Zonk slightly edited my journal entry, which read: Reuters reports that the 2nd circuit has struck down the FCC's rules on indecency, in a case brought by Fox. The court said the U.S. Federal Communications Commission was "arbitrary and capricious" in setting a new standard for defining indecency. Republican FCC Chairman Kevin Martin angrily retorted, "'shit' and 'fuck' bleep bleep children." The case is a victory for Nicole Richie and Bono and Cher, as some of the people Fox aired saying some of the 7 dirty words in casual conversation. No word yet on whether the agency will appeal.
George Lucas has always had an ambivalent attitude about all the creative fan activity that orbits around his "Star Wars" universe, embracing some that stays within the limits of homage, sending the legal storm troopers after any he feels damage the image or profit from his art, and generally guarding his properties like they were the plans for the Death Star. But starting tomorrow (cue brief, fair-use snippet of "Star Wars" theme music) there's a new hope.
As part of the 30th anniversary celebration for the first movie, Lucasfilm is making 250 clips from all six "Star Wars" movies available on its Starwars.com site, providing a set of drag-and-drop editing tools and telling fans to remix and mash up to their heart's content. Rework the wisdom of Yoda? Sure. Take your revenge on Jar Jar Binks? Have at it. As long as you don't try anything like hot Wookiee-on-Wookiee action, Lucasfilm doesn't mind (and there's a team of screeners in Costa Rica to filter out that stuff anyway). The mashups can then be posted on blogs or social network pages.
Attorney Discipline Board - State of Michigan www.adbmich.org http://www.agcmi.com/pages/RequestInvestigation.ht ml Kent County Assistant Prosecutor Lynn Hopkins Village President Leonard R. "Skip" Meyer II spartapresident@charter.net 156 E. Division Sparta, MI 49345 I'd submitted this story to slashdot earlier today,no luck.
Problem being, they have to do these experiments to get us off of the planet in the first place... That's Bezos. He said Bozos. I had to read it twice myself.
One method of propulsion for spacecraft is to push them with lasers. The advantages include not having to carry fuel with you. I don't have enough of a handle on this new state of matter thingy to know if it's useful for that, but worth looking into further.
Is tfa claiming a 7th state of matter, where currently we have solid liquid gas plasma and two other kinds of rarely seen plasmas (earth water air fire thing 1 and thing 2)?
* when you need to enter hand-written documents into a computer
* for transcripts of a single speaker
* informal free-thought when not surrounded by other people
* when you have horrible typing skills
You had me at "* when you have horrible typing skills".
Parent post mentions their 4 year old making pancakes. At some point, most likely, you expect the kid is going to grow up and get better at making pancakes. There will be a learning curve. Maybe 4 is too young; I haven't met the kid. But part of the point of teaching a kid to make pancakes is to get the learning curve out of the way, so they can get better at it on their own time, preferably before they are 30. My crude analogy is that a naturally speaking soft dragon is a bit like a 4 year old pancake maker. It can be worthwhile to get used to an imperfect tool now, so that you'll have the learning curve out of the way as the tool gets better over time. Or it can be better to wait another year. Your mileage may vary.
Here's another potential application: Get the dragon for your kid. It may be useful as she or he learns to read and write.
I for one welcome our new naturally speaking dragon overlords.
I want the throat mike module, so that it types what I'm subvocalizing.
I'm hearing a business model here: 1 form a corp to offer voice to text software 2 wave hands 3. sell out to nuance 4......
Norm Zada (born Norman Zadeh) is the founder of Perfect 10, an adult magazine focusing on women without cosmetic surgery. Zada launched the magazine after a friend was rejected from Playboy magazine because her proportions did not fit the magazine's tastes. [1] He estimates losing approximately $46 million on Perfect 10 since 1996, when the magazine was published.
Recently, his magazine is the plaintiff in Perfect 10 v. Google, Inc., a lawsuit charging contributory copyright infringement through the search engine displaying thumbnails of Perfect 10 images hosted at unauthorized third-party sites. Other lawsuits Zada has filed involve adult verification system supplier Cybernet Ventures, from which he received a confidential settlement, and Visa and Mastercard, where he alleged that these credit card companies benefited from fees charged to access unauthorized material at third-party pay sites.[2]
Prior to starting Perfect 10, he obtained a doctorate in operations research at the University of California, Berkeley and worked at IBM and was an adjunct mathematics professor at Stanford University, Columbia University, UCLA, and UC Irvine, writing textbooks on computer science [3]. After teaching, he became a championship poker player and money manager. [4] Zadeh made headlines in 1996 when he offered $400,000 for anyone successfully refuting Zadeh's claim that balancing the United States federal budget would be an "economic disaster" [5].
