Even with these there is a silver lining. As stated in the Quadro Tracker article on Wikipedia, if the institution knows these devices are frauds, but their (e.g.) students, don't, and the students think the administration really does have a device that can detect drugs even in airtight containers...Well there are obviously positive effects going on there. The only thing is... why pay so much? The administration could probably kludge together stuff from the local hobby shop/Radio Shack (just ask the science lab teacher, he/she is probably bored out of their mind anyway, and looking for something fun) to 'design' it.. then begin circulating the rumor that they have it, and stage a couple 'stings' that prove the device's efficacy... Presto! You have less drugs on campus.
And in a similar vein, the game of Intelligence is as much about misinformation as it is about information, and if your "enemies" think you have a lock on their communications (even though you don't) that isn't necessarily a bad thing. Again... The price seems steep... but perhaps in this case it was needed to provide credibility. I don't know. For all we know the guy never actually got the money but a game of cups was played with it just to make AQ think something was up... To make them use another channel of communication which we really did have access to? Who knows. These things are rarely so cut and dry.
The more pissed I get at the universe for playing a great cosmic joke on me. I should've been born during the era of human expansion into the galaxy... That's really the only thing that freaks me out about death: that I won't be able to observe things continue. I want to know how our story truly unfolds!!
Depends. If I'm doing something in my own home and it's 'newsworthy' then no, you certainly can't. If I'm out in public it's a bit hazier, but even then I have some protections. AFAIK the courts will decide. If you're using it for journalism I think they would be more likely to side with you, as long as I was in public.
They don't, at least not under some laws, like those of the United States. Someone needs to obtain a release if they are going to make money off of a picture of you (unless there's no way to recognize it as YOU).
There are several international copyright laws. That link will show you the participating countries. But even so, unless you're a top-tier photographer, it's not really worth the time it would take to pursue legal action. Your best bet is a good defense.
If you upload full size images to Flickr, etc, you're really just asking for someone to steal it and use it without your permission. So if you're that worried about it... don't use Flickr. But if you absolutely must, then you can take the annoying step of putting a watermark across the whole image, or, if you don't like to deface your work, there's also no reason you can't downsize the image to something like 800px at a low to medium DPI which makes it practically unusable for print.
All of that said though, people who steal images and use them without permission are, at least in my mind, in the same boat as people who steal music, warez, etc... if they can't get it for free they aren't going to buy it anyway.
All they really need in order to deal with rain and snow, etc, is a decent protective case. All they really need for the touch interface issue is simply don't use it. Instead, just plug a simple tactile device into the USB that attaches securely to the side of the case.
Honestly, I think a bunch PSP style devices would work better for this though.
Wahhhh! *GEEK RAGE* OMG. No big surprise here. Come on folks, this makes some sense. Haha look at the source. I'll reserve judgment. Are you F'd KIDDING ME? I'm going to sacrifice a goat to the DRM gods. I shall have 12 children and create an unholy anti-Sony Crusade. Now I can't HAXOR FPS games, and since I suck,/fml. Damnit and I almost had SOUND working on my Other OS kludge. APPLE APPLE APPLE ARGGH!! I for one welcome our new PS3 botnet overlords. How many PS3s covered in hot grits? Wait, who is Sony? This is hilarious!
You might as well replace "Sony" in your post with any of the top tech companies. Apple is even worse. And yet people have put their market cap at 300 billion. I think it's rather stupid of Sony to spend all this effort doing what they're doing, but I also think it's rather stupid of people like you to get on an internet forum and tell people to consider never buying sony, ever. The vast majority of people who buy a Playstation 3 love it. I own TWO. I love them. Sony wasting its time to prevent me from doing something I was never going to do in the first place is not going to change my experience of owning a PS3, and listening to you I never would've had that experience in the first place.
So maybe I'm a horrible 'literalist' (not sure there's a word for that, so I guess I'm... not?) but there's only one Universe.
One.
Any other kind of 'verses' are all a part of this same Universe, that realm which encompasses all of existence. To include further things within the Universe is possible, but it is not possible to have more than one Universe. Even a "Multi" verse is yet still a "Uni" verse when one considers the whole as a single whole... as one without any logical doubt can do.
Therefore the "multiverses" would all still exist within the single Universe. For which reason I would prefer to remove the "verse" from "multiverse" and perhaps call it a "multicosmos" or something equally pointless in the general scheme of things except for which to sate my spontaneous lust for pedantry.
The sheer quantity of people like Sarah is small... Right now it's a very limited group, and I don't lose sleep over it because they are marginalized. But if they ever come to power.....
