3 weeks from now, 3 months from now, 3 years from now, there will be another bill, people won't be on guard for it, and it will return.
Precisely. It's the same with the RIAA etc.: Corporations will just keep proposing bad things in new ways until they get implemented.
What we need is some kind of law limiting the consideration of ideas previously considered, no matter what form they take.
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Luke did mention that some flying through the deathstar's "canyons" would be just like some trick he did back home, if I recall correctly. Doesn't sound too appealing to me, but if they manage to pull off what Smallville did (INCLUDING the morality issues etc., that makes it interesting for me, and would be required for a Star Wars world to maintain the point) than I'd be happy with it.
On another note, the talk of how characters get together has some potential too... Han Solo and Chewbacca might be part of that, for a start.
Yes, KOrganizer is at LEAST as featureful as iCal was last time I looked, and it's much easier to use. It integrates very well with the rest of KDE, and links to KArm for tracking working times. The built-in project timelines (gannt charts) are pretty useful too.
However, I'd be willing to bet it could be done with less than whatever this technique requires. What they're doing is simulating an organic machine, which is a bit silly. All they need to do is simulate the equivalent higher-level stuff, that the organic machine does.
I mean, if you had an organic computer that plays tetris, and you wanted your x86 PC do to the same, you wouldn't start by simulating neurons. Instead, you would look at use-cases, and GUI, and start from there to build something similar in effect, but fundamentally different underneath.
Well, yes, I appreciate that. But there are a number of organisations involved, and I expect some of them will have screwed up their part of the technology at least a little bit. Hopefully there'll be loopholes that reduce the strength somewhat. Maybe it is a stretch, now that you mention it;)
Oops, wrong url. It's: OpenCores.
On another note, I wonder if, since I'm talking about chip designs, it would be possible to build a "fake" DRM chip, and sell it on a cheap PCI card, or something...?
Its all tainted at this point, unless you make your own.
Thankfully, there's still OpenCores, with ARM chip designs etc. for Free. Hopefully a few companies will see the sense in producing OpenCores chips, just like a few companies have seen the sense in producing Free Software.
Please don't play this card all the time. We hear it way too often in the Free Software/Open Source communities, and it's really quite silly.
The grandparent post asked if it would make more sense to do it another way. That's a perfectly valid and logical question. Either he's right, and it does make more sense, or he's wrong (for a variety of reasons), and it's best to keep it the way it is. None of these require one person to do it incorrectly, and another to do it properly later. With that kind of argument, you're simply defending bad solutions.
In this case, though, it's simply a misleading article summary.
I noticed on the diagram that the location of the London and New York server farms are called "Telehouse". Is this a fancy British word for a telecommunication building or am I just a stupid American?
Well, they are a television broadcasting company...
Same here. If the tabloids did indeed call them that for being the only news organisation with the guts to ask questions, then the tabloids have a very screwed up idea of journalism. If more organisations had asked more questions, we might not be sitting here wondering why our government is succeeding in blatantly lying to the people, even when evidence exists to prove that.
There are good reasons, though, why it's best to keep data files in straight XML text format. It eliminates the need to worry about machine architecture.
One of my favourite features of XML vs. binary application files is that, if you run diff on two XML files -- say, SVG drawings --, you can actually read how that drawing has been changed, just like with code or any other text file. It gets difficult to visualise on larger changes of course, but that's not unlike code either. I think, if people start noticing that aspect of XML file formats, and using it more, then there might come a time when we develop visual diff for XML etc.
Yes, I agree that there are exceptions, and even that those exceptions, if left unchecked, could undermine everything. Can we agree then, that the first stage in regulating society should be social education, expectations, and peer pressure, and etiquette, with legal measures and other "stick-based" approaches as secondary?
Well, my point is that a good society is almost self-regulating: people do the right thing because it's unthinkable that they wouldn't, and if they did, they would be social outcasts. That would still happen, with anonymous downloading, because friends would see the songs they've downloaded etc.
Wanting anonymity doesn't necessarily mean your doing something illegal.
No, it doesn't. But the vast, vast majority of people using a tool like this are doing so because it shields their illegal activities.
Well, another way of looking at it is that, when people are not under threat from the government, they choose to break the government's laws. To me, that indicates that the government needs to work better on implementing good laws, and helping people to understand respect for other members of society.
Anyone can choose to see this sort of thing as as an excuse to oppress people, but that's a pretty unhelpful attitude, when it comes to building a healthy society. Anonymity, in itself, is not the enemy. Rather, it's in important human right, which helps to protect other human rights. As I've mentioned above, it's also useful in guiding law makers to good solutions.
Hmm, that image says it's done with Maya and Photoshop, but doesn't give any details of how it was done. The background doors could have been done in Maya, with everything else based on manipulated photos.
Doesn't pumping up water from the ocean consume lots of energy?
No, it'll just change ocean currents and create a chain reaction that ends up affecting most of the creatures in the ocean. No biggie;)
This idea is about as good as the wind or wave power ones, that are seen as "free", just as coal once was, but will slow the currents of air and water around our planet by definition.
With Gnutella/Kazaa, you don't have any assurance, hence the problem with fake files.
