Paying short doesn't get the waitress fired for stealing, it comes out of their paycheck. So, when people do a Chew&Screw for 60 bucks, you basically stole 60 bucks from the waitress, not the restaurant.
I think it has every point to do with whether you should expect privacy. If the benefit outweighs the punishment for breaking your contract, wouldn't you be worried?
I don't think I understand why Copyright wouldn't work then. If I could Copyright my DNA I could essentially write a EULA & TOS for however I want my DNA to be used, and any universities, or medical agencies, governments, etc etc would only be able to use my DNA how I see fit.
And the only way to copy my work is to crack and understand the human Genome. It's perfect!
You mean putting Meta Tags on my site containing Taylor Momsen, Justin Beiber, and Hardcore Sluts, when my site is really about C# is not a way to generate a random hit? I mean, couple that with re-naming all the variables in example to code to the celebrities on Entertainment Weekly, and reworking all my functions signatures like so; sex_CalculateInterest(){...
I mean, how do YOU generate activity on your sites? The honest way is for suckers.
So Credit Card info has never ever been misused in the history of mankind? I know people who worked at a Gas-station who would claim the internet connection would be down so the debit machine and credit wouldn't work, but she could use the old receipt register, the ones that slide across the card on the graphite paper to keep a record of the card on the transaction - and they would then keep that CC info for themselves.
You can do this kind of stuff with your Credit Card info, Bank accounts, even Social Security number because you can go to the organizations that host this information and say "I believe its been compromised. Please cancel it and assign me a new one".
You think the school is going to negotiate with every student on campus? They haven't the manpower or the resources or the time.
There will be a set contact, and you can either take it or leave it, I imagine. And since we don't know the details of that arrangement, I'd err on the side of caution.
It's voluntary, so there is no invasion of privacy going on, when you give up your DNA willingly you can't be expected it to be held very strongly in confidentiality. It's kind of like that whole unsecured Wifi debacle. If you don't know exactly what they want to do with your DNA, you'd be a fool to give it to them. That is their mistake to make though, I'm not going to deny them that by saying this kind of action should be illegal.
If kids want dietting tips, or help on decisions, there are plenty of resources out there. I'm a little more paranoid at the idea of this becoming Comfortable. First its "Let us take your DNA to help you diet". Even if only 10% of people sign up, if they enjoy their results they'll tell their friends to partake in it next year. It will grow, until more schools are doing it. Then the elementary schools will do it. Then that confidentiality agreement will phase away, and there goes the neighbourhood.
I guess the only course of action is to warn people of the dangers and hope they make the right choice.
Those two are actually a bit more unique in nature. The Quake engine is especially known for people re-hacking it together for their new game idea, just as a starting point. And Valve basically lets you build your own game using their engine, source or original, they are pretty lax with it.
Other games have not had that luxury. The only things you could reliably add were sounds, textures, and if you were lucky, models. Than it was up to you to edit various resource files to achieve whatever effect you were hoping to recieve. This is kind of what lead to the term "Total Conversion" - because people wanted to build their own game using an engine that wasn't as open as Quake or Source. So it was more than just a mod, but it wasn't a different game entirely.
If the issue is privacy - Google is more than willing to destroy it, simple as that.
If the issue is the German Government not having it - they can go and collect this information themselves. Google put in the effort to record the data. Nothing is stopping an arm of the Government from doing the same thing. Google would be foolish to just give it away. That would essentially be wasting their time and money. I bet if they were offered money for the data, they'd consider it.
Really, there is nothing suspicious about Google's actions, but actually in the Government. It seems to me that they want to invade your privacy just as much as Google has, without doing any of the work.
That is - if you even considered this an invasion of privacy. I don't really think it is. Shouting out my journal from the rooftops isn't something I'd do if I didn't want people to hear it.
I mean, he may get an extra 6 months because of that big scar on his cheek, but that big scar on his cheek shows that he got into a knife fight at some point. Perhaps keeping individuals prone to that kind of behavior off the streets for a few extra months isn't exactly a bad thing.
Thats where things get difficult, though, right? For the sake of arguement, lets say that Microsoft decided to embed a Unique User ID into everyone's internet explorer, so that anytime you browse the net your ID gets stamped everywhere you go. Makes it easier for adspace to trend towards your interests, right? But then you're also checking your facebook, your email, your bank account, logging into slashdot, and so on and so forth.
