Simple solution: run your internet radio station out of a Canadian ISP or some country other than the USA. This ridiculous legislative policy only kills American-sourced internet radio.
Putting Zork on that list instead of the Colossal Cave is an ridiculous and myopic mistake which I presume is due to the fact that the guys making the list did not play games 25 years ago. Colossal Cave is not merely the antecedent of Zork, but it was a neat game in it's time and it had a great history.
It was based on a real cave ( http://www.colossalcave.com/ ) and it was ported to many (now obsolete) different computers using several different languages, picking up different variations and endings along the way. Tis history page is a really good read: http://www.rickadams.org/adventure/a_history.html I think knowledge of this game is a prerequisit for being a full-strength gamer, and perhaps good knowledge for anybody who claims to be "up" on computer science.
When it comes to this copyright stuff, they aren't different at all. In fact, they aren't nearly as different as the extremists on both sides of the language debate(s) would like to imagine.
Interestingly enough, his theory does even more! It predicts the substantial positive change to his bank balance due to a payment from an oil cartel discussed here last week.
As a companion bricks-and-mortal store, you could sell jars of people's sewage and excrement, labelled as "organic products". About the same value and utility to society.
Not only are Canadian phone companies slow to roll out technology, but apparantly (according to this blog) there is a trademark problem with the iPhone in Canada.
1) if you are under 30, it doesn't matter much long-term, but I think you will grow more if you have the option to control the projects you work on, which can help downstream. 2) Having a job you **like** has an effect on your health and productivity, which should (each) be worth a lot. 3) I have seen people drop jobs where they were just a "cog" despite the financial issues simply because they hated it.
My option would be to take the more "fun" job if they can bump up the money. In the end, I think the absoluet dollar value matters less than the feeling that your are being fairly treated (assuming certain essentials are taken care of). Many studies show that absolute dollar amounts don't matter that much to long-term happiness, relative to all the other obvious factors.
Any more of this kind of thing and you'll start to make it difficult for a simple businessman to run a corrupt incompetent insider-connected company, and at that point who knows what damage will be done to the US economy. Be more careful guys!!
No, I respectfully think you have it wrong. You are using a "service provider" who allows his server to be used as a source of outgoing spam. When you said: "Our service provider forwards any mail received at a paying customer's address to any forwarding address..." that means your provider is not filtering outgoing spam. They need to be doing so. The fact that Hotmail, AOL etc are blocking this provider means they have identified them as a source of spam. They are doing the right thing.
You should change to a responsible non-corrupt service provider and I hope your current service provider goes out of business as **they** are the ones contributing to the demise of email as a useful medium.
I think there is a genuine risk of worrisome change, and I am sure many slashdotters think so too, despite the huge amount of sophomoric humor. (Doesn't anybody post real comments anymore?) I have spoken to a couple of very famous AI professors and they are also concerned and think we should be working on policy now.
While the frightening stuff is still somewhat remote, isn't it time to develop serious binding policy on what is allowed and how it is controlled? This may be very difficult, but it isn't even on the table being considered these days. The Asimov 3 laws are totally unrealistic, but some realistic safeguards and restrictions on robotic systems might be possible. The biggest problem is that this will conflict directly with plabs for using robotics in National defense systems, but let's at least think about it all as a society!
It's like saying "how do I get into computing". You can do it at home on your own, but in that case unless you are a miracle case your potential will be capped and/or it will take a long time. Hobby robotics is not the same as "real" robotics.
The traditional way to genuinely get into robotics is to go to graduate schools in a school with a strong robotics groups (or person) in Computer Science, Electrical Enginnering, or Mech Eng, or Robotics. Seriosu robotics requires a good background in mathematics too. Some schools with visible robotics programs in North America include: CMU, Georgia Tech, MIT, McGill, and U Texas.
Who really needs HD anyhow? Nobody. If HD succeeds, we'll all be up to our eyeballs in both DRM and hardware replacement costs. Many people are happy with iPod video: doesn't that clearly tell us that the excitement over HD is hype? Sure, HD looks nicer viewed side-by-side with NTSC, but who cares if the movie you are watching actually has characters and a story you care about...
Where does your SSH tunnel go to? Someplace down the line it needs to emerge unencrypted (assuming you aren't just surfing to your own remote server(s)).
