Thank you professor. I must have missed the part where "they're in it to make money", in economics we talk about value/utility as opposed to money. Else you'd hear about "Marginal Money" as opposed to "Marginal Utility".
People value things other than money, and to what extent varies with each person. The person who came up with these concepts envisaged an objective valuation which we would all use or move towards. Now a days, we know that's not quite true.
If this companies owner(s) are quite political, they could pursue this without believing that it will generate more income. After all, there's a certain satisfaction achieved when telling the government to go fuck themselves. They may rationalize it in monetary ways such as "we believe our target market is the privacy conscious (READ: Nerds)", or they may rationalize it in non-monetary ways "we're going to own this niche, even if it reduces our overall market", or just "I hate this shit, and won't stand for it".
So, don't make the same mistake everyone does, and reduce people to basic mechanical interactions (even on aggregate... I'm looking at you macro-economists).
As many have pointed out, the NYT would have to be extremely trusted, and also the government they operate their servers in (though to a lesser extent).
However, services like this, are very interesting.
Perhaps, the new role of WikiLeaks is to provide the anonymity services, and then immediately disseminate this information verbatim to the various news services. This could mean:
The news organizations would be put under the same competitive pressure.
The anonymity would be provided by WikiLeaks.
The news services would effectively fund WikiLeaks, by paying for premium accounts.
The news services could pay for filtering (so, they only get X type of news, or some other criteria).
The information is pushed to their own WikiLeaks services after WikiLeaks.
They can access all other posts through their own accounts.
Lastly, perhaps leaks that have been marked by the others, or WikiLeaks as "safe" can be released in the end anyway.
I work for a company that has done a similar thing. Basically, here's what happens. You choose a celebrity which you want to be associated with. They perform a useless job, with some official sounding title. This then allows the company to say person X is with us. We then *might* get them to be apart of some ad campaigns, some marketing, and similar. Basically, anything that they couldn't fuck up too much, and that we could discard at a moments notice.
We have had "Director of Brand Engineering", "VP of Creative Development" and many other titles for these positions.
It doesn't mean shit, besides "Intel thinks Sam.I.Am is someone they want to associate their brand with".
I am generally pessimistic about a positive change like this, but having a centralized repository, makes releasing the information more competitive.
This means that given they see any value in the information, or how its being released, the news outlets will fight over being first, and with any luck this will provide momentum.
Either way, it's just another option, and while we can have too much information, I'd rather err on the side of that, than too little.
I know. He/They contributed so little, that he/they aren't in the news regularly, nor have more documents than ever been leaked, nor have they gained more attention than before.
You're right.
</Sarcasm>
It being on the internet doesn't particularly matter, but it being a centralize location, providing the privacy and safety to leak your data, makes it easy for people to leak documents.
There is no way you could be looking at the recent history of Wikileaks and say "Yeah, nothings changed, services like this aren't helpful".
It's independent of Wikileaks and came to light via al-Jazeera, showing perhaps that the mega-leak meme is here to stay whatever happens to Assange.
I think history will find that Wikileaks and by association Julian Assanges greatest contribution to the world, will not necessarily be the Wikileaks service, but helping to cultivate a greater culture of leaking, by showing that it can be done effectively, and that your message will be heard.
Now that, is something extremely valuable, that's almost impossible to be taken away.
Increasing from the already decreased situation, yes.
Unless you believe that given no government, we would have somehow still been restricted from these games?
Additionally, we have a R18+ for movies, which as you allude to is what the game rating system is based on. In fact, this is a perfect example of a slippery slope, as Michael Atkinson and the Christian Lobby used this mechanism in an attempt to block the introduction of "content" they didn't like. These people and groups have been the ones holding back the adoption of an R18+ rating.
Additionally, EVEN when an R18+ rating is adopted, games that would fit an X18+ rating will still be banned (ones with sex in them), and EVEN if they implemented an X18+ rating, they could still Refuse Classification which results in the game/movie/etc being banned.
Hey, thanks for that. This was one of two responses which made sense. The rest seemed to really have no idea what a CA was. Which was pretty interesting.
Hey, thanks for that. This was one of two responses which made sense. Though I think these days most people doing their CA do their undergrad degree first (like my friends).
A CA is a CPA, we have both institutions over here. They both operate and certify a level of competency, but the CA is really hard, and the CPA is quite easy in comparison.
Both of them have "similar" requirements, it just seems as if the CPA is less stringent testing them. What you've said above is about the same here.
