I think he feels he isn't getting enough cooperation from "main companies" so he wants more control on who can use the internet. Want to use the internet? Get a license. Want to create a web page? Get a license. Want to buy something on the internet? Want to download something? Want to copy from a site? He wants more control to be sure only profitable uses are allowed.
They're using the wrong sales pitch. It should be all about capabilities/adventure -- "the Lone Ranger can safely take you places other superyachts would not dream of going" -- not durability and "low key luxury". Yacht buyers are not usually seeking "low key" in their luxury, especially when it translates to "looks like a big fishing trawler".
This is part of the reason that Anonymous is as important as they are -- they represent an (all-too-rare) new route through which the general populace may upon occasion stand up to the power of the authorities.
The fact that aDesigner requires "Internet Explorer 6.0 or above", thereby making the tool itself inaccessible to a significant portion of the web development community, is almost too much to bear.
They're asking the wrong questions, focusing on short-term test score results. The right questions are: For teachers, does the technology increase the adoption rates for new materials? And for students, do the laptops increase information and computer literacy rates? Improving either or both of those rates will have significant impacts further down the line.
Assessing the effectiveness of these measures by looking at immediate test scores is akin to judging a new company mission statement by the next quarterlies -- it's foolish and short-sighted.
It sounds like CWIS may be what you're seeking. It's a free web-based turnkey package, developed at the University of Wisconsin - Madison and funded in part by NSF under the National Science Digital Library initiative. CWIS is written in PHP/MySQL, includes a search engine, a recommender engine, and a raft of other features, and is currently in use in a widearray of contexts.
I think what you're referring to is link aggregation in OS X, which allows you to bond two ethernet ports together under one IP address to double the possible bandwidth in and out of the machine. Since it deals only with combining devices internally, it's probably not useful in this situation.
Under OS X there are also "aggregate devices" for combining incoming audio streams into a single virtual device for multichannel recording, but that seems even less applicable.
The headline on this article is blatantly misleading. A gag order is issued by a court after legal proceedings, and if Apple had tried to get a gag order against this girl and her family, that would indeed have been newsworthy. What Apple did do was to offer the girl a refund for her dead iPod (which they had no obligation to do, as it was out of warranty and there was no clear evidence that Apple was at fault), and as part of the standard paperwork that goes with such an offer it specifies that the girl and her family would in turn not try to use the refund as evidence of wrong-doing on the part of Apple. For a more complete analysis, see: http://www.tuaw.com/2009/08/03/apple-most-assuredly-not-slapping-family-with-gagging-order-ov/
The Times seriously misreported this story (apparently for the sake of sensationalism to sell papers), and now Slashdot is feeding the fire.:P
It'd be a revival rather than a reboot, but I would buy a new version of Autoduel in a second. It offered an outstanding balance between freedom of action and goal-oriented play, and who doesn't love driving around in a car loaded with cool weapons?
The Gods Themselves was written by Isaac Asimov, while Waldo was written by Robert Heinlein. There isn't any connection between the two other than the fact they are both classic works written by legendary SF authors.
The story Waldo is most notable as the source of the term waldo to refer to remote manipulators (AKA telemanipulators).
As an added bonus, offer some sort of special add on to donation users only
These specific things are not permitted - in general, I can't tie *anything* UI-mod-related to money, in any form.
While you can't tie functionality directly to donations, and you can't ask for donations in-game, what you can do is offer additional functionality (e.g. extended quest tips) that in part depends on people going somewhere (like your website) where you can ask for donations.
Many people alt-tab between WoW and a web browser while playing quite frequently, and I'm sure would be happy to do so if it enhances the functionality of an add-on like QuestHelper. Asking people to donate when they alt-tab out to your web site certainly fits within Blizzard's new policies.
Which is why the ISPs will challenge the law in court when and if the MAFIAA attempts to bring suit for failure to "cut off" a customer(s).
That sounds reasonable at first glance, until you realize that for many people their ISP is also a content provider (e.g. Comcast), who has just as much or more financial interest in selling you TV/movies/music than they do in selling you Internet service.
If this "three strikes" approach becomes common, how long do you think it'll be before the big ISPs begin to offer Internet service packages (called something else, of course) that provide access only to content and services they or their affiliates control? It's a very attractive route to reigning in all this wild proliferation of options and getting thing$ back to where they belong.
