So who is going to sue me when I design a gene to make Avastin and Herceptin? This will be the real test of our obsolete intellectual property regime, when the medical establishment's equivalent of the RIAA/MPAA sues cancer patients for synthesizing their own drugs, like the music industry is now suing your neighbor's kids.
It must be Friday night. Nobody even bothered to RTFA.
Parent is correct. There are a sad few who continually distract the police, and make them come over repeatedly, wasting their time when they could be doing useful work like patrolling the streets at 2:00am looking for people causing trouble in YOUR neighborhood. I'm not saying it's a good idea to require the habitual troublemakers to install security cameras that allow remote monitoring.
What kind of neighborhoods do you people live in? I live in a sort of dodgy suburban area, and when I'm up at 3:00am and surveying my street from the front or back porch, I wave to the police, I appreciate that they're driving around looking for trouble at 3 in the morning, and they tend to wave back. We're keeping an eye on each other, and we both know it. They're out there when I'm not. And I like having a local police car drive randomly around my neighborhood at 3am. They're not out to get me. My property taxes pay their salaries, and they know it.
No problem. I won't be ripping any RIAA members' CDs because I AM NOT GOING TO BUY ANY CDs FROM THEM ANYMORE. I've had it with the suing of grandmothers and shortchanging of artists.
They can whine all they want about me ripping what I already own. Whatever.
Dead Record Industry, You've done a great job connecting with your customers. Promote those VPs who advocated this sort of crap, so the entire broken godforsaken industry can rot away faster....
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Said the user with the name quokkapox. I wonder how many people outside of Australia even know what quokkas are. So, that narrows it down to about 20 million people.
As I've said elsewhere on the net, I'm not the quokkapox from Australia (apparently someone else was using that handle before I adopted it, unbeknownst to me). That narrows it down to America, where I'm from and itchin' to leave RSN.
Or maybe I'm just lying.
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As much as we all have loved them we need to accept that the glory days of the internet being a warm protective cloak of anonymity are coming to an end, much in the way that "mundane less adventurous settlers" made law enforcement tame the wild west.
Speak for yourself. I am warm and comfortable in my own cloak of anonymity, with my own level of protection, and I realize that one simple mistake could compromise one of my identities, and possibly my entire house of cards. It's complicated, but you can remain anonymous on the internet.
It takes some effort to do it properly, just like anything else in this world.
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No, it's not. My family/friends/neighbours don't know I was looking up -- well, never mind what I was looking up, but they don't know about it. So Google knows about it, and Google ties it to my IP address. Now if they wanted to they could go to the ISP, and get my name and address. Or I guess the ISP could be monitoring me.
But it's not the same as asking the world something, it's more like asking a particular person. Specifically, it's like asking someone you don't know.
What's the difference? Well I don't care if Google knows what I was searching for, it doesn't embarass me. If people I knew knew what I was searching for, it would be a different story completely.
You're interacting with the Internet community by asking for search results. That makes your request a public act, akin to posting a request on a bulletin board, please call 555-1234 with information about xyz. It's just more efficient when there's a company that has already indexed all the answers.
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People need to understand the fact that executing a search on the Internet is akin to yelling out to the world, "Hey world, tell me everything you know about xyz".
You cannot expect the people who hear your call and help to fulfill your request to not make a note of it, and possibly associate your request with your current IP address.
Sorry, but the new paradigm is designed to exclude the individual inventor from profiting.
Don't worry, this won't last long because the revolution is imminent.
We (the people of the world) are all simply going to ignore IP law. And we'll share our knowledge over the Internet. With technology designed and manufactured IN YOUR FACE.
The world is changing, either get with it or get left behind.
s it a boondoggle to set hard goals? If man is going to have a presence in space then we need to start the work now.
No, but let's instead set goals that leverage our current expertise. WE seem to be getting good at sending robotic spacecraft. Let's do that 10x better, and reap the 10x benefits of that, rather than waste the same money planting another flag on the moon. I hate to be cynical, but the ISS project has been a disaster. What if we had put that money to work exploring Mars robotically? We'd today have rovers that left Spirit and Opportunity in the dust. Sure, the ISS makes for great political soundbites but how has it really advanced practical rocket science and engineering?
Sometimes good science requires setting and then obtaining goals that others find silly or wasteful.
Indeed, we cannot really know what we are doing when we're doing it. But we could direct our efforts toward incrementally improving our current knowledge and getting better at doing things gradually. Isn't that how the Internet seems to have developed? Grand schemes (IPV6?) are sometimes distracting, no?
Thats right, lets never go anywhere. How about we explore Antarctica with robots while we are at it. Much cheaper in the long run. Find a rock you can't climb to the top of: send a better robot next year.
It's cheaper to send humans to explore Antarctica than to develop robots to do the same work. So we should send people. For now.
But it's (now) cheaper to send robots to explore Mars than to develop robotic spacecraft that happen to safely (according to NASA's definition of "safety") carry humans along with them. So we should send robots. For now.
