Not exactly. Libel laws just need the burden of proof to rest upon the plaintiff and very strong anti-SLAPP laws. If you sue for libel, you best prove the libeler is lying, or you face massive fines and damages. U.K. libel laws are totally fucked because the burden of proof rests squarely upon the libeler.
Iceland's proposed laws would supposedly make Icelandic citizens untouchable by British libel, well that's fine by me. A few companies relocating their press offices to Iceland won't significantly disrupt consumer rights advocacy. Conversely, a few articulate refugees seeking Icelandic citizenship might save thousands of lives. And a few Icelandic citizens helping out wikileaks would could save millions of people from various corporate malfeasances.
A denial of services attack by numerous individuals is civil disobedience, obviously.
A bot-net based denial of services attack is more like civil clashes between economic entities, like if amazon pulls some publishers books, although the bot-net was obviously illegal anyways.
A even more criminal version of a denial of services attack would be identifying all the government employees involved, identifying their personal information, and giving it all the nigerian scammers.
A good rule of thumb is "It's not terrorism if it does not involve an attempted killing."
Mac OS X is lovely for technical people, all the power minus the headaches. We've wanted that same operating system delivered sanely in a tablet form factor. Android does not exactly cut it given the limitations of Java. Nokia's N900 comes extraordinarily close, presumably thinner Maemo 6 based tablet's will eventually rock. Apple however has been the one that delivered the pleasent but powerful desktop OS.
It seems Apple's offering falls between Dell #1 and #2, which are $400 and $100 cheaper than Apple respectively, and all are IPS, etc. I'm sure the difference between Dell #1 and #2 are contrast and color correctness.
If you need the better Dell's features, and you're sure the Apple offers them, then yes you might reasonably choose the Apple monitor to help clean up the desk.
If however you're just a developer, gamer, etc, not actually a photo editor, then you might as well save $400.
Btw, I'd actually missed the fact that Apple updated their monitor line as recently as last year, their monitors were a major rip off before that update.
I'll stand by the assessment that Apple's mice are disastrous for the human hand. I actually own a bluetooth magic mouse, but only use it for brief periods.
What? Apple's monitors are identical to everyone else's, afaik. I know the displays themselves are all produce by the same people, Apple's just uses nicer glass and cabling. Also, Apple's multi-touch mouse does not well fit the human hand, just like all their previous mice.
I've frequently observed that AI researchers exaggerate their successes so grossly as to be outright lying. A little excess optimism is mild by comparison.
We actually have many parallel approaches towards producing super-human intelligences :
(1) education and psychology -- Any professional mathematician will tell you about people of unimaginable cleverness and productivity, but they only rarely tell you about all the extraordinarily clever normal mathematicians that will just never produce anything nearly so remarkable. Imagine if raise the percentage of the population with the focus, drive, work ethic, and good habits of say Terrance Tao. Just not scaring away the women helps too!
(2) implants and drugs -- We'll clearly have the ability to enhance the brian well before possessing the ability to build one, especially given this technology has medical applications. We know some academics are already using drugs to them focus or improve memory recall.
(3) parallelization -- We currently build the largest super computers by running parallel algorithms across numerous smaller systems, but the algorithms used by the human brain are already fairly parallel and adaptable. So we could develop implants and methodologies for parallelizing human mental functions such as memory or analyzing difficult problems, such technology could be developed by working on brian implants rodent or primate models.
Two big reasons you're wrong. First, that $50 discount might be essential for many poorer kids, even in the U.S. Second, that $50 puts downward price pressure upon other netbooks.
It may fall afoul of network neutrality rules, but probably doesn't violate their terms of service, and they might have picked 4chan just to make the network neutrality rules seem "anti-children".
If your a Verizon customer however, you should cancel their service insisting upon not paying early termination fees, and notifying your bank that Verizon is no longer allowed to deduct money from your account. You may need to threaten to bad mouth them all over the internet and/or sue them in small claims court before they lay off the fees of course.
I'd agree that any device without a stylus seems pretty silly for note taking, or any business like applications. In particular, the iPad has clearly been designed for consuming visual media like movies or books, not creating documents, not creating media, not note taking, etc.
