Surely you realize there's a difference between organizations who pass advertisements off as their own opinion, versus organizations who clearly indicate which content is advertising and which part is editorial. Maintaining a wall between editorial and advertising has long been recognized as a part of journalism ethics, and while that wall is breached from time to time, it's something that's important enough that there can sometimes be legal repercussions to breaching it.
It's been around for five years... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folksonomy#Origin. I think I've only seen it when I was reading various documents that tried to introduce and explain tagging... I don't know if anyone used it besides the theoretical explanation of tags. But it's certainly been around for a while...
Well-known examples of producer-specific channels include BBC, NBA, and Al Jazeera.
So major content providers are partnering with YouTube, but their YouTube videos are essentially DRM-free (they can still be downloaded like normal youtube videos can). So are content providers starting to care less about DRM now? Or since most of them are putting teaser promotional videos up, not full-length content, they don't worry so much if the short snippets are copied elsewhere?
That's the way the patent system is supposed to work. The patent system is a tradeoff... we slow down progress slightly (by making people wait at most 20 years to build the perfect device), but hope that we speed it up more by giving people extra incentives to innovate.
Unfortunately, that's not the way the system actually works. When the patent office lets you patent things that were obvious 10 or 20 years ago (eg. patenting xor, or patenting the idea of VoIP/POTS integration when the idea was an integral part of the design of various VoIP standards released years ago), then the patent system doesn't just slow things down 20 years, it's actually 30 or 40 years instead. And when there aren't realistically sufficient checks to prevent obvious things being patented, it means that a bad patent examiner can slow things down for 50 or 60 years in a few cases where they really screw it up.
Also, in the modern world, clearly companies already have a huge incentive to innovate. Was the dot-com boom driven by the fact that companies could patent things, and monopolize the area for 20 years? Or was it instead driven mostly by VC's hoping to profit from first mover advantage? In my mind, it was clearly the latter.
A lot of libraries are making digital checkouts available... the larger ones my do it themselves, but smaller ones partner with places like netlibrary/mymediamall/tumblebooks/etc. They perhaps don't fulfill your entire vision, because they're heavily DRM'd. Libraries have never been able to just make copies of normal books and hand them out, they have to pay for every copy that's in circulation. In the same way, libraries need to pay for a fixed number of digital copies, and make sure that users actually return them at the end of the checkout period, and DRM unfortunately seems to be the way to implement that...
Mod parent up! So what's the next step? Try to make P2P look like something normal? (eg. HTTP, or FTP, or something like that?) I suppose most protocols don't have nearly the same persistent upstream or numerous simultaneous and long-lived connections as bit-torrent does... Do any ISP's throttle customers whenever they upload for too long of a period?
We recognize that many people list these types of interests for shock value, as a method of expressing opposition for these illegal activities, or to indicate fictional activity. Unfortunately, the Abuse team does not have any discretion in these cases; if a journal profile contains interests that support illegal activity, we must suspend the journal. Journals, on the other hand, may express or imply interest in illegal activity or express or imply a desire to meet and/or interact with others with similar interests, but only if the journal clearly (1) is in opposition to or condemnation of the illegal activity, (2) does not encourage the illegal activity and (3) is not used in furtherance of any illegal activity.
So now every time mentions something that might be illegal, they have to pause, look at the camera, put on their most convincing "I'm serious now" face, and say "this is fiction, not real life, we're not encouraging anyone do this in real life, and if you do this illegal act, you'll be in big trouble"? Does LJ really expect people to say things like this with a straight face for very long? I mean, yeah, many actual real-life illegal activities are real downers, but when people have to start saying a blurb after things that are almost certainly legal, but they still have to say the blurb so they don't get caught up in suspensions where LJ has "no discretion", then those blurbs aren't going to be something anyone takes seriously, but instead will be an outlet for users to continually mock LJ's policies.
One of the reasons that Windows doesn't have the dependency problems is that the major central services are already pre-planned out and provided by Microsoft as part of the operating system. In Linux, centralized services grow more organically. Regardless, do you want to be wholly limited to those OS services provided by Microsoft, or should more functionality be allowed at some point? pcap and TUN/TAP are just two of the OS-level services that several software packages legitimately don't/can't statically link in.
