Not hearing/seeing anything you don't disagree with because you have put blinders on your searches might lead to the kind of world described in "Fareignheight 411" (that's 411 not 911) By Ray Bradbury.
Yeah, but in Fahrenheit 451 the firemen went around burning other people's books, not just their own.
If you're solipsistic in your reading, regardless on the medium, you do so in order to become a "contented consumer" and it costs you your humanity.
And that is a tragedy - one which we see all around us because the vast majority of people do go through life with blinders on. But insisting that they must open their eyes is as wrong as them insisting that we must be fitted for their blinders and even more hopeless. After all, none is as blind as the man who will not see.
There are plenty of "bad" websites out there that are labeled as "bad" because they offend people who are closed-minded...
Who says that you need to resort to the opinions of others to decide what's good or bad? Why not train your browser (or search engine or whatever) like you train your spam filter so that it can build up a pretty good idea of what *you* think is bad?
If this is true - and it sounds reasonable - then the net effect may well be to make BitTorrent look worse than it really is from a content owners point of view. I can see us all explaining (and re-re-re-explaining) the difference between trackers and downloads. Could well become the next slashdot meme.
One other thing to remember is that under the carrier status, the original content holder has a right to ask them to remove infringing links. As long as they follow that procedure, they are safe.
Which is why i mentioned possible legal harassment - basically being bombarded by "un list this torrent" mails. Of course they could do the google thing and link to copies of the complaints on chillingeffects.org. I remember (in a vague and non-url backed way) stories about people receiving automated cease and desist mails for perfectly legal files available on their sites which happened to have names suggestive of copyrighted content...
If they fail to provide an unbiased service that reflects the unbiased nature of the content, then they'll probably be in deep trouble.
On the other hand, if they do provide a truly unbiased service we may get (for the first time) some interesting feedback on what percentage of torrents represent legal downloads...
In the case of BitTorrent, it has a LOT of uses that are perfectly legal. That is what this search engine is targetting.
might i recommend that you read the article?
But Navin isn't worried -- because the new search engine indexes every torrent it can find without human intervention, the company can't be held liable for results that happen to point to infringing content, he says. Lemley says that's probably right, at least as a matter of law: The Digital Millennium Copyright Act provides safe harbor for "information location tools" if administrators promptly remove links to infringing content upon notice by the copyright holder.
Their business model is to make money by displaying advertising on their search results page (hmmm, where have we seen this before?). They couldn't or shouldn't care less about what they index as long as they draw the traffic. In the long run, they might change their attitude due to legal harassment, but the existence of a single authoritative search engine has a lot of benefits for rights holders as well.
I don't know about you, but i get paid to write code. If the person looking down his nose at my chosen language is the person writing out the cheques, you best believe i *do* care about his opinion.
I absolutely agree, and i'd even go further than that in saying that the relative importance of programming decreases as the size and complexity of the project (or corporate environment) go up. Basically, if you can do it in one week vs. three weeks is of paramount importance on a small project or if you work for a small agency (where time really does equal money), but much less important in a big project or a corporate environment where more structured project management, Q&A testing, documentation and the like make it the difference between twenty two weeks and twenty four weeks. As a developer, i've never been crazy about the java language - i love the api, i love the huge amount of existing code you can leverage, i love the massive amounts of information available - but i'm just not crazy about typing it (That's a personal opinion btw, so fingers off the flamethrower trigger). My manager, however, summed it up quite well: it's easier to find java developers than almost any other language out there today.
Coldfusion is written in java and coldfusion files get compiled to java byte code, but coldfusion markup language is not java, any more than jython or groovy are java. The parallels are right there: you can write the same piece of code faster and more easily in jython than in java (especially when you're re-using existing functionality), but how many corporate IT managers will let you? How many "real" java developers will look down their noses at you for using a scripting language?
The nation that had the second largest eugenics movement was the United States. Beginning with Connecticut in 1896, many states enacted marriage laws with eugenic criteria, prohibiting anyone who was "epileptic, imbecile or feeble-minded" from marrying.
