If Megaupload or Flickr tell me "This is the API for issuing a DMCA takedown", and that API does an irrevocable delete, then that it is not my fault when I issue a takedown. My liability should be identical whether that API does an irrevocable delete or disables access to the image pending appeal.
From Wikipedia: Internet pioneers Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn noted that, "as far back as the 1970s, Congressman Gore promoted the idea of high speed telecommunications as an engine for both economic growth and the improvement of our educational system. He was the first elected official to grasp the potential of computer communications to have a broader impact than just improving the conduct of science and scholarship [...] the Internet, as we know it today, was not deployed until 1983. When the Internet was still in the early stages of its deployment, Congressman Gore provided intellectual leadership by helping create the vision of the potential benefits of high speed computing and communication."
Any digital form of immortality will probably come with a vast reduction in power requirements vs. a biological immortality and would also do away with any physical limitations as well as expanding the available neural network space (to an effectively limitless value)
I'm not convinced about digital immortality either. Why would I care if there is a computer simulation out there that thinks that it is me? I know, "human consciousness isn't what it thinks it is", and all that. I am aware of the arguements on both sides, I just haven't made up "my mind" about it, with all due caveats.
I used to think that, but it's become clear that the effort to make use of those resources is staggering. I just don't think it will happen. Especially, it won't happen if the entire human race gets old and stuck in its ways. Young minds are the most creative, and if we abolish youth...
I think the idea is to use this behaviour to kill bacteria. Phages are really good at that, and biologists have been studying the use of bacteriophages to treat bacteria for a long time.
Now that we know how the bacteriophage works, we can build our own smart medicines that use the same technique.
I don't want to live for ever. The great thing about life is, there is so much of it. Trillions of humans have lived, and that's a wonderful thing. I hope that trillions more will live after me. This cannot happen if we live for ever, in which case those trillions will never have a chance at life. We'll be clinging on to the earth, and throwing down the ladders and stepping on the fingers of those that would follow us as we grow older and meaner and more jealous of the lives that we have stolen.
I want live my life, and then I will slip into the void and let others live theirs. And that fills me with joy, not fear.
There was a biology professor on the radio the other day, saying that in 15-20 years time it will be possible to buy and assemble all the equimpent and knowledge necessary to build a 100% fatal, 100% transmissible pathogen. Mail-order genetic engineering is already available, all we need are the recipes, and then any whacko can end the human race. So, enjoy it while it lasts, we're in the end-game now. Maybe. Or, maybe that guy on the radio was just being a little bit melodramatic.
How hard would it be to hide a USB storage device in a joystick, in the hope that the police will think "This is just a joystick, we don't need to take it"?
I guess you're talking about the "What's hot" thing, I turned that all the way down to zero. I find the G+ user interface (circles are a great idea) much more pleasant to use than Facebook, which makes me feel dirty every time I load it up.
But, the real test of a social network is the social network. The people on it. I don't think most of my friends are interested in switching away from Facebook, so my Google+ network will be smaller than the Facebook one for a long time yet. I think that's inevitable with a product like this. Once a social network catches the wave of popularity, the others will have an almost impossible task to catch up. Myspace may have ruled the social network scene, but Facebook arrived at the time that social networks were about to explode and they overtook Myspace. Now, Facebook seems to be unbeatable.
But that doesn't mean that it isn't worth trying, and playing the long game.
10k is nothing for a specialist piece of software. I've worked for companies that have spent millions setting up and customising SAP to work the way they want it. You can't get that on TPB.
I've had to sign up to IBM's support web site, to a discussion forum about a database technology that we use, and to the mailing list for a conference that I attended on behalf of the company. I didn't give a moment's thought to privacy concerns about those web sites - if my employer needs me to do something public-facing as part of my work, then I don't have a right to expect privacy, since the term "public-facing" kind of demolishes any expectation of privacy.
If you want your working life to be entirely behind company walls, then fine, but that restricts the jobs that you can do.. Like not wanting to drive, or not wanting to use a Blackberry.
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AAh sorry, I misread yours as 36k...
Hey, kids, play nice now.
I'd like to see people who give their money to the charities that they support stop doing so and give it to the charities that I support instead.
If Megaupload or Flickr tell me "This is the API for issuing a DMCA takedown", and that API does an irrevocable delete, then that it is not my fault when I issue a takedown. My liability should be identical whether that API does an irrevocable delete or disables access to the image pending appeal.
I agree, the porn company is not responsible for Flickr's stupid implementation of the takedown.
