Precisely because computers are so good at data, a smart operator can bust the junk pattern and then filter it all out. The basic idea is that I-BigBro don't care about the sum total of your calls, I care about whether particular hotspots get hit at all. Put simply as an example, you can have 88,000 pages of data but the filter in Excel will sort it all up and a "known terrorist phone number" is there.
Nice recall on Pleasantville - I liked that movie. Earlier in the thread I also noted the TV series John Doe.
But I like your other point even more. It's becoming like a small town ticket-revenue cop hanging out instead of fighting/solving crimes. "Oh, the 5th guy to use a technique is infringing the copyright of the fourth guy to use the technique". Persons/Corps #1-3, where do they factor in?
So what this decision does is not only do we get "pure copyright" issues, we also get the situation where no/fewer artistic movements can grow. They BARELY allow public domain, which I'm sorry to say is generally creaking with age by now (except for the additions a few enlightened post-modern geniuses) and I recall they even want to yank that away.
The entire plot revolves around why a couple of people in John Doe's life are in color while the rest of the world is monochrome. So I think the judge had better talk to Brandon Camp, Mike Thompson, Mimi Leder, and Fox TV.
I was discussing the reverse of that. If they pissed you off so bad you never want to return, they don't do reverse-lookups to beg you to come back.... Not yet!
Well yes, there are interlocking tangles of evil. Of course, the govt. gets a 1-stop shop for your total profile.. for a fee.. to be charged to taxpayers. (I have to admit I never saw that one coming, paying for my own Big Brother services!!)
I just tried to take a different angle, more Media-Private Sector, where there was nothing illegal, only embarassing. Instead of weeks to build a damaging political smear case, just pay $30,000 to Google and crush them inside of four days!
Okay, so now I'm glad that I kept my email with Yahoo.
At least it makes it a *little* harder to do the "total profile" if it's cross competitors. Of course I might have to worry about Microsoft pulling this stunt, but that's at least next month's problem, not today's.
So okay: Yahoo Mail, Startpage (Proxied-Or-Something Google search), Youtube. So I can keep the divisions of duties separate.
If I want "Google's nice targetted ads" I'll think about a "Honeypot" account.
The difference is that Restaurants don't (normally!) log you as a customer, match your name on an email lookup, then email you to come back or something.
The problem with all of this is that email is "private info type 1" to coin a phrase, aka communication you sent to specific people and *no one else*. Youtube is "private info type 2" which is that you secretly relieve stress by watching Chad Vader episodes on YouTube (to pick a harmless example.) I WANT a little separation between those two activities!
It's the world's greatest Blackmail Engine. For a fee.
"Google AntiReputation Services, how can I help you?" "Yes, I'd like some dirt on Chris Dodd." "Okay, looking now. He likes to eat potatoes dipped in tuna salad, and wears Baby Blue underwear on the days of his most important votes."
Per your other rants, it's not my duty on *my computer* to "change paradigms" at the whim of pseudo-bored software companies. When they want to fiddle with stuff, I am likely to try to put it back. I put back the classic menus in Excel, I put back the classic flywheel Start menu, etc. Bonus - my plugin gives me the original menus in Excel rather than the horrible new ones. It proves that the code was hidden, not dropped.
I am a fan of low-tek plugins / widgets for stuff like that. So if some feature has a dumb bug in it, maybe try to code a little utility that fixes it! (Or commission someone else to do it.)
Case in point - Windows 7. I like that it has 8 more years of back end middleware so that some more stuff "just works", but I was grumpy with all the little bumps, so I hunted around all the settings and disabled most of the candy. (You know, it's like cotton candy from a fair, it looks all swirly but there's nothing there.)
However, yes, there are limits, if the company totally overhauls the UI, and strips out the original feature code, rather than hiding it, then you might as well use a whole other distro / UI / platform/ etc.
Being a Version Management fan, I got hold of some Second Edition of a Psych textbook back in the day, when I think the class was up to Fourth Edition. Besides saving the (then cheap!) $90, it in fact was bigger and better! I checked the introductions. Second Edition: "Blah Blah thank you to the 40 people who reviewed this, and my grant". Fourth Edition: "Streamlined with less common content removed for better initial presentation".
You're right, it's not a 100% slam dunk situation yet.
Funny thing is, there seem to be weird swings, with the media lobbies and the OMG Terrorist lobbies somehow getting way more than their share of wins. Tobacco isn't (yet!) digitally reproduce-able, and the Terrorist is the Universal Boogeyman who can never be declared defeated.
So yes, we're not quite killing people for being atheists yet, but it's getting pretty bad.
You can't get too much shorter than the 2 years of a House Rep. If anything, there are commentaries that it's too short for good people to get stuff done.
