I'll give you one BTC if you join.
I accept BTCs as payement for freelance development.
Mining is not the normal way of acquiring BTCs. Just like mining gold is not the usual way to get money when you have a money based on the gold standard.
Couldn't you have a battery in the house, a big, heavy but cheap battery that would store the energy, would charge off-peak and then recharge the car battery ? I think that if weight and size are not a concern, you can get a decent amount of battery for $3000
Us transhumans have even a better scaremongering argument : the first bicentennial man (or more probably woman) is already born. Population will not stop at 9 billions.
Few ? They may not be an overwhelming majority, but they also provide a good filter. People who are keen on judging you by skills rather than diploma generally offer a good work environment and good learning opportunities.
Information theory is a science. Computer technology is one of the most well defined realm of technology, it has quasi-mathematical definitions. It would be great if instead of giving a bunch of case_by_case analysis (that sometimes contradict with each others), lawyers gave us a clear understanding, a computable understanding, of what the different terms encompass.
But I know what they fear : that with a precise enough definition, it will be easy to automate circumvention of these nonsensical laws. If we could have the algorithm that decides that two works are:
- the same
- similar enough to be considered rip-offs
- close enough to be considered plagiarism
- different enough to be considered independent works
It would really be useful. Until then, it is fair to say that their laws do not make any sense.
It will remain geeks-only until people need it and it will be too late then. We need to have a resilient network while staying on the geeks-only realm.
Most people never asked to have a computer. They just want their emails, facebook, youtube and video games. They will be happy with their iPhone iPad, etc...
I long for the time where computers will become a nerd-only item again. Then, maybe, governments will stop making silly laws about silesharing, reverse engineering and DMCAs and will just force Apple or Google to put his or that limitation in their sandboxed mobile operating systems.
That's a law, stop thinking it needs to be as clearly defined as a technical specs. It just exists to give the impression that rulings are not arbitrary.
If you can't have a steadily growing small party that gains seats incrementally on each elections, you are effectively locked into a bi-party system. To solve that you need the approach that Lawrence Lessig promotes : create a movement inside both parties. And chose to be a turn voter that makes choice on a single issue : the stand of candidates toward lobbying.
Exactly. It makes sense to put wikileaks and privacy defense in the same balance : If I live in a world of state secrets and discrete elites, I want a privacy good enough to secretly prepare a coup in case everything runs into a police state. If I live in a world of transparency and democracy (that part is important as well) where state and individual secrets are revealed, I would be happy as well. But lawmakers dissolving privacy while staying completely opaque themselves only make wikileaks efforts appear legitimate.
http://xkcd.com/743/
Everyone wearing an emitter linked to a microphone that connects to a national communication network. That IS Stalin's dream. Unless you build strong safeties, that are clearly not present. Let us sniff what comes out ! Open the GSM/3G stack !
Solve the exit node, by not exiting the network ! You can use a Tor hiddent service, or use anonets, to provide a website to the persons connected to Tor (no access from the outside). The exit node is then not a bottleneck anymore.
This should be the normal way to connect to the net : anonymous client, anonymous server, encrypted transmission.
In the 70s, internet did not exist nor did Khan's videos. It is not about a computerized education system, it is about student choosing what to watch and having at their disposal hundreds (thousands ?) of well made videos by a competent speaker that happened to not be formated by the current teaching system.
What's dangerous is that the data mining companies also provide data to the government.
Oh really ? If the government wants to know about you, it has access to police files, medical records, banking accounts. I would be very worried that the other way around happen : government giving information to companies about my medical conditions, the car I own, my water consumption, etc..
Right now, I think that data mining companies know about me about the same thing I would tell to any person willing to drink a beer with me and to hear the boring story of my life : age, education, hobbies, occupation, religion, political opinion, etc... To be fair, I never had to hide these to anyone. Actually, if I had had a big sign saying "leftist atheist with anarchist tendencies and who lists 'hacking' as a commendable activity", I don't see much occasions where it would have been a handicap. Quite the contrary.
Job interview ? Well I have the opinion that it is hard to recruit a developer if you are afraid of these. Most grown-ups know that the world is filled with people that have different opinions and that they are doomed to work with some of them.
I don't know in USA, but in France (and I think the whole European Union) you can't patent "mathematical formulas" or algorithms. Of course, this principle is in the law without any formal description of what constitutes a formula or an algorithm. Therefore, during the DeCss, some people published a big prime number and an algorithm that could be used to transform this number into the DeCss.
Another interesting jurisprudence is that fashion designs are not protected by any IP law, they are considered non-patentable, non-copyrightable. One could design an algorithm to transform any content in a fashion product and lead to things of an unexpected legal status.
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I'll give you one BTC if you join.
I accept BTCs as payement for freelance development.
Mining is not the normal way of acquiring BTCs. Just like mining gold is not the usual way to get money when you have a money based on the gold standard.
Couldn't you have a battery in the house, a big, heavy but cheap battery that would store the energy, would charge off-peak and then recharge the car battery ? I think that if weight and size are not a concern, you can get a decent amount of battery for $3000
Us transhumans have even a better scaremongering argument : the first bicentennial man (or more probably woman) is already born. Population will not stop at 9 billions.
