Huh, that's odd. It was only yesterday that I was being told Sony had lost the PS3 hacking war. Wait a second, this sounds familiar. Did a Texan in a flight suit show up at the unveiling of PSGroove with a giant banner?
The main point of the article is how Youtube is enabling a shift in how copyright holders deal with unauthorized content.
Disclaimer: Summary author here. Honestly, wasn't too interested in that. YouTube's been auto-recognizing songs and videos through fingerprinting for quite sometime now and making an ad for the song pop up at the bottom of the video because you don't own it. I saw this with my friend's account as early as 2008.
Neat trick but not really fresh news to me. And you know, I read the article and the only thing that caught my eye was that YouTube might be turning a profit this year. I thought it was more newsworthy than your summary and -- frankly -- I get annoyed and feel like I failed whenever I post a summary and someone screams "slashvertisement" and gets modded +5 Insightful. That really does get to me. So instead of gaping in awe at how awesome they are at scanning your videos, I went with the profit angle. Especially since people have been so mixed on whether or not YouTube was a smart play by Google. Viacom trial lawyer fees aside, it's not a cheap outfit.
You'll just have to beat me to the scoop next time;-) good luck!
But there’s one piece of the Appleverse that I’ve always detested, and that’s the desktop version of iTunes. The ugly duckling of the iFamily, this program is hard to understand, hard to use, inelegant, and ill-behaved—in short, the very opposite of most other Apple products. I dread booting it up every day...
Yeah, yesterday I bitched about this and have actively refused any upgrades to iTunes since 9 because I'm not sure if 10 is going to get better or worse.
So while I want iTunes to run faster, I definitely don't want anything to do with this "Ping" service and if it's reminiscent of how they made me dependent on Quicktime (despite the fact that I have never used iTunes for anything video -- VLC kicks ass) I don't want auto-opted into something that I cannot get out of!
If you're looking for open source alternatives to iTunes: CDex, VLC and handbrake
My biggest problem is that support seems to wax and wane with actually moving songs/videos on and off an iPod with open source alternatives... so that leaves me tied to the beast that is iTunes.
It seems I may have jumped the gun on this one. My bad for being such an easy mark of sensationalist pop science headlines.
Don't feel bad, I submitted it a day before you did. What really blows my mind is that Not Even Wrong used my submission as evidence that Slashdot was running a story on it:
Update: No press campaign for a “finally string theory is testable” claim is complete without a Slashdot story
Big news for theoretical physicists who are fed up with the inability to test String Theory
You know, with how pervasive social networking is these days, and how poorly educated a lot of the public seems to be about how the legal system works, I have to say that I am surprised that this has not happened sooner. It was bound to happen eventually. Personally, i think that the punishment should be a little steeper than 250$ and an essay. This is the sort of behavior that needs to be nipped in the bud, set a proper example, and really show that this sort of thing will not be tolerated.
Bad: A juror talking about a trial outside of the trial.
Really, insanely, horribly, justice pervertingly bad: Being selected as a member for a jury and deciding a person's fate before they or their representation has a chance to present their side of the case.
The bad part was "bound to happen" but not even giving the accused a chance to explain their side of the story? That should never be "bound to happen." And that fundamental issue with how a 'fair trial' should happen in the United States, I think that's why the essay was ordered.
Because when I look for a portal to Ping it seems they want me to download and install iTunes. Unless they intend to eventually make it accessible through a browser, I could see this being a bit of a problem for more than a few people. Great, you've got my credit card number if I bought something through iTMS but do you really think I'm going to wake up that memory and resource hog on my Windows partition just to get to a social networking site when I can hit Facebook through Linux or (nearly) any mobile device? I might be a small minority but that's not for me.
Looks to be just more bloat on an already bloated piece of software. The least they could do is modularize iTunes so that if I click a box on install I can make it so that the application is just a way to put music onto an iPod. I am sick and tired of the video and TV stuff forcing me to put Quicktime on my machine!
Is that all the best of the best in physics has to argue about? Gravity vs god? Thats like arguing over air vs oxygen.
How many books have you written that have changed my life?
You seem to think that a scientist need only pick the area of his expertise. Physics isn't some computer game where you spec yourself out to be proficient in what you want to be. Hawking is incredibly gifted in cosmology and theoretical physics. To ask him to turn his attention on building a more efficient turbine or green energy could be compared to forcing John Williams to play only the electric guitar from now on.
Can you get back to the energy problem please? Neither god nor gravity will save us from that.
