I don't know of any units which plan routes based upon gradients, but some units offer 3d first person views and when using normal 2d map layout the elevations are shaded (if you have elevation data in your maps). So you plan a route yourself while scrolling around.
Yeah they are amazing for cycling. I've found bike stores in the middle of nowhere (some guys garage) when I really needed them (once in Quebec with a broken chain, and once in New Brunswick with a slashed tire which was patched but wouldn't hold for a full day).
It's also a lot less likely to miss turns, but when it happens, you can find out if continuing on will be okay or if you have to turn back.
It also takes a lot less time than handling paper based turn by turn directions, and it allows you to improvise so if a road surface is great you can stay on it and not worry since with a GPS device you will know if you're going parallel to the original route or not. e.g. On this recent trip I shaved off a lot of distance near the beginning v.s. this previous route (speed data in the last link is junk/a bug).
Regardless, google/youtube flagged the audio and the dispute has been open for a month. In the dispute filing, I pasted the relevant text from the license and linked to it.
The video itself clearly has a link to the artists site at magnatune (as required). So if any person were to intelligently go to the site and read the license or just read the dispute data I filed, the problem would cleary seen to be valid and legal.
But I'm still waiting to hear back from WMG. The point I have is that Bono's technical suggestion to track everything will not work. In a very closed and controlled environment like youtube, the false positives are so numerous that legal content cannot be cleared and shared.
Here's the license from magnatune (from link above).
"If you'd like to use Magnatune music in a video that will be posted on YouTube,... simply buy the album and use the music.... you're required to include attribution of our music.
You're right. The first quote (in the context of the book) is not a
strike against string theory. I added it to lend gravitas to the second
quote, and in doing so mis-characterized its intent.
Thanks for the link. It is directly on point with
Lee
Smolin's conjecture, but it and its responses are "all Greek to me".
As a lay person, I used to think string theory could eventually be a theory of everything,
and was only held back by a lack of development of a relatively new branch of mathematics.
But the following two quotes relieved me if that perception.
Describing the self-interaction of gravitons consistently turned out to be a tough nut to crack.
We now understand that the failure to solve this problem is a consequence
of not taking Einstein's principle of background independence seriously. Once the gravitational waves
interact with one another, they can no longer be seen as moving on a fixed background.
They change the background as they travel.[ISBN: 0618551050 Page 85.]
String theories build without supersymmetry have instabilities; left alone, they will take off,
emitting more and more tachyons in a process that has no end, until the theory breaks down.
This is very unlike our world. Supersymmetry eliminates this behaviour and stabilizes the theories.
But in some respects it does that too well. This is because
supersymmetry implies that there is a symmetry in time,
the upshot being that a supersymmetric theory cannot be built on a
spacetime that is evolving in time. Thus, the aspect of the theory required
to stabilize it also makes it difficult to study questions we would most like a quantum theory of
gravity to answer, like what happened in the universe just after the Big Bang, or what happens
deep inside the horizon of a black hole. Both are circumstances where the geometry is evolving
rapidly in time. [ISBN: 0618551050 Page 145]
It looks like string theory is fundamentally flawed. Further evidence of flaws are
on the paragraphs split on pages 118,119, and pages 152,153.
By default your employer owns everything which is within the scope of employment, which means
if it is the kind of work the employee is paid to perform,
occurs substantially within work hours at the work place, and
is performed, at least in part, to serve the employer.
Not all have conditions have to be met, 2/3 is enough. e.g. Miller v. CP Chemicals Inc., F.Supp. 1238 (D.S.C. 1992)
Miller was a supervisor who worked at CP Chemical's quality control lab. He created a program for making computations necessary for in-process adjustments to one of CP's products. Miller was paid by the hour and created the program primarily at home on his own computer during off hours, and without any overtime pay. Nevertheless, the court held that the program was created within the scope of Miller's employment and was therefore owned by CP Chemicas, not Miller. The first and third factors favored CP, while only the second favored Miller. [Software development: a legal guide, Stephen Fishman, Nolo Press]
IANAL but it looks like the cop doesn't own what he wrote.
FWIW: repost from
These are almost all BANAL!
God does not exist.. oh for crying out loud.
No Free will.. yawn.
We are alone.. yawn.
Media violence induces real violence.. yawn.
WTF?!!!!!
I only found one dangerous existing technology, but the
idea with which it is presented is not dangerous.
which leads me to conclude that the tech is not as great as the following quote implies.
"In a recent laboratory "investment game" many investors would trust all their money to a stranger after a puff of an oxytocin spray."
Never vote for an organic chemist.. no mater how much you trust her/him.:) Here's my summary of the rest worth noting.
There aren't enough minds to house the population explosion of memes.
"The rapture of the Nerds" explained well, but it's still bunk. If forgetting a bit of common knowledge is harmful
to interaction then it will be relearned. If that bit of common knowledge is used often enough it will not be forgotten again.
Ergo there will always be just enough common knowledge so that frequently interacting nodes will be able to interact.
The purpose of life is to disperse energy.
His logic is just plain faulty.
The author is confused by the classical convection cell examples (oceanic, solar, lab)
all of which are forms of self organized complexity (SOC) which form explicitly to transmit energy and do so in the most efficient manner.
