Governments? Bribed government officials? Population? The uninformed mass of the population?
Because a whole country having a single p.o.v. on anything is something that only happens in the fairy tales of delusional “idealists”. (And it’s not even an ideal at all.)
That is why in Germany, it’s mandatory to have an imprint page with that information on it. If you do business in Germany, and lack such a page, be prepared to get sued. As it’s 1. illegal, and 2. there are tons of law firms who have specialized on searching the net for German pages without an imprint, and writing you evil letters. (Which you have to pay always. No matter what.)
Here is Amazon’s German imprint page: http://www.amazon.de/gp/help/customer/display.html/ref=footer_impressum?ie=UTF8&nodeId=505050 It says: “Amazon.de GmbH, CEO: Ralf Kleber, commercial register registration number: 129699, VAT ID: DE 176 943 476” And “Amazon.de is the trade name for Amazon EU S.a.r.l., Amazon Services Europe S.a.r.l. and the Amazon Media EU S.a.r.l..” [S.a.r.l. (in Luxemburg) = GmbH (in Germany) = limited (US/UK)]
Then it says: [My own translation. IANAL.] This website (except Marketplace) is operated by the Amazon EU S.a.r.l., 5, Rue Plaetis - 2338 Luxemburg (VAT ID: DE 814584193, recorded register number Luxemburg: B0101818). The Amazon.de Marketplace- and zShops platform, just as other offers for third parties of this website, are operated by the Amazon Services Europe S.a.r.l, 5, Rue Plaetis, L-2338 Luxemburg (VAT ID: LU 19647148, recorded register number Luxemburg: B0093815). The MP3 Music Service is operated by the Amazon Media EU S.a.r.l., 5, Rue Plaetis, L-2338 Luxemburg (recorded register number Luxemburg: B0112767).
Interestingly, I know this street, and I doubt they have anything else than a letterbox company there. So you see: A name, and address, other contact data, and even an commercial register number don’t mean shit, if the company doesn’t want it. (Also, this being Luxemburg, they most likely bought half the parliament anyway. Just like e.g. Dupond or about a billion banks from all around the world. [Luxemburg city has pretty much a bank on every street corner!])
These are my rules of a bank that I will not have business with:
Lends your money to others. (Especially while leaving the risk with you!)
Works with interest.
Works with imaginary money. (Money that is not based on a physical resource like gold.)
These are all highly immoral and in my eyes illegal concepts.
Which is why I will found my own gold/silver-based currency and bank for my big game project, and legally allow using it outside of the game. (But will disallow any of the above behaviors.)
Heck even psychology is abused in movies and that is borderline pseudoscience anyway....
WTF? Have you jumped straight out of the 19th century??
But that’s what you get, when talking about a non-computer topic on Slashdot. People think they are experts in everything. Well, let me tell ya: You don’t know shit!
Psychology nowadays is based on neurology. The science of neural networks and especially the human brain. If all you know is therapists and medical doctors with no degree, disguising as experts in psychology, then of course you think it’s shit. The problem is, that it’s less than 20 years, since there is a proper law that separates every man and his dog who thinks he knows how people think, from real scientists. And all you know are those wannabees.
But hey, it’s likely that it’s not your fault. So let me give you a guide: If someone can not deduce something back to neurology, he is not a psychologist. Period. Simple as that.
Modern psychotherapy for example deals with revealing repressions and understanding and fixing mis-associations in neural networks. All thing that are based on neurology. Mail me and I give you an explanation of it all, in a nutshell. And based on neurology.
I don’t think we will ever colonize space in our current form.
We will likely store our minds in a computer system and transmit it from planet to planet as data. Our bodies will be mere vehicles. Biological, machines, whatever. Doesn’t matter.
And I think it will be pretty cool. Especially the sex. ^^
The request was secretly approved by District Judge Leonie Brinkema, allowing the action to be taken covertly, preventing Waledac's operators from switching domains.
So they did not switch domains until now. And are in the process of switching right now. Probably being done by tomorrow.
Wow. A whole day of a bit less spam. That really changed things...;)
'left an unworkable online environment for content creators and content providers'
Obvious bullshit. “Content creators“ like moby, nine inch nails, and many others, made tons of money online. By understanding the differing physical properties of bitspace.
