The people who post bad pictures of themselves really don't need someone to clean up their internet reputation, all they have to do is remove the material. The problem comes in when:
1) Someone else posts the material of you on their website where people can find it (your buddy posts a video on youtube, entitled [your_name] drunk with transvestites )
2) Someone else with your name posts material about themselves, but people confuse him with you.
There can be legitimate problems with this sort of thing.
That's pretty good right there. I think your onto something the teenagers have no credit card probably has something to do with it. Nintendo got around this by selling Wii points cards in local stores, perhaps the music industry could do the same thing. There probably too busy suing people to think of stuff like that though.
I have to say I kinda agree with the decision to give the telecoms immunity. They are kinda between a rock and a hard place. The legislative and executive branch of the government disagree and the telecoms are stuck in the middle. They were told what to do by a very intimidating branch of the government. The telecoms can't be blamed for caving. Blame the NSA or the President, that's the responsible party.
I tend to agree with you I think this sort of senerio is far more likely than the one posed in the summery. However also worth considering is the idea that the spammer had a pre-existing arrangement which the spammer was shortchanging them on. Digital crime is a large (money wise) area of crime, it's doubtfull that the russian mob is just getting into it.
I don't find this shocking that someone was able to reverse the blure algorthum of a popular software. It is doubtfull that blur (or any other photoshop filter) was designed to be a one way function. If you know what was used, do it backwards and get the origional. Also this shouldn't raise much privacy concern, Use a black rectangle instead of the blur and your all set. That would be much more difficult (impossible?) to undo.
This is actually a situation that seems to be getting better. Closed source developers seem to be taking linux more seriously, EVE online is going to release a linux client (which will probbly be the death of my marrage) and Quake Enimy territory has a linux client comming out as well, (Wolfenstine ET is quite possibly my favorite FPS). Most major titles will work on linux as well, it just takes some fiddling arround, and if you don't like fiddling arround then linux probbly isn't for you anyways.
Oppen source games have been getting better recently as well. The probblem with oppen source games is they tend to be things that thir developers are into, which isn't nececarly what other people want to play.
Even if you think that, if it's not a bomb, why can't she be released? Why does somebody have to be held for carrying something that we thought was a bomb but turned out not to be? The situation is normal so everybody can go home, or am I missing something?
1) Because the number of death row inmates is not nearly sufficent.
2) Because death row inmates are large, violent, difficult to controll and eat a lot, while mice are small, dorcile, easy to controll and don't eat much at all.
While there was a time when the right wing did advocate for smaller government and conservitave spending, that is no longer the case and has not been since the mid 80's. Currently most right win polititions advocate for about the same level of government involvement as the liberasl do, all be it in a different way. This is the reason for all the right wing "third parties" who have formed. Many conservitaves want to see actuall spending reductions and smaller government which the mainstream right wing has moved away from.
Many of the things that we consider of great cultural value form the anchient world are feats of engineering. The parthanon, The colosium etc... I wouldn't write off the engineers cultural contributions to humanity.
The first time is an accident and you should not go to jail.
I disagree, if the atm gives you an extra 100$ when you make a withdrawl, then you have a leagle, and moral, obligation to report it and return the extra money within a resonable amount of time. Just because the bank is a big company, doesn't make it accaptable to keep money that you know isn't yours.
Most companies report the number of shipped units rather than the number of units sold there are a few reasons for this:
1) Shipped is a bigger number, there is always a few more shipped than have actually been sold.
2) Shipped is way easer to estimate, as you know how many you have sent out the door, it's very difficult to get sales estimates from the countless different realtailers.
3) Shipped is good enough.
Imagine a world without patents though...
There would be limited insentive for anyone to invent anything new. The people who spent the time, and invested the money in inventing new products and developing new ideas would have to live with anybody comming along and releasing a knock-off of their product. Honest inventors who developed new things would be very limited in their ability to capatilize on them. Patents allow for people responsible for something to get a head start to market before the patent expires (you might argue that currently they get too much time, and I might be persuaded to agree with you there).
You talk about the drug companies, and how evil they are. But regardless of anything else they invent things that extend and improve our lives, don't they deserve to make money from it? Perhaps a tiered pricing model, which would allow people who can't afford it to buy their meds at a lower price would be a good thing, but at the end of a day, they deserve to make back their investment in the research to create a new drug, and patents allow that to happen. Without patents there would be much less incentive for research companies to invest all that money in new drugs, which means no future drugs that could improve our lives.
There is more to the patent system than abuse, and just because some people abuse it doesn't mean that we should dismanle the entire system.