But then, with all of the weasely ones in there, I'm vaguely glad it's that short, it's just tough to get it all turned around.
I'm no techie, but I'm just wondering if this isn't more of a support chip that works the other way, if it's like a "smart cache" where the main CPU can offload something memory intensive and repetitive to keep it out of the way of the fancy thread calculations.
Slightly off topic, but here's an update on that Book Project I was talking about a few days ago.
PainGuy said he was interested in "effects of mass downloading" (my word, avoiding Piracy since it's with his implied permission). His first two replies were under an hour, including sending me the file.
So I sent back two emails saying "to do this right we need an alternate copy switched over to Creative Commons with Mashup rights."
Crickets.
So PainGuy, if you read this, or a Friend of a Friend does, I'm not going to walk into a honeypot. Sorry. We were off to a good start there.
(Desperately clawing back on topic)
So he wanted to see the effects of mass downloads vs sales but then avoided making the correct license for those downloads to be legal.
In a certain sense, "hard education IS for jobs". Leaving all the exceptions aside, college grads in the Hard Sciences ARE able to do something that they then want to get paid for.
If you "just want a smart thoughtful person" then do Social Education. Privacy-of-the-bathrobe, 24-7, etc. Oh, no tests!
The denizens of the Internet is my educational colleagues. Forget the localism cliques of college. Forget the cafeteria that closes at 4PM. (Rant: a *Business School* can't staff a cafeteria past 4PM? What part of Customer Service from their lecture does THAT fall under?)
But no - hidden behind these copyright smokescreens is another variant - courses are "just content". So just take a month and blast through your 24 episode "Literature Show" for free / Small Fee.
I disagree - I feel we NEED a Massive Project, funded by a devastatingly deep pocket, that can turn all this stuff right around. The government is showing that they can take out any little operation with ease any time they want.
Right now Anonymous is giving them a golden serving dish to jam through SOPA-2 under the Terrorism Meme. Try this on for mood:
You know how we keep saying that the content industry "isn't that big"? What would happen if Mr. Big Pocket just marched in, bought up the Music, Movie, Book, News, radio, and TV industries all at once, for 20 billion or whatever it is, then released EVERYTHING forever with something like CC Attribution-ShareAlike. (Aka don't plagarize, but otherwise do anything you like with it, and everyone can then continue with what you made.) Boom. All content ever created through 2010. (I'll let them have a Copyright starting on 2011 content.) Then pay for it by firing all the lobbyists. They're just employees.
It would be the Reset Scene in the Matrix. "Ya want Innovation? I'll give ya innovation! Here, start playing with 100 years worth of previously locked content."
I sent a submission in a while ago asking Slashdot to provide a "seven click" method to export all my (aka your own) comments. However they didn't post the story and haven't done it.
I have a wealth of info locked in slashdot posts that I want to use for a blog but there's no way to download my post history that I know of. I even emailed help support and they emailed back saying that it wasn't currently a public feature. (Oh, yes, I'm quite sure they could do it if it mattered, we're back to "are you a Big Enough Fi$h to care about".
Well, okay, so in my glorious Not-Lawyerness, I was unclear again.
1. If you are upset about a "Hate Speech", check first to see if it is in fact *also* Libel or Slander upon which point you get a result. I believe it is actually quite difficult to say hateful things an NOT fall into that trap unless you are a practiced weasel.
2. Even if the bounds are true statements, "You are a Ginger. I hate Gingers" (Tim Minchin). Strung together back to back it becomes attacking - is that now Defamation of Character / Verbal Abuse? A good judge should sort out when minor linguistic punctuation is trying to slide "I didn't say I hate you" etc.
Actually, I think that there are some legit laws against hate speech that take it out of straight First Amendment territory, and that's the Libel & Slander side.
Political immunity miracles aside, if you pour a tanker of vitriol into a speech / writing directed *at* someone(s) specific, that's a slam dunk win for the defense.
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Sorry, I don't agree.
Precisely because computers are so good at data, a smart operator can bust the junk pattern and then filter it all out. The basic idea is that I-BigBro don't care about the sum total of your calls, I care about whether particular hotspots get hit at all. Put simply as an example, you can have 88,000 pages of data but the filter in Excel will sort it all up and a "known terrorist phone number" is there.
Nice recall on Pleasantville - I liked that movie. Earlier in the thread I also noted the TV series John Doe.
But I like your other point even more. It's becoming like a small town ticket-revenue cop hanging out instead of fighting/solving crimes. "Oh, the 5th guy to use a technique is infringing the copyright of the fourth guy to use the technique". Persons/Corps #1-3, where do they factor in?