An ebook reader with a stylus for markup like the iLiad might provide a reasonable note taking system however. In fact, I feel that students are often too busy writing when I'd rather they were listening and/or thinking. It might help if they were merely marking up the text instead.
Big government most definitely keeps U.S. and E.U. agriculture less expensive than even African agriculture. We could just as easily subsidize electronics produced here, presumably we already do so for military electronics.
In fact, the U.S. and E.U. could demand equalized trade with China under the WTO, which might be a cleaner more market oriented way to provide the same incentives.
iPhone isn't exactly dominating inside the U.S. either, except amongst the hipsters, try blackberry.
I know fairly few techie people abroad, well my foreign friends are mostly women that I was trying to sleep with while living in their countries, but the few I know all own Nokia's, true. Btw, I know more iPod Touch owners abroad than iPhone owners, mostly people who wanted the games mp3 player combo, without killing their phone's battery.
Yes, loser-pays works wonderfully in Europe. Their nationalized health care works well too.;)
I'd support both loser-pays and nationalized health care, but they're both tricky social constructs that must be developed carefully. In particular, the Republicans have clearly pushed a version of loser-pays that discourages lawsuits against companies, vastly different form the European implementation.
Also, European nations have far stronger laws protecting employees and the environment, placing the state more often on the little guys side during litigation. Most loser-pays countries only award compensatory civil litigation damages. Courts and lawyers must become more accounting oriented since loser-pays is implement per motion, i.e. each failed motion costs the loser.
It figures/. would see this article as blaming the victims, but you are all dead wrong. Children are animals. Animals must be manipulated, not judged.
The article takes the easiest route to dealing with bullying, but training the bullied kids progress socially. How many/. posters have swore their kids would learn karate? Same theory only more effective, and works with women not just men.
What other roles are traditional publishers engaged in? I'd assume the lions share is advertising. Yes, advertising could suck up awesome amounts of money.
Editors however are very much not obsolete. Automated spelling and grammar correction covers only a small portion of an editors job, well their core job is identifying places where the author loses readers and/or material that should be removed from the book.
I'll observe however that many many good editors actually work freelance, just like authors. The publishing world could be massively optimized by small publishers that focus only upon selecting the material and pairing manuscripts with freelance editors. It might even be that overhead could be further reduced by paying editors on commission, just like authors.
Society should set itself the goal of reducing the take of middle men that contribute little besides selection or publicity, this covers both publishers like Macmillan, online distributors like Amazon, and brick&mortar distributors like Barnes&Noble.
We don't need better batteries, the current ones are fine for tooling around town. If we get enough electric cars on the road, we'll just build a ground-level power supply system into the highways for travel between cities.
All politicians would love spending the money wiring up the left hand lanes all over the country. Any nation implementing ground-level power supply can induce their citizen to convert by offering the highway's electricity for free or cheap. As cars are the worst source of pollution, you then find that country has vastly more rights to produce industrial pollutants under the various treaties.
We need not incorporate the ground level power supply into surface streets either, just the major highways, because the electric cars have enough range for driving around town already. We might however find the funds for converting even major surface streets once enough people were driving electrics.
I've not seen exactly these complaints about the Kindle or even the iPhone. People hate how these appliances are closed, but recognize underlying appliance like quality. You'd never make the iPhone your primary computing device ue to the form factor's inherent limitations. An iPad's larger form factor means people will use the device for vastly more activities, like board games, more serious email, etc.
You are of course correct that adults are welcome to use these appliance like computers, adults are also welcome to smoke pot or drink all day long. I'd assert however that these devices are fundamentally harmful to children, by limiting their opportunities for learning more about the inner workings of the machines that dominate our lives.
You know, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommends that kids under 2 years old not watch any TV and that those older than 2 watch no more than 1 to 2 hours a day of quality programming, and many parents heed this advice.
You can protect your kids however. Do not let anyone use Windows or iPhone/iTouch/iPad in your house. Buy your kids an Android or N900 phone instead, along with books on Java, Qt, etc.
You know, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommends that kids under 2 years old not watch any TV and that those older than 2 watch no more than 1 to 2 hours a day of quality programming. A responsible parent would similarly forbid their kids form using Windows or the iPhone/iTouch/iPad.
