TV Tropes might be the model for the next generation of Wikipedia if we can get past that mindshare barrier to entry. They announce that they still want citations, but that *there is no notability* - a single citation is enough; and perhaps that's what high end knowledge is about. I know, that "No Original Research" is a rough attempt against trolls, but here at the "end of science" where all the easy stuff has been done, we come down to single rare instances that have to take on "common sense".
This is a brand new weakness of the Cloud. In the tussle between "the Cloud keeps your data confidential" and "Laws don't apply to music", take a gander who wins!
See the new trend of bait and switch privacy settings.
"Corporations being 'Sorta-People' " is an ___ year old fast and dirty solution to the earliest cheap tricks where a company would dissolve/cease to exist and therefore claim that it couldn't be sued. The whole "Sorta-People / Pierce the Veil" doctrine was a rough hewn step to avoid the dumbest of escapes by two bit sleaze artists.
However, I agree there are tons of other problems now.
They can't abandon WP7 THAT quickly, that would thoroughly trash the 18 month (random guess) dev cycle for win phones. I'd give them abandoning it in 2014 after a couple of crazed christmas attempts - but that still makes the article a joke.
Oh wait - that's the point - the article is not supposed to be right, it's supposed to be a recursive mindshare generator. "Look, WinPhone7 is good because some article says so!".
It may not even be trash. It may be in that nebulous category of "unfocused". Geek Analogy! "The following lot contains: One thriller novel with a missing cover, a calculator with the % key missing, three boxes of green tea with a misprinted label, the source code for the Amiga OS, and a grass mud horse chia pet."
Having perused some of the books while Borders is thrashing its last gasps, there are tons of smart people in high end finance. A lot of the confusion is that the smarts are hidden by emotionally charged dealmaking. Because money itself is at stake, it's apparently far faster to make money than depending on the political cycles of R&D. However, the definitions of "smart" are becoming more and more vague - IQ tests don't gauge vulnerability to bad decision making etc.
Rule for the modern world. 1. Assume malice. Once you determine there's no malice, you can go back to your normal discussion.
"need to intervene at the network level and provide security tools at multiple levels to help secure people from the variety of threats that are emerging". That's one of the better ones lately. Ask yourself: what are these security tools capable of doing *besides* stopping viruses?
This might be the new angle for censorship for 2011. "Insensitive and bad taste" - That harkens back to 1950's style publicity management. Satire is the only tool we have to counterbalance the thundering forces of corporate agenda-mongering. Satire is *never* sensitive.
I'd prefer to be a little less bitter. We all know that if a corp finds stuff valuable, they play all those "Intellectual Property" games. So if they're sitting on some misc code, sure - we'll take free stuff, *because they can't (easily?) take it back.*
Never underestimate brilliant hacks out of "worthless" stuff. It's what invented the shredder industry, and post-it notes, and silly putty.
I am wondering whether you can start out in finance to make your money cushions against the silliness of life, then later switch back to doing work you like - or are science candidates washed up at 35 having grown comfy with finance side paychecks?
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This is almost a false dichotomy like the current US political party situation.
Trying to stay even handed, I absolutely agree that Google is *one of* the companies that needs privacy oversight.
But then one of the Google SuperLawyers needs to turn this around into a precedent, so that the other 10 (more?) companies that need oversight get it.
TV Tropes might be the model for the next generation of Wikipedia if we can get past that mindshare barrier to entry. They announce that they still want citations, but that *there is no notability* - a single citation is enough; and perhaps that's what high end knowledge is about. I know, that "No Original Research" is a rough attempt against trolls, but here at the "end of science" where all the easy stuff has been done, we come down to single rare instances that have to take on "common sense".
Looks to me like the .gov of Topeka tried a social ploy. Then H&R Block in Kansas City, Kansas woke up and went all "Sudo Install Here" on them.
Learn the history of civil rights!
Topeka the court decision "Brown vs. the Board of Education of Google, Kansas"
Oops - no Topeka results found.
