Is a great example on why SOPA, PIPA and all the bunch should not exist. There is a whole world of crazy things like this that could be done and won't because this kind of laws, that could enrich us all (and yes, i saw it). I think that George Lucas approved that this could be done, but there are too much other things that this kind of idea could be applied.
but on earth. We do pattern matching, even when there is none, we see shapes of gods in cluods, of the future in tea leaves, even faces in the moon and mars. This could have been totally random shapes. But of course, if it was life, specially one that are totally different from what we are used to see, could be a step forward for us, still too much people see earth as the center of the universe.
there are a lot of sites meant to display as much ads as they can, with some copied content from somewhere else and every trick in the SEO books to attrack traffic. And how you decide that a site is doing that, like specifically tricking the search engine to think it is normal? Their next move should be to lower the amount of ads, and then the users, if well will keep falling there, at least won't load as much ads as usual.
About "normal" sites, with original content, and lots of ads to make them profitable, probably other factors could keep ranking them higher, and if the line they put between normal use of ads and abusive is high enough could end not hurting a lot and forcing the sites that abuse to give a better end user experience.
How you prove that you don't have copyrighted content? Giving access to all private files and show that there is no private content there. They could require that kind of services that they get full access to the files, and the information about their users.
Probably they have a copyright on the phrase "who watches the watchers" so will end closing any media that dares to complain about the abuses that this kind of policy will enable them to do.
Small correction, is not US as in you and me, is U.S., as the entire country, their politicians and the people that choose them, either by directly voting for them or for not doing anything to prevent it, like voting for a more honest alternative (if there exist one) or at least voting for none of the above. If you think that the only freedom you have is to choose either Kang or Kodos not only are screwing your own future, but by now the rest of the world one too.
We aren't talking about a fancy way to see haiku. We are talking about education. Would be great that education books work in educational devices, like i.e. the XO or other inexpensive ones, but this will only meant to be for Apple hardware. And that wouldnt be so bad per se, but we are talking about Apple here and odds are pretty high that they put a bunch of strategic patents around this, what could be abused forbidding any kind of educational ebook with more interactivity than turning pages.
Open means future, or at least a potential of it. What if the only available browser for the web were Mosaic on Windows or some Unix, and no other would be able to properly render html? Ok, was ascii text after all, maybe some would be able to display the text of the web pages, but not the graphics that are with them. You would miss the wealth of alternate devices you have today to access the web, javascript, flash (yes, some bad consequences need to have), html5, all the players that are around improving it in a lot (some successful and some not so much) of ways, instead of a single company dictating how they think it should go. And, of course, you will miss the web as is it today.
As it basically means blocking all the search engines and anything with user interactions, implement it in 2 stages: first block for the families, known people, IP ranges, etc to anything related to the companies/corporations/politicians behind SOPA/PIPA (or that supports them) and later (anything between 10 years and 10 millenium later) to the rest of the internet. If you support it, well you can taste what it really mean before everyone else, and your family/employees/etc could give some helpful input giving some perspective to them
It could be done from the top or from the bottom, just removing from search engines results, and any kind social sites any reference to the politicians, political parties, companies, musical records and so on (hey, could eventually violate some copyright, better be safe than sorry) could make them have a hint on what would be the world with those laws they are pursuing.
When something is already part of a culture shouldnt be copyrighted anymore. Its like giving away free dosis of a drug and when you are already addicted, start to sell it.
Adding a compatibility layer to run apps from one "linux distribution" into another don't sound that much as merging. Maemo and WebOS didn't merged when was released a compatibility layer that enabled Maemo to run WebOS games, neither Linux and Windows got merged when Wine was released.
In any case, means more apps and then maybe more potential relevance to Tizen, and probably will balance things to have another player in the mobile arena.
Start killing around without reason and you will get a lot of enemies. Then you will have a reason. Have to love self-fulfilling prophecies. Minority Report even had a movie, but seem that noone got the idea.
Not sure about that volcano in particular, but if one close to the ocean could be used, you pump salt water, and get that water back eventually. In any case, you won't get a shortage of that water.
So is the right of US to not only invade the country, put their own government, kill a lot of people, send their childrens to guantanamo, but also to shit over the dead bodies of the ones that tried to resist and even joke over it?