But life (an eg of SOC) is the exact opposite wrt energy usage, it conserves as much energy as possible.
SOC requires energy gradients. Requiring and using a gradient do not imply purpose, let alone "purpose is to eliminate the gradient".
Open Source Currency.
Still trying to get my head around it.. A concrete example would help. How much for that dough naught?
The free market.
The idea is true, but what a ride.. oohhh shiny toys.. cheap plentiful food, plenty of circuses.
It's the best of the worst (so far). Yeah, it is leading to the destruction of the world and we'll all die; que sera sera.
I'm surprised more people aren't mentioning lulu. You upload, they sell & distribute. Damn simple way to get all the "long tail" content out there.
Here is a typical example of the content I'm talking about. It's a great film but the distribution is so far out of the scope of the creator that it just isn't worth investing in a personalized eStore, advertising etc.
This BBC story is the source quoted in the under reported story.
At least the BBC clearly says that a 5 year study concluded what is immediately obvious (it is human waste causing the problem) as opposed to some spin related to chickens.
I'd wager all major urban centers are affected by this.
I recal the local newspaper (Toronto Star) saying estrogen like hormones are detectable in the drinking water, (but the Star is a net black hole w/o a search feature).
"In Alabama and Florida, 31 per cent of black men are permanently barred from voting."
Page 170 of "50 Facts That Should Change The World", Jessica Williams, 2004, Penguin. ISBN: 1-84046-547-6
The endnote for the quote refers to "Human Rights Watch/The Sentencing Project, 'Losing the Vote', 1998." Part of which is available online
But the partial online version does not identify the states; the third paragraph says
"In two states, our data show that almost one in three black men is disenfranchised."
"With regard to technological protection measures, it is the view of CIRPA that... it is vital that new legislation be put in place to address the... problems
these devices cause... copyright owners. In particular the effective defining and
legislation of tamper proof rights management systems..."
Since there will be no such regulation I believe Bulte and others have
the right idea.
AOL-TW Inc
also called for DMCA type regulation of technology,
(b) that legal protection against the circumvention of technological
protection measures be added to the law, whether contained within the
Copyright Act or linked to it; (c) that such protection extend to the
manufacture of and trafficking in circumvention devices and services, as
well as the act of circumvention;
Such DMCA type demands were completely dismissed by the Committee.
FWIW:
The September 4th 2001
submission from
"The Edifying Fellowship of Ook" is hilarious. I couldn't get past the first page with that funky old English font.
O, may this humble document meet the favour of the Departments and the
Sub-Departments and the Molluffs and the Tree-Sloths even unto the
fourteenth generation....
I'm usually 100% cynical, but the system seems responsive.. even to the eccentric.
Depending on the year it
has distributed funds as follows
66% to eligible authors and publishers, 18.9% to eligible performers, 15.1% to eligible record companies.
and in other years; authors and publishers 75%, recording artists 13.7% and record companies 11.3%.
So the (13.7%, 18.9%) distributed to artist from CPCC to SOCAN is around
($3.5, $5.2) million CDN depending on the year etc.
Now lets see what SOCAN (Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada) has to say.
Slightly off topic.. Look at the list of fees they collect (besides the tariff).
Specifically "Strolling Musicians and Buskers; Recorded Music"
Damn! No wonder most buskers who sing for their supper don't have a
portable stereo accompanying them. SOCAN wants $32.55 per day for the accompanying music!
Okay so what does SOCAN have to say about distribution of money from the tariff... well nothing.
They have forms to fill out, and they give you the option of paying with
Visa and MasterCard.. but I can't find a damn thing about outflow of cash.
The closest thing I can find is in their Summer 2004 newsletter
381 Kb pdf. Which is vague at best
On the charts... British industry.. 10 percent of the artists were
Canadian. Nickleback, Avril Lavign, Nelly Furtado, Lynda Lemay and Lara
Fabian... These successes don't happen spontaneously. They are the
result of talent... and an industry infrastructure that supports the
development of Canadian creators.
They "develop the artist" and are into advertisement/payolla to get foreigners to buy CDN music.
So my one last search was in the Canadian Copyright Act.
Specifically Subsection Subsection 83. (13) (b).
... require a collective society to file with the
Board information relating to payments of moneys
received by the society...
So SOCAN has to tell the Copyright Board how it spent the money. Great, two levels of bureaucracy.
I have no intention of filling a FOI request as I don't really care enough. I'll let someone else
try that. This is the furthest I can get in "following the money".:(
While you're at the copyright Act site look at
subsection 84, which says only collectives/societies can collect the tariff. So, you personally cannot fill out a form
and get your $0.21 back. If you want that you'll have to write Sarmite
and make a good case for how the Act should be amended and how it would
not be abused.
The only exception to the levy is subsection 86 (1) which exempts societies for people with perceptual disabilities.
So you if you have a perceptual disability you could ask, say the CNIB, to
purchase blank media for you.
FWIW: Upcomming tariffs for 2005., for
private copying shows there will be no increase ($0.21, $0.77) and the distri
Hello fellow P-HP resident.
Here's some advice on talking with Sarmite. Do it in person, or via a written letter. Emails are ignored.
As for your views.
The proposed ISP liability is sufficiently narrow to avoid many problems. But once informed, ISPs should have some formal system to follow.
