The article was not excellent. It was designed to marginalize him and turn him into a crazy guy tilting at government windmills. The headline in the print edition said Lessig wants to "smash" the copyright system. That's just plain false. He's a big believer in copyright-- he just doesn't want it to last forever. He wants there to be some balance between the public's rights and the copyright holder's rights.
He's got a good compromise system that would force people to renew their copyrights if they were still valid. If people renewed, they would still get all of the protections today, but if they didn't the work would fall into the public domain. This is a great help for researchers, librarians and everyone else who needs to find a copy of something that's out of print. Did you realize that it's illegal to make a copy of something that's out of print? Yup. You could stilll get sued for $150,000 per copy! This proposals is just another dose of sanity for the system.
Wired didn't care about any of this. They didn't even mention it. They just painted him as a bit of a nutcase. Remember this is the same author (Steven Levy) who wrote a glowing review of the M$ Paladium system. Beware!
Okay, I didn't say all of them. But you've got to agree that some of them just look like their body has checked out from active duty. It's like the body thinks that some famine is sweeping through. The body is saying, "Must stop any unnecessary activities. Must conserve calories. Famine is here."
Again, that's my point. Eating less meat than Americans doesn't mean you live longer. People in poor countries eat less meat than Americans, and most of them don't live as long. Just because some folks eating the Mediterranian diet eat less meat and live longer doesn't mean that eating less meat leads to longer lives. (Maybe vegetarianism starves the parts of the brain that support logic.)
I'm not sure about vegetarians living longer in the United States, but I'm sure that people living countries with substandard sources of meat protein do not have longer lifespans. The US may not keep people alive as long as places like Japan, but folks do live much longer than in places like Africa. Come on.
Most of the vegetarians I know have a kind of wan and lifeless glow. They're often fairly passive. I wouldn't be surprised to find out that the vegan population is dying sooner than people with a balanced diet.
The real question is what is a balanced diet. 90% of Americans eat too much of anything. That's why they're so fat. It's not the meat in the diet as much as the volume. Encouraging people to eat more vegetables is one thing, but making of fake statistics about lifespans isn't a great idea.
No, I seem to remember that Bill and Ted watched Socrates sift some sand through his fingers. Then Ted quoted the opening of some soap opera. I think he said, "Like sand through the hands of an hour so are the days of our lives."
Sand is pretty close to dust, but I think Ted was only invoking the image to suggest that time is an unstoppable progression. Hah. They had just been through a time machine so they should know a bit more.
Yes, I realize it's fun to debate whether the fat in the charity budget is a problem, but the real problem is the fat in the food. Ben and Jerry's make some of the most unhealthy food served in America. Their only saving grace is the fact they sell it in pints, not half-gallons like regular ice cream. But there's often more fat in one of their pints than in the standard half-gallon cartons.
spoiler question about the kid
on
Minority Report
·
· Score: 1
Did anyone else think that the evil head of the pre-crime unit killed Anderton's kid to help recruit Tom Cruise? The thread was never explained and I thought that was going to be piled on top of his list of offenses. But it was only Agatha's mom.
Here's a book (Translucent Databases) written by Slashdot regular, Peter Wayner. It might be informative and helpful to those who face the same problems with insiders abusing information. From my understanding, the techniques aren't always useful, but they can help in many cases.
http://www.wayner.org/books/td/
Re:Sun invented patterns?
on
Bitter Java
·
· Score: 1
Well, I did say "in most cases". Most politicians don't rank with Clinton and Nixon. But those are good "anti-examples"
Re:Sun invented patterns?
on
Bitter Java
·
· Score: 1
Yes, but it's a great snide comment. Al never really claimed to invent the Internet either. In most cases, political gaffes are never as bad as they seem to be, once Jay Leno starts up.
Re:National Cryptologic Museum has an Enigma
on
Enigma
·
· Score: 1
I have to agree. The museum could be much better if the NSA let their guys declassify things, but it's still quite good.
