I and a co-author pitched this notion in 2006. We had pitched it as a smaller element of a "research match-maker" idea.
And, man, were the academics violently opposed. No one saw value in the work and most felt either directly threatened or otherwise unsure how to objectively gauge the value of the contribution with author name and affiliation removed.
It was depressing.
This is like saying that THIS year will be the year when VRML takes off and replaces text and images for e-commerce.
It never happens, and for good reason. Why "navigate" for minutes when I can page and scroll for seconds, with no real loss in fidelity?
Yes, there is actually an idiot out there in the world who keeps trumpeting every or every-other year about how THIS IS THE YEAR. Much like that guy and his prediction, this, too, is not fated to supplant the status quo. (The next iteration of learning will likely have little to do with modality and much to do with removing cognitive or processing bottlenecks at the learner's side.)
...do the same?
And why is there an expectation that a country can drive policy of private businesses?
Is like it if Porsches were cheaper. However, I doubt that American consumers banding together in this would be given cheaper cars.
The "it's a huge market and we have to bow to it at the expense of the locals" argument carries no weight in manufacturing any longer (e.g. coffee, textiles, clothing), so why do we unthinkingly give it a pass here?
Unfortunately, China is a nation in the midst of an Industrial Revolution. I suspect that it is no different from Britain or the USA during their respective periods of industry, but I hate, hate, hate, the notion of money-at-any-cost.
The basic dangers of food security is not limited just to export business. In fact, it is cheaper to create "fake eggs." So many Chinese end up with eggs--many of which are chemical concoctions rather than the real deal. Buying food from a vendor is equally risky. It doesn't matter if you're Chinese or Western, if they can make another few RMB at the cost of you possibly dying, your life-insurance policy had better be paid up, because they will absolutely cut that corner and take another few RMB of profit.
It's a shame, really, as the culture used to lead the world and be very progressive. Now that is not the case at all. I have been married to a Chinese, and her take on morals, ethics, public safety, and so forth were as follows:
"I want what is mine. And everything is mine."
That's it. No further analysis needed. She's not particularly evil, but a product of the country and society that is modern China.
So--is it surprising to see fabricated EVERYTHING coming out of China? Oh yes. Why would research be different? I just hope that no serious scientist / science presence gets roped into believing anything the Chinese "discover" or "invent" for the next 20-30 years. Otherwise, there will be a tremendous amount of time, money, and effort thrown away for naught.
I've not RTFA'd yet, but on first blush, this sounds suspiciously like the Amoeba project/work/files. The net result of Amoeba was that you'd end up with a large virtual machine, comprised of many individual machines scattered across different sites.
How is this different?
Parent raises an exceptionally good point. I'm not sure how it is in the UK, but here in the USA we have master plumbers moaning about the fact that they cannot hire an idiot apprentice kid under them... who in 3 years of training will set themselves up for a realistic shot of $100,000/year salary.
This figure, by the way, is what I hope to earn after TEN+ YEARS of formal post-secondary education. IF the academic market can come back together again. And if I'm employable.
There are days I'd love to play with the tech and roll out cool things, and it does get annoying to handle the level 2 stuff (fortunately, I have a part-time helpdesk guy for the basics).
One tip would be to get an intern, and dump some of the support tickets on them. Honestly, I'm not sure how viable a solution that is (I'd be eager to hear others experiences), because I don't know if a CS person will want an internship like that. But maybe someone from a business background would be intrigued; you likely touch every part of the business, and there could be appeal there.
You have a PFY and you are advocating same.
I'm sure that Simon would be touched; BOFH continues to live on and be relevant nearly 15 years after being released on the World Wide Web.
If you can get an entry-level position, go to work.
A M.Sc. in CS will get you nowhere. The Ph.D. is the next "stepping stone," and that will open up new doors for you.
So unless you're wanting to go all the way to a Ph.D., don't bother going back. Academia sucks and is full of all sorts of social cues that are distressing, misleading, petty and small.
I used to happily pay the extra $5-$10 premium that Gamestop charges on their games for one and only one reason: Their no-questions-asked return policy.
If I was unsure (for instance, multiplayer options) and the store employee didn't know, I *used* to have the peace of mind knowing that I could pick up the software, check out the item in question, and then return it and let the employee know what had happened.