I've no idea what idiot wanted to put a chip manufacturing plant in Ireland however. Tax haven maybe? Does that really counter the employees all being alcoholic? Or are your hiring French, Portuguese, etc. to run the place?
If his $10 billion buys way less thanks to TRIPS and/or ACTA.
A few other good causes : Invest money into the pharmaceutical industries in countries like Brazil that have shown their willingness to break intellectual property treaties when people's lives are at stake. A cheaper and more charitable approach might be endowing biotechnology professorships with this stated goal at the best medical schools in these countries. A more political approach might be lobbying the European Union to pass legislation saying that generic drug manufacturers may violate patents for exported drugs to third world countries when the number of lives saved would be significant. Just oppose ACTA and/or try to roll back TRIPS --- ACTA will kill people.
I suggest that you read about the history of the fight against AIDS. If Brazil had not stood up against the U.S. and said "We will make anti-retrovirals ourselves if you don't sell them at a fraction of the cost", then incredible numbers of Brazilians would have died, and millions more would have died in other developing countries that currently benefit from Brazil's hard nose negotiation.
p.s. I do think all the people criticizing how he earned his money are being disingenuous. Gate's only sins are : robbing other rich people of their smart employees, selling poor quality software, and lobbying for bad copyright laws. Do you even want to think about what Exxon does with your gas money? Federal government with your tax money? (Iraq) etc. You don't see Dick Channey out running charity organizations.
.. he could obviously start a non-profit health insurance provider like Blue Cross with minimal initial funding. If it's plans were comparatively simple, then it'll have less overhead and cost less than other health insurance providers, and thus force them to lower prices too. I'd say however his real reason for not doing this is simple though :
America is n If the American people cannot vote themselves a healthcare plan, then let them suffer & die from lack of it.
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Not exactly. Libel laws just need the burden of proof to rest upon the plaintiff and very strong anti-SLAPP laws. If you sue for libel, you best prove the libeler is lying, or you face massive fines and damages. U.K. libel laws are totally fucked because the burden of proof rests squarely upon the libeler.
Iceland's proposed laws would supposedly make Icelandic citizens untouchable by British libel, well that's fine by me. A few companies relocating their press offices to Iceland won't significantly disrupt consumer rights advocacy. Conversely, a few articulate refugees seeking Icelandic citizenship might save thousands of lives. And a few Icelandic citizens helping out wikileaks would could save millions of people from various corporate malfeasances.
A denial of services attack by numerous individuals is civil disobedience, obviously.
A bot-net based denial of services attack is more like civil clashes between economic entities, like if amazon pulls some publishers books, although the bot-net was obviously illegal anyways.
A even more criminal version of a denial of services attack would be identifying all the government employees involved, identifying their personal information, and giving it all the nigerian scammers.
A good rule of thumb is "It's not terrorism if it does not involve an attempted killing."
Mac OS X is lovely for technical people, all the power minus the headaches. We've wanted that same operating system delivered sanely in a tablet form factor. Android does not exactly cut it given the limitations of Java. Nokia's N900 comes extraordinarily close, presumably thinner Maemo 6 based tablet's will eventually rock. Apple however has been the one that delivered the pleasent but powerful desktop OS.
Apple : http://store.apple.com/us/product/M9179LL/A
Dell 1 : http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/products/Displays/productdetail.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=dhs&cs=19&sku=222-7175
Dell 2 : http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/products/Displays/productdetail.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=dhs&cs=19&sku=223-4890
It seems Apple's offering falls between Dell #1 and #2, which are $400 and $100 cheaper than Apple respectively, and all are IPS, etc. I'm sure the difference between Dell #1 and #2 are contrast and color correctness.
If you need the better Dell's features, and you're sure the Apple offers them, then yes you might reasonably choose the Apple monitor to help clean up the desk.
If however you're just a developer, gamer, etc, not actually a photo editor, then you might as well save $400.
Btw, I'd actually missed the fact that Apple updated their monitor line as recently as last year, their monitors were a major rip off before that update.
I'll stand by the assessment that Apple's mice are disastrous for the human hand. I actually own a bluetooth magic mouse, but only use it for brief periods.
