Blekko is more about indexing non-spam sites: the slashtag feature is set by users. A site becomes relevant to a slashtag by feedback and a bit of automation hybrid. That said there is still a lot of work to be done on Blekko on their current model and how it will scale efficiently and without Facebook.
Morpheus: What is the Matrix? Control. The Matrix is a computer-generated dream world built to keep us under control in order to change a human being into this. [holds up a Duracell battery] Neo: No, I don't believe it. It's not possible. Morpheus: I didn't say it would be easy, Neo. I just said it would be the truth. -credit IMDB
I had to because no-one else had made the joke. (Moral obligation)
Yeah really you should have received no mod points in my opinion up or down. (I for one am one of the rare readers that browses at 1 with 0 "collapsed" so I saw this comment in the first place.) To be honest though I can see where the modding occurred as no discussion about the article actually took place, just your comment about the misunderstanding. Sometimes misunderstandings can be hilarious (or mildly funny). Don't sweat it though...modding here is done "quickly" and I have comments that I "thought" were intelligent and later rated troll. (In hindsight, I deserved it.) Truth is we all make mistakes or just like to post for the hell of it: no-one deserves a perfect score every time.
All I have to say is good for them! Yahoo toolbar here, Some-Terribly-Pointless toolbar there... as I warn people I know, always press the "Advanced Install" option and if possible.
Skype is Adware, there I said it. Do something without the user's consent or knowledge (what is a EULA?)... I mean who uses a Skype toolbar anyway? Most people I ask usually reply, "Well I didn't know how to get rid of it..."
Rabble rabble rabble...I hate these types of software "bonuses" and blatant "promotions". Is it just me or do companies not realize that these practices usually make the customer angry? (I mean it certainly doesn't make them happy every time they view something they disabled.)/endrant
was this merger largely outside of the scope of the FCC's power, once certain licensing and certain consumer protection items in place?
The FCC's job is not largely feasibility, it's legality. This is similar (in my humble understanding here) to a judge: morality is not of the concern, that is the concern of the legislative body. I believe you are right in saying that.
Now whether we as citizens so desire our Congress to grant the FCC specifically more "power" and/or "directive" in this area... that is a whole other issue.
Don't take what I say as an expert's opinion here, I'm not one, rather this is what I've heard from reading around the internet especially over the past few weeks.
If people can just come along and knock your shit down?
Do not despair...here is a nice song that will be stuck in your head now...
I get knocked down but I get up again You're never going to keep me down I get knocked down but I get up again You're never going to keep me down...
I'm not saying it is right... but just because something isn't always seen as correct and is bombarded from many angles does not make it pointless or even wrong. I understand your sentiment and I will say the principles of the internet will always allow scumbags, intellectuals, lolcats, 8 year old girls on youtube, vast indices of knowledge, crazy scientology nuts, people with an agenda to sue, people who create works for the common good, Carlos Mencia fansites, Newegg.com, and much more.
The lack of rules helps to promote those to prosper and stifles potential also... perhaps just a few more turns until we leave Anarchy and a new "government" is applied - I just hope it is one embracing free speech and not that of despotism. You have a point but cheer up sir!
Well I would say you are mostly correct, however I will say that I agree with this premise of this report and therefore will reply to your comment:)
I do not have much experience in the field, so people may argue the finer points, but for many large scale implementations of software at a corporate level, free is not always better. This is not an example of where I worked, but lets take a company like Siemens, who provides the Teamcenter software. Now pair that with Boeing... (to my knowledge) they use this implementation in their drafting software. This Teamcenter implementation is not used at a single company however, so Siemens benefits from the fact it has multiple clients across the nation under this framework. Being able to mold the software to an individual company's need and benefit from the scalability / profitability of multiple clients... well here is an example of where "free" software I believe would suffer not being able to support the specific needs of each client.
On the same note, there are many instances that I really do not have time to discuss at the moment where free software in a business, assuming the free licensing is considered a negligible / really-small risk, can be of greater benefit. (Think Apache and those who work with XML as just one example)
Either way the Economist article talks of this sort of thing on a (better) broader sense... well, the Economist is awesome. What was that Slashdot poll about paying for subscriptions... yeah the Economist still persuades me from the quality of their articles that my money is well spent there.
