Mod parent up! Only a partisan would measure a nation's annual energy consumption in "quadrillion Btus". It's like measuring an oil spill in pints.
This is slashdot. Around here, you can't conflate percent of "domestic crude oil production" with "percent of U.S. energy production" (let alone consumption!) and not get called on it. Can you?
Ah, heck with it! Let's slip down to the pub for 2.98 millibarrels of domestic light sweet lager.
Laws mostly control people. If you give a person (cloud provider) control over your data, you have just subjected your data to every set of laws that has a hold over that person. In today's example, MS has most of its assets in the U.S., so MS will do with your data what the U.S. says. Duh.
Precious few service providers will undertake to protect you when it means losing their own assets, personal freedom, or even just right-to-do-business. Show of hands, now: who really thought they would?
Every time that we hear about another incident like this, it turns out badly for the school (and for the student, since later vindication never makes up for years of trouble).
So why don't school officials stop doing it? Do they know that there are hundreds of such cases each year where the intimidation wins early and the media never hears of it? No, more likely, they are just ignorant of the dozens of school officials who have lost jobs and elections for trying this.
Some one needs to write a Continuing Education unit on Media Relations and Student Rights for these losers.
What the original suspect may have done is IRRELEVANT to whether destroying the recording / assaulting the recorder is OK. That stuff is never OK.
Either the recording shows cops doing their job right, in which case destroying it would be unproductive, or it shows cops doing wrong, in which case destroying it would be a cover up.
Why now? Why not in 2002? Why not in 2005? Why not in 2008?
From TFA: "Mr. Keller, a member of the committee, said the project "is coming late to the party." . . . "There is no practical plan for getting it started.""
All the new ruling has done is to set "the party" back 9+ years.
From TFA: "Since no one else would be able to obtain a license to those [orphan] books, Google would have a de facto monopoly on millions of texts."
I can't believe that this FUD persists 6 years after the lawsuit began it. In fact, anyone could have started their own project at any time and scanned those books. There was never anything Google could have done to stop them. Google's project wasn't a monopoly, it was just first.
Ooo! Ooo! I want more selective phone choices! I, for one, welcome our new, more selective, corporate carrier overlords!
(But seriously, if WE can't manage to say "fewer / less / limited / restricted / a paucity of / really crappy / sh!ttast!c" when we mean it, then the truth is already lost.)
The lesson here, of course, isn't "don't post incriminating stuff online." This polygamist didn't do that.
The lesson here is, "don't let anyone take pictures of you doing something illegal". That's what his friends and family did. Posting them just got them to the police sooner rather than later.
Whatever bad behavior we see documented online today, the same has been happening live and in person forever.
It is laughable to try solve the online bullying/ harassment/ sex/ drugs/etc. problem by trying to keep people offline. Online is not the thing we need to eliminate.
If all this paper did was suggest categorizing streaming as distribution rather than performance, that would be small potatoes. It also recommends:
using government wiretapping muscle and $$ to discover infringers
using government $$ to perform rights-holders' pre-suit investigations for them
ratcheting up sentencing for anyone previously convicted of any IP offense
ratcheting up sentencing for anyone involved in an organization of infringers
The article focuses on streaming, but the real meat here is in the use of government funds and police powers for the private benefit of rights-holders.
Did he even commit this crime? Wasn't he authorized to be in that system altering code? What are the police doing involved? Shouldn't this just be a civil suit in which the company sues him for damages?
In a follow-on case, the court banned the formation of sports teams on the grounds that they mimicked military "squads" in their structure and emphasis on physical training and executing planned maneuvers in concert.
Enact this statewide: all revenue from traffic citations shall become part of the state general budget.
There would never be another pointless speed trap. Cops would be reassigned to duties that are actually useful. Enlarged, cancerous, metastasized, small-town highwaymen^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H police forces would shrink back to healthy levels.
Not me. I shop online to save myself going from store to store trying to find some merchant in my metro area that has the item I want at a semi-reasonable price.
How about a short unit on the ecology of online predators and parasites? Who is after the students' data online? What are they after? Why? How valuable is that data, and to whom? How can they defend themselves? What 'partners' are the weak links in their defense?
Put a pile of used hardware in front of them and have them build the best machine they can to perform a certain task. For example, to run a particular benchmark suite.
1. Identify, connect and troubleshoot the hardware. (Try not to fry very much of it.) 2. Acquire, install, and troubleshoot the software.
Just finding some compatible RAM will be an adventure for most of them.
There was quite a bit of US law that allowed public photography. There was no need for "Written permission". They already had it. But, now we have more bureaucracy, and an increase of the idea of "Any behavior that isn't specifically allowed is prohibited!". The problem here was how our law actually read. Not anymore! Not in America!
Lay people do not have to "accept" or "reject" science.
To the contrary, lay people regularly decide questions such as
Should release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere be curtailed?
What educational policies will reduce teen pregnancy?
Should children be taught that the earth is ~6000 years old or ~4.6 billion years old?
To be sure, whether the lay public accepts the best science on these topics will not change what is true. However, whether they accept it will change the success/failure of their policies. That success/failure is worth caring about, no?
What do you call an immortal, amoral being that cannot be imprisoned or executed for its crimes (no matter how heinous) and who was summoned into being for the sole purpose of taking wealth from people?
your employer
a corporation
our new politician-funding overlords, whom I, for one, welcome
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Mod parent up! Only a partisan would measure a nation's annual energy consumption in "quadrillion Btus". It's like measuring an oil spill in pints.
