I cannot turn off the damn idle section. I go to preferences, I say I don't want the damn thing, but I cannot save. There must be another section, but I cannot scroll down to see it.
This this link, it should allow you to see it as a form instead of a popup.
Also, if anyone's reading this, the preview on the main page of idle still renders improperly as is this box that I'm typing in different from all other sections!
Well, I know this is asking for it, but I'll try to focus on the positives of IE8 from a web developer viewpoint.
First off, I deal a lot with AJAX and I think a lot of people feel my pain when we have to write two different Javascript methods to achieve the same functionality between IE6, IE7 & everybody else. And I don't want to hear anybody saying that IE keeps me employed by creating more work. That's bullshit, all it does is hinder my productivity. But now we have:
The getElementById method is now case-sensitive, and it no longer incorrectly performs searches using the NAME attribute.
My god, you mean it's actually going to behave like--you know--the name implies?!
Sanitize HTML -- Easily remove event properties and script from HTML fragments with window.toStaticHTML.
I am intrigued by this and think that this is a great innovative idea from a developer's perspective.
CSS Compliance
I don't think I would be the first person to say compliance to standards are currently lacking in IE. I'm glad to see them acknowledging this area of improvement!
At least it's a step in the correction direction! And on top of that, they are slowly catching up with Firefox plugins like Firebug or a their profiling tools:
CSS Tool -- Display various rules defined by style sheets loaded by your Web page.
Script Debugging -- The built-in lightweight debugger enables you to set breakpoints and to step through client-side script without leaving Internet Explorer.
Script Profiler -- Visually determine where your script is taking most of its time.
Version Mode Switching -- Switch into different browser modes to test content for standards compliance.
I dream of a future where I have means other than javascript popups to check objects in javascript in IE. Yes, yes, I know they have a script debugger today... if you have some form of.NET studio installed. Which is just peachy if you run Linux and IE4Linux.
I am both curious of the new AJAX functionality they promise and fearful that they are simply another venue for security risks (let's all hope their cross-domain & cross-document functionalities are sound).
I do not think all is lost on this browser, however... even if it assumes RAM is cheap and your CPU has over 171 cores to spare.
Lawyers can smell profit and always pick the correct door in the Monty Hall situation when IEDs lay on the other side of two and $1,000 lays on the other side of one.
The correct door is of course one with an IED behind, they can sue for waaay more than $1000 for the trauma of getting blown up.
Well, the patient clearly exhibits a severe form of dementia where he thinks that lawyers are supernatural beings capable of destroying his world and cheating everyone & everything--even death! The patient also sees them as an unstoppable force bent on bending all things the patient views as right and irrefutable. In this case, security and public awareness.
This is informative/interesting because there seems to be a fringe society of individuals that exhibit these symptoms while clearly the rest of society--the 'norm'--do not.
Not all lawyers are inherently evil, even Gandhi was a lawyer. Some use their powers for good, it just seems that this poor basket case has deluded himself into seeing only evil and mis-characterizing lawyers as a hate-filled 'race.'
Seriously though, does anyone else feel like either the rest of the world has gone insane or they're the only insane person on this planet? I mean, I miss the days when they would just burn scientists and heretics at the stake. At least we wouldn't have to sit through bullshit where the truth is suppressed by financial corporations! Seriously, the Discovery Channel should be renamed to the "Discover Only What Money Approves Channel."
After hearing this news, I went to the Mythbusters site and entered in a bunch of old wives tales & myths passed onto me from my father and forefathers concerning lawyers. They are:
Lawyers possess a membrane of blood just below the skin so they appear to be human and bleed from things like paper cuts and scratches but if shot in the head or other vital organ, they will not bleed.
As long as they are given fresh videos of accidental injuries where a party is liable, lawyers can go weeks without food or water and still survive.
When dropped from 6 story (or higher) buildings, lawyers bounce.
Even when bound with twine and anchored, lawyers float.
If you cut a lawyer's head off, it will manage to sue you for days before it dies.
Lawyers emit an evil into the ether so powerful that when they are placed in a cage with a ravenous lion, the lion will cower and run.
Lawyers can smell profit and always pick the correct door in the Monty Hall situation when IEDs lay on the other side of two and $1,000 lays on the other side of one.
Lawyers can't feel pain.
Any lawyer can outrun a male grizzly bear in the middle of mating season.
Over the years, lawyers have built up a tolerance to lethal doses of iocane powder.
I can't wait until they test my myths! Also, lawyers are the reason we no longer have habeas corpus, so the show should be filmed in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
"What non-obvious things can nerds who are so inclined do to help the Democrats win in November?" But the question itself is not inherently partisan.
You and I seem to have different ideas of what 'partisan' means.
Honestly, the best thing a nerd can do during an election is spread information. Not slanted information but stuff like the folks over at factcheck.org are doing. Another thing is discussing various differences in the voting process like trying to build a grassroots movement to move back to the popular vote or opening up discussions on runoff voting. There's plenty of ways to inform the public, possibly the most important and least rewarded job--in my mind anyhow. I find it humorous when Democrat workers go around alienating Republican voters and vice versa.
