That doesn't necessarily mean the end of the company of course, but it most likely does mean that the current contracts will be renegotiated in a way that benefits GM and hurts the unions. If this is true it shows that Obama is prepared to stand up to the UAW.
I've heard it argued that this phrase is not racist on the grounds that there are many races in Britain and none of them are "wogs". Once you leave England, everyone is, regardless of race. Hence the phrase is not racist - the discrimination is aimed at residents of foreign countries regardless of race even though the word wog in other contexts is usually considered racist.
Do you agree with this argument y/n? What about if you replaced wog with other words that are normally considered racist? Would it become racist then?
Hay dude. Amazon removed its customer-based reporting of adult books yesterday. I guess my game is up! Here's a nice piece I like to call "how to cause moral outrage from the entire Internet in ten lines of code".
I really hate reputation systems based on user input. This started a while back on Craigslist, when I was trying to score chicks to do heroin with. My listings like "looking to get tarred and pleasured" and "Searching for a heroine to do the paronym of this sentence's lexical subject" kept getting flagged. The audacity of the San Francisco gay community disgusted me. They would flag my ads down but searching craigslist for "pnp" or "tina" reveals tons of hairy dudes searching for other hairy dudes to do meth with. So I decided to get them back, and cause a few hundred thousand queers some outrage.
I'm logged into Amazon at the time and see it has a "report as inappropriate" feature at the bottom of a page. I do a quick test on a few sets of gay books. I see that I can get them removed from search rankings with an insignificant number of votes.
I do this for a while, but never really get off my ass to scale it until recently.
So I script some quick bash. #!/bin/bash let count = 1 while true; do links -dump 'http://www.amazon.com/s/qid=0/?ie=ASCII&rs=1000&keywords=Gay_and_Lesbian&rh=n%3A!1000%2Ci%3Astripbooks%2Ck%3AHomosexuality&page='`echo $count`|grep \/dp\/ >>/tmp/amazon ((count++)) done
There's some quick code to grab all the Gay and Lesbian metadata-tagged books on amazon. Then I pull out all the IDs of the given books from those URLs:
cat/tmp/amazon |sed s/.*dp\\/// |sed s/\\/ref.*//
and I have a neat little list of the internal product ID of every fag book on Amazon.
Now from here it was a matter of getting a lot of people to vote for the books. The thing about the adult reporting function of Amazon was that it was vulnerable to something called "Cross-site request forgery'. This means if I referred someone to the URL of the successful complaint, it would register as a complaint if they were logged in. So now it is a numbers game.
I know some people who run some extremely high traffic (Alexa top 1000) websites. I show them my idea, and we all agree that it is pretty funny. They put an invisible iframe in their websites to refer people to the complaint URLs which caused huge numbers of visitors to report gay and lesbian items as inappropriate without their knowledge.
We sane people need to invade the countries with religion, kill all the adults and enslave all the children. That will solve the problem once and for all.
Sweden has just passed an anti file sharing law called IPRED which allows courts to order ISPs to hand over information about who was using a particular IP address at a particular time. The VPN service is called IPREDator and is designed so that it is impossible for the Pirate Bay to do this.
It's not really Western either. The richest countries in Asia - Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea are democracies and likely to stay that way. Places like Malaysia and the Philipines are more likely to end up democracies than anything else. Actually most of Asia, apart from China and its neighbours are counted as free or partly free according to Freedom House
A 4GB SDHC card probably uses several dies and a controller, all stacked on top of each other. Presumably one of the the dies had, well, died.
What's more worrying about the symptoms you describe is that it implies the flash address space is mapped 1:1 into the filesystem address space, i.e. no wear levelling. Then again, maybe the wear levelling only works inside one die, not across them.
University of California's intellectual property rights were actually being licensed by the first BSD license. Almost everyone believes that the redistribution and use clause of the BSD license was intended to include all of the exclusive intellectual property rights the University then owned for something called the "Berkeley Software Distribution." The fact that the BSD license does not expressly list those exclusive rights (e.g., copy, create derivative works, distribute, perform, display, make, use, sell, offer for sale, import) doesn't mean they intended any of those rights to be excluded from the license. The term redistribution means distribution again. This necessarily includes the right to make copies, since one cannot distribute software again without making copies. And since the word modification later in the sentence implies derivative work , I assume that the license allows the copying and distribution of both the original and derivative works. The word redistribution in the BSD license appears to encompass all those copyright rights that must be granted to ensure software freedom. The BSD license passes the filter of the Open Source Principles.
