True, but here's a problem: The DMCA provides a way for copyright holders to order copyrighted materials removed without proof of copyright violation!
This has already happened, notibly between the Church of Scientology and ebay. Slashdot article
It's this sort of thing that could bring the 'Net to a crawl if linking to copyrighted material is rules a copyright violation. Imagine nearly every ISP in the country having to remove any pages that links to any copyrighted work: MP3, texts, pictures, other webpages...
to me. What if the film is "leaked" to the 'net before it's shown in theaters? Would this disqualify it? Could this be the Academy's way of strong-arming filmmakers into protecting their works from piracy? I wonder what hand the MPAA had in this?
I heard quite a bit of grumbling about the whole VA/Slashdot thing. It's still the grain of salt I take while reading Slashdot. I don't worry about it nearly as much as with M$, but I know it's there and I think a lot of other people do also.
Your insulting rambling makes perfect sense, but only if the price of that apple stays constant. As the society creates more wealth, markets make adjustments to benifit from that wealth (increase prices). That is the why those nice little minimum wage increases you enjoy getting every once in a while eventually mean nothing!
Sure, you can create more money, but the more there is, the less value it has (even I learned that in high school 10 years ago!)
Remember the 80's! Plenty of money to go around, but the poor just couldn't keep up with inflation... that's a big word, huh?
For the morons out there without a shred of insight, the apple anology may have been a bit shallow. For that I must apologize.
The movement of wealth depends upon what you can earn, which depends on your value based on your skills. Yet, if you earn $200,000 per year, and the price of an apple is $20,000, you don't really make a lot, do you?
When big companies (back to the real topic) start accumulating (and yes, spending it too) wealth in that 2% at the top, the lower portion doesn't really get a whole lot. Trickle down economics didn't work, did it! That's what those "vacation spots" know quite well.
This is not a treatise on "Capitalism bad, socialism good!" Socialism is worse (duh!), but Capitalism has flaws like any system, I was mearly pointing out this well understood one.
The notion that the rich get richer and the poor get poorer is not just an astute observation, its a capitalist necessity.
The very nature of capitalism relies on the distribution of wealth to those who can get it. You can have all that you can grab. This means for one to be wealth, many must be poor.
100 apples for 100 people, but if I get rich with 20 apples, 19 people must be poor with none!
This is the one great flaw in capitalism. I think we can now see its stress-points that may someday crack into gaping fissures! Multinationals fuel this and may eventually die by their own sword (taking us with them as unconcious partners)
Unfortunatly, I don't particularly think any other economic system is better... So what's left?
The article states very plainly: The pulse was reconstructed from the precursur and placed at the far end by the cesuim then the cesium destroyed the real pulse as it entered.
It looks like information CAN be sent this way, if you look at the pulse as the information. But what bandwidth could you get if you have multiple pulses being sent and destroyed by multiple back-propagating waves?
This isn't really new. I read several months ago in Popular Science about a researcher who did something similar with a detector, a block of some ordinary metal (I don't know what) and two pulses of some energy(?). He raced them with one going throught the block and one not. The blocked one actually won the race, but only because its precurser/tail got pushed forward as it went through the block.
Sorry for the vagueness. Thats all I could remember
This part of DMCA makes me nervous. The part that says you must comply with the removal request on faith and without proof that the material is legally copyrighted!
Does this seem a little draconian to anyone else but me? This is what The Church of Scientology did to eBay and the object was NOT under a copyright.
I feel that the requestee should provide a little bit more proof that just a valid e-mail address and a threat of perjury!
My $.02: Provided the material is copyrighted,/. should remove it. The links or any material that is NOT from the sited work should remain. Including instructions on avoiding the agreement! Let's fight the battles we can win...
The arguments over Linux Desktop adoption are well know. IMHO, I agree with the strength in diversity reasoning and WOULDN'T like to see GNOME/KDE/Other merge developement regardless of the benefits.
Dispite this, do you think WM developers would work towards a set of interface or API standards (to facilitate interoperability) or would this place to great a restiction on innovation and the developement process?
Many people had been very afraid of what the gov't was trying to control only to be blind sided by the Corp'. B. Franklin warned about this one, but it doesn't look like many took notice. Lets connect the dots:
Wow, You mean I'm getting paid decent money to maintain the networks for a Control Center that doesn't do ANYTHING. You mean I watched a FAKE satilite drift from a FAKE shuttle as it was supposed to be happening? Thanks, you opened my eyes!
