a similar concept was proposed in Robert Heinlein's book Starship Troopers (which was nothing like the godawful movie). Rather
than competance though, it was military service which granted you full citizenship and the right to vote
Adolf Hitler thought of it first. He had the same proposal in Mein Kampf. He thought that anyone who hadn't yet served in the military, was not yet a citizen, but only a subject:
The principle is that birth within the confines of the State gives only the status of a subject. It does not carry with it the right to fill any position under the State
or to participate in political life, such as taking an active or passive part in elections.
...
The
rights of citizenship shall be conferred on every young man whose health and character have been certified as good, after having completed his period of military
service.
Hitler, Adolf. "Mein Kampf"
Vol 2, Ch 3.
When is the mainstream media going to stop qualifying MP3s?
Any time you read an article, or hear a news report about Napster/Gnutella/Metallica/Dre/whatever they always mention mp3, followed by "A type of computer file that makes downloading music on the internet easier." Don't people know that by now? When will it end?
Can you imagine if everytime they mentioned Internet they still had to follow with "..a set of standards used to connect computers throughout the world together forming a giant network community."
If my friend and I are in a class, and she takes much better notes than I, would it then be illegal for me to pay her (her to accept money) to take notes for me?
It would seem to me that a student enrolled in a course has a right to the information contained in the lecture.
If a student misses a lecture, he/she must be able to get access to the lectures content by *some* means - a friends notes, a note-taking service, an audio-recording, or professor supplied notes.
Friends are unreliable. Audio-recordings usually require friends. It would seem to me then, that if commercial ventures are outlawed, then the professor or institution should have to provide the content (post lecture).
Most of my professors (actually, I can't even think of any exceptions) provided notes (god pless.ps), but there are many disciplines (Bio, English) that don't. This bill could effectively take away a students right to that lecture material.
Perhaps the bill should be re-worded in such a way that the onus is on the student or note-service not to buy/sell material for a presentation he was not originally allowed to attend?
When the embryos reach the eight-cell stage, one cell is removed [...]
Does this scare anyone?
As those cells divide, the baby will have a serious deficity as an entire source or exponential division is missing!! I mean, that baby is going to divide strangely, and probably develop a cleft pallet or something!
After just a little while that one missing cell could account for 2^64 missing cells!! That could probably account for missing a whole arm, or even worse an internal organ!!
[...]
[R]emember, this is not something that is TANGIBLE, this is just a hologram, and a real hologram, like something you would dimply walk through.... there is no real mass
This isn't an open-source idea for research at all.
Why? They _already_ know the answer. They're just not telling us so it'll be a "Fun Challenge." It's actually quite insulting to neural biologists to imply that their methodology won't yield results, which seems to be their point.
I suppose that it _may_ yield some interesting results if someone discovered "Oh my! We've been looking at this all wrong!" and invented a new scientific method, but I'm not counting on it.
Many great discoveries come from inspiration rather than brute force experimentation, and this "challenge" would only be reinforcing that.
The paper is correct about it being novel though. Sort of the chicken and egg paradox - bet you can't figure out how this thing works without knowing how it works.
Would I pay $4.95 a month so other users can eat my bandwidth and download songs that I've collected? Not a chance.
When Napster was being developed, the whole issue was whether people would be too selfish to share. (think of the warez scene and how l33t you have to be to download anything or get a leech account). Ian didn't think so, and he was right. It was easy to share, didn't seem to cost anything, and the benefits made it more than worthwhile (free access to other songs) (not to mention the program was designed to share your songs by default, and closing the program only "minimized it").
If it becomes a subscription system, then Napster and anyone benefiting from the profits is simply leeching off of the distribution infrastructure created by the people "volunteering" their resources on Napster.
THe question should be: "Would you pay $4.95 a month for unlimited download access on RIAA.com which has a searchable database of all the songs of all the artists they represent?"
The idea of a watermark is that even if the file changes slightly, or randomly, the watermark will be left intact enough that it will be recognizable (with a high probability).
(Ie. To mangle the file enough to remove the watermark traces, you would have to destroy the file.)
They add significantly to the cost of the console, and yet almost nothing ever comes out to utilize them.
Genesis, 3DO, PSX, N64, JAGUAR etc. all had expansion ports. Nothing of use ever came out of it with the exception of the gameshark.
CD-ROMS, Bulky-Drives, Modems, VCD Players, increased performance hardware(a la 32X)... nobody uses them, because nobody develops for them. The game support for add-on peripherals is always ridiculously low... WHy make a 32X game when I can make a Genesis game? The install base of peripherals is necessarily a subset of the original hardware, so the market is guaranteed to be smaller!!
The only exception I can think of is the addition of a highspeed connection. But nintendo has a *seperate* slot for that!! What useful periph. could ever come out? The memory expansion pack for the N64 might be considered a successful peripheral, but it *came* with the games that required it!! Not really a peripheral at all? It may as well have come attached to the cartridge!
Tell ya what.. remove the expansion slots, and drop the price $30... that's make me MUCH happier.
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Adolf Hitler thought of it first. He had the same proposal in Mein Kampf. He thought that anyone who hadn't yet served in the military, was not yet a citizen, but only a subject:
The principle is that birth within the confines of the State gives only the status of a subject. It does not carry with it the right to fill any position under the State or to participate in political life, such as taking an active or passive part in elections.
...
The rights of citizenship shall be conferred on every young man whose health and character have been certified as good, after having completed his period of military service. Hitler, Adolf. "Mein Kampf" Vol 2, Ch 3.
When is the mainstream media going to stop qualifying MP3s?