If you approach me with the mindset that I need to be voting for your candidate I'm probably not going to react well to it.
I heavily doubt it, the Pioneer Anomaly is essentially a very small but unexplained forced. I'm not a physicist but I'm not sure how you plan to link radioactive decay rates with small forces.
There are many things we don't know about physics... yet. Until we have a unified field theory, you're going to have a hard time linking them.
First, some theorists think the sun produces a field that changes the value of the fine structure constant on Earth as its distance from the sun varies. That would certainly affect the rate of nuclear decay. Another idea is that the effect is caused by some kind of interaction with the neutrino flux from the sun's interior which also varies with distance. Take your pick.
You left out the best part of the paper, where they propose how to test these theories:
These conclusions can be tested in a number of ways. In addition to repeating long-term decay measurements on Earth, measurements on radioactive samples carried aboard spacecraft to other planets would be very useful since the sample-Sun distance would then vary over a much wider range. The neutrino flux hypothesis might also be tested using samples placed in the neutrino flux produced by nuclear reactors.
Sounds like we could test the latter relatively easily.
Of course that is not why the YouTube case will be lost. The YouTube case will be lost because the California judge was right.
The difference between what is morally right and what is financially backed to be right has slowly become irrelevant for my country's justice system. Do I sound Jaded? Do I sound a bit like Philip Nolan in my disgust for our "justice department?" From shill trials and hearings against big oil/tobacco to using political or ideological criteria to hire new lawyers into the department, it's a bright shining example for my country's ebbing greatness.
These days, the few court cases that seem to make sense come from the lowest courts in the country. The highest courts are too busy licking the soles of some lobbyist's shoes or siding with a political party to do their jobs.
YouTube maybe morally correct but Viacom is monetarily correct--make no mistake about that. A thousand lawyers will find a way.
Thing is, they can say anything they want to in a press release. In court, though, it's not so easy. If you make factual claims that aren't so, you will get burned.
That's strange, wasn't it you who showed us that judges were taking advice from 'expert' witnesses about IP addresses in Kazaa and using those logs to find defendants guilty? Screenshots and text files that would take me five minutes to doctor cost citizens $20,000 to avoid the legal battle! And those are 'factual claims!?'
Viacom will convince the judge that YouTube is creating revenue for Google using content that isn't licensed. And they won't have a hard time convincing a judge that doesn't understand the technology behind it... nor will the judge need to know how ad supported revenue works. Viacom will point to services like NBC.com or ABC.com or maybe even Hulu on how ad supported licensed content should work and it's going to take one example of a full episode of SouthPark on YouTube to make the judge agree.
Well point me to some monstrous decision, of recent vintage, supporting your thesis (and in doing so please confine yourself to cases where the defendant could afford a lawyer).
You're right that there hasn't been a lot where the defendant could afford a lawyer but I've already flogged the issue of money making someone right into the ground.
I'm not attacking you here. I'm not attacking YouTube here. Hell, I'm not even really attacking Viacom. I'm criticizing our Justice Department in several regards. Don't take this personally!
eldavojohn, with all due respect..... do you seriously think that just because they put out conflicting press releases that somehow nullifies the power of this decision as a judicial precedent?
Ray Beckerman, with all due respect, that is not at all how I see it. I have just resigned myself to the fact that a court case with a billion dollars at stake will not be lost because a California judge knocked down an infringement case about ten pornographic videos that were immediately taken down anyhow. Lawyers do not say goodbye to a billion that easily!
You are the lawyer however! It would bring me great joy to hear otherwise but I would expect Viacom's lawyers to play the same card they played in their press release--attempting to convince the judge that there are too many differences between these cases to consider Io Vs Veoh to be precedence.
It is another nail in the coffin of the MPAA's frivolous suit against YouTube.
The MPAA has a suit against YouTube? What is it? All I know of is Viacom's suit and, though a member, they are not every single Movie Picture Association of America Member.
Also, I think the 'nail in the coffin' phrase is being used to soon here. The cases I've been following seem to point to the entire US Justice System being in **AA's pet attack dog in witch trials. While there's been a few cases of common sense, the vast majority of cases are being settled out of court because the judge is a corporate pawn and insolent technology-wise.
I read this in Wired and found this quote from YouTube:
"It is great to see the Court confirm that the DMCA protects services like YouTube that follow the law and respect copyrights," YouTube Chief Counsel Zahavah Levine said in a statement. "YouTube has gone above and beyond the law to protect content owners while empowering people to communicate and share their experiences online."
And this quote from Viacom:
"Even if the Veoh decision were to be considered by other courts, that case does nothing to change the fact that YouTube is a business built on infringement that has failed to take reasonable measures to respect the rights of creators and content owners. Google and YouTube have engaged in massive copyright infringement â" conduct that is not protected by any law, including the DMCA."
Probably not far from what one would expect either to say but I'm afraid this isn't going to do much for YouTube.
"For those of you who have never been lucky enough to witness the "pink page" we display to banned users, here's the text of the template we generate it with. I confess I'd never before thought about how offensive that might be to psychics."
