The thought police, they live inside of my head. The thought police, they come to me in my bed. The thought police, they're coming to arrest me, oh no.
You know that talk is cheap, and those rumors ain't nice. And when I fall asleep I don't think I'll survive the night, the night.
'cause they're waiting for me. They're looking for me. Ev'ry single night they're driving me insane. Those men inside my brain.
The thought police, they live inside of my head. (live inside of my head.) The thought police, they come to me in my bed. (come to me in my bed.) The thought police, they're coming to arrest me, oh no.
Well, I can't tell lies, 'cause they're listening to me. And when I fall asleep, bet they're spying on me tonight, tonight.
'cause they're waiting for me. They're looking for me. Ev'ry single night they're driving me insane. Those men inside my brain.
I try to sleep, they're wide awake, they won't leave me alone. They don't get paid to take vacations, or let me alone. They spy on me, I try to hide, they won't let me alone. They persecute me, they're the judge and jury all in one.
'cause they're waiting for me. They're looking for me. Ev'ry single night they're driving me insane. Those men inside my brain.
The thought police, they live inside of my head. The thought police, they come to me in my bed. The thought police, they're coming to arrest me.
Congress is going to have a very difficult time getting any further copyright extensions past the Supreme Court.
Statements like that thoroughly discredit any authority on the subject that you might pretend to. You dis Lessig, but you are apparently unaware of the ruling of the court in Eldred. In essence, the court said that setting the term of copyright is ENTIRELY a legislative function. Unless the legislature formerly admits to making copyright indefinite, the court believes there is no problem. Literally, "forever minus one day" as Valenti once said while creaming his jeans, is fine by them.
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Are you a member of the "Church of the Subgenious"?
Bob is not fungible. But, he may have a fungus infection or two.
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Why do we measure things with money?
Because money is fungible.
Is money God?
Yes, see above. But, God is not fungible so God is not money.
Is money happiness?
Yes, see above. But, happiness is not fungible so happiness is not money.
Or is money just something the rich dangle to make the poor jump through hoops??
Yes, see above. But, poor jumping through hoops are not fungible, so poor jumping through hoops is not money.
My driver's license already has a magnetic strip and I have had it scanned on a few occasions without consequence.
How would you know? You start getting another couple of pieces of junk mail addressed to your legal name at your legal address. How can you tell that it did not come to you as a result of your card being swiped?
How do you know you are not in some liquor store chain's database or even worse, a copy of that database made by a disgruntled employee who sold it to the local crime syndicate who is slowly making use of the information to open credit card accounts? An account that you will be held responsible for defaulting on, but won't even hear about until 2 or 3 years later? Or maybe your info has been sold to create false ids for illegal immigrants so that they can get jobs. Your info could now be enabling 10 or more illegals to more easily get jobs and stay in this country, or worse yet, your info is now being used as cover by one of the next terrorist bombers.
Seems to me, these electronically readable ids just make it easier for illegal aliens and terrorists.
I can tell you that their ShopSafe stuff does work in Firefox now
It works, it has always worked if you have the flash plugin. It just doesn't have the same convenience functions as it does with MSIE - even with firefox on windows.
One thing that doesn't work with firefox on linux is their online bill paying. Firefox in windows works, but firefox in linux gets into an endless loop where you click on something and it always tells you that your session is timed out. But online bill payment is not part of the one-time credit cards system.
You, like an amazingly large number of slashdot posters, appear to completely lack the parody gene. This gene allows people to recognize parody when they see it. People who lack the gene are unable to make that discrimination and thus tend to go on and on about something that is blatantly obvious to the rest of humanity.
I just got a notice in the mail from MBNA a few days ago. It made me wonder if I had suddenly something bad had happened to my credit report and they were sticking it to me - a common practice among credit card lenders. Since it sounds like you got the same thing, I guess they are doing it everyone.
