Phantom islands aren't really anything new in themselves, but they usuallly date from before satellite imagery: a ship would spot what looked like an island in the distance, nobody on board would bother to go and confirm the existence of terra firma, the island would be named and reported to cartographers later on, and it would keep turning up on charts until someone tried and failed to find it. Some of the better stories that grew up around these islands are in this book: http://www.librarything.com/work/20956/
If you have server space, there's SemanticScuttle. Works nicely for me--once I fixed it so it (a) didn't expect to be importing from a file with uppercase HTML markup, and (b) didn't insist on converting all my tags to lowercase. Unfortunately, it can't import the del.icio.us privacy settings, so your imported bookmarks will end up globally public or globally private.
As far as I am aware, there is nowhere I can find a copy of the Communications Act after the changes from later legislation have been applied.
This should be it, but I don't think it's been brought up to date yet. (Quoting from here: 'Update Status Warning: There are effects on this legislation that have not yet been applied to the Statute Law Database for the following year(s): 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010.' Oh well, it exists in theory.)
At least your students use spellcheck; some of mine last year thought they could do without both that and proofreading. Fewer by the time of the second assignment...
I don't know about his legal theory, but presumably the people writing moralityware like the program in this story tell themselves they're doing it to bring people back to the path of righteousness. So that's their duty of care taken care of.
The difficulty in evaluating Akismet - I speak not as a user but as someone who ended up apparently blacklisted and having to try their appeals system - is that everyone I see praising it is by definition the kind of person who pays attention to the filter and therefore will train it effectively. Since your average wordpress.com user more likely lets false positives pile up, I'd love to know how effective it is for people who don't wonder how effective it is.
I'll grant that Planescape: Torment is notoriously verbose and that that doesn't suit every project, but 'giving the user control and freedom to express himself within the framework of the story' was pretty well its raison d'Ãtre; and when you're offering actual choices and branching narrative, 'the illusion of choice' is superfluous. So overall it's unclear to me what point you're trying to make.
Why wait for the bots? My name is middlingly usual--enough, apparently, for me to share it with two people in prison for violent crime. And a news item about one of them still comes higher than anything connected to me in Google searches.
Based on my quick and wholly NAL reading of Sect. 5, it seems to be more about context. The Scientologists' building was nearby, and the law forbids 'insulting' writing which might cause people nearby 'distress'.
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts1986/pdf/ukpga_19860064_en.pdf
One line of argument I found interesting is that 'the increased use of surveillance by the British government, and its singular determination to collect and share data on everyone who lives in the UK, are desperate attempts by the government to make a connection with its citizens. Feeling themselves increasingly estranged from the public, government officials have become obsessed with finding out who we are and what we do, and with monitoring and measuring every aspect of our lives.'
http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/5112/
What caught my eye - as I realised that I'd have to scroll to the right to click the Flashblock box - was that without activating Flash even the static text that is the Terms of Use won't display.
And on reading the ToU: it's one of those sites that magnanimously gives permission to link to it... if twelve conditions are satisfied.
I think it's getting the 'Nanny State' reaction because it's wholly and unabashedly premised on the view that lots of parents are helpless 'digital immgrants' being left behind by their 'digital native' children, and it falls to the government to 'empower' them in the fight against, among other menaces, instructions on setting up game consoles' parental controls which are 'concealed in a cumbersome manual'.
On the other hand, its recommendations are fairly modest nonetheless.
Indeed--aren't copyrights and patents supposed to -encourage- innovation?
According to the BBC's coverage the 'moral rights' approach to copyright was cited: loosely and insofar as I understand it, the idea that creative expressions are extensions of the author's personality and so should be on a kind of leash for that reason. (Don't ask, I don't know how it's supposed to make sense...) The 'incentives' justification for IP traditionally isn't so influential in continental Europe; they have a hyperactive approach to moral rights instead.
The fixed-price system is not unique to Germany. France had it, gave it up and reinstituted it after finding that discounting hurt small booksellers. But in the German-speaking book world, the system has long been a source of special pride until Switzerland jumped ship this spring.
It struck me more as standard contempt of bureaucracies for the public.
Two points of associated information: (1) I'm a Brit; (2) I haven't seen Japanese governmental videos targeted at the indigenous population for comparison.
I'm so glad Washington is on the soviets nuke target list. At least something good will happen.
Hmmm. A subtly hidden point about the side-effects of complete disconnection, or a sign that this was originally written quite a long time ago? Well, it's no less relevant now...
A paper called 'The Extended Mind', much of which is devoted to arguing that there's no important difference between remembering something and using a diary, to the extent that having something written in the diary counts as believing it. (The technical term is 'extended cognition'; it has to do with more than just memory.) One of the questions on my 2nd Year undergrad. Philosophy exams read: '"I didn't cheat in the exam--these notes written on my arm are part of my mind!" Discuss.'
I have exactly five friends listed on my Facebook list -- all genuine, and to my knowledge not caring about having such an exclusive status. What bothers me are the seven requests I got from people I knew a bit in secondary school but was never really 'friends' with -- especially those who didn't bother to reply when I messaged them.
