In other news, different markets net different prices for services.
Saying it's worth more per viewer is like saying hard liquor is "worth more" when you buy it at a bar. You're selling to two different audiences, and a much smaller amount. The Simpsons on hulu might get tens or hundreds of thousands of viewers; whereas the Simpsons on Fox will get millions. Comparing the price for advertising on the two is telling about 1/3rd of the story.
That's what one line of research shows, but it hasn't been conclusively proven to be true 100% of the time unless I'm hopelessly out of date. Most importantly, those changes are generally not going to be measurable (at least externally), should they be required to occur. So if we stipulate that any memory requires a physical change, there's nothing to say those changes are not occurring is there? Brain development having ceased is not quite the same thing, since development is a result of both growth and environment.
Conversely, imagine if your body's natural development cycle (including brain and cognitive development) has been slowed by a factor of 100:1 or 1000:1. To any normal person, how would this differ in appearance from never growing or developing at all? Answer: it wouldn't.
Imagine if your brain suddenly never changes. You can never learn a new thing, remember anything from even 5 minutes ago, etc. Before the movie "50 First Dates", there was a sci-fi short story that posited this, with horrifying consequences. It would be the worse than having Alzheimers.
Hm, maybe so - but there's very little if any evidence so far saying that simple day-to-day encounters effect a physical change on the brain. Yet we remember these activities for years beyond their original occurrence.
My point is that there is still a lot that even the most learned of scientists don't understand -- the other day I was watching an advert for a drug in which the announcer said "name-of-drug is believed to work by..." (sorry, can't remember the name. some kind of anti-depressant I think). We're making drugs that work effectively enough to pass human trials, but without really understanding why they work. Seems to me that the development of the brain and storage of memories is still very much an unknown - so much that all we can do is speculate when questions like this are raised.
I see you got modded up for using the phrase mens rea, but after a quick check, I see that it means this:
(law) criminal intent; the thoughts and intentions behind a wrongful act (including knowledge that the act is illegal);
How can you possibly show intent to harm based on his actions? Nevermind knowledge that what he was doing was illegal. In fact, under the 2002 ruling (if the guy even knew about it - unlikely), you could probably say that he safely felt it was NOT illegal.
And where, specifically, is the exploitation occurring? Making a minor not look like a minor? That kind of defeats the purpose of what any pedophile would want, so who is harmed here?
(a) It is unlawful for a person to knowingly promote, employ, use, assist, transport or permit a minor to participate in the performance of, or in the production of, acts or material that includes the minor engaging in:
(1) Sexual activity; or
(2) Simulated sexual activity that is patently offensive
Where's the sexual activity or simulated sexual activity again? At least as far as they mentioned in the article, there was none -- just kids' heads atop nude adult bodies. Weird, yes. Criminal? I'm not seeing it.
Well yeah, prosecuting someone for something that isn't a crime would be "tougher".
Yeah, this actively pisses me off. There's nothing here to go on especially in light of the 2002 decision. Even prior to that, it's questionable since he's using/adult bodies/ in the images.
Hm - on re-read, it looks like they haven't actually filed charges yet? This leaked before the GJ handed down an indictment?
Then there's NCMEC:
Since then, "more and more of these guys are using morphed images, image manipulations" in an attempt to circumvent prosecution, Ernie Allen, president of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, said Wednesday.
I'm sorry, isn't that THE POINT of your organization dude? You don't want real children to get exploited. And you have the sheer temerity to complain because they're/not/ exploiting children "in an attempt to circumvent prosecution"?
"It's definitely on the increase," said Justin Fitzsimmons, a former prosecutor and senior attorney with the National Center for the Prosecution of Child Abuse, part of the National District Attorneys' Association. "People are trying to come up with creative ways to continue to sexually exploit children using digital evidence."
Wait, what? ARRRGH! How the hell can you possibly sexually exploit a child when there's no child involved? Have we invented a new form of logic here?