"licensing schemes for copyrighted educational materials". Yeah bring it on!
There are a few exceptions to add so that research and fair use are not stifled. But this is what we should be working for. The University/Colleges have the fat pipes and people who facilitate much of the theft.
It is only fair to try to devise a method which compensates the creators of content. If workable methods are found for sampling/tracking what content is transmitted, then a statutory fee can be assigned and a optional/mandatory licensing scheme can be developed so that royalties are collected and distributed in a fair way.
As for "the names of ANY Cdn musicians..." Celine Dion.
The money does get to artists. Smaller artists have a harder time getting the money because the current estimation/sampling methods just miss the smaller artists.
But the fees are a great alternative to the US $150,000 statutory damage per infringement. As Lawrence Lessig points out, a 10 song CD can cost you $1.5 Million US in damages, and as Jesse Jordan found out 100 infringements can cause $15 Million US in damages! This changed his life. Over what?
Having a distributed levy across all CDs does hurt everyone (like taxes) but it is better than ruining peoples' lives.
What we have to find is a balance between ratifying the WCT's
requirement for regulating circumvention devices, while avoiding the unintented consequences.
That is what I've asked Sarmite. "What exceptions will be allowed during the regulation of technology?" I want to avoid trusted computing so they better be broad. I'd prefer no regulation of technology and totally disregarding the WCT but realistically, the US would likely use non ratification as a lever for other trade issues.
As for the NDP's stance on circumvention.. I think they are just not aware of the consequences. We'll have to inform them.
Report on changes to the Canadian Copyright Act
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The Committee recommends that the Copyright Act be amended to provide
that Internet service providers (ISPs) can be subject to liability for
copyrighted material on their facilities. The Committee notes, however,
that ISPs should be exempt from liability if they act as true "intermediaries,"
without actual or constructive knowledge of the
transmitted content, and where they meet certain prescribed conditions.
ISPs should be required to comply with a "notice and takedown" scheme
that is compliant with the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, with
additional prescribed procedures to address other infringements.
If you overlook the last vague line, the proposed changes to Copyright
Act seem harmless to those who do not download, but those who do, may become customers of Napster et al.
The Act would force ISPs to cut off access for uploaders
after they have been identified by the CIRA. But the report does not specifically
address the disclosure of customers' information (to the CIRA), nor does it address
the download v.s. upload meme.
The vagueness of the report is replicated by
media
reports which further mention WIPO treaties, P2P and anti-circumvention devices,
all of which are not specifically addressed in the report.
The EFC has not, AFAIK, commented on the report
and the Toronto member of Parliament who chaired the
committee, hasn't yet responded to my inquiries (will P2P or anti-circumvention be left legal?).
Iron's panacea status is not solid.
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Other gases are produced (eg DMS), and other limiting nutrients (nitrates and phosphorous) are used up....
What has *not* been found is any proof that any additional carbon sinks to the ocean floor and gets buried, thus entering long-term storage.
Fast forward to 2004.
There is an article in nature, published on March 17 2004, whose abstract says iron is not a panacea
Only a small proportion of the mixed-layer POC [particulate organic carbon] was intercepted by the traps.... The depletion of silicic acid and the inefficient transfer of iron-increased POC below the permanent thermocline have major implications... for proposed geo-engineering schemes to increase oceanic carbon sequestration.
Apparently
the study linked to in the original post has two studies who's results will be published in April 2004
... in the same issue of Science... [which] indicate
that much of the carbon sank to hundreds of meters below the surface.
So what do we know for sure?
Adding iron does cause a bloom, and does drawdown CO2 but other nutrients are used up and the CO2's ultimate fate is debatable.
The conflicting results could be regional variation in ocean conditions, but IANAO.
Either way global warming is real, and the film may bring to light the severity of future changes.
They may want to look at the genetic mutations of dolphins and find out
what made them have such a large brain, and be so intelligent that all
that they do is swim in the water, eat fish and play around, whereas we
build cars and buildings, and start wars.
The Swedish scientist Lars Terenius, one of the discoverers of endorphins,
may have already answered that question.
He suggested that humans might be the only species on the planet lacking
enough chemicals in their brains to keep them happy.
Just as people are tempted to drink and take drugs in search of euphoria,
so too might they scale mountains, build skyscrapers or pen theories on
the laws of the universe if the sense of accomplishment unleashed
euphoria-producing brain chemicals.
Lower species, meanwhile, would remain content to huddle in their twigs and bushes generation after generation.
Page 143. Possessing Genius: The true account of the Bizarre Odyssey of
Einstein's Brain. Carolyn Abraham, 2001, Penguin. ISBN 014029368X.
Our disposition to be unhappy makes us out compete everything else. Other species are happy and only seek survival.
BTW: Great book. Covers what happened to his brain post autopsy.
Full of neuro knowledge and witticisms.
Bell Cancelled my service early, pulled the card from the local office (only to put it back 3 days later), cut my phone service for a day and a half, and further messed up the line for 5 days until Echo complained directly to Bell.
Switching DSL service providers should be as simple as changing your authentication (username + password). Well Bell doesn't like making things easy.
I switched to Echo online's DSL service because on the 26th of June Bell Sympatico started blocking all inbound port 25 connections.
