Looking at file sharing as theft is a very... simplistic view. After all theft involves depriving someone of property. You can read my analysis of the ethical status of filesharing here; it certainly isn't an issue that is black and white.
Although this is a cool discovery, it would have been cooler if the lost writings were by a Greek intellectual whom we have less information about, say Heraclitus. Well, there is always the possibility that this technique could be used to recover other "lost" texts.
I was talking about collection information about individuals in a privacy invasive way. The government has no need or desire to do that in order to set up whatever public services for the poor the voters insist on.
The people who don't pay taxes (the poor) aren't important to the government. They have no voice, nor can they afford weapons to create unrest. Of course children don't pay taxes either, but their parents note them as dependants, so the government does have a record of them.
It is silly to worry about the cenusus being used to collect your personal information. The government already does that much more frequently and accurately through taxes.
Ok, forget the bulletproof vests, because I'll never need one. But how much would it cost to coat your car in this stuff? And would it give extra protection?
As someone who has written drivers for Windows before I think Microsoft's patch is a step in the right direction. It is simply too easy to spy on the user and hide the driver under the current system. If that means that anti-virus software has to be updated, and has to bug the user with more "are you sure this is OK" boxes... well tough, sometimes that is the price of security.
Obviously this law just screams out to be abused. Who defines when a site is social? Does the Democratic party have a forum? I bet that makes them social enough to be blocked. On the other hand though they are blocking MySpace, so this law does have some redeeming qualities.
Maybe those people (idots) who kept strapping magnets to themselves knew something after all. Although given the findings it seems equally likely that they were impairing the healing process. (yes, I know the article is about electricity, electro-magnetism people)
It's only a monopoly if you don't have other real choices. That may have been true 10 years ago, but nowadays mac and linux look like perfectly viable alternatives. Are you claiming that these other options are so inferior to Windows that they don't count? (posted from a powerbook G4)
What's specifically wrong is this: to condense the steam back into a liquid you need something colder than its boiling point. Thus on a hot day you couldn't get it to condense, and thus it wouldn't work. What you really need is a a large heat sink, like the ocean or a big peice of ice, and then you could turn the tempertature differential into energy using this device (at the cost of heating up whatever cold thing you were dumping heat into).
I think competition alone at this point would gaurentee net neurality. That is if one company starts limiting access to the web then customers will switch to other providers. If they all try to do it at the same time I am sure they would be breaking some collusion / monopoly laws.
Unfortunately your extended lifespan due to other drugs causes your photographic memory to fill all your available space with crap, and you end up with Alzheimer's for a different reason.
Does anyone have any ideas, besides clothing, as to how this could be useful? As I see it most devices have a hard screen, which makes them inherently inflexible.
That's why everyone's goal should be to become a professor in some obscure topic that they enjoy (say philsophy, see.sig) which allows you to take summers off and write incomprehensible papers about the subject you love, for the small price of teaching a bunch of ungrateful students. (yes this was tongue-in-cheek)
Just for clarification the article says that the flaws are being found in the latest production version of office, not the latest iteration (which would imply pre-betas of office 2007 (2008?, whatever)). Obviously it would be stupid to compare the flaws in a production product with those in a pre-beta, which is what the summary on/. seems to imply.
Here's another gem from the article: "I'm concentrating on continuing to catalyze an interdisciplinary study of cooperation and collective action, and creating curricula for teaching young people about civic engagement through the use of participatory media." which translates to: I'm still studying collective action, as well as teaching kids to use gadgets to get involved with their communities. Go buzzwords go!
First let me point out that given 2006 is now the sentance "I wanted to know what Howard was thinking in 2006" should be written as "I wanted to know what Howard is thinking now", unless I have been unknowningly sucked into a time warp.
Secondly if that quote is representative of the article as a whole then I say stay far far away from TFA on this one, since that 4 line quote translates to: Technology will make things change faster, and online communities will become more important. Since that is what he predicted originally it doesn't seem like he has anything new to say. (except perhaps to add more buzzwords into the fray)
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Seems more like a problem with allowing javascript in comments (a really dumb idea) than a problem with RSS.
Wow, a bill that solves none of the many real problems with the patent system. Way to go lawmakers! Who votes for these fools?
Looking at file sharing as theft is a very ... simplistic view. After all theft involves depriving someone of property. You can read my analysis of the ethical status of filesharing here; it certainly isn't an issue that is black and white.
