Yes, but plagiarism is a third word, which means taking ideas without giving credit. Of course, plagiarism has no legal status, since plagiarism cannot be judged in court. We nevertheless seek to take plagiarism extremely seriously and punish the most clear cases. Punishments for plagiarism are intentionally fairly mind but highly embarrassing.
Aquatica is very clearly a flOw knock off, so Aquatica is plagiarism if and only if the author did not explain that flOw inspired him. If the author cited flOw, then Chen should be happy for the free advertising, and get on with life. If the author did not cite flOw, then Chen should complain to the authors employer or university about the incident of plagiarism, which should slow the authors for promotion or possibly institute academic dishonesty proceedings.
What about politicians secretly creating more autistics? Well how? Mass exposure could easily have unwanted side effects. Individual exposure would prove extremely expensive and make keeping secrets tricky.
I think more likely drive for enforced behavioral medication or genetic modification might be consumerism. Imagine if malls could expose shoppers to chemicals that make impulse buying more likely. Imagine if politicians could secretly require that baby formula include substances taht made children grow up more susceptible to impulse buying. How many times have U.S. President's said "Go buy something!".
Israel is one of the very few countries in the world with significant terrorism problems. If Israel doesn't need some security measure, we sure as hell don't need it.
So Israel agreeing to buy American tech with America's aid money to keep American politicians happy hurts my argument.:(
You didn't read the comment. I specifically excluded that option, but basing the penalties upon their profits from the song *and* their *gross* profits.
American copyright laws was originally created *specifically* because American publishers were not paying American authors. I expect Canadian copyright laws actually has a longer tradition going back more directly to British common law, but the origin was still protecting artists from publishers.
I'd think the best reform for copyright law would be :
(1) publishers of unauthorized copyrighted works are liable for damages based upon their profits from the sale of those works, and their gross income, so individuals and startups are immune, should never make any money from infringement, and large companies cannot infringe at a lose even for the purpose of protecting market share.
(2) copyright does not extend beyond 7 years unless the source code is registered with the library of congress.
No, a big music company cannot take your work, invest in marketing, and reap profits without paying you.
Even the pirate bay got shut down once they got big enough that everyone felt they were making significant profits. If the pirate bay merely had multi-million dollar judgements against them in various U.S. states, this would severely limit their capacity to expand.
A bigger issue is that content producers and distributers that try to adapt and profit from earlier online media distribution channels were all fucked when those channels closed down.
24-7 is an exaggeration, but some people have jobs that require longer hours, namely researchers. I don't think excess child care beyond 8-5 should necessarily be subsidized for people whose jobs are not somehow deemed "competitive and highly beneficial to society".
Grandparents are the best long term solution in most respects, but this reduces people's mobility.
Yes, women entering the workforce hasn't necessarily helped families live much better, true. Young people living in shared accommodations does not improve young people's lives either. etc. *But* society is finding ways to extract more work for less benefit from people, well that's life.
A common copyright law is fundamentally flawed. Any laws regulating fast moving technologies need Thomas Jefferson's "Laboratories of Democracy". If anything, we should pass a constitutional amendment giving the states the sole right to regulate copyrights and patents.
Is there a professional quality readers available?
To me, a professional reader need significant mark up and free hand note taking, using a stylus, not tiny keyboard. The iRex iLiad tried providing these features, but their product is rumored to be kinda "not done". Will anyone like sony ever introduce such a reader?
Well, some people will never get jobs in the same city where their parents live. You'll need vastly more science and technology funding before even a significant minority do. So you do need free day care for STEM workers.
I think the social security administration could tackle the task of convincing grandparents that helping raise their grandchildren will offer significant long term financial and emotional advantages to everyone.
For example, we could likely establish that grandparents raising the children has a substantial correlation with long term improvements in social class. In fact, this is actually rather tricky since currently grandparents raising the kids correlates with the parents being in jail, and guys who take quant jobs on Wall st. obviously don't bring their parents to NYC. *But* once you control for various necessary factors like relocation and criminality, then you can likely show that long term increase in family wealth and social class and decreased emotional problems all correlate with grand parents being more involved.
