Where do they get off calling these guys researchers, when they are clearly criminals attempting to invade the reasonably expected privacy of Skype users and BT users? These guys are peeping toms at best and identity thieves at worse.
Hold the organizations that employ these guys accountable.
I can only hope that my taxpayer money hasn't gone to fund this "research".
And why are we happy that researchers seem to think that the more that they can do to strip away privacy as actually a Good Thing? Why not instead work out systems to make our computers more resistant to virus/trojan/rootkit infections. THAT would actually benefit the majority of us overall.
Are you really surprised by any of these payouts to completely uneconomic green (as in money) projects by BHO? Do you notice the pattern of $500 million loans? There seem to be BHO Big Bundlers involved in each of them. A Big Bundler is someone who gathered together at least $500,000 for the Obama campaign. Pretty good ROI here: Invest $500,000 and get back $500,000,000.00. We are being robbed by these Progressives on a grand scale never before seen in this country -- and there are still people who just can't wait to vote for this clown again!
And to add insult, their first Fisker $97K car only gets the equivalent of 19MPG -- the same as the average SUV. Damn, I'm mad.
So then I look at the Brits, and they're fucked as well (too many cameras, among other things).
The problem in Britain is that all of the cameras are Government Cameras. Try taking pictures of almost anything anymore out in public with your own camera where there is no expectation of privacy and the law explicitly permits photography and count how long it takes Inspector Plod to come along and seize your camera anyway you little terrorist.
This sounds like the usual Liberal Political Correctness excrement. We produce oil in this country and in times of war the military is First in line to get theirs. Trying to set up an alternative parallel biofuel supply system seems nothing more than an attempt to warm the cockles of Michelle Obama's heart. Rather like when my Democratic U.S. House Representative was asking about why the military wasn't using solar power for their bases in Afghanistan. Pure B.S. that only makes our military's mission even harder than it has to be.
1: Who on the list looks much younger than 40?
2: Who lives in Texas?
3: Who is only mildly successful (rules out Tia)?
4: Who didn't have their age posted until recently?
Number 4 might be deduced by checking for recent updates to their page in Wikipedia, which might not have had their age included until it was discovered on IMDB.
The over/under betting is: How long before we find out? (There are a lot of clues to narrow this down.)
But also: Is her contention correct that this is how her BD found its way onto IMDB? She acts like there is no other possible way, but that's hardly a certainty. I'm guessing that this is like that Skanks of New York website where the lawsuit is intended to discover who actually posted it by forcing IMDB to defend itself by revealing the IP address and account information of the actual poster in their defense. In this way the Plaintiff gets access to information that she is not truly entitled to receive legally otherwise -- much like RIAA/MPAA mass subpena lawsuits that are dismissed the moment that subscriber information is matched to dubious IP numbers. In fact, I'll go so far as to opine that the Plaintiff already knows that IMDB didn't do what she preposterously alleges, and is only misusing the court system to uncover the actual person involved in order to punish them for telling the truth about her.
Last question: Will she profit from all this publicity? Probably yes in the short term.
Unfortunately, while Firefox is customizable, the performance absolutely sucks. Just open one tab and go to some website that crashes Gecko, and the whole browser crashes. One tab is slow, the whole browser is slow. Too many tabs, and everything slows to a crawl, with long delays between typing into a textbox (like I'm doing now) and seeing the text show up.
My problem with FF is its still huge memory footprint. I can open up 4 tabs (a couple gMail accounts, Yahoo Groups, and Facebook) and before know it FF is consuming 450MB and climbing. That's insane for even dozens of web-pages at once. And I'm talking the latest FF.
Here's the music so you don't make the Daily Mail money from their advertisers to spew out more hate:
Now there's a nice civil take on the matter. Someone needs to chill, and I know just where you can find the music to do that with -- in the Daily Mail.
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Good one. I remember a political cartoon of that era of the car using its gull-wings to flap its way over the border inspection station. One guard says to the other: I think we'd better check that one next.
I think you're blowing the case out of proportion.
Let's say you go to a publisher, and you have six completed manuscripts for six different novels. The publisher reads them and likes them all. "Great," you say, "then go ahead and publish them all, and we'll have a big advertising push to promote the six great new novels by Nom du Keyboard."
The publisher will refuse. The publisher will suggest, instead, that it publish one of your novels every 18 months or so for the next few years.
You clearly don't understand writing, or authors. Suppose I told you that I want to buy the last 10 years of your life's work, but I only want to send you a check for 1/6th of it every 18 months. Great deal? I wouldn't think so. Not when there are other markets available willing to publish your book now.
If the publisher wants to publish all 6 books then put them under contract now and pay advances now. That still is a pretty awful deal for the author who has to wait 9 more years for the last book to be published, but it beats the following case.
In this case the publisher actually turned down the other book. Didn't want it at all. Does that mean that you are not allowed to sell it otherwise on your own? Does this publisher pwn you now and you are only allowed to publish what they agree to? I sure hope not.
