Than what is to stop Slashdot founders from setting up a script at home computers to refresh the page as much as possible - thus supplying them with enough income to upgrade their servers and home computers and internet lines to allow more refreshes and make more money?
I'm not sure I see the disincentive for posting informative information, could you please elaborate? (Unless you meant the rest of your paragraph, in which case, allow me to retort.)
Posts don't start off invisible. They start off generally equal and only those who have shown the ability to contribute to the community in a good way get a bit of a head start. Moderation relies on those individuals who contribute the most to the community, and not the clueless. The clueless ones don't get mod points. And when they do, its few and far enough between not to matter. Slashdot is not even story-centric, not comment-centric, its NEWS centric. News in the sense that it tries to get the story out as soon as possible, to a lot of people. It does not need to care about old stories, new ones are always happening.
Slashdot grows knowledge in that it does its best to keep you up to date on current events. It's a news site, not a history site. What happens yesterday doesn't always grow your knowledge, it can be better investigated and more informative what happens tomorrow.
We post funny things because we're funny people. We know not to take it all too seriously, because we'd like to have fun with the internet while we still can.
Trust me, I'm a Buddhist, I don't need any more Karma!
Speaking of Jokes and Buddhists, I'm sure we've all heard this one before.
So a Buddhist monk goes up to a hot dog vendor. Vendor asks him "What'll it be?" and the monk replies, "Make me one with everything."
*Badoom psh*
So the vendor fixes him up with a dog, with all the fillings. The Monk hands him a $20 bill and the vendor puts it in the till and smiles at him. The monk, a little confused, asks him "What about my change?" and the vendor replies, "Change comes from within."
I don't like to look at my HTC with Win-Mobile on it - so I use both hands so I don't have to look at it, or if my gaze somehow crosses that plane, it is at least a little obscured by my hand.
I think what you were trying to say is that there is nothing wrong with uniting people behind a symbol, the only people who consider pirating (in today's terms) a crime are the record companies, and a few of their lackies.
Why associate the creation of ISPs that protect your privacy with piracy?
Because those will be their strongest supporters. Not that it's their only supporters or that's all that they are good for, but thats who will identify with them most. No more, no less. Just like you don't have to be an environmentalist to support the Green Party in Canada, but they call themselves that.
Than you don't understand how Extradition really works.
There is a reason there are Extradition treaties. Murder may be illegal in many countries but we generally still extradite them back to where the crime was committed to properly serve justice at a sentence deemed appropriate by those affected. (We'll also make note that there is no extradition treaty to Saudi Arabia, because their laws vary so much).
The ambiguity falls on where this crime was comitted, the individual was not in the States, but the information he was accessing was. The victims of the crimes are in the States and thats why it should be held there. (As there is no victim in Pre-marital Sex, it wouldn't make sense to extradite someone to the middle east either).
Not serving Extradition will only serve to sever the ties between the two nations.
Was it committed in the UK? Hacking into US Hardware could be analogized to breaking into house in the US.
NOT extraditing him would probably set a bad precedent - leaving every country open to cyber attacks if any crimes committed against another nation are not covered in extradition treaties.
Forgot to mention: I'm not entirely sure he needed an "Open Source" Solution as much as he needed a "cost effective" solution though - he makes no mention of altering any code. So I mean, Windows Speech Recognition is not exactly Open Source.
Most Windows Vista or Win7 machines come with a built in transcribing feature, that you can enable in the control panel (Win7, under ease of access, Speech recognition).
However - the only way it works properly is if you train it to understand you personally. You load your profile, and it'll run you through a whole bunch of test sentences. The FULL test takes you about 20 minutes I think (It's been a while since I've used it) - and actually works quite well. There is a cut off point at about 2 and a half minutes if you want to stop and try it out. It actually makes it keyboard and mouseless if you want. When you open a browser it highlights everything on the web page thats clickable and assigns it a number, and you simply say "Click 7" and it hits the reply button for you. Then you talk when the textbox has focus and it'll transcribe every word you say.
I did this for my girlfriend's paper once, I read it aloud (you have to mention things like comma, end paragraph, etc) and put it into a Word document. Out of a 15 page single spaced Essay - it got 3 sentences wrong - and that's only because I was mentioning some of the more Obscure greek names (she's a history major). It managed to get full sentences regarding Octavia and her fondness of libraries without error, which I thought was odd since thats not a name you hear every day.
Anyways - if he wants to do this, he should record the test phrases (there will be a lot though) and have each of his interviewees read the test sentences so he can then relay those through the computer and train the computer for each person.
All in all - he may still run across a few errors, but its not nearly as bad as say Google Voice Mail, which tries to figure out what you're saying without having any previous knowledge on how that person speaks. Windows Speech Recognition is something that will handle what he's after though.
People have been typing for well over 100 years, on hideously clunky keyboards that might have been designed by Torquemada himself, yet people have only been experiencing widespread carpal-tunnel trauma for the last twenty or so. Coincidence?