So what this decision does is not only do we get "pure copyright" issues, we also get the situation where no/fewer artistic movements can grow. They BARELY allow public domain, which I'm sorry to say is generally creaking with age by now (except for the additions a few enlightened post-modern geniuses) and I recall they even want to yank that away.
(Reading Article to try to stay on target)
Specifically, Judge Birss QC highlighted two visual contrasts: "one between the bright red bus and the monochrome background" ...
Okay, so now we get to see if the Judge did any homework:
John Doe (TV series)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Doe_(TV_series)
The entire plot revolves around why a couple of people in John Doe's life are in color while the rest of the world is monochrome. So I think the judge had better talk to Brandon Camp, Mike Thompson, Mimi Leder, and Fox TV.
I was discussing the reverse of that. If they pissed you off so bad you never want to return, they don't do reverse-lookups to beg you to come back. ... Not yet!
Well yes, there are interlocking tangles of evil. Of course, the govt. gets a 1-stop shop for your total profile .. for a fee.. to be charged to taxpayers. (I have to admit I never saw that one coming, paying for my own Big Brother services!!)
I just tried to take a different angle, more Media-Private Sector, where there was nothing illegal, only embarassing. Instead of weeks to build a damaging political smear case, just pay $30,000 to Google and crush them inside of four days!
Oh damn, there goes my password!
http://xkcd.com/936/
Can we find a way to get a news story about a Correct Horse Battery Staple next?
So wait, if you run that in Songbird Browser does it become an Angry Bird? : )
Okay, so now I'm glad that I kept my email with Yahoo.
At least it makes it a *little* harder to do the "total profile" if it's cross competitors. Of course I might have to worry about Microsoft pulling this stunt, but that's at least next month's problem, not today's.
So okay:
Yahoo Mail, Startpage (Proxied-Or-Something Google search), Youtube. So I can keep the divisions of duties separate.
If I want "Google's nice targetted ads" I'll think about a "Honeypot" account.
The difference is that Restaurants don't (normally!) log you as a customer, match your name on an email lookup, then email you to come back or something.
The problem with all of this is that email is "private info type 1" to coin a phrase, aka communication you sent to specific people and *no one else*. Youtube is "private info type 2" which is that you secretly relieve stress by watching Chad Vader episodes on YouTube (to pick a harmless example.) I WANT a little separation between those two activities!
It's the world's greatest Blackmail Engine. For a fee.
"Google AntiReputation Services, how can I help you?"
"Yes, I'd like some dirt on Chris Dodd."
"Okay, looking now. He likes to eat potatoes dipped in tuna salad, and wears Baby Blue underwear on the days of his most important votes."
So if you wave at it, do you get arrested for being a terrorist?
I miss the Clinton years. The web was new, the economy was doing well by the end, and I wasn't terrified of my own government!
Okay, we all like to play with our memes, (it's practically at that multi choice form), but isn't anyone seeing who else is really threatened?
Try the Toy industry! In one sense, toys are "sorta stupid", just big hunks of plastic with the computing power of a watch.
Bye bye $60 for some Sit and Spin thingie!
Oh dear skies alive, having the TOY lawyers playing with the media lawyers? *Cringe*
Plus this thing is gonna play hell with Patent vs. Copyright.
"Oh, the patent expired? Let's copyright the Replicator Formula for 100 years!"
Hmm, I think I disagree a little.
Per your other rants, it's not my duty on *my computer* to "change paradigms" at the whim of pseudo-bored software companies. When they want to fiddle with stuff, I am likely to try to put it back. I put back the classic menus in Excel, I put back the classic flywheel Start menu, etc. Bonus - my plugin gives me the original menus in Excel rather than the horrible new ones. It proves that the code was hidden, not dropped.
I am a fan of low-tek plugins / widgets for stuff like that. So if some feature has a dumb bug in it, maybe try to code a little utility that fixes it! (Or commission someone else to do it.)
Case in point - Windows 7. I like that it has 8 more years of back end middleware so that some more stuff "just works", but I was grumpy with all the little bumps, so I hunted around all the settings and disabled most of the candy. (You know, it's like cotton candy from a fair, it looks all swirly but there's nothing there.)
However, yes, there are limits, if the company totally overhauls the UI, and strips out the original feature code, rather than hiding it, then you might as well use a whole other distro / UI / platform/ etc.
I have a nice little anecdote on that topic.
Being a Version Management fan, I got hold of some Second Edition of a Psych textbook back in the day, when I think the class was up to Fourth Edition. Besides saving the (then cheap!) $90, it in fact was bigger and better! I checked the introductions. Second Edition: "Blah Blah thank you to the 40 people who reviewed this, and my grant". Fourth Edition: "Streamlined with less common content removed for better initial presentation".