I'm sorry, some people (not slashdot people, I know) want to do more than sit on their backsides for their entire life. Some of us were born to go places.
I'd rather go after the robots have scouted things out and have given us good enough reasons to go in the first place. Robots are cheap. Let's make lots of them and send them in our stead. And learn something in the process that will help us get there more likely intact, and in person.
An investment in human exploration requires allocation of so many resources to preservation of human life. THose resources could be used to improve the robots that go ahead of us. That kind of research will benefit everyone more economically in the long run. I don't want to be a hero and die young on Mars, if I or my children could live there more productively somewhat later.
Could we please focus on robotic exploration of the greater solar system, for now? It's cheaper, safer, and it stimulates development of better robots and computers that drive them. It's cheaper to send multiple generations of machines than one generation of manned spacecraft.
We're having enough trouble convincing ourselves to keep Hubble (a robot currently in orbit) operational.
You kicked out that nitwit, an encouraging step. Now defy Bush's grand plan for the boondoggle of manned Mars exploration and keep doing good science.
I long for a method of joining objects using fabric hook-and-loop fasteners. I'd even settle for some delicious nutrient-rich orange drink. Where are our priorities?
It is interesting to note that the human race has three primary races -- the mongol, the negro, and the anglo -- and Noah is said to have had three sons, each of which could have had their own dominant genes.
Sorry, but an absurd claim like this one undermines your credibility.
Are you aware of the state of modern genetic research into human ancestry? Do you think your claim will hold up in the face of new experiments?
Race is a joke. Woohoo, we all have lighter or darker skin, facial features, maybe some other minor physiological variations like digestive enzymes adapted to local environment. Whatever.
Any further distinction is cultural. If you think we're more different than that, you really need to get out and meet more people. We're all pretty much the same.
Racists piss me off. They are detrimental to our species.
If they're really doing that, then why don't you document it, get some corroborating reports, and go public with it. Put up an article about this alleged practice on Wikipedia. Other people will investigate it and bring any wrongdoing to light.
IP must be protected at all costs; we cannot have people manufacturing patented and copyrighted molecules on their desktops like we have people irresponsibly trading copyrighted intellectual property (books, movies, and music) today.
The real question I have, is why haven't they been repeated? If the original perpetrator has not been caught, why haven't they sent out more anthrax? Did they just exhaust the original supply? If one goal of Al Qaida is to disrupt the U.S. economy, surely they could do so by mailing more anthrax letters. But they haven't done so. Very suspicious.
The idea is that they pay normal people to share their own access points (or in the case of "linuses", access is given out for free). While there may be wireless access available in alot of locations, if everybody who has an access point were to offer it, there would be alot more coverage.
Think about the residential areas where there isn't a borders or starbucks nearby: You could connect to a "bill" access point hosted by your average joe (provided you bought the subscription), bill gets paid, and google gets paid. While one may think that google is getting something for nothing, it offers a universal payment scheme for residential access points everywhere.
All this and I didn't even RTFA.
Hardly anybody RTFA.
Mesh networks with multiple outlets to the general Internet threaten the entire status quo; the telecom companies fear this and that is exactly why we all need to promote it. Your ability to get your bits in and out of your neighborhood network is terrifying to the established telecom monopolies as well as the giant media companies. This is what we have to work to implement immediately.
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So who is going to sue me when I design a gene to make Avastin and Herceptin? This will be the real test of our obsolete intellectual property regime, when the medical establishment's equivalent of the RIAA/MPAA sues cancer patients for synthesizing their own drugs, like the music industry is now suing your neighbor's kids.
Because "Reality TV" (COPS) does not represent actual reality?
Parent is correct. There are a sad few who continually distract the police, and make them come over repeatedly, wasting their time when they could be doing useful work like patrolling the streets at 2:00am looking for people causing trouble in YOUR neighborhood. I'm not saying it's a good idea to require the habitual troublemakers to install security cameras that allow remote monitoring.
What kind of neighborhoods do you people live in? I live in a sort of dodgy suburban area, and when I'm up at 3:00am and surveying my street from the front or back porch, I wave to the police, I appreciate that they're driving around looking for trouble at 3 in the morning, and they tend to wave back. We're keeping an eye on each other, and we both know it. They're out there when I'm not. And I like having a local police car drive randomly around my neighborhood at 3am. They're not out to get me. My property taxes pay their salaries, and they know it.
I have to wonder, how many people in China are actually unaware of what happened there?
They can whine all they want about me ripping what I already own. Whatever.
Dead Record Industry, You've done a great job connecting with your customers. Promote those VPs who advocated this sort of crap, so the entire broken godforsaken industry can rot away faster....
As I've said elsewhere on the net, I'm not the quokkapox from Australia (apparently someone else was using that handle before I adopted it, unbeknownst to me). That narrows it down to America, where I'm from and itchin' to leave RSN.
