How can one circumvent copyright law for books in the "public domain"? If they are in the public domain, they are free to anyone.
What you meant to say, was they are making previously unavailable books that are still under copyright available to everyone. They are even providing competitors with access to the works that Google spent a fortune to scan. Nothing prevents Amazon or Microsoft from scanning these books themselves and working out a similar agreement with the authors guild, but they don't want to invest the money since they are already so far behind.
In the end, everyone (including the authors) benefits because these books will once again be available to the public as they were intended.
This is such tin-foil crap, and has been debunked many times. Every mail server, router and switch reads your email by your definition, it has to in order to route a message, or copy data from one buffer to another. Just because gmail targets an ad based on a word or two in an email does not mean that someone is READING your email. Every time you search for a message in Exchange, Microsoft processes are "reading all your emails", right? Get real dude.
Most importantly, ads are only displayed in the "free" versions. If you get the $50/yr version there are no ads so your entire point is moot anyway.
Sure Word wasn't the first, I used SpeedScript on my C64, WordStar, and others. But the author has a very valid point. The whole original purpose of word processing was to replace the type-writer, which only produced printed documents. With a word processor, it was easy to make edits, print multiple copies, save copies, etc.
The "Word" processor was never intended to be a format or procotol for transferring electronic documents, which is how its being used today.
I wonder what a charge of $18,446,744,073,709,551,617.00 would do... $1 charge? (0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF + 2) Or maybe $9,223,372,036,854,775,809.00? Would that result in a $1 credit? (signed int?)
I work at Google, and in the past 6 months I've received job offers from both Yahoo! and Apple. Its not much of a secret agreement if all the companies are clearly violating it by trying to recruit out from under the others.
More FUD, probably somehow initiated by Microsoft, attacking and smearing its competitors.
As a long time Googler, I can tell you the correct motto is "Don't be Evil".
Google's motto is 'Don't be Evil', and we have a similar motto for web developers: 'Don't be Eval'. (its kind of funny if you've ever dealt with security and user input, if not, you won't get it even if I explained it)
Saying 'do no evil' is being delusional and assuming you are perfect. Instead "don't BE evil" is about always trying to do the right thing, and when you occasionally screw up, accepting responsibility and trying to make things right.
This is a really stupid idea. Batteries for cars can costs upwards of $20-30k. What happens when some crook swaps out a fake battery for a real one? Are these stations really going to check the quality, retention, chemical composition, and other physical properties of every battery in 45 seconds? HA. These batteries aren't propane tanks for grills, the fraud will be HUGE!
Once again, we see that cloud apps like Google's Grandcentral have a real benefit to security, despite the sensationalist scare mongering.
When a bug in a cloud based application is identified, it can be patched quickly, in a single location, and the bug disappears. The same cannot be said of locally installed apps (exchange servers, etc) that take years for companies and administrators to eventually get the patches installed.
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
Sorry, but nowhere in the First Amendment is there a right to blog anonymously, or even have any sort of anonymous speech. Seems parent needs to re-read Constitutional Amendment #1.
Yes!!! We should not blindly accept gravity as a fact. Serious scientists now believe our understanding of what gravity may be either incomplete, or simply wrong.
"Certainly none of these things would have happened with a Republican still in the White House."
1. Halted the questionable legal proceedings against people held at Guantanamo Bay This is good change? At least they had trials, now they are stuck in limbo.
2. Ordered the shutdown of the prison at Guantamo Bay In a year or so, but his exec order failed to provide any instructions on what to do with detainees. The most likely scenerio now is that they will be returned to countries where they will be executed without trials. So, from detention to grave, nice change.
3. Ordered the shutdown of CIA "black sites" Wonderful. We saw what happened when Clinton tied the CIAs hands in the 90's.
4. Ordered the CIA to stick to the Army Field Manual for interrogation purposes (read: no more torture) Since when is the CIA in the Army? FYI, the army special forces trains their recruits by water-boarding them. They also use sleep deprivation, nudity, cold, and other 'interrogation' techniques in the manual. Sounds like no change to me.
