But the damage is already largely done. When the service was terminated, there was a lot of publicity around Wikileaks, and a lot of people wanting to donate.
I'm not sure how you reach that conclusion. Wikileaks is just one more document dump away from being back in the news for another few 24 hour cycles.
The information Wikileaks provides to the public is its own advertisement.
I record broadcast tv to my computer and play it back later Private performance.
I record broadcast tv to my computer and stream it to a computer/tablet/phone over the internet Private performance
I rent an antenna, a hard drive, and bandwidth from a 3rd party and record broadcast tv onto the hard drive so that I can play it back over the internet. *Second Circuit Court says: Private performance.
Pandora is wondering why this can't apply to them as well. *The decision is limited to NY, Vermont, and Connecticut.
I traveled through Ben Gurion airport in 2011 and I have to say, I found the security there a lot less invasive and arbitrary than security at US airports. They didn't make me take off my shoes or walk through a body scanner. And they didn't confiscate my bottle of water.
Israeli airport security is different from American security in one crucial way: they profile passengers. So if you found their security less invasive, it's most likely because you don't have the wrong name/skin color/country of origin/family background.
We have been studying Washington politics and Congress for more than 40 years, and never have we seen them this dysfunctional. In our past writings, we have criticized both parties when we believed it was warranted. Today, however, we have no choice but to acknowledge that the core of the problem lies with the Republican Party.
The GOP has become an insurgent outlier in American politics. It is ideologically extreme; scornful of compromise; unmoved by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition.
When one party moves this far from the mainstream, it makes it nearly impossible for the political system to deal constructively with the country's challenges.
SCHIEFFER: You were one of the vast majority of Republicans to signed the pledge circulated by the leading antitax advocate Grover Norquist, no new taxes under any circumstances. And I remember once back during one of the primaries, you were asked if you would agree to $1 in taxes if you could get $10 cut in spending cuts, and you said at that time, no, I wouldn't even accept that. Do you still feel that way?
ROMNEY: Well, we all felt that way. And the reason is that government, at all levels today, consumers about 37% of our economy.
SCHIEFFER: But do you still feel--
ROMNEY: Let me go on and explain. The answer is I do feel that way. [...]
A Republican couldn't even run for President without dismissing 1:10 taxes to cuts. Both parties have problems, but not all problems are equal.
.edu's put out press releases all the time as a form of advertisement. Public relations and marketing isn't just about selling the product, it's about creating the demand.
So they may not be trying to sell you something, but they're definitely trying to drum up prestige and, if they're lucky, they'll get funding for more research or good press for licenseable technology.
The world of academics is money driven, just like any other industry.
Health insurance will not work in a free market. Insurance works only when the claimants and the insurer does not know who will file a claim and whose policies will expire without any claims. You don't know when/if your house will burn down or your car will be totaled. Nor do insurance companies. This model will work in free market.
They may not know when your house will burn down, but by using statistics, they know the risk of homes like yours burning down.
I think you severely underestimate the usefulness and effectiveness of the actuarial sciences. The insurance companies are so sure of their statistics, that they only thing they buy secondary insurance for is natural disasters.
We can see how people are unaware of facts on either side of debates because the news they watch is biased and never gives opposing view points or opposing facts.
Worse: The news gives both sides of a debate without telling you that one side is utterly full of shit. Because if they dared to draw conclusions, it would undermine their journalistic neutrality.
In fact they get a fraction of 1% of the subsidies per megawatt that renewable energy gets.
A mature technology with a massive amount of installed infrastructure gets lower subsidies per [arbitrary unit] than a new technology with a miniscule fraction of the installed base.
Lies, damned lies, and statistics. Color me surprised.
Maybe 100 years from now, we can have a meaningful comparison of renewables and fossil fuels, assuming we're still using fossil fuels in 100 years.
We spend far too much money on education, for far too little return. The fact that Adam Smith saw some low-hanging fruit to pick doesn't mean that the marginal dollar spent on education is always a net positive.
A) The alternative is worse. B) Education spending is complicated by social factors that take place outside the school.
I'll never understand the people who seem to think that if the government rolls back spending, things will stay the way they are or get better.
So it seems that CSIRO got a new director, and, not having enough funds, this new guy started operating the research group like a business, focusing on outside revenue from other companies. Of course, this made it hard to do science, especially since the director wasn't a particularly good director. The scientists almost are turned in to sales people. So it seems kind of bad.
My understanding was that instead of doing pure research, they were focusing on solutions to specific goals that were dictated by industry/clients.