...but at least the leader of their party was opposed to this!
In my opinion, if someone is against it...well saying something and doing something are two different things. I think it is apathy that is to blame. Too many (non tech-"savy") people just say they really do not care that much. Apathy, hell we know those lobbyists are very motivated people. The other problem is ignorance, I mean the internet is a series of tubes right?
...kicking apart hopes for protection against 'pipes and their water' frameworks.
Oh right, pipes. Also from the article:
...the Federal Communications Commission determined the deal was in the nation's public interest...
But having just The Washington Post opinion really is just that. Let's go to the source... Here are the statements: 1234 The news release isn't much better as when reading down to each individual bullet point, I see many comments for "protecting online video", but video is not the only concern!
Offers its video programming to legitimate OVDs on the same terms and conditions that would be available to an MVPD.
Send chills down your back when you consider the implications of statements like that, doesn't it? Quote from link 1 above:
The conditions include carefully considered steps to ensure that competition drives innovation in the emerging online video marketplace.
A nice disclaimer at the front of link 3 above (joint approval):
However interesting and intricate the issues raised by the combination of Comcast and NBCU may be, as a matter of law, our role at the Commission is limited to ensuring that the transaction complies with all applicable statutory provisions, such as ensuring that the license transfers are in the public interest. Our analysis should only include a thorough examination of the potential benefits and harms of the transaction. Any proposed remedies should be narrow and transaction specific, tailored to address particular anti-competitive harms. License transfer approvals should not serve as vehicles to extract from petitioners far-reaching and non-merger specific policy concessions that are best left to broader rulemaking or legislative processes.
That would be fine if the government actually gave the FCC power, but this is a whole other issue within itself. From the dissenting opinion, to which I agree: (link 2)
Comcast’s acquisition of NBC Universal is a transaction like no other that has come before this Commission—ever. It reaches into virtually every corner of our media and digital landscapes and will affect every citizen in the land. It is new media as well as old; it is news and information as well as sports and entertainment; it is distribution as well as content. And it confers too much power in one company’s hands.
Looking over these public notices on the FCC site I think it must be considered though on what we expected the FCC to do in the first place. If a particular judge thinks a law is stupid, it is not his job to ignore the law. (Constitutionality being a whole oth
If you look on the right side there is a link to the abstract but unfortunately it is behind a pay wall. For the most part these ScienceExpress articles will not publish data and frankly I find this fine since the full paper was not provided. Had they provided the full paper so we as readers could engage...well either way we all hate pay walls. (try debating facts when you don't have all the facts, we know how well those go...lol)
The study did not explore what effect microbes may have had on the oil from the spill.
But you do have a point. But it also may be speculated that methane in it's raw form is much easier to "digest" for the bacteria or than say oil. (But really I am not that quite informed here just what I have heard.)
Yes even though you say this a joke, how are we supposed to know the laser will always calibrate appropriately? I am sure there will exist some bug that in the right conditions the laser is turned up a bit too high. Funny.
Slashdot Mirror
Very true... but if we look at AOL's homepage and Google's homepage, there is a tipping point for many users on clutter.
it's a global market and they have seven billion other prospective customers
Except for China now right? Either way your point is entirely valid.
Yeah I hear that.
I wonder what else we'll get to witness in our lifetimes?
Now there is both a scary and exciting thought.
For me the /rant tag is depreciated... it is implied now and built into my thought-process compiler.
Blekko is more about indexing non-spam sites: the slashtag feature is set by users. A site becomes relevant to a slashtag by feedback and a bit of automation hybrid. That said there is still a lot of work to be done on Blekko on their current model and how it will scale efficiently and without Facebook.
So what does this mean and what does this give us in practical applications?
A new textbook version for another $150.00.
Morpheus: What is the Matrix? Control. The Matrix is a computer-generated dream world built to keep us under control in order to change a human being into this.
[holds up a Duracell battery]
Neo: No, I don't believe it. It's not possible.
