but you are kind of a dick if you transgress against people by taking unauthorized pictures of them with equipment that isn't yours and then using the pictures without their permission
so i'm not very sympathetic to the stalkerific "artist"
but i'm sure we'll see a lot of comments here about the violations of the federal government in this situation, completely ignoring the violations committed by this douchebag
if we have a device that knows all of our routines, all of our friends, all of our habits, etc., and this predictability can be fed into algorithms to engage us to foster "positive" behavior according to some external agenda, then if we were to engage in new activity, or new social contacts, or go to new places.. then the device we are basically addicted to could discourage us: load our favorite games slower, prevent us from contacting people we really want to talk to, change even our cognition with the types of news stories and ads we see...
i'm not a paranoid schizophrenic, but we are talking about an amazing fantastic control device for locking our behavior into that of perfect little worker bees. maybe not even in overt ways, ie, somebody with an agenda: i'm talking in subtle, unpurposeful ways only visible by analyzing the overall effects of overlapping algorithms
If we are naïve to think of them as phones, what should we call them? Eben Moglen, a law professor at Columbia University, argues that they are robots for which we — the proud owners — are merely the hands and feet. “They see everything, they’re aware of our position, our relationship to other human beings and other robots, they mediate an information stream around us,” he has said. Over time, we’ve used these devices less for their original purpose.
creepy!
but it is true. as time evolves, and these ever present ever necessary devices invade more of our social and cognitive existence, we're basically talking about the fact that we are going to be following instructions from these things
and we can't separate ourselves: all of the positive feedbacks of gaming: endorphins, our entire social existence mediated through them... we are becoming cyborg worker ants controlled by cellphones... for what purpose? is anyone in control?
in a world whose main communication infrastructure is predicated on easily manipulated bits
every other point is secondary
the law will catch up with reality, eventually
until then, everyone else is coming to grips with exactly why they call things like the internet "disruptive" technology
writing created civilization (transmission of knowledge and culture across time and space)
the printing press created democracy (it created a middle class that brought about the end of kings and aristocratic exclusion due to limited knowledge)
and the internet is doing away with the idea of intellectual property, by destroying the scarcity of media that intellectual property depends upon as a scheme in order to work
the result? considering what writing and the printing press did to human society, and the time spans over which those changes took place, we are only at the very tiniest beginning of the monumental change
but a monumental change it is. and i believe it means the utter destruction of the concept of intellectual property. i could be wrong, but this is what my thoughts lead me to believe. i am either Voltaire contemplating the printing press, or i am a fool. only time will tell, and that same observation applies to everyone else pontificating and opinionating on the subject
Walter Murch, one of the most technically knowledgeable film editors and sound designers in the film industry today, argues, via Rogert Ebert's journal in the Chicago Sun-Times, that 3D cinema can't work, ever. Not just today's technology, but even theoretically. Nothing but true holographic images will do. The crux of his argument is simple: 600 million years of evolution has designed eyes that focus and converge in parallel, at the same distance. Look far away at a mountain, and your eyes focus and converge far away, at the same distance. Look closely at a book, and your eyes focus and converge close, at the same distance. But the problem is that 3D cinema technology asks our eyes to converge at one distance, and focus at another, in order for the illusion to work, and this becomes very taxing, if not downright debilitating, and even, for the eyes of the very young, potentially developmentally dangerous. Other problems (but these may be fixable) include the dimness of the image, and the fact that the image tends to 'gather in,' even on Imax screens, ruining the immersive experience.
we will need a major technological breakthrough in imaging 3D objects before the gimmick really takes hold. we aren't there yet
You need oil to live. Literally, a lot fertilizer is energetically deroved from fossil fuels.
But no one needs IP. Its not going to get to that. besides, military status is a direct corollary to economic status. As the USA's economic status fades due to horrible right wing social and economic policies our military status will fade as well.
The USA, with its abyssmal right wing social and economic policies will mean the USA will fall to second rate status in the world. By then China, Brazil, Korea, India, etc will grow wise to this lame "intellectual property" scam, and the next American Steve Jobs wont stand a chance.
When that day comes, and other countries say it was us who invtented this aggressive international enforcememt of this completely bullshit monopoly maintenance technique, just be happy there is and was an alternative strand of thought on the concept of intellectual property: no.