I did this twice, and Gamestop made an extra $hundreds off of me during this period.
Then a few years back I noticed a new return policy - "you bought it, you bought it" was the gist.
I have not shopped there since.
It is obvious, then, that if the network itself cannot be trusted, then it is COMCAST downloading MP3s these days.
It'd make for interesting reading, the "Oh yeah? My ISP has a track record of forging network traffic." defense.;)
Relax. Don't get angry ... just send invoices.
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The OS is using YOUR computer and YOUR network infrastructure to connect to the Internet... fine.
If this information were to be captured at invoiced at the end of each month - because, remember, you are now providing a SERVICE to Microsoft - I am sure it could be profitable. When others charge a rate for per-kilobyte service, this comes out to around $0.02/K (USD; Heliophone). Plus "taxes and fees". Plus a "service charge".
At the end of the day, we all should not only demand MS to be punitively damaged for installing what ammounts to malware on the desktop, but also be PAID for the service (both in terms of data use and also market research) we are providing.
I fail to see how this is one iota different than Mojo. While I don't use Mojo, I've seen an online demo and it looks interesting - exactly, to my mind, what MS & Sandisk are promising in mid-2008.
I know this isn't the first application of this technology, Shell Oil used to use something like this for their programmers, but the device was considerably bigger than a credit card. Anyone care to guess how they are going to power this? External power source at the reader? Rechargeable cards?
If I were doing this, I'd use something like eInk. This way, the only time an internal battery is used to drive the display is when the six-digit code number is being updated. Bonus points for making this card and its ICs live off an induced-current configuration - no battery to worry about, and all the end user has to do is find a magnet/interrogate a built-in antenna/etc.
I wonder, with the perpetual "almost-there" view of avatar-in-the-'net as a proxy for one's likeness, when we are going to see the first glut of backlash. What I am specifically talking about here is this: if you take a picture of a person and then use that for commercial gain, I believe you have to have a release. If, however, you take a picture of a person that is in-frame with you on the street as a family snapshot, no such release is required. Now, what happens when you take an image of an avatar that is identifiably an individual (e.g. a "Niet3sche" avatar) and then use it for economic gain? I'm thinking out loud here, but I wonder where, when, and how these lines are going to be drawn.
Well, I typically Wazoo worry about it. I mean, hey, Wazoo someone wants to cause harm to my Wazoo documents, then clearly that's Wazoo issue, not mine.
I mean, hey, Wazoo security isn't my job... Wazoo?
Ditch IT and go instead with something like, "Institutionally-Supported Antecedents of Divorce" (if you use that title, please drop me a line in the Acknowledgements). The idea here is to look around in at least 2 bodies of literature: that surrounding Organizational Behavior (OB) and Industrial/Organizational Psychology (I/O Psych), and the literature describing small group relationships (specifically, obviously, intimate groups such as marriage).
What you'll want to do, after asking your major professor about your roadmap (to digress a bit: if your major professor is worth ANYTHING, s/he can give you some high-level guidance and appear remotely interested/invested in the topic. If this is not the case, DUMP THEM. Do this now. You'll be happier. Trust me.), is to try to marry (pardon the pun) the two bodies of literature and look for overlap in measures, context, or behaviors/attitudes that form natural analogues or antecedents to the other body of literature.
Aside from this - and I know this point is redundant - USE your local experts and your University library access to look at journals. Look, now that I'm on the topic, at a LOT of literature. Add rigor to your research, even if it "only" gives you personal satisfaction of honestly earning an advanced degree. Specifically, it seems to me that - if you want to continue along this vein of research - you MUST have an OB/IO Psychologist as well as someone from counseling or social psychology. Additionally, an OB person from the business college would also be quite useful.
And then, of course, it is YOUR job to herd your cats and steer them to agreement regarding your research.
I see this was described as a "working paper" on the 20th. It doesn't show up anywhere as being "under review". I wonder if they've just blown their publication chances given that it is already "pre-published" at this point?
What better way to write a VERY simple and lightweight algorithm for editing out commercials than if any single image persists for longer than, say, n (e.g. 5) seconds?
This is perfect! No more complex guessing... I say, BRING THIS ON!
I mean, nobody has seen the gold in Fort Knox in years, but it's been traded around left and right. Plenty of people are willing to pay for pieces of paper saying they own some gold - why not just prove it's there, stake a claim on it, and then sell it here on Earth?