They wanted to do basic research and couldn't. Coupled with shitty matrix management and bullying, no wonder they're pissed.
On December 27, 2012 Maxfield & Oberton Holdings, LLC (the "Company") stopped doing business and filed a Certificate of Cancellation with the Secretary of State of Delaware, thereby ceasing to exist pursuant to applicable Delaware law. The MOH Liquidating Trust has been established to deal with and, to the extent they are valid, pay, to the extent assets are available, certain claims which have been, and may later be, asserted against the Company. If you believe you have a claim against the Company, please click on link below to obtain the Proof of Claim form which you must complete and submit to the Trustee of the MOH Liquidating Trust. If the Trustee determines that a claim is valid, the Trustee will pay that claim, to the extent assets are available, in accordance with the terms of the MOH Liquidating Trust.
In my experience, opinions vary *wildly* amongst self-defined libertarians as to the definition of "unreasonable".
For example, PBS is insanely profitable (its executives make over 300,000 per year) yet how dare anybody suggest we stop handing them free money, because clearly that means they hate children.
The Federally chartered Corporation for Public Broadcasting was created by Congress specifically to keep PBS alive in the late 60s. I don't think you hate kids, I just think your ideology is based on a poor grasp of public policy.
Until we see punishment for such business practices, they'll continue to be profitable.
The submitter editorialized a bit in using the words "bad faith". If the judge had actually declared that there was bad faith, there are appropriate sanctions, including attorneys fees and dismissal/winning the case.
We need this on a national level. The patchwork of local regulations and subsidies has not worked out for the USA. Even in a big city, you might end up in a building with only 1 choice for tv &/or internet.
And if we can't get the private companies to compete, we should lay the infrastructure ourselves. Leave it under the control of a federally chartered corporation and lease access without preferential treatment.
The Silicon Valley-based company yesterday [March 19, 2013] raised $45 million in a series E round to grow the companyâ(TM)s sales and services around what it calls âoehigh-value ocean data servicesâ in research, defense, and oil and gas exploration.
They seem to have a really good thing going and I'm glad the recession hasn't crippled their business.
Despite all the naysayers that have already posted, this is a potentially game changing technology.
A game changer for whom? If it isn't fast, then it's going to be relegated to embedded applications. That may be a game changer for the embedded field, but your average consumer knows fuck all about embedded chips.
A new national survey reveals that 57% of American drivers admit they don't use their turn signal when changing lanes, but what is most startling are the excuses drivers gave.
According to Response Insurance, a national car insurer, 42% of those drivers say they don't have enough time, 23% admit they are just plain "lazy," 17% don't signal because when they do, they forget to turn it off, 12% admit they are changing lanes too frequently to bother, 11% say it is not important, 8% say they don't signal because other drivers don't, and perhaps most disturbing 7% say forgoing the signal "adds excitement to driving."
This Response Insurance National Driving Habits Survey of 1,000 adults was conducted 8/18-21/2005. The survey has a margin of error of + / - 3%.
"There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary to the public interest. This strange doctrine is not supported by statute nor common law. Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back."
Life-Line by Robert A. Heinlein, 1939
/If they want to take their ball and go home, I would encourage them to do so. //NBC/CBS/ABC as well. Someone will fill your shoes, if for no other reason than the lucrative sports broadcast.
For crab lovers, bigger doesnâ(TM)t necessarily mean better. Carbon-absorbing crabs put all their energy into upgrading shells, not flesh â" like a mansion without much furniture. So diners might be disappointed years from now when they crack open huge crabs and find little meat.
I'm not sure why TFS links to page 2 of the article.
Slashdot Mirror
But the damage is already largely done. When the service was terminated, there was a lot of publicity around Wikileaks, and a lot of people wanting to donate.
I'm not sure how you reach that conclusion.
Wikileaks is just one more document dump away from being back in the news for another few 24 hour cycles.
The information Wikileaks provides to the public is its own advertisement.
senators are 'drafting separate bills' to include some CISPA provisions
Death by guillotine vs death by 1000 cuts
Being on cut #549 is not much of a victory.
You're still going to end up dead..
I watch broadcast tv
Private performance.
I record broadcast tv to my computer and play it back later
Private performance.
I record broadcast tv to my computer and stream it to a computer/tablet/phone over the internet
Private performance
I rent an antenna, a hard drive, and bandwidth from a 3rd party and record broadcast tv onto the hard drive so that I can play it back over the internet.
*Second Circuit Court says: Private performance.
Pandora is wondering why this can't apply to them as well.
*The decision is limited to NY, Vermont, and Connecticut.
