Well, except that there was a recent story indicating that the PS3 won't be able to play commercial Blu-Ray movies after all.
But no, I'm sure that $600 block will be quite useful. I have this door that keeps sliding and I can't seem to find anything that will hold it in place.
That's probably because you're not very familiar with how to use a wiki.
Actually, what you are talking about, reproducability, is one of the great strengths of wiki compared with other media, especially other websites.
Every page has a history function. You can look at that and see what the article looked like on any given date. If you want to give someone a reference to an article and want to make sure they see it how you saw it, just give them the article date number (which can be encoded in the URL) and they'll always, now and forever, see it as it was at that time.
You do make a good point; it's unfortunate this speech has a need to be made at all.
But "some mayor of some city?" Mike Bloomberg ain't some mayor and New York City ain't some city.
The position of Mayor of New York City is widely considered to be the #2 most taxing executive government position in the United States, probably since New York is by far the largest U.S. city, and administering a city government is more involved than administering the state business for an equal area of responsibility, since the municipalities take care of many more direct issues. And for that matter, even if you consider governorships of states larger than New York City to be more important positions than the mayorship of New York City, there ain't that many. New York City is larger than fourty of the fifty United States of America. And the Mayor has much more responsibility over New York City as a whole than the Governor of Georgia (approximately the same population as NYC) has over Georgia.
So don't think that the Mayor of New York saying something is akin to the Mayor of YOUR Podunk little town saying something. That's just ignorant.
"First of all, I don't believe a massive collapse of civillization and loss of scientific knowledge will happen. We're unaware of anything like that happening in our past"
Of course, that may be because this is the first time we've had a rise of civilisation and gain of scientific knowledge, in the first place (as far as we know). This is only the first chance we've had.
There's one other thing to consider, besides who's "right" or "wrong"-- what would the consequences of Kinderstart winning this case?
That's easy: it would kill Google and every other search engine based in the U.S. I can't imagine how a search engine could possibly keep in business when every single day-to-day change of internal metrics has to be documented and justified in order to protect the firm legally. It would just be ridiculous. You couldn't list or not list or give more or give less pagerank to any page on any site at all without being liable to just about everyone.
Kinderstart probably doesn't have jack of a case, but even if they did, Congress would (if they're not asleep at the switch) have to meddle instantly before everything went to hell.
"The network builders are spending a fortune constructing and maintaining the networks that Google intends to ride on with nothing but cheap servers"
One thing no one has mentioned is, isn't Google the one that is investing millions into serious research and development, coming up with new innovative services and ideas? And isn't Verizon the one who is just chugging along, not really doing much that I've noticed, charging the same old fees for the same old boring service which is quite literally the modern equivelant of the post office?
And another thing-- if Verizon did actually implement a policy which resulted in degraded service for Google, or for that matter any website, including some tiny personal website that some dude out of Arizona was running, do you reckon Verizon customers might have a basis for a class-action? That's basically fraud, you know-- taking your 50 bucks a month, promising you something in exchange (service to the internet), and then refusing to deliver it to you, or delivering it in damaged condition not agreed upon.
The feds should do something about it, not just blather.
Pie Central is running an article calling for the creation of a federal agency designed to investigate and prosecute American companies for crimes committed abroad.
Except for one thing. It's not a problem at all for the librarian-- what do they care if the games, CDs, or DVDs get copied? That's Sony's loss, not the library's. Copy away.
All I can say is this is really amazing. It's the rare incident like this that for just a single moment really throws all the PR BS down and bares open the very core of the soul of a corporation for all to see, what they're really about, and what really motivates them into doing and not doing the things they do and don't do.
In some cases you own the car, but in other cases, if the contract is worded in a way that it is really a sort of loan, that is not the case.
Anyway, they still own an interest in the car that if not legally equivelant to owning the car, is practically the same. From a common sense point of view it just makes sense.
First of all, what's so bad about this for the consumer? It's not like they own the car free and clear. When you drove the car off the lot, you hadn't payed the full purchase price yet! The creditor is just protecting what is effectively still their property until they get paid. Now, if these things were put on free and clear cars, or if once you paid off your loan they refused to take it off, that'd be a different story entirely. That's you screwing with my car. But this ain't my car.