Nazi leaders aren't the only ones on the line
on
Enigma
·
· Score: 1
The movie makers might be sued by anyone using the Enigma as a copyright protection mechanism. The reviewer is one such person. Talk about a review that could shut down a movie!
Re:Society Only Appreciates Scientists In Movies
on
Enigma
·
· Score: 1
According to one of the links above , Turing was one of the codebreakers who served as a model for the protagonist. They left out the gayness, however, because the protogonist was obviously ga-ga over a girl.
Gnutella is compared to Ultra
on
Enigma
·
· Score: 1
Ultra was the general mechanism for distributing the intercepts. It was a complicated, very secret group that went out of its way to avoid letting the Nazis know that the codes were broken. They were sharing files.
Gnutella is one of the most decentralized file sharing systems. So it has the potential to be the most secret. I suppose a better comparison might be to the warez traders.
* An email box that lets me extract the threads with my friends. * An email box that automatically ages the files effectively archiving them. Some of my mail folders/files are huge now and it takes too long to append them when new mail arrives.
Yes, I realize I should get off my butt and do this, but it's faster to post on slashdot.
Yes, this is all true, but not particularly open
on
Dog Bites Website
·
· Score: 1
I wish Jon Katz well with his book. Dog lovers are all right in my book. But that doesn't mean I condone using the word "open" in this context. All marketting is "open", almost by definition. If "open" is a valid adjective to use, then there must be something in opposition like "closed marketting". Does it exist? Hah. If a tree isn't cut down in a forest to turn into four-color brochures, does the tree still exist?
Yes, I'm sure the secret plans of the big conglomerates are locked away somewhere, but marketting is all about spreading your message. I don't see what's new or "open" here. He's right that mailing lists and weblogs are new tools, but word-of-mouth has always been with us. If he wants to hype the book, he should just talk about the book, not the marketing campaign.
The last time I checked, Google had more than 10,000 servers. I realize these aren't tightly coupled, parallel processors, but it's still a massive machine. Is it 10,000 computers or one? I say for the purposes of comparision that it would beat the Japanese computer. If not now, in a few months when Google's installation grows even larger.
This piece struck me as a thinnly-veiled ploy to get more cash for some government computer lab.
They kick back 5 to 15% to whomever provides a link that leads to a sale. That's not small beer. They make it easy for anyone to provide these links. So of course they're all over the place.
You're wrong. There are plenty of quotes from the book. The rant is tacked on the end, but the first part does an adequate job of describing Yourdon, his track record, and what he's offering. The rant is in direct opposition to the book so I say that it's fair.
I don't think this is the exact answer to the question, but I think it's related. This book is just appearing. The FAQ makes it clear that it's focuses on locking up some of the data but leaving some in the open, hence the title Translucent Databases .
Many people actively want to spend more. One of my relatively clueless neighbors asked me to bless his decision to spend $2700 on a new Dell. It was top of the line. I knew he did a bit of word processing and spent the rest of the time at home playing flight simulator games. He's not an avid, fast-twitch gamer. I tried to talk him into a $700 system. He wouldn't budge. He wanted to spend that much. He wanted to make sure it was "upwardly compatible" and "expandable", even though he would just spend another $2700 in a few years.
There are plenty of suckers who have too much money. It's fine by me if the computer companies take it.
The only thing that worries me is that they'll increase the cost of low-end systems that I like. It's been a long time since I did anything but basic coding and editing.
Well, the poster isn't calling it a one-time pad. Just says mixing it in like a one-time pad. Perhaps the poster meant to imply that this algorithm could do something similar to what the article claimed was happening. I think the poster clearly knows that this stuff is not the same. They were probablyl posting as fast as they could to get first post.
"Extremely strict terms". Hah. Probably like the extremely strict terms that Enron used to protect their employees pension. You place too much faith in "extremely strict terms".
