The more 'legitimate' use (in this case meaning something your government doesn't mind) there is of freenet, the less justification there is for snooping / intervention / reaction.
This provides support for a framework in which the government's definition of legitimate cannot impinge on the users' definition.
In my mind - this is a valuable protection against tyranny. We have already seen too much tyrany for my liking - even in the 'free' West
I think the business model is safe. Most people are happy to pay for a ready to use product as it saves them time and hassle as well as reducing the risk that things won't work.
Most computer users don't know what a nic is (myself included). Buying a wireless card, plugging it in and installing the drivers succesfully will result in a sense of achievement.
Think of your car - how many folks change their own plugs and adjust their points vs getting them done by the expert mechanic?
Reminds me of the UK treatment of pubs during the second war. The government introduced 11pm closing time so that people wouldn't be too tired/hungover to work the next day.
I wonder how much this is about protection of children - and how much about productivity. There are few activities like multiplayer gaming to keep you up all night night after night...
To me this story wonderfully illustrates the fact that there is good utility in a powerful police/state. It still worries me though.
Nobody argues that it is a good thing that a murderer was caught.
Many would however object to compulsory collection of fingerprints from all citizens / immigrants / visitors etc. Again, there is no doubt that this would help to solve some crimes and result in some good things. Many of us worry about the prospect because we do not trust our police / state to use those powers only for good. This mostly comes from differring beliefs in what is acceptable (speeding / P2P / looking at photographs by a famous photographer whom some consider to be a pornographer / reading communist literature the list goes on)
We have convinced ourselves that it is OK to keep fingerprints for criminals - though perhaps less so for those never convicted of crimes.
With DNA, this case shows us that when you store the DNA of a criminal - you effectively store the DNA of a family. Is that OK?
the argument is not about stopping criminals. It is about how much power we will grant to that end. It is about whether you believe that power corrupts.
An interesting suggestion from a BBC foreign correspondent this morning was that the real reason for the ban is that the underground city is called Zion.
Thus the matrix could be interpereted as a pro-Israeli allegory - not a popular message in Egypt at the moment.
Why not development on hold for a while and put the money into a huge x-prize type fund. 10m is getting some serious competition - what would 100m or 1000m do? NASA could specify rules - the contender must be able to lift so much for so much cash - it must be reusable to whatever degree and cost so much per flight. Perhaps we need seperate categories for manned / cargo lifters There probably need to be some rules on risk and the environment as well. Keep the rules simple though and make a big prize.
Then we sit back and watch it happen. Like tendering but without the politics bureaucracy etc
I was really unhappy about the Handspring Treo forcing me to choose between colour and dedicated grafitti input.
I chose the colour screen and a keyboard and have never looked back. Onscreen grafitti (provided by Jot) is ideal for short notes (contacts, meetings, etc). The keyboard is ideal for more extended text - memos, e-mail, documents. The keyboard is much faster than graffiti (even for a seasoned user) and I would now be very sad to move to a PDA which didn't have one. (btw, I don't have a laptop - jut my Treo and a desktop)
Different folks have different needs - Keep the diversity!
I'm no expert on who supported the installation of the Taliban or to what degree. I understand that to a significant degree they were supported directly or inderictly by the west (the good guys?). - Note I made no direct accusations!
I was trying to question the simplistic presentation 'evil superpower secretly supporting small rogue states (the USSR, Microsoft) fighting against the good guys of freedom (IBM, Vietnam, South Korea, etc.)'.
I think most our our countries' foreign policies are rather less idealistic. Taking the US as an example, see this piece
MS is steadily learning about PR. It's much more powerful to have others fighting their battles. If it was MS threatinging Linux openly, the world would see a bully and laugh if/when they lost.
With SCO, there is potential for lots of damage to be done to MS competitors (or at least the credibility of their products) even if the case never goes to court.
Seriously though, the phone is weak - I'm only happy because I done't use it a lot. I can't wait until someone introduces a well integrated Palm OS 5 smartphone and I can have an MP3 player, phone and palm in one gadget.
Sarah Faulder is the Chief Executive Director or the MPA of the United Kingdom. You have sent this email to the MPA of the United States. If you want to voice your opinion, I suggest that you direct it to the appropiate contact.
A key part of the song is the title. A memorable title is a work of art and clearly deserves copyright protection. Sites that list the titles of songs on albums without paying royalties (amazon?) should also be shut down. After all, they are aiding and abetting P2P users as well as infringing on the writers' rights.
Is there a tradition on/. not to reply to misinformed religious gibber?... Assuming not... 'A solid theory of the ongoings of our brains, would at the same time be a solid theory of how god works, and I just can't see how one would understand something that is bigger than all of us.'
Why? I can still understand how a car works without understanding how the man who made it works.
'To those who want to explain everything with mathematics, I've always said "make a differential equation that models my soul, then tell me what my favourite colour is". That shuts them up allright.'