Then maybe we can fnally rid the world of this abomination. It is not ised to protect small inventors, it is used to enforce anti-market monopolistic practices.
canada will lead here, because you need a government entity to dictate the terms of something like a virtual wallet
private market forces do not necessarily lead to advancement, because there is no natural market that is not dominated and suppressed by it's largest players. for example: mastercard and visa will stymie google's and apple's virtual wallet efforts out of jealousy and wanting to monopolize that action themselves
and then we will have the crackpots WHARRGARBLing about virtual currency and paranoid schizophrenic fantasies of world domination, and the crackpots will be featured on faux news, because it serves the entrenched corporate interest's agenda to keep the public enthralled, confused, and propagandized about anything better than the world they want to lock them into where their rent seeking monopolistic and oligopolistic practices go unchallenged
so: only evil "socialist" countries deserve things like commonsense healthcare financing and technological progress, and my country continues it's slow circling of the toilet, as corporate rent seeking parasites strangle my government, and various morons conclude the solution is less government regulation on the stranglers
canada: can new york state join your union? please?
honestly, everything outside of walking and talking on a deserted beach where the sound of crashing surf drowns out telescope microphones, is an illusion of privacy
as for EXPECTATION of privacy, this is entirely dictated by laws. for example, i expect privacy in my own home, even if my kitchen window is open and passersbys overhear what i say. so we have illusion of privacy, expectation of privacy, perceived privacy, and actual privacy, and then we have the concept of who is privy to conversation they shouldn't normally hear: a random citizen, a private entity, a government entity. all of these competing complex concepts lead to one clear point: be careful what you say and where you say it, and make sure you have the law on your side
we may very well decide chat on a private server is like chat on a cellphone. but it isn't the same thing at this point in time, and whether or not it should be has nothing to do with what is and what isn't illegal, just what makes sense. so talk about what makes sense, don't depend upon fear and hysteria of the slippery slope to make your point, which is what i was responding to in the grandparent post
agreed. and a newspaper not being obligated to print a letter to the editor (because a private newspaper is not the government and therefore can "censor"), does not mean a cellphone should spy on you. these are at two ends of the continuum in the particular slippery slope being discussed here
"By your logic, necrophiliacs and bestiality practitioners should be allowed to marry"
"marijuana should be legal"
"By your logic, plutonium and ricin should be legal"
"private servers are not subject to free speech rules meant to prohibit the government's intrusive actions because private servers aren't the government"
"By your logic, cell phones should spy on you"
it's called the slippery slope, and when you engage in it, you lose an argument. because depending upon the slippery slope to make your point means you are depending upon human beings not able to tell the difference between very different things. that i, or the law, can't tell the difference between a gay person and a necrophiliac. that i, or the law, can't tell the difference between marijuana and plutonium. that i, or the law, can't tell the difference between a web server chat board and a cell phone. bullshit
therefore, you've lost the argument
hiding behind "constitution only protects us from the government"is douchey.
it's your right to think it is douchey. it is also the letter of the law and completely in line with the intentions of the founding fathers, because they understood the difference between private property and the government. do you?
The 2008 crisis hacked them worse than the USA and Europe. Now, 4 years later, they are riding high, and Europe and the USA are still muddling through. How? Why?
For a country that four years ago plunged into a financial abyss so deep it all but shut down overnight, Iceland seems to be doing surprisingly well.
It has repaid, early, many of the international loans that kept it afloat. Unemployment is hovering around 6 percent, and falling. And while much of Europe is struggling to pull itself out of the recessionary swamp, Iceland’s economy is expected to grow by 2.8 percent this year....
But during the crisis, the country did many things different from its European counterparts. It let its three largest banks fail, instead of bailing them out. It ensured that domestic depositors got their money back and gave debt relief to struggling homeowners and to businesses facing bankruptcy.
