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Yea, this is an interesting effect. I wonder why there isn't an OpenSourceGetty company that charges a much lower fee for guaranteeing that the IP really is open source? They do the research leg work, and then you pay them $5 for a commitment to reimburse/defend you if you get sued.

I guess someone else could just try to free-ride off them by not doing the research, but honestly the legal commitment ("bonded open source") would be the valuable and expensive part.
How is it reduced if you have everything needing to communicate back and forward? Sounds like more complexity to me.
Thanks to both of you guys.
It's (probably) legal to charge for public domain photos, but I don't believe it is to send cease-and-desist letters over the use of public works.

From the comments
>The Adventure of Tom Sawyer is public domain. Getty is publishing then the book and attacking anybody who uses the name Tom Sawyer in anything. They got caught when they filed a DMCA complaint against Mark Twain for having the book on his personal website.
What if it's and accident?
eh, if they're listed as public domain on the library of congress and Getty got their images there, wouldn't be the library of congress the one committing copyright infringement?

Getty is using the license they got the images with, after all.
That $2 pays for the physical paper copy of the book. You aren't buying a license though, because they can't legally sell you one. It's pretty clear here that Getty was selling something (licenses) they had no right to sell. Trying to enforce these fraudulent "licenses" was just the icing on the cake.
It sounds like observing only entangled photons lifts the diffraction angular resolution limit of the classical telescopes.
There is also the french company Drivy which allows to rent in Europe.
https://en.drivy.com/?force_country=true
But your nail clippers will be inside the suitcase, not your hand luggage. Foiled!
Are you going to make people get naked and cavity search them? Physically smuggling data seems not that hard in this day and age. MicroSD is so dense, can fit one in my nose.
When our federal government gets involved in something, the potential for corruption is too great - there's just too much money. We saw it with federally backed mortgages, federally backed student loans, and will see it with federally mandated health insurance. The intentions may be good but it's only a matter of time before opportunists screw it up.

The figures at the end of the article seem to be cherry-picked in a way to hide the full details. Instead of telling us what a quartile looks like, why not show the full distribution?
You do understand that a massive portion of this issue is private schools costing so much? Most private schools have nothing to do with the unions or politics you're talking about.
When people buy houses, they also buy all the things that fill up a house.
Still, the remaining 25% have a lot worse financial situation due to student loans.
In Denmark, the company Gomore.dk is very popular.
Mostly known for private ride-sharing, but they also offer private car rental.
If a photo is public domain, why do you believe Getty can sue someone for copyright infringement for using that one photo?

It is not like they are suing people for republishing a collection or something that could Getty could have created and have copyright in.
I thought this would be a list of things like energy, food production, clean water, climate change, etc. But it seems like a list of politics inevitabilities involved in performing the science. Does it matter what form science takes if it works? I do not care that funds are being cut. The same thing applies to other fields that are both highly zero-sum competitive and highly valuable to society (law, medicine, politics). If you want to play the zero-sum game, expect the drawbacks of zero-sum games.
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They tried that with clippy to make people like it more. It was hated.
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More generally the problem with "free markets" and why they are never really free is switching costs:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switching_barriers

It is also why everyone is locked into sites like facebook (network effects) or cities like NYC even if they say they want to leave

GREAT SCENE: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LWZk24MA7TE
it's perfectly fine charging public domain stuff(in the same way you can charge for distributing gpl'd stuff form third parties), call it a 'download fee' if that makes you uneasy
Along those lines, an umbrella is not to be used in (US) military uniform.
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> I'd be very curious to hear what went on there on the people side of things.

It's important to study that in these cases. I was convicted in a similar case and am actually a chapter in a CERT book, but they never reached out to me for my input, so they're completely oblivious to my motives and missing key facts about the case. I'd write more about it or speak at conferences but I've been able to bury that past and move on. Maybe some day.

I think he had a similar case to mine where he felt he was stuck in a situation with his manager(s) and felt like he had no recourse. HR should be involved in employee reviews and should provide a way for the employee to give feedback on his own review.

Another aspect of it is education about the law. I see case after case where the defendant had no idea he could face federal charges at all, much less one that can result in such stiff penalties. (The penalties he was facing were much, much worse if he had been tried and convicted rather than taking this plea deal.) That could easily be part of any degree program and/or employee orientation.
Also if the car is manufactured in a foreign country it doesn't really benefit the US economy. Maybe in some complicated and indirect way it does. But if that's the strongest argument for subsidizing education, we should just give the money to car companies directly and skip the middle man. Or whatever economists say is the most effective use of that money, perhaps giving it directly to the poorest.
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A broken automatic door from Amazon killed my friend's chickens. Not quite an automated feeder, but since the door opening was a condition of the chicken eating, similar situation.