Sony has a hitsory of making up non-standard proprietary formats. These include the (a) memory stick, (b) the customized (non-standard) firewire port, (c) the universal operating system of the AIBO, (d) the minidisc and, of course, (e) betamax. No doubt, there are other I can't think of or don't know about.
In almost every case, they are either failures or (worse) sources of ongoing frustration. I thought Blu-ray had promise, but not I realize it is another one of these monstrosities. Maybe it had better just die as quickly as possible to spare us being burdeneed with it for ages.
(like the memory stick -- an extra format we never needed).
This is a ridiculous story accompanied by a ridiculous slahsdot posting. There are a lot of serious challenges to robotics and cognitive science, but this article and this robot has little to do with any of them. I guess the poster's nickname "shinyplaticbag" refers to what his cortext is made of?
Journalists and news people usually feed off one another. Not only have I seen it happen in the media, I have been the recipient of news coverage triggered by other news coverage which was triggered by other news coverage.
It doesn't seem like a bit deal if the coverage is interested, no plagarism is committed, and credit is given.
What do we as individuals have to lose? I am repeatedly surprised at accusations of vigilantism -- who the heck are these ani-spam guys supposed to be helping? It should be kept in mind that vigilantism is and was an acceptable solution in the absence of effictive law enforcement. Back in more primitive times when there were no police forces, vigilantism was the only law enforcement; well, it's primitive times on the net.
(CavemanOgg: Grog him me on head with stone and take food, me hit him back. CavemanJane: No, that be vigilantism! CavemanOgg: ooh, you right, me wait 65,000 years for legal system to develop and then file complaint with authorities. Epilogue: Grog had all the kids. )
Before people get any more excited, consider 2 issues: the kind of venue and the kind of paper generator.
Venue: there are a spectrum of conferences. Some are academically credible (in CS-like fields, typically sponsored by the IEEE, ACM, or AAAI) and some are not. Also, some conferences have very stringent reviewing and accept few papers, while others just accept everything. Also, some conferences are organized just to make money, and can bring in as much as $300K. Now, which kind do you think we are dealing with here, and then why is anybody surprised? Just getiing a paper into a *pulp* conference basic means you had the initiative to mail it and pay the (typically excessive) fee.
The paper: since it uses a hand-crafted dada-based grammer, the paper is much less random that it could be. I haven't seen the grammar they used but with this kind of approach you can generate anything from pure randomness to pure determinism including a document where just a few synonyms get substituted. Thus, it's an impressive paper-engineering effort, but it's not clear exactly how "random" the paper is.
OK, so it's a dupe, give the guy a break, or maybe you'd like to do the work -- I am sure the salary for a/. editor is great!
Don't even think of whining about "amounts of TV shows" and saying it should be "numbers of TV shows".
Mandatory relevant comment: DRM is fatally flawed since we always need to be able to see/hear the output. The only way to really stop duplication of AV media is to put the check higher up the data stream, that is, a chip behind your eyeball.
The article appears to omit an important qualifier I assume must have been part of the study. I am sure it was supposed to read as follows:
These results are only applicable to servers that are never connected to the internet, or similar computer network. Connection of a computer to the internet, a known source of uncontrolled computer viruses, invalidates these results and would be an unfair appraisal.
I think this is a bit naive. Options have a value as soon as the are issued and most options are never exercised, even thought are are bought and sold.
To over-simplify somewhat, I think it's like saying we should tax milk only after it is consumed, since some people might let it rot in the fridge and then throw it away (gee, that's too familiar!). They might, but the milk has value even in the bottle and we generally tax stuff that has value.
Once upon a time, people felt that empathy, emotion and content mattered. Now it's all production values and special effects! Most people are programmed from an early point to ignore or scorn what have historically been the most important non-essential things in life in order to consume more and spend more. Who really wins from this? I hate to sound so cynical, but the concentration of power and resources in a small number of hands (relatively) has some really bad consequences and that trend is not getting better.
While we are at it, I am amazed at how effective the MPAA campaign to redefine stealing has been. It might be *illegal* to copy songs or give them away or whatever, but I still don't think it's stealing. Rather, the fact so many are willing to *call it* stealing is a great example of newspeak, or brainwashing, or how effective advertising is. (Please spare us the explanation of why this is/isn't illegal -- that's not the point.)
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Simple solution: run your internet radio station out of a Canadian ISP or some country other than the USA. This ridiculous legislative policy only kills American-sourced internet radio.