Site hosting based on linux gets screwed by corp. and doesn't have the extra cash to pony up. Would you have the extra cash if you charged what they did?
Taken at face value it looks like little guy get taken for a ride and robbed blind to boot! I was paying $10 a month. I could have paid $100 and gotten similar service but M$ based.
Shame on we linux types for given them hard time! I was pissed off, too, but lets not be assholes.
If they can get back up and running, they still have at LEAST one customer.
"This could have been corrected prior to your conception,"
And this will be a free service to the family of the dock worker who can't even afford basic medical issurance? What about the single mother working as a waitress?
This isn't about: "Oh, I'm afraid of technology" crap, this is: "You can't live here because you're black/jewish/irish/genetically inferior." Look at world history and tell me that couldn't happen.
"Technopoly" by Neal Postman. Suggested reading. Try thinking before grabbing shiny new thing. Oooh, pretty, pretty. (insert knuckle dragging here)
Oh, you must mean, use a matter transformer and reconstuct our entire body minus the bad gene. Why didn't I think of that? Hey Scotty, make me thinner while your at it. Hmmm, now for a genetic sex change. Give me another arm, too!
Your dream is to be a pilot. Your vision is 20/20, you are in great shape, spent thousands of dollors on lessons. All you want to do is fly a plane.
Now you want a job. You get called in for an interview for the perfect position as an airline pilot.
HR asks for a tissue sample...HUH? "We need it for genetic screening, just a formality."
Next day... phone call. "We are sorry, but due to a you being geneticly prone to heart disease our insurance company will not allow us to hire you for this position. We do have an opening in janitorial services, though."
Well, guess what, romance may be fun, but what would happen to a developing fetus in space? Tadpoles tend to have legs on their heads and arms on their backs and internal organs.. well.. not internal. Scientists have concluded that there is no reason to believe a human fetus will fare any better. I think this may have also been tried with creatures such as mice and other small furries, but I'm not sure.
Linux is currenty being used for some operations at the Operational Control Center for Chandra. It is being used to process some data. It was an obvious choice, from what I'm told. The majority of the system runs on SGI's, though. Throw in a couple Suns for good measure and a couple NT's to screw things up (trust me they do!). Personnally, I'd like to switch to Linux exclusively, but these are decision that take YEARS to be made. Chandra has only a 5 years expectancy.
What a boon this could be for Open Source and Free Software! Imagine if a 'few' Linux advocates decided to wrap the nastier points of this act into an informative put persuasive package and e-mailed it to, say, a couple thousand companies. Maybe the IT departments. Could they even imagine not being able to communicate to another computer, let alone the 'Net? Their all powerful e-commerce app turning into all useless 1's and 0's? No inventory. No sales. No site hits.
Imagine the pucker-factor of company X when they read that one small license disagreement could literally stop them in their tracks. It could point to the not-so-fair way M$ has handled it partnerships.
I call this a temptation because this would be akin to SPAM. Noone likes SPAM (not to be confused with Spam, which is quite good...hmmmmm, Spam!)
If anyone can figure-out a loop-hole in the ethics of this, please respond and we can all start. Maybe we could have a master list of companies and just go down the list (minimize copies).
I AM NOT TELLING anyone to do this, this is just an idea. I don't want to be responsible for a SPAM war with M$ and it's clients.
A few years back I read an interesting book called "Technopoly", by Neil Postman. It made the point that those who understand the "advanced" technologies will have a distinct social and economic advantage.
To put this in perspective (probably just mine), how many times have we had to control that condescending feeling while explaining the diffenence between a file and a directory (for the eighth time to the same person).
Until some asteroid comes out of nowhere and blasts us back into the stone-age, we "geeks" will continue to have better jobs, more money and live in nicer nieghborhoods (and, subsequently better health care and longer lives).
Slashdot Mirror
Using the keyboard shortcut for Back (which is ALT+left-arrow on my Netscape) will get you back...
I had to hit it VERY fast and A LOT of times, but it finally worked...
This isn't poor design, its a dexterity exercise provided free of charge. We should thank them for there thoughtfulness!
at NASA that said "Hey, lets allow remote access to operational systems!"
There are just some things that DON'T need access to the 'Net. This would be a prime example.
"Duh" about sums it up, wouldn't you say?
True, but here's a problem: The DMCA provides a way for copyright holders to order copyrighted materials removed without proof of copyright violation!
This has already happened, notibly between the Church of Scientology and ebay. Slashdot article
It's this sort of thing that could bring the 'Net to a crawl if linking to copyrighted material is rules a copyright violation. Imagine nearly every ISP in the country having to remove any pages that links to any copyrighted work: MP3, texts, pictures, other webpages...