No way. This kind of Nancy Drew-attention to detail is outstanding. I tip my hat. Don't listen to this bozo who seems to feel that there's something wrong with technical prowess. He probably thinks he has a "life" because he spends Thursday through Sunday drinking to excess. Hitting the bars with his so-called friends counts more to him than being sharp as a knife.
Accept my congratulations.
Slashdot Mirror
The article was not excellent. It was designed to marginalize him and turn him into a crazy guy tilting at government windmills. The headline in the print edition said Lessig wants to "smash" the copyright system. That's just plain false. He's a big believer in copyright-- he just doesn't want it to last forever. He wants there to be some balance between the public's rights and the copyright holder's rights. He's got a good compromise system that would force people to renew their copyrights if they were still valid. If people renewed, they would still get all of the protections today, but if they didn't the work would fall into the public domain. This is a great help for researchers, librarians and everyone else who needs to find a copy of something that's out of print. Did you realize that it's illegal to make a copy of something that's out of print? Yup. You could stilll get sued for $150,000 per copy! This proposals is just another dose of sanity for the system.
Wired didn't care about any of this. They didn't even mention it. They just painted him as a bit of a nutcase. Remember this is the same author (Steven Levy) who wrote a glowing review of the M$ Paladium system. Beware!
Okay, I didn't say all of them. But you've got to agree that some of them just look like their body has checked out from active duty. It's like the body thinks that some famine is sweeping through. The body is saying, "Must stop any unnecessary activities. Must conserve calories. Famine is here."
Again, that's my point. Eating less meat than Americans doesn't mean you live longer. People in poor countries eat less meat than Americans, and most of them don't live as long. Just because some folks eating the Mediterranian diet eat less meat and live longer doesn't mean that eating less meat leads to longer lives. (Maybe vegetarianism starves the parts of the brain that support logic.)
I'm not sure about vegetarians living longer in the United States, but I'm sure that people living countries with substandard sources of meat protein do not have longer lifespans. The US may not keep people alive as long as places like Japan, but folks do live much longer than in places like Africa. Come on.
Most of the vegetarians I know have a kind of wan and lifeless glow. They're often fairly passive. I wouldn't be surprised to find out that the vegan population is dying sooner than people with a balanced diet.
The real question is what is a balanced diet. 90% of Americans eat too much of anything. That's why they're so fat. It's not the meat in the diet as much as the volume. Encouraging people to eat more vegetables is one thing, but making of fake statistics about lifespans isn't a great idea.
No, I seem to remember that Bill and Ted watched Socrates sift some sand through his fingers. Then Ted quoted the opening of some soap opera. I think he said, "Like sand through the hands of an hour so are the days of our lives."
Sand is pretty close to dust, but I think Ted was only invoking the image to suggest that time is an unstoppable progression. Hah. They had just been through a time machine so they should know a bit more.
Yes, I realize it's fun to debate whether the fat in the charity budget is a problem, but the real problem is the fat in the food. Ben and Jerry's make some of the most unhealthy food served in America. Their only saving grace is the fact they sell it in pints, not half-gallons like regular ice cream. But there's often more fat in one of their pints than in the standard half-gallon cartons.
Did anyone else think that the evil head of the pre-crime unit killed Anderton's kid to help recruit Tom Cruise? The thread was never explained and I thought that was going to be piled on top of his list of offenses. But it was only Agatha's mom.
Here's a book (Translucent Databases) written by Slashdot regular, Peter Wayner. It might be informative and helpful to those who face the same problems with insiders abusing information. From my understanding, the techniques aren't always useful, but they can help in many cases. http://www.wayner.org/books/td/
Well, I did say "in most cases". Most politicians don't rank with Clinton and Nixon. But those are good "anti-examples"
Yes, but it's a great snide comment. Al never really claimed to invent the Internet either. In most cases, political gaffes are never as bad as they seem to be, once Jay Leno starts up.
I have to agree. The museum could be much better if the NSA let their guys declassify things, but it's still quite good.