Putting Zork on that list instead of the Colossal Cave is an ridiculous and myopic
mistake which I presume is due to the fact that the guys making the list did not play
games 25 years ago. Colossal Cave is not merely the antecedent of Zork, but it was
a neat game in it's time and it had a great history.
It was based on a real cave ( http://www.colossalcave.com/ ) and it was ported to
many (now obsolete) different computers using several different languages, picking up different variations and endings along the way. Tis history page is a really good read: http://www.rickadams.org/adventure/a_history.html I think knowledge of this game is a prerequisit for being a full-strength gamer, and perhaps good knowledge for anybody who claims to be "up" on computer science.
You can even play it in the web using this link http://sundae.triumf.ca/pub2/cave/node001.html
When it comes to this copyright stuff, they aren't different at all. In fact, they aren't nearly as different as the extremists on both sides of the language debate(s) would like to imagine.
Interestingly enough, his theory does even more! It predicts the
substantial positive change to his bank balance due to a payment from
an oil cartel discussed here last week.
As a companion bricks-and-mortal store, you could sell jars of people's
sewage and excrement, labelled as "organic products". About the same value
and utility to society.
Not only are Canadian phone companies slow to roll out technology, but apparantly (according to this blog) there is a trademark problem with the iPhone in Canada.
1) if you are under 30, it doesn't matter much long-term, but I think you will grow more if you have the option to control the projects you work on, which can help downstream. 2) Having a job you **like** has an effect on your health and productivity, which should (each) be worth a lot. 3) I have seen people drop jobs where they were just a "cog" despite the financial issues simply because they hated it.
My option would be to take the more "fun" job if they can bump up the money. In the end, I think the absoluet dollar value matters less than the feeling that your are being fairly treated (assuming certain essentials are taken care of). Many studies show that absolute dollar amounts don't matter that much to long-term happiness, relative to all the other obvious factors.
Any more of this kind of thing and you'll start to make it difficult
for a simple businessman
to run a corrupt incompetent insider-connected company, and at that
point who knows what damage will be done to the US economy.
Be more careful guys!!
No, I respectfully think you have it wrong. You are using a "service provider" who allows his server to ..."
be used as a source of outgoing spam. When you said:
"Our service provider forwards any mail received at a paying customer's address to any forwarding address
that means your provider is not filtering outgoing spam. They need to be doing so.
The fact that Hotmail, AOL etc are
blocking this provider means they have identified them as a source of spam. They are doing the
right thing.
You should change to a responsible non-corrupt service provider and I hope your
current service provider goes out of business as **they** are the ones contributing to the
demise of email as a useful medium.
I think there is a genuine risk of worrisome change, and I am sure many slashdotters think so too, despite the huge amount of sophomoric humor. (Doesn't anybody post real comments anymore?) I have spoken to a couple of very famous AI professors and they are also concerned and think we should be working on policy now.
While the frightening stuff is still somewhat remote, isn't it time to develop serious binding policy on what is allowed and how it is controlled? This may be very difficult, but it isn't even on the table being considered these days. The Asimov 3 laws are totally unrealistic, but some realistic safeguards and restrictions on robotic systems might be possible. The biggest problem is that this will conflict directly with plabs for using robotics in National defense systems, but let's at least think about it all as a society!
It's like saying "how do I get into computing". You can do it at home on your own, but in that case unless you are a miracle case your potential will be capped and/or it will take a long time. Hobby robotics is not the same as "real" robotics.
The traditional way to genuinely get into robotics is to go to graduate schools in a school with a strong robotics groups (or person) in Computer Science, Electrical Enginnering, or Mech Eng, or Robotics. Seriosu robotics requires a good background in mathematics too. Some schools with visible robotics programs in North America include: CMU, Georgia Tech, MIT, McGill, and U Texas.
Who really needs HD anyhow? Nobody. If HD succeeds, we'll all be up to our eyeballs in ...
both DRM and hardware replacement costs. Many people are happy with iPod video: doesn't
that clearly tell us that the excitement over HD is hype? Sure, HD looks nicer viewed side-by-side
with NTSC, but who cares if
the movie you are watching actually has characters and a story you care about
Where does your SSH tunnel go to? Someplace down the
line it needs to emerge unencrypted (assuming you aren't just surfing to
your own remote server(s)).