This is slashdot. Around here, you can't conflate percent of "domestic crude oil production" with "percent of U.S. energy production" (let alone consumption!) and not get called on it. Can you?
Ah, heck with it! Let's slip down to the pub for 2.98 millibarrels of domestic light sweet lager.
Laws mostly control people. If you give a person (cloud provider) control over your data, you have just subjected your data to every set of laws that has a hold over that person. In today's example, MS has most of its assets in the U.S., so MS will do with your data what the U.S. says. Duh.
Precious few service providers will undertake to protect you when it means losing their own assets, personal freedom, or even just right-to-do-business. Show of hands, now: who really thought they would?
The Others take me, I was surprised that a Lady of her station knew that name. Much less, understood what it was.
Every time that we hear about another incident like this, it turns out badly for the school (and for the student, since later vindication never makes up for years of trouble).
So why don't school officials stop doing it? Do they know that there are hundreds of such cases each year where the intimidation wins early and the media never hears of it? No, more likely, they are just ignorant of the dozens of school officials who have lost jobs and elections for trying this.
Some one needs to write a Continuing Education unit on Media Relations and Student Rights for these losers.
What the original suspect may have done is IRRELEVANT to whether destroying the recording / assaulting the recorder is OK. That stuff is never OK.
Either the recording shows cops doing their job right, in which case destroying it would be unproductive, or it shows cops doing wrong, in which case destroying it would be a cover up.
Destroying the recording is always wrong.
Why now? Why not in 2002? Why not in 2005? Why not in 2008?
All the new ruling has done is to set "the party" back 9+ years.
From TFA: "Since no one else would be able to obtain a license to those [orphan] books, Google would have a de facto monopoly on millions of texts."
I can't believe that this FUD persists 6 years after the lawsuit began it. In fact, anyone could have started their own project at any time and scanned those books. There was never anything Google could have done to stop them. Google's project wasn't a monopoly, it was just first.
My, how eleven and a half years just fly by in this middle Earth.
Ooo! Ooo! I want more selective phone choices! I, for one, welcome our new, more selective, corporate carrier overlords!
(But seriously, if WE can't manage to say "fewer / less / limited / restricted / a paucity of / really crappy / sh!ttast!c" when we mean it, then the truth is already lost.)
The lesson here, of course, isn't "don't post incriminating stuff online." This polygamist didn't do that.
The lesson here is, "don't let anyone take pictures of you doing something illegal". That's what his friends and family did. Posting them just got them to the police sooner rather than later.
Whatever bad behavior we see documented online today, the same has been happening live and in person forever.
It is laughable to try solve the online bullying/ harassment/ sex/ drugs/etc. problem by trying to keep people offline. Online is not the thing we need to eliminate.
I'll believe it when I see it.
If all this paper did was suggest categorizing streaming as distribution rather than performance, that would be small potatoes. It also recommends:
The article focuses on streaming, but the real meat here is in the use of government funds and police powers for the private benefit of rights-holders.
Did he even commit this crime? Wasn't he authorized to be in that system altering code? What are the police doing involved? Shouldn't this just be a civil suit in which the company sues him for damages?
If concealed carry deters crime, wouldn't non-concealed carry deter it more? What are the advantages of concealed carry over open carry?
It might have been a better denial if "Period. Full stop." had been the END of his response, rather than the MIDDLE. ;->
In a follow-on case, the court banned the formation of sports teams on the grounds that they mimicked military "squads" in their structure and emphasis on physical training and executing planned maneuvers in concert.
Translated: When they have you on camera, I (and my department) cannot 'fix' it for you like we usually do. The citizenry would catch us.
Enact this statewide: all revenue from traffic citations shall become part of the state general budget.
There would never be another pointless speed trap. Cops would be reassigned to duties that are actually useful. Enlarged, cancerous, metastasized, small-town highwaymen^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H police forces would shrink back to healthy levels.
Not me. I shop online to save myself going from store to store trying to find some merchant in my metro area that has the item I want at a semi-reasonable price.
Oh, wait.
How about a short unit on the ecology of online predators and parasites? Who is after the students' data online? What are they after? Why? How valuable is that data, and to whom? How can they defend themselves? What 'partners' are the weak links in their defense?
How about a building project?
Put a pile of used hardware in front of them and have them build the best machine they can to perform a certain task. For example, to run a particular benchmark suite.
1. Identify, connect and troubleshoot the hardware. (Try not to fry very much of it.)
2. Acquire, install, and troubleshoot the software.
Just finding some compatible RAM will be an adventure for most of them.
3 November 2010
There was quite a bit of US law that allowed public photography. There was no need for "Written permission". They already had it. But, now we have more bureaucracy, and an increase of the idea of "Any behavior that isn't specifically allowed is prohibited!". The problem here was how our law actually read. Not anymore! Not in America!
(There, fixed that for us.)
Lay people do not have to "accept" or "reject" science.
To the contrary, lay people regularly decide questions such as
To be sure, whether the lay public accepts the best science on these topics will not change what is true. However, whether they accept it will change the success/failure of their policies. That success/failure is worth caring about, no?
What do you call an immortal, amoral being that cannot be imprisoned or executed for its crimes (no matter how heinous) and who was summoned into being for the sole purpose of taking wealth from people?