That's pretty horrible but... not enough use of the <marquee> & <blink> tags.
Say, Jamie, why is the idle comment boxes different and why are the <quote> tags not functioning like they do on the rest of Slashdot?
"This lady doesn't like the message you get on our banned page..."
What is Slashdot's banned page? I did not know such a thing existed. If you were a bot, I suspect you'd be banned but how does a psychic get banned? What are the conditions that cause a user to get banned? Has anyone else seen this?
"My mother has done a lot of work with local law enforcement and once for FBI."
What is it with nutjobs and claiming they have done work for important government agencies? Yeah, I understand there was a program in the 70s to explore using psychics against the commies but is there a form of dementia that causes one to hallucinate that they are serving a higher power? You know like John Nash or Tom Cruise style? I'm sorry, that wasn't really fair to Doctor Nash.
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"I guess some were bad and you have to trick them into cutting open his belly in an eating contest but that doesn't even matter when it comes to what your saying."
Is this a reference to some historical myth that I am missing? I think I understand where this (satire) is coming from in that some mythologies contained trolls or troll like creatures. But what is the eating contest reference to? Anyone heavy on Norse mythology or is this some remote Fantasy reference?
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"If I own my words your fucking page says so!"
Despite he fail English possible, I have always been interested in what your disclaimer means for us, the ones who post. You make that claim to avoid legal troubles, I understand, but if we own what we post here, what are our rights. I have no way of easily accessing my prior posts. I often remember a post I made about something (like Iceland) and I have to go to Google for it because there is simply no way to page through all my comments in my user page. Sometimes someone replies with a thread linking to a useful open source tool and I can never remember what story it was on or where it was attached.
Also, what happens if Slashdot goes offline or is shutdown in the future? What will happen to all my 'property'? Have you considered allowing users to export posts, threads or stories? It would most likely be too taxing for the server but if these posts are owned by the users, shouldn't they be made available to them for keeping in their records?
"you have to or youll get a call from my dads lawyer buy Friday"
My god, lawyers have figured out how to license days of the week! Quickly, how do I acquire the rights to 'Saturday'? I'll be rich!
I think that this last post indicates clearly that we (Americans) are an overly litiguous society. We are so dependent on lawyers that childish remarks immediately default to "my dad's lawyer will sue you." This individual sounds like a minor and I suspect that overexposure to lawsuits and court cases have brought this on. Don't confuse this with 'justice.' "I'm going to beat you up" has been simply replaced with "I'm going to sue you!" And although the violence element has been removed, there is still this overly aggressive, unjust attitude saturated from the highest corporations to the immaturest minds.
One more thing, why is my preview formatting all funny on Idle?
'I've seen a number of players at national tournaments who came in "baked" (that's stoned for the uninformed) purely so they could play better. In most cases they did...
Um, I'm not a regular drug user but how are the effects of Cannabis beneficial to gaming?
Acute effects while under the influence include euphoria, increased appetite, anxiety, short-term memory loss, and circulation effects which may increase risks of heart attacks.
I understand how drugs that affect your nervous system -- like uppers -- can increase your reaction time and muscle twitching for those games involving twitch skills. And nobody can shred on a guitar like an coked up hair band... but how does a drug that made my college roommate double up in laughter and fail at communication make someone better at video games?
Now begins the moderation war between mac addicts and MST3K fans. *grins evilly, sips iced tea*
I know! And the hardcore MST3K fans are going to mod him down for not saying: *puts on a white shirt with black font that reads "I'M A VIRGIN" across the front of it*
From what specifics I could find on it, they are planning on supporting Flash 7.0 and I think this means one could play swfs on it (of which I know several addictive games online).
As for other support, I'm kind of disappointed that they went far enough to support Lyrics (Lyc) files but they only support TXT for their E-Books. I would be nice to see Plucker supported by default so that all the Project Gutenberg books would be readily accessible in something better than just plain text. But, I suppose that's just a matter of recompiling for the targeted architecture. I wonder if proprietary e-Book formats will ever be supported on devices like this? That's probably just wishful thinking--why would Amazon divert sales of the Kindle to something like this?
"U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel has ruled that 'allegation that a copyright owner acted in bad faith by issuing a takedown notice without proper consideration of the fair use doctrine thus is sufficient to state a misrepresentation claim,' which paves the way for a lawsuit against Universal Music over a ridiculous DMCA Takedown notice they filed. One can only hope that this ruling will some day be used against those who file misguided copyright complaints against computer printers. Those lawyers who rely upon buggy infringement detection programs to do their thinking for them -- programs which are incapable of making subjective considerations like fair use -- might want to think again before rubber stamping computer-generated DMCA Takedown notices."
Speaking of subjectivity, this summary is rife with it. Even though I agree 100% with it, I would prefer my news fed to me in the form of low grade homogeneous neutral gruel. I know it's more boring to read that way but it allows me, the reader, to form my own opinions. More importantly, it maintains that news source's credibility and will actually make the other side listen instead of instant dismissal. You're also needlessly jeopardizing those who are undecided on this issue. I think I'd rather read:
"U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel has ruled that 'allegation that a copyright owner acted in bad faith by issuing a takedown notice without proper consideration of the fair use doctrine thus is sufficient to state a misrepresentation claim,' which now puts Universal Music at risk over a DMCA Takedown notice they filed. This ruling may also one day be used against those who attempt to file copyright complaints against computer printers & automated DMCA Takedown notices.