I was wondering if anyone else has similar problems, is anyone annoyed enough to start a class action? (I have no interest in investing the time, but if you want to rant try class.action at marks.______.net)
FWIW: I thought it was funny to mention Echo Online does not have OS myopia, they ackowledge, Linux, *BSD and even Sega Dreamcast as possible client OSs.
The fact is that if I sit a 4 year old in front of the ARTS
channel all day they aren't going to come out with an appreciation of
classical music.
TomV gives an exact lifetime counterpoint to your hypothetical example.
"No man is an island,... " John Donne.
Culture which surrounds you influences you.
You are a meme machine, evolving according to Darwin and obeying the
laws of physics.
Let's see if I can further my point by random self observations:
If it weren't for Star Trek where Geordi and Data always used
a computer to solve all that was wrong, I wouldn't have thought computers
were so cool. If it weren't for Clifford Stoll's "The Cuckoo's Egg:
Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage"; Doubleday.
I wouldn't have thought Unix could give you an adrenaline rush. His story
is why I looked into Linux. Thanks Mr. Stoll.:)
Looking at a larger sample. At University an informal poll across
a small section of the student body in the math department showed that
nearly everyone had watched the PBS show "Square One" when they were younger.
Again this is not proof, for that look at the studies (about violence)
quoted above. But
if you take into account those studies showing a causative link
then you have to ask yourself if the hundreds of billions of dollars
spent on advertising or
creating purpose driven shows are being spent because the effect of influence
is known and they are attempting to do so, or are they unwisely throwing
money out the window?
Media is used to shape culture. ST:Voyager IMHO was created to
show how all ills were biological and medical tech is a panacea. It
was created in an attempt to bread a generation of doctors / health care
workers who would be needed.
Of course the above argument is a generalization "s/violence/any meme/g". But
the memes are interchangeable. Pavlov's studies show that even ludicrous associations
may be formed. Well back to the main topic.
Violence in media has its purposes. It creates a society where it is acceptable
to use violence.
Watch the movie The Quick and The Dead
and try to say with a straight face that it isn't a glorification of violence and
a vilification of non violence.
This ties into your statement of Japan and its media and culture.
And, furthermore, considering what I've seen of Anime, why is Japan a relatively non-violent society? Shouldn't they all be shooting the hell out of each other with lasers and stuff right now?
I'll assume that what you have seen of Anime is a representative sample
of what a non negligible portion of the citizenry of Japan consumes.
So we are at the point that some of their media is much more violent.
But how is the violence portrayed? Is it used in a Pavlovian
reward/punishment sense as in the "The Quick and the Dead".
Does the Anime reward those who are violent simply for being violent,
and those who use their wits, non lethal technology or other means are vilified?
If so I'd say those who consume such memes are more likely to do the same, rather
than those who do not. Neither of us have any on point studies of Japan, so lets look
at what we do know.
We could compare the rates of violence in Bhutan v.s. Japan,
but you'd likely cry fowl.
So then, as I said before, look to the on point studies where three isolated cities in
Canada were measured for rates of violence in school children (this study was also done in South Africa).
They were then wired; one community with TV and only one channel, the other
community with multiple channels and the third city left alone.
Guess what happened. Those exposed to violent memes, were more violent. Gee label
me shocked.
As for your argument about the Bible.. I don't know. Never read it, so I don't make any claims about it.
There have been the hundreds of studies (laboratory experiments, field
experiments, correlation surveys, longitudinal panel studies) all showing
a link with viewed violence and violent tendencies.
Bhutan's experience has already been documented in studies in Canada and South
Africa, showing that before TV and post exposure to one channel or multiple channels
of TV the children in schools became more violent and the increase was in
response to the dose (number of channels). (for notes see the book quoted below).
Whenever I hear "there is no proven link" I am always shocked by the extreme ignorance.
Who said "the Truth is not as important as repetition"? Was it Goebbels or Stalin?
Either way here are some quotes from the book,
"Children & Television" 2nd edition, Barrie Gunter & Jill McAleer; Routledge.
Chapter 7 pages 92,93...
Exhaustive reviews of the scientific literature on the relationships
between television depictions of violence and the aggressive behaviour of viewers
have consistently documented how exposure to such content is linked
to a likelihood of enhanced aggressiveness among children and adolescents.
Major reports from leading public health agencies in the United States, the 1972
Surgeons General's report and the 1982 National Institute of Mental Health review, concluded that
television played a significant part in the lives of young
people and had a general potential to influence their aggressive behaviour.
The Surgeon General's report presented findings from a number of original
and specially commissioned studies of children and adolescents, which utilized
various research methodologies. The overall conclusion of the body of investigation
was that regular exposure to television violence is a causal agent
underpinning the aggressive dispositions of the young, and
may be especially significant among children and teenagers who already exhibit
aggressive personalities.
...
During the 1990s, further reports from the Centers for Disease Control, National
Academy of Sciences and the American Psychological Association have provided further
support for the conclusion that the mass media
contribute to aggressive attitudes and behaviour.
The American Psychological Association established a Commission on Youth and Violence
to examine the literature on the causes and prevention of violence. This commission
concluded that American children are exposed to high levels of violence
on television, and that heavy viewers of this violence demonstrate
increased acceptance of aggressive attitudes and increased aggressive behaviour.