Eventually, one of these services slip, like Facebook has, and your Identifiable Information gets out in the open. When I google my name, I see my Facebook Profile, my name come up under my mothers friends list on Facebook, a handful of.NET Debugging forums. Even foreign versions of Facebook, in my classes we had people from the middle east, Japan, Hong Kong, and other regions of the world, and every other google page I see "Facebook: (Chinese Characters) (My Name) ". Makes me a little paranoid I'm being creeped by someone I don't know.
Regardless - my point is that any effort they make to track just your preferences will always lead back to some site that slips up and makes your identifiable information easier to find, should you put it anywhere online. The way things currently are, you are pretty much safe if you do your best to keep your anonymity online, is probably the best its ever going to get.
See, I think (and I think some people on here might agree) is that yes: We don't like the business practices of Apple. But somewhere deep down inside, we want to see what will happen when Apple does these kinds of things. We're silently hoping that it shuns developers to other platforms, thus weakening Apple's product as a whole, and we can finally say "I told you so" when their stocks drop from bad ideas such as this.
On the other hand, we also like the idea of "Apple has the freedom to do what they want with their product" (notice that I cannot purchase a Microsoft Desktop, they don't have the full verticle control thing going on). It seems if we press on locking them down, the whole system will be locked down, and thats not good for everyone.
So we give them a bit of leniency because they are kind of our guinea pig. Big enough to try things out, but we don't have to depend on them.
When was the last bomb that set off on an airplane? 85?
They started searching luggage - and that has worked. The whole body scanner is a solution to a problem solved years ago. It does nothing to assist the need to search people and luggage prior to boarding a plane. People got used to the idea of being patted down at an airport.
In recent news, all of the failed bomb attempts have been mostly due to shoddy materials or poor bomb makers. The Government is using that as an example of how their efforts are working over in the Middle East. They claim that they are being successful in taking out bomb makers and that the third or fourth string recruits are the only ones left, and they are failing.
I'd be fine and dandy with that if it meant they could take out the body scanners and Lax airport security a bit. Have they found any bombs since introducing the body scanners? If so, why aren't they reporting them? If not, then they aren't necessary.
Any arguement you make about Scanners making things safer, I can also say that routine police raids into your home to ransack and a search for weapons couldn't equally achieve. Would you consent to your neighbours taking nude photos of you anytime you wanted to leave your house? At what point does invasion of privacy become acceptable? Because body scanners have definately crossed some lines.
On top of all of that, are you also willing to risk your health?
See, he asked the hypothetical "Would you help me bury a body" the week before and his room mate told him he would. So he thought he was in the clear.
He didn't know his room mate was a closet Apple Fanatic, and any chance to talk to Jobs and take him out to dinner would be worth it.... Okay I added the dinner part.
This research will be helpful in finding better ways for multi-legged robots to navigate difficult terrain.
I thought I saw a video where they took an "AI" Unit, gave it a bunch of simulated legs, and told it to brute force its way into walking to move a distance, knowing only how to move joints. I believe it was a 6 legged thing, sprawled out on the floor to start with. They were kind of hoping for a spider-like walking thing to be procedurally generated this way, but what they found was that it kind of slinked itself along more like how you would imagine a starfish moving along the ocean floor.
I found it quite interesting. I thought this kind of simulation would be best for brute-forcing our way to learn the best movement options for various setups across multiple terrains. All thats required really is algorithms to determine what method of movement is most energy efficient, time efficient, or whatever efficiency you're looking for.
Perhaps those calculations in large numbers right now are just a little too intensive for todays computers? I dunno.
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Paying short doesn't get the waitress fired for stealing, it comes out of their paycheck. So, when people do a Chew&Screw for 60 bucks, you basically stole 60 bucks from the waitress, not the restaurant.
Least, thats the way it works in Canada.
I think it has every point to do with whether you should expect privacy. If the benefit outweighs the punishment for breaking your contract, wouldn't you be worried?
I don't think I understand why Copyright wouldn't work then. If I could Copyright my DNA I could essentially write a EULA & TOS for however I want my DNA to be used, and any universities, or medical agencies, governments, etc etc would only be able to use my DNA how I see fit.
And the only way to copy my work is to crack and understand the human Genome. It's perfect!