I wouldn't be so sure about that statement (with respect to gravity, forget god). I believe there are hydroelectric plants right now that harvest energy in interesting ways with the help of gravity. If there's a gravity particle, perhaps it could be exploited?
Intelligence is not some resource that we have an amount of. Stop pretending like men who have done far more than you are mis-allocating it. He's already been condemned to a wheelchair, what kind of sick person further condemns him to something he doesn't want to work on?
Uh, no...that would uphold the fundamental principles of the Internet.
I agree with you but we're just users. That's the fundamental principle to a user. The fundamental principle of the ISPs and other businesses surrounding the internet is to make money and -- let's face it -- if there had never been a profitability aspect of the internet it would not have become as big and powerful as it is now. So far we've been pretty much in symbiosis with most of what the companies do but it seems to diverge daily. Back then I wanted to buy everything without leaving my home. Then came Amazon and Newegg and an endless supply from retailers. They wanted to sell, I wanted to buy, we were happy.
I think that's one of many reasons that Net Neutrality is so confusing to your average consumer: the internet used to be a great tool in getting them what they want from people who want their money. AT&T will phrase the debate to the consumer thusly: "You want prioritized traffic and we want to give you prioritized traffic so let's do the whole cash dance just like you do with everything else on the internet." The problems with that are obvious to you and me but may bamboozle the average consumer into thinking: "Yes, I need this. Here is my moneys. Please go do, my intarwebs are all slowed up from the evil file sharers!"
I'm on the same page as you but I think we're at a disadvantage because people are willing to pay for a prioritization of processing in many other things and assume that doing it this way with internet traffic is just a logical step in a capitalistic society where the rich can pay a premium for better and ensured service. In my mind, the simplest counter explanation without getting into -isms and what the internet manifesto is they don't meet my current advertised speeds so why should I pay them more to not meet higher speeds?
Originally it had this classification but it was edited out by David Gerard. And I believe has not been added back since. If you don't know who David Gerard is, he has been very active in Wikipedia since early 2004 and blogs frequently about it.
Unrepetant (sic), Wikipedia justifies the decision to reveal the ending of the play. 'Our purpose is to collect and report notable knowledge. It's exceedingly easy to avoid knowing the identity of the murderer: just don't read it.'
Wikipedia then coughed and got into its Bentley and instructed the driver to take it to the nearest pub where it drank profusely. Then it went home and beat its wife.
Sound absurd? Because Wikipedia is such a diverse collection of individuals it's possible that all of the above is true.
If you're interested in who made that original statement quoted in the article and summary, it appears to have been a reader named CyclOpia according to The Signpost. And the full quote is cited as:
"Our purpose is to collect and report notable knowledge. It's exceedingly easy to avoid knowing the identity of the murderer: just don't read it. Asking Wikipedia not to reveal the identity of the murderer is like asking a library to remove copies of The Mousetrap book from shelves because someone could just go and read the end."
Whether or not you agree with that analogy, it's difficult to find who wrote it and when officially. And even then you're dealing with a pseudonym. Does anyone know what current administrators think? If not, the best you can do is read the policy on spoilers. If you're quoting users, the Signpost offers a totally different view from "Wikipedia":
I would argue that, however trivial it may appear, the revelation of the ending breaches an oral contract between the actors and the audience. Such is the fame of the secrecy that an audience member cannot reasonably attend without knowing their role to play in guarding it, and thus an oral contract, implied in fact, has taken place. Given the importance of Wikipedia on the internet, I believe that they have a duty to protect this contract, as its breach is completely disrespectful of an old and well-kept tradition.
Regardless of whether you're right or wrong, the phrase "some say witch hunt" is a weasel-faced cop out. It's a device commonly seen on Fox news to to inject opinion into otherwise factual reporting. If "some people" say it, tell us who. Otherwise, let us know it's your opinion.
Regards.
I wrote that summary and CmdrTaco posted it without editing so I guess some if not all of the blame should be on me. And I'll concede that the statement is not accurate. There were staged comic book burnings and during the testimony, Kefauver and Wertham (a German doctor no less) opened their testimony with statements calling Hitler a "beginner" when compared to the comics industry as well as flat out claiming comic books affected children to the same way Nazi propaganda indoctrinated children. Several books on the history of comics detail this testimony including Bradford Wright's Comic Book Nation: The Transformation of Youth Culture in America.
