I think one reason why there's not much enthusiasm about this program is a difference of philosophies in how to educate the world's children. Generally speaking, people would rather spend $100 to buy books for a bunch of underprivileged children rather than spend it to buy one computer for one child. The applications of computers in grade school education in the US are kind of fuzzy, which makes it difficult to see how useful they would be in a less industrialized society.
Besides all that, there are numerous other costs associated with making these laptops useful. For example, there's maintenance, theft replacement, training for teachers, and development of a standard computer-based curriculum. Many of these costs are recurring, which means that in the long run, these kids could be worse off from having so much money being tossed onto the bonfire trying to maintain a computer-based education program.
Using a mouse interface without clicking is akin to using a command line interface without pressing enter. The mouse click serves a very important purpose - to ensure that selections and actions are performed on the correct item. This greatly reduces errors, increases the speed of interaction, and reduces the real estate required by the interface.
Creative ways of using a mouse have been tried repeatedly (such as the gesture selection system in Black and White and Darwinia), but the conclusion is invariably that such systems are just pains in the ass once the novelty wears off.
This is similar to the ridiculous advertisements the cable/telecom industry has been putting on TV regarding net neutrality. They proudly proclaim that they are defending the consumer against evil money-grubbing corporations like Google or Cisco, offering no concrete argument as to why their assertions might be true (if you say it often and loudly enough, it must be true!). At the same time, they deny the truth: what they really want to do is eliminate consumer choice re: VoIP and VoD.
There's also the problem of how to represent that input in a way that allows the AI to most effectively use it
This is essentially one of the key issues that embodied cognition tries to grapple with. Conventional AI researchers often try to analyze the problem domain and hand the highest common-level representation they can to the agent (e.g., have an analysis layer that detects things like "square" or "circle" from some vision sensor, such that the actual AI agent gets its input on the level of those shapes rather than doing processing on the vision input directly). Part of the philosophy of embodied cognition is that the artificial analysis layer obstructs the scientist's true understanding of how biological agents work, because neurologically, there is no separable unit that represents "square" or "circle". This philosophy is so important to many in the artificial life crowd that "representation" has become something of a four-letter word.
Nope, it's all about producing forged documents. From what I could tell, the worst possible outcome for him is being found guilty of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, which carries up to a 20 year sentence. This has nothing to do with exposing a vulnerability in the system, but rather exploiting that vulnerability.
There's a big difference between explaining how to circumvent security procedures and actually materially assisting in the process by providing forged documents.
Actually, only 23 members of the House voted against the conference report, and the conference report passed the Senate by unanimous consent (which includes Patrick Leahy).
What about the one ad where the tough-guy has those two different coloured balls of power or something. Then he smacks them together. Or first they come out of some sort of centrifuge or something.
I don't think they're allowed to run that commercial here in the States.
If AMD can buy ATI for $4.2B, can't they simply add a few bucks to buy SGI too?
Why else would SGI be doing this? Eventually, either they'll sue the right deep pockets and get bought out, or another company will take a look at their growing list of pending lawsuits and decide they want in on that action. At least, that's the plan.
Open source for voting machines is definitely a Good Thing(tm) under appropriate circumstances. The idea is that proper review of the source code before the voting machines are deployed should result in a safer and more secure system. If the code is bug-free, then it doesn't matter if people know how it works, because there will be no discoverable exploits left. Of course, the right time for this to happen was months or perhaps years ago.
The question now is whether a major security flaw discovered and made public from the leak of the source code will result in the voting machines being pulled. Hopefully, it would happen, even if it delayed the election (and hopefully, there are backup plans to minimize delay in such an event), but we can't be sure. And if a vulnerability is discovered and made public now, it's virtually guaranteed that elements from across the political spectrum will attempt to exploit it.
I'm not sure that having the source code leaked now is necessarily the bad thing that Schade claims, but I can understand her concerns that there's not enough time before the election for the newfound openness of the source to have the proper effect.
Posting short clips from TV shows alone (i.e., not in any context other than simply to allow others to view the clips) is probably not fair use. But it would be stupid of the TV networks to remove such clips from sites like YouTube. It's free advertising for their shows, though that's never stopped a media executive from having said free advertising taken down anyway.