Boys benefit form single sex schooling, but not enormously. Girls benefit dramatically.
I think many regular people avoid smart people for various reasons, mostly not knowing what they are getting themselves into. Well, smarter people have numerous other problems, like higher risks for alcoholism.
I have found the smart girls that I've dated had more emotional problems then the dumber ones. Well, the worst emotional problems came with girls who weren't very smart but tried to succeed in careers that required significant intelligence, but ignoring those outliers the smart ones had more emotional troubles. Or maybe I just tolerate more emotional issues from women who are smart.
I'd say all these issues apply equally for both genders, with the one caveat that some smarter males that use their intelligence to get rich, which then overrides any concerns about personality problems for many many women.
I'm unsure about the particular study cited in the WSJ, but males have higher variance in most traits in most species, so we expect this for most facets of human intelligence too. So yes.
*But* you actually don't see big difference until you start talking about quite exceptional people. In fact, you expect to see far more women in the IQ ranges deemed "high enough for engineering". Additionally, women have better memory overall while the male spacial advantages are mostly irrelevant for science and engineering.
I think these memory advantages vastly outweigh the high variance effect because women have quickly dominated any area of science where they had significant access or role models, like commutative algebra in mathematics, biology, etc. Of course, a few outlier males still take the very topmost roles in even these fields, but females make up the brunt of the intellectual workforce.
I think the two big social corrections that'll help get more women into science and technology are (a) switching to single sex schools and (b) offering women a route to simultaneously raise children while having a career in science or engineering. http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1468776&cid=30351642
Spacial skills are not very relevant for the vast majority of modern scientists, engineers, developers, etc. Spacial skills are only useful for giving very young male children more enjoyment of building toys, and for navigation. Women otoh have a distinct and dramatic advantage in most memory tests, not just family members, but also chemical reactions, metallurgical properties, equations, etc. So we expect that societies that best helps women into science and engineering disciplines will develop technology far far faster.
There are basically two major cultural defects preventing women from capturing these disciplines : (1) Mixed gender schooling -- Girls outperform boys in mixed gender schooling, but girls preform even better when competing against only other girls. So we must institute single gender schooling. (2) Child bearing -- Women are forced to choose between raising children and high profile careers. So we must institute "free day care" for women in science and technology.
Ideally, we could have just vastly more funding of science and technology that allowed women to get jobs in any city they wanted, and thus allow grandparents to raise children. In fact, grandparents historically had an enormous role in raising children, and still do among poor people.
I'd say the easiest route would be to write up a clean simple explanation of all the ways children benefit from exposure to grandparents, and make people read it before receiving full social security benefits. You'd never be forced to work with kids, just read the explanation, but your social security benefits might be reduced if you refused to even read it.
I think the only other options besides grandparents is literally government run 24-7 day care, which might work out very well, but doesn't have the historical precedent.
For example the most successful immigrant minority in the USA is Iranians according to the CIA factbook
I always hear that about Africans actually. All the foreign born professors I've had were European, Indian, Chinese, South American, or African. I've known some very clever Iranian students from Sharif University, along with one absolute dud, but never actually met an Iranian professor of math, comp. sci., etc. Our current president's father was African. etc.
I'm sure there are numerous details that must be accounted for, likely the U.S. accepts almost zero immigration from Africa, so all African immigrants are very high level. Otoh, we've massive immigration from India, China, and South America, greatly reducing their average performance, but increasing the number involved in almost any jobs.
Iranians might be the highest preforming "refugee" group, a very different claim.
Applications are rapidly becoming the determining factor for platforms success. A truly open phone was never viable before the Andoird and n900.
iPhone : Apple attracts thousands of sleazy third party Mac developers. So almost all applications are commercial closed source, nobody will port them to other platforms, etc. Zero progress towards an open platform.
Android : Android offers an application store competitive with Apple's but using Java means applications can easily be ported to other platforms. Also more open source applications are available since Apple has sucked up so many of the sleaze bags. Big win!
n900 : No application store. Applications should be portable to other Qt based platforms. Well established distribution channel for open source applications. Major win!
