There is an army of mappers available - namely the device users. Given that all the devices that are deployed can be synced to the internet for POI/map adjustment and generally have megs of flash storage available, it wouldnt be too hard to store notes on routes experienced and deviations from the known map if the user agrees to it. Suddenly you have hundreds of thousands of mappers. TomTom have already started to do something along these lines with their MapShare technology but IMHO it's a bit of a rubbish implementation and completely misses the point... Still, it's a start.
[blockquote]This is a blow not only against the RIAA legal machine, but also against "thought crime" of all sorts (such as the argument that selling guns facilitates murder). So even as significant as it is by itself, it is a FAR more important decision than it appears.[/blockquote] Hey look at that, slashdotters and filesharers have just aligned themselves with the NRA to take a stance against the RIAA...
The original article and RIAA video was mostly about counterfeit media (did you even bother to read TFA or watch the video?). My response was also clearly about counterfeiting media. Why on earth are you harping on about bit-torrent? As for your comment about no-one buying counterfeit stuff any more... Well, for most of this planet (yes, there is a world outside of the United States - get yourself a passport and come visit us) counterfeiting is going just as nicely as it was 10 years ago. Go and hang out in markets in Turkey, Japan, Moscow or pretty much any city and you'll find plenty of stuff to choose from, or even ebay for that matter.
If you want to make sweeping generalisations, feel free, but be sure to back them up with references if you're trying to make a point instead of trolling.
Well reasoned response, you should be proud of yourself.
So tell me. When people set up CD duplication plants that produce 50,000 well produced, colour printed hard-to-spot counterfeits CD's that look just like the real thing, who do you think is able to bankroll setting up such an endeavour, arrange distribution and keep it running? Certainly not you or I and not what you'd think of as a dis-organised criminal. Or can you provide a better explanation that doesn't involve mentioning crack or swearing?
...that there are known links between piracy and organised crime and dare I say it, probably even the T-word. BUT it's a tale of two storeys. There're the people that do piracy for money involving duplication, forgery and sale that cost the recordig industry serious $$$ as they target people who would be paying for genuine media. These are the guys that make money and do bad things. The problem of course is that the RIAA et al seem happier to publicly go after the people that copy friends music at home. You know, the ones that generally didn't have any money to give the RIAA in the first place and aren't copying for profit, so no real monetary losses have even occured anyway.
All the over-excited comments here about people thinking the RIAA are calling them terrorists for copying CD's is jumping to conclusions and ignoring the above. Having said that the RIAA seem happy to let legal officials make the same mistake without clarification, and they are generally a complete bunch of c***s.
I love music and I love musicians. I think the only people that benefit from record sales should be the people that make the music and are involved in being creative. Bollocks to the execs and shareholders that took a beautiful business and turned it into a soul-less industry. Wouldn't it be nice if we could just go back to small record labels with no shareholder interest...
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We've become so spoiled. Bandwidth has made us lazy. Why, 1 kbps is basically a 9600 bps modem. I used to do practical things on the Internet as those speeds.
We used to get by using postal mail delivered by hand and taking weeks to get between countries. People got practical things done then. Of course now peoples systems and methodologies have adapted to the 'current' ways of working making it impractical to 'go back' for many.
Children are targeted, thrown in jail for decades to 'make the streets safe'. Why is it the streets are safe in Europe, Australia, Canada, or Japan and not here?
Are you serious? Have you ever been to any of these places? How can you even justify grouping 'europe' as a safe place when it consists of 48 distinct and different countries which all have their own unique issues?
Finally, I'm not convinced of the benefits of a flash harddrive.
Well, significantly better seek times lead to reduced impact of fragmention. Also SSD's are silent and have no moving parts hence less prone to mechanical failure. They also have no spin up/down time or power requirements. Sure the prices are high and the sequential read/write is worse but this will improve with time, demand and higher volume production.
This is extremely misunderstood. Gallileo was told not to teach his theories as fact until they could be proven, and to not contradict the church in theological matters, not matters of science.
Except the church defined many things we think of as science today as theological matters if they were referred to in scripture.
How would this device fare against such scenarios. I dunno.
Well of course it wouldnt! So much of language is understanding the context. Given that the whole meaning of a phrase can be changed by a smile, wink, frown or gesture this is hard! Also it would really want to be translating and remembering earlier sentences from both/all parties to understand the wider context of the conversation as a whole. An interesting example of this was demonstrated by a UK court case in the 50's that was also made into a film - two chaps were being apprehended by the police and one had a gun. One was claimed to have said "let him have it" which could have been interpreted as shoot him or alternatively as give him the gun. Which is right? Which would a translator choose?
Anyway, also reminded me of this joke:
A dog goes to the post office to lodge a telegram. He hands over the form, on which is written "Woof woof woof woof". The clerk says to the dog, "You know there's a five word minimum charge. You could add another 'woof' to this for nothing." To which the dog replies, "Yeah sure, but then it wouldn't make any sense."
