Must have been one hell of a bug he encountered, the error it caused was certainly fatal. And he invented the only manly way of sending the server a kill signal.
Why -book and not face-, or will the face- lawsuits be coming shortly?
All the other 'face-' sites are (supposedly) bukkake sites. Although you could view a 100-on-1 cumfest as 'social networking' it's hardly competition to the fuckfest that Facebook is...
Besides, trademark only protects the exact name and alternate spellings that are so close they might be confused. So 'vasebook' is out of the question if you want to start a site about vases... But at some point corporations lawyers decided they *own* regular words used by them, books, apples, you, me, I, etc. it's a long stretch to fall under trademarks, but it's not about right-of-law, it's about right-of-most-cash.
Insightful argument, it almost makes me hope that it *will* go that far so people will be forced to protest... problem is it will probably reach that state at different times for different people so the rest won't care enough to help the others in their protest.
Why do different rules apply to government employees than apply to the rest of us?
Because they have more power simply because they cover each other, and the rules apply selectively if you choose which rules to enforce.
Here in Amsterdam they already put a GPS tracker on a scooter of a young suspect in 2008. The guy found it (it was a huge black box on a small scooter) and removed it. After that police stopped him by ramming his scooter with a squad car and arrested him. They also demanded that he had to return or pay for the GPS tracker... The general public response was mild outrage about the privacy violation, but I think most people didn't give a shit and thought they should treat those young criminals even harder.
A more recent (much more blatant) example is a cop (notorious with the local nickname 'uncle Harry Schumacher') who drove trough a red light without siren and hit and killed a mother of two. He was found by a judge to be in clear violation and disregard for safety, but still got away with 120 hours of community service! The public response was outrage (soon forgotten like always), but some kid from the neighborhood posted an open letter calling this guy a murderer. The kid got arrrested and has been charged with insulting an officer... The sad part is he will probably get a harsher sentence than the cop who caused the death of the woman. The public response until now seems to be 'screw the kid, who cares', since he is one of the problem youths from the neighborhood.
It's amazing (and frustrating) how little people care most of the time... But history shows there is a limit to what people will swallow, and the backlash always comes down hard and unexpected when people revolt.
Not posting anon because I still believe in freedom of speech and refuse to be scared to talk about things that I find horribly wrong.
"The traffic is no excuse to be late on the job!"
I wonder how many of these guys in the traffic jam lost their jobs this month... given the fact the Chinese have an even stricter work-culture and an abundance of other people willing to take the job.
Yeah, Youtube and fair use is a far stretch, we've had audio removed from a clip op children performing a theatrical dance version of 'thriller' (with real crappy audio), and that old song is so important they need to block all audio... If home video stuff like that isn't fair use what is?
When they know what you like and create an heuristic 'other people that liked X also like Y' kinda system you can actually get useful *new* recommendations you will probably also like... But with an image system like this you can imagine all the stupid fuck-ups and jokes that will ensue... "Yo momma is so fat that the ad Picasa shows next to all her photo's is: 'save the whales'"
Plus you can be damn sure that if this system is smart enough to be useful it will be gamed, and I'm not worried about companies trying to get more hits, but rather the/B/tard horde... Can you imagine the shit they will get this system to display next to your images??? - Spaghetti = "Get your rare tentacle rape hentai here"
Photo's of your little kids = "God loves all little children. Become a priest now!"
Everything pokemon-ish = "So i herd u liek Mudkip"...
Fuck, there will be more horrors than you or I can imagine now... and I can imagine quite a lot...
If recent history has shown anything about this subject it's that in most western nations human rights and the environment come second after corporate (copyright) interests. So that confirms your point, the political priorities lie exactly where the money is, and there is no money in human rights or the environment (except when you sell these things out).
The inferior fakes are not copies, but a physical product disguised as the real thing... Have you ever seen a fake Levi's Jeans for example, it almost looks exactly the same but doesn't last as long by a long shot. I've also read reports of fake Cisco hardware that look and function exactly like the real thing... They only found out because people reported who contacted the helpdesk reported a nonexistent serial number...