He is the son of the creator of fuzzy logic, computer scientist Lofti Zadeh.
The slashdot summary: "google wins! score! yippee!"
TFA: Google wins part of nude-photo suit
Notice any difference? TFA: But the three-judge panel handed Google a mixed victory. It sent the case back to the District Court to determine whether Google was indirectly liable for damages because it linked to websites that displayed Perfect 10's copyrighted images without permission.
"Why are people still deeply researching this? JFK is dead, so is Princess Diana, so is Elvis; the world is still spinning and everyone else has moved on. I don't understand, why are people concerned with this?"
In 1945, Hirohito made a speech that went something like this. "Look, I'm not really a god, I'm just this guy, y'know? We lost,and we have to surrender, and everything we've been telling you all your life was a lie." It was a big deal at the time; a major shift in perception for the Japanese culture.
In the Warren report, LBJ got caught lying to the American people about how JFK got whacked (probably by his mafia buddies, possibly with involvement from one or more intelligence agencies.) The term "credibility gap" was invented. It was a major shift in perception for the American culture. Previously, presidents and the government were held in high regard, omniscient, omnipotent, omnibenevolent.
There aren't many slashdot readers old enough to remember what that was like. These days, we expect the government to lie to us, steal from us, massacre little brown civilians,and generally act like a tumor or parasite. Sure, there are still millions in denial about the Clintons or the Bushes, but the general tone is one of healthy cynicism. The JFK cover-up was a turning point, so it remains important.
You don't have to be Chinese/Jewish or wait for Passover/Gnu Years to enjoy matzo balls. Matzo balls are delicious dumplings made from unleavened bread meal, usually served in broth or soup. INGREDIENTS:
* 4 eggs or egg substitute
* 1/2 cup club soda
* 3 Tbsp vegetable oil
* 2 Tbsp finely chopped parsley
* Salt
* Freshly ground black pepper
* 1 cup matzo meal
PREPARATION: Whisk the eggs until blended. Now add the club soda, vegetable oil or schmaltz, salt and pepper. Easy on the salt, you can always add but you can never take away. Sponsored Links Blend in the parsley and matzo meal. Cover and refrigerate this mixture for about 1 hour. Bring about 5 quarts of water to boil. Rub vegetable oil on hands and form matzo balls with about two tablespoons of mixture. Drop in boiling water and simmer covered and don't peek (okay, maybe once or twice) for about 25 to 35 minutes. Serve in broth, to which add 1/4 teaspoon red pepper and 2 tablespoons vinegar.
For matzoh-miso soup, use miso paste to make the broth.
It's ok to submit late comments.
They are a little more free to ignore them and not respond to them,
but they still get collected and read and are part of the process.
So don't feel it's too late.
And it's not a dupe. Oh, Slashdot has already covered the supernova, back in January. not a dupe What's new is the mainstream media like the new york times finding out about it.
"I'm wondering if it would be possible to win some money by countersuing the RIAA for damages caused by these ridiculous lawsuits. I'm guessing this isn't really possible, otherwise, there'd be an army of greedy lawyers filing these lawsuits."
Possible, yes, likely, not so much. What follows is not legal advice, unless I've cashed your check at $235/hr.
It's a lot easier to file a state civil RICO counterclaim than to win one. I've only ever filed one,and never won one. It tends to be done for tactical reasons, and judges tend to be sceptical. But if you are backed by somebody with deep pockets, it's a fun way to turn the tables. If somebody hits me or my client with a bogus lawsuit, I will always look for a valid reason to file a counterclaim. It can be ethical for me to file a counterclaim, in situations where I wouldn't have brought an original lawsuit. In the RIAA situation, I suspect the way to go is to accuse the plaintiffs' lawyers of RICO. Then commence discovery, and publish everything you find online in an open source counterattack. This isn't feasible for the little guy; you need to find an angel like EFF or such. The settlement center thinks your case is worth about $3500 to them. By filing and litigating counterclaims, not against the plaintiff but against the lawyer, you redefine the business model.
However, this has risks as well. Say you depose the lawyers to learn what houses they own and what cars they drive, and post this online, and some idiot happens to firebomb one of those houses while it is empty some weekend. You might then be accused of terrorism. Something like this happened to the Huntington 7 and Rob Coronado, as described in an article "Green Scare." http://lacitybeat.com/article.php?id=5450&IssueNum =204
So don't rush out and start filing state RICO claims based on a slashdot article. If you know someone (or can find someone) who is hit with a filesharing suit, find a pro bono backer like a big law firm or a university legal clinic,and do a feasibility study of whether a little RICO claim makes sense.