I have been using MBNA's ShopSafe one-time use credit card generator for at least 5 years now. At one point they rolled out a new version that broke with firefox (or rather, it stopped supporting a bunch of convenience functions, like drag-and-drop of the credit card number). MBNA's tech support was inane, they were not even allowed to run a copy of the shopsafe software in front of them while talking on the phone, strickly "did you remember to plug in the internet" level. Netscape, not to even mention Mozilla, was so far beyond their comprehension it wasn't even worth trying.
So I did some research and found out that the entire system was provided by a third party company that specializes in new kinds of credit and payment systems. Unfortunately I did not bookmark their website, and their name was so generic sounding that I can never remember it. But what I did learn is that MBNA, Citi, Discover and AmEx were all clients for this same service, but AmEx dropped out circa 2002.
So, given all that, I've elected to go to Citibank, especially since they have a 1%/5% cashback card too. I have not been able to find out if Citi's cards have the same terms as MBNA is just now instigating, but I am hoping it won't matter. I intend to drop my spending with MBNA to $0 for two months and then call them up and tell them that if they want my business back, I want the old terms back.
That's a pretty strong statement. Is that your opinion or do you have a cite?
I read an interview with a former staffer for Dean, one who was involved in managing the internet pr campaign, and that was the impression I took away from the article. Since I'm not interested in playing politics I'm not going to spend the time to dig up a web page I read over six months ago that may or may not already be roadkill.
I believe there were two blogs involved, not just one. Furthermore, my understanding is that while there was a disclosure on the front of one of them - maybe even both, it was a bit inaccurate. The campaign knew it was outright buying good press, but the blogger claimed and honestly appeared to think that he was actually being hired to do real work for the campaign unrelated to his blogging.
Nevertheless, this is not about one party versus the other, it is about manipulating the "new media" - the blatant purchasing of good press by the whitehouse while deplorable was still old media and not really relevant to the topic. If you have examples of other blog manipulation, regardless of the organization, political, public or private, please share them.
I think the point is that corporate blogs can be (and will increasingly be) used as marketing tools and should be treated with the same skepticism that you'd treat an advertisement or PR release.
A week or two ago./ linked to a story about "media hits" and how "the suit is back" was one well done media campaign for The Men's Warehouse because so many "news" stories picked up the advertising and treated it like actual news.
In the same article there was speculation that one reason blogs are so popular is that they are, for the most part, immune to the traditional media-manipulation processes that publicity companies have refined to an exact science for 'traditional' media.
It would appear that "corporate blogs" are a rather piss-poor attempt by the publicity companies to manipulate blog readers. It is too blatant for anyone to take seriously. But even when people like that democrat presidential candidate from vermont whose name I can't recall tried "astroturfing" some blogs by paying off the bloggers, it eventually came out (it did take a while though). On the other hand, the technology is still in its infancy, I'm sure we will eventually see "blog hits" that are so well executed that it takes a trained eye to recognize them as corporate shillage.
1 person/test station could now do the same work in the same time as previously required 3 people. Needless to say, I was a hero--and invoiced accordingly.
And then got your ass kicked in the parking lot by the two guys who just lost their jobs!
Wouldn't the philosophical analogous argument be that libraries are publicly funded, and provide free information and entertainment to anyone and everyone?
No, that's not a good analogy, because bookstores are not a monopoly public utility. All the major types of broadband -- cable, dsl and wireless -- require exclusive use of limited resources, specifically the physical cable plant or specific radio frequencies. There is effectively no limit to the number of bookstores one can build in a town, while there is a relatively small limit to the number of cable plants and radio spectrum.
Somewhere along the line the cable and telcos forgot that they operate as public utilties by the combined will of the people as manifested in their local governments. If the local governments are looking at alternative cheaper means of providing broadband, then it is because the cable and telcos have grown fat and lazy on their monopolies and their customer has grown dissatisfied.
