Most contracts, I have read including loan agreements, have this type of clause, I think this type clause should be banned from any contract. Who in there right mind would sign a agreement that effectively says the other party can do what they want. How can you agree to terms and conditions you don't know.
Just to the drugs part, drugs are on section of the industry which being the creator gives you a massive advantage being a copier (don't believe me go look price of Panadol over a generic brand paracetamol). People are willing to pay a premium for a name brand. The problem with granting long lived patients is that they remove incentives for companies to improve drugs until the patient is about to expire. And when they are about to expire the drug company magically comes out with a new improved version
Actually riding a bike actually increases the the likely hood of dying young. The chances of dying in a bike accident here is about 10 more than a car. But if you really want to die young use a motorcycle.
according to wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygraph "90-95% validity by polygraph advocates" but it is disputed "psychologists estimated the test's average accuracy at about 61%"
Anyway I think the advantage of this is not that it is more accurate its probably that you can set one up without hooking it up or even asking the person being questioned
50 years is already a travesty. Sure you need a period of time to make money from your work, but writing 1 song should not have to guaranteeing you a life time of income. (or as in the real world the record company a lifetime of income). The period of copyright should enough time so the artist can make a reasonable amount money from that investment. If they want more invest the money they earn't or come up with more art.
I think it is more likely that companies are more likely to try stop artists from killing themselves, if copyright expired on death. You can't make monopoly profits on something that anyone could copy. Would you kill so you could copy a song or pay the couple of dollars. Although it seems the financial penalties are higher for copying some songs than murder.
Governance: I think transparency is the key every thing should be revealed eventually including reasoning. Everybody is corruptible and fallible so politicians need to be aware that they will be judged eventually (some things need to be secret for now but not for ever). But along with transparency we need the public to be more accepting of failure and mistakes from our politicians they are just human no better or worse than we are.
Economy. I believe sharing is the key here from ideas to physical things. New Ideas are based on old ones keeping them to yourself and assuming the rest of the world cannot make a valuable contribution. Same with things does every body really need there own drill, barbecue, lawn mowers, cake tins.... how may things do you own they you use infrequently. The internet now provides us with the ability to share both all we need is to utilize it.
Also reward it seems to me that currently it is our measure of success, and how much status symbols you can buy with it. But it does not have to be recognise people for achievements more do they help other etc. There is an honours system it seems to unattainable. Money is a means of attaining a goal not the goal itself.
But we do. We understand that 23 Twinkies a day is bad. We do not drink drain cleaner because it came with some neat stickers that we really wanted. We understand about basic nutrition and exercise.
This knowledge will prolong our lives so to most people it is important.
They can not distinguish between the internet and a program.
Do you know the difference between a vein and an artery? or what the SA node does. I'm not a doctor so these are not a very hard examples, but the point is does it matter if you don't? Its not important to you. If they can go onto there computer and do what they need to do, what is the problem if they think IE6 is the internet.
They can not read before clicking "Ok".
People in general don't read, or read as little as the can get away with (I am not talking about reading for entrainment or self enhancement because people enjoy that). People usually don't even read contracts for thousands of dollars. I once got an interest free hire purchase because the wouldn't give me a discount for cash. Read the contract, I asked to see the supplementary terms and conditions that where stated in the contract but they didn't have a copy because nobody had ever asked, this was a big store. Ask yourself have you read and fully understood every contract you have signed. Even if it did have a clause that you didn't agree with what could you do? Most loan contracts I have read a clause something like: we can change the terms and conditions at any time. One (for a home loan) even referred me to a web site as to there conditions so basically they could change it a will no signed copy.
As a computer programmer I see it as my job to make the programs I write as easy to use as possible. If someone (in my target user demographic) has a problem using it then it is my fault not theirs. I may not be able to get the program so no user has problems using it, but I have to do my best to minimise this.
People specialize, just because someone doesn't know or even care about a particular area doesn't mean anything about there intelligence. There are plenty of areas I simply have no interest in sports, celebrities lives', make-up, what I had for breakfast. If I had a conversation about that with someone I would look like a right idiot. It doesn't make me dumb.
