if you were to send three bogus DMCA takedown notices to the ISP CEO's home--or to their home office--they would notice the fact that it's a crime and cry foul
Or have you arrested and continue, blinded by rage.
Of course, but who writes complicated programs (as opposed to simple neural net programs, for instance) where the core principles are input data? Not saying it's impossible, but show me an AI that takes its fundamental ideas as input, or an accounting app that takes the debit/credit terms as input, and accomplishes something reasonably comparable to the state of the art in that field, and I'll be quite impressed.
You're assuming there's no programming for each label. It's easy to switch "debit" and "credit" columns on a financial application, but it's not so easy to change all the code and assumptions that go with them.
Yes, but if you're going to claim to know something about the law, it helps if you can pick some arbitrary criterion for why your rule works. In other words:
"Patent claims tend to fail 90% of the time" is factually incorrect.
But:
"Patent claims by trolls tend to fail 90% of the time." is so fuzzy that no one can dispute it.
No, that's my point. Capitalism in itself isn't such a bad idea. How it's been implemented by selfish companies using advertising and other tactics to manipulate consumers (microsoft are one of them) is bad though. It wasn't supposed to be that way, and reigning in advertising to a more centralised directory structure would largely solve it. Assuming you could verify the directory system enough to prevent corruption, that is. But it shouldn't be too hard, with something as simple as a directory of goods and services.
It's why we do anything at all, to "feel" love, avoid pain, because of fear, etc. Logic is just a tool, the tool, that we use to get to that goal.
Indeed. However, defining the exact mechanisms involved is hard.
I think this project is going to fail, because the Wheel of Emotions mentioned looks very incorrect to me. Do you think Trust is the opposite of Disgust, for instance? I think not.
a) People bitching that they want your service, but can't get it (yet) in their country b) People bitching that your service sucks because it has none of the bands they've heard of from bigger services, like the MTV
Exactly. I don't even think advertising should exist in its current form. If capitalism is supposed to be about delivering the best goods and services to people at the best price, then what's needed to facilitate that is an independent directory of goods and services, that doesn't allow any bullshit about what the goods and services really offer for the money.
So this is going to be a network of server all sending messages back and forth?
That idea is not so crazy. It's what makes blogging with pingbacks so cool; everyone can have independently owned blogs, in their own style, professional or personal, with their own comments, yet link up with everyone else, even if they don't care and use some big-name community site. It's a huge improvement over earlier attempts like livejournal and so on.
The crazy part is that they think everyone is going to move away from facebook to this.
He didn't say that people won't setup their own servers to go to it. He said that people won't go to it. Period. Which I agree with, of course. The first thing you need to overcome a social site like Facebook is a way to interact with all the existing Facebook accounts seamlessly. The second is a way to import/invite them that's attractive enough that people will go for it.
No, wait... the first is a sensible name. The second is a way to interact...
the Russian Defense Ministry argued that anytime a government promotes ideas...with the goal of subverting another country's government -- even in the name of democratic reform -- it should qualify as 'aggression.'
Too bad they didn't figure that out before the US encouraged all their citizens to give up (yes, the ideal of) social equality in favor of fancy clothes.
I've been skeptically following a lot of this UFO traffic for a couple of years..because I really want to know.... I don't know, but I sure am seeing an increase of lesbians on dating sites.
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That's crazy talk. Everyone knows that the answer to all astrophysics problems is "11-dimensional dark matter particles".
What would be the point of building a website people can't identify? ;)
Or have you arrested and continue, blinded by rage.
Your program is buggy. You need to check it can still work before continuing, and then use the internet.
while (num_internet_connections() > 1) { press_button(); }
use_internet();
Of course, a meaningful use_internet() is difficult when it's just you connected.
Of course, but who writes complicated programs (as opposed to simple neural net programs, for instance) where the core principles are input data? Not saying it's impossible, but show me an AI that takes its fundamental ideas as input, or an accounting app that takes the debit/credit terms as input, and accomplishes something reasonably comparable to the state of the art in that field, and I'll be quite impressed.
It's hiding in plain sight. Like ninjas.
Why is that? Because you don't get why a Turing-complete language with internet access could be a security threat?
I believe that's called hallucinating ;)
You're assuming there's no programming for each label. It's easy to switch "debit" and "credit" columns on a financial application, but it's not so easy to change all the code and assumptions that go with them.
Yes, but if you're going to claim to know something about the law, it helps if you can pick some arbitrary criterion for why your rule works. In other words:
"Patent claims tend to fail 90% of the time" is factually incorrect.
But:
"Patent claims by trolls tend to fail 90% of the time." is so fuzzy that no one can dispute it.
Woosh.
No, that's my point. Capitalism in itself isn't such a bad idea. How it's been implemented by selfish companies using advertising and other tactics to manipulate consumers (microsoft are one of them) is bad though. It wasn't supposed to be that way, and reigning in advertising to a more centralised directory structure would largely solve it. Assuming you could verify the directory system enough to prevent corruption, that is. But it shouldn't be too hard, with something as simple as a directory of goods and services.
I think he's confused about "The Internet" and a "WAN".
Indeed. However, defining the exact mechanisms involved is hard.
I think this project is going to fail, because the Wheel of Emotions mentioned looks very incorrect to me. Do you think Trust is the opposite of Disgust, for instance? I think not.
Of course not. Any emotionless robot could easily read and understand any novel, painting, illogical human command, joke, hyperbole, etc.
That's such an intriguing concept. I wonder what we would call this robot's idea that suffering is bad? ;)
We Others just call them locks ;)
If you were a company, which would you prefer:
a) People bitching that they want your service, but can't get it (yet) in their country
b) People bitching that your service sucks because it has none of the bands they've heard of from bigger services, like the MTV
No, more like technical specs, lab results, and much less image, peer pressure, and other audience manipulation.
clashing colors and lots of half-assed band profiles? ;)
Exactly. I don't even think advertising should exist in its current form. If capitalism is supposed to be about delivering the best goods and services to people at the best price, then what's needed to facilitate that is an independent directory of goods and services, that doesn't allow any bullshit about what the goods and services really offer for the money.
Oh no? Are you aware that it's made with Rails? ;)
That idea is not so crazy. It's what makes blogging with pingbacks so cool; everyone can have independently owned blogs, in their own style, professional or personal, with their own comments, yet link up with everyone else, even if they don't care and use some big-name community site. It's a huge improvement over earlier attempts like livejournal and so on.
The crazy part is that they think everyone is going to move away from facebook to this.
He didn't say that people won't setup their own servers to go to it. He said that people won't go to it. Period. Which I agree with, of course. The first thing you need to overcome a social site like Facebook is a way to interact with all the existing Facebook accounts seamlessly. The second is a way to import/invite them that's attractive enough that people will go for it.
No, wait... the first is a sensible name. The second is a way to interact...
Too bad they didn't figure that out before the US encouraged all their citizens to give up (yes, the ideal of) social equality in favor of fancy clothes.
You didn't notice all the aliens on there?