Yes, I can prove that mainstream medicine has anything other than a placebo effect. It's called falling mortality statistics for new-born infants. This is empirical data.
Its ironic that these pirates are very vulnerable to being ripped off in turn. Their protection of their own income stream is pretty weak. It is possible to use some very basic software, locate the URL, and download the films (complete) or link to them directly (imagine all the warez sites that are going to abuse this) or just swap the URLs with friends without them having to pay.
The texts submitted by readers and the editorial comments make me cringe. How the hell can somebody claim to be a geek when they misinterpret a simple text.
The linked article says that Yahoo will charge for access to documents from a journal database - not for relevant search results. This makes sense, Google does not give access to all journal databases. High-quality research materials are difficult to find on the internet - they're usually on non-searchable parts of the web, if at all.
revolution (rv-lshn)
n. Abbr. rev.
1.
a) Orbital motion about a point, especially as distinguished from axial rotation: the planetary revolution about the sun.
b) A turning or rotational motion about an axis.
c) single complete cycle of such orbital or axial motion.
2. The overthrow of one government and its replacement with another. See Synonyms at rebellion.
3. A sudden or momentous change in a situation: the revolution in computer technology.
4. Geology. A time of major crustal deformation, when folds and faults are formed.
I think you may be limiting the definition of revolution to 2. as defined
above. The Internet is an incredible revolution that isn't even halfway through.
There has been a momentous change in how people interact on all levels:
a) social, through email, instant messaging, personal webpages, blogs,
newgroups etc, ideas and thoughts can be exchanged,
b) commercial and financial, through B2B which has greatly changed the way
that companies do business with each other and to a lesser degree through B2C,
c) governmental and political, the masses have gained easy access to the
sources of law and we might soon have internet voting, political movements and
parties can be organised and moblised with much greater ease.
And no, this revolution isn't limited to those of us with net access as we
will affect the lives of those who haven't (through B2B which will decide which
sweatshop gets a trainer contract or through net lobbying against globalisation,
etc...)
As a final note, every revolution is a natural and logical extension of
existing technology. Type and paper existed before moveable type brought about
the printing revolution, mechanical computers existed before electronic ones,
valves existed before transistors, a revolution is when existing circumstances
come together to bring forward an explosion of change. And that isn't limited to
hanging the bourgoise from lamp-posts (and the French and Russian revolutions
had been percolating for years).
I don't agree, laptops fulfill a special role which is providing small and light computing power which demands a highly innovative, creative and holistic approach to every element of the laptop which precludes standardisation except for the minimal degree required for software and peripheral compatibility. Standardising a motherboard for instance would basically mean making each laptop the same size and shape.
California's electricity problems are caused by over regulation, the wholesale price was freed and the retail price was fixed. That's price regulation of the worst possible kind for the power companies who of course get screwed. British railway problems are of a more serious nature but result mainly from problems with aging infrastructure, built during the public years. Hydro projects hardly ever work out properly, they devastate the ecology, bring mediocre benefits and serve mostly the interests of farmers wanting to grow wheat in the desert. Managed public lands on the other hand are a valid concept as long as government doesn't try and do anything to the lands. As soon as it messes in business, taxpayers money is going to be wasted. Commerce has always followed into areas opened by initial government exploration (colonialism...) and taken over the government commercial interests (though not to the natives interests...), now that space travel has been shown to be viable, I'm sure we'll see an explosion of viable private enterprise in space (like the asteroid mining project you mentioned, exactly what is the government interest in turning a profit BTW?), instead of wasting tax payer's money to build useless shiny flying cans (ISS) in space (I'd prefer a probe to Pluto). Try out the www.economist.com for realistic ideas on capitalism, government and infrastructure and the space business.
Which is why intelligence agencies have human and technical resources specialists...the CIA and FBI have a track record of neglecting their human resources (agents, not the James Bond type, but the real type who sit quietly for 15 years and steal information undetected) in favour of their technological (satelites, ECHELON etc) ones at their own costs.
