Funny how he didn't get all up in their grill, but he's happy to incite riots among his BoingBoing readers when it doesn't involve him?
Where did he incite a riot? Besides, if you read the comments associated with that same story, you'll notice that those same readers pointed out -- that the take down request wasn't even a real DMCA request and that the scribdb guys were just idiots for responding to that email (or to the followup email claiming that it was a DMCA request) the way they did.
It's absolutely fascinating that both he and his wife have managed to attain positions in academia despite having no fucking education. Seriously- she's a WoW player/Quake gamer, and USC calls her a "fellow"?
In most fields, a fellowship is just a scholarship. It doesn't mean much. It means someone/some organization is willing to fund your work. That's about it. Out of the 13 others they have listed as current 2007-2008 fellows, three don't seem to have College degrees at all (at least not listed), and only one seems to have just a Bachelor degree. Also, I would think she qualified for the fellowship because of the work she did for the BBC, not because of the last bit listed in her bio. At least, that seems like the common thread between all those non-degreed fellows, they all seem to have done some work for some media company.
So how do they decide what is "art" and what is not? Why, marketing of course. The "artists" just pump out crap and the people consume.
Call it what you will, but music is closely interlinked to memory. A song (or a similar tune) needs to be primed into memory before it becomes catchy.
That is why radio stations get paid to play the same songs over and over again, over our public airways. If you ask me, that is not a problem of capitalism. That is a problem of government intervention and centralized planning. Without government intervention, corporate radio stations wouldn't be as large and as centralized as they are now, and they would have no where as much influence over our music choices as they do now.
In the case of books I wouldn't be surprised to see it work like that since there is a notable difference between electronic text and reading out of a book; but for a medium where the CC version and the paid version are essentially the same (ex: music... at least in the case of mp3) I don't see it working as idealistically as that.
I guess you also never go to live concerts, never listen to the radio, never go to movie theaters (in the case of mpgs), and never buy commemorative copies of DVDs and/or concert paraphernalia.
May be that's why James Boyle brings it up before he even brings up Jefferson's arguments.
Admittedly, the massive conflicts between Jefferson's announced principles and his actions on the issue of slavery have led some, though not me, to doubt that there is any sincerity or moral instruction to be found in his words. But even those who find him a sham can hardly fail to see the continual and obvious joy he felt about knowledge and its spread.
It doesn't sound like you published a technical book. Technical publishing companies seem to want to keep the rights to the books they publish. This way, they keep on publishing a book under the same title and they'll swap out its author(s) at will. It's like they'll treat each book as a potential franchise they completely own.
Yours is a loaded question. I may be do the same thing as you, but not for the same reasons. If I want to sample an ebook, or just use it for reference, I'll download it for sure (I'll either pay for it, or barring that option I'll find it some place else). On the other hand, if I want to read a book in its entirety, I'll get a dead-tree version (new, used, or from the library, it doesn't really matter, I don't want to read a book in its entirety from a screen). I'm 33 years old, if that makes any difference.
The next stage is someone inserting probes directly into his brain/nerves. Fifty years from now, his brain will still be ticking away, communicating, and inventing new problems to solve.
Let's just hope his new employer has a good health plan and a good Neuro-Surgery research department.
Seriously. Environmentalists need to set the jihad switch to off and try rational discussion with the deep sea outfits for a change.
You guys should see The Secret Life of Words with Tim Robbins. Not only it's a wonderful movie, with some of the best acting I've ever seen, but it takes place on an oil rig and it has a slight environmentalist bent (thought it doesn't have a huge stupid oversimplified one like in many Steven Seagal movies).
...whether this is even possible for him to learn all that stuff without guidance (given that he's a farmer who must provide for his family and presumably doesn't have the time to fiddle with robots _and_ study) ?
Just because he's a farmer doesn't mean he's an idiot. Some farmers are quite good at fixing machinery/farm equipment. Plus, it's not like he's a farmer in the middle of nowhere. He can and probably did ask someone for help. Most hobbyists will ask for help if they get stuck somewhere. That being said, I don't mean to take anything away from his achievements. This is clearly a guy who should be given some kind of technical job.
Maybe a lifetime of public service helping kids with self-esteem issues.
That's an interesting and novel idea, much better than your previous one. May be, we could also punish all the child molesters by forcing them to help and work one-on-one with the kids they previously abused.
If you admit that our psychology derives from brain (and body) workings and that internal states and behaviors are affected by chemical changes...
Sure, I'll admit that, but also if you admit that chemical changes within the brain can also be triggered by either external circumstances and/or internal thought patterns as well.
Too many people assume, "make them think positive thoughts, the problem will fix itself"
That's the problem, too many people assuming stuff.
a USB drive in the fireproof safe next to any important papers.
I have the opposite set up. I keep all my porn, important papers, and passwords in a USB drive that's supposed to delete itself and incinerate itself as soon as my wikipedia entry says I'm deceased. I have so many nosy relatives, you wouldn't believe.
