Am I the only one who thought of Dave Chappelle's skit where the white CEO and the black drug dealer switch and try out the other guy's justice systems? I thought not.
Just a little commont on some history -- Thomas Paine was severely criticized because his writing style was all venom - he was the ultimate muckraker. He was great at tearing things down (deprecating the monarchy and royalty), but his invectives were ineffective at 'building up' the idea of democracy, and his contemporaries were well aware of this (there's a famous quote about him that elludes me at the moment).
That's complete BS. Universities *are* landlords, and they have to comply with all rules, regulations, and laws governing landlords.
Now, you can *waive* your rights and give them permission to do things that landlords ordinarily could not (such as searching your dorm) - that's what you are doing when you sign your housing agreement (which every university that I know of makes you do in order to live in the dorm) If you didn't sign the housing agreement and somehow ended up living in the dorm, then the university could do nothing that a landlord couldn't.
(Full disclosure - I'm a wikipedia admin, and I'm the one who chooses the main page featured articles) -- The study that guy did was fishy - he had a very low sample size (5), a very short timeframe (1 week), and the articles he picked are very, very low traffic (several of them had =3 edits each).
That anon post is exactly right - Red Dawn was not the first film to get a PG-13 rating (I can't remember which one was), but it was the first film *released* with a PG-13 rating. At the time, Red Dawn had more scenes of graphic violence than any other movie ever made.
Pfft. Last year, I had a class in verilog. We would be given modules of his code (he would write the RAM, for instances), and we would have to write a module to interact with it (a cache, for example). His code was so damn buggy, THE NIGHT BEFORE one of the projects was due, he sent out no fewer than 6 major corrections to his code. I would have *killed* for 5 days notice.
You missed the point. On Wikipedia, every article has an associated discussion page, where people can talk about the article (so they can discuss differences, ask questions, etc). Rather than linking to the "Internet" article, they linked to the *talk* page for the internet article.
That's just the kind of thinking that gets stuff done (with no excessive legal fees, either). Screw ZDnet, if they're going to act like bullies, I'm taking my mindshare elsewhere.
(Speaking as a wikipedia admin) - Be glad you didn't run into me:)
Seriously though, if you were targeting a few particular pages, those pages would get locked. If you persisted, your IP would be banned. If you tried a different IP, your subnet(s) would be banned. Admins are capabale of doing all of the above.
I'd mod you +9 insightful if I could for speaking the utter, unvarnished truth. On the other hand, it's a shame that some zealots are going to come along and mod you down to -1 troll because they don't see the wisdom in what you speak.
(Speaking as an admin on Wikipedia) - Wikipedia's vast database does quite a good job of luring in potential contributors. Once people find out they can edit our pages (something that most people are trained not to realize) it is usually quite addictive. There's really nothing to it besides just keeping wikipeida running as-is.
Very interesting idea. A wiki-style bible commentary would probably be a good fit at wikibooks. Otherwise, you can ask the foundation mailing list. As far as new projects in the works, to my knowledge, there aren't any right now.
Not to start a religious war here, but Everything2 has major issues about what it wants to be (counting blogs as part of its database, for example) that limit its usefulness.
We've already seen all of the things you describe. A bot attacked last month doing move page vandalism (the hardest kind to revert), and so we temporarily disabled new account creation while we fixed the problem. IN the future, we'll probably impliment capatcha's for new account creation. Admins are given 'shortcut' revert powers (anyone can revert, but admins can do it very easily) - this makes manual cleanup of most things very easy.
Honestly, the database is already huge (90.1 milion words is *a lot* - for comparison, the Bible has about 823,000. Image how high a stack of 100 bibles would be). Misinformation does creep in once in a while, but we catch most/all of it eventually -watchlists (which let people track article changes) are a tremendous help in doing this.
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Am I the only one who thought of Dave Chappelle's skit where the white CEO and the black drug dealer switch and try out the other guy's justice systems? I thought not.
"I plead the fif!"
Just a little commont on some history -- Thomas Paine was severely criticized because his writing style was all venom - he was the ultimate muckraker. He was great at tearing things down (deprecating the monarchy and royalty), but his invectives were ineffective at 'building up' the idea of democracy, and his contemporaries were well aware of this (there's a famous quote about him that elludes me at the moment).