Well - for starters, if you look at the BIG picture, widespread carpal-tunnel does reflect the rise in personal computers. Now the question remains whether people typed as much before computers as much as they do now. And looking at a regular typewriter, I can say with 99% certainty, no typewriter was designed similar enough to a keyboard to replicate the suspected causes of carpel tunnel (resting your wrists or elbows on the desk, Typewriters are far more vertically inclined).
So - I mean really, how would you get Carpel tunnel in your left hand if you use the right one for the mouse?
I've always wondered, I mean I have a vague idea of how nuclear plants work - do subs and warships use the ocean as their water source for the reactor? Is that why it's essentially so small? Does this mean a nuclear sub dumps heavy water into the ocean? (even though its only a drop in the bathtub, so to speak)
Is there just no possible way to develop software that is NOT exploitable?
Depends on what your software is doing. If your software has to change any of the bits on the hard drive - Exploitable. If your software interacts with a database - exploitable. If your software contacts the internet - exploitable.
There was an article a while back... They applied to be a party in Canada, and they have been approved (don't know if they've actually formed a party yet or not).
I imagine if its a big hit there, and it spreads over here... Well I mean we manage to slip past some of the more Draconian IP laws of the States by putting taxes on blank media and such - I wonder if offering this service to Canada would cause a stir...
Hey now, computers HAVE changed the job and the way people work. Before invoicing would take forever, but now that you can put it on an application to track all the work-orders and what not, its a snap! You don't have to filter through filing cabinets as much, etc etc.
As such, people are expected to get through more invoices a day.
Don't get me wrong, I agree that people who complain about their job when they have one better than fast food, they're kinda whiners. I've been there, I had to work seasonal (christmas) at Chapters, then at a Dairy Queen for a few shifts between IT jobs. Complaining about your job at a desk is really not going to inspire empathy with me.
But to say that computers haven't changed things, now thats just silly. People DO get "shackled" to their desk because they have so much work to do on their computer before they go home. But whether or not thats a terrible job is another thing entirely.
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Regardless of whether it makes sense or not, a contract is a contract. If a Lawyer can make sense of it - WHAMMO - you're done.
Than what is to stop Slashdot founders from setting up a script at home computers to refresh the page as much as possible - thus supplying them with enough income to upgrade their servers and home computers and internet lines to allow more refreshes and make more money?
I'm not sure I see the disincentive for posting informative information, could you please elaborate? (Unless you meant the rest of your paragraph, in which case, allow me to retort.)
Posts don't start off invisible. They start off generally equal and only those who have shown the ability to contribute to the community in a good way get a bit of a head start. Moderation relies on those individuals who contribute the most to the community, and not the clueless. The clueless ones don't get mod points. And when they do, its few and far enough between not to matter. Slashdot is not even story-centric, not comment-centric, its NEWS centric. News in the sense that it tries to get the story out as soon as possible, to a lot of people. It does not need to care about old stories, new ones are always happening.
Slashdot grows knowledge in that it does its best to keep you up to date on current events. It's a news site, not a history site. What happens yesterday doesn't always grow your knowledge, it can be better investigated and more informative what happens tomorrow.
We post funny things because we're funny people. We know not to take it all too seriously, because we'd like to have fun with the internet while we still can.
I know. That is some David Blaine or Chris Angel magic right there.
Trust me, I'm a Buddhist, I don't need any more Karma!
Speaking of Jokes and Buddhists, I'm sure we've all heard this one before.
So a Buddhist monk goes up to a hot dog vendor. Vendor asks him "What'll it be?" and the monk replies, "Make me one with everything."
*Badoom psh*
So the vendor fixes him up with a dog, with all the fillings. The Monk hands him a $20 bill and the vendor puts it in the till and smiles at him. The monk, a little confused, asks him "What about my change?" and the vendor replies, "Change comes from within."
It's also very invasive. It's likely he cancelled his account for many reasons, but that less time on facebook altogether was a happy byproduct.
I was under the impression Advertising only makes money if people click on the ads, not just the site.
I don't like to look at my HTC with Win-Mobile on it - so I use both hands so I don't have to look at it, or if my gaze somehow crosses that plane, it is at least a little obscured by my hand.
Do you partake in the addictive farmville?
Except your porn addiction is over in minutes, nay, SECONDS, whereas facebook consumes multiple hours of peoples days.
I think what you were trying to say is that there is nothing wrong with uniting people behind a symbol, the only people who consider pirating (in today's terms) a crime are the record companies, and a few of their lackies.
Except Slashdot doesn't make money off of it.
I can't tell if you're making a joke - but if you've never heard of Farmville or seen an announcement regarding farmville - while using facebook...
Please Tell me what corner of Facebook you are hiding in, so I can join you.
Why associate the creation of ISPs that protect your privacy with piracy?
Because those will be their strongest supporters. Not that it's their only supporters or that's all that they are good for, but thats who will identify with them most. No more, no less. Just like you don't have to be an environmentalist to support the Green Party in Canada, but they call themselves that.