I'm just an aardvark. I was once footnoted in Abrams' treatise on civil RICO,and I'm the guy who submitted the Microsoft/Best Buy RICO story that ran recently, but I don't know much about this stuff.
so i'm going to be the keynote speaker at PAX . ..
Back in February, I recounted the first time I met Gabe and Tycho from Penny Arcade at Comicon:
I have always enjoyed Penny Arcade, because -- like pVp and Dork Tower -- it has characters I can care about and relate to while I'm laughing at myself, or them, or (usually) both.
I talked to Gabe and Tycho for a few minutes that year, did the obligatory geek out, and then got out of the way, because there were literally hundreds of fans who wanted to meet them and give them money. I guess I made an impression on them, because they featured me in one of their comics, which Gabe or Tycho drew on the plane home, and sent me via e-mail (I can't remember who and it's not really important enough to unpack e-mail archives from that long ago to find out. Also if I'm vague enough about it, maybe one of them will ping me and put me in a new comic. How's that for attention whoring?! Very nice.)
Well, they didn't put me in a new cartoon (though I'll always have this one, sniff, sniff, wipe solitary tear off cheek) but they did something that's a little bit cooler and invited me to be the keynote speaker at the 2007 Penny Arcade Expo.
"You know this is Wil Wheaton the writer and occasional actor, and not the guy from Brother Bear," I said, certain that they'd asked the wrong guy.
They assured me, via their official organizer Robert, that it wasn't a mistake. They wanted me to come speak, play games, and listen to MC Frontalot and Jonathan Coulton, and OMFG THE MINIBOSSES.
So I picked myself up off the floor, and tried to talk them out of it.
"If you make this about me being on Star Trek," I said, "it's going to piss everyone off, and we'll get the obligatory flood of 'who is that?' and 'why does Star Trek matter to a game convention?' and 'I love bacon!'"
They assured me that their demographic is older than the typical bacon-loving, Wheaton-hating 20 year-old. This wasn't about Star Trek as much as it was about my very public love of gaming, and that I shouldn't be so goddamn insecure.
I actually had to think about it for a few days. I love Penny Arcade, and I wanted to be absolutely certain that I would entertain the people who were there with something that would be relevant to their lives.
A weekend passed, and I called Robert back.
"So here's the thing: Seattle is really close for me, so I can come up and back without missing anything important at home. I also know that there's a little over one hundred people who want me to come to Seattle, according to Eventful.
"I really want to do this, but I want to be absolutely sure that I'm going to be a good match for PAX. I don't play anything like World of Warcraft, and I haven't played anything like Halo since Half Life was new. What I know and love are classic arcade and console games." I said. "In fact, other than the GTA games and Guitar Hero, I really don't play anything you'd consider 'new.' Hell, I don't even have a next-generation console . . . though I've been trying to buy a Wii since they came out, because the Virtual Console is the most awesome th-"
"I can get you a Wii," Robert said.
I dropped the phone.
I picked up the phone.
"Sorry, I dropped the phone. Are you serious?"
"It's the least we can do."
"So you're telling me that, not only will I get a Wii, but . . . I'll get a Wii from Penny fucking Arcade?!"
"Something like that, yeah."
"Dude. Uh, yeah. That'll be awesome."
After a moment's silence, he said, "so do you want to come do PAX? We'll hook you up with the Wii either way."
"I'm really nervous about appealing to the audience," I said, "but I know that I can write something entertaining about classic arcades and the significance of consol
Dear kdawson, arbitraryaardvark We sure hope you have health insurance... and that it covers broken legs. - The slashdot community [ Reply to This ] Yikes. Nope.
This was the first opinion, as far as I know and I follow this stuff, to apply the Indiana constitution's free speech clause to the internet. It might or might not be the first case dealing with whether any speech on myspace.com is constitutionally protected. Answer:yes. Kudos to grandparent poster radarjd - he posted the opinion, and the text of the speech in question. Mod upwards.
"Why it's Moore's Law a law? It just sounds like a theory to me, it just has been surprisingly accurate to date, that's all."
