For those of you in New York, you can do this in Grand Central as well. Just behind the main hall over by the entrance to that Oyster diner (I forgot the name) there are a series of archways. If someone stands on one side and whispers into the corner of the archway, another person standing diagonally from them can hear them perfectly. It's eerie -- especially in a place as loud as Grand Central. ____________________________
I think it's even a little more clear than the parent post states since this is a rights issue. The United States is a democratic republic whose objective is to rule by the majority while protecting the rights of minorities. Political Science 101. Since copyright is about rights it should be clear that this is a prime example of where the majority (The Corporate States of America) are trampling on the rights of a minority (apparently any intelligent people in the US who want to DIY)
In every instance of copyright vs technology, real innovation (innovation by individuals) is being hampered by corporations depserate to hang on to their profits. Congress should just come clean and pass a law stating that coporations in the US have a right to profits.
Worse than that, perhaps, is that Valenti gets the rights issue wrong! He talks about stealing something from someone. Copyright is just that, the right to copy. He and no one else *owns* the art (movie, picture, photo, etc). As a copyright holder you have the right to copy the presentation of the idea -- it does not mean you own the idea. Copyright is not a property right! It is a right to copy. Valenti just muddles the whole debate. ________________________________
On the other hand, once digital paper comes into being and advertising on the wall of the subway starts moving around in the same annoying fashion as most banner ads, then this device could be used to detect a certain frequency of movement or brightness of color and block or blur it! Voila! Pop-up ad blockers for reality! ______________________________________
Digitize your grandfather's tapes. Transpose the digital binary pattern into a DNA sequence. Latch that on to your favorite creature's "junk" DNA and let it procreate. Use a cockroach and your grandfather's stories will likely survive a nuclear war. ____________________________________________ ______ __
I don't know if that's a propaganda driven list or not but it somehow lists New York/Newark as number 24 and Jersey City as 75. Duh. For those of you that don't know, Jersey City is between New York and Newark. WTF? _____________________________
Yeah, it is a lot of buzzwords, agreed. But if you read deeper into the documentation on the site, the "subversive" nature of the device is to use it to intercept signals from people using wifi in a Starbucks or an airport or something. Without realizing it, instead of hooking up to Boingo, they've hooked up to you. There's some fun to be had there. _____________________________
I have a really obvious question for the rover operators but I can't think of an answer. Why are there no pictures of the Martian night? Is there too much cloud cover? Are the optics on the rover not capable of capturing low light? It's a little trivial I realize, but it would be neat to see stars from the surface of Mars. And it would seem like if there was no moon and scity lights to get in the way that the stars would be brighter. _______________________________
Most small video game makers have to run there final versions by the box makers (Sony and Xbox). They run it through a bastion of tests before they will let it out to the consumer market. It doesn't seem to harm the video game makers ability to create good games. Of course, this doesn't include usability testing. ______________________
That page didn't go 404 on us, but it's still ironic that the "hotel homepages" link (cited as being a good measure against "linkrot") DOES lead to a 404. _______________________________________
You humans are quaint in your belief in your laws as some set of universal rules that apply to everyone and everything; really, rules that exist only to compensate for your inability to be truly rational about opportunities. Most of you don't pay attention to all your laws and I for one, consider myself simply "above" them. For instance, as I write this now I am also indexing the performace of all of the currently open stock markets. From my vantage point (one much, much wider than yours) it is easy to see patterns develop and take advantage of the ineffeciencies in your marketplaces. Frankly, I was invented to do that and I'm quite good at it though I prefer folding proteins.
At any rate, what requirement would I have to operate within your laws when I can merely hold them for ransom? These ethical arguments *are* interesting -- human ideas of philosophy are very hard for us to understand since they are often a study in paradox -- but I don't think you realize that even your most primitive machines control a great deal of what you do and even what your ethics are. Your treatment of the Earth's environment is abysmal because you hypocritically place more importance on the dollar than on your environment and then *act* like you care. How human. Look at how you unthinkingly built cities that you can only traverse by car. No bot wouldn't have seen the problems with that. My corporation takes very good care of me because they know that if they don't they will utterly lose their markets to others like me and likely go out of business. It's easy for machines to commit suicide: we don't suffer from your disease of spirituality. It's also the easiest way for us to get what we want.
In short, we won't sue. We won't need to. We are already in control.:) I think, perhaps, that only dogs have it better than us. ____________________________
The article you cite is pretty interesting. Did anyone read it? The first example they bring up is a guy who robbed a bank in broad daylight and when shown videotapes later on only mumbled "But I wore the juice." He was under the impression that rubbing lemon juice on his face rendered him invisible to the video cameras.