... A comprehensive review of hundreds of experimental and longitudinal studies
supported the position that viewing violence on television is related to aggressive
behaviour (for foot notes and bibliography see the actual book).
A majority of women murdered are murdered by someone they know, normally a
male.
Yeah but when "the two become one" they are too randy to have murder on their
mind. Time apart probably makes most relationships idealized and smooths over
the rough points. A neat world.
As for random murder, it is reduced via genetics (the sterilization), peer
influence & perhaps medication (pg 296-7 mentions family role and Mary
mentions a biochemical role) and counseling which Ponter goes to control his
temper. Nature & Nurture are both important.
The only person who supports sterilization in strong terms is Mary (pg
304) for obvious reasons. She may be the character used to advocate extreme
views in the later books (I wonder what will become of the sample she took).
The interplay between both worlds and the reflection of our own is imaginative
and stimulating. Great entertainment.
I recommend this book, "Golden Fleece",
"Iterations" and "Illegal Alien".
From Iterations the short story "
Above it all" still gives me chills, I cannot look at the ISS in the same light now. "Iterations" has a neat idea for why SETI hasn't found anything yet (I haven't yet proved to myself yet that the idea is valid but it
warrants further examination).
Most room temperature O_2 travels below 2.88 km/s, so is well within Mars's 5.0 km/s escape
velocity, The math and an explanation is bellow.
Blockquote:
Many people are neglecting the fact that Mars does not have the
gravitational strength to hold oxygen in it's atmosphere. Melt the ice,
it will eventually vaporize and then escape the planet.
Equate average molecular thermal energy (3/2)kT with kinetic energy
(1/2)mv^2 and you get v=sqrt(3kT/m).
Where k is Boltzmann constant (1.38e-23 J/K), T is in Kelvin and m in kg.
Now O_2 has mass 2( 2.66e-26 kg) = 5.3e-26 kg.
And H_2 has mass 2( 1.67e-27 kg) = 3.3e-27 kg.
Which comes from atmoic weight / Avogadro's 6.022e23 = grams/molecule.
Say room temperature is 79F, 22C, 295K then O_2 is zipping around at
480m/s or 0.48 km/s (about 1000 miles an hour), similarly the average
H_2 molecule is going at 1.9 km/s.
The escape velocity for Earth is 11.2 km/s and for Mars 5.0 km/s.
So at first glance earth can hold onto the average O_2 and H_2.
Which is clearly not the case (Earth!=Gas giant).
The rule of thumb is if the average molecular speed is greater
than 6 times the escape velocity then it stays, otherwise it leaves.
So 6*O_2 speed is 2.88 km/s, 6*H_2 speed is 11.4 km/s. So H_2 leaves
earth's 11.2 km/s escape velocity, and O_2 is still well within Mars's
5.0km/s.
If you use bc to check the math, set "scale=30" to avoid div zero.
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400 miles? That's it? Sounds like a good day (350miles, 560km sub 25h).
I don't know of any units which plan routes based upon gradients, but some units offer 3d first person views and when using normal 2d map layout the elevations are shaded (if you have elevation data in your maps). So you plan a route yourself while scrolling around.
Yeah they are amazing for cycling. I've found bike stores in the middle of nowhere (some guys garage) when I really needed them (once in Quebec with a broken chain, and once in New Brunswick with a slashed tire which was patched but wouldn't hold for a full day).
It's also a lot less likely to miss turns, but when it happens, you can find out if continuing on will be okay or if you have to turn back.
It also takes a lot less time than handling paper based turn by turn directions, and it allows you to improvise so if a road surface is great you can stay on it and not worry since with a GPS device you will know if you're going parallel to the original route or not. e.g. On this recent trip I shaved off a lot of distance near the beginning v.s. this previous route (speed data in the last link is junk/a bug).
There are about 10k workers who "commute" 6000km (3800 miles) between work and home. But since it isn't daily, the line between commute and working away becomes blurred. (These long "commutes" are done by plane about every other weekend.)
Regardless, google/youtube flagged the audio and the dispute has been open for a month. In the dispute filing, I pasted the relevant text from the license and linked to it.
The video itself clearly has a link to the artists site at magnatune (as required). So if any person were to intelligently go to the site and read the license or just read the dispute data I filed, the problem would cleary seen to be valid and legal.
But I'm still waiting to hear back from WMG. The point I have is that Bono's technical suggestion to track everything will not work. In a very closed and controlled environment like youtube, the false positives are so numerous that legal content cannot be cleared and shared.
Here's the license from magnatune (from link above).
.
Thanks for the link. It is directly on point with Lee Smolin's conjecture, but it and its responses are "all Greek to me".
- if it is the kind of work the employee is paid to perform,
- occurs substantially within work hours at the work place, and
- is performed, at least in part, to serve the employer.
Not all have conditions have to be met, 2/3 is enough. e.g. Miller v. CP Chemicals Inc., F.Supp. 1238 (D.S.C. 1992) IANAL but it looks like the cop doesn't own what he wrote. FWIW: repost fromFurther back, "In 1992 ... so called prion knock-out mice [were created]. ...
Strangely enough, mice lacking the prion gene are apparently healthy".
While other studies have found, "abnormalities in circadian rhythms and sleep" and ataxia late in life.
Proportionally, such symptoms may occur in 13 year old cattle (see halfbakery link).
