Yeah, that thought occurred to me as well. However, that would take the wind out of Google's IPO sails, not to mention the harm it would do to their corporate karma. Not likely.
Seems to me that the standards they suggest are entirely reasonable. What's the problem? If they impose these standards on their business partners won't we all be just a little better off?
Isn't the real question how we should best go about our exploration? Sure, we want to be there, and hopefully someday we will. But for the time being, it makes more sense to continue gathering insights with less expensive un-manned missions. Ultimately, we will get to other worlds more quickly if we are rational about the process. Right now, the cost of manned space flight is, well, astronomical. Better to spend that money developing new technologies (space elevators, scram jets, etc.) that will lower the long term cost.
Interestingly, Slashdot blocks all traffic from Telefonica to yro.slashdot.org, so most of the people who are suffering from the mail blockage are unable to read or comment on the situation. Ironic, is is not?
To answer your question, Telefonica is not the only ISP in Spain, but it is by far the largest and the one used by most individuals. As a near-monopoly, it is entirely indifferent to user complaints. The competitors are also indifferent, but tend to provide even less reliable service.
Hmmm...I don't know that I want to work that hard. When I install a new program, I usually don't know very much about it, so it would be rather hard to tell what behaviors are needed. I am a geek, so I could probably get it right most of the time if I took the trouble. Same would be true of reading the EULAs. But most software users are not geeks and letting them pick and choose the options that you suggest seems entirely unworkable regardless of the UI. It might work for you, but it would be a disaster for most.
As I understood the article, the idea is to make this obligatory and, presumably subject to legal sanction. If you mislablel a drug, the FDA can cause you a world of grief. This would make the creators of scumware subject to the same level of punishment. The risk could become too great for the reward.
Agreed. I lived in San Francisco for many years and was involved in two accidents. In one case, I was hit from the side by someone running a red light. In the other, I was rear-ended because I tried to stop when approaching an intersection when the light was yellow. I always thought yellow meant prepare to stop, but the fellow in the car behind me had the all too common notion that yellow means accelerate.
Mucking about with traffic light patterns is likely to do more harm than good. Many drivers come to know the patterns well on routes they drive every day. Upsetting those patterns to punish someone is a truly bad idea.
We all want a ton of features, but the question is: where should they reside? Putting application functions in the BIOS (or in the OS) is probably not going to provide the most flexible system.
You seem to be assuming that this is not happening already. I wonder if that is true. I would assume that like mechanics, computer techs will give misleading or wrong advice some of the time either out of ignorance or avarice.
Well, I RTFA and it was not clear to me just how this scheme is implemented. Specifically, it was not stated whether the social network is compiled centrally or on the client machines. Your concern is valid only if there is a central database. However, I can't think of any compelling reason to build it that way. If the data are stored locally, then I wouldn't have any privacy concerns. On the other hand, eliminating 50% of spam without false positives does not seem to be a great leap forward.
The recent decision in a Washington DC federal court in the RIAA vs. SBC case said that ISPs are not responsible for copyright infringement if they are merely conduits, meaning that they do not host the stuff that is going across their wires.
Your company is free to establish whatever policies it chooses on your internal network. But I think it is very dangerous to suggest that we create laws that require the providers of public networks to filter content. Have you really considered the implications for free speech and privacy? Who controls the list of banned materials? Who controls the controllers?
What you pay when and to whom is a matter of social convention. Conventions differ from time to time and place to place. In the early days of mainframe computing, operating systems, compilers and utility software were "free" when you bought the hardware. Nobody expects to get MVS for free anymore.
One can easily imagine a different set of conventions to compensate artists based on usage. See my comment to another post in this thread.
Ok, but there is already some precedent regarding royalty payment for performances and radio play, which are based on use, not ownership. We do treat physical things differently than IP. One can imagine a future in which micropayments based on use become practical. So I would end up paying more for a recording I listen to every day than one that I listen to once and never again. If I buy a book and stop reading after the first thirty pages, it would cost me next to nothing. If I read it time and time again, I would pay more. This seems fair to me. I suppose the same could even apply to your example of a table, though even with all the RFID and other emerging technologies available, it seems a stretch to think that it would ever be practical. But isn't there some sense in the idea that a table that is used is worth more than one that isn't?
You are certainly right wrt the current state of affairs. But I think one can imagine other ways of doing things that might be better.
Isn't that really arbitrary? I paid sales tax when I bought my car. I am about to sell it and the buyer will also have to pay sales tax. I am not claiming that the artist should necessarily receive another payment, but I don't think that it is obvious that he/she shouldn't.
The article claims Mann became a cyborg so he could be more human. While I find this guy curious, I fail to see how his wearable stuff makes him more human. He's certainly having more fun than I am, but what is he proving?
Copyright infringement is a criminal offense if it is done for commercial or private profit. Guys selling bootlegs on the street would likely be subject to criminal prosecution. Check out the law here.
That's not to defend the RIAA's stormtrooper approach, which is entirely despicable.
I went through several increasingly irritating upgrades of Real on Windows. In the beginning, it was probably the best streaming audio available for the low speed net connections that most of us had. However, all of that has changed. I finally decided that I had had enough about three years ago when my Real Player refused to play an MP3 file that I had on my machine. It told me that I needed to upgrade my software. Never mind that my software had quite reliably played the file many times before.
My only regret is that there are still some sites--NPR in particular--that only offer some things in Real format. I sure hope that changes soon, because like many others I would rather do without the content than put this scuzware back on my machine.