The secretary at a small doctors office I use to go to had a simple, disorginized and ingenously effective method of ordering her files on pacients. She kept all the pacient's files in a singe file. Whenever a paicent came in, she would search through the file for that pacient's chart, find it and give it to the doctor. When she recieved it back from the doctor she put it in the front. If you think of the worst case search time (the "Big O"), it was terrible(O(n) ), she might have to search through every single file to get to the one she wanted. But the avrage search time was very fast. Why? Because chances were very good that the file she was looking for was at the front of the file. Most of the time the same pacients came in over and over again, and their files stayed at the fron, making them easy to find. I only came in once a year, and my file was at the back, it took her a long time to find mine, but had to do it very infrequently, and she didn't have to search past mine to get to the files of her frequent visitors. This is a simple method of storing data, that requires a minimum of effort to maintain but is effective if certin critera are met: 1) Some things are used more frequently than others, and 2) the total number of things is not too large.
Now consider the stack of papers on a slobs desk. Whenever he needs something in it, he searches through his pile. When he finds and finishes with it, what does he do? He's lazy so he just throws it on the top of the pile.
Just something to think about...
I agree that a DRM free product would be preferable, however the music industry has shown considerable resistance to the idea. I think that one standard form of DRM that can be played on many different players is vastly superior to many incompatible formats mantained by different manufactures.
I have to disagree with you here. What the music industry needs (really what any media industry needs) is a consistant platform on which to deleiver their content. When you buy a cd, it works in every cd player, no matter what company made the cd or the cd player. The problem with apple's drm (from the music industry's point of view) is that it only works with apple's software/hardware.
Apple is preventing widescale addoption of a standard DRM, they are the predominant player in the industry, and without their support no standard would be viable, yet they refuse to let others use their standard. This forces the online distrobution industry into a state of limbo.
From the industry's prespective what apple is doing is very bad, but it's also bad for the customers. Apple's use of their own DRM makes interopeability of apple and non-apple players dificult, and may require you to re-purches things.
If a standard drm could be implemented that allowed the files to be played on all standards complient devices it could really allow online music distrobution to take off.
To me the mistake they made was taking their evidence directly to the poliece department that was causing the problem. The poliece department's actions were largly to be expected. Very few people are willing to bust their friends and co-workers. Instead the couple should have taken the issue to an independent body with power to resolve the situation. An elected official, traffic violation reporting service which many states operate, or even the local media to generate some bad press. It may not have gotten them any further, but to me it seems like their odds would have been better.
When I first saw this story, I thought the intention was that *everyone* register their screen names -- an unpardonable invasion of privacy, and clearly unenforcable, yet something I could imagine an Internet-ignorant politician might just propose.
I find frequently that slashdot posts will give that sort of impression if read quickly...
Slashdot Mirror
The people who post bad pictures of themselves really don't need someone to clean up their internet reputation, all they have to do is remove the material. The problem comes in when:
1) Someone else posts the material of you on their website where people can find it (your buddy posts a video on youtube, entitled [your_name] drunk with transvestites )
2) Someone else with your name posts material about themselves, but people confuse him with you.
There can be legitimate problems with this sort of thing.
Those who have sacked those who sacked those who sacked the engineers of this album have been sacked
1) Take picture of hard drive box with tiles in it 2) Upload picture and lies to internet 3) ???????? 4) Get free hard drive/profit
That's pretty good right there. I think your onto something the teenagers have no credit card probably has something to do with it. Nintendo got around this by selling Wii points cards in local stores, perhaps the music industry could do the same thing. There probably too busy suing people to think of stuff like that though.
I have to say I kinda agree with the decision to give the telecoms immunity. They are kinda between a rock and a hard place. The legislative and executive branch of the government disagree and the telecoms are stuck in the middle. They were told what to do by a very intimidating branch of the government. The telecoms can't be blamed for caving. Blame the NSA or the President, that's the responsible party.
I tend to agree with you I think this sort of senerio is far more likely than the one posed in the summery. However also worth considering is the idea that the spammer had a pre-existing arrangement which the spammer was shortchanging them on. Digital crime is a large (money wise) area of crime, it's doubtfull that the russian mob is just getting into it.
I don't find this shocking that someone was able to reverse the blure algorthum of a popular software. It is doubtfull that blur (or any other photoshop filter) was designed to be a one way function. If you know what was used, do it backwards and get the origional. Also this shouldn't raise much privacy concern, Use a black rectangle instead of the blur and your all set. That would be much more difficult (impossible?) to undo.
This is actually a situation that seems to be getting better. Closed source developers seem to be taking linux more seriously, EVE online is going to release a linux client (which will probbly be the death of my marrage) and Quake Enimy territory has a linux client comming out as well, (Wolfenstine ET is quite possibly my favorite FPS). Most major titles will work on linux as well, it just takes some fiddling arround, and if you don't like fiddling arround then linux probbly isn't for you anyways.
Oppen source games have been getting better recently as well. The probblem with oppen source games is they tend to be things that thir developers are into, which isn't nececarly what other people want to play.
Even if you think that, if it's not a bomb, why can't she be released? Why does somebody have to be held for carrying something that we thought was a bomb but turned out not to be? The situation is normal so everybody can go home, or am I missing something?