The difference between catching script kiddies (a good cracker is difficult to catch) and catching spies is that:
a) spies are generally more intelligent, more mature, more aware of the consequences of being caught and therefore more careful and better trained than script kiddies.
b) its a lot more difficult to figure out that somebody's spying than to find out your files have been damaged or compromised (even so Microsoft took a while to figure that out), a good spy leaves even fewer traces than a good computer intruder. Often the only way to discover a spy is through the opposite side revealing that it knows something that it shouldn't, which requires intelligence (spying) on the opposite side.
c) if the person doing the spying is the person supposed to be looking for spies, the question is raised, who watches the watchmen? Its like an admin going after his own system, he's in the ideal position to do anything he wants and to make sure nobody finds out about it.
There's really no way you can infer that Carnivore won't work as intended (whatever it is intended to do...) from the fact that it took the FBI 15 years to catch a highly intelligent human operative. Its like infering that you if can't get a date you're not going to be able to code properly, its a completely different matter and field.
Is Symantec perhaps preparing a defensive software patent warchest? This would allow them to counter-sue anybody launching a suit against them, a situation that could be dubbed MAUL (Mutually Assured Unprofitable Litigation), in other words "You mess with us, we'll mess with you so don't bother." Which I have to admit is certainly less objectionable than some the behaviour of other companies (above all BT's absurd URL patent threats).
Ah well, the best games I played last year are gimmicky, genre ridden and too violent. Oh and the limitations placed on games are far more restrictive than those placed on films thanks to 4,5, 7 and 8.
Because:
a) they believe that if a process is being copied by their competition then its a worthwhile process - therefore has a licensing value that translates into possible revenue, which they could use,
b) if they don't sue in protection of their patents they'll get sued by their shareholders for negligence and incompetence ("The management has not been actively protecting the company patents, thus causing damages to us, the shareholders"),
c) Amazon believes it will eventually turn a net profit through use of various "innovative" business methods, of which it believes 1-click buying is one, its an advantage that could allow them to turn a profit at their competitions cost so its an advantage worth exploitng. And a patent is not necessarily a monopoly.
And I don't work for them or agree with the 1-click patent, I'm explaining the thinking behind these suits.
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Suing Over... Fans?
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They're just fans...well those fans cool your processor. Try making do without them. And a lot of people make a living designing and building the fans. Fans are just another of those millions of tiny mechanisms that make modern life just about about bearable.
What about constant operation high rotation speed motor coupled to heat resistant framework and resilient blade? What about a mechanism that is constantly working to keep your processor working, hardly ever breaks and doesn't shatter into millions of pieces despite spinning round and round for years exposed to temperature extremes. This is your typical piece of high quality engineering that you may believe anybody can make because its concept is so simple, but its the implementation that requires a professional and patentable approach. Engineers and designers deserve some respect, patents are the legalised form of that respect. I don't see any patented software or idea or obvious prior art silliness in this story, it really shouldn't be on slashdot, unless normal patent law suits are slashdot worthy.
You're in a field where you have much more respect than you would in a different one. That is unless you were a widely acknowledged prodigy. But as a young worker, IT is the field you'll be treated with the most respect in. Now in law you'd start getting respect at about 50, in banking you'd get respect at about 55, in the military at about 45, etc. And if you're getting dissed in your current workplace, isn't there a chronic shortage of IT workers...
Install ICQ on your computer. You'll be able to send text messages and receive replies. But its not portable. Or buy a prepaid phone package. No monthly bills, you can ignore phone calls and send messages...
Now what is that meant to mean? If its supposed to mean,"This will end up in the Supreme Court anyway and they'll decide" then I would note that Jackson's findings as to the facts of the case cannot be ignored and his treatment of the evidence presented and therefore the verdict cannot be easily overturned on appeal unless he was shown to be biased, mad or an idiot.
I would note that the philosophical aspect of the film was what struck me the most when I saw it 4 months ago, and "Promise me one thing...whatever path you take in this life, be true to yourself." is my favourite quote from the film. The film is subtitled but if that is a turnoff for you then you wouldn't gain much from the film apart from enjoying the fight scenes (the dialogue is extremely important to the film). And it does make the fight scenes in the Matrix, Charlie's Angels, Romeo Must Die and even Enter the Dragon look lame. The scenes are fast but so well choreographed that you see every move (as compared to say RMD). A beautiful film that works on every level, a medieval chinese Star Wars.