I know Slashdot is not a true news site and is more so a news aggregater of whatever CmdrTaco feels is relevant but does anyone else get a sinking suspicion that we might look a bit biased to outsiders?
There's no objectivity in this summary, it just assumes the reader needs to be told how to think (which is usually taken as an insult to intelligence). I just don't want Slashdot to turn into the "Fox News for Geeks, Stuffed into Your Gullet Our Way."
Are you really going to compare graffiti -- a nuisance of a chosen action -- to a civil rights struggle? Based on the color of a person's skin?
People like Rosa Parks were heroes to all, especially to racists and passive people who needed to have their eyes open. I'm not sure who James Powderly thought he was representing but going to a foreign country and committing what is a crime in that country just makes a bunch of people uneasy.
Oh, and non-destructive graffiti is pretty damned cool.
Light is still a form of polution. Though non-destructive, it is most likely still annoying. While I agree with the cause this man was "fighting" for, I am indifferent to his ineffective methods. He would most likely be arrested in my country too.
His methods weren't opening people's eyes, they are alienating people like me who would rather see a message sent to the Chinese government that makes them think about their injustices.
How do you reward your users? What mechanisms will/do you employ to promote meaningful and thoughtful tagging and discourse?
How is this better or different than the 'diggs' or 'mod points' people on other News sites acquire?
Naturally, I am concerned with positive reinforcement being given to those that deserve it and the ability to overlook the inevitable negative material the internet is so adept at producing en mass.
That's a nice lyric from The Who but there are actual real differences between Obama & Bush. He seems to list specifics of a planned removal from Iraq:
Barack Obama believes we must be as careful getting out of Iraq as we were careless getting in. Immediately upon taking office, Obama will give his Secretary of Defense and military commanders a new mission in Iraq: ending the war. The removal of our troops will be responsible and phased, directed by military commanders on the ground and done in consultation with the Iraqi government. Military experts believe we can safely redeploy combat brigades from Iraq at a pace of 1 to 2 brigades a month that would remove them in 16 months. That would be the summer of 2010 â" more than 7 years after the war began.
I think what's lacking when it comes to candidates is there's no accountability. I like to see goals listed out that are achievable, realistic & measurable. But when they are elected and these goals melt away or the politician is so deluded the think they're achieving these goals, I just cringe.
It happens to every politician every election for every position. You're right in saying that everyone's tired of failed promises. But there are some larger issues that Obama has (at least for now) claimed definite goals for. I'm not an Obama supporter but I can find his plans for removal from Iraq for better or for worse.
If Obama can't deliver $2 billion to NASA, I'll be pissed. This may be political pandering (in fact, I'll guarantee it is) but I really don't care. I would like to see more money devoted to NASA and our progress to human proliferation through space.
The odds are high that if elected he'll never follow his Iraq plans or he'll alter them or claim there's new data that makes it impossible... but what can I do but vote for the candidate that at least (for now) is saying what I want my Commander in Chief to say?
Just to give you an idea on how much $2 billion might help NASA, there are some stats for NASA's budget. In 2007 they had a budget of $15.861 billion and for this year they are using $17.318 billion. If you adjust for inflation, NASA has averaged $16.290 billion dollars per year which means this $2 billion would be about a 11.5-12.2% increase in its annual budget.
By comparison, the DoD budget was $439.3 billion in 2007 but my gripe with U.S. fiscal spending is probably a bit off topic here.
"it's being used by researchers who need to find where an image came from to provide attribution, even people who are trying to find out who people are in old photos."
This may be nitpicking but I read the FAQ and it does not, in fact, claim to be able to accomplish this unless that exact same 'old photo' is posted elsewhere on the internet:
Can TinEye find alterations of a query image?
Yes. As long as they are alterations of the same query image, TinEye can find them and include them in your search results.
Note that search results are ordered by 'relevance' (i.e. how well the result images match your query image), so image alterations are typically found at the end of your search results.
How does TinEye work?
TinEye uses sophisticated pattern recognition algorithms to find your image on the web without the use of metadata or watermarks.
TinEye instantly analyzes your query image to create a compact digital signature or 'fingerprint' for it. TinEye searches for your image on the web by comparing its fingerprint to the fingerprint of every single other image in the TinEye search index.
So this example they list of the soldier must rely on the fact that the website contained the same exact image that the people had of the old soldier they were looking for. I can't expect it to take any image of Person A and return every single image (past & present) of that person. That's ridiculous.
I would expect that to work out very infrequently as I'm not aware of any huge digitized databases of old photos or even newspaper microfiche. Hell, I have postage stamp-sized photos of my grandparents with people who nobody knows who they are. I don't think this tool could help me.