This should actually be pretty good for most of us. If the rate of taken cars and cost of repoing goes down, then since thereis less risk for auto companies, the interest rates should fall for all us honest car buyers, who were previously effectively subsidising the crooks that stole their cars after not making all the payments.
As for this stupid comment by the original poster: I would think this "Smart Box" would get hacked way too easily, leaving car companies without their money.
You mean as opposed to before, where you could hack the system by just driving out of town? It's not perfect, but it delivers probably 90% of the value of a perfect system, as opposed to about 0%.
There's a word for that, and that's arbitrage.
If you did that, you'd make the market more effecient-- HIT prices would be driven down to the point where you couldn't conduct this scheme anymore because nobody would complete the HITs at 1 cent less than the current market prices.
"Could someone countersue," you ask?
Actually, about a year ago I remember reading in the New York Times about some elderly woman who got sued by the music industry in their own big wave of suits, and who countersued under the federal anti-racketeering act, RICO-- the theory being that the industry was racketeering by using these letters and lawsuits to intimidate people into paying up thousands of dollars in settlements.
Anyone know how that ended up turning out?
"It's only an ethical problem if the creation has free will."
Actually, it's also an ethical problem if its existence could lead to trouble, like some bacterie going wild and eating grass or whatever instead of oil, like they were saying. The fact is, if something "goes wrong" repurcussions could affect everyone. Since when is doing things that could harm others ethical?
You say, "This... brings about visions of some sterile, Spandex-jumpsuit future where food production is controlled by some central authority, and real, hoof-grown meat is a rare delicacy."
You fail to realise that that's exactly how it is now, though! In the developed world, the vast majority of people have no direct contact with production of food. A very small number of companies, large farms, and government regulatory agencies control it all from top to bottom.
Unless the broadcast flag will apply to these, er, Meat-O-Matics (pirated salmon formulas! oh no!), this situation would be exactly the opposite, food production being finally extremely widely distributed again.
Though with meat this cheap spandex may be right.
And hoof-grown meat will be as much a delicacy as organic products are now.
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Well, except that there was a recent story indicating that the PS3 won't be able to play commercial Blu-Ray movies after all. But no, I'm sure that $600 block will be quite useful. I have this door that keeps sliding and I can't seem to find anything that will hold it in place.
"But gosh, other countries manage to work it out." Other countries are smaller.
That's probably because you're not very familiar with how to use a wiki.
e pression&oldid=63059194 will atke you to the Great Depression article, as it looked yesterday. That link will never change.
Actually, what you are talking about, reproducability, is one of the great strengths of wiki compared with other media, especially other websites.
Every page has a history function. You can look at that and see what the article looked like on any given date. If you want to give someone a reference to an article and want to make sure they see it how you saw it, just give them the article date number (which can be encoded in the URL) and they'll always, now and forever, see it as it was at that time.
For example, http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Great_D
It's hardly Wikipedia's fault if you don't know how to use a wiki properly.
Touche.
You do make a good point; it's unfortunate this speech has a need to be made at all. But "some mayor of some city?" Mike Bloomberg ain't some mayor and New York City ain't some city. The position of Mayor of New York City is widely considered to be the #2 most taxing executive government position in the United States, probably since New York is by far the largest U.S. city, and administering a city government is more involved than administering the state business for an equal area of responsibility, since the municipalities take care of many more direct issues. And for that matter, even if you consider governorships of states larger than New York City to be more important positions than the mayorship of New York City, there ain't that many. New York City is larger than fourty of the fifty United States of America. And the Mayor has much more responsibility over New York City as a whole than the Governor of Georgia (approximately the same population as NYC) has over Georgia. So don't think that the Mayor of New York saying something is akin to the Mayor of YOUR Podunk little town saying something. That's just ignorant.
Politics, pure and simple? Perhaps that's what we've come to, but.... No. Politics, you say? This isn't even politics. It's just plain rape.
It might say, "Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's."
"First of all, I don't believe a massive collapse of civillization and loss of scientific knowledge will happen. We're unaware of anything like that happening in our past" Of course, that may be because this is the first time we've had a rise of civilisation and gain of scientific knowledge, in the first place (as far as we know). This is only the first chance we've had.
These ideas aren't new. Have any of you read Built to Last? Google walks and talks like a textbook example of a visionary company.