So I must confess I was wrong to use that phrase, clearly "a witch hunt" would have more sound logic than what was used in an attempt to have the government replace the parents in guiding their children. Tell me though, if you don't think it was a witch hunt, why did backing dry up when they tried to move on to television to clean up all the violence that children saw in the moving pictures? The unrealistic violence of Larry, Moe and Curly is okay because... ? Also, you do know that after the reformation of the comic book industry, juvenile delinquency did not plummet, right? We can still purchase said comic books today. So it seems you have the public burnings to spread fear and you have the oddly selective nature of who is guilty but the "worse than Hitler" testimonial logic is probably more faulty than "weighs as much as a duck" so I don't know what the right label would be.
Perhaps a better label would have been "insanity?"
Phhhbbt, sounds like something your average old timer would say...
'It's probably the reason why we keep going around in the same loops over and over, because we chuck our experience, wholesale, every ten years or so.'
Oh, sure the initial steps in the web's client/server model may have had resembled the dumb terminals and mainframes of the days of yore but with HTML5 my generation is bringing in a new original and fresh way of computing where worker threads and local storage give us the ability to distribute...
*red LED under the skin of eldavojohn's arm starts flashing*
What's this!? What? Wait, no! Nooo! It can't be!
*eldavojohn stands up to run only to be met by two members of the sunset squad holding stun batons behind him*
No, I just turned 28! You bastards, I was supposed to have more time! It's not my time yet!
*as they drag him away, a young acne faced male takes his place and begins mockingly humming "Circle of Life" from the Lion King while tearing down the X-Files poster and MST3K figurines adorning the cubicle*
I don't know who wrote TrueType but MS using FreeType must burn them up. I know it would tick me off.
That's odd, I would be kind of embarrassed of the flattery that the largest behemoth of a software company finds your code good enough to use in what is arguably the most widely used and popular suite of office software.
And if they become dependent on it... well, FreeType won't be going away anytime soon. Did I miss some lawsuit or animosity between the two in the news?
Not a single line of the code I've given to open source has been good enough to get this kind of attention so I don't understand how anyone could be upset that Microsoft is basically promoting you (even if only to Mac users).
Probably right, but now I want to buy it just to support that kind of chutzpah (or however you spell that word).
Translation:
Probably right, but now I want to prove that you are right by reinforcing his behavior with cash tendered and also he is badass and I wish to make babies with him.
Quite the PR campaign a developer started. Good to see small companies stepping it up on all fronts.
When the hacker's system crashes in Windows, as with all typical Windows crashes, Heckman said the user would be prompted to send the error details — including the malicious code — to Microsoft. The funny thing is that many say yes, according to Heckman.
I understand how this would be able to hand you their script or interpreted file but all the compiled byte code in the utilities they use would do you little good unless you were extremely patient. I don't know what percentage of exploits exist in the way scripts are interpreted (unless we're talking Internet Explorer) but I always assumed the really good and juicy exploits are those compiled down -- you know like a fake DLL that needs to be placed in the system path.
Crash reports probably include the script that was running and maybe the binary file running but how could it access the source code of an arbitrary task/thread/program? Are you saying that they're actually developing this stuff in a Microsoft IDE (like Visual Studio) that actually phones home source code upon program crash? That sounds like a guaranteed way to keep me away from Visual Studio.
Furthermore, how can you tell if this is a malware developer or the first unfortunate victim? Or even an outlier victim whose machine was luckily not correctly configured for the attack?
One thing's for sure: I hope Microsoft is bright enough to log everything they get so that when an exploit is found in the wild sans source code they can do a Hamming distance or some such analysis on it to pin down its origin and also look at the deltas to figure out what the developer was changing between releases so they can better understand the exploit.
Neither. In two days you will be visited by an old man with a bowler hat and a handlebar mustache. He will knock on your door and ask if you have any ketchup. The next day the same man will appear dressed as a clown sitting in your car. For your own safety just ignore him. You won't see him for two days, and then he will appear in your living room dressed as a devil. Don't worry. He will leave immediately.
Well, those are the most accurate descriptions of the Slashdot editors I've heard. And it sounds like they are really stepping up their anti-First Post campaign.
Straight from simple filters all the way to the handlebar clown devil treatment. No intermediary steps at all. Now that's how things get done on the internet!
Sadly, upon closer inspection, we see that ILM blew this rare opportunity for scientific realism in the Star Wars universe...
Indeed, if you're familiar with Docking Bay 327, it is inside a large maitenance trench where the structural weaknesses should have created a horizontal ring exploding outward. Instead the movie gave us a vertical ring exploding outward.
