Sorry, but when people are asking for money it is incombent on them to say what they are going to use it for.
Wikimedia has said what the money is to be used for. If you don't like the level of detail given, then don't donate. But stop implying that it's part of some conspiracy.
And, if I recall correctly, quite a few of the wikipedia posters got highly upset when they were asked about plans for the money.
Again, I saw no such thing in the previous fundraising discussion.
Honest people do not do that.
Honest people don't make vague unsubstantiated claims about people acting to defraud the public.
How is googles non proposal different then when you raised money last time for new servers while refusing to say what you were going to spend the money on?
The Wikimedia Foundation said in broad terms what the money was going to be spent on. That they didn't itemize their spending for the next six months down to the penny does not constitute a refusal to say what it was going to be used for.
The Mathworld web site was similar in that copyright was not owned by one person. Possibly the volunteers signed their copyright over to Eric, but on the surface it appears that Eric did not have the authority to (unintentionally) give copyright to CRC. That didn't stop CRC.
It's ambiguous. The current permissions form merely grants Wolfram the right to do whatever they please with the material. I have no idea what the previous terms were.
Wikipedia's content is explicitly under a license that allows for irrevocable rights to republication and derivative works. The worst that can happen without declaring the GFDL invalid is that the Foundation goes bankrupt. But we'd still have the right to take the database and go elsewhere.
Why were they not using battery backup on their database servers (IE, their critical servers)? That way the servers would have the necessary 10 minutes (or whatever) so that they can shut down the DBs and power off the systems.
Please tread carefully when dealing with Google. I know they claim to 'do no evil', but the Mathworld Mess highlights what can go wrong. Wikipedia is too precious to lose.
Unlike Mathworld, nobody has the authority to sign over the copyrights to Wikipedia's content (in bulk) to Google or anyone else.
And when the master MySQL database server goes down, it's still not going to work right because Wikipedia is a dynamic system with changing content. URIs are not a magic bullet that make things distributed without any other work.
For example, PHP makes it trivially easy to insert dynamic content here and there into a page. If you want to separate business logic from presentation, which is almost manditory on a large site, you will want some sort of templating package. You will have to write your own. This is a common need, why shouldn't the core language address it? Because they are too busy reinventing object oriented programming?
Because PHP is a templating package. You just have to have the discipline to use it as such instead of slapping your database code willy-nilly into the HTML.
"There are currently no plans for Advertising on Wikipedia."
And a little further down the page...
"Someday, there will be advertising on Wikipedia"
Yes, a little further down the page in the part that is marked as historical and has no relevance to the current situation! The page is not chronological! Are you people blind, stupid, or just deliberately obtuse?
Knowing that Boomer is a Cylon is of course rather obvious, the thing that so far hasn't been explained is why Boomer is going crazy from time to time (blowing up the water reservers, shooting Adama)
Because she's a Cylon sleeper agent. One can assume that she is programmed to perform limited acts of sabotage and assassination.
and why she herself doesn't know that she is a Cylon.
You managed to miss the intro text somehow?
The Cylons were created by Man. (shot of two Cylon warriors)
They rebelled. ( mushroom cloud)
They evolved. (a bunch of humanoid Cylons walking)
They look (Six)
and Feel (Six and Baltar making out)
Human.
Some are programmed to think they are Human. (Slowly revealed in red)
There are many copies. (splitscreen: Boomer on Caprica and Boomer on Galactica
And they have a plan.
Boomer doesn't know because she is programmed not to know.
If you read it correctly, the page say quite clearly advertising in inevitable, unless someone can think of an alternative.
If you read it correctly, you'll read the intro text that says "The text below is historical" in nice bold letters. The supposed inevitability was circumvented by thinking of an alternative in the time since November 2001.
Even Firefly, which I love, managed to sometimes feel a little claustrophobic (ships crossing between stars passing by within a few hundred feet of each other, a little strange).
Firefly's scale was never explicitly stated, but I was always under the impression that it took place in one star system. While it's still silly, it's less silly by a half-dozen orders of magnitude.
...but still knowing nothing about Boomers background it was just yet another completly random thing.
Only an idiot didn't know (or suspect with very high probability) that Boomer was a Cylon. It has been blatantly pointed at repeatedly, beginning with the pilot. Wasn't her being in two places at once a big clue? The shooting was a shock, but not random.
Even their own Advertising on Wikipedia policy page admits ads are going to happen someday. Wouldn't this be the best way for them to go?
Did you intentionally read that incorrectly, or what?
Advertising is not going to happen on Wikipedia. The last time it was half-heartedly entertained, the Spanish Wikipedia misinterpreted it as a definitive statement and forked.
Strawman argumentation - add 1 point to the troll'o'meter.
Only if you're measuring how much of your troll I'm biting on.
The US Constitution does not provide for anything that is not a state to have the rights and obligations of a state.
Wrong - it does not specify that anywhere.
Except for everywhere. Have you never read the US Constitution?
Article I - Section 2
Clause 1: The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by the People of the several States, and the Electors in each State shall have the Qualifications requisite for Electors of the most numerous Branch of the State Legislature.