Or maybe I'm just lying.
Speak for yourself. I am warm and comfortable in my own cloak of anonymity, with my own level of protection, and I realize that one simple mistake could compromise one of my identities, and possibly my entire house of cards. It's complicated, but you can remain anonymous on the internet.
It takes some effort to do it properly, just like anything else in this world.
You're interacting with the Internet community by asking for search results. That makes your request a public act, akin to posting a request on a bulletin board, please call 555-1234 with information about xyz. It's just more efficient when there's a company that has already indexed all the answers.
You cannot expect the people who hear your call and help to fulfill your request to not make a note of it, and possibly associate your request with your current IP address.
"Discabled"? or maybe even "Differently Cabled"? Or are you intellectually crippled?
I've got a little karma to spare. Slashdot can be fun :)
Don't worry, this won't last long because the revolution is imminent.
We (the people of the world) are all simply going to ignore IP law. And we'll share our knowledge over the Internet. With technology designed and manufactured IN YOUR FACE.
The world is changing, either get with it or get left behind.
This is "it".
No, but let's instead set goals that leverage our current expertise. WE seem to be getting good at sending robotic spacecraft. Let's do that 10x better, and reap the 10x benefits of that, rather than waste the same money planting another flag on the moon. I hate to be cynical, but the ISS project has been a disaster. What if we had put that money to work exploring Mars robotically? We'd today have rovers that left Spirit and Opportunity in the dust. Sure, the ISS makes for great political soundbites but how has it really advanced practical rocket science and engineering?
Sometimes good science requires setting and then obtaining goals that others find silly or wasteful.
Indeed, we cannot really know what we are doing when we're doing it. But we could direct our efforts toward incrementally improving our current knowledge and getting better at doing things gradually. Isn't that how the Internet seems to have developed? Grand schemes (IPV6?) are sometimes distracting, no?
It's cheaper to send humans to explore Antarctica than to develop robots to do the same work. So we should send people. For now.
But it's (now) cheaper to send robots to explore Mars than to develop robotic spacecraft that happen to safely (according to NASA's definition of "safety") carry humans along with them. So we should send robots. For now.
I'm sorry, some people (not slashdot people, I know) want to do more than sit on their backsides for their entire life. Some of us were born to go places.
I'd rather go after the robots have scouted things out and have given us good enough reasons to go in the first place. Robots are cheap. Let's make lots of them and send them in our stead. And learn something in the process that will help us get there more likely intact, and in person.
An investment in human exploration requires allocation of so many resources to preservation of human life. THose resources could be used to improve the robots that go ahead of us. That kind of research will benefit everyone more economically in the long run. I don't want to be a hero and die young on Mars, if I or my children could live there more productively somewhat later.
We're having enough trouble convincing ourselves to keep Hubble (a robot currently in orbit) operational.
You kicked out that nitwit, an encouraging step. Now defy Bush's grand plan for the boondoggle of manned Mars exploration and keep doing good science.
I long for a method of joining objects using fabric hook-and-loop fasteners. I'd even settle for some delicious nutrient-rich orange drink. Where are our priorities?
Sorry, but an absurd claim like this one undermines your credibility.
Are you aware of the state of modern genetic research into human ancestry? Do you think your claim will hold up in the face of new experiments?
Race is a joke. Woohoo, we all have lighter or darker skin, facial features, maybe some other minor physiological variations like digestive enzymes adapted to local environment. Whatever.
Any further distinction is cultural. If you think we're more different than that, you really need to get out and meet more people. We're all pretty much the same.
Racists piss me off. They are detrimental to our species.
If they're really doing that, then why don't you document it, get some corroborating reports, and go public with it. Put up an article about this alleged practice on Wikipedia. Other people will investigate it and bring any wrongdoing to light.
I hereby nominate you for the Slashdot Most Incoherent Post award for today, February 7, 2006.
Discuss. :)
The real question I have, is why haven't they been repeated? If the original perpetrator has not been caught, why haven't they sent out more anthrax? Did they just exhaust the original supply? If one goal of Al Qaida is to disrupt the U.S. economy, surely they could do so by mailing more anthrax letters. But they haven't done so. Very suspicious.
Or there maybe could be something to this new "Theory" of "Evolution".
How many more of these discoveries do we need before the fanatics finally give it up?
Tree Kangaroos. Five hundred previously unknown plant species. Wow. Just wow.
You are slightly mistaken -- you are sharing your WiFi with anyone who wants Internet access and is motivated enough to crack your meager security.
All this and I didn't even RTFA.
Hardly anybody RTFA. Mesh networks with multiple outlets to the general Internet threaten the entire status quo; the telecom companies fear this and that is exactly why we all need to promote it. Your ability to get your bits in and out of your neighborhood network is terrifying to the established telecom monopolies as well as the giant media companies. This is what we have to work to implement immediately.