There is, however, a distinction between morality and legality. Just because something is immoral doesn't make it illegal. Extortion is illegal. I don't think anyone is arguing that it isn't. The argument is if accessing a public webpage is a criminal act under the computer fraud and abuse act.
Being an ass, like stupidity, is not necessarily a criminal offense.
It is not illegal for me to pick up your credit card. It's illegal for me to use it. Same thing with my bank info. I could give you my bank info and you could publish it legally. However, using it to access my accounts would be illegal since you are not authorized to do that.
So if I set up a public webserver and send out an internal memo saying only certain people can access my web page and then google finds my webpage and you click on the link, I can have you charged with a computer crime?
robots.txt doesn't say "do not go here," instead it says "do not index this page." You can put a page in robots.txt that is meant to be accessed.
I have to disagree. A lion eating you because you infringed on his territory is remarkably similar to me shooting you for trespassing. We both mark our territorial boundaries and we both defend them. We can also both lose our territory if we fail to defend it.
I think the question we have to ask ourselves is which model of university do we want. Do we want everyone to learn "general enrichment" things from a university, or do we want everyone to learn a trade and a minority to get the "general enrichment" path? We should actually the question and think about the implications of both models instead of spouting retoric about "art is good!" or "productivity is good!"
People seem to forget that music/movies/games are all a luxury. If having it costs too much, we will go without. No one is going to riot because they can't listen to Stairway to Heaven anymore. Instead we will go get that guy we know who can play the piano/sing/whatever and ask him to come over.
... or, they don't know, because they filter out comms they know are with Americans. The do, however, know that this is nota 100% solution, and will have to actually do something to spy on Americans to figure out which comms are Americans.
This. Oddly I think this is probably the real reason. It's probably like asking your ISP how many people have googled for cats doing funny things in the past 10 years. Some questions can't actually be reasonably answered and it's not malicious.
But bulky, cumbersome, and akward. The artical is rather misleading. She would not be unable to communicate without the app, but rather communicating without the app would be much more difficult with the app. She has learned to use the app effectivly and a 4 year old isn't going to understand why she suddenly needs to learn something else that is more difficult. The article and summary try to up play it a lot more that it would probably really impact them. Unfortenutly, we see a problem and immediatly start coming up with solutions and wondering why the parents aren't implementing them. It's like saying you could make a button for your users to click or you can make them use the command line or setup an elaborate series of menus. All those options would work, but some of them might make your users curse you under their breath.
But the point is that normal people are starting to be impacted by the patent wars and now a patent has the potential to make life difficult for a disabled 4 year old child. It's not just big companies paying each other billions of dollars anymore.
If you RTFA, its says that she has a speech disorder. I don't know why they don't teach her sign language. I would imagine it would be more expressive and there are plenty of babies and toddlers that have already demonstrated that its easier to learn sign language than to speak.
While their examples are poor, the point still remains. Speech is a vital part of our way or life. Yes, there are a multitude of effective methods of communication, but I would prefer that my toddler say "Mommy, can I have some yogurt please?" instead of throwing herself on the ground in front of the fridge wailing. A lot of toddler tantrums stem from frustration at knowing what they want/need and not being able to communicate that want/need. Not to mention being able to tell stories and ask questions. I imagine it is mostly a quality of life issue.
But you can't have racism against white males! Minorities, by virtue of being a minority cannot be racist. Only white males can be racist.
That's why we need to make sure that any subset of a population exactly matches or (even better!) beats the minority ratios of the general population. Then we know for sure that we are being equitable and the evil white men don't have an unfair advantage.
If more than 50% of the population was of a particular demographic, I would expect a majority of any randomly sampled sub-set to also be of that demographic.
Change your attitude. You are the paying customer. You are paying the school to be taught. This isn't highschool anymore. Once students realize that they are the customer (or should be) and start demanding they get what they pay for and are treated with respect, they will be. I have discovered since starting my graduate program that writing letters to the department heads telling them that your employer is already paying them a shit ton of money and you don't have time to be treated like crap by professors, actually gets the professors reprimanded.
I find it odd that people seem to think that a nmulti-billion dollar buisness should be run the same way as a football game... Not the way the teams are managed, but the game itself. I propose we apply games to other buisness matters. We can draw straws or throw darts or have sack races to see who gets promoted! That will make it so much more fun and proffessional!
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There is, however, a distinction between morality and legality. Just because something is immoral doesn't make it illegal. Extortion is illegal. I don't think anyone is arguing that it isn't. The argument is if accessing a public webpage is a criminal act under the computer fraud and abuse act.
Being an ass, like stupidity, is not necessarily a criminal offense.
It is not illegal for me to pick up your credit card. It's illegal for me to use it. Same thing with my bank info. I could give you my bank info and you could publish it legally. However, using it to access my accounts would be illegal since you are not authorized to do that.
