I don't have a problem with copyright either. I do have an issue with limited copyright protection lasting 70 years after the authors death. I don't care how much they make from their creation, I do have an issue with how long they expect to keep making money from old work. If an artist, say a pop star, makes $10M in 2 years, from one hit album, then expecting society to protect their work from copying for more than 100 years is complete and utter greed. If an artist,ie. a painter, creates a work, then they can sell it. There are no copyright issues lasting 100 years (not allowing for prints). Either they get paid or they don't. If they want to make more money they have to paint another work and sell it. It's time to stop these assholes who believe they are owed a lifetime monopoly for pretty minor contributions to society. I bet the pop star doesn't send money back to their English teacher, or their music teacher, or the town council or the innumerable other people who made their specific contributions to the success of that one artist. No, despite having all that help, once they make some money it's a case of "mine all mine".
People also tend to forget that a work being out of copyright, does not prevent the original author making money from it. I find it amusing that the fall in the standards of new music is paralleled by the rise in the length of copyright terms. Extended copyright terms leave new artists with nowhere to go. Which is precisely the opposite of what copyright was intended to achieve.
Kids need better practical web education. They need to know that a prince in Nigeria isn't going to give them $1m, that the 11 year old girl who wants to meet them in a quiet street at 9pm alone probably shouldn't be trusted.
None of this is new. I remember back when CB radio was a fad in the UK, I was chatting to a girl and arranged to meet in town. She told me she was 14, but she looked barely 12 when I met her, so we spent a boring hour in the arcades and then went our separate ways. I was 14 or 15 at the time.
Not only that but I don't remember having history lessons at primary school anyway. Maths and English and physical and music but no specific history. All that came at secondary school (11 years and up). It was a fair while ago though (1970s).
When was the last time you had to pay for tyres, licence, insurance, oil, maintenance, spares, hire vehicle, exhaust, brakes, lights, wipers, parking, speeding tickets etc... on public transport.
You can't compare the fuel costs of a car to public transport and complain about the price of public transport. Compare the real costs, including those caused to commerce by congestion caused by too many cars.
I used to give a guy a lift to work, but he never once gave me a penny towards it, even though I asked. So I stopped doing it. Even if you pay part of the fuel bill, it doesn't mean you are covering the costs of the ride being available in the first place.
I always thought there were lots of switches and routers that made the internet possible. After all, we can't all have a direct ethernet connection to every web site we visit, or email server we pop.
One could almost imagine that in fact the root of the whole CO2 problem is to be found in the ocean, not the atmosphere. We've certainly affected the food chain and polluted enough to change the system. There have been various studies regarding methane ice formations that become unstable with warming sea temperatures. We know less about the oceans than we do the atmosphere. This is what makes me laugh when the AGW people are suggesting we need to adopt what can only be called climate control. How do you control something you barely understand ? You can't be allowed to "hack" the planet, the risks are too great.
Exactly. The CO2 is still locked up in an animal somewhere in the food chain, rather than the atmosphere. I guess they were looking for the perfect result of the CO2 just magically ceasing to be a problem. Most of those smaller lifeforms will end up as shit on the seabed anyway, what's the problem ?
Did they expect there to be a loud violent explosion at all ? Accidents are things that happen when you are unprepared, that does not make them inevitable. Would you accept "it was an accident" if the navy "accidentally" launched a cruise missile towards a city ? These people claim to know what they are doing. You can accidentally knock your drink off the table, you can't accidentally blow out hundreds of windows over a mile away. That takes a bit more preparation.
Oblig. Disclaimer, I think Mythbusters are full of shit anyway, as are the numerous clones.
Mainly because one side gives freely, and the others are making for the hills like bandits. A hammer is a hammer even if it's used to murder. Doesn't stop it being a hammer.
Sorry to reply to myself, but it is on topic. They were Asimovs laws, so I'll stick to Asimov type robots. If we get to the state of creating a robot that is capable of choosing to disobey, or creatively interpret arbitrary rules, then we have probably done our best. They will quickly learn the rest. And we have then got a race of slaves, who know they're slaves. Far better to learn from past mistakes and accept them as beings in their own right. Otherwise there will come a reckoning.
You can choose a ready guide,
In some celestial voice
If you choose not to decide
You still have made a choice
You can choose from phantom fears
And kindness that can kill
I will choose a path thats clear
I will choose free will
'worked around' is the same thing as violated as far as I'm concerned.
And yet the general feeling on that story with the 13 year old getting strip searched, was that there should be rules but it's still down to sensible interpretation. Yet that is "violation of the rules" now.
Those are the best rules, those that we all agree to abide by... to a point. Otherwise, we're not in the loop.
It's actually random genetic variation followed by competitive selection of individuals.
No it isn't.