How much is one complaint worth? How much is being 'pissed' worth? At the end of they day the only thing they can solidly quantify (and I hesitate at saying solidly) is how many people left. Facebook's reputation, you say? And exactly how was it damaged? Nobody I know has even heard of this. I suspect the only people who know it even happened were those affected by it. Say what you will about all these intangibles, and I'll say what I will about $360,000,000 punishment.
Pulling the BP card seems to have backfired on you -- BP's making a profit again regardless of the reputation hit... So exactly how much was the damage again? Please be precise, this is a court of law.
You might read that subject line and go "wait, that's totally impossible! A populist is someone who believes in power of the people for the people and a plutocrat is someone who believes in the power of the rich and wealthy, and those two just can't really mix". Except that they can. I would guess that Palin thinks she should be the rich and wealthy of the 'people' so she can then be more powerful, all of course 'for' those same people while being a part of them. The pretext for this sort of situation would be that she is the one most qualified to wield the power for the people and hence deserves much of the wealth.
This is why she scares me. Because she thinks she's qualified to be that person, the Plutocrat amongst Populists, the Ideology Transcender, and I simply do not agree. Disclaimer: I live in Alaska.
$360 million dollars is a laughable joke. It might as well have been $360 trillion. This guy will never pay even 1% of that amount, and I'm amazed that anyone in the justice department thought Facebook was damaged for $360million because they lost 4,500 users. If so, doing the math, Facebook should pay me around $80,000 just to keep my account activated. Ok, well they can keep 5%, a decent profit margin.
1. Yes, this is a dumb question. The concentration is 5000% higher, not 50%.
2. A cursory google search (let me google that for you...) reveals the answer in the form of a comment (#5) on the first result of said Google search:
Researchers working at Vostok Station produced one of the world’s longest ice cores in 1998. A joint Russian, French, and U.S. team drilled and analyzed the core, which is 3,623 metres (11,886 ft) long. Ice samples from cores drilled close to the top of the lake have been analyzed to be as old as 420,000 years, suggesting that the lake has been sealed under the icecap for between 500,000 and more than a million years. Drilling of the core was deliberately halted roughly 100 metres (300 ft)[5] above the suspected boundary where the ice sheet and the liquid waters of the lake are thought to meet. This was to prevent contamination of the lake from the 60 ton column of freon and aviation fuel Russian scientists filled it with to prevent it from freezing over.
But perhaps most interestingly, there actually is absolutely no proof that the lake itself is oligotropic. They only sampled ice directly above it. Using this as 'evidence' of oligotropism is questionable at best.
Nonetheless, the point he is making makes sense to most people. It's about perception. For if we, as a nation, cannot control our government, who is to blame but ourselves?
Figures that a guy named 'erroneus' would posit that human brain "errors" are the reason we're creative...
FWIW, I disagree. And I don't think either Answers.com or Reference.com quite hit it on the head, either. For example, what is the definition of "imaginative skill"? Sounds like Answers.com is pulling that one right out of their ass.
For certain kinds of information, perhaps mostly of the civil kind, I would agree wholeheartedly. But we cannot simply say "information" like we intend to mean all information. We must qualify the statement, define the scope, or we're simply being too ambiguous...
Four-Star General John Example has just learned of some vital strategic or tactical information in an ongoing conflict. He has two obvious choices: He can keep this information secure and not tell everyone, for however long it takes, or, he can tell everyone and render his information useless.
From Dictionary.com:
"hoard"
–verb (used without object)
3.
to accumulate money, food, or the like, in a hidden or carefully guarded place for preservation, future use, etc.
To hoard does not imply to never use.
And of course there are exceptions. This is the reason I called her an idealist in the first place. Idealists see no room for exceptions. They don't live in the real world where perfection is defined not as something with no flaws but as something with as few flaws as we can practicably achieve.
The benefit of national security is a null hypothesis. If it's working you won't 'see' it, because the result is zero action. What you do see, in effect, could have been a result of lack of security, but that is the juxtapose of the original hypothesis and is therefore irrelevant.
“Governments shouldn’t hoard information. The information is there and it belongs to the people,” she says. “Information and the manipulation of information is the key to power. Those who can control the information can influence society enormously. The more accurate the flow of information the more productive we can be.”
By her own logic, governments should hoard information, at least in the traditional sense, to keep it hidden from other national governments. Unless you think every nation in the word should have the same information as every other, then you agree with the general concept here.
