For any affiliate program, as that community operates like the mos eisley cantina. In fact, it's expected, and has been dealt with over and over. Google should talk to the old guard on this one.
I'm sorry to admit that gfy is the authoritative source on this problem; no joke!
Gaming sites are simply the most lucrative and represent the advance guard of privateering targets.
As the flood of defense ensues, smaller targets will be seen as unspoiled- anyone making money through traffic will be exploitable. This is problem that will likely be solved only by ipv6's packet frame backtracking capability, and eventually web of trust mediated QOS / DOS as it develops.
(Sidenoted- it might seem unrelated but It's possible that Google (another recent article) is earmarking fiber with an eye to the horizon of defensibility- after all this is troublesome their fundamental business model.)
This term was first used on page 47 of If I Ran The Zoo by Dr. Seuss which was first printed in 1950. The photo came with an illustration, listed right between the Nerkle and Seersucker.
The Nerd was 100% anthroid, angry, peculiar, and diminutive, with a large bushy head, and twiddling its thumbs in contemplation.
All of these McGrew zoo creatures were pulled from the far corners of the Earth, exotic sounding locations which supposedly harbored some uniquely strange beasts.
"Our table was populated by complete nerds, cases of delayed pubescence, and recent immigrants from China." - Graham
"I'll hunt in the mountains of Zomba-ma-Tant With helpers who all wear their eyes at a slant, And capture a fine fluffy bird called the Bustard Who only eats custard with sauce made of mustard. And also a very fine beast called the Flustard Who only eats mustard with sauce made of custard." - Geisel
The whole book is filled with exotic alien beasts which are beyond comprehension. And that's where people fail to connect with nerds- nerds are aliens communicating beyond their *collective* comprehension.
The social network is also a living, unspoken form of self government, like God and television. Nerds are anarchoterrorists from Zomba-ma-Tant, threatening stability. In order for each person to maintain their known and familiar position in the group, each is obligated to enforce the protocol of the collective idiom.
Many of the incredible things that happen in computer science happen inside the head.
True inspiration from comes from seeing an individual triumph, e.g. King Vidor's version of The Fountainhead. You don't need a film for that; the internet is the medium. Kids who watched sneakers or hackers and thought that was programming get sorted out when they hit their first serious programming course.
Are we talking about making a film about innovation, or about so called teamwork?
This topic is of some interest to me because I just wrote a Google Widget that uses the Google API to do geographic searches of Blogs (it was just in SlashBack; godseye).
No relationship to this acquisition, but it still felt vaguely spooky. I promise to get to the point. So skip the next paragraph.
It's also weird that people are talking about the Memex - just the other week I was chatting away in the Google API forums about amazon recommendation like incidental pathways found through client side bookmarking. And I actually think Google is going to continue to ignore client side improvements- but it will be interesting to see what new kinds of indexing they create for their own little ecosystem. Will they seperate semantic content?
The most striking part of all this is Google having a hand in the development of the Blogger API, which sets what is supposed to be evolving into an simple open standard for inter-blogware communication, invocation, et cetera. Some of the Google engineers must be pulling their hair out (yes, yes, I know that they're both brilliant and enlightened, but this is the chaotic frontier we're talking about here) trying to see where blogs / knowledge management systems (hello?) are taking the web as a whole in a hurry, search algorithms be damned.
Will Google also gain control of the syndication standards, whatever passes for RSS/XSS/whatever? How do you properly index ongoing permutations of feed standards, if everyone snarfs feeds, or if your base algorithms depend on pages mostly staying in one place? Maybe someone who feel that they know more about the future of syndication can enlighten.
I've seen passing references to Joshua Schacter's Geourl, and the Geocoder project Dave Egnor wrote (which won the Google programming contest)... but not much feedback here on Godseye.
Please take a moment *look* at the Godseye Project, look it over, try the search feature at the bottom of one of the geopages, and then yell at me if you would.
There's more to this project than you can see- the orthophoto polygonal clickthrough tool is already written, and I'm working on making this distributed.
You can add geosearch functionality to your own site fairly easily with the directions provided.
They're a new kind of property. Domains are already interlaced with trademark law, and are a similarly functional asset.