Put it in the other direction, what if US get successfully invaded, the government replaced, the resistence obliterated, people sent to be tortured in concentration camps and the invaders shit over the corpse of your fathers/friends/whatever, would you be a little outraged? Would be their right to do so? At least the disclosing is not as bad as what was done in Irak.
Even if we still use passwords, a lot of things had changed in the last 20 years, not so much in technology, but in culture. A lot could had been obvious or not back then, but now there is more awareness regarding requiring longer passwords, having harder to guess/bruteforce but easier to remember ones, giving alternate approachs like two-factor authentication, etc. Is like comparing the first cars with modern hybrid or electric ones, still are "cars", the basic scheme is still there, there are no flying cars everywhere now as predicted 30 years ago, but still a lot had improved.
If the excuse to put a server under windows is "is just like what i use in my desktop" (what could be for maybe the majority of windows servers, just because the high number of desktop user that dares to install a server knowing very little), it could be a good push for linux, both in servers ("now is the same") and in desktop ("now i must learn what now runs our servers"). For people that really know what they are doing when they install a windows server, will bring some advantages. but for a lot the others will make linux a more attractive option.
With NDAA updated they could have a room for him in Guantanamo. Could be very interesting if this happens, no more subterfuges and showing the world who really governs USA.
Why dedicated tricorders if you have cellphones? Carrying an "intelligent" device with a lot of "awareness" already (accelerometers, magnetometers, gps, etc), adding them a few more that take existing input (i.e. measuring elements in breath when you are answering a call, or from your hand when you are holding it) should not be that hard. The key here is more to make compact enough sensors to that kind of use. Of course, you can have also devices on your body taking measurements and communicating with the phone by bluetooth too.
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Oblig xkcd. They just aren't good being evil.
with enough evolution it could fly and fold even more into a (not heavy) briefcase.
When Canada signs ACTA shows that don't care at all about net neutrality.
I suppose the people in the ISS qualify as "high flyers", but NASA says that will be no risk for them
Is a great example on why SOPA, PIPA and all the bunch should not exist. There is a whole world of crazy things like this that could be done and won't because this kind of laws, that could enrich us all (and yes, i saw it). I think that George Lucas approved that this could be done, but there are too much other things that this kind of idea could be applied.
but on earth. We do pattern matching, even when there is none, we see shapes of gods in cluods, of the future in tea leaves, even faces in the moon and mars. This could have been totally random shapes. But of course, if it was life, specially one that are totally different from what we are used to see, could be a step forward for us, still too much people see earth as the center of the universe.
there are a lot of sites meant to display as much ads as they can, with some copied content from somewhere else and every trick in the SEO books to attrack traffic. And how you decide that a site is doing that, like specifically tricking the search engine to think it is normal? Their next move should be to lower the amount of ads, and then the users, if well will keep falling there, at least won't load as much ads as usual.
About "normal" sites, with original content, and lots of ads to make them profitable, probably other factors could keep ranking them higher, and if the line they put between normal use of ads and abusive is high enough could end not hurting a lot and forcing the sites that abuse to give a better end user experience.
How you prove that you don't have copyrighted content? Giving access to all private files and show that there is no private content there. They could require that kind of services that they get full access to the files, and the information about their users.
Probably they have a copyright on the phrase "who watches the watchers" so will end closing any media that dares to complain about the abuses that this kind of policy will enable them to do.
The new proposal will be called SOFA, Stop Online Freedom Act
Small correction, is not US as in you and me, is U.S., as the entire country, their politicians and the people that choose them, either by directly voting for them or for not doing anything to prevent it, like voting for a more honest alternative (if there exist one) or at least voting for none of the above. If you think that the only freedom you have is to choose either Kang or Kodos not only are screwing your own future, but by now the rest of the world one too.
This could be in the same lines as the Passive-Aggressive Wi-Fi Hotspots that were popular last year.
We aren't talking about a fancy way to see haiku. We are talking about education. Would be great that education books work in educational devices, like i.e. the XO or other inexpensive ones, but this will only meant to be for Apple hardware. And that wouldnt be so bad per se, but we are talking about Apple here and odds are pretty high that they put a bunch of strategic patents around this, what could be abused forbidding any kind of educational ebook with more interactivity than turning pages.