But what is a content “provider”? What does that actually mean? Aren’t we all by definition “content providers”? (Ok, I’m kidding. I know that it means nothing an is just a line of bullshit.)
Let’s translate this:
'In this space you call reality, it’s impossible to keep up our fantasy business model. And it has also become impossible for us to extort artists with it.'
I thought a lot about these things (like “truth” and beliefs), and here is what I came up with:
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You can not prove that anything, except for yourself, exists. It can only be deduced.
There is no absolute knowledge (aka facts / truth). Knowledge is relative to the the ingoing information that it’s based on.
There is no “neutral“ information. Information is defined trough being a difference from the neutral default, and then it’s modulated by all the sources that it passed trough.
Every source has an associated trustworthiness factor for every point in time, that is calculated out of the consistency {{of the past experiences and the new experiences} from that source} with all the other knowledge. (I’m unsure about the weighting though.) [= Network of trust]
There is always another source behind any source. [Causality]
That is why there is no “guilt” of a source.
The primordial original source is unascertainable. [What caused the big bang? “God” as a trick to protect the mind from getting stuck over this.]
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Every input (=information) changes us. (Physically mandatory.)
And we act (=react) solely on the basis of our state at a point in time.
Our state is defined by the folding (foldl over t) of all earlier inputs.
Folding" in the sense of
the self-modulating superpositions of the learning effect of the neural network, in particular
and fundamentally of all changes of us (as matter) caused by that input, in general.
Put simply: So the question is, what it makes out of you, and what you then make out of it. [=Causality]
Our mental existence is thus defined by a sequence of transformation of our inputs.
expanding ideas (in the sense of the input transformation)
fighting for available resources
Bio-mass: space-time, matter/energy,
Ideas: space-time, mental energy.
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I’m obviously open for corrections. But beware that I blew my own mind, multiple times, while in the progress of understanding it. So your quick shot will most likely turn out to be only valid until you think a bit more about it.;)
Then again it’s completely useless, since >99% of the iPhone users could not install it anyway because of the lock-in. ^^
The iPhone would be a cool phone... If it at least had half of the freedoms you have with any other smartphone on the market... (exchange the battery, install all software, run java (j2me+) apps, tons of small functions)
Without the reality distortion bubble (massive delusion and viral marketing), nobody with a healthy mind would buy those overpriced Apple products anyway. (Or MS products for that matter.)
I only think, that their own delusion made them fly a biit too high, so that they think they can take over the whole netbook market. I’m sorry Apple. You’re good, but not that good. Because of the simple fact that most of us simply don’t have the money to buy in iPad, when a cheap Taiwanese netbook or a smartphone will do the job for a quarter of the price, AND offer more freedom.
What the professor definitely gets wrong, is is theory, that we would only create music based on what we hear. That’s extremely simplistic, and frankly, so stupid it’s insulting. Does he know nothing about neural networks? It’s ALL input we get, that is the source of our creative thought. Including, and especially, randomness!
I’m doing a bit of music myself. And I have made it my most fundamental rule, to never ever copy anything from anyone. I want to come up with it all by myself. And what that results in, is simply randomly playing my keyboard, and twisting the knobs of my synths, until something comes out that I like. I even build my own (software) synths, and synth software, to create a unique style. You can’t ever do that with imitation.
The only problem is, that it can quite literally take forever to randomly come up with something you like. That’s why it’s faster, to just use the ideas of others. (There’s nothing wrong with it. It’s just not my style.)
So I think what causes me to create music, are random things, like the sun shining and leaves moving in the wind. Or a nasty rainy day. Or just some random quantum effects.
The only thing I know for sure: The amount and quality of my music is directly proportional to the amount and bandwidth of randomness I experienced. You could say that “inspiration” is an inner randomness buffer, pretty much exactly like the one your computer uses for real collected randomness.
If a machine could write a Mozart sonata every bit as good as the originals, then what was so special about Mozart?
Nothing was. Sorry. Of course, as a human, he was an exception. But it is long proven, that there is no such thing as a prodigy genius. The only differences: 1. Keeping oneself exactly on the balancing point between too hard and too easy tasks. Which creates maximum motivation. And 2. storing things efficiently. Like “base configuration X” plus “mod Y” plus “property Z changed” = 3 memory slots. Not the perhaps thousands of a complete set of properties. And that”s all. I’m using that myself. (Harder than it sounds, but definitely doable for everyone.)