Mod this insightful gang,
This is a brand new weakness of the Cloud. In the tussle between "the Cloud keeps your data confidential" and "Laws don't apply to music", take a gander who wins!
See the new trend of bait and switch privacy settings.
xkcd wins again!
Rub your lamp!
http://xkcd.com/879/
Nah,
I think it's on the Zune track.
Just enough to be able to say random things for three years and annoy Paul Thurrott.
"My mommy is a porn company and my daddy is 4chan".
Think of the children!
I am no lawyer, but off the cuff,
"Corporations being 'Sorta-People' " is an ___ year old fast and dirty solution to the earliest cheap tricks where a company would dissolve/cease to exist and therefore claim that it couldn't be sued. The whole "Sorta-People / Pierce the Veil" doctrine was a rough hewn step to avoid the dumbest of escapes by two bit sleaze artists.
However, I agree there are tons of other problems now.
Why the sudden coordinated campaign for Goatse?
Is someone making money off this?
Acandemic note: The site of choice used to be the French one - now it's the Russian one.
My current list of Russian Goatse links:
http://tinyurl.com/63avlna
http://tiny.cc/jg2wh
http://goo.gl/zjJOI
http://bologgingaway.blog.com/2011/03/29/post/
They can't abandon WP7 THAT quickly, that would thoroughly trash the 18 month (random guess) dev cycle for win phones. I'd give them abandoning it in 2014 after a couple of crazed christmas attempts - but that still makes the article a joke.
Oh wait - that's the point - the article is not supposed to be right, it's supposed to be a recursive mindshare generator. "Look, WinPhone7 is good because some article says so!".
Win7 phonez....
Amiga OS 5!
"Never heard of it? Precisely!"
I'll take it one further.
It may not even be trash. It may be in that nebulous category of "unfocused". Geek Analogy! "The following lot contains: One thriller novel with a missing cover, a calculator with the % key missing, three boxes of green tea with a misprinted label, the source code for the Amiga OS, and a grass mud horse chia pet."
Having perused some of the books while Borders is thrashing its last gasps, there are tons of smart people in high end finance. A lot of the confusion is that the smarts are hidden by emotionally charged dealmaking. Because money itself is at stake, it's apparently far faster to make money than depending on the political cycles of R&D. However, the definitions of "smart" are becoming more and more vague - IQ tests don't gauge vulnerability to bad decision making etc.
Nice - looks like the early gestalt is agreeing this is weasel wording.
However, it's a race to see which is worse, censorship, hypertracking misdemeanors, selling higher grade user info, obfuscated blackmail, and more.
Rule for the modern world.
1. Assume malice. Once you determine there's no malice, you can go back to your normal discussion.
"need to intervene at the network level and provide security tools at multiple levels to help secure people from the variety of threats that are emerging". That's one of the better ones lately. Ask yourself: what are these security tools capable of doing *besides* stopping viruses?
This might be the new angle for censorship for 2011. "Insensitive and bad taste" - That harkens back to 1950's style publicity management. Satire is the only tool we have to counterbalance the thundering forces of corporate agenda-mongering. Satire is *never* sensitive.
Too bad you're a nice guy. Now put an Evil hat on.
Let them play Angry Jurors!
Or just watch Dominic Tocci's flash creations in succession. The sum total of them will disqualify everyone.
"Second Offense - Offender will be passed among inmates for free use"
I'd prefer to be a little less bitter. We all know that if a corp finds stuff valuable, they play all those "Intellectual Property" games. So if they're sitting on some misc code, sure - we'll take free stuff, *because they can't (easily?) take it back.*
Never underestimate brilliant hacks out of "worthless" stuff. It's what invented the shredder industry, and post-it notes, and silly putty.
I'll conclusively say right now: the ISP is happy to cooperate. It's only When, not If. They get a cut of the resulting lawsuits.
Can we get a new social network?
MayanSpace!
I am wondering whether you can start out in finance to make your money cushions against the silliness of life, then later switch back to doing work you like - or are science candidates washed up at 35 having grown comfy with finance side paychecks?
Should you change your sig to read "Fun with shell corporation games"?