Their stance on copyright and open government is universes better than what Harper shoves down our throats every few years. So as long as they're the same or better than him on the other issues (I fail to see how they could be worse at this point) they're an improvement.
I am so very late to the game on this one, but I gotta rant:
I will stipulate in advance that you do not want to live in such a place because you're an urban pirate. You want the freedom to do "stuff" that no one ever finds out about. (...) That sucks, you say, because you usually speed, and you like it.
I love arguments like these, where there's insults pitched at the dissenters all the way through. I'm going to describe a perfect environment where I'm worshiped as a god and sodomizing babies is illegal. I know you might not like it because you don't think I'm a god or perhaps you like sodomizing babies, but it's just a thought experiment.
Having read various bits of utopian and dystopian texts, I've decided the difference between the two is whether or not you're the one describing the utopia.
If you're making quality arguments in-line with wikipedia policies and guidelines, they're rarely ignored.
Which is why newbies were shot down for not reading the reliability guidelines (specifically, the parts about not citing personal sites) when they were citing things like Kotaku.
A meat puppet is not a random outside person. It's a person who Only comes to the discussion because they were prompted or instructed to mainly because the person asking then knew they would (not) vote a certain way.
Which neatly summarizes how broken Wikipedia is since that the description is synonymous with "outsider". No one's going to just trip on some random debate on some sub-sub-sub page of Wikipedia, so ANY new voice - which could even include experts - is going to have been brought in by someone else. The insult ignores what you know and the quality of your discourse to focus on the fact that you are not one of the Chosen.
It's also a nicely unprovable accusation: If you agree with party X, you're party X's meatpuppet. If you agree with party Y, you're party Y's meatpuppet.
I've love to ask Watson a few Jeopardy! style questions. The difference is I'd ask painfully esoteric trivia about anime and science fiction. Because if he's got a good slice of the Internet (or at least Wikipedia) in his database, then his knowledge of geek culture should be vast. I'd like to see if my hypothesis - that Watson knows more about more geek culture subsets than any single human - is correct.
Also, I'd love to see its speech synth tackle Japanese names. That could just be funny.
Sadly not the first time I've heard this. A co-worker had to leave work early and go to school because his son had accused someone of being a pedophile: A fellow 10 year old classmate. She'd apparently been teasing him so he decided to get back at her by getting her in trouble, and he'd heard that got people in a LOT of trouble.
I wish there would be a 'new' Wikipedia (Librepedia?) which would not include any of the politics/deletionist potentates that run Wikipedia.
Sadly, it would collect its own cliques if it caught on to any degree. The system is broken but the humans using it are broken as well, and it's hard to build in workarounds for all the failure states of humanity since humanity keeps inventing new ones.
Except that, in most deletion debates, 'meatpuppet' means 'domain expert who created a Wikipedia account to give a professional opinion after an article in their field was marked for deletion'.
One that is competent at computer security would be nice.
If the people selling themselves to the government as security experts (as HBGary does, er, did) are incompetent, how can we expect government organizations to be competent?
The greater public probably think SQL injections and rainbow tables are some bizarre gay fetish activity.
Wow. I can just see Oprah terrorizing her watchers with talk of how their teenage kids are getting together to inject SQL and put together rainbow tables.
Unfortunately, once it was classed as "software", and therefore something which it was presumed you could copy, they stopped treating it like a physical good -- I can't make a copy of a TV and then return the original.
And yet people selling a nonphysical product keep beating us over the head with the metaphor of "You wouldn't shoplift the disk, pirating is the exact same thing."
Obsession with status would be closer to envy than pride. And the whole charity thing... well, it says to give to the poor and be willing to sacrifice what one has for the common good but most people don't interpret that as meaning "to be poor". Kinda hard to keep a large faith going if you don't let the faithful have nice toys.
As many others have pointed out, there is a real negative effect on the Canadian digital economy, harming innovation and keeping new business models out of the country. Simply put, Canada is not competitive when compared to most other countries and the strict bandwidth caps make us less attractive for new businesses and stifle innovative services.
Addressing the bandwidth cap concern involves far more than reversing the CRTC's poorly reasoned UBB decision, however. Independent ISPs have functioned without UBB for years, yet have struggled to make a serious dent in the overall Canadian Internet services marketplace. Moreover, the CRTC has indicated its strong preference for "economic measures" to address bandwidth congestion.
This guy gets it. We need to keep pushing against this sort of thing because the market is fundamentally anticompetitive. This is just the tip of the iceberg.