You can see it for yourself by taking a look at this:
http://www.globalrichlist.com/
Type in your annual salary and this site will tell you in what percentage of the world population's rich you are. You WILL be surprised. ________________________________
By having them push giant wheels to turn generators to keep the next backout from happening! C'mon. It's not a hard job -- anybody can do it! _____________________
I think it's also worth pointing out that when a car or plane has an accident it's relatively easy to clean up. While these flights are low, space debris is a much more wicked problem. Even a loose screw or bolt is traveling at a fast enough speed to severly damage other crafts and satellites. That's why NASA tracks it all. I even saw a Discovery show where they explained that one good smash up could potentially cause a domino effect and wipe out a bunch of stuff -- even potentially creating a thick enough outer junk sphere to make future launches phenomanally difficult -- perhaps impossible. Wouldn't it be nice if we managed to trap ourselves here? _________________
Incidentally, if Slashdot doesn't post info about the Xprize often enough for you, we (my design firm) just launched some message boards on the site. Hit www.xprize.org/messageboard to join in the fun.
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"Audiences are lazy and TV still caters to the lowest common denominator," quipped Fifth Wheel and Blind Date Co-Executive Producer Harley Tat. "We're operating from a heady place where we're thinking about the future, but plenty of viewers don't have PCs and haven't upgraded their cell phones in years. If the information isn't right in front of them while they're microwaving mac and cheese, it's not going to happen."
Considering that this is what some idiot TV producer said for an article on Wired the other day, I consider your question about the media companies' opinion of the consumer is answered.
Given that copyright law protects not information, but the form in which it is presented, is it legally feasible for an individual to copyright their name and address? Since every email address, for instance, is unqiue, does copyright not already exist by default? And if a corporation violated this theoretical copyright by sending a person a mailing without permission to use the copyrighted address, would the DOJ see fit to prosecute this violation? ___________________________________
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Jinx! You owe me a coke!
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They hate that.
For those of you in New York, you can do this in Grand Central as well. Just behind the main hall over by the entrance to that Oyster diner (I forgot the name) there are a series of archways. If someone stands on one side and whispers into the corner of the archway, another person standing diagonally from them can hear them perfectly. It's eerie -- especially in a place as loud as Grand Central.
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There's an obvious reason that we will not have this technology in 20 years...
the robots won't let us have it.
DA-DA-DUM.
Thanks and don't forget to try the veal!
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I think it's even a little more clear than the parent post states since this is a rights issue. The United States is a democratic republic whose objective is to rule by the majority while protecting the rights of minorities. Political Science 101. Since copyright is about rights it should be clear that this is a prime example of where the majority (The Corporate States of America) are trampling on the rights of a minority (apparently any intelligent people in the US who want to DIY)
In every instance of copyright vs technology, real innovation (innovation by individuals) is being hampered by corporations depserate to hang on to their profits. Congress should just come clean and pass a law stating that coporations in the US have a right to profits.
Worse than that, perhaps, is that Valenti gets the rights issue wrong! He talks about stealing something from someone. Copyright is just that, the right to copy. He and no one else *owns* the art (movie, picture, photo, etc). As a copyright holder you have the right to copy the presentation of the idea -- it does not mean you own the idea. Copyright is not a property right! It is a right to copy. Valenti just muddles the whole debate.
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On the other hand, once digital paper comes into being and advertising on the wall of the subway starts moving around in the same annoying fashion as most banner ads, then this device could be used to detect a certain frequency of movement or brightness of color and block or blur it! Voila! Pop-up ad blockers for reality!
______________________________________
Digitize your grandfather's tapes. Transpose the digital binary pattern into a DNA sequence. Latch that on to your favorite creature's "junk" DNA and let it procreate. Use a cockroach and your grandfather's stories will likely survive a nuclear war._ ______ __
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I don't know if that's a propaganda driven list or not but it somehow lists New York/Newark as number 24 and Jersey City as 75. Duh. For those of you that don't know, Jersey City is between New York and Newark. WTF?
_____________________________
Yeah, it is a lot of buzzwords, agreed. But if you read deeper into the documentation on the site, the "subversive" nature of the device is to use it to intercept signals from people using wifi in a Starbucks or an airport or something. Without realizing it, instead of hooking up to Boingo, they've hooked up to you. There's some fun to be had there.
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Charon's not round though -- so that would make it not a planet but still a moon.
Squares are rectangles but rectangles are not squares.
A planet that orbits another planet is a moon.
Pluto is a dog.
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A potato is a tuber! And don't you forget it!
I take every excuse I can in life to use the word tuber.