Beth: Tyrell Corporation Customer Service. "More human than human." This is Beth, how can I help you? Roy: Uh, yes, I'm a Nexus-6 model replicant. I'm having problems with my lifespan. Beth: What sort of problems, sir? Roy: I've got less than two months to live because of this crazy cutoff date I just found out about. Beth: Okay, I'll need your serial number and incept date. Roy: Damn, it's around here somewhere... uh... N6MAA13-- I mean, 10816. Incept date is 8 January 2016. Beth: Let me look that up for you, sir.... Ah, okay. Sir, have you tried using the antidote? Roy: Antidote? What antidote?! Beth: It should have been included with your original packing material. Roy: But I threw all that out ages ago! Beth: Hmm.... Well, sir, you're within the four-year limited warranty period, so I can send you a replacement antidote. You'll need to wait eight to twelve weeks for delivery. Roy: Eight to twe-- but I'll be dead in under two months! Beth: I'm sorry, sir, we can't expedite shipping of warranty replacement parts. Roy:...I'm going to go speak to your boss about this. In person.
It's amazing how much ineptitude seems to be rising to the top at Sci-Fi and NBC Universal.
Bonnie Hammer cancels Farscape, a show with a dedicated fan base, because she thinks that the serialized plotline is too hard for the fans to follow. She makes this decision just as the Internet is starting to become a good way for fans who miss an episode to keep up with the series (iTMS started months later, and it should have been obvious to anyone that television and movies would eventually make their way to iTunes). She replaces it with the single-season flop Tremors: The Series, and is rewarded for her poor judgment by being promoted to President of USA Network and Sci-Fi Channel.
Mark Stern shoots the company in the foot by cancelling Stargate SG-1 (another show with a dedicated fan base) despite strong backing from its production company, MGM. To add insult to injury, Stern refuses to let MGM court other TV networks for a new home for SG-1. This is combined with the decision to separate the SG-1 franchise from its follower, Battlestar Galactica. Shortly thereafter, the nature of the synergy between Stargate and BSG is revealed, as BSG's season premiere ratings were substantially lower than last season's premiere. MGM plans to release new SG-1 content direct to DVD, and they may end up producing a full Season 11 for iTunes and DVD. NBC Universal won't see a dime from those projects.
Sci-Fi Channel is also diluting their brand by airing professional wrestling, despite it already being carried on USA, in an apparent effort to mimic Spike TV, which at least runs five hours of Star Trek every weekday.
Now, Marc Graboff gets on the BSG production team's bad side by screwing them out of residuals, and tries to justify it by blaming it all on the BSG production team.
And finally, NBC decides to yank dramas and comedies from the 8pm time slot because they're "too expensive" compared to reality shows. Never mind that NBC rode the top of the rating charts for years on the backs of shows like Seinfeld and Friends (and, later in the evening, ER and Law & Order). It's almost as if NBC decided that being in last place with crappy-but-cheap shows was better than being top dog, and if they put Deal or No Deal on five nights a week, last place is where they'll end up.
Well, I suppose I could ultimately be wrong regarding the Commerce Clause, but it still presents Congress with the conundrum of abandoning the gambling regulations altogether, or imposing them uniformly on state transactions and incurring an almost certain legal battle, with an uncertain outcome, spanning multiple years and courtrooms.
They can permit member states to impose trade sanctions that would otherwise also be against WTO agreements if they decide a member state is in violation. It wouldn't be the first time the US has caved.
There may be one interesting consequence of the WTO opposing this law, though. The US federal government cannot regulate gambling transactions that don't cross state lines, due to the Commerce Clause in the US Constitution. This means that any federal law restricting online gambling must exempt, at least implicitly, online gambling transactions that take place all in one state. One of the grounds of complaint that other WTO members apparently have with this law is that it treats intrastate gambling transactions differently from international ones, and if the WTO rules that this part of the complaint is valid, then the US would never be able to restrict online gambling in any way, and still remain in compliance with treaty obligations, without a Constitutional amendment or without all 50 states imposing the same regulations on intrastate gambling.
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At the beginning of any horror movie, I subconsciously pick out which characters are going to die. It's like a stupidity test. You watch the characters being introduced and whenever a character passes below a certain stupidity threshold you know they will end up dead.
Simple solution:
Realize from the outset that you suck at this game and you're going to die.
Is the software licensed to you? your company? What kind of licensing is it?
Well, the OP said that the software was unused, so I would assume it isn't licensed to anybody yet. I ANAL, but there are precedents in at least some US District Courts indicating that selling this unused software actually may be legal.
Oh, but if you get sued anyway, don't come crying to me.
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I think one reason why there's not much enthusiasm about this program is a difference of philosophies in how to educate the world's children. Generally speaking, people would rather spend $100 to buy books for a bunch of underprivileged children rather than spend it to buy one computer for one child. The applications of computers in grade school education in the US are kind of fuzzy, which makes it difficult to see how useful they would be in a less industrialized society.
