I don't think anybody says "I'm not buying this CD because the music industry is suing people!"
I stopped buying CDs a decade ago when MP3s became wildly available on FTP servers throughout the country.
When the RIAA started suing people... I stopped pirating. They can have their cake. I will listen to musicians who *want* me to hear their music. Go to Jamendo as a place where you can download tracks that are licensed with rules that allow free copying for personal use. And enjoy the _real_ musical revolution.
Please re-read the documentation listed and do some research on the date July 4, 1776. Once you do that, get back to me and we can talk. And when you can present an argument that has any substance rather than making broad generalizations, it would be appreciated. And then drawing a conclusion while completely ignoring the basis of the discussion (privacy)... that's just bad taste.
I use Ubuntu 7.10. Installing the Flash Plug-in to play videos was quick and painless. It told me what to click and asked for the password. I restarted the web-browser and haven't had troubles since.
Typically, I hate to see private information given away to people who abuse it, and I do think people should have a right to privacy. But I am going to chime in with a counter-argument because I think there are a lot of people in the discussion who get upset when any shred of privacy data is given away and misused.
There are limits to privacy. The country where the murder was committed (America) was founded on certain inalienable rights, of which privacy is not included. The rights that cannot be denied are (1) Life, (2) Liberty, and (3) Pursuit of Happiness.
A right to privacy would prevent your neighbors from gossiping about you. When New York, Boston, Chicago, and Philadelphia didn't have buildings that were taller than 40 meters the world was a smaller place and not nearly as spread out. People knew each other's business. There wasn't the idea of privacy that we have in modern society where you can walk 20 blocks in Manhattan and not know a single person. So in a way, privacy has evolved over the years and databases are a way of keeping it in check.
So quit the knee-jerk "they are invading my privacy" reaction with these stories. The real tragedy is that the rapist was denied his inalienable right to Life because some clerk mistakenly marked him as a child molester instead of a regular woman rapist. Had they gotten it right in the database, maybe somebody's wife would have felt threatened and committed the murder. The fact is that rape and murder are VERY BAD THINGS and worthy of a scarlet letter.
Somebody mentioned the Hawthorne novel, by the way, which concerns consensual adultery and children out of wed-lock. The mother was a disgrace to the community and the male-half of the adultery was ironically the most respected man in town (the Reverend).
In summary, consider the context of privacy invasion. Some is warranted. Privacy is not an inalienable right.
Well... right. I was agreeing with you. I was saying, "hey, this is good", but being pragmatic and realizing that must people don't think it is good because of historical reasons.
Here's another concept that many people cannot fathom: Democratic Communism. It is completely feasible to run a Democratic political system in concert with a Communist economic system.
In the end, Capitalism isn't sustainable, anyway. As more and more "money" gets concentrated in fewer and fewer enterprises, something will eventually give.
There is a stigma in this country, and the reason is largely linked to the Russians. If you were living in 1960s Soviet Russia, you wouldn't be proud to say you were a Communist (unless you held a high government office). It turns out that the Russians really didn't have the infrastructure for a successful Communism. Ultimately, their dreams failed.
You should check out the novel I wrote. It is fictionalized, but deals with ideas concerning how it might be possible to run a successful Communist government in a post-modern world (or course, to combat the stigma, I wait until 2/3 into the book to even use the word Communism... so your mileage may vary).
What is it that prevents this also helping out small media companies, and even individuals who create copyrighted works?
To answer that question, cost. It would cost to much to help enforce "protection" of the small guys.
And I agree with you... the system needs to be (a) reformed, and (b) enforced. I disagree that writing to Congress-critters will have much of an effect. Instead, my recommendation it to support bands who publish their music on Jamendo and other "distribution-friendly" sites. There is nothing better for fans than an artist who WANTS you to listen to his music without greedily trying to grab a couple pennies every time you hear a new song.
Please read my novel. It is free. I don't make money unless you like it and go out of your way to donate to me through PayPal. That better than a batch of internet articles because there is a real story and serious thought behind it. So please... prove yourself wrong and read the novel I wrote, without paying me, and see if I bitch and whine about it. Just click the link in my sig.
The problem with this is that it completely bypasses all microeconomic theory.
