1. Great, I want all the data on how to make an atom bomb provided in a neat easy to use format.
2. I accept that the viewer is ultimately responsible for their own due diligence, but why am I paying for a newspaper if the media aren't being held to reasonable standards of diligence?
Asking a scientist to show you their data before they have had a chance to analyse it is like asking a novelist to show you their storyline notes before the book is written. Or asking an office worker or government official to show you an incomplete report.
Generating the data is part of a process. You wouldn't interrupt any other professional half way through a major project and demand they give you what they've got and then judge them on it.
'Hey builder, I've paid for the frame you've built for my house. Now, despite our contract, for you to build me a house, I'm going to demand that you give me the frame, so I can get someone else to finish it. No, it doesn't matter if you've already bought the bricks, or if you already understand the plans, I'm sure someone else can do just as good a job.'
Please, give me a break. Scientists are paid to generate science, not data!
Except you won't keep getting funded unless you publish. If a larger group with more resources takes your data, analyses and publishes it before you have a chance to, then you won't get any funding, and you can't obtain more data.
If google owns a copy of each book they want to scan, then I think it's fair for them to maintain a scanned copy under fair use. Same as if I own a CD, I should be able to make an mp3 to keep as a back up. However, if they don't own a copy or haven't been given permission, then that's the same as me going to the video store, hiring a video and making a copy to show my friends after I've returned the original (not allowed).
Right, because a struggling part time writer like me deserves to have all his short stories republished by a global mega corporation before he can produce enough of them to put out his own compilation. How about 10-15 years for creative works?
There was a recent ruling against a company in Australia for false advertising, for misrepresenting the storage space of their product when they advertised as x number of kB but counted a kB as 1000 bytes.
Perhaps you should delve into the history of law if you don't know the answer to that question though. The idea that good laws have their foundations in bad morals is very old.
I've been on the phone with an ISP tech person who assumed I was an idiot or lying to them.
After informing them that, 'yes, in fact a telecommunications electrician has checked the phone line, but I don't see how that could be the problem,' and then having them tell me, "Mr. [X], you mustn't have done something, we will have to go through the procedure again." This would have been the 3rd time, I'd been on the phone for over an hour.
My response. "No, we've done it twice over the phone, I already did the same thing 3 times myself. And actually it's Dr. [X]." That stopped him dead. He stopped hassling me and passed on the problem to someone higher up.
We got a call back the next day. Turns out there was a bug in the ISP's code.
Moral to the story: best use for a doctorate, correcting tech support people who thing you're stupid.
I think the respondent's point is that many error messages are nonsensical and thus hard to remember.
Often, I read an error message only to forget it 5 seconds after I've clicked Ok.
Sure, a puppy dog or a baby would help with this (personally I like the colour and number system). What would also help is if the error was informative (and not written in binary).
"Books and maps were originally allowed to be copyrighted for 16 years as this was viewed as necessary to help people recoup their costs of production, newspapers, handbills, plays, and music were not allowed copyright protection."
What about the cost in time to the originator of the work. How long do you think it takes to write a good novel? To plan out how the story will proceed, to give life to the characters and make them believable, to incorporate original thoughts and ideas into the narrative?
Now, how long do you think it takes to copy that?
Yeah, I know what you mean. Just last week I missed out on the opportunity to make a living just from surfing the web from my home computer! I can't tell you how disappointed I was that the email offering that 'chance of a lifetime' went to my spam folder.
Then there was the time I won a million dollars but because of my spam filter I never got to claim it in time. Or the time that the Prince of Nigeria sent a desperate email to me for help, but because of spam filtering I was never able to offer my assistance. I feel just terrible knowing that he was never able to access his fortune or reclaim his rightful seat on the throne.
Maybe it was this bit, "The Millennial Tech experience will enhance educational opportunities, prepare students for the workplace and allow all individuals to feel comfortable and secure." Clearly he should have anticipated the paranoia of his vice principal and refrained from making anything he could mistake for something else and thus feel unsafe. *shakes head*
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Wait, so are you saying they missed the point, or missed the warhead, and isn't the warhead in the pointy bit anyway? I'm confused.
Two things:
1. Great, I want all the data on how to make an atom bomb provided in a neat easy to use format.
2. I accept that the viewer is ultimately responsible for their own due diligence, but why am I paying for a newspaper if the media aren't being held to reasonable standards of diligence?
Asking a scientist to show you their data before they have had a chance to analyse it is like asking a novelist to show you their storyline notes before the book is written. Or asking an office worker or government official to show you an incomplete report.