David Gerrold is the most forward looking SF author that I've ever met.
He started writing on the cutting edge technology of the day: the IBM Selectric typewriter.
He was looking for someone to build him a full word processor years before anyone else had even heard of the term and knew exactly what it needed to be.
His most far reaching idea that is almost in reach now was in a story he easily wrote 30 or so years ago where you carried a small object with you that would slot into any computer of its futuristic day and completely remap the keyboard and system to your own language.
Extrapolating that, my prediction (not that anybody cares) is that the future is a wearable computer that you have with yourself always, that is powerful enough for any normal task, and that can be plugged into more powerful systems with big screens and keyboards for specific tasks. The cell phone of today is within shouting distance of this, once we can get something like a wearable heads-up display and a better virtual or portable keyboard, or truly accurate voice recognition to at least the level of an 11-year-old human.
Of course, legally we have to make cell phones not searchable without a warrant. Or include such strong cryptography that they become unsearchable regardless of the warrant.
If the contract gave exclusive distribution rights to Penguin then the author is in breach of contract. Seems simple to me.
You must not have read the article at all. She sold a new book through Penguin. She then took a bunch of her other, older stories -- stories that Penguin likely turned down publishing -- and offered them for sale through Amazon. This was an entirely separate book, and Penguin dumped her for that. Penguin never had exclusive distribution rights for everything that she'd ever produced in her life, but they threw all of their toys out of the param anyway. How can they claim that a no-compete agreement covers that?
Given how Penguin is interpreting this, no author should ever sign with them again -- unless you like life on The Plantation.
Note to Authors: The old-line Big 6 publishing houses (you know who they are) still intend to own you. You are not an independent contractor working on an individual book basis in their eyes. They will lose this battle, but inflict a lot of pain on a lot of people in the process of this losing. Welcome to the 21st century -- all you books belong to us.
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C'mon!
Where do they get off calling these guys researchers, when they are clearly criminals attempting to invade the reasonably expected privacy of Skype users and BT users? These guys are peeping toms at best and identity thieves at worse.
Hold the organizations that employ these guys accountable.
I can only hope that my taxpayer money hasn't gone to fund this "research".
And why are we happy that researchers seem to think that the more that they can do to strip away privacy as actually a Good Thing? Why not instead work out systems to make our computers more resistant to virus/trojan/rootkit infections. THAT would actually benefit the majority of us overall.
It was a loan, so it will be repaid, and with interest.
Yeah, right, tell that to Solyndra.
Green energy makes no economic sense yet, if ever. If it made economic sense then we wouldn't have to subsidize it to heavily.
Are you really surprised by any of these payouts to completely uneconomic green (as in money) projects by BHO? Do you notice the pattern of $500 million loans? There seem to be BHO Big Bundlers involved in each of them. A Big Bundler is someone who gathered together at least $500,000 for the Obama campaign. Pretty good ROI here: Invest $500,000 and get back $500,000,000.00. We are being robbed by these Progressives on a grand scale never before seen in this country -- and there are still people who just can't wait to vote for this clown again!
And to add insult, their first Fisker $97K car only gets the equivalent of 19MPG -- the same as the average SUV. Damn, I'm mad.
So then I look at the Brits, and they're fucked as well (too many cameras, among other things).
The problem in Britain is that all of the cameras are Government Cameras. Try taking pictures of almost anything anymore out in public with your own camera where there is no expectation of privacy and the law explicitly permits photography and count how long it takes Inspector Plod to come along and seize your camera anyway you little terrorist.
This sounds like the usual Liberal Political Correctness excrement. We produce oil in this country and in times of war the military is First in line to get theirs. Trying to set up an alternative parallel biofuel supply system seems nothing more than an attempt to warm the cockles of Michelle Obama's heart. Rather like when my Democratic U.S. House Representative was asking about why the military wasn't using solar power for their bases in Afghanistan. Pure B.S. that only makes our military's mission even harder than it has to be.
Why hide her age? Maybe she was hoping to appear on Glee along with all of the other 20-somethings there.
Your next steps in narrowing it down are:
1: Who on the list looks much younger than 40?
2: Who lives in Texas?
3: Who is only mildly successful (rules out Tia)?
4: Who didn't have their age posted until recently?
Number 4 might be deduced by checking for recent updates to their page in Wikipedia, which might not have had their age included until it was discovered on IMDB.
The question is: Who is she?
The over/under betting is: How long before we find out? (There are a lot of clues to narrow this down.)