They probably don't think they could write an equation for something that doesn't exist. They probably believe that a sufficiently complete model of your brain could predict your favourite colour. There is obviously uncertainty as to the pracicalities of creating such a model.
'We have already shown that there are fundamental uncertainties in nature (Heisenberg), can you be sure that these uncertainties are not divine intervention, simply what really gives us free will. Remember that it's almost 250 years since Darwin wrote his Evolution of the species, and scientists have yet to produce a solid proof that this is indeed how things work. I don't see how we would ever be able to create an entirely autonomus entity (AI) with this in mind.'
We cannot state that uncertainties are not divine intervention. We can state that uncertainties seem to behave as if there is no intervention. I'll ignore the Darwin comment!... See what happens now...
BBC programming is fantastic (I recommend it to all you folks bitching about top 40 stations). There have been a couple of suggestions for tivo-like software setups for shoutcast streams - but what about real-audio streams?
Unfortunately the web has not proved itself quite the great equaliser you speak of. Big companies still control the capital and this gives them a massive advantage in marketing.
However good your music - I won't download it if I haven't heard of it.
Rotate your manhole cover so that one edge is perpendicular to the ground. The width is now sqrt(3/2) of the side. It can now slip through the hole by sliding against one edge. (assuming it is a close approximation to a two dimensional object)
Is it now illegal to find out whether a product you've bought does what it says.
Presumably if you buy a product designed to ensure security, the only way you could test it would to be to attempt to..."circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work,"
If so, does this mean I can sell a 'secure e-mail encryption system' using the code a=26, b=25... and sue anyone who tells me they can break it or dares to talk about how it works?
£14.99 for 128k is an excellent deal
-significant improvement over dialup speed
-always on (so no call charges, & seperate line)
-seem to have near-perpetual free installation
c.f. £15.99 for AOL flatrate dialup access
OK -so the marketing guys took a liberty - but the offer can't be beat. If only they could figure out customer service as well...
Slashdot Mirror
Bill Gates Foundation Buys 1100 TT2's for NYC Edu
Is this a tacit recognition by BG that PPC is an inferior product???
You might not agree with this man
- But you've got to love the attitude!
The more 'legitimate' use (in this case meaning something your government doesn't mind) there is of freenet, the less justification there is for snooping / intervention / reaction.
This provides support for a framework in which the government's definition of legitimate cannot impinge on the users' definition.
In my mind - this is a valuable protection against tyranny. We have already seen too much tyrany for my liking - even in the 'free' West
I think the business model is safe. Most people are happy to pay for a ready to use product as it saves them time and hassle as well as reducing the risk that things won't work.
Most computer users don't know what a nic is (myself included). Buying a wireless card, plugging it in and installing the drivers succesfully will result in a sense of achievement.
Think of your car - how many folks change their own plugs and adjust their points vs getting them done by the expert mechanic?
Reminds me of the UK treatment of pubs during the second war. The government introduced 11pm closing time so that people wouldn't be too tired/hungover to work the next day.
I wonder how much this is about protection of children - and how much about productivity. There are few activities like multiplayer gaming to keep you up all night night after night...
To me this story wonderfully illustrates the fact that there is good utility in a powerful police/state. It still worries me though.
Nobody argues that it is a good thing that a murderer was caught.
Many would however object to compulsory collection of fingerprints from all citizens / immigrants / visitors etc. Again, there is no doubt that this would help to solve some crimes and result in some good things. Many of us worry about the prospect because we do not trust our police / state to use those powers only for good. This mostly comes from differring beliefs in what is acceptable (speeding / P2P / looking at photographs by a famous photographer whom some consider to be a pornographer / reading communist literature the list goes on)
We have convinced ourselves that it is OK to keep fingerprints for criminals - though perhaps less so for those never convicted of crimes.
With DNA, this case shows us that when you store the DNA of a criminal - you effectively store the DNA of a family. Is that OK?
the argument is not about stopping criminals. It is about how much power we will grant to that end. It is about whether you believe that power corrupts.
I don't trust my government. Hence my concern.
' Just try and respect the fact that others may find it harmfull for there own religion/politics, as we might think the same way about theirs.'
the other conclusion is that the governmebts should not have been banning movies that present uncomfortable views on 9/11
An interesting suggestion from a BBC foreign correspondent this morning was that the real reason for the ban is that the underground city is called Zion.
Thus the matrix could be interpereted as a pro-Israeli allegory - not a popular message in Egypt at the moment.
From the bottom of Blizzards annoucement;
As always, thank you for your continued support; with your help we have been able to keep Battle.net a fun and safe place to play Blizzard games.
If they wanted it to be safe, they'd use some Raid on those monsters and confiscate all the nasty weapons that people carry around with them.
Why not development on hold for a while and put the money into a huge x-prize type fund. 10m is getting some serious competition - what would 100m or 1000m do?
NASA could specify rules - the contender must be able to lift so much for so much cash - it must be reusable to whatever degree and cost so much per flight.
Perhaps we need seperate categories for manned / cargo lifters
There probably need to be some rules on risk and the environment as well. Keep the rules simple though and make a big prize.