Crazy idea here, but how about the person who posts it, rather than people who link to that site.
1) Because the number of death row inmates is not nearly sufficent.
2) Because death row inmates are large, violent, difficult to controll and eat a lot, while mice are small, dorcile, easy to controll and don't eat much at all.
While there was a time when the right wing did advocate for smaller government and conservitave spending, that is no longer the case and has not been since the mid 80's. Currently most right win polititions advocate for about the same level of government involvement as the liberasl do, all be it in a different way. This is the reason for all the right wing "third parties" who have formed. Many conservitaves want to see actuall spending reductions and smaller government which the mainstream right wing has moved away from.
Many of the things that we consider of great cultural value form the anchient world are feats of engineering. The parthanon, The colosium etc... I wouldn't write off the engineers cultural contributions to humanity.
Most companies report the number of shipped units rather than the number of units sold there are a few reasons for this: 1) Shipped is a bigger number, there is always a few more shipped than have actually been sold. 2) Shipped is way easer to estimate, as you know how many you have sent out the door, it's very difficult to get sales estimates from the countless different realtailers. 3) Shipped is good enough.
Imagine a world without patents though...
There would be limited insentive for anyone to invent anything new. The people who spent the time, and invested the money in inventing new products and developing new ideas would have to live with anybody comming along and releasing a knock-off of their product. Honest inventors who developed new things would be very limited in their ability to capatilize on them. Patents allow for people responsible for something to get a head start to market before the patent expires (you might argue that currently they get too much time, and I might be persuaded to agree with you there).
You talk about the drug companies, and how evil they are. But regardless of anything else they invent things that extend and improve our lives, don't they deserve to make money from it? Perhaps a tiered pricing model, which would allow people who can't afford it to buy their meds at a lower price would be a good thing, but at the end of a day, they deserve to make back their investment in the research to create a new drug, and patents allow that to happen. Without patents there would be much less incentive for research companies to invest all that money in new drugs, which means no future drugs that could improve our lives.
There is more to the patent system than abuse, and just because some people abuse it doesn't mean that we should dismanle the entire system.
They are saying they made a console that costs way more than anyone wants to pay...
The secretary at a small doctors office I use to go to had a simple, disorginized and ingenously effective method of ordering her files on pacients. She kept all the pacient's files in a singe file. Whenever a paicent came in, she would search through the file for that pacient's chart, find it and give it to the doctor. When she recieved it back from the doctor she put it in the front. If you think of the worst case search time (the "Big O"), it was terrible(O(n) ), she might have to search through every single file to get to the one she wanted. But the avrage search time was very fast. Why? Because chances were very good that the file she was looking for was at the front of the file. Most of the time the same pacients came in over and over again, and their files stayed at the fron, making them easy to find. I only came in once a year, and my file was at the back, it took her a long time to find mine, but had to do it very infrequently, and she didn't have to search past mine to get to the files of her frequent visitors. This is a simple method of storing data, that requires a minimum of effort to maintain but is effective if certin critera are met: 1) Some things are used more frequently than others, and 2) the total number of things is not too large.
Now consider the stack of papers on a slobs desk. Whenever he needs something in it, he searches through his pile. When he finds and finishes with it, what does he do? He's lazy so he just throws it on the top of the pile.
Just something to think about...
I agree that a DRM free product would be preferable, however the music industry has shown considerable resistance to the idea. I think that one standard form of DRM that can be played on many different players is vastly superior to many incompatible formats mantained by different manufactures.
I have to disagree with you here. What the music industry needs (really what any media industry needs) is a consistant platform on which to deleiver their content. When you buy a cd, it works in every cd player, no matter what company made the cd or the cd player. The problem with apple's drm (from the music industry's point of view) is that it only works with apple's software/hardware.
Apple is preventing widescale addoption of a standard DRM, they are the predominant player in the industry, and without their support no standard would be viable, yet they refuse to let others use their standard. This forces the online distrobution industry into a state of limbo.
From the industry's prespective what apple is doing is very bad, but it's also bad for the customers. Apple's use of their own DRM makes interopeability of apple and non-apple players dificult, and may require you to re-purches things.
If a standard drm could be implemented that allowed the files to be played on all standards complient devices it could really allow online music distrobution to take off.
I don't see why you couldn't. If you are 18 you can serve alchahol, so you could probbly work at a brewery making beer. (I also ANAL).
To me the mistake they made was taking their evidence directly to the poliece department that was causing the problem. The poliece department's actions were largly to be expected. Very few people are willing to bust their friends and co-workers. Instead the couple should have taken the issue to an independent body with power to resolve the situation. An elected official, traffic violation reporting service which many states operate, or even the local media to generate some bad press. It may not have gotten them any further, but to me it seems like their odds would have been better.
I for one welcome our new MS bashing, Apple-adoring, overlord-welcoming overlords.
Sure but only if you already have boat loads of money.