That's complete BS. Universities *are* landlords, and they have to comply with all rules, regulations, and laws governing landlords.
Now, you can *waive* your rights and give them permission to do things that landlords ordinarily could not (such as searching your dorm) - that's what you are doing when you sign your housing agreement (which every university that I know of makes you do in order to live in the dorm) If you didn't sign the housing agreement and somehow ended up living in the dorm, then the university could do nothing that a landlord couldn't.
(Full disclosure - I'm a wikipedia admin, and I'm the one who chooses the main page featured articles) -- The study that guy did was fishy - he had a very low sample size (5), a very short timeframe (1 week), and the articles he picked are very, very low traffic (several of them had =3 edits each).
Would it be so hard to explain in one little sentence what those award are about?
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One little sentence
Who won the 1953 retroactive award? The nominees included The Caves of Steel, Fahrenheit 451, and Childhood's End. Yeesh - what a hard call.
So, by your logic, if Des Moines is 2 years behind, then Canada is 25 years behind?
That anon post is exactly right - Red Dawn was not the first film to get a PG-13 rating (I can't remember which one was), but it was the first film *released* with a PG-13 rating. At the time, Red Dawn had more scenes of graphic violence than any other movie ever made.
Pfft. Last year, I had a class in verilog. We would be given modules of his code (he would write the RAM, for instances), and we would have to write a module to interact with it (a cache, for example). His code was so damn buggy, THE NIGHT BEFORE one of the projects was due, he sent out no fewer than 6 major corrections to his code. I would have *killed* for 5 days notice.
You missed the point. On Wikipedia, every article has an associated discussion page, where people can talk about the article (so they can discuss differences, ask questions, etc). Rather than linking to the "Internet" article, they linked to the *talk* page for the internet article.
(Speaking for the rest of us) - Thanks :)
(Speaking as a Wikipedia admin) - god, oh god, why did you link to the *TALK* page and not the article? Sigh...
That's just the kind of thinking that gets stuff done (with no excessive legal fees, either). Screw ZDnet, if they're going to act like bullies, I'm taking my mindshare elsewhere.
(Speaking as a wikipedia admin) - Be glad you didn't run into me :)
Seriously though, if you were targeting a few particular pages, those pages would get locked. If you persisted, your IP would be banned. If you tried a different IP, your subnet(s) would be banned. Admins are capabale of doing all of the above.
Manned spaceflight will require us to develop an understanding of the requirements of supporting human life in a finite ecology located in space.
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I half-expected that to link to a really crappy movie.
I'd mod you +9 insightful if I could for speaking the utter, unvarnished truth. On the other hand, it's a shame that some zealots are going to come along and mod you down to -1 troll because they don't see the wisdom in what you speak.
(Speaking as an admin on Wikipedia) - Wikipedia's vast database does quite a good job of luring in potential contributors. Once people find out they can edit our pages (something that most people are trained not to realize) it is usually quite addictive. There's really nothing to it besides just keeping wikipeida running as-is.
For legal issues brought before us - I believe these are quite rare. Wikipedia does a pretty good job of policing for coypright violations.
Simply put - No, the CCL prohibits commerical re-use, which is something that we do not want to prohibit.
Very interesting idea. A wiki-style bible commentary would probably be a good fit at wikibooks. Otherwise, you can ask the foundation mailing list. As far as new projects in the works, to my knowledge, there aren't any right now.
Not to start a religious war here, but Everything2 has major issues about what it wants to be (counting blogs as part of its database, for example) that limit its usefulness.
I answered almost exactly the same question in another thread.
We've already seen all of the things you describe. A bot attacked last month doing move page vandalism (the hardest kind to revert), and so we temporarily disabled new account creation while we fixed the problem. IN the future, we'll probably impliment capatcha's for new account creation. Admins are given 'shortcut' revert powers (anyone can revert, but admins can do it very easily) - this makes manual cleanup of most things very easy.
Yes - see Requested articles, where anyone can request that an article to be written.
Honestly, the database is already huge (90.1 milion words is *a lot* - for comparison, the Bible has about 823,000. Image how high a stack of 100 bibles would be). Misinformation does creep in once in a while, but we catch most/all of it eventually -watchlists (which let people track article changes) are a tremendous help in doing this.