I believe in democracy. I believe democracy is our greatest export. At least until China figures out a way to stamp it out of plastic for three cents a unit. As a matter of fact, Ambassador Zhou Wenzhong, welcome. Your great country makes our Happy Meals possible. I said it's a celebration.
It's all truth, too. But it is not diplomatic. At what point do you call it "balls" versus "being an asshole." You may not respect China but whether or not you do, we are all living on the same planet.
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I cannot turn off the damn idle section. I go to preferences, I say I don't want the damn thing, but I cannot save. There must be another section, but I cannot scroll down to see it.
This this link, it should allow you to see it as a form instead of a popup.
Also, if anyone's reading this, the preview on the main page of idle still renders improperly as is this box that I'm typing in different from all other sections!
First off, I deal a lot with AJAX and I think a lot of people feel my pain when we have to write two different Javascript methods to achieve the same functionality between IE6, IE7 & everybody else. And I don't want to hear anybody saying that IE keeps me employed by creating more work. That's bullshit, all it does is hinder my productivity. But now we have:
The getElementById method is now case-sensitive, and it no longer incorrectly performs searches using the NAME attribute.
My god, you mean it's actually going to behave like--you know--the name implies?!
Sanitize HTML -- Easily remove event properties and script from HTML fragments with window.toStaticHTML.
I am intrigued by this and think that this is a great innovative idea from a developer's perspective.
CSS Compliance
I don't think I would be the first person to say compliance to standards are currently lacking in IE. I'm glad to see them acknowledging this area of improvement!
At least it's a step in the correction direction! And on top of that, they are slowly catching up with Firefox plugins like Firebug or a their profiling tools:
I dream of a future where I have means other than javascript popups to check objects in javascript in IE. Yes, yes, I know they have a script debugger today ... if you have some form of .NET studio installed. Which is just peachy if you run Linux and IE4Linux.
... even if it assumes RAM is cheap and your CPU has over 171 cores to spare.
I am both curious of the new AJAX functionality they promise and fearful that they are simply another venue for security risks (let's all hope their cross-domain & cross-document functionalities are sound).
I do not think all is lost on this browser, however
Lawyers can smell profit and always pick the correct door in the Monty Hall situation when IEDs lay on the other side of two and $1,000 lays on the other side of one.
The correct door is of course one with an IED behind, they can sue for waaay more than $1000 for the trauma of getting blown up.
That's lawyer talk! You're one of them!
GET HIM!
I like how this is modded informative..
Well, the patient clearly exhibits a severe form of dementia where he thinks that lawyers are supernatural beings capable of destroying his world and cheating everyone & everything--even death! The patient also sees them as an unstoppable force bent on bending all things the patient views as right and irrefutable. In this case, security and public awareness.
This is informative/interesting because there seems to be a fringe society of individuals that exhibit these symptoms while clearly the rest of society--the 'norm'--do not.
Not all lawyers are inherently evil, even Gandhi was a lawyer. Some use their powers for good, it just seems that this poor basket case has deluded himself into seeing only evil and mis-characterizing lawyers as a hate-filled 'race.'
Seriously though, does anyone else feel like either the rest of the world has gone insane or they're the only insane person on this planet? I mean, I miss the days when they would just burn scientists and heretics at the stake. At least we wouldn't have to sit through bullshit where the truth is suppressed by financial corporations! Seriously, the Discovery Channel should be renamed to the "Discover Only What Money Approves Channel."
I can't wait until they test my myths! Also, lawyers are the reason we no longer have habeas corpus, so the show should be filmed in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
"What non-obvious things can nerds who are so inclined do to help the Democrats win in November?" But the question itself is not inherently partisan.
You and I seem to have different ideas of what 'partisan' means.
Honestly, the best thing a nerd can do during an election is spread information. Not slanted information but stuff like the folks over at factcheck.org are doing. Another thing is discussing various differences in the voting process like trying to build a grassroots movement to move back to the popular vote or opening up discussions on runoff voting. There's plenty of ways to inform the public, possibly the most important and least rewarded job--in my mind anyhow. I find it humorous when Democrat workers go around alienating Republican voters and vice versa.
If you approach me with the mindset that I need to be voting for your candidate I'm probably not going to react well to it.
Yes - but not enough to account for the difference between Joan Rivers' apparent and actual age.
When nine-hundred years old you reach, look as good, you will not.
Could this be the cause of the Pioneer Anomaly ?
I heavily doubt it, the Pioneer Anomaly is essentially a very small but unexplained forced. I'm not a physicist but I'm not sure how you plan to link radioactive decay rates with small forces.
... yet. Until we have a unified field theory, you're going to have a hard time linking them.
There are many things we don't know about physics
First, some theorists think the sun produces a field that changes the value of the fine structure constant on Earth as its distance from the sun varies. That would certainly affect the rate of nuclear decay. Another idea is that the effect is caused by some kind of interaction with the neutrino flux from the sun's interior which also varies with distance. Take your pick.