This is exactly the kind of counterfeiting China is well known for, and the resulting products are almost without exception inferior copies.
I do agree though, digital pirated copies are without a doubt a 'value added' product! No DRM, phoning home, added portability and compatibility etc. I've downloaded games I bought because the game crashed on install or required the CD in the drive, or another example: a Blueray movie can't be played with an Xbox360, but a Blueray-rip can (full HD)!
Indeed, this are some of the most common levels of infringement consumers deal with:
1) P2P free sharing Infringement, this destroys no value (free evaluation copy) and gives free advertising of the product. When the product is any good the company selling the product should actually benefit from this (or so I've read from numerous studies. for music for example P2P creates net extra value for everyone except the likes of Britney Spears...).
2) For-pay infringement, this can be seen as destroying value (people actually willing to spend money on a product pay it to someone else). Earning money from infringement is a clear violation (as opposed to the grey area of sharing for free = borrowing). Otherwise you would have businesses selling infringed material everywhere which will actually cause great losses for the companies selling the product.
3) For-pay fraudulent infringement, these products destroy value and reputation since the products are often of inferior quality although fairly indistinguishable. This is the type of violation companies should battle with any means they have. This generally never happens in the digital space (with some fake software as the rare exception), but is very common with products like clothing and electronics.
Only level 2 and 3 infringement cause actual damage to companies, but somehow 'copyright infringement' has become synonymous for the level 1 infringement... Which seems to be caused by the large campaigns launched by the MAFIAA and their associates, who exclusively fight against the level 1 infringement. The Pirate Bay provides a service and makes ad-revenue, but does not belong to level 2... but some sites do ask money for downloading the products straight from them and clearly commit a level 2 infringement (which may actually cause damage), but these are never attacked bij the MAFIAA and brought to court. If they claim to defend their financial interest in their products it's raises the question: Why don't they actually fight the infringement that causes the damage to the revenue?
This clearly demonstrates that the MAFIAA was not interested in protecting their existing revenue stream, but are only trying to create an additional (unrelated) stream of litigation-revenue from the consumers who commit level 1 infringement.
Please note that the article is about a new development to combat the extensive level 2 & 3 infringement in China (since the copied media is just sold on the street there it would count as level 2), so it seems the MAFIAA is finally moving along to more legally stable ground (since these violations can't be debated so easily, especially when piled up with the level 3 violations and presented to the Chinese)... I wonder, if we can be bankrupted for infringing some songs, would the Chinese be executed for selling Britney Spears???
You should see the tax estimation you'll get after that... "On averagage ballpoint salesmen sell over a billion ballpoints per year, your failure to report these sales (or imaginary sale losses which now carry legal status) to the IRS results in the following tax estimate. Not all pages fit in the envelope so you'll receive the second part of pages containing all zeros in a later shipment..."
If anything the photo's show the reverse: that students are not tank proof. I just saw a link to the HK google site that displayed it with full blood-and-gore glory. You'd guess they might want to highlight this little bit of 'squished cowardly dissidents' VS 'mighty peoples army tanks'.
Yeah, lot's of things are claimed in the interest of "national security"... it's the most abused term since you can't possibly be against security of your nation (and yourself). But no country is really free of this abuse...
Example: the story of a mom (ironically named Freeman) who was arrested, convicted and lost her kids in the interest of national security. She surely must have been a terrorist... right???
The only thing different about China is the blatant censorship, most western nations try to be more subtle with their censoring... but it still happens (and guess which two words are always the reason).
Man, I would love to see a libel lawsuit from Mohammed, considering the dude has been dead for 1378 years!
And if *a* guy was to show up and state his case it would go slightly along the lines of: "He can't draw a satirical picture of me because I proclaimed a rule that he cant!". I think that no court would ever convict anyone for this... not even the most medieval Sharia court in the world (unless the dude before them is the counties dictator of the moment, but I digress...).