I hate most of Star Trek and basically considered Star Wars a religion as a human larva & pupa (see above docking bay reference). Being as how I was hatched after the last (real) Star Wars movie came out, my nipples exploded with joy at the prospect of seeing the originals on the big screen -- special edition or not. I was confused by the Han/Greedo exchange, found not a whole lot of added value in the other aspects but must have been the only person pleased with a more satisfactory Death Star explosion.
Foxconn has been shaking off the reports of the psychological and physical trauma workers face as statistically insignificant, reminding the media that 12 out of every 1,000 Chinese citizens commit suicide every year.
Go ahead, quote Foxconn. You'll get about as much credibility as the Chinese state media.
Suicide Rates (per 100,000), by country, year, and gender. ...
CHINA (Selected rural & urban areas) in 1999: 13.0 males and 14.8 females.
CHINA (Hong Kong SAR) in 1999: 16.7 males and 9.8 females. ...
So I can either believe Foxconn that reports 12 per every thousand or the WHO that reports ~28 per every hundred thousand. Now, which statistic is the most believable? Foxconn's statistic means that some twelve million Chinese commit suicide yearly. That's an impressive number unheard of. That number rivals wartime casualties.
Maybe Apple's investments in Foxconn have lead to "good American ethics and proper treatment of employees" after all...
Again, from your own article:
All those who have committed suicide have been between the ages of 18 and 24 and are part of a young generation of migrant workers attracted to jobs in the cities who then face terrible conditions. While these workers’ struggles could have been forgotten, their important role in the global supply chain of high-priced, high-demand devices like the iPhone and the iPad is keeping their stories in the media.
A report released last week by Students and Scholars against Corporate Misbehavior (SACOM), a Hong Kong-based workers’ rights non-profit created in 2005, details the exhaustion caused by 12-hour shifts, alienation from not being allowed to speak to co-workers, and a rapid just-in-time production model that has workers putting in a phone motherboard every seven seconds to meet the global demand for high-priced gadgets.
Once a company buys from that sort of situation or profits from that sort of situation, you are doing business to a degree outside of the ethics and proper treatment of employees that Americans demand.
Your post defending Apple confuses and frightens me. Why you would bend over backward to defend Apple when it's clear they've joined the leagues of the other tech companies is beyond me. Face the facts, the global economy has companies inside third world style labor countries lining up to be a part of the supply chain -- and American companies all too glad to make a buck off them! Now we know Apple's no different.
Um, I hate the obviously anti-Apple news as much as the next Apple fanboi but this is hardly negative Apple news. In fact, I can't find even a vague hint of anything negative being directed at Apple in this situation.
That's odd, this story causes me to wonder how much corruption is rampant at Apple if we scratch the surface and find shoe boxes with cash... whatever the case here in the US, this certainly illustrates the growing problems that Apple and many other companies are having with foreign counterparts guilty of "when in Rome" infractions against ethics and business.
I used to think "Made in America" when I bought an Apple product. Then after realizing it was all coming from Taiwan and China I thought "Invented in America, Made in China" but I still imagined this premium I was paying lead to good American ethics and proper treatment of employees to consumers. The deaths of nine or more plastics workers in Apple's iPhone supplier followed by a million in kickbacks being stored in shoe boxes by a corrupt Apple Manager and suddenly I realize that buying Apple just means you're paying a premium on something that might provide you a better experience but really employs all the same corruption inherent in almost any very large business.
While I'm not faulting Apple anymore than -- say -- Samsung or Sony, they've dropped from high standards of worker and consumer ethics all the way down to 'one of the rest.' Maybe they're simply too big to control that now but you better believe this is negative to someone like me. I've only ever bought (to my knowledge) iPod shuffles as gifts and a single exclusive album on iTunes but you won't catch me buying anything else from them for a while.
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Huh, that's odd. It was only yesterday that I was being told Sony had lost the PS3 hacking war. Wait a second, this sounds familiar. Did a Texan in a flight suit show up at the unveiling of PSGroove with a giant banner?
The main point of the article is how Youtube is enabling a shift in how copyright holders deal with unauthorized content.
Disclaimer: Summary author here. Honestly, wasn't too interested in that. YouTube's been auto-recognizing songs and videos through fingerprinting for quite sometime now and making an ad for the song pop up at the bottom of the video because you don't own it. I saw this with my friend's account as early as 2008.
;-) good luck!
