Not at all, Rogers is showcasing the RIAA approved Newspeak compliant Web 3.0.
If the Interweb detects that you are doing anything that contravenes rules in their massive filtering database that pulls rule feeds from all the *AAs, your content is progressively re-written as your packet traverses the rule set. Your elected officials can use "Putin" statements to apply regexes to any controversial issues where you may be in danger of being mis-informed.
By 2010, all Interweb traffic will be filtered by these rulesets so all content looks like a cross between MySpace and I Can Have Cheeseburger.
Facebook is quickly gaining on myspace for the electronic embodiment of tackiness.
Urgh. So far the vomit-across-the-page attitude on MySpace had been a major consideration in me leaning towards Facebook if my hand was ever forced to accpting a defacto-standard personal netoworking site. I'm not surprised that Facebook are willing to race MySpace to the bottom in implementing appalingly band graphic design to attract hoards of 14 year olds.
Someone should tell these Bozos that Kibo was only joking. On the plus side, Kibo has so much published prior art, we can send patent trolls to kill MySpace *and* Facebook.
If you are on the Internet and take a poke at The Purple One (and I'm not referring to Barney the Dinosaur), he will send his lawyers at you. Last week B3ta took down their Purple One image challenge as apparently he didn't share the humour in it.
I prefer TAFKAT (The Artist Formerly Known As Talented).
All these has-been stadium acts looking for any excuse to get a little more limelight is a bit sad, though I suppose it's bettter than the Gary Glitter option.
Interestingly, the current crop of reactor designs are really poor compared to what they could be. There's a lot of scope to improve the safety and efficiency of nuclear power, but I'm not surprised that there's reluctance on all parts to put time and effort into new designs considering the uncertainty.
For example, breeder reactors that yield more energy for a given amount of fuel and keep all waste on site, burning it down to relatively safe forms:
"construct a winning strategy" -- "we don't have a strategy, but if we can contruct a winning strategy, the strategy will be better than Flickr's and we will win!"
or,
"use our desktop monopoly to steer people away from Flickr and make sure Flikr performs poorly and looks bad in IE7 if they somehow do manage to get through."
I have a MacBook for the same reason I used to have a Sun desktop. Steve owns the OS and the hardware and they are designed to work. It's an engineered solution. Windows OTOH needs to try work with all kinds of scenarios and a much wider range of hardware. No surprise that it's less reliable. This is also the same reason why I haven't bothered putting Linux on a laptop, my laptop needs to "Just work", I'll stick Debian in a VM for tinkering and development.
I wouldn't have minded paying 3x for my MacBook. Because it just works. As it was, it was price comparable to similar laptops anyway and I don't have the fiddle of removing Windows.
Then there's a myriad of companies with "Sun" in their name that aren't Sun Microsystems, like a bunch of newspapers called "The Sun" and SunAlliance insurance.
Alas, all this precedent comes to not much if their lawyers think they can use a flimsy premise to bleed you to death in the legal system.
Taken at face value, our IT policy was at one point advocating that no useful software could be installed on a computer unless it was already included with MS Office. People are smart enough to recognise the intent even though the wording is overly broad. I was tempted to rigidly enforce a zero tolerance approach and watch the workplace grind to a halt.
Even before the terrorism hysteria those days were gone. Some years back, kids blew up a mailbox in our street. First I knew about it was the bomb squad running up tape across the street. Any prank level incident is handled by the police on the same basis as though it were Chopper Reed or Osama (versus some bored kids who had their chemistry set confiscated).
Fertiliser already requires photo ID and valid reason. When our car's radioator was serviced the antifreeze was changed for a new blue liquid, while I haven't investigated, I'm betting it's a non ethylene glycol formula designed to be less useful as a precursor. I can't get thoriated gas lamp mantles and the "non radioactive" ones are feeble. Chlorine and sodium hydroxide aren't that far down the list anymore.
... If I had to declare the problem statement succinctly, it'd be: People are getting sick of registering and re-declaring their friends on every site., but also: Developing "Social Applications" is too much work.
Facebook's answer seems to be that the world should just all be Facebook apps. While Facebook is an amazing platform and has some amazing technology, there's a lot of hesitation in the developer / "Web 2.0" community about being slaves to Facebook, dependent on their continued goodwill, availability, future owners, not changing the rules, etc. That hesitation I think is well-founded. A centralized "owner" of the social graph is bad for the Internet....
Now that the SCO corpse has been consumed, MS will throw another one onto the FUD fire to keep the smoke and mirrors up. And they'll keep pitching bodies until something sticks.
It'll be cheaper to rent someone for the trip. This could be a major disruptive event on the windscreen washing industry as they all clamour of a piece of the new commuter passenger industry.
The government (and government sponsored entities) has no business acting like a private enterprise. The pursuit of exclusive wealth should be left to business.