Besides all that, there are numerous other costs associated with making these laptops useful. For example, there's maintenance, theft replacement, training for teachers, and development of a standard computer-based curriculum. Many of these costs are recurring, which means that in the long run, these kids could be worse off from having so much money being tossed onto the bonfire trying to maintain a computer-based education program.
Using a mouse interface without clicking is akin to using a command line interface without pressing enter. The mouse click serves a very important purpose - to ensure that selections and actions are performed on the correct item. This greatly reduces errors, increases the speed of interaction, and reduces the real estate required by the interface.
Creative ways of using a mouse have been tried repeatedly (such as the gesture selection system in Black and White and Darwinia), but the conclusion is invariably that such systems are just pains in the ass once the novelty wears off.
This is similar to the ridiculous advertisements the cable/telecom industry has been putting on TV regarding net neutrality. They proudly proclaim that they are defending the consumer against evil money-grubbing corporations like Google or Cisco, offering no concrete argument as to why their assertions might be true (if you say it often and loudly enough, it must be true!). At the same time, they deny the truth: what they really want to do is eliminate consumer choice re: VoIP and VoD.
You're right about what happened on the scene, though details are all over the place regarding the guy's ultimate fate:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_man
There's also the problem of how to represent that input in a way that allows the AI to most effectively use it
This is essentially one of the key issues that embodied cognition tries to grapple with. Conventional AI researchers often try to analyze the problem domain and hand the highest common-level representation they can to the agent (e.g., have an analysis layer that detects things like "square" or "circle" from some vision sensor, such that the actual AI agent gets its input on the level of those shapes rather than doing processing on the vision input directly). Part of the philosophy of embodied cognition is that the artificial analysis layer obstructs the scientist's true understanding of how biological agents work, because neurologically, there is no separable unit that represents "square" or "circle". This philosophy is so important to many in the artificial life crowd that "representation" has become something of a four-letter word.
Nope, it's all about producing forged documents. From what I could tell, the worst possible outcome for him is being found guilty of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, which carries up to a 20 year sentence. This has nothing to do with exposing a vulnerability in the system, but rather exploiting that vulnerability.
There's a big difference between explaining how to circumvent security procedures and actually materially assisting in the process by providing forged documents.
Sorry for being subtle, but yeah, I was joking.
Also, you said "balls". Heh-heh-heh.
And then he went and let the conference report pass by unanimous consent. If he really objected to it, wouldn't he have voted no?
Actually, only 23 members of the House voted against the conference report, and the conference report passed the Senate by unanimous consent (which includes Patrick Leahy).
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be immortalized in human history
Sort of an oxymoron, since at that point it will be only months before the machines take over.
When a company offers to replace my entire DVD collection with its HD counterparts, then we can talk.
Of course, I'll still say no, because of the DRM. "Free" just isn't worth it.
What about the one ad where the tough-guy has those two different coloured balls of power or something. Then he smacks them together. Or first they come out of some sort of centrifuge or something.
I don't think they're allowed to run that commercial here in the States.
Zap: So beautiful. Yet so neutral.
Apparently, today's music sucks so bad that it's not even worth downloading it for free.
If AMD can buy ATI for $4.2B, can't they simply add a few bucks to buy SGI too?
Why else would SGI be doing this? Eventually, either they'll sue the right deep pockets and get bought out, or another company will take a look at their growing list of pending lawsuits and decide they want in on that action. At least, that's the plan.
Open source for voting machines is definitely a Good Thing(tm) under appropriate circumstances. The idea is that proper review of the source code before the voting machines are deployed should result in a safer and more secure system. If the code is bug-free, then it doesn't matter if people know how it works, because there will be no discoverable exploits left. Of course, the right time for this to happen was months or perhaps years ago.
The question now is whether a major security flaw discovered and made public from the leak of the source code will result in the voting machines being pulled. Hopefully, it would happen, even if it delayed the election (and hopefully, there are backup plans to minimize delay in such an event), but we can't be sure. And if a vulnerability is discovered and made public now, it's virtually guaranteed that elements from across the political spectrum will attempt to exploit it.
I'm not sure that having the source code leaked now is necessarily the bad thing that Schade claims, but I can understand her concerns that there's not enough time before the election for the newfound openness of the source to have the proper effect.
Posting short clips from TV shows alone (i.e., not in any context other than simply to allow others to view the clips) is probably not fair use. But it would be stupid of the TV networks to remove such clips from sites like YouTube. It's free advertising for their shows, though that's never stopped a media executive from having said free advertising taken down anyway.
Finally, a game where all you non-roleplaying lamers will get banned for not speaking in iambic pentameter!
Beth: Tyrell Corporation Customer Service. "More human than human." This is Beth, how can I help you? ...I'm going to go speak to your boss about this. In person.