Than you don't understand how Extradition really works.
There is a reason there are Extradition treaties. Murder may be illegal in many countries but we generally still extradite them back to where the crime was committed to properly serve justice at a sentence deemed appropriate by those affected. (We'll also make note that there is no extradition treaty to Saudi Arabia, because their laws vary so much).
The ambiguity falls on where this crime was comitted, the individual was not in the States, but the information he was accessing was. The victims of the crimes are in the States and thats why it should be held there. (As there is no victim in Pre-marital Sex, it wouldn't make sense to extradite someone to the middle east either).
Not serving Extradition will only serve to sever the ties between the two nations.
In fact, they just plan on peeling off the sticker.
Was it committed in the UK? Hacking into US Hardware could be analogized to breaking into house in the US.
NOT extraditing him would probably set a bad precedent - leaving every country open to cyber attacks if any crimes committed against another nation are not covered in extradition treaties.
where people support a guy who legitimately deserves legal punishment just to make themselves feel compassionate.
Which would be more democratic and which would be more moral? Letting him go with lesson learned or legal ramifications.
Forgot to mention: I'm not entirely sure he needed an "Open Source" Solution as much as he needed a "cost effective" solution though - he makes no mention of altering any code. So I mean, Windows Speech Recognition is not exactly Open Source.
Most Windows Vista or Win7 machines come with a built in transcribing feature, that you can enable in the control panel (Win7, under ease of access, Speech recognition).
However - the only way it works properly is if you train it to understand you personally. You load your profile, and it'll run you through a whole bunch of test sentences. The FULL test takes you about 20 minutes I think (It's been a while since I've used it) - and actually works quite well. There is a cut off point at about 2 and a half minutes if you want to stop and try it out. It actually makes it keyboard and mouseless if you want. When you open a browser it highlights everything on the web page thats clickable and assigns it a number, and you simply say "Click 7" and it hits the reply button for you. Then you talk when the textbox has focus and it'll transcribe every word you say.
I did this for my girlfriend's paper once, I read it aloud (you have to mention things like comma, end paragraph, etc) and put it into a Word document. Out of a 15 page single spaced Essay - it got 3 sentences wrong - and that's only because I was mentioning some of the more Obscure greek names (she's a history major). It managed to get full sentences regarding Octavia and her fondness of libraries without error, which I thought was odd since thats not a name you hear every day.
Anyways - if he wants to do this, he should record the test phrases (there will be a lot though) and have each of his interviewees read the test sentences so he can then relay those through the computer and train the computer for each person.
All in all - he may still run across a few errors, but its not nearly as bad as say Google Voice Mail, which tries to figure out what you're saying without having any previous knowledge on how that person speaks. Windows Speech Recognition is something that will handle what he's after though.
People have been typing for well over 100 years, on hideously clunky keyboards that might have been designed by Torquemada himself, yet people have only been experiencing widespread carpal-tunnel trauma for the last twenty or so. Coincidence?
Well - for starters, if you look at the BIG picture, widespread carpal-tunnel does reflect the rise in personal computers. Now the question remains whether people typed as much before computers as much as they do now. And looking at a regular typewriter, I can say with 99% certainty, no typewriter was designed similar enough to a keyboard to replicate the suspected causes of carpel tunnel (resting your wrists or elbows on the desk, Typewriters are far more vertically inclined).
So - I mean really, how would you get Carpel tunnel in your left hand if you use the right one for the mouse?
Your argument holds very little water.
I've always wondered, I mean I have a vague idea of how nuclear plants work - do subs and warships use the ocean as their water source for the reactor? Is that why it's essentially so small? Does this mean a nuclear sub dumps heavy water into the ocean? (even though its only a drop in the bathtub, so to speak)
Is there just no possible way to develop software that is NOT exploitable?
Depends on what your software is doing. If your software has to change any of the bits on the hard drive - Exploitable. If your software interacts with a database - exploitable. If your software contacts the internet - exploitable.
There was an article a while back... They applied to be a party in Canada, and they have been approved (don't know if they've actually formed a party yet or not).
I imagine if its a big hit there, and it spreads over here... Well I mean we manage to slip past some of the more Draconian IP laws of the States by putting taxes on blank media and such - I wonder if offering this service to Canada would cause a stir...
Hey now, computers HAVE changed the job and the way people work. Before invoicing would take forever, but now that you can put it on an application to track all the work-orders and what not, its a snap! You don't have to filter through filing cabinets as much, etc etc.
As such, people are expected to get through more invoices a day.
Don't get me wrong, I agree that people who complain about their job when they have one better than fast food, they're kinda whiners. I've been there, I had to work seasonal (christmas) at Chapters, then at a Dairy Queen for a few shifts between IT jobs. Complaining about your job at a desk is really not going to inspire empathy with me.
But to say that computers haven't changed things, now thats just silly. People DO get "shackled" to their desk because they have so much work to do on their computer before they go home. But whether or not thats a terrible job is another thing entirely.