repeated.
I have been a newsjunkie for nearly 20 years. I consider myself middle-of-the-road, and take every news report with a grain of salt. Heck, I've voted for Republicans and Democrats about evenly. But I was shocked to see the blatant pandering and partisanship displayed by Fox News. It's like the Republican Party's permanent informercial.
These are the choices we make
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Here's what will happen: a bunch of geeks will get their panties in a twist, maybe dash off an email or two to a few politicians, and then go back to their video games and D&D.
Here's what needs to happen: put your money where your mouth is. Set up a PAC (Political Action Committee); fund it liberally so it has a lot of clout; and let it loose after the politicians who sponsor legislations which hurt consumers. In the end, it's all a matter of money. If you people are willing to put your money where your (loud) mouths are, then you can expect change for the better. Otherwise, just bend over and take it quietly from the *AA.
EFF has its place; but it's not a PAC. You need a Consumer's PAC, with at least $10M+/year of budget, to have a serious impact.
Yahoo Answers ( http://answers.yahoo.com/ ) is the most recent in a line of peer-to-peer QA systems. How is this any different (aside from the application installation requirement)? How can this compete with Yahoo, Google, Ask, MSN, etc.?
we saved pry 20,000 dollars in electricity costs over the life of the project. 3 years and 2000 servers
20K over 2000 servers over 3 years works out to less than a penny a day. These are negligible savings, if any. Just rearranging the wires in the cabinets a little to improve the airflow could give you such savings.
I knew there was a reason why the Government is allowing the phone companies to buy each other and go back to the days of a single large monopoly (ie ATT). It is much easier for the Government to control 1 company than 10 small companies. Conversely, by helping the Government so quickly, the companies make sure that their M&A activities are not stopped.
It's a win-win for the Government and the big corporations. Too bad the citizens are too busy following "American Idol" or "24" to notice.
What was that adage about slowly cooking a frog, again?
The Perl script need not run on his machine. He could have logged into a machine inside the network, and then run this script against the other machines on the network.
... what is sadder: the fact that this idiot Theodore Feder thinks such a tribute really _is_ a violation of copyright, or the fact that none of the other artists (especially the popular ones these days) have spoken up about this (too early in Miro's case, but did anybody jump to Google's defense in the Dali case?).
We just assume the information is some military secret. There is a distict possibility that the information on those drives is nothing more than family pictures or some other relatively mundane piece of information.
You know what they say about "ASS U ME", right?
Try reading the LA Times article. It goes into specific details about what was on the drives. Also read the Slate article (linked above).
Maybe you should take some reading comprehension lessons instead of looking for "S" and "T".
Let me restate what I was saying with smaller words that might fit in your head.
I am saying that the Democrats and Republicans are both responsible for this mess; don't just think that the Republicans are the bad guys and the Dems are the good guys. Even though the Dems got bit bigtime by voting problems, they still haven't done anything about it (and this is assuming that the Diebold solution is bad because of all the issues over the years). I would have expected the Dems to be raising a hue and cry about the lack of accountability in the voting machines, etc. but so far nary a peep.
True. There was so much hype surroung "Red Storm" and how it would p0wn the rest of the field before GC-1. Then during the trials, their Hummer tipped over because it took a curve too fast (d'oh!! where's the linkage between the wheel turning system and the speed system?). And in the race, it almost caught fire because 1 wheel got stuck and the other spun freely; the system controlling the engine just kept increasing the RPM, with the eventual result that the tires melted and flew off, and the controllers had to hit the emergency stop.
It was clear then that the CMU team was loaded with tech, but lacked smarts. They were trying to bruteforce the course (they sent teams to navigate every possible path in the race area with a GPS, so they could map out obstacles beforehand. Geez! talk aboout spare no expense!).
The most impressive, of course, was DAD. With almost nothing but a pair of cameras for stereo vision, they were able to achieve so much in their garage.
Naah... ACLU doesn't step in unless it is some minority who gets beat up by the police or some such headline-grabbing case happens.
