Nobody cares about you making copies of something you already own for personal use or private exhibition.
AHAHAHAHAHA!
*deep breath*
Hahahahahahaha... Fair use! That's a good one!
Unfortunately, our grandchildren aren't going to have the faintest clue what it means. Certainly not if they live in a world where the law makes a federal crime out of circumventing copy protection.
Here we go.
Under current law, Section 1201 of the law generally prohibits distributing or trafficking in any software or hardware that can be used to bypass copy-protection devices.
Smith's measure would expand those civil and criminal restrictions. Instead of merely targeting distribution, the new language says nobody may "make, import, export, obtain control of, or possess" such anticircumvention tools if they may be redistributed to someone else.Like debuggers?
Yes, it's producable at a certain rate- but what about the cost? Is it economically feasible?
Unfortunate about the space elevator. Looks like the highest we've gone is 63 GPa (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensile_strength)
BPL would actually cost more to implement, have a lower speed, royally screw up 1.7-80 MHz (AM radio, shortwave, amateur, police/fire/disaster communication networks, and the bottom of the FM broadcast band) and overall be little better than dialup.
Besides, BPL is a Part 15 service- and with (effectively) huge antennas all over the neighborhood, you'd be interfered with on a massive scale.
See: http://www.arrl.org/tis/info/HTML/plc/bpl-deployme nt.html
The article only says that this technology has the *potential* to help computers to see objects, not that it *is*.
Quothal:
The process of revealing objects, or highlighting images within the larger context of the photo, is the sort of thing that researchers in computer vision must do to teach computers to see.
While the ESP Game was designed to generate descriptive labels for photographs and other images, Peekaboom is intended to help teach computers to see.
It's pretty clear, from this post, which side the poster is on. Take this simple comparison: At the site named Google, you are expected to search and find whatever you want. But at "Slashdot", readers are invited to, well, submit stories (read boring).
400 million? It costs 2 billion (taxpayer) dollars to build ONE stealth bomber. One.
This is cheap.
If we can get back into space for 400 million, call it a bargain and GO!
Hey, it's not me- I'm in a different division. ESO does release a lot, it's not just as average-person friendly as, perhaps, NASA is. I think ESO actually does a lot more heavy-duty scientific research than NASA, and is more focused on actually using the data they collect, not just putting it up. Check the Outreach site, though- lots of good stuff there.
I actually work at the ESO, at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen in Garching, Germany. This is a major event for them up there- (I'm surprised it made/., they usually discourage it as they discouraged me from posting about the Venus Transit last year) . Generally, they have to fight hard to get funding from the government (although Europe is nicer about astronomy (as opposed to stuff like the ISS) than the US), so something like this is great. It incites public interest in astronomy, which is always needed for scientific institutions such as this.
Bear in mind that these aren't the Halloween Documents. The article, for those who refuse to RTFA, is basically a summary of the documents- not the documents themselves. They don't say "we're selling a product which we know is poisoning people's computers", that's sort of implied across the board. But they still don't come right out and say it.
This is a chance for Google to do something truly cool in device connectivity. Even the possibility of a Google TV-Gmail-Google Desktop Search-Google Search connectivity would send their share prices soaring. People are realizing (yahoo, MSN) that large and bloated is not the way to go.
Talk about search biasing:
Results 1-15 of about 17513887 containing "linux"
Results 1-15 of about 31192494 containing "windows"
Results 1-15 of about 25424770 containing "microsoft"
Results 1-15 of about 6769904 containing "unix"
Microsoft is branching out too much. Without ripping off Google, I don't really see how they can pull this off.
In order to reverse the current trend in market share, they'd have to have a better algorithm than Google, a massive ad campaign, and the popular opinion on their side. Oh, and start giving things away for free (Google: Blogger, Picasa, etc.)
... with an atmosphere thicker than our moon's that we know of. At the rate science is going...
There was a great Arthur. C. Clarke book about hydrogen mining on Titan; I can't remember the title at the moment, but it's definitely worth a read.
In James L. Halperin's book "The Truth Machine", the government is persuaded to offer a prize to the company which can construct a machine capable of determining whether someone is telling the truth, with 100% efficiency. Maybe the WTN could make this one of the prizes?
... how rare this is. The last real supernova was in the constellation Monoceros in the 1980s, and it was the first one since the invention of the telescope. That makes this the second.
Slashdot Mirror
Still no cure for... wait, never mind.
Nobody cares about you making copies of something you already own for personal use or private exhibition.
AHAHAHAHAHA!
*deep breath*
Hahahahahahaha... Fair use! That's a good one!
Unfortunately, our grandchildren aren't going to have the faintest clue what it means. Certainly not if they live in a world where the law makes a federal crime out of circumventing copy protection.