Now there's this certain program called Password Safe by a certain company, counterpane.com, run by a certain fairly trustworthy guy, Bruce Schneier... and guess what, it keeps a database of your passwords on your hard disk (and you can backup the encrypted database), it generates random passwords, you can paste usernames and passwords and basically its a godsend so now you don't have to use the same password everywhere. Unfortunately its Windows only for now though the site mentions an open source version soon.
I did an empiric test a while back. I created an email account, submitted it to a couple of sites that wanted my email for some reason (only use)... watched the spam come in for a month... then replied to spammer remove lists, the amount of spam tripled the next month. Now there are some other explaination to this test result for instance there could be a delay spam effect that means my amount of spam would have increased anyway, etc, etc, I didn't bother to carry out a full and conclusive study but my advise would be NEVER REPLY. Does the author really think that spammers read their email and will agree to do as requested because of your response, because they're basically good and reasonable human beings... I won't even go into the bit about the fax law being applied to spam, I believe there was a court ruling a while back ago that said the opposite...
Absolutely correct and this should be moderated up as a warning (especialyl if this article is meant to be a newbie starter). Answering spam validates your address automatically and will never ever get you removed from their database. You'll end up getting more spam than before. This also applies to "Remove me" buttons, "Reply to deletelist@sexfun.com" URLS and etc devices that spammers use to confirm your email address is real and active. Validated emails are a valuable commodity. This piece of advise in the text is very bad advise.
It was Alien Trilogy that came out after Aliens MOD got c&ded,I believe not AvP. Anyway, you're right, this was probably the first copyright MOD case and was definitely motivated by Fox's wish to protect their own game revenues (Alien Quake was a great game and was infinitely better than the very poor "straight from console, you can only save at the beginning of the level, nice bitmaps" Alien Trilogy.)
A couple of reasons:
a) the accident occured during the end years of Soviet communism. The USSR, the workers paradise, as a point of doctrine didn't have disasters (even natural ones) and when they did, they weren't serious and could easily be dealt with (officially). Keeping the station open was a point of honour since nothing had really happened and Soviet science could deal with the consequences...
b) utter contempt for public opinion was another characteristic of Soviet rule. So what if people wanted it closed down?
c) the Soviet economy was collapsing and power from Chernobyl was sorely required (and still is).
d) little value was placed on human life during the Soviet era, industrial, propaganda and military interests were more important than health ones (also see c).
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Yes, I can prove that mainstream medicine has anything other than a placebo effect. It's called falling mortality statistics for new-born infants. This is empirical data.
I blame the weather.
to avoid the fallout from the the exploding webpads.
Its ironic that these pirates are very vulnerable to being ripped off in turn. Their protection of their own income stream is pretty weak. It is possible to use some very basic software, locate the URL, and download the films (complete) or link to them directly (imagine all the warez sites that are going to abuse this) or just swap the URLs with friends without them having to pay.
The linked article says that Yahoo will charge for access to documents from a journal database - not for relevant search results. This makes sense, Google does not give access to all journal databases. High-quality research materials are difficult to find on the internet - they're usually on non-searchable parts of the web, if at all.
I think you may be limiting the definition of revolution to 2. as defined above. The Internet is an incredible revolution that isn't even halfway through. There has been a momentous change in how people interact on all levels:
a) social, through email, instant messaging, personal webpages, blogs, newgroups etc, ideas and thoughts can be exchanged,
b) commercial and financial, through B2B which has greatly changed the way that companies do business with each other and to a lesser degree through B2C,
c) governmental and political, the masses have gained easy access to the sources of law and we might soon have internet voting, political movements and parties can be organised and moblised with much greater ease.
And no, this revolution isn't limited to those of us with net access as we will affect the lives of those who haven't (through B2B which will decide which sweatshop gets a trainer contract or through net lobbying against globalisation, etc...)
As a final note, every revolution is a natural and logical extension of existing technology. Type and paper existed before moveable type brought about the printing revolution, mechanical computers existed before electronic ones, valves existed before transistors, a revolution is when existing circumstances come together to bring forward an explosion of change. And that isn't limited to hanging the bourgoise from lamp-posts (and the French and Russian revolutions had been percolating for years).