Also if you take that same individual, it may be easier for him to kill with a remote control, than for him to kill when he is face-to-face. It's too easy to dehumanize and demonize human beings we only see on an LCD screen. And conversely, it will be easy for civilians to demonize and loathe the people who send out these robots.
If they want to use ground robots, they should use them as medics, for transportation, and/or for reconnaissance. There is plenty of work to be done in that area already. These tasks are the lower hanging fruits. And these efforts are the most likely to get immediate pay offs.
I'd suggest you also get the IE View extension in addition to that one. Personally, I use both. IE View remembers which pages/sites to *always* open in IE. This way, if you're browsing Netflix, you can keep Firefox on most of the time, and only just use IE for the streaming DRM parts. And if you install that one, you may also want to install Firefox View which installs a context menu in IE.
And last, this is not directly relevant to your post, but there is also Opera View which can be useful once in a while (but which IE Tab can do as well, since "IE Tab" can also let you open links in external applications within its context menu -- in addition to IE).
You should email/contact your sources, the longer they wait to bring this up in court (or make a DMCA take-down request), the harder it will be for them to appear sympathetic in front of a jury.
The internet is just a way for people to talk to each other. If you censor "the internet", it is the same as censoring what you can speak to another person.
I agree. The internet, in the case of the Columbine massacre, was the only thing that gave us advanced warning signs that something was wrong. Censoring the internet will only shove those advanced warning signs from view. Proposing such an idea right after the Columbine Massacre was an ill-thought emotional reaction. This is not the reaction I would want my Attorney General to have. I hope Obama gives this guy some other position, where he's less likely to cause harm.
With phones, you have a contract with the phone company, who accept responsibility for keeping your transmissions private.
[Citation needed] I just took a look at the fine print on my (land-line) phone bill and couldn't find the part that you mentioned. Could this only be something that applies to cell phone plans?
It's even mandated by law. If someone at the phone company listens in [...] or by negligence allows others to do so, you have a legal claim to redress.
Perhaps that means there should be a deluge of lawsuits for all the phone bill records that were released to Private Investigators pretending to be the owner of those accounts.
Google doesn't spider everything immediately; it can take some time. This means that there's a window of opportunity for those seeking to suppress information.
Not if you post your picture to a porn photo-blog, porn does not follow the normal space-time continuum. Any image uploaded -- flagged as porn is instantaneously transferred to millions of computers at the same time. This is one of reasons the next Internet (IPv6) is being tested with free porn. If the new Internet can handle porn, we'll know it can handle anything.
Lesson for next time: Use a phone with automatic blogging so the photos are off the phone and on the Net before they can stop you.
Or he could just recover the deleted photos/videos from his mobile. It's not like the organizers thought (or took the time) to overwrite the deleted bits.
Free Software activists start a protest on private property, are asked to leave by owners/organisers and forgo negotiation, instead opting for point-blank refusal.
Private property? The event was organized on the grounds of a Public University under the pretext that it was promoting a public cause -- Free Software. No doubt, the organizers and Novell received a steep discount for promoting their Anti-Free Software stance under the guise of Free Software. And I hope that the University looks at banning and/or leveling fraud charges against those organizers.
In any case, I hope that the protesters and on-lookers think to use recovery software to recover the pictures and the videos that were deleted from their camera phones. I'm looking forward to seeing an actual video of what happened.
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He never did say he was going to press charges.
Where did he incite a riot? Besides, if you read the comments associated with that same story, you'll notice that those same readers pointed out -- that the take down request wasn't even a real DMCA request and that the scribdb guys were just idiots for responding to that email (or to the followup email claiming that it was a DMCA request) the way they did.
In most fields, a fellowship is just a scholarship. It doesn't mean much. It means someone/some organization is willing to fund your work. That's about it. Out of the 13 others they have listed as current 2007-2008 fellows, three don't seem to have College degrees at all (at least not listed), and only one seems to have just a Bachelor degree. Also, I would think she qualified for the fellowship because of the work she did for the BBC, not because of the last bit listed in her bio. At least, that seems like the common thread between all those non-degreed fellows, they all seem to have done some work for some media company.
Call it what you will, but music is closely interlinked to memory. A song (or a similar tune) needs to be primed into memory before it becomes catchy.
That is why radio stations get paid to play the same songs over and over again, over our public airways. If you ask me, that is not a problem of capitalism. That is a problem of government intervention and centralized planning. Without government intervention, corporate radio stations wouldn't be as large and as centralized as they are now, and they would have no where as much influence over our music choices as they do now.
I guess you also never go to live concerts, never listen to the radio, never go to movie theaters (in the case of mpgs), and never buy commemorative copies of DVDs and/or concert paraphernalia.
It doesn't sound like you published a technical book. Technical publishing companies seem to want to keep the rights to the books they publish. This way, they keep on publishing a book under the same title and they'll swap out its author(s) at will. It's like they'll treat each book as a potential franchise they completely own.