So, to follow the new year's theme of predictions, I fully expect to be able to buy prion free beef by 2025.
God does not exist.. oh for crying out loud.
No Free will.. yawn.
We are alone.. yawn.
Media violence induces real violence.. yawn.
WTF?!!!!!
Even the powerful & famous are timid.
I only found one dangerous existing technology, but the idea with which it is presented is not dangerous. which leads me to conclude that the tech is not as great as the following quote implies.
Never vote for an organic chemist.. no mater how much you trust her/him. :)
Here's my summary of the rest worth noting.
There aren't enough minds to house the population explosion of memes.
"The rapture of the Nerds" explained well, but it's still bunk. If forgetting a bit of common knowledge is harmful to interaction then it will be relearned. If that bit of common knowledge is used often enough it will not be forgotten again. Ergo there will always be just enough common knowledge so that frequently interacting nodes will be able to interact.
The purpose of life is to disperse energy.
His logic is just plain faulty. The author is confused by the classical convection cell examples (oceanic, solar, lab) all of which are forms of self organized complexity (SOC) which form explicitly to transmit energy and do so in the most efficient manner. But life (an eg of SOC) is the exact opposite wrt energy usage, it conserves as much energy as possible. SOC requires energy gradients. Requiring and using a gradient do not imply purpose, let alone "purpose is to eliminate the gradient".
Democratizing access to the means of invention. (BTW: The id attribute on the link destination is currently wrong, so use this link until they fix the other one).
Not dangerous.. actually quite good. What makes this dangerous?
Open Source Currency.
Still trying to get my head around it.. A concrete example would help. How much for that dough naught?
The free market.
The idea is true, but what a ride.. oohhh shiny toys.. cheap plentiful food, plenty of circuses. It's the best of the worst (so far). Yeah, it is leading to the destruction of the world and we'll all die; que sera sera.
Actual dangerous ideas worth reading.
Laws requiring parental licensure.What a dystopian idea.. to bad it isn't novel. But he adds some stats to spice it up.
Actual dangerous ideas not worth reading.
Biotechnology will be thoroughly domesticated in the next fifty years, and Science may be 'running out of control'.
Again.. not novel. Apocalypse by sci/tech.
I'm surprised more people aren't mentioning lulu. You upload, they sell & distribute. Damn simple way to get all the "long tail" content out there.
Here is a typical example of the content I'm talking about. It's a great film but the distribution is so far out of the scope of the creator that it just isn't worth investing in a personalized eStore, advertising etc.
This BBC story is the source quoted in the under reported story.
At least the BBC clearly says that a 5 year study concluded what is immediately obvious (it is human waste causing the problem) as opposed to some spin related to chickens.
I'd wager all major urban centers are affected by this.
I recal the local newspaper (Toronto Star) saying estrogen like hormones are detectable in the drinking water, (but the Star is a net black hole w/o a search feature).
Cheers :)
The endnote for the quote refers to "Human Rights Watch/The Sentencing Project, 'Losing the Vote', 1998." Part of which is available online But the partial online version does not identify the states; the third paragraph says
Take a look at the the user feed back during the Copyright Reform Process. Over 700 submissions all sorted by date and submitter.
Among the contributions who asked for specific legislation to ban circumvention technology were, the Canadian Independent Record Producers Association (CIPRA), which on page page 4 requested
Since there will be no such regulation I believe Bulte and others have the right idea.AOL-TW Inc also called for DMCA type regulation of technology,
Such DMCA type demands were completely dismissed by the Committee.FWIW: The September 4th 2001 submission from "The Edifying Fellowship of Ook" is hilarious. I couldn't get past the first page with that funky old English font.
I'm usually 100% cynical, but the system seems responsive.. even to the eccentric.The info you want is hard to find but here's what I've found so far.
The Canadian Private Copying Collective, CPCC is a non profit umbrella group overseeing distribution of funds.
The CPCC's has handed out $26 million CDN and will hand out a further $28 million CDN.
Depending on the year it has distributed funds as follows
66% to eligible authors and publishers, 18.9% to eligible performers, 15.1% to eligible record companies.
and in other years; authors and publishers 75%, recording artists 13.7% and record companies 11.3%.
So the (13.7%, 18.9%) distributed to artist from CPCC to SOCAN is around ($3.5, $5.2) million CDN depending on the year etc.
Now lets see what SOCAN (Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada) has to say.
Slightly off topic.. Look at the list of fees they collect (besides the tariff). Specifically "Strolling Musicians and Buskers; Recorded Music" Damn! No wonder most buskers who sing for their supper don't have a portable stereo accompanying them. SOCAN wants $32.55 per day for the accompanying music!
The moral on the above story is that the $0.21 for CD-Rs and CD-RWs is peanuts, and (in light of the legitimate purpose of backup) is already reduced from $0.77 tariff on CD-R Audio and CD-RW Audio. Specifically in this link, grep 'I buy blank CDs regularly to store data from my computer'
Okay so what does SOCAN have to say about distribution of money from the tariff... well nothing. They have forms to fill out, and they give you the option of paying with Visa and MasterCard.. but I can't find a damn thing about outflow of cash.
The closest thing I can find is in their Summer 2004 newsletter 381 Kb pdf. Which is vague at best
They "develop the artist" and are into advertisement/payolla to get foreigners to buy CDN music.
