I hate cops as much, if not more than anyone, so I'm not trying to defend them. However, it seems to me that crap like this, which, if it does get tried in the US, at least doesn't get so much press, is probably due to the fact that most of your police in the UK aren't themselves armed. In the US, they've all got pistols and most of them carry at least a shotgun, if not an AR-15, in their cruiser. They wear bullet-proof vests a lot of the time and can just suck it up and take risks themselves without needing to resort to this sort of crap.
Do flying missile drones make sense in a place like Afghanistan where trying to get from place to place under general terms is sort of a bitch? Yes. Does using outright military technology to police the local population make sense? Not on your life, but then again, what would one expect from a country that oppressed a third of the world with the use of their military power? Of course, now that the ripened fruits of colonialism have come home to roost and the battle has been turned inward, this is what you get.
Well, Hitler tried to launch his violent takeover from a beer hall and ended up in jail. Something tells me though, that while there may be a lot of fans of Hitler in South Carolina (apparently in the state legislature), they probably don't collectively have enough brains in the whole state to match up with him over the long run. unless we factor in the syphilis
Well, if I were a normal person and just read this summary, I would conclude that the group are "cyber-terrorists" who are in favor of drug use, rape, zoo sex and child abuse. In addition, by calling themselves Anonymous they're spoiling the concept of anonymity. I really don't think that this action was the best press possible either for the group or for those who are against censorship in general.
I think a lot of it has to do not just with failures in education, but also due to the way science (in particular, but everything in general) is reported in the media. One week a study saying coffee will kill you gets reported, then a couple of days later a story saying another study says coffee will make you immortal is reported on, both with equal voracity, neither with expert commentary or perspective. C+ students who look good on camera banter back and forth about it, laughing jocularly and ultimately creating a situation in which, by their own dismissal and misunderstanding, perpetuate that to their viewers.
Its come to the point where many, many people just dismiss the whole business of science. "They can't even make up their minds!" they say, as if the point of science is to make up ones' mind. Of course, this is where the failure of education to actually educate comes into play. Classical liberalism has been turned over, spanked and made into the servant of corporate mercantilism and we're all just now supposed to sit down and shut up. Science, is in its essence, a libertarian (note small 'l') pursuit through which one questions all authority, up to and including the fabric of existence itself -- all assumptions are out the window and any that cannot pass muster is done away with.
But, just like socio-political anarchism (libertarian socialism), the spirit of rebellion and anti-authoritarianism inherent in science has been packaged and sold in a watered down and safe-for-children package at the local shopping mall only to be taken out of the box when the powers that be feel that they can use it for their own purposes. Not to be a downer or anything, its just I really do think this is bigger than just science. It's to do with people willingly leading themselves as sheep to the slaughter on behalf of the farmer to make the dog's job easier.
I always thought 0-day should refer to time between the software itself is releasedand an exploit is found. Frankly, that would make more sense and that's the type of vulnerability that would actually be somewhat impressive as well as potentially devastating. If a piece of software has been floating around for a few months and then an attack against it is announced, I assume that the vector has been exploited already without an announcement and am hardly surprised that a vulnerability has been found by that point in time.
I was really hoping that the iPad would have come with a stylus and bult-in handwriting/sketching software a-la the Newton. Multi-touch is cool, and the keyboard thing is fine, but really what I'm looking for in that type of device is basically something I can hold in my hand and write directly on rather than with say, a wacom tablet, in an application like Microsoft Journal. If it were powerful enough to run Illustrator on, that'd be a bonus but not really a necessity.
Maybe iPad can work with a third-party stylus device, and perhaps Wacom or someone else will release said stylus with the type of software that I want. But as it stands, I've been able to give away two 15" laptops and a 10" EeePC and consolidate on a 13" MacBook Pro for which I have an external monitor as well and get along just fine. iPad, at least from what I've seen demoed of it, doesn't really fit into the niche I was hoping it would. There is a place in my life for such a device, but only if I can write directly on it with a stylus pen -- and it must be bigger than a Palm Pilot.
Site comes up with a 'suspended' page... maybe he should cancel the contest and use the 10k to pay off the bandwidth overages he probably just incurred from this... not to mention the resource spike i'm sure he just hit. looks to have been a shared hosting server. Ouch.
Yes, it does depend on what company does it. Anti-competitive behavior is legal until you're a monopoly, then its not. Doing things to undermine the competition is perfectly competitive until you're in a position where there is no more serious competition left in the market. Also, please be advised that the app store isn't the whole of "the market," the app store is apple's contribution to the market.