We can have an entire imaginary Moon economy! Awesomeness++!
Good point. Oh, by the way, I have a claim of the entire moon staked. Glad you could see it my way.;) Although... I think the one small problem with this scenario is that I didn't think the US had been on the Gold Standard for quite some time now. Am I wrong in this?
A 'chipped' passport would be susceptible to drive-by scanning, adds nothing a mag-stripe couldn't, and will likely be more expensive to implement. What's the point?
The point is this: it'd be a good time at the ol' immigrations counter when a flash-mob of geeks showed up and replaced their encrypted images with an image of an immigrations employee taken a few minutes earlier. "Good time", that is, until they call people in jackboots to haul the crowd away.
But I digress - in all seriousness, I seem to recall some research that came out when banks were putting customers' pictures on the front of their credit/debit cards for "enhanced security". The punchline is that 1/2* of cashiers didn't raise an eyebrow when the race of the bearer was different than that of the image on the card, and 2/3* didn't notice a difference in sex of the customer vs. the card image.
*It's been a while, but I believe these figures to be correct.
scottsk asks: "What is proof of music ownership? I can't find a good answer anywhere. Let's assume some random person is hauled into court allegedly for having music that he has not legitimately bought. What must that person produce to prove the music was purchased legitimately? Is producing an original commercially sold CD with the music acceptable, or is some further proof of purchase needed (cash register receipt, cancelled check, etc.)? What if a person has digitized a commercial cassette, like digitizing a photo? Must the person carry the cassette around forever, or is just the cassette insert sufficient? (What about an LP record that has been digitized?)"
Now, what happens if you've lost all of your property in a fire, but still had an off-site digital backup of your legally purchased music somewhere? Does the loss of the original property invalidate the legality of the backups?
I've answered more fully elsewhere in the thread, but wanted to add a more direct response to the posed question here. It is my belief that while, in the case of a car, you can produce the car title with your name on it as an appropriate proxy (for the car itself in the event of 100% loss/theft/vaporization), there does not exist a similar structure in buying music. Hence, the appropriate answer (that will nonetheless cost a ton of time and court fees) for a consumer would seem to be along the lines of, "Sure I own these songs. If you'd like to come after me and convince a judge that I do not own these songs (under a requirement of demonstrating preponderance of evidence to the court), then you are welcome to do so." Bonus points for bringing photos that show, for instance, a CD collection in the shot.
Without the provision for documents of ownership (e.g. licenses) for music files, then it really seems to come down to who has the deeper pockets (**AA), more numerous lawyers (**AA), and can point to a track record of legal pursuit (**AA). The short answer here, though, is that it would appear you have no direct mechanism by which to prove purchase and ownership of songs, only indirect measures of sales slips and possibly mangled physical CD/tape/vinyl cases.
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I and a co-author pitched this notion in 2006. We had pitched it as a smaller element of a "research match-maker" idea. And, man, were the academics violently opposed. No one saw value in the work and most felt either directly threatened or otherwise unsure how to objectively gauge the value of the contribution with author name and affiliation removed. It was depressing.
Sorry guys, the form ate my CRLFs. :(
This is like saying that THIS year will be the year when VRML takes off and replaces text and images for e-commerce. It never happens, and for good reason. Why "navigate" for minutes when I can page and scroll for seconds, with no real loss in fidelity? Yes, there is actually an idiot out there in the world who keeps trumpeting every or every-other year about how THIS IS THE YEAR. Much like that guy and his prediction, this, too, is not fated to supplant the status quo. (The next iteration of learning will likely have little to do with modality and much to do with removing cognitive or processing bottlenecks at the learner's side.)
See: "The Sword and the Shield," by Christopher Andrews. It's a summary of the Mitrhokin Archives, written at least 20 years ago.
...do the same? And why is there an expectation that a country can drive policy of private businesses? Is like it if Porsches were cheaper. However, I doubt that American consumers banding together in this would be given cheaper cars. The "it's a huge market and we have to bow to it at the expense of the locals" argument carries no weight in manufacturing any longer (e.g. coffee, textiles, clothing), so why do we unthinkingly give it a pass here?
You are absolutely correct.
