We still don't have a motive for the crime -- Nixon was leading in the polls at the time of the break-in. Some suggest the motive might have been to steal the evidence that Nixon and George H.W. Bush were involved in the JFK assassination.
Does this make it illegal to link to the "printable view" of a newspaper story instead of the advertisement view? Will Drudge start changing the way he links?
(I always linked to the advertisement view from my blog, just out of fairness.)
Among the effects of sunlight on people are 1) it produces Vitamin D, and 2) it produces serotonin. It's been recently rediscovered that Vitamin D prevents colds and flus. Thus sunlight puts us in a better mood and prevents flus and colds. We get more colds and flus (and depressed) in the winter because there is less sunlight.
Moods and flu prevention form a mere correlation from the common cause of sunlight.
Contrary to what the analysts and lawyers in the ft.com article are blathering about, this is precisely the motivation behind the DMCA. In 1998, four years after the start of the Internet's meteroic rise, the media publishers had a vague fear that the Internet would bring new ways for people to make perfect copies of their publications. Thus they attacked preemptively by paying Congress to enact the DMCA. The media companies of course did not know P2P and "social networking" by name, but they knew from the Internet's growth (in size and technology) that such then-unknown things would come about. Heck, the violations were already occurring via UseNet.
While a lot of aspects of copyright are detestable -- such as the DMCA's prohibition against format shifting and the extension into perpetuity of copyrights, if the DMCA makes a special exemption for "common carriers" like MySpace (whose main purpose is social networking, not copyright infringement), then that is a good provision of the DMCA -- and it would be a farsighted one based on then-existing technologies such as UseNet, not a provision created in the "different world of 1998" as the ft.com article asserts.
Wi-Fi is used on cell phones more than EVDO is? I would be surprised if that's the case, and given that the BusinessWeek article didn't even mention EVDO, I can't give any credence to the article at all. EVDO is definitely cellular technology, so calling EVDO smartphones "cell phones" (or just "my cell", as I do) is not a misnomer.
Yes, productivity has peaked if we adhere to his non-standard assumptions and definitions. His first assumption is that everyone is like him. I assume he's a writer, which involves a higher ratio of higher thinking to mundane tasks than average. I see EAI and data processing put people out of work (or allow an exisitng team to process more data) every day in the busines world.
Even if we focus on his narrow world, he says that a better search engine would help his job. But he labels all such improvements as "machine intelligence" and declares them out of bounds for the point he's trying to make which is that hardware alone will not improve his personal productivity. He's basically declaring all software improvements as out of bounds in order to declare the "peak of productivity".
Finally, I bet his productivity has improved since 2004 despite his protestations to the contrary. Wikipedia is much faster than search engines to get a neutral concise summary and handful of the most relevant links. Shall we take away the author's access to Wikipedia? He obviously doesn't need it.
How about standing in line to go to the gym instead? Or maybe a nightclub, or a community theatre audition, or a sailing class, or a ski lift line, or...
Looking at it more in depth, I find it hard to believe that someone is so addicted to gaming that they need the next gaming fix that badly. Much more likely they're after the status symbol of being the first to get a PS3. And status amongst whom? Fellow gaming geeks?
Microsoft won't sue Suse users, but it will sue all the other Linux users. Microsoft will be leveraging its patents to sell mafia-style insurance. Microsoft has figured out how to make per-copy money off Linux beyond just support and distribution costs.
The FDA and USPTO are what enable the profits of big pharma. You can't patent a vitamin.
If you're at risk for diabetes, control your diet, exercise, and take chromium. Chromium for diabetes is not new. It's three or four decades old.
The link to the vendor I provided listed only the positive studies. There are some negative studies as well. Because chromium opens up the cell gateway for fat, my personal unscientific opinion is that it accelerates fat loss or gain, depending on diet. That's been my experience -- when on chromium, I gain or lose weight faster.
And while I'm on the topic of unpatentable vitamins, at least half the people on Prozac should just be taking copper and zinc instead. The theory goes that they're no longer present in our food due to overfarming, so we need to take them as supplements.
The media focus (and thus the populist mindset) on the environment in the 1970's was "don't litter", "don't start forest fires", and "don't use up all the gas so I can have some when I get to college". If we were to analogize environmental issues to civil rights, the 1970's were still in the "don't lynch" phase when it came to environmental issues.
Actually, I liked Episode II a lot. See my review. People thought Episode III was about Bush, but Episode II laid it all out more clearly a year before the Iraq war. Episode III was like a latter-day Bond movie -- a non-stop roller coaster formulaicly cobbled together from bits and pieces of all the previous movies -- temporarily sweet, but shallow. Even Episode I has value -- it has the best light sabre duels.
One sentence summary: Maher Arer was a software engineer for the MathWorks in Canada, was vacationing in Tunis, was called back by The Mathworks on an emergency, scheduled a flight back with a transfer at Kennedy airport in NYC, and the U.S. deported him to Syria for torture.
I question the use of the term "context-aware computing" in these two projects, which simply convey to users whether other users are available for IM. CAC usually refers to smart devices discerning the intetion of users and prompting the user, changing menus, etc. as a result. In this case, it's another user, rather than a system, making the decision to interrupt or not interrupt the user via IM. This is more CSCW (Computer Supported Collaborative Work) than CAC.