And how exactly are governments supposed to not hoard information, keeping it hidden from even their own citizens, if they expect to be able to keep it hidden from other governments as well? I don't see how it's possible. Either the government hoards information and by necessity keeps some hidden from its people, or the government is completely transparent and every country in the world knows everything.
She's advocating an idealist point of view, one that is not tenable, at least not in terms of national security.
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Even with these there is a silver lining. As stated in the Quadro Tracker article on Wikipedia, if the institution knows these devices are frauds, but their (e.g.) students, don't, and the students think the administration really does have a device that can detect drugs even in airtight containers...Well there are obviously positive effects going on there. The only thing is ... why pay so much? The administration could probably kludge together stuff from the local hobby shop/Radio Shack (just ask the science lab teacher, he/she is probably bored out of their mind anyway, and looking for something fun) to 'design' it.. then begin circulating the rumor that they have it, and stage a couple 'stings' that prove the device's efficacy... Presto! You have less drugs on campus.
And in a similar vein, the game of Intelligence is as much about misinformation as it is about information, and if your "enemies" think you have a lock on their communications (even though you don't) that isn't necessarily a bad thing. Again... The price seems steep... but perhaps in this case it was needed to provide credibility. I don't know. For all we know the guy never actually got the money but a game of cups was played with it just to make AQ think something was up... To make them use another channel of communication which we really did have access to? Who knows. These things are rarely so cut and dry.
The more pissed I get at the universe for playing a great cosmic joke on me. I should've been born during the era of human expansion into the galaxy... That's really the only thing that freaks me out about death: that I won't be able to observe things continue. I want to know how our story truly unfolds!!
Translation of "the lulz": Having a laugh at someone else's expense.
Real mature, that.
Depends. If I'm doing something in my own home and it's 'newsworthy' then no, you certainly can't. If I'm out in public it's a bit hazier, but even then I have some protections. AFAIK the courts will decide. If you're using it for journalism I think they would be more likely to side with you, as long as I was in public.
Thanks for correcting me on the DPI/PPI statement. I'd mod you up if I hadn't already posted in the thread.
They don't, at least not under some laws, like those of the United States. Someone needs to obtain a release if they are going to make money off of a picture of you (unless there's no way to recognize it as YOU).
There are several international copyright laws. That link will show you the participating countries. But even so, unless you're a top-tier photographer, it's not really worth the time it would take to pursue legal action. Your best bet is a good defense.
If you upload full size images to Flickr, etc, you're really just asking for someone to steal it and use it without your permission. So if you're that worried about it... don't use Flickr. But if you absolutely must, then you can take the annoying step of putting a watermark across the whole image, or, if you don't like to deface your work, there's also no reason you can't downsize the image to something like 800px at a low to medium DPI which makes it practically unusable for print.
All of that said though, people who steal images and use them without permission are, at least in my mind, in the same boat as people who steal music, warez, etc... if they can't get it for free they aren't going to buy it anyway.
All they really need in order to deal with rain and snow, etc, is a decent protective case. All they really need for the touch interface issue is simply don't use it. Instead, just plug a simple tactile device into the USB that attaches securely to the side of the case. Honestly, I think a bunch PSP style devices would work better for this though.
So... now Bing is the *real* LMGTFY?
Let's see what happens...
Wahhhh! *GEEK RAGE* OMG. No big surprise here. Come on folks, this makes some sense. Haha look at the source. I'll reserve judgment. Are you F'd KIDDING ME? I'm going to sacrifice a goat to the DRM gods. I shall have 12 children and create an unholy anti-Sony Crusade. Now I can't HAXOR FPS games, and since I suck, /fml. Damnit and I almost had SOUND working on my Other OS kludge. APPLE APPLE APPLE ARGGH!! I for one welcome our new PS3 botnet overlords. How many PS3s covered in hot grits? Wait, who is Sony? This is hilarious!
You might as well replace "Sony" in your post with any of the top tech companies. Apple is even worse. And yet people have put their market cap at 300 billion. I think it's rather stupid of Sony to spend all this effort doing what they're doing, but I also think it's rather stupid of people like you to get on an internet forum and tell people to consider never buying sony, ever. The vast majority of people who buy a Playstation 3 love it. I own TWO. I love them. Sony wasting its time to prevent me from doing something I was never going to do in the first place is not going to change my experience of owning a PS3, and listening to you I never would've had that experience in the first place.
So maybe I'm a horrible 'literalist' (not sure there's a word for that, so I guess I'm ... not?) but there's only one Universe.
One.