We humans started out thinking that we were the God-chosen species... or even race. The only one with intelligence. The only one with a “soul” (an imaginary concept anyway). On a planet at the center of the universe. And gradually, all those things fell apart.
We’re not special. We’r also only machines.
It’s just that for some weird reason, we have concepts like “good”, “bad” and “special”, and some of us hang their whole stupid pride on being “good” and “special”. Things are just what they are. You make the best out of it.
I say, I’m pretty damn proud that we humans have come to the level, where we nearly create our own forms life. And if that life is successful, then so are we. Just like a master is proud of his student, when the student defeats him for the first time.
But they won’t be able to know your actual password. Which was the point. (Of course that ends, as soon as they install a different “passwd” program, and you use it to enter your new password.)
That's not the question. The question is if GoDaddy is trustworthy.
[Huge list of news, showing GoDaddy’s questionable trustworthiness]
I think you just answered that question.;)
Also, (I know that looks are not really relevant) why does he look like a cross of Hannibal Lecter and a child molester? (I swear, looks can’t be that irrelevant, considering [statistically significantly] how often they fit.;)
Make a backup of your server, and then tell them that they won’t get it.
If they switch off your server, sue them for extortion, trespassing (in case they entered the server) and damages. [Same rules as with a (business) apartment and a landlord.]
But I personally already had hosters asking me for the root password. I refused. That was it. They did not do anything. (We still had a contract, after all.) Of course they told me that they wouldn’t give me support for the software. But I wouldn’t have wanted that anyway, since on the last managed server, they wrecked my database when one of their idiot admins did “fix” something.
I don’t see the problem. Let them bitch. Tell them to fuck off or you’ll sue. Done.
Yes and no. It’s like having an apartment. The landlord might own it. But it’s still highly illegal for him to go into your apartment without you allowing it. It’s the same thing as breaking it.
The question of trust was not the point. The point is, that the landlord is telling you, to give you a copy of keys of the apartment, or he’d throw you out. In Germany, he would get dragged to court, and lose big time, when trying this on anyone.
The same should be true for GoDaddy. Everything else would be laws not keeping up with progress.
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Governments? Bribed government officials?
Population? The uninformed mass of the population?
Because a whole country having a single p.o.v. on anything is something that only happens in the fairy tales of delusional “idealists”. (And it’s not even an ideal at all.)
They are called LEDs. And “There’s a driver for that!”! (Can I coin that as a new motto for Linux? ^^)
That is why in Germany, it’s mandatory to have an imprint page with that information on it.
If you do business in Germany, and lack such a page, be prepared to get sued. As it’s 1. illegal, and 2. there are tons of law firms who have specialized on searching the net for German pages without an imprint, and writing you evil letters. (Which you have to pay always. No matter what.)
Here is Amazon’s German imprint page: http://www.amazon.de/gp/help/customer/display.html/ref=footer_impressum?ie=UTF8&nodeId=505050
It says: “Amazon.de GmbH, CEO: Ralf Kleber, commercial register registration number: 129699, VAT ID: DE 176 943 476”
And “Amazon.de is the trade name for Amazon EU S.a.r.l., Amazon Services Europe S.a.r.l. and the Amazon Media EU S.a.r.l..”
[S.a.r.l. (in Luxemburg) = GmbH (in Germany) = limited (US/UK)]
Then it says: [My own translation. IANAL.]
This website (except Marketplace) is operated by the Amazon EU S.a.r.l., 5, Rue Plaetis - 2338 Luxemburg (VAT ID: DE 814584193, recorded register number Luxemburg: B0101818).
The Amazon.de Marketplace- and zShops platform, just as other offers for third parties of this website, are operated by the Amazon Services Europe S.a.r.l, 5, Rue Plaetis, L-2338 Luxemburg (VAT ID: LU 19647148, recorded register number Luxemburg: B0093815).
The MP3 Music Service is operated by the Amazon Media EU S.a.r.l., 5, Rue Plaetis, L-2338 Luxemburg (recorded register number Luxemburg: B0112767).
Interestingly, I know this street, and I doubt they have anything else than a letterbox company there.
