Spammers don't get their dollar back, don't get added to the whitelist, and have their comment removed.
With the rates of credit card abuse and identity theft from where lots of spam originates (former soviet states, pacific rim), you can bet they wouldn't be spending their own dollar to post with such a solution.
This at first sounded like a good idea, but who would really use it?
Just last night I was thinking that it would be great to see how different news outlets of the time viewed certain items while watching the History Detectives (yes, I'm that geeky). An interesting example that almost distracted me from this reply is http://news.google.com/archivesearch?q=superman&sc oring=t&sa=N&sugg=d&as_hdate=1939&lnav=dt - A timeline of Superman in the news from a Time magazine article about the comic Hitler encounter in the late 30s to the expectations of the first movie (they thought it would flop). Sure, academics and journalists have had access to this for years via Nexus, but the average Joe can't hope to see it. I think the biggest advantage is to us regular folk for whom Nexus is way too much to satisfy personal curiosity or to do personal research.
TFA is old news. The service is already launched here...
If you look at the link you posted and the timestamp at the bottom of the text you linked to you'll see it was posted...
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If news posted today (in the "future" for us US-west-coast folks) is old news to you, then you are definitely in the wrong place. The interesting part, IMHO, of what you linked is "Most of the older articles are subscription-only or pay-per-view, but there are also some freely-viewable historical pieces from BBC News, Time Magazine and the Guardian." I'm betting that the original publishers of the content probably demanded some sort of fees (NYT comes to mind as money/privacy grubbing bastards). Nice to know that Time and the UK pubs are ok with free content.
You had a good link but jumped on your soapbox too quick, methinks.
Despite the posts trying to paint this into the next Napster/Limewire/P2P, I think it would be great for distributing large files that might get slashdotted/dug/whatever. I think it's a good way to have a sudden rush of trafic pay for it's own bandwidth. Sure, not everyone is at risk of a slashdotting, but it makes a good precaution. Since it's just some Python, I bet there wouldn't be too much trouble getting it up in a hury as the server starts to get hit (if you're lucky enough to notice). A bonus of planning ahead is that there's always at least one seed (the server) transferring at about the same rate a normal download would have for a single user in the first place. Scalable content rather than scalable servers. Interesting...
Echostar that it can no longer compete in this now-established market is tantamount to handing the company over to a Firing Squad.
This is the major problem with today's patent system, IMHO. I think a great many problems can be solved with a simple solution:
Stop disclosing un-approved (active) patent applications to the public (stop screaming and hear me out - it's needed for next point). Once the patent has been reviewed and judged, then disclosure happens.
Require that products cannot be released based upon the patent by any party of the applicant until after the pantent is granted or denied. R&D and prototypes are fine, but nothing can be sold.
Put a short (2-5 years?) limit for the filing of lawsuits against infringers and treat waiting beyond that limit an intent to nullify the patent - kind of like defending a trademark.
This would accomplish a couple of things. First of all, it would stop this nonsense of building a market and then plundering it with a finally granted patent. Ideally, it would also help the approval process by timing the grant with first-to-market. The patent office could then see if a market builds naturally while they are evaluating the patent and use that information to help decide it's obvoiusness (1-click comes to mind). Finally, point 3 would force patent owners to act quickly rather than wait to essentially extort a company that has built a mature product with a decent market share.
I realize that this might make companies more paranoid of trade secrets, but aren't those what the patents publicly mimic in the first place? Kind of a legal framework for "secret ingredients"? It's not a perfect solution and I'd love input, so flame away.
Warrants are through a public schema. I can think of two big reasons not to want the existence of monitoring made public:
FISA warrants are not public. It would have been a FISA court the administration would have been dealing with. No public disclosure at all for the warrants. Prosecution on the other hand is public, but that's after evidence is collected.
The news is that our fucking government, which is all high and mighty about truth and justice and democracy, is employing the same fucking methods used by Nazis, Stalinists... I know that for some odd fucking reason, it's unhip to be outraged by the transgressions of governments and corporations.