I'm sorry but the gun was not invented for recreational use. It was invented as a weapon of war to maim and destroy people. You think the gun was created so people can have gun clubs and target practice? Oh dear god I hope not. The vast majority of the times a gun is used in the world is not for fun. Unless you consider killing and scaring people fun then yes its recreational.
I'm sorry but sex was not invented for recreational use. It was invented as a method of procreation to create more people. You think sex was created so people can have sex clubs and kinky orgies? Oh dear god I hope not. The vast majority of the times sex is used in the world is not for fun. Unless you consider making a woman fat for 9 months just to create a new person fun then yes sex is recreational.
If there are no negative health effects, then what's the big deal? I can't understand why making ourselves better in these kinds of ways is in any way bad.
Its fine in real life. But in sports, you have to make a decision - do you want to see competition based on the hard work of the athlete or the hard work of his doctors and technicians? If you want to see the later, then no problem.
If you want to see human atheletic competition than artifical body modifications - chemical, mechanical or otherwise, need to be kept out and a clear and up to date definition needs to accompany that ban.
How is what you said any more meaningful than saying:
The problem is that given two publications, one where you pay for subscription and one where the authors pay which do you think authors will chose to publish in and be used by more researchers looking for credible peer review? As a result if you want your work to seen as higher quality and available to more people you need to use the pay-for-creation system.
See universities would argue as to why they should pay if they gain nothing, and over time the journals will shrink and die. However, that is the problem with your method: you assume no choice. The real result will be that pay-to-publish system become more popular as the subscriptions ones wither away (and thus give even less reason for buy a subscription).
If your perception is reality, how do you explain some people paying for subscriptions to cable-tv channels like HBO and Sci-Fi when broadcast channels are free? Perhaps the quality and content is better? Why do people buy DVDs instead of just waiting for the movie to be on television? Why do some people pay for subscriptions to The Economist - which is hardly ever even discounted below $100/yr, when they could just get Time or Newsweek via any number of ~$20/yr offers?
There are a myriad number of real-life counter-examples to your claims. I'm not saying that implementing such a system is going to work right out of the box, but I think it is at least as plausible as any other proposed system and unlike all the other systems, it is completely free-market based.
without having to administer the collection of small fees from millions of casual readers.
You apparently do not understand my proposal. Everything would remain pretty much the same - you would continue to maintain your IEEE membership and you would continue to receive paper copies of Spectrum or whatever other journals you paid for. But, they would also simultaneously be made available on the net for free access - no "small fees from millions of casual readers."
What happens if you and the rest of the IEEE membership decide it is no longer worth paying the membership dues, since after all you can get the articles free on the net? If enough people decide to do that, then the publications - both "free" and your paper copies will simply cease to be produced. But, as long as enough people maintain their subscription, then publication would continue.
Clearly, it would make sense for each journal to maintain a buffer or endowment so that they could run a deficit for a few months before actually having to cease publication, so that vagaries in subscription renewels would not arbitrarily put a journal out of business prematurely.
So, to recap and restate -- all money continues to flow pretty much the way it does today. But you would no longer be paying for the distribution of the journals you would be paying for the creation of the journals.
I have been reading IEEE publications for decades and the benefit to my day job was pretty much zero.
So what? You benefited by reading them, else you would not have kept reading them. Whether it was a direct benefit to your employer or not is irrelevant. Did you pay for those publications? Did you get them from a library? SOMEBODY thought they were worth the money to pay for - if the publications were worth paying for before they should be worth paying for now too. If they really aren't worth it, then they won't get enough funding to continue publishing - free-market at work.
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I know enough about Windows here to know what I'm talking about,
even going back to NT 3.5 and even earlier.)
Like Windows NT 3.0 and 2.0 right?
A random song means that, for the next song, every song (including the current one) is equally probable.
Only for a uniform distribution.
Maybe the player has a random guassian distribution song player.
See Iraq.
If we can not use HTML in your e-mail then The Terrorists Have Won!