The movie makers might be sued by anyone using the Enigma as a copyright protection mechanism. The reviewer is one such person. Talk about a review that could shut down a movie!
According to one of the links above , Turing was one of the codebreakers who served as a model for the protagonist. They left out the gayness, however, because the protogonist was obviously ga-ga over a girl.
Ultra was the general mechanism for distributing the intercepts. It was a complicated, very secret group that went out of its way to avoid letting the Nazis know that the codes were broken. They were sharing files.
Gnutella is one of the most decentralized file sharing systems. So it has the potential to be the most secret. I suppose a better comparison might be to the warez traders.
Here's to the researchers. I would like:
* An email box that lets me extract the threads with my friends.
* An email box that automatically ages the files effectively archiving them. Some of my mail folders/files are huge now and it takes too long to append them when new mail arrives.
Yes, I realize I should get off my butt and do this, but it's faster to post on slashdot.
I wish Jon Katz well with his book. Dog lovers are all right in my book. But that doesn't mean I condone using the word "open" in this context. All marketting is "open", almost by definition. If "open" is a valid adjective to use, then there must be something in opposition like "closed marketting". Does it exist? Hah. If a tree isn't cut down in a forest to turn into four-color brochures, does the tree still exist?
Yes, I'm sure the secret plans of the big conglomerates are locked away somewhere, but marketting is all about spreading your message. I don't see what's new or "open" here. He's right that mailing lists and weblogs are new tools, but word-of-mouth has always been with us. If he wants to hype the book, he should just talk about the book, not the marketing campaign.
The last time I checked, Google had more than 10,000 servers. I realize these aren't tightly coupled, parallel processors, but it's still a massive machine. Is it 10,000 computers or one? I say for the purposes of comparision that it would beat the Japanese computer. If not now, in a few months when Google's installation grows even larger. This piece struck me as a thinnly-veiled ploy to get more cash for some government computer lab.
They kick back 5 to 15% to whomever provides a link that leads to a sale. That's not small beer. They make it easy for anyone to provide these links. So of course they're all over the place.
You're wrong. There are plenty of quotes from the book. The rant is tacked on the end, but the first part does an adequate job of describing Yourdon, his track record, and what he's offering. The rant is in direct opposition to the book so I say that it's fair.
I don't think this is the exact answer to the question, but I think it's related. This book is just appearing. The FAQ makes it clear that it's focuses on locking up some of the data but leaving some in the open, hence the title Translucent Databases .
Many people actively want to spend more. One of my relatively clueless neighbors asked me to bless his decision to spend $2700 on a new Dell. It was top of the line. I knew he did a bit of word processing and spent the rest of the time at home playing flight simulator games. He's not an avid, fast-twitch gamer. I tried to talk him into a $700 system. He wouldn't budge. He wanted to spend that much. He wanted to make sure it was "upwardly compatible" and "expandable", even though he would just spend another $2700 in a few years. There are plenty of suckers who have too much money. It's fine by me if the computer companies take it. The only thing that worries me is that they'll increase the cost of low-end systems that I like. It's been a long time since I did anything but basic coding and editing.
Who knows about carriage returns, but I for one loved yours more. Write more.
Well, the poster isn't calling it a one-time pad. Just says mixing it in like a one-time pad. Perhaps the poster meant to imply that this algorithm could do something similar to what the article claimed was happening. I think the poster clearly knows that this stuff is not the same. They were probablyl posting as fast as they could to get first post.
"Extremely strict terms". Hah. Probably like the extremely strict terms that Enron used to protect their employees pension. You place too much faith in "extremely strict terms".
No way. This kind of Nancy Drew-attention to detail is outstanding. I tip my hat. Don't listen to this bozo who seems to feel that there's something wrong with technical prowess. He probably thinks he has a "life" because he spends Thursday through Sunday drinking to excess. Hitting the bars with his so-called friends counts more to him than being sharp as a knife.
Accept my congratulations.