"I do not think anyone has ever sold as an analysis of writing a unique identifier. But it can be useful. If one was an unpublished author in any way, and then is Unabomber, "and began to write letters as a calling card, can be deduced from very similar writing styles and structures of work and unpublished incriminating / unpopularized previous evidence that at least raise the suspicion that the writer of the earlier work was somehow tied to the crimes, though not directly. Of course, all bets are off if it is possible that someone could have analyzed previously the author to imitate. Also of note, this is only one positive test (ie, a mismatch in the analysis is not intended at all as to whether someone wrote it). I would be a good example of writing that demonstrates a language used only in a particular location, a business in which the term is used only one enterprise, and an ideological term used only in a certain political stripe movement. * * This is reasonable evidence of authorship, which, of course, tests! = Test. The polygraph, on the other hand, is complete BS because the only real thing is a polygraph achieves the beneficial psychological reasons to tell the truth because of the "faith" in the fact that they lie for outt by the device. Not really measure anything related to the statements, only the physiological condition that may depend upon millions of independent factors."
If going unabomer you could always bounce it through a translator as I did with your post. Of course you could end up with quite a bit of "Someone set us up the bomb!" But still semi-legible. I wonder how the analysis would do with that?
"one former "phone company" and one former "cable company" -- although the differences between the two are rapidly becoming irrelevant." "Triple play"
Yeah, but both trying to sell you content, voice and data, when all one will eventually need is the bandwidth and an IP. Thus, you end up with Comcast breaking bit torrent and AT&T not wanting Apple to support Google applications. It is going to be a tough transition for these guys to go from a service to a commodity.
"When I first saw the "Obama as Joker" "parody", I actually didn't think of the Joker at all."
Really? My first impression was that it was powerful and compelling social commentary and drove home the point that. what I now have as president was not what I voted for. Instead of "Hope and Change," I have the Banker in Chief. This image seems to me to be an effective and quite scary. Perhaps that is a good reason why it is so controversial with the Obama faithful?
"The problem is that there's basically no way to prove that you have parental approval, so it's essentially barring the websites from doing anything to collect information from minors"
Sooo, I'm not seeing a downside here. Everyone starts claiming to be minor to avoid marketing schemes? Nope, still not seeing a downside.
"I think MS is playing nice with Apple to get back at Dell and HP for the netbook linux thing. If HP and Dell want to ship linux PC's, then MS is going to help Apple poach Dell's most profitable customers"
Nice in theory until you realize that those are also MSFT's most profitable customers.
This seems to be on weak constitutional grounds, as DRM + DCMA + Copyright = unlimited protection for creators, as DRM'd content would be unretrivable at any (c) expiration. A key component of Copyright, it would seem to me, should include a path to public domain.
"To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries."
How is adblock any worse than blocking at the IP level in the hosts file? Unless content providers host the ads and pay for the bandwidth themselves? Personally, most ads, don't bother me, except those that are animated. Those go straight to the bin.
"I'm relatively confident that the nyfed balance sheet will swell to ten trillion sooner than we think"
I would think that Apple should have just said "breach of contract" and started taking bids for a replacement, even as a bluff. Apple sells the platform, and it is worth less, if its usability is restricted by a third party. If the iPhone ever loses it's status as the premium platform, they, the developers working on apps and AT&T contract holders all lose some portion of their investment.
"Most of the incompetence can be blamed squarely on the Democrat controlled Congress."
Not that there is much difference, but for 6 of President Bush's 8 years, both houses were controlled by Republicans.
Oh, yeah and after the DOJ getting a CONVICTION in US V MSFT, the Bush DoJ decided to settle.
On the table was breaking MSFT into Apps, OS and Hardware. If that had happened, we might have a version of Office for Linux now. IE might be better that the free alternatives. Vista might not have stunk. The X-Box might have been a leader in one of it's generations. And a bazillion dollars of venture capital might have flooded into start-ups as they would no longer need to fear losing their investment to embrace and extend, sparking off a new wave of products and applications.
But no.
"Such attacks only diminish true criticism when it's really called for."
President Bush's administration was wholly anti-science. From creationism to denying that global warming even exists. He also gutted the justice department and SEC, removing the last lingering regulation, keeping the investment banks in check. Thus, leading us into the greatest economic disaster since the great depression. Not to mention a continous string of putting incompetent and unqualified people in charge very important things like FEMA, SEC, Justice, NASA, HHS, and the Defense Department. Then there is the damage he did to international and trade relations.
I think the worst acting president in my living memory, and that starts with Nixon, deserves any bashing he gets, particularly when the subject is science heavy.
"And just because privacy can be used an excuse to not be properly convicted, a person is not absolved of any wrongdoing."
Is that not the basis behind Roe v. Wade? That any evidence needed to prove innocence or guilt, in an abortion case is both privileged and private information between a woman and her doctor, and as such, is outside the scope of the law and unenforceable?