There are some interesting points this brings up expanding beyond the whole internet-of-things/robot-ification of the world.

a) Google, Amazon, and Facebook mean really bad products can get global reach instantly. Even Walmart had pretty big hurdles which products had to cover. There are some controls in place, but the problem has to be pretty large to register.

b) Products accidentally killing humans let alone animals is a very common occurrence, see global vehicle deaths. Plenty of stories of very dangerous products litter Amazon reviews.

c) The companies making a lot of money from bad products are the online marketplaces. Somehow this hasn't hurt their brands too much yet, which is interesting.

d) There is a market need for a better rating and review process for everything. Given the more reviews are viewed publicly the greater their perverse effects are so maybe it won't even be publicly viewable.

I spend a lot of time thinking about the d) problem. The scarier thing is that this already exists to a large extent in many businesses using machine learning methods and labeled fraud detection. What happens in a future IOT where you product doesn't function on purpose?
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It's only about twice the statutory damages. And it looks like the article is only using $25,000 per work for that number. For willful infringement, statutory damages can go up to $150,000, which would be about $2.8 billion for 18,755 photos here. I'd say she's being fairly generous by offering to settle for a mere $1 billion!
So, let's instead apply it where I suggested we should.
I called it a 'good start' for a reason. Obviously there is a lot more to social success than charm and flattery, but they are important regardless.
The amount of work put into it may not necessarily be worth it the gains, given how many different websites there are with varying implementations of these patterns.
Adobe flash update notification always have the McAfee Antivirus trial installer pre-selected by default.

Pisses me off every time.
> "Ms. Highsmith has stipulated that her photographs are in the public domain" - Library of Congress (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/482_high.html)

> "Highsmith says she never abandoned her photo copyrights" -article

Yikes, that seems like a big misunderstanding. I would guess the LOC has a process to transfer the ownership of photos. If so, she probably signed away her copyrights without realizing it (???)

Either way, what Getty is doing is terrible and wrong. I don't see how she can sue for copyright damages if she doesn't have the copyright, but I hope they're punished for it. I'm not a lawyer, so someone please correct me if I'm misunderstanding something here.
Thank you for answering.
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It seems to be an online course in the form of online slides and documentation, as this course has sadly already been given (Tu / Th 3:45PM - 5:35PM; April 4 - April 18). Nevertheless, interesting material.
> loaners of student loans should start making provisions now

But it's vastly more difficult (i.e., nearly impossible) to discharge student loan debt. Even if it takes years and years, most students will be required to pay back what they borrowed. I don't think we need to be worried about the bubble popping, but rather the secondary effects that the weight of student loans will cause. For example, companies have a natural advantage negotiating with graduates carrying debt who need a job more urgently than those who have no debt.

> I suggest a radically different form of funding education.

I'm slightly less radical, but along the same lines -- fund institutions, not students. Making students into consumers forces schools to compete on features & amenities (things students care about) rather than focusing on providing quality education at low cost. Public colleges don't need to be country clubs to provide an education.
Do you have an example of that? That can't be a thing.
There's also a potential cultural issue, where someone may feel like asking for help, or pointing out an obstacle, but thinks it may reflect poorly on them.
You would factor that as the cost of his quality of life, while you were a full-time worker and half student he was a full time student.
Uninstall Adobe Flash. You're better off without it anyway. If for any reason you still might need it, it's included in Chrome.
That's very theoretical and not analogous because the difference is that sys admins have to do things quickly and under pressure, sometimes at ungodly hours.

In contrast the banker has a more relaxing experience putting his signature on a document. It's stressful enough running root commands sometimes, and I can't imagine how horrible it would be to require a second person to be on-call/pair/double-check/etc. I would have long ago quit the profession, which would be impossible to do anything in. Also systems would take longer to fix, so organizations would be displeased.

Vet your sys admins correctly before hiring, keep an eye on people's stress levels, which in 2016 America apparently doesn't matter to anyone anymore in IT, and don't piss off the sys admin.
His book on Fermat's Last Theorem is also excellent.
The function you presented that trims to the right has quadratic runtime behavior if your string has a long sequence of spaces that is not at the end of the string. For example, "a b". A similar performance bug was behind a 30 minute downtime at stackoverflow.com, because a code snippet with 20 thousand spaces inside a comment showed up on their frontpage.