So you see: A name, and address, other contact data, and even an commercial register number don’t mean shit, if the company doesn’t want it. (Also, this being Luxemburg, they most likely bought half the parliament anyway. Just like e.g. Dupond or about a billion banks from all around the world. [Luxemburg city has pretty much a bank on every street corner!])
These are my rules of a bank that I will not have business with:
These are all highly immoral and in my eyes illegal concepts.
Which is why I will found my own gold/silver-based currency and bank for my big game project, and legally allow using it outside of the game. (But will disallow any of the above behaviors.)
Heck even psychology is abused in movies and that is borderline pseudoscience anyway....
WTF? Have you jumped straight out of the 19th century??
But that’s what you get, when talking about a non-computer topic on Slashdot. People think they are experts in everything.
Well, let me tell ya: You don’t know shit!
Psychology nowadays is based on neurology. The science of neural networks and especially the human brain.
If all you know is therapists and medical doctors with no degree, disguising as experts in psychology, then of course you think it’s shit. The problem is, that it’s less than 20 years, since there is a proper law that separates every man and his dog who thinks he knows how people think, from real scientists. And all you know are those wannabees.
But hey, it’s likely that it’s not your fault. So let me give you a guide:
If someone can not deduce something back to neurology, he is not a psychologist. Period. Simple as that.
Modern psychotherapy for example deals with revealing repressions and understanding and fixing mis-associations in neural networks. All thing that are based on neurology. Mail me and I give you an explanation of it all, in a nutshell. And based on neurology.
Uuum, are you... dumb?
Just put the projectors closer!!
You can even use less powerful ones, since there is less surface to light on.
Man, shit, where’s your imagination??
Just put up a couple of HD beamers! On a concave screen. And you’re good. You can even fill all of your viewing area that way.
I don’t think we will ever colonize space in our current form.
We will likely store our minds in a computer system and transmit it from planet to planet as data. Our bodies will be mere vehicles. Biological, machines, whatever. Doesn’t matter.
And I think it will be pretty cool. Especially the sex. ^^
You mean “love” as in “saying yes and amen to someone trying to freeride on your wifi in a very non-loving way”?
Yeah. Next you tell me “love thy burglar”. ;)
Man, I wish we had a fucking pub here. I’d fuck there every night. ;)
please feel free.
Exactly. Feel. Not be free. Just feel. ;)
It’s the new craze these days.
The request was secretly approved by District Judge Leonie Brinkema, allowing the action to be taken covertly, preventing Waledac's operators from switching domains.
So they did not switch domains until now. And are in the process of switching right now. Probably being done by tomorrow.
Wow. A whole day of a bit less spam. That really changed things... ;)
You’re lucky when you get it down to 500 m.
Then again, when you’re a A-GPS server provider... ;)
Well, I heard that some are installing Windows inside a VM on OS X. ;))
(Linux here, and my Windows and OSX VMs lie under K -> Games -> *)
'left an unworkable online environment for content creators and content providers'
Obvious bullshit. “Content creators“ like moby, nine inch nails, and many others, made tons of money online. By understanding the differing physical properties of bitspace.
But what is a content “provider”? What does that actually mean? Aren’t we all by definition “content providers”? (Ok, I’m kidding. I know that it means nothing an is just a line of bullshit.)
Let’s translate this:
'In this space you call reality, it’s impossible to keep up our fantasy business model. And it has also become impossible for us to extort artists with it.'
I thought a lot about these things (like “truth” and beliefs), and here is what I came up with:
————————————————————
————————————————————
————————————————————
We are only
fighting for available resources
————————————————————
I’m obviously open for corrections. But beware that I blew my own mind, multiple times, while in the progress of understanding it. So your quick shot will most likely turn out to be only valid until you think a bit more about it. ;)
Then again it’s completely useless, since >99% of the iPhone users could not install it anyway because of the lock-in. ^^
The iPhone would be a cool phone... If it at least had half of the freedoms you have with any other smartphone on the market... (exchange the battery, install all software, run java (j2me+) apps, tons of small functions)
I’m sorry, but not only does the N900 run Quake 3 (and very smoothly). No, it also runs Windows 95 and MacOS X!
But I haven’t seen news for this on /.
Funny that this could never ever happen with iPhone (locked down), so we’re at least safe from that. ;)
Without the reality distortion bubble (massive delusion and viral marketing), nobody with a healthy mind would buy those overpriced Apple products anyway. (Or MS products for that matter.)
