Hugo Awards stream being unintentionally cut off by some AI gone awry
UStream's incorrectly programmed copyright enforcement squad had destroyed our only access
As if the whole copyright thing has NO PROBLEM and has not wreck enough havoc yet
It must be, according to TFA, a case of "incorrectly programmed copyright enforcement squad" that is the culprit, not the application of copyright itself, on so many things around us
If you do not know it yet, that famous "I Have A Dream" speech by Martin Luther King is not permitted to be aired anywhere, unless you can obtain agreement from the copyright owners
Both the copyright and the patent restrictions and lawsuits are suffocating the society and I for one, am TRULY TIRED OF ALL THESE SHITS !!
'Like Walter White, it [Apple] has mixed the proper elements at just the right amounts to create highly pure, addictive products. The products have been made within secretive working conditions. The skill employed to design and manufacture them tends to make what competitors put out seem like cheaper, cloudier, less effective imitations.'
I am no Apple fanbois, but I had spent past few decades in the tech field
What TFA has forgotten to list are the following:
I. Vision
Almost everyone in the Silicon Valley, since the 1980's, have gone through similar experiences, and have used similar gadgets.
What Steve Jobs got, which others unfortunately didn't have, is a vision.
From hardware (Mac to NeXT to iBook to iPhone / iPad), to software (MacOS to OS X to iOS), Mr. Jobs opted for his own path
That takes vision.
II. Attention to detail
We can't deny that the one thing that makes Apple different from the rest of the crowd is their attention to detail.
From the way MacIntosh can create smooth curvy fonts to the "feel" of the original iPhone when it first came out (as versus the offering from the rest of the cellphone industry), Mr. Jobs had taken great pain in making sure that the products that have the "Bitten Apple" mark on it come with as few bugs as possible
As I said, I am no Apple fanbois, and I do not own any Apple product
I am not disputing the fact that nuts and bolts will be with us for a long-long time
But I am pointing out that nuts and bolts do have their own problems - and right now what's happening on ISS illustrate that problem - it's a human problem, really, but when threads "eat" into other threads, the damn thing just stuck
That is why I said, this incident may be a blessing in disguise - maybe someone can figure out a better solution, that this "stuck bolt" problem will no longer plague critical missions on exotic locations, such as ISS
This stubborn bolt incident may turn out to be a blessing in disguise
So far we human have been using many of the same things that we use on Earth and applying them on exotic locations, such as space
Inside the gravity well, whenever we meet with a stubborn bolt problem, we have many means to solve it - either apply lubrication to the bolt to make it easier to manage, apply brute force and get it in no matter what, or we throw away that stubborn bolt and replace it with another bolt
But on space, such options are not available, and/or not applicable
Maybe this whole thing is a blessing in disguise
Maybe, out of this experience, someone will come out with another method to affix two things tightly together, without having to rely on bolts and nuts
What is interesting is the picture of the meteorite that NASA claims is from asteroid Vesta. That rock is made up of almost entirely mineral Pyroxene - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyroxene - which is common in lava flow
Hmm...
How can an asteroid of only 330 mile wide have volcano that spewed out lava ?
The larger question, unaddressed in this patent, is whether we want our individual personal data to be tagged, filed, and logged without permission or choice."
How is a video uploaded to youtube 'individual personal data"?
How about the following scenario...
You were present at a certain event, and someone took a vid of that event
Somehow you ended up in the vid
And the vid was uploaded to youtube, by someone other than you
Without this patent (or similar tech), someone happened to watch the vid on youtube might recognizes you
With this patent (and similar tech), they can now start categorizing every "familiar subject"
Whether or not your face end up in the list of "familiar subject" is another story, but the gist of the thing is, it's possible now to categorize everything
[Wandering WTF Off-topic;-). ] A couple of assumptions in there: (1) Humans, as a species, are sane? By whose definition? (2) Humans as a species, or individually for that matter, are rational? I've only met a rare few and given that I'm considered non-sane, if rationality is considered sane at all, I don't know if they, or myself, matter. May be bloviating, but definitely interesting!
