90% of the comments you'll find below, many of them moderated +5 insightful, are based in a misunderstanding of the issue. This has nothing to do with Perfect10 not wanting Google Image Search to index the images on its web site. It has to do with Perfect10 not wanting Google to index images to which it holds the copyright, and which others have stolen and placed on their own sites.
Why hold Google responsible? Apparently because they sell images of similar resolution to the thumbnails for mobile phones, so in this regard they think Google is hosting unauthorized copies of mobile phone-type images. The judge agrees, though I don't.
(Sorry for not posting anonymously, I can't do so now since I've apparently gotten too much negative moderation in my recent non-troll AC posts.)
Think of those rioting muslims, as the lowest level of muslims. They are the brown trash. They are the economically poor, religiously fanatic, aggressive, cocky mob. They are being constantly told that the west is targetting muslims, and then they are seeing jokes made about a person they respect. What do they do? They riot. Bloody idiots.
So... are y'all ever going to step in and get these people to fucking cut it out? Or are you waiting for "us" to?
If you don't like the human rights records of a particular country then create trade restrictions--- otherwise just shut up because your giving us all a headaches with your gibberish.
You're completely right. Not one of these loud mouthed politicians is concerned about the human rights situation in China (a "most favored nation" in trade, don't forget). They're just grandstanding to build up goodwill among their constituents and/or voters in future elections.
I just want to point out that there is a typo in the article.
This device is called "Robosapien". It should be "Robosapiens", as the article and the summary write it, since it is based on "Homo sapiens", but alas, this is not the case.
If I had a chance to interview the creator of the product I would have asked him about this.
You're missing the point. When the RIAA uses its influence in D.C. to regulate technological progress (or lack thereof), you're not going to be able to enjoy your independent music in the ways you'd like to (i.e. anything that doesn't fall under "customary historic use").
Though now that I see it, you live in Australia, so please allow 6-8 weeks for the lunacy to reach your shores.
Take a look at this recent excerpt from Roblimo's new book that was posted on Slashdot. Try reading through it. You'll quickly find that instead of "find" and "office" the article says "nd" and "ofce", apparently because when the editor copied and pasted the text, the "fi"'s didn't make it.
No one here (aside from grammar pedants and trolls) expects you to spell every last word correctly, but when stuff like the above happens (and this is not a very isolated incident, unfortunately), it's really clear that the editors JUST DON'T CARE. Even a cursory glance at the article before posting it would have made it clear to the editor on duty that it was incomprehensible. And it's a bit insulting to the readers to try and pass this off as acceptable work.
NanoBiotech? All Bio starts at the nano. Even the largest megafauna or the smallest single celled organism or even the alledged nanonbe subsceeluar oranisms arr composted of componenets that are self assembing entitities. This goes on right down to single proteins which are self assembling. All bio is at the nano-level. Might as well call is BaNanoTech.
Congrats on the semi-relevant FP but what's your point? This is about technology, not natural processes. The word "Nanobiotech" is to distinguish from traditional "biotech", and it refers to things such as the molecular-scale biosensors in the summary.
Isn't something missing from the summary? Such as the qualifier, "for Macintosh" after "Windows Media Player"? I realize that the article is in the "Apple" section but it would sure be nice to be accurate when reporting such things, lest anybody draw the incorrect conclusion.
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the whole expansion plans in TFA having nothing to do with the case as such....
Well, let's see. The site is Fayetteville (NC) Online.
AIT is based in Fayetteville, NC. A quick glance at Wikipedia tells me that Fayetteville isn't a huge city, other than being the home of Fort Bragg. So...maybe the fact that a hometown company is spreading into major markets across the country (Chicago, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Nashville, Raleigh and Charlotte) is something a bit notable that local residents might want to know about? I probably would if it were my town.
From TFA: "We have quite a few of our Airmen dedicated to cyberspace... from security awareness, making sure the networks can't be penetrated, as well as figuring out countermeasures," Secretary Wynne said. "The Air Force is a natural leader in the cyber world and we thought it would be best to recognize that talent."
My questions: 1) Is this to say that the Air Force will be in charge of any "cyberspace"-related activity? As in, the other branches will come to the Air Force when they need computer work done? Or does each branch do this sort of thing independently? When and why?
2) Maybe I'm misunderstanding the whole thing based on the lame terminology. By cyberspace are they just referring to airborne signals, satellites, and the like? Or are they including traditional wired networks (including the WWW) in addition to things like cryptography, et al?