You mean putting Meta Tags on my site containing Taylor Momsen, Justin Beiber, and Hardcore Sluts, when my site is really about C# is not a way to generate a random hit? I mean, couple that with re-naming all the variables in example to code to the celebrities on Entertainment Weekly, and reworking all my functions signatures like so;
sex_CalculateInterest(){...
I mean, how do YOU generate activity on your sites? The honest way is for suckers.
So Credit Card info has never ever been misused in the history of mankind? I know people who worked at a Gas-station who would claim the internet connection would be down so the debit machine and credit wouldn't work, but she could use the old receipt register, the ones that slide across the card on the graphite paper to keep a record of the card on the transaction - and they would then keep that CC info for themselves.
You can do this kind of stuff with your Credit Card info, Bank accounts, even Social Security number because you can go to the organizations that host this information and say "I believe its been compromised. Please cancel it and assign me a new one".
You can't reassign your DNA.
You think the school is going to negotiate with every student on campus? They haven't the manpower or the resources or the time.
There will be a set contact, and you can either take it or leave it, I imagine. And since we don't know the details of that arrangement, I'd err on the side of caution.
It's voluntary, so there is no invasion of privacy going on, when you give up your DNA willingly you can't be expected it to be held very strongly in confidentiality. It's kind of like that whole unsecured Wifi debacle. If you don't know exactly what they want to do with your DNA, you'd be a fool to give it to them. That is their mistake to make though, I'm not going to deny them that by saying this kind of action should be illegal.
If kids want dietting tips, or help on decisions, there are plenty of resources out there. I'm a little more paranoid at the idea of this becoming Comfortable. First its "Let us take your DNA to help you diet". Even if only 10% of people sign up, if they enjoy their results they'll tell their friends to partake in it next year. It will grow, until more schools are doing it. Then the elementary schools will do it. Then that confidentiality agreement will phase away, and there goes the neighbourhood.
I guess the only course of action is to warn people of the dangers and hope they make the right choice.
Signs of infection include a symbol with quadrants 1 through 4 as green red blue yellow.
Those two are actually a bit more unique in nature. The Quake engine is especially known for people re-hacking it together for their new game idea, just as a starting point. And Valve basically lets you build your own game using their engine, source or original, they are pretty lax with it.
Other games have not had that luxury. The only things you could reliably add were sounds, textures, and if you were lucky, models. Than it was up to you to edit various resource files to achieve whatever effect you were hoping to recieve. This is kind of what lead to the term "Total Conversion" - because people wanted to build their own game using an engine that wasn't as open as Quake or Source. So it was more than just a mod, but it wasn't a different game entirely.
Exactly, this is the driving force behind that Tenenbaum case.
Whats fishy about it at all?
If the issue is privacy - Google is more than willing to destroy it, simple as that.
If the issue is the German Government not having it - they can go and collect this information themselves. Google put in the effort to record the data. Nothing is stopping an arm of the Government from doing the same thing. Google would be foolish to just give it away. That would essentially be wasting their time and money. I bet if they were offered money for the data, they'd consider it.
Really, there is nothing suspicious about Google's actions, but actually in the Government. It seems to me that they want to invade your privacy just as much as Google has, without doing any of the work.
That is - if you even considered this an invasion of privacy. I don't really think it is. Shouting out my journal from the rooftops isn't something I'd do if I didn't want people to hear it.
Yeah.
I mean, he may get an extra 6 months because of that big scar on his cheek, but that big scar on his cheek shows that he got into a knife fight at some point. Perhaps keeping individuals prone to that kind of behavior off the streets for a few extra months isn't exactly a bad thing.
I know! I liked hotmail because it meant I could escape the dreaded Power Point Presentation...
Why must they make the laser sound effect for every letter flying in from the side of the screen. Make it stop!
It's about as effective as knowing who is driving a car by the license plate. Yeah its not 100% accurate but definately more than 90%.
Thats where things get difficult, though, right? For the sake of arguement, lets say that Microsoft decided to embed a Unique User ID into everyone's internet explorer, so that anytime you browse the net your ID gets stamped everywhere you go. Makes it easier for adspace to trend towards your interests, right? But then you're also checking your facebook, your email, your bank account, logging into slashdot, and so on and so forth.
