Jedi Mind Trick Approach: <jedi-hand-wave/> We are the PSP owners you were looking for...
Matrix Approach: We're going to need guns. Lots of guns.
Tom Sawyer approach (you muat bring your own fence and whitewash):
Whitewash fence, pretending to enjoy it.
When approached by horde of technology-owning people wishing to whitewash, act reluctant
Trade whitewashing opportunity for technology.
Booth babe approach: Steal/borrow mom's, sister's or gf's clothes. Wear the clothes. Flirt.
LOTR approach: Ok, this one is difficult as it involves convincing the people with the PSP, that it is in fact an evil artifact that must be thrown into Mount Doom, and that you are the only one who can perform such a task. [Do not actually throw the PSP into Mount Doom]
This book is total crap and their conclusions about trusted insiders are all wrong. I know this because a friend of mine who worked at the publishing house leaked me a copy a few months early...
I think describing Steve Jobs as a rock star of the business world is fairly accurate. People forget that no matter how much technology changes or how many articles talk about the evolving nature our society, people are still primarily influenced by their reactions to others as individuals. For whatever reason, Jobs captivates those around him. He demands a reaction, and it is frequently visceral. What's more, is that he is able to make it work for him instead of against him (we all knew people in high school who had, to some degree, this type of personabut for whatever reason, it was their greatest handicap). It's the kind of thing that other CEO's, though they may be more financially successful than Jobs, are frequently jealous of.
t reminds me of the experiments with the first atomic bombs: they didn't know that the chain reaction wouldn't ignite the atmosphere. Who knows what considerations they've given it. Will it jerk the earth out of it's orbit? Will it open a wormhole that sucks out the earth's atmosphere? Will it end life as we know it? I was under the impression that extreme magnetic fields were fatal to humans, to say nothing of throwing birds off of their migration patterns.
Also reminds me of Guy Fleegman on Galaxy Quest: Don't open that! Is there air? You don't know! [holds his breath}
You'd really hate to be the guy who develops a working warp drive but dies because he was stupid enought to just turn it on...
The hypothetical device, which has been outlined in principle but is based on a controversial theory about the fabric of the universe, could potentially allow a spacecraft to travel to Mars in three hours and journey to a star 11 light years away in just 80 days, according to a report in today's New Scientist magazine.
Wow, I just logged onto their "theoretical" website and bought me some "hypothetical" tickets. I'll be staying in the VaporWare Resorts located on the crater-rific Southern Highlands, where I'll play Duke Nukem Forever on my Cold-Fusion powered Phantom Game Console....
The case began to go poorly for Mr. McCalla when after being asked by the prosecution whether he had in fact sent unsolicited email, he was only able to answer with phrases such as: This T9rade isOn The M0ve._trueness. and Other guys are improving themselves..are you?
the bill requires that if a municipality uses an electronic voting system that consists of a voting machine, the machine must generate a complete paper ballot showing all votes cast by each elector that is visually verifiable by the elector before he or she leaves the machine.
Of course buried in the legalese was the rest of the bill:
The vote-tallying software shall be closed source and shall be owned in whole by Diebold. As such, the printed ballot shown to elector may have no bearing on actual vote recorded. Names may be substituted based on (1) party of candidate (2) intelligence of choice (3) corruption in district (4) time of day (5) OR if you live in Palm Beach or Broward County, pure whimsy. Additionally, elector may be fined or audited based on vote case, or in extreme cases, placed on the National Do-Not-Fly list and scheduled for investigation by the Department of Homeland Security.
My comment has to do with the subject of the Slashdot article: RIAA sets their sights on Russia. So I'm reading (slightly toungue in cheek mind you) "greatest assets" as those objects which the RIAA protects, namely music. The music of the RIAA: our greatest economic assets... </shudder>
On a more serious note, I do think it is somewhat fitting that the primary message and image sold by the entertainment industry for the past I'm-not-going-to-even-take-a-stab-at-a-number years has been one of general lawlessness, yet they are surprised that people act in such a manner.
As far as your comments go, beyond the context of the article, I agree completely.
What has Apple done recently to wow the developers, and make it fun to code Cocoa components?
When you pull in developers by "wowing" them, you get a certain type of developer. I certainly don't want my buildings and bridges built by engineers who were attracted to pastel concrete and click-and-deploy girders. Having said that, I realize that sometimes, small quirky apps written by "poet coders" can make a platform a lot more interesting, I just doubt that that's what causes innovation or platform acceptance.
To inhabitants of the T'nsha'grlsk galaxy this is hardly surprising. Scattered across their saucier-pan-shaped galaxy are planets containing the ingredients for Fetucinni Alfredo, Pork Tenderloin, Chicken Cacciatore, and in what will most likely result in a lawsuit should humans develop interstellar space travel, the McRib.