I'm not comfortable with the legislative habit of trying to fit every new technology into old ways of thinking. When a precedent gets obviously shattered, it's time to think in a new way.
But, for the sake of gross conceptualization, let's say you've started your very own town in Old America. Towns have deeds. And for value we're talking about traffic flow between towns and "proximity" to other towns, suburbs, shops, industry, resources. But web proximity is hyperdimensional, and our 2-d analogy is dead like disco.
Taxing domains makes absolutely no sense. Any number of people could be associated with a domain and making money via traffic that has an unknown level of association with it. Taxing individual pages... ewww. Hopefully that idea will hurt their heads for a long time.
There is a property precedent to protect the legacy of work put into building a web name like slashdot, for example. Criminalization of domain swiping as theft, not just fraud, seems to fit with what actually happens to the victim- either theft or destruction of property.
Point about "certified" but unknowledgeable network admins acknowledged. That isn't Microsoft's fault.
Microsoft actually saw this one coming and realized that without full implementation of IP6 they would be out of the QoS loop. That is, GUARANTEED CONTIGUOUS FAT BANDWIDTH across a judiciously determined fixed router path wouldn't be available to their customers. Not to mention how they'll benefit from the mitigating effect of much needed packet level security improvements.
There are many benefits to IP6 that will not be mentioned in this cliched opinion slinging forum. Having multiple UNBROKEN realtime (sic) camera feeds from any location on the Earth's surface is only ONE of the future benefits of IP6.
I'd love to hear other people's views about how the new protocol will actually change our use of the internet. For example, will ISPs continue to thrive when routers are measuring exact "mileage" per customer? Kinda replaces the watermelon seed effect of free flowing packet switching with supply and demand issues. "not your hose, my hose. use the other hose. wait, that's his hose now. but you can use it for double. too much? ok, try that chain of three hoses over there to get to the same grass. cheaper? nice."
I'm developing an organization wide crypto management system for the NSA/USAF/DOD for my employer as part of a private contract. The security is piled on via air gap and the standard DOD secure communications networks. The software inside the airgap is not failsafe, and runs on top of Winders. Although clearance was needed to work on the project, the details of the project are not actually classified. Certainly there are less secure, less reliable applications used by DOD. The application handles critical data such as air unit comsec encryption keys and launch codes. It should be running on top of the most reliable kernel available.
The evidence that some part of this system shows signs of complacence/ignorance frightens me.
Yeah, why should Rob Malda be a slave owner just because the slave shares his genetic material? Patent infrigement? Not a very open source philosophy. But I don't honestly think he's the slave ownin' type.
And now for a few what ifs. Clones should have real parents, everyone else should have real parents (who don't work 60 hours+ a week). They're individuals. As far as their human rights go, I am more concerned about things going the other way. Beyond cloning, genetic manipulation/hyperbreeding should eventually produce beings who are each and every one beyond
us in cognitive turbo. We will fondly think back on those annoying times when we had to give basic stupid user help to our parents as the good old days.
Side note- Larry Niven covered cloning related problems and organ farming/organ jacking quite well in The Long Arm Of Gil Hamilton. I believe this book is out of print, but if you can find it, keep it. Good screenplay basis, too.
Open source education and the ArsDigita Foundation
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If you're considering donating to a geek charity take a look at what's happening with the ArsDigita Foundation- ArsDigita University is well under way, now finishing it's third month. You can view lectures at the ADU site.
About ArsDigita Foundation:
ArsDigita Foundation is a 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization dedicated to the
development of web services that work better for society. With a commitment
to outstanding education, training and technical assistance, the
Foundation's programs include, ArsDigita University, ArsDigita Prize,
ArfDigita, and others. Formed in 1998, the foundation received its 501 (c) 3
status in 1999.
Foundation Programs:
ArsDigita Prize (http://arsdigita.org)- The Prize is awarded annually to
young people, eighteen years and younger, for their achievement in building
and maintaining non-commercial, useful Web sites. Each year there is a
winner and a varying number of finalists who receive cash awards, courses in
web development, and the use of a server for their web sites. The Prize is
ready to accept entries for the third annual prize, which will be awarded in
June 2001.