Far be it from you to RTFA where your question is answered in the FIRST SENTENCE.
Take a pot of scalding water, remove all the oxygen, mix in a bit of poisonous carbon monoxide, and add a pinch of hydrogen gas. It sounds like a recipe for a witch's brew. It may be, but it is also the preferred environment for a microbe known as Carboxydothermus hydrogenoformans.
As to the abbreviation -- it's just shorter that way, and in the case of the quote in the summary, that was pulled from the original press release and the full name had been given prior to the subsequent references which were abbreviated.
It's just like a news article referring to someone by surname. It's perfectly fine if the person is initially identified, but if the person isn't then it is highly irresponsible.
Yes, Zonk should have fixed that in the summary but I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for the Slashdot "editors" to do their job correctly.
No, the article says that the organism intakes CO and H2O and expels H2. This does not mean that a simple reaction occurs with CO and H2O as reactants and H2 as a product.
From TFA:
The bug boasts at least five different forms of a protein machine, dubbed carbon monoxide deyhydrogenase, that is able to manipulate the poisonous gas. Each form of the machine appears to allow the organism to use carbon monoxide in a different way. Most other organisms that live on carbon monoxide have only one form of this machine. In other words, while other organisms may have the equivalent of a modest mixing bowl to process their supper of carbon monoxide, this species has a veritable food processor, letting it gorge on a hot spring buffet all day.
So apparently the CO is acted upon by the proteins, and likely the H2O is used to sustain other life processes in some other way, and the H2 is simply the end result of some metabolic process at the end. If you want to account for the C and the O's, they probably went into forming some protein somewhere.
Absolutely right, and to attempt to gauge Linux's success or popularity by sales is completely futile. As a matter of fact, the article recognizes all of this.
First, the study says that Windows based Servers accounted for 37 percent in revenue. Now traditionally, Windows based systems are more expensive than Linux based systems, so even if vendors sold lesser number of Windows systems, the price difference could ensure that Windows sales revenue was higher. This implies that, in terms of pure numbers, Linux could very well have outsold Windows.
Furthermore the article says that Linux servers account for 31.7% as opposed to Windows' 37%. To paint this as anything other than a success for Linux (which is either free, as in the case of the parent, or likely cheaper than the Windows alternative) is a little strange.
Personally I'm not seeing the point of posting this blog entry but learning those numbers was a little interesting I guess.
As it happens I just installed Slackware on an old PC I had lying around. Though I had installed and used other distributions before my experience with them was quite limited and I've been mostly a Windows user.
I chose Slackware merely because it was the easiest to acquire. They offer the torrents right from the official website and they're always well-seeded. I got both CD's in what seemed like no time at all.
After about a week of usage, it's been holding up fairly well, even with the ancient specs my old PC has. It was even able to support a wireless adapter I stuck in there after I installed madwifi. However I definitely needed a lot of outside help in accomplishing that task, and overall though I was able to get it installed and running fine, a total newbie would have gotten nowhere. If Slackware wants to appeal to that demographic at all (which it very well may not) it needs to fix that.
No, it's not like Wikipedia. Wikipedia has a goal of creating a free extensive online encyclopedia, and in the interest of pursuing this goal I, the reader, am encouraged to do my part whenever possible to improve or add to it.
Amazon.com has a goal of turning a profit. This tag system is an effort to increase sales by pointing potential customers to items that they are more likely to purchase (note: purchase, not want or need). Seeing as though I am not an Amazon.com employee nor a stockholder, I don't feel any sort of burning desire to help them with this goal.
Agreed. Also forgive my naivité but it seems to me like the conditions up there in and around the ISS that researchers take advantage of ("zero" gravity, et al) can be recreated on earth for research purposes, even if it's a bit more inconvenient to do so. It's only a temporary measure and necessary for the long term survival of the ISS (and indeed of the space program in general, as any more injuries or deaths in the near future would be disastrous in light of the recent Columbia disaster).
I know you can make a game configurable enough to have names and rosters and even uniformans for real NFL teams be downloadable but on the marketing front is where I think any non-EA unit will struggle since their commercials won't have the rela players.
The other manufacturers will have to focus on 2 main points:
(1) Free and easily downloadable "unofficial" team/roster sets. This will end up even being a plus because nobody will be playing with outdated rosters -- your favorite team can be as current as it was last Sunday (instead of last August).