The KB article may well be trying to paint a bug as a feature. However, it does state clearly that using a password to open will encrypt the file. The discussion of strong passwords applies to the password to open, not the password to modify.
OK, so now that I have defended MSFT a tiny bit, I feel justified in highlighting another KB quote about the Protect Forms feature: This feature helps prevent trustworthy users from making changes to a form.
I think you might be just a bit jaded if you find these pictures dull. The main point of the Mars program is to do science, not to provide entertainment. A photo that demonstrates that there was abundant water on Mars will probably not be very interesting to the casual observer but will be awesome to anyone who thinks about it.
So help me out here...what keywords eliminate the ads? My benchmark is "Mozart Requiem Mass." I would like to learn all about it--hopefully without clueless 11th grader term papers clogging the results--but not see Amazon or other sites that are simply selling it. It seems to be a fairly hard problem to me. If you eliminate all the.com domains, you do eliminate most vendors but you also eliminate journals that may have valuable content.
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Yeah, that thought occurred to me as well. However, that would take the wind out of Google's IPO sails, not to mention the harm it would do to their corporate karma. Not likely.
According to an article published in the San Francisco Chronicle, the first trials will be in Wisconsin and Michigan.
Seems to me that the standards they suggest are entirely reasonable. What's the problem? If they impose these standards on their business partners won't we all be just a little better off?
Isn't the real question how we should best go about our exploration? Sure, we want to be there, and hopefully someday we will. But for the time being, it makes more sense to continue gathering insights with less expensive un-manned missions. Ultimately, we will get to other worlds more quickly if we are rational about the process. Right now, the cost of manned space flight is, well, astronomical. Better to spend that money developing new technologies (space elevators, scram jets, etc.) that will lower the long term cost.
To answer your question, Telefonica is not the only ISP in Spain, but it is by far the largest and the one used by most individuals. As a near-monopoly, it is entirely indifferent to user complaints. The competitors are also indifferent, but tend to provide even less reliable service.
Hmmm...I don't know that I want to work that hard. When I install a new program, I usually don't know very much about it, so it would be rather hard to tell what behaviors are needed. I am a geek, so I could probably get it right most of the time if I took the trouble. Same would be true of reading the EULAs. But most software users are not geeks and letting them pick and choose the options that you suggest seems entirely unworkable regardless of the UI. It might work for you, but it would be a disaster for most.
As I understood the article, the idea is to make this obligatory and, presumably subject to legal sanction. If you mislablel a drug, the FDA can cause you a world of grief. This would make the creators of scumware subject to the same level of punishment. The risk could become too great for the reward.
Mucking about with traffic light patterns is likely to do more harm than good. Many drivers come to know the patterns well on routes they drive every day. Upsetting those patterns to punish someone is a truly bad idea.
How many of those jobs are in "manufacturing" cheeseburgers?
We all want a ton of features, but the question is: where should they reside? Putting application functions in the BIOS (or in the OS) is probably not going to provide the most flexible system.
You seem to be assuming that this is not happening already. I wonder if that is true. I would assume that like mechanics, computer techs will give misleading or wrong advice some of the time either out of ignorance or avarice.
Well, I'm sure that the folks who sell cables for $500 a foot will come to the rescue with $15000 power filters. Nothing but the best, right?
Well, I RTFA and it was not clear to me just how this scheme is implemented. Specifically, it was not stated whether the social network is compiled centrally or on the client machines. Your concern is valid only if there is a central database. However, I can't think of any compelling reason to build it that way. If the data are stored locally, then I wouldn't have any privacy concerns. On the other hand, eliminating 50% of spam without false positives does not seem to be a great leap forward.
Your company is free to establish whatever policies it chooses on your internal network. But I think it is very dangerous to suggest that we create laws that require the providers of public networks to filter content. Have you really considered the implications for free speech and privacy? Who controls the list of banned materials? Who controls the controllers?
It is insightful. Too bad I am not moderating.
Statistics show that 94.52% of all surveys that do not give details on sample size and sampling methods are bogus. Trust me.
One can easily imagine a different set of conventions to compensate artists based on usage. See my comment to another post in this thread.
You are certainly right wrt the current state of affairs. But I think one can imagine other ways of doing things that might be better.
Isn't that really arbitrary? I paid sales tax when I bought my car. I am about to sell it and the buyer will also have to pay sales tax. I am not claiming that the artist should necessarily receive another payment, but I don't think that it is obvious that he/she shouldn't.
The article claims Mann became a cyborg so he could be more human. While I find this guy curious, I fail to see how his wearable stuff makes him more human. He's certainly having more fun than I am, but what is he proving?
That's not to defend the RIAA's stormtrooper approach, which is entirely despicable.
My only regret is that there are still some sites--NPR in particular--that only offer some things in Real format. I sure hope that changes soon, because like many others I would rather do without the content than put this scuzware back on my machine.
OK, so now that I have defended MSFT a tiny bit, I feel justified in highlighting another KB quote about the Protect Forms feature:
This feature helps prevent trustworthy users from making changes to a form.
WTF?
I think you might be just a bit jaded if you find these pictures dull. The main point of the Mars program is to do science, not to provide entertainment. A photo that demonstrates that there was abundant water on Mars will probably not be very interesting to the casual observer but will be awesome to anyone who thinks about it.
So help me out here...what keywords eliminate the ads? My benchmark is "Mozart Requiem Mass." I would like to learn all about it--hopefully without clueless 11th grader term papers clogging the results--but not see Amazon or other sites that are simply selling it. It seems to be a fairly hard problem to me. If you eliminate all the .com domains, you do eliminate most vendors but you also eliminate journals that may have valuable content.