Thanks for the heads-up; another plagiarist to add to my foe-list. I reserve my foe-list for arrogant SOBs, and good trolls (but not for people I simply disagree with).
This is exactly what webs-of-trust are designed for, and on a larger scale it could solve the SPAM problem.
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allow you to pause the chapter and listen to music and then come back to the same pause in that file.
That's something I wish XMMS (or even WinAmp) could do. Instead, I've been using knotes to manually keep track of my of audio bookmarks in XX:XX form.
Uh, I live in NYC, and my immediate reaction was anger and empathy just like most people, but very soon after, yeah, my overriding thoughts were about what my government was going to try to get away with.
And the most surprising thing about 9/11 was that it WASN'T a nuke, and that it was so late in coming.
The inevitability of artificial, perfect diamond has DeBeers white in the face. It also provides more fuel for the The Law of Accelerating Returns (rather than "Moore's Law").
What are you going to say when the next terrorist kills thousands of people
I'm going to say "FUCK, NO!", just like on 9/11. But not because I'm scared for my life but because I'm scared for my freedom. That was truly what I was thinking most about on 9/11: the expected knee-jerk police state measures, many of which came to pass.
I have very few memories from elementary school besides playing dodgeball and 4-by-square, but one of the ones that still sticks out in my mind was when my entire class -- 5th grade I think-- was marched up to the gymnasium to get fingerprinted by the police.
I got to feel like a criminal so that some parents could feel a little better about being able to identify their decapitated kid, but more so the cops could fill their database with the prints of future potential criminals.
Well it's either sue them and protect your IP, or don't and loose your IP.
More like: it's either game the system with a bad patent that nobody should've been able to claim, or don't and compete where it counts without killing real innovation.
It sure is Good Thing(TM) that TiVo decided to patent and make public their fantastic invention, instead of keeping it a trade secret! Otherwise, humanity would've been set back decades without this "advanced technology" to build on... Oh, no we wouldnt've, because time-shifting IS trivial, and was already around!
By trying to enforce this undeserved patent, TiVo has lost a lot of the respect they've earned over the years.
I see. So they're paying less than 40mil to get the affluent current & future iPod/iTunes users to up their Pepsi consumption. Got to love the margin on sugarwater.
If Pepsi's giving away 99 million dollars "worth" of iTune singles, it makes you wonder how small their cost was on the deal. It was probably more of a cross promotional thing for Pepsi & Apple, but the labels still want their cut, so it wasn't $0.01/song.
I'm guessing a lot of people are thinking that. But knowing Google and their "Don't Be Evil" motto, the downward greed spiral should be much slower than most.
Anyway, Google won't last forever, IPO or not; I still think distributed search will win in the end.
my point is that a frighteningly large number of people in the developed world would see any developing countries' improvements as affronts which need to be punished.
That's because it's human nature to want to see YOUR group succeed at the expense of another -- Tribalism/Nationalism is alive and well beneath the facade of civilization. It really does boil down to the evolutionary psychology of selfish genes.
I don't pretend to be above that, subconsciously, but consciously I truly think that the more intelligent human minds that are this planet (at the same time), the better off we'll all be in the end.
Economic equality (the wealth gap) probably will get much more obscene over the next few years, but soon enough all the minds in India+China+America+Everywhere will invent the end of scarcity (the scarcity that matters most anyway), and that's not just wishful thinking on my part. TRUE equality on all counts would be wishful thinking, though, because it would require some serious genetic engineering to get rid our nastier evolutionary traits.
(I realize that most people reading this comment probably think I'm a nut at this point.)
I've always wanted to see one of those (got a link?) I figured the reason no one's ever made a stereoscopic video (besides the small audience) was because after you merged your eyes on the first frame, and then hit play, that you'd lose focus in the movement.
...get back to me tomorrow @ 11:35pm EST for the more exciting stuff: the first of the new Mars landers is supposed to land... or crash 'n burn like the beagle.
(that pic of the comet looks suspiciously like the comet from the star trek intro!...:)
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And to take a fun peek at the winners of the next revolution...
At some point in the not-too-distant future it will cost less energy and time to molecularly disassemble/reassemble all that SHIT locally, rather than physically shipping it globally via FedEx/UPS/USPS. The REAL winners there would be... me, with my self-manufactured solar panels and my 99.9999% recycled atoms, and the open-source designers of the shared blueprints for all the SHIT I eat/wear/use/etc.
Teoma's a great backup search engine, but it's missing Google's usenet groups, image search, and the cache. I use those things daily.
The only way I can envision using Teoma, or some other SE as my primary, would be if Google has an IPO this year (please, no!) and self-destructs because of short-sighted shareholder greed.