I only think, that their own delusion made them fly a biit too high, so that they think they can take over the whole netbook market.
I’m sorry Apple. You’re good, but not that good.
Because of the simple fact that most of us simply don’t have the money to buy in iPad, when a cheap Taiwanese netbook or a smartphone will do the job for a quarter of the price, AND offer more freedom.
What the professor definitely gets wrong, is is theory, that we would only create music based on what we hear. That’s extremely simplistic, and frankly, so stupid it’s insulting. Does he know nothing about neural networks?
It’s ALL input we get, that is the source of our creative thought. Including, and especially, randomness!
I’m doing a bit of music myself. And I have made it my most fundamental rule, to never ever copy anything from anyone. I want to come up with it all by myself.
And what that results in, is simply randomly playing my keyboard, and twisting the knobs of my synths, until something comes out that I like. I even build my own (software) synths, and synth software, to create a unique style.
You can’t ever do that with imitation.
The only problem is, that it can quite literally take forever to randomly come up with something you like. That’s why it’s faster, to just use the ideas of others. (There’s nothing wrong with it. It’s just not my style.)
So I think what causes me to create music, are random things, like the sun shining and leaves moving in the wind. Or a nasty rainy day. Or just some random quantum effects.
The only thing I know for sure: The amount and quality of my music is directly proportional to the amount and bandwidth of randomness I experienced. You could say that “inspiration” is an inner randomness buffer, pretty much exactly like the one your computer uses for real collected randomness.
That’s the only thing special about us.
If a machine could write a Mozart sonata every bit as good as the originals, then what was so special about Mozart?
Nothing was. Sorry.
Of course, as a human, he was an exception. But it is long proven, that there is no such thing as a prodigy genius. The only differences: 1. Keeping oneself exactly on the balancing point between too hard and too easy tasks. Which creates maximum motivation. And 2. storing things efficiently. Like “base configuration X” plus “mod Y” plus “property Z changed” = 3 memory slots. Not the perhaps thousands of a complete set of properties. And that”s all. I’m using that myself. (Harder than it sounds, but definitely doable for everyone.)
We humans started out thinking that we were the God-chosen species... or even race. The only one with intelligence. The only one with a “soul” (an imaginary concept anyway). On a planet at the center of the universe.
And gradually, all those things fell apart.
We’re not special. We’r also only machines.
It’s just that for some weird reason, we have concepts like “good”, “bad” and “special”, and some of us hang their whole stupid pride on being “good” and “special”.
Things are just what they are. You make the best out of it.
I say, I’m pretty damn proud that we humans have come to the level, where we nearly create our own forms life. And if that life is successful, then so are we. Just like a master is proud of his student, when the student defeats him for the first time.
But they won’t be able to know your actual password. Which was the point.
(Of course that ends, as soon as they install a different “passwd” program, and you use it to enter your new password.)
That's not the question. The question is if GoDaddy is trustworthy.
[Huge list of news, showing GoDaddy’s questionable trustworthiness]
I think you just answered that question. ;)
Also, (I know that looks are not really relevant) why does he look like a cross of Hannibal Lecter and a child molester? (I swear, looks can’t be that irrelevant, considering [statistically significantly] how often they fit. ;)
Make a backup of your server, and then tell them that they won’t get it.
If they switch off your server, sue them for extortion, trespassing (in case they entered the server) and damages. [Same rules as with a (business) apartment and a landlord.]
But I personally already had hosters asking me for the root password. I refused. That was it. They did not do anything. (We still had a contract, after all.) Of course they told me that they wouldn’t give me support for the software. But I wouldn’t have wanted that anyway, since on the last managed server, they wrecked my database when one of their idiot admins did “fix” something.
I don’t see the problem. Let them bitch. Tell them to fuck off or you’ll sue. Done.
Yes and no. It’s like having an apartment. The landlord might own it. But it’s still highly illegal for him to go into your apartment without you allowing it. It’s the same thing as breaking it.
The question of trust was not the point. The point is, that the landlord is telling you, to give you a copy of keys of the apartment, or he’d throw you out.
In Germany, he would get dragged to court, and lose big time, when trying this on anyone.
The same should be true for GoDaddy. Everything else would be laws not keeping up with progress.