isn't that exactly the problem? that there is no unified front? no 'single entity'?
for wikipedia, it's perfectly possible (and I would be shocked if it wasn't the case) that -by the nature of group design- there are thousands of contradictions - any time there's an overlap in article content, you're mostly going to have more than one person's opinions, and however objective their intentions, there are going to be difference in approach, knowledge, background, etc.
Without a consistent approach, like what is starting to happen with wikipedia, and what has happened with open source giants like linux and mysql (and I would add openOffice and a gazillion more), you just get a mess of undirected evolution rather than, erm, intelligent design. (connotations of phrasing unintentional).
But I would question the implication that from chaos nothing ordered can come; it surely doesn't follow that given good leadership, a good product will ensue. I think the main reason these projects have been successful is yes partly due to the leadership (read: long term vision, unity, community), but also due to the fact that they are inherently good ideas; people *want* to help, and moreover, intelligent and skilled people, working for passion not cash. I think that's the real reason so many open source projects (which have good ideas behind them) take off...
hmm. talking of how something unfocused can produce nonsense.. well, you just read a great example.:-)
bacteria evolve much faster than (any?) other lifeform(s?).
by the time they get from hot to cold, the ones who survived the heat would be long turned into bacteria myth, then bacteria religion, then that bacteria civilisation would die and new bacteria-heros be born under a new regime, and so on and on and on, until even the bacteria who forgot the old stories about extreme heat had themselves been forgotten.
try searching for a term (any term) between the US and US versions (or any other country and itself), not only are the number of results radically different in some cases, but the tag clouds are also often totally different. How are we supposed to "explore the differences in the results returned by different countries' versions of the major search engines" (TFA) if the results returned by identical countries' versions of the major search engines are not the same?
seems from this that the results returned by this site are somewhat arbitrary, and certainly useless for it's purported purpose...
this has been going on since at least 2003. maybe someone should start a website listing those links removed by google* because of DMCA or other censorship issues.
in fact i may do so. please send info to [my/. username]@gmail.com with "dmca" in the subject line. anyone interested in this potential project can also contact me there. Hey, we might even be able to ----------- the rest of this message has been removed due to a DMCA complaint, pre-emptively recognising the potential legal problems.
"Copyright laws are being enforced and upheld in countries all over the world and when you facilitate the illegal file swapping of millions of people around the world, you are subject to those laws", (said MPAA spokeswoman Kori Bernards)
so ISPs are liable? computer manufacturers are liable? the guy who designed your file system? soundcard makers? video cards? screens?
of course, it all depends how far you're willing to take 'facilitating', but that statement just sounds dodgy, especially considering they're talking about applying US law internationally...
so... when the aliens finally meet up with us, the first words between our race and theirs will be a notification of patent infringement and intent to sue said little green men for every neutrino core they've got...:-)
You're seriously telling me that Symantec just added up the number of times a flaw was labelled "critical" by the owning company of the product, and based their 'report' on that - wtf?
I mean, *I* could have done that. When I hear that one of the leading security companies has issued a report on the security of two competing products, I assume that they've actually evaluated those products, rather than just spat back the company literature.
My already little faith in the company that brought us Norton has sunk lower still.
thinking of delays, there are some ATMs that are still on dial-up. Seriously, you can hear my local one in Lampeter talking modem screech to the bank. I often wonder how much info you can gather from the screeches. Certainly phone number....username and password?
This is ridiculous! Do they really expect people to not play quake or read/. during class. Also, expect lessons to be punctutated with that annoying 'DING!' alert box noise every few minutes. I just don't understand; they ban cellphones because they're disruptive, but now -require- laptops... wtf?
I often wonder the same; IANAP, but it seem Quantum theories may be able to explain how it is that three weeks after wondering about something, the answer just pops into my head.. my brain has been busy pondering in the background while I've been doing other things. perhaps Quantum theories can also explain how all my memories actually fit in my head..
well done, you're doing *really* well, google, as you sit on tens of billions, why not unload some of your spare change to make it seem like you're not so bad after all.
reminds of the parable of the rich man in the temple (paraphrased awful, christians: i apologise); he gives 5 huge gold coins to the collection plate, whereas some other dude just gives a penny. The Big J asks 'who gave more', and everyone says t'was the flashy guy with the rolex who gave 5 huge gold coins.