Though they require experience before hand, you need to be working in accounting at a certified firm, then it's a 4 year program (or longer, depending on you), then you need to maintain your cert.
CPA's aren't very smart, that's what CA's are for.
But in all seriousness, CPA is a really easy designation to get. I've got friends who have done both (due to working in firms who were CPA, and CA only), and the CPA is a piece of cake compared to the CA. So, the CPA is far less a symbol of being good at accounting than the CA is. Though I hear it's a little different in the US.
Anyone care to shed some light? Particularly if you're originally from a commonwealth country.
In Australia we ban just about anything at the drop of the hat. As such, their first reaction was to ban all laser pointers which could be used for this. It's now illegal to have them, similarly illegal as firearms, mase, battons, knives, etc.
So that was their first line of dealing with it. Make it illegal to have them, then you just need to find it in their house/car/clothes, and you can arrest them for possession.
This is just explaining how they make it easy to catch and prosecute these people. I don't agree with this, as this logic gets extrapolated quite easily. Eg, Want to get rid of bikies? Just ban motorcycle enthusiast groups. Want to stop people reading some book, playing some game, or watching some movie? Just make ratings required, and refuse to classify anything you don't like.
But I repetitively shat myself playing Quake as a kid.
Also, after I did get internets, I quickly began playing Quake online with QuakeWorld, and when QuakeWorld TF came out, I played that for years and years later. Even after Half-Life TF came out.
LOL I'm not running behind the times, just making a joke.
When we hit parity, I went nuts buying up large! Was awesome!
The NZD will never reach parity, unless the US/China/etc decide that they really really want a lot more wool/lord of the rings, or unless they develop a significantly sized financial market. Which is possible, but unlikely.
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Thank you professor. I must have missed the part where "they're in it to make money", in economics we talk about value/utility as opposed to money. Else you'd hear about "Marginal Money" as opposed to "Marginal Utility".
People value things other than money, and to what extent varies with each person. The person who came up with these concepts envisaged an objective valuation which we would all use or move towards. Now a days, we know that's not quite true.
If this companies owner(s) are quite political, they could pursue this without believing that it will generate more income. After all, there's a certain satisfaction achieved when telling the government to go fuck themselves. They may rationalize it in monetary ways such as "we believe our target market is the privacy conscious (READ: Nerds)", or they may rationalize it in non-monetary ways "we're going to own this niche, even if it reduces our overall market", or just "I hate this shit, and won't stand for it".
So, don't make the same mistake everyone does, and reduce people to basic mechanical interactions (even on aggregate... I'm looking at you macro-economists).
Well I'm fucked then.
How strong an explanatory variable is "self control"?
How is "self control" measured?
As many have pointed out, the NYT would have to be extremely trusted, and also the government they operate their servers in (though to a lesser extent).
However, services like this, are very interesting.
Perhaps, the new role of WikiLeaks is to provide the anonymity services, and then immediately disseminate this information verbatim to the various news services. This could mean:
Lastly, perhaps leaks that have been marked by the others, or WikiLeaks as "safe" can be released in the end anyway.
You were brave to watch it that far.
Oh well, rest assured it's all just a publicity gimmick, and he won't be designing new CPUs or Chipsets.
Though, I'm sure AMD wishes they'd give him that job.
I got mod points, but now can't use them, because I've commented on this article.
Blast!
I work for a company that has done a similar thing. Basically, here's what happens. You choose a celebrity which you want to be associated with. They perform a useless job, with some official sounding title. This then allows the company to say person X is with us. We then *might* get them to be apart of some ad campaigns, some marketing, and similar. Basically, anything that they couldn't fuck up too much, and that we could discard at a moments notice.
We have had "Director of Brand Engineering", "VP of Creative Development" and many other titles for these positions.
It doesn't mean shit, besides "Intel thinks Sam.I.Am is someone they want to associate their brand with".
EoS (End of Story)
Wait a minute. That must have been something else, since I don't live in Tunesia, and it would make no sense for my traffic to go through there.
Though I did still have that prompt a while back.
Perhaps they were running it generally.
Fuck. Well I logged in during that time, and got that prompt, but it didn't say why, and so I set it to the current password.
Either way, I've since setup LastPass and am now running an insane uber strong password which is different on every site I visit.
Problem solved!
Really annoyed at that though. However, this solution will make sure if I get pwned somewhere, I don't get pwned everywhere!
I don't think he pays out for website errors, just textbook errors.
I'm not so sure.