ArsDigita University (http://aduni.org)- The University is a free one-year
post-baccalaureate computer science program. The first class is thirty-six
students who were accepted from a pool of about 350. The curriculum is very
similar to what computer science majors learn at the top schools in the
country and consists of ten month long courses. ArsDigita University is not
a degree-granting institution.
ArfDigita (http://arfdigita.org)- ArfDigita is an animal welfare program
that enables its member shelters to be more efficient around adoption
services thereby decreasing the number of animals euthanized each year.
ArfDigita is a database backed Web site that facilitates the adoption
process, hosts an online community, pet care information, training tips as
well as a question and answer forum.
If I had the kind of political problems and budget cuts that NASA and SETI have faced (failed missions, Sen. Proxmire's Golden Fleece award nearly eliminating SETI funding back in the 70's, etc.) I would be plastering politicians' names on my telescope like banners on a drag racer.
#pragma warn +rambling
Indeed, Justin Frankel authored both of these. At 20 he already had over 60 million in assets because of the deal. He could certainly walk and start his own company- when he becomes a freeman. It was Marc Andreesen's idea to buy Winamp and Spinner- and of course he's out of there, onto the Loudcloud venture. AOL is not going to be able to hold onto the hottest talent for long no matter how much cash they provide. Their environment is contrary to the motives that produce innovation. Lavishing [those things big money buys] on someone who is creative+effective won't further motivate that person or gear them up to produce the next big thing, especially if they are now surrounded by people who _are motivated by [those things]. If the individual is still inventing, they'll begin to see the chaos (especially in this case I'd imagine). Some [inventors] let their creative selves die getting led around by the economic expectations they acquire after the point of being an acknowledged success.
#pragma warn -rambling
Slashdot Mirror
For any affiliate program, as that community operates like the mos eisley cantina. In fact, it's expected, and has been dealt with over and over. Google should talk to the old guard on this one.
I'm sorry to admit that gfy is the authoritative source on this problem; no joke!
Gaming sites are simply the most lucrative and represent the advance guard of privateering targets.
As the flood of defense ensues, smaller targets will be seen as unspoiled- anyone making money through traffic will be exploitable. This is problem that will likely be solved only by ipv6's packet frame backtracking capability, and eventually web of trust mediated QOS / DOS as it develops.
(Sidenoted- it might seem unrelated but It's possible that Google (another recent article) is earmarking fiber with an eye to the horizon of defensibility- after all this is troublesome their fundamental business model.)
Godseye Project
Mentioned in Slashback a few weeks ago.
Updates coming soon. (BTW, I'm looking for funding.)
This term was first used on page 47 of If I Ran The Zoo by Dr. Seuss which was first printed in 1950. The photo came with an illustration, listed right between the Nerkle and Seersucker.
The Nerd was 100% anthroid, angry, peculiar, and diminutive, with a large bushy head, and twiddling its thumbs in contemplation.
All of these McGrew zoo creatures were pulled from the far corners of the Earth, exotic sounding locations which supposedly harbored some uniquely strange beasts.
"Our table was populated by complete nerds, cases of delayed pubescence, and recent immigrants from China."
- Graham
"I'll hunt in the mountains of Zomba-ma-Tant
With helpers who all wear their eyes at a slant,
And capture a fine fluffy bird called the Bustard
Who only eats custard with sauce made of mustard.
And also a very fine beast called the Flustard
Who only eats mustard with sauce made of custard."
- Geisel
The whole book is filled with exotic alien beasts which are beyond comprehension. And that's where people fail to connect with nerds- nerds are aliens communicating beyond their *collective* comprehension.
The social network is also a living, unspoken form of self government, like God and television. Nerds are anarchoterrorists from Zomba-ma-Tant, threatening stability. In order for each person to maintain their known and familiar position in the group, each is obligated to enforce the protocol of the collective idiom.
(Nerds do it too.)
Yeah, if you're talking about a real hacker. Unfortunately a lot of programmers are strict conformists.
Many of the incredible things that happen in computer science happen inside the head.
