1) Hate speech and naughty content can occur equally as well via the media of text and pictures. Video doesn't necessarily add anything to either one. In fact, any smart, savvy Holocaust denier will tell you that text is a far more efficient and cost-effective method of defaming Jews.
2) Text (chat, specifically) is really the ONLY thing for which you can make a halfway-serious argument about the protection of children online. The idea that videos will somehow threaten children (they'll come get you in the middle of the night!) is just inane.
Exactly. Western writers had no difficulty defaming Jews with text, in fact, it made their allegations more credible: look at the widely disseminated Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a faked account of an eyewitness observation of the supposed "Zionist conspiracy" to control world commerce, thought, etc. Laws such as these are vague for a reason: they're only intended to be used in witch hunts: the interpretation is broad enough to allow anyone with an agenda to prosecute something that offends them as "hateful."
The most interesting facet of this case is the nature of the commerce involved. If it were traditional, paper & envelope mail, then there would be several long-standing precedents on both sides concerning interstate commerce and the postal system: prevention of fraud on the one hand, and interfering with private postal receipt on the other. In this case, however, independent ISPs, supposedly autonomous, private corporations, are using a service to filter "junk mail." Although an outside entity interfering with postal delivery is verboten, this is more along the lines of a private company locking its filing cabinets to visitors. I would watch this one closely.
You know, I've never seen recommendation applications worth much of anything. Ringo was okay, until M$ turned it into Firefly, which died in 1999(?). It will be interesting if this turns out well, or if it turns out like TiVO, which in Patton Oswalt's words, is like "working with a retarded kid." "No, TiVo, NO! Westerns aren't cartoons! / But you like horsies! Liar!"
I agree, and hereby add another literary corollary: Wallace Stevens once wrote that "Politics is the struggle for existence" (Opus Posthumous, "Adagia"). In the corporate world, the market is the struggle for existence: find a way, any way, to defeat your competitors. M$ may be evil, but they're sure as hell profitable.
To insert my opinion when I play latecomer. I think the/. version misses the point. Libraries won't be controlled by big, corporate lawyers. They're already controlled by a big, bureaucratic government. Sometimes, that can be even worse. I'm not sure that aggregating library DBs will "infringe" on any copyright, it may increase people's visiting the public library, which would cost book publishers big $$ when people realize what crap they're putting out for free, rather than paying $7.99 for a paperback toilet wipe.
Marketing matters: witness the dotMobi top-level idea. So far they have BMW, Rolls-Royce, CNN Money, and a number of others. If you take a look at the sites (see http://kicker.mobi/ for an example), they're nothing more than standard html reformatted to look normal on a mobile phone. Why not use a simple @media command? Because marketing to the money men is how you get funded. Simplistic ventures that capitalize on a branding mechanism, with little real innovation behind them, will return quite handsomely. We occasionally find investors willing to burn money by investing in a science/tech project that might pay off in the end, but they'll usually go for the safer bet.
Electronic text has a propensity for inviting asynchronous discourse. Because it is posted, sent, and retrieved by the other at his or her leisure, the personal involvement with messages is lessened: it makes the earliest parts of a romantic relationship easier because the agony of "should I call" disappears when you can send a text message or an e-mail without wondering if "the roommate" or "the parent" will pick up. The recipient has the option to respond at his or her leisure, which creates a longer gap - and lessens the personal involvement - between acceptance or refusal. When such technology becomes ubiquitous - and I think we can agree that it has - it is bound to change the ways in which we communicate with one another. (Disclaimer - this is my field of research)
The FBI can't even get a modern computer to the majority of it's employees. FEMA "misallocated" (read: got suckered out of mucho money) more money than Bill Gates can come up with. DOT engineers have to fill out fifteen forms to receive a box of pencils. The IRS has to rely on outside collection agencies to retrieve back taxes. Veterans' benefits have been slashed - by a government - which claims to support our troops - creating more disabled veterans because of a war we had no business fighting (Iraq). The federal deficit is in the trillions, yet we cut taxes. How the hell am I supposed to be surprised that they can't maintain computer system security?
I'm wondering why - with all of the concern around here for people's rights to free speech - this isn't posted in the YRO section... I'm no fan of spam, but a spamming e-mail message is just like a junk mail circular - you might get ripped off, you might actually buy something, but most people just delete it, or block it.