Granted there are much greater moral and ethical elements involved there, when compared to the latest Brittany Spears release, but that info is still both personal and private.
"I often wonder which side people are coming from... self interest, or a sense of true right/wrong."
Can't it be both? i.e. Copyrights on digital content that are shared, but not for monetary gain, are largely unenforceable. And hey, free stuff!
"At which point the cops are called. School adminstrators never have the right to strip search kids. Jesus christ..."
I agree 100%. Giving this level of authority to all school officials is just inviting abuse, which I suspect this case might have been. That step 1, was not to call the parents seems particularly telling. This was some school VP getting carried away with authority issues. I suspect that if this gets to a jury in a civil trial, the district will be hosed.
"Microsoft's rules do not disallow OEMs bundling browsers."
Yeah, but you lose your OEM discount if you do. Nothing like having to pay retail to ship Windows when your competitors do not have to. Kind of like Intel giving preferences and access to the latest CPUs to Intel only shops.
"Third, I think that students are already under a great deal of financial stress. The temptation to save a few dollars by grabbing a free copy of the textbook is very understandable to me. I just wish people would look at text book authors as the good guys because I think we provide much more information per dollar than the universities. Alas, I don't think I'm going to change people's ideas on that very soon."
Textbooks as revenue generation vs. teaching aid? Incestuous deals between professors and textbook publishers? High levels of new editions to stifle any fair use secondary market? There is no sane reason a textbook should cost >50$. So I doubt you'd get much sympathy from the concept on one student being able to "buy" a textbook and share it with the entire class.
Information wants to be free...
It is not surprise that this administration would be pro-big media. The question to me would be, to what extent are they willing to compromise common carrier and constitution in that endeavor.
So I guess it's off to "other" avenues begining with the letter "B" to find the episodes then...sigh....
Too bad. You'll have to wait until Saturday, like the rest of the world...
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"I do not think anyone has ever sold as an analysis of writing a unique identifier. But it can be useful. If one was an unpublished author in any way, and then is Unabomber, "and began to write letters as a calling card, can be deduced from very similar writing styles and structures of work and unpublished incriminating / unpopularized previous evidence that at least raise the suspicion that the writer of the earlier work was somehow tied to the crimes, though not directly. Of course, all bets are off if it is possible that someone could have analyzed previously the author to imitate. Also of note, this is only one positive test (ie, a mismatch in the analysis is not intended at all as to whether someone wrote it). I would be a good example of writing that demonstrates a language used only in a particular location, a business in which the term is used only one enterprise, and an ideological term used only in a certain political stripe movement. * * This is reasonable evidence of authorship, which, of course, tests! = Test. The polygraph, on the other hand, is complete BS because the only real thing is a polygraph achieves the beneficial psychological reasons to tell the truth because of the "faith" in the fact that they lie for outt by the device. Not really measure anything related to the statements, only the physiological condition that may depend upon millions of independent factors."
If going unabomer you could always bounce it through a translator as I did with your post. Of course you could end up with quite a bit of "Someone set us up the bomb!" But still semi-legible. I wonder how the analysis would do with that?
"one former "phone company" and one former "cable company" -- although the differences between the two are rapidly becoming irrelevant." "Triple play"
Yeah, but both trying to sell you content, voice and data, when all one will eventually need is the bandwidth and an IP. Thus, you end up with Comcast breaking bit torrent and AT&T not wanting Apple to support Google applications. It is going to be a tough transition for these guys to go from a service to a commodity.
"When I first saw the "Obama as Joker" "parody", I actually didn't think of the Joker at all."
Really? My first impression was that it was powerful and compelling social commentary and drove home the point that. what I now have as president was not what I voted for. Instead of "Hope and Change," I have the Banker in Chief. This image seems to me to be an effective and quite scary. Perhaps that is a good reason why it is so controversial with the Obama faithful?
"The problem is that there's basically no way to prove that you have parental approval, so it's essentially barring the websites from doing anything to collect information from minors"
Sooo, I'm not seeing a downside here. Everyone starts claiming to be minor to avoid marketing schemes? Nope, still not seeing a downside.
Falling advertising revenue due to the economic downturn might accomplish the same thing. I wonder what the next big media contract might be.
"Or Apollo being stranded on a frontier planet and having an old-west shoot out with Red-Eye."
The Scar episode seed very similar. Of course it did not have the underlying meth/speed/druggie theme...
"The difference, of course, is that there was the excellent TNG series"
Oh, you mean the one where Wesley saves the day! Every fucking day? That series was awful.
"I think MS is playing nice with Apple to get back at Dell and HP for the netbook linux thing. If HP and Dell want to ship linux PC's, then MS is going to help Apple poach Dell's most profitable customers"
Nice in theory until you realize that those are also MSFT's most profitable customers.