The thought police, they live inside of my head.
The thought police, they come to me in my bed.
The thought police, they're coming to arrest me, oh no.
You know that talk is cheap, and those rumors ain't nice.
And when I fall asleep I don't think I'll survive the night, the night.
'cause they're waiting for me.
They're looking for me.
Ev'ry single night they're driving me insane.
Those men inside my brain.
The thought police, they live inside of my head.
(live inside of my head.)
The thought police, they come to me in my bed.
(come to me in my bed.)
The thought police, they're coming to arrest me, oh no.
Well, I can't tell lies, 'cause they're listening to me.
And when I fall asleep, bet they're spying on me tonight, tonight.
'cause they're waiting for me.
They're looking for me.
Ev'ry single night they're driving me insane.
Those men inside my brain.
I try to sleep, they're wide awake, they won't leave me alone.
They don't get paid to take vacations, or let me alone.
They spy on me, I try to hide, they won't let me alone.
They persecute me, they're the judge and jury all in one.
'cause they're waiting for me.
They're looking for me.
Ev'ry single night they're driving me insane.
Those men inside my brain.
The thought police, they live inside of my head.
The thought police, they come to me in my bed.
The thought police, they're coming to arrest me.
Congress is going to have a very difficult time getting any further copyright extensions past the Supreme Court.
Statements like that thoroughly discredit any authority on the subject that you might pretend to. You dis Lessig, but you are apparently unaware of the ruling of the court in Eldred. In essence, the court said that setting the term of copyright is ENTIRELY a legislative function. Unless the legislature formerly admits to making copyright indefinite, the court believes there is no problem. Literally, "forever minus one day" as Valenti once said while creaming his jeans, is fine by them.
Are you a member of the "Church of the Subgenious"?
Bob is not fungible.
But, he may have a fungus infection or two.
Why do we measure things with money?
Because money is fungible.
Is money God?
Yes, see above. But, God is not fungible so God is not money.
Is money happiness?
Yes, see above. But, happiness is not fungible so happiness is not money.
Or is money just something the rich dangle to make the poor jump through hoops??
Yes, see above. But, poor jumping through hoops are not fungible, so poor jumping through hoops is not money.
My driver's license already has a magnetic strip and I have had it scanned on a few occasions without consequence.
How would you know? You start getting another couple of pieces of junk mail addressed to your legal name at your legal address. How can you tell that it did not come to you as a result of your card being swiped?
How do you know you are not in some liquor store chain's database or even worse, a copy of that database made by a disgruntled employee who sold it to the local crime syndicate who is slowly making use of the information to open credit card accounts? An account that you will be held responsible for defaulting on, but won't even hear about until 2 or 3 years later? Or maybe your info has been sold to create false ids for illegal immigrants so that they can get jobs. Your info could now be enabling 10 or more illegals to more easily get jobs and stay in this country, or worse yet, your info is now being used as cover by one of the next terrorist bombers.
Seems to me, these electronically readable ids just make it easier for illegal aliens and terrorists.
I can tell you that their ShopSafe stuff does work in Firefox now
It works, it has always worked if you have the flash plugin. It just doesn't have the same convenience functions as it does with MSIE - even with firefox on windows.
One thing that doesn't work with firefox on linux is their online bill paying. Firefox in windows works, but firefox in linux gets into an endless loop where you click on something and it always tells you that your session is timed out. But online bill payment is not part of the one-time credit cards system.
So a magazine chooses not to publish an article, the author than pays to publish it in the same magazine,
What Piquepaille neglected to mention is that it was actually a test run for the new "pay to publish" system most scientific journals are considering.
You, like an amazingly large number of slashdot posters, appear to completely lack the parody gene. This gene allows people to recognize parody when they see it. People who lack the gene are unable to make that discrimination and thus tend to go on and on about something that is blatantly obvious to the rest of humanity.
I'm 99% sure you are talking about MBNA.