5. Overturned Bush's order to limit release of presidential records and FOIA documentation This will be tossed out in court. If staff rely on existing rules in the performance of their work, you can't change the rules after the fact and potentially expose sensitive information. It would be like congress passing a law saying Slashdot trolling is illegal, then going back and arresting everyone who posted a troll in the past 10 years. Not legal.
6. Began diplomatic overtures to Iran Bush has made numerous overtures to Iran. The problem is they keep building their reactors, refining facilities, and missiles while continuing to fund terrorist activities.
7. Began talking to Israel, Palestine, Egypt, etc, to hasten resolution of the Israel/Palestine violence Yeah, because Bush has never talked with any of these countries... and nobody has tried to help them make peace. Wow, Obama is on a totally new track. Hahaha.
8. Rescinded the Mexico City "gag rule" on government aid to agencies that provide information on abortion Definitely a change here. Now the government isn't just funding the murder of children, its promoting it too.
9. Froze white house salaries at existing levels Only on face value. With the massive deflation the economy is about to experience, it will amount to a nice pay raise while the rest of the country is out of work and starving.
10. Passed an executive order banning ex-White House personnel from lobbying the White House until after Obama is out of office Brilliant. I applaud this one.
11. Inquired about extending the use of open source software in government Republicans would not have extended open source usage? They are the ones that STARTED using open source in government. Wake up from the ideological dream you are in.
Your criticizing her for a 'rumor' that she tried to get an Alaska State Trooper fired.. A trooper who zapped his 11-year old with a tazer, threatened to kill people, was caught hunting without a license and numerous other issues... Even it the rumor was true (its not), how can you criticize that? Seriously?
BGP is authenticated, and using IPSec will not solve anything. BGP peers must configured the IPs of their neighbors, and in many cases an MD5 secret as well. This is pretty strong authentication. The point here, is that anyone can get a high-speed link from an ISP, and that ISP will talk BGP to you. Then you simply tell you ISP about your network through BGP, and also tell it about some additional network routes and the ISP passes it along.
The way to prevent this today, would be for the ISP that peers with you to know which IP blocks you own, any filter out any other routes your send over. But, this is a lot of work for the ISP so very few of them do it.
>I am with Sergey... I am not very sympathetic. They want the very best day care -- to the tune of $37,000 a year! -- then they can pay for it.
"They", being Googlers, do not want they very best daycare at $37,000/year. That was some recent Ivy league MBA graduate, newly into management that organized that catastrophe, not the employees. Googlers would be very happy with 'decent' daycare at a reasonable rate.
I do agree with Sergey that an ill-conceived sense of 'entitlement' exists, I have complained about it growing steadily over the past 4 year and its steadily getting worse. Its not enough to have bottled water, some employees demand a particular brand, 'Smart Water'. WTF. Google even tried to limit the bottled water usage by providing filtered water dispenser and giving out cool reusable bottles, but the complaints persist to this day.
The age issue can be debated, but there is a bigger scandal with China's gymnastics.
How does a Chinese gymnast perform a vault, landing on her freaking KNEES, and get a Gold Medal. I watched that vault over in slow-mo and I swear that very nearly a failed vault, but she gets a gold medal. Whatever.
Slashdot Mirror
Awesome. Soon all us 'old folks' will have a secret code we can use to communicate that the youth will never be able to decipher.
How can one circumvent copyright law for books in the "public domain"? If they are in the public domain, they are free to anyone.
What you meant to say, was they are making previously unavailable books that are still under copyright available to everyone. They are even providing competitors with access to the works that Google spent a fortune to scan. Nothing prevents Amazon or Microsoft from scanning these books themselves and working out a similar agreement with the authors guild, but they don't want to invest the money since they are already so far behind.
In the end, everyone (including the authors) benefits because these books will once again be available to the public as they were intended.
This is such tin-foil crap, and has been debunked many times. Every mail server, router and switch reads your email by your definition, it has to in order to route a message, or copy data from one buffer to another. Just because gmail targets an ad based on a word or two in an email does not mean that someone is READING your email. Every time you search for a message in Exchange, Microsoft processes are "reading all your emails", right? Get real dude.