If I recall correctly NASA has always been super careful about bacteria on space vehicles. Why don't we just infect everything and kick start this whole ET thing ourselves.
I agree. We should Intelligently Design such a system to deploy the bacteria in such a way to give maximum chance of life.
Anecdotal evidence saying how you personally write to your reps doesn't cut it. I write to mine to -- but the real problem is that we're in the minority. A very, very, very small minority. Until people start doing more than complaining to each other, it will remain that way.
The best way for that change to occur will be for the people who who complain to each other start complaining to others outside of the choir. Logically, coherently, and in a way that makes them both aware of the problem and willing to help fix it.
As for the rest, it doesn't change on its own. Probably just idealism, but the things that the political parties have stood for over time have changed -- and one would have to assume this is the result of the people we vote in and out of office. Will the names of the parties change? You're probably right, not for a very long time. BUt it need not be that long before the beliefs they represent under their current names change. A few political "generations" (terms) is often enough to effect that kind of change.
And what am I going to do with this knowledge? I can't exactly refuse to pay taxes, nor in our convoluted sense of "freedom" elect any officials with real (positive) tax reforms. Sure, I could complain to congress, but honestly the entire internet has been complaining about many, many, many laws with little to no response about them (the DMCA, prohibition of certain drugs, copyright reform, etc).
Well... hold on here. when you say "the entire Internet has been complaining", you mean a couple-few hundred thousand people have been bitching about these things on blogs, twitter, email, useless "e-petitions", and in some cases mass form emails sent to congresscritters -- form letters indistinguishable from spam for all intents.
How many of "the entire Internet" have actually written a letter to their representative, or even know who their representatives are?
People do have power, but they have to use it. And sitting around complaining to others who already agree with them doesn't count.
And I thought of hybrid vehicles when I was eight and wanted to power my gocart with 3/4 hp electric saw motor, powered by a lawnmower engine running as a generator. But the point is that while you and I were out playing, other people were doing something with their ideas.
Ideas are cheap. It's taking them to the next logical step (even if that's just a well-thought-out formal design) that differentiates the people who win $20,000 scholarships from those who go outside to play.
So you're saying that grandfathering existing guns in - but preventing them from being sold in the future - does not have the net effect of taking guns away? Because there/are/ examples of that and that qualifies to me as "taking our guns away".
By the same logic, you also will find very few accident reports in the US that say an accident was caused by a cell phone or a TV/Nav receiver or playing with the radio, but you will find many that say "inattentive driving" or "reckless driving".
As someone starting to develop a BB app for app world et al myself, I just wanted to thank you for taking the time to write that article. That was an excellent read, and very helpful.
The ease of developing rich custom apps for the iPhone saves time, energy, and money. Which makes the platform compelling, even for enterprises, due to the number of apps available.
First step: buy a mac. Second step: pay 99-300. Third: Download the needed files.
Compare to blackberry: download a java library and your dev tool of choice. Or if you want blackberry-specific apps, register at blackberry and download their dev tools and libraries.
The lack of a good development platform for the BB is one of the reasons there are so few apps for it compared to the iPhone.
Have you done a count of java mobile applications lately, and that fact that any app compatible with java mobile will run on blackberry? This is before counting the blackberry-specific apps.
The wiping/deactivation features on the BB platform are indeed scary, they introduce a new wildcard, a potential unreliability: a BB being wiped at a bad time, intentionally or accidentally.
And a meteor might fall on my house too. Arguing against something because you don't see a use for it and your preferred platform doesn't support it is a bit specious, don't you think?
Imagine if for whatever reason you need to place a 911 call.. and just before you hit send, someone in IT accidentally clicks "wipe your BB", which turns it into a brick (they meant to wipe someone else's, but hey, accidents happen, someone gave the admin a slip of paper with the phone number to be wiped, and a digit was accidentally transposed on the paper).
Oh come on. You can do better than that. Imagine if you were calling a dying loved one, and just as you were about to hear their last words to you, some pimply-faced admin went on a power trip and wiped all of the corporate phones.