Eventually, one of these services slip, like Facebook has, and your Identifiable Information gets out in the open. When I google my name, I see my Facebook Profile, my name come up under my mothers friends list on Facebook, a handful of .NET Debugging forums. Even foreign versions of Facebook, in my classes we had people from the middle east, Japan, Hong Kong, and other regions of the world, and every other google page I see "Facebook: (Chinese Characters) (My Name) ". Makes me a little paranoid I'm being creeped by someone I don't know.
Regardless - my point is that any effort they make to track just your preferences will always lead back to some site that slips up and makes your identifiable information easier to find, should you put it anywhere online. The way things currently are, you are pretty much safe if you do your best to keep your anonymity online, is probably the best its ever going to get.
It's not that easy.
She wears a mask.
If a Black Hole is a super dense star, is it possible to have a galaxy of black holes? Or one giant one with an event Horizon as big as a galaxy?
See, I think (and I think some people on here might agree) is that yes: We don't like the business practices of Apple. But somewhere deep down inside, we want to see what will happen when Apple does these kinds of things. We're silently hoping that it shuns developers to other platforms, thus weakening Apple's product as a whole, and we can finally say "I told you so" when their stocks drop from bad ideas such as this.
On the other hand, we also like the idea of "Apple has the freedom to do what they want with their product" (notice that I cannot purchase a Microsoft Desktop, they don't have the full verticle control thing going on). It seems if we press on locking them down, the whole system will be locked down, and thats not good for everyone.
So we give them a bit of leniency because they are kind of our guinea pig. Big enough to try things out, but we don't have to depend on them.
When was the last bomb that set off on an airplane? 85?
They started searching luggage - and that has worked. The whole body scanner is a solution to a problem solved years ago. It does nothing to assist the need to search people and luggage prior to boarding a plane. People got used to the idea of being patted down at an airport.
In recent news, all of the failed bomb attempts have been mostly due to shoddy materials or poor bomb makers. The Government is using that as an example of how their efforts are working over in the Middle East. They claim that they are being successful in taking out bomb makers and that the third or fourth string recruits are the only ones left, and they are failing.
I'd be fine and dandy with that if it meant they could take out the body scanners and Lax airport security a bit. Have they found any bombs since introducing the body scanners? If so, why aren't they reporting them? If not, then they aren't necessary.
Any arguement you make about Scanners making things safer, I can also say that routine police raids into your home to ransack and a search for weapons couldn't equally achieve. Would you consent to your neighbours taking nude photos of you anytime you wanted to leave your house? At what point does invasion of privacy become acceptable? Because body scanners have definately crossed some lines.
On top of all of that, are you also willing to risk your health?
This one time, I was pretty sure my doctor misdiagnosed me as retarded. So I googled do-it-yourself brain surgery.
Never had that problem since.
The worst I ever did was explode vomit in a bathroom then fall into a drunken sleep for my female roommate to clean up.
I'm sure getting the house raided and the guy near arrested tops that.
Prioritees. I would rather be near arrested and have my 15 minutes of fame than clean up your puke.
See, he asked the hypothetical "Would you help me bury a body" the week before and his room mate told him he would. So he thought he was in the clear.
He didn't know his room mate was a closet Apple Fanatic, and any chance to talk to Jobs and take him out to dinner would be worth it. ... Okay I added the dinner part.
1993 called, they said you can't have their animatronics.
Star Trek not a comedy? Why didn't someone tell me I wasn't supposed to laugh?
-- .nosig
Because the Captain forgot to say "Make it so"
This research will be helpful in finding better ways for multi-legged robots to navigate difficult terrain.
I thought I saw a video where they took an "AI" Unit, gave it a bunch of simulated legs, and told it to brute force its way into walking to move a distance, knowing only how to move joints. I believe it was a 6 legged thing, sprawled out on the floor to start with. They were kind of hoping for a spider-like walking thing to be procedurally generated this way, but what they found was that it kind of slinked itself along more like how you would imagine a starfish moving along the ocean floor.
I found it quite interesting. I thought this kind of simulation would be best for brute-forcing our way to learn the best movement options for various setups across multiple terrains. All thats required really is algorithms to determine what method of movement is most energy efficient, time efficient, or whatever efficiency you're looking for.
Perhaps those calculations in large numbers right now are just a little too intensive for todays computers? I dunno.