Schooling and education aren't the same thing, but maybe I just have a different perspective on things -- my academic degree is in English and Classical History. I work a system administrator, but I'm not really an "IT person" in the traditional sense. As the head of the Classics department at my school used to say, "a liberal arts education prepares you to fully enjoy the life you'll never be able to afford." Before I finally bit the bullet and got back into computers ( do have a valid nerd background -- a 5-digit id and I'm only 25 and a half), it was pretty true.
But, when I was in school studied literature, history, philosophy, politics, sociology, etc. I traveled abroad and made friends with foreign students who came to my school to study. I was always reading on my own, debating, etc. Do I use anything in my schooling for my job? No, not really -- but I use what I was educated with every day, because it gives me a very different perspective on things than I would have gotten if I just plugged into a terminal for the whole time I was at college. I was the English major who used unix and who occasionally wrote perl scripts to help with structuralist analysis of literature.
Of course, this is all off-topic now, but its just that the idea that an education is supposed to turn one into a good little worker bee really gets under my skin.
I'm reminded of a quote by the great libertarian socialist (anarchist) thinker Mikhail Bakunin which goes "To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary idea or hope or passion." I think that you might be too hopeful if you think that kids are going to get a bum idea of copyright law then take to the streets to change it. I would hope that institutes of education would take a stand against such an inequity, but apparently this is what happens when school start to be run as businesses rather than as institutes of learning.
Yes, we have. Only they were generally made in small batches by the local apothecary (pharmacist), from more or less natural ingredients and our ability to treat most of the things we treat today was pretty limited. But, they were drugs and given by prescription, hence prescription drugs.
Back in 2007-2008, I was doing lobbying work for an non-profit organization. At one event for a certain congressman from Iowa, I was seated between a lobbyist from Northrop-Grumman and a lobbyist from Microsoft (incidentally, I was across from a sugar industry lobbyist, and ended up getting into a separate argument with him about tariffs on sugar being why we have to use hfcs in soda and whatnot, but that's irrelevant).
During the lunch, I got into a conversation with the MS lobbyist and asked him if he thought it would be worth it to upgrade from XP to Vista on my laptop, to which he replied "do you still have the XP disks that came with the computer?" "No," I said, "I got the laptop as part of the compensation from my last contract and it didn't come with the disks." "Well, then," he replied "I'd just leave well enough alone since you won't be able to go back when things go wrong."
Frankly, it was one of the most sensible things that I'd heard anyone say then entire time I was in D.C.
If Congress passes a law which has requirements of the Executive branch, then they are required to meet them. This law contains such a provision. By signing the bill into law, the President is clearly agreeing to the terms. It's not so much an "order" -- and even if it is, Congress has subpoena powers as well as the power of impeachment, so they're fully well able to order people to do things.
If you really wanted to become the most powerful person in the country, you don't really want to be president. You want to be Speaker of the House, and then also get the chairmanship of the Ways and Means and Appropriations committees. Some other stuff like foreign affairs, defense and intelligence, etc might be nice, but controlling what comes to a vote on the house floor, and the committees which control the purse strings, pretty much everyone would have to just bow down and suck it.
Maybe, because I was never really into 'Dune' in the first place that's why I'm not really excited one way or another except to say that it's pretty lame to do a remake of a movie that was fine enough the way it was just to be able to slap on some new effects and try and milk a few more dollars out of people so that they can get a rehash of a story they already know. This criticism isn't specific to Dune, but to a bunch of other films as well. Just sayin'.
Yes, and that's why I draw a distinction between academic type work and literary work. However, in general the idea that a publisher is meant to serve as a filter that the internet cannot provide still stands in the situation you mention -- its just that in this case, the validity of your work to others is going to be judged by the validity of the filter it passed through, but I don't see it as any different than saying that getting a piece accepted in The New Times is better than having it accepted in Pravda.
Publishers still exist largely because of their editorial and "filtering" services. Editorially, they help to ensure that the best possible version of a text makes it to market -- that it is as technically (grammar, spelling, etc) correct and engaging as possible. As for filtering, they are meant to ensure that only works that have a reasonable degree of merit actually make it to market -- this is why people tend to believe printed word over that which they find on the internet, and why for those who create content, being accepted by a publisher for print production is highly valued. Anyone can put whatever crap they like on the internet, but the publishing industry exists to make sure that random crap doesn't flood the actual shelves.