Morpheus: I didn't say it would be easy, Neo. I just said it would be the truth.
-credit IMDB
I had to because no-one else had made the joke. (Moral obligation)
Yeah really you should have received no mod points in my opinion up or down. (I for one am one of the rare readers that browses at 1 with 0 "collapsed" so I saw this comment in the first place.) To be honest though I can see where the modding occurred as no discussion about the article actually took place, just your comment about the misunderstanding. Sometimes misunderstandings can be hilarious (or mildly funny). Don't sweat it though...modding here is done "quickly" and I have comments that I "thought" were intelligent and later rated troll. (In hindsight, I deserved it.) Truth is we all make mistakes or just like to post for the hell of it: no-one deserves a perfect score every time.
Don't sweat the small stuff :)
Ah makes me think of a certain song:
She walked up to me and she asked me to dance
I asked her her name and in a dark brown voice
She said Lola, L-O-L-A, Lola, L-L-Lola
-KINKS
I guess they could replace the voice too!
All I have to say is good for them! Yahoo toolbar here, Some-Terribly-Pointless toolbar there... as I warn people I know, always press the "Advanced Install" option and if possible.
Skype is Adware, there I said it. Do something without the user's consent or knowledge (what is a EULA?)... I mean who uses a Skype toolbar anyway? Most people I ask usually reply, "Well I didn't know how to get rid of it..."
Rabble rabble rabble...I hate these types of software "bonuses" and blatant "promotions". Is it just me or do companies not realize that these practices usually make the customer angry? (I mean it certainly doesn't make them happy every time they view something they disabled.) /endrant
Definitely, they don't need some interference from say a frog avatar in the background: "Do a barrel roll!"
(Just because someone thought it would be funny.)
You beat me to the joke.
But seriously though, this is "cash money" for the Starbucks market. As for a Windows phone, meh, that is like these people not driving a hybrid...
was this merger largely outside of the scope of the FCC's power, once certain licensing and certain consumer protection items in place?
The FCC's job is not largely feasibility, it's legality. This is similar (in my humble understanding here) to a judge: morality is not of the concern, that is the concern of the legislative body. I believe you are right in saying that.
Now whether we as citizens so desire our Congress to grant the FCC specifically more "power" and/or "directive" in this area... that is a whole other issue.
Don't take what I say as an expert's opinion here, I'm not one, rather this is what I've heard from reading around the internet especially over the past few weeks.
If people can just come along and knock your shit down?
Do not despair...here is a nice song that will be stuck in your head now...
I get knocked down but I get up again
You're never going to keep me down
I get knocked down but I get up again
You're never going to keep me down...
I'm not saying it is right... but just because something isn't always seen as correct and is bombarded from many angles does not make it pointless or even wrong. I understand your sentiment and I will say the principles of the internet will always allow scumbags, intellectuals, lolcats, 8 year old girls on youtube, vast indices of knowledge, crazy scientology nuts, people with an agenda to sue, people who create works for the common good, Carlos Mencia fansites, Newegg.com, and much more.
The lack of rules helps to promote those to prosper and stifles potential also... perhaps just a few more turns until we leave Anarchy and a new "government" is applied - I just hope it is one embracing free speech and not that of despotism. You have a point but cheer up sir!
Okay, that was funny for once :)
Well I would say you are mostly correct, however I will say that I agree with this premise of this report and therefore will reply to your comment :)
I do not have much experience in the field, so people may argue the finer points, but for many large scale implementations of software at a corporate level, free is not always better. This is not an example of where I worked, but lets take a company like Siemens, who provides the Teamcenter software. Now pair that with Boeing... (to my knowledge) they use this implementation in their drafting software. This Teamcenter implementation is not used at a single company however, so Siemens benefits from the fact it has multiple clients across the nation under this framework. Being able to mold the software to an individual company's need and benefit from the scalability / profitability of multiple clients... well here is an example of where "free" software I believe would suffer not being able to support the specific needs of each client.
