Hey Barack, how about a Bill of Rights that protects me against *your* NSA, CIA, and FBI reading my goddamned emails, listening to my phone calls, and asking my doctor how long my dick is without at least a court order?
Oh, you should hear my rant against conservatives and libertarians--the fucking retards who think that the answer to the recent shitstorm financial crisis is LESS regulation for corporations and banks. It's like the parent of a spoiled brat of a son deciding that the answer to his kid's behavior problems is to give him even MORE freedom and LESS rules.
the costs to produce content (movies, videogames, etc) needs to undergo a revolution in terms of production costs.
Great. Now you just need to convince all the actors, directors, writers, producers, gaffers, AD's, DP's, PA's, prop managers, production designers, cinematographers, lighting directors, script supervisors, best boys, assistants, craft services workers, agents, publicists--and everyone in the hundred or so related fields in Hollywood, Vancouver, London, Mumbai, Toronto, Bulgaria, and Beijing to start working for free and feeding their families on good will and rainbows.
Hey, Michael Bay, can you do Transformers 3 for nothing and give it to us for free, please? Come on, we know you can do it!
That means you have to make my hardware and my data not be mine.
I'm pretty sure that streaming a movie on Netflix doesn't mean that you now *own* a copy of that movie, or have any right to dictate what the studio does with it. Unless someone appointed you King of the Internet and I didn't hear about it, I'm pretty sure that everyone is free to create whatever streaming standards they damn well want to for THEIR content.
Well, I'm sure if this were a Hollywood movie, the plucky noble poor kid in Nigeria would teach a valuable life lesson to the middle class couple. And at the end of the movie he and his wisecracking friends would get the money to build that new pipeline for his village, the middle class couple would start voting Democrat, and the evil industrialist would have his toxic waste dumped on his head in a comical fashion.
All this HTML5 hype isn't going to change the fact that the studios are NOT NOW, NOT EVER, NEVER going to support streaming of content on a format with no DRM option.
Those of you wondering, this article offers some answers to the question of why so many of these scams originate from this area.
There was also a Fortune article on this from years ago. It's hardly anything new. Anytime you combine poverty, internet access, and police/political corruption--you're going to get fraud. That's true in Nigeria. It's true in parts of eastern europe. It will be true about anywhere someone who makes $1 a day gets internet access and can suddenly interact with people who make $50,000 a year. Welcome to one of the downsides of a flat earth.
Bet it pays a helluva lot better than trying to farm on unfertilized poorly-irrigated soil with some crappy non-GM seed that Sean Penn gave you.
I'm sorry, but the college kids that I've been around don't strike me as being particularly internet savvy at all. For all this hype about "They were born on the internet, they were raised at its tit, etc." they actually strike me as being no more tech savvy than any other generation. Sure, they all have Facebook profiles and play a lot of those Farmville-type games, but they still have to call someone to set up a router. They still have to ask me how to do a complex google search. They still seem to know fuck-all about internet security. My brother-in-law had to call me in to fix his laptop after my Generation-Y super-internet-savvy niece infected it with about every phishing virus known to man. The young programming students I've dealt with seem no more or less comfortable with programming than any other young programmers from other generations (and I go back a while).
So where exactly are all these Generation Y ubermensches I keep hearing about? Because I sure haven't met many of them. There are geeks in that generation like any other, but, as with all generations before them, most of them seem pretty clueless about tech.
And my wife keeps asking why I insist on waking every 10 minutes to search the house...and also sleep propped up in a chair with a loaded gun beside me.
We need to fix it. Now just accept these laws that allow warrantless searches and other things that are obscene so I can get my phat payoff cash from Big Media Corp.
Well, of course. Anyone who says otherwise is clearly supporting child pornographers.
In my field, the papers and article's authors' were the people who actually researched and wrote them. They were not treated as tribute to your academic master. I find the very idea of treating my work as some form of academic kickback repulsive. And I have little respect for anyone who would even THINK of demanding this of one of their students.
Did you ever do research that wasn't heavily directed by your professor?
My research was always assisted in various ways by my mentor professor and many other people as well. But it was still MY research, MY writing, and MY article at the end of the day. If I had listed everyone who critiqued it, offered me advice on it, or provided information for it as co-author, the list of authors would have went on for two pages.