So, why stymie that process with a new bureaucracy that simply funds the big record labels? I think you've answered your own question. Warner Music isn't proposing this for your benefit.
An important distinction here, that nobody seems to be hitting on, is that the importance of clicks is dramatically different for advertisers who do all their business through online sales versus advertisers who sell primarily through other channels. For online retailers and businesses with similar models, click-throughs do translate directly to revenue, and this article has far greater significance for their bottom line that it does for Coke/Chevy/et al, who are advertising with the expectation of more indirect gains.
(Not that that makes it right, but it helps to identify the correct culprit when complaining to the powers that be or even when just spreading the story.)
Those of you decrying TV-B-Gone users as all being arrogant selfish jerks obviously haven't ever been stuck at airport gate for hours on end with TVs that nobody is watching blaring at high volume. Ask someone to turn them down/off? A good part of the time you can't even find someone who can tell you whether your flight has been cancelled, let alone someone with the authority and knowledge to turn off a TV. And you can't go elsewhere to avoid the noise because you may miss your flight (or a critical announcement about your flight, which, come to think of it, is often very hard to hear because of said TVs) entirely if you do.
Sometimes there is a real need for a gadget like TV-B-Gone.
For those who are trying to decide between UltimateTV and TiVo, or who (like me) own one type of unit and are thinking about switching to the other, here's a pretty comprehensive TiVo vs UltimateTV comparison.
In a nutshell, TiVo beats UltimateTV in almost all areas.
One other bit of information that may be significant: UltimateTV requires that you have a DirectTV satellite dish -- it will not work with standard cable TV.
Yes, you can find bad apples in any bushel, but that doesn't mean that the whole bushel is rotten. DAT-heads members maintain a list of more than 600 bands that allow and even encourage their live performances to be recorded and traded, via MusicCity or otherwise.
There are entire
mailing lists devoted to the trading of copyrighted materials via the USPS. This does not mean that the USPS should be outlawed.
I think you've unintentionally refuted part of your own argument. The DAT-heads mailing list is devoted to trading copyrighted material (live performances) by bands who have no problem with that material being traded (Phish, the Dead, etc).
In other words, their application is a perfect example of a very legitimate use for software like Morpheus or a service like MusicCity. And it's not a trivial use -- there are tens of thousands of people around the world that engage in trading these recordings.
If you really want to discourage telemarketing, hit them where they'll notice -- in their pocketbooks.
The best solution I've found is to answer and then, when they launch into their canned spiel, carefully set the phone down and continue doing whatever you were doing when they called. Then when you finally hear the "off-the-hook" beeping noise, go and hang up the phone. This wastes the telemarketing firm personnel's time and runs up their phone bill, with a minimum investment of effort on your part. Often they'll keep talking for two minutes or more before they realize that you're not there.
465 comments in the 12 hours since this article was posted.
Alot of people seem to be missing the point: arguing on Slashdot isn't going to have any effect whatsoever on the government passing laws that curtail our rights. If everyone here had spent half as much time writing to, faxing, or calling their local representative as they spent writing posts about civil liberties on Slashdot, the DMCA would have never passed.
A better (and possibly less illegal) approach would be to implement a "passive worm" that sits on your server and monitors the httpd logs, and only goes out and disinfects and patches servers that attempt to break into your system. In this case (it could be argued) the administrator of the server running the passive worm is only trying to defend his machine from attack.
Clearly some sort of automated solutions is needed. Since IIS is installed by default on many systems as part of another software installation there are too many people out there with vulnerable systems who have no idea how to patch them.
If I'm trying to hire competent software engineers or web designers, worrying about spending $700 on an Aeron chair is ridiculous. Do the math: At (very conservatively) $70,000 a year for salary and benefits, if having a nice chair makes the person even 2% more productive (or allows them to work even 2% longer per week) then it very quickly more than pays for itself.
And that doesn't even factor in hiring costs, which for a software engineer hired through a recruiter can easily exceed $20,000. If you want to look at money questionably spent during the dot-com boom, how about companies paying headhunters 30% or more of the first year's salary for a new hire?
