Reading the account of "What happened to the Censorware Project," you may be able to generate more traffic by organizing a Google bomb. Simply put, make setf.com (or censorware.net) come out above censorware.org. You can also use the "link:censorware.org -site:censorware.org" to find the links and contact webmasters.
I am pretty sure that plagiarism is a de facto copyright violation. You are using another author's words without proper credit. Even if the author is cited in the "summary," the definition of a summary is that the words are the authors, not the cited person's words. If they are going to use the author's exact words, it needs to be labeled as an "auto-quote" generator, rather than a summary.
The original poster is correct. This is essentially automated plagiarism. Here's why.
The service claims to be a computerized summary. However, in terms of copyright, a summary is something that expresses the same idea using different words. Therefore, using exact quotes and labelling them as a summary is a textbook case of plagiarism.
Nathan
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Congratulations! You just killed your own googlewhack!
Nonsense. While Blizzard may simply be looking up the key in a database for validity, there's no reason that the CD key couldn't be, say, a public RSA key. At that point your authentication can be as open-source as it wants.
Actually, young children are much more likely to take the Internet at face value. Critical thinking skills don't kick in until around 7th grade (e.g. puberty).
The problem with a Palm is that is appeals to the same people who used their Filofaxes in the 1980s, those obnoxious organized people who can actually remember to charge the damn thing each night.
Actually, this is exactly why Palm has 80+% market share. So-called "pocket PCs" measure battery life in hours. Palm measures battery life in days. I get 2-3 weeks on 2 AAA batteries on my Palm IIIx easily. Try doing THAT with your Pocket PC!
Palm's primary drawback right now is the underpowered Dragonball processor. However, the ARM-based models coming out RSN will remedy that. Hopefully, Palm's engineers will be smart enough to avoid featuritis and retain two of the key draws of the Palm platform: simplicity and long battery life.
CGI: (n) Common Gateway Interface. Used primarily as a means of getting and responding to user input via a Web interface.
CG graphics: (n) Computer Generated images. Typically used to describe animations created completely through computers, as opposed to images created through photography or traditional cel animation.
SGI graphics: (n) Refers specifically to those CG graphics created on SGI workstations.
I don't know how the hell "All Roads" won. It's a confusing, pointless game that does a very poor job of storytelling. More of my opinions on the IF competition entries can be found in my diary: here.
Irony is what happens when results don't meet expectations. When someone punches you in the nose, and you go to jail instead of the person who hit you, that's irony. If I say "I just LOVE what you've done with your hair" to a woman when she and I both know her hair is a mess, that's sarcasm.
Even though editors approve stories, people seem to forget that the part in italics is the words of the submission, not the editor. Yes, the suggestion was rude, but the suggestion came from a slashdot reader, not from the editor(s)!
The auto is a fantastically inefficient vehicle compared to a rail system. The auto generally expends, minimum, 3 times the fuel that a train expends when transporting proportional masses.
The auto also doesn't follow a restrictive path, is always available, and can travel anywhere that has a reasonably paved surface. The train may be more efficient in terms of fuel consumption, but it doesn't stop at your doorstep or run on your schedule.
There's a reason trains, rather than sedans, are used for freight.
And there's a reason why trucks, rather than trains, are used to move goods within a city or even between cities. The trucks can go anywhere the freeway goes; trains cannot.
This is, of course, what the author is alluding to. Thanks for playing!
The real problem with computer software advancement is that its all very firmly based in 2D land. WIMP environments are about as eficient as you can get. Even assuming that you can wrap your work habits around something as 'next-gen' as 'The Brain', you're still stuck in 2D land.
Guess what? The computer screen is (wait for it!) two-dimensional.
How would you do word processing in a 3d environment? It doesn't make sense. We don't really use a 3d environment for writing in the real world! We still use WIMP for user interfaces for the same reason we still use fire to cook food. It works.
Breaking up the company doesn't get rid of the monopoly. It just breaks it up into several monopolies (see: Ma Bell vs. Baby Bells). Want to get rid of Microsoft's stranglehold on the desktop? Require Microsoft to publish complete file specifications for all of its files and interfaces, including (but not limited to):
Office files (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, etc)
Internet files/protocols (ActiveX, etc)
Registry files
Win32 driver API
Win32 API
In addition to opening the files/protocols, MS would be require to grant irrevocable patent licenses for any patented software routines needed to read/write any of the above files/protocols.
With public specifications, there's no excuse for a lack of competition. The playing field is levelled, so to speak.
"This is NOW, sir. Everything you see NOW is happening NOW."
"Go back to THEN."
"We can't."
"Why?"
"We missed it!"
"When?"
"Just NOW!"
[pause]
"When will THEN be NOW?"
"Soon."
I had a similar thing happen (I disabled web admin, but it was still establishing a connection for a brief amount of time on port 80). My solution? Restrict web admin to the IP of the internal firewall, and (for good measure) change the web admin port to 81.