There really is a huge difference between "1. find the proper site to download one piece of software, 2. download it, 3. click install, 4. make sure the temp install file gets removed eventually, 5. maybe think about upgrading it once the next major version comes out", and having thousands of packages available for install at a single click, with all of the dependencies and all complications already figured out for you, and where all upgrades are nearly automatic and pain-free.
Well, our synthetic methods for capturing sunlight are inefficient, plants are better at it. So, plant-originated ethanol/hydrogren/etc is a compelling solution. And it turns out that high-energy plants.... tend to be food sources, imagine that.
Has anyone done long-term economic forecasts of the effect of using the same source for both food and fuel? While it would drive up prices in the short term (before supply ramped up to meet demand), there's some chance that the larger volume would result in lower prices in the long term.
Silly canards aren't all bad... they make it easy to determine whether a given individual is primarily interested in seeking out the most accurate information possible, or if they're more interested in parroting what their parents and pastor say.
why do creationists have such an obvious hatred for science, and yet they have a compulsion to explain their own beliefs using scientific-sounding words and scientific-looking venues?
Because they see that science is coming up with evidence that either contradicts what's stated in the Bible, or more often contradicts what religious people think the Bible implies (eg. nowhere does the Bible address whether condoms reduce the transmission of AIDS, but there's a lot of pseudoscience about that). And the problem is that potential recruits sometimes believe science's evidence and conclusions, so religion feels the need to try to come up with an an alternative explanation for the evidence that isn't directly incompatible with their existing beliefs, and they try to do it in a way that will convince the average guy on the street.
Your cable modem is 5 years old?? My cable modem started being spotty when it was 1.5 years old... a tech came out, and he said that they routinely replace that model of cable modem for other customers when it gets to be 1 year old (I guess they don't make them like they used to...). It turned out the tx/rx power levels were just a little too low, and we found a splitter we could remove, which boosted the power levels up to acceptable levels. But he said that it's getting more routine for cable modems to degrade over time, and need to be replaced.
Hypervisor — the software that makes the virtualization happen... sometimes means virtualization that runs on bare-metal, rather than under a host OS.
Paravirtualization — I think this just refers to the cases where the guest OS is modified/recompiled to run work without needing to run in Ring 0, and instead changes those to be explicit calls to the virtualization software.
So translated, I think that means "virtualization software that runs on bare-metal, both using unmodified guest OS's, and modified guest OS's."
So it's like a touchpad, where position is relative rather than absolute, and you need a way to indicate a mouseclick other than just touching the surface. How will clicks be implemented then? A double-tap?
Either way, kudos for putting effort into trying to adapt laptop and desktop concepts to a handheld device.
This just means that 1) Vonage's new implementation could unknowingly fall under somebody else's patent, and they'd have to play the whole game over again, and 2) Vonage will patent their new implementation (to try to avoid this mess again, since that will at least make it so that only pre-May-2007 patents can sink Vonage), but that will just cause more headaches for the next organization who thinks that implementing VoIP/POTS integration can be done in an obvious / non-patentable way.
Device drivers for certain types of devices have to be completely rewritten for Vista, or the hardware won't work. Creative is one company that's stated that only the very newest hardware will be supported on Vista... all other hardware that's just a little older will never be supported on Vista... that's not temporary, that's a permanent loss of support for hardware. And if Creative (a larger, more well-off company) won't rewrite most of its recent drivers for Vista, how are smaller companies going to fare?
Well, they try their best not to, at least. There's no getting around the fact that semis can't accelerate quickly, and if you're on a road that has more semis than cars, it's sort of inevitable that everyone's going to end up going slower.
The point is that semis are generally more experienced drivers and are generally more cooperative than old people who have no idea what's going on around them. It matters far less how fast or slow someone is driving, it matters far more how observant and cooperative they are.
Hear hear. The highway system is specifically designed to accommodate faster and slower vehicles... cars and semi-trucks have different speed limits, for instance. Everyone can get along as long as people cooperate. Semis never form a wall across the entire interstate for more than 60 seconds.... it's only the grandpa who shouldn't legally be driving who camps in the passing lane.
Coburn put the bill on hold because it contains an exception allowing discrimination based on genetic information from embryos and fetuses, but apparently there's an amendment that is hoped make the bill acceptable to Coburn. [1]
I don't think you understand. China is a country. A large one. Disney is a company, one whose wishes are only enforced because some countries (eg. U.S., European countries) have agreed to use their police and border guards to enforce Disney's wishes. Clearly China doesn't agree to use its police/border guards in that way, and unless a small company has a remote chance of taking on a large country (be it economically or militarily), Disney really doesn't have much say in the matter. (granted, futuristic SciFi novels about corporations having more power than countries are interesting to read, but we're not there yet)
MPAA: the horse is so far out of the barn, it's laughable to attempt putting it back in. What should justgotowned.com do? Hard-code that name as an invalid site, thereby including the "copyrighted" text in its own code?