Unlike DARPA, the CSIRO does not have an endless pipe of defense cash. They research a range of fundamental and applied areas and there's an expectation that profits from industry partnerships and commercialisation (like patents) will be used to multiply research contributions. Why should a country's taxpayers fund government research agencies develop technology for the benefit of foreign companies? You'll find that even DARPA doesn't do that anymore. Do you really think that if TCP/IP was developed today that the USA would give it away to foreign companies? As a US tax payer, your Internet royalties would be going to the major partners in that project.
So they're going to block all these words, across all languages?
And what if someone is searching for the title of a Monty Python movie where they used, for example, Holy hand grenades? Or a scene from a novel, or a TV show?
That's easy, they'll only block the ones that www.alqaeda.org link to.
Which whatever. There's many things said person might do. All of them will leave traces. All of them are likely to be poorly received by by whoever is going to assess compliance. Any sign of fiddling is probably going to be deemed as wilful violation of conditions and maybe result in a Mitnick style prohibition. The goal is not to prevent the behaviour.
ISPs have set their pricing by selling the same capacity several times over on the assumption that no-one will notice as most subscribers will never actually use all the capacity they buy. By dreaming up ways of using this unused capacity we purchsed we've put them in a bind and it's easier to go after large organisations than directly jack up subscriber prices to supply the originally promised capacity.
A BOB is also essential in the case of a zombie invasion.
BTW, back in 1993, we used to hold annual DR swaps with another federal agency who had similar systems to our own. We also had an MOU to mirror critical data and use each others facilities in case our primary site was hosed. (or is that swarming with the walking undead?)
I've walked this road for a few years now, and have begun to appreciate those tedious documents like strategic plans. They mean that management know when to involve me in decision making, and they know that I have a coherent strategy in place for our environment that answers all the questions that might keep them up at night. Make sure an agreed plan spells out a longer term intentions and that they understand the costs of changing the underpining platform.
If you don't engage with your management and agree on directions, you're going to keep running into management fads.
I recently evaluated a few wavelet formats for geo-data:
- MrSID - Windows only binary libs, restrictive licensing
- ECW - Great performance, but the open source license prevents you from doing anything useful
- JPG200 - I looked at Jasper and one other li8brary, both were slower and more flakey than ECW
Viz, ECW would have romped it in if the license was even a little more enlightened.
JPG2000 libs will need to at least match other wavelet formats to get anywhere, we already have vendors supplying data in ECW, format translations are a PITAm, especially if you lose performance.
Someone I know had their PDA filched from their back pack when they were on a crowded bus. I suggested they go look at the local pawn shops over the next few days. Sure enough, it turned up and it still had his business card in it. The proprietor of course had the name, address and copy of ID for the guy who had hocked it.
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Not at all, Rogers is showcasing the RIAA approved Newspeak compliant Web 3.0.
If the Interweb detects that you are doing anything that contravenes rules in their massive filtering database that pulls rule feeds from all the *AAs, your content is progressively re-written as your packet traverses the rule set. Your elected officials can use "Putin" statements to apply regexes to any controversial issues where you may be in danger of being mis-informed.
By 2010, all Interweb traffic will be filtered by these rulesets so all content looks like a cross between MySpace and I Can Have Cheeseburger.
Urgh. So far the vomit-across-the-page attitude on MySpace had been a major consideration in me leaning towards Facebook if my hand was ever forced to accpting a defacto-standard personal netoworking site. I'm not surprised that Facebook are willing to race MySpace to the bottom in implementing appalingly band graphic design to attract hoards of 14 year olds.
Someone should tell these Bozos that Kibo was only joking. On the plus side, Kibo has so much published prior art, we can send patent trolls to kill MySpace *and* Facebook.
If you are on the Internet and take a poke at The Purple One (and I'm not referring to Barney the Dinosaur), he will send his lawyers at you. Last week B3ta took down their Purple One image challenge as apparently he didn't share the humour in it.
I prefer TAFKAT (The Artist Formerly Known As Talented).
All these has-been stadium acts looking for any excuse to get a little more limelight is a bit sad, though I suppose it's bettter than the Gary Glitter option.
Xix.
Interestingly, the current crop of reactor designs are really poor compared to what they could be. There's a lot of scope to improve the safety and efficiency of nuclear power, but I'm not surprised that there's reluctance on all parts to put time and effort into new designs considering the uncertainty.
For example, breeder reactors that yield more energy for a given amount of fuel and keep all waste on site, burning it down to relatively safe forms:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integral_Fast_Reactor
Xix.
"construct a winning strategy" -- "we don't have a strategy, but if we can contruct a winning strategy, the strategy will be better than Flickr's and we will win!"
or,
"use our desktop monopoly to steer people away from Flickr and make sure Flikr performs poorly and looks bad in IE7 if they somehow do manage to get through."
Xix.