# set web remote 192.168.1.2 (or whatever IP you want)
# set web port 81
# write
# reboot
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Reading the account of "What happened to the Censorware Project," you may be able to generate more traffic by organizing a Google bomb. Simply put, make setf.com (or censorware.net) come out above censorware.org. You can also use the "link:censorware.org -site:censorware.org" to find the links and contact webmasters.
I now return you to your regularly scheduled
Nathan
Well, the Honda Fitta thing seems to be legit (from what I was able to find in Google), but the Chevy Nova gag is a known urban legend.
(posted under parent since multiple replies mentioned the Nova thing)
Nathan
I am pretty sure that plagiarism is a de facto copyright violation. You are using another author's words without proper credit. Even if the author is cited in the "summary," the definition of a summary is that the words are the authors, not the cited person's words. If they are going to use the author's exact words, it needs to be labeled as an "auto-quote" generator, rather than a summary.
Nathan
The original poster is correct. This is essentially automated plagiarism. Here's why.
The service claims to be a computerized summary. However, in terms of copyright, a summary is something that expresses the same idea using different words. Therefore, using exact quotes and labelling them as a summary is a textbook case of plagiarism.
Nathan
Congratulations! You just killed your own googlewhack!
Nathan
Nonsense. While Blizzard may simply be looking up the key in a database for validity, there's no reason that the CD key couldn't be, say, a public RSA key. At that point your authentication can be as open-source as it wants.
- bnetd gets CD key from game client
- bnetd checks for CD key in "known good" db stored locally
- if not found, bnetd attempts to authenticate with the real battle.net server using the information provided by the client.
- If authentication is successful, bnetd disconnects from battle.net, adds the key to the "known good" database
- Depending on the results, the game client is either authenticated or rejected.
Voila! CD-KEY authentication without using any privileged information from Blizzard.Nathan
Actually, young children are much more likely to take the Internet at face value. Critical thinking skills don't kick in until around 7th grade (e.g. puberty).
Nathan
Palm's primary drawback right now is the underpowered Dragonball processor. However, the ARM-based models coming out RSN will remedy that. Hopefully, Palm's engineers will be smart enough to avoid featuritis and retain two of the key draws of the Palm platform: simplicity and long battery life.
Nathan
CGI: (n) Common Gateway Interface. Used primarily as a means of getting and responding to user input via a Web interface.
CG graphics: (n) Computer Generated images. Typically used to describe animations created completely through computers, as opposed to images created through photography or traditional cel animation.
SGI graphics: (n) Refers specifically to those CG graphics created on SGI workstations.
Pick the right term and use it. Thanks!
Nathan
- Install DRM OS and place desired digital media files on the HD.
- Remove HD and attach to standard Linux PC.
- dd if=/dev/hdb of=/root/hdbimage bs=512 count=(size of HD in bytes / 512)
- Use image created above in an emulator (say, DRMEmu).
- Using emulator, load the DRM-protected files in "trusted" application.
- Play the DRM file. Of course, rather than piping the output to the soundcard, the emulator writes the raw data to disk...
Goodbye DRM, hello MP3.Nathan
Great! Now we'll be able to tell Schroedinger once and for all whether his stupid cat is dead or not.
Nathan
At least they were considerate enough to ask, rather than just ignoring the file.
Nathan
Nathan
Mod parent up please!
So, does it explode if you try to give the GUI an Aqua theme?
Nathan
Irony is what happens when results don't meet expectations. When someone punches you in the nose, and you go to jail instead of the person who hit you, that's irony. If I say "I just LOVE what you've done with your hair" to a woman when she and I both know her hair is a mess, that's sarcasm.
Nathan
Okay, so she could beat the tar out of Linus, but could she beat the gzip, bzip2, and compress out of him? [rimshot]
Nathan
Nathan
This is, of course, what the author is alluding to. Thanks for playing!
Nathan
How would you do word processing in a 3d environment? It doesn't make sense. We don't really use a 3d environment for writing in the real world! We still use WIMP for user interfaces for the same reason we still use fire to cook food. It works.
Nathan
- Office files (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, etc)
- Internet files/protocols (ActiveX, etc)
- Registry files
- Win32 driver API
- Win32 API
In addition to opening the files/protocols, MS would be require to grant irrevocable patent licenses for any patented software routines needed to read/write any of the above files/protocols.With public specifications, there's no excuse for a lack of competition. The playing field is levelled, so to speak.
Nathan
"This is NOW, sir. Everything you see NOW is happening NOW."
"Go back to THEN."
"We can't."
"Why?"
"We missed it!"
"When?"
"Just NOW!"
[pause]
"When will THEN be NOW?"
"Soon."
Not from Code Red ;)
Nathan
I had a similar thing happen (I disabled web admin, but it was still establishing a connection for a brief amount of time on port 80). My solution? Restrict web admin to the IP of the internal firewall, and (for good measure) change the web admin port to 81.
# set web remote 192.168.1.2 (or whatever IP you want)
# set web port 81
# write
# reboot
No more lockups for me!
Nathan