The word use, on the other hand, is not found among the exclusive rights of copyright owners. The use of software can be affected by a patent, because under the law, a patent owner has the exclusive right to make, use, and sell any product in which the patent is embodied. But the University of California made no patent grant in the BSD license. Indeed, later in the license the University specifically used the phrase this software is provided by the copyright holders and contributors , suggesting by its absence that there are no patent holders or that those patent holders are not granting anything in this license.
In the absence of an explicit patent grant, but considering the word use in the license, can we assume that the BSD license impliedly grants enough of whatever patent rights the University of California then owned that a licensee may use the software as it was originally distributed by the University? Most licensees under the BSD assume it does on the theory that otherwise the copyright license would be of no value. What good, they say, is software that can be copied but not used? Such a conclusion is not based on the law of licenses. Indeed, a bare license of copyright need not include a bare license of patent at all. It is only if the BSD is viewed as a contract that we can introduce contract law principles such as reliance or reasonable expectations of the parties. If software is licensed under the BSD without forming a contract between licensor and licensee, the extent of any patent grant is at best ambiguous.
As to whether an implied grant of patent rights extends to versions of the software with modifications, that's an even more complicated question. The BSD license is silent about a patent license for derivative works. So if a licensee improves the original Berkeley Software Distribution in a way that infringes a patent owned by the University of California, there is no easy way of knowing whether an implied BSD patent license includes a patent license for that improvement.
Since courts are likely to construe implied grants of license narrowly, a licensee should consider obtaining separately from the licensor an explicit grant of patent rights that might be needed for modified versions of BSD-licensed software.
Seems like to be safe if you were intending to grant people a copyright license but not a patent license you should make this explicit though.
In any event, why allow someone to patent an application-specific integrated circuit that performs new function X but not a FGPA configured via a HDL that performs new function X?
Then a mystery writer could patent a method of committing a crime and the method of solving the crime. Royalties from the mafia and from the police! Woohoo!
This post doesn't really need the "IANAL but doesn't that mean..." at the start.
Actually the odd thing about Pirate Bay is that you can find most torrents with Google too. So why doesn't the RIAA sue them?
http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-trial-day-8-090225/ "Kennedy was asked why they haven't sued Google the same way as TPB. He said that Google said they would partner IFPI in fighting piracy and he has a team of 10 people working with Google every day, and if Google hadn't announced they were a partner, IFPI would have sued them too."
Kennedy is the CEO of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry. So if the Pirate Bay had announced they would 'partner' with the IFPI and have ten people making a best effort to remove links to pirated content everything would have been ok, even if like Google their database still had pirated material. Which makes you wonder if their 'legal threats' page was such a good idea.
Unfortunately, most encoders (the people, not the programs) out there seem to be idiots. Most of the time, you still get XviD with MP3, in a AVI container.
Because that's exactly what most people want. XVid+Mp3 is supported on most OSs AFAIK and it works on a lot of DVD players too.
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I used to think that, but if the rumours are true the Whitehouse will tell GM to prepare for bankruptcy quite soon.
http://business.theage.com.au/business/gm-readies-for-fast-bankruptcy-20090413-a4ud.html
That doesn't necessarily mean the end of the company of course, but it most likely does mean that the current contracts will be renegotiated in a way that benefits GM and hurts the unions. If this is true it shows that Obama is prepared to stand up to the UAW.
What about "Wogs begin at Calais".
I've heard it argued that this phrase is not racist on the grounds that there are many races in Britain and none of them are "wogs". Once you leave England, everyone is, regardless of race. Hence the phrase is not racist - the discrimination is aimed at residents of foreign countries regardless of race even though the word wog in other contexts is usually considered racist.
Do you agree with this argument y/n? What about if you replaced wog with other words that are normally considered racist? Would it become racist then?
If this was an outside job, it's quite clever and the timing was perfect.
If nothing else, it's a major wake-up call as to just how much power Amazon has amassed over the media as we know it.
You mean how much power script kiddies, trolls, Anonymous and obscure pressure groups have over Amazon.
In that case, we should be vigilant, not paranoid.
It's simply unhealthy to implicitly distrust (and loathe) every corporate and governmental entity on the planet.
Paranoid is just what the sheeple and the mainstream media call vigilant. I bet people called Kaczynski paranoid too.
This seems like a hack to me, assuming it's true of course.
http://pastebin.ca/1390576
Oh hey Owen Thomas! How you doin?
Hay dude. Amazon removed its customer-based reporting of adult books yesterday. I guess my game is up! Here's a nice piece I like to call "how to cause moral outrage from the entire Internet in ten lines of code".