But it's unlike modern capitalism, where you use patents and copyrights to hold on to your "intellectual property". According to Bill Gates, we're all some kind of communists.
If you have an opportunity to, chuck it and use Subversion instead.
One thing to remember is that although subversion may be the new hotness, it's the NEW hotness. By this i mean that while there are certainly bugs and problems in cvs, they are most likely *known* bugs and problems - unless your usage is way out there on the cutting edge, the likelihood that you will discover a brand new never seen before bug in cvs is quite low. Sadly, the same can't be said for svn - not because it has quality issues but because it's a younger product. Whilst it's true that no open source project gets very far without users and bug reports, this is still something to keep in mind when making a "cvs vs svn" decision.
Just my 0.02$
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I was considering blocking the entire IP range for the US, since I never get anything other than spam from there.
unless your Marketing people go crazy and decide they want their PDF about "the new standards in PC" to appear higher on the list than IT's "the new PC standard" document:)
congratulations, you have invented a new type of consulting activity. you might want to patent that.
The first time i watched Memento was on dvd with some friends. The disk was scratched or dirty, so it would skip unpredictably back and forth. You will not believe what a weird experience that is - especially when you add in the fact that the chapters in the menu are listed in reverse order.
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Not hearing/seeing anything you don't disagree with because you have put blinders on your searches might lead to the kind of world described in "Fareignheight 411" (that's 411 not 911) By Ray Bradbury.
Yeah, but in Fahrenheit 451 the firemen went around burning other people's books, not just their own.
If you're solipsistic in your reading, regardless on the medium, you do so in order to become a "contented consumer" and it costs you your humanity.
And that is a tragedy - one which we see all around us because the vast majority of people do go through life with blinders on. But insisting that they must open their eyes is as wrong as them insisting that we must be fitted for their blinders and even more hopeless. After all, none is as blind as the man who will not see.
There are plenty of "bad" websites out there that are labeled as "bad" because they offend people who are closed-minded...
Who says that you need to resort to the opinions of others to decide what's good or bad? Why not train your browser (or search engine or whatever) like you train your spam filter so that it can build up a pretty good idea of what *you* think is bad?
In both cases the person doing the fixes lost the opportunity to do other work.
;)
Yeah, but they also lost the opportunity to create new bugs, so it's break even
g,d&r!
I was working on a development contract when our CEO decided to cut Internet access for all consultants
I know of at least one company where consultants/contractors don't have a telephone on their desk... real life is sometimes more dilbert than dilbert.
If this is true - and it sounds reasonable - then the net effect may well be to make BitTorrent look worse than it really is from a content owners point of view. I can see us all explaining (and re-re-re-explaining) the difference between trackers and downloads. Could well become the next slashdot meme.
One other thing to remember is that under the carrier status, the original content holder has a right to ask them to remove infringing links. As long as they follow that procedure, they are safe.
Which is why i mentioned possible legal harassment - basically being bombarded by "un list this torrent" mails. Of course they could do the google thing and link to copies of the complaints on chillingeffects.org. I remember (in a vague and non-url backed way) stories about people receiving automated cease and desist mails for perfectly legal files available on their sites which happened to have names suggestive of copyrighted content...
If they fail to provide an unbiased service that reflects the unbiased nature of the content, then they'll probably be in deep trouble.
On the other hand, if they do provide a truly unbiased service we may get (for the first time) some interesting feedback on what percentage of torrents represent legal downloads...
hey, it's 50% effective.
i say slap a beta label on it and release it to sourceforge. some kind soul will iron out the remaining bugs.
In the case of BitTorrent, it has a LOT of uses that are perfectly legal. That is what this search engine is targetting.
might i recommend that you read the article?
But Navin isn't worried -- because the new search engine indexes every torrent it can find without human intervention, the company can't be held liable for results that happen to point to infringing content, he says. Lemley says that's probably right, at least as a matter of law: The Digital Millennium Copyright Act provides safe harbor for "information location tools" if administrators promptly remove links to infringing content upon notice by the copyright holder.