First of all, apologies to all the Slashdotters who still consider themselves as "sane"
The years that I've been on Slashdot tell me one thing, and that is,
No sane person will ever be attracted to this site
Although the Frankenstein system is only a proof of concept, and the code created just did some simple tasks, sorting and XORing, without having the ability to replicate, computer scientists from University of Texas, Dallas, have certainly proved that the method is viable. And who knows, it might even be out there in the wild. After all, one of the main advantages of the method is that it hides malware more effectively.
While I have to profess that I do not know of any existing Frankenstein-code in operation, I can't discount the possibility that, buried in thousands and thousands closed-source software fragments there are things that we have absolutely no idea what they are
Even in a totally open source environment, hiding code fragments isn't that hard to accomplish either
And who knows? Maybe TPTB already got the Frankenstein codes installed in all our machines
The way I look at it - not scientifically based - just my own observation:
While the Denisovan genes are in the bloodline of the islandic people of mainly West side of the Pacific Ocean, the Neanderthal genes are in the European and Asian bloodline - although percentage wise the Europeans have more than the Asians
It seems to be that the Africans south of the Sahara Desert who are have the most "pure" Homo Sapien Sapien bloodline
You scoff now, but in a year all the dead founders will have suspiciously similar glass palaces over their former headquarters, and you'll all be claiming the design is obvious and no one could design a decent afterlife without it.
As long as you do not design your glass palace in the shape of rectangle with rounded corners you'll be fine...
In other words, I am no fanbois of Windows nor Apple
But, reading TFA and the previous one (the one accusing Apple for killing Linux Desktop), I got that uneasy feeling that people behind the Linux Desktop are adapting the stance of blaming others for whatever they have failed
No, I am not saying that the Linux Desktop people haven't put in much work into making Linux Desktop a reality - they have - or else we wouldn't have so many choices like we have today, from KDE to GNOME to Enlightenment to many others
But what I am saying is, whatever failure there is, regarding Linux Desktop, should be examined within the Linux context
Blaming Microsoft or Apple or even the Almighty Himself won't make Linux Desktop a better choice
If we really want Linux Desktop to be used by more people, we must explore ways to make the UI truly intuitive, and that by itself, has been a constant challenge for the Linux Desktop people
In fact, we don't need to look further than "Unity / Gnome 3" to find what's WRONG with Linux Desktop
Maybe you will disagree with what I have said, but the truth is sometime not hard to swallow
We must admit that Linux Desktop is a failure, and we must find way to re-make Linux Desktop so that it doesn't sux so badly
Mr. Yazid Sufaat, the person who organized the "Kuala Lumpur Summit" which led to the bombing of World Trade Center in New York City, is a _FREE_ MAN_ in Malaysia
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This copyright systems are like soviet russia and nazi germany.
The problem is ... it is happening in the USA, the Western Europe, and the rest of the FREE WORLD
C'mon !
Just look at how TFA has been worded !!
Hugo Awards stream being unintentionally cut off by some AI gone awry
UStream's incorrectly programmed copyright enforcement squad had destroyed our only access
As if the whole copyright thing has NO PROBLEM and has not wreck enough havoc yet
It must be, according to TFA, a case of "incorrectly programmed copyright enforcement squad" that is the culprit, not the application of copyright itself, on so many things around us
If you do not know it yet, that famous " I Have A Dream " speech by Martin Luther King is not permitted to be aired anywhere, unless you can obtain agreement from the copyright owners
Both the copyright and the patent restrictions and lawsuits are suffocating the society and I for one, am TRULY TIRED OF ALL THESE SHITS !!
But I am not alone
Bruce Willis is suing Apple
http://www.dailygossip.org/bruce-willis-sues-apple-to-leave-itunes-library-as-inheritance-4414
From TFA:
'Like Walter White, it [Apple] has mixed the proper elements at just the right amounts to create highly pure, addictive products. The products have been made within secretive working conditions. The skill employed to design and manufacture them tends to make what competitors put out seem like cheaper, cloudier, less effective imitations.'
I am no Apple fanbois, but I had spent past few decades in the tech field
What TFA has forgotten to list are the following:
I. Vision
Almost everyone in the Silicon Valley, since the 1980's, have gone through similar experiences, and have used similar gadgets.