What? Apple's monitors are identical to everyone else's, afaik. I know the displays themselves are all produce by the same people, Apple's just uses nicer glass and cabling. Also, Apple's multi-touch mouse does not well fit the human hand, just like all their previous mice.
I've frequently observed that AI researchers exaggerate their successes so grossly as to be outright lying. A little excess optimism is mild by comparison.
We actually have many parallel approaches towards producing super-human intelligences :
(1) education and psychology -- Any professional mathematician will tell you about people of unimaginable cleverness and productivity, but they only rarely tell you about all the extraordinarily clever normal mathematicians that will just never produce anything nearly so remarkable. Imagine if raise the percentage of the population with the focus, drive, work ethic, and good habits of say Terrance Tao. Just not scaring away the women helps too!
(2) implants and drugs -- We'll clearly have the ability to enhance the brian well before possessing the ability to build one, especially given this technology has medical applications. We know some academics are already using drugs to them focus or improve memory recall.
(3) parallelization -- We currently build the largest super computers by running parallel algorithms across numerous smaller systems, but the algorithms used by the human brain are already fairly parallel and adaptable. So we could develop implants and methodologies for parallelizing human mental functions such as memory or analyzing difficult problems, such technology could be developed by working on brian implants rodent or primate models.
I don't give google very much information but I'd trust google over facebook any day. Facebook must be shelved.
Two big reasons you're wrong. First, that $50 discount might be essential for many poorer kids, even in the U.S. Second, that $50 puts downward price pressure upon other netbooks.
It may fall afoul of network neutrality rules, but probably doesn't violate their terms of service, and they might have picked 4chan just to make the network neutrality rules seem "anti-children".
If your a Verizon customer however, you should cancel their service insisting upon not paying early termination fees, and notifying your bank that Verizon is no longer allowed to deduct money from your account. You may need to threaten to bad mouth them all over the internet and/or sue them in small claims court before they lay off the fees of course.
I'd agree that any device without a stylus seems pretty silly for note taking, or any business like applications. In particular, the iPad has clearly been designed for consuming visual media like movies or books, not creating documents, not creating media, not note taking, etc.
An ebook reader with a stylus for markup like the iLiad might provide a reasonable note taking system however. In fact, I feel that students are often too busy writing when I'd rather they were listening and/or thinking. It might help if they were merely marking up the text instead.
Big government most definitely keeps U.S. and E.U. agriculture less expensive than even African agriculture. We could just as easily subsidize electronics produced here, presumably we already do so for military electronics.
In fact, the U.S. and E.U. could demand equalized trade with China under the WTO, which might be a cleaner more market oriented way to provide the same incentives.
iPhone isn't exactly dominating inside the U.S. either, except amongst the hipsters, try blackberry.
I know fairly few techie people abroad, well my foreign friends are mostly women that I was trying to sleep with while living in their countries, but the few I know all own Nokia's, true. Btw, I know more iPod Touch owners abroad than iPhone owners, mostly people who wanted the games mp3 player combo, without killing their phone's battery.
Yes, loser-pays works wonderfully in Europe. Their nationalized health care works well too. ;)
I'd support both loser-pays and nationalized health care, but they're both tricky social constructs that must be developed carefully. In particular, the Republicans have clearly pushed a version of loser-pays that discourages lawsuits against companies, vastly different form the European implementation.
Also, European nations have far stronger laws protecting employees and the environment, placing the state more often on the little guys side during litigation. Most loser-pays countries only award compensatory civil litigation damages. Courts and lawyers must become more accounting oriented since loser-pays is implement per motion, i.e. each failed motion costs the loser.
It figures /. would see this article as blaming the victims, but you are all dead wrong. Children are animals. Animals must be manipulated, not judged.
The article takes the easiest route to dealing with bullying, but training the bullied kids progress socially. How many /. posters have swore their kids would learn karate? Same theory only more effective, and works with women not just men.
What other roles are traditional publishers engaged in? I'd assume the lions share is advertising. Yes, advertising could suck up awesome amounts of money.
Editors however are very much not obsolete. Automated spelling and grammar correction covers only a small portion of an editors job, well their core job is identifying places where the author loses readers and/or material that should be removed from the book.
I'll observe however that many many good editors actually work freelance, just like authors. The publishing world could be massively optimized by small publishers that focus only upon selecting the material and pairing manuscripts with freelance editors. It might even be that overhead could be further reduced by paying editors on commission, just like authors.