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Phantom islands aren't really anything new in themselves, but they usuallly date from before satellite imagery: a ship would spot what looked like an island in the distance, nobody on board would bother to go and confirm the existence of terra firma, the island would be named and reported to cartographers later on, and it would keep turning up on charts until someone tried and failed to find it. Some of the better stories that grew up around these islands are in this book: http://www.librarything.com/work/20956/
If you have server space, there's SemanticScuttle. Works nicely for me--once I fixed it so it (a) didn't expect to be importing from a file with uppercase HTML markup, and (b) didn't insist on converting all my tags to lowercase. Unfortunately, it can't import the del.icio.us privacy settings, so your imported bookmarks will end up globally public or globally private.
This should be it, but I don't think it's been brought up to date yet. (Quoting from here: 'Update Status Warning: There are effects on this legislation that have not yet been applied to the Statute Law Database for the following year(s): 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010.' Oh well, it exists in theory.)
Are they more likely to take it when they get it...?
At least your students use spellcheck; some of mine last year thought they could do without both that and proofreading. Fewer by the time of the second assignment...
I don't know about his legal theory, but presumably the people writing moralityware like the program in this story tell themselves they're doing it to bring people back to the path of righteousness. So that's their duty of care taken care of.
The difficulty in evaluating Akismet - I speak not as a user but as someone who ended up apparently blacklisted and having to try their appeals system - is that everyone I see praising it is by definition the kind of person who pays attention to the filter and therefore will train it effectively. Since your average wordpress.com user more likely lets false positives pile up, I'd love to know how effective it is for people who don't wonder how effective it is.
I'll grant that Planescape: Torment is notoriously verbose and that that doesn't suit every project, but 'giving the user control and freedom to express himself within the framework of the story' was pretty well its raison d'Ãtre; and when you're offering actual choices and branching narrative, 'the illusion of choice' is superfluous. So overall it's unclear to me what point you're trying to make.
They were enthusiasts while it was still underground, and would be disappointed to see it going mainstream.
Why wait for the bots? My name is middlingly usual--enough, apparently, for me to share it with two people in prison for violent crime. And a news item about one of them still comes higher than anything connected to me in Google searches.
Based on my quick and wholly NAL reading of Sect. 5, it seems to be more about context. The Scientologists' building was nearby, and the law forbids 'insulting' writing which might cause people nearby 'distress'. http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts1986/pdf/ukpga_19860064_en.pdf
One line of argument I found interesting is that 'the increased use of surveillance by the British government, and its singular determination to collect and share data on everyone who lives in the UK, are desperate attempts by the government to make a connection with its citizens. Feeling themselves increasingly estranged from the public, government officials have become obsessed with finding out who we are and what we do, and with monitoring and measuring every aspect of our lives.' http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/5112/
Besides which, quite a lot of what might reasonably be considered 'soft stuff' (albeit not most forms of bondage) is illegal in the UK.
What caught my eye - as I realised that I'd have to scroll to the right to click the Flashblock box - was that without activating Flash even the static text that is the Terms of Use won't display.
And on reading the ToU: it's one of those sites that magnanimously gives permission to link to it... if twelve conditions are satisfied.
Certainly the thing about T-Mobile claiming power over magenta has been going on for a while.
http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2007/11/04/beware-t-mobile-owns-the-color-magenta/
For what it's worth, http://cyberborean.wordpress.com/2006/03/29/the-ancient-tags-museum/ suggests that it was 'for great fun of developers'.
I think it's getting the 'Nanny State' reaction because it's wholly and unabashedly premised on the view that lots of parents are helpless 'digital immgrants' being left behind by their 'digital native' children, and it falls to the government to 'empower' them in the fight against, among other menaces, instructions on setting up game consoles' parental controls which are 'concealed in a cumbersome manual'.
On the other hand, its recommendations are fairly modest nonetheless.
According to the BBC's coverage the 'moral rights' approach to copyright was cited: loosely and insofar as I understand it, the idea that creative expressions are extensions of the author's personality and so should be on a kind of leash for that reason. (Don't ask, I don't know how it's supposed to make sense...) The 'incentives' justification for IP traditionally isn't so influential in continental Europe; they have a hyperactive approach to moral rights instead.
Interesting paragraph from this article on the situation in Germany:
'The Lexicographer's Rules' has some comments on the etymology: http://www.doubletongued.org/index.php/grantbarrett/the_real_history_and_origin_of_woot_and_w00t/
There was also a chunk of code discovered in Secret of Evermore.
It struck me more as standard contempt of bureaucracies for the public.
Two points of associated information: (1) I'm a Brit; (2) I haven't seen Japanese governmental videos targeted at the indigenous population for comparison.
I'm so glad Washington is on the soviets nuke target list. At least something good will happen.
Hmmm. A subtly hidden point about the side-effects of complete disconnection, or a sign that this was originally written quite a long time ago? Well, it's no less relevant now...
http://consc.net/papers/extended.html
A paper called 'The Extended Mind', much of which is devoted to arguing that there's no important difference between remembering something and using a diary, to the extent that having something written in the diary counts as believing it. (The technical term is 'extended cognition'; it has to do with more than just memory.) One of the questions on my 2nd Year undergrad. Philosophy exams read: '"I didn't cheat in the exam--these notes written on my arm are part of my mind!" Discuss.'
I have exactly five friends listed on my Facebook list -- all genuine, and to my knowledge not caring about having such an exclusive status. What bothers me are the seven requests I got from people I knew a bit in secondary school but was never really 'friends' with -- especially those who didn't bother to reply when I messaged them.