I just got a notice in the mail from MBNA a few days ago. It made me wonder if I had suddenly something bad had happened to my credit report and they were sticking it to me - a common practice among credit card lenders. Since it sounds like you got the same thing, I guess they are doing it everyone.
I have been using MBNA's ShopSafe one-time use credit card generator for at least 5 years now. At one point they rolled out a new version that broke with firefox (or rather, it stopped supporting a bunch of convenience functions, like drag-and-drop of the credit card number). MBNA's tech support was inane, they were not even allowed to run a copy of the shopsafe software in front of them while talking on the phone, strickly "did you remember to plug in the internet" level. Netscape, not to even mention Mozilla, was so far beyond their comprehension it wasn't even worth trying.
So I did some research and found out that the entire system was provided by a third party company that specializes in new kinds of credit and payment systems. Unfortunately I did not bookmark their website, and their name was so generic sounding that I can never remember it. But what I did learn is that MBNA, Citi, Discover and AmEx were all clients for this same service, but AmEx dropped out circa 2002.
So, given all that, I've elected to go to Citibank, especially since they have a 1%/5% cashback card too. I have not been able to find out if Citi's cards have the same terms as MBNA is just now instigating, but I am hoping it won't matter. I intend to drop my spending with MBNA to $0 for two months and then call them up and tell them that if they want my business back, I want the old terms back.
That's a pretty strong statement. Is that your opinion or do you have a cite?
I read an interview with a former staffer for Dean, one who was involved in managing the internet pr campaign, and that was the impression I took away from the article. Since I'm not interested in playing politics I'm not going to spend the time to dig up a web page I read over six months ago that may or may not already be roadkill.
That is the biggest oh-face I've ever seen, and totally hands-free too.
Must have been some seriously good pr0n.
I believe there were two blogs involved, not just one. Furthermore, my understanding is that while there was a disclosure on the front of one of them - maybe even both, it was a bit inaccurate. The campaign knew it was outright buying good press, but the blogger claimed and honestly appeared to think that he was actually being hired to do real work for the campaign unrelated to his blogging.
Nevertheless, this is not about one party versus the other, it is about manipulating the "new media" - the blatant purchasing of good press by the whitehouse while deplorable was still old media and not really relevant to the topic. If you have examples of other blog manipulation, regardless of the organization, political, public or private, please share them.
I think the point is that corporate blogs can be (and will increasingly be) used as marketing tools and should be treated with the same skepticism that you'd treat an advertisement or PR release.
./ linked to a story about "media hits" and how "the suit is back" was one well done media campaign for The Men's Warehouse because so many "news" stories picked up the advertising and treated it like actual news.
A week or two ago
In the same article there was speculation that one reason blogs are so popular is that they are, for the most part, immune to the traditional media-manipulation processes that publicity companies have refined to an exact science for 'traditional' media.
It would appear that "corporate blogs" are a rather piss-poor attempt by the publicity companies to manipulate blog readers. It is too blatant for anyone to take seriously. But even when people like that democrat presidential candidate from vermont whose name I can't recall tried "astroturfing" some blogs by paying off the bloggers, it eventually came out (it did take a while though). On the other hand, the technology is still in its infancy, I'm sure we will eventually see "blog hits" that are so well executed that it takes a trained eye to recognize them as corporate shillage.
1 person/test station could now do the same work in the same time as previously required 3 people.
Needless to say, I was a hero--and invoiced accordingly.
And then got your ass kicked in the parking lot by the two guys who just lost their jobs!
Until they start trying to combine browsing habits into one.
"Based on your recent browsing habits, Google would like to suggest MidgetsHavingSexWithFerretsInSpace.com"
Plus, we can look forward to a bunch of "Google thinks I'm gay!" jokes since the tivo ones have grown passe.
Wouldn't the philosophical analogous argument be that libraries are publicly funded, and provide free information and entertainment to anyone and everyone?