The Making of America project (at Cornell and the University of Michigan) has literally thousands of old newspapers and magazines dating back to the early 19th century. The whole project is infinitely searchable (albeit with a clumsy interface) and it's free.
Links: http://www.hti.umich.edu/m/moagrp/ [Michigan], http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/moa/ [Cornell].
From what I read from the article, you'd get exactly the same content from these two sites, with a hell of a lot of additional content that Google would exclude.
You don't need a special software tool if you own a Mac. This is a fairly old trick - and time consuming - but it works pretty well. If you have the license for the piece of music (if you're on one of the five computers licensed to listen to the track), you can open it without problems in iMovie, save it as an AIFF file (uncompressed audio), and then import it into iTunes as an mp3 or whatever you choose. It works pretty well - and it's a bit of a lifesaver if your wife happens to crash her Windows box on a regular basis, forcing a reformat and reinstall about once every six months.
This is partially accurate, but I think I can add to the discussion you so astutely began. Anglo-American copyright law since the Statute of Anne (1709) was built on print (see next paragraph), and defined according to two major principles: that of social benefit, which you so eloquently stated, and of authorial profit (cf. the Sayre case of 1785). Subsequent recodification of copyright law in 1842 during Victoria's reign built on the idea of originality and authorial substance or originality. The problem, at the time, was that English publishers were ignoring English authors: copyright law had yet to become internationally recognized, and they could legally take a work by an American author, print it, sell it for next to nothing, and make a huge profit - this entire system worked in reverse on the American side of the pond. This recodification was adopted through international treaties in the late 19th century, which leads us to today's problem.
In print, which includes non-digitized audiovisual media, the issue of origin and authority is not a problem: the original record is there, on the page (or the reel), and the question of plagiarism is not difficult at all. This leads to the current problem: the convergence of digital media and print-based copyright law. Hell, "the law" as we know it wouldn't exist without printed records of cases (which is how the "law" ends up being defined - ask any first year law student). One idea that Lessig raises frequently is that we are seeing most of these problems because of two reasons. First, a point he borrows from Walter Ong, is that we have so long been accustomed to print-based media in Western culture that we have a strong bias in favor of print-based ideals; ask a Westerner to think of a word, say, "customary," and he'll visualize the spelling of the word. The corollary - and second point - is that the problems between copyright law and digital media began with the first means of complete and accurate electronic reproduction, the camera, and subsequent art forms that evolved from it. Copyright law as it was originally conceived could not possibly predict that someone could take a picture of a woman on a couch for an advertisement that could be protected as original work, yet also be instantly and easily reproduced, shrunk, cut, and pasted into a collage which would also be considered "original work" - see David Hockney's photo collages, and Richard Hamilton's classic "Just What is it That Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing?" (1956). Another example is Claes Oldenburg's gigantic Swiss Army Knife made into a gondola, a trademark infringement that is widely recognized as "art." Mashups, collages, parody, etc. - really, any juxtaposition of existing copywritten work - are at complete odds with the evolution of Anglo-American copyright.
Where does "Free Speech" figure in? Is it the cool buzzword that you're incorporating into your post so that others will clap you on the back? Trademarks have little or nothing to do with free speech. I'm quite tired of people throwing "free speech" into areas that it doesn't belong: someone read too much Wired in the mid-90's. I didn't know that Apple sued people for speaking or writing. If they sue someone for trying to make a buck off of their product, it has nothing to do with speech, it has to do with economics.
I teach at an ENORMOUS university... washing one's hands religiously keeps one from being sick all the time. Granted - some of the yellowing came after the birth of my daughter... It's hard to wash frequently enough when the gifted messmakers that we call infants are feeling their wheaties.;-)
I have an iBook G4 - within 2 weeks, the palm rests were discolored. The oils in the hands - dirty or clean - will rub into any white surface and discolor it. A chemist friend of mine tells me that the same will happen with a sheet of typing paper, given several hours a day in contact with human skin. It's the reason that white shirts turn yellowish as well - until bleached (but don't try to bleach your computer). The oil from human hands is corrosive as hell - if you visit a national park with caverns, they inform you that touching the formations with your hand will STOP growth for something like six thousand years. My advice? Deal with it - I stopped caring about the marks when I realized that I still had a damn good machine.