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I think he feels he isn't getting enough cooperation from "main companies" so he wants more control on who can use the internet. Want to use the internet? Get a license. Want to create a web page? Get a license. Want to buy something on the internet? Want to download something? Want to copy from a site? He wants more control to be sure only profitable uses are allowed.
FTFY.
They're using the wrong sales pitch. It should be all about capabilities/adventure -- "the Lone Ranger can safely take you places other superyachts would not dream of going" -- not durability and "low key luxury". Yacht buyers are not usually seeking "low key" in their luxury, especially when it translates to "looks like a big fishing trawler".
It's set up — two words.
Setup is a noun. Set up is a verb.
(Sorry — my grammar-ness finally got the best of me.)
This is part of the reason that Anonymous is as important as they are -- they represent an (all-too-rare) new route through which the general populace may upon occasion stand up to the power of the authorities.
The fact that aDesigner requires "Internet Explorer 6.0 or above", thereby making the tool itself inaccessible to a significant portion of the web development community, is almost too much to bear.
They're asking the wrong questions, focusing on short-term test score results. The right questions are: For teachers, does the technology increase the adoption rates for new materials? And for students, do the laptops increase information and computer literacy rates? Improving either or both of those rates will have significant impacts further down the line.
Assessing the effectiveness of these measures by looking at immediate test scores is akin to judging a new company mission statement by the next quarterlies -- it's foolish and short-sighted.
It sounds like CWIS may be what you're seeking. It's a free web-based turnkey package, developed at the University of Wisconsin - Madison and funded in part by NSF under the National Science Digital Library initiative. CWIS is written in PHP/MySQL, includes a search engine, a recommender engine, and a raft of other features, and is currently in use in a wide array of contexts.
I think what you're referring to is link aggregation in OS X, which allows you to bond two ethernet ports together under one IP address to double the possible bandwidth in and out of the machine. Since it deals only with combining devices internally, it's probably not useful in this situation.
Under OS X there are also "aggregate devices" for combining incoming audio streams into a single virtual device for multichannel recording, but that seems even less applicable.
The headline on this article is blatantly misleading. A gag order is issued by a court after legal proceedings, and if Apple had tried to get a gag order against this girl and her family, that would indeed have been newsworthy. What Apple did do was to offer the girl a refund for her dead iPod (which they had no obligation to do, as it was out of warranty and there was no clear evidence that Apple was at fault), and as part of the standard paperwork that goes with such an offer it specifies that the girl and her family would in turn not try to use the refund as evidence of wrong-doing on the part of Apple. For a more complete analysis, see:
:P
http://www.tuaw.com/2009/08/03/apple-most-assuredly-not-slapping-family-with-gagging-order-ov/
The Times seriously misreported this story (apparently for the sake of sensationalism to sell papers), and now Slashdot is feeding the fire.
It'd be a revival rather than a reboot, but I would buy a new version of Autoduel in a second. It offered an outstanding balance between freedom of action and goal-oriented play, and who doesn't love driving around in a car loaded with cool weapons?
The Gods Themselves was written by Isaac Asimov, while Waldo was written by Robert Heinlein. There isn't any connection between the two other than the fact they are both classic works written by legendary SF authors.
The story Waldo is most notable as the source of the term waldo to refer to remote manipulators (AKA telemanipulators).
These specific things are not permitted - in general, I can't tie *anything* UI-mod-related to money, in any form.
While you can't tie functionality directly to donations, and you can't ask for donations in-game, what you can do is offer additional functionality (e.g. extended quest tips) that in part depends on people going somewhere (like your website) where you can ask for donations.
Many people alt-tab between WoW and a web browser while playing quite frequently, and I'm sure would be happy to do so if it enhances the functionality of an add-on like QuestHelper. Asking people to donate when they alt-tab out to your web site certainly fits within Blizzard's new policies.
Which is why the ISPs will challenge the law in court when and if the MAFIAA attempts to bring suit for failure to "cut off" a customer(s).
That sounds reasonable at first glance, until you realize that for many people their ISP is also a content provider (e.g. Comcast), who has just as much or more financial interest in selling you TV/movies/music than they do in selling you Internet service.