ACLU is as much in the game to grab headlines (and therefore funds) as anybody else.
What you need is a citizens' revolt. People first voting at their local levels to kick these numbskulls out (who picked Diebold). And then fixing the system.
Before I get modded down as a troll, let me ask this: how many Democrats are there in the House? Why aren't they making a bigger noise about this? It's been nearly 6 years since "hanging chad" entered our vocabulary, but still nothing has been fixed. Do you mean to tell me the entire country is run by Republicans?? From the dog catcher on up???
Re:Not until the moon dust problem is solved.
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Crichton whines that the relationship between B vitamins and homocysteine is patented without appearing to have read the papers published in NEJM this week demonstrating quite persuasively that this relationship has no clinical value: vitamin B supplements for patients with high homocysteine don't affect patient outcomes.
You are a certified, class A moron. Did you even try to understand what Crichton was saying? He's not arguing about whether the relationship has any clinical value or not; he's arguing that the patent should not have been granted.
It is you who is whining with a poorly-researched, poorly argued post.
You mean to say all Microsoft has to do is call XP "XP beta", and all mistakes are excused?
Gee! You might have just saved them 100s of millions of dollars in bad PR!
Let's call a spade a spade here. 42% of Google's revenues come from AdSense, their program of putting ads on third-party websites. This will amount to about $3 Billion this year (projected, based on past growth).
Google is making it easy and profitable for people to engage in such behavior. The payments to AdSense participants are done via legal means (checks); hence Google has the ability to track down the offenders and sue them; and yet there has not been a single such case filed by Google for AdSense abuse. Google is profiting handsomely from this fraud, but it is very shortsighted of them.
I know I'm going to get modded down by the Google fanboys in this crowd, but please put down the koolaid and think about it.
The question is not that Google indexed their site; but that someone else stole their images, and Google indexed the thieves' sites and actively sends traffic to the thieves (not to mention, profits from the AdSense ads displayed at the pirates' sites).
This is not a case of a missing robots.txt file, but of Google actively (debatable...) helping thieves enrich themselves from their theft.
Here's an analogy. Suppose you operate a pawn shop. Someone brings in a stereo to sell. It is your responsibility to make sure it's not stolen. Similarly, it is Google's responsibility (technically it's a nightmare, I agree) to make sure that they are not an accessory in copyright theft.
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The idea is not to submit 5 original stories a day, but to submit 5 interesting links per day. These submitters won't be writing original content; just identifiying interesting content on the web and submitting links to it.
Churning out 5 new (quality) articles per day is exceedingly difficult; but 5 new links/day is quite manageable, if you surf the web a lot.
You've got to be kidding me!
Fox News (pronounced "Faux News" if you want to use call by value) actively goes out of its way to suppress any news that it thinks could harm the current Administration, or the Republicans in general. Fox has shown absolutely no interest in presenting a balanced view, regardless of how often the mantras "Fair and Balanced" and "We report, you decide" are repeated.
For a very eye-opening documentary, see Fox News Techniques.
I have been a newsjunkie for nearly 20 years. I consider myself middle-of-the-road, and take every news report with a grain of salt. Heck, I've voted for Republicans and Democrats about evenly. But I was shocked to see the blatant pandering and partisanship displayed by Fox News. It's like the Republican Party's permanent informercial.
Tell that to Mozilla, which made $72MM from Google.
Here's what needs to happen: put your money where your mouth is. Set up a PAC (Political Action Committee); fund it liberally so it has a lot of clout; and let it loose after the politicians who sponsor legislations which hurt consumers. In the end, it's all a matter of money. If you people are willing to put your money where your (loud) mouths are, then you can expect change for the better. Otherwise, just bend over and take it quietly from the *AA.
EFF has its place; but it's not a PAC. You need a Consumer's PAC, with at least $10M+/year of budget, to have a serious impact.
Or are the founder(s) still working on step 2?
20K over 2000 servers over 3 years works out to less than a penny a day. These are negligible savings, if any. Just rearranging the wires in the cabinets a little to improve the airflow could give you such savings.