Fuck microeconomic theory. We are talking about digital bytes... that are free... to copy. In the digital world, there is no microeconomic theory. Microeconomic theory exists when things do not have a production cost of $0, as copies of a digital work do. There is no economy in digital. There is simply an exchange of bytes. The most desirable bytes get exchanged more frequently than undesirable bytes. All the while... the byte exchangers pay a periodic common dollar amount to for the right to participate in the exchange. A fixed price that everybody shares. Each contributes a small amount to keep the networks flowing. Everybody benefits.
IANAE, so flame me if you want... but it seems to me like the world isn't capable of understanding that it is possible to have an infinite supply of a resource like a digital download. Infinite supply -> No cost. Take that, and write a thesis on it.:)
Who is stupid enough to go to Youtube for authoritative information about anything?
People who can't read, perhaps? Or people who are too lazy to read? Either way, it goes without saying that a person who cannot or will not read is an imbecile.
Identifying the cats was hands down the better half of the inkblot website game. Once I got to the password part, I decided it was too stupid to continue with.
Something that still needs working... okay, I passed the CAPTCHA once, but my request failed (in the case of this website, the username I typed had already been chosen). I then had to change my username choice and re-authenticate myself by finding more cats. Yet, as far as I could tell, I am still human.
A similar thing bugs me about Ticketmaster. I look for tickets, type in the CAPTCHA, then see that it can't find tickets. How frustrating to be forced repeatedly to re-authenticate my humanism (and yet, supposedly bots can read that CAPTCHA anyway... so it is all in vain).
I haven't touched Photoshop since before they switched to the "CS" way of labeling releases. In the time since then, as a proponent of F/OSS, I have turned to GIMP to do an Photo edited. In three years, this has involved created maybe 5 images... so I am by no means a frequent user of the tool. That said, during the times I have used it, I found found it to be slow and frustrating. I had been running on computers that were not super-powerful, but no more than 3 years old. So for why I am always cautious about saying "use GIMP" is because I have found it to be slow. On the other hand, I now say "use Firefox" and "use OpenOffice" with conviction that they are better than all comparable proprietary tools.
This just reinforces the notion that "Survival of the Fittest" no longer applies to the human race and signifies the beginning of what will eventually become the land from the Planet of the Apes.
Comcast markets in 2008, allows 450+ Mbps download and 125+ Mbps upload per channel in a node.
You'll find that running a business is much more than having the bestproducts.
I've always found cable to be a bizarre industry, though. Because the only differentiating product feature is "most uptime". Recent (dumb) cable TV ads have tried to promote the monopoly they have over local content (i.e. community news and school broadcast channels), but this is silly because local channels would be available (freely) over-the-air if people really wanted them. So yeah... the fundamental problem with Comcast would be their "uptime". With my personal experience, I have recently dropped Cablevision/IO in favor of over-the-air network broadcasts and borrowing wireless internet from a neighbor. Cablevision/IO is absolutely horrible... with "uptime" numbers that barely break into the 90% mark. In all seriousness, it is routine to see digital static jump in and out of the TV and to just get cut off from internet randomly during peak hours.
Maybe Comcast's goal is to be just a little bit better than Cablevision/IO.
Some code cannot be copyrighted. HTML, for instance, cannot be locked away and hidden in a vault because it relies on being there so the browser can render it at the time of the download. Those, HTML is a great "scavenger" language, because it is easy to learn new techniques by poking around the "View Source" code.
Other code that cannot be copyrighted is copylefted. The GPL expressly guarantees that code can be used, studied, modified, and redistributed.
Now... formalizing a lesson plan to teach students of computer science the ins-and-outs of GPL code would be a wonderful thing. I would graciously sign up for that course.
This seems like the wrong thing to say when somebody fails. Take golf, for instance. You can swing with as much force as you can muster and send the ball flying into the woods. That is lots of "effort". Sometimes, finesse and technique are more important. Sometimes, having tools is a great aid. The more appropriate thing to tell a kid is that, "Something didn't go right, what can be done differently to achieve the desired result."
This is also how machine-learning algorithms work.;)
I know I could probably even be good at football if I cared enough and practiced it
That was my point.
my dad was never really interested in team sports either so never played them with me as a child.
And that. Missing opportunities to train with certain things as a child will play a huge role shaping a person's adult life.