Neat trick but not really fresh news to me. And you know, I read the article and the only thing that caught my eye was that YouTube might be turning a profit this year. I thought it was more newsworthy than your summary and -- frankly -- I get annoyed and feel like I failed whenever I post a summary and someone screams "slashvertisement" and gets modded +5 Insightful. That really does get to me. So instead of gaping in awe at how awesome they are at scanning your videos, I went with the profit angle. Especially since people have been so mixed on whether or not YouTube was a smart play by Google. Viacom trial lawyer fees aside, it's not a cheap outfit.
You'll just have to beat me to the scoop next time
But there’s one piece of the Appleverse that I’ve always detested, and that’s the desktop version of iTunes. The ugly duckling of the iFamily, this program is hard to understand, hard to use, inelegant, and ill-behaved—in short, the very opposite of most other Apple products. I dread booting it up every day ...
Yeah, yesterday I bitched about this and have actively refused any upgrades to iTunes since 9 because I'm not sure if 10 is going to get better or worse.
... which I am not a fan of. And what's worse is that reviews are telling me that it's faster but with a crappier UI while at the same time Ping concerns me if it has my credit card information and is just a spam portal.
... so that leaves me tied to the beast that is iTunes.
Now I have to have Quicktime on my machine
So while I want iTunes to run faster, I definitely don't want anything to do with this "Ping" service and if it's reminiscent of how they made me dependent on Quicktime (despite the fact that I have never used iTunes for anything video -- VLC kicks ass) I don't want auto-opted into something that I cannot get out of!
If you're looking for open source alternatives to iTunes: CDex, VLC and handbrake
My biggest problem is that support seems to wax and wane with actually moving songs/videos on and off an iPod with open source alternatives
It seems I may have jumped the gun on this one. My bad for being such an easy mark of sensationalist pop science headlines.
Don't feel bad, I submitted it a day before you did. What really blows my mind is that Not Even Wrong used my submission as evidence that Slashdot was running a story on it:
Update: No press campaign for a “finally string theory is testable” claim is complete without a Slashdot story
Big news for theoretical physicists who are fed up with the inability to test String Theory
(that's from my submission)
You know, with how pervasive social networking is these days, and how poorly educated a lot of the public seems to be about how the legal system works, I have to say that I am surprised that this has not happened sooner. It was bound to happen eventually. Personally, i think that the punishment should be a little steeper than 250$ and an essay. This is the sort of behavior that needs to be nipped in the bud, set a proper example, and really show that this sort of thing will not be tolerated.
Bad: A juror talking about a trial outside of the trial.
Really, insanely, horribly, justice pervertingly bad: Being selected as a member for a jury and deciding a person's fate before they or their representation has a chance to present their side of the case.
The bad part was "bound to happen" but not even giving the accused a chance to explain their side of the story? That should never be "bound to happen." And that fundamental issue with how a 'fair trial' should happen in the United States, I think that's why the essay was ordered.
Because when I look for a portal to Ping it seems they want me to download and install iTunes. Unless they intend to eventually make it accessible through a browser, I could see this being a bit of a problem for more than a few people. Great, you've got my credit card number if I bought something through iTMS but do you really think I'm going to wake up that memory and resource hog on my Windows partition just to get to a social networking site when I can hit Facebook through Linux or (nearly) any mobile device? I might be a small minority but that's not for me.
Looks to be just more bloat on an already bloated piece of software. The least they could do is modularize iTunes so that if I click a box on install I can make it so that the application is just a way to put music onto an iPod. I am sick and tired of the video and TV stuff forcing me to put Quicktime on my machine!
Is that all the best of the best in physics has to argue about? Gravity vs god? Thats like arguing over air vs oxygen.
How many books have you written that have changed my life?
You seem to think that a scientist need only pick the area of his expertise. Physics isn't some computer game where you spec yourself out to be proficient in what you want to be. Hawking is incredibly gifted in cosmology and theoretical physics. To ask him to turn his attention on building a more efficient turbine or green energy could be compared to forcing John Williams to play only the electric guitar from now on.
Can you get back to the energy problem please? Neither god nor gravity will save us from that.
I wouldn't be so sure about that statement (with respect to gravity, forget god). I believe there are hydroelectric plants right now that harvest energy in interesting ways with the help of gravity. If there's a gravity particle, perhaps it could be exploited?
Intelligence is not some resource that we have an amount of. Stop pretending like men who have done far more than you are mis-allocating it. He's already been condemned to a wheelchair, what kind of sick person further condemns him to something he doesn't want to work on?