All the open phones you named failed because they didn't offer enough applications. A truly open phone could now be built around Maemo native APIs and Android Java APIs, thus allowing users to port all the applications.
Or maybe people can even develop open version for critical closed packaged used by Nokia.
I'll be buying an n900 once they hit the second rev. of the OS, maybe even before.
A mesh network is a good solution for non-profit or municipal wifi where the goal is providing underlying baseline internet connectivity as a basic human right and nodes are immobile and have continuous power. I've serious doubts about meshing the phones themselves however. You must figure out what the power consumption is like when nodes are continuously moving.
So the president (CDU) is vetoing the CDU's own law because everyone knows it's unconstitutional and the courts overthrowing it might discredit the CDUs future attempts. How very reasonable!
IT implies technical support. Real IT people get overtime by federal law. If you don't like being called IT, just point this act out to management, and give them a correct title that does not imply you get overtime under federal law. I'd think they'll be happy that you helped them avoid the risk of a less scrupulous employee suing for undeserved overtime.
Tell them federal law says they must pay you overtime with an IT title. It's not actually true, only real IT workers get overtime by law, developers only get overtime when the company is being nice. But surely HR perceives their titles as being correct. So either you are eligible for overtime or HR must admit they are lying about your title.
Britain's economic & political influence are enormously augmented by the BBCs reputation for high quality reporting, which nevertheless always communicates the British opinion.
I still say google should buy wikinews an AP feed. AP's license isn't compatible with wikinews, but wikinews could just adapt to multiple licenses, once the story was sufficiently rewritten, the AP license would no longer apply.
It's true that conservatives are really stupid the world over. The BBC's strength gives the British viewport enormous worldwide influence, so weakening them will hurt Britain's economic and political power.
The BBC however produces such high quality programming, unlike Murdock, that they could ask foreign readers and viewers to contribute through pledge drives, ala American PBS, although how much income that produces depends upon numerous factors.
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Yes, but plagiarism is a third word, which means taking ideas without giving credit. Of course, plagiarism has no legal status, since plagiarism cannot be judged in court. We nevertheless seek to take plagiarism extremely seriously and punish the most clear cases. Punishments for plagiarism are intentionally fairly mind but highly embarrassing.
Aquatica is very clearly a flOw knock off, so Aquatica is plagiarism if and only if the author did not explain that flOw inspired him. If the author cited flOw, then Chen should be happy for the free advertising, and get on with life. If the author did not cite flOw, then Chen should complain to the authors employer or university about the incident of plagiarism, which should slow the authors for promotion or possibly institute academic dishonesty proceedings.
.. parents will only buy alpha genes.
What about politicians secretly creating more autistics? Well how? Mass exposure could easily have unwanted side effects. Individual exposure would prove extremely expensive and make keeping secrets tricky.
I think more likely drive for enforced behavioral medication or genetic modification might be consumerism. Imagine if malls could expose shoppers to chemicals that make impulse buying more likely. Imagine if politicians could secretly require that baby formula include substances taht made children grow up more susceptible to impulse buying. How many times have U.S. President's said "Go buy something!".
But it's still evil. I always tell rednecks :
Israel is one of the very few countries in the world with significant terrorism problems. If Israel doesn't need some security measure, we sure as hell don't need it.
So Israel agreeing to buy American tech with America's aid money to keep American politicians happy hurts my argument. :(
You didn't read the comment. I specifically excluded that option, but basing the penalties upon their profits from the song *and* their *gross* profits.
Never works for me anymore.
American copyright laws was originally created *specifically* because American publishers were not paying American authors. I expect Canadian copyright laws actually has a longer tradition going back more directly to British common law, but the origin was still protecting artists from publishers.
I'd think the best reform for copyright law would be :
(1) publishers of unauthorized copyrighted works are liable for damages based upon their profits from the sale of those works, and their gross income, so individuals and startups are immune, should never make any money from infringement, and large companies cannot infringe at a lose even for the purpose of protecting market share.
(2) copyright does not extend beyond 7 years unless the source code is registered with the library of congress.
No, a big music company cannot take your work, invest in marketing, and reap profits without paying you.