Clause 3 (abridged): Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers...[snip]. The Number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty Thousand, but each State shall have at Least one Representative; and until such enumeration shall be made, the State of New Hampshire shall be entitled to chuse three, Massachusetts eight, Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations one, Connecticut five, New-York six, New Jersey four, Pennsylvania eight, Delaware one, Maryland six, Virginia ten, North Carolina five, South Carolina five, and Georgia three.
Not only does Article I not provide for representation for anything other than a state, Massachusetts is explicitly listed "among the several States".
Massachusetts is, under the only definition that matters to anyone not in Massachusetts, a state.
Oh it isn't an argument - I was just correcting you.
If by "correcting", you mean "making a statement with no supporting evidence which is contradicted by the facts already presented".
In civilised countries men and women have the same rights, that doesn't mean that there suddenly is only one gender.
This isn't what you're arguing. To stretch the metaphor, we're living in an "uncivilized" country, where only "men" have rights. Massachusetts likes to dress up in high heels and halter tops and call itself a "woman". But legally, it's still a "man". In this ridiculous analogy, Puerto Rico is a "woman".
These commonwealths have the rights and obligations of states, but it doesn't make them states.
The US Constitution does not provide for anything that is not a state to have the rights and obligations of a state. Massachusetts is a state, and what it refers to itself as internally is irrelevant on a national level.
Slashdot Mirror
A cursory glance at the story on the previous fundraiser reveals no such thing.
Wikimedia has said what the money is to be used for. If you don't like the level of detail given, then don't donate. But stop implying that it's part of some conspiracy.
Again, I saw no such thing in the previous fundraising discussion.
Honest people don't make vague unsubstantiated claims about people acting to defraud the public.
The Wikimedia Foundation said in broad terms what the money was going to be spent on. That they didn't itemize their spending for the next six months down to the penny does not constitute a refusal to say what it was going to be used for.
It's ambiguous. The current permissions form merely grants Wolfram the right to do whatever they please with the material. I have no idea what the previous terms were.
Wikipedia's content is explicitly under a license that allows for irrevocable rights to republication and derivative works. The worst that can happen without declaring the GFDL invalid is that the Foundation goes bankrupt. But we'd still have the right to take the database and go elsewhere.
See this post by Jamesday.
Daniel "mav" Mayer, the Wikimedia Foundation CFO had this to say on IRC:
Unlike Mathworld, nobody has the authority to sign over the copyrights to Wikipedia's content (in bulk) to Google or anyone else.
And when the master MySQL database server goes down, it's still not going to work right because Wikipedia is a dynamic system with changing content. URIs are not a magic bullet that make things distributed without any other work.
The Slashdot effect is negligible compared to Wikipedia's normal insanely high traffic.
You know not what you ask. Trust me.
Nobody's turned Google down. There's been no actual proposals to turn down yet.
Albright is from Czechoslovakia.
A 'D' is also failing in the undergrad engineering programs I've heard of.
Because PHP is a templating package. You just have to have the discipline to use it as such instead of slapping your database code willy-nilly into the HTML.
It's a bit dated, but Stuart Cheshire's (author of Bolo) "It's the latency, stupid" is still relevant.
Yes, a little further down the page in the part that is marked as historical and has no relevance to the current situation! The page is not chronological! Are you people blind, stupid, or just deliberately obtuse?
Because she's a Cylon sleeper agent. One can assume that she is programmed to perform limited acts of sabotage and assassination.
You managed to miss the intro text somehow?
Boomer doesn't know because she is programmed not to know.
If you read it correctly, you'll read the intro text that says "The text below is historical" in nice bold letters. The supposed inevitability was circumvented by thinking of an alternative in the time since November 2001.
Firefly's scale was never explicitly stated, but I was always under the impression that it took place in one star system. While it's still silly, it's less silly by a half-dozen orders of magnitude.
SPOILERS CONTINUE
Only an idiot didn't know (or suspect with very high probability) that Boomer was a Cylon. It has been blatantly pointed at repeatedly, beginning with the pilot. Wasn't her being in two places at once a big clue? The shooting was a shock, but not random.
Rule 29.
Did you intentionally read that incorrectly, or what?
Advertising is not going to happen on Wikipedia. The last time it was half-heartedly entertained, the Spanish Wikipedia misinterpreted it as a definitive statement and forked.
Only if you're measuring how much of your troll I'm biting on.
Except for everywhere. Have you never read the US Constitution?
Not only does Article I not provide for representation for anything other than a state, Massachusetts is explicitly listed "among the several States".
Massachusetts is, under the only definition that matters to anyone not in Massachusetts, a state.
If by "correcting", you mean "making a statement with no supporting evidence which is contradicted by the facts already presented".
This isn't what you're arguing. To stretch the metaphor, we're living in an "uncivilized" country, where only "men" have rights. Massachusetts likes to dress up in high heels and halter tops and call itself a "woman". But legally, it's still a "man". In this ridiculous analogy, Puerto Rico is a "woman".
The US Constitution does not provide for anything that is not a state to have the rights and obligations of a state. Massachusetts is a state, and what it refers to itself as internally is irrelevant on a national level.
To put it a little more poetically, file sharing gives people something for nothing whereas spam gives people nothing for something.
By having the "No Karma Bonus" checkbox checked by default and not unchecking it unless I feel the post actually needs it.