For certain types of content, such as text books and works of history, philosophy, and journalism the effect this has can go either way in how people, including myself, are willing to weigh benefits vs detractions. Certainly, it would be better if this content was more democratically available -- however, facts still need to be checked for correctness, copy edited etc. For works of literature, the potentially stifling affect on discourse is much more limited and even though I've almost always been on the losing side of the submission, I'm willing to accept the judgement of poetry and fiction editors as far as to what's actually worth something and what isn't, as they deal in literature every day and see submissions from all kinds of sources -- and when you finally do get a piece accepted then the fact that you had to try so hard to get through the filter makes the joy of it all the greater. That's not really a feeling one can get on the internet where the cost of reproduction approaches zero and so there is no real reason not accept a piece, or when one can stick whatever crap they would like on their own site and eventually someone will see it.
However, for music -- where the bands mostly exist to play live and have fun, where the record itself is really just a form of marketing of their live performance, and where the technical ability to produce recordings of quality and distribute them directly to fans who will then come to their shows is now within the reach of just about everyone, then direct distribution without much filter makes more sense. However, poets and authors tend not make their money from live recitation but from the printed book itself, and the services of the publishers and distributers there are therefor more necessary and valuable. As someone who writes a lot, submits a lot, gets accepted rarely, and who has been in a few bands, played shows and cut a couple of demos I can see the difference, it is what it is, and I'm totally cool with it.
That's another thing I don't get. We spend so much time and effort avoiding advertisement, inventing technology to avoid having to see it, then once a year, when companies are spending millions of dollars for a 30 second ad that they'll show probably just that one time, everybody is like, "z0mg !!!!!!11!!one gotta watch the ads!!" That's some ol' bullshit right there.
Hey, advertisers -- you really want to get people's attention? Rather than waste money on a super bowl ad, rent out some cheap billboard slots in major markets saying something like "rather than spend $15,000,000 on a 30-second TV commercial, we donated $14,000,000 to Haiti instead". Or, even better... just do it and not tell us about it because doing the right thing isn't about getting recognition for it.
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I hate cops as much, if not more than anyone, so I'm not trying to defend them. However, it seems to me that crap like this, which, if it does get tried in the US, at least doesn't get so much press, is probably due to the fact that most of your police in the UK aren't themselves armed. In the US, they've all got pistols and most of them carry at least a shotgun, if not an AR-15, in their cruiser. They wear bullet-proof vests a lot of the time and can just suck it up and take risks themselves without needing to resort to this sort of crap.
Do flying missile drones make sense in a place like Afghanistan where trying to get from place to place under general terms is sort of a bitch? Yes. Does using outright military technology to police the local population make sense? Not on your life, but then again, what would one expect from a country that oppressed a third of the world with the use of their military power? Of course, now that the ripened fruits of colonialism have come home to roost and the battle has been turned inward, this is what you get.
Well, Hitler tried to launch his violent takeover from a beer hall and ended up in jail. Something tells me though, that while there may be a lot of fans of Hitler in South Carolina (apparently in the state legislature), they probably don't collectively have enough brains in the whole state to match up with him over the long run. unless we factor in the syphilis
No, its kind of like White Guilt...
It sounds like you might need to register with the SC Secretary of State... let me get the form for you...
Well, if I were a normal person and just read this summary, I would conclude that the group are "cyber-terrorists" who are in favor of drug use, rape, zoo sex and child abuse. In addition, by calling themselves Anonymous they're spoiling the concept of anonymity. I really don't think that this action was the best press possible either for the group or for those who are against censorship in general.
I think a lot of it has to do not just with failures in education, but also due to the way science (in particular, but everything in general) is reported in the media. One week a study saying coffee will kill you gets reported, then a couple of days later a story saying another study says coffee will make you immortal is reported on, both with equal voracity, neither with expert commentary or perspective. C+ students who look good on camera banter back and forth about it, laughing jocularly and ultimately creating a situation in which, by their own dismissal and misunderstanding, perpetuate that to their viewers.
Its come to the point where many, many people just dismiss the whole business of science. "They can't even make up their minds!" they say, as if the point of science is to make up ones' mind. Of course, this is where the failure of education to actually educate comes into play. Classical liberalism has been turned over, spanked and made into the servant of corporate mercantilism and we're all just now supposed to sit down and shut up. Science, is in its essence, a libertarian (note small 'l') pursuit through which one questions all authority, up to and including the fabric of existence itself -- all assumptions are out the window and any that cannot pass muster is done away with.