I have no such problem with Gnutella. I chose a client with decent filtering, and I know how to use it. The same can be added to any other p2p search tool, if not something better like distributed authentication/voting.
It's free software, so the MPAA can't remove it from circulation by intimidating the author. At best (from the MPAA's perspective), it would slow development. At worst, it would land them in lots of legal trouble for false accusations etc., and fracture bittorrent into even more seperate projects that develop in parallel and share new ideas.
Efforts to turn a great distributed download acceleration technology into a shady decentralized p2p search and file sharing system like Kazaa are bearing fruit.
Or, depending on how you look at it, propaganda designed to portray modern social tools as "shady" are becoming more popular among those who don't understand the issues.
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Precisely. It's the same with the RIAA etc.: Corporations will just keep proposing bad things in new ways until they get implemented.
What we need is some kind of law limiting the consideration of ideas previously considered, no matter what form they take.
Luke did mention that some flying through the deathstar's "canyons" would be just like some trick he did back home, if I recall correctly. Doesn't sound too appealing to me, but if they manage to pull off what Smallville did (INCLUDING the morality issues etc., that makes it interesting for me, and would be required for a Star Wars world to maintain the point) than I'd be happy with it. On another note, the talk of how characters get together has some potential too... Han Solo and Chewbacca might be part of that, for a start.
Nope. Leia always was, and always will be, one-dimensional.
And what conclusion would you plan to draw from the fact that something never existed?
Yes, KOrganizer is at LEAST as featureful as iCal was last time I looked, and it's much easier to use. It integrates very well with the rest of KDE, and links to KArm for tracking working times. The built-in project timelines (gannt charts) are pretty useful too.
That may not be a real-time simulation.
However, I'd be willing to bet it could be done with less than whatever this technique requires. What they're doing is simulating an organic machine, which is a bit silly. All they need to do is simulate the equivalent higher-level stuff, that the organic machine does.
I mean, if you had an organic computer that plays tetris, and you wanted your x86 PC do to the same, you wouldn't start by simulating neurons. Instead, you would look at use-cases, and GUI, and start from there to build something similar in effect, but fundamentally different underneath.
On P2P anonymity... how do you think would that work? I would have thought it would do the opposite.
Well, yes, I appreciate that. But there are a number of organisations involved, and I expect some of them will have screwed up their part of the technology at least a little bit. Hopefully there'll be loopholes that reduce the strength somewhat. Maybe it is a stretch, now that you mention it ;)
Oops, wrong url. It's: OpenCores. On another note, I wonder if, since I'm talking about chip designs, it would be possible to build a "fake" DRM chip, and sell it on a cheap PCI card, or something...?
Hopefully this will lead to the true "next generation" of P2P apps: net-wide distributed decryption tools.
Please don't play this card all the time. We hear it way too often in the Free Software/Open Source communities, and it's really quite silly.
The grandparent post asked if it would make more sense to do it another way. That's a perfectly valid and logical question. Either he's right, and it does make more sense, or he's wrong (for a variety of reasons), and it's best to keep it the way it is. None of these require one person to do it incorrectly, and another to do it properly later. With that kind of argument, you're simply defending bad solutions.
In this case, though, it's simply a misleading article summary.
Same here. If the tabloids did indeed call them that for being the only news organisation with the guts to ask questions, then the tabloids have a very screwed up idea of journalism. If more organisations had asked more questions, we might not be sitting here wondering why our government is succeeding in blatantly lying to the people, even when evidence exists to prove that.
I've never noticed such a bias, and I've been looking. Examples?
Yes, I agree that there are exceptions, and even that those exceptions, if left unchecked, could undermine everything. Can we agree then, that the first stage in regulating society should be social education, expectations, and peer pressure, and etiquette, with legal measures and other "stick-based" approaches as secondary?
Well, my point is that a good society is almost self-regulating: people do the right thing because it's unthinkable that they wouldn't, and if they did, they would be social outcasts. That would still happen, with anonymous downloading, because friends would see the songs they've downloaded etc.
Well, another way of looking at it is that, when people are not under threat from the government, they choose to break the government's laws. To me, that indicates that the government needs to work better on implementing good laws, and helping people to understand respect for other members of society.
Anyone can choose to see this sort of thing as as an excuse to oppress people, but that's a pretty unhelpful attitude, when it comes to building a healthy society. Anonymity, in itself, is not the enemy. Rather, it's in important human right, which helps to protect other human rights. As I've mentioned above, it's also useful in guiding law makers to good solutions.
Hmm, that image says it's done with Maya and Photoshop, but doesn't give any details of how it was done. The background doors could have been done in Maya, with everything else based on manipulated photos.
No, it'll just change ocean currents and create a chain reaction that ends up affecting most of the creatures in the ocean. No biggie
This idea is about as good as the wind or wave power ones, that are seen as "free", just as coal once was, but will slow the currents of air and water around our planet by definition.
It's free software, so the MPAA can't remove it from circulation by intimidating the author. At best (from the MPAA's perspective), it would slow development. At worst, it would land them in lots of legal trouble for false accusations etc., and fracture bittorrent into even more seperate projects that develop in parallel and share new ideas.
Or, depending on how you look at it, propaganda designed to portray modern social tools as "shady" are becoming more popular among those who don't understand the issues.