Unfortunately, China is a nation in the midst of an Industrial Revolution. I suspect that it is no different from Britain or the USA during their respective periods of industry, but I hate, hate, hate, the notion of money-at-any-cost.
The basic dangers of food security is not limited just to export business. In fact, it is cheaper to create "fake eggs." So many Chinese end up with eggs--many of which are chemical concoctions rather than the real deal. Buying food from a vendor is equally risky. It doesn't matter if you're Chinese or Western, if they can make another few RMB at the cost of you possibly dying, your life-insurance policy had better be paid up, because they will absolutely cut that corner and take another few RMB of profit.
It's a shame, really, as the culture used to lead the world and be very progressive. Now that is not the case at all. I have been married to a Chinese, and her take on morals, ethics, public safety, and so forth were as follows:
"I want what is mine. And everything is mine."
That's it. No further analysis needed. She's not particularly evil, but a product of the country and society that is modern China.
So--is it surprising to see fabricated EVERYTHING coming out of China? Oh yes. Why would research be different? I just hope that no serious scientist / science presence gets roped into believing anything the Chinese "discover" or "invent" for the next 20-30 years. Otherwise, there will be a tremendous amount of time, money, and effort thrown away for naught.
It sounds like these PS3s are being "reverse-engineered" to run "non-stock" software on them, vis-a-vis password cracking.
I posit a direct and urgent need to determine two things:
(1) Method of operation;
(2) Scope and reach of the program.
This could make for an interesting legal test of DMCA/PATRIOT act laws.
I've not RTFA'd yet, but on first blush, this sounds suspiciously like the Amoeba project/work/files. The net result of Amoeba was that you'd end up with a large virtual machine, comprised of many individual machines scattered across different sites. How is this different?
This figure, by the way, is what I hope to earn after TEN+ YEARS of formal post-secondary education. IF the academic market can come back together again. And if I'm employable.
You have a PFY and you are advocating same.
I'm sure that Simon would be touched; BOFH continues to live on and be relevant nearly 15 years after being released on the World Wide Web.
If you can get an entry-level position, go to work. A M.Sc. in CS will get you nowhere. The Ph.D. is the next "stepping stone," and that will open up new doors for you. So unless you're wanting to go all the way to a Ph.D., don't bother going back. Academia sucks and is full of all sorts of social cues that are distressing, misleading, petty and small.
I used to happily pay the extra $5-$10 premium that Gamestop charges on their games for one and only one reason: Their no-questions-asked return policy. If I was unsure (for instance, multiplayer options) and the store employee didn't know, I *used* to have the peace of mind knowing that I could pick up the software, check out the item in question, and then return it and let the employee know what had happened. I did this twice, and Gamestop made an extra $hundreds off of me during this period. Then a few years back I noticed a new return policy - "you bought it, you bought it" was the gist. I have not shopped there since.
It is obvious, then, that if the network itself cannot be trusted, then it is COMCAST downloading MP3s these days.
;)
It'd make for interesting reading, the "Oh yeah? My ISP has a track record of forging network traffic." defense.
The OS is using YOUR computer and YOUR network infrastructure to connect to the Internet ... fine.
If this information were to be captured at invoiced at the end of each month - because, remember, you are now providing a SERVICE to Microsoft - I am sure it could be profitable. When others charge a rate for per-kilobyte service, this comes out to around $0.02/K (USD; Heliophone). Plus "taxes and fees". Plus a "service charge".
At the end of the day, we all should not only demand MS to be punitively damaged for installing what ammounts to malware on the desktop, but also be PAID for the service (both in terms of data use and also market research) we are providing.
I fail to see how this is one iota different than Mojo. While I don't use Mojo, I've seen an online demo and it looks interesting - exactly, to my mind, what MS & Sandisk are promising in mid-2008.
If I were doing this, I'd use something like eInk. This way, the only time an internal battery is used to drive the display is when the six-digit code number is being updated. Bonus points for making this card and its ICs live off an induced-current configuration - no battery to worry about, and all the end user has to do is find a magnet/interrogate a built-in antenna/etc.
I wonder, with the perpetual "almost-there" view of avatar-in-the-'net as a proxy for one's likeness, when we are going to see the first glut of backlash. What I am specifically talking about here is this: if you take a picture of a person and then use that for commercial gain, I believe you have to have a release. If, however, you take a picture of a person that is in-frame with you on the street as a family snapshot, no such release is required. Now, what happens when you take an image of an avatar that is identifiably an individual (e.g. a "Niet3sche" avatar) and then use it for economic gain? I'm thinking out loud here, but I wonder where, when, and how these lines are going to be drawn.