Yeah, this is a great disadvantage of 3D... But a technology to allow multiple players to compete in 3D (without spectators being able to watch) is doomed to fail since it is already obsolete... We will more likely see consoles with 3D display glasses per player. Playing 3D with 1, 2, 4 or more per console is trivially easy (only limited by the bandwidth of the transmission mechanism), more likely even is this: the glasses will one day even *be* the console, and allow you to start a LAN party just by getting together and gaming ad-hoc. No need to gather around a TV anymore, just game where you want (yeah, we already have that with PSPs etc. but now in 3D!).
Yeah, Maybe... we're basically a century behind a great mind like Nikola Tesla who claimed wireless energy transfer (grounded trough the earth) was possible and we're just now starting to figure out that it wasn't all pie in the sky. More reading: his never finished tower.
The link to the site you send actually has some nice discussions going on about the science, I'll read up on that because i'm genuinely interested. But once again the conclusion of the article is that CO2 amplifies warming and helps it to spread across the planet, this is a known an proven property of CO2, but this still does not mean that CO2 is the leading cause. If the only answer I get all the time for pointing things like this out and comparing me to creationists... It's not comparable, and by doing that you behaving in an unscientific manner by trying to label (and victimize) people.
Do you really think scientists are this fucking stupid? That they don't take these things into account? Christ.
Hmmm... yeah, that figures... That's exactly what I thought first. But trust me, it helps to look up numbers and do research for yourself instead of just assuming that others would have thought of it. Here are some numbers for you: we release almost 500 exajoules (that 18 zeros, or 5*10^20 j) each year, this is energy that comes on top of the equilibrium created by the sun (which is in the order of 10^25 j, so it's a factor close to 100000, which is fucking small when you compare it to the burning ball of gas that provides us with *all* our power and temperature). Where does that energy magically dissipate to??? When you know how black body radiation works (it actually works slower for earth exactly because of our atmosphere with CO2 and the albedo, when interested look up the Stefen-Bolzman law) but when just considering the effect of the raw joules burned it should come down to an increase in temperature of around 0.3 degree in fifty years...
First lets agree the earth is warming slightly, there is no dispute there. Secondly lets agree to disagree that CO2 is the main cause. But third of all I hope you also agree that these carbon credits are a scam which does not help us solve the problems of climate change...
These sites never really prove to me that CO2 is in fact to blame... for example the objection that historically CO2 has been shown to be lagging temperature rise, and thus being more of an extra positive feedback mechanism than a prime cause has not been refuted, but even confirmed. But somehow this is no real objection. But my biggest problem with sites like this is they pretend to be scientific in nature, while they word their articles like you're dealing with idiots who should believe them on their word... It's a bit over-the-top-one-sided for a scientific site. So the question is: can you conceive that someone feels like a victim when his legitimate concerns are met with an 'idiot' response and compared to holocaust deniers... This is not the same, not even close! You are true that a lot of the deniers are the same people who believe in UFO's etc. but to group all together and discard all (possible helpful) theories because of that is a red herring!
A serious theory I have never seen discredited (other than saying people are a crackpot for suggestion it) is that the cause of warming is basically the excess heat from burning (think of the atmosphere as your house and all the fossil fuel as your heater). This actually amounts to quite a lot of warming, just calculate the energy released by all the barrels of oil every year, it's not insignificant as my first thought was... The prime cause can be the temperature, and the CO2 amplifies this. My biggest concern with this theory is this: if it actually is true we have a much bigger problem than we thought! When we completely stop burning fossil fuel, and move to fission and (in the future) fusion this will still be a problem, with out without the CO2!