Even the pirate bay got shut down once they got big enough that everyone felt they were making significant profits. If the pirate bay merely had multi-million dollar judgements against them in various U.S. states, this would severely limit their capacity to expand.
A bigger issue is that content producers and distributers that try to adapt and profit from earlier online media distribution channels were all fucked when those channels closed down.
24-7 is an exaggeration, but some people have jobs that require longer hours, namely researchers. I don't think excess child care beyond 8-5 should necessarily be subsidized for people whose jobs are not somehow deemed "competitive and highly beneficial to society".
Grandparents are the best long term solution in most respects, but this reduces people's mobility.
Yes, women entering the workforce hasn't necessarily helped families live much better, true. Young people living in shared accommodations does not improve young people's lives either. etc. *But* society is finding ways to extract more work for less benefit from people, well that's life.
A common copyright law is fundamentally flawed. Any laws regulating fast moving technologies need Thomas Jefferson's "Laboratories of Democracy". If anything, we should pass a constitutional amendment giving the states the sole right to regulate copyrights and patents.
Is there a professional quality readers available?
To me, a professional reader need significant mark up and free hand note taking, using a stylus, not tiny keyboard. The iRex iLiad tried providing these features, but their product is rumored to be kinda "not done". Will anyone like sony ever introduce such a reader?
Well, some people will never get jobs in the same city where their parents live. You'll need vastly more science and technology funding before even a significant minority do. So you do need free day care for STEM workers.
I think the social security administration could tackle the task of convincing grandparents that helping raise their grandchildren will offer significant long term financial and emotional advantages to everyone.
For example, we could likely establish that grandparents raising the children has a substantial correlation with long term improvements in social class. In fact, this is actually rather tricky since currently grandparents raising the kids correlates with the parents being in jail, and guys who take quant jobs on Wall st. obviously don't bring their parents to NYC. *But* once you control for various necessary factors like relocation and criminality, then you can likely show that long term increase in family wealth and social class and decreased emotional problems all correlate with grand parents being more involved.
Boys benefit form single sex schooling, but not enormously. Girls benefit dramatically.
I think many regular people avoid smart people for various reasons, mostly not knowing what they are getting themselves into. Well, smarter people have numerous other problems, like higher risks for alcoholism.
I have found the smart girls that I've dated had more emotional problems then the dumber ones. Well, the worst emotional problems came with girls who weren't very smart but tried to succeed in careers that required significant intelligence, but ignoring those outliers the smart ones had more emotional troubles. Or maybe I just tolerate more emotional issues from women who are smart.
I'd say all these issues apply equally for both genders, with the one caveat that some smarter males that use their intelligence to get rich, which then overrides any concerns about personality problems for many many women.
I'm unsure about the particular study cited in the WSJ, but males have higher variance in most traits in most species, so we expect this for most facets of human intelligence too. So yes.
*But* you actually don't see big difference until you start talking about quite exceptional people. In fact, you expect to see far more women in the IQ ranges deemed "high enough for engineering". Additionally, women have better memory overall while the male spacial advantages are mostly irrelevant for science and engineering.
I think these memory advantages vastly outweigh the high variance effect because women have quickly dominated any area of science where they had significant access or role models, like commutative algebra in mathematics, biology, etc. Of course, a few outlier males still take the very topmost roles in even these fields, but females make up the brunt of the intellectual workforce.
I think the two big social corrections that'll help get more women into science and technology are (a) switching to single sex schools and (b) offering women a route to simultaneously raise children while having a career in science or engineering.
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1468776&cid=30351642
Spacial skills are not very relevant for the vast majority of modern scientists, engineers, developers, etc. Spacial skills are only useful for giving very young male children more enjoyment of building toys, and for navigation. Women otoh have a distinct and dramatic advantage in most memory tests, not just family members, but also chemical reactions, metallurgical properties, equations, etc. So we expect that societies that best helps women into science and engineering disciplines will develop technology far far faster.
There are basically two major cultural defects preventing women from capturing these disciplines :
(1) Mixed gender schooling -- Girls outperform boys in mixed gender schooling, but girls preform even better when competing against only other girls. So we must institute single gender schooling.