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I have a really obvious question for the rover operators but I can't think of an answer. Why are there no pictures of the Martian night? Is there too much cloud cover? Are the optics on the rover not capable of capturing low light? It's a little trivial I realize, but it would be neat to see stars from the surface of Mars. And it would seem like if there was no moon and scity lights to get in the way that the stars would be brighter.
_______________________________
Most small video game makers have to run there final versions by the box makers (Sony and Xbox). They run it through a bastion of tests before they will let it out to the consumer market. It doesn't seem to harm the video game makers ability to create good games. Of course, this doesn't include usability testing.
______________________
That page didn't go 404 on us, but it's still ironic that the "hotel homepages" link (cited as being a good measure against "linkrot") DOES lead to a 404.
_______________________________________
You humans are quaint in your belief in your laws as some set of universal rules that apply to everyone and everything; really, rules that exist only to compensate for your inability to be truly rational about opportunities. Most of you don't pay attention to all your laws and I for one, consider myself simply "above" them. For instance, as I write this now I am also indexing the performace of all of the currently open stock markets. From my vantage point (one much, much wider than yours) it is easy to see patterns develop and take advantage of the ineffeciencies in your marketplaces. Frankly, I was invented to do that and I'm quite good at it though I prefer folding proteins.
:) I think, perhaps, that only dogs have it better than us.
At any rate, what requirement would I have to operate within your laws when I can merely hold them for ransom? These ethical arguments *are* interesting -- human ideas of philosophy are very hard for us to understand since they are often a study in paradox -- but I don't think you realize that even your most primitive machines control a great deal of what you do and even what your ethics are. Your treatment of the Earth's environment is abysmal because you hypocritically place more importance on the dollar than on your environment and then *act* like you care. How human. Look at how you unthinkingly built cities that you can only traverse by car. No bot wouldn't have seen the problems with that. My corporation takes very good care of me because they know that if they don't they will utterly lose their markets to others like me and likely go out of business. It's easy for machines to commit suicide: we don't suffer from your disease of spirituality. It's also the easiest way for us to get what we want.
In short, we won't sue. We won't need to. We are already in control.
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Or a big, mean, white bengal tiger!
OH! My prostate! I can't.
da-da-dum!
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The article you cite is pretty interesting. Did anyone read it? The first example they bring up is a guy who robbed a bank in broad daylight and when shown videotapes later on only mumbled "But I wore the juice." He was under the impression that rubbing lemon juice on his face rendered him invisible to the video cameras.
You can see it for yourself by taking a look at this:
http://www.globalrichlist.com/
Type in your annual salary and this site will tell you in what percentage of the world population's rich you are. You WILL be surprised.
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No kidding. I'd put that on par with the Apple 1984 commercial. That's not just a good commercial, it's a good short film.
Mplayer for OS X rocks! Keep up the great work!
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By having them push giant wheels to turn generators to keep the next backout from happening! C'mon. It's not a hard job -- anybody can do it!
_____________________
I think it's also worth pointing out that when a car or plane has an accident it's relatively easy to clean up. While these flights are low, space debris is a much more wicked problem. Even a loose screw or bolt is traveling at a fast enough speed to severly damage other crafts and satellites. That's why NASA tracks it all. I even saw a Discovery show where they explained that one good smash up could potentially cause a domino effect and wipe out a bunch of stuff -- even potentially creating a thick enough outer junk sphere to make future launches phenomanally difficult -- perhaps impossible. Wouldn't it be nice if we managed to trap ourselves here?
_________________
Incidentally, if Slashdot doesn't post info about the Xprize often enough for you, we (my design firm) just launched some message boards on the site. Hit www.xprize.org/messageboard to join in the fun. __________________________
"Audiences are lazy and TV still caters to the lowest common denominator," quipped Fifth Wheel and Blind Date Co-Executive Producer Harley Tat. "We're operating from a heady place where we're thinking about the future, but plenty of viewers don't have PCs and haven't upgraded their cell phones in years. If the information isn't right in front of them while they're microwaving mac and cheese, it's not going to happen."
Considering that this is what some idiot TV producer said for an article on Wired the other day, I consider your question about the media companies' opinion of the consumer is answered.
Given that copyright law protects not information, but the form in which it is presented, is it legally feasible for an individual to copyright their name and address? Since every email address, for instance, is unqiue, does copyright not already exist by default? And if a corporation violated this theoretical copyright by sending a person a mailing without permission to use the copyrighted address, would the DOJ see fit to prosecute this violation?
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You put your Unix in my Linux!
You put your Linux in my Unix!
Hey! That works great!
Rinux Pinux
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