Seriously, as green as "bio jet fuel" sounds, I don't see how it helps the environment one bit compared to fossil fuel. I guess it's renewable, so it helps us get off the need to drill, but it has the same emissions, same carbon footprint...
Great point. However, the great antidote is ridicule, which no government can tolerate. If this policy of censorship is trotted loudly out on a few news stations during the Olympics, embarrassment might help open things a bit more. The foot is already well in the door with China anyhow. They are never going to have a Congress (lucky for them) but they are not like a Junta-ruled African dictatorship either.
Not only would they have to block every IP, they'd have to block every port on the unblocked IP's. For example, let's say they let email through port 25. All I have to do is use port 25 for ssh instead, set up a tunnel to a proxy server, and bang, I'm done. Substitute any number for 25, and substitute "anyone" for "me," and you can see that internet censorship is not viable.
Unfortunately, there's also a giant loophole: the president would be allowed to waive the provisions of the Act for national security purposes."
And of course, another loophole is that the US government can go ahead and "censor" anything it wants (e.g., child porn, "terrorism" sites, whatever). National security, hmm... whatever happened to "give me liberty or give me death" and "the society that chooses security over freedom deserves neither"?
The fact that the company is using legal threats to suppress investigation into the errors is a good argument for using open source equipment that anyone can inspect. I do NOT trust a proprietary solution.
Yes, it is meaningless, because all meaning is created within a conversation between human beings. So to discuss whether any meaning, e.g. mathematics, exists beyond human conversation is completely misguided.
We're most likely not doing it because the people invested in making something like that happen are more invested on Oil Dollars.
No, from TFA: "So what do we need to do to ramp up CSP? Interestingly, most CSP executives don't talk much about the need for government R&D. They mostly need policies aimed at creating initial market demand that would help bring down costs quickly over the next several years." In other words, it doesn't pay out to do it yet and they need subsidies.
It's not supposed to be for production, numb-nuts. Forumla 1 racers don't have AM radios, either, nor power windows. They must suck, eh?
Anyhow, I was wondering why there is an upper limit on weight in this contest? It seems like it's harder to get good mileage in a heavier car, so what gives with that?
ironically, such folk actually slow down traffic overall, because they inevitably end up causing someone else to hit their breaks as they squeeze into a spot too small for them to be in safely. Such slowdowns have been shown to multiply backwards in increasing effect.
...the Vatican is to complete its rehabilitation of (Galileo) by erecting a statue of him inside Vatican walls...
Um, Galileo has been vindicated many times over. It's the retards in the vatican with their fairy tales that are trying to rehabilitate themselves by associating themselves with a premier scientist. Now if they would stop fighting good science in public debates, maybe they could finish their own rehabilitation.
I think this judge did not go quite far enough. I think the RIAA should have to show not only that distribution occurred, but that the distribution was INTENTIONAL. That is, not the product of accidentally having a file in a directory that Limewire is sharing or something.
That makes perfect legal sense and completely misses the point. The fact is that these letters are being used to threaten people and scare them. Anytime someone threatens you with legal action, you should have a clean right to make the threat public, up to a reasonable point. No way copyright law should trump one's right to a FAIR and PUBLIC hearing in the real sense of the word "public hearing." A court is just a place we've cooked up where formal hearings can take place, but in my view the publishing of a threat like this constitutes a public hearing of the matter.
That's exactly what is wrong with our legal system. Your arguments make perfect sense, the premises are valid, and yet the conclusion is unfair. If someone sends me a threatening letter, I should be able to make the threat public in order to get help for myself. That's just common sense. There is sometimes a tension between being a nation of laws and knowing when the law is insufficient to mete out justice. Lawyers and judges never understand that there needs to be some slop in the system and if the system won't provide it then people MUST create it by just working outside the system.
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Seriously, as green as "bio jet fuel" sounds, I don't see how it helps the environment one bit compared to fossil fuel. I guess it's renewable, so it helps us get off the need to drill, but it has the same emissions, same carbon footprint...
I don't see any incentive for a ship owner to put this on their craft.