But, just like socio-political anarchism (libertarian socialism), the spirit of rebellion and anti-authoritarianism inherent in science has been packaged and sold in a watered down and safe-for-children package at the local shopping mall only to be taken out of the box when the powers that be feel that they can use it for their own purposes. Not to be a downer or anything, its just I really do think this is bigger than just science. It's to do with people willingly leading themselves as sheep to the slaughter on behalf of the farmer to make the dog's job easier.
you know, I think pedobear is a pretty cool guy. he molests children and doesn't afraid of anyone.
(my hobby: mixing memes i'm vaguely aware of when i've never had any contact with the source content anyway)
I think most computers in general have been relegated to playing solitaire and Galaga, not just mobile phone platforms.
I always thought 0-day should refer to time between the software itself is releasedand an exploit is found. Frankly, that would make more sense and that's the type of vulnerability that would actually be somewhat impressive as well as potentially devastating. If a piece of software has been floating around for a few months and then an attack against it is announced, I assume that the vector has been exploited already without an announcement and am hardly surprised that a vulnerability has been found by that point in time.
I was really hoping that the iPad would have come with a stylus and bult-in handwriting/sketching software a-la the Newton. Multi-touch is cool, and the keyboard thing is fine, but really what I'm looking for in that type of device is basically something I can hold in my hand and write directly on rather than with say, a wacom tablet, in an application like Microsoft Journal. If it were powerful enough to run Illustrator on, that'd be a bonus but not really a necessity.
Maybe iPad can work with a third-party stylus device, and perhaps Wacom or someone else will release said stylus with the type of software that I want. But as it stands, I've been able to give away two 15" laptops and a 10" EeePC and consolidate on a 13" MacBook Pro for which I have an external monitor as well and get along just fine. iPad, at least from what I've seen demoed of it, doesn't really fit into the niche I was hoping it would. There is a place in my life for such a device, but only if I can write directly on it with a stylus pen -- and it must be bigger than a Palm Pilot.
Site comes up with a 'suspended' page... maybe he should cancel the contest and use the 10k to pay off the bandwidth overages he probably just incurred from this... not to mention the resource spike i'm sure he just hit. looks to have been a shared hosting server. Ouch.
Yes, it does depend on what company does it. Anti-competitive behavior is legal until you're a monopoly, then its not. Doing things to undermine the competition is perfectly competitive until you're in a position where there is no more serious competition left in the market. Also, please be advised that the app store isn't the whole of "the market," the app store is apple's contribution to the market.
Schooling and education aren't the same thing, but maybe I just have a different perspective on things -- my academic degree is in English and Classical History. I work a system administrator, but I'm not really an "IT person" in the traditional sense. As the head of the Classics department at my school used to say, "a liberal arts education prepares you to fully enjoy the life you'll never be able to afford." Before I finally bit the bullet and got back into computers ( do have a valid nerd background -- a 5-digit id and I'm only 25 and a half), it was pretty true.
But, when I was in school studied literature, history, philosophy, politics, sociology, etc. I traveled abroad and made friends with foreign students who came to my school to study. I was always reading on my own, debating, etc. Do I use anything in my schooling for my job? No, not really -- but I use what I was educated with every day, because it gives me a very different perspective on things than I would have gotten if I just plugged into a terminal for the whole time I was at college. I was the English major who used unix and who occasionally wrote perl scripts to help with structuralist analysis of literature.
Of course, this is all off-topic now, but its just that the idea that an education is supposed to turn one into a good little worker bee really gets under my skin.
I'm reminded of a quote by the great libertarian socialist (anarchist) thinker Mikhail Bakunin which goes "To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary idea or hope or passion." I think that you might be too hopeful if you think that kids are going to get a bum idea of copyright law then take to the streets to change it. I would hope that institutes of education would take a stand against such an inequity, but apparently this is what happens when school start to be run as businesses rather than as institutes of learning.
YEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
('cause you forgot the real punchline. This public service announcement added to sneak past the lameness filter.).
Yes, we have. Only they were generally made in small batches by the local apothecary (pharmacist), from more or less natural ingredients and our ability to treat most of the things we treat today was pretty limited. But, they were drugs and given by prescription, hence prescription drugs.
Back in 2007-2008, I was doing lobbying work for an non-profit organization. At one event for a certain congressman from Iowa, I was seated between a lobbyist from Northrop-Grumman and a lobbyist from Microsoft (incidentally, I was across from a sugar industry lobbyist, and ended up getting into a separate argument with him about tariffs on sugar being why we have to use hfcs in soda and whatnot, but that's irrelevant).
During the lunch, I got into a conversation with the MS lobbyist and asked him if he thought it would be worth it to upgrade from XP to Vista on my laptop, to which he replied "do you still have the XP disks that came with the computer?" "No," I said, "I got the laptop as part of the compensation from my last contract and it didn't come with the disks." "Well, then," he replied "I'd just leave well enough alone since you won't be able to go back when things go wrong."