I know plenty of intelligent people who know nothing about computers. It is unfair to judge someone's intelligence on an arbitrary section of knowledge just because you happened to be good at it. Especially older people since when they where growing up it wasn't at all relevant if it even existed.
Was it your sisters fault, that she was raped and killed?
Of course it wasn't we can't call in armed individuals every time someone needs a little bit of help.
Yes there are people that will take advantage of you, but they can just as easily break into your home. Hopefully they are the vast minority.
We can't live our lives not helping anyone just in case we may get hurt, what a sad world that would be. We need a society that it is the norm to help out others making people who have no consideration for others (like the rapists) as rare as possible, teaching our children through our actions to consider, respect and help others.
Don't fool yourself the reason doesn't kill "indiscriminately" is because:
1. It is not really under any real threat
2. It have the means to do so.
Give alcida the abilty to send smart bombs at the Pentagon and I am sure they would target that instead.
Threaten the US with a real threat and I am sure they will attack with a strategy the promotes winning over any cost of life the enemy side
For me it would be interesting to see how much music sales increase when the sites are shut down (if it causes decrease in overall file sharing) so we can actually have some real statistics 1 downloaded song = x lost sales.
It is not irrelevant the principle is the same you are trying figure out what a program is doing. You write your program and say here you go see if you can write something that breaks it.
It makes sense when you don't have a malicious force trying to break the program, since static analysis can pick up a lot of bugs, but it also picks up a lot of complete nonsense as well.
To write a program that detect if another program is malicious is very very hard (not in terms of computational complexity) otherwise why do we keep getting virus scanner updates. Its a circular battle, just like the halting problem no matter what you get someone will always be examine the code generate some sequence instructions that your program does not check.
Checking instructions as they are executed is a much simpler proposition. And when it comes to security simple is by far the best its hard enough get an interpreter checking the instructions at runtime.
It is not the Halting problem but it is similar in nature.
I am not even sure this is how the code is checked, the article glossed over the how security was ensured.
I assume have to go through some interface to make system calls, (it is os independant) but how you stop these calls hard to say, maybe check the code for specific instructions, however it seem like you could calculate some code then execute it.
Fuck the idea of "due compensation". Should a mason be paid in perpetuum for the work he did on a store front?
Does the mason get paid a living wage on building the wall? Yes. Can the mason proceed to build an arbitrary number of walls? Yes. So the mason gets £x, €y or $z per hour, and can work hour after hour.
An artist can keep doing live performances for ever too. The equivalent for a build is the got paid very little for the work but paid per hour that a person stayed in the building. Perhaps that is a good idea, it would encourage builders to make houses that last.
Now, what's the going rate for a songwriter's work? Pennies per unit.
When is the last time you went to a concert? Did it you pay a penny and that artist is making that amount per person there minus expenses.
If you meant the writer (not singer) then I see that it is quite possible for the singer pays the to pay the writer up front.
What's the going rate for a novellist's work? About £1, €1 or $1 per unit, if you're lucky.
This a much better example, and may need some short term protection for these maybe a year, you keep hearing how good it is that they have good it is that a movie hasn't been pirated for a couple of days after its release. We want to encourage "great" artist to keep producing not live off royalties for the rest of there life
Of course nobody does anything that isn't for money, No books written, no software developed, no art created. It is simply inconceivable any sane person would create for anything else but financial reward.
In fact the best creations are made for other reasons, when money is the driver it seem you get rehashes of known successes.
I think I should be allowed to scan the banks computers to see if I can trust them, I used to work for a bank they are not the most secure of organisation or at least I hope not.
I'll show you mine if you show me yours.
Hey I always wanted to know what my neighbours bank balance and pin was.
What happens when you run linux and the scan does not work?
the solution is obvious run a virtual machine that they can scan to check then log in normally.
What we need is a patient white knight, a company that holds a lot of patients, does nothing but the moment a company sues another company over a patient offers it services to the company being sued.
Actually these type of friends would be easier to identify just have there name in there profile.
Come to think of it this would be a good way of increasing the chances of getting this question right just add lots of fake friends with their image is just there typed name.
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Most contracts, I have read including loan agreements, have this type of clause, I think this type clause should be banned from any contract. Who in there right mind would sign a agreement that effectively says the other party can do what they want. How can you agree to terms and conditions you don't know.