With most of nuclear reactors built in the west ending their licensing in about 2030 - 2040, Oil running low and gas prices rising due to low demand, it seems likely that nations will turn to coal.
Actually I would have thought that eventually the only logical thing that will happen is that nations will start forcing their lazy citizens to use only the electricity that they need and stop wasting it left, right and centre. If that was the case suddenly more solar dependence would seem massively more achievable.
Re: 3.5mm jacks with optical digital ; it's not whether people *will* make them or not - I've got a portable Sony MD Recorder from about 8 years ago that I still use that has this kind of connector and I have the requisite cable too. Very handy!
Basically it looks like they've been fully available for years now but haven't been used because :
1) They're not cheap.
2) People don't want the scanners to see a 'naked' picture of themselves.
Full body X-ray along these lines have been available for ages! I went through Gatwick nearly 5 years ago when they were trialling these : http://www.rapiscansystems.com/sec1000.html Seems like the only really feasible solution - having said that, according to their press blurb the TSA have trialled them already!
Basically the OLPC is a good idea. Just because he thinks that another idea is better doesn't mean he should slam the other. Anything that's positive should be encouraged. I don't even think he should be directly comparing the two things - as I understand it anyway (pls correct me if underinformed!) the OLPC initiative is is effectively a commercial but non-profit venture. So, as such it's not as if it has funds that could be used for aid that it's diverting. Providing food is purely aid i.e. you can't set up an initiative to give food and have it self-sustaining as OLPC is as it doesn't generate any income.
I think that's not what makes this story interesting - in this case of she learnt more deeply about the facts and the situation and then re-forming her opinion based on a more informed opinion. Changing your mind is more about deciding what colour socks to wear to work...
1: Do like the rest of the world, and use a HB #2 pencil.
Hm, I could use an eraser to get around that. Do you realise that if paper was software, we could close down all the producers and distributers of erasers (or probably office equipment in gerneral!) in the states for selling devices for circumnavigating security?
Tele Atlas have a complete monopoly on GPS maps, why the $£%@ cant they be FORCED to put height and weight limits on their maps by the government, on pain of having their rights to sell removed.
Planning your journey correctly before you leave used to be the only way to do it before GPS came about and still works perfectly well today. You can't go blaming the map or device makers for the fact that drivers don't want to take responsibility for their own driving and route selection if they can blame someone else.
And the US space programme. See Operation Paperclip. Without a slew of Nazi SS scientists the moon landing would never have happened, or certainly not for a very long time after it did...
quote: Switzerland is a direct democracy and if 50,000 citizens sign a referendum, the whole country will have a chance to vote
how can america get one of these? Well, you could invite Switzerland to send some of their reservists to spread freedom and democracy. It worked in Iraq so maybe it could work for you too?
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There is an army of mappers available - namely the device users. Given that all the devices that are deployed can be synced to the internet for POI/map adjustment and generally have megs of flash storage available, it wouldnt be too hard to store notes on routes experienced and deviations from the known map if the user agrees to it. Suddenly you have hundreds of thousands of mappers. TomTom have already started to do something along these lines with their MapShare technology but IMHO it's a bit of a rubbish implementation and completely misses the point... Still, it's a start.
[blockquote]This is a blow not only against the RIAA legal machine, but also against "thought crime" of all sorts (such as the argument that selling guns facilitates murder). So even as significant as it is by itself, it is a FAR more important decision than it appears.[/blockquote]
Hey look at that, slashdotters and filesharers have just aligned themselves with the NRA to take a stance against the RIAA...
Wow, another well thought out response.
The original article and RIAA video was mostly about counterfeit media (did you even bother to read TFA or watch the video?). My response was also clearly about counterfeiting media. Why on earth are you harping on about bit-torrent? As for your comment about no-one buying counterfeit stuff any more... Well, for most of this planet (yes, there is a world outside of the United States - get yourself a passport and come visit us) counterfeiting is going just as nicely as it was 10 years ago. Go and hang out in markets in Turkey, Japan, Moscow or pretty much any city and you'll find plenty of stuff to choose from, or even ebay for that matter.
If you want to make sweeping generalisations, feel free, but be sure to back them up with references if you're trying to make a point instead of trolling.
Well reasoned response, you should be proud of yourself.
So tell me. When people set up CD duplication plants that produce 50,000 well produced, colour printed hard-to-spot counterfeits CD's that look just like the real thing, who do you think is able to bankroll setting up such an endeavour, arrange distribution and keep it running? Certainly not you or I and not what you'd think of as a dis-organised criminal. Or can you provide a better explanation that doesn't involve mentioning crack or swearing?
~Pev
...that there are known links between piracy and organised crime and dare I say it, probably even the T-word. BUT it's a tale of two storeys. There're the people that do piracy for money involving duplication, forgery and sale that cost the recordig industry serious $$$ as they target people who would be paying for genuine media. These are the guys that make money and do bad things. The problem of course is that the RIAA et al seem happier to publicly go after the people that copy friends music at home. You know, the ones that generally didn't have any money to give the RIAA in the first place and aren't copying for profit, so no real monetary losses have even occured anyway.