I don't agree, laptops fulfill a special role which is providing small and light computing power which demands a highly innovative, creative and holistic approach to every element of the laptop which precludes standardisation except for the minimal degree required for software and peripheral compatibility. Standardising a motherboard for instance would basically mean making each laptop the same size and shape.
California's electricity problems are caused by over regulation, the wholesale price was freed and the retail price was fixed. That's price regulation of the worst possible kind for the power companies who of course get screwed. British railway problems are of a more serious nature but result mainly from problems with aging infrastructure, built during the public years. Hydro projects hardly ever work out properly, they devastate the ecology, bring mediocre benefits and serve mostly the interests of farmers wanting to grow wheat in the desert. Managed public lands on the other hand are a valid concept as long as government doesn't try and do anything to the lands. As soon as it messes in business, taxpayers money is going to be wasted. Commerce has always followed into areas opened by initial government exploration (colonialism...) and taken over the government commercial interests (though not to the natives interests...), now that space travel has been shown to be viable, I'm sure we'll see an explosion of viable private enterprise in space (like the asteroid mining project you mentioned, exactly what is the government interest in turning a profit BTW?), instead of wasting tax payer's money to build useless shiny flying cans (ISS) in space (I'd prefer a probe to Pluto). Try out the www.economist.com for realistic ideas on capitalism, government and infrastructure and the space business.
Which is why intelligence agencies have human and technical resources specialists...the CIA and FBI have a track record of neglecting their human resources (agents, not the James Bond type, but the real type who sit quietly for 15 years and steal information undetected) in favour of their technological (satelites, ECHELON etc) ones at their own costs.
The difference between catching script kiddies (a good cracker is difficult to catch) and catching spies is that: a) spies are generally more intelligent, more mature, more aware of the consequences of being caught and therefore more careful and better trained than script kiddies. b) its a lot more difficult to figure out that somebody's spying than to find out your files have been damaged or compromised (even so Microsoft took a while to figure that out), a good spy leaves even fewer traces than a good computer intruder. Often the only way to discover a spy is through the opposite side revealing that it knows something that it shouldn't, which requires intelligence (spying) on the opposite side. c) if the person doing the spying is the person supposed to be looking for spies, the question is raised, who watches the watchmen? Its like an admin going after his own system, he's in the ideal position to do anything he wants and to make sure nobody finds out about it. There's really no way you can infer that Carnivore won't work as intended (whatever it is intended to do...) from the fact that it took the FBI 15 years to catch a highly intelligent human operative. Its like infering that you if can't get a date you're not going to be able to code properly, its a completely different matter and field.
Is Symantec perhaps preparing a defensive software patent warchest? This would allow them to counter-sue anybody launching a suit against them, a situation that could be dubbed MAUL (Mutually Assured Unprofitable Litigation), in other words "You mess with us, we'll mess with you so don't bother." Which I have to admit is certainly less objectionable than some the behaviour of other companies (above all BT's absurd URL patent threats).
Ah well, the best games I played last year are gimmicky, genre ridden and too violent. Oh and the limitations placed on games are far more restrictive than those placed on films thanks to 4,5, 7 and 8.
Because: a) they believe that if a process is being copied by their competition then its a worthwhile process - therefore has a licensing value that translates into possible revenue, which they could use, b) if they don't sue in protection of their patents they'll get sued by their shareholders for negligence and incompetence ("The management has not been actively protecting the company patents, thus causing damages to us, the shareholders"), c) Amazon believes it will eventually turn a net profit through use of various "innovative" business methods, of which it believes 1-click buying is one, its an advantage that could allow them to turn a profit at their competitions cost so its an advantage worth exploitng. And a patent is not necessarily a monopoly. And I don't work for them or agree with the 1-click patent, I'm explaining the thinking behind these suits.
They're just fans...well those fans cool your processor. Try making do without them. And a lot of people make a living designing and building the fans. Fans are just another of those millions of tiny mechanisms that make modern life just about about bearable.
What about constant operation high rotation speed motor coupled to heat resistant framework and resilient blade? What about a mechanism that is constantly working to keep your processor working, hardly ever breaks and doesn't shatter into millions of pieces despite spinning round and round for years exposed to temperature extremes. This is your typical piece of high quality engineering that you may believe anybody can make because its concept is so simple, but its the implementation that requires a professional and patentable approach. Engineers and designers deserve some respect, patents are the legalised form of that respect. I don't see any patented software or idea or obvious prior art silliness in this story, it really shouldn't be on slashdot, unless normal patent law suits are slashdot worthy.