Just to the drugs part, drugs are on section of the industry which being the creator gives you a massive advantage being a copier (don't believe me go look price of Panadol over a generic brand paracetamol). People are willing to pay a premium for a name brand. The problem with granting long lived patients is that they remove incentives for companies to improve drugs until the patient is about to expire. And when they are about to expire the drug company magically comes out with a new improved version
Actually riding a bike actually increases the the likely hood of dying young. The chances of dying in a bike accident here is about 10 more than a car. But if you really want to die young use a motorcycle.
according to wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygraph "90-95% validity by polygraph advocates" but it is disputed "psychologists estimated the test's average accuracy at about 61%"
Anyway I think the advantage of this is not that it is more accurate its probably that you can set one up without hooking it up or even asking the person being questioned
50 years is already a travesty. Sure you need a period of time to make money from your work, but writing 1 song should not have to guaranteeing you a life time of income. (or as in the real world the record company a lifetime of income). The period of copyright should enough time so the artist can make a reasonable amount money from that investment. If they want more invest the money they earn't or come up with more art.
I think it is more likely that companies are more likely to try stop artists from killing themselves, if copyright expired on death. You can't make monopoly profits on something that anyone could copy. Would you kill so you could copy a song or pay the couple of dollars. Although it seems the financial penalties are higher for copying some songs than murder.
I have a couple Ideas: Just Ideas I maybe wrong
Governance:
I think transparency is the key every thing should be revealed eventually including reasoning. Everybody is corruptible and fallible so politicians need to be aware that they will be judged eventually (some things need to be secret for now but not for ever). But along with transparency we need the public to be more accepting of failure and mistakes from our politicians they are just human no better or worse than we are.
Economy. .... how may things do you own they you use infrequently. The internet now provides us with the ability to share both all we need is to utilize it.
I believe sharing is the key here from ideas to physical things. New Ideas are based on old ones keeping them to yourself and assuming the rest of the world cannot make a valuable contribution. Same with things does every body really need there own drill, barbecue, lawn mowers, cake tins
Also reward it seems to me that currently it is our measure of success, and how much status symbols you can buy with it. But it does not have to be recognise people for achievements more do they help other etc. There is an honours system it seems to unattainable. Money is a means of attaining a goal not the goal itself.
It's also childlike behaviour not to share your toys even if you are not using them
Even with java there are problems, may not be major but even one minor problem can make a app not work. Even if you are talking about just sun java.
I wouldn't release a app on any platform and say it was supported unless it was first tested on that platform
We know what is important to us.
But we do. We understand that 23 Twinkies a day is bad.
We do not drink drain cleaner because it came with some neat stickers that we really wanted.
We understand about basic nutrition and exercise.
This knowledge will prolong our lives so to most people it is important.
They can not distinguish between the internet and a program.
Do you know the difference between a vein and an artery? or what the SA node does. I'm not a doctor so these are not a very hard examples, but the point is does it matter if you don't? Its not important to you. If they can go onto there computer and do what they need to do, what is the problem if they think IE6 is the internet.
They can not read before clicking "Ok".
People in general don't read, or read as little as the can get away with (I am not talking about reading for entrainment or self enhancement because people enjoy that). People usually don't even read contracts for thousands of dollars. I once got an interest free hire purchase because the wouldn't give me a discount for cash. Read the contract, I asked to see the supplementary terms and conditions that where stated in the contract but they didn't have a copy because nobody had ever asked, this was a big store. Ask yourself have you read and fully understood every contract you have signed. Even if it did have a clause that you didn't agree with what could you do? Most loan contracts I have read a clause something like: we can change the terms and conditions at any time. One (for a home loan) even referred me to a web site as to there conditions so basically they could change it a will no signed copy.
As a computer programmer I see it as my job to make the programs I write as easy to use as possible. If someone (in my target user demographic) has a problem using it then it is my fault not theirs. I may not be able to get the program so no user has problems using it, but I have to do my best to minimise this.
People specialize, just because someone doesn't know or even care about a particular area doesn't mean anything about there intelligence. There are plenty of areas I simply have no interest in sports, celebrities lives', make-up, what I had for breakfast. If I had a conversation about that with someone I would look like a right idiot. It doesn't make me dumb.