Sony has a hitsory of making up non-standard proprietary formats. These
include the (a) memory stick, (b) the customized (non-standard) firewire port,
(c) the universal
operating system of the AIBO, (d) the minidisc and, of course, (e) betamax. No doubt, there are other I can't think of or don't know about.
In almost every case, they are either failures or (worse) sources of ongoing frustration.
I thought Blu-ray had promise, but not I realize it is another one of these monstrosities. Maybe it had better just die as quickly as possible to spare us being burdeneed with it for ages.
(like the memory stick -- an extra format we never needed).
This is a ridiculous story accompanied by a ridiculous slahsdot posting. There are a lot of serious challenges to robotics and cognitive science, but this article and this robot has little to do with any of them. I guess the poster's nickname "shinyplaticbag" refers to what his cortext is made of?
Journalists and news people usually feed off one another. Not only have I seen it happen in the media, I have been the recipient of news coverage triggered by other news coverage which was triggered by other news coverage.
It doesn't seem like a bit deal if the coverage is interested, no plagarism is committed, and credit is given.
What do we as individuals have to lose? I am repeatedly surprised at accusations of vigilantism -- who the heck are these ani-spam guys supposed to be helping? It should be kept in mind that vigilantism is and was an acceptable solution in the absence of effictive law enforcement. Back in more primitive times when there were no police forces, vigilantism was the only law enforcement; well, it's primitive times on the net.
(CavemanOgg: Grog him me on head with stone and take food, me hit him back.
CavemanJane: No, that be vigilantism!
CavemanOgg: ooh, you right, me wait 65,000 years for legal system to develop and then file complaint with authorities.
Epilogue: Grog had all the kids. )
Venue: there are a spectrum of conferences. Some are academically credible (in CS-like fields, typically sponsored by the IEEE, ACM, or AAAI) and some are not. Also, some conferences have very stringent reviewing and accept few papers, while others just accept everything. Also, some conferences are organized just to make money, and can bring in as much as $300K. Now, which kind do you think we are dealing with here, and then why is anybody surprised? Just getiing a paper into a *pulp* conference basic means you had the initiative to mail it and pay the (typically excessive) fee.
The paper: since it uses a hand-crafted dada-based grammer, the paper is much less random that it could be. I haven't seen the grammar they used but with this kind of approach you can generate anything from pure randomness to pure determinism including a document where just a few synonyms get substituted. Thus, it's an impressive paper-engineering effort, but it's not clear exactly how "random" the paper is.
Hmmm... my generator only does abstracts
http://www.dudek.org/static/dudek/abstract.cgi
Man, and *my* user name is "grouchyDude". If anybody works for ya, I hope they're wearing a flak jacket today!
OK, so it's a dupe, give the guy a break, or maybe you'd like to do the work -- I am sure the salary for a /. editor is great!
Don't even think of whining about "amounts of TV shows" and saying it should be "numbers of TV shows".
Mandatory relevant comment: DRM is fatally flawed since we always need to be able to see/hear the output. The only way to really stop duplication of AV media is to put the check higher up the data stream, that is, a chip behind your eyeball.
These results are only applicable to servers that are never connected to the internet, or similar computer network. Connection of a computer to the internet, a known source of uncontrolled computer viruses, invalidates these results and would be an unfair appraisal.
I think this is a bit naive. Options have a value as soon as the are issued and most options are never exercised, even thought are are bought and sold.
To over-simplify somewhat, I think it's like saying we should tax milk only after it is consumed, since some people might let it rot in the fridge and then throw it away (gee, that's too familiar!). They might, but the milk has value even in the bottle and we generally tax stuff that has value.
Once upon a time, people felt that empathy, emotion and content mattered. Now it's all production values and special effects! Most people are programmed from an early point to ignore or scorn what have historically been the most important non-essential things in life in order to consume more and spend more. Who really wins from this? I hate to sound so cynical, but the concentration of power and resources in a small number of hands (relatively) has some really bad consequences and that trend is not getting better.
While we are at it, I am amazed at how effective the MPAA campaign to redefine stealing has been. It might be *illegal* to copy songs or give them away or whatever, but I still don't think it's stealing. Rather, the fact so many are willing to *call it* stealing is a great example of newspeak, or brainwashing, or how effective advertising is. (Please spare us the explanation of why this is/isn't illegal -- that's not the point.)