But no! t'was in fact the scrawny dude, because all he had was that penny.
google is not the scrawny dude any more. sure, it's good that they're giving something, but if they really cared, if it wasn't just a publicity stunt, they could stand to give more.
(let the karma eating begin:) I'm in a bad mood today. Don't take anything I say as a serious reflection of my personal views. really.)
"Why in the hell do people do shit like this and PUBLICIZE it?" - so that the good guys are aware of the problem and can fix it. Would you rather he published it on an underground black hat mailing list or on his public website where the issue can become quickly well known?
"I'm all for the freedom to write software like this but shit, you have to be smart about it." he actually only released a program that reports how many files could be copied. The downloadable doesn't actually copy anything. It's a proof-of-concept, not an actual example. This is "being smart about it".
I heard about a guy who made a lego/mechano robot to automatically change cds from one pile to another every X minutes, via the CD drive. If you're programming is OK I imagine it'd be a fun way of doing it. Sorry, I don't have schematics.
Under UK law, you cannot consent to injury, with the exception being in sporting circumstances. IANAL (but my gf did get 100% in an A level law exam once)
IANAL, but AFAIK under UK law: Assault is simply to cause fear (shouting "i'm gonna kill you") Battery is to cause fear, coupled with physical contact (the above, plus tapping on the shoulder) ABH is assault plus a more serious injury, EG: punching several times GBH is ABH but with bloodshed.
so involuntary RFID injection would count as GBH, which is only 2 offences down from murder (murder=killing with intent to kill, manslaughter=killing with intent to cause GBH)
PS: Do i get an award for most TLA or other acronyms used in one post?
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from tfa: "Users who come across documents they feel are inappropriately released may contact the responsible officers at..."
so now they're relying on users to filter sensetive information for them?
this whole thing is just odd.
Vista's anti spyware tools will put anti spyware companies out of business just like XP's firewall has put zone labs out of business... hang on...
isn't that exactly the problem? that there is no unified front? no 'single entity'?
:-)
for wikipedia, it's perfectly possible (and I would be shocked if it wasn't the case) that -by the nature of group design- there are thousands of contradictions - any time there's an overlap in article content, you're mostly going to have more than one person's opinions, and however objective their intentions, there are going to be difference in approach, knowledge, background, etc.
Without a consistent approach, like what is starting to happen with wikipedia, and what has happened with open source giants like linux and mysql (and I would add openOffice and a gazillion more), you just get a mess of undirected evolution rather than, erm, intelligent design. (connotations of phrasing unintentional).
But I would question the implication that from chaos nothing ordered can come; it surely doesn't follow that given good leadership, a good product will ensue. I think the main reason these projects have been successful is yes partly due to the leadership (read: long term vision, unity, community), but also due to the fact that they are inherently good ideas; people *want* to help, and moreover, intelligent and skilled people, working for passion not cash. I think that's the real reason so many open source projects (which have good ideas behind them) take off...
hmm. talking of how something unfocused can produce nonsense.. well, you just read a great example.
bacteria evolve much faster than (any?) other lifeform(s?).
by the time they get from hot to cold, the ones who survived the heat would be long turned into bacteria myth, then bacteria religion, then that bacteria civilisation would die and new bacteria-heros be born under a new regime, and so on and on and on, until even the bacteria who forgot the old stories about extreme heat had themselves been forgotten.
Am I the only one who (for a second) thought that google were actually beginning construction of their other base
yeah, I think it was just a temporary glitch, because I haven't been able to replicate the problem since. my bad.
try searching for a term (any term) between the US and US versions (or any other country and itself), not only are the number of results radically different in some cases, but the tag clouds are also often totally different.
How are we supposed to "explore the differences in the results returned by different countries' versions of the major search engines" (TFA) if the results returned by identical countries' versions of the major search engines are not the same?
seems from this that the results returned by this site are somewhat arbitrary, and certainly useless for it's purported purpose...
weird.