Theories that remain suprisingly accurate over time tend to be known as laws. Unlike, say, axioms, where one counterexample could break a paradigm, a law only has to work often enough to be useful. If a prediction works 95% of the time,and fails to account for 5% of the data, we can still call that a law. Feel free to call it Moore's pretty damn good conjecture. It's not intended to be rigorous,and we don't need to claim that that it will work for the next 10,000 years. It's enough to understand the general point that the cost of an information processing system is cut in half every two years or so by developing technology, and that can only have profound changes on culture and economy. It's useful to be familar with a couple of additional concepts: 1) austrian economics, which shows how markets function to drive technological change,and how technological change functions to drive markets. 2) the singularity. aka "the rapture for nerds", the singularity is the idea that the rate of technological change is speeding up, driving innovation in ever shorter cycles, in a hyperbolic curve (y=x squared), so that at some point, probably in this century, the rate of change will be going basicly straight up,and that on the other side of the singularity, things look weird. So there are at least three options: 1) Moore's law is an overstatement in the long term. At some point physical limitations set in, the low hanging fruit has already been picked,and a new plateau is reached where the cost of information systems is low compared to today, but has leveled out and is no longer decreasing. 2) Moore's law will continue to be suprisingly accurate for many years to come. The cost of information systems will keep decreasing by about half every two years,and that will continue to drive economic transformation and social change. 3) Moore's law is descriptive at the elbow of the curve, where we live now, but as change builds on change Moore's law will be found to be wildly conservative,and the cost of a given information system will drop by half in shorter and shorter cycles, until information system costs approach zero, with consequences that include AI, space travel, life extension, gene hacking, and stuff we can barely imagine now.
As formally stated in terms of doubling of transisters on a chip, or in terms of the cost of a transister, per period of time, moore's law only applies to the time since the invention of the transister and some unknown point in the future at which it no longer applies, perhaps because we use something else besides transisters. It remains useful in describing the period from about 1950 (or 1970) through 2007 up to at least until either limits are reached or the pre-singularity effects kick in and shorten the doubling time. I expect measurable pre-singularity effects by 2012. Some would argue Moore's law is itself an example of noticable pre-singularity effects. 4) two cups of Moore, 1/2 cup of salad dressing = moore slaw
Mod parent up, but let me expand a little.
People, maybe even slashdotters, can create content deliverable over the one laptop per child (olpc). "how to build a solar still to provide drinking water, using a recycled trash bag."
"how to order child immunizations cheap from a veterinary medicine wholesaler"
"how to build a solar oven" "how to use a waterwheel to charge your laptop, distill and pump water, and run a pirate radio station." "seasteading for dummies" "microfinance brokerage services" "how to take back your government" "how to bounty hunt nigerian spammers for the organ trade" "camwhoring for survival" "roomba hacks for desert and jungle" "avoiding hiv and hepatitis"...
whatever it is that people want to do "instead" of the 1lpc can be done cheaper/better/faster "with" the 1lpc, at least to the point of having at least one per village. At some point you get diminishing returns, but meanwhile ubiquitous computing keeps getting cheaper smaller smarter, so the transition keeps spreading, and the spontaneously arising networks from the 1lpc help bring the singularity to your neighborhood.
I'm an aardvark. Aardvarks are the only living members of the tubilidentata family. Animals>things with backbones>mammals>tubilidentata>--->---->aardvarks . My nearest relatives are the elephants, 3 species, manatees and dugongs, 4 species,and hydrax, critters that look like rodents or lagomorphs but aren't. The elephants and manatees are endangered. There used to be mammoths (3,000 bc) and giant manatees (1750) but you guys ate them. Hurry up and get off our planet, wouldja? And maybe take us with you, mars might be fun.
In Morton Grove, 2 of 3 federal judges decided: a) that the state constitutional right to bear arms has weasel words tha tmake it unenforceable. (textually, they were right.) b) that only the supreme court has the authority to decide whether the second amendment is incorporated to the states, an issue which it has not revisited in 120 years, at a time when the first amendment was also not recognized as applying to the states. The rest of the opinion is just blather, "dicta",and is not the holding of the case. In the dicta, the court does get wrong Miller v US, which holds that before dismissing a case against a guy with a sawed-off shotgun, a hearing should be held to see if the shotgun is a militia weapon. (It is, as was shown by the use of the sawed-off shotgun against the Huk, Phillipene insurgents.) The Morton Grove court didn't understand that a pistol is a militia weapon - it is. For a better case on the role of the Second Amendment in the states, see Emerson http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Emer son and the dissents in silveira. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silveira_v._Lockyer. DC, however, is not in the states, so the second amendment issue is raised more directly. Morton Grove's dissent might also be worth noting. http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/c onlaw/quilici2.html
Mod parent up. In looking at the slashdot blurb, I wondered if the editors had screwed up that badly, writing FCC, when it sounded more like an FTC scam, so I checked and yeah it's FTC. I must be new here.