“Taking down a company with positive cash flow but negative equity would in the given circumstances have a domino effect, causing otherwise sound companies to collapse,” said Thorolfur Matthiasson, an economics professor at the University of Iceland. “Forgiving debt under those circumstances can be profitable for the financial institutions and help the economy and reduce unemployment as well.”
yes, of course that is their point. who cares? why does it matter?
they get to pick recipes and ingredients beforehand, the food is cooked outside of an hour, you know who your competitor is going to be, you know what the secret ingredient is, the meal the judges eat isn't actually the meal that was just prepared, etc., etc.: it's completely fake, the original japanese version was completely fake too
i read this "expose" in the village voice years ago, i had to laugh: there's people out there who actually ever thought this was real? pt barnum was right, there really is a naive clueless sucker born every minute:
are you someone who was actually surprised that a hawaiian filipino martial artist is not actually the nephew of chairman kaga? LOL
the point, for YOU:
it's ENTERTAINMENT
get it?
i mean, do you go see "The Avengers" in the movie theatre and stand up and say "Hey! They are using CGI! That guy didn't actually turn into a giant green monster! It's all fake! I can't enjoy it anymore! aaaahhh!"
ok. then in a world where nothing gets siphoned off, there is no middle class, because there is no support services: healthcare, education, retirement, and you have no paycheck because you live in a country of desperate poverty and a few ultrarich
you don't have to trust the government with your tax money. they do plenty wrong with it. you just have to know not paying taxes means you don't live in a society that generates the income that means you have a business to run/ to work for
i'm sorry, i know, i should be more patient, and kind, but you're just a fucking idiot
you don't give drugs to people that aren't tested. i thought the drugs were expensive due to the development costs
and your "liberty" ends when some yahoo sues because no one told him the drug was not tested and the government and drug developer bears responsibility for his kidneys not working anymore. and he would have a perfectly good case!
try to think things through next time, then form an opinion. thanks for playing
The point is, the TONE was off, it was like drunk golf buddies who stumbled on a casual cooking competition, no reverence for the food, no care for the technique. Much like American Ninja warrior: wrong tone, just as you say.
Luckily, the Food Network made another stab at Iron Chef, and this time it worked, with Alton Brown and the "nephew" of the original Chairman Kaga (Hawaiian Fillipino martial artist Mark Dacascos), and other cross overs like Iron Chef Morimoto:
Not as delightful as the original, but it works, it is enjoyable to watch, because the TONE is the same: they really care about the food, and they really pay attention to the cooking and technique.
If something works, don't mess with it!
I am certain some useless Hollywood suit said you need to change Sasuke to suit American audiences. Rightfully, that suit should be fired. If the formula works, don't mess with it, or you have some stillborn mess no one wants to watch.
Slashdot Mirror
but you are kind of a dick if you transgress against people by taking unauthorized pictures of them with equipment that isn't yours and then using the pictures without their permission
so i'm not very sympathetic to the stalkerific "artist"
but i'm sure we'll see a lot of comments here about the violations of the federal government in this situation, completely ignoring the violations committed by this douchebag
no, but there was a homeless tusken raider cooking bantha chops and drying his face wrap he was able to scare off with a few well blaster shots
have you ever seen a tusken raider without his face wraps?
(shudder)
if we have a device that knows all of our routines, all of our friends, all of our habits, etc., and this predictability can be fed into algorithms to engage us to foster "positive" behavior according to some external agenda, then if we were to engage in new activity, or new social contacts, or go to new places.. then the device we are basically addicted to could discourage us: load our favorite games slower, prevent us from contacting people we really want to talk to, change even our cognition with the types of news stories and ads we see...
i'm not a paranoid schizophrenic, but we are talking about an amazing fantastic control device for locking our behavior into that of perfect little worker bees. maybe not even in overt ways, ie, somebody with an agenda: i'm talking in subtle, unpurposeful ways only visible by analyzing the overall effects of overlapping algorithms
super creepy dystopian thoughts here
the chilliest passage:
creepy!
but it is true. as time evolves, and these ever present ever necessary devices invade more of our social and cognitive existence, we're basically talking about the fact that we are going to be following instructions from these things
and we can't separate ourselves: all of the positive feedbacks of gaming: endorphins, our entire social existence mediated through them... we are becoming cyborg worker ants controlled by cellphones... for what purpose? is anyone in control?