When asked about the ingredients for Life, Ss's'krpwjdnq waved his third-dimension-bound tentacles wildly and secreted an information packed protein strand. While there is no English equivalent for his communique, a rough translation would be "Given the chance to eat a human, I would."
I'm reading this comment and those posted in response to it and their attempt to either attack or defend Card and the evil versus good argument of whether or not he would inject his personal beliefs into the screenplay, and I keep wanting to scream:
HE WROTE THE BOOK...
Shouldn't you be worried that his personal views are already in there?
I should also mention that I'm a huge fan of the book and regularly buy it as a gift for people who say they hate sci-fi. So far, everyone that has read it has enjoyed it.
trillions of d4's can rapidly self-assemble from a solution of single-stranded DNA
In other news, several cheerleaders who were interviewed stated that they were skeptical as pyramids in general are "way hard." They also stated that they doubted the numbers claimed as the largest pyramid they had heard of was composed of 280 or so cheerleaders and that a trillion is "like at least double that."
The Josephson inductance and Josephson capacitance together would also allow us to build new types of quantum 'band engineered' electronic devices, such as low-noise parametric amplifiers.
I'm very glad, as I have a current-model parametric amplifier and man is it LOUD.... I should have figured as much, seeing as how it goes up to 11.
I don't think the Founding Fathers ever intended the "one dollar, one vote" system that occurs when you don't have regulation of campaign finance.
Regardless, they did not intend Congress and the Supreme Court to ignore the Constitution.
Check the text: Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press*
If Congress want to pass a law that does so, they need to modify the Constitution. This is very straightforward, and if the American people let Congress and the Supreme Court and the Executive Branch get away with this, they will ignore any of the other Amendments whenever they choose (and they do so on a regular basis). My point is this, if the Legislative and Judicial and Executive Branch are not constrained by the Constitution, then what are they constrained by? And if they are not constrained by the Constitution, the document that created them and gave them power, then by what right do they rule? And if they rule by some right other than the law, in what sort of nation do we then live?
* It is worth mentioning that by press, they did not mean The Press, but the right of people to use a press to print things (i.e. the popularity of pamphleteering). The question: "Are bloggers journalists?" is not the correct question. The correct question is: "Is printing on the web analagous to printing with an electronic press?" If so, congress can make no law abridging that right. (FWIW, I think the answer is yes)
McCain/Feingold campaign finance laws, which limit the Freedom of Speech of anyone with a political opinion, forces us to define what types of speech should remain legal.
Exactly. McCain Feingold should have been required to be a Constitutional Amendment. Instead, as is becoming the norm, everyone who matters has just decided to ignore that fact.
I respect your honesty on this, but if you read the Constitution, nothing short of an Amendment can allow the Federal government to prevent any speech or press activities. Not even "yelling fire in a crowded theatre" is allowed to be prevented. What is allowed, is that Congress can pass laws that hold people responsible for their actions. Libel, slander, damages and injuries caused by a party yelling fire in a crowded theatre, all of these are acceptable. but as soon as Congress decides to ignore the method for amending the Constitution in favor of just ignoring it altogether (which definitely did not happen for the first time today) then there becomes no issue on which they can't/won't consider ignoring it.
Campaign finance law, regardless of its desirability or merits, without a question, violates the following part of the First Amendment: Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, and as such, should only be allowed through a Constitutional Amendment.
The big difference between a "web data" cache and a book content cache is that book data is already freely available in public libraries.
It's available on a physically purchased, one-at-a-time medium. You can't go to the library and just by asking, get a complete copy of the book to keep forever. You can do that with any web site.
Same difference.
Not even close. There is a difference between you distributing information that I give away from my web site and making copies of my book and giving them to people.
You are allowed to read web sites freely - but you aren't allowed to make permenant copies of them.
You most certainly can keep a permanent copy of any information from a web site. You asked them for the data, and they, the copyright holders, gave it to you. Technically, it is a violation of copyright to redistribute that content (à la Google) but the fact that they are freely distributed upon request by the copyright owner may mitigate against it to some extent.
There isn't a different copyright law for the Internet.
The big difference between a "book data" cache and a web content cache is that web data is already freely available on the web. It's hard for someone to argue that Google has deprived them of anything by distributing their copyrighted information (except maybe tracking info they would get from someone visiting their site directly - which may be fairly significant in some cases) whereas an author has not already made their information freely available. Additionally, depending on the content of the book, their work may have been devalued by its dissemination (especially for reference works) because someone looking for specific pieces of information supplied by the book, no longer have to buy it to get it (I'm thinking specifically of a lot of the O'Reilly books)
Slashdot Mirror
This book is total crap and their conclusions about trusted insiders are all wrong. I know this because a friend of mine who worked at the publishing house leaked me a copy a few months early...
never mind
I think describing Steve Jobs as a rock star of the business world is fairly accurate. People forget that no matter how much technology changes or how many articles talk about the evolving nature our society, people are still primarily influenced by their reactions to others as individuals. For whatever reason, Jobs captivates those around him. He demands a reaction, and it is frequently visceral. What's more, is that he is able to make it work for him instead of against him (we all knew people in high school who had, to some degree, this type of personabut for whatever reason, it was their greatest handicap). It's the kind of thing that other CEO's, though they may be more financially successful than Jobs, are frequently jealous of.