Image if a script kiddie breaks into the BB server at 2:00am, when everyone's asleep, he can in a single act, wipe the BBs of all the IT admins and management, making them unable to communicate, receive the security alert pages, as the bad guy breaks into more servers, or for that matter, making them unable to open up the password vault on the BB and lookup the OOB management credentials for incident response (b/c it was all on their BBs, and no longer exists).
Imagine if the organization is a government entity or large corporation, the "attacker" is actually an insider, and the malicious wipe or application of a malicious IT policy is initiated during a public emergency, eg terrorist act.
Considering those possibilities, the BB features may actually be security risks in some scenarios: the "central management" is also a central point of compromise (if that point is compromised, then so are the integrity of the BBs and their essential function).
We can keep making up improbable scenarios all day, this doesn't change the fact that from a security standpoint in an enterprise, this feature is invaluable.
And the logging features are privacy risks, except, clearly for mobiles issued for work use only. But many employers now issue phones with the expectation workers use it as _their_ phone (for even private use), take it home, and are just about always available on it for email, etc, even when on vacation.
Nice straw man. For tax and liability reasons, you'd be hard pressed to find ANY corporation that wants people to use their corporate phone for personal use -- in fact, I daresay it's a grave offense for any company large enough to have an HR department. They may want them to carry their corp blackberry 24/7, but that's a far cry from wanting them to use it in lieu of their personal phone. And for those same liability reasons, audit trails are critical in the enterprise.
See, serves me right for posting without having full facts;)
I love my Dell desktop replacement - almost starting year 4 with it - but I started losing capacity within 6 months. Now I have about 1 minute after an accidental unplug...
True but only to a point. If copyright were abolished, even the limited protection that GPL gives would go away. Companies would have no incentive to do anything but release binary products, knowing that to do otherwise would be to ensure that their present business model is not sustainable.
Piracy and GPL violations both hurt workers in the field of computing/entertainment/etc. However, there's a big difference between a random Joe copying an mp3 and a corporate entity stealing a product and re-marketing it as their own.
Stating that there's a difference doesn't make it so. Case 1: person takes "data" and uses it, gives it to a few thousand of his closest friends. Case 2: person takes "data" and uses it, sells it to paying customers. In both cases, "data" wasn't supposed to be available for misuse due to copyright restrictions. In both case, the wishes of the owner and/or creator of that "data" were not respected by the people doing the taking.
Copyright is the double-edged sword in this case. It protects our right to GPL our source as much as it protects RIAA's right to claim ownership of an arrangement of pleasing sounds. Under the current system, you can't have one without the other - and getting offended by one abuse of copyrighted material without getting offended by the other is hypocritical. (I'm feeling pretty good about this one, as I'm offended by both abuses.)
The difference between the two is that "encumbered" has a sound of legitimacy, while "infested' has the sound of ineffectual whining. Don't you just love semantics?
Instead we have gotten to the point that we must have credit to house ourselves
Or we can save money to purchase a house later in our lives.
, to transport ourselves
Or we can say "no" to the new car cycle. A used car works just as well, and even considering extra repairs and worse fuel economy it is much less expensive than almost any new car. I think people are beginning to realize that much, at least - or at least realize that a new car is a "want" not a "need".
and now to simply get a phone.
What you mean is "simply to get the overpriced phone that I want to have now". There are plenty of pre-paid and no-contract phone options available that don't require credit.
Wage slave is not a goal that one wants to reach. End credit and watch the prices of homes, cars etc. fall to reasonable levels.
End credit and watch people slowly learn how to manage money. This will cause a temporary drop in demand (and so prices) as people adjust their habits over a few years -- but learning to save money (is in, put it in a bank - not "save" by spending at a "sale";) simply means delaying the purchase of a watned item until you can afford it, it does not mean refusing to buy it.