Slashdot Mirror
the opinion is here in pdf. here online commentary includes volokh
Zonk slightly edited my journal entry, which read:
Reuters reports that the 2nd circuit has struck down the FCC's rules on indecency, in a case brought by Fox. The court said the U.S. Federal Communications Commission was "arbitrary and capricious" in setting a new standard for defining indecency. Republican FCC Chairman Kevin Martin angrily retorted, "'shit' and 'fuck' bleep bleep children." The case is a victory for Nicole Richie and Bono and Cher, as some of the people Fox aired saying some of the 7 dirty words in casual conversation. No word yet on whether the agency will appeal.
http://svextra.com/blogs/gmsv/2007/05/star_wars_ep isode_vii_the_empire_wises_up.html
May 24, 2007
Star Wars Episode VII: The Empire Wises Up
George Lucas has always had an ambivalent attitude about all the creative fan activity that orbits around his "Star Wars" universe, embracing some that stays within the limits of homage, sending the legal storm troopers after any he feels damage the image or profit from his art, and generally guarding his properties like they were the plans for the Death Star. But starting tomorrow (cue brief, fair-use snippet of "Star Wars" theme music) there's a new hope.
As part of the 30th anniversary celebration for the first movie, Lucasfilm is making 250 clips from all six "Star Wars" movies available on its Starwars.com site, providing a set of drag-and-drop editing tools and telling fans to remix and mash up to their heart's content. Rework the wisdom of Yoda? Sure. Take your revenge on Jar Jar Binks? Have at it. As long as you don't try anything like hot Wookiee-on-Wookiee action, Lucasfilm doesn't mind (and there's a team of screeners in Costa Rica to filter out that stuff anyway). The mashups can then be posted on blogs or social network pages.
Attorney Discipline Board - State of Michigant ml
www.adbmich.org
http://www.agcmi.com/pages/RequestInvestigation.h
Kent County Assistant Prosecutor Lynn Hopkins
Village President
Leonard R. "Skip" Meyer II
spartapresident@charter.net
156 E. Division
Sparta, MI 49345
I'd submitted this story to slashdot earlier today,no luck.
Problem being, they have to do these experiments to get us off of the planet in the first place...
_ plans.html
That's Bezos. He said Bozos. I had to read it twice myself.
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/050701_bezos
One method of propulsion for spacecraft is to push them with lasers.
The advantages include not having to carry fuel with you.
I don't have enough of a handle on this new state of matter thingy to know if it's useful for that, but worth looking into further.
Is tfa claiming a 7th state of matter, where currently we have solid liquid gas plasma and two other kinds of rarely seen plasmas (earth water air fire thing 1 and thing 2)?
Obligatory: sharks....
* when you need to enter hand-written documents into a computer
* for transcripts of a single speaker
* informal free-thought when not surrounded by other people
* when you have horrible typing skills
You had me at "* when you have horrible typing skills".
Parent post mentions their 4 year old making pancakes.
At some point, most likely, you expect the kid is going to grow up and get better at making pancakes. There will be a learning curve. Maybe 4 is too young; I haven't met the kid. But part of the point of teaching a kid to make pancakes is to get the learning curve out of the way, so they can get better at it on their own time, preferably before they are 30.
My crude analogy is that a naturally speaking soft dragon is a bit like a 4 year old pancake maker. It can be worthwhile to get used to an imperfect tool now, so that you'll have the learning curve out of the way as the tool gets better over time.
Or it can be better to wait another year. Your mileage may vary.
Here's another potential application: Get the dragon for your kid. It may be useful as she or he learns to read and write.
I for one welcome our new naturally speaking dragon overlords.
I want the throat mike module, so that it types what I'm subvocalizing.
I'm hearing a business model here:
1 form a corp to offer voice to text software
2 wave hands
3. sell out to nuance
4......
Norm Zada
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Norm Zada (born Norman Zadeh) is the founder of Perfect 10, an adult magazine focusing on women without cosmetic surgery. Zada launched the magazine after a friend was rejected from Playboy magazine because her proportions did not fit the magazine's tastes. [1] He estimates losing approximately $46 million on Perfect 10 since 1996, when the magazine was published.
Recently, his magazine is the plaintiff in Perfect 10 v. Google, Inc., a lawsuit charging contributory copyright infringement through the search engine displaying thumbnails of Perfect 10 images hosted at unauthorized third-party sites. Other lawsuits Zada has filed involve adult verification system supplier Cybernet Ventures, from which he received a confidential settlement, and Visa and Mastercard, where he alleged that these credit card companies benefited from fees charged to access unauthorized material at third-party pay sites.[2]
Prior to starting Perfect 10, he obtained a doctorate in operations research at the University of California, Berkeley and worked at IBM and was an adjunct mathematics professor at Stanford University, Columbia University, UCLA, and UC Irvine, writing textbooks on computer science [3]. After teaching, he became a championship poker player and money manager. [4] Zadeh made headlines in 1996 when he offered $400,000 for anyone successfully refuting Zadeh's claim that balancing the United States federal budget would be an "economic disaster" [5].
He is the son of the creator of fuzzy logic, computer scientist Lofti Zadeh.
The slashdot summary: "google wins! score! yippee!"
_ Inc
TFA: Google wins part of nude-photo suit
Notice any difference?