So if I set up a public webserver and send out an internal memo saying only certain people can access my web page and then google finds my webpage and you click on the link, I can have you charged with a computer crime?
robots.txt doesn't say "do not go here," instead it says "do not index this page." You can put a page in robots.txt that is meant to be accessed.
So you maintain that it is the internet equivilant to dumpster diving?
I have to disagree. A lion eating you because you infringed on his territory is remarkably similar to me shooting you for trespassing. We both mark our territorial boundaries and we both defend them. We can also both lose our territory if we fail to defend it.
Maybe we are in an ECEF coord system?
I think the question we have to ask ourselves is which model of university do we want. Do we want everyone to learn "general enrichment" things from a university, or do we want everyone to learn a trade and a minority to get the "general enrichment" path? We should actually the question and think about the implications of both models instead of spouting retoric about "art is good!" or "productivity is good!"
Or we realize that it just isn't that important.
People seem to forget that music/movies/games are all a luxury. If having it costs too much, we will go without. No one is going to riot because they can't listen to Stairway to Heaven anymore. Instead we will go get that guy we know who can play the piano/sing/whatever and ask him to come over.
... or, they don't know, because they filter out comms they know are with Americans. The do, however, know that this is nota 100% solution, and will have to actually do something to spy on Americans to figure out which comms are Americans.
This. Oddly I think this is probably the real reason. It's probably like asking your ISP how many people have googled for cats doing funny things in the past 10 years. Some questions can't actually be reasonably answered and it's not malicious.
So what did the artic ice importers do when we infented freezers?
We totally needed to make a new word for data mining...
But you NEED to see it at the higher frame rate just like you NEED to see it in 3D! Someone in marketing told me so, so it must be true.
Don't worry, NY will soon save you from that tragic fate.
The difference between a terrorist and a freedom fighter depends on who wins.
But bulky, cumbersome, and akward. The artical is rather misleading. She would not be unable to communicate without the app, but rather communicating without the app would be much more difficult with the app. She has learned to use the app effectivly and a 4 year old isn't going to understand why she suddenly needs to learn something else that is more difficult. The article and summary try to up play it a lot more that it would probably really impact them. Unfortenutly, we see a problem and immediatly start coming up with solutions and wondering why the parents aren't implementing them. It's like saying you could make a button for your users to click or you can make them use the command line or setup an elaborate series of menus. All those options would work, but some of them might make your users curse you under their breath.
But the point is that normal people are starting to be impacted by the patent wars and now a patent has the potential to make life difficult for a disabled 4 year old child. It's not just big companies paying each other billions of dollars anymore.
Not to mention that 4 isn't really a toddler anymore, but a small child.
If you RTFA, its says that she has a speech disorder. I don't know why they don't teach her sign language. I would imagine it would be more expressive and there are plenty of babies and toddlers that have already demonstrated that its easier to learn sign language than to speak.
While their examples are poor, the point still remains. Speech is a vital part of our way or life. Yes, there are a multitude of effective methods of communication, but I would prefer that my toddler say "Mommy, can I have some yogurt please?" instead of throwing herself on the ground in front of the fridge wailing. A lot of toddler tantrums stem from frustration at knowing what they want/need and not being able to communicate that want/need. Not to mention being able to tell stories and ask questions. I imagine it is mostly a quality of life issue.
But you can't have racism against white males! Minorities, by virtue of being a minority cannot be racist. Only white males can be racist.
That's why we need to make sure that any subset of a population exactly matches or (even better!) beats the minority ratios of the general population. Then we know for sure that we are being equitable and the evil white men don't have an unfair advantage.
If more than 50% of the population was of a particular demographic, I would expect a majority of any randomly sampled sub-set to also be of that demographic.
I spent 6 weeks home on disability watching netflix and didn't come anywhere close to the 250gb limit. Hitting that limit is pretty hard.
Change your attitude. You are the paying customer. You are paying the school to be taught. This isn't highschool anymore. Once students realize that they are the customer (or should be) and start demanding they get what they pay for and are treated with respect, they will be. I have discovered since starting my graduate program that writing letters to the department heads telling them that your employer is already paying them a shit ton of money and you don't have time to be treated like crap by professors, actually gets the professors reprimanded.
You assume proffessors are there to teach. Teaching is that annoying thing that gets in the way fo thier real job- research and publishing papers.
I find it odd that people seem to think that a nmulti-billion dollar buisness should be run the same way as a football game... Not the way the teams are managed, but the game itself. I propose we apply games to other buisness matters. We can draw straws or throw darts or have sack races to see who gets promoted! That will make it so much more fun and proffessional!
SHUSH! You are either for patents (and the current system) or against patents (and the the current system). There is no middle ground here.
I thought "fake" food was things like the plastic toys my kids play with...