(2) Price. As long as point (1) is taken care of, a $20 football game could easily compete with $50 or $60 Madden. Sure, it won't compete for first place in sales, as naturally most people will want the official NFL game and feel loyalty to the Madden franchise, but I hope that the other manufacturers don't simply roll over and feel like it's now impossible to create a game that anyone would buy. Rather than leave the NFL video game arena entirely, this is exactly the time for the other guys to, like you said, come out with something that blows Madden away, because God knows the biggest innovations in the next Madden will be (1) the only officially licensed NFL video game and (2) now with realistic ESPN look!
Madden 95 for the Sega Genesis was indeed a kick-ass game and I'm glad to see them offering it in this form. But of course, there's the huge drawback of having ancient players on there that nobody cares about -- I'd rather play as TEAM PITTSBURGH with QB#7 than the Steelers with Neil O'Donnell. And good thing my favorite team isn't the Ravens, or the Texans, or the Titans (well, that's a good thing anyway).
Why didn't they think to throw the brand new teams and rosters onto the old Madden 95 shell? Wouldn't that be sweet to play an old game like that and get to use Michael Vick or LaDainian Tomlinson (or whomever)? I haven't kept up with the emulation scene lately but if I recall correctly, a lot of guys work hard to recreate those old sports games with new players -- I can't imagine that for a game like Madden 95, EA would have to spend much time at all adapting it given that they have all the data and licensing on hand already.
It looks like the ebay trolls are going to kill his auction, though. I think this is more of a 'stunt' by someone desperately seeking attention. Kinda funny... but still a 'stunt'.
Which really makes me wonder why anyone even gives a second thought to all the stupid shit people put for sale on eBay anymore. It was cute the first couple of times, but now we're having a major news source reporting every couple weeks about some kook who listed something stupid that will get driven up to a ridiculous level by the media attention.
At some point, when will everybody just stop caring? eBay is just an extention of the real world marketplace. If I go to a flea market and find someone's garbage for sale, what are the odds that any news organization would write a story about that? So why do the rules change for eBay?
I sometimes imagine that we're going to end up as completely distinct logical entities that happen to share the same geological space. Imagine two countries with exactly the same borders, with different tax structures, different social benefits, different foreign policy.
No, this won't happen, because then people will be powerless to enact laws to control/restrict the behavior of those around them. That's what laws are all about -- making sure other people don't do things. Not governing ourselves (because we are always perfect and justified in our own actions), but other people, and not just those people that are in agreement with us, but everybody.
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90% of the comments you'll find below, many of them moderated +5 insightful, are based in a misunderstanding of the issue. This has nothing to do with Perfect10 not wanting Google Image Search to index the images on its web site. It has to do with Perfect10 not wanting Google to index images to which it holds the copyright, and which others have stolen and placed on their own sites.
Why hold Google responsible? Apparently because they sell images of similar resolution to the thumbnails for mobile phones, so in this regard they think Google is hosting unauthorized copies of mobile phone-type images. The judge agrees, though I don't.
(Sorry for not posting anonymously, I can't do so now since I've apparently gotten too much negative moderation in my recent non-troll AC posts.)
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If you don't like the human rights records of a particular country then create trade restrictions--- otherwise just shut up because your giving us all a headaches with your gibberish.
You're completely right. Not one of these loud mouthed politicians is concerned about the human rights situation in China (a "most favored nation" in trade, don't forget). They're just grandstanding to build up goodwill among their constituents and/or voters in future elections.
I just want to point out that there is a typo in the article.
This device is called "Robosapien". It should be "Robosapiens", as the article and the summary write it, since it is based on "Homo sapiens", but alas, this is not the case.
If I had a chance to interview the creator of the product I would have asked him about this.
You're missing the point. When the RIAA uses its influence in D.C. to regulate technological progress (or lack thereof), you're not going to be able to enjoy your independent music in the ways you'd like to (i.e. anything that doesn't fall under "customary historic use").
Though now that I see it, you live in Australia, so please allow 6-8 weeks for the lunacy to reach your shores.
Please contact your lamebrained Senator to let him know what you think of the bill he's introducing.
CmdrTaco,
Take a look at this recent excerpt from Roblimo's new book that was posted on Slashdot. Try reading through it. You'll quickly find that instead of "find" and "office" the article says "nd" and "ofce", apparently because when the editor copied and pasted the text, the "fi"'s didn't make it.
No one here (aside from grammar pedants and trolls) expects you to spell every last word correctly, but when stuff like the above happens (and this is not a very isolated incident, unfortunately), it's really clear that the editors JUST DON'T CARE. Even a cursory glance at the article before posting it would have made it clear to the editor on duty that it was incomprehensible. And it's a bit insulting to the readers to try and pass this off as acceptable work.