Is that link safe? What's an Octet Stream that it wants me to download?
You're right, it's not a 100% slam dunk situation yet.
Funny thing is, there seem to be weird swings, with the media lobbies and the OMG Terrorist lobbies somehow getting way more than their share of wins. Tobacco isn't (yet!) digitally reproduce-able, and the Terrorist is the Universal Boogeyman who can never be declared defeated.
So yes, we're not quite killing people for being atheists yet, but it's getting pretty bad.
You can't get too much shorter than the 2 years of a House Rep. If anything, there are commentaries that it's too short for good people to get stuff done.
But then, with all of the weasely ones in there, I'm vaguely glad it's that short, it's just tough to get it all turned around.
I'm no techie, but I'm just wondering if this isn't more of a support chip that works the other way, if it's like a "smart cache" where the main CPU can offload something memory intensive and repetitive to keep it out of the way of the fancy thread calculations.
Slightly off topic, but here's an update on that Book Project I was talking about a few days ago.
PainGuy said he was interested in "effects of mass downloading" (my word, avoiding Piracy since it's with his implied permission). His first two replies were under an hour, including sending me the file.
So I sent back two emails saying "to do this right we need an alternate copy switched over to Creative Commons with Mashup rights."
Crickets.
So PainGuy, if you read this, or a Friend of a Friend does, I'm not going to walk into a honeypot. Sorry. We were off to a good start there.
(Desperately clawing back on topic)
So he wanted to see the effects of mass downloads vs sales but then avoided making the correct license for those downloads to be legal.
Copyright is USA's new religion.
In a certain sense, "hard education IS for jobs". Leaving all the exceptions aside, college grads in the Hard Sciences ARE able to do something that they then want to get paid for.
If you "just want a smart thoughtful person" then do Social Education. Privacy-of-the-bathrobe, 24-7, etc. Oh, no tests!
The denizens of the Internet is my educational colleagues. Forget the localism cliques of college. Forget the cafeteria that closes at 4PM. (Rant: a *Business School* can't staff a cafeteria past 4PM? What part of Customer Service from their lecture does THAT fall under?)
But no - hidden behind these copyright smokescreens is another variant - courses are "just content". So just take a month and blast through your 24 episode "Literature Show" for free / Small Fee.
I disagree - I feel we NEED a Massive Project, funded by a devastatingly deep pocket, that can turn all this stuff right around. The government is showing that they can take out any little operation with ease any time they want.
Right now Anonymous is giving them a golden serving dish to jam through SOPA-2 under the Terrorism Meme. Try this on for mood:
You know how we keep saying that the content industry "isn't that big"? What would happen if Mr. Big Pocket just marched in, bought up the Music, Movie, Book, News, radio, and TV industries all at once, for 20 billion or whatever it is, then released EVERYTHING forever with something like CC Attribution-ShareAlike. (Aka don't plagarize, but otherwise do anything you like with it, and everyone can then continue with what you made.) Boom. All content ever created through 2010. (I'll let them have a Copyright starting on 2011 content.) Then pay for it by firing all the lobbyists. They're just employees.
It would be the Reset Scene in the Matrix. "Ya want Innovation? I'll give ya innovation! Here, start playing with 100 years worth of previously locked content."
I sent a submission in a while ago asking Slashdot to provide a "seven click" method to export all my (aka your own) comments. However they didn't post the story and haven't done it.
I have a wealth of info locked in slashdot posts that I want to use for a blog but there's no way to download my post history that I know of. I even emailed help support and they emailed back saying that it wasn't currently a public feature. (Oh, yes, I'm quite sure they could do it if it mattered, we're back to "are you a Big Enough Fi$h to care about".
SideReel might be a honeypot.
The only time I visited them, I got a Copyright Infringement Letter via my ISP about three days later. That chilled me to the bone.
Well, okay, so in my glorious Not-Lawyerness, I was unclear again.
1. If you are upset about a "Hate Speech", check first to see if it is in fact *also* Libel or Slander upon which point you get a result. I believe it is actually quite difficult to say hateful things an NOT fall into that trap unless you are a practiced weasel.
2. Even if the bounds are true statements, "You are a Ginger. I hate Gingers" (Tim Minchin). Strung together back to back it becomes attacking - is that now Defamation of Character / Verbal Abuse? A good judge should sort out when minor linguistic punctuation is trying to slide "I didn't say I hate you" etc.
Actually, I think that there are some legit laws against hate speech that take it out of straight First Amendment territory, and that's the Libel & Slander side.
Political immunity miracles aside, if you pour a tanker of vitriol into a speech / writing directed *at* someone(s) specific, that's a slam dunk win for the defense.