This is the natural outcome of 'publish or perish.' If keeping your job depends almost solely on getting 'results' published, you will find those results.
Discovery is more prestigious than replication. I don't see how to fix that.
All countries are referred to as "developed." It is now politically correct to divide them into more developed countries (MDC) and less developed countries (LDC). Ah, progress.
Access to computers - and anything which might teach you something about the way the world really works - should be unlimited and total. Always yield to the Hands-On Imperative! All information should be free. Mistrust authority - promote decentralization. Hackers should be judged by their acting, not bogus criteria such as degrees, age, race, or position. You can create art and beauty on a computer. Computers can change your life for the better. Don't litter other people's data. Make public data available, protect private data.
'These are ultimately consumer businesses and if you piss off enough of them, you will not have any more.'
He may be a lawyer, but he doesn't understand who the consumers are in the newspaper model.
Newspapers, like much of modern media, sell audiences to advertisers. So asking the news media to think of their readers, is meaningless. They never do, except as a product to sell to the advertisers.
This is ultimately an Advertiser business.
I suspect he views the readers as the consumers and the advertisers as the customers.
They're confiscating the full amount, plus fining them an additional $1.9M. So, the guilty parties will have lost at least $2M on the deal once legal costs, etc. are accounted for. How is that not a deterrent?
Because the probability of being caught is less than 1.
There may be a right to privacy, but it is not enumerated[...]
The U.S. Constitution is not one of enumerated rights, it is one of enumerated powers. I.e., unless the Constitution enumerates a specific and limited power as being ceded to the federal government, the government does not have that power.
[...] nor implied in that document.
It is true that certain rights of the people are reaffirmed in certain amendments to the Constitution (right to assembly, free press, bear arms, jury trial, etc.), but these rights would exist without the amendments as well. Hence they are inalienable.
The closest you can get is the ninth and tenth ammendments, which are the two that are NEVER honored.
Well whoopty-fucking-doo, if they are being infringed on a regular basis, I guess that makes it OK then. Wouldn't want my rights only occasionally violated, now would I?
Read the comment made by Tycho at 12:04pm. Penny Arcade donated $10,000 to the Entertainment Software Association. All of it in the name of Jack Thompson. I am left speechless...
Specifically I am referring to: "Make public data available, protect private data."
To quote the CCC: "To protect the privacy of the individual and to strengthen the freedom of the information which concern the public the yet last point was added."
It's probably a little late to post this. But I just wanted to add that the exact same thing happened to me. Perversely, I knew that I had chosen to use my credit card, since after selecting it they tried to push some additional "credit card insurance" or some nonsense like that on me.
I called their customer service within 1 minute after the transaction, since the confirmation email mentioned my bank account. Now this was a long distance call, my friends, no 1-800 number here. After waiting in line for over 20-minutes (long-distance) I spoke to the most singularily unpleasent, unfriendly, and unresponsive customer service I have ever had to talk to. All to no avail of course. Fortunately I managed to drive to my bank and put the cash into the account before the transaction went through.
So if Google is bringing some competition, than I hope that PayPal dies a quick and painful death and that their customer service department STARVES TO DEATH!...
Pshaaah... I say. Never underestimate the bandwidth of a 100GB tape in my pocket.
ps: We do all realize that, if these ever make it to the consumer market, approximately 99.9% of these will be bought for the "backup" of copyrighted material, right... ?
in a DELL training class. In 2000 I attended a training seminar for the campus wide rollout of a wireless network. Tech support training for DELL was part of the seminar and DELL sent some people.
They were very adament about us calling the DELL machines given to faculty and students "portables", and never to call them "laptops". They said that the portables got so hot that extended stay on one's lap could cause injury. They didn't want the potential liability due to negligence. You could after all consider the name "laptop" to indicate positioning the machine on one's lap.
Putting a laptop on one's lap. Imagine that!
p.s.: Naturally the University still referred to this part of the "wireless initiative" as the laptop pilot program. Guess they didn't care about sperm count and liabilities:)
Believe it or not. This is actually one of the DRM applications I am actually looking forward too. It would make (massively multiplayer) online games so much more entertaining.
This goes to show once again that no technology is inherently good or bad. It is the application of said technology where we must collectively learn to act more responsibly.
I know, it is probably too late to get modded up, but here it goes anyway...
IMHO Aristotle would have been very proud to have been called an idiot. The term idiot comes from the Ancient Greek word "ho idiotos" (or "hae idiotae" for the female form).
The word means "the private man" or "one who thinks for himself". In my opinion being called an idiot is one of the greatest compliments a man can receive.
I was in the middle of typing a sensible and well thought out reply about the extent to which the Godzilla trademark should be protected from ripp-offs. Then I realized that the situation can better be described in one sentence.
Wouldn't it be great, if the Red Hat ISOs were put through a hash generating a 128bit number. Then you could compare your downloaded ISOs with that number to see, if they are different.
Then, after you have burned your CDs, you could let your burning software check for physical errors whilst running the hash once more. That should eliminate almost all errors.
The only problem that could arise is, if the a corrupt image and a correct one produced the same number. We should avoid this by using a well known hash like MD5.
All in all my idea sounds so good, I should apply for a software patent right now. I shall christen this technology... checksums!
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That was cool, but when clicking the link I really, really wanted to see quicksort done as a dance. Curse me and my expectations.
Anybody know of any entertaining visual representation of quicksort?
So in essence, the complaint is that Cox appeared more competent than an ordinary citizen is allowed.
This is the natural outcome of 'publish or perish.' If keeping your job depends almost solely on getting 'results' published, you will find those results.
Discovery is more prestigious than replication. I don't see how to fix that.
Who'll want to create apps for it?