You mean google hasn't been taking ads from commercial 3rd parties and redistributing them on other websites for profit? Color me surprised.
Although this is a cool discovery, it would have been cooler if the lost writings were by a Greek intellectual whom we have less information about, say Heraclitus. Well, there is always the possibility that this technique could be used to recover other "lost" texts.
I was talking about collection information about individuals in a privacy invasive way. The government has no need or desire to do that in order to set up whatever public services for the poor the voters insist on.
The people who don't pay taxes (the poor) aren't important to the government. They have no voice, nor can they afford weapons to create unrest. Of course children don't pay taxes either, but their parents note them as dependants, so the government does have a record of them.
It is silly to worry about the cenusus being used to collect your personal information. The government already does that much more frequently and accurately through taxes.
Does this mean that AOL is going away, because I'm getting excited just thinking about it.
I don't even think 46% of men do their own computer trouble shooting.
Ok, forget the bulletproof vests, because I'll never need one. But how much would it cost to coat your car in this stuff? And would it give extra protection?
As someone who has written drivers for Windows before I think Microsoft's patch is a step in the right direction. It is simply too easy to spy on the user and hide the driver under the current system. If that means that anti-virus software has to be updated, and has to bug the user with more "are you sure this is OK" boxes ... well tough, sometimes that is the price of security.
Obviously this law just screams out to be abused. Who defines when a site is social? Does the Democratic party have a forum? I bet that makes them social enough to be blocked. On the other hand though they are blocking MySpace, so this law does have some redeeming qualities.
Maybe those people (idots) who kept strapping magnets to themselves knew something after all. Although given the findings it seems equally likely that they were impairing the healing process. (yes, I know the article is about electricity, electro-magnetism people)
It's only a monopoly if you don't have other real choices. That may have been true 10 years ago, but nowadays mac and linux look like perfectly viable alternatives. Are you claiming that these other options are so inferior to Windows that they don't count? (posted from a powerbook G4)
What's specifically wrong is this: to condense the steam back into a liquid you need something colder than its boiling point. Thus on a hot day you couldn't get it to condense, and thus it wouldn't work. What you really need is a a large heat sink, like the ocean or a big peice of ice, and then you could turn the tempertature differential into energy using this device (at the cost of heating up whatever cold thing you were dumping heat into).
Must. Invest. Giant. Gobs. Of. Money. (thank god I'm not a VC)
I think competition alone at this point would gaurentee net neurality. That is if one company starts limiting access to the web then customers will switch to other providers. If they all try to do it at the same time I am sure they would be breaking some collusion / monopoly laws.
Pagerank is useless? Don't tell me that when I just got my pagerank up to 6!
Unfortunately your extended lifespan due to other drugs causes your photographic memory to fill all your available space with crap, and you end up with Alzheimer's for a different reason.
Does anyone have any ideas, besides clothing, as to how this could be useful? As I see it most devices have a hard screen, which makes them inherently inflexible.
That's why everyone's goal should be to become a professor in some obscure topic that they enjoy (say philsophy, see .sig) which allows you to take summers off and write incomprehensible papers about the subject you love, for the small price of teaching a bunch of ungrateful students. (yes this was tongue-in-cheek)
Just for clarification the article says that the flaws are being found in the latest production version of office, not the latest iteration (which would imply pre-betas of office 2007 (2008?, whatever)). Obviously it would be stupid to compare the flaws in a production product with those in a pre-beta, which is what the summary on /. seems to imply.
Here's another gem from the article: "I'm concentrating on continuing to catalyze an interdisciplinary study of cooperation and collective action, and creating curricula for teaching young people about civic engagement through the use of participatory media." which translates to: I'm still studying collective action, as well as teaching kids to use gadgets to get involved with their communities. Go buzzwords go!
First let me point out that given 2006 is now the sentance "I wanted to know what Howard was thinking in 2006" should be written as "I wanted to know what Howard is thinking now", unless I have been unknowningly sucked into a time warp.
Secondly if that quote is representative of the article as a whole then I say stay far far away from TFA on this one, since that 4 line quote translates to: Technology will make things change faster, and online communities will become more important. Since that is what he predicted originally it doesn't seem like he has anything new to say. (except perhaps to add more buzzwords into the fray)