Makes me wonder who the fuck in their right mind would *ever* give a company with a track record like that a license to design and sell food for human consumption... Maybe those anti-GM-food-hippies have a valid point after all; better safe than sorry.:-)
The latest tactic in environmental management is to just allow nature to adapt to the inevitable changes (for example by connecting patches of wild to allow animals to migrate). This instead of the recent old way where they try to maintain an impossible non-equilibrium because "that's how it's supposed to be". It's not so much about protecting anymore, and more about 'enabling' nature to sort it out (although we still need to protect against damage on a massive scale)...
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Must have been one hell of a bug he encountered, the error it caused was certainly fatal. And he invented the only manly way of sending the server a kill signal.
Why -book and not face-, or will the face- lawsuits be coming shortly?
All the other 'face-' sites are (supposedly) bukkake sites. Although you could view a 100-on-1 cumfest as 'social networking' it's hardly competition to the fuckfest that Facebook is...
Besides, trademark only protects the exact name and alternate spellings that are so close they might be confused. So 'vasebook' is out of the question if you want to start a site about vases...
But at some point corporations lawyers decided they *own* regular words used by them, books, apples, you, me, I, etc. it's a long stretch to fall under trademarks, but it's not about right-of-law, it's about right-of-most-cash.
Insightful argument, it almost makes me hope that it *will* go that far so people will be forced to protest... problem is it will probably reach that state at different times for different people so the rest won't care enough to help the others in their protest.
Why do different rules apply to government employees than apply to the rest of us?
Because they have more power simply because they cover each other, and the rules apply selectively if you choose which rules to enforce.
Here in Amsterdam they already put a GPS tracker on a scooter of a young suspect in 2008. The guy found it (it was a huge black box on a small scooter) and removed it. After that police stopped him by ramming his scooter with a squad car and arrested him. They also demanded that he had to return or pay for the GPS tracker... The general public response was mild outrage about the privacy violation, but I think most people didn't give a shit and thought they should treat those young criminals even harder.
A more recent (much more blatant) example is a cop (notorious with the local nickname 'uncle Harry Schumacher') who drove trough a red light without siren and hit and killed a mother of two. He was found by a judge to be in clear violation and disregard for safety, but still got away with 120 hours of community service! The public response was outrage (soon forgotten like always), but some kid from the neighborhood posted an open letter calling this guy a murderer. The kid got arrrested and has been charged with insulting an officer... The sad part is he will probably get a harsher sentence than the cop who caused the death of the woman. The public response until now seems to be 'screw the kid, who cares', since he is one of the problem youths from the neighborhood.
It's amazing (and frustrating) how little people care most of the time... But history shows there is a limit to what people will swallow, and the backlash always comes down hard and unexpected when people revolt.
Not posting anon because I still believe in freedom of speech and refuse to be scared to talk about things that I find horribly wrong.
One could imagine a database of "bone information" hat is cross-referenced to identity.
Don't all geeks on Slashdot have a few terabyte of those already?
"The traffic is no excuse to be late on the job!"
I wonder how many of these guys in the traffic jam lost their jobs this month... given the fact the Chinese have an even stricter work-culture and an abundance of other people willing to take the job.
That's why I cd baby, oh yeah! :)
Yeah, Youtube and fair use is a far stretch, we've had audio removed from a clip op children performing a theatrical dance version of 'thriller' (with real crappy audio), and that old song is so important they need to block all audio... If home video stuff like that isn't fair use what is?
Well, the US has been a good customer of the Chinese for many years, I'm pretty sure they could demand some extra Sambal with their food.
When they know what you like and create an heuristic 'other people that liked X also like Y' kinda system you can actually get useful *new* recommendations you will probably also like... But with an image system like this you can imagine all the stupid fuck-ups and jokes that will ensue... "Yo momma is so fat that the ad Picasa shows next to all her photo's is: 'save the whales'"
/B/tard horde... Can you imagine the shit they will get this system to display next to your images??? - Spaghetti = "Get your rare tentacle rape hentai here"
Plus you can be damn sure that if this system is smart enough to be useful it will be gamed, and I'm not worried about companies trying to get more hits, but rather the
Photo's of your little kids = "God loves all little children. Become a priest now!"