When data is small enough to fit into a URL or a Google query, it's probably too small to be copyrighted. I don't know why that's so intuitive to most Slashdotters, but not intuitive to movie execs...
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Surely you realize there's a difference between organizations who pass advertisements off as their own opinion, versus organizations who clearly indicate which content is advertising and which part is editorial. Maintaining a wall between editorial and advertising has long been recognized as a part of journalism ethics, and while that wall is breached from time to time, it's something that's important enough that there can sometimes be legal repercussions to breaching it.
It's been around for five years... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folksonomy#Origin. I think I've only seen it when I was reading various documents that tried to introduce and explain tagging... I don't know if anyone used it besides the theoretical explanation of tags. But it's certainly been around for a while...
Well-known examples of producer-specific channels include BBC, NBA, and Al Jazeera.
So major content providers are partnering with YouTube, but their YouTube videos are essentially DRM-free (they can still be downloaded like normal youtube videos can). So are content providers starting to care less about DRM now? Or since most of them are putting teaser promotional videos up, not full-length content, they don't worry so much if the short snippets are copied elsewhere?
That's the way the patent system is supposed to work. The patent system is a tradeoff... we slow down progress slightly (by making people wait at most 20 years to build the perfect device), but hope that we speed it up more by giving people extra incentives to innovate.
Unfortunately, that's not the way the system actually works. When the patent office lets you patent things that were obvious 10 or 20 years ago (eg. patenting xor, or patenting the idea of VoIP/POTS integration when the idea was an integral part of the design of various VoIP standards released years ago), then the patent system doesn't just slow things down 20 years, it's actually 30 or 40 years instead. And when there aren't realistically sufficient checks to prevent obvious things being patented, it means that a bad patent examiner can slow things down for 50 or 60 years in a few cases where they really screw it up.
Also, in the modern world, clearly companies already have a huge incentive to innovate. Was the dot-com boom driven by the fact that companies could patent things, and monopolize the area for 20 years? Or was it instead driven mostly by VC's hoping to profit from first mover advantage? In my mind, it was clearly the latter.
A lot of libraries are making digital checkouts available... the larger ones my do it themselves, but smaller ones partner with places like netlibrary/mymediamall/tumblebooks/etc. They perhaps don't fulfill your entire vision, because they're heavily DRM'd. Libraries have never been able to just make copies of normal books and hand them out, they have to pay for every copy that's in circulation. In the same way, libraries need to pay for a fixed number of digital copies, and make sure that users actually return them at the end of the checkout period, and DRM unfortunately seems to be the way to implement that...
Mod parent up! So what's the next step? Try to make P2P look like something normal? (eg. HTTP, or FTP, or something like that?) I suppose most protocols don't have nearly the same persistent upstream or numerous simultaneous and long-lived connections as bit-torrent does... Do any ISP's throttle customers whenever they upload for too long of a period?
One of the reasons that Windows doesn't have the dependency problems is that the major central services are already pre-planned out and provided by Microsoft as part of the operating system. In Linux, centralized services grow more organically. Regardless, do you want to be wholly limited to those OS services provided by Microsoft, or should more functionality be allowed at some point? pcap and TUN/TAP are just two of the OS-level services that several software packages legitimately don't/can't statically link in.
There really is a huge difference between "1. find the proper site to download one piece of software, 2. download it, 3. click install, 4. make sure the temp install file gets removed eventually, 5. maybe think about upgrading it once the next major version comes out", and having thousands of packages available for install at a single click, with all of the dependencies and all complications already figured out for you, and where all upgrades are nearly automatic and pain-free.
Well, our synthetic methods for capturing sunlight are inefficient, plants are better at it. So, plant-originated ethanol/hydrogren/etc is a compelling solution. And it turns out that high-energy plants.... tend to be food sources, imagine that.
Has anyone done long-term economic forecasts of the effect of using the same source for both food and fuel? While it would drive up prices in the short term (before supply ramped up to meet demand), there's some chance that the larger volume would result in lower prices in the long term.