Open means future, or at least a potential of it. What if the only available browser for the web were Mosaic on Windows or some Unix, and no other would be able to properly render html? Ok, was ascii text after all, maybe some would be able to display the text of the web pages, but not the graphics that are with them. You would miss the wealth of alternate devices you have today to access the web, javascript, flash (yes, some bad consequences need to have), html5, all the players that are around improving it in a lot (some successful and some not so much) of ways, instead of a single company dictating how they think it should go. And, of course, you will miss the web as is it today.
If is closed, propietary format then no matter if the app to use them in a specific hardware device is free. Those books (or us) don't have a future.
As it basically means blocking all the search engines and anything with user interactions, implement it in 2 stages: first block for the families, known people, IP ranges, etc to anything related to the companies/corporations/politicians behind SOPA/PIPA (or that supports them) and later (anything between 10 years and 10 millenium later) to the rest of the internet. If you support it, well you can taste what it really mean before everyone else, and your family/employees/etc could give some helpful input giving some perspective to them
It could be done from the top or from the bottom, just removing from search engines results, and any kind social sites any reference to the politicians, political parties, companies, musical records and so on (hey, could eventually violate some copyright, better be safe than sorry) could make them have a hint on what would be the world with those laws they are pursuing.
When something is already part of a culture shouldnt be copyrighted anymore. Its like giving away free dosis of a drug and when you are already addicted, start to sell it.
Adding a compatibility layer to run apps from one "linux distribution" into another don't sound that much as merging. Maemo and WebOS didn't merged when was released a compatibility layer that enabled Maemo to run WebOS games, neither Linux and Windows got merged when Wine was released.
In any case, means more apps and then maybe more potential relevance to Tizen, and probably will balance things to have another player in the mobile arena.
Start killing around without reason and you will get a lot of enemies. Then you will have a reason. Have to love self-fulfilling prophecies. Minority Report even had a movie, but seem that noone got the idea.
that way you will be sure that noone will try to attack you, in any future. Finally some reasonable use for all those nuclear warheads.
Not sure about that volcano in particular, but if one close to the ocean could be used, you pump salt water, and get that water back eventually. In any case, you won't get a shortage of that water.
So is the right of US to not only invade the country, put their own government, kill a lot of people, send their childrens to guantanamo, but also to shit over the dead bodies of the ones that tried to resist and even joke over it? Put it in the other direction, what if US get successfully invaded, the government replaced, the resistence obliterated, people sent to be tortured in concentration camps and the invaders shit over the corpse of your fathers/friends/whatever, would you be a little outraged? Would be their right to do so? At least the disclosing is not as bad as what was done in Irak.
Even if we still use passwords, a lot of things had changed in the last 20 years, not so much in technology, but in culture. A lot could had been obvious or not back then, but now there is more awareness regarding requiring longer passwords, having harder to guess/bruteforce but easier to remember ones, giving alternate approachs like two-factor authentication, etc. Is like comparing the first cars with modern hybrid or electric ones, still are "cars", the basic scheme is still there, there are no flying cars everywhere now as predicted 30 years ago, but still a lot had improved.
If the excuse to put a server under windows is "is just like what i use in my desktop" (what could be for maybe the majority of windows servers, just because the high number of desktop user that dares to install a server knowing very little), it could be a good push for linux, both in servers ("now is the same") and in desktop ("now i must learn what now runs our servers"). For people that really know what they are doing when they install a windows server, will bring some advantages. but for a lot the others will make linux a more attractive option.
With NDAA updated they could have a room for him in Guantanamo. Could be very interesting if this happens, no more subterfuges and showing the world who really governs USA.
Why dedicated tricorders if you have cellphones? Carrying an "intelligent" device with a lot of "awareness" already (accelerometers, magnetometers, gps, etc), adding them a few more that take existing input (i.e. measuring elements in breath when you are answering a call, or from your hand when you are holding it) should not be that hard. The key here is more to make compact enough sensors to that kind of use. Of course, you can have also devices on your body taking measurements and communicating with the phone by bluetooth too.