Forest Group, Inc. v. Bon Tool Co. in 2009 paved the way (rocket docket Eastern Texas, of course) for big fat jerkfaces to go nuts. The AP told citizens it's okay to sue, hell even on Slashdot I submitted an article way back in Feb of Activision's problems with an incorrectly marked patent and because of precedent on incorrect markings we found out in March that this could cost some companies trillions. Expired or wrongly marked could cost you $500 per item sold.
Uh, no...that would uphold the fundamental principles of the Internet.
I agree with you but we're just users. That's the fundamental principle to a user. The fundamental principle of the ISPs and other businesses surrounding the internet is to make money and -- let's face it -- if there had never been a profitability aspect of the internet it would not have become as big and powerful as it is now. So far we've been pretty much in symbiosis with most of what the companies do but it seems to diverge daily. Back then I wanted to buy everything without leaving my home. Then came Amazon and Newegg and an endless supply from retailers. They wanted to sell, I wanted to buy, we were happy.
I think that's one of many reasons that Net Neutrality is so confusing to your average consumer: the internet used to be a great tool in getting them what they want from people who want their money. AT&T will phrase the debate to the consumer thusly: "You want prioritized traffic and we want to give you prioritized traffic so let's do the whole cash dance just like you do with everything else on the internet." The problems with that are obvious to you and me but may bamboozle the average consumer into thinking: "Yes, I need this. Here is my moneys. Please go do, my intarwebs are all slowed up from the evil file sharers!"
I'm on the same page as you but I think we're at a disadvantage because people are willing to pay for a prioritization of processing in many other things and assume that doing it this way with internet traffic is just a logical step in a capitalistic society where the rich can pay a premium for better and ensured service. In my mind, the simplest counter explanation without getting into -isms and what the internet manifesto is they don't meet my current advertised speeds so why should I pay them more to not meet higher speeds?
Why don't they just edit it with "spoiler alert"
Originally it had this classification but it was edited out by David Gerard. And I believe has not been added back since. If you don't know who David Gerard is, he has been very active in Wikipedia since early 2004 and blogs frequently about it.
Unrepetant (sic), Wikipedia justifies the decision to reveal the ending of the play. 'Our purpose is to collect and report notable knowledge. It's exceedingly easy to avoid knowing the identity of the murderer: just don't read it.'
Wikipedia then coughed and got into its Bentley and instructed the driver to take it to the nearest pub where it drank profusely. Then it went home and beat its wife.
Sound absurd? Because Wikipedia is such a diverse collection of individuals it's possible that all of the above is true.
If you're interested in who made that original statement quoted in the article and summary, it appears to have been a reader named CyclOpia according to The Signpost. And the full quote is cited as:
"Our purpose is to collect and report notable knowledge. It's exceedingly easy to avoid knowing the identity of the murderer: just don't read it. Asking Wikipedia not to reveal the identity of the murderer is like asking a library to remove copies of The Mousetrap book from shelves because someone could just go and read the end."
Whether or not you agree with that analogy, it's difficult to find who wrote it and when officially. And even then you're dealing with a pseudonym. Does anyone know what current administrators think? If not, the best you can do is read the policy on spoilers. If you're quoting users, the Signpost offers a totally different view from "Wikipedia":
I would argue that, however trivial it may appear, the revelation of the ending breaches an oral contract between the actors and the audience. Such is the fame of the secrecy that an audience member cannot reasonably attend without knowing their role to play in guarding it, and thus an oral contract, implied in fact, has taken place. Given the importance of Wikipedia on the internet, I believe that they have a duty to protect this contract, as its breach is completely disrespectful of an old and well-kept tradition.
This map at first glance appears to be decidedly western individuals only.
Dear Slashdot editors:
Regardless of whether you're right or wrong, the phrase "some say witch hunt" is a weasel-faced cop out. It's a device commonly seen on Fox news to to inject opinion into otherwise factual reporting. If "some people" say it, tell us who. Otherwise, let us know it's your opinion.
Regards.
I wrote that summary and CmdrTaco posted it without editing so I guess some if not all of the blame should be on me. And I'll concede that the statement is not accurate. There were staged comic book burnings and during the testimony, Kefauver and Wertham (a German doctor no less) opened their testimony with statements calling Hitler a "beginner" when compared to the comics industry as well as flat out claiming comic books affected children to the same way Nazi propaganda indoctrinated children. Several books on the history of comics detail this testimony including Bradford Wright's Comic Book Nation: The Transformation of Youth Culture in America.
... ? Also, you do know that after the reformation of the comic book industry, juvenile delinquency did not plummet, right? We can still purchase said comic books today. So it seems you have the public burnings to spread fear and you have the oddly selective nature of who is guilty but the "worse than Hitler" testimonial logic is probably more faulty than "weighs as much as a duck" so I don't know what the right label would be.