All the over-excited comments here about people thinking the RIAA are calling them terrorists for copying CD's is jumping to conclusions and ignoring the above. Having said that the RIAA seem happy to let legal officials make the same mistake without clarification, and they are generally a complete bunch of c***s.
I love music and I love musicians. I think the only people that benefit from record sales should be the people that make the music and are involved in being creative. Bollocks to the execs and shareholders that took a beautiful business and turned it into a soul-less industry. Wouldn't it be nice if we could just go back to small record labels with no shareholder interest...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/technology/7250916.stm
Don't you mean for the TSA?
We used to get by using postal mail delivered by hand and taking weeks to get between countries. People got practical things done then. Of course now peoples systems and methodologies have adapted to the 'current' ways of working making it impractical to 'go back' for many.
Good reply! I should have put a smiley in to show I was taking the piss though... ;-)
~Pev
Are you serious? Have you ever been to any of these places? How can you even justify grouping 'europe' as a safe place when it consists of 48 distinct and different countries which all have their own unique issues?
I can only speak of living in the UK and believe me it's not all red telephone boxes and cream teas. I know sometimes children are targetted, but here in recent years there have been scores of murders by teenagers, children or gangs of children. It's a big deal :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Lawrence
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damilola_Taylor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_James_Bulger
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lincolnshire/3920053.stm (Luke Walmsley)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/6080608.stm (Kiyan Prince)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tyne/3230521.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/6434947.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tyne/3191796.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/leicestershire/3958699.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/6045672.stm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_slapping
Well, significantly better seek times lead to reduced impact of fragmention. Also SSD's are silent and have no moving parts hence less prone to mechanical failure. They also have no spin up/down time or power requirements. Sure the prices are high and the sequential read/write is worse but this will improve with time, demand and higher volume production.
Except the church defined many things we think of as science today as theological matters if they were referred to in scripture.
~Pev
Well of course it wouldnt! So much of language is understanding the context. Given that the whole meaning of a phrase can be changed by a smile, wink, frown or gesture this is hard! Also it would really want to be translating and remembering earlier sentences from both/all parties to understand the wider context of the conversation as a whole. An interesting example of this was demonstrated by a UK court case in the 50's that was also made into a film - two chaps were being apprehended by the police and one had a gun. One was claimed to have said "let him have it" which could have been interpreted as shoot him or alternatively as give him the gun. Which is right? Which would a translator choose?
Anyway, also reminded me of this joke
True yes, but then again we don't use as much energy at night either! e.g. in the UK :
http://www.nationalgrid.com/uk/Electricity/Data/Realtime/Demand/Demand8.htm
Actually I would have thought that eventually the only logical thing that will happen is that nations will start forcing their lazy citizens to use only the electricity that they need and stop wasting it left, right and centre. If that was the case suddenly more solar dependence would seem massively more achievable.
~Pev
Re: 3.5mm jacks with optical digital ; it's not whether people *will* make them or not - I've got a portable Sony MD Recorder from about 8 years ago that I still use that has this kind of connector and I have the requisite cable too. Very handy!
~Pev
Basically it looks like they've been fully available for years now but haven't been used because :
1) They're not cheap.
2) People don't want the scanners to see a 'naked' picture of themselves.
What price REAL security eh?
Full body X-ray along these lines have been available for ages! I went through Gatwick nearly 5 years ago when they were trialling these :
http://www.rapiscansystems.com/sec1000.html
Seems like the only really feasible solution - having said that, according to their press blurb the TSA have trialled them already!
~Pev
Do you realise that your argument just validated Scientology?
~Pev
Basically the OLPC is a good idea. Just because he thinks that another idea is better doesn't mean he should slam the other. Anything that's positive should be encouraged. I don't even think he should be directly comparing the two things - as I understand it anyway (pls correct me if underinformed!) the OLPC initiative is is effectively a commercial but non-profit venture. So, as such it's not as if it has funds that could be used for aid that it's diverting. Providing food is purely aid i.e. you can't set up an initiative to give food and have it self-sustaining as OLPC is as it doesn't generate any income.
I think that's not what makes this story interesting - in this case of she learnt more deeply about the facts and the situation and then re-forming her opinion based on a more informed opinion. Changing your mind is more about deciding what colour socks to wear to work...
~Pev
Hm, I could use an eraser to get around that. Do you realise that if paper was software, we could close down all the producers and distributers of erasers (or probably office equipment in gerneral!) in the states for selling devices for circumnavigating security?
~Pev
Planning your journey correctly before you leave used to be the only way to do it before GPS came about and still works perfectly well today. You can't go blaming the map or device makers for the fact that drivers don't want to take responsibility for their own driving and route selection if they can blame someone else.
~Pev
And the US space programme. See Operation Paperclip. Without a slew of Nazi SS scientists the moon landing would never have happened, or certainly not for a very long time after it did...