If this "three strikes" approach becomes common, how long do you think it'll be before the big ISPs begin to offer Internet service packages (called something else, of course) that provide access only to content and services they or their affiliates control? It's a very attractive route to reigning in all this wild proliferation of options and getting thing$ back to where they belong.
It's nice to hear about a dire environmental threat that for a change we can't make any worse by ignoring Global Warming.
So, why stymie that process with a new bureaucracy that simply funds the big record labels?
I think you've answered your own question. Warner Music isn't proposing this for your benefit.
An important distinction here, that nobody seems to be hitting on, is that the importance of clicks is dramatically different for advertisers who do all their business through online sales versus advertisers who sell primarily through other channels. For online retailers and businesses with similar models, click-throughs do translate directly to revenue, and this article has far greater significance for their bottom line that it does for Coke/Chevy/et al, who are advertising with the expectation of more indirect gains.
As the article states and the TSA has noted on their blog, the searches and confiscations are being conducted by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, not the Transportation Security Administration.
(Not that that makes it right, but it helps to identify the correct culprit when complaining to the powers that be or even when just spreading the story.)
Those of you decrying TV-B-Gone users as all being arrogant selfish jerks obviously haven't ever been stuck at airport gate for hours on end with TVs that nobody is watching blaring at high volume. Ask someone to turn them down/off? A good part of the time you can't even find someone who can tell you whether your flight has been cancelled, let alone someone with the authority and knowledge to turn off a TV. And you can't go elsewhere to avoid the noise because you may miss your flight (or a critical announcement about your flight, which, come to think of it, is often very hard to hear because of said TVs) entirely if you do.
Sometimes there is a real need for a gadget like TV-B-Gone.
For those who are trying to decide between UltimateTV and TiVo, or who (like me) own one type of unit and are thinking about switching to the other, here's a pretty comprehensive TiVo vs UltimateTV comparison.
In a nutshell, TiVo beats UltimateTV in almost all areas.
One other bit of information that may be significant: UltimateTV requires that you have a DirectTV satellite dish -- it will not work with standard cable TV.
Yes, you can find bad apples in any bushel, but that doesn't mean that the whole bushel is rotten. DAT-heads members maintain a list of more than 600 bands that allow and even encourage their live performances to be recorded and traded, via MusicCity or otherwise.
In other words, their application is a perfect example of a very legitimate use for software like Morpheus or a service like MusicCity. And it's not a trivial use -- there are tens of thousands of people around the world that engage in trading these recordings.
If you really want to discourage telemarketing, hit them where they'll notice -- in their pocketbooks.
The best solution I've found is to answer and then, when they launch into their canned spiel, carefully set the phone down and continue doing whatever you were doing when they called. Then when you finally hear the "off-the-hook" beeping noise, go and hang up the phone. This wastes the telemarketing firm personnel's time and runs up their phone bill, with a minimum investment of effort on your part. Often they'll keep talking for two minutes or more before they realize that you're not there.
465 comments in the 12 hours since this article was posted.
Alot of people seem to be missing the point: arguing on Slashdot isn't going to have any effect whatsoever on the government passing laws that curtail our rights. If everyone here had spent half as much time writing to, faxing, or calling their local representative as they spent writing posts about civil liberties on Slashdot, the DMCA would have never passed.
A better (and possibly less illegal) approach would be to implement a "passive worm" that sits on your server and monitors the httpd logs, and only goes out and disinfects and patches servers that attempt to break into your system. In this case (it could be argued) the administrator of the server running the passive worm is only trying to defend his machine from attack.
Clearly some sort of automated solutions is needed. Since IIS is installed by default on many systems as part of another software installation there are too many people out there with vulnerable systems who have no idea how to patch them.
If I'm trying to hire competent software engineers or web designers, worrying about spending $700 on an Aeron chair is ridiculous. Do the math: At (very conservatively) $70,000 a year for salary and benefits, if having a nice chair makes the person even 2% more productive (or allows them to work even 2% longer per week) then it very quickly more than pays for itself.
And that doesn't even factor in hiring costs, which for a software engineer hired through a recruiter can easily exceed $20,000. If you want to look at money questionably spent during the dot-com boom, how about companies paying headhunters 30% or more of the first year's salary for a new hire?