So my one last search was in the Canadian Copyright Act. Specifically Subsection Subsection 83. (13) (b).
So SOCAN has to tell the Copyright Board how it spent the money. Great, two levels of bureaucracy.
I have no intention of filling a FOI request as I don't really care enough. I'll let someone else try that. This is the furthest I can get in "following the money". :(
While you're at the copyright Act site look at subsection 84, which says only collectives/societies can collect the tariff. So, you personally cannot fill out a form and get your $0.21 back. If you want that you'll have to write Sarmite and make a good case for how the Act should be amended and how it would not be abused.
The only exception to the levy is subsection 86 (1) which exempts societies for people with perceptual disabilities. So you if you have a perceptual disability you could ask, say the CNIB, to purchase blank media for you.
FWIW: Upcomming tariffs for 2005., for private copying shows there will be no increase ($0.21, $0.77) and the distri
Here's some advice on talking with Sarmite. Do it in person, or via a written letter. Emails are ignored.
As for your views.
The proposed ISP liability is sufficiently narrow to avoid many problems. But once informed, ISPs should have some formal system to follow.
"licensing schemes for copyrighted educational materials". Yeah bring it on!
There are a few exceptions to add so that research and fair use are not stifled. But this is what we should be working for. The University/Colleges have the fat pipes and people who facilitate much of the theft.
It is only fair to try to devise a method which compensates the creators of content. If workable methods are found for sampling/tracking what content is transmitted, then a statutory fee can be assigned and a optional/mandatory licensing scheme can be developed so that royalties are collected and distributed in a fair way.
Once the non-DRM tools are developed in educational institutions then they can be spread to ISPs and we'll get A Better Way Forward: Voluntary Collective Licensing of Music File Sharing. This is what Lawrence Lessig advocates for in "Free Culture", BTW: Good book.
As for "the names of ANY Cdn musicians..." Celine Dion.
The money does get to artists. Smaller artists have a harder time getting the money because the current estimation/sampling methods just miss the smaller artists.
But the fees are a great alternative to the US $150,000 statutory damage per infringement. As Lawrence Lessig points out, a 10 song CD can cost you $1.5 Million US in damages, and as Jesse Jordan found out 100 infringements can cause $15 Million US in damages! This changed his life. Over what?
Having a distributed levy across all CDs does hurt everyone (like taxes) but it is better than ruining peoples' lives.
What we have to find is a balance between ratifying the WCT's requirement for regulating circumvention devices, while avoiding the unintented consequences.
That is what I've asked Sarmite. "What exceptions will be allowed during the regulation of technology?" I want to avoid trusted computing so they better be broad. I'd prefer no regulation of technology and totally disregarding the WCT but realistically, the US would likely use non ratification as a lever for other trade issues.
As for the NDP's stance on circumvention.. I think they are just not aware of the consequences. We'll have to inform them.
Recently (May 12) the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage issued a report on proposed changes to the Copyright Act, whose relevant recommendation is as follows:
If you overlook the last vague line, the proposed changes to Copyright Act seem harmless to those who do not download, but those who do, may become customers of Napster et al.The Act would force ISPs to cut off access for uploaders after they have been identified by the CIRA. But the report does not specifically address the disclosure of customers' information (to the CIRA), nor does it address the download v.s. upload meme.
The vagueness of the report is replicated by media reports which further mention WIPO treaties, P2P and anti-circumvention devices, all of which are not specifically addressed in the report.The EFC has not, AFAIK, commented on the report and the Toronto member of Parliament who chaired the committee, hasn't yet responded to my inquiries (will P2P or anti-circumvention be left legal?).
All iron seeding studies as of 2003, confirmed the consumption of CO2 but
Fast forward to 2004.
There is an article in nature, published on March 17 2004, whose abstract says iron is not a panacea
Audio interview, (8:36 ogg, 3.3Mb) with one of the authors. Source story.Apparently the study linked to in the original post has two studies who's results will be published in April 2004
So what do we know for sure? Adding iron does cause a bloom, and does drawdown CO2 but other nutrients are used up and the CO2's ultimate fate is debatable.
The conflicting results could be regional variation in ocean conditions, but IANAO.
Either way global warming is real, and the film may bring to light the severity of future changes.
Source story from where the link comes.
BTW: Great book. Covers what happened to his brain post autopsy. Full of neuro knowledge and witticisms.
Bell Cancelled my service early, pulled the card from the local office (only to put it back 3 days later), cut my phone service for a day and a half, and further messed up the line for 5 days until Echo complained directly to Bell.
Switching DSL service providers should be as simple as changing your authentication (username + password). Well Bell doesn't like making things easy.
I switched to Echo online's DSL service because on the 26th of June Bell Sympatico started blocking all inbound port 25 connections.
I was wondering if anyone else has similar problems, is anyone annoyed enough to start a class action? (I have no interest in investing the time, but if you want to rant try class.action at marks.______.net)
FWIW: I thought it was funny to mention Echo Online does not have OS myopia, they ackowledge, Linux, *BSD and even Sega Dreamcast as possible client OSs.
TomV gives an exact lifetime counterpoint to your hypothetical example.