NanoBiotech? All Bio starts at the nano. Even the largest megafauna or the smallest single celled organism or even the alledged nanonbe subsceeluar oranisms arr composted of componenets that are self assembing entitities. This goes on right down to single proteins which are self assembling. All bio is at the nano-level. Might as well call is BaNanoTech.
Congrats on the semi-relevant FP but what's your point? This is about technology, not natural processes. The word "Nanobiotech" is to distinguish from traditional "biotech", and it refers to things such as the molecular-scale biosensors in the summary.
Isn't something missing from the summary? Such as the qualifier, "for Macintosh" after "Windows Media Player"? I realize that the article is in the "Apple" section but it would sure be nice to be accurate when reporting such things, lest anybody draw the incorrect conclusion.
Gee, thanks for giving your financial support to spammers. YOU and others like you are the reason the rest of us get 30-something spams a day. Not to mention the unfathomably dumb way you chose to spend your money...
Well, let's see. The site is Fayetteville (NC) Online.
AIT is based in Fayetteville, NC. A quick glance at Wikipedia tells me that Fayetteville isn't a huge city, other than being the home of Fort Bragg. So...maybe the fact that a hometown company is spreading into major markets across the country (Chicago, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Nashville, Raleigh and Charlotte) is something a bit notable that local residents might want to know about? I probably would if it were my town.
From TFA: ... from security awareness, making sure the networks can't be penetrated, as well as figuring out countermeasures," Secretary Wynne said. "The Air Force is a natural leader in the cyber world and we thought it would be best to recognize that talent."
"We have quite a few of our Airmen dedicated to cyberspace
My questions:
1) Is this to say that the Air Force will be in charge of any "cyberspace"-related activity? As in, the other branches will come to the Air Force when they need computer work done? Or does each branch do this sort of thing independently? When and why?
2) Maybe I'm misunderstanding the whole thing based on the lame terminology. By cyberspace are they just referring to airborne signals, satellites, and the like? Or are they including traditional wired networks (including the WWW) in addition to things like cryptography, et al?
Far be it from you to RTFA where your question is answered in the FIRST SENTENCE.
Take a pot of scalding water, remove all the oxygen, mix in a bit of poisonous carbon monoxide, and add a pinch of hydrogen gas. It sounds like a recipe for a witch's brew. It may be, but it is also the preferred environment for a microbe known as Carboxydothermus hydrogenoformans.
As to the abbreviation -- it's just shorter that way, and in the case of the quote in the summary, that was pulled from the original press release and the full name had been given prior to the subsequent references which were abbreviated.
It's just like a news article referring to someone by surname. It's perfectly fine if the person is initially identified, but if the person isn't then it is highly irresponsible.
Yes, Zonk should have fixed that in the summary but I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for the Slashdot "editors" to do their job correctly.
No, the article says that the organism intakes CO and H2O and expels H2. This does not mean that a simple reaction occurs with CO and H2O as reactants and H2 as a product.
From TFA:
The bug boasts at least five different forms of a protein machine, dubbed carbon monoxide deyhydrogenase, that is able to manipulate the poisonous gas. Each form of the machine appears to allow the organism to use carbon monoxide in a different way. Most other organisms that live on carbon monoxide have only one form of this machine. In other words, while other organisms may have the equivalent of a modest mixing bowl to process their supper of carbon monoxide, this species has a veritable food processor, letting it gorge on a hot spring buffet all day.
So apparently the CO is acted upon by the proteins, and likely the H2O is used to sustain other life processes in some other way, and the H2 is simply the end result of some metabolic process at the end. If you want to account for the C and the O's, they probably went into forming some protein somewhere.
Absolutely right, and to attempt to gauge Linux's success or popularity by sales is completely futile. As a matter of fact, the article recognizes all of this.
First, the study says that Windows based Servers accounted for 37 percent in revenue. Now traditionally, Windows based systems are more expensive than Linux based systems, so even if vendors sold lesser number of Windows systems, the price difference could ensure that Windows sales revenue was higher. This implies that, in terms of pure numbers, Linux could very well have outsold Windows.
Furthermore the article says that Linux servers account for 31.7% as opposed to Windows' 37%. To paint this as anything other than a success for Linux (which is either free, as in the case of the parent, or likely cheaper than the Windows alternative) is a little strange.