How'll that make Facebook any money?
All countries are referred to as "developed." It is now politically correct to divide them into more developed countries (MDC) and less developed countries (LDC). Ah, progress.
The Hacker Ethic, as maintained by the CCC.
Access to computers - and anything which might teach you something about the way the world really works - should be unlimited and total. Always yield to the Hands-On Imperative!
All information should be free.
Mistrust authority - promote decentralization.
Hackers should be judged by their acting, not bogus criteria such as degrees, age, race, or position.
You can create art and beauty on a computer.
Computers can change your life for the better.
Don't litter other people's data.
Make public data available, protect private data.
I cannot wait for the first comment along the following lines:
"Yep, flying a jumbo at 20000 feet right now.
Posted from my iPad."
In some states you can be arrested and charged with a full-blown DUI for riding a bicycle while drunk.
?
How many people are killed by drunk bicyclists?
'These are ultimately consumer businesses and if you piss off enough of them, you will not have any more.'
He may be a lawyer, but he doesn't understand who the consumers are in the newspaper model.
Newspapers, like much of modern media, sell audiences to advertisers.
So asking the news media to think of their readers, is meaningless. They never do, except as a product to sell to the advertisers.
This is ultimately an Advertiser business.
I suspect he views the readers as the consumers and the advertisers as the customers.
Because the probability of being caught is less than 1.
The U.S. Constitution is not one of enumerated rights, it is one of enumerated powers. I.e., unless the Constitution enumerates a specific and limited power as being ceded to the federal government, the government does not have that power.
It is true that certain rights of the people are reaffirmed in certain amendments to the Constitution (right to assembly, free press, bear arms, jury trial, etc.), but these rights would exist without the amendments as well. Hence they are inalienable.
Well whoopty-fucking-doo, if they are being infringed on a regular basis, I guess that makes it OK then. Wouldn't want my rights only occasionally violated, now would I?
http://www.penny-arcade.com/news.php?date=2005-10- 17
Read the comment made by Tycho at 12:04pm. Penny Arcade donated $10,000 to the Entertainment Software Association. All of it in the name of Jack Thompson. I am left speechless...
Hackerethics (CCC)
Specifically I am referring to: "Make public data available, protect private data."
To quote the CCC: "To protect the privacy of the individual and to strengthen the freedom of the information which concern the public the yet last point was added."
It's probably a little late to post this. But I just wanted to add that the exact same thing happened to me. Perversely, I knew that I had chosen to use my credit card, since after selecting it they tried to push some additional "credit card insurance" or some nonsense like that on me.
I called their customer service within 1 minute after the transaction, since the confirmation email mentioned my bank account. Now this was a long distance call, my friends, no 1-800 number here. After waiting in line for over 20-minutes (long-distance) I spoke to the most singularily unpleasent, unfriendly, and unresponsive customer service I have ever had to talk to. All to no avail of course. Fortunately I managed to drive to my bank and put the cash into the account before the transaction went through.
So if Google is bringing some competition, than I hope that PayPal dies a quick and painful death and that their customer service department STARVES TO DEATH!...
I feel better now.
"Never under estimated the bandwith of a station wagon full of tapes..." http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A678576
Pshaaah... I say.
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a 100GB tape in my pocket.
ps: We do all realize that, if these ever make it to the consumer market, approximately 99.9% of these will be bought for the "backup" of copyrighted material, right... ?
in a DELL training class. In 2000 I attended a training seminar for the campus wide rollout of a wireless network. Tech support training for DELL was part of the seminar and DELL sent some people.
:)
They were very adament about us calling the DELL machines given to faculty and students "portables", and never to call them "laptops". They said that the portables got so hot that extended stay on one's lap could cause injury. They didn't want the potential liability due to negligence. You could after all consider the name "laptop" to indicate positioning the machine on one's lap.
Putting a laptop on one's lap. Imagine that!
p.s.: Naturally the University still referred to this part of the "wireless initiative" as the laptop pilot program. Guess they didn't care about sperm count and liabilities
Believe it or not. This is actually one of the DRM applications I am actually looking forward too. It would make (massively multiplayer) online games so much more entertaining.
This goes to show once again that no technology is inherently good or bad. It is the application of said technology where we must collectively learn to act more responsibly.
Now even the military is using wall hacks. What has our world come to?
The final recomendation from Microsoft? Don't trust/run ActiveX controls signed by Microsoft.
The 'solution' from MS in Microsoft Security Bulletin MS02-065 recommends that you remove MS from the list of Trusted Publishers.
Will Do!
If RMS speaks, but nobody listens, does he make a sound?
I know, it is probably too late to get modded up, but here it goes anyway...
IMHO Aristotle would have been very proud to have been called an idiot. The term idiot comes from the Ancient Greek word "ho idiotos" (or "hae idiotae" for the female form).
The word means "the private man" or "one who thinks for himself". In my opinion being called an idiot is one of the greatest compliments a man can receive.
Let's get technical about it. This is Slashdot after all :)
A customer purchases a good or service, a consumer is the ultimate user of a product.
I was in the middle of typing a sensible and well thought out reply about the extent to which the Godzilla trademark should be protected from ripp-offs. Then I realized that the situation can better be described in one sentence.
What a Dick!
Wouldn't it be great, if the Red Hat ISOs were put through a hash generating a 128bit number. Then you could compare your downloaded ISOs with that number to see, if they are different.
Then, after you have burned your CDs, you could let your burning software check for physical errors whilst running the hash once more. That should eliminate almost all errors.
The only problem that could arise is, if the a corrupt image and a correct one produced the same number. We should avoid this by using a well known hash like MD5.
All in all my idea sounds so good, I should apply for a software patent right now. I shall christen this technology... checksums!