Everything pokemon-ish = "So i herd u liek Mudkip"...
Fuck, there will be more horrors than you or I can imagine now... and I can imagine quite a lot...
If recent history has shown anything about this subject it's that in most western nations human rights and the environment come second after corporate (copyright) interests. So that confirms your point, the political priorities lie exactly where the money is, and there is no money in human rights or the environment (except when you sell these things out).
The inferior fakes are not copies, but a physical product disguised as the real thing... Have you ever seen a fake Levi's Jeans for example, it almost looks exactly the same but doesn't last as long by a long shot. I've also read reports of fake Cisco hardware that look and function exactly like the real thing... They only found out because people reported who contacted the helpdesk reported a nonexistent serial number... This is exactly the kind of counterfeiting China is well known for, and the resulting products are almost without exception inferior copies.
I do agree though, digital pirated copies are without a doubt a 'value added' product! No DRM, phoning home, added portability and compatibility etc. I've downloaded games I bought because the game crashed on install or required the CD in the drive, or another example: a Blueray movie can't be played with an Xbox360, but a Blueray-rip can (full HD)!
Only level 2 and 3 infringement cause actual damage to companies, but somehow 'copyright infringement' has become synonymous for the level 1 infringement... Which seems to be caused by the large campaigns launched by the MAFIAA and their associates, who exclusively fight against the level 1 infringement. The Pirate Bay provides a service and makes ad-revenue, but does not belong to level 2... but some sites do ask money for downloading the products straight from them and clearly commit a level 2 infringement (which may actually cause damage), but these are never attacked bij the MAFIAA and brought to court. If they claim to defend their financial interest in their products it's raises the question: Why don't they actually fight the infringement that causes the damage to the revenue?
This clearly demonstrates that the MAFIAA was not interested in protecting their existing revenue stream, but are only trying to create an additional (unrelated) stream of litigation-revenue from the consumers who commit level 1 infringement.
Please note that the article is about a new development to combat the extensive level 2 & 3 infringement in China (since the copied media is just sold on the street there it would count as level 2), so it seems the MAFIAA is finally moving along to more legally stable ground (since these violations can't be debated so easily, especially when piled up with the level 3 violations and presented to the Chinese)... I wonder, if we can be bankrupted for infringing some songs, would the Chinese be executed for selling Britney Spears???
You should see the tax estimation you'll get after that... "On averagage ballpoint salesmen sell over a billion ballpoints per year, your failure to report these sales (or imaginary sale losses which now carry legal status) to the IRS results in the following tax estimate. Not all pages fit in the envelope so you'll receive the second part of pages containing all zeros in a later shipment..."
Facebook: "Later. Let's play Global Thermonuclear War."
"The survivors of the nuclear fire called the war Judgment Day. They lived only to face a new nightmare: the war against Facebook."
That's it... the singularity is upon us! The tinfoil does nothing!!!
If anything the photo's show the reverse: that students are not tank proof. I just saw a link to the HK google site that displayed it with full blood-and-gore glory. You'd guess they might want to highlight this little bit of 'squished cowardly dissidents' VS 'mighty peoples army tanks'.
Yeah, that's already happening... even the director who fucked a minor was not extradited to the US by Switzerland...
Yeah, lot's of things are claimed in the interest of "national security"... it's the most abused term since you can't possibly be against security of your nation (and yourself). But no country is really free of this abuse...
Example: the story of a mom (ironically named Freeman) who was arrested, convicted and lost her kids in the interest of national security. She surely must have been a terrorist... right???
The only thing different about China is the blatant censorship, most western nations try to be more subtle with their censoring... but it still happens (and guess which two words are always the reason).
Man, I would love to see a libel lawsuit from Mohammed, considering the dude has been dead for 1378 years!