this will help TiVO with their so-called "techno-profiling," that wonderful system by which they "select" movies and television shows based on your past viewing. This is a truly poor system: for instance, it doesn't take into account the fact that maybe, just maybe there are more viewers in the house than just one. If they partner with an online service, it may allow some users to enter more than one profile per home: if my daughter wants to watch Lady and the Tramp, but I would prefer the latest Jerry-Frankenheimer-Blows-Stuff-Up-On-Screen movie, it would suggest... BOTH?! Even better, I might be able to opt out of the crappy system altogether, because I don't want to be tracked any more than my various bankcards, ID numbers, e-mails, etc. already subject me to. Just a thought.
"Search isn't the only place where adCenter will place advertising. In the future, Microsoft said, it expects to launch ads in e-mail, the Spaces blogging program, on mobile applications, in Office and on the Xbox.com Web site."
And embedded in Media Player, all upcoming Xbox games, your checking account, your home, your wife, your kids, and the dog.
One could say the same thing about the "classic" trilogy. You were just younger and less discerning when it came out. George Lucas writes the world's worst dialogue. The movies were all meant to be comic-book style fantasies: not shakespeare.
I'm all bitter over Play Doh anyway. When I was little, we had those crappy little cardboard cans that made it dry up into big, colorful rocks. When my sister came along, they'd switched to plastic, so her Play Doh was always fresh. I got revenge, though. I used to steal hers and eat it. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!
Does anyone else find it ironic that M$ is partnering with Yahoo! given the recent post concerning Yahoo's shady partnership with spyware companies, especially considering that IE's security holes are one of the reasons that spyware got so bad, so fast? A match made in heaven...
I'm sure that I'm not the first to point this out, but nobody buys "iTunes" - the software costs nothing to download and use - it's the downloads that cost you. I have a Mac, use iTunes, own an iPod, but I have never purchased *anything* on the iTunes music store. I usually buy CD's at the privately owned record shop across the street, which has decent used & indie selections, as well as major label stuff (but I think that the only major label cd I've purchased in the past year is the new Pearl Jam album). iTunes is a useful organizing tool - and I think that the m4a format is much less lossy for the compression than mp3s.
Just a thought.
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The most interesting facet of this case is the nature of the commerce involved. If it were traditional, paper & envelope mail, then there would be several long-standing precedents on both sides concerning interstate commerce and the postal system: prevention of fraud on the one hand, and interfering with private postal receipt on the other. In this case, however, independent ISPs, supposedly autonomous, private corporations, are using a service to filter "junk mail." Although an outside entity interfering with postal delivery is verboten, this is more along the lines of a private company locking its filing cabinets to visitors. I would watch this one closely.
You know, I've never seen recommendation applications worth much of anything. Ringo was okay, until M$ turned it into Firefly, which died in 1999(?). It will be interesting if this turns out well, or if it turns out like TiVO, which in Patton Oswalt's words, is like "working with a retarded kid." "No, TiVo, NO! Westerns aren't cartoons! / But you like horsies! Liar!"
I agree, and hereby add another literary corollary: Wallace Stevens once wrote that "Politics is the struggle for existence" (Opus Posthumous, "Adagia"). In the corporate world, the market is the struggle for existence: find a way, any way, to defeat your competitors. M$ may be evil, but they're sure as hell profitable.
To insert my opinion when I play latecomer. I think the /. version misses the point. Libraries won't be controlled by big, corporate lawyers. They're already controlled by a big, bureaucratic government. Sometimes, that can be even worse. I'm not sure that aggregating library DBs will "infringe" on any copyright, it may increase people's visiting the public library, which would cost book publishers big $$ when people realize what crap they're putting out for free, rather than paying $7.99 for a paperback toilet wipe.
Marketing matters: witness the dotMobi top-level idea. So far they have BMW, Rolls-Royce, CNN Money, and a number of others. If you take a look at the sites (see http://kicker.mobi/ for an example), they're nothing more than standard html reformatted to look normal on a mobile phone. Why not use a simple @media command? Because marketing to the money men is how you get funded. Simplistic ventures that capitalize on a branding mechanism, with little real innovation behind them, will return quite handsomely. We occasionally find investors willing to burn money by investing in a science/tech project that might pay off in the end, but they'll usually go for the safer bet.