But it will likely fail in the courts.
to me. What if the film is "leaked" to the 'net before it's shown in theaters? Would this disqualify it? Could this be the Academy's way of strong-arming filmmakers into protecting their works from piracy? I wonder what hand the MPAA had in this?
My $.02
I heard quite a bit of grumbling about the whole VA/Slashdot thing. It's still the grain of salt I take while reading Slashdot. I don't worry about it nearly as much as with M$, but I know it's there and I think a lot of other people do also.
VA doesn't have much of a history yet, M$ does!
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Your insulting rambling makes perfect sense, but only if the price of that apple stays constant. As the society creates more wealth, markets make adjustments to benifit from that wealth (increase prices). That is the why those nice little minimum wage increases you enjoy getting every once in a while eventually mean nothing!
Sure, you can create more money, but the more there is, the less value it has (even I learned that in high school 10 years ago!)
Remember the 80's! Plenty of money to go around, but the poor just couldn't keep up with inflation... that's a big word, huh?
For the morons out there without a shred of insight, the apple anology may have been a bit shallow. For that I must apologize.
The movement of wealth depends upon what you can earn, which depends on your value based on your skills. Yet, if you earn $200,000 per year, and the price of an apple is $20,000, you don't really make a lot, do you?
When big companies (back to the real topic) start accumulating (and yes, spending it too) wealth in that 2% at the top, the lower portion doesn't really get a whole lot. Trickle down economics didn't work, did it! That's what those "vacation spots" know quite well.
This is not a treatise on "Capitalism bad, socialism good!" Socialism is worse (duh!), but Capitalism has flaws like any system, I was mearly pointing out this well understood one.
--
The notion that the rich get richer and the poor get poorer is not just an astute observation,
its a capitalist necessity.
The very nature of capitalism relies on the distribution of wealth to those who can get it.
You can have all that you can grab. This means for one to be wealth, many must be poor.
100 apples for 100 people, but if I get rich with 20 apples, 19 people must be poor with none!
This is the one great flaw in capitalism. I think we can now see its stress-points that may
someday crack into gaping fissures! Multinationals fuel this and may eventually die by their
own sword (taking us with them as unconcious partners)
Unfortunatly, I don't particularly think any other economic system is better... So what's left?
--
The article states very plainly: The pulse was reconstructed from the precursur and placed at the
far end by the cesuim then the cesium destroyed the real pulse as it entered.
It looks like information CAN be sent this way, if you look at the pulse as the information. But
what bandwidth could you get if you have multiple pulses being sent and destroyed by multiple
back-propagating waves?
This isn't really new. I read several months ago in Popular Science about a researcher who did
something similar with a detector, a block of some ordinary metal (I don't know what) and two
pulses of some energy(?). He raced them with one going throught the block and one not. The blocked
one actually won the race, but only because its precurser/tail got pushed forward as it went
through the block.
Sorry for the vagueness. Thats all I could remember
This part of DMCA makes me nervous. The part that says you must comply with the removal request on faith
/. should remove it. The links or any material that is NOT from
and without proof that the material is legally copyrighted!
Does this seem a little draconian to anyone else but me? This is what The Church of Scientology did to eBay
and the object was NOT under a copyright.
I feel that the requestee should provide a little bit more proof that just a valid e-mail address and a threat of perjury!
My $.02: Provided the material is copyrighted,
the sited work should remain. Including instructions on avoiding the agreement! Let's fight the battles
we can win...
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Great job guys!
Couldn't a UCITA base license keep you from knowing that it's UCITA based until it was too late?
The arguments over Linux Desktop adoption are well know. IMHO, I agree with the strength in diversity reasoning
and WOULDN'T like to see GNOME/KDE/Other merge developement regardless of the benefits.
Dispite this, do you think WM developers would work towards a set of interface or API standards (to facilitate
interoperability) or would this place to great a restiction on innovation and the developement process?
Many people had been very afraid of what the gov't was trying to control only to be blind
sided by the Corp'. B. Franklin warned about this one, but it doesn't look like many
took notice. Lets connect the dots:
DMCA, UCITA, CyberPatrol... hmmmm.
Wow, You mean I'm getting paid decent money
to maintain the networks for a Control Center that
doesn't do ANYTHING. You mean I watched a FAKE
satilite drift from a FAKE shuttle as it was
supposed to be happening?
Thanks, you opened my eyes!