No, that's not a good analogy, because bookstores are not a monopoly public utility. All the major types of broadband -- cable, dsl and wireless -- require exclusive use of limited resources, specifically the physical cable plant or specific radio frequencies. There is effectively no limit to the number of bookstores one can build in a town, while there is a relatively small limit to the number of cable plants and radio spectrum.
Somewhere along the line the cable and telcos forgot that they operate as public utilties by the combined will of the people as manifested in their local governments. If the local governments are looking at alternative cheaper means of providing broadband, then it is because the cable and telcos have grown fat and lazy on their monopolies and their customer has grown dissatisfied.
I'm sorry but the gun was not invented for recreational use. It was invented as a weapon of war to maim and destroy people. You think the gun was created so people can have gun clubs and target practice? Oh dear god I hope not. The vast majority of the times a gun is used in the world is not for fun. Unless you consider killing and scaring people fun then yes its recreational.
I'm sorry but sex was not invented for recreational use. It was invented as a method of procreation to create more people. You think sex was created so people can have sex clubs and kinky orgies? Oh dear god I hope not. The vast majority of the times sex is used in the world is not for fun. Unless you consider making a woman fat for 9 months just to create a new person fun then yes sex is recreational.
my point is that if everyone is enhanced then the enhancements cease to be deciding factors.
That is only true if everyone has equal access to all available enhancements.
Which will never happen.
So it really comes down to who has the most money and the best business accumen.
If there are no negative health effects, then what's the big deal?
I can't understand why making ourselves better in these kinds of ways is in any way bad.
Its fine in real life. But in sports, you have to make a decision - do you want to see competition based on the hard work of the athlete or the hard work of his doctors and technicians? If you want to see the later, then no problem.
If you want to see human atheletic competition than artifical body modifications - chemical, mechanical or otherwise, need to be kept out and a clear and up to date definition needs to accompany that ban.
If your perception is reality, how do you explain some people paying for subscriptions to cable-tv channels like HBO and Sci-Fi when broadcast channels are free? Perhaps the quality and content is better? Why do people buy DVDs instead of just waiting for the movie to be on television? Why do some people pay for subscriptions to The Economist - which is hardly ever even discounted below $100/yr, when they could just get Time or Newsweek via any number of ~$20/yr offers?
There are a myriad number of real-life counter-examples to your claims. I'm not saying that implementing such a system is going to work right out of the box, but I think it is at least as plausible as any other proposed system and unlike all the other systems, it is completely free-market based.
without having to administer the collection of small fees from millions of casual readers.
You apparently do not understand my proposal. Everything would remain pretty much the same - you would continue to maintain your IEEE membership and you would continue to receive paper copies of Spectrum or whatever other journals you paid for. But, they would also simultaneously be made available on the net for free access - no "small fees from millions of casual readers."
What happens if you and the rest of the IEEE membership decide it is no longer worth paying the membership dues, since after all you can get the articles free on the net? If enough people decide to do that, then the publications - both "free" and your paper copies will simply cease to be produced. But, as long as enough people maintain their subscription, then publication would continue.
Clearly, it would make sense for each journal to maintain a buffer or endowment so that they could run a deficit for a few months before actually having to cease publication, so that vagaries in subscription renewels would not arbitrarily put a journal out of business prematurely.
So, to recap and restate -- all money continues to flow pretty much the way it does today. But you would no longer be paying for the distribution of the journals you would be paying for the creation of the journals.
I have been reading IEEE publications for decades and the benefit to my day job was pretty much zero.
So what? You benefited by reading them, else you would not have kept reading them. Whether it was a direct benefit to your employer or not is irrelevant. Did you pay for those publications? Did you get them from a library? SOMEBODY thought they were worth the money to pay for - if the publications were worth paying for before they should be worth paying for now too. If they really aren't worth it, then they won't get enough funding to continue publishing - free-market at work.