The details weren't specifice but to me it looks like a deal between the airport admins and the providers: you provide free wireless and I'll let you use some valuable floor space for kiosks access. As 802.11 increases there will still be plenty of people traveling without their notebooks anxious to check their email. It may be a stable situation.
Anonymity is not per se paramount to free speech. It's the possibility of remaining anonymous. Slashdot has that. You are free to choose to post your name, knowing all the consequences your choice implies.
I think we need a law that forces companies to have a large checkbox in their sign-up forms saying "I don't mind having my personal information sold to other companies". This should be un-checked by default. I'm sure some countries probably have this already.
Yes several countries in Europe have this already. The problem is, if you don't check that box you ain't gonna get the service. So this remedy is not a right to privacy, but a right to inform you you don't have it.
My opinion is that there can't be a complete legislative solution. If enough people care about these things, a market solution will emerge (i.e. a company will offer privacy-friendly services - for a fee). I don't think enough people care though, I don't think the/. crowd is very representative of the us population.
Note that one can't delete his Slashdot account either. which could actually be the source of some trouble as if he suddenly changes his mind about whichever opinion or way to express it he has
I disagree. The issue here is totally different. The direct consequence of posting on slashdot (and the reason to post) is for others to read your post. When you rant on slashdot you expose yourself and you know you may regret it in the future.
With password you log in, browse, shop. These are activities which the average user consider anonymous, but that are deceptively logged by microsoft. You are exposed to information gathering which is not a direct consequence to what you are doing.
Shopping/browsing per se are anonymous activities. Posting is not if you choose to post your name.
I don't know anything about servers and I am definitely not a hacker/expert etc... but I got apache running on my win2k box in 2minutes. All it takes is to click on a self extracting exe file. I serve static and dynamic pages. I have taken even a look at the config file and nothing seemed too obscure to me (well yes something is but if I understood that then I wouldn't really care for a nice GUI).
Then I installed zope with all its nice GUI and I still after a month haven't understood where it saves files. I hate it.
I think that was a joke. It sounded like one at least.
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You're right that labor, legally and technically can freely more, but there are such huge cultural barriers (language) that make it very costly to move. So effectively I would say that the parent message is right that labor cannot move around euroland
I am afraid most of those privacy statement in the U.S. are unilateral, and can be revoked by anytime by the company that offers them to the customers. Read the fine print: I bet you'll find they stated that they could change their privacy policy anytime; you can argue they did it without notice but if they posted it on some page on their web site they can argue they gave it enough publicity (sure you don't want an email from them anytime they change two words of legalese contracts:-) )
Then your only weapon is to let them know you're pissed and to change company. A little sad, but hopefully if enough people care about this then you'll find a company willing to maintain its reputation.
The situation in some other countries is a little different; in some european countries you have to sign in advance a statement that says you are aware of the privacy policies. Most of the times you have to sign a statement saying you are aware you have no privacy. In the end the outcome is no better and sometimes worse than the american market solution to privacy.
That was exactly my point. Small changes are not happening in QWERTY for a good reasons. We know there is some other optimal layout. Evolution is not helping.
Linux has a point that through random mutation and selection the weakest do not resist.
Evolutionary game theory studies exactly this problem: let agents operate in a random environment and match, and let their survival probability depend (loosely speaking) on their payoff from the match. What will the steady state of this dynamic system be?
It can be shown that, depending on the environment, multiple steady states are possible, not necessarily equivalent in terms of their "quality". It is possible for the system to converge to a suboptimal outcome.
Think about the QWERTY keybord layout and assume that it is suboptimal as many claim (some have recently disagreed). There is no way for a random secretary to change to the optimal layout (alone) and create incentives for other secretaries to shift. Any secretary cannot change layout because she knows that if she gets used to it she'll find herself confused when moving to any desk other than hers. Hence we're stuck at a suboptimal position. QWERTY must be better than some other layout (otherwise we wouldn't use it: evolution helps, yes, Linus), but it not necessarily better than all (yes, design also helps to direct evolution to better outcomes).
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It is supposed to run at 350mph and take off and land from the same spots helicopters do, so in principle from the top of one's building/dorm/etc...
It is awaiting AFA approval I believe
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Just one thing puzzles me: why have they retitled the film 'Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone' in the States? Don't Merkin children know what a Philosopher's Stone is?
Because that's the title of the book in the United States. Somehow they originally thought that Philosopher's was less understandable/appealing than Sorcerer over here.
To all who discuss about the good and bad of music exchange over the internet, I refer to this, mirrored here for an economist's perspective on why napster/gnutella/morpheus etc... are good things.
Any contributers must sign CRC's boilerplate copyright agreement
How difficult would it be for somebody to create a new site accepting new contributions and linking to the wolfram site for existing contributions so that crc would not have copyrights over the new contributions?
How difficult would it be for wolfram (or anybody) to create a new site that accepts new contributions, and links to the old site for the existing content.
This way crc would not have rights over new content.