I look at it this way:
Site hosting based on linux gets screwed by corp.
and doesn't have the extra cash to pony up. Would
you have the extra cash if you charged what they did?
Taken at face value it looks like little guy get
taken for a ride and robbed blind to boot! I was
paying $10 a month. I could have paid $100 and
gotten similar service but M$ based.
Shame on we linux types for given them hard time!
I was pissed off, too, but lets not be assholes.
If they can get back up and running, they still have
at LEAST one customer.
"This could have been corrected prior to your conception,"
And this will be a free service to the family
of the dock worker who can't even afford basic
medical issurance? What about the single mother
working as a waitress?
This isn't about: "Oh, I'm afraid of technology"
crap, this is: "You can't live here because you're
black/jewish/irish/genetically inferior." Look
at world history and tell me that couldn't happen.
"Technopoly" by Neal Postman. Suggested reading.
Try thinking before grabbing shiny new thing.
Oooh, pretty, pretty. (insert knuckle dragging
here)
Aaaah, no. How do we fix every gene in the body?
Oh, you must mean, use a matter transformer and
reconstuct our entire body minus the bad gene.
Why didn't I think of that? Hey Scotty, make me
thinner while your at it. Hmmm, now for a genetic
sex change. Give me another arm, too!
Your dream is to be a pilot. Your vision is 20/20,
you are in great shape, spent thousands of dollors
on lessons. All you want to do is fly a plane.
Now you want a job. You get called in for an
interview for the perfect position as an airline
pilot.
HR asks for a tissue sample...HUH? "We need it
for genetic screening, just a formality."
Next day... phone call. "We are sorry, but due
to a you being geneticly prone to heart disease
our insurance company will not allow us to hire
you for this position. We do have an opening in
janitorial services, though."
Get it now?
Well, guess what, romance may be fun, but what would happen to a developing fetus in space? Tadpoles tend to have legs on their heads and arms on their backs and internal organs.. well.. not internal. Scientists have concluded that there is no reason to believe a human fetus will fare any better. I think this may have also been tried with creatures such as mice and other small furries, but I'm not sure.
Linux is currenty being used for some operations at the Operational Control Center for Chandra. It is being used to process some data. It was an obvious choice, from what I'm told. The majority of the system runs on SGI's, though. Throw in a couple Suns for good measure and a couple NT's to screw things up (trust me they do!). Personnally, I'd like to switch to Linux exclusively, but these are decision that take YEARS to be made. Chandra has only a 5 years expectancy.
Assuming it will be a rather large amount of data, who will index thier index? (and who will index that index... and that one... and that one......)
What a boon this could be for Open Source and Free Software! Imagine if a 'few' Linux advocates decided to wrap the nastier points of this act into an informative put persuasive package and e-mailed it to, say, a couple thousand companies. Maybe the IT departments. Could they even imagine not being able to communicate to another computer, let alone the 'Net? Their all powerful e-commerce app turning into all useless 1's and 0's? No inventory. No sales. No site hits.
Imagine the pucker-factor of company X when they read that one small license disagreement could literally stop them in their tracks. It could point to the not-so-fair way M$ has handled it partnerships.
I call this a temptation because this would be akin to SPAM. Noone likes SPAM (not to be confused with Spam, which is quite good...hmmmmm, Spam!)
If anyone can figure-out a loop-hole in the ethics of this, please respond and we can all start.
Maybe we could have a master list of companies and just go down the list (minimize copies).
I AM NOT TELLING anyone to do this, this is just an idea. I don't want to be responsible for a SPAM war with M$ and it's clients.
A few years back I read an interesting book called "Technopoly", by Neil Postman. It made the point that those who understand the "advanced" technologies will have a distinct social and economic advantage.
To put this in perspective (probably just mine), how many times have we had to control that condescending feeling while explaining the diffenence between a file and a directory (for the eighth time to the same person).
Until some asteroid comes out of nowhere and blasts us back into the stone-age, we "geeks" will continue to have better jobs, more money and live in nicer nieghborhoods (and, subsequently better health care and longer lives).
Privacy? What privacy? It's e-mail! They were dumb enough to sent it in the first place!
The mistake was in the sending, not the publishing. I doubt those letters had a thoughtful little note at the bottom:
I've just used lots of worthless profanity, so would you mind terribly keeping this confidential. Gee, thanks!
Let's not defend idiots here, OK.
On SGI's support hot line (800-800-4SGI), it already asks if you are calling about support for NT or Linux. That was a surprise.