What Steve Jobs got, which others unfortunately didn't have, is a vision.
From hardware (Mac to NeXT to iBook to iPhone / iPad), to software (MacOS to OS X to iOS), Mr. Jobs opted for his own path
That takes vision.
II. Attention to detail
We can't deny that the one thing that makes Apple different from the rest of the crowd is their attention to detail.
From the way MacIntosh can create smooth curvy fonts to the "feel" of the original iPhone when it first came out (as versus the offering from the rest of the cellphone industry), Mr. Jobs had taken great pain in making sure that the products that have the "Bitten Apple" mark on it come with as few bugs as possible
As I said, I am no Apple fanbois, and I do not own any Apple product
I am not disputing the fact that nuts and bolts will be with us for a long-long time
But I am pointing out that nuts and bolts do have their own problems - and right now what's happening on ISS illustrate that problem - it's a human problem, really, but when threads "eat" into other threads, the damn thing just stuck
That is why I said, this incident may be a blessing in disguise - maybe someone can figure out a better solution, that this "stuck bolt" problem will no longer plague critical missions on exotic locations, such as ISS
This stubborn bolt incident may turn out to be a blessing in disguise
So far we human have been using many of the same things that we use on Earth and applying them on exotic locations, such as space
Inside the gravity well, whenever we meet with a stubborn bolt problem, we have many means to solve it - either apply lubrication to the bolt to make it easier to manage, apply brute force and get it in no matter what, or we throw away that stubborn bolt and replace it with another bolt
But on space, such options are not available, and/or not applicable
Maybe this whole thing is a blessing in disguise
Maybe, out of this experience, someone will come out with another method to affix two things tightly together, without having to rely on bolts and nuts
According to NASA - http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/dawn/ceresvesta/index.html - Asteroid Vesta mainly consists of rock while dwarf planet Ceres is mainly ice
What is interesting is the picture of the meteorite that NASA claims is from asteroid Vesta. That rock is made up of almost entirely mineral Pyroxene - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyroxene - which is common in lava flow
Hmm ...
How can an asteroid of only 330 mile wide have volcano that spewed out lava ?
The larger question, unaddressed in this patent, is whether we want our individual personal data to be tagged, filed, and logged without permission or choice."
How is a video uploaded to youtube 'individual personal data"?
How about the following scenario
You were present at a certain event, and someone took a vid of that event
Somehow you ended up in the vid
And the vid was uploaded to youtube, by someone other than you
Without this patent (or similar tech), someone happened to watch the vid on youtube might recognizes you
With this patent (and similar tech), they can now start categorizing every "familiar subject"
Whether or not your face end up in the list of "familiar subject" is another story, but the gist of the thing is, it's possible now to categorize everything
Having have the time to read TFA yet, but just wondering, how does this patent differ from the Face Recognization routine?
Or maybe this patent will enable the software to pick up one particular face, out of the thousands, in the video?
[Wandering WTF Off-topic ;-). ] A couple of assumptions in there: (1) Humans, as a species, are sane? By whose definition? (2) Humans as a species, or individually for that matter, are rational? I've only met a rare few and given that I'm considered non-sane, if rationality is considered sane at all, I don't know if they, or myself, matter. May be bloviating, but definitely interesting!
First of all, apologies to all the Slashdotters who still consider themselves as "sane"
The years that I've been on Slashdot tell me one thing, and that is,
No sane person will ever be attracted to this site
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/31/technology/finspy-software-is-tracking-political-dissidents.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1346426124-tpUipAjgoKkvdqCAOV2KyQ
Thank you !!
From TFA:
Although the Frankenstein system is only a proof of concept, and the code created just did some simple tasks, sorting and XORing, without having the ability to replicate, computer scientists from University of Texas, Dallas, have certainly proved that the method is viable.
And who knows, it might even be out there in the wild. After all, one of the main advantages of the method is that it hides malware more effectively.
While I have to profess that I do not know of any existing Frankenstein-code in operation, I can't discount the possibility that, buried in thousands and thousands closed-source software fragments there are things that we have absolutely no idea what they are
Even in a totally open source environment, hiding code fragments isn't that hard to accomplish either
And who knows? Maybe TPTB already got the Frankenstein codes installed in all our machines
and native Australians
There is no such thing
Kangaroos?