So I must confess I was wrong to use that phrase, clearly "a witch hunt" would have more sound logic than what was used in an attempt to have the government replace the parents in guiding their children. Tell me though, if you don't think it was a witch hunt, why did backing dry up when they tried to move on to television to clean up all the violence that children saw in the moving pictures? The unrealistic violence of Larry, Moe and Curly is okay because
Perhaps a better label would have been "insanity?"
who calls the rampant ageism 'really f***ed up,'
Phhhbbt, sounds like something your average old timer would say ...
'It's probably the reason why we keep going around in the same loops over and over, because we chuck our experience, wholesale, every ten years or so.'
Oh, sure the initial steps in the web's client/server model may have had resembled the dumb terminals and mainframes of the days of yore but with HTML5 my generation is bringing in a new original and fresh way of computing where worker threads and local storage give us the ability to distribute ...
*red LED under the skin of eldavojohn's arm starts flashing*
What's this!? What? Wait, no! Nooo! It can't be!
*eldavojohn stands up to run only to be met by two members of the sunset squad holding stun batons behind him*
No, I just turned 28! You bastards, I was supposed to have more time! It's not my time yet!
*as they drag him away, a young acne faced male takes his place and begins mockingly humming "Circle of Life" from the Lion King while tearing down the X-Files poster and MST3K figurines adorning the cubicle*
I don't know who wrote TrueType but MS using FreeType must burn them up. I know it would tick me off.
That's odd, I would be kind of embarrassed of the flattery that the largest behemoth of a software company finds your code good enough to use in what is arguably the most widely used and popular suite of office software.
... well, FreeType won't be going away anytime soon. Did I miss some lawsuit or animosity between the two in the news?
...
And if they become dependent on it
Not a single line of the code I've given to open source has been good enough to get this kind of attention so I don't understand how anyone could be upset that Microsoft is basically promoting you (even if only to Mac users).
Not everyone is full of autohate, you know
Microsoft proclaims they love open source, rumors of Ballmer's departure ... and now this?
Maybe god does exist?
Probably right, but now I want to buy it just to support that kind of chutzpah (or however you spell that word).
Translation:
Probably right, but now I want to prove that you are right by reinforcing his behavior with cash tendered and also he is badass and I wish to make babies with him.
Quite the PR campaign a developer started. Good to see small companies stepping it up on all fronts.
Developer Demands Pirate Bay Not Remove Torrent
Translation:
Developer Demonstrates Cutting Edge Advertising Techniques
When the hacker's system crashes in Windows, as with all typical Windows crashes, Heckman said the user would be prompted to send the error details — including the malicious code — to Microsoft. The funny thing is that many say yes, according to Heckman.
I understand how this would be able to hand you their script or interpreted file but all the compiled byte code in the utilities they use would do you little good unless you were extremely patient. I don't know what percentage of exploits exist in the way scripts are interpreted (unless we're talking Internet Explorer) but I always assumed the really good and juicy exploits are those compiled down -- you know like a fake DLL that needs to be placed in the system path.
Crash reports probably include the script that was running and maybe the binary file running but how could it access the source code of an arbitrary task/thread/program? Are you saying that they're actually developing this stuff in a Microsoft IDE (like Visual Studio) that actually phones home source code upon program crash? That sounds like a guaranteed way to keep me away from Visual Studio.
Furthermore, how can you tell if this is a malware developer or the first unfortunate victim? Or even an outlier victim whose machine was luckily not correctly configured for the attack?
One thing's for sure: I hope Microsoft is bright enough to log everything they get so that when an exploit is found in the wild sans source code they can do a Hamming distance or some such analysis on it to pin down its origin and also look at the deltas to figure out what the developer was changing between releases so they can better understand the exploit.
So, each USB iteration offers the smallest possible increments in speed?
No fair! You changed the definition of the word by looking it up!
... fuck everything, we're going to plaid.
Neither. In two days you will be visited by an old man with a bowler hat and a handlebar mustache. He will knock on your door and ask if you have any ketchup. The next day the same man will appear dressed as a clown sitting in your car. For your own safety just ignore him. You won't see him for two days, and then he will appear in your living room dressed as a devil. Don't worry. He will leave immediately.
Well, those are the most accurate descriptions of the Slashdot editors I've heard. And it sounds like they are really stepping up their anti-First Post campaign.
