Like Edison did in 1903 to prove that alternating current was a bad idea (http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/01/dayintech_0104) So we more enlightened folks can stick to posters and foul language...
What is really creepy about these movies and pictures is, that somehow you always expect stars in the background (like on a ship at night). Instead you get two rocks hanging in a black void. Just one vast emptiness. Scary.
This seems to be the next "big new shiny thing" in crime prevention. In Germany a trade union of law enforcement officers and a foundation called "German forum for crime prevention" pushes for a system called "web-patrol" since the beginning of 2009. You can find a blog (http://webpatrol.wordpress.com/) and a presentation here (http://webpatrol.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/2009-06-09-vortrag-web-patrol-auf-14-dt-praventionstag-hannover.pdf). Nice (fake) screenshots with the panic button integrated in a browser menu bar. Sorry, but german only. Does anybody know about similar initiatives in other parts of the world?
That's an interesting point. You do not need the blue ray drive either and a lot of other components as well (harddisk, antennas etc. see here: http://www.gamepro.com/article/features/211942/how-to-take-apart-the-ps3-slim-in-6-steps-page-2/) It would be a lot of work but for a system this massive it could even make sense to build a custom frame for the mainboards only (power consumption? Cooling? Space?) and use some kind of flash drive for the OS. Buying just the mainboards could make sense, I guess.
A few precedents come to mind:
- Google scans and publishes online millions of books without consulting publishers or authors or estates of those. it is just done. Moral pretense: Preserve knowledge, make unpublished books readliy available. The deal offered after the international outcry is a kick in the teeth for most publishers. I might be wrong here, but no teamplay with any of the manifold digital library projects (not even LoC). Sponsorship of a few libraries in exchange for access to their repositories. There has been a lot of discussion here on Slashdot as well about the quality of the "library". That is not my opinion alone, cf. for example the writings of Jean-Noel Jeanneney.
- Google Streetview - remember all those people who tried to get their faces and properties erased?
- Google ignores most data protection regulations that I know of (and all data protection agencies and lawyers in my neck of the woods agree) and uses every bit of data they can lay their hands on to profile and market user beahvior for advertising dollars. (and it amazes me how everybody happily tags along, but then again I do not have even a single customer loyalty card) A "Google Dashboard" has been introduced only a couple of days ago to create some transparency.
From my own experience "Googleplex" looks all furry and friendly, until you start to talk (or try to negotiate) with the natives, I had an instant flashback to my happy university days and an exceptionally fruitless discussion with a group of fellow students who were members of a maoist group.
That may be just my european view of the world, and I am aware that most business is a cutthroat affair. My problem is, that when you have a look at Ellison/Ballmer/Chambers/etc. they never pretend that it would be unwise to play on their turf, if you have not engaged full battle mode before doing so. If they are interested in what you do, you either will be bought or crushed if possible. Google's figureheads on the other hand cultivate that slightly nerdy (all those kindergarden-like happy places I remember) and positive image that successfully camouflages the titanium alloy endoskeleton underneath all that fluffiness. Again that might not be enough proof, but then I would have to write an article (hmmm, come to think about it...). Again: Naming the language Go is another expression of Google's general attitude. My (humble) opinion.
No. I just said that the statement "do no evil" loses its meaning, if you presume, that everything you do is good per se, for all mankind, and thereby you presume again that you cannot do evil and simply do not have to care or check anymore if you are violating somebody's rights, privacy or whatever. You are always right, what's good for you must be good for everybody else. So naming a language "Go" when even a superficial search with your own engine shows you that somebody had this idea before may not be evil (that is a very strong word) but simply an expression of this attitude. Google, IMHO, has developed quite a few borderline sociopathic tendencies which are in sharp contrast with the innocent, play- and colorful "do no evil" image they promote.
Google does whatever it damn pleases. The "do no evil" slogan has lost its meaning because Google is convinced that it simply cannot do evil and everything it does is for the good of mankind and everybody else is a heretic anyway.
According to an Article on CNet (http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-10370164-245.html?tag=nl.e703, includes video) his wife banned him, giving the expression "better half" a whole new meaning....
So it's official. Everyone's a pirate, always on to lookout to pay less for more... So, in conclusion the real copyright problem (and licensing is a part of copyright) is the customer! Solution: Get rid of customers! Save Copyright! License as complicatedly as you like, never again worry about fine print or versions galore, be all you can be...