You left out the best part of the paper, where they propose how to test these theories:
These conclusions can be tested in a number of ways. In addition to repeating long-term decay measurements on Earth, measurements on radioactive samples carried aboard spacecraft to other planets would be very useful since the sample-Sun distance would then vary over a much wider range. The neutrino flux hypothesis might also be tested using samples placed in the neutrino flux produced by nuclear reactors.
Sounds like we could test the latter relatively easily.
Also, Jeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeere H. Jenkins!!!
Of course that is not why the YouTube case will be lost. The YouTube case will be lost because the California judge was right.
The difference between what is morally right and what is financially backed to be right has slowly become irrelevant for my country's justice system. Do I sound Jaded? Do I sound a bit like Philip Nolan in my disgust for our "justice department?" From shill trials and hearings against big oil/tobacco to using political or ideological criteria to hire new lawyers into the department, it's a bright shining example for my country's ebbing greatness.
These days, the few court cases that seem to make sense come from the lowest courts in the country. The highest courts are too busy licking the soles of some lobbyist's shoes or siding with a political party to do their jobs.
YouTube maybe morally correct but Viacom is monetarily correct--make no mistake about that. A thousand lawyers will find a way.
Thing is, they can say anything they want to in a press release. In court, though, it's not so easy. If you make factual claims that aren't so, you will get burned.
That's strange, wasn't it you who showed us that judges were taking advice from 'expert' witnesses about IP addresses in Kazaa and using those logs to find defendants guilty? Screenshots and text files that would take me five minutes to doctor cost citizens $20,000 to avoid the legal battle! And those are 'factual claims!?'
... nor will the judge need to know how ad supported revenue works. Viacom will point to services like NBC.com or ABC.com or maybe even Hulu on how ad supported licensed content should work and it's going to take one example of a full episode of SouthPark on YouTube to make the judge agree.
Viacom will convince the judge that YouTube is creating revenue for Google using content that isn't licensed. And they won't have a hard time convincing a judge that doesn't understand the technology behind it
Well point me to some monstrous decision, of recent vintage, supporting your thesis (and in doing so please confine yourself to cases where the defendant could afford a lawyer).
You're right that there hasn't been a lot where the defendant could afford a lawyer but I've already flogged the issue of money making someone right into the ground.
I'm not attacking you here. I'm not attacking YouTube here. Hell, I'm not even really attacking Viacom. I'm criticizing our Justice Department in several regards. Don't take this personally!
eldavojohn, with all due respect..... do you seriously think that just because they put out conflicting press releases that somehow nullifies the power of this decision as a judicial precedent?
Ray Beckerman, with all due respect, that is not at all how I see it. I have just resigned myself to the fact that a court case with a billion dollars at stake will not be lost because a California judge knocked down an infringement case about ten pornographic videos that were immediately taken down anyhow. Lawyers do not say goodbye to a billion that easily!
You are the lawyer however! It would bring me great joy to hear otherwise but I would expect Viacom's lawyers to play the same card they played in their press release--attempting to convince the judge that there are too many differences between these cases to consider Io Vs Veoh to be precedence.
It is another nail in the coffin of the MPAA's frivolous suit against YouTube.
The MPAA has a suit against YouTube? What is it? All I know of is Viacom's suit and, though a member, they are not every single Movie Picture Association of America Member.
Also, I think the 'nail in the coffin' phrase is being used to soon here. The cases I've been following seem to point to the entire US Justice System being in **AA's pet attack dog in witch trials. While there's been a few cases of common sense, the vast majority of cases are being settled out of court because the judge is a corporate pawn and insolent technology-wise.
"It is great to see the Court confirm that the DMCA protects services like YouTube that follow the law and respect copyrights," YouTube Chief Counsel Zahavah Levine said in a statement. "YouTube has gone above and beyond the law to protect content owners while empowering people to communicate and share their experiences online."
And this quote from Viacom:
"Even if the Veoh decision were to be considered by other courts, that case does nothing to change the fact that YouTube is a business built on infringement that has failed to take reasonable measures to respect the rights of creators and content owners. Google and YouTube have engaged in massive copyright infringement â" conduct that is not protected by any law, including the DMCA."
Probably not far from what one would expect either to say but I'm afraid this isn't going to do much for YouTube.
"For those of you who have never been lucky enough to witness the "pink page" we display to banned users, here's the text of the template we generate it with. I confess I'd never before thought about how offensive that might be to psychics."
That's pretty horrible but ... not enough use of the <marquee> & <blink> tags.
Say, Jamie, why is the idle comment boxes different and why are the <quote> tags not functioning like they do on the rest of Slashdot?
"This lady doesn't like the message you get on our banned page..."
What is Slashdot's banned page? I did not know such a thing existed. If you were a bot, I suspect you'd be banned but how does a psychic get banned? What are the conditions that cause a user to get banned? Has anyone else seen this?
"My mother has done a lot of work with local law enforcement and once for FBI."
What is it with nutjobs and claiming they have done work for important government agencies? Yeah, I understand there was a program in the 70s to explore using psychics against the commies but is there a form of dementia that causes one to hallucinate that they are serving a higher power? You know like John Nash or Tom Cruise style? I'm sorry, that wasn't really fair to Doctor Nash.