Personally, my parents are terrible athletes, but they signed me up for Baseball, Basketball, and Soccer when I was 5 years old and that helped my development. In high school, I stopped playing the contact sports to have more time to study, but I know I can go pick up a baseball bat or basketball and play the games. Unfortunately, I have friends who visibly lack the coordination to respectfully play these games and that really does suck for them.
I suck at some things, like football (of the soccer variety), but when it comes to intellectual pursuits, I'm well aware that I can do anything I want to do
This is a great example. Some people are smart+athletic, some are just smart, some are just athletic, and some are neither. It seems like the parent-poster simply never got an adequate physical education to be a good athlete. The article is stuck on the fact that lots of kids aren't getting adequate mental educations.
In The Republic, Plato/Socrates talks about schooling children with physical education (track, field, and war) as well as mental education (math and music). In his utopia, experts in the field of each would share time instructing the children in each discipline. Thus, they would be nurtured properly, and nature would play its course as they would eventually excel at something that they liked best.
There is no hope till the present day youngsters who grew up with internet and IM become the senior legislators and judges.
The people you talk about are the same ones who give you a deer-in-the-headlights look when you tell them that by putting up pictures of themselves and personal information such as where they go to school on Facebook, someone could figure out where they live.
As a 20-something who grew up with the internet and IM, I take offense to your stereotyping. It is true, many of my generation are morons. But that is true of all generations. As it turns out, half the population is above average, and the other half is stuck being below average. If a group of 25-30 year olds can attain Congressional seats in the next few years... it would be an improvement for this generation and subsequent ones.
Pertaining to the article, any legislation which attempts to make rules for the internet is foolish. Legislation should let the internet remain to be a hub for culture and information. There will always be people who misuse it, and it does as much good to punish them as it does to punish people who are occasionally (or habitually) dishonest.
What do they do when a small business owner says, "I use strictly Linux on my computers, no, you can't come in and look around, go pound sand."
I am in noway familiar with BSA's policies and procedures, but my guess would be that this business owner would be served a legally binding search warrant and wouldn't get the change to say, "Go pound sand".
Now, if he were to discontinue the use of unlicensed software and made a switch to Linux after the ex-employee left, he would have an easy time fighting off the BSA.
Ultimately, this is exactly why whistleblowers are protected. It is A GOOD THING to prevent small businesses from running unlicensed software. These companies would be better off with Linux, anyway.:)
Sounds like someone came up with a new buzzword "open source warfare" and thought it was so cool that it warranted a 5 page article.
The author is misinformed in other fronts and contradicts himself in several points. He points at the 25 years of bureaucracy to develop the F-22, but follows up with a comment on the 60-day lifecycle to develop "Hellfire missiles" (which I think is the infamous "Bunker Busters", but I'm too lazy to fact check myself).
And he completely ignores the robustness of the advanced technology that we deploy. UAVs and PackBots are expensive diversions that force the guerrillas to fight a continually more complex war. As a result, less people die... which is one of the main goals, is it not? But because it is robust, it is saved the trouble of being completely changed after the opposition adapts. That is to say, the enemy switches from one disposable prototype to another... but we are left with the technology to stop both types of the low-tech devices. We evolve, they just swap in different components using mix-and-match "recipes" (which were discussed in the author's article to be faulty 75-80% of the time).
The other thing that ticked me off that the author missed completely was the complete absence of a mention towards the DoD's desire to embrace Open Source and the mention that recent contracts enforce "GPR" license mechanisms to promote Joint Reuse across the military development network of contractors (and for the uninformed, GPR [government purpose rights] is the DoD equivalent of GPL [general purpose license] with built in (obvious) restrictions that would apply to work done that is sensitive to the nations interest).
In any case, I still found the article to be well written with some intelligent discussion and it is definitely worthy of some consideration in respect to steering the interests of what is good for the world and how to successfully fight a guerrilla war.
(Gawd, this tongue-in-cheek post is going to come back to haunt me someday I bet...) I googled your alias and unless you run the organization called Women Empowered Against Violence or are way too good at needlepoint, I'd say you are safe.
And tag the article "Veteran's Association" because other applicable acronymns for VA include "VA Software" which is the former name of SourceForge Inc (symb: LNUX), who own Slashdot. Also, even after reading the blurb for the article "Virginia" is a possible acronym for VA.
Sometimes, it doesn't make sense to shorten things with acronyms. Especially within areas where confusion like this exists.
When CNN is a better news source than the Daily Show, maybe we can talk about Chinese information policy.