But also: Is her contention correct that this is how her BD found its way onto IMDB? She acts like there is no other possible way, but that's hardly a certainty. I'm guessing that this is like that Skanks of New York website where the lawsuit is intended to discover who actually posted it by forcing IMDB to defend itself by revealing the IP address and account information of the actual poster in their defense. In this way the Plaintiff gets access to information that she is not truly entitled to receive legally otherwise -- much like RIAA/MPAA mass subpena lawsuits that are dismissed the moment that subscriber information is matched to dubious IP numbers. In fact, I'll go so far as to opine that the Plaintiff already knows that IMDB didn't do what she preposterously alleges, and is only misusing the court system to uncover the actual person involved in order to punish them for telling the truth about her.
Last question: Will she profit from all this publicity? Probably yes in the short term.
Unfortunately, while Firefox is customizable, the performance absolutely sucks. Just open one tab and go to some website that crashes Gecko, and the whole browser crashes. One tab is slow, the whole browser is slow. Too many tabs, and everything slows to a crawl, with long delays between typing into a textbox (like I'm doing now) and seeing the text show up.
My problem with FF is its still huge memory footprint. I can open up 4 tabs (a couple gMail accounts, Yahoo Groups, and Facebook) and before know it FF is consuming 450MB and climbing. That's insane for even dozens of web-pages at once. And I'm talking the latest FF.
And Chrome was just overtaking Firefox. Now much might this attitude set them back now?
The techno remix will be awesome!
How about the retro disco version?
Here's the music so you don't make the Daily Mail money from their advertisers to spew out more hate:
Now there's a nice civil take on the matter. Someone needs to chill, and I know just where you can find the music to do that with -- in the Daily Mail.
/. needs a Informative Toll mod at +/-0
And obviously
Considering who Stuxnet attacked, perhaps this is not such a bad thing.
How many Kilos of coke does one cost?
Good one. I remember a political cartoon of that era of the car using its gull-wings to flap its way over the border inspection station. One guard says to the other: I think we'd better check that one next.
The car never ran on fusion power ... only the time machine add-on did! The car itself ran on gas.
It also ran on Being Pushed by a Steam Locomotive.
My thought exactly.
I think you're blowing the case out of proportion.
Let's say you go to a publisher, and you have six completed manuscripts for six different novels. The publisher reads them and likes them all. "Great," you say, "then go ahead and publish them all, and we'll have a big advertising push to promote the six great new novels by Nom du Keyboard."
The publisher will refuse. The publisher will suggest, instead, that it publish one of your novels every 18 months or so for the next few years.
You clearly don't understand writing, or authors. Suppose I told you that I want to buy the last 10 years of your life's work, but I only want to send you a check for 1/6th of it every 18 months. Great deal? I wouldn't think so. Not when there are other markets available willing to publish your book now.
If the publisher wants to publish all 6 books then put them under contract now and pay advances now. That still is a pretty awful deal for the author who has to wait 9 more years for the last book to be published, but it beats the following case.
In this case the publisher actually turned down the other book. Didn't want it at all. Does that mean that you are not allowed to sell it otherwise on your own? Does this publisher pwn you now and you are only allowed to publish what they agree to? I sure hope not.
Gynoids (fembots), count me in!
David Gerrold is the most forward looking SF author that I've ever met.
He started writing on the cutting edge technology of the day: the IBM Selectric typewriter.
He was looking for someone to build him a full word processor years before anyone else had even heard of the term and knew exactly what it needed to be.
His most far reaching idea that is almost in reach now was in a story he easily wrote 30 or so years ago where you carried a small object with you that would slot into any computer of its futuristic day and completely remap the keyboard and system to your own language.
Extrapolating that, my prediction (not that anybody cares) is that the future is a wearable computer that you have with yourself always, that is powerful enough for any normal task, and that can be plugged into more powerful systems with big screens and keyboards for specific tasks. The cell phone of today is within shouting distance of this, once we can get something like a wearable heads-up display and a better virtual or portable keyboard, or truly accurate voice recognition to at least the level of an 11-year-old human.
Of course, legally we have to make cell phones not searchable without a warrant. Or include such strong cryptography that they become unsearchable regardless of the warrant.
You mean hackers get dates there?
If the contract gave exclusive distribution rights to Penguin then the author is in breach of contract. Seems simple to me.
You must not have read the article at all. She sold a new book through Penguin. She then took a bunch of her other, older stories -- stories that Penguin likely turned down publishing -- and offered them for sale through Amazon. This was an entirely separate book, and Penguin dumped her for that. Penguin never had exclusive distribution rights for everything that she'd ever produced in her life, but they threw all of their toys out of the param anyway. How can they claim that a no-compete agreement covers that?
Given how Penguin is interpreting this, no author should ever sign with them again -- unless you like life on The Plantation.
Note to Authors: The old-line Big 6 publishing houses (you know who they are) still intend to own you. You are not an independent contractor working on an individual book basis in their eyes. They will lose this battle, but inflict a lot of pain on a lot of people in the process of this losing. Welcome to the 21st century -- all you books belong to us.
This doesn't sound like a moneymaker for Hollywood.
Same Apple complaints - different day.