Regardless of whether global warming is caused by man, these companies are essentially telling me they're going to fight for the opportunity to pollute the air. I'm glad we know where we stand.
1. Dismantle the company. 2. Bring charges against the company's execs. 3. Public executions.
I realize the last point may be controversial, but imagine if the next time a CEO considered recklessly endangering people to make a few bucks, he could look out the window and see the hanging corpse of a former Wyeth executive. It's worth a shot. Write congress now.
I realize the submitter might not know the meaning of the word, but the editor could have at least glanced at the article and realized there's no cracking involved.
Thank god this guy presented his findings at a conference instead of through peer-reviewed journal papers. Could you imagine how hard it would be to find research money going through those stuffy old channels?
Of the thousands of CDs and DVDs I've recorded over the last ~15 years, I've seen about two go bad over time. I mostly store my disks in piles, occasionally taking time to brush off the accumulated dust or Dremel cutoff wheel grit when I need to read one. So anecdotal evidence would suggest that storing disks in their cases is what kills them early. Who KNOWS what kind of chemicals are in those things?
Kazaa sucked even when it was a vehicle for illegal downloads. I can't see the music industry (motto: "fuck the pirates, fuck the artists, and fuck YOU") improving it at all.
Whatever happened to Winnie the Pooh in Canada? I remember a big deal was made of the fact that Canadian copyright expires 50 years after the death of the author, which would put Winnie in the Canadian PD sometime in 2006, but I never heard anything after the fact.
I ask because even 50 years seems like an insane amount of time to cling to a copyright, but here in America (land of the free corporate overlords) we're looking at upwards of 120 years on some things. If I want to find PD samples to use in songs I have to scrape together what I can find from what few recordings even existed at the time. The original intent of copyright has been so thoroughly corrupted that there's little or no resemblance to what it was supposed to represent.
If you want to know all about the ink blots, enter any public library and look at the psychology section (or get an inter-library loan if they don't have the specific books you need). If wikipedia wants to argue itself into irrelevance, why give a shit?
After reading through the paper, I see it's clear the authors didn't test news content at all, just soundbites. So for example, they search for the Sarah Palin quote:
"Our opponent is someone who sees America, it seems, as being so imperfect, imperfect enough that he's palling around with terrorists who would target their own country."...and close derivatives of if on Google News, then on blogs to see where it appeared first. The problem with this methodology is that traditional media tended to report the quote uncritically, while the blogs took it and dissected it. In other words, corporate "news" media did fuck-all for reporting on the topic. The blogs did actual reporting work and found out that Palin was stretching the truth (surprise!), examined the facts behind her claim, and generally did the work mainstream media failed to do themselves.
So the bottom line is, if you want to know who can regurgitate phrases faster, the paper makes it clear that mainstream media is the obvious winner. If you want in-depth reporting, look to the web.
You also have to take into account corporate media's enormous shift away from traditional reporting and towards pure entertainment in the past couple of decades. "Obama Submits SCOTUS Nominee" is news. "Exclusive Photos of Obama at the Beach" is not.
Two main mouse buttons, a scroll wheel that also tilts and acts as button #3, and two convenient thumb buttons on the side. I have two now, one for the desktop and one for the laptop. Say what you will about their OS division, but MS makes (or puts their name on, anyway) damn fine hardware.
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Regardless of whether global warming is caused by man, these companies are essentially telling me they're going to fight for the opportunity to pollute the air. I'm glad we know where we stand.
"decided recently to outsource"
Well there's your problem: you're a cheapskate.
Welcome to 15 years ago, music industry! I'm sure these new "digital album" doohickeys will be all the rage.
"Do you run your business like a businessman or do you run it like a human being?"
The correct response will depend on how much of a fucking douchebag you are.
Break out the smelling salts, I think I just saw the word "piss" in Ninjawords!
1. Dismantle the company.
2. Bring charges against the company's execs.
3. Public executions.
I realize the last point may be controversial, but imagine if the next time a CEO considered recklessly endangering people to make a few bucks, he could look out the window and see the hanging corpse of a former Wyeth executive. It's worth a shot. Write congress now.