True inspiration from comes from seeing an individual triumph, e.g. King Vidor's version of The Fountainhead. You don't need a film for that; the internet is the medium. Kids who watched sneakers or hackers and thought that was programming get sorted out when they hit their first serious programming course.
Are we talking about making a film about innovation, or about so called teamwork?
Those nerds that Matthew Broderick went to ask questions of in Wargames.
The fat hacker in Jurassic Park.
In enemy of the state there was some guy (Jack Black) in a van.
On and on...
Thanks for posting that link, I found it informative.
There's another good article on boingboing: Gbloogle: what it all (may) mean
This topic is of some interest to me because I just wrote a Google Widget that uses the Google API to do geographic searches of Blogs (it was just in SlashBack; godseye).
No relationship to this acquisition, but it still felt vaguely spooky. I promise to get to the point. So skip the next paragraph.
It's also weird that people are talking about the Memex - just the other week I was chatting away in the Google API forums about amazon recommendation like incidental pathways found through client side bookmarking. And I actually think Google is going to continue to ignore client side improvements- but it will be interesting to see what new kinds of indexing they create for their own little ecosystem. Will they seperate semantic content?
The most striking part of all this is Google having a hand in the development of the Blogger API, which sets what is supposed to be evolving into an simple open standard for inter-blogware communication, invocation, et cetera. Some of the Google engineers must be pulling their hair out (yes, yes, I know that they're both brilliant and enlightened, but this is the chaotic frontier we're talking about here) trying to see where blogs / knowledge management systems (hello?) are taking the web as a whole in a hurry, search algorithms be damned.
Will Google also gain control of the syndication standards, whatever passes for RSS/XSS/whatever? How do you properly index ongoing permutations of feed standards, if everyone snarfs feeds, or if your base algorithms depend on pages mostly staying in one place? Maybe someone who feel that they know more about the future of syndication can enlighten.
I've seen passing references to Joshua Schacter's Geourl, and the Geocoder project Dave Egnor wrote (which won the Google programming contest)... but not much feedback here on Godseye.
Please take a moment *look* at the Godseye Project, look it over, try the search feature at the bottom of one of the geopages, and then yell at me if you would.
There's more to this project than you can see- the orthophoto polygonal clickthrough tool is already written, and I'm working on making this distributed.
You can add geosearch functionality to your own site fairly easily with the directions provided.
They're a new kind of property. Domains are already interlaced with trademark law, and are a similarly functional asset.
I'm not comfortable with the legislative habit of trying to fit every new technology into old ways of thinking. When a precedent gets obviously shattered, it's time to think in a new way.
But, for the sake of gross conceptualization, let's say you've started your very own town in Old America. Towns have deeds. And for value we're talking about traffic flow between towns and "proximity" to other towns, suburbs, shops, industry, resources. But web proximity is hyperdimensional, and our 2-d analogy is dead like disco.
Taxing domains makes absolutely no sense. Any number of people could be associated with a domain and making money via traffic that has an unknown level of association with it. Taxing individual pages... ewww. Hopefully that idea will hurt their heads for a long time.
There is a property precedent to protect the legacy of work put into building a web name like slashdot, for example. Criminalization of domain swiping as theft, not just fraud, seems to fit with what actually happens to the victim- either theft or destruction of property.
Point about "certified" but unknowledgeable network admins acknowledged. That isn't Microsoft's fault.
Microsoft actually saw this one coming and realized that without full implementation of IP6
they would be out of the QoS loop. That is, GUARANTEED CONTIGUOUS FAT BANDWIDTH across a judiciously determined fixed router path wouldn't be available to their customers. Not to mention how they'll benefit from the mitigating effect of much needed packet level security improvements.
There are many benefits to IP6 that will not be mentioned in this cliched opinion slinging forum. Having multiple UNBROKEN realtime (sic) camera feeds from any location on the Earth's surface is only ONE of the future benefits of IP6.
I'd love to hear other people's views about how the new protocol will actually change our use of the internet. For example, will ISPs continue to thrive when routers are measuring exact "mileage" per customer? Kinda replaces the watermelon seed effect of free flowing packet switching with supply and demand issues. "not your hose, my hose. use the other hose. wait, that's his hose now. but you can use it for double. too much? ok, try that chain of three hoses over there to get to the same grass. cheaper? nice."