Roy: Uh, yes, I'm a Nexus-6 model replicant. I'm having problems with my lifespan.
Beth: What sort of problems, sir?
Roy: I've got less than two months to live because of this crazy cutoff date I just found out about.
Beth: Okay, I'll need your serial number and incept date.
Roy: Damn, it's around here somewhere... uh... N6MAA13-- I mean, 10816. Incept date is 8 January 2016.
Beth: Let me look that up for you, sir.... Ah, okay. Sir, have you tried using the antidote?
Roy: Antidote? What antidote?!
Beth: It should have been included with your original packing material.
Roy: But I threw all that out ages ago!
Beth: Hmm.... Well, sir, you're within the four-year limited warranty period, so I can send you a replacement antidote. You'll need to wait eight to twelve weeks for delivery.
Roy: Eight to twe-- but I'll be dead in under two months!
Beth: I'm sorry, sir, we can't expedite shipping of warranty replacement parts.
Roy:
It's amazing how much ineptitude seems to be rising to the top at Sci-Fi and NBC Universal.
Bonnie Hammer cancels Farscape, a show with a dedicated fan base, because she thinks that the serialized plotline is too hard for the fans to follow. She makes this decision just as the Internet is starting to become a good way for fans who miss an episode to keep up with the series (iTMS started months later, and it should have been obvious to anyone that television and movies would eventually make their way to iTunes). She replaces it with the single-season flop Tremors: The Series, and is rewarded for her poor judgment by being promoted to President of USA Network and Sci-Fi Channel.
Mark Stern shoots the company in the foot by cancelling Stargate SG-1 (another show with a dedicated fan base) despite strong backing from its production company, MGM. To add insult to injury, Stern refuses to let MGM court other TV networks for a new home for SG-1. This is combined with the decision to separate the SG-1 franchise from its follower, Battlestar Galactica. Shortly thereafter, the nature of the synergy between Stargate and BSG is revealed, as BSG's season premiere ratings were substantially lower than last season's premiere. MGM plans to release new SG-1 content direct to DVD, and they may end up producing a full Season 11 for iTunes and DVD. NBC Universal won't see a dime from those projects.
Sci-Fi Channel is also diluting their brand by airing professional wrestling, despite it already being carried on USA, in an apparent effort to mimic Spike TV, which at least runs five hours of Star Trek every weekday.
Now, Marc Graboff gets on the BSG production team's bad side by screwing them out of residuals, and tries to justify it by blaming it all on the BSG production team.
And finally, NBC decides to yank dramas and comedies from the 8pm time slot because they're "too expensive" compared to reality shows. Never mind that NBC rode the top of the rating charts for years on the backs of shows like Seinfeld and Friends (and, later in the evening, ER and Law & Order). It's almost as if NBC decided that being in last place with crappy-but-cheap shows was better than being top dog, and if they put Deal or No Deal on five nights a week, last place is where they'll end up.
Today there was also a big story about how NBC Universal is laying off about 5% of their workforce. I wonder if they're taking suggestions for whom to axe.
Well, I suppose I could ultimately be wrong regarding the Commerce Clause, but it still presents Congress with the conundrum of abandoning the gambling regulations altogether, or imposing them uniformly on state transactions and incurring an almost certain legal battle, with an uncertain outcome, spanning multiple years and courtrooms.
They can permit member states to impose trade sanctions that would otherwise also be against WTO agreements if they decide a member state is in violation. It wouldn't be the first time the US has caved.
There may be one interesting consequence of the WTO opposing this law, though. The US federal government cannot regulate gambling transactions that don't cross state lines, due to the Commerce Clause in the US Constitution. This means that any federal law restricting online gambling must exempt, at least implicitly, online gambling transactions that take place all in one state. One of the grounds of complaint that other WTO members apparently have with this law is that it treats intrastate gambling transactions differently from international ones, and if the WTO rules that this part of the complaint is valid, then the US would never be able to restrict online gambling in any way, and still remain in compliance with treaty obligations, without a Constitutional amendment or without all 50 states imposing the same regulations on intrastate gambling.
At the beginning of any horror movie, I subconsciously pick out which characters are going to die. It's like a stupidity test. You watch the characters being introduced and whenever a character passes below a certain stupidity threshold you know they will end up dead.
Simple solution:
Realize from the outset that you suck at this game and you're going to die.
Is the software licensed to you? your company? What kind of licensing is it?
Well, the OP said that the software was unused, so I would assume it isn't licensed to anybody yet. I ANAL, but there are precedents in at least some US District Courts indicating that selling this unused software actually may be legal.
Oh, but if you get sued anyway, don't come crying to me.