Few ? They may not be an overwhelming majority, but they also provide a good filter. People who are keen on judging you by skills rather than diploma generally offer a good work environment and good learning opportunities.
Information theory is a science. Computer technology is one of the most well defined realm of technology, it has quasi-mathematical definitions. It would be great if instead of giving a bunch of case_by_case analysis (that sometimes contradict with each others), lawyers gave us a clear understanding, a computable understanding, of what the different terms encompass.
But I know what they fear : that with a precise enough definition, it will be easy to automate circumvention of these nonsensical laws. If we could have the algorithm that decides that two works are:
- the same
- similar enough to be considered rip-offs
- close enough to be considered plagiarism
- different enough to be considered independent works
It would really be useful. Until then, it is fair to say that their laws do not make any sense.
It will remain geeks-only until people need it and it will be too late then. We need to have a resilient network while staying on the geeks-only realm.
Most people never asked to have a computer. They just want their emails, facebook, youtube and video games. They will be happy with their iPhone iPad, etc...
I long for the time where computers will become a nerd-only item again. Then, maybe, governments will stop making silly laws about silesharing, reverse engineering and DMCAs and will just force Apple or Google to put his or that limitation in their sandboxed mobile operating systems.
That's a law, stop thinking it needs to be as clearly defined as a technical specs. It just exists to give the impression that rulings are not arbitrary.
Not. An. Excuse.
We need a +1 "replace the article by this comment"
They are not real lawyers. They are led by geeks. They evolved. Some pose as IP lawyers. And they have a plan.
If you can't have a steadily growing small party that gains seats incrementally on each elections, you are effectively locked into a bi-party system. To solve that you need the approach that Lawrence Lessig promotes : create a movement inside both parties. And chose to be a turn voter that makes choice on a single issue : the stand of candidates toward lobbying.
Exactly. It makes sense to put wikileaks and privacy defense in the same balance : If I live in a world of state secrets and discrete elites, I want a privacy good enough to secretly prepare a coup in case everything runs into a police state. If I live in a world of transparency and democracy (that part is important as well) where state and individual secrets are revealed, I would be happy as well. But lawmakers dissolving privacy while staying completely opaque themselves only make wikileaks efforts appear legitimate.
Batman, Stalin, one is a work of fiction.
Tell it is to safeguard the earth from a big bad meteor or that it can be used to detect a trrorist backyard missile. You'll get funds.
http://xkcd.com/743/ Everyone wearing an emitter linked to a microphone that connects to a national communication network. That IS Stalin's dream. Unless you build strong safeties, that are clearly not present. Let us sniff what comes out ! Open the GSM/3G stack !
Solve the exit node, by not exiting the network ! You can use a Tor hiddent service, or use anonets, to provide a website to the persons connected to Tor (no access from the outside). The exit node is then not a bottleneck anymore.
This should be the normal way to connect to the net : anonymous client, anonymous server, encrypted transmission.
In the 70s, internet did not exist nor did Khan's videos. It is not about a computerized education system, it is about student choosing what to watch and having at their disposal hundreds (thousands ?) of well made videos by a competent speaker that happened to not be formated by the current teaching system.
Why do you call it fund-raising ? It is called extortion.
And also shame on the journalist who believes that a third party host is the good place to put political pictures.
What's dangerous is that the data mining companies also provide data to the government.
Oh really ? If the government wants to know about you, it has access to police files, medical records, banking accounts. I would be very worried that the other way around happen : government giving information to companies about my medical conditions, the car I own, my water consumption, etc..
Right now, I think that data mining companies know about me about the same thing I would tell to any person willing to drink a beer with me and to hear the boring story of my life : age, education, hobbies, occupation, religion, political opinion, etc... To be fair, I never had to hide these to anyone. Actually, if I had had a big sign saying "leftist atheist with anarchist tendencies and who lists 'hacking' as a commendable activity", I don't see much occasions where it would have been a handicap. Quite the contrary.
Job interview ? Well I have the opinion that it is hard to recruit a developer if you are afraid of these. Most grown-ups know that the world is filled with people that have different opinions and that they are doomed to work with some of them.
Well we can surely prove that if it bears some truth, the average voter has a small mind.
Therefore, if you want an idea to gain some merit, you have to push forward the people more likely to advance them.
I would post as anonymous for augmented irony, but karma is good for my skin problem.
The whole idea of cooling is that you do not have a closed system.
Technically, you are not running an OS, you are running Microsoft Windows 7.
Trolling isn't fun on internet, but trolling by passing laws the worst...
I don't know in USA, but in France (and I think the whole European Union) you can't patent "mathematical formulas" or algorithms. Of course, this principle is in the law without any formal description of what constitutes a formula or an algorithm. Therefore, during the DeCss, some people published a big prime number and an algorithm that could be used to transform this number into the DeCss.
Another interesting jurisprudence is that fashion designs are not protected by any IP law, they are considered non-patentable, non-copyrightable. One could design an algorithm to transform any content in a fashion product and lead to things of an unexpected legal status.