Frankly, it was one of the most sensible things that I'd heard anyone say then entire time I was in D.C.
If Congress passes a law which has requirements of the Executive branch, then they are required to meet them. This law contains such a provision. By signing the bill into law, the President is clearly agreeing to the terms. It's not so much an "order" -- and even if it is, Congress has subpoena powers as well as the power of impeachment, so they're fully well able to order people to do things.
If you really wanted to become the most powerful person in the country, you don't really want to be president. You want to be Speaker of the House, and then also get the chairmanship of the Ways and Means and Appropriations committees. Some other stuff like foreign affairs, defense and intelligence, etc might be nice, but controlling what comes to a vote on the house floor, and the committees which control the purse strings, pretty much everyone would have to just bow down and suck it.
I thought this was already invented and called the "Intern", but wasn't patentable due to prior art in the form of slaves and indentured servants?
Maybe, because I was never really into 'Dune' in the first place that's why I'm not really excited one way or another except to say that it's pretty lame to do a remake of a movie that was fine enough the way it was just to be able to slap on some new effects and try and milk a few more dollars out of people so that they can get a rehash of a story they already know. This criticism isn't specific to Dune, but to a bunch of other films as well. Just sayin'.
Their lack of revolutionary economic policy, including establishment of vertical trade syndicates. Plus, they lack cool uniforms and shiny boots.
that should have been The New York Times, although I'm sure our Republican friends won't see what's different between it and Pravda anyway.
Yes, and that's why I draw a distinction between academic type work and literary work. However, in general the idea that a publisher is meant to serve as a filter that the internet cannot provide still stands in the situation you mention -- its just that in this case, the validity of your work to others is going to be judged by the validity of the filter it passed through, but I don't see it as any different than saying that getting a piece accepted in The New Times is better than having it accepted in Pravda.
Publishers still exist largely because of their editorial and "filtering" services. Editorially, they help to ensure that the best possible version of a text makes it to market -- that it is as technically (grammar, spelling, etc) correct and engaging as possible. As for filtering, they are meant to ensure that only works that have a reasonable degree of merit actually make it to market -- this is why people tend to believe printed word over that which they find on the internet, and why for those who create content, being accepted by a publisher for print production is highly valued. Anyone can put whatever crap they like on the internet, but the publishing industry exists to make sure that random crap doesn't flood the actual shelves.
For certain types of content, such as text books and works of history, philosophy, and journalism the effect this has can go either way in how people, including myself, are willing to weigh benefits vs detractions. Certainly, it would be better if this content was more democratically available -- however, facts still need to be checked for correctness, copy edited etc. For works of literature, the potentially stifling affect on discourse is much more limited and even though I've almost always been on the losing side of the submission, I'm willing to accept the judgement of poetry and fiction editors as far as to what's actually worth something and what isn't, as they deal in literature every day and see submissions from all kinds of sources -- and when you finally do get a piece accepted then the fact that you had to try so hard to get through the filter makes the joy of it all the greater. That's not really a feeling one can get on the internet where the cost of reproduction approaches zero and so there is no real reason not accept a piece, or when one can stick whatever crap they would like on their own site and eventually someone will see it.
However, for music -- where the bands mostly exist to play live and have fun, where the record itself is really just a form of marketing of their live performance, and where the technical ability to produce recordings of quality and distribute them directly to fans who will then come to their shows is now within the reach of just about everyone, then direct distribution without much filter makes more sense. However, poets and authors tend not make their money from live recitation but from the printed book itself, and the services of the publishers and distributers there are therefor more necessary and valuable. As someone who writes a lot, submits a lot, gets accepted rarely, and who has been in a few bands, played shows and cut a couple of demos I can see the difference, it is what it is, and I'm totally cool with it.
That's another thing I don't get. We spend so much time and effort avoiding advertisement, inventing technology to avoid having to see it, then once a year, when companies are spending millions of dollars for a 30 second ad that they'll show probably just that one time, everybody is like, "z0mg !!!!!!11!!one gotta watch the ads!!" That's some ol' bullshit right there.
Hey, advertisers -- you really want to get people's attention? Rather than waste money on a super bowl ad, rent out some cheap billboard slots in major markets saying something like "rather than spend $15,000,000 on a 30-second TV commercial, we donated $14,000,000 to Haiti instead". Or, even better... just do it and not tell us about it because doing the right thing isn't about getting recognition for it.