Sadly our government has been doing things like this for a long time (check out People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn). Remember that we founded this country on a genocidal land grab while touting the ideas of "liberty" and "freedom" (as long as you were white). We also founded the League of Nations, which later became the United Nations, but refused to join. We emancipated slaves and then promptly stood on the lower class to start the industrial revolution.
I will totally agree that the hypocrisy and is a good reason that this is news and is a major reason for my bitterness with our government. Remember that hipness and trends will come and go. I've seen it become hip to be informed at least three times during my life. I've been outraged since Reagan's first term - even at the "Democratic" administration that interupted the Republican strangle-hold. Whatever you do, don't let it discourage you! You have good intentions, good conclusions and every right to be mad. The people that laugh now will either say how right and insightful you were in five or ten years or become an unwitting plunderer. If you can be there to remind them they were being trendy and not smart, they might think twice about following the trend again.
Someone else who remembered Spin! Sad to know that nothing has really changed in 11 years isn't it? As I mentioned in my earlier post, Spin can be had at http://illegal-art.org/video/popups/spin.html. Everyone should watch it and join the ranks of the disillusioned... er... informed.
Do you have a link or other citation you could share?
Watch the movie "Spin" (made in 1995). You can download it for free at http://illegal-art.org/video/popups/spin.html. I used to make people sit and watch it. it makes a great companion peice to Outfoxed. This type of "news" has been going on since the Reagan administration at least.
Fox News is a legitimate news organization. This becomes apparent upon reading their print material or watching their actual news reports.
FOX may have actual news, but that is not their primary content. The prolem with FOX is that the actual new broadcasts are few and far between. The majority of their programming is punditry (FOX and Friends being a prime example). Yes I watch FOX, but merely to observe spin not to get real facts. I don't consider them a news outlet any more than I consider Entertainment Weekly to be news.
It's a small wonder that they haven't started publishing fake newspapers yet.
Newspapers aren't considered entertainment - television is. I know that may not make sense at first because TV "news" is not supposed to be entertainment either, but today it is (in the USA). Just look at the lead in tactics ("Emmenant danger you need to know about - more after the break"), the amount of fluff (celebrity "news") and that the management of the stations are more concerned with ratings rather than factuality. Couple this with the idea that the vast majority of americans don't read newspapers because they consider broadcast news to be equal in regards to journalism and the choice of where spin can be seeded becomes easy. Finally, in print, sponsored articles are usually tagged with the word "advertisement" or "special advertising section" because of editorial tradition and laws in some localities. Print news is more mature than TV news in all of these respects.
The sun shines
And Pluto orbits
The spray flies as the comet glides
And planets orbit, orbits they're hiding
The IAU smile
And Pluto orbits
The system packs as the commity tracks
And planets orbit, orbits they're hiding
Behind an Astronomers front
Astronomers front - it's a pluton
(to the tune of Eminence Front by The Who - don't ask me why this song jumped into my head while reading the article)
This kind of behaviour is much akin to that of creditors and collection bureaus. They seem to view their targets more as debtors than as someone they accuse in a civil lawsuit. At least sometimes the debt can be nullified due to death with a real credit agency. Not an all time moral low for the RIAA, but a different low among the same levels it's been reaching for.
I've spent an inordinate amount of time fighting spam on my server in the past. My guess is that the completely mussed up ones are a combination of the following:
Trying to throw off spam filters - The (possibly wrong) idea is the more mail you have to process and the more complicated you make the ruleset (learned or created), the better the chance that one they get paid for will get through. From what I understand, most spammers think of this as a kind of "war" so they have no problem wasting resources "fighting". This is not some grand scheme, but more likely the fragmented effort of various large spammers.
Bad translations - Spammers are global (a large number in the Pacific Rim). I'm betting that many rely on someone else to translate. Some pure gibberish spams are converted character sets somewhere along the way.
Stupidity - I've seen plenty of braindead spammer mistakes (sending the recipient list cc instead of bcc, not knowing how to work the software but being willing to "make money at home")
Of those three, only one is intentional. Seeing some large nefarious purpose may be giving the spammers too much credit.