I know plenty of intelligent people who know nothing about computers. It is unfair to judge someone's intelligence on an arbitrary section of knowledge just because you happened to be good at it. Especially older people since when they where growing up it wasn't at all relevant if it even existed.
simple solution charge for support, I would not expect to ring up a help desk and speak to a person for a $0.50 game.
Of course it wasn't we can't call in armed individuals every time someone needs a little bit of help.
Yes there are people that will take advantage of you, but they can just as easily break into your home. Hopefully they are the vast minority.
We can't live our lives not helping anyone just in case we may get hurt, what a sad world that would be. We need a society that it is the norm to help out others making people who have no consideration for others (like the rapists) as rare as possible, teaching our children through our actions to consider, respect and help others.
they should make it a requirement to have at least 1 * in your 4 digit pin that would solve the problem 8-).
Don't fool yourself the reason doesn't kill "indiscriminately" is because:
1. It is not really under any real threat
2. It have the means to do so.
Give alcida the abilty to send smart bombs at the Pentagon and I am sure they would target that instead.
Threaten the US with a real threat and I am sure they will attack with a strategy the promotes winning over any cost of life the enemy side
well I don't think we have any fighter planes in our air force, we need something
For me it would be interesting to see how much music sales increase when the sites are shut down (if it causes decrease in overall file sharing) so we can actually have some real statistics 1 downloaded song = x lost sales.
It makes sense when you don't have a malicious force trying to break the program, since static analysis can pick up a lot of bugs, but it also picks up a lot of complete nonsense as well.
To write a program that detect if another program is malicious is very very hard (not in terms of computational complexity) otherwise why do we keep getting virus scanner updates. Its a circular battle, just like the halting problem no matter what you get someone will always be examine the code generate some sequence instructions that your program does not check.
Checking instructions as they are executed is a much simpler proposition. And when it comes to security simple is by far the best its hard enough get an interpreter checking the instructions at runtime.
It is not the Halting problem but it is similar in nature.
I am not even sure this is how the code is checked, the article glossed over the how security was ensured.
Proof by contradiction:
Assume A is a program that returns true if the parameter P terminates and false if it does not
Write a program B
if A(B) then while 1
since B does not terminate if A says it does and does if A says it doesn't that program cannot exist
I assume have to go through some interface to make system calls, (it is os independant) but how you stop these calls hard to say, maybe check the code for specific instructions, however it seem like you could calculate some code then execute it.
The issue someone watching you vote may be harder to solve. But at least you know it is happening and can complain later to someone.
Fuck the idea of "due compensation". Should a mason be paid in perpetuum for the work he did on a store front?
Does the mason get paid a living wage on building the wall? Yes. Can the mason proceed to build an arbitrary number of walls? Yes. So the mason gets £x, €y or $z per hour, and can work hour after hour.
An artist can keep doing live performances for ever too. The equivalent for a build is the got paid very little for the work but paid per hour that a person stayed in the building. Perhaps that is a good idea, it would encourage builders to make houses that last.
Now, what's the going rate for a songwriter's work? Pennies per unit.
When is the last time you went to a concert? Did it you pay a penny and that artist is making that amount per person there minus expenses. If you meant the writer (not singer) then I see that it is quite possible for the singer pays the to pay the writer up front.
What's the going rate for a novellist's work? About £1, €1 or $1 per unit, if you're lucky.
This a much better example, and may need some short term protection for these maybe a year, you keep hearing how good it is that they have good it is that a movie hasn't been pirated for a couple of days after its release. We want to encourage "great" artist to keep producing not live off royalties for the rest of there life
In fact the best creations are made for other reasons, when money is the driver it seem you get rehashes of known successes.
I'll show you mine if you show me yours.
Hey I always wanted to know what my neighbours bank balance and pin was.
What happens when you run linux and the scan does not work? the solution is obvious run a virtual machine that they can scan to check then log in normally.
What we need is a patient white knight, a company that holds a lot of patients, does nothing but the moment a company sues another company over a patient offers it services to the company being sued.
Actually these type of friends would be easier to identify just have there name in there profile. Come to think of it this would be a good way of increasing the chances of getting this question right just add lots of fake friends with their image is just there typed name.