Here we go. Under current law, Section 1201 of the law generally prohibits distributing or trafficking in any software or hardware that can be used to bypass copy-protection devices. Smith's measure would expand those civil and criminal restrictions. Instead of merely targeting distribution, the new language says nobody may "make, import, export, obtain control of, or possess" such anticircumvention tools if they may be redistributed to someone else. Like debuggers?
Check out how $16-1c paid for a single record gets split
Decimal notation, plzkthx.
(Who the hell pays $22-$28 for a CD?)
Yes, it's producable at a certain rate- but what about the cost? Is it economically feasible?
Unfortunate about the space elevator. Looks like the highest we've gone is 63 GPa (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensile_strength)
BPL would actually cost more to implement, have a lower speed, royally screw up 1.7-80 MHz (AM radio, shortwave, amateur, police/fire/disaster communication networks, and the bottom of the FM broadcast band) and overall be little better than dialup. Besides, BPL is a Part 15 service- and with (effectively) huge antennas all over the neighborhood, you'd be interfered with on a massive scale. See: http://www.arrl.org/tis/info/HTML/plc/bpl-deployme nt.html
The article only says that this technology has the *potential* to help computers to see objects, not that it *is*.
Quothal:
The process of revealing objects, or highlighting images within the larger context of the photo, is the sort of thing that researchers in computer vision must do to teach computers to see.
While the ESP Game was designed to generate descriptive labels for photographs and other images, Peekaboom is intended to help teach computers to see.
It's pretty clear, from this post, which side the poster is on. Take this simple comparison: At the site named Google, you are expected to search and find whatever you want. But at "Slashdot", readers are invited to, well, submit stories (read boring).
Really.
"We marveled at our own magnificence as we gave birth- to A.I."
In the original trilogy, the characters visit cellblock 1138, a reference to Lucas' film THX 1138.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_egg_(virtual)
400 million? It costs 2 billion (taxpayer) dollars to build ONE stealth bomber. One.
This is cheap.
If we can get back into space for 400 million, call it a bargain and GO!
Hey, it's not me- I'm in a different division.
ESO does release a lot, it's not just as average-person friendly as, perhaps, NASA is. I think ESO actually does a lot more heavy-duty scientific research than NASA, and is more focused on actually using the data they collect, not just putting it up. Check the Outreach site, though- lots of good stuff there.
It won't really take off unless they release an amusing Flash video involving dancing flash memory-HDD pairs singing about the joys of dual storage.
I actually work at the ESO, at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen in Garching, Germany. This is a major event for them up there- (I'm surprised it made /., they usually discourage it as they discouraged me from posting about the Venus Transit last year) . Generally, they have to fight hard to get funding from the government (although Europe is nicer about astronomy (as opposed to stuff like the ISS) than the US), so something like this is great. It incites public interest in astronomy, which is always needed for scientific institutions such as this.
Bear in mind that these aren't the Halloween Documents. The article, for those who refuse to RTFA, is basically a summary of the documents- not the documents themselves. They don't say "we're selling a product which we know is poisoning people's computers", that's sort of implied across the board. But they still don't come right out and say it.
Clearly you are incorrect. Logic and basic common sense dictates that one cannot proceed to the step "Profit" without first having the "???" step.
This is a chance for Google to do something truly cool in device connectivity. Even the possibility of a Google TV-Gmail-Google Desktop Search-Google Search connectivity would send their share prices soaring.
People are realizing (yahoo, MSN) that large and bloated is not the way to go.
Check out the similarities:
http://search.yahoo.com/
http://search.msn.com/
http://www.google.com/
Talk about search biasing: Results 1-15 of about 17513887 containing "linux"
Results 1-15 of about 31192494 containing "windows"
Results 1-15 of about 25424770 containing "microsoft"
Results 1-15 of about 6769904 containing "unix"
Microsoft is branching out too much. Without ripping off Google, I don't really see how they can pull this off. In order to reverse the current trend in market share, they'd have to have a better algorithm than Google, a massive ad campaign, and the popular opinion on their side. Oh, and start giving things away for free (Google: Blogger, Picasa, etc.)
You COULD just brush your frikking teeth, and avoid RFID entirely.
... with an atmosphere thicker than our moon's that we know of. At the rate science is going... There was a great Arthur. C. Clarke book about hydrogen mining on Titan; I can't remember the title at the moment, but it's definitely worth a read.
Moooooooooooney
In James L. Halperin's book "The Truth Machine", the government is persuaded to offer a prize to the company which can construct a machine capable of determining whether someone is telling the truth, with 100% efficiency. Maybe the WTN could make this one of the prizes?
... how rare this is. The last real supernova was in the constellation Monoceros in the 1980s, and it was the first one since the invention of the telescope. That makes this the second.