There is also a Website about the procedure called "Gesetzlicher Jugnedmedienschutz" (Which very oughly translates in to "legal protection of minors from Media". The "Bundespruefstelle" (again very roughly translated: Federal Monitoring Authority) publishes the various lists with media which are deemed as containing youth endangering and/or criminal content. http://www.bundespruefstelle.de/bmfsfj/generator/bpjm/jugendmedienschutz.html (german only)
Yep, both previous versions went on the "Index" -which basically allows personal posession, but not distribution in Germany. A court ordered all copies of Wolfenstein 3D in Germany to be confiscated in 1994 (german wikipedia: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfenstein_3D). Confiscation hit the PC and the later ATARI Jaguar Version as well. (Which, of course, made it one of the hottest game of the season) The Prequel "Spear of Destiny" got a "R" equivalent rating, but was not forbidden. Castle Wolfenstein (1981) was one of the first computer games on the "Index" and distribution was also forbidden in Germany. (German Wikipedia: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Wolfenstein. Again: personal posession, was not, hottest game of the season and a star of the early disk swapping networks around the Apple II. Aah, those good old Crackin' Days )
Or an IBM Bladecenter , where you have a choice between Intel, P6 and Cell (PS3's processor) Processor Blades (http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/bladecenter/hardware/servers/index.html) Not a lot cheaper than the SGI solution but more value for money in my opinion.
not Photoshop.
As long as fashion models have to be under normal weight to be accepted for the top fashion shows and magazines, young girls will follow this role model and that is the real problem, not photoshopping bad skin. If you type "anorexic models" into any search engine you find a lot of gruesome stories about girls who literally starved themselves to death on the job. Alternatively: force yourself to watch "Fashion TV" for an hour. That's not a new problem ("Twiggy" turned 60 last week, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twiggy) and not one likely to be changed by any law.
As long as you accept this as "reality", it will be. Who says so? Where is the natural law that forces us to fight in some godforsaken desert, jungle or whatever when there is no enemy that can be defeated in open battle (or commando raids, or smart bombing some third world country) and when any reasonable objective has been the first casualty in the field. So maybe it sounds naive and "not-of-this-world" but if we do not start walking down this road, it will never happen. Free will and the ability to use it intelligently is maybe the only think that makes us special on this rock. "That's the way it always has been" is not an argument, it is the acceptance of defeat, it is the denial of the ability to change and lastly: free will itself. I would never deny that byproducts of military research are sometimes (many times) useful, beneficial, even groundbreaking. But just imagine for a moment that the same effort had been used on the byproduct and not on the actual product. BTW: I have a masters degree in history and not a bad one either, so I am well aware that our past record is a sad one. But nobody is past redemption:-).
I find it most astounding that once it comes to manned space missions governments start whining about the risk for life and limb of the volunteers and the enormous costs involved.
Whereas the same governments have no problems whatsoever to put close to half a million citizens at risk in various wars around the globe (remind me please, what is the purpose of the Iraq War again?) The campaign in Iraq alone would have paid for missions to moon and mars and back again including a hot spa and an acre of green grass for the various habitats. Add to that all the money that is poured in smart weaponry and the next best way to blast a target from (or in) orbit and a sizable population could live on Mars before the century is over. Somehow the world is upside down and we have totally lost our bearings. Let the terrorists rot in the holes they dug for themselves and lets do something useful for a change. Heal the planet, feed the people, solve the energy problem and lets colonize our own back yard. That should keep us happily occupied for the next 200 years. OUR future is out there not that of bunch of tin cans with shiny wheels and solar panels.
I so much would have liked a GPS Receiver with that. So sad. I do not need another phone but a PDA (and the iPod Touch is that as well) with GPS would have really have made my day today. Well, there's always "one more thing"....
The Indiana University Center for Bioethics has an interesting bibliography about inmates and organ donation in the United States (not harvesting) http://www.bioethics.iu.edu/body.cfm?id=79. Obviously inmates are - in some states at least - not even allowed to donate their organs and in some cases not even to close family. The ethical questions concering the death penalty aside: Harvesting without consent is IMHO not an ethical thing to do under any circumstances. Whatever guilt there was has been paid with the death penalty, after that, the will of the deceased should be respected. In doubt, consider silence as a "no". That inmates are prohibited to donate organs (donate as in: Not for profit and of their own free will) is equally nonsensical.
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Even lots of metric tons. But still you would be filtering water all your life to get some reasonable amount. Isn't that what we are looking at here?
Looks like the holes the silver surfer drilled in the last Fantastic Four Movie....
D'oh!
Like Edison did in 1903 to prove that alternating current was a bad idea (http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/01/dayintech_0104) So we more enlightened folks can stick to posters and foul language...
What is really creepy about these movies and pictures is, that somehow you always expect stars in the background (like on a ship at night). Instead you get two rocks hanging in a black void. Just one vast emptiness. Scary.