I was fortunate that none of my mentors ever had the gall to ask for such a thing (I was blessed to work with some very good people). But I knew plenty of other grad students who weren't so lucky. There was one prof who was NOTORIOUS for this. He would demand a co-author credit on papers and articles he hadn't even READ. If you were one of his grad students and you wrote a paper for another professor in a research class, and then you later decided to present it, he expected a co-author credit even on that. And he would openly threaten grad students who didn't want to do it (and since having a member of your dissertation committee turn on you was essentially the end of your academic career, his threats carried a lot of weight). And this prick was the DEPARTMENT CHAIR. He got that because he brought in a lot of grant money (the prick looked GREAT on paper, and wasn't above using all sorts of..."questionable" means of getting those grants).
Wish I had mod points for you. The whole thing sounds like corporate-speak semantic nitpicking to me. The end-user doesn't give a shit about technical distinctions between a battery that has been bricked for x reason and a battery that has been bricked for y reason. They only care that their battery doesn't work anymore.
I remember this term being used as far back as the 90's when the first console modchips started coming out. There was always the danger that if you didn't solder things right, you could brick your console. I am sure the term is even older than that. People were applying similar mods to C64's back in the 80's, and I bet they had that term or something similar then.
"Publish or Perish" has been a part of academia for as long as I can remember (in the U.S. anyway). When I was in academia, it was the ONLY way to get tenure. Unfortunately, this led to a lot of bad stuff like profs cooking numbers and fabricating sources just to get an article out of it and insisting on putting their names as co-authors on all their grad students' papers (even if they didn't write a word).
Ditto for the PSN hacking scandal. Some people called it "Having your identity stolen" but Sony rightly pointed out that they were just helping you make lots of new friends in eastern europe.
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Would that mean an unappealable life sentence?
According to Time, he's also the King of Mars and Jennifer Aniston's husband. Not a bad life.
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Hey Barack, how about a Bill of Rights that protects me against *your* NSA, CIA, and FBI reading my goddamned emails, listening to my phone calls, and asking my doctor how long my dick is without at least a court order?
It's really amazing how many women fall for this, too.
Wishful thinking is incredibly powerful. Mix in a little love and you have an 80-proof irrational cocktail of self-delusion.
Oh, you should hear my rant against conservatives and libertarians--the fucking retards who think that the answer to the recent shitstorm financial crisis is LESS regulation for corporations and banks. It's like the parent of a spoiled brat of a son deciding that the answer to his kid's behavior problems is to give him even MORE freedom and LESS rules.
Oh, other people do it too? Well, that makes it okay then.
the costs to produce content (movies, videogames, etc) needs to undergo a revolution in terms of production costs.
Great. Now you just need to convince all the actors, directors, writers, producers, gaffers, AD's, DP's, PA's, prop managers, production designers, cinematographers, lighting directors, script supervisors, best boys, assistants, craft services workers, agents, publicists--and everyone in the hundred or so related fields in Hollywood, Vancouver, London, Mumbai, Toronto, Bulgaria, and Beijing to start working for free and feeding their families on good will and rainbows.
Hey, Michael Bay, can you do Transformers 3 for nothing and give it to us for free, please? Come on, we know you can do it!
That means you have to make my hardware and my data not be mine.
I'm pretty sure that streaming a movie on Netflix doesn't mean that you now *own* a copy of that movie, or have any right to dictate what the studio does with it. Unless someone appointed you King of the Internet and I didn't hear about it, I'm pretty sure that everyone is free to create whatever streaming standards they damn well want to for THEIR content.
Why yes, it sure is a whole lot easier to try to scam people than be enterprising and clever and provide something economically useful.
Uh, yeah, actually it is.
Obviously, they're being incredibly savvy behind our backs somewhere--probably in some secret dance club.
Well, I'm sure if this were a Hollywood movie, the plucky noble poor kid in Nigeria would teach a valuable life lesson to the middle class couple. And at the end of the movie he and his wisecracking friends would get the money to build that new pipeline for his village, the middle class couple would start voting Democrat, and the evil industrialist would have his toxic waste dumped on his head in a comical fashion.
All this HTML5 hype isn't going to change the fact that the studios are NOT NOW, NOT EVER, NEVER going to support streaming of content on a format with no DRM option.