Slashdot Mirror
The details weren't specifice but to me it looks like a deal between the airport admins and the providers: you provide free wireless and I'll let you use some valuable floor space for kiosks access. As 802.11 increases there will still be plenty of people traveling without their notebooks anxious to check their email. It may be a stable situation.
Anonymity is not per se paramount to free speech. It's the possibility of remaining anonymous. Slashdot has that. You are free to choose to post your name, knowing all the consequences your choice implies.
My opinion is that there can't be a complete legislative solution. If enough people care about these things, a market solution will emerge (i.e. a company will offer privacy-friendly services - for a fee). I don't think enough people care though, I don't think the /. crowd is very representative of the us population.
What exactly is the meaning of this message?
Well I don't know what you are talking about.
I don't know anything about servers and I am definitely not a hacker/expert etc... but I got apache running on my win2k box in 2minutes. All it takes is to click on a self extracting exe file. I serve static and dynamic pages. I have taken even a look at the config file and nothing seemed too obscure to me (well yes something is but if I understood that then I wouldn't really care for a nice GUI).
Then I installed zope with all its nice GUI and I still after a month haven't understood where it saves files. I hate it.
I think that was a joke. It sounded like one at least.
You're right that labor, legally and technically can freely more, but there are such huge cultural barriers (language) that make it very costly to move. So effectively I would say that the parent message is right that labor cannot move around euroland
I guess this means Tim-Berners Lee, another imaginative Briton, has to wait another 40 years.
I am afraid most of those privacy statement in the U.S. are unilateral, and can be revoked by anytime by the company that offers them to the customers. Read the fine print: I bet you'll find they stated that they could change their privacy policy anytime; you can argue they did it without notice but if they posted it on some page on their web site they can argue they gave it enough publicity (sure you don't want an email from them anytime they change two words of legalese contracts :-) )
Then your only weapon is to let them know you're pissed and to change company. A little sad, but hopefully if enough people care about this then you'll find a company willing to maintain its reputation.
The situation in some other countries is a little different; in some european countries you have to sign in advance a statement that says you are aware of the privacy policies. Most of the times you have to sign a statement saying you are aware you have no privacy. In the end the outcome is no better and sometimes worse than the american market solution to privacy.
- The open textbook project
- open mind publishing
- The Wikipedia
I'm sure ther's more....I'm not interested in promoting B&N either, but I thought it would be informative to provide links.
The initiative is part of barns and noble university and this is the link to the Perl course
From reading the outline it looks pretty basic llama book level stuff.
Well, there are some of us who don't read Salon regularly but find it interesting when /. points out some technology story.
/. should never refer to stories published in other newslets. I disagree.
Taking your point literaly
Descent 3 is an example of a great game gone forgotten because of bad marketing. The good thing is that you can find it for $9.99.
That was exactly my point. Small changes are not happening in QWERTY for a good reasons. We know there is some other optimal layout. Evolution is not helping.
Linux has a point that through random mutation and selection the weakest do not resist.
Evolutionary game theory studies exactly this problem: let agents operate in a random environment and match, and let their survival probability depend (loosely speaking) on their payoff from the match. What will the steady state of this dynamic system be?
It can be shown that, depending on the environment, multiple steady states are possible, not necessarily equivalent in terms of their "quality". It is possible for the system to converge to a suboptimal outcome.
Think about the QWERTY keybord layout and assume that it is suboptimal as many claim (some have recently disagreed). There is no way for a random secretary to change to the optimal layout (alone) and create incentives for other secretaries to shift. Any secretary cannot change layout because she knows that if she gets used to it she'll find herself confused when moving to any desk other than hers. Hence we're stuck at a suboptimal position. QWERTY must be better than some other layout (otherwise we wouldn't use it: evolution helps, yes, Linus), but it not necessarily better than all (yes, design also helps to direct evolution to better outcomes).
I want my flying cars
In case you haven't noticed yhe skycar is here.
It is supposed to run at 350mph and take off and land from the same spots helicopters do, so in principle from the top of one's building/dorm/etc...
It is awaiting AFA approval I believe
Just one thing puzzles me: why have they retitled the film 'Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone' in the States? Don't Merkin children know what a Philosopher's Stone is?
Because that's the title of the book in the United States. Somehow they originally thought that Philosopher's was less understandable/appealing than Sorcerer over here.
Can someone explain this plain and simple?
Excuse my ignorance on the subject, but isn't the kernel open source? Why couldn't one do a simple diff to see what's changed?
FYI, These guys are serous established economists. Try to read their arguments again without prejudice.
To all who discuss about the good and bad of music exchange over the internet, I refer to this, mirrored here for an economist's perspective on why napster/gnutella/morpheus etc... are good things.
Read this , mirrored here for an economist's perspective on why napster is good.
How difficult would it be for somebody to create a new site accepting new contributions and linking to the wolfram site for existing contributions so that crc would not have copyrights over the new contributions?
Just an idea.
This way crc would not have rights over new content.
Just an idea.