Straight from simple filters all the way to the handlebar clown devil treatment. No intermediary steps at all. Now that's how things get done on the internet!
Sadly, upon closer inspection, we see that ILM blew this rare opportunity for scientific realism in the Star Wars universe ...
Indeed, if you're familiar with Docking Bay 327, it is inside a large maitenance trench where the structural weaknesses should have created a horizontal ring exploding outward. Instead the movie gave us a vertical ring exploding outward.
I hate most of Star Trek and basically considered Star Wars a religion as a human larva & pupa (see above docking bay reference). Being as how I was hatched after the last (real) Star Wars movie came out, my nipples exploded with joy at the prospect of seeing the originals on the big screen -- special edition or not. I was confused by the Han/Greedo exchange, found not a whole lot of added value in the other aspects but must have been the only person pleased with a more satisfactory Death Star explosion.
But a debunking astronomer
Yes, it's Phil "Bad Astronomer" Plait. Look, it's great you get people into astronomy via sci-fi religious flamebait stoking but ... I think you put it best in the last slide of one of your presentations.
Foxconn has been shaking off the reports of the psychological and physical trauma workers face as statistically insignificant, reminding the media that 12 out of every 1,000 Chinese citizens commit suicide every year.
Go ahead, quote Foxconn. You'll get about as much credibility as the Chinese state media.
Twelve out of every thousand citizens? Well, let's look at what the World Health Organization says:
Suicide Rates (per 100,000), by country, year, and gender.
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CHINA (Selected rural & urban areas) in 1999: 13.0 males and 14.8 females.
CHINA (Hong Kong SAR) in 1999: 16.7 males and 9.8 females.
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So I can either believe Foxconn that reports 12 per every thousand or the WHO that reports ~28 per every hundred thousand. Now, which statistic is the most believable? Foxconn's statistic means that some twelve million Chinese commit suicide yearly. That's an impressive number unheard of. That number rivals wartime casualties.
Maybe Apple's investments in Foxconn have lead to "good American ethics and proper treatment of employees" after all...
Again, from your own article:
All those who have committed suicide have been between the ages of 18 and 24 and are part of a young generation of migrant workers attracted to jobs in the cities who then face terrible conditions. While these workers’ struggles could have been forgotten, their important role in the global supply chain of high-priced, high-demand devices like the iPhone and the iPad is keeping their stories in the media.
A report released last week by Students and Scholars against Corporate Misbehavior (SACOM), a Hong Kong-based workers’ rights non-profit created in 2005, details the exhaustion caused by 12-hour shifts, alienation from not being allowed to speak to co-workers, and a rapid just-in-time production model that has workers putting in a phone motherboard every seven seconds to meet the global demand for high-priced gadgets.
Once a company buys from that sort of situation or profits from that sort of situation, you are doing business to a degree outside of the ethics and proper treatment of employees that Americans demand.
Your post defending Apple confuses and frightens me. Why you would bend over backward to defend Apple when it's clear they've joined the leagues of the other tech companies is beyond me. Face the facts, the global economy has companies inside third world style labor countries lining up to be a part of the supply chain -- and American companies all too glad to make a buck off them! Now we know Apple's no different.
Um, I hate the obviously anti-Apple news as much as the next Apple fanboi but this is hardly negative Apple news. In fact, I can't find even a vague hint of anything negative being directed at Apple in this situation.
That's odd, this story causes me to wonder how much corruption is rampant at Apple if we scratch the surface and find shoe boxes with cash ... whatever the case here in the US, this certainly illustrates the growing problems that Apple and many other companies are having with foreign counterparts guilty of "when in Rome" infractions against ethics and business.
I used to think "Made in America" when I bought an Apple product. Then after realizing it was all coming from Taiwan and China I thought "Invented in America, Made in China" but I still imagined this premium I was paying lead to good American ethics and proper treatment of employees to consumers. The deaths of nine or more plastics workers in Apple's iPhone supplier followed by a million in kickbacks being stored in shoe boxes by a corrupt Apple Manager and suddenly I realize that buying Apple just means you're paying a premium on something that might provide you a better experience but really employs all the same corruption inherent in almost any very large business.
While I'm not faulting Apple anymore than -- say -- Samsung or Sony, they've dropped from high standards of worker and consumer ethics all the way down to 'one of the rest.' Maybe they're simply too big to control that now but you better believe this is negative to someone like me. I've only ever bought (to my knowledge) iPod shuffles as gifts and a single exclusive album on iTunes but you won't catch me buying anything else from them for a while.