TFA: But the three-judge panel handed Google a mixed victory. It sent the case back to the District Court to determine whether Google was indirectly liable for damages because it linked to websites that displayed Perfect 10's copyrighted images without permission.
A win like that would bankrupt most of us.
The coverage elsewhere has been more nuanced.
http://howappealing.law.com/051607.html#025351 points to EFF's collection of the documents in the case.
http://howappealing.law.com/051607.html#025364
Ok, WashPo is also reporting Google Wins.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_10_v._Google
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_10
+5 informative insightful boobies
"Why are people still deeply researching this? JFK is dead, so is Princess Diana, so is Elvis; the world is still spinning and everyone else has moved on. I don't understand, why are people concerned with this?"
In 1945, Hirohito made a speech that went something like this. "Look, I'm not really a god, I'm just this guy, y'know? We lost,and we have to surrender, and everything we've been telling you all your life was a lie." It was a big deal at the time; a major shift in perception for the Japanese culture.
In the Warren report, LBJ got caught lying to the American people about how JFK got whacked (probably by his mafia buddies, possibly with involvement from one or more intelligence agencies.) The term "credibility gap" was invented. It was a major shift in perception for the American culture. Previously, presidents and the government were held in high regard, omniscient, omnipotent, omnibenevolent.
There aren't many slashdot readers old enough to remember what that was like.
These days, we expect the government to lie to us, steal from us, massacre little brown civilians,and generally act like a tumor or parasite.
Sure, there are still millions in denial about the Clintons or the Bushes, but the general tone is one of healthy cynicism. The JFK cover-up was a turning point, so it remains important.
You don't have to be Chinese/Jewish or wait for Passover/Gnu Years to enjoy matzo balls. Matzo balls are delicious dumplings made from unleavened bread meal, usually served in broth or soup.
INGREDIENTS:
* 4 eggs or egg substitute
* 1/2 cup club soda
* 3 Tbsp vegetable oil
* 2 Tbsp finely chopped parsley
* Salt
* Freshly ground black pepper
* 1 cup matzo meal
PREPARATION:
Whisk the eggs until blended. Now add the club soda, vegetable oil or schmaltz, salt and pepper. Easy on the salt, you can always add but you can never take away.
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Blend in the parsley and matzo meal. Cover and refrigerate this mixture for about 1 hour.
Bring about 5 quarts of water to boil. Rub vegetable oil on hands and form matzo balls with about two tablespoons of mixture. Drop in boiling water and simmer covered and don't peek (okay, maybe once or twice) for about 25 to 35 minutes. Serve in broth, to which add 1/4 teaspoon red pepper and 2 tablespoons vinegar.
For matzoh-miso soup, use miso paste to make the broth.
It's ok to submit late comments. They are a little more free to ignore them and not respond to them, but they still get collected and read and are part of the process. So don't feel it's too late.
And it's not a dupe.
Oh, Slashdot has already covered the supernova, back in January.
not a dupe
What's new is the mainstream media like the new york times finding out about it.
"I'm wondering if it would be possible to win some money by countersuing the RIAA for damages caused by these ridiculous lawsuits. I'm guessing this isn't really possible, otherwise, there'd be an army of greedy lawyers filing these lawsuits."
m =204
Possible, yes, likely, not so much.
What follows is not legal advice, unless I've cashed your check at $235/hr.
It's a lot easier to file a state civil RICO counterclaim than to win one.
I've only ever filed one,and never won one.
It tends to be done for tactical reasons, and judges tend to be sceptical.
But if you are backed by somebody with deep pockets, it's a fun way to turn the tables.
If somebody hits me or my client with a bogus lawsuit, I will always look for a valid reason to file a counterclaim. It can be ethical for me to file a counterclaim, in situations where I wouldn't have brought an original lawsuit.
In the RIAA situation, I suspect the way to go is to accuse the plaintiffs' lawyers of RICO.
Then commence discovery, and publish everything you find online in an open source counterattack.
This isn't feasible for the little guy; you need to find an angel like EFF or such.
The settlement center thinks your case is worth about $3500 to them.
By filing and litigating counterclaims, not against the plaintiff but against the lawyer,
you redefine the business model.
However, this has risks as well. Say you depose the lawyers to learn what houses they own and what cars they drive, and post this online, and some idiot happens to firebomb one of those houses while it is empty some weekend. You might then be accused of terrorism. Something like this happened to the Huntington 7 and Rob Coronado, as described in an article "Green Scare."
http://lacitybeat.com/article.php?id=5450&IssueNu
So don't rush out and start filing state RICO claims based on a slashdot article. If you know someone (or can find someone) who is hit with a filesharing suit, find a pro bono backer like a big law firm or a university legal clinic,and do a feasibility study of whether a little RICO claim makes sense.