Great point. However, the great antidote is ridicule, which no government can tolerate. If this policy of censorship is trotted loudly out on a few news stations during the Olympics, embarrassment might help open things a bit more. The foot is already well in the door with China anyhow. They are never going to have a Congress (lucky for them) but they are not like a Junta-ruled African dictatorship either.
Not only would they have to block every IP, they'd have to block every port on the unblocked IP's. For example, let's say they let email through port 25. All I have to do is use port 25 for ssh instead, set up a tunnel to a proxy server, and bang, I'm done. Substitute any number for 25, and substitute "anyone" for "me," and you can see that internet censorship is not viable.
And of course, another loophole is that the US government can go ahead and "censor" anything it wants (e.g., child porn, "terrorism" sites, whatever). National security, hmm... whatever happened to "give me liberty or give me death" and "the society that chooses security over freedom deserves neither"?
The fact that the company is using legal threats to suppress investigation into the errors is a good argument for using open source equipment that anyone can inspect. I do NOT trust a proprietary solution.
Yes, it is meaningless, because all meaning is created within a conversation between human beings. So to discuss whether any meaning, e.g. mathematics, exists beyond human conversation is completely misguided.
We're most likely not doing it because the people invested in making something like that happen are more invested on Oil Dollars.
No, from TFA: "So what do we need to do to ramp up CSP? Interestingly, most CSP executives don't talk much about the need for government R&D. They mostly need policies aimed at creating initial market demand that would help bring down costs quickly over the next several years." In other words, it doesn't pay out to do it yet and they need subsidies.
It's not supposed to be for production, numb-nuts. Forumla 1 racers don't have AM radios, either, nor power windows. They must suck, eh?
Anyhow, I was wondering why there is an upper limit on weight in this contest? It seems like it's harder to get good mileage in a heavier car, so what gives with that?
Where is this hypothetical web tool they launched today? I went to maps.live.com and it did not seem to have Clearflow.
ironically, such folk actually slow down traffic overall, because they inevitably end up causing someone else to hit their breaks as they squeeze into a spot too small for them to be in safely. Such slowdowns have been shown to multiply backwards in increasing effect.
I can't believe the algorithm looks at faces. Obviously wasn't designed by a man.
Holy crap, someone call security. You need to go to a seminar. I can just imagine what you're like on the freeway! LOL
Um, Galileo has been vindicated many times over. It's the retards in the vatican with their fairy tales that are trying to rehabilitate themselves by associating themselves with a premier scientist. Now if they would stop fighting good science in public debates, maybe they could finish their own rehabilitation.
ad-laden? Yes, he's Bin's brother.
This all reminds me of a famous quote by I think WC Fields, "The most important thing in life is sincerity. If you can fake that, you've got it made."
I think this judge did not go quite far enough. I think the RIAA should have to show not only that distribution occurred, but that the distribution was INTENTIONAL. That is, not the product of accidentally having a file in a directory that Limewire is sharing or something.
Off topic, but I thought you cannot post on a thread where you moderated...
Shocking! You mean the criminal friends of powerful politicians don't get prosecuted in Russia? Good thing that never happens here!
right, because nobody downloads music at work. :-)
That makes perfect legal sense and completely misses the point. The fact is that these letters are being used to threaten people and scare them. Anytime someone threatens you with legal action, you should have a clean right to make the threat public, up to a reasonable point. No way copyright law should trump one's right to a FAIR and PUBLIC hearing in the real sense of the word "public hearing." A court is just a place we've cooked up where formal hearings can take place, but in my view the publishing of a threat like this constitutes a public hearing of the matter.
So who gets a share of the money? Who is legitimately a rights holder? How do you divide the money?
That's exactly what is wrong with our legal system. Your arguments make perfect sense, the premises are valid, and yet the conclusion is unfair. If someone sends me a threatening letter, I should be able to make the threat public in order to get help for myself. That's just common sense. There is sometimes a tension between being a nation of laws and knowing when the law is insufficient to mete out justice. Lawyers and judges never understand that there needs to be some slop in the system and if the system won't provide it then people MUST create it by just working outside the system.
There is a spot on the journal article to leave comments -- why don't you start a discussion there where knowledgeable people can comment on it?
Interesting -- nowhere in the article does it mention what technical barriers remain that make it seem like it might not be feasible.