There's one other thing to consider, besides who's "right" or "wrong"-- what would the consequences of Kinderstart winning this case? That's easy: it would kill Google and every other search engine based in the U.S. I can't imagine how a search engine could possibly keep in business when every single day-to-day change of internal metrics has to be documented and justified in order to protect the firm legally. It would just be ridiculous. You couldn't list or not list or give more or give less pagerank to any page on any site at all without being liable to just about everyone. Kinderstart probably doesn't have jack of a case, but even if they did, Congress would (if they're not asleep at the switch) have to meddle instantly before everything went to hell.
So other than those 360 dudes, are all the other hackers illiterate?
"The network builders are spending a fortune constructing and maintaining the networks that Google intends to ride on with nothing but cheap servers" One thing no one has mentioned is, isn't Google the one that is investing millions into serious research and development, coming up with new innovative services and ideas? And isn't Verizon the one who is just chugging along, not really doing much that I've noticed, charging the same old fees for the same old boring service which is quite literally the modern equivelant of the post office? And another thing-- if Verizon did actually implement a policy which resulted in degraded service for Google, or for that matter any website, including some tiny personal website that some dude out of Arizona was running, do you reckon Verizon customers might have a basis for a class-action? That's basically fraud, you know-- taking your 50 bucks a month, promising you something in exchange (service to the internet), and then refusing to deliver it to you, or delivering it in damaged condition not agreed upon.
The feds should do something about it, not just blather. Pie Central is running an article calling for the creation of a federal agency designed to investigate and prosecute American companies for crimes committed abroad.
Sure I do. [[Truth]] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth
Except for one thing. It's not a problem at all for the librarian-- what do they care if the games, CDs, or DVDs get copied? That's Sony's loss, not the library's. Copy away.
Why should they have to? Google is already slashdotted daily anyway.
You just got two weeks of pay for zero weeks of work. Where's the downside?
All I can say is this is really amazing. It's the rare incident like this that for just a single moment really throws all the PR BS down and bares open the very core of the soul of a corporation for all to see, what they're really about, and what really motivates them into doing and not doing the things they do and don't do.
In some cases you own the car, but in other cases, if the contract is worded in a way that it is really a sort of loan, that is not the case. Anyway, they still own an interest in the car that if not legally equivelant to owning the car, is practically the same. From a common sense point of view it just makes sense.
This should actually be pretty good for most of us. If the rate of taken cars and cost of repoing goes down, then since thereis less risk for auto companies, the interest rates should fall for all us honest car buyers, who were previously effectively subsidising the crooks that stole their cars after not making all the payments.
As for this stupid comment by the original poster: I would think this "Smart Box" would get hacked way too easily, leaving car companies without their money.
You mean as opposed to before, where you could hack the system by just driving out of town? It's not perfect, but it delivers probably 90% of the value of a perfect system, as opposed to about 0%.
There's a word for that, and that's arbitrage. If you did that, you'd make the market more effecient-- HIT prices would be driven down to the point where you couldn't conduct this scheme anymore because nobody would complete the HITs at 1 cent less than the current market prices.
Uh, not per capita, more like per square kilometre. We're polluting the EARTH.
"Could someone countersue," you ask? Actually, about a year ago I remember reading in the New York Times about some elderly woman who got sued by the music industry in their own big wave of suits, and who countersued under the federal anti-racketeering act, RICO-- the theory being that the industry was racketeering by using these letters and lawsuits to intimidate people into paying up thousands of dollars in settlements. Anyone know how that ended up turning out?
"It's only an ethical problem if the creation has free will." Actually, it's also an ethical problem if its existence could lead to trouble, like some bacterie going wild and eating grass or whatever instead of oil, like they were saying. The fact is, if something "goes wrong" repurcussions could affect everyone. Since when is doing things that could harm others ethical?
You say, "This... brings about visions of some sterile, Spandex-jumpsuit future where food production is controlled by some central authority, and real, hoof-grown meat is a rare delicacy." You fail to realise that that's exactly how it is now, though! In the developed world, the vast majority of people have no direct contact with production of food. A very small number of companies, large farms, and government regulatory agencies control it all from top to bottom. Unless the broadcast flag will apply to these, er, Meat-O-Matics (pirated salmon formulas! oh no!), this situation would be exactly the opposite, food production being finally extremely widely distributed again. Though with meat this cheap spandex may be right. And hoof-grown meat will be as much a delicacy as organic products are now.