Turnitin's policy states that, upon submission (by the student, no less), the work automatically becomes the property of Turnitin.com.
Electronic text has a propensity for inviting asynchronous discourse. Because it is posted, sent, and retrieved by the other at his or her leisure, the personal involvement with messages is lessened: it makes the earliest parts of a romantic relationship easier because the agony of "should I call" disappears when you can send a text message or an e-mail without wondering if "the roommate" or "the parent" will pick up. The recipient has the option to respond at his or her leisure, which creates a longer gap - and lessens the personal involvement - between acceptance or refusal. When such technology becomes ubiquitous - and I think we can agree that it has - it is bound to change the ways in which we communicate with one another. (Disclaimer - this is my field of research)
The FBI can't even get a modern computer to the majority of it's employees. FEMA "misallocated" (read: got suckered out of mucho money) more money than Bill Gates can come up with. DOT engineers have to fill out fifteen forms to receive a box of pencils. The IRS has to rely on outside collection agencies to retrieve back taxes. Veterans' benefits have been slashed - by a government - which claims to support our troops - creating more disabled veterans because of a war we had no business fighting (Iraq). The federal deficit is in the trillions, yet we cut taxes. How the hell am I supposed to be surprised that they can't maintain computer system security?
My fault - my newsreader hadn't caught up yet.
I'm wondering why - with all of the concern around here for people's rights to free speech - this isn't posted in the YRO section... I'm no fan of spam, but a spamming e-mail message is just like a junk mail circular - you might get ripped off, you might actually buy something, but most people just delete it, or block it.
Massive number of /. comments ranting against DRM, M$, both, and a number of legalistic diversions...
The Making of America project (at Cornell and the University of Michigan) has literally thousands of old newspapers and magazines dating back to the early 19th century. The whole project is infinitely searchable (albeit with a clumsy interface) and it's free.
Links: http://www.hti.umich.edu/m/moagrp/ [Michigan], http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/moa/ [Cornell].
From what I read from the article, you'd get exactly the same content from these two sites, with a hell of a lot of additional content that Google would exclude.
You don't need a special software tool if you own a Mac. This is a fairly old trick - and time consuming - but it works pretty well. If you have the license for the piece of music (if you're on one of the five computers licensed to listen to the track), you can open it without problems in iMovie, save it as an AIFF file (uncompressed audio), and then import it into iTunes as an mp3 or whatever you choose. It works pretty well - and it's a bit of a lifesaver if your wife happens to crash her Windows box on a regular basis, forcing a reformat and reinstall about once every six months.
This is partially accurate, but I think I can add to the discussion you so astutely began. Anglo-American copyright law since the Statute of Anne (1709) was built on print (see next paragraph), and defined according to two major principles: that of social benefit, which you so eloquently stated, and of authorial profit (cf. the Sayre case of 1785). Subsequent recodification of copyright law in 1842 during Victoria's reign built on the idea of originality and authorial substance or originality. The problem, at the time, was that English publishers were ignoring English authors: copyright law had yet to become internationally recognized, and they could legally take a work by an American author, print it, sell it for next to nothing, and make a huge profit - this entire system worked in reverse on the American side of the pond. This recodification was adopted through international treaties in the late 19th century, which leads us to today's problem.
In print, which includes non-digitized audiovisual media, the issue of origin and authority is not a problem: the original record is there, on the page (or the reel), and the question of plagiarism is not difficult at all. This leads to the current problem: the convergence of digital media and print-based copyright law. Hell, "the law" as we know it wouldn't exist without printed records of cases (which is how the "law" ends up being defined - ask any first year law student). One idea that Lessig raises frequently is that we are seeing most of these problems because of two reasons. First, a point he borrows from Walter Ong, is that we have so long been accustomed to print-based media in Western culture that we have a strong bias in favor of print-based ideals; ask a Westerner to think of a word, say, "customary," and he'll visualize the spelling of the word. The corollary - and second point - is that the problems between copyright law and digital media began with the first means of complete and accurate electronic reproduction, the camera, and subsequent art forms that evolved from it. Copyright law as it was originally conceived could not possibly predict that someone could take a picture of a woman on a couch for an advertisement that could be protected as original work, yet also be instantly and easily reproduced, shrunk, cut, and pasted into a collage which would also be considered "original work" - see David Hockney's photo collages, and Richard Hamilton's classic "Just What is it That Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing?" (1956). Another example is Claes Oldenburg's gigantic Swiss Army Knife made into a gondola, a trademark infringement that is widely recognized as "art." Mashups, collages, parody, etc. - really, any juxtaposition of existing copywritten work - are at complete odds with the evolution of Anglo-American copyright.