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Saying it's worth more per viewer is like saying hard liquor is "worth more" when you buy it at a bar. You're selling to two different audiences, and a much smaller amount. The Simpsons on hulu might get tens or hundreds of thousands of viewers; whereas the Simpsons on Fox will get millions. Comparing the price for advertising on the two is telling about 1/3rd of the story.
That's what one line of research shows, but it hasn't been conclusively proven to be true 100% of the time unless I'm hopelessly out of date. Most importantly, those changes are generally not going to be measurable (at least externally), should they be required to occur. So if we stipulate that any memory requires a physical change, there's nothing to say those changes are not occurring is there? Brain development having ceased is not quite the same thing, since development is a result of both growth and environment.
heh, truth
Imagine if your brain suddenly never changes. You can never learn a new thing, remember anything from even 5 minutes ago, etc. Before the movie "50 First Dates", there was a sci-fi short story that posited this, with horrifying consequences. It would be the worse than having Alzheimers.
Hm, maybe so - but there's very little if any evidence so far saying that simple day-to-day encounters effect a physical change on the brain. Yet we remember these activities for years beyond their original occurrence.
My point is that there is still a lot that even the most learned of scientists don't understand -- the other day I was watching an advert for a drug in which the announcer said "name-of-drug is believed to work by..." (sorry, can't remember the name. some kind of anti-depressant I think). We're making drugs that work effectively enough to pass human trials, but without really understanding why they work. Seems to me that the development of the brain and storage of memories is still very much an unknown - so much that all we can do is speculate when questions like this are raised.
(law) criminal intent; the thoughts and intentions behind a wrongful act (including knowledge that the act is illegal);
How can you possibly show intent to harm based on his actions? Nevermind knowledge that what he was doing was illegal. In fact, under the 2002 ruling (if the guy even knew about it - unlikely), you could probably say that he safely felt it was NOT illegal.
And where, specifically, is the exploitation occurring? Making a minor not look like a minor? That kind of defeats the purpose of what any pedophile would want, so who is harmed here?
(a) It is unlawful for a person to knowingly promote, employ, use, assist, transport or permit a minor to participate in the performance of, or in the production of, acts or material that includes the minor engaging in: (1) Sexual activity; or (2) Simulated sexual activity that is patently offensive
Where's the sexual activity or simulated sexual activity again? At least as far as they mentioned in the article, there was none -- just kids' heads atop nude adult bodies. Weird, yes. Criminal? I'm not seeing it.
Well yeah, prosecuting someone for something that isn't a crime would be "tougher".
Yeah, this actively pisses me off. There's nothing here to go on especially in light of the 2002 decision. Even prior to that, it's questionable since he's using /adult bodies/ in the images.
Hm - on re-read, it looks like they haven't actually filed charges yet? This leaked before the GJ handed down an indictment?
Then there's NCMEC:
Since then, "more and more of these guys are using morphed images, image manipulations" in an attempt to circumvent prosecution, Ernie Allen, president of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, said Wednesday.
I'm sorry, isn't that THE POINT of your organization dude? You don't want real children to get exploited. And you have the sheer temerity to complain because they're /not/ exploiting children "in an attempt to circumvent prosecution"?
"It's definitely on the increase," said Justin Fitzsimmons, a former prosecutor and senior attorney with the National Center for the Prosecution of Child Abuse, part of the National District Attorneys' Association. "People are trying to come up with creative ways to continue to sexually exploit children using digital evidence."
Wait, what? ARRRGH! How the hell can you possibly sexually exploit a child when there's no child involved? Have we invented a new form of logic here?
If I recall correctly NASA has always been super careful about bacteria on space vehicles. Why don't we just infect everything and kick start this whole ET thing ourselves.
I agree. We should Intelligently Design such a system to deploy the bacteria in such a way to give maximum chance of life.
The best way for that change to occur will be for the people who who complain to each other start complaining to others outside of the choir. Logically, coherently, and in a way that makes them both aware of the problem and willing to help fix it.