Then we sit back and watch it happen. Like tendering but without the politics bureaucracy etc
I was really unhappy about the Handspring Treo forcing me to choose between colour and dedicated grafitti input.
I chose the colour screen and a keyboard and have never looked back. Onscreen grafitti (provided by Jot) is ideal for short notes (contacts, meetings, etc). The keyboard is ideal for more extended text - memos, e-mail, documents. The keyboard is much faster than graffiti (even for a seasoned user) and I would now be very sad to move to a PDA which didn't have one. (btw, I don't have a laptop - jut my Treo and a desktop)
Different folks have different needs - Keep the diversity!
Hemp is legal in the UK (it's not the same as pot). I think you need a liscence to grow it. Is it illegal in the US?
I'm no expert on who supported the installation of the Taliban or to what degree. I understand that to a significant degree they were supported directly or inderictly by the west (the good guys?). - Note I made no direct accusations!
I was trying to question the simplistic presentation 'evil superpower secretly supporting small rogue states (the USSR, Microsoft) fighting against the good guys of freedom (IBM, Vietnam, South Korea, etc.)'.
I think most our our countries' foreign policies are rather less idealistic. Taking the US as an example, see this piece
'On one side you have an evil superpower secretly supporting small rogue states (the USSR, Microsoft)'
Er - who installed the Taliban?
MS is steadily learning about PR. It's much more powerful to have others fighting their battles. If it was MS threatinging Linux openly, the world would see a bully and laugh if/when they lost.
With SCO, there is potential for lots of damage to be done to MS competitors (or at least the credibility of their products) even if the case never goes to court.
Make that one happy Treo user.
Seriously though, the phone is weak - I'm only happy because I done't use it a lot. I can't wait until someone introduces a well integrated Palm OS 5 smartphone and I can have an MP3 player, phone and palm in one gadget.
I let them know and got this polite response
Sarah Faulder is the Chief Executive Director or the MPA of the United
Kingdom. You have sent this email to the MPA of the United States. If you
want to voice your opinion, I suggest that you direct it to the appropiate
contact.
Janna Mattson
MPA Administrator
A key part of the song is the title. A memorable title is a work of art and clearly deserves copyright protection. Sites that list the titles of songs on albums without paying royalties (amazon?) should also be shut down. After all, they are aiding and abetting P2P users as well as infringing on the writers' rights.
Is there a tradition on /. not to reply to misinformed religious gibber? ... Assuming not...
... See what happens now...
'A solid theory of the ongoings of our brains, would at the same time be a solid theory of how god works, and I just can't see how one would understand something that is bigger than all of us.'
Why? I can still understand how a car works without understanding how the man who made it works.
'To those who want to explain everything with mathematics, I've always said "make a differential equation that models my soul, then tell me what my favourite colour is". That shuts them up allright.'
They probably don't think they could write an equation for something that doesn't exist. They probably believe that a sufficiently complete model of your brain could predict your favourite colour. There is obviously uncertainty as to the pracicalities of creating such a model.
'We have already shown that there are fundamental uncertainties in nature (Heisenberg), can you be sure that these uncertainties are not divine intervention, simply what really gives us free will. Remember that it's almost 250 years since Darwin wrote his Evolution of the species, and scientists have yet to produce a solid proof that this is indeed how things work. I don't see how we would ever be able to create an entirely autonomus entity (AI) with this in mind.'
We cannot state that uncertainties are not divine intervention. We can state that uncertainties seem to behave as if there is no intervention. I'll ignore the Darwin comment!
Inteligence is not necessarily limited to imitation of human intelligence.
We have designed many machines that are allow rapid movement from A to B even though we can barely create a robot that imitates walking.
BBC programming is fantastic (I recommend it to all you folks bitching about top 40 stations). There have been a couple of suggestions for tivo-like software setups for shoutcast streams - but what about real-audio streams?
Unfortunately the web has not proved itself quite the great equaliser you speak of. Big companies still control the capital and this gives them a massive advantage in marketing.
However good your music - I won't download it if I haven't heard of it.
Britney is still unfortunately ahead.
Rotate your manhole cover so that one edge is perpendicular to the ground. The width is now sqrt(3/2) of the side. It can now slip through the hole by sliding against one edge. (assuming it is a close approximation to a two dimensional object)
Is it now illegal to find out whether a product you've bought does what it says.
..."circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work,"
... and sue anyone who tells me they can break it or dares to talk about how it works?
Presumably if you buy a product designed to ensure security, the only way you could test it would to be to attempt to
If so, does this mean I can sell a 'secure e-mail encryption system' using the code a=26, b=25
£14.99 for 128k is an excellent deal
-significant improvement over dialup speed
-always on (so no call charges, & seperate line)
-seem to have near-perpetual free installation
c.f. £15.99 for AOL flatrate dialup access
OK -so the marketing guys took a liberty - but the offer can't be beat. If only they could figure out customer service as well...