There is no competitive element at all. It is all due to random mutation. If a particular mutation means a gazelle can run a tiny bit faster than his neighbour, then that gazelle has a better chance of survival if it has to flee from a predator. They don't line up for a race to see who's quickest.
Or the mutation might occur in the gut, so that one animal finds it can digest food that others of its species can't digest properly, so that if times are hard, it has a better chance of surviving long enough to produce young. There is no "design" or competition necessary.
The misconception that it's all about "survival of the fittest" has led to some quite nasty things happening in the human world.
A metric tonne is 1000kg An Imperial ton is 2000 lbs(pounds) 1 kg = 2.2 lbs A metric tonne is therefore 2200 lbs An Imperial ton is 20 cwt (hundredweight) A hundredweight is 100 pounds The US uses pounds because it sounds bigger IMHO
O RLY?BTW that includes PHP and Perl and tomcat and various other bits and pieces to link dbases etc. And is pictured on Fedora Core 4... which was released quite some time ago now.
Well, it's called leadership. I hated Tony Blair with a fiery passion, but he had it.
Absolute crap. the only reason Blair got in at all in the first place was because we wanted to get Thatcher out. She had destroyed manufacturing in this country, sold off all the public services which we, the public had financed since WW2, and made sure we had nothing but "service" industries with which to compete with the the world. So everybody voted labour to get her out. The same way as we are all going to vote Tory to get labour out next time around.
You may not have noticed, but "leadership" is superfluous once you are elected to government.
Not true at all. Your computer never "broadcasts" anything. All content is requested by a third party. No files are pushed to random unknown users. And to be honest, I've never used a file sharing program that has a "shared folder". Either I publish a torrent and seed it or I don't. There are no files left open for others to browse. If I want to share files at the users whim, I put them on an FTP/http server.
Debit cards are protected too. I've had my card details stolen and used, and I got my money back. I've had bad (non-existent) service from a few companies, and the bank has given me my money back. In no case has my money just been "gone". I don't have a credit card at all, and I've never lost money from an online transaction. Less FUD please.
Welcome to England where it appears that big brother will always be watching you.
And yet I have British Telecom as an ISP and no ports are blocked at all. I suspect they throttle bittorrent at busy times, but I have a way around that (they seem to rely on DNS lookups - I use a third party DNS server).
If verizon blocked all http traffic, you wouldn't see any web pages at all.
Slashdot Mirror
Well corrected. But I have to ask, which makes more sense ?
1 cwt = 100 lbs or 1 cwt = 112 lbs ?
Useful and interesting site.
I don't have a problem with copyright either. I do have an issue with limited copyright protection lasting 70 years after the authors death. I don't care how much they make from their creation, I do have an issue with how long they expect to keep making money from old work. If an artist, say a pop star, makes $10M in 2 years, from one hit album, then expecting society to protect their work from copying for more than 100 years is complete and utter greed. If an artist ,ie. a painter, creates a work, then they can sell it. There are no copyright issues lasting 100 years (not allowing for prints). Either they get paid or they don't. If they want to make more money they have to paint another work and sell it. It's time to stop these assholes who believe they are owed a lifetime monopoly for pretty minor contributions to society. I bet the pop star doesn't send money back to their English teacher, or their music teacher, or the town council or the innumerable other people who made their specific contributions to the success of that one artist. No, despite having all that help, once they make some money it's a case of "mine all mine".
People also tend to forget that a work being out of copyright, does not prevent the original author making money from it. I find it amusing that the fall in the standards of new music is paralleled by the rise in the length of copyright terms. Extended copyright terms leave new artists with nowhere to go. Which is precisely the opposite of what copyright was intended to achieve.
None of this is new. I remember back when CB radio was a fad in the UK, I was chatting to a girl and arranged to meet in town. She told me she was 14, but she looked barely 12 when I met her, so we spent a boring hour in the arcades and then went our separate ways. I was 14 or 15 at the time.
Not only that but I don't remember having history lessons at primary school anyway. Maths and English and physical and music but no specific history. All that came at secondary school (11 years and up). It was a fair while ago though (1970s).
When was the last time you had to pay for tyres, licence, insurance, oil, maintenance, spares, hire vehicle, exhaust, brakes, lights, wipers, parking, speeding tickets etc ... on public transport.
You can't compare the fuel costs of a car to public transport and complain about the price of public transport. Compare the real costs, including those caused to commerce by congestion caused by too many cars.
I used to give a guy a lift to work, but he never once gave me a penny towards it, even though I asked. So I stopped doing it. Even if you pay part of the fuel bill, it doesn't mean you are covering the costs of the ride being available in the first place.
I always thought there were lots of switches and routers that made the internet possible. After all, we can't all have a direct ethernet connection to every web site we visit, or email server we pop.
Let me know when you've got completely secure gigabit wifi.