Personally I'm not seeing the point of posting this blog entry but learning those numbers was a little interesting I guess.
Throw me in the "newcomer" camp.
As it happens I just installed Slackware on an old PC I had lying around. Though I had installed and used other distributions before my experience with them was quite limited and I've been mostly a Windows user.
I chose Slackware merely because it was the easiest to acquire. They offer the torrents right from the official website and they're always well-seeded. I got both CD's in what seemed like no time at all.
After about a week of usage, it's been holding up fairly well, even with the ancient specs my old PC has. It was even able to support a wireless adapter I stuck in there after I installed madwifi. However I definitely needed a lot of outside help in accomplishing that task, and overall though I was able to get it installed and running fine, a total newbie would have gotten nowhere. If Slackware wants to appeal to that demographic at all (which it very well may not) it needs to fix that.
No, it's not like Wikipedia. Wikipedia has a goal of creating a free extensive online encyclopedia, and in the interest of pursuing this goal I, the reader, am encouraged to do my part whenever possible to improve or add to it.
Amazon.com has a goal of turning a profit. This tag system is an effort to increase sales by pointing potential customers to items that they are more likely to purchase (note: purchase, not want or need). Seeing as though I am not an Amazon.com employee nor a stockholder, I don't feel any sort of burning desire to help them with this goal.
Agreed. Also forgive my naivité but it seems to me like the conditions up there in and around the ISS that researchers take advantage of ("zero" gravity, et al) can be recreated on earth for research purposes, even if it's a bit more inconvenient to do so. It's only a temporary measure and necessary for the long term survival of the ISS (and indeed of the space program in general, as any more injuries or deaths in the near future would be disastrous in light of the recent Columbia disaster).
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Look harder, chief.
Many Krystal locations offer free wi-fi to anybody, with better food to boot.
I know you can make a game configurable enough to have names and rosters and even uniformans for real NFL teams be downloadable but on the marketing front is where I think any non-EA unit will struggle since their commercials won't have the rela players.
The other manufacturers will have to focus on 2 main points:
(1) Free and easily downloadable "unofficial" team/roster sets. This will end up even being a plus because nobody will be playing with outdated rosters -- your favorite team can be as current as it was last Sunday (instead of last August).
(2) Price. As long as point (1) is taken care of, a $20 football game could easily compete with $50 or $60 Madden. Sure, it won't compete for first place in sales, as naturally most people will want the official NFL game and feel loyalty to the Madden franchise, but I hope that the other manufacturers don't simply roll over and feel like it's now impossible to create a game that anyone would buy. Rather than leave the NFL video game arena entirely, this is exactly the time for the other guys to, like you said, come out with something that blows Madden away, because God knows the biggest innovations in the next Madden will be (1) the only officially licensed NFL video game and (2) now with realistic ESPN look!
Madden 95 for the Sega Genesis was indeed a kick-ass game and I'm glad to see them offering it in this form. But of course, there's the huge drawback of having ancient players on there that nobody cares about -- I'd rather play as TEAM PITTSBURGH with QB#7 than the Steelers with Neil O'Donnell. And good thing my favorite team isn't the Ravens, or the Texans, or the Titans (well, that's a good thing anyway).
Why didn't they think to throw the brand new teams and rosters onto the old Madden 95 shell? Wouldn't that be sweet to play an old game like that and get to use Michael Vick or LaDainian Tomlinson (or whomever)? I haven't kept up with the emulation scene lately but if I recall correctly, a lot of guys work hard to recreate those old sports games with new players -- I can't imagine that for a game like Madden 95, EA would have to spend much time at all adapting it given that they have all the data and licensing on hand already.
It looks like the ebay trolls are going to kill his auction, though. I think this is more of a 'stunt' by someone desperately seeking attention. Kinda funny... but still a 'stunt'.
Which really makes me wonder why anyone even gives a second thought to all the stupid shit people put for sale on eBay anymore. It was cute the first couple of times, but now we're having a major news source reporting every couple weeks about some kook who listed something stupid that will get driven up to a ridiculous level by the media attention.
At some point, when will everybody just stop caring? eBay is just an extention of the real world marketplace. If I go to a flea market and find someone's garbage for sale, what are the odds that any news organization would write a story about that? So why do the rules change for eBay?
No, this won't happen, because then people will be powerless to enact laws to control/restrict the behavior of those around them. That's what laws are all about -- making sure other people don't do things. Not governing ourselves (because we are always perfect and justified in our own actions), but other people, and not just those people that are in agreement with us, but everybody.