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Well, I typically Wazoo worry about it. I mean, hey, Wazoo someone wants to cause harm to my Wazoo documents, then clearly that's Wazoo issue, not mine.
I mean, hey, Wazoo security isn't my job ... Wazoo?
Signed, N
Ditch IT and go instead with something like, "Institutionally-Supported Antecedents of Divorce" (if you use that title, please drop me a line in the Acknowledgements). The idea here is to look around in at least 2 bodies of literature: that surrounding Organizational Behavior (OB) and Industrial/Organizational Psychology (I/O Psych), and the literature describing small group relationships (specifically, obviously, intimate groups such as marriage).
What you'll want to do, after asking your major professor about your roadmap (to digress a bit: if your major professor is worth ANYTHING, s/he can give you some high-level guidance and appear remotely interested/invested in the topic. If this is not the case, DUMP THEM. Do this now. You'll be happier. Trust me.), is to try to marry (pardon the pun) the two bodies of literature and look for overlap in measures, context, or behaviors/attitudes that form natural analogues or antecedents to the other body of literature.
Aside from this - and I know this point is redundant - USE your local experts and your University library access to look at journals. Look, now that I'm on the topic, at a LOT of literature. Add rigor to your research, even if it "only" gives you personal satisfaction of honestly earning an advanced degree. Specifically, it seems to me that - if you want to continue along this vein of research - you MUST have an OB/IO Psychologist as well as someone from counseling or social psychology. Additionally, an OB person from the business college would also be quite useful.
And then, of course, it is YOUR job to herd your cats and steer them to agreement regarding your research.
G'luck and stop reading slashdot, you. ;)
I see this was described as a "working paper" on the 20th. It doesn't show up anywhere as being "under review". I wonder if they've just blown their publication chances given that it is already "pre-published" at this point?
It'll be interesting to see how this shakes out.
What better way to write a VERY simple and lightweight algorithm for editing out commercials than if any single image persists for longer than, say, n (e.g. 5) seconds?
This is perfect! No more complex guessing ... I say, BRING THIS ON!
Good point. Oh, by the way, I have a claim of the entire moon staked. Glad you could see it my way. ;) Although ... I think the one small problem with this scenario is that I didn't think the US had been on the Gold Standard for quite some time now. Am I wrong in this?
Internet Explorer? Internet what? Oh! The Firefox clone! I didn't know people used that anymore. ;)
The point is this: it'd be a good time at the ol' immigrations counter when a flash-mob of geeks showed up and replaced their encrypted images with an image of an immigrations employee taken a few minutes earlier. "Good time", that is, until they call people in jackboots to haul the crowd away.
But I digress - in all seriousness, I seem to recall some research that came out when banks were putting customers' pictures on the front of their credit/debit cards for "enhanced security". The punchline is that 1/2* of cashiers didn't raise an eyebrow when the race of the bearer was different than that of the image on the card, and 2/3* didn't notice a difference in sex of the customer vs. the card image.
*It's been a while, but I believe these figures to be correct.
I've answered more fully elsewhere in the thread, but wanted to add a more direct response to the posed question here. It is my belief that while, in the case of a car, you can produce the car title with your name on it as an appropriate proxy (for the car itself in the event of 100% loss/theft/vaporization), there does not exist a similar structure in buying music. Hence, the appropriate answer (that will nonetheless cost a ton of time and court fees) for a consumer would seem to be along the lines of, "Sure I own these songs. If you'd like to come after me and convince a judge that I do not own these songs (under a requirement of demonstrating preponderance of evidence to the court), then you are welcome to do so." Bonus points for bringing photos that show, for instance, a CD collection in the shot.
Without the provision for documents of ownership (e.g. licenses) for music files, then it really seems to come down to who has the deeper pockets (**AA), more numerous lawyers (**AA), and can point to a track record of legal pursuit (**AA). The short answer here, though, is that it would appear you have no direct mechanism by which to prove purchase and ownership of songs, only indirect measures of sales slips and possibly mangled physical CD/tape/vinyl cases.