I have a MacBook for the same reason I used to have a Sun desktop. Steve owns the OS and the hardware and they are designed to work. It's an engineered solution. Windows OTOH needs to try work with all kinds of scenarios and a much wider range of hardware. No surprise that it's less reliable. This is also the same reason why I haven't bothered putting Linux on a laptop, my laptop needs to "Just work", I'll stick Debian in a VM for tinkering and development.
I wouldn't have minded paying 3x for my MacBook. Because it just works. As it was, it was price comparable to similar laptops anyway and I don't have the fiddle of removing Windows.
The only city in the world with more Greeks than Melbourne is Athens.
Fully Sik Mate.
Xix.
While there were settlements, the judgment did say that the two Apples can
protect their trademarks in different sectors (hello iPod).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v._Apple_Computer
Then there's a myriad of companies with "Sun" in their name that aren't
Sun Microsystems, like a bunch of newspapers called "The Sun" and SunAlliance insurance.
Alas, all this precedent comes to not much if their lawyers think they can
use a flimsy premise to bleed you to death in the legal system.
Xix.
Taken at face value, our IT policy was at one point advocating that no useful software could be installed on a computer unless it was already included with MS Office. People are smart enough to recognise the intent even though the wording is overly broad. I was tempted to rigidly enforce a zero tolerance approach and watch the workplace grind to a halt.
Xix.
Even before the terrorism hysteria those days were gone. Some years back, kids blew up a mailbox in our street. First I knew about it was the bomb squad running up tape across the street. Any prank level incident is handled by the police on the same basis as though it were Chopper Reed or Osama (versus some bored kids who had their chemistry set confiscated).
Personal responsibility? Who needs it?
Fertiliser already requires photo ID and valid reason. When our car's radioator was serviced the antifreeze was changed for a new blue liquid, while I haven't investigated, I'm betting it's a non ethylene glycol formula designed to be less useful as a precursor. I can't get thoriated gas lamp mantles and the "non radioactive" ones are feeble. Chlorine and sodium hydroxide aren't that far down the list anymore.
http://bradfitz.com/social-graph-problem/ Xix.
Now that the SCO corpse has been consumed, MS will throw another one onto the FUD fire to keep the smoke and mirrors up. And they'll keep pitching bodies until something sticks.
Xix.
It'll be cheaper to rent someone for the trip. This could be a major disruptive event on the windscreen washing industry as they all clamour of a piece of the new commuter passenger industry.
Xix.
That's easy, they'll only block the ones that www.alqaeda.org link to.
Xix.
Congratulations for have the only sane, informative post on this thread after many many pages of scrolling. Is there any way we can mod this as a six?
Which whatever. There's many things said person might do. All of them will leave traces. All of them are likely to be poorly received by by whoever is going to assess compliance. Any sign of fiddling is probably going to be deemed as wilful violation of conditions and maybe result in a Mitnick style prohibition. The goal is not to prevent the behaviour.
ISPs have set their pricing by selling the same capacity several times over on the assumption that no-one will notice as most subscribers will never actually use all the capacity they buy. By dreaming up ways of using this unused capacity we purchsed we've put them in a bind and it's easier to go after large organisations than directly jack up subscriber prices to supply the originally promised capacity.
Xix.
A BOB is also essential in the case of a zombie invasion.
BTW, back in 1993, we used to hold annual DR swaps with another federal agency who had similar systems to our own. We also had an MOU to mirror critical data and use each others facilities in case our primary site was hosed. (or is that swarming with the walking undead?)
Xix.
Yes! Agree with you 100% here.
I've walked this road for a few years now, and have begun to appreciate those tedious documents like strategic plans. They mean that management know when to involve me in decision making, and they know that I have a coherent strategy in place for our environment that answers all the questions that might keep them up at night. Make sure an agreed plan spells out a longer term intentions and that they understand the costs of changing the underpining platform.
If you don't engage with your management and agree on directions, you're going to keep running into management fads.
Xix.
Wow, "journalistic standards" from "Fox News".
Maybe MS should go the whole hog and rent space on the desktop too?
I recently evaluated a few wavelet formats for geo-data:
- MrSID - Windows only binary libs, restrictive licensing
- ECW - Great performance, but the open source license prevents you from doing anything useful
- JPG200 - I looked at Jasper and one other li8brary, both were slower and more flakey than ECW
Viz, ECW would have romped it in if the license was even a little more enlightened.
JPG2000 libs will need to at least match other wavelet formats to get anywhere, we already have vendors supplying data in ECW, format translations are a PITAm, especially if you lose performance.
Xix.
Someone I know had their PDA filched from their back pack when they were on a crowded bus. I suggested they go look at the local pawn shops over the next few days. Sure enough, it turned up and it still had his business card in it. The proprietor of course had the name, address and copy of ID for the guy who had hocked it.
XIx.