Their business model is to make money by displaying advertising on their search results page (hmmm, where have we seen this before?). They couldn't or shouldn't care less about what they index as long as they draw the traffic. In the long run, they might change their attitude due to legal harassment, but the existence of a single authoritative search engine has a lot of benefits for rights holders as well.
If I go into a teleporter, do 'I' come out the other end?
Well, until someone invents a person-capable teleportation device, i think the answer is No.
I don't know about you, but i get paid to write code. If the person looking down his nose at my chosen language is the person writing out the cheques, you best believe i *do* care about his opinion.
I absolutely agree, and i'd even go further than that in saying that the relative importance of programming decreases as the size and complexity of the project (or corporate environment) go up. Basically, if you can do it in one week vs. three weeks is of paramount importance on a small project or if you work for a small agency (where time really does equal money), but much less important in a big project or a corporate environment where more structured project management, Q&A testing, documentation and the like make it the difference between twenty two weeks and twenty four weeks. As a developer, i've never been crazy about the java language - i love the api, i love the huge amount of existing code you can leverage, i love the massive amounts of information available - but i'm just not crazy about typing it (That's a personal opinion btw, so fingers off the flamethrower trigger). My manager, however, summed it up quite well: it's easier to find java developers than almost any other language out there today.
Coldfusion is written in java and coldfusion files get compiled to java byte code, but coldfusion markup language is not java, any more than jython or groovy are java. The parallels are right there: you can write the same piece of code faster and more easily in jython than in java (especially when you're re-using existing functionality), but how many corporate IT managers will let you? How many "real" java developers will look down their noses at you for using a scripting language?
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The nation that had the second largest eugenics movement was the United States. Beginning with Connecticut in 1896, many states enacted marriage laws with eugenic criteria, prohibiting anyone who was "epileptic, imbecile or feeble-minded" from marrying.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics#Eugenics_an
Now all they need is to give them all typewriters.
Web browsers. And the address of this site.
It's also the amount of water in a 10cm x 10cm x 10 cm cube.
But it's unlike modern capitalism, where you use patents and copyrights to hold on to your "intellectual property". According to Bill Gates, we're all some kind of communists.
If you have an opportunity to, chuck it and use Subversion instead.
One thing to remember is that although subversion may be the new hotness, it's the NEW hotness. By this i mean that while there are certainly bugs and problems in cvs, they are most likely *known* bugs and problems - unless your usage is way out there on the cutting edge, the likelihood that you will discover a brand new never seen before bug in cvs is quite low. Sadly, the same can't be said for svn - not because it has quality issues but because it's a younger product. Whilst it's true that no open source project gets very far without users and bug reports, this is still something to keep in mind when making a "cvs vs svn" decision.
Just my 0.02$
I was considering blocking the entire IP range for the US, since I never get anything other than spam from there.
Not surprising, since they account for more than 50% of all spam, according to spamhaus.
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No they can get a MAX of 40 years, there is no minimum jail sentence, however the fine will be $64,000 for those 10 gifs you don't own.
My guess would be, the more money you have towards that $64,000, the fewer years you have to do. The content industry's other licensing scheme.
i guess it was too much like research.
unless your Marketing people go crazy and decide they want their PDF about "the new standards in PC" to appear higher on the list than IT's "the new PC standard" document :)
congratulations, you have invented a new type of consulting activity. you might want to patent that.
from their subscription page:
"Subscriptions are our main source of income, and we offer free advertising to free software companies."
Now that's putting your money where your mouth is.
wide area wimax networks offer a lot of hope for connecting rural areas. A department (think county) in France has already started rolling it out (sorry, in French).
The first time i watched Memento was on dvd with some friends. The disk was scratched or dirty, so it would skip unpredictably back and forth. You will not believe what a weird experience that is - especially when you add in the fact that the chapters in the menu are listed in reverse order.