I think this is a distraction. Wikileaks is about more than just the 'US v. *' set of conflicts; if you look back at the past several years you can see a number of reports they've made that have entirely to do with individual non-US corporate concerns, domestic issues in a host of countries, etc.
The stuff you hear now is largely due to the size (both of the apparatus and the leak) and that the bloodied nose is the US, and therefor important.
So it turns out that one of the major injuries typists get is called RSI, and one of the major causes is that people leave their hands on the keyboard, and wind up tensing their wrists in order to keep their fingers from depressing keys. Without rest, this causes injury. One of the majorly GOOD things about these buckling spring boards is that they can support more weight.
There's a couple of things going on with this 'ergo' idea - one part is visual, reflecting the key layout. Another part to do with the support of the hand and discouragement of behaviors that cause injury. It can be very easy to confuse the two.
If you want to avoid injury, it seems like while some accessories like fancy chairs may help, the behavioral aspects are far less mystical: 1) be healthy-ish to begin with 2) avoid keeping your hands in a fixed position, and certainly not a strained one. 3) move around from time to time, whether that means a new posture or talking a break.
I used the Unicomp keyboards for a few years, but I've been through a few of them - the design simply does not adequately protect the board from spills, and if I ever buy another one I'm going to modify it before use to isolate the keywell from the circuits.
Once you run out of IP allocations to hand out (which you have done at an incredible pace), you have two solutions:
A) Force everyone onto IPv6 before they are ready B) Acknowledge that there is significant underutilisation of existing resources, and that supply/demand are going to encourage the rise of secondary markets.
From the speech, item #7 on the list of reasons they hate the EFF et. alia: 'They favor the elimination of the songwriter and publisher rights for server, cache and buffer copies.'
I am actually rather shocked that ANYONE can rationalize royalty fees for 'server, buffer, and cache' copies of content. This is content that people are not seeing or hearing. These are invisible pink unicorn copies.
There's nothing infeasible about the desire for a system of this sort. Obviously, limitations are bound to exist, but this is not pipe-dream territory.
I think a 'strong identity' transactional system likely requires a secret known to a user, paired with a hardware device that can be remotely disabled, and is difficult to tamper with and lift the user's keypair from, even with the user's password. I think that can be built, but the 'remote kill' potential is alarming in the context of a national (or more than national) strong-identity system. In order to be reliable, parties will have to check transactions against some sort of central database, which is a serious privacy concern.
My suspicion is that any system you attempt to use for this purpose is immensely more useful when you ditch the 'strong identity' requirement, as a strong transactional system is good at preventing fraud, and with no (or limited) identity tied to a transaction, there is no substantial risk to privacy, data disclosure, etc, which are the stated goals of the plan.
Based on the torrent performance, it looks to me like MediaSentry or one of its shit competitors has some bad peers in the mix. I wonder if the Pioneer One folks could extract damages from them for tampering with their distribution mechanism?
The Web is becoming increasingly unusable to the visually impaired as a result of the adoption of Flash. That's a reality that deserves special attention.
I see no reason to support technologies that make web-pages non-declarative and difficult to use. The Imperative web is dangerous, and provides us with constant security threats, slow and crashing browsers, Rickroll bombs, and vendor tie-ins that are difficult to escape. The vanilla web may lack in some features, but really - do we WANT the web to be a big scary application?
The world would, of course, be a lot better off if ignoring suspected patent infringement until it appears like there might be a lot of money to be made from suing the suspected infringer were grounds for dismissal of the suit.
What's really interesting to me is that some states try to argue for use taxes on non-concrete goods, like ebooks or downloads or whatever - even though the ones whose laws I've read confine it to 'tangible' goods.
Please note that this was not a licensed Wii controller. People are stupid enough as is; they don't need a confusing headline to help them decide games are evil.
No, you've suggested that I missed them. There is a difference.
For an example of poorly managed allocations, take a look at MIT and a number of others. You can also find and overlay other Hilbert projections of the IP-space made for different criteria - you'll find that in general, the CAIDA survey grants a surprisingly good overview of the space despite the caveats presented.
It's not just D & D; they banned all fantasy roleplaying.
Now that I've read the decision, I'm a little more annoyed.
The prison officials provided evidence in the form of testimony, from one of the prison officials who claims to be a gang expert. The court appeared to find his testimony regarding gang structure unchallanged, so let that stand.
They found that regulating gangs was reasonable, that Singer could play other games instead, that if it does lead to gang activity, that will put a strain on prison resources, and fourth, that the prison couldn't really curb the behavior without banning the game. (Which is apparently what you need to have to pass the Turner test for prison regulations.)
A few cases referencing D&D were cited as well, but not addressed. The prison gang expert also said that fantasy role-playing was escapist behavior and could impede rehabilation; despite the extensive amount of affidavits provided by Singer's side to the contrary, the court let that statement stand.
He's got an appeal open on first amendment grounds. His 96-pages of notes for a single campaign sound to me like a pretty compelling sort of expression. Who knows? Maybe the court will decides that collaborative storytelling is protected.
A good question, and AC above definitely provides the right gist of an answer; rather than be terrified over the sky falling, poke the sky!
Luckily, other people have already done this research for us. This report is a couple years out of date, but the current state is likely highly reflective of these results:
Slashdot Mirror
Trace busta-busta-busta!
I think this is a distraction. Wikileaks is about more than just the 'US v. *' set of conflicts; if you look back at the past several years you can see a number of reports they've made that have entirely to do with individual non-US corporate concerns, domestic issues in a host of countries, etc.
The stuff you hear now is largely due to the size (both of the apparatus and the leak) and that the bloodied nose is the US, and therefor important.
Neither. They have an idea that the world is better for seeing its ills - an ethical proposition with a big set of moral upsides and downsides.