As for the rest, it doesn't change on its own. Probably just idealism, but the things that the political parties have stood for over time have changed -- and one would have to assume this is the result of the people we vote in and out of office. Will the names of the parties change? You're probably right, not for a very long time. BUt it need not be that long before the beliefs they represent under their current names change. A few political "generations" (terms) is often enough to effect that kind of change.
And what am I going to do with this knowledge? I can't exactly refuse to pay taxes, nor in our convoluted sense of "freedom" elect any officials with real (positive) tax reforms. Sure, I could complain to congress, but honestly the entire internet has been complaining about many, many, many laws with little to no response about them (the DMCA, prohibition of certain drugs, copyright reform, etc).
Well... hold on here. when you say "the entire Internet has been complaining", you mean a couple-few hundred thousand people have been bitching about these things on blogs, twitter, email, useless "e-petitions", and in some cases mass form emails sent to congresscritters -- form letters indistinguishable from spam for all intents.
How many of "the entire Internet" have actually written a letter to their representative, or even know who their representatives are?
People do have power, but they have to use it. And sitting around complaining to others who already agree with them doesn't count.
And I thought of hybrid vehicles when I was eight and wanted to power my gocart with 3/4 hp electric saw motor, powered by a lawnmower engine running as a generator. But the point is that while you and I were out playing, other people were doing something with their ideas.
Ideas are cheap. It's taking them to the next logical step (even if that's just a well-thought-out formal design) that differentiates the people who win $20,000 scholarships from those who go outside to play.
So you're saying that grandfathering existing guns in - but preventing them from being sold in the future - does not have the net effect of taking guns away? Because there /are/ examples of that and that qualifies to me as "taking our guns away".
Words posted on slashdot to not pay the bills. Nintendo is obviously concerned about the viral nature of GPL'ed code.
Far as I know, the GPL can't be applied retroactively to the external platform the application is built on. It ain't that viral ;)
...from a web site that requires registration. Think I'll pass...
Yeah, those newspapers are the worst of the bunch. They never disclose anything to anyone.
By the same logic, you also will find very few accident reports in the US that say an accident was caused by a cell phone or a TV/Nav receiver or playing with the radio, but you will find many that say "inattentive driving" or "reckless driving".
As someone starting to develop a BB app for app world et al myself, I just wanted to thank you for taking the time to write that article. That was an excellent read, and very helpful.
The ease of developing rich custom apps for the iPhone saves time, energy, and money. Which makes the platform compelling, even for enterprises, due to the number of apps available.
First step: buy a mac. Second step: pay 99-300. Third: Download the needed files.
Compare to blackberry: download a java library and your dev tool of choice. Or if you want blackberry-specific apps, register at blackberry and download their dev tools and libraries.
The lack of a good development platform for the BB is one of the reasons there are so few apps for it compared to the iPhone.
Have you done a count of java mobile applications lately, and that fact that any app compatible with java mobile will run on blackberry? This is before counting the blackberry-specific apps.
The wiping/deactivation features on the BB platform are indeed scary, they introduce a new wildcard, a potential unreliability: a BB being wiped at a bad time, intentionally or accidentally.
And a meteor might fall on my house too. Arguing against something because you don't see a use for it and your preferred platform doesn't support it is a bit specious, don't you think?
Imagine if for whatever reason you need to place a 911 call.. and just before you hit send, someone in IT accidentally clicks "wipe your BB", which turns it into a brick (they meant to wipe someone else's, but hey, accidents happen, someone gave the admin a slip of paper with the phone number to be wiped, and a digit was accidentally transposed on the paper).
Oh come on. You can do better than that. Imagine if you were calling a dying loved one, and just as you were about to hear their last words to you, some pimply-faced admin went on a power trip and wiped all of the corporate phones.