Most importantly, ads are only displayed in the "free" versions. If you get the $50/yr version there are no ads so your entire point is moot anyway.
Sure Word wasn't the first, I used SpeedScript on my C64, WordStar, and others. But the author has a very valid point. The whole original purpose of word processing was to replace the type-writer, which only produced printed documents. With a word processor, it was easy to make edits, print multiple copies, save copies, etc.
The "Word" processor was never intended to be a format or procotol for transferring electronic documents, which is how its being used today.
I wonder what a charge of $18,446,744,073,709,551,617.00 would do... $1 charge? (0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF + 2)
Or maybe $9,223,372,036,854,775,809.00? Would that result in a $1 credit? (signed int?)
The title would be less exciting if it read "Bush and Obama has never used satellites to spy on Americans".
Bush didn't use spy satellites our of privacy and civil liberty concerns. Got it.
Now that we are straight on this particular issue, let the Bush bashing begin.
http://www.google.com/squared/table/agyxom8lIUS0Ibf2RurpmKnA
Comparison of hot vehicles in squared!
You gotta love the MPG value on the Saleen... and the Prelude stats are so dead-on!
I work at Google, and in the past 6 months I've received job offers from both Yahoo! and Apple. Its not much of a secret agreement if all the companies are clearly violating it by trying to recruit out from under the others.
More FUD, probably somehow initiated by Microsoft, attacking and smearing its competitors.
Its all fun and politics until Seoul and Tokyo and its 20 million residents disappear in a flash of light.
I vote for taking out North Korea today. I'd rather have a 100,000+ casualties today if it can prevent the likely horrific death of 20 million+ later.
As a long time Googler, I can tell you the correct motto is "Don't be Evil".
Google's motto is 'Don't be Evil', and we have a similar motto for web developers: 'Don't be Eval'. (its kind of funny if you've ever dealt with security and user input, if not, you won't get it even if I explained it)
Saying 'do no evil' is being delusional and assuming you are perfect. Instead "don't BE evil" is about always trying to do the right thing, and when you occasionally screw up, accepting responsibility and trying to make things right.
Gamesbyemail is awesome. I've been playing Axis&Allies on the site for almost 4 years now, and I must say its quite brilliant.
Great gaming engine, and he has covered all the classic games.
Fail... What good is a site that crashes in the first few minutes..
This is a really stupid idea. Batteries for cars can costs upwards of $20-30k. What happens when some crook swaps out a fake battery for a real one? Are these stations really going to check the quality, retention, chemical composition, and other physical properties of every battery in 45 seconds? HA. These batteries aren't propane tanks for grills, the fraud will be HUGE!
Once again, we see that cloud apps like Google's Grandcentral have a real benefit to security, despite the sensationalist scare mongering.
When a bug in a cloud based application is identified, it can be patched quickly, in a single location, and the bug disappears. The same cannot be said of locally installed apps (exchange servers, etc) that take years for companies and administrators to eventually get the patches installed.
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
Sorry, but nowhere in the First Amendment is there a right to blog anonymously, or even have any sort of anonymous speech.
Seems parent needs to re-read Constitutional Amendment #1.
Yes!!! We should not blindly accept gravity as a fact. Serious scientists now believe our understanding of what gravity may be either incomplete, or simply wrong.
http://www.physorg.com/news85310822.html
"Certainly none of these things would have happened with a Republican still in the White House."
1. Halted the questionable legal proceedings against people held at Guantanamo Bay
This is good change? At least they had trials, now they are stuck in limbo.
2. Ordered the shutdown of the prison at Guantamo Bay
In a year or so, but his exec order failed to provide any instructions on what to do with detainees. The most likely scenerio now is that they will be returned to countries where they will be executed without trials. So, from detention to grave, nice change.
3. Ordered the shutdown of CIA "black sites"
Wonderful. We saw what happened when Clinton tied the CIAs hands in the 90's.