Where does "Free Speech" figure in? Is it the cool buzzword that you're incorporating into your post so that others will clap you on the back? Trademarks have little or nothing to do with free speech. I'm quite tired of people throwing "free speech" into areas that it doesn't belong: someone read too much Wired in the mid-90's. I didn't know that Apple sued people for speaking or writing. If they sue someone for trying to make a buck off of their product, it has nothing to do with speech, it has to do with economics.
I teach at an ENORMOUS university... washing one's hands religiously keeps one from being sick all the time. Granted - some of the yellowing came after the birth of my daughter... It's hard to wash frequently enough when the gifted messmakers that we call infants are feeling their wheaties. ;-)
I have an iBook G4 - within 2 weeks, the palm rests were discolored. The oils in the hands - dirty or clean - will rub into any white surface and discolor it. A chemist friend of mine tells me that the same will happen with a sheet of typing paper, given several hours a day in contact with human skin. It's the reason that white shirts turn yellowish as well - until bleached (but don't try to bleach your computer). The oil from human hands is corrosive as hell - if you visit a national park with caverns, they inform you that touching the formations with your hand will STOP growth for something like six thousand years. My advice? Deal with it - I stopped caring about the marks when I realized that I still had a damn good machine.
The manual that came with my iBook showed how to do it. It took all of five minutes to upgrade.
this will help TiVO with their so-called "techno-profiling," that wonderful system by which they "select" movies and television shows based on your past viewing. This is a truly poor system: for instance, it doesn't take into account the fact that maybe, just maybe there are more viewers in the house than just one. If they partner with an online service, it may allow some users to enter more than one profile per home: if my daughter wants to watch Lady and the Tramp, but I would prefer the latest Jerry-Frankenheimer-Blows-Stuff-Up-On-Screen movie, it would suggest ... BOTH?! Even better, I might be able to opt out of the crappy system altogether, because I don't want to be tracked any more than my various bankcards, ID numbers, e-mails, etc. already subject me to. Just a thought.
"Search isn't the only place where adCenter will place advertising. In the future, Microsoft said, it expects to launch ads in e-mail, the Spaces blogging program, on mobile applications, in Office and on the Xbox.com Web site." And embedded in Media Player, all upcoming Xbox games, your checking account, your home, your wife, your kids, and the dog.
One could say the same thing about the "classic" trilogy. You were just younger and less discerning when it came out. George Lucas writes the world's worst dialogue. The movies were all meant to be comic-book style fantasies: not shakespeare.
I'm all bitter over Play Doh anyway. When I was little, we had those crappy little cardboard cans that made it dry up into big, colorful rocks. When my sister came along, they'd switched to plastic, so her Play Doh was always fresh. I got revenge, though. I used to steal hers and eat it. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!
Does anyone else find it ironic that M$ is partnering with Yahoo! given the recent post concerning Yahoo's shady partnership with spyware companies, especially considering that IE's security holes are one of the reasons that spyware got so bad, so fast? A match made in heaven...
I'm sure that I'm not the first to point this out, but nobody buys "iTunes" - the software costs nothing to download and use - it's the downloads that cost you. I have a Mac, use iTunes, own an iPod, but I have never purchased *anything* on the iTunes music store. I usually buy CD's at the privately owned record shop across the street, which has decent used & indie selections, as well as major label stuff (but I think that the only major label cd I've purchased in the past year is the new Pearl Jam album). iTunes is a useful organizing tool - and I think that the m4a format is much less lossy for the compression than mp3s. Just a thought.