I'm developing an organization wide crypto management system for the NSA/USAF/DOD for my employer as part of a private contract. The security is piled on via air gap and the standard DOD secure communications networks. The software inside the airgap is not failsafe, and runs on top of Winders. Although clearance was needed to work on the project, the details of the project are not actually classified. Certainly there are less secure, less reliable applications used by DOD. The application handles critical data such as air unit comsec encryption keys and launch codes. It should be running on top of the most reliable kernel available.
The evidence that some part of this system shows signs of complacence/ignorance frightens me.
Yeah, why should Rob Malda be a slave owner just because the slave shares his genetic material? Patent infrigement? Not a very open source philosophy. But I don't honestly think he's the slave ownin' type.
And now for a few what ifs. Clones should have real parents, everyone else should have real parents (who don't work 60 hours+ a week). They're individuals. As far as their human rights go, I am more concerned about things going the other way. Beyond cloning, genetic manipulation/hyperbreeding should eventually produce beings who are each and every one beyond
us in cognitive turbo. We will fondly think back on those annoying times when we had to give basic stupid user help to our parents as the good old days.
Side note- Larry Niven covered cloning related problems and organ farming/organ jacking quite well in The Long Arm Of Gil Hamilton. I believe this book is out of print, but if you can find it, keep it. Good screenplay basis, too.
birthdate + 30 years
2000-03-24 23:57:42
If you're considering donating to a geek charity take a look at what's happening with the ArsDigita Foundation- ArsDigita University is well under way, now finishing it's third month. You can view lectures at the ADU site.
About ArsDigita Foundation:
ArsDigita Foundation is a 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization dedicated to the
development of web services that work better for society. With a commitment
to outstanding education, training and technical assistance, the
Foundation's programs include, ArsDigita University, ArsDigita Prize,
ArfDigita, and others. Formed in 1998, the foundation received its 501 (c) 3
status in 1999.
Foundation Programs:
ArsDigita Prize (http://arsdigita.org)- The Prize is awarded annually to
young people, eighteen years and younger, for their achievement in building
and maintaining non-commercial, useful Web sites. Each year there is a
winner and a varying number of finalists who receive cash awards, courses in
web development, and the use of a server for their web sites. The Prize is
ready to accept entries for the third annual prize, which will be awarded in
June 2001.
ArsDigita University (http://aduni.org)- The University is a free one-year
post-baccalaureate computer science program. The first class is thirty-six
students who were accepted from a pool of about 350. The curriculum is very
similar to what computer science majors learn at the top schools in the
country and consists of ten month long courses. ArsDigita University is not
a degree-granting institution.
ArfDigita (http://arfdigita.org)- ArfDigita is an animal welfare program
that enables its member shelters to be more efficient around adoption
services thereby decreasing the number of animals euthanized each year.
ArfDigita is a database backed Web site that facilitates the adoption
process, hosts an online community, pet care information, training tips as
well as a question and answer forum.
If I had the kind of political problems and budget cuts that NASA and SETI have faced (failed missions, Sen. Proxmire's Golden Fleece award nearly eliminating SETI funding back in the 70's, etc.) I would be plastering politicians' names on my telescope like banners on a drag racer.
#pragma warn +rambling
Indeed, Justin Frankel authored both of these. At 20 he already had over 60 million in assets because of the deal. He could certainly walk and start his own company- when he becomes a freeman. It was Marc Andreesen's idea to buy Winamp and Spinner- and of course he's out of there, onto the Loudcloud venture. AOL is not going to be able to hold onto the hottest talent for long no matter how much cash they provide. Their environment is contrary to the motives that produce innovation. Lavishing [those things big money buys] on someone who is creative+effective won't further motivate that person or gear them up to produce the next big thing, especially if they are now surrounded by people who _are motivated by [those things]. If the individual is still inventing, they'll begin to see the chaos (especially in this case I'd imagine). Some [inventors] let their creative selves die getting led around by the economic expectations they acquire after the point of being an acknowledged success.
#pragma warn -rambling