If laws suddenly started working against spam, I'd be worried, as that would mean we were in the middle of a lock-down of the net
Hear, hear!
The best solution is a new protocol (or extention) that isn't so blatantly easy to abuse as SMTP is. The problem is that the current spam-ridden email system is still hugely valuable simply because of the network effect of everyone using it, that it's hard to get people to switch. People have been increasing IM usage, but that's not open enough to take off.
IMO, we need a system based on webs-of-trust (w/PGP) so the problem of trust takes care of itself bottom-up.
I think it's a given that no one wants a wireless product that can only legally connect to one PC predetermined during setup.
Well then, best get to work mentally engineering the people to accept it! We'll start with the easy anonymous pedophile threat that no upstanding citizen can object to, then move on to terrorism, communism, "theft of bandwidth", and wardriving hackers that steal credit card numbers and private info "OVER THIN AIR!".
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This is exactly what webs-of-trust are designed for, and on a larger scale it could solve the SPAM problem.
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That's something I wish XMMS (or even WinAmp) could do. Instead, I've been using knotes to manually keep track of my of audio bookmarks in XX:XX form.
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And the most surprising thing about 9/11 was that it WASN'T a nuke, and that it was so late in coming.
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Yes, backup your brain in your chest. Pure genius, Desty Nova!
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The inevitability of artificial, perfect diamond has DeBeers white in the face. It also provides more fuel for the The Law of Accelerating Returns (rather than "Moore's Law").
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I'm going to say "FUCK, NO!", just like on 9/11. But not because I'm scared for my life but because I'm scared for my freedom. That was truly what I was thinking most about on 9/11: the expected knee-jerk police state measures, many of which came to pass.
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I got to feel like a criminal so that some parents could feel a little better about being able to identify their decapitated kid, but more so the cops could fill their database with the prints of future potential criminals.
I have a problem with that.
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More like: it's either game the system with a bad patent that nobody should've been able to claim, or don't and compete where it counts without killing real innovation.
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By trying to enforce this undeserved patent, TiVo has lost a lot of the respect they've earned over the years.
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Anyway, Google won't last forever, IPO or not; I still think distributed search will win in the end.
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A great distributed p2p search engine hasn't emerged yet, but I expect it will.
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(too me longer to type this post than find the info :)
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That's because it's human nature to want to see YOUR group succeed at the expense of another -- Tribalism/Nationalism is alive and well beneath the facade of civilization. It really does boil down to the evolutionary psychology of selfish genes.
I don't pretend to be above that, subconsciously, but consciously I truly think that the more intelligent human minds that are this planet (at the same time), the better off we'll all be in the end.
Economic equality (the wealth gap) probably will get much more obscene over the next few years, but soon enough all the minds in India+China+America+Everywhere will invent the end of scarcity (the scarcity that matters most anyway), and that's not just wishful thinking on my part. TRUE equality on all counts would be wishful thinking, though, because it would require some serious genetic engineering to get rid our nastier evolutionary traits.
(I realize that most people reading this comment probably think I'm a nut at this point.)
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I've always wanted to see one of those (got a link?) I figured the reason no one's ever made a stereoscopic video (besides the small audience) was because after you merged your eyes on the first frame, and then hit play, that you'd lose focus in the movement.
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(that pic of the comet looks suspiciously like the comet from the star trek intro!... :)
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And to take a fun peek at the winners of the next revolution...
At some point in the not-too-distant future it will cost less energy and time to molecularly disassemble/reassemble all that SHIT locally, rather than physically shipping it globally via FedEx/UPS/USPS. The REAL winners there would be... me, with my self-manufactured solar panels and my 99.9999% recycled atoms, and the open-source designers of the shared blueprints for all the SHIT I eat/wear/use/etc.
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The only way I can envision using Teoma, or some other SE as my primary, would be if Google has an IPO this year (please, no!) and self-destructs because of short-sighted shareholder greed.
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Hear, hear!
The best solution is a new protocol (or extention) that isn't so blatantly easy to abuse as SMTP is. The problem is that the current spam-ridden email system is still hugely valuable simply because of the network effect of everyone using it, that it's hard to get people to switch. People have been increasing IM usage, but that's not open enough to take off.
IMO, we need a system based on webs-of-trust (w/PGP) so the problem of trust takes care of itself bottom-up.
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Well then, best get to work mentally engineering the people to accept it! We'll start with the easy anonymous pedophile threat that no upstanding citizen can object to, then move on to terrorism, communism, "theft of bandwidth", and wardriving hackers that steal credit card numbers and private info "OVER THIN AIR!".
It's a winner.
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