As a side note, some of my favorites are the pharmaceutical spams that say the names of the drugs, but don't offer any means of purchase let alone contact. I often wonder if some madman at GSK or Pfiser is reminding the world that v1a6r@ can be spelled so many different ways.
As someone who is hard to wake up (I love sleep when I finally remember to get some), one of my first thoughts was that it would make one hell of an alarm. Cut the power - fall to the ground. After 1 second (just before you can recover from falling), power it back up and get flung out of bed. Either you'd be wide awake or unconscious on the floor next to your ejection bed.
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I guess Ziff Davis really nailed it to the perch well.
No, no... No, it's stunned! Yeah! You stunned it, just as it was waking up! Microsoft magazines stun easily, major.
(Just kidding, it's been an ex-magazine for a while now)
This is why if you wanted to make a toilet tissue named "microsoft" with a picture of a nerd wearing glasses, or boxer shorts with a similar theme, you can legally do so (presuming Microsoft is not producing personal hygiene items).
I did that once, but it was porody (totally different laws)... Micro-Soft TP
I wonder if creative commons licensed videos would be a problem for YouTube with these new terms?
By uploading the content to their server, they could argue that you are granting them a seperate specific license (their terms of service) and thus do not have to abide by the license you offer to the general public.
They would probably just say that you can't put up any content with a license which would be violated by their doing what they wanted with it.
With a seperate license granted, this becomes moot.
Bryn Paul Mosher Ok, maybe just to me and my Mom. For most musicians, it also stands for Beats Per Minute (trolls, read the WP entry and get your minds out of the gutter).
How is this social networking again, if you can't talk to other people?
The Hot Dog on a Stick analogy can be applied to this to help explain how it can be according to marketing/corporate culture. For those afraid of a link with that title, the analogy can be summed up thusly: Consumer finds something compelling - a girl making lemonade at Hot Dog on a Stick (which involves bouncing and phallac instruments and a funny hat). Corporate marketing grabs some elements of that experience, making lemonade and silly hats, and decides that it's the same thing if they did it with a fat, hairy guy and one of those table top juicers. The marketing drones have selected elements, but the wrong ones and can't understand why it's not the same level of experience. In the Wal-Mart example, they have chosen a couple of elements (posting your own stuff, online, teenagers) and some how decided it's the same experience. In both examples the marketers only betray their lack of understanding and over-eagerness to "capture" the audience. I have seen this kind of misunderstanding by sales^^^^^marketing departments in ad meetings myself.
Yes, but there are more definitions:
Google.com, Answers.com, Wiktionary.
Particularly "Any one of various liquids for drinking, usually excluding water"/"A liquid to be consumed, usually excluding water; a drink".
Those aren't actual dictionaries. However, I didsomelooking and got mixed results. Rather than avoid a definiotion-off, I will agree that there are multiple meanings - some excluding water. Unfortunately that only makes the rule more vague. I really expected them to put an "alcoholic" before beverages since the rule otherwise dealt with illegal acts for most minors. You hopefuly agree that it seems odd.
Also, you can just tell that when this guy above said "(shirtless boys)" he paused for 10 minutes to have one major furious wank.
Don't wack your monkey too hard man.
Slashdot Mirror
If news posted today (in the "future" for us US-west-coast folks) is old news to you, then you are definitely in the wrong place. The interesting part, IMHO, of what you linked is "Most of the older articles are subscription-only or pay-per-view, but there are also some freely-viewable historical pieces from BBC News, Time Magazine and the Guardian." I'm betting that the original publishers of the content probably demanded some sort of fees (NYT comes to mind as money/privacy grubbing bastards). Nice to know that Time and the UK pubs are ok with free content.
You had a good link but jumped on your soapbox too quick, methinks.Despite the posts trying to paint this into the next Napster/Limewire/P2P, I think it would be great for distributing large files that might get slashdotted/dug/whatever. I think it's a good way to have a sudden rush of trafic pay for it's own bandwidth. Sure, not everyone is at risk of a slashdotting, but it makes a good precaution. Since it's just some Python, I bet there wouldn't be too much trouble getting it up in a hury as the server starts to get hit (if you're lucky enough to notice). A bonus of planning ahead is that there's always at least one seed (the server) transferring at about the same rate a normal download would have for a single user in the first place. Scalable content rather than scalable servers. Interesting...