(2) Child bearing -- Women are forced to choose between raising children and high profile careers. So we must institute "free day care" for women in science and technology.
Ideally, we could have just vastly more funding of science and technology that allowed women to get jobs in any city they wanted, and thus allow grandparents to raise children. In fact, grandparents historically had an enormous role in raising children, and still do among poor people.
I'd say the easiest route would be to write up a clean simple explanation of all the ways children benefit from exposure to grandparents, and make people read it before receiving full social security benefits. You'd never be forced to work with kids, just read the explanation, but your social security benefits might be reduced if you refused to even read it.
I think the only other options besides grandparents is literally government run 24-7 day care, which might work out very well, but doesn't have the historical precedent.
For example the most successful immigrant minority in the USA is Iranians according to the CIA factbook
I always hear that about Africans actually. All the foreign born professors I've had were European, Indian, Chinese, South American, or African. I've known some very clever Iranian students from Sharif University, along with one absolute dud, but never actually met an Iranian professor of math, comp. sci., etc. Our current president's father was African. etc.
I'm sure there are numerous details that must be accounted for, likely the U.S. accepts almost zero immigration from Africa, so all African immigrants are very high level. Otoh, we've massive immigration from India, China, and South America, greatly reducing their average performance, but increasing the number involved in almost any jobs.
Iranians might be the highest preforming "refugee" group, a very different claim.
Applications are rapidly becoming the determining factor for platforms success. A truly open phone was never viable before the Andoird and n900.
iPhone : Apple attracts thousands of sleazy third party Mac developers. So almost all applications are commercial closed source, nobody will port them to other platforms, etc. Zero progress towards an open platform.
Android : Android offers an application store competitive with Apple's but using Java means applications can easily be ported to other platforms. Also more open source applications are available since Apple has sucked up so many of the sleaze bags. Big win!
n900 : No application store. Applications should be portable to other Qt based platforms. Well established distribution channel for open source applications. Major win!
All the open phones you named failed because they didn't offer enough applications. A truly open phone could now be built around Maemo native APIs and Android Java APIs, thus allowing users to port all the applications.
Or maybe people can even develop open version for critical closed packaged used by Nokia.
I'll be buying an n900 once they hit the second rev. of the OS, maybe even before.
Isn't the n900 a open phone available now?
A mesh network is a good solution for non-profit or municipal wifi where the goal is providing underlying baseline internet connectivity as a basic human right and nodes are immobile and have continuous power. I've serious doubts about meshing the phones themselves however. You must figure out what the power consumption is like when nodes are continuously moving.
Shut the fuck up! Murdock is about to institute pay walls! We want him gone! Please please shut up!
Please please please, skip this lame crap series "written" by an sad sad Anne Rice wanna-be.
Instead I recommend taking your girl to see the much better independent movie Moon :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_(film)
So the president (CDU) is vetoing the CDU's own law because everyone knows it's unconstitutional and the courts overthrowing it might discredit the CDUs future attempts. How very reasonable!
IT implies technical support. Real IT people get overtime by federal law. If you don't like being called IT, just point this act out to management, and give them a correct title that does not imply you get overtime under federal law. I'd think they'll be happy that you helped them avoid the risk of a less scrupulous employee suing for undeserved overtime.
Tell them federal law says they must pay you overtime with an IT title. It's not actually true, only real IT workers get overtime by law, developers only get overtime when the company is being nice. But surely HR perceives their titles as being correct. So either you are eligible for overtime or HR must admit they are lying about your title.
Britain's economic & political influence are enormously augmented by the BBCs reputation for high quality reporting, which nevertheless always communicates the British opinion.
I still say google should buy wikinews an AP feed. AP's license isn't compatible with wikinews, but wikinews could just adapt to multiple licenses, once the story was sufficiently rewritten, the AP license would no longer apply.
It's true that conservatives are really stupid the world over. The BBC's strength gives the British viewport enormous worldwide influence, so weakening them will hurt Britain's economic and political power.
The BBC however produces such high quality programming, unlike Murdock, that they could ask foreign readers and viewers to contribute through pledge drives, ala American PBS, although how much income that produces depends upon numerous factors.