Any time you read an article, or hear a news report about Napster/Gnutella/Metallica/Dre/whatever they always mention mp3, followed by "A type of computer file that makes downloading music on the internet easier." Don't people know that by now? When will it end?
Can you imagine if everytime they mentioned Internet they still had to follow with "..a set of standards used to connect computers throughout the world together forming a giant network community."
If my friend and I are in a class, and she takes much better notes than I, would it then be illegal for me to pay her (her to accept money) to take notes for me?
Would she be a note-prostitute?
The problem I see with this bill is as follows:
.ps), but there are many disciplines (Bio, English) that don't. This bill could effectively take away a students right to that lecture material.
It would seem to me that a student enrolled in a course has a right to the information contained in the lecture.
If a student misses a lecture, he/she must be able to get access to the lectures content by *some* means - a friends notes, a note-taking service, an audio-recording, or professor supplied notes.
Friends are unreliable. Audio-recordings usually require friends. It would seem to me then, that if commercial ventures are outlawed, then the professor or institution should have to provide the content (post lecture).
Most of my professors (actually, I can't even think of any exceptions) provided notes (god pless
Perhaps the bill should be re-worded in such a way that the onus is on the student or note-service not to buy/sell material for a presentation he was not originally allowed to attend?
I guess the joke was a bit too subtle.
Does this scare anyone?
As those cells divide, the baby will have a serious deficity as an entire source or exponential division is missing!! I mean, that baby is going to divide strangely, and probably develop a cleft pallet or something!
After just a little while that one missing cell could account for 2^64 missing cells!! That could probably account for missing a whole arm, or even worse an internal organ!!
What kind of satanic science is this!!
[R]emember, this is not something that is TANGIBLE, this is just a hologram, and a real hologram, like something you would dimply walk through.... there is no real mass
You could make a real mess though.
This isn't an open-source idea for research at all.
Why? They _already_ know the answer. They're just not telling us so it'll be a "Fun Challenge." It's actually quite insulting to neural biologists to imply that their methodology won't yield results, which seems to be their point.
I suppose that it _may_ yield some interesting results if someone discovered "Oh my! We've been looking at this all wrong!" and invented a new scientific method, but I'm not counting on it.
Many great discoveries come from inspiration rather than brute force experimentation, and this "challenge" would only be reinforcing that.
The paper is correct about it being novel though. Sort of the chicken and egg paradox - bet you can't figure out how this thing works without knowing how it works.
....Or Canada
Buying one is not a problem.. I could order 10 if I wanted, but none of them would be very useful without their "TV Guide service."
<OSS_zealotry> .1? Fix 'em yourself.
Why wait for the
</OSS_zealotry>
How dare someone even suggest this!
Would I pay $4.95 a month so other users can eat my bandwidth and download songs that I've collected? Not a chance.
When Napster was being developed, the whole issue was whether people would be too selfish to share. (think of the warez scene and how l33t you have to be to download anything or get a leech account). Ian didn't think so, and he was right. It was easy to share, didn't seem to cost anything, and the benefits made it more than worthwhile (free access to other songs) (not to mention the program was designed to share your songs by default, and closing the program only "minimized it").
If it becomes a subscription system, then Napster and anyone benefiting from the profits is simply leeching off of the distribution infrastructure created by the people "volunteering" their resources on Napster.
THe question should be: "Would you pay $4.95 a month for unlimited download access on RIAA.com which has a searchable database of all the songs of all the artists they represent?"
To that, my answer would be: "Absolutely."
A Better link.
Commuting would be so much nicer in one of these. It's not a matter of want. It's need.
Only 9 people bought dreamcast before they realized they could burn ISOs.
Will SDMI be an open standard? Will compression/decompression/signing algorithms be public?
No? - then don't think of this as supporting the RIAA. Don't think of this as undermining MP3s, or Ogg.
This is another chance to prove that obscurity does not lead to security.
The idea of a watermark is that even if the file changes slightly, or randomly, the watermark will be left intact enough that it will be recognizable (with a high probability).
(Ie. To mangle the file enough to remove the watermark traces, you would have to destroy the file.)
If I had any points, I'd mod this up... very clever.
Don't feel too bad Rob, just look at all the people on /. who can't be bothered to RTFA before they post.
(Read the Funny Articles).
There is:
Subscription.
(though I think you'd like that even less.)
Why do all of timothy's story intros use the word "tantalizing?"
You go Adolf!
I wonder if they'll have to repair the Tiger DNA with that from frogs, then we can have spontaneous sex-changes and let them reproduce!
WHy did Nintendo include expansion ports?
They add significantly to the cost of the console, and yet almost nothing ever comes out to utilize them.
Genesis, 3DO, PSX, N64, JAGUAR etc. all had expansion ports. Nothing of use ever came out of it with the exception of the gameshark.
CD-ROMS, Bulky-Drives, Modems, VCD Players, increased performance hardware(a la 32X)... nobody uses them, because nobody develops for them. The game support for add-on peripherals is always ridiculously low... WHy make a 32X game when I can make a Genesis game? The install base of peripherals is necessarily a subset of the original hardware, so the market is guaranteed to be smaller!!
The only exception I can think of is the addition of a highspeed connection. But nintendo has a *seperate* slot for that!! What useful periph. could ever come out? The memory expansion pack for the N64 might be considered a successful peripheral, but it *came* with the games that required it!! Not really a peripheral at all? It may as well have come attached to the cartridge!
Tell ya what.. remove the expansion slots, and drop the price $30... that's make me MUCH happier.
There was a famous quote by MK about conscription that could be applied to such a product (though morphed a bit):
"Not necessarily stable, but stable if necessary."
You must be one of the poor unforunate souls from Katz's "Columbine Club."