It's a win-win for the Government and the big corporations. Too bad the citizens are too busy following "American Idol" or "24" to notice.
What was that adage about slowly cooking a frog, again?
The Perl script need not run on his machine. He could have logged into a machine inside the network, and then run this script against the other machines on the network.
Is the link to the Digg article a not-so-subtle dig(!) at the Slashdot editors, to show that they don't read the stories themselves?
When (former) CEOs start getting these feelings of grandeur, it's a sure sign of dementia.
I'm not sure how feasible this is. Also, as per the longer article (above), it does not eliminate the need for NaOH; unless I'm reading it wrong.
You know what they say about "ASS U ME", right?
Try reading the LA Times article. It goes into specific details about what was on the drives. Also read the Slate article (linked above).
But sure this guy must have published something before this "super algorithm" of his?
Do a Google Scholar search for publications in CS/EE, and you get... nothing.
His own web page is bare, with no details.
A Science Daily article from September 2005 (yeah, over 6 months ago) mentions this "algorithm", but scan details.
I highly doubt the novelty/effectiveness of this "algorithm" if it has been patented before being published in a peer-reviewed journal.
Let me restate what I was saying with smaller words that might fit in your head.
I am saying that the Democrats and Republicans are both responsible for this mess; don't just think that the Republicans are the bad guys and the Dems are the good guys. Even though the Dems got bit bigtime by voting problems, they still haven't done anything about it (and this is assuming that the Diebold solution is bad because of all the issues over the years). I would have expected the Dems to be raising a hue and cry about the lack of accountability in the voting machines, etc. but so far nary a peep.
Is that explicit enough for ya?
It was clear then that the CMU team was loaded with tech, but lacked smarts. They were trying to bruteforce the course (they sent teams to navigate every possible path in the race area with a GPS, so they could map out obstacles beforehand. Geez! talk aboout spare no expense!).
The most impressive, of course, was DAD. With almost nothing but a pair of cameras for stereo vision, they were able to achieve so much in their garage.
Naah... ACLU doesn't step in unless it is some minority who gets beat up by the police or some such headline-grabbing case happens.
ACLU is as much in the game to grab headlines (and therefore funds) as anybody else.
What you need is a citizens' revolt. People first voting at their local levels to kick these numbskulls out (who picked Diebold). And then fixing the system.
Before I get modded down as a troll, let me ask this: how many Democrats are there in the House? Why aren't they making a bigger noise about this? It's been nearly 6 years since "hanging chad" entered our vocabulary, but still nothing has been fixed. Do you mean to tell me the entire country is run by Republicans?? From the dog catcher on up???
Jeezus! Even KingKong doesn't have that fat hair.
Do the Amish then have "open source" barn raisings?
... until it is raised; then it becomes closed source.
You are a certified, class A moron. Did you even try to understand what Crichton was saying? He's not arguing about whether the relationship has any clinical value or not; he's arguing that the patent should not have been granted.
It is you who is whining with a poorly-researched, poorly argued post.
You mean to say all Microsoft has to do is call XP "XP beta", and all mistakes are excused?
Gee! You might have just saved them 100s of millions of dollars in bad PR!
Google is making it easy and profitable for people to engage in such behavior. The payments to AdSense participants are done via legal means (checks); hence Google has the ability to track down the offenders and sue them; and yet there has not been a single such case filed by Google for AdSense abuse. Google is profiting handsomely from this fraud, but it is very shortsighted of them.
I know I'm going to get modded down by the Google fanboys in this crowd, but please put down the koolaid and think about it.
This is not a case of a missing robots.txt file, but of Google actively (debatable...) helping thieves enrich themselves from their theft.
Here's an analogy. Suppose you operate a pawn shop. Someone brings in a stereo to sell. It is your responsibility to make sure it's not stolen. Similarly, it is Google's responsibility (technically it's a nightmare, I agree) to make sure that they are not an accessory in copyright theft.