in a world whose main communication infrastructure is predicated on easily manipulated bits
every other point is secondary
the law will catch up with reality, eventually
until then, everyone else is coming to grips with exactly why they call things like the internet "disruptive" technology
writing created civilization (transmission of knowledge and culture across time and space)
the printing press created democracy (it created a middle class that brought about the end of kings and aristocratic exclusion due to limited knowledge)
and the internet is doing away with the idea of intellectual property, by destroying the scarcity of media that intellectual property depends upon as a scheme in order to work
the result? considering what writing and the printing press did to human society, and the time spans over which those changes took place, we are only at the very tiniest beginning of the monumental change
but a monumental change it is. and i believe it means the utter destruction of the concept of intellectual property. i could be wrong, but this is what my thoughts lead me to believe. i am either Voltaire contemplating the printing press, or i am a fool. only time will tell, and that same observation applies to everyone else pontificating and opinionating on the subject
and what will it be like when the chaebol and the CPC start wielding intellectual property law internationally?
it will exactly as you describe, now pointed at weaker countries and trading partners, with the same brutality
so then you agree with me on the absurdity and evil of intellectual property law, right?
proof: the story i submitted to slashdot titled exactly that:
http://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/11/01/25/2231254/3d-cinema-doesnt-work-and-never-will
we will need a major technological breakthrough in imaging 3D objects before the gimmick really takes hold. we aren't there yet
let the 3D fad die
You need oil to live. Literally, a lot fertilizer is energetically deroved from fossil fuels.
But no one needs IP. Its not going to get to that. besides, military status is a direct corollary to economic status. As the USA's economic status fades due to horrible right wing social and economic policies our military status will fade as well.
The USA, with its abyssmal right wing social and economic policies will mean the USA will fall to second rate status in the world. By then China, Brazil, Korea, India, etc will grow wise to this lame "intellectual property" scam, and the next American Steve Jobs wont stand a chance.
When that day comes, and other countries say it was us who invtented this aggressive international enforcememt of this completely bullshit monopoly maintenance technique, just be happy there is and was an alternative strand of thought on the concept of intellectual property: no.
Then maybe we can fnally rid the world of this abomination. It is not ised to protect small inventors, it is used to enforce anti-market monopolistic practices.
that's just the way a hardcore commie works
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qr2bSL5VQgM
canada will lead here, because you need a government entity to dictate the terms of something like a virtual wallet
private market forces do not necessarily lead to advancement, because there is no natural market that is not dominated and suppressed by it's largest players. for example: mastercard and visa will stymie google's and apple's virtual wallet efforts out of jealousy and wanting to monopolize that action themselves
and then we will have the crackpots WHARRGARBLing about virtual currency and paranoid schizophrenic fantasies of world domination, and the crackpots will be featured on faux news, because it serves the entrenched corporate interest's agenda to keep the public enthralled, confused, and propagandized about anything better than the world they want to lock them into where their rent seeking monopolistic and oligopolistic practices go unchallenged
so: only evil "socialist" countries deserve things like commonsense healthcare financing and technological progress, and my country continues it's slow circling of the toilet, as corporate rent seeking parasites strangle my government, and various morons conclude the solution is less government regulation on the stranglers
canada: can new york state join your union? please?
honestly, everything outside of walking and talking on a deserted beach where the sound of crashing surf drowns out telescope microphones, is an illusion of privacy
as for EXPECTATION of privacy, this is entirely dictated by laws. for example, i expect privacy in my own home, even if my kitchen window is open and passersbys overhear what i say. so we have illusion of privacy, expectation of privacy, perceived privacy, and actual privacy, and then we have the concept of who is privy to conversation they shouldn't normally hear: a random citizen, a private entity, a government entity. all of these competing complex concepts lead to one clear point: be careful what you say and where you say it, and make sure you have the law on your side
we may very well decide chat on a private server is like chat on a cellphone. but it isn't the same thing at this point in time, and whether or not it should be has nothing to do with what is and what isn't illegal, just what makes sense. so talk about what makes sense, don't depend upon fear and hysteria of the slippery slope to make your point, which is what i was responding to in the grandparent post
agreed. and a newspaper not being obligated to print a letter to the editor (because a private newspaper is not the government and therefore can "censor"), does not mean a cellphone should spy on you. these are at two ends of the continuum in the particular slippery slope being discussed here
this damage they inferred as meaning they took the gene back 500 million years
then the bacteria slowly repaired the damage with successive mutations, somehow meaning 500 million years of evolution had been reacquired
"some of the altered lineages actually became healthier than their modern counterpart"
meaning the typical background noise of random mutations, within or without this experiment, leads to natural variation in fitness
it's an interesting experiment, but the write up is highly contrived about what they actually did
"gays should be allowed to marry"
"By your logic, necrophiliacs and bestiality practitioners should be allowed to marry"
"marijuana should be legal"
"By your logic, plutonium and ricin should be legal"
"private servers are not subject to free speech rules meant to prohibit the government's intrusive actions because private servers aren't the government"
"By your logic, cell phones should spy on you"
it's called the slippery slope, and when you engage in it, you lose an argument. because depending upon the slippery slope to make your point means you are depending upon human beings not able to tell the difference between very different things. that i, or the law, can't tell the difference between a gay person and a necrophiliac. that i, or the law, can't tell the difference between marijuana and plutonium. that i, or the law, can't tell the difference between a web server chat board and a cell phone. bullshit
therefore, you've lost the argument
it's your right to think it is douchey. it is also the letter of the law and completely in line with the intentions of the founding fathers, because they understood the difference between private property and the government. do you?