That will never happen.
American CNN is sensationalist and is fond of presenting competing ideas for trivial debates because they need lots of filler material. They choose stories with contravercy because it is apparently "good tv" to see "experts" fight amongst themselves.
The Daily Show is more of a Court Jester which uses humor to speak the truth about what is really going on. They compress the stories down to fit the 30 minute timeline - so they are forced to cover real stories and less fluff.
These are two reasons that make the Daily Show better than CNN. I am sure there are others.
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I stopped buying CDs a decade ago when MP3s became wildly available on FTP servers throughout the country.
When the RIAA started suing people... I stopped pirating. They can have their cake. I will listen to musicians who *want* me to hear their music. Go to Jamendo as a place where you can download tracks that are licensed with rules that allow free copying for personal use. And enjoy the _real_ musical revolution.
Please re-read the documentation listed and do some research on the date July 4, 1776. Once you do that, get back to me and we can talk. And when you can present an argument that has any substance rather than making broad generalizations, it would be appreciated. And then drawing a conclusion while completely ignoring the basis of the discussion (privacy)... that's just bad taste.
So are you a troll, or just dumb? I must know.
I use Ubuntu 7.10. Installing the Flash Plug-in to play videos was quick and painless. It told me what to click and asked for the password. I restarted the web-browser and haven't had troubles since.
Typically, I hate to see private information given away to people who abuse it, and I do think people should have a right to privacy. But I am going to chime in with a counter-argument because I think there are a lot of people in the discussion who get upset when any shred of privacy data is given away and misused.
There are limits to privacy. The country where the murder was committed (America) was founded on certain inalienable rights, of which privacy is not included. The rights that cannot be denied are (1) Life, (2) Liberty, and (3) Pursuit of Happiness.
A right to privacy would prevent your neighbors from gossiping about you. When New York, Boston, Chicago, and Philadelphia didn't have buildings that were taller than 40 meters the world was a smaller place and not nearly as spread out. People knew each other's business. There wasn't the idea of privacy that we have in modern society where you can walk 20 blocks in Manhattan and not know a single person. So in a way, privacy has evolved over the years and databases are a way of keeping it in check.
So quit the knee-jerk "they are invading my privacy" reaction with these stories. The real tragedy is that the rapist was denied his inalienable right to Life because some clerk mistakenly marked him as a child molester instead of a regular woman rapist. Had they gotten it right in the database, maybe somebody's wife would have felt threatened and committed the murder. The fact is that rape and murder are VERY BAD THINGS and worthy of a scarlet letter.
Somebody mentioned the Hawthorne novel, by the way, which concerns consensual adultery and children out of wed-lock. The mother was a disgrace to the community and the male-half of the adultery was ironically the most respected man in town (the Reverend).
In summary, consider the context of privacy invasion. Some is warranted. Privacy is not an inalienable right.
Well... right. I was agreeing with you. I was saying, "hey, this is good", but being pragmatic and realizing that must people don't think it is good because of historical reasons.
Here's another concept that many people cannot fathom: Democratic Communism. It is completely feasible to run a Democratic political system in concert with a Communist economic system.
In the end, Capitalism isn't sustainable, anyway. As more and more "money" gets concentrated in fewer and fewer enterprises, something will eventually give.
There is a stigma in this country, and the reason is largely linked to the Russians. If you were living in 1960s Soviet Russia, you wouldn't be proud to say you were a Communist (unless you held a high government office). It turns out that the Russians really didn't have the infrastructure for a successful Communism. Ultimately, their dreams failed.
You should check out the novel I wrote. It is fictionalized, but deals with ideas concerning how it might be possible to run a successful Communist government in a post-modern world (or course, to combat the stigma, I wait until 2/3 into the book to even use the word Communism... so your mileage may vary).
To answer that question, cost. It would cost to much to help enforce "protection" of the small guys.
And I agree with you... the system needs to be (a) reformed, and (b) enforced. I disagree that writing to Congress-critters will have much of an effect. Instead, my recommendation it to support bands who publish their music on Jamendo and other "distribution-friendly" sites. There is nothing better for fans than an artist who WANTS you to listen to his music without greedily trying to grab a couple pennies every time you hear a new song.
