Didn't realize that, thanks. FWIW, the site is Flash-based --pretty much has to be-- but, of course, the Black Hole you describe is not how we'd like to handle an incompatibility...
I'd rather see a law like the "truth in advertising" - [those] getting money...have to [disclose it].... if you need to split hairs, at least come up with your own complete language to cover the complexity of the issue
Even such disclosure seems not to address the original issue of fair-vs.-financed speech. I.e., disclosure still lets the well-heeled drown out the merely honest... OTOH, pursuing only 'fairness' per se would permit, say, zero free speech as a possible outcome -- which is, after all, as "fair" as it gets.
Seems that tackling the true issue must begin by modelling the voting public's attention as a medium with limited bandwidth, of which any point-of-view demands a certain quantum in order to be presented coherently. (Engineers can take it from there...)
I can't count the number of times that I have been flipping thru a book and wished I could use the search function...
Yes... and you'd think this'll prove so attractive that any copyright-holder will be loath to forego it. And you'd then think that some sort of legal/other rights-management will quickly emerge that does allow such functions, but that still makes it at least damned inconvenient to read/copy an entire text.
A cheater-robot gets caught because it plays a game better than any human could... right? So then, the real challenge for a human player is to be mistaken for a machine... a kind-of reverse Turing test...
The sad thing is, people will totally buy into this...
Not so sad, if you look at those people as (nearly) early adopters.
Unlike, say, petroleum products, the supply of music is neither finite nor particularly controlled. Genuine price-wars should eventually occur, leaving a properly calibrated market in their wake.
Have you seen the bargain DVD rack at your local Wal-Mart? You can get entire seasons of old TV for a buck....
When prerecorded tapes first appeared, there was an explosion of video-stores... every one a cash-cow. But, unfortunately for most of those early stores, the consumer base quickly ran through the Joan Crawford ouvre, and its attention settled largely upon new releases, where it remains today. Seems reasonable to expect the same growth profile for these hand-held revivals...
...I can't help but wonder what would happen if everyone started "accidentally" microwaving their passports.
OTOH, if using the chips were voluntary, but somehow got us through customs at a speed relatively equivalent to the EZ-pass lane for highway tolls, then you can bet there'd be virtually 100% compliance... and microwaves could go back to frying pacemakers...
Is [re-cutting] good or bad? I think it's neither.
(As with so many things) most of this controversy could be resolved merely by enforcing proper labeling. E.g. ET - The 2005 Revision...which is, after all, just a matter of full disclosure. The goods being delivered have changed, thus their name should too.
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...149 pages completedly blacked out...
Don't worry, this is self-limiting. After enough of its material becomes non-disseminable, the NSA's ability to innovate will quickly dry up...
People are underestimating what Microsoft is doing with search technology, says Bill Gates. The head of the software giant told the BBC that its ambition is to be bigger than Google in search.
People are underestimating what Microsoft is doing with [ANY] technology, says Bill Gates. The head of the software giant told [ALL WHO'D LISTEN] that its ambition is to be bigger than [COMPANY X] in [WHATEVER COMPANY X DOES].
Granted, [LCDs] have much better resolution, a smaller footprint and are lighter, but they're still extremely expensive.
Still, their price-point has now crept from beyond the horizon and into distant view. So, e.g., anyone who's recently enlisted able bodies to help move a CRT behemoth across the living room has a gut-reaction against buying another... even postponing a purchase, if possible.
...The idea of moving porn all to one TLD would simply be a huge boon for accurate discovery of both porn and everything else...
Sure. But I still think that material now considered to be beyond the pale (i.e., prosecutable) might implicitly be granted greater leeway merely on the face of "staying in their own yard". And no, I have no "ulterior motive" for this argument-for-its-own-sake. (Nor, in particular, do I personally list web-censorship among the critical principles of child-raising...)
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Didn't realize that, thanks. FWIW, the site is Flash-based --pretty much has to be-- but, of course, the Black Hole you describe is not how we'd like to handle an incompatibility...
There is, of course, another sort of singularity ...
"when technological progress [accelerates] due to the advent of superhuman intelligence..."
Maybe this new Microsoft thingie is that.
Even such disclosure seems not to address the original issue of fair-vs.-financed speech. I.e., disclosure still lets the well-heeled drown out the merely honest... OTOH, pursuing only 'fairness' per se would permit, say, zero free speech as a possible outcome -- which is, after all, as "fair" as it gets.
Seems that tackling the true issue must begin by modelling the voting public's attention as a medium with limited bandwidth, of which any point-of-view demands a certain quantum in order to be presented coherently. (Engineers can take it from there...)
You're right... and I did somewhat realize that. But I was thinking also of the recent row over masquerading poker-bots...
Yes... and you'd think this'll prove so attractive that any copyright-holder will be loath to forego it. And you'd then think that some sort of legal/other rights-management will quickly emerge that does allow such functions, but that still makes it at least damned inconvenient to read/copy an entire text.
I take your point. But people are easy to fool. The irony (re the Turing reversal) is to get a machine to think you're a machine.
A cheater-robot gets caught because it plays a game better than any human could... right? So then, the real challenge for a human player is to be mistaken for a machine... a kind-of reverse Turing test...
Meaning 5 real years?... not, e.g., Internet years (a.k.a. months)? AFAIK, that's an eternity...
Not so sad, if you look at those people as (nearly) early adopters.
Unlike, say, petroleum products, the supply of music is neither finite nor particularly controlled. Genuine price-wars should eventually occur, leaving a properly calibrated market in their wake.
Hmmm..... zombies... sinister whispers... The Boss That Wouldn't Die...
Seems there's a chance...
When prerecorded tapes first appeared, there was an explosion of video-stores... every one a cash-cow. But, unfortunately for most of those early stores, the consumer base quickly ran through the Joan Crawford ouvre, and its attention settled largely upon new releases, where it remains today. Seems reasonable to expect the same growth profile for these hand-held revivals...
OTOH, if using the chips were voluntary, but somehow got us through customs at a speed relatively equivalent to the EZ-pass lane for highway tolls, then you can bet there'd be virtually 100% compliance... and microwaves could go back to frying pacemakers...
Anyone would have to be f**ked up in the head to do that...
(As with so many things) most of this controversy could be resolved merely by enforcing proper labeling. E.g. ET - The 2005 Revision ...which is, after all, just a matter of full disclosure. The goods being delivered have changed, thus their name should too.
Don't worry, this is self-limiting. After enough of its material becomes non-disseminable, the NSA's ability to innovate will quickly dry up...
In other news, Harriet Meiers has opted for an early retirement package from the Supreme Court... to spend more time with her family...
"While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping..." - E. A. Poe
Is it naive to suppose that serious miscreants know how to evade eavesdroppers?
People are underestimating what Microsoft is doing with [ANY] technology, says Bill Gates. The head of the software giant told [ALL WHO'D LISTEN] that its ambition is to be bigger than [COMPANY X] in [WHATEVER COMPANY X DOES].
Still, their price-point has now crept from beyond the horizon and into distant view. So, e.g., anyone who's recently enlisted able bodies to help move a CRT behemoth across the living room has a gut-reaction against buying another... even postponing a purchase, if possible.
So the hell with eyes... it's actually possible to undress her with your diction...
Sure. But I still think that material now considered to be beyond the pale (i.e., prosecutable) might implicitly be granted greater leeway merely on the face of "staying in their own yard". And no, I have no "ulterior motive" for this argument-for-its-own-sake. (Nor, in particular, do I personally list web-censorship among the critical principles of child-raising...)