Any other kind of 'verses' are all a part of this same Universe, that realm which encompasses all of existence. To include further things within the Universe is possible, but it is not possible to have more than one Universe. Even a "Multi" verse is yet still a "Uni" verse when one considers the whole as a single whole... as one without any logical doubt can do.
Therefore the "multiverses" would all still exist within the single Universe. For which reason I would prefer to remove the "verse" from "multiverse" and perhaps call it a "multicosmos" or something equally pointless in the general scheme of things except for which to sate my spontaneous lust for pedantry.
Disclaimer: I've been reading The Baroque Cycle.
The sheer quantity of people like Sarah is small... Right now it's a very limited group, and I don't lose sleep over it because they are marginalized. But if they ever come to power.....
How much is one complaint worth? How much is being 'pissed' worth? At the end of they day the only thing they can solidly quantify (and I hesitate at saying solidly) is how many people left. Facebook's reputation, you say? And exactly how was it damaged? Nobody I know has even heard of this. I suspect the only people who know it even happened were those affected by it. Say what you will about all these intangibles, and I'll say what I will about $360,000,000 punishment.
Pulling the BP card seems to have backfired on you -- BP's making a profit again regardless of the reputation hit... So exactly how much was the damage again? Please be precise, this is a court of law.
You might read that subject line and go "wait, that's totally impossible! A populist is someone who believes in power of the people for the people and a plutocrat is someone who believes in the power of the rich and wealthy, and those two just can't really mix". Except that they can. I would guess that Palin thinks she should be the rich and wealthy of the 'people' so she can then be more powerful, all of course 'for' those same people while being a part of them. The pretext for this sort of situation would be that she is the one most qualified to wield the power for the people and hence deserves much of the wealth.
This is why she scares me. Because she thinks she's qualified to be that person, the Plutocrat amongst Populists, the Ideology Transcender, and I simply do not agree. Disclaimer: I live in Alaska.
$360 million dollars is a laughable joke. It might as well have been $360 trillion. This guy will never pay even 1% of that amount, and I'm amazed that anyone in the justice department thought Facebook was damaged for $360million because they lost 4,500 users. If so, doing the math, Facebook should pay me around $80,000 just to keep my account activated. Ok, well they can keep 5%, a decent profit margin.
Seriously, the "all your eggs in one basket" just doesn't percolate into your thoughts here?
2. A cursory google search (let me google that for you...) reveals the answer in the form of a comment (#5) on the first result of said Google search:
But perhaps most interestingly, there actually is absolutely no proof that the lake itself is oligotropic. They only sampled ice directly above it. Using this as 'evidence' of oligotropism is questionable at best.
Nonetheless, the point he is making makes sense to most people. It's about perception. For if we, as a nation, cannot control our government, who is to blame but ourselves?
Figures that a guy named 'erroneus' would posit that human brain "errors" are the reason we're creative...
FWIW, I disagree. And I don't think either Answers.com or Reference.com quite hit it on the head, either. For example, what is the definition of "imaginative skill"? Sounds like Answers.com is pulling that one right out of their ass.
For certain kinds of information, perhaps mostly of the civil kind, I would agree wholeheartedly. But we cannot simply say "information" like we intend to mean all information. We must qualify the statement, define the scope, or we're simply being too ambiguous...
Four-Star General John Example has just learned of some vital strategic or tactical information in an ongoing conflict. He has two obvious choices: He can keep this information secure and not tell everyone, for however long it takes, or, he can tell everyone and render his information useless.
Which one do you expect him to choose?
From Dictionary.com:
"hoard"
–verb (used without object)
3.
to accumulate money, food, or the like, in a hidden or carefully guarded place for preservation, future use, etc.
To hoard does not imply to never use.
And of course there are exceptions. This is the reason I called her an idealist in the first place. Idealists see no room for exceptions. They don't live in the real world where perfection is defined not as something with no flaws but as something with as few flaws as we can practicably achieve.
The benefit of national security is a null hypothesis. If it's working you won't 'see' it, because the result is zero action. What you do see, in effect, could have been a result of lack of security, but that is the juxtapose of the original hypothesis and is therefore irrelevant.
By her own logic, governments should hoard information, at least in the traditional sense, to keep it hidden from other national governments. Unless you think every nation in the word should have the same information as every other, then you agree with the general concept here.
And how exactly are governments supposed to not hoard information, keeping it hidden from even their own citizens, if they expect to be able to keep it hidden from other governments as well? I don't see how it's possible. Either the government hoards information and by necessity keeps some hidden from its people, or the government is completely transparent and every country in the world knows everything.
She's advocating an idealist point of view, one that is not tenable, at least not in terms of national security.
*whoooosh*