4. Ordered the CIA to stick to the Army Field Manual for interrogation purposes (read: no more torture)
Since when is the CIA in the Army? FYI, the army special forces trains their recruits by water-boarding them. They also use sleep deprivation, nudity, cold, and other 'interrogation' techniques in the manual. Sounds like no change to me.
5. Overturned Bush's order to limit release of presidential records and FOIA documentation
This will be tossed out in court. If staff rely on existing rules in the performance of their work, you can't change the rules after the fact and potentially expose sensitive information. It would be like congress passing a law saying Slashdot trolling is illegal, then going back and arresting everyone who posted a troll in the past 10 years. Not legal.
6. Began diplomatic overtures to Iran
Bush has made numerous overtures to Iran. The problem is they keep building their reactors, refining facilities, and missiles while continuing to fund terrorist activities.
7. Began talking to Israel, Palestine, Egypt, etc, to hasten resolution of the Israel/Palestine violence
Yeah, because Bush has never talked with any of these countries... and nobody has tried to help them make peace. Wow, Obama is on a totally new track. Hahaha.
8. Rescinded the Mexico City "gag rule" on government aid to agencies that provide information on abortion
Definitely a change here. Now the government isn't just funding the murder of children, its promoting it too.
9. Froze white house salaries at existing levels
Only on face value. With the massive deflation the economy is about to experience, it will amount to a nice pay raise while the rest of the country is out of work and starving.
10. Passed an executive order banning ex-White House personnel from lobbying the White House until after Obama is out of office
Brilliant. I applaud this one.
11. Inquired about extending the use of open source software in government
Republicans would not have extended open source usage? They are the ones that STARTED using open source in government. Wake up from the ideological dream you are in.
Parent is Insightful? How about 'uninformed'?
George Bush was an officer and pilot in the Armed Services of the United States.
EFF begins fundraising campaign targeted at Bush haters.
>Not to mention that by using google's browser, you will give them unadulterated access to your every movement on the web.
Yeah, because Google's Chrome browser has cookies which they can use to track you around the web, and other browsers don't... uh...
Its a browser dude, take off the tinfoil.
Sarah Palin: "I don't think there should be a prohibition against debate if it comes up in class."
Yeah, we can't have any of that debating going on in the classroom.
Your criticizing her for a 'rumor' that she tried to get an Alaska State Trooper fired.. A trooper who zapped his 11-year old with a tazer, threatened to kill people, was caught hunting without a license and numerous other issues... Even it the rumor was true (its not), how can you criticize that? Seriously?
BGP is authenticated, and using IPSec will not solve anything. BGP peers must configured the IPs of their neighbors, and in many cases an MD5 secret as well. This is pretty strong authentication. The point here, is that anyone can get a high-speed link from an ISP, and that ISP will talk BGP to you. Then you simply tell you ISP about your network through BGP, and also tell it about some additional network routes and the ISP passes it along.
The way to prevent this today, would be for the ISP that peers with you to know which IP blocks you own, any filter out any other routes your send over. But, this is a lot of work for the ISP so very few of them do it.
>I am with Sergey... I am not very sympathetic. They want the very best day care -- to the tune of $37,000 a year! -- then they can pay for it.
"They", being Googlers, do not want they very best daycare at $37,000/year. That was some recent Ivy league MBA graduate, newly into management that organized that catastrophe, not the employees. Googlers would be very happy with 'decent' daycare at a reasonable rate.
I do agree with Sergey that an ill-conceived sense of 'entitlement' exists, I have complained about it growing steadily over the past 4 year and its steadily getting worse. Its not enough to have bottled water, some employees demand a particular brand, 'Smart Water'. WTF. Google even tried to limit the bottled water usage by providing filtered water dispenser and giving out cool reusable bottles, but the complaints persist to this day.
The age issue can be debated, but there is a bigger scandal with China's gymnastics.
How does a Chinese gymnast perform a vault, landing on her freaking KNEES, and get a Gold Medal. I watched that vault over in slow-mo and I swear that very nearly a failed vault, but she gets a gold medal. Whatever.