Wombats?
In US all you data still belong to US!
The way I look at it - not scientifically based - just my own observation:
While the Denisovan genes are in the bloodline of the islandic people of mainly West side of the Pacific Ocean, the Neanderthal genes are in the European and Asian bloodline - although percentage wise the Europeans have more than the Asians
It seems to be that the Africans south of the Sahara Desert who are have the most "pure" Homo Sapien Sapien bloodline
You scoff now, but in a year all the dead founders will have suspiciously similar glass palaces over their former headquarters, and you'll all be claiming the design is obvious and no one could design a decent afterlife without it.
As long as you do not design your glass palace in the shape of rectangle with rounded corners you'll be fine...
... or fined
Just imagine if your fb account was hacked and your password was compromised
With the help of Wolfram, now the hacker can get to datamine your data, get things about you that you do not even know ever existed
Ouch !!
Many Melanesians, Indonesians, Malays, Polynesians, Filipinos, as well as indigenous tribe on island of Taiwan, have Denisovan genes in them
In fact, this isn't news anymore
Back in 2010 there have been reports of similar findings. Here's one report from the BBC -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12059564
I am using Linux
I have been using Linux since the early 1990's
In other words, I am no fanbois of Windows nor Apple
But, reading TFA and the previous one (the one accusing Apple for killing Linux Desktop), I got that uneasy feeling that people behind the Linux Desktop are adapting the stance of blaming others for whatever they have failed
No, I am not saying that the Linux Desktop people haven't put in much work into making Linux Desktop a reality - they have - or else we wouldn't have so many choices like we have today, from KDE to GNOME to Enlightenment to many others
But what I am saying is, whatever failure there is, regarding Linux Desktop, should be examined within the Linux context
Blaming Microsoft or Apple or even the Almighty Himself won't make Linux Desktop a better choice
If we really want Linux Desktop to be used by more people, we must explore ways to make the UI truly intuitive, and that by itself, has been a constant challenge for the Linux Desktop people
In fact, we don't need to look further than "Unity / Gnome 3" to find what's WRONG with Linux Desktop
Maybe you will disagree with what I have said, but the truth is sometime not hard to swallow
We must admit that Linux Desktop is a failure, and we must find way to re-make Linux Desktop so that it doesn't sux so badly
Yeah - London, CANADA - but not in London, UNITED KINGDOM.
Lemme introduce you London, TX, -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London,_Texas
It may be an even cheaper alternative
... there are already plenty of "Silicon-something" on the map in many countries, but then, there is only one Silicon Valley
... I'll give you guys a link, to what I said before, about Silicon Valley and the many copycats
I do not like to repeat myself, so
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3017561&cid=40837297
Perhaps TFA has overlooked the other elephant in the room - Google
Microsoft's SkyDrive attack is not only aimed at Apple, but also Google as well
I have to agree that the move is sneaky, but then, business is business
Google better sits up and takes notice, and do something about this
Those in the prisons are not Malays
At least they are not in the same category of Malays per defined by the regime the rules Malaysia
On the other hand,Yazid Sufaat fits a "Malay" mold to the T, that is why he is not in prison
Whether or not the word "innovation" has become the most abused word in the business context, that remains to be seen
On the other hand, "innovation" itself has been abused by the patent trolls
Innovators and inventors nowadays often find themselves in between a rock and a very hard place
On one hand, they can get sued by patent trolls if they put their innovation to good use
On the other hand, many of the innovators' livelihood depends on their ability to invent, to innovate, to create new things
For your information -
No matter how many blood is in his hand, in Malaysia, as long as you are a Malay, you can get away of any crime you commit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yazid_Sufaat
Mr. Yazid Sufaat, the person who organized the "Kuala Lumpur Summit" which led to the bombing of World Trade Center in New York City, is a _FREE_ MAN_ in Malaysia
ALL ISP in Malaysia are government-linked
Or to see it from another angle -- Internet is under total governmental control in Malaysia. This new draconian law is only the icing on the cake