Please read my novel. It is free. I don't make money unless you like it and go out of your way to donate to me through PayPal. That better than a batch of internet articles because there is a real story and serious thought behind it. So please... prove yourself wrong and read the novel I wrote, without paying me, and see if I bitch and whine about it. Just click the link in my sig.
Fuck microeconomic theory. We are talking about digital bytes... that are free... to copy. In the digital world, there is no microeconomic theory. Microeconomic theory exists when things do not have a production cost of $0, as copies of a digital work do. There is no economy in digital. There is simply an exchange of bytes. The most desirable bytes get exchanged more frequently than undesirable bytes. All the while... the byte exchangers pay a periodic common dollar amount to for the right to participate in the exchange. A fixed price that everybody shares. Each contributes a small amount to keep the networks flowing. Everybody benefits.
IANAE, so flame me if you want... but it seems to me like the world isn't capable of understanding that it is possible to have an infinite supply of a resource like a digital download. Infinite supply -> No cost. Take that, and write a thesis on it. :)
People who can't read, perhaps? Or people who are too lazy to read? Either way, it goes without saying that a person who cannot or will not read is an imbecile.
If only we had some way to differentiate "good traffic" from "bad traffic". Something like RFC 3514...
Identifying the cats was hands down the better half of the inkblot website game. Once I got to the password part, I decided it was too stupid to continue with.
Something that still needs working... okay, I passed the CAPTCHA once, but my request failed (in the case of this website, the username I typed had already been chosen). I then had to change my username choice and re-authenticate myself by finding more cats. Yet, as far as I could tell, I am still human.
A similar thing bugs me about Ticketmaster. I look for tickets, type in the CAPTCHA, then see that it can't find tickets. How frustrating to be forced repeatedly to re-authenticate my humanism (and yet, supposedly bots can read that CAPTCHA anyway... so it is all in vain).
I haven't touched Photoshop since before they switched to the "CS" way of labeling releases. In the time since then, as a proponent of F/OSS, I have turned to GIMP to do an Photo edited. In three years, this has involved created maybe 5 images... so I am by no means a frequent user of the tool. That said, during the times I have used it, I found found it to be slow and frustrating. I had been running on computers that were not super-powerful, but no more than 3 years old. So for why I am always cautious about saying "use GIMP" is because I have found it to be slow. On the other hand, I now say "use Firefox" and "use OpenOffice" with conviction that they are better than all comparable proprietary tools.
This just reinforces the notion that "Survival of the Fittest" no longer applies to the human race and signifies the beginning of what will eventually become the land from the Planet of the Apes.
You'll find that running a business is much more than having the best products.
I've always found cable to be a bizarre industry, though. Because the only differentiating product feature is "most uptime". Recent (dumb) cable TV ads have tried to promote the monopoly they have over local content (i.e. community news and school broadcast channels), but this is silly because local channels would be available (freely) over-the-air if people really wanted them. So yeah... the fundamental problem with Comcast would be their "uptime". With my personal experience, I have recently dropped Cablevision/IO in favor of over-the-air network broadcasts and borrowing wireless internet from a neighbor. Cablevision/IO is absolutely horrible... with "uptime" numbers that barely break into the 90% mark. In all seriousness, it is routine to see digital static jump in and out of the TV and to just get cut off from internet randomly during peak hours.
Maybe Comcast's goal is to be just a little bit better than Cablevision/IO.
Some code cannot be copyrighted. HTML, for instance, cannot be locked away and hidden in a vault because it relies on being there so the browser can render it at the time of the download. Those, HTML is a great "scavenger" language, because it is easy to learn new techniques by poking around the "View Source" code.
Other code that cannot be copyrighted is copylefted. The GPL expressly guarantees that code can be used, studied, modified, and redistributed.
Now... formalizing a lesson plan to teach students of computer science the ins-and-outs of GPL code would be a wonderful thing. I would graciously sign up for that course.
This seems like the wrong thing to say when somebody fails. Take golf, for instance. You can swing with as much force as you can muster and send the ball flying into the woods. That is lots of "effort". Sometimes, finesse and technique are more important. Sometimes, having tools is a great aid. The more appropriate thing to tell a kid is that, "Something didn't go right, what can be done differently to achieve the desired result."
This is also how machine-learning algorithms work. ;)
That was my point.
my dad was never really interested in team sports either so never played them with me as a child.And that. Missing opportunities to train with certain things as a child will play a huge role shaping a person's adult life.