From Wikipedia:
Internet pioneers Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn noted that, "as far back as the 1970s, Congressman Gore promoted the idea of high speed telecommunications as an engine for both economic growth and the improvement of our educational system. He was the first elected official to grasp the potential of computer communications to have a broader impact than just improving the conduct of science and scholarship [...] the Internet, as we know it today, was not deployed until 1983. When the Internet was still in the early stages of its deployment, Congressman Gore provided intellectual leadership by helping create the vision of the potential benefits of high speed computing and communication."
Any digital form of immortality will probably come with a vast reduction in power requirements vs. a biological immortality and would also do away with any physical limitations as well as expanding the available neural network space (to an effectively limitless value)
I'm not convinced about digital immortality either. Why would I care if there is a computer simulation out there that thinks that it is me? I know, "human consciousness isn't what it thinks it is", and all that. I am aware of the arguements on both sides, I just haven't made up "my mind" about it, with all due caveats.
I used to think that, but it's become clear that the effort to make use of those resources is staggering. I just don't think it will happen. Especially, it won't happen if the entire human race gets old and stuck in its ways. Young minds are the most creative, and if we abolish youth...
...And all around the page, an ad that says
Get in the cloud - Microsoft Office 365
Well, clearly they need to release Microsoft Office 366 that works on leap years.
Ha! I walked right into that one, didn't I?
I've not seen Office Space, but I've seen the other two, and they're just examples of the same thing. I don't think that Shawshank started it.
I think the idea is to use this behaviour to kill bacteria. Phages are really good at that, and biologists have been studying the use of bacteriophages to treat bacteria for a long time.
Now that we know how the bacteriophage works, we can build our own smart medicines that use the same technique.
You're thinking of Ghandi of India. He said Ghandi of the French, who was a total bad-ass.
I don't want to live for ever. The great thing about life is, there is so much of it. Trillions of humans have lived, and that's a wonderful thing. I hope that trillions more will live after me. This cannot happen if we live for ever, in which case those trillions will never have a chance at life. We'll be clinging on to the earth, and throwing down the ladders and stepping on the fingers of those that would follow us as we grow older and meaner and more jealous of the lives that we have stolen.
I want live my life, and then I will slip into the void and let others live theirs. And that fills me with joy, not fear.
We are all going to a pound-me-in-the-ass prison.
Why are USians so obsessed with gay rape? I never hear that kind of thing in British discourse.
They weren't anonymous any more, but they were still Anonymous. You capitalise it, it becomes a proper noun.
There was a biology professor on the radio the other day, saying that in 15-20 years time it will be possible to buy and assemble all the equimpent and knowledge necessary to build a 100% fatal, 100% transmissible pathogen. Mail-order genetic engineering is already available, all we need are the recipes, and then any whacko can end the human race. So, enjoy it while it lasts, we're in the end-game now. Maybe. Or, maybe that guy on the radio was just being a little bit melodramatic.
How hard would it be to hide a USB storage device in a joystick, in the hope that the police will think "This is just a joystick, we don't need to take it"?
You should consider Goole- then.
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2011/7/25
I guess you're talking about the "What's hot" thing, I turned that all the way down to zero. I find the G+ user interface (circles are a great idea) much more pleasant to use than Facebook, which makes me feel dirty every time I load it up.
But, the real test of a social network is the social network. The people on it. I don't think most of my friends are interested in switching away from Facebook, so my Google+ network will be smaller than the Facebook one for a long time yet. I think that's inevitable with a product like this. Once a social network catches the wave of popularity, the others will have an almost impossible task to catch up. Myspace may have ruled the social network scene, but Facebook arrived at the time that social networks were about to explode and they overtook Myspace. Now, Facebook seems to be unbeatable.
But that doesn't mean that it isn't worth trying, and playing the long game.
They act it out. They pretend. That's what acting is.
10k is nothing for a specialist piece of software. I've worked for companies that have spent millions setting up and customising SAP to work the way they want it. You can't get that on TPB.
I've had to sign up to IBM's support web site, to a discussion forum about a database technology that we use, and to the mailing list for a conference that I attended on behalf of the company. I didn't give a moment's thought to privacy concerns about those web sites - if my employer needs me to do something public-facing as part of my work, then I don't have a right to expect privacy, since the term "public-facing" kind of demolishes any expectation of privacy.
If you want your working life to be entirely behind company walls, then fine, but that restricts the jobs that you can do.. Like not wanting to drive, or not wanting to use a Blackberry.
Shove it on Megaupload!
Do we not have the right to talk about what we want in our purchases?