This seems to be on weak constitutional grounds, as DRM + DCMA + Copyright = unlimited protection for creators, as DRM'd content would be unretrivable at any (c) expiration. A key component of Copyright, it would seem to me, should include a path to public domain.
"To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries."
How is adblock any worse than blocking at the IP level in the hosts file? Unless content providers host the ads and pay for the bandwidth themselves? Personally, most ads, don't bother me, except those that are animated. Those go straight to the bin.
"miraculous high speed access to an undreamt of trove of online information and entertainment"
My god! It is full of porn! I know as a function of porn/$ I am MUCH better off than I was, even ten 10 years ago.
"I'm relatively confident that the nyfed balance sheet will swell to ten trillion sooner than we think" I would think that Apple should have just said "breach of contract" and started taking bids for a replacement, even as a bluff. Apple sells the platform, and it is worth less, if its usability is restricted by a third party. If the iPhone ever loses it's status as the premium platform, they, the developers working on apps and AT&T contract holders all lose some portion of their investment.
"Most of the incompetence can be blamed squarely on the Democrat controlled Congress." Not that there is much difference, but for 6 of President Bush's 8 years, both houses were controlled by Republicans.
There is still remnants of investment regulation, but during the Bush administration, it went completely unenforced until too late.
Oh, yeah and after the DOJ getting a CONVICTION in US V MSFT, the Bush DoJ decided to settle. On the table was breaking MSFT into Apps, OS and Hardware. If that had happened, we might have a version of Office for Linux now. IE might be better that the free alternatives. Vista might not have stunk. The X-Box might have been a leader in one of it's generations. And a bazillion dollars of venture capital might have flooded into start-ups as they would no longer need to fear losing their investment to embrace and extend, sparking off a new wave of products and applications. But no.
"Such attacks only diminish true criticism when it's really called for."
President Bush's administration was wholly anti-science. From creationism to denying that global warming even exists. He also gutted the justice department and SEC, removing the last lingering regulation, keeping the investment banks in check. Thus, leading us into the greatest economic disaster since the great depression. Not to mention a continous string of putting incompetent and unqualified people in charge very important things like FEMA, SEC, Justice, NASA, HHS, and the Defense Department. Then there is the damage he did to international and trade relations.
I think the worst acting president in my living memory, and that starts with Nixon, deserves any bashing he gets, particularly when the subject is science heavy.
"And just because privacy can be used an excuse to not be properly convicted, a person is not absolved of any wrongdoing."
Is that not the basis behind Roe v. Wade? That any evidence needed to prove innocence or guilt, in an abortion case is both privileged and private information between a woman and her doctor, and as such, is outside the scope of the law and unenforceable?
Granted there are much greater moral and ethical elements involved there, when compared to the latest Brittany Spears release, but that info is still both personal and private.
"I often wonder which side people are coming from... self interest, or a sense of true right/wrong." Can't it be both? i.e. Copyrights on digital content that are shared, but not for monetary gain, are largely unenforceable. And hey, free stuff!
"At which point the cops are called. School adminstrators never have the right to strip search kids. Jesus christ..."
I agree 100%. Giving this level of authority to all school officials is just inviting abuse, which I suspect this case might have been. That step 1, was not to call the parents seems particularly telling. This was some school VP getting carried away with authority issues. I suspect that if this gets to a jury in a civil trial, the district will be hosed.
"Microsoft's rules do not disallow OEMs bundling browsers." Yeah, but you lose your OEM discount if you do. Nothing like having to pay retail to ship Windows when your competitors do not have to. Kind of like Intel giving preferences and access to the latest CPUs to Intel only shops.
Crippleware? Been around for a long time. I wonder how long it will take to crack? I hope the crackers patent the methodology...
"Third, I think that students are already under a great deal of financial stress. The temptation to save a few dollars by grabbing a free copy of the textbook is very understandable to me. I just wish people would look at text book authors as the good guys because I think we provide much more information per dollar than the universities. Alas, I don't think I'm going to change people's ideas on that very soon." Textbooks as revenue generation vs. teaching aid? Incestuous deals between professors and textbook publishers? High levels of new editions to stifle any fair use secondary market? There is no sane reason a textbook should cost >50$. So I doubt you'd get much sympathy from the concept on one student being able to "buy" a textbook and share it with the entire class. Information wants to be free...
It is not surprise that this administration would be pro-big media. The question to me would be, to what extent are they willing to compromise common carrier and constitution in that endeavor.
No reference to "Are You Being Served?" That was a nice collection of flawed folks, that tickled my funny-bone for years, on PBS.
So I guess it's off to "other" avenues begining with the letter "B" to find the episodes then...sigh.... Too bad. You'll have to wait until Saturday, like the rest of the world...