Personally, my parents are terrible athletes, but they signed me up for Baseball, Basketball, and Soccer when I was 5 years old and that helped my development. In high school, I stopped playing the contact sports to have more time to study, but I know I can go pick up a baseball bat or basketball and play the games. Unfortunately, I have friends who visibly lack the coordination to respectfully play these games and that really does suck for them.
This is a great example. Some people are smart+athletic, some are just smart, some are just athletic, and some are neither. It seems like the parent-poster simply never got an adequate physical education to be a good athlete. The article is stuck on the fact that lots of kids aren't getting adequate mental educations.
In The Republic, Plato/Socrates talks about schooling children with physical education (track, field, and war) as well as mental education (math and music). In his utopia, experts in the field of each would share time instructing the children in each discipline. Thus, they would be nurtured properly, and nature would play its course as they would eventually excel at something that they liked best.
As a 20-something who grew up with the internet and IM, I take offense to your stereotyping. It is true, many of my generation are morons. But that is true of all generations. As it turns out, half the population is above average, and the other half is stuck being below average. If a group of 25-30 year olds can attain Congressional seats in the next few years... it would be an improvement for this generation and subsequent ones.
Pertaining to the article, any legislation which attempts to make rules for the internet is foolish. Legislation should let the internet remain to be a hub for culture and information. There will always be people who misuse it, and it does as much good to punish them as it does to punish people who are occasionally (or habitually) dishonest.
I am in noway familiar with BSA's policies and procedures, but my guess would be that this business owner would be served a legally binding search warrant and wouldn't get the change to say, "Go pound sand".
Now, if he were to discontinue the use of unlicensed software and made a switch to Linux after the ex-employee left, he would have an easy time fighting off the BSA.
Ultimately, this is exactly why whistleblowers are protected. It is A GOOD THING to prevent small businesses from running unlicensed software. These companies would be better off with Linux, anyway. :)
The author is misinformed in other fronts and contradicts himself in several points. He points at the 25 years of bureaucracy to develop the F-22, but follows up with a comment on the 60-day lifecycle to develop "Hellfire missiles" (which I think is the infamous "Bunker Busters", but I'm too lazy to fact check myself).
He also talks about scaling back the F-22 from 750 orders to about 200 (which is true), but ignores the current plan to acquire thousands of superior F-35 aircraft (third paragraph) over the next 2 decades.
And he completely ignores the robustness of the advanced technology that we deploy. UAVs and PackBots are expensive diversions that force the guerrillas to fight a continually more complex war. As a result, less people die... which is one of the main goals, is it not? But because it is robust, it is saved the trouble of being completely changed after the opposition adapts. That is to say, the enemy switches from one disposable prototype to another... but we are left with the technology to stop both types of the low-tech devices. We evolve, they just swap in different components using mix-and-match "recipes" (which were discussed in the author's article to be faulty 75-80% of the time).
The other thing that ticked me off that the author missed completely was the complete absence of a mention towards the DoD's desire to embrace Open Source and the mention that recent contracts enforce "GPR" license mechanisms to promote Joint Reuse across the military development network of contractors (and for the uninformed, GPR [government purpose rights] is the DoD equivalent of GPL [general purpose license] with built in (obvious) restrictions that would apply to work done that is sensitive to the nations interest).
In any case, I still found the article to be well written with some intelligent discussion and it is definitely worthy of some consideration in respect to steering the interests of what is good for the world and how to successfully fight a guerrilla war.
Mod parent up, not off-topic.
And tag the article "Veteran's Association" because other applicable acronymns for VA include "VA Software" which is the former name of SourceForge Inc (symb: LNUX), who own Slashdot. Also, even after reading the blurb for the article "Virginia" is a possible acronym for VA.
Sometimes, it doesn't make sense to shorten things with acronyms. Especially within areas where confusion like this exists.
That will never happen.
American CNN is sensationalist and is fond of presenting competing ideas for trivial debates because they need lots of filler material. They choose stories with contravercy because it is apparently "good tv" to see "experts" fight amongst themselves.
The Daily Show is more of a Court Jester which uses humor to speak the truth about what is really going on. They compress the stories down to fit the 30 minute timeline - so they are forced to cover real stories and less fluff.
These are two reasons that make the Daily Show better than CNN. I am sure there are others.