And if *a* guy was to show up and state his case it would go slightly along the lines of: "He can't draw a satirical picture of me because I proclaimed a rule that he cant!". I think that no court would ever convict anyone for this... not even the most medieval Sharia court in the world (unless the dude before them is the counties dictator of the moment, but I digress...).
Yeah, this is a great disadvantage of 3D... But a technology to allow multiple players to compete in 3D (without spectators being able to watch) is doomed to fail since it is already obsolete... We will more likely see consoles with 3D display glasses per player. Playing 3D with 1, 2, 4 or more per console is trivially easy (only limited by the bandwidth of the transmission mechanism), more likely even is this: the glasses will one day even *be* the console, and allow you to start a LAN party just by getting together and gaming ad-hoc. No need to gather around a TV anymore, just game where you want (yeah, we already have that with PSPs etc. but now in 3D!).
Yeah, Maybe... we're basically a century behind a great mind like Nikola Tesla who claimed wireless energy transfer (grounded trough the earth) was possible and we're just now starting to figure out that it wasn't all pie in the sky. More reading: his never finished tower.
Do you really think scientists are this fucking stupid? That they don't take these things into account? Christ.
Hmmm... yeah, that figures... That's exactly what I thought first. But trust me, it helps to look up numbers and do research for yourself instead of just assuming that others would have thought of it. Here are some numbers for you: we release almost 500 exajoules (that 18 zeros, or 5*10^20 j) each year, this is energy that comes on top of the equilibrium created by the sun (which is in the order of 10^25 j, so it's a factor close to 100000, which is fucking small when you compare it to the burning ball of gas that provides us with *all* our power and temperature). Where does that energy magically dissipate to??? When you know how black body radiation works (it actually works slower for earth exactly because of our atmosphere with CO2 and the albedo, when interested look up the Stefen-Bolzman law) but when just considering the effect of the raw joules burned it should come down to an increase in temperature of around 0.3 degree in fifty years...
First lets agree the earth is warming slightly, there is no dispute there. Secondly lets agree to disagree that CO2 is the main cause. But third of all I hope you also agree that these carbon credits are a scam which does not help us solve the problems of climate change...
These sites never really prove to me that CO2 is in fact to blame... for example the objection that historically CO2 has been shown to be lagging temperature rise, and thus being more of an extra positive feedback mechanism than a prime cause has not been refuted, but even confirmed. But somehow this is no real objection. But my biggest problem with sites like this is they pretend to be scientific in nature, while they word their articles like you're dealing with idiots who should believe them on their word... It's a bit over-the-top-one-sided for a scientific site. So the question is: can you conceive that someone feels like a victim when his legitimate concerns are met with an 'idiot' response and compared to holocaust deniers... This is not the same, not even close! You are true that a lot of the deniers are the same people who believe in UFO's etc. but to group all together and discard all (possible helpful) theories because of that is a red herring!
A serious theory I have never seen discredited (other than saying people are a crackpot for suggestion it) is that the cause of warming is basically the excess heat from burning (think of the atmosphere as your house and all the fossil fuel as your heater). This actually amounts to quite a lot of warming, just calculate the energy released by all the barrels of oil every year, it's not insignificant as my first thought was... The prime cause can be the temperature, and the CO2 amplifies this. My biggest concern with this theory is this: if it actually is true we have a much bigger problem than we thought! When we completely stop burning fossil fuel, and move to fission and (in the future) fusion this will still be a problem, with out without the CO2!
Makes me wonder who the fuck in their right mind would *ever* give a company with a track record like that a license to design and sell food for human consumption... :-)
Maybe those anti-GM-food-hippies have a valid point after all; better safe than sorry.
The latest tactic in environmental management is to just allow nature to adapt to the inevitable changes (for example by connecting patches of wild to allow animals to migrate). This instead of the recent old way where they try to maintain an impossible non-equilibrium because "that's how it's supposed to be". It's not so much about protecting anymore, and more about 'enabling' nature to sort it out (although we still need to protect against damage on a massive scale)...