There is a developing heirarchy of users (anons, regular users, admins, beauracrats, stewards, developers). Anons can edit pages. Regular users can do that, and also have watchlists and upload files. Admins can do all that, plus protect pages, delete pages, and ban users. Beuracrats (of which I am one) can do that, plus promote other admins (there are about a dozen of these on the english wikipedia). Stewards have beuracratic access to all wikipedias (there are about 10 of these). Developers have ssh access to the servers (and they have a heirachy of permissions there).
Edit wars (IE, users constantly reverting to their preferred previous version of an article) are ended when an administrator protects the article. There is also a page where users can request admins to protect pages. This enforces a cool-down period where people can talk about their problems. We also have a rule (encated about 3-4 months ago) that you cannot revert an article more than 3 times in 24 hours. If you do, the protecting admin may, at his/her discretion, revert the protected articel to the version that was reverted to least.
Wikipedia currently has several organized quality control efforts - Cleanup, peer review, and feature article candidates. As the name implies, cleanup is for articles that are really in need of TLC. Peer review is for people to assess the factual/neutrality of an article, and featured article candidates is the promotion process for our featured articles (from which I choose the daily main page article). In addition, watchlists let people see when an article changes, so factually incorrect changes do not last very long on well-watched articles.
The government also have to show harm to the consumer (at least in the US you do - I don't think they have to in Europe). This is always the hardest part.
The dead senator was Mel Carnahan. He was beaten by Mel's widow, Jean Carnahan (who IIRC decided not to seek reelection in the special election that followed).
Speaking as a computer engineer who passed the FE (on my first try) - the FE is most definitely biased in favor of civil and mechanical engineers, and against electrical and chemical. That being said, there's really very little incentive for EEs to take it. The only things you need it for are government work or testifying in court.
However, it really gets under my skin when people call themselves "engineers" and they have *no clue* about engineering in general. In texas, they had a school collapse and kill 100 children because the guy who designed it wasn't a real engineer. As a result, they passed the toughest engineering-standards legislation in the country - if you call yourself an engineer and you are not certified (that is, you have not passed the PE) then you go to jail.
And for those of you scratching your head and wondering what the hell is up with a 0th law - this is directly analogous to the laws of Thermodyanmics (remember - Asimov had a PhD in Chemistry). The chemists formulated the laws of thermodynamics and then *later* came up with a more important one that overrode them. Hence, the Zeroth law of thermodynamics
Robert Morris, who wrote the first worm, was convicted of "theft of service" -- apparently, he "stole" the CPU cycles his worm used, so the prosecuted him for stealing the monetary value of those cycles.
...that it's *not* a private matter. Freenet, as the account holder, has all the say in what's private. If they say that their account is frozen, and they want an explination, then paypal can't say it's private matter.
A space elevator could send up materials for a tiny fraction of what it costs now ($142/kilogram vs $40,000/kilogram) If a cooperation spent money looking into this as a serious possibility, it'd be called research and development and investors would flock to them. But because it's Nasa, it's a waste of taxpayer dollars.
I should let you know - Wikipedia is not just english. Last I heard (and I'm an admin there) there are somewhere between 50 to 60 other language versions. English is obviously the largest, but the German wikipedia has some 70,000 articles, Japanese has 40,000, etc. (List of languages)
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Good thought, but (IMHO) it's probably third after Linux and Mozilla/Firefox. (And I say that as a wikipedia admin)
There is a developing heirarchy of users (anons, regular users, admins, beauracrats, stewards, developers). Anons can edit pages. Regular users can do that, and also have watchlists and upload files. Admins can do all that, plus protect pages, delete pages, and ban users. Beuracrats (of which I am one) can do that, plus promote other admins (there are about a dozen of these on the english wikipedia). Stewards have beuracratic access to all wikipedias (there are about 10 of these). Developers have ssh access to the servers (and they have a heirachy of permissions there).
Edit wars (IE, users constantly reverting to their preferred previous version of an article) are ended when an administrator protects the article. There is also a page where users can request admins to protect pages. This enforces a cool-down period where people can talk about their problems. We also have a rule (encated about 3-4 months ago) that you cannot revert an article more than 3 times in 24 hours. If you do, the protecting admin may, at his/her discretion, revert the protected articel to the version that was reverted to least.
Wikipedia currently has several organized quality control efforts - Cleanup, peer review, and feature article candidates. As the name implies, cleanup is for articles that are really in need of TLC. Peer review is for people to assess the factual/neutrality of an article, and featured article candidates is the promotion process for our featured articles (from which I choose the daily main page article). In addition, watchlists let people see when an article changes, so factually incorrect changes do not last very long on well-watched articles.
The government also have to show harm to the consumer (at least in the US you do - I don't think they have to in Europe). This is always the hardest part.
The above poster is Anthere, a member of the Wikimedia board of Trustees - she's just too modest to say it.
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You might want to check out Wikipedia Mirrors and forks
Best advice is to go to the Mediawiki irc and ask there.
The dead senator was Mel Carnahan. He was beaten by Mel's widow, Jean Carnahan (who IIRC decided not to seek reelection in the special election that followed).
Speaking as a computer engineer who passed the FE (on my first try) - the FE is most definitely biased in favor of civil and mechanical engineers, and against electrical and chemical. That being said, there's really very little incentive for EEs to take it. The only things you need it for are government work or testifying in court.
However, it really gets under my skin when people call themselves "engineers" and they have *no clue* about engineering in general. In texas, they had a school collapse and kill 100 children because the guy who designed it wasn't a real engineer. As a result, they passed the toughest engineering-standards legislation in the country - if you call yourself an engineer and you are not certified (that is, you have not passed the PE) then you go to jail.
How many of those ISPs were caught in pink contracts?
And for those of you scratching your head and wondering what the hell is up with a 0th law - this is directly analogous to the laws of Thermodyanmics (remember - Asimov had a PhD in Chemistry). The chemists formulated the laws of thermodynamics and then *later* came up with a more important one that overrode them. Hence, the Zeroth law of thermodynamics
No - "Asteroid "(5020) Asimov" is named in his honor, as is Honda's humanoid prototype robot ASIMO."
Robert Morris, who wrote the first worm, was convicted of "theft of service" -- apparently, he "stole" the CPU cycles his worm used, so the prosecuted him for stealing the monetary value of those cycles.
Robert Morris, who wrote the first worm, was convicted of "theft of service" - apparently, he "stole" the CPU cycles his worm used.
Linux on the pacemaker - gives "kill -9" a whole new context
You forgot to mention the tons of legal advice from IANALs.
Ah, you speak of that rarest of posts, the +5 troll
...that it's *not* a private matter. Freenet, as the account holder, has all the say in what's private. If they say that their account is frozen, and they want an explination, then paypal can't say it's private matter.
Icann can always employ the Chewbacca defense :)
A space elevator could send up materials for a tiny fraction of what it costs now ($142/kilogram vs $40,000/kilogram) If a cooperation spent money looking into this as a serious possibility, it'd be called research and development and investors would flock to them. But because it's Nasa, it's a waste of taxpayer dollars.
Paul Wellstone was the only one who opposed the Patriot act. (And then he dies in a plane crash. Conspiracy theorists love that part)
You sir, have hit the nail on the head. I'd mod you to +8 if I could.
I should let you know - Wikipedia is not just english. Last I heard (and I'm an admin there) there are somewhere between 50 to 60 other language versions. English is obviously the largest, but the German wikipedia has some 70,000 articles, Japanese has 40,000, etc. (List of languages)