*=and other search engines later, but it's probably best to start with google. especially considering that, eg, yahoo doesn't give similar notices.
try also: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=kazaalite &btnG=Search
/. username]@gmail.com with "dmca" in the subject line. anyone interested in this potential project can also contact me there. Hey, we might even be able to
this has been going on since at least 2003. maybe someone should start a website listing those links removed by google* because of DMCA or other censorship issues.
in fact i may do so. please send info to [my
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the rest of this message has been removed due to a DMCA complaint, pre-emptively recognising the potential legal problems.
from tfa:
"Copyright laws are being enforced and upheld in countries all over the world and when you facilitate the illegal file swapping of millions of people around the world, you are subject to those laws", (said MPAA spokeswoman Kori Bernards)
so ISPs are liable?
computer manufacturers are liable?
the guy who designed your file system?
soundcard makers? video cards? screens?
of course, it all depends how far you're willing to take 'facilitating', but that statement just sounds dodgy, especially considering they're talking about applying US law internationally...
so... when the aliens finally meet up with us, the first words between our race and theirs will be a notification of patent infringement and intent to sue said little green men for every neutrino core they've got... :-)
that's a fair comment.
You're seriously telling me that Symantec just added up the number of times a flaw was labelled "critical" by the owning company of the product, and based their 'report' on that - wtf?
I mean, *I* could have done that. When I hear that one of the leading security companies has issued a report on the security of two competing products, I assume that they've actually evaluated those products, rather than just spat back the company literature.
My already little faith in the company that brought us Norton has sunk lower still.
thinking of delays, there are some ATMs that are still on dial-up. Seriously, you can hear my local one in Lampeter talking modem screech to the bank.
I often wonder how much info you can gather from the screeches. Certainly phone number....username and password?
except that MAC addresses can be changed, despite myths to the contrary:e up.asp
http://www.gorlani.com/publicprj/macmakeup/macmak
This is ridiculous! Do they really expect people to not play quake or read /. during class. Also, expect lessons to be punctutated with that annoying 'DING!' alert box noise every few minutes. I just don't understand; they ban cellphones because they're disruptive, but now -require- laptops... wtf?
it's used in legal fields to denote a loophole in the law. I think this is the sense intended above.
I often wonder the same; IANAP, but it seem Quantum theories may be able to explain how it is that three weeks after wondering about something, the answer just pops into my head.. my brain has been busy pondering in the background while I've been doing other things. perhaps Quantum theories can also explain how all my memories actually fit in my head..
well done, you're doing *really* well, google, as you sit on tens of billions, why not unload some of your spare change to make it seem like you're not so bad after all.
:) I'm in a bad mood today. Don't take anything I say as a serious reflection of my personal views. really.)
reminds of the parable of the rich man in the temple (paraphrased awful, christians: i apologise); he gives 5 huge gold coins to the collection plate, whereas some other dude just gives a penny. The Big J asks 'who gave more', and everyone says t'was the flashy guy with the rolex who gave 5 huge gold coins.
But no! t'was in fact the scrawny dude, because all he had was that penny.
google is not the scrawny dude any more. sure, it's good that they're giving something, but if they really cared, if it wasn't just a publicity stunt, they could stand to give more.
(let the karma eating begin
I wonder if, when applying for an ID card, Chinese citizens were told their faces might be scanned and used for a future project such as this.
I also wonder if my UK driving license photo was scanned by my government for similar purposes.
Additionally, I wonder if I could copyright or trademark my face, or at least facial features such as those that would be used by this type of system.
Finally, I wonder if the systems are really that reliable, given the pretty bad track record that fingerprinting systems have.
All your face are belong to us
:-)
muhahah
"Why in the hell do people do shit like this and PUBLICIZE it?"
- so that the good guys are aware of the problem and can fix it. Would you rather he published it on an underground black hat mailing list or on his public website where the issue can become quickly well known?
"I'm all for the freedom to write software like this but shit, you have to be smart about it."
he actually only released a program that reports how many files could be copied. The downloadable doesn't actually copy anything. It's a proof-of-concept, not an actual example. This is "being smart about it".
I heard about a guy who made a lego/mechano robot to automatically change cds from one pile to another every X minutes, via the CD drive. If you're programming is OK I imagine it'd be a fun way of doing it. Sorry, I don't have schematics.
Under UK law, you cannot consent to injury, with the exception being in sporting circumstances. IANAL (but my gf did get 100% in an A level law exam once)
IANAL, but AFAIK under UK law:
Assault is simply to cause fear (shouting "i'm gonna kill you")
Battery is to cause fear, coupled with physical contact (the above, plus tapping on the shoulder)
ABH is assault plus a more serious injury, EG: punching several times
GBH is ABH but with bloodshed.
so involuntary RFID injection would count as GBH, which is only 2 offences down from murder (murder=killing with intent to kill, manslaughter=killing with intent to cause GBH)
PS: Do i get an award for most TLA or other acronyms used in one post?