I am generally pessimistic about a positive change like this, but having a centralized repository, makes releasing the information more competitive.
This means that given they see any value in the information, or how its being released, the news outlets will fight over being first, and with any luck this will provide momentum.
Either way, it's just another option, and while we can have too much information, I'd rather err on the side of that, than too little.
I know. He/They contributed so little, that he/they aren't in the news regularly, nor have more documents than ever been leaked, nor have they gained more attention than before.
You're right.
</Sarcasm>
It being on the internet doesn't particularly matter, but it being a centralize location, providing the privacy and safety to leak your data, makes it easy for people to leak documents.
There is no way you could be looking at the recent history of Wikileaks and say "Yeah, nothings changed, services like this aren't helpful".
It's independent of Wikileaks and came to light via al-Jazeera, showing perhaps that the mega-leak meme is here to stay whatever happens to Assange.
I think history will find that Wikileaks and by association Julian Assanges greatest contribution to the world, will not necessarily be the Wikileaks service, but helping to cultivate a greater culture of leaking, by showing that it can be done effectively, and that your message will be heard.
Now that, is something extremely valuable, that's almost impossible to be taken away.
Increasing from the already decreased situation, yes.
Unless you believe that given no government, we would have somehow still been restricted from these games?
Additionally, we have a R18+ for movies, which as you allude to is what the game rating system is based on. In fact, this is a perfect example of a slippery slope, as Michael Atkinson and the Christian Lobby used this mechanism in an attempt to block the introduction of "content" they didn't like. These people and groups have been the ones holding back the adoption of an R18+ rating.
Additionally, EVEN when an R18+ rating is adopted, games that would fit an X18+ rating will still be banned (ones with sex in them), and EVEN if they implemented an X18+ rating, they could still Refuse Classification which results in the game/movie/etc being banned.
So, my point stands.
Hey, thanks for that. This was one of two responses which made sense. The rest seemed to really have no idea what a CA was. Which was pretty interesting.
Hey, thanks for that. This was one of two responses which made sense. Though I think these days most people doing their CA do their undergrad degree first (like my friends).
A CA is a CPA, we have both institutions over here. They both operate and certify a level of competency, but the CA is really hard, and the CPA is quite easy in comparison.
Both of them have "similar" requirements, it just seems as if the CPA is less stringent testing them. What you've said above is about the same here.
Though they require experience before hand, you need to be working in accounting at a certified firm, then it's a 4 year program (or longer, depending on you), then you need to maintain your cert.
if the cpa was smart
CPA's aren't very smart, that's what CA's are for.
But in all seriousness, CPA is a really easy designation to get. I've got friends who have done both (due to working in firms who were CPA, and CA only), and the CPA is a piece of cake compared to the CA. So, the CPA is far less a symbol of being good at accounting than the CA is. Though I hear it's a little different in the US.
Anyone care to shed some light? Particularly if you're originally from a commonwealth country.
In Australia we ban just about anything at the drop of the hat. As such, their first reaction was to ban all laser pointers which could be used for this. It's now illegal to have them, similarly illegal as firearms, mase, battons, knives, etc.
So that was their first line of dealing with it. Make it illegal to have them, then you just need to find it in their house/car/clothes, and you can arrest them for possession.
This is just explaining how they make it easy to catch and prosecute these people. I don't agree with this, as this logic gets extrapolated quite easily. Eg, Want to get rid of bikies? Just ban motorcycle enthusiast groups. Want to stop people reading some book, playing some game, or watching some movie? Just make ratings required, and refuse to classify anything you don't like.
I never got scared playing Duke 3D as a kid.
But I repetitively shat myself playing Quake as a kid.
Also, after I did get internets, I quickly began playing Quake online with QuakeWorld, and when QuakeWorld TF came out, I played that for years and years later. Even after Half-Life TF came out.
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Been a while since you read the many other posts exactly like this.
I'm from here.
Parity was a huge deal.
The rest of my post is a joke, why would that be serious?
LOL I love that I've been moderated "Informative". This is fucking awesome!
Oh I love Slashdot, and either its ignorance of Australia, or complicity in the joke.
Well, 250m NZD is only about 5 USD, so that shouldn't be too bad.
LOL I'm not running behind the times, just making a joke.
When we hit parity, I went nuts buying up large! Was awesome!
The NZD will never reach parity, unless the US/China/etc decide that they really really want a lot more wool/lord of the rings, or unless they develop a significantly sized financial market. Which is possible, but unlikely.
Don't be an idiot, a sydharb's a unit of area!