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http://www.pirateparty.ca/
I love arguments like these, where there's insults pitched at the dissenters all the way through. I'm going to describe a perfect environment where I'm worshiped as a god and sodomizing babies is illegal. I know you might not like it because you don't think I'm a god or perhaps you like sodomizing babies, but it's just a thought experiment.
Having read various bits of utopian and dystopian texts, I've decided the difference between the two is whether or not you're the one describing the utopia.
As someone who reads http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=257985 I think I can safely say that the emotional state of the caller has NOTHING to do with the urgency of the situation.
Emergency kit: Food, water, radio, flashlight, batteries, first aid kit, etc.
Apocalypse kit: A Real Doll and enough booze and drugs to forget the "Doll" part.
Ah, tin snips: Favorite tool of "computer technicians" who try to return damaged parts to the store I work at.
Which is why newbies were shot down for not reading the reliability guidelines (specifically, the parts about not citing personal sites) when they were citing things like Kotaku.
Which neatly summarizes how broken Wikipedia is since that the description is synonymous with "outsider". No one's going to just trip on some random debate on some sub-sub-sub page of Wikipedia, so ANY new voice - which could even include experts - is going to have been brought in by someone else. The insult ignores what you know and the quality of your discourse to focus on the fact that you are not one of the Chosen.
It's also a nicely unprovable accusation: If you agree with party X, you're party X's meatpuppet. If you agree with party Y, you're party Y's meatpuppet.
"In Soviet Russia, horse rides CowboyNeal"?
Also, I'd love to see its speech synth tackle Japanese names. That could just be funny.
Sadly not the first time I've heard this. A co-worker had to leave work early and go to school because his son had accused someone of being a pedophile: A fellow 10 year old classmate. She'd apparently been teasing him so he decided to get back at her by getting her in trouble, and he'd heard that got people in a LOT of trouble.
Sadly, it would collect its own cliques if it caught on to any degree. The system is broken but the humans using it are broken as well, and it's hard to build in workarounds for all the failure states of humanity since humanity keeps inventing new ones.
Actually, that's the backup solution for the national debt.
Didn't you hear? Experts are scum.
Oh, wait, I need a citation, right? One of the most accurate articles about Wikipedia.
Hell, these days sex offenses aren't sex offenses half the time, they're stupid teenagers that some prosecutor wants to make an example of.
If the people selling themselves to the government as security experts (as HBGary does, er, did) are incompetent, how can we expect government organizations to be competent?
Perhaps, but the gaming media's been calling the smurfberry debacle a problem with micro-transactions for some time now, so it's not only Soulskill.
You didn't know? Due to the economy, the Illuminati has been engaging in makework projects to keep its many proxies and agents working.
Final Jeopardy! So it was the ONLY question in its category.
Information superhysteria?
The greater public probably think SQL injections and rainbow tables are some bizarre gay fetish activity.
Wow. I can just see Oprah terrorizing her watchers with talk of how their teenage kids are getting together to inject SQL and put together rainbow tables.
We spend months bickering about reliability of Wikipedia articles and then someone comes along and cites the Urban Dictionary.
Why do we even try?
Unfortunately, once it was classed as "software", and therefore something which it was presumed you could copy, they stopped treating it like a physical good -- I can't make a copy of a TV and then return the original.
And yet people selling a nonphysical product keep beating us over the head with the metaphor of "You wouldn't shoplift the disk, pirating is the exact same thing."
Obsession with status would be closer to envy than pride. And the whole charity thing... well, it says to give to the poor and be willing to sacrifice what one has for the common good but most people don't interpret that as meaning "to be poor". Kinda hard to keep a large faith going if you don't let the faithful have nice toys.
Are you sure? I thought they were trying to make us all Crystal Children so we'd all be enlightened spiritual warriors.
As many others have pointed out, there is a real negative effect on the Canadian digital economy, harming innovation and keeping new business models out of the country. Simply put, Canada is not competitive when compared to most other countries and the strict bandwidth caps make us less attractive for new businesses and stifle innovative services.
Addressing the bandwidth cap concern involves far more than reversing the CRTC's poorly reasoned UBB decision, however. Independent ISPs have functioned without UBB for years, yet have struggled to make a serious dent in the overall Canadian Internet services marketplace. Moreover, the CRTC has indicated its strong preference for "economic measures" to address bandwidth congestion.
http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/5615/125/
This guy gets it. We need to keep pushing against this sort of thing because the market is fundamentally anticompetitive. This is just the tip of the iceberg.