From a technical point of view, reliance upon "vaccines and antibiotics" does not a "robust" system make. A robust body should be able to heal itself without the complexities of external support. I was a little surprised to see that the primary dictionary definition of robust referred specifically to human health. But then you scroll down and you see the "jargon" definition that I describe above.
It's just another example of a word that can mean the opposite of itself.
(Another example is "Certain foods are good for you", where the dictionary definition of "certain" is "specific", but the speaker here is using it to intentionally be vague and general.)
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We still don't have a motive for the crime -- Nixon was leading in the polls at the time of the break-in. Some suggest the motive might have been to steal the evidence that Nixon and George H.W. Bush were involved in the JFK assassination.
(I always linked to the advertisement view from my blog, just out of fairness.)
Moods and flu prevention form a mere correlation from the common cause of sunlight.
While a lot of aspects of copyright are detestable -- such as the DMCA's prohibition against format shifting and the extension into perpetuity of copyrights, if the DMCA makes a special exemption for "common carriers" like MySpace (whose main purpose is social networking, not copyright infringement), then that is a good provision of the DMCA -- and it would be a farsighted one based on then-existing technologies such as UseNet, not a provision created in the "different world of 1998" as the ft.com article asserts.
Wi-Fi is used on cell phones more than EVDO is? I would be surprised if that's the case, and given that the BusinessWeek article didn't even mention EVDO, I can't give any credence to the article at all. EVDO is definitely cellular technology, so calling EVDO smartphones "cell phones" (or just "my cell", as I do) is not a misnomer.
Yes, productivity has peaked if we adhere to his non-standard assumptions and definitions. His first assumption is that everyone is like him. I assume he's a writer, which involves a higher ratio of higher thinking to mundane tasks than average. I see EAI and data processing put people out of work (or allow an exisitng team to process more data) every day in the busines world.
Even if we focus on his narrow world, he says that a better search engine would help his job. But he labels all such improvements as "machine intelligence" and declares them out of bounds for the point he's trying to make which is that hardware alone will not improve his personal productivity. He's basically declaring all software improvements as out of bounds in order to declare the "peak of productivity".
Finally, I bet his productivity has improved since 2004 despite his protestations to the contrary. Wikipedia is much faster than search engines to get a neutral concise summary and handful of the most relevant links. Shall we take away the author's access to Wikipedia? He obviously doesn't need it.
Put enough network jacks (or just WiFi) in the conference room for everyone to connect.
Bush and the $500m fusion lollipop
Peanut Butter must be the new name for what was known as "portal" in the dot-com era.
Looking at it more in depth, I find it hard to believe that someone is so addicted to gaming that they need the next gaming fix that badly. Much more likely they're after the status symbol of being the first to get a PS3. And status amongst whom? Fellow gaming geeks?
I said pretty much the same thing in a comment that didn't get any attention.
Microsoft won't sue Suse users, but it will sue all the other Linux users. Microsoft will be leveraging its patents to sell mafia-style insurance. Microsoft has figured out how to make per-copy money off Linux beyond just support and distribution costs.
If you're at risk for diabetes, control your diet, exercise, and take chromium. Chromium for diabetes is not new. It's three or four decades old.
The link to the vendor I provided listed only the positive studies. There are some negative studies as well. Because chromium opens up the cell gateway for fat, my personal unscientific opinion is that it accelerates fat loss or gain, depending on diet. That's been my experience -- when on chromium, I gain or lose weight faster.
And while I'm on the topic of unpatentable vitamins, at least half the people on Prozac should just be taking copper and zinc instead. The theory goes that they're no longer present in our food due to overfarming, so we need to take them as supplements.
IANAD
And Amazon will sell me PDFs of any book I want?
Copyright Act of 1790 from Wikipedia
I.e. getting rid of copyrights (or bringing them back to 14+14 years) would help the environment.
The media focus (and thus the populist mindset) on the environment in the 1970's was "don't litter", "don't start forest fires", and "don't use up all the gas so I can have some when I get to college". If we were to analogize environmental issues to civil rights, the 1970's were still in the "don't lynch" phase when it came to environmental issues.
Actually, I liked Episode II a lot. See my review. People thought Episode III was about Bush, but Episode II laid it all out more clearly a year before the Iraq war. Episode III was like a latter-day Bond movie -- a non-stop roller coaster formulaicly cobbled together from bits and pieces of all the previous movies -- temporarily sweet, but shallow. Even Episode I has value -- it has the best light sabre duels.
Childhood is extended in pleasure and liesure and abbreviated in responsibility, innocence, and whole-person growth.
The details:
Childhood is extended in liesure due to the need for most to complete umpteen years of schooling.
Childhood is abberviated in responsibility due to the Industrial Revolution.
Childhood is extended in pleasure and abberviated in innocence and due to the pill, post-1990 MTV, and easy access to pornography.
Childhood is abbreviated in whole-person growth due to videogames, sprawl, the Internet, and 500 channels of TV.
Maher Arar: Statement to the Media November 4, 2003
One sentence summary: Maher Arer was a software engineer for the MathWorks in Canada, was vacationing in Tunis, was called back by The Mathworks on an emergency, scheduled a flight back with a transfer at Kennedy airport in NYC, and the U.S. deported him to Syria for torture.
Of course, CAC is the newer and hipper acronym.
Note: Conyers backed down this past May.
It's just another example of a word that can mean the opposite of itself.
(Another example is "Certain foods are good for you", where the dictionary definition of "certain" is "specific", but the speaker here is using it to intentionally be vague and general.)