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"I guess some were bad and you have to trick them into cutting open his belly in an eating contest but that doesn't even matter when it comes to what your saying."
Is this a reference to some historical myth that I am missing? I think I understand where this (satire) is coming from in that some mythologies contained trolls or troll like creatures. But what is the eating contest reference to? Anyone heavy on Norse mythology or is this some remote Fantasy reference?
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"If I own my words your fucking page says so!"
Despite he fail English possible, I have always been interested in what your disclaimer means for us, the ones who post. You make that claim to avoid legal troubles, I understand, but if we own what we post here, what are our rights. I have no way of easily accessing my prior posts. I often remember a post I made about something (like Iceland) and I have to go to Google for it because there is simply no way to page through all my comments in my user page. Sometimes someone replies with a thread linking to a useful open source tool and I can never remember what story it was on or where it was attached.
Also, what happens if Slashdot goes offline or is shutdown in the future? What will happen to all my 'property'? Have you considered allowing users to export posts, threads or stories? It would most likely be too taxing for the server but if these posts are owned by the users, shouldn't they be made available to them for keeping in their records?
"you have to or youll get a call from my dads lawyer buy Friday"
My god, lawyers have figured out how to license days of the week! Quickly, how do I acquire the rights to 'Saturday'? I'll be rich!
I think that this last post indicates clearly that we (Americans) are an overly litiguous society. We are so dependent on lawyers that childish remarks immediately default to "my dad's lawyer will sue you." This individual sounds like a minor and I suspect that overexposure to lawsuits and court cases have brought this on. Don't confuse this with 'justice.' "I'm going to beat you up" has been simply replaced with "I'm going to sue you!" And although the violence element has been removed, there is still this overly aggressive, unjust attitude saturated from the highest corporations to the immaturest minds.
One more thing, why is my preview formatting all funny on Idle?
'I've seen a number of players at national tournaments who came in "baked" (that's stoned for the uninformed) purely so they could play better. In most cases they did ...
Um, I'm not a regular drug user but how are the effects of Cannabis beneficial to gaming?
Acute effects while under the influence include euphoria, increased appetite, anxiety, short-term memory loss, and circulation effects which may increase risks of heart attacks.
I understand how drugs that affect your nervous system -- like uppers -- can increase your reaction time and muscle twitching for those games involving twitch skills. And nobody can shred on a guitar like an coked up hair band ... but how does a drug that made my college roommate double up in laughter and fail at communication make someone better at video games?
*makes a-ok sign* It stinks!
Now begins the moderation war between mac addicts and MST3K fans. *grins evilly, sips iced tea*
I know! And the hardcore MST3K fans are going to mod him down for not saying: *puts on a white shirt with black font that reads "I'M A VIRGIN" across the front of it*
From what specifics I could find on it, they are planning on supporting Flash 7.0 and I think this means one could play swfs on it (of which I know several addictive games online).
As for other support, I'm kind of disappointed that they went far enough to support Lyrics (Lyc) files but they only support TXT for their E-Books. I would be nice to see Plucker supported by default so that all the Project Gutenberg books would be readily accessible in something better than just plain text. But, I suppose that's just a matter of recompiling for the targeted architecture. I wonder if proprietary e-Book formats will ever be supported on devices like this? That's probably just wishful thinking--why would Amazon divert sales of the Kindle to something like this?
"U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel has ruled that 'allegation that a copyright owner acted in bad faith by issuing a takedown notice without proper consideration of the fair use doctrine thus is sufficient to state a misrepresentation claim,' which paves the way for a lawsuit against Universal Music over a ridiculous DMCA Takedown notice they filed. One can only hope that this ruling will some day be used against those who file misguided copyright complaints against computer printers. Those lawyers who rely upon buggy infringement detection programs to do their thinking for them -- programs which are incapable of making subjective considerations like fair use -- might want to think again before rubber stamping computer-generated DMCA Takedown notices."
Speaking of subjectivity, this summary is rife with it. Even though I agree 100% with it, I would prefer my news fed to me in the form of low grade homogeneous neutral gruel. I know it's more boring to read that way but it allows me, the reader, to form my own opinions. More importantly, it maintains that news source's credibility and will actually make the other side listen instead of instant dismissal. You're also needlessly jeopardizing those who are undecided on this issue. I think I'd rather read:
"U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel has ruled that 'allegation that a copyright owner acted in bad faith by issuing a takedown notice without proper consideration of the fair use doctrine thus is sufficient to state a misrepresentation claim,' which now puts Universal Music at risk over a DMCA Takedown notice they filed. This ruling may also one day be used against those who attempt to file copyright complaints against computer printers & automated DMCA Takedown notices.
I know Slashdot is not a true news site and is more so a news aggregater of whatever CmdrTaco feels is relevant but does anyone else get a sinking suspicion that we might look a bit biased to outsiders?
There's no objectivity in this summary, it just assumes the reader needs to be told how to think (which is usually taken as an insult to intelligence). I just don't want Slashdot to turn into the "Fox News for Geeks, Stuffed into Your Gullet Our Way."