Just my 2 cents.
t reminds me of the experiments with the first atomic bombs: they didn't know that the chain reaction wouldn't ignite the atmosphere. Who knows what considerations they've given it. Will it jerk the earth out of it's orbit? Will it open a wormhole that sucks out the earth's atmosphere? Will it end life as we know it? I was under the impression that extreme magnetic fields were fatal to humans, to say nothing of throwing birds off of their migration patterns.
Also reminds me of Guy Fleegman on Galaxy Quest: Don't open that! Is there air? You don't know! [holds his breath}
You'd really hate to be the guy who develops a working warp drive but dies because he was stupid enought to just turn it on...
The hypothetical device, which has been outlined in principle but is based on a controversial theory about the fabric of the universe, could potentially allow a spacecraft to travel to Mars in three hours and journey to a star 11 light years away in just 80 days, according to a report in today's New Scientist magazine.
Wow, I just logged onto their "theoretical" website and bought me some "hypothetical" tickets. I'll be staying in the VaporWare Resorts located on the crater-rific Southern Highlands, where I'll play Duke Nukem Forever on my Cold-Fusion powered Phantom Game Console....
Sigh.
The case began to go poorly for Mr. McCalla when after being asked by the prosecution whether he had in fact sent unsolicited email, he was only able to answer with phrases such as: This T9rade isOn The M0ve._trueness. and Other guys are improving themselves..are you?
the bill requires that if a municipality uses an electronic voting system that consists of a voting machine, the machine must generate a complete paper ballot showing all votes cast by each elector that is visually verifiable by the elector before he or she leaves the machine.
Of course buried in the legalese was the rest of the bill:
The vote-tallying software shall be closed source and shall be owned in whole by Diebold. As such, the printed ballot shown to elector may have no bearing on actual vote recorded. Names may be substituted based on (1) party of candidate (2) intelligence of choice (3) corruption in district (4) time of day (5) OR if you live in Palm Beach or Broward County, pure whimsy. Additionally, elector may be fined or audited based on vote case, or in extreme cases, placed on the National Do-Not-Fly list and scheduled for investigation by the Department of Homeland Security.
We won't know until we open the box! Wow, that was interesting...
Hey, it's Schrodinger's App
question, is that "names" as in "AOL identifies Top Spam Subjects For 2005", or names as in "AOL makes up Top Spam Subjects For 2005"?
Just wondering...
next up: Bezos patents weblogs
My comment has to do with the subject of the Slashdot article: RIAA sets their sights on Russia. So I'm reading (slightly toungue in cheek mind you) "greatest assets" as those objects which the RIAA protects, namely music. The music of the RIAA: our greatest economic assets... </shudder>
On a more serious note, I do think it is somewhat fitting that the primary message and image sold by the entertainment industry for the past I'm-not-going-to-even-take-a-stab-at-a-number years has been one of general lawlessness, yet they are surprised that people act in such a manner.
As far as your comments go, beyond the context of the article, I agree completely.
We must not enter into political arrangements with countries ill-prepared to adequately protect our greatest economic assets.
I don't know which is sadder, that the RIAA has such influence over Congress, or that this might be true.
What has Apple done recently to wow the developers, and make it fun to code Cocoa components?
When you pull in developers by "wowing" them, you get a certain type of developer. I certainly don't want my buildings and bridges built by engineers who were attracted to pastel concrete and click-and-deploy girders. Having said that, I realize that sometimes, small quirky apps written by "poet coders" can make a platform a lot more interesting, I just doubt that that's what causes innovation or platform acceptance.
To inhabitants of the T'nsha'grlsk galaxy this is hardly surprising. Scattered across their saucier-pan-shaped galaxy are planets containing the ingredients for Fetucinni Alfredo, Pork Tenderloin, Chicken Cacciatore, and in what will most likely result in a lawsuit should humans develop interstellar space travel, the McRib.
When asked about the ingredients for Life, Ss's'krpwjdnq waved his third-dimension-bound tentacles wildly and secreted an information packed protein strand. While there is no English equivalent for his communique, a rough translation would be "Given the chance to eat a human, I would."