This seems to be the next "big new shiny thing" in crime prevention. In Germany a trade union of law enforcement officers and a foundation called "German forum for crime prevention" pushes for a system called "web-patrol" since the beginning of 2009. You can find a blog (http://webpatrol.wordpress.com/) and a presentation here (http://webpatrol.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/2009-06-09-vortrag-web-patrol-auf-14-dt-praventionstag-hannover.pdf). Nice (fake) screenshots with the panic button integrated in a browser menu bar. Sorry, but german only. Does anybody know about similar initiatives in other parts of the world?
That's an interesting point. You do not need the blue ray drive either and a lot of other components as well (harddisk, antennas etc. see here: http://www.gamepro.com/article/features/211942/how-to-take-apart-the-ps3-slim-in-6-steps-page-2/) It would be a lot of work but for a system this massive it could even make sense to build a custom frame for the mainboards only (power consumption? Cooling? Space?) and use some kind of flash drive for the OS. Buying just the mainboards could make sense, I guess.
You are right, sorry. Another reminder for me to always check the quotes I use. Mod parent up, please.
A few precedents come to mind: - Google scans and publishes online millions of books without consulting publishers or authors or estates of those. it is just done. Moral pretense: Preserve knowledge, make unpublished books readliy available. The deal offered after the international outcry is a kick in the teeth for most publishers. I might be wrong here, but no teamplay with any of the manifold digital library projects (not even LoC). Sponsorship of a few libraries in exchange for access to their repositories. There has been a lot of discussion here on Slashdot as well about the quality of the "library". That is not my opinion alone, cf. for example the writings of Jean-Noel Jeanneney. - Google Streetview - remember all those people who tried to get their faces and properties erased? - Google ignores most data protection regulations that I know of (and all data protection agencies and lawyers in my neck of the woods agree) and uses every bit of data they can lay their hands on to profile and market user beahvior for advertising dollars. (and it amazes me how everybody happily tags along, but then again I do not have even a single customer loyalty card) A "Google Dashboard" has been introduced only a couple of days ago to create some transparency. From my own experience "Googleplex" looks all furry and friendly, until you start to talk (or try to negotiate) with the natives, I had an instant flashback to my happy university days and an exceptionally fruitless discussion with a group of fellow students who were members of a maoist group. That may be just my european view of the world, and I am aware that most business is a cutthroat affair. My problem is, that when you have a look at Ellison/Ballmer/Chambers/etc. they never pretend that it would be unwise to play on their turf, if you have not engaged full battle mode before doing so. If they are interested in what you do, you either will be bought or crushed if possible. Google's figureheads on the other hand cultivate that slightly nerdy (all those kindergarden-like happy places I remember) and positive image that successfully camouflages the titanium alloy endoskeleton underneath all that fluffiness. Again that might not be enough proof, but then I would have to write an article (hmmm, come to think about it...). Again: Naming the language Go is another expression of Google's general attitude. My (humble) opinion.
No. I just said that the statement "do no evil" loses its meaning, if you presume, that everything you do is good per se, for all mankind, and thereby you presume again that you cannot do evil and simply do not have to care or check anymore if you are violating somebody's rights, privacy or whatever. You are always right, what's good for you must be good for everybody else. So naming a language "Go" when even a superficial search with your own engine shows you that somebody had this idea before may not be evil (that is a very strong word) but simply an expression of this attitude. Google, IMHO, has developed quite a few borderline sociopathic tendencies which are in sharp contrast with the innocent, play- and colorful "do no evil" image they promote.
Google does whatever it damn pleases. The "do no evil" slogan has lost its meaning because Google is convinced that it simply cannot do evil and everything it does is for the good of mankind and everybody else is a heretic anyway.
Obvious: Find and hide a number of crashed alien spacecraft. Remember Roswell! It's always just a "weather balloon"....
How in the known universe did they find out that somebody is singing in a shop in Scotland? Big Brother is watching you...
According to an Article on CNet (http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-10370164-245.html?tag=nl.e703, includes video) his wife banned him, giving the expression "better half" a whole new meaning....
So it's official. Everyone's a pirate, always on to lookout to pay less for more... So, in conclusion the real copyright problem (and licensing is a part of copyright) is the customer! Solution: Get rid of customers! Save Copyright! License as complicatedly as you like, never again worry about fine print or versions galore, be all you can be...