See, its not that simple :)
http://lua-users.org/wiki/StringTrim

Anyway, I wasn't trying to say bad things about Lua with my examples. Its just that if you go to any large Lua project out there there is a very good chance you will find some "utils" module in there with yet another reimplementation of a lot of these common functions. Ideally we should have people reusing more stuff from Luarocks than they are right now.
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private schools cost a lot for two very important reasons: (1) consumers believe they're worth it and (2) said consumers can borrow money to pay tuition at extraordinarily low interest rates.
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This is completely wrong. Housing starts - the number of new home units which began construction in a given quarter - have long been a significant economic indicator.

More specifically, new residential construction accounts for roughly 15% of the GDP, compared to the 3-3.5% from the automobile industry.

Housing supply is so far from being 'fixed' that it contributes 5x more to the GDP than automobiles.
What bothers me most about these discussions is that no one seems to advocate making college cheaper. The solution space always seems to gravitate towards finding more money. I do not see how that approach can sustain itself forever.

Ditto for health care.
Interpretation of "preventing its discovery" and what they consider fraud is the concerning bit to me. It's not clear whether they consider using a VPN to access Netflix as fraudulent.
Well, a part of the problem obviously is that it's "throwing the book at people already committing crimes" in a place where the definition of a "crime" is not very reasonable.

For instance, a woman getting raped is defined as "extramarital sex" which is a crime.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/26/hundreds-of-wo...
Actually, this is a lot like the housing crisis. The banks lent money in excess of the value of the home to people that could not afford the debt. With the student loan crisis, the Federal government has been lending money to students assuming that the value of the education is equal to what the institution charges for it. This has resulted in severe tuition inflation and a massive debt burden.

I think a good solution both now and going forward is to:

1) Calculate the value of the education based on the Institution, the Major, and the Degree. We should be able to calculate this based on the Federal student loan information cross-correlated with IRS data.

2) Forgive all debt in excess of the value of the education

3) Only finance student debt up to the expected value of the education.

This will do a lot in terms of removing the tuition market distortion and in relieving the debt load.
I am surprised this interview seems to ignore that the larger problem is coming from students who take loans out, but then drop out of the program before graduating, making it even harder to pay back their loans.

This is an interesting article in The Atlantic on that subject: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/07/the-scar...
Actually, the copyright those nicer versions sometimes claim already lead to this exact situation, with publishers making the case that the derivative work should be awarded new copyright.

Here however it is clear-cut, the photos are not modified.
What counts as a crime though? Is reading anti-government articles a crime? Is viewing women in bathing suits (say you were shopping for your wife) a crime? Is unintentionally viewing a NSFW image on Reddit a crime?

It would be interesting to know how this law is really enforced - it could range from legitimate and fair to very authoritarian.

(Note: I've heard the laws in the UAE can be strict, but I have no idea if this is factual.)
Maybe she's taking a play out of their own book?

"We could have sued you for this much, but instead we're offering you a chance to settle for only this amount."
I worked for a large company that went through drastic downsizing at one point. Some ppl who were getting let go were "well positioned" to do some damage. The way the company handled this is there was no advance notice. Your manager and a couple of security dudes shows up at your desk with boxes and you're outta there in 5 min.

There were things like managers getting punched, ppl screaming etc but no malicious hacking that I'm aware of.
Somehow one dude (I'm assuming :)) managed to take a dump in the elevator on the way out :)

They had EMS parked outside too. Wasn't pretty.
This seems like two extreme examples, though. You were able to pay most of your way through college and start your career early, he for some reason took six years for an undergraduate degree and paid for it all with loans. Most people are somewhere in the middle, spending 4 years in college with maybe some internships and/or part-time jobs to help out.
Large corporations can be assumed to be doing multiple heinous things until they're exposed, at which point they'll issue a press release and hire a third party to certify compliance. Walmart does that with tomatoes sourced in Mexico, for example, where the tomatoes' conditions in their hothouses are better than the workers who tend them. The tomatoes get clean water.
thanks for your answer. I did more research on this last night and it gels with your comment.
many works are distributed under dual licensing and how you obtained the files define it's license.

now what I don't know is the legality of attaching a license to a redistribution of a public domain work - technically one can claim recompression is transformative and that you hold a license to the altered work, in which case the origin of the file matters in defining if third parties are infringing (and this is why gpl works better in these cases, you don't get to change the license downstream)

IAMNYL edit: messed up
Make it open source, and the community will probably maintain it. I'm sure that if a list of sites were given, fixes for the dark patterns would be submitted regularly.
I can't stand Cortana. I honestly, genuinely don't want to talk to my computer. I realize I might be in the minority on that, but I actually type fast enough and know what I'm doing enough not to need to ask an "assistant" to do it for me. Unