people running their own blogs is much more vulnerable to decay and disappearing, pretty annoying to find a post that links to a dead post that was popular guide for doing some thing xyz.
A blog post really isn't the best place to host a how-to IMO. It only has two strengths over a static page: You can edit it and update it, and people can write comments other people might find helpful. But comments can be helpful or not depending on who's writing them. They can't give bad info, be spam comments, ect.
Guess what: Instructables is another social network. It's just less blatant as one.
Take your how-to, type it up nice and clear in OpenOffice, do some basic page layout with the pictures, and make a PDF out of it. Give it a version number. Now host your PDF. If you update it increment the version number. If your guide is really that great it will eventually end up on the Net in a torrent and when you update it if people are following your work those torrents will magically update, too. People who don't stand next to the stove/wood-working bench/soldering table with an iPad or a laptop will appreciate this. Rather than referring to your blog page they can print it out for easier reference and it wont look weird. They can stick it on a flash drive as a single file to back it up for offline viewing.
and there's a cooperative corporation model the guy is suggesting(users as owners),
approach to social network fragmentation and stagnation. That idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to this particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
(x) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses ( ) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected (x) Someone will try to find a way to control it and make money from it ( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks (x) Microsoft will not put up with it (x) The police will not put up with it (teh terrorists can communicate too easily!) ( ) Requires too much cooperation from spammers (x) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once ( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists ( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it ( ) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email ( ) Open relays in foreign countries ( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses (x) Asshats ( ) Jurisdictional problems ( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money (x) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes (x) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches (x) Extreme profitability of spam ( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft ( ) Technically illiterate politicians ( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers ( ) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
(x) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical ( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable ( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud ( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks ( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually ( ) Sending email should be free (x) Why should we have to trust you and your servers? ( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses ( ) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem ( ) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
(x) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work. ( ) This is a stupid ide
Let's avoid worrying about the collapse of social network sites by not using them to begin with.
No, really. Stop uploading everything to a third-party company so they can data-mine it and make it hard for you to get any of it back if their business plan fails. You want a presence on the Net? Run a blog on your own website. You can even pick the domain you really want to hand out then. People can leave comments, subscribe with RSS, communicate with you via this fabulous standard called email. Web hosting is cheap. You can add advertising to help pay the bill for it, no different than an ad-filled experience at existing social networks now is it? Still too expensive? Well social networks and blogs aren't a necessity of life, they're recreational things -- hobbies. Hobbies cost money, ask anyone who does model trains, remote control airplanes, woodworking, stamps, etc. If you don't want to pay for it maybe you don't want to do it that badly. Not everyone has to have a page on the Internet, not everyone who does necessarily has anything really to say. There's millions of ghost ship blogs their owners haven't written on in years.
We already have standards for moving this information around. It's called HTML, JPEG, GIF, all those web languages and filetypes you can open with any web browser.
And it will continue to work until the alphabet soup government agencies who supposedly provide oversight start handing out penalties that are larger than the gains to be had. It's not a punishment if it's cheaper than doing things the right way, it's a discount.
Yes, but filesharing also means many people were exposed to music they might not have been otherwise, and of those there is a group who despite downloading an album will still go buy it (or buy a special limited edition version for an upgrade) to support the artist they are now a fan of.
Those extra sales will counteract the losses of the "I don't pay for anything" pirates.
Now what? Trying to claim that IP addresses are not enough evidence to identify someone will only help the people being targeting by the recording/movie industry for file sharing.
Would seem to me that it is very clear that nuclear power is still needed in Japan if areas have to make cuts in power draw to avoid shortages.
Logically yes. But Greenies also like to believe everyone besides them is wasteful, and therefore we should all be cutting back anyway, regardless of inconvenience or comfort. These are people who in their most strict factions would like to abolish cars, ignoring that everyone is not in a physical condition to pedal themselves around everywhere on a bicycle.
They're undoubtedly upset at changes he made to electrical wiring to get around problems X10 modules have with CFL bulbs he mentions on the project page. Also, if they have some strict guidelines about holes in the walls I suppose the mounted lights, motor, and pulleys for the curtains might annoy them.
I wonder if this will apply to all Hulu streaming, or only to the shows that are actually on cable. There's all those Criterion Collection films and anime series that aren't available on cable but can be watched on Hulu, will I have to have a cable subscription for those, too?
No-one cares about what "will" be there - it'll matter when it'll be there, which we still don't know yet. Meanwhile, iOS and Android are here already.
Sounds likes history repeating itself from what happened with iPod/Zune.
The students plan to patent their invention, so they won't divulge their exact formulation,
Exact formulation isn't necessary for this application, as every 7th grade science class learns it by trial and error with a $1.29 box of corn starch. You can do this in your kitchen in 10 minutes, and the stuff is fun to play with but nobody has found a real good application for it in over a hundred years.
But it wont really matter if it's easy to figure out the formula as long as they're first to file the patent, right? After that they can just sue anyone who tries to commercialize if after spending those ten minutes figuring it out.
Maybe this is yet-another-example-of-why-not-to-use-facebook. I can't astroturf for my company on my personal social networking accounts when I don't have any.
Not all h264 can be hardware accelerated, so you still have the issue of potentially non-playable HD files. It's a lot easier to update codecs on a PC that has the muscle for software decoding when it needs it. The extra labor and loss of quality in transcoding is the real problem with that setup.
The PC is simply more future-proof. At worst you may have to swap out the motherboard for a new one with a more ass-kicking processor down the line when people are playing 4K on their TVs, but you can retain the case, power supply, accessories, etc when you do that most likely.
I see you failed to full understand the post you replied to. The point here is not to have to transcode at all.
AppleTV is just as limited as the other "appliances". Apple is all NIH when it comes to OGG and FLAC audio, or video files in MKV containers, or even MP4 if you don't use the "right" h264 profiles.
WD and the Chinese no-name devices actually accept more media types than an AppleTV.
In the 1990s, there used to be tons of free dial-up ISP providers that gave you free access so long as you agreed to surf the web through their branded version of Internet Explorer that framed websites in ads. Some providers required you to click the ads so many times within a certain interval of time or get disconnected.
I'm sure these frames and banner ads "violated" the design of websites that were browsed by these users,
No, because the ads were in a frame around the webpage. It's not any different than having two browser windows open on your desktop where a few inches of a background window is visible below/beside the frontmost window.
Hotel Wi-Fi is just the modern version of this same model, albeit without using software or requiring ad clicks.
Except the ads are being added in a way where the viewer cannot distinguish what is an original part of the page with what has been added by the service provider. What if a site dealt with a certain political viewpoint or sensitive topic and the ads being added were in a contrary viewpoint or otherwise in bad taste for the web page topic? What if the viewer was using a site where they pay a fee to access it ad-free? If they started seeing these ads (injected by the service provider on the sly), they might think the website operator was doing it despite their subscription.
The phone need only read them upon insertion via a collar around the insertion hole. Nobody bothers to write to the sim any more.
Speak for yourself.
I intentionally disabled the internal memory on my phone so the phonebook would always save entries to the SIM card memory. That way, should my phone have an accident of some sort rendering it inoperable, or I decide to just get a new phone, I don't lose my contacts because I can't transfer them off the old phone and onto the new one. Assuming the SIM is unharmed I just remove it from the wreckage of my old phone and put it into the new one. Power up and I'm back in business, phone active and phonebook all there.
This is one of the primary reasons I use GSM cell phones and never even considered getting service with a CDMA provider way back when I first got a cell (10+ years ago)..
If anything, I expect a larger outrage here about the rights than you would get in most news circles. The average person doesn't care about the rights issue because it's happening to "someone else", whereas the settlements (and the money to fund it) is coming from them the taxpayer and does have an effect on them personally (if it changes tax rates or effects funding on things the other individual cares about). Plus there's the whole "he got money for nothing" angle which is more a jealously thing.
You're not complaining about Slashdot, you're complaining about human nature.
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people running their own blogs is much more vulnerable to decay and disappearing, pretty annoying to find a post that links to a dead post that was popular guide for doing some thing xyz.
A blog post really isn't the best place to host a how-to IMO. It only has two strengths over a static page: You can edit it and update it, and people can write comments other people might find helpful. But comments can be helpful or not depending on who's writing them. They can't give bad info, be spam comments, ect.
Guess what: Instructables is another social network. It's just less blatant as one.
Take your how-to, type it up nice and clear in OpenOffice, do some basic page layout with the pictures, and make a PDF out of it. Give it a version number. Now host your PDF. If you update it increment the version number. If your guide is really that great it will eventually end up on the Net in a torrent and when you update it if people are following your work those torrents will magically update, too. People who don't stand next to the stove/wood-working bench/soldering table with an iPad or a laptop will appreciate this. Rather than referring to your blog page they can print it out for easier reference and it wont look weird. They can stick it on a flash drive as a single file to back it up for offline viewing.
and there's a cooperative corporation model the guy is suggesting(users as owners),
That post advocates a
(x) technical ( ) legislative ( ) market-based (x) vigilante
approach to social network fragmentation and stagnation. That idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to this particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
(x) Spammers can easily use it to harvest email addresses
( ) Mailing lists and other legitimate email uses would be affected
(x) Someone will try to find a way to control it and make money from it
( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks
(x) Microsoft will not put up with it
(x) The police will not put up with it (teh terrorists can communicate too easily!)
( ) Requires too much cooperation from spammers
(x) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once
( ) Spammers don't care about invalid addresses in their lists
( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it
( ) Lack of centrally controlling authority for email
( ) Open relays in foreign countries
( ) Ease of searching tiny alphanumeric address space of all email addresses
(x) Asshats
( ) Jurisdictional problems
( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money
(x) Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes
(x) Eternal arms race involved in all filtering approaches
(x) Extreme profitability of spam
( ) Joe jobs and/or identity theft
( ) Technically illiterate politicians
( ) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who do business with spammers
( ) Dishonesty on the part of spammers themselves
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
(x) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever
been shown practical
( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable
( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud
( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks
( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually
( ) Sending email should be free
(x) Why should we have to trust you and your servers?
( ) Incompatiblity with open source or open source licenses
( ) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem
( ) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
(x) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work.
( ) This is a stupid ide
Let's avoid worrying about the collapse of social network sites by not using them to begin with.
No, really. Stop uploading everything to a third-party company so they can data-mine it and make it hard for you to get any of it back if their business plan fails. You want a presence on the Net? Run a blog on your own website. You can even pick the domain you really want to hand out then. People can leave comments, subscribe with RSS, communicate with you via this fabulous standard called email. Web hosting is cheap. You can add advertising to help pay the bill for it, no different than an ad-filled experience at existing social networks now is it? Still too expensive? Well social networks and blogs aren't a necessity of life, they're recreational things -- hobbies. Hobbies cost money, ask anyone who does model trains, remote control airplanes, woodworking, stamps, etc. If you don't want to pay for it maybe you don't want to do it that badly. Not everyone has to have a page on the Internet, not everyone who does necessarily has anything really to say. There's millions of ghost ship blogs their owners haven't written on in years.
We already have standards for moving this information around. It's called HTML, JPEG, GIF, all those web languages and filetypes you can open with any web browser.
What a non-issue.
I guess lying and blatant abuse works.
That's right, it does.
And it will continue to work until the alphabet soup government agencies who supposedly provide oversight start handing out penalties that are larger than the gains to be had. It's not a punishment if it's cheaper than doing things the right way, it's a discount.
Yes, but filesharing also means many people were exposed to music they might not have been otherwise, and of those there is a group who despite downloading an album will still go buy it (or buy a special limited edition version for an upgrade) to support the artist they are now a fan of.
Those extra sales will counteract the losses of the "I don't pay for anything" pirates.
Now what? Trying to claim that IP addresses are not enough evidence to identify someone will only help the people being targeting by the recording/movie industry for file sharing.
Would seem to me that it is very clear that nuclear power is still needed in Japan if areas have to make cuts in power draw to avoid shortages.
Logically yes. But Greenies also like to believe everyone besides them is wasteful, and therefore we should all be cutting back anyway, regardless of inconvenience or comfort. These are people who in their most strict factions would like to abolish cars, ignoring that everyone is not in a physical condition to pedal themselves around everywhere on a bicycle.
They're undoubtedly upset at changes he made to electrical wiring to get around problems X10 modules have with CFL bulbs he mentions on the project page. Also, if they have some strict guidelines about holes in the walls I suppose the mounted lights, motor, and pulleys for the curtains might annoy them.
I wonder if this will apply to all Hulu streaming, or only to the shows that are actually on cable. There's all those Criterion Collection films and anime series that aren't available on cable but can be watched on Hulu, will I have to have a cable subscription for those, too?
It's obvious that Ray is cursed.
No-one cares about what "will" be there - it'll matter when it'll be there, which we still don't know yet. Meanwhile, iOS and Android are here already.
Sounds likes history repeating itself from what happened with iPod/Zune.
[Paul] was among the 15 who did not cast a vote. Thanks, Ron.
You know, he did put out a lengthy statement Monday slamming this Act and calling a lot of negative attention to it.
Actions speak louder than words.
Is there any reason they have to choose a side?
No seriously, why can't they have both h264 and WebM support and let the market decide which one gets used more?
Where were you planning on putting it?
Didn't he already answer that with his query?
Sorry, I was still focusing on "Timothy LANZone! Now, there's an alpha-geek name!"
The pilot was shocked first!
Don't believe the special edition of the Air Canada Pilots Association report.
...discarted like 2 moths ago.
So into the flame it went?
The students plan to patent their invention, so they won't divulge their exact formulation,
Exact formulation isn't necessary for this application, as every 7th grade science class learns it by trial and error with a $1.29 box of corn starch.
You can do this in your kitchen in 10 minutes, and the stuff is fun to play with but nobody has found a real good application for it in over a
hundred years.
But it wont really matter if it's easy to figure out the formula as long as they're first to file the patent, right? After that they can just sue anyone who tries to commercialize if after spending those ten minutes figuring it out.
Maybe this is yet-another-example-of-why-not-to-use-facebook. I can't astroturf for my company on my personal social networking accounts when I don't have any.
Not all h264 can be hardware accelerated, so you still have the issue of potentially non-playable HD files. It's a lot easier to update codecs on a PC that has the muscle for software decoding when it needs it. The extra labor and loss of quality in transcoding is the real problem with that setup.
The PC is simply more future-proof. At worst you may have to swap out the motherboard for a new one with a more ass-kicking processor down the line when people are playing 4K on their TVs, but you can retain the case, power supply, accessories, etc when you do that most likely.
I see you failed to full understand the post you replied to. The point here is not to have to transcode at all.
AppleTV is just as limited as the other "appliances". Apple is all NIH when it comes to OGG and FLAC audio, or video files in MKV containers, or even MP4 if you don't use the "right" h264 profiles.
WD and the Chinese no-name devices actually accept more media types than an AppleTV.
Or maybe they actually hash the passwords like they should.
You're suggesting Facebook did something to protect user privacy?
In the 1990s, there used to be tons of free dial-up ISP providers that gave you free access so long as you agreed to surf the web through their branded version of Internet Explorer that framed websites in ads. Some providers required you to click the ads so many times within a certain interval of time or get disconnected.
I'm sure these frames and banner ads "violated" the design of websites that were browsed by these users,
No, because the ads were in a frame around the webpage. It's not any different than having two browser windows open on your desktop where a few inches of a background window is visible below/beside the frontmost window.
Hotel Wi-Fi is just the modern version of this same model, albeit without using software or requiring ad clicks.
Except the ads are being added in a way where the viewer cannot distinguish what is an original part of the page with what has been added by the service provider. What if a site dealt with a certain political viewpoint or sensitive topic and the ads being added were in a contrary viewpoint or otherwise in bad taste for the web page topic? What if the viewer was using a site where they pay a fee to access it ad-free? If they started seeing these ads (injected by the service provider on the sly), they might think the website operator was doing it despite their subscription.
Kinda like old CDMA phones, right?
Yes, lets go back to the Bad Old Days.
The phone need only read them upon insertion via a collar around the insertion hole. Nobody bothers to write to the sim any more.
Speak for yourself.
I intentionally disabled the internal memory on my phone so the phonebook would always save entries to the SIM card memory. That way, should my phone have an accident of some sort rendering it inoperable, or I decide to just get a new phone, I don't lose my contacts because I can't transfer them off the old phone and onto the new one. Assuming the SIM is unharmed I just remove it from the wreckage of my old phone and put it into the new one. Power up and I'm back in business, phone active and phonebook all there.
This is one of the primary reasons I use GSM cell phones and never even considered getting service with a CDMA provider way back when I first got a cell (10+ years ago)..
If anything, I expect a larger outrage here about the rights than you would get in most news circles. The average person doesn't care about the rights issue because it's happening to "someone else", whereas the settlements (and the money to fund it) is coming from them the taxpayer and does have an effect on them personally (if it changes tax rates or effects funding on things the other individual cares about). Plus there's the whole "he got money for nothing" angle which is more a jealously thing.
You're not complaining about Slashdot, you're complaining about human nature.