Yours is a loaded question. I may be do the same thing as you, but not for the same reasons. If I want to sample an ebook, or just use it for reference, I'll download it for sure (I'll either pay for it, or barring that option I'll find it some place else). On the other hand, if I want to read a book in its entirety, I'll get a dead-tree version (new, used, or from the library, it doesn't really matter, I don't want to read a book in its entirety from a screen). I'm 33 years old, if that makes any difference.
The next stage is someone inserting probes directly into his brain/nerves. Fifty years from now, his brain will still be ticking away, communicating, and inventing new problems to solve.
Let's just hope his new employer has a good health plan and a good Neuro-Surgery research department.
You guys should see The Secret Life of Words with Tim Robbins. Not only it's a wonderful movie, with some of the best acting I've ever seen, but it takes place on an oil rig and it has a slight environmentalist bent (thought it doesn't have a huge stupid oversimplified one like in many Steven Seagal movies).
Just because he's a farmer doesn't mean he's an idiot. Some farmers are quite good at fixing machinery/farm equipment. Plus, it's not like he's a farmer in the middle of nowhere. He can and probably did ask someone for help. Most hobbyists will ask for help if they get stuck somewhere. That being said, I don't mean to take anything away from his achievements. This is clearly a guy who should be given some kind of technical job.
Lori, We know it's you. You obviously haven't learned your lesson yet.
That's an interesting and novel idea, much better than your previous one. May be, we could also punish all the child molesters by forcing them to help and work one-on-one with the kids they previously abused.
Sure, I'll admit that, but also if you admit that chemical changes within the brain can also be triggered by either external circumstances and/or internal thought patterns as well.
That's the problem, too many people assuming stuff.
I have the opposite set up. I keep all my porn, important papers, and passwords in a USB drive that's supposed to delete itself and incinerate itself as soon as my wikipedia entry says I'm deceased. I have so many nosy relatives, you wouldn't believe.
Also if you take that same individual, it may be easier for him to kill with a remote control, than for him to kill when he is face-to-face. It's too easy to dehumanize and demonize human beings we only see on an LCD screen. And conversely, it will be easy for civilians to demonize and loathe the people who send out these robots.
If they want to use ground robots, they should use them as medics, for transportation, and/or for reconnaissance. There is plenty of work to be done in that area already. These tasks are the lower hanging fruits. And these efforts are the most likely to get immediate pay offs.
I'd suggest you also get the IE View extension in addition to that one. Personally, I use both. IE View remembers which pages/sites to *always* open in IE. This way, if you're browsing Netflix, you can keep Firefox on most of the time, and only just use IE for the streaming DRM parts. And if you install that one, you may also want to install Firefox View which installs a context menu in IE.
And last, this is not directly relevant to your post, but there is also Opera View which can be useful once in a while (but which IE Tab can do as well, since "IE Tab" can also let you open links in external applications within its context menu -- in addition to IE).
You should email/contact your sources, the longer they wait to bring this up in court (or make a DMCA take-down request), the harder it will be for them to appear sympathetic in front of a jury.
Running Windows.
I agree. The internet, in the case of the Columbine massacre, was the only thing that gave us advanced warning signs that something was wrong. Censoring the internet will only shove those advanced warning signs from view. Proposing such an idea right after the Columbine Massacre was an ill-thought emotional reaction. This is not the reaction I would want my Attorney General to have. I hope Obama gives this guy some other position, where he's less likely to cause harm.
[Citation needed] I just took a look at the fine print on my (land-line) phone bill and couldn't find the part that you mentioned. Could this only be something that applies to cell phone plans?
Perhaps that means there should be a deluge of lawsuits for all the phone bill records that were released to Private Investigators pretending to be the owner of those accounts.
Take a look at collabedit. That guy was first, plus he explains what libraries he used.
Forget the pony, just get me one of those.
This sounds like a great strategy to make sure you get paid. Don't ask for money upfront, only ask for money after the keylogger is installed.
Not if you post your picture to a porn photo-blog, porn does not follow the normal space-time continuum. Any image uploaded -- flagged as porn is instantaneously transferred to millions of computers at the same time. This is one of reasons the next Internet (IPv6) is being tested with free porn. If the new Internet can handle porn, we'll know it can handle anything.
Or he could just recover the deleted photos/videos from his mobile. It's not like the organizers thought (or took the time) to overwrite the deleted bits.
Private property? The event was organized on the grounds of a Public University under the pretext that it was promoting a public cause -- Free Software. No doubt, the organizers and Novell received a steep discount for promoting their Anti-Free Software stance under the guise of Free Software. And I hope that the University looks at banning and/or leveling fraud charges against those organizers.
In any case, I hope that the protesters and on-lookers think to use recovery software to recover the pictures and the videos that were deleted from their camera phones. I'm looking forward to seeing an actual video of what happened.