This is the major problem with today's patent system, IMHO. I think a great many problems can be solved with a simple solution:
This would accomplish a couple of things. First of all, it would stop this nonsense of building a market and then plundering it with a finally granted patent. Ideally, it would also help the approval process by timing the grant with first-to-market. The patent office could then see if a market builds naturally while they are evaluating the patent and use that information to help decide it's obvoiusness (1-click comes to mind). Finally, point 3 would force patent owners to act quickly rather than wait to essentially extort a company that has built a mature product with a decent market share.
I realize that this might make companies more paranoid of trade secrets, but aren't those what the patents publicly mimic in the first place? Kind of a legal framework for "secret ingredients"? It's not a perfect solution and I'd love input, so flame away.Sadly our government has been doing things like this for a long time (check out People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn). Remember that we founded this country on a genocidal land grab while touting the ideas of "liberty" and "freedom" (as long as you were white). We also founded the League of Nations, which later became the United Nations, but refused to join. We emancipated slaves and then promptly stood on the lower class to start the industrial revolution.
I will totally agree that the hypocrisy and is a good reason that this is news and is a major reason for my bitterness with our government. Remember that hipness and trends will come and go. I've seen it become hip to be informed at least three times during my life. I've been outraged since Reagan's first term - even at the "Democratic" administration that interupted the Republican strangle-hold. Whatever you do, don't let it discourage you! You have good intentions, good conclusions and every right to be mad. The people that laugh now will either say how right and insightful you were in five or ten years or become an unwitting plunderer. If you can be there to remind them they were being trendy and not smart, they might think twice about following the trend again.
Someone else who remembered Spin! Sad to know that nothing has really changed in 11 years isn't it? As I mentioned in my earlier post, Spin can be had at http://illegal-art.org/video/popups/spin.html. Everyone should watch it and join the ranks of the disillusioned... er... informed.
No, lying and propoganda aren't new. What's news about this is the current form of those lies are being further exposed (finally!).
Oh, and mentioning Nazis just doesn't have the oomf it used to in this "post-911 world". Next time, try mentioning terrorists.The sun shines
And Pluto orbits
The spray flies as the comet glides
And planets orbit, orbits they're hiding
The IAU smile
And Pluto orbits
The system packs as the commity tracks
And planets orbit, orbits they're hiding
Behind an Astronomers front
Astronomers front - it's a pluton
(to the tune of Eminence Front by The Who - don't ask me why this song jumped into my head while reading the article)
This kind of behaviour is much akin to that of creditors and collection bureaus. They seem to view their targets more as debtors than as someone they accuse in a civil lawsuit. At least sometimes the debt can be nullified due to death with a real credit agency. Not an all time moral low for the RIAA, but a different low among the same levels it's been reaching for.
I've spent an inordinate amount of time fighting spam on my server in the past. My guess is that the completely mussed up ones are a combination of the following:
Of those three, only one is intentional. Seeing some large nefarious purpose may be giving the spammers too much credit.
As a side note, some of my favorites are the pharmaceutical spams that say the names of the drugs, but don't offer any means of purchase let alone contact. I often wonder if some madman at GSK or Pfiser is reminding the world that v1a6r@ can be spelled so many different ways.
As someone who is hard to wake up (I love sleep when I finally remember to get some), one of my first thoughts was that it would make one hell of an alarm. Cut the power - fall to the ground. After 1 second (just before you can recover from falling), power it back up and get flung out of bed. Either you'd be wide awake or unconscious on the floor next to your ejection bed.
No, no... No, it's stunned! Yeah! You stunned it, just as it was waking up! Microsoft magazines stun easily, major.
(Just kidding, it's been an ex-magazine for a while now)Ok, maybe just to me and my Mom. For most musicians, it also stands for Beats Per Minute (trolls, read the WP entry and get your minds out of the gutter).