You're in a field where you have much more respect than you would in a different one. That is unless you were a widely acknowledged prodigy. But as a young worker, IT is the field you'll be treated with the most respect in. Now in law you'd start getting respect at about 50, in banking you'd get respect at about 55, in the military at about 45, etc. And if you're getting dissed in your current workplace, isn't there a chronic shortage of IT workers...
Install ICQ on your computer. You'll be able to send text messages and receive replies. But its not portable. Or buy a prepaid phone package. No monthly bills, you can ignore phone calls and send messages...
Now what is that meant to mean? If its supposed to mean,"This will end up in the Supreme Court anyway and they'll decide" then I would note that Jackson's findings as to the facts of the case cannot be ignored and his treatment of the evidence presented and therefore the verdict cannot be easily overturned on appeal unless he was shown to be biased, mad or an idiot.
I would note that the philosophical aspect of the film was what struck me the most when I saw it 4 months ago, and "Promise me one thing...whatever path you take in this life, be true to yourself." is my favourite quote from the film. The film is subtitled but if that is a turnoff for you then you wouldn't gain much from the film apart from enjoying the fight scenes (the dialogue is extremely important to the film). And it does make the fight scenes in the Matrix, Charlie's Angels, Romeo Must Die and even Enter the Dragon look lame. The scenes are fast but so well choreographed that you see every move (as compared to say RMD). A beautiful film that works on every level, a medieval chinese Star Wars.
Now there's this certain program called Password Safe by a certain company, counterpane.com, run by a certain fairly trustworthy guy, Bruce Schneier... and guess what, it keeps a database of your passwords on your hard disk (and you can backup the encrypted database), it generates random passwords, you can paste usernames and passwords and basically its a godsend so now you don't have to use the same password everywhere. Unfortunately its Windows only for now though the site mentions an open source version soon.
I did an empiric test a while back. I created an email account, submitted it to a couple of sites that wanted my email for some reason (only use)... watched the spam come in for a month... then replied to spammer remove lists, the amount of spam tripled the next month. Now there are some other explaination to this test result for instance there could be a delay spam effect that means my amount of spam would have increased anyway, etc, etc, I didn't bother to carry out a full and conclusive study but my advise would be NEVER REPLY. Does the author really think that spammers read their email and will agree to do as requested because of your response, because they're basically good and reasonable human beings... I won't even go into the bit about the fax law being applied to spam, I believe there was a court ruling a while back ago that said the opposite...
Absolutely correct and this should be moderated up as a warning (especialyl if this article is meant to be a newbie starter). Answering spam validates your address automatically and will never ever get you removed from their database. You'll end up getting more spam than before. This also applies to "Remove me" buttons, "Reply to deletelist@sexfun.com" URLS and etc devices that spammers use to confirm your email address is real and active. Validated emails are a valuable commodity. This piece of advise in the text is very bad advise.
It was Alien Trilogy that came out after Aliens MOD got c&ded,I believe not AvP. Anyway, you're right, this was probably the first copyright MOD case and was definitely motivated by Fox's wish to protect their own game revenues (Alien Quake was a great game and was infinitely better than the very poor "straight from console, you can only save at the beginning of the level, nice bitmaps" Alien Trilogy.)
Sell your car, fire your doctor, give your clothes to charity, grow long nails and teeth to fight and eat with...etc etc
A couple of reasons: a) the accident occured during the end years of Soviet communism. The USSR, the workers paradise, as a point of doctrine didn't have disasters (even natural ones) and when they did, they weren't serious and could easily be dealt with (officially). Keeping the station open was a point of honour since nothing had really happened and Soviet science could deal with the consequences... b) utter contempt for public opinion was another characteristic of Soviet rule. So what if people wanted it closed down? c) the Soviet economy was collapsing and power from Chernobyl was sorely required (and still is). d) little value was placed on human life during the Soviet era, industrial, propaganda and military interests were more important than health ones (also see c).