I'm just an aardvark. I was once footnoted in Abrams' treatise on civil RICO,and I'm the guy who submitted the Microsoft/Best Buy RICO story that ran recently, but I don't know much about this stuff.
http://wilwheaton.typepad.com/
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here's wil geeking out about being the headnoter,and getting a swag wii out of it.
so i'm going to be the keynote speaker at PAX . .
Back in February, I recounted the first time I met Gabe and Tycho from Penny Arcade at Comicon:
I have always enjoyed Penny Arcade, because -- like pVp and Dork Tower -- it has characters I can care about and relate to while I'm laughing at myself, or them, or (usually) both.
I talked to Gabe and Tycho for a few minutes that year, did the obligatory geek out, and then got out of the way, because there were literally hundreds of fans who wanted to meet them and give them money. I guess I made an impression on them, because they featured me in one of their comics, which Gabe or Tycho drew on the plane home, and sent me via e-mail (I can't remember who and it's not really important enough to unpack e-mail archives from that long ago to find out. Also if I'm vague enough about it, maybe one of them will ping me and put me in a new comic. How's that for attention whoring?! Very nice.)
Well, they didn't put me in a new cartoon (though I'll always have this one, sniff, sniff, wipe solitary tear off cheek) but they did something that's a little bit cooler and invited me to be the keynote speaker at the 2007 Penny Arcade Expo.
"You know this is Wil Wheaton the writer and occasional actor, and not the guy from Brother Bear," I said, certain that they'd asked the wrong guy.
They assured me, via their official organizer Robert, that it wasn't a mistake. They wanted me to come speak, play games, and listen to MC Frontalot and Jonathan Coulton, and OMFG THE MINIBOSSES.
So I picked myself up off the floor, and tried to talk them out of it.
"If you make this about me being on Star Trek," I said, "it's going to piss everyone off, and we'll get the obligatory flood of 'who is that?' and 'why does Star Trek matter to a game convention?' and 'I love bacon!'"
They assured me that their demographic is older than the typical bacon-loving, Wheaton-hating 20 year-old. This wasn't about Star Trek as much as it was about my very public love of gaming, and that I shouldn't be so goddamn insecure.
I actually had to think about it for a few days. I love Penny Arcade, and I wanted to be absolutely certain that I would entertain the people who were there with something that would be relevant to their lives.
A weekend passed, and I called Robert back.
"So here's the thing: Seattle is really close for me, so I can come up and back without missing anything important at home. I also know that there's a little over one hundred people who want me to come to Seattle, according to Eventful.
"I really want to do this, but I want to be absolutely sure that I'm going to be a good match for PAX. I don't play anything like World of Warcraft, and I haven't played anything like Halo since Half Life was new. What I know and love are classic arcade and console games." I said. "In fact, other than the GTA games and Guitar Hero, I really don't play anything you'd consider 'new.' Hell, I don't even have a next-generation console . . . though I've been trying to buy a Wii since they came out, because the Virtual Console is the most awesome th-"
"I can get you a Wii," Robert said.
I dropped the phone.
I picked up the phone.
"Sorry, I dropped the phone. Are you serious?"
"It's the least we can do."
"So you're telling me that, not only will I get a Wii, but . . . I'll get a Wii from Penny fucking Arcade?!"
"Something like that, yeah."
"Dude. Uh, yeah. That'll be awesome."
After a moment's silence, he said, "so do you want to come do PAX? We'll hook you up with the Wii either way."
"I'm really nervous about appealing to the audience," I said, "but I know that I can write something entertaining about classic arcades and the significance of consol
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Yikes. Nope.
2000 years later, the government turned wine into water.
See also cryptonomicon.
This was the first opinion, as far as I know and I follow this stuff,
to apply the Indiana constitution's free speech clause to the internet.
It might or might not be the first case dealing with whether any speech on myspace.com is constitutionally protected. Answer:yes.
Kudos to grandparent poster radarjd - he posted the opinion,
and the text of the speech in question. Mod upwards.
"Why it's Moore's Law a law? It just sounds like a theory to me, it just has been surprisingly accurate to date, that's all."
Theories that remain suprisingly accurate over time tend to be known as laws. Unlike, say, axioms, where one counterexample could break a paradigm, a law only has to work often enough to be useful. If a prediction works 95% of the time,and fails to account for 5% of the data, we can still call that a law. Feel free to call it Moore's pretty damn good conjecture. It's not intended to be rigorous,and we don't need to claim that that it will work for the next 10,000 years. It's enough to understand the general point that the cost of an information processing system is cut in half every two years or so by developing technology, and that can only have profound changes on culture and economy.