I traveled through Ben Gurion airport in 2011 and I have to say, I found the security there a lot less invasive and arbitrary than security at US airports. They didn't make me take off my shoes or walk through a body scanner. And they didn't confiscate my bottle of water.
Israeli airport security is different from American security in one crucial way: they profile passengers.
So if you found their security less invasive, it's most likely because you don't have the wrong name/skin color/country of origin/family background.
There's no immediate debt crisis, Boehner says, agreeing with Obama
http://articles.latimes.com/2013/mar/17/news/la-pn-no-immediate-debt-crisis-boehner-obama-20130317
March 17, 2013
Boehner expressed agreement with Obama's statement in an ABC interview the other day that the debt doesn't present "an immediate crisis."
But Boehner took issue with Obama's assertion that it doesn't make sense to âoechase a balanced budget just for the sake of balance.â
The new spending plan from House Republicans would balance the budget in 10 years, a priority Boehner said this morning is important to the economy.
Death spiral eh?
Where do you get your facts?
I guess I can understand where you'd get that idea, since Republicans have more or less spent years claiming the debt apocalypse is coming.
Let's just say it: The Republicans are the problem.
April 27, 2012
We have been studying Washington politics and Congress for more than 40 years, and never have we seen them this dysfunctional. In our past writings, we have criticized both parties when we believed it was warranted. Today, however, we have no choice but to acknowledge that the core of the problem lies with the Republican Party.
The GOP has become an insurgent outlier in American politics. It is ideologically extreme; scornful of compromise; unmoved by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition.
When one party moves this far from the mainstream, it makes it nearly impossible for the political system to deal constructively with the country's challenges.
Romney Rules Out Compromise: I Won't Accept $1 In New Taxes For $10 In Spending Cuts
Jun 17, 2012
SCHIEFFER: You were one of the vast majority of Republicans to signed the pledge circulated by the leading antitax advocate Grover Norquist, no new taxes under any circumstances. And I remember once back during one of the primaries, you were asked if you would agree to $1 in taxes if you could get $10 cut in spending cuts, and you said at that time, no, I wouldn't even accept that. Do you still feel that way?
ROMNEY: Well, we all felt that way. And the reason is that government, at all levels today, consumers about 37% of our economy.
SCHIEFFER: But do you still feel--
ROMNEY: Let me go on and explain. The answer is I do feel that way. [...]
A Republican couldn't even run for President without dismissing 1:10 taxes to cuts.
Both parties have problems, but not all problems are equal.
.edu's put out press releases all the time as a form of advertisement.
Public relations and marketing isn't just about selling the product, it's about creating the demand.
So they may not be trying to sell you something, but they're definitely trying to drum up prestige
and, if they're lucky, they'll get funding for more research or good press for licenseable technology.
The world of academics is money driven, just like any other industry.
Health insurance will not work in a free market. Insurance works only when the claimants and the insurer does not know who will file a claim and whose policies will expire without any claims. You don't know when/if your house will burn down or your car will be totaled. Nor do insurance companies. This model will work in free market.
They may not know when your house will burn down, but by using statistics, they know the risk of homes like yours burning down.
I think you severely underestimate the usefulness and effectiveness of the actuarial sciences.
The insurance companies are so sure of their statistics, that they only thing they buy secondary insurance for is natural disasters.
We can see how people are unaware of facts on either side of debates because the news they watch is biased and never gives opposing view points or opposing facts.
Worse: The news gives both sides of a debate without telling you that one side is utterly full of shit.
Because if they dared to draw conclusions, it would undermine their journalistic neutrality.
In fact they get a fraction of 1% of the subsidies per megawatt that renewable energy gets.
A mature technology with a massive amount of installed infrastructure gets lower subsidies per [arbitrary unit] than a new technology with a miniscule fraction of the installed base.
Lies, damned lies, and statistics.
Color me surprised.
Maybe 100 years from now, we can have a meaningful comparison of renewables and fossil fuels, assuming we're still using fossil fuels in 100 years.
We spend far too much money on education, for far too little return. The fact that Adam Smith saw some low-hanging fruit to pick doesn't mean that the marginal dollar spent on education is always a net positive.
A) The alternative is worse.
B) Education spending is complicated by social factors that take place outside the school.
I'll never understand the people who seem to think that if the government rolls back spending, things will stay the way they are or get better.
So it seems that CSIRO got a new director, and, not having enough funds, this new guy started operating the research group like a business, focusing on outside revenue from other companies. Of course, this made it hard to do science, especially since the director wasn't a particularly good director. The scientists almost are turned in to sales people. So it seems kind of bad.