I really hate reputation systems based on user input. This started a while back on Craigslist, when I was trying to score chicks to do heroin with. My listings like "looking to get tarred and pleasured" and "Searching for a heroine to do the paronym of this sentence's lexical subject" kept getting flagged. The audacity of the San Francisco gay community disgusted me. They would flag my ads down but searching craigslist for "pnp" or "tina" reveals tons of hairy dudes searching for other hairy dudes to do meth with. So I decided to get them back, and cause a few hundred thousand queers some outrage.
I'm logged into Amazon at the time and see it has a "report as inappropriate" feature at the bottom of a page. I do a quick test on a few sets of gay books. I see that I can get them removed from search rankings with an insignificant number of votes.
I do this for a while, but never really get off my ass to scale it until recently.
So I script some quick bash. /tmp/amazon
#!/bin/bash
let count = 1
while true; do
links -dump 'http://www.amazon.com/s/qid=0/?ie=ASCII&rs=1000&keywords=Gay_and_Lesbian&rh=n%3A!1000%2Ci%3Astripbooks%2Ck%3AHomosexuality&page='`echo $count`|grep \/dp\/ >>
((count++))
done
There's some quick code to grab all the Gay and Lesbian metadata-tagged books on amazon. Then I pull out all the IDs of the given books from those URLs:
cat /tmp/amazon |sed s/.*dp\\/// |sed s/\\/ref.*//
and I have a neat little list of the internal product ID of every fag book on Amazon.
Now from here it was a matter of getting a lot of people to vote for the books. The thing about the adult reporting function of Amazon was that it was vulnerable to something called "Cross-site request forgery'. This means if I referred someone to the URL of the successful complaint, it would register as a complaint if they were logged in. So now it is a numbers game.
I know some people who run some extremely high traffic (Alexa top 1000) websites. I show them my idea, and we all agree that it is pretty funny. They put an invisible iframe in their websites to refer people to the complaint URLs which caused huge numbers of visitors to report gay and lesbian items as inappropriate without their knowledge.
I also hired third worlders to register accounts for me en masse. If you ever need a service like that, you can find them in a post like this advertising in the comments:
http://ha.ckers.org/blog/20070427/solving-captchas-for-cash/
Then they would log into the accounts, save the cookies in a cookie file and send it to me.
Then I used the cookie files like so to automated-report all the books:
for i in `cat /tmp/amazon |sed s/.*dp\\/// |sed s/\\/ref.*//`; do lynx -cookie_file=/home/avex/cookie1 http://www.amazon.com/ri/product-listing/`echo $i`/;done
The combination of these two actions resulted in a mass delisting of queer books being delisted from the rankings at Amazon.
I guess my game is up, but 300+ hits on google news for amazon gay and outrage across the blogosphere ain't so bad.
The only person to figure it out was dely from Six Apart:
http://tehdely.livejournal.com/88823.html
but he has been ground zero at my work, cleaning up my messes before.
So just letting you know the chain of events. if you choose to report on this, please don't disclose my identity/email address. Thanks!
At a client. Ok I was debugging something and to be fair they did warn me not to spend too much time there, but it took a while to set things up.
Nasy experience actually, I could feel my nerves being a bit frazzled even the next day.
We sane people need to invade the countries with religion, kill all the adults and enslave all the children. That will solve the problem once and for all.
Comments encoding these are usually late posts in the discussion threat and frequently replied to by grammar nazi's.
Well played, Sir. Well played.
Hah, I knew someone would spot that. Trolled!
2018 is the end of the Mayan Calendar aka the End of the World and the date of the Linkrot apocalypse. Coincidence? I think not.
Cobol turning 50, still important. Buys convertible, viagra.
Is dating a somewhat ditzy but fashionable 18 year old language.
Yeah, Java, I'm looking at you.
Sweden has just passed an anti file sharing law called IPRED which allows courts to order ISPs to hand over information about who was using a particular IP address at a particular time. The VPN service is called IPREDator and is designed so that it is impossible for the Pirate Bay to do this.
Tatarstan is a made up country bordering Elbonia and about 1000 kilometres to the east of Genovia and Latveria.
Exchange the nukes for the secular, educated people. Get the wheat out, fry the chaff.
It's not really Western either. The richest countries in Asia - Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea are democracies and likely to stay that way. Places like Malaysia and the Philipines are more likely to end up democracies than anything else. Actually most of Asia, apart from China and its neighbours are counted as free or partly free according to Freedom House
http://www.freedomhouse.org/uploads/fiw09/MOF09_AsiaPacific.pdf
You'll get used to the fish after a while.
I like the way you put spaces between the hex values so I start debug.exe, enter e 100 and paste it in.