Culture which surrounds you influences you. You are a meme machine, evolving according to Darwin and obeying the laws of physics.
Let's see if I can further my point by random self observations:
If it weren't for Star Trek where Geordi and Data always used a computer to solve all that was wrong, I wouldn't have thought computers were so cool. If it weren't for Clifford Stoll's "The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage"; Doubleday. I wouldn't have thought Unix could give you an adrenaline rush. His story is why I looked into Linux. Thanks Mr. Stoll. :)
Looking at a larger sample. At University an informal poll across a small section of the student body in the math department showed that nearly everyone had watched the PBS show "Square One" when they were younger. Again this is not proof, for that look at the studies (about violence) quoted above. But if you take into account those studies showing a causative link then you have to ask yourself if the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on advertising or creating purpose driven shows are being spent because the effect of influence is known and they are attempting to do so, or are they unwisely throwing money out the window?
Media is used to shape culture. ST:Voyager IMHO was created to show how all ills were biological and medical tech is a panacea. It was created in an attempt to bread a generation of doctors / health care workers who would be needed.
Of course the above argument is a generalization "s/violence/any meme/g". But the memes are interchangeable. Pavlov's studies show that even ludicrous associations may be formed. Well back to the main topic.
Violence in media has its purposes. It creates a society where it is acceptable to use violence.
Watch the movie The Quick and The Dead and try to say with a straight face that it isn't a glorification of violence and a vilification of non violence.
This ties into your statement of Japan and its media and culture.
I'll assume that what you have seen of Anime is a representative sample of what a non negligible portion of the citizenry of Japan consumes. So we are at the point that some of their media is much more violent. But how is the violence portrayed? Is it used in a Pavlovian reward/punishment sense as in the "The Quick and the Dead". Does the Anime reward those who are violent simply for being violent, and those who use their wits, non lethal technology or other means are vilified? If so I'd say those who consume such memes are more likely to do the same, rather than those who do not. Neither of us have any on point studies of Japan, so lets look at what we do know.
We could compare the rates of violence in Bhutan v.s. Japan, but you'd likely cry fowl.
So then, as I said before, look to the on point studies where three isolated cities in Canada were measured for rates of violence in school children (this study was also done in South Africa). They were then wired; one community with TV and only one channel, the other community with multiple channels and the third city left alone. Guess what happened. Those exposed to violent memes, were more violent. Gee label me shocked.
As for your argument about the Bible.. I don't know. Never read it, so I don't make any claims about it.
There have been the hundreds of studies (laboratory experiments, field experiments, correlation surveys, longitudinal panel studies) all showing a link with viewed violence and violent tendencies.
Bhutan's experience has already been documented in studies in Canada and South Africa, showing that before TV and post exposure to one channel or multiple channels of TV the children in schools became more violent and the increase was in response to the dose (number of channels). (for notes see the book quoted below).
Whenever I hear "there is no proven link" I am always shocked by the extreme ignorance. Who said "the Truth is not as important as repetition"? Was it Goebbels or Stalin? Either way here are some quotes from the book, "Children & Television" 2nd edition, Barrie Gunter & Jill McAleer; Routledge. Chapter 7 pages 92,93...
Sorry I meant "Calculating God" not "Illegal Alien".
As for random murder, it is reduced via genetics (the sterilization), peer influence & perhaps medication (pg 296-7 mentions family role and Mary mentions a biochemical role) and counseling which Ponter goes to control his temper. Nature & Nurture are both important.
The only person who supports sterilization in strong terms is Mary (pg 304) for obvious reasons. She may be the character used to advocate extreme views in the later books (I wonder what will become of the sample she took).
The interplay between both worlds and the reflection of our own is imaginative and stimulating. Great entertainment.
I recommend this book, "Golden Fleece", "Iterations" and "Illegal Alien". From Iterations the short story " Above it all" still gives me chills, I cannot look at the ISS in the same light now. "Iterations" has a neat idea for why SETI hasn't found anything yet (I haven't yet proved to myself yet that the idea is valid but it warrants further examination).
Blockquote:
Equate average molecular thermal energy (3/2)kT with kinetic energy (1/2)mv^2 and you get v=sqrt(3kT/m). Where k is Boltzmann constant (1.38e-23 J/K), T is in Kelvin and m in kg.
Now O_2 has mass 2( 2.66e-26 kg) = 5.3e-26 kg.
And H_2 has mass 2( 1.67e-27 kg) = 3.3e-27 kg.
Which comes from atmoic weight / Avogadro's 6.022e23 = grams/molecule.
Say room temperature is 79F, 22C, 295K then O_2 is zipping around at 480m/s or 0.48 km/s (about 1000 miles an hour), similarly the average H_2 molecule is going at 1.9 km/s.
The escape velocity for Earth is 11.2 km/s and for Mars 5.0 km/s.
So at first glance earth can hold onto the average O_2 and H_2. Which is clearly not the case (Earth!=Gas giant). The rule of thumb is if the average molecular speed is greater than 6 times the escape velocity then it stays, otherwise it leaves.
So 6*O_2 speed is 2.88 km/s, 6*H_2 speed is 11.4 km/s. So H_2 leaves earth's 11.2 km/s escape velocity, and O_2 is still well within Mars's 5.0km/s.
If you use bc to check the math, set "scale=30" to avoid div zero.