Image if a script kiddie breaks into the BB server at 2:00am, when everyone's asleep, he can in a single act, wipe the BBs of all the IT admins and management, making them unable to communicate, receive the security alert pages, as the bad guy breaks into more servers, or for that matter, making them unable to open up the password vault on the BB and lookup the OOB management credentials for incident response (b/c it was all on their BBs, and no longer exists). Imagine if the organization is a government entity or large corporation, the "attacker" is actually an insider, and the malicious wipe or application of a malicious IT policy is initiated during a public emergency, eg terrorist act. Considering those possibilities, the BB features may actually be security risks in some scenarios: the "central management" is also a central point of compromise (if that point is compromised, then so are the integrity of the BBs and their essential function).
We can keep making up improbable scenarios all day, this doesn't change the fact that from a security standpoint in an enterprise, this feature is invaluable.
And the logging features are privacy risks, except, clearly for mobiles issued for work use only. But many employers now issue phones with the expectation workers use it as _their_ phone (for even private use), take it home, and are just about always available on it for email, etc, even when on vacation.
Nice straw man. For tax and liability reasons, you'd be hard pressed to find ANY corporation that wants people to use their corporate phone for personal use -- in fact, I daresay it's a grave offense for any company large enough to have an HR department. They may want them to carry their corp blackberry 24/7, but that's a far cry from wanting them to use it in lieu of their personal phone. And for those same liability reasons, audit trails are critical in the enterprise.
Did somebody's widdle Blackberry abandon him as a child? Hmmmm? Myes, I know it did, yes it diddums....
We have had those units in Europe for ages, and there was not a single problem.
Citation needed.
I love my Dell desktop replacement - almost starting year 4 with it - but I started losing capacity within 6 months. Now I have about 1 minute after an accidental unplug...
True but only to a point. If copyright were abolished, even the limited protection that GPL gives would go away. Companies would have no incentive to do anything but release binary products, knowing that to do otherwise would be to ensure that their present business model is not sustainable.
Here for one: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20050225223848129
Piracy and GPL violations both hurt workers in the field of computing/entertainment/etc. However, there's a big difference between a random Joe copying an mp3 and a corporate entity stealing a product and re-marketing it as their own.
Stating that there's a difference doesn't make it so. Case 1: person takes "data" and uses it, gives it to a few thousand of his closest friends. Case 2: person takes "data" and uses it, sells it to paying customers. In both cases, "data" wasn't supposed to be available for misuse due to copyright restrictions. In both case, the wishes of the owner and/or creator of that "data" were not respected by the people doing the taking.
Copyright is the double-edged sword in this case. It protects our right to GPL our source as much as it protects RIAA's right to claim ownership of an arrangement of pleasing sounds. Under the current system, you can't have one without the other - and getting offended by one abuse of copyrighted material without getting offended by the other is hypocritical. (I'm feeling pretty good about this one, as I'm offended by both abuses.)
When the library of classic works available so dwarfs what you can expect to complete in a mere few years anyway?
http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page
Because not all literature is also good to read ;)
The difference between the two is that "encumbered" has a sound of legitimacy, while "infested' has the sound of ineffectual whining. Don't you just love semantics?
Instead we have gotten to the point that we must have credit to house ourselves
Or we can save money to purchase a house later in our lives.
, to transport ourselves
Or we can say "no" to the new car cycle. A used car works just as well, and even considering extra repairs and worse fuel economy it is much less expensive than almost any new car. I think people are beginning to realize that much, at least - or at least realize that a new car is a "want" not a "need".
and now to simply get a phone.
What you mean is "simply to get the overpriced phone that I want to have now". There are plenty of pre-paid and no-contract phone options available that don't require credit.
Wage slave is not a goal that one wants to reach. End credit and watch the prices of homes, cars etc. fall to reasonable levels.
End credit and watch people slowly learn how to manage money. This will cause a temporary drop in demand (and so prices) as people adjust their habits over a few years -- but learning to save money (is in, put it in a bank - not "save" by spending at a "sale" ;) simply means delaying the purchase of a watned item until you can afford it, it does not mean refusing to buy it.