Let me give my opinion on the notion that MS should acquite Opera with an oddly appropriate Scrubs reference:
Mistaaaaaaaaaaake!!!
I'm reading this comment and those posted in response to it and their attempt to either attack or defend Card and the evil versus good argument of whether or not he would inject his personal beliefs into the screenplay, and I keep wanting to scream:
HE WROTE THE BOOK...
Shouldn't you be worried that his personal views are already in there?
I should also mention that I'm a huge fan of the book and regularly buy it as a gift for people who say they hate sci-fi. So far, everyone that has read it has enjoyed it.
trillions of d4's can rapidly self-assemble from a solution of single-stranded DNA
In other news, several cheerleaders who were interviewed stated that they were skeptical as pyramids in general are "way hard." They also stated that they doubted the numbers claimed as the largest pyramid they had heard of was composed of 280 or so cheerleaders and that a trillion is "like at least double that."
The Josephson inductance and Josephson capacitance together would also allow us to build new types of quantum 'band engineered' electronic devices, such as low-noise parametric amplifiers.
I'm very glad, as I have a current-model parametric amplifier and man is it LOUD....
I should have figured as much, seeing as how it goes up to 11.
I don't think the Founding Fathers ever intended the "one dollar, one vote" system that occurs when you don't have regulation of campaign finance.
Regardless, they did not intend Congress and the Supreme Court to ignore the Constitution.
Check the text:
Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press*
If Congress want to pass a law that does so, they need to modify the Constitution. This is very straightforward, and if the American people let Congress and the Supreme Court and the Executive Branch get away with this, they will ignore any of the other Amendments whenever they choose (and they do so on a regular basis). My point is this, if the Legislative and Judicial and Executive Branch are not constrained by the Constitution, then what are they constrained by? And if they are not constrained by the Constitution, the document that created them and gave them power, then by what right do they rule? And if they rule by some right other than the law, in what sort of nation do we then live?
* It is worth mentioning that by press, they did not mean The Press, but the right of people to use a press to print things (i.e. the popularity of pamphleteering). The question: "Are bloggers journalists?" is not the correct question. The correct question is: "Is printing on the web analagous to printing with an electronic press?" If so, congress can make no law abridging that right. (FWIW, I think the answer is yes)
McCain/Feingold campaign finance laws, which limit the Freedom of Speech of anyone with a political opinion, forces us to define what types of speech should remain legal.
Exactly. McCain Feingold should have been required to be a Constitutional Amendment. Instead, as is becoming the norm, everyone who matters has just decided to ignore that fact.
I, for one, am starting to root for the asteroids.
Vint Cerf was not able to testify because of the Presidential Medal of Freedom award ceremony at the White House
Was this by design....?
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Santa, Satan. coincidence? I think not.
I respect your honesty on this, but if you read the Constitution, nothing short of an Amendment can allow the Federal government to prevent any speech or press activities. Not even "yelling fire in a crowded theatre" is allowed to be prevented. What is allowed, is that Congress can pass laws that hold people responsible for their actions. Libel, slander, damages and injuries caused by a party yelling fire in a crowded theatre, all of these are acceptable. but as soon as Congress decides to ignore the method for amending the Constitution in favor of just ignoring it altogether (which definitely did not happen for the first time today) then there becomes no issue on which they can't/won't consider ignoring it.
Campaign finance law, regardless of its desirability or merits, without a question, violates the following part of the First Amendment: Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, and as such, should only be allowed through a Constitutional Amendment.
The big difference between a "web data" cache and a book content cache is
that book data is already freely available in public libraries.
It's available on a physically purchased, one-at-a-time medium. You can't go to the library and just by asking, get a complete copy of the book to keep forever. You can do that with any web site.
Same difference.
Not even close. There is a difference between you distributing information that I give away from my web site and making copies of my book and giving them to people.
You are allowed to read web sites freely -
but you aren't allowed to make permenant copies of them.
You most certainly can keep a permanent copy of any information from a web site. You asked them for the data, and they, the copyright holders, gave it to you. Technically, it is a violation of copyright to redistribute that content (à la Google) but the fact that they are freely distributed upon request by the copyright owner may mitigate against it to some extent.
There isn't a different copyright law for the Internet.
On this, at least, we are agreed.
The big difference between a "book data" cache and a web content cache is that web data is already freely available on the web. It's hard for someone to argue that Google has deprived them of anything by distributing their copyrighted information (except maybe tracking info they would get from someone visiting their site directly - which may be fairly significant in some cases) whereas an author has not already made their information freely available. Additionally, depending on the content of the book, their work may have been devalued by its dissemination (especially for reference works) because someone looking for specific pieces of information supplied by the book, no longer have to buy it to get it (I'm thinking specifically of a lot of the O'Reilly books)
Anyway, that's my 2 cents.