Silly canards aren't all bad... they make it easy to determine whether a given individual is primarily interested in seeking out the most accurate information possible, or if they're more interested in parroting what their parents and pastor say.
why do creationists have such an obvious hatred for science, and yet they have a compulsion to explain their own beliefs using scientific-sounding words and scientific-looking venues?
Because they see that science is coming up with evidence that either contradicts what's stated in the Bible, or more often contradicts what religious people think the Bible implies (eg. nowhere does the Bible address whether condoms reduce the transmission of AIDS, but there's a lot of pseudoscience about that). And the problem is that potential recruits sometimes believe science's evidence and conclusions, so religion feels the need to try to come up with an an alternative explanation for the evidence that isn't directly incompatible with their existing beliefs, and they try to do it in a way that will convince the average guy on the street.
Upgrading from Email to Gmail resulted in Minor issues that made me sad.
Your cable modem is 5 years old?? My cable modem started being spotty when it was 1.5 years old... a tech came out, and he said that they routinely replace that model of cable modem for other customers when it gets to be 1 year old (I guess they don't make them like they used to...). It turned out the tx/rx power levels were just a little too low, and we found a splitter we could remove, which boosted the power levels up to acceptable levels. But he said that it's getting more routine for cable modems to degrade over time, and need to be replaced.
You are coming to a sad realization that in Soviet Russia, new Microsoft patent meme infringes you 123 times. Cancel or Allow?
Hypervisor — the software that makes the virtualization happen... sometimes means virtualization that runs on bare-metal, rather than under a host OS.
Paravirtualization — I think this just refers to the cases where the guest OS is modified/recompiled to run work without needing to run in Ring 0, and instead changes those to be explicit calls to the virtualization software.
So translated, I think that means "virtualization software that runs on bare-metal, both using unmodified guest OS's, and modified guest OS's."
So it's like a touchpad, where position is relative rather than absolute, and you need a way to indicate a mouseclick other than just touching the surface. How will clicks be implemented then? A double-tap?
Either way, kudos for putting effort into trying to adapt laptop and desktop concepts to a handheld device.
This just means that 1) Vonage's new implementation could unknowingly fall under somebody else's patent, and they'd have to play the whole game over again, and 2) Vonage will patent their new implementation (to try to avoid this mess again, since that will at least make it so that only pre-May-2007 patents can sink Vonage), but that will just cause more headaches for the next organization who thinks that implementing VoIP/POTS integration can be done in an obvious / non-patentable way.
Well, they try their best not to, at least. There's no getting around the fact that semis can't accelerate quickly, and if you're on a road that has more semis than cars, it's sort of inevitable that everyone's going to end up going slower.
The point is that semis are generally more experienced drivers and are generally more cooperative than old people who have no idea what's going on around them. It matters far less how fast or slow someone is driving, it matters far more how observant and cooperative they are.
Hear hear. The highway system is specifically designed to accommodate faster and slower vehicles... cars and semi-trucks have different speed limits, for instance. Everyone can get along as long as people cooperate. Semis never form a wall across the entire interstate for more than 60 seconds.... it's only the grandpa who shouldn't legally be driving who camps in the passing lane.
Coburn put the bill on hold because it contains an exception allowing discrimination based on genetic information from embryos and fetuses, but apparently there's an amendment that is hoped make the bill acceptable to Coburn. [1]
I don't think you understand. China is a country. A large one. Disney is a company, one whose wishes are only enforced because some countries (eg. U.S., European countries) have agreed to use their police and border guards to enforce Disney's wishes. Clearly China doesn't agree to use its police/border guards in that way, and unless a small company has a remote chance of taking on a large country (be it economically or militarily), Disney really doesn't have much say in the matter. (granted, futuristic SciFi novels about corporations having more power than countries are interesting to read, but we're not there yet)
That's hilarious, it even fits into a domain name: 09f911029d74e35bd84156c5635688c0.com and 09f911029d74e35bd84156c5635688c0.justgotowned.com.
MPAA: the horse is so far out of the barn, it's laughable to attempt putting it back in. What should justgotowned.com do? Hard-code that name as an invalid site, thereby including the "copyrighted" text in its own code?
When data is small enough to fit into a URL or a Google query, it's probably too small to be copyrighted. I don't know why that's so intuitive to most Slashdotters, but not intuitive to movie execs...