Now we can have shitloads more useless "news reporting" like we currently have on TV and in the papers, but online.
"Man bites dog: story at 11^W^Wright now!"
Neato, a comic which is funny maybe 15% of the time (but to be fair, it is VERY funny when it does get it right) is going to hit bookshelves.
Not to worry; their new anti-piracy system will be cracked days after it finds its way onto shelves.
"blaming the overall market slowdown and piracy (particularly on the DS) for the low numbers."
I'm certain the globally fucked economy has nothing to do with people buying fewer $50 games.
I realize the submitter might not know the meaning of the word, but the editor could have at least glanced at the article and realized there's no cracking involved.
I know, "welcome to Slashdot."
Thank god this guy presented his findings at a conference instead of through peer-reviewed journal papers. Could you imagine how hard it would be to find research money going through those stuffy old channels?
"How can this counter-intuitive fact be communicated effectively to people unschooled in statistics?"
With a baseball bat?
Of the thousands of CDs and DVDs I've recorded over the last ~15 years, I've seen about two go bad over time. I mostly store my disks in piles, occasionally taking time to brush off the accumulated dust or Dremel cutoff wheel grit when I need to read one. So anecdotal evidence would suggest that storing disks in their cases is what kills them early. Who KNOWS what kind of chemicals are in those things?
Kazaa sucked even when it was a vehicle for illegal downloads. I can't see the music industry (motto: "fuck the pirates, fuck the artists, and fuck YOU") improving it at all.
Whatever happened to Winnie the Pooh in Canada? I remember a big deal was made of the fact that Canadian copyright expires 50 years after the death of the author, which would put Winnie in the Canadian PD sometime in 2006, but I never heard anything after the fact.
I ask because even 50 years seems like an insane amount of time to cling to a copyright, but here in America (land of the free corporate overlords) we're looking at upwards of 120 years on some things. If I want to find PD samples to use in songs I have to scrape together what I can find from what few recordings even existed at the time. The original intent of copyright has been so thoroughly corrupted that there's little or no resemblance to what it was supposed to represent.
If you want to know all about the ink blots, enter any public library and look at the psychology section (or get an inter-library loan if they don't have the specific books you need). If wikipedia wants to argue itself into irrelevance, why give a shit?
After reading through the paper, I see it's clear the authors didn't test news content at all, just soundbites. So for example, they search for the Sarah Palin quote:
"Our opponent is someone who sees America, it seems, as being so imperfect, imperfect enough that he's palling around with terrorists who would target their own country." ...and close derivatives of if on Google News, then on blogs to see where it appeared first. The problem with this methodology is that traditional media tended to report the quote uncritically, while the blogs took it and dissected it. In other words, corporate "news" media did fuck-all for reporting on the topic. The blogs did actual reporting work and found out that Palin was stretching the truth (surprise!), examined the facts behind her claim, and generally did the work mainstream media failed to do themselves.
So the bottom line is, if you want to know who can regurgitate phrases faster, the paper makes it clear that mainstream media is the obvious winner. If you want in-depth reporting, look to the web.
You also have to take into account corporate media's enormous shift away from traditional reporting and towards pure entertainment in the past couple of decades. "Obama Submits SCOTUS Nominee" is news. "Exclusive Photos of Obama at the Beach" is not.
You didn't bother to read the entire summary, did you?
Two main mouse buttons, a scroll wheel that also tilts and acts as button #3, and two convenient thumb buttons on the side. I have two now, one for the desktop and one for the laptop. Say what you will about their OS division, but MS makes (or puts their name on, anyway) damn fine hardware.
I just thought of a great way to use this device for those times you have to reboot your system.
So I'm thinking of starting a fund to raise money and get Slashdot a dictionary. Who's in?
Investigators suspected the computers a good 3 weeks ago, so I'm not sure how this qualifies as news.
"have you ever tried to pick up a car battery?"
How scrawny are your arms that this is a problem for you, anyway?