Generating the data is part of a process. You wouldn't interrupt any other professional half way through a major project and demand they give you what they've got and then judge them on it.
'Hey builder, I've paid for the frame you've built for my house. Now, despite our contract, for you to build me a house, I'm going to demand that you give me the frame, so I can get someone else to finish it. No, it doesn't matter if you've already bought the bricks, or if you already understand the plans, I'm sure someone else can do just as good a job.'
Please, give me a break. Scientists are paid to generate science, not data!
Except you won't keep getting funded unless you publish. If a larger group with more resources takes your data, analyses and publishes it before you have a chance to, then you won't get any funding, and you can't obtain more data.
You have it wrong. They are so worried about viruses *because* they use Windows, not the other way around.
If google owns a copy of each book they want to scan, then I think it's fair for them to maintain a scanned copy under fair use. Same as if I own a CD, I should be able to make an mp3 to keep as a back up. However, if they don't own a copy or haven't been given permission, then that's the same as me going to the video store, hiring a video and making a copy to show my friends after I've returned the original (not allowed).
Right, because a struggling part time writer like me deserves to have all his short stories republished by a global mega corporation before he can produce enough of them to put out his own compilation. How about 10-15 years for creative works?
There was a recent ruling against a company in Australia for false advertising, for misrepresenting the storage space of their product when they advertised as x number of kB but counted a kB as 1000 bytes.
Forget the shark-mount. I have to turn my own pages!?
Oh well, I guess I'll just stick to buying books that are advertised as page turners.
I'm wearing a 1977 model. Yes, it is older than me, but not by much.
I think it has been calibrated for an older person though, as when I wear it, it gains 5 minutes a fortnight.
You'll note I said should.
Perhaps you should delve into the history of law if you don't know the answer to that question though. The idea that good laws have their foundations in bad morals is very old.
Data should not be retained if the condition of obtaining it was that it would not be retained. Anything else is immoral, and should be illegal.
thing = think.
I've been on the phone with an ISP tech person who assumed I was an idiot or lying to them.
After informing them that, 'yes, in fact a telecommunications electrician has checked the phone line, but I don't see how that could be the problem,' and then having them tell me, "Mr. [X], you mustn't have done something, we will have to go through the procedure again." This would have been the 3rd time, I'd been on the phone for over an hour.
My response. "No, we've done it twice over the phone, I already did the same thing 3 times myself. And actually it's Dr. [X]." That stopped him dead. He stopped hassling me and passed on the problem to someone higher up.
We got a call back the next day. Turns out there was a bug in the ISP's code.
Moral to the story: best use for a doctorate, correcting tech support people who thing you're stupid.
I think the respondent's point is that many error messages are nonsensical and thus hard to remember. Often, I read an error message only to forget it 5 seconds after I've clicked Ok. Sure, a puppy dog or a baby would help with this (personally I like the colour and number system). What would also help is if the error was informative (and not written in binary).
So then, soon slashdotters will be complaining that they don't know how to talk to robots?
"Books and maps were originally allowed to be copyrighted for 16 years as this was viewed as necessary to help people recoup their costs of production, newspapers, handbills, plays, and music were not allowed copyright protection." What about the cost in time to the originator of the work. How long do you think it takes to write a good novel? To plan out how the story will proceed, to give life to the characters and make them believable, to incorporate original thoughts and ideas into the narrative? Now, how long do you think it takes to copy that?
Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery, but everyone knows flattering to deceive is wrong.
The Chinese are trying to expel the internet, the telegraph never did enough to provoke that reaction, and I believe it's a requirement now.
I think the complaint is that you have to jump through hoops to talk about the things you are allowed to talk about!
Yeah, I know what you mean. Just last week I missed out on the opportunity to make a living just from surfing the web from my home computer! I can't tell you how disappointed I was that the email offering that 'chance of a lifetime' went to my spam folder.
Then there was the time I won a million dollars but because of my spam filter I never got to claim it in time. Or the time that the Prince of Nigeria sent a desperate email to me for help, but because of spam filtering I was never able to offer my assistance. I feel just terrible knowing that he was never able to access his fortune or reclaim his rightful seat on the throne.
Only if you want colour.
Yeah, he made quite a splash!
But in this case the (vice) principal is nobody's pal!
Maybe it was this bit, "The Millennial Tech experience will enhance educational opportunities, prepare students for the workplace and allow all individuals to feel comfortable and secure." Clearly he should have anticipated the paranoia of his vice principal and refrained from making anything he could mistake for something else and thus feel unsafe. *shakes head*