On the same note, there are many instances that I really do not have time to discuss at the moment where free software in a business, assuming the free licensing is considered a negligible / really-small risk, can be of greater benefit. (Think Apache and those who work with XML as just one example)
Either way the Economist article talks of this sort of thing on a (better) broader sense... well, the Economist is awesome. What was that Slashdot poll about paying for subscriptions... yeah the Economist still persuades me from the quality of their articles that my money is well spent there.
Personally I think both "sides" are bad.
...but at least the leader of their party was opposed to this!
In my opinion, if someone is against it...well saying something and doing something are two different things. I think it is apathy that is to blame. Too many (non tech-"savy") people just say they really do not care that much. Apathy, hell we know those lobbyists are very motivated people. The other problem is ignorance, I mean the internet is a series of tubes right?
...kicking apart hopes for protection against 'pipes and their water' frameworks.
Oh right, pipes. Also from the article:
...the Federal Communications Commission determined the deal was in the nation's public interest...
But having just The Washington Post opinion really is just that. Let's go to the source...
Here are the statements: 1 2 3 4
The news release isn't much better as when reading down to each individual bullet point, I see many comments for "protecting online video", but video is not the only concern!
Offers its video programming to legitimate OVDs on the same terms and
conditions that would be available to an MVPD.
Send chills down your back when you consider the implications of statements like that, doesn't it?
Quote from link 1 above:
The conditions include carefully considered steps to ensure that competition drives
innovation in the emerging online video marketplace.
A nice disclaimer at the front of link 3 above (joint approval):
However interesting and intricate the issues raised by the combination of Comcast and
NBCU may be, as a matter of law, our role at the Commission is limited to ensuring that the
transaction complies with all applicable statutory provisions, such as ensuring that the license
transfers are in the public interest. Our analysis should only include a thorough examination of
the potential benefits and harms of the transaction. Any proposed remedies should be narrow
and transaction specific, tailored to address particular anti-competitive harms. License transfer
approvals should not serve as vehicles to extract from petitioners far-reaching and non-merger
specific policy concessions that are best left to broader rulemaking or legislative processes.
That would be fine if the government actually gave the FCC power, but this is a whole other issue within itself.
From the dissenting opinion, to which I agree: (link 2)
Comcast’s acquisition of NBC Universal is a transaction like no other that has
come before this Commission—ever. It reaches into virtually every corner of our media
and digital landscapes and will affect every citizen in the land. It is new media as well as
old; it is news and information as well as sports and entertainment; it is distribution as
well as content. And it confers too much power in one company’s hands.
Looking over these public notices on the FCC site I think it must be considered though on what we expected the FCC to do in the first place. If a particular judge thinks a law is stupid, it is not his job to ignore the law. (Constitutionality being a whole oth
I think timothy has been into robots recently...second article on robots in a short bit.
Hell there is nothing wrong with robots however, they are awesome and they stories need not even be plausible as I love robots. From the article:
...it can fetch a beer from the fridge...
'Nuff said.
If you look on the right side there is a link to the abstract but unfortunately it is behind a pay wall. For the most part these ScienceExpress articles will not publish data and frankly I find this fine since the full paper was not provided. Had they provided the full paper so we as readers could engage...well either way we all hate pay walls. (try debating facts when you don't have all the facts, we know how well those go...lol)
Last sentence of first article:
The study did not explore what effect microbes may have had on the oil from the spill.
But you do have a point. But it also may be speculated that methane in it's raw form is much easier to "digest" for the bacteria or than say oil. (But really I am not that quite informed here just what I have heard.)
I found the website hilarious and evidence that MightyMartian's post should be modded +5 insightful. Funny stuff.
Hell, that wouldn't surprise me either. All for a pagerank. I blame Google (among many other things).
Would explain the broken English and then the immediate link...as for the xkcd, I remember that one :)
This likely will not affect us in any immediate fashion outside our continued pursuit of knowledge of the universe... but on another note:
Barbie dress up games
Looks like you need to clean up your computer and online browsing settings! (Unless you meant to post that link following your comment)
True, it isn't like the humane treatment of the pirates is of the highest concern.
Yes even though you say this a joke, how are we supposed to know the laser will always calibrate appropriately? I am sure there will exist some bug that in the right conditions the laser is turned up a bit too high. Funny.