I agree!
Kill all the mindless followers! Let's get a good old lynch mob organised on 4chan.
"Lone wolf" sound MUCH better than anonymous coward!
I tried to register the username but it said it was too similar to a lot of names that already exist.
A 4GB SDHC card probably uses several dies and a controller, all stacked on top of each other. Presumably one of the the dies had, well, died.
What's more worrying about the symptoms you describe is that it implies the flash address space is mapped 1:1 into the filesystem address space, i.e. no wear levelling. Then again, maybe the wear levelling only works inside one die, not across them.
They are granting a copyright license but not a patent license. Actually this is exactly what Clear BSD does
http://labs.metacarta.com/license-explanation.html#license
You can't tell if that is patent license without asking a lawyer. And these guys who are lawyers disagree with your argument
http://www.rosenlaw.com/Rosen_Ch05.pdf
University of California's intellectual property rights were actually being licensed by the first BSD license. Almost everyone believes that the redistribution and use clause of the BSD license was intended to include all of the exclusive intellectual property rights the University then owned for something called the "Berkeley Software Distribution." The fact that the BSD license does not expressly list those exclusive rights (e.g., copy, create derivative works, distribute, perform, display, make, use, sell, offer for sale, import) doesn't mean they intended any of those rights to be excluded from the license. The term redistribution means distribution again. This necessarily includes the right to make copies, since one cannot distribute software again without making copies. And since the word modification later in the sentence implies derivative work , I assume that the license allows the copying and distribution of both the original and derivative works. The word redistribution in the BSD license appears to encompass all those copyright rights that must be granted to ensure software freedom. The BSD license passes the filter of the Open Source Principles.
The word use, on the other hand, is not found among the exclusive rights of copyright owners. The use of software can be affected by a patent, because under the law, a patent owner has the exclusive right to make, use, and sell any product in which the patent is embodied. But the University of California made no patent grant in the BSD license. Indeed, later in the license the University specifically used the phrase this software is provided by the copyright holders and contributors , suggesting by its absence that there are no patent holders or that those patent holders are not granting anything in this license.
In the absence of an explicit patent grant, but considering the word use in the license, can we assume that the BSD license impliedly grants enough of whatever patent rights the University of California then owned that a licensee may use the software as it was originally distributed by the University? Most licensees under the BSD assume it does on the theory that otherwise the copyright license would be of no value. What good, they say, is software that can be copied but not used? Such a conclusion is not based on the law of licenses. Indeed, a bare license of copyright need not include a bare license of patent at all. It is only if the BSD is viewed as a contract that we can introduce contract law principles such as reliance or reasonable expectations of the parties. If software is licensed under the BSD without forming a contract between licensor and licensee, the extent of any patent grant is at best ambiguous.
As to whether an implied grant of patent rights extends to versions of the software with modifications, that's an even more complicated question. The BSD license is silent about a patent license for derivative works. So if a licensee improves the original Berkeley Software Distribution in a way that infringes a patent owned by the University of California, there is no easy way of knowing whether an implied BSD patent license includes a patent license for that improvement.
Since courts are likely to construe implied grants of license narrowly, a licensee should consider obtaining separately from the licensor an explicit grant of patent rights that might be needed for modified versions of BSD-licensed software.
Seems like to be safe if you were intending to grant people a copyright license but not a patent license you should make this explicit though.
In any event, why allow someone to patent an application-specific integrated circuit that performs new function X but not a FGPA configured via a HDL that performs new function X?
Then a mystery writer could patent a method of committing a crime and the method of solving the crime. Royalties from the mafia and from the police! Woohoo!
This post doesn't really need the "IANAL but doesn't that mean..." at the start.
Actually the odd thing about Pirate Bay is that you can find most torrents with Google too. So why doesn't the RIAA sue them?
http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-trial-day-8-090225/
"Kennedy was asked why they haven't sued Google the same way as TPB. He said that Google said they would partner IFPI in fighting piracy and he has a team of 10 people working with Google every day, and if Google hadn't announced they were a partner, IFPI would have sued them too."
Kennedy is the CEO of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry. So if the Pirate Bay had announced they would 'partner' with the IFPI and have ten people making a best effort to remove links to pirated content everything would have been ok, even if like Google their database still had pirated material. Which makes you wonder if their 'legal threats' page was such a good idea.
Unfortunately, most encoders (the people, not the programs) out there seem to be idiots. Most of the time, you still get XviD with MP3, in a AVI container.
Because that's exactly what most people want. XVid+Mp3 is supported on most OSs AFAIK and it works on a lot of DVD players too.