Rosa Parks
Are you really going to compare graffiti -- a nuisance of a chosen action -- to a civil rights struggle? Based on the color of a person's skin?
People like Rosa Parks were heroes to all, especially to racists and passive people who needed to have their eyes open. I'm not sure who James Powderly thought he was representing but going to a foreign country and committing what is a crime in that country just makes a bunch of people uneasy.
Oh, and non-destructive graffiti is pretty damned cool.
Light is still a form of polution. Though non-destructive, it is most likely still annoying. While I agree with the cause this man was "fighting" for, I am indifferent to his ineffective methods. He would most likely be arrested in my country too.
His methods weren't opening people's eyes, they are alienating people like me who would rather see a message sent to the Chinese government that makes them think about their injustices.
How do you reward your users? What mechanisms will/do you employ to promote meaningful and thoughtful tagging and discourse?
How is this better or different than the 'diggs' or 'mod points' people on other News sites acquire?
Naturally, I am concerned with positive reinforcement being given to those that deserve it and the ability to overlook the inevitable negative material the internet is so adept at producing en mass.
Didn't George Orwell warn us about trying to change our history? I'll keep my photographs as they are, thanks.
World War III? Well, we know very little about it as records from that era are hazy and photoshopped.
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
That's a nice lyric from The Who but there are actual real differences between Obama & Bush. He seems to list specifics of a planned removal from Iraq:
Barack Obama believes we must be as careful getting out of Iraq as we were careless getting in. Immediately upon taking office, Obama will give his Secretary of Defense and military commanders a new mission in Iraq: ending the war. The removal of our troops will be responsible and phased, directed by military commanders on the ground and done in consultation with the Iraqi government. Military experts believe we can safely redeploy combat brigades from Iraq at a pace of 1 to 2 brigades a month that would remove them in 16 months. That would be the summer of 2010 â" more than 7 years after the war began.
I think what's lacking when it comes to candidates is there's no accountability. I like to see goals listed out that are achievable, realistic & measurable. But when they are elected and these goals melt away or the politician is so deluded the think they're achieving these goals, I just cringe.
... but what can I do but vote for the candidate that at least (for now) is saying what I want my Commander in Chief to say?
It happens to every politician every election for every position. You're right in saying that everyone's tired of failed promises. But there are some larger issues that Obama has (at least for now) claimed definite goals for. I'm not an Obama supporter but I can find his plans for removal from Iraq for better or for worse.
If Obama can't deliver $2 billion to NASA, I'll be pissed. This may be political pandering (in fact, I'll guarantee it is) but I really don't care. I would like to see more money devoted to NASA and our progress to human proliferation through space.
The odds are high that if elected he'll never follow his Iraq plans or he'll alter them or claim there's new data that makes it impossible
Just to give you an idea on how much $2 billion might help NASA, there are some stats for NASA's budget. In 2007 they had a budget of $15.861 billion and for this year they are using $17.318 billion. If you adjust for inflation, NASA has averaged $16.290 billion dollars per year which means this $2 billion would be about a 11.5-12.2% increase in its annual budget.
By comparison, the DoD budget was $439.3 billion in 2007 but my gripe with U.S. fiscal spending is probably a bit off topic here.
"it's being used by researchers who need to find where an image came from to provide attribution, even people who are trying to find out who people are in old photos."
This may be nitpicking but I read the FAQ and it does not, in fact, claim to be able to accomplish this unless that exact same 'old photo' is posted elsewhere on the internet:
Can TinEye find alterations of a query image?
Yes. As long as they are alterations of the same query image, TinEye can find them and include them in your search results.
Note that search results are ordered by 'relevance' (i.e. how well the result images match your query image), so image alterations are typically found at the end of your search results.
How does TinEye work?
TinEye uses sophisticated pattern recognition algorithms to find your image on the web without the use of metadata or watermarks.
TinEye instantly analyzes your query image to create a compact digital signature or 'fingerprint' for it. TinEye searches for your image on the web by comparing its fingerprint to the fingerprint of every single other image in the TinEye search index.
So this example they list of the soldier must rely on the fact that the website contained the same exact image that the people had of the old soldier they were looking for. I can't expect it to take any image of Person A and return every single image (past & present) of that person. That's ridiculous.
I would expect that to work out very infrequently as I'm not aware of any huge digitized databases of old photos or even newspaper microfiche. Hell, I have postage stamp-sized photos of my grandparents with people who nobody knows who they are. I don't think this tool could help me.
The first person to actually question the Bush regime said it right to his face at the press awards banquet.
I believe that was the "White House Press Correspondence Association Dinner." Although he spoke a lot of truth and I thoroughly enjoyed it, he also said this to the Ambassador Zhou Wenzhong from China:
I believe in democracy. I believe democracy is our greatest export. At least until China figures out a way to stamp it out of plastic for three cents a unit. As a matter of fact, Ambassador Zhou Wenzhong, welcome. Your great country makes our Happy Meals possible. I said it's a celebration.
It's all truth, too. But it is not diplomatic. At what point do you call it "balls" versus "being an asshole." You may not respect China but whether or not you do, we are all living on the same planet.