It's useful to be familar with a couple of additional concepts: 1) austrian economics, which shows how markets function to drive technological change,and how technological change functions to drive markets. 2) the singularity. aka "the rapture for nerds", the singularity
is the idea that the rate of technological change is speeding up, driving innovation in ever shorter cycles, in a hyperbolic curve (y=x squared), so that at some point, probably in this century, the rate of change will be going basicly straight up,and that on the other side of the singularity, things look weird.
So there are at least three options:
1) Moore's law is an overstatement in the long term. At some point physical limitations set in, the low hanging fruit has already been picked,and a new plateau is reached where the cost of information systems is low compared to today, but has leveled out and is no longer decreasing.
2) Moore's law will continue to be suprisingly accurate for many years to come.
The cost of information systems will keep decreasing by about half every two years,and that will continue to drive economic transformation and social change.
3) Moore's law is descriptive at the elbow of the curve, where we live now, but as change builds on change Moore's law will be found to be wildly conservative,and the cost of a given information system will drop by half in shorter and shorter cycles, until information system costs approach zero, with consequences that include AI, space travel, life extension,
gene hacking, and stuff we can barely imagine now.
As formally stated in terms of doubling of transisters on a chip, or in terms of the cost of a transister, per period of time, moore's law only applies to the time since the invention of the transister and some unknown point in the future at which it no longer applies, perhaps because we use something else besides transisters. It remains useful in describing the period
from about 1950 (or 1970) through 2007 up to at least until either limits are reached or the pre-singularity effects kick in and shorten the doubling time. I expect measurable pre-singularity effects by 2012. Some would argue Moore's law is itself an example of noticable pre-singularity effects.
4) two cups of Moore, 1/2 cup of salad dressing = moore slaw
Mod parent up, but let me expand a little. People, maybe even slashdotters, can create content deliverable over the one laptop per child (olpc). "how to build a solar still to provide drinking water, using a recycled trash bag." "how to order child immunizations cheap from a veterinary medicine wholesaler" "how to build a solar oven" "how to use a waterwheel to charge your laptop, distill and pump water, and run a pirate radio station." "seasteading for dummies" "microfinance brokerage services" "how to take back your government" "how to bounty hunt nigerian spammers for the organ trade" "camwhoring for survival" "roomba hacks for desert and jungle" "avoiding hiv and hepatitis"... whatever it is that people want to do "instead" of the 1lpc can be done cheaper/better/faster "with" the 1lpc, at least to the point of having at least one per village. At some point you get diminishing returns, but meanwhile ubiquitous computing keeps getting cheaper smaller smarter, so the transition keeps spreading, and the spontaneously arising networks from the 1lpc help bring the singularity to your neighborhood.
T: A handheld homemade pointing device. I'll call it the finger.
G: Does it fing?
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http://hornymanatee.com/ got three million hits this week.
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I'm an aardvark. Aardvarks are the only living members of the tubilidentata family.
Animals>things with backbones>mammals>tubilidentata>--->---->aardvark
My nearest relatives are the elephants, 3 species, manatees and dugongs, 4 species,and hydrax, critters that look like rodents or lagomorphs but aren't. The elephants and manatees are endangered.
There used to be mammoths (3,000 bc) and giant manatees (1750) but you guys ate them.
Hurry up and get off our planet, wouldja? And maybe take us with you, mars might be fun.
In Morton Grove, 2 of 3 federal judges decided:r son and the dissents in silveira.c onlaw/quilici2.html
a) that the state constitutional right to bear arms has weasel words tha tmake it unenforceable. (textually, they were right.)
b) that only the supreme court has the authority to decide whether the second amendment is incorporated to the states, an issue which it has not revisited in 120 years, at a time when the first amendment was also not recognized as applying to the states.
The rest of the opinion is just blather, "dicta",and is not the holding of the case.
In the dicta, the court does get wrong Miller v US, which holds that before dismissing a case against a guy with a sawed-off shotgun, a hearing should be held to see if the shotgun is a militia weapon. (It is, as was shown by the use of the sawed-off shotgun against the Huk, Phillipene insurgents.) The Morton Grove court didn't understand that a pistol is a militia weapon - it is.
For a better case on the role of the Second Amendment in the states, see Emerson
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Eme
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silveira_v._Lockyer.
DC, however, is not in the states, so the second amendment issue is raised more directly.
Morton Grove's dissent might also be worth noting.
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/
boingboing.net shows Barney getting his tail beat by some guy with a clever nick name, at an EFF function.
Mod parent up.
In looking at the slashdot blurb, I wondered if the editors had screwed up that badly, writing FCC, when it sounded more like an FTC scam, so I checked and yeah it's FTC.
I must be new here.