My understanding was that instead of doing pure research, they were focusing on solutions to specific goals that were dictated by industry/clients.
They wanted to do basic research and couldn't.
Coupled with shitty matrix management and bullying, no wonder they're pissed.
On December 27, 2012 Maxfield & Oberton Holdings, LLC (the "Company") stopped doing business and filed a Certificate of Cancellation with the Secretary of State of Delaware, thereby ceasing to exist pursuant to applicable Delaware law. The MOH Liquidating Trust has been established to deal with and, to the extent they are valid, pay, to the extent assets are available, certain claims which have been, and may later be, asserted against the Company. If you believe you have a claim against the Company, please click on link below to obtain the Proof of Claim form which you must complete and submit to the Trustee of the MOH Liquidating Trust. If the Trustee determines that a claim is valid, the Trustee will pay that claim, to the extent assets are available, in accordance with the terms of the MOH Liquidating Trust.
Perhaps you should read this article.
While he's at it, he should learn about mineral rights too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mineral_rights
The notion that our ownership of land stretches from heaven to hell is extremely outdated.
We're just against unreasonable regulation.
In my experience, opinions vary *wildly* amongst self-defined libertarians as to the definition of "unreasonable".
For example, PBS is insanely profitable (its executives make over 300,000 per year) yet how dare anybody suggest we stop handing them free money, because clearly that means they hate children.
The Federally chartered Corporation for Public Broadcasting was created by Congress specifically to keep PBS alive in the late 60s.
I don't think you hate kids, I just think your ideology is based on a poor grasp of public policy.
Until we see punishment for such business practices, they'll continue to be profitable.
The submitter editorialized a bit in using the words "bad faith".
If the judge had actually declared that there was bad faith, there are appropriate sanctions, including attorneys fees and dismissal/winning the case.
This is about as close as you'll get
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell_XPS_M2010
City: "Ok, no franchise contract anymore"
We need this on a national level.
The patchwork of local regulations and subsidies has not worked out for the USA.
Even in a big city, you might end up in a building with only 1 choice for tv &/or internet.
And if we can't get the private companies to compete, we should lay the infrastructure ourselves.
Leave it under the control of a federally chartered corporation and lease access without preferential treatment.
http://www.technologyreview.com/view/512701/ocean-faring-robot-cashes-in-on-offshore-oil-and-gas/
The Silicon Valley-based company yesterday [March 19, 2013] raised $45 million in a series E round to grow the companyâ(TM)s sales and services around what it calls âoehigh-value ocean data servicesâ in research, defense, and oil and gas exploration.
They seem to have a really good thing going and I'm glad the recession hasn't crippled their business.
Despite all the naysayers that have already posted, this is a potentially game changing technology.
A game changer for whom?
If it isn't fast, then it's going to be relegated to embedded applications.
That may be a game changer for the embedded field, but your average consumer knows fuck all about embedded chips.
Society needs one of those to nag people who don't use turn signals. Make it so.
I remember reading this when it came out
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/national-survey-reveals-why-drivers-dont-use-turn-signals-55355907.html
A new national survey reveals that 57% of American drivers admit they don't use their turn signal when changing lanes, but what is most startling are the excuses drivers gave.
According to Response Insurance, a national car insurer,
42% of those drivers say they don't have enough time,
23% admit they are just plain "lazy,"
17% don't signal because when they do, they forget to turn it off,
12% admit they are changing lanes too frequently to bother,
11% say it is not important,
8% say they don't signal because other drivers don't, and perhaps most disturbing
7% say forgoing the signal "adds excitement to driving."
This Response Insurance National Driving Habits Survey of 1,000 adults was conducted 8/18-21/2005.
The survey has a margin of error of + / - 3%.
Since when does a company obsessed with DRM release a game to bittorrent for free, before it's announced or launched?
Money != morality
I would have gone with the much simpler answer:
iOS devs make 70% from app downloads at Apple's forbearance.
"There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary to the public interest. This strange doctrine is not supported by statute nor common law. Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back."
Life-Line by Robert A. Heinlein, 1939
/If they want to take their ball and go home, I would encourage them to do so.
//NBC/CBS/ABC as well. Someone will fill your shoes, if for no other reason than the lucrative sports broadcast.
For crab lovers, bigger doesnâ(TM)t necessarily mean better. Carbon-absorbing crabs put all their energy into upgrading shells, not flesh â" like a mansion without much furniture. So diners might be disappointed years from now when they crack open huge crabs and find little meat.
I'm not sure why TFS links to page 2 of the article.