intellectual property free products?
like hormone free milk or pesticide free fruit?
Pure bullshit
that's disgusting
so much for meritocracy. more like plutocracy
The 2008 crisis hacked them worse than the USA and Europe. Now, 4 years later, they are riding high, and Europe and the USA are still muddling through. How? Why?
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/08/world/europe/icelands-economy-is-mending-amid-europes-malaise.html?pagewanted=all
We, in Europe, and the USA, have much to learn from Iceland about how to survive a crippling financial crisis.
yes, of course that is their point. who cares? why does it matter?
they get to pick recipes and ingredients beforehand, the food is cooked outside of an hour, you know who your competitor is going to be, you know what the secret ingredient is, the meal the judges eat isn't actually the meal that was just prepared, etc., etc.: it's completely fake, the original japanese version was completely fake too
i read this "expose" in the village voice years ago, i had to laugh: there's people out there who actually ever thought this was real? pt barnum was right, there really is a naive clueless sucker born every minute:
http://www.villagevoice.com/2008-02-19/restaurants/iron-chef-boyardee/
so fucking what?
are you someone who was actually surprised that a hawaiian filipino martial artist is not actually the nephew of chairman kaga? LOL
the point, for YOU:
it's ENTERTAINMENT
get it?
i mean, do you go see "The Avengers" in the movie theatre and stand up and say "Hey! They are using CGI! That guy didn't actually turn into a giant green monster! It's all fake! I can't enjoy it anymore! aaaahhh!"
what you want is a dramatic hacker without an ego. it kind of comes with the territory
so why don't you expect discretion and maturity from your fellow managers, and stop looking a gift horse in the mouth
ok. then in a world where nothing gets siphoned off, there is no middle class, because there is no support services: healthcare, education, retirement, and you have no paycheck because you live in a country of desperate poverty and a few ultrarich
you don't have to trust the government with your tax money. they do plenty wrong with it. you just have to know not paying taxes means you don't live in a society that generates the income that means you have a business to run/ to work for
lol
sorry
(egg on face) ;-)
i'm sorry, i know, i should be more patient, and kind, but you're just a fucking idiot
you don't give drugs to people that aren't tested. i thought the drugs were expensive due to the development costs
and your "liberty" ends when some yahoo sues because no one told him the drug was not tested and the government and drug developer bears responsibility for his kidneys not working anymore. and he would have a perfectly good case!
try to think things through next time, then form an opinion. thanks for playing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Chef
And then they bought it to the USA, with William Shatner, and it completely and utterly sucked:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Chef_USA
The point is, the TONE was off, it was like drunk golf buddies who stumbled on a casual cooking competition, no reverence for the food, no care for the technique. Much like American Ninja warrior: wrong tone, just as you say.
Luckily, the Food Network made another stab at Iron Chef, and this time it worked, with Alton Brown and the "nephew" of the original Chairman Kaga (Hawaiian Fillipino martial artist Mark Dacascos), and other cross overs like Iron Chef Morimoto:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Chef_America
Not as delightful as the original, but it works, it is enjoyable to watch, because the TONE is the same: they really care about the food, and they really pay attention to the cooking and technique.
If something works, don't mess with it!
I am certain some useless Hollywood suit said you need to change Sasuke to suit American audiences. Rightfully, that suit should be fired. If the formula works, don't mess with it, or you have some stillborn mess no one wants to watch.