Ding.
I've found that being an obsessive tea drinker helps, too - gotta get up every now and then to use the head or refill the pot.
Actually.
So it turns out that one of the major injuries typists get is called RSI, and one of the major causes is that people leave their hands on the keyboard, and wind up tensing their wrists in order to keep their fingers from depressing keys. Without rest, this causes injury. One of the majorly GOOD things about these buckling spring boards is that they can support more weight.
There's a couple of things going on with this 'ergo' idea - one part is visual, reflecting the key layout. Another part to do with the support of the hand and discouragement of behaviors that cause injury. It can be very easy to confuse the two.
If you want to avoid injury, it seems like while some accessories like fancy chairs may help, the behavioral aspects are far less mystical:
1) be healthy-ish to begin with
2) avoid keeping your hands in a fixed position, and certainly not a strained one.
3) move around from time to time, whether that means a new posture or talking a break.
I used the Unicomp keyboards for a few years, but I've been through a few of them - the design simply does not adequately protect the board from spills, and if I ever buy another one I'm going to modify it before use to isolate the keywell from the circuits.
Number Authorities:
Once you run out of IP allocations to hand out (which you have done at an incredible pace), you have two solutions:
A) Force everyone onto IPv6 before they are ready
B) Acknowledge that there is significant underutilisation of existing resources, and that supply/demand are going to encourage the rise of secondary markets.
Untapped revenue. All your sound waves (and their reflections) are belong to us!
I am having a very difficult time making sense of this comment. Elaborate?
From the speech, item #7 on the list of reasons they hate the EFF et. alia: 'They favor the elimination of the songwriter and publisher rights for server, cache and buffer copies.'
I am actually rather shocked that ANYONE can rationalize royalty fees for 'server, buffer, and cache' copies of content. This is content that people are not seeing or hearing. These are invisible pink unicorn copies.
There's nothing infeasible about the desire for a system of this sort. Obviously, limitations are bound to exist, but this is not pipe-dream territory.
I think a 'strong identity' transactional system likely requires a secret known to a user, paired with a hardware device that can be remotely disabled, and is difficult to tamper with and lift the user's keypair from, even with the user's password. I think that can be built, but the 'remote kill' potential is alarming in the context of a national (or more than national) strong-identity system. In order to be reliable, parties will have to check transactions against some sort of central database, which is a serious privacy concern.
My suspicion is that any system you attempt to use for this purpose is immensely more useful when you ditch the 'strong identity' requirement, as a strong transactional system is good at preventing fraud, and with no (or limited) identity tied to a transaction, there is no substantial risk to privacy, data disclosure, etc, which are the stated goals of the plan.
Based on the torrent performance, it looks to me like MediaSentry or one of its shit competitors has some bad peers in the mix. I wonder if the Pioneer One folks could extract damages from them for tampering with their distribution mechanism?
Which in turn was given to us by an Apple engineer with a time machine.
Take that, causality!
The Web is becoming increasingly unusable to the visually impaired as a result of the adoption of Flash. That's a reality that deserves special attention.
I see no reason to support technologies that make web-pages non-declarative and difficult to use. The Imperative web is dangerous, and provides us with constant security threats, slow and crashing browsers, Rickroll bombs, and vendor tie-ins that are difficult to escape. The vanilla web may lack in some features, but really - do we WANT the web to be a big scary application?
The world would, of course, be a lot better off if ignoring suspected patent infringement until it appears like there might be a lot of money to be made from suing the suspected infringer were grounds for dismissal of the suit.
What's really interesting to me is that some states try to argue for use taxes on non-concrete goods, like ebooks or downloads or whatever - even though the ones whose laws I've read confine it to 'tangible' goods.
Please note that this was not a licensed Wii controller. People are stupid enough as is; they don't need a confusing headline to help them decide games are evil.
Who the fuck isn't scared of going to prison?
People who've been there before.
I would invest in this prison.
Thanks for your perspective.
What sort of alternative collaborative storytelling game would you propose for a prison setting?
No, you've suggested that I missed them. There is a difference.
For an example of poorly managed allocations, take a look at MIT and a number of others. You can also find and overlay other Hilbert projections of the IP-space made for different criteria - you'll find that in general, the CAIDA survey grants a surprisingly good overview of the space despite the caveats presented.
I leave this exercise to the reader, however.
It's not just D & D; they banned all fantasy roleplaying.
Now that I've read the decision, I'm a little more annoyed.
The prison officials provided evidence in the form of testimony, from one of the prison officials who claims to be a gang expert. The court appeared to find his testimony regarding gang structure unchallanged, so let that stand.
They found that regulating gangs was reasonable, that Singer could play other games instead, that if it does lead to gang activity, that will put a strain on prison resources, and fourth, that the prison couldn't really curb the behavior without banning the game. (Which is apparently what you need to have to pass the Turner test for prison regulations.)
A few cases referencing D&D were cited as well, but not addressed. The prison gang expert also said that fantasy role-playing was escapist behavior and could impede rehabilation; despite the extensive amount of affidavits provided by Singer's side to the contrary, the court let that statement stand.
He's got an appeal open on first amendment grounds. His 96-pages of notes for a single campaign sound to me like a pretty compelling sort of expression. Who knows? Maybe the court will decides that collaborative storytelling is protected.
A good question, and AC above definitely provides the right gist of an answer; rather than be terrified over the sky falling, poke the sky!
Luckily, other people have already done this research for us. This report is a couple years out of date, but the current state is likely highly reflective of these results:
http://www.caida.org/research/id-consumption/census-map/images/20061108.png
I suspect they purchased a block of accounts from someone who had a much bigger pool for sale.
IIRC Google has rate limiting in place to prevent large DNS servers from forwarding to Google instead of recursing themselves.