Society should set itself the goal of reducing the take of middle men that contribute little besides selection or publicity, this covers both publishers like Macmillan, online distributors like Amazon, and brick&mortar distributors like Barnes&Noble.
Just buy your kids Android or Maemo devices, ban Apple appliances & iTunes Store from your house, easy enough.
TRIPS kills people. ACTA will kill vastly more people.
"ACTA will kill people" is the meme your looking for.
We don't need better batteries, the current ones are fine for tooling around town. If we get enough electric cars on the road, we'll just build a ground-level power supply system into the highways for travel between cities.
All politicians would love spending the money wiring up the left hand lanes all over the country. Any nation implementing ground-level power supply can induce their citizen to convert by offering the highway's electricity for free or cheap. As cars are the worst source of pollution, you then find that country has vastly more rights to produce industrial pollutants under the various treaties.
All modern rail systems have more than solved, but actually reversed, the energy density issue.
A ground-level power supply could easily extend the range of electric cars well beyond all gasoline powered vehicles, such systems have already been deployed.
We need not incorporate the ground level power supply into surface streets either, just the major highways, because the electric cars have enough range for driving around town already. We might however find the funds for converting even major surface streets once enough people were driving electrics.
I've not seen exactly these complaints about the Kindle or even the iPhone. People hate how these appliances are closed, but recognize underlying appliance like quality. You'd never make the iPhone your primary computing device ue to the form factor's inherent limitations. An iPad's larger form factor means people will use the device for vastly more activities, like board games, more serious email, etc.
You are of course correct that adults are welcome to use these appliance like computers, adults are also welcome to smoke pot or drink all day long. I'd assert however that these devices are fundamentally harmful to children, by limiting their opportunities for learning more about the inner workings of the machines that dominate our lives.
You know, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommends that kids under 2 years old not watch any TV and that those older than 2 watch no more than 1 to 2 hours a day of quality programming, and many parents heed this advice.
You can protect your kids however. Do not let anyone use Windows or iPhone/iTouch/iPad in your house. Buy your kids an Android or N900 phone instead, along with books on Java, Qt, etc.
You know, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommends that kids under 2 years old not watch any TV and that those older than 2 watch no more than 1 to 2 hours a day of quality programming. A responsible parent would similarly forbid their kids form using Windows or the iPhone/iTouch/iPad.
I've no idea what idiot wanted to put a chip manufacturing plant in Ireland however. Tax haven maybe? Does that really counter the employees all being alcoholic? Or are your hiring French, Portuguese, etc. to run the place?
If his $10 billion buys way less thanks to TRIPS and/or ACTA.
A few other good causes : Invest money into the pharmaceutical industries in countries like Brazil that have shown their willingness to break intellectual property treaties when people's lives are at stake. A cheaper and more charitable approach might be endowing biotechnology professorships with this stated goal at the best medical schools in these countries. A more political approach might be lobbying the European Union to pass legislation saying that generic drug manufacturers may violate patents for exported drugs to third world countries when the number of lives saved would be significant. Just oppose ACTA and/or try to roll back TRIPS --- ACTA will kill people.
I suggest that you read about the history of the fight against AIDS. If Brazil had not stood up against the U.S. and said "We will make anti-retrovirals ourselves if you don't sell them at a fraction of the cost", then incredible numbers of Brazilians would have died, and millions more would have died in other developing countries that currently benefit from Brazil's hard nose negotiation.
p.s. I do think all the people criticizing how he earned his money are being disingenuous. Gate's only sins are : robbing other rich people of their smart employees, selling poor quality software, and lobbying for bad copyright laws. Do you even want to think about what Exxon does with your gas money? Federal government with your tax money? (Iraq) etc. You don't see Dick Channey out running charity organizations.
.. he could obviously start a non-profit health insurance provider like Blue Cross with minimal initial funding. If it's plans were comparatively simple, then it'll have less overhead and cost less than other health insurance providers, and thus force them to lower prices too. I'd say however his real reason for not doing this is simple though :
America is n
If the American people cannot vote themselves a healthcare plan, then let them suffer & die from lack of it.