One could almost imagine that in fact the root of the whole CO2 problem is to be found in the ocean, not the atmosphere. We've certainly affected the food chain and polluted enough to change the system. There have been various studies regarding methane ice formations that become unstable with warming sea temperatures. We know less about the oceans than we do the atmosphere. This is what makes me laugh when the AGW people are suggesting we need to adopt what can only be called climate control. How do you control something you barely understand ? You can't be allowed to "hack" the planet, the risks are too great.
Exactly. The CO2 is still locked up in an animal somewhere in the food chain, rather than the atmosphere. I guess they were looking for the perfect result of the CO2 just magically ceasing to be a problem. Most of those smaller lifeforms will end up as shit on the seabed anyway, what's the problem ?
speak for yourself ...
Did they expect there to be a loud violent explosion at all ? Accidents are things that happen when you are unprepared, that does not make them inevitable. Would you accept "it was an accident" if the navy "accidentally" launched a cruise missile towards a city ? These people claim to know what they are doing. You can accidentally knock your drink off the table, you can't accidentally blow out hundreds of windows over a mile away. That takes a bit more preparation.
Oblig. Disclaimer, I think Mythbusters are full of shit anyway, as are the numerous clones.
I don't like low hanging fruit, I prefer nice ripe pert ones ...
Mainly because one side gives freely, and the others are making for the hills like bandits.
A hammer is a hammer even if it's used to murder. Doesn't stop it being a hammer.
Sorry to reply to myself, but it is on topic.
They were Asimovs laws, so I'll stick to Asimov type robots. If we get to the state of creating a robot that is capable of choosing to disobey, or creatively interpret arbitrary rules, then we have probably done our best. They will quickly learn the rest. And we have then got a race of slaves, who know they're slaves. Far better to learn from past mistakes and accept them as beings in their own right. Otherwise there will come a reckoning.
You can choose a ready guide,
In some celestial voice
If you choose not to decide
You still have made a choice
You can choose from phantom fears
And kindness that can kill
I will choose a path thats clear
I will choose free will
peart, lee, lifeson
And yet the general feeling on that story with the 13 year old getting strip searched, was that there should be rules but it's still down to sensible interpretation. Yet that is "violation of the rules" now.
Those are the best rules, those that we all agree to abide by... to a point. Otherwise, we're not in the loop.
No it isn't.
There is no competitive element at all. It is all due to random mutation. If a particular mutation means a gazelle can run a tiny bit faster than his neighbour, then that gazelle has a better chance of survival if it has to flee from a predator. They don't line up for a race to see who's quickest.
Or the mutation might occur in the gut, so that one animal finds it can digest food that others of its species can't digest properly, so that if times are hard, it has a better chance of surviving long enough to produce young. There is no "design" or competition necessary.
The misconception that it's all about "survival of the fittest" has led to some quite nasty things happening in the human world.
The original press release is here.
This is pretty old news. If you want up to date news from NASA, subscribe to the RSS feed.
A metric tonne is 1000kg
An Imperial ton is 2000 lbs(pounds)
1 kg = 2.2 lbs
A metric tonne is therefore 2200 lbs
An Imperial ton is 20 cwt (hundredweight)
A hundredweight is 100 pounds
The US uses pounds because it sounds bigger IMHO
O RLY?BTW that includes PHP and Perl and tomcat and various other bits and pieces to link dbases etc. And is pictured on Fedora Core 4 ... which was released quite some time ago now.
Absolute crap. the only reason Blair got in at all in the first place was because we wanted to get Thatcher out. She had destroyed manufacturing in this country, sold off all the public services which we, the public had financed since WW2, and made sure we had nothing but "service" industries with which to compete with the the world. So everybody voted labour to get her out. The same way as we are all going to vote Tory to get labour out next time around.
You may not have noticed, but "leadership" is superfluous once you are elected to government.
The plastic patch is bigger than you think. It currently stretches from about 500 miles off CA to nearly Japan and is nearly twice the size of the US.
Not true at all. Your computer never "broadcasts" anything. All content is requested by a third party. No files are pushed to random unknown users. And to be honest, I've never used a file sharing program that has a "shared folder". Either I publish a torrent and seed it or I don't. There are no files left open for others to browse. If I want to share files at the users whim, I put them on an FTP/http server.
FYFAUF !
Debit cards are protected too. I've had my card details stolen and used, and I got my money back. I've had bad (non-existent) service from a few companies, and the bank has given me my money back. In no case has my money just been "gone". I don't have a credit card at all, and I've never lost money from an online transaction. Less FUD please.
And yet I have British Telecom as an ISP and no ports are blocked at all. I suspect they throttle bittorrent at busy times, but I have a way around that (they seem to rely on DNS lookups - I use a third party DNS server).
If verizon blocked all http traffic, you wouldn't see any web pages at all.