There is also a Website about the procedure called "Gesetzlicher Jugnedmedienschutz" (Which very oughly translates in to "legal protection of minors from Media". The "Bundespruefstelle" (again very roughly translated: Federal Monitoring Authority) publishes the various lists with media which are deemed as containing youth endangering and/or criminal content. http://www.bundespruefstelle.de/bmfsfj/generator/bpjm/jugendmedienschutz.html (german only)
Yep, both previous versions went on the "Index" -which basically allows personal posession, but not distribution in Germany. A court ordered all copies of Wolfenstein 3D in Germany to be confiscated in 1994 (german wikipedia: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfenstein_3D). Confiscation hit the PC and the later ATARI Jaguar Version as well. (Which, of course, made it one of the hottest game of the season) The Prequel "Spear of Destiny" got a "R" equivalent rating, but was not forbidden. Castle Wolfenstein (1981) was one of the first computer games on the "Index" and distribution was also forbidden in Germany. (German Wikipedia: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Wolfenstein. Again: personal posession, was not, hottest game of the season and a star of the early disk swapping networks around the Apple II. Aah, those good old Crackin' Days )
Or an IBM Bladecenter , where you have a choice between Intel, P6 and Cell (PS3's processor) Processor Blades (http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/bladecenter/hardware/servers/index.html) Not a lot cheaper than the SGI solution but more value for money in my opinion.
not Photoshop. As long as fashion models have to be under normal weight to be accepted for the top fashion shows and magazines, young girls will follow this role model and that is the real problem, not photoshopping bad skin. If you type "anorexic models" into any search engine you find a lot of gruesome stories about girls who literally starved themselves to death on the job. Alternatively: force yourself to watch "Fashion TV" for an hour. That's not a new problem ("Twiggy" turned 60 last week, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twiggy) and not one likely to be changed by any law.
As long as you accept this as "reality", it will be. Who says so? Where is the natural law that forces us to fight in some godforsaken desert, jungle or whatever when there is no enemy that can be defeated in open battle (or commando raids, or smart bombing some third world country) and when any reasonable objective has been the first casualty in the field. So maybe it sounds naive and "not-of-this-world" but if we do not start walking down this road, it will never happen. Free will and the ability to use it intelligently is maybe the only think that makes us special on this rock. "That's the way it always has been" is not an argument, it is the acceptance of defeat, it is the denial of the ability to change and lastly: free will itself. I would never deny that byproducts of military research are sometimes (many times) useful, beneficial, even groundbreaking. But just imagine for a moment that the same effort had been used on the byproduct and not on the actual product. BTW: I have a masters degree in history and not a bad one either, so I am well aware that our past record is a sad one. But nobody is past redemption :-).
I find it most astounding that once it comes to manned space missions governments start whining about the risk for life and limb of the volunteers and the enormous costs involved. Whereas the same governments have no problems whatsoever to put close to half a million citizens at risk in various wars around the globe (remind me please, what is the purpose of the Iraq War again?) The campaign in Iraq alone would have paid for missions to moon and mars and back again including a hot spa and an acre of green grass for the various habitats. Add to that all the money that is poured in smart weaponry and the next best way to blast a target from (or in) orbit and a sizable population could live on Mars before the century is over. Somehow the world is upside down and we have totally lost our bearings. Let the terrorists rot in the holes they dug for themselves and lets do something useful for a change. Heal the planet, feed the people, solve the energy problem and lets colonize our own back yard. That should keep us happily occupied for the next 200 years. OUR future is out there not that of bunch of tin cans with shiny wheels and solar panels.
I so much would have liked a GPS Receiver with that. So sad. I do not need another phone but a PDA (and the iPod Touch is that as well) with GPS would have really have made my day today. Well, there's always "one more thing"....
Not quite true for lethal injection according to (e.g.): http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/28/international/asia/28LETH.html. Footnote: This aspect of lethal injection was even the basis for a plot of the televison series "Monk":"Mr. Monk goes to jail" http://www.usanetwork.com/series/monk/theshow/episodeguide/episodes/s2_goestojail/index.html. (I do not assume that the last quote is scientifc proof, just an intersting footnote).
The Indiana University Center for Bioethics has an interesting bibliography about inmates and organ donation in the United States (not harvesting) http://www.bioethics.iu.edu/body.cfm?id=79. Obviously inmates are - in some states at least - not even allowed to donate their organs and in some cases not even to close family. The ethical questions concering the death penalty aside: Harvesting without consent is IMHO not an ethical thing to do under any circumstances. Whatever guilt there was has been paid with the death penalty, after that, the will of the deceased should be respected. In doubt, consider silence as a "no". That inmates are prohibited to donate organs (donate as in: Not for profit and of their own free will) is equally nonsensical.
Sad, considering all the money they throw at advertising. But they would have gotten away with it, if it wasn't for you meddling kids!