I believe you have the right idea with moving the filtering to a voluntary system apart from new TLDs. However, I doubt you'd find that many volunteers unless severe pressure (or $) was placed upon them. I think there would be far more ".kids" sites or non-adult sites that would want to be a part of a content filtering system for children. This brings into question what constitutes a "kids" site and how it should be decided which is a problem in all 'ratings' system. Quite simply, we have no good solution in helping parents decide what their children should witness and no system should be implemented until we do.
So where are the prizes in the fields of computer science/mathematics/computational sciences? [links] (goatse me if you'd like) Our grad students mustn't have the cash money to pay for their thesiseses.
Well I'd guess you'd actually have to read the NDA and abide by it. If, for example, the NDA says you can't do whatever the fuck you like with the info they supply (like open source the drivers you wrote) then you'd better hire a lawyer.
Now I know all that text is daunting but if you'd have read towards the end of the article he actually offers an alternative/supplemental way of rewarding innovation - prize funds. Whether these would attract the huge pharmaceutical firms is unknown. However, I imagine they would attract smaller independent research groups in the way the Xprize (and others) have done. If there are $200,000 prizes for getting linux to work on an xbox, i t seems only reasonable that there should be huge cash prizes for developing treatments/cures/alternative drug therapies, and certainly these things would improve the quality of life for far more people than some nerds in their mothers basements (no offense, I'm of the garage variety).
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I believe you have the right idea with moving the filtering to a voluntary system apart from new TLDs. However, I doubt you'd find that many volunteers unless severe pressure (or $) was placed upon them. I think there would be far more ".kids" sites or non-adult sites that would want to be a part of a content filtering system for children. This brings into question what constitutes a "kids" site and how it should be decided which is a problem in all 'ratings' system. Quite simply, we have no good solution in helping parents decide what their children should witness and no system should be implemented until we do.
So where are the prizes in the fields of computer science/mathematics/computational sciences? [links] (goatse me if you'd like)
Our grad students mustn't have the cash money to pay for their thesiseses.
No one really expects him to read white papers do they?
At least string theorists don't use a lot of money to perform experiments.
Quite right you are pointing out the missing step, here it is:
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To find out people sell stolen things on ebay! *gasp*
Well I'd guess you'd actually have to read the NDA and abide by it. If, for example, the NDA says you can't do whatever the fuck you like with the info they supply (like open source the drivers you wrote) then you'd better hire a lawyer.
Now I know all that text is daunting but if you'd have read towards the end of the article he actually offers an alternative/supplemental way of rewarding innovation - prize funds. Whether these would attract the huge pharmaceutical firms is unknown. However, I imagine they would attract smaller independent research groups in the way the Xprize (and others) have done. If there are $200,000 prizes for getting linux to work on an xbox, i t seems only reasonable that there should be huge cash prizes for developing treatments/cures/alternative drug therapies, and certainly these things would improve the quality of life for far more people than some nerds in their mothers basements (no offense, I'm of the garage variety).