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This isn't a case of a publisher refusing to run an article or ad. It's more like Acme paper insisting that you can't print anti-abortion flyers on their paper, or declaring you can only place Acme-approved books on a genuine Acme bookshelf.
Right on. Of course, votes don't matter much if you have a choice between two parties that both oppose the right to hack your hardware. I vote in the only way I can, by sticking with my ancient Treo, waiting for an acceptable phone/provider combination.
We might be attracted to hard problems, but since humans are unable to run algorithms in their heads, why would we use the notion of computational complexity for this "hardness"? It seems more likely that generating problems in the way we do is likely to produce NP-Hard problems than to say we're interested in them as games...
The appeal of these puzzles is that they're hard to solve but easy to verify the solution. If the puzzle were easy you'd get bored, and if it was difficult to verify you'd get frustrated. That's why I always look for the "Certified NP-Hard" sticker on the side of my new board game purchases.
You need to go to slashdot preferences -> classic index -> slashboxes and uncheck "Chinese farts". I had it accidentally set and was getting, like 2 billion fart stories a day.
Not that I'm too concerned with thimerosal, but actually it's just that the US stopped adding it to the MMR vaccine given to children in 1999. It's still used in other vaccines in the US, and continued to be administered to children for many years after 1999, because it was in the stockpiled batches.
I read the article too, and this seems to be the only thread discussing it...
Internet theft (real theft) increases greatly every year. I run into phishing schemes a few times per year. Don't fall for them because I know better, but it still looks like a blatant crime. If you can connect an author to that phishing site, that's very strong evidence of an attempted crime, and I'd like to see these people punished. The government has a poor record of prosecuting these activities, and I would like to see them take it seriously.
Mr. Strickling's article is pretty reasonable on this point, he discusses reasons to avoid heavy-handed government control (other governments won't trust us or it), the downside of not having net-neutrality rules, etc. And the article doesn't have many hard conclusions, it's more focused on trying to identify problems and frame the questions.
His main point, that we are in the internet 3.0 era, and it's time for the government to pay attention and help everyone trust it sounds reasonable and obvious to me. In particular the need for net neutrality, and the fallout from governments fighting for control of the internet. It's time for the government to grow up, and this seems like a good start.
This is the kind of investigation and prosecution they should be doing a lot more of. While we generally refer to it as spam, a good bit of it is attempted robbery. It's pretty brazen behavior; someone trying to rob me every day, every few minutes. As our national criminal investigative body, the FBI is the appropriate department to pursue these crimes. They've been a little slow to adapt, but I'm glad to see the FBI can catch someone at this.
Retelling popular tales with one's own twist is an ancient human behavior. The story of a messiah with a miraculous birth, tragic death and resurrection goes back at least to Horus, and appears at least twice in the Old Testament. Copland lifted the theme for Simple Gifts from an old hymn, very close to sampling. The promo shot for the current season of "Lost" recreates Michelangelo’s Last Supper. Art has always cannibalized/plagiarized previous art.
The difference is now we have new tools for this old behavior, allowing us to cut and paste words, sound and image directly into the new story, without having to recreate it. As programmers we all do it worse than any other group, recruiting layers of packaged code into serving our own. But the behavior is hardly novel. If there's anything truly new here at all, it's the concepts of copyright and plagiarism.
Ya, my "whoo hoo" was followed closely by patriot guilt, but I'm over it. Distrust of one's government has always been a key component of American patriotism.
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This isn't a case of a publisher refusing to run an article or ad. It's more like Acme paper insisting that you can't print anti-abortion flyers on their paper, or declaring you can only place Acme-approved books on a genuine Acme bookshelf.
Right on. Of course, votes don't matter much if you have a choice between two parties that both oppose the right to hack your hardware. I vote in the only way I can, by sticking with my ancient Treo, waiting for an acceptable phone/provider combination.
Ya, make up your own birthday song!
Ya, I work a 10-7 schedule, and most of my coding happens after 4, when the place quites down. 5days x 3 hours, yup, sounds like 15 a week.
I concur, and they only get better with age...
We might be attracted to hard problems, but since humans are unable to run algorithms in their heads, why would we use the notion of computational complexity for this "hardness"? It seems more likely that generating problems in the way we do is likely to produce NP-Hard problems than to say we're interested in them as games...
The appeal of these puzzles is that they're hard to solve but easy to verify the solution. If the puzzle were easy you'd get bored, and if it was difficult to verify you'd get frustrated. That's why I always look for the "Certified NP-Hard" sticker on the side of my new board game purchases.
That's awesome
You need to go to slashdot preferences -> classic index -> slashboxes and uncheck "Chinese farts". I had it accidentally set and was getting, like 2 billion fart stories a day.
Not that I'm too concerned with thimerosal, but actually it's just that the US stopped adding it to the MMR vaccine given to children in 1999. It's still used in other vaccines in the US, and continued to be administered to children for many years after 1999, because it was in the stockpiled batches.
Seriously, who modded this as "Troll"? Did the big words scare you?
Is there anything we can do to reverse the unnecessary apostrophes?
the unnecessary; make necessary
I believe they look at the carvings in a microscope and examine how much erosion has occurred since the marks were made.
citation needed
Ya, it's working in California too. I can't speak for the lesser states though ;-)
This is about fair use of copyrighted material, the threat and confusion created by DMCA, and the problems caused by automated take-downs.
Internet theft (real theft) increases greatly every year. I run into phishing schemes a few times per year. Don't fall for them because I know better, but it still looks like a blatant crime. If you can connect an author to that phishing site, that's very strong evidence of an attempted crime, and I'd like to see these people punished. The government has a poor record of prosecuting these activities, and I would like to see them take it seriously.
Mr. Strickling's article is pretty reasonable on this point, he discusses reasons to avoid heavy-handed government control (other governments won't trust us or it), the downside of not having net-neutrality rules, etc. And the article doesn't have many hard conclusions, it's more focused on trying to identify problems and frame the questions.
His main point, that we are in the internet 3.0 era, and it's time for the government to pay attention and help everyone trust it sounds reasonable and obvious to me. In particular the need for net neutrality, and the fallout from governments fighting for control of the internet. It's time for the government to grow up, and this seems like a good start.
mod parent up :-)
No shit, and I have to live here!
This is the kind of investigation and prosecution they should be doing a lot more of. While we generally refer to it as spam, a good bit of it is attempted robbery. It's pretty brazen behavior; someone trying to rob me every day, every few minutes. As our national criminal investigative body, the FBI is the appropriate department to pursue these crimes. They've been a little slow to adapt, but I'm glad to see the FBI can catch someone at this.
B) yes. sometimes. sigh not anymore
Retelling popular tales with one's own twist is an ancient human behavior. The story of a messiah with a miraculous birth, tragic death and resurrection goes back at least to Horus, and appears at least twice in the Old Testament. Copland lifted the theme for Simple Gifts from an old hymn, very close to sampling. The promo shot for the current season of "Lost" recreates Michelangelo’s Last Supper. Art has always cannibalized/plagiarized previous art.
The difference is now we have new tools for this old behavior, allowing us to cut and paste words, sound and image directly into the new story, without having to recreate it. As programmers we all do it worse than any other group, recruiting layers of packaged code into serving our own. But the behavior is hardly novel. If there's anything truly new here at all, it's the concepts of copyright and plagiarism.
Ya, my "whoo hoo" was followed closely by patriot guilt, but I'm over it. Distrust of one's government has always been a key component of American patriotism.