Those of you wondering, this article offers some answers to the question of why so many of these scams originate from this area.
There was also a Fortune article on this from years ago. It's hardly anything new. Anytime you combine poverty, internet access, and police/political corruption--you're going to get fraud. That's true in Nigeria. It's true in parts of eastern europe. It will be true about anywhere someone who makes $1 a day gets internet access and can suddenly interact with people who make $50,000 a year. Welcome to one of the downsides of a flat earth.
Bet it pays a helluva lot better than trying to farm on unfertilized poorly-irrigated soil with some crappy non-GM seed that Sean Penn gave you.
I'm sorry, but the college kids that I've been around don't strike me as being particularly internet savvy at all. For all this hype about "They were born on the internet, they were raised at its tit, etc." they actually strike me as being no more tech savvy than any other generation. Sure, they all have Facebook profiles and play a lot of those Farmville-type games, but they still have to call someone to set up a router. They still have to ask me how to do a complex google search. They still seem to know fuck-all about internet security. My brother-in-law had to call me in to fix his laptop after my Generation-Y super-internet-savvy niece infected it with about every phishing virus known to man. The young programming students I've dealt with seem no more or less comfortable with programming than any other young programmers from other generations (and I go back a while).
So where exactly are all these Generation Y ubermensches I keep hearing about? Because I sure haven't met many of them. There are geeks in that generation like any other, but, as with all generations before them, most of them seem pretty clueless about tech.
You would give someone co-authorship credit for getting the grant for the study and getting you a lab? You *can't* be serious.
And my wife keeps asking why I insist on waking every 10 minutes to search the house...and also sleep propped up in a chair with a loaded gun beside me.
See, honey, THIS IS WHY!
We need to fix it. Now just accept these laws that allow warrantless searches and other things that are obscene so I can get my phat payoff cash from Big Media Corp.
Well, of course. Anyone who says otherwise is clearly supporting child pornographers.
In my field, the papers and article's authors' were the people who actually researched and wrote them. They were not treated as tribute to your academic master. I find the very idea of treating my work as some form of academic kickback repulsive. And I have little respect for anyone who would even THINK of demanding this of one of their students.
Did you ever do research that wasn't heavily directed by your professor?
My research was always assisted in various ways by my mentor professor and many other people as well. But it was still MY research, MY writing, and MY article at the end of the day. If I had listed everyone who critiqued it, offered me advice on it, or provided information for it as co-author, the list of authors would have went on for two pages.
I was fortunate that none of my mentors ever had the gall to ask for such a thing (I was blessed to work with some very good people). But I knew plenty of other grad students who weren't so lucky. There was one prof who was NOTORIOUS for this. He would demand a co-author credit on papers and articles he hadn't even READ. If you were one of his grad students and you wrote a paper for another professor in a research class, and then you later decided to present it, he expected a co-author credit even on that. And he would openly threaten grad students who didn't want to do it (and since having a member of your dissertation committee turn on you was essentially the end of your academic career, his threats carried a lot of weight). And this prick was the DEPARTMENT CHAIR. He got that because he brought in a lot of grant money (the prick looked GREAT on paper, and wasn't above using all sorts of..."questionable" means of getting those grants).
Wish I had mod points for you. The whole thing sounds like corporate-speak semantic nitpicking to me. The end-user doesn't give a shit about technical distinctions between a battery that has been bricked for x reason and a battery that has been bricked for y reason. They only care that their battery doesn't work anymore.
Probably not so much an issue now since anyone who can afford a Roadster is probably parking it in a nice garage and not on the street.
I remember this term being used as far back as the 90's when the first console modchips started coming out. There was always the danger that if you didn't solder things right, you could brick your console. I am sure the term is even older than that. People were applying similar mods to C64's back in the 80's, and I bet they had that term or something similar then.
"Publish or Perish" has been a part of academia for as long as I can remember (in the U.S. anyway). When I was in academia, it was the ONLY way to get tenure. Unfortunately, this led to a lot of bad stuff like profs cooking numbers and fabricating sources just to get an article out of it and insisting on putting their names as co-authors on all their grad students' papers (even if they didn't write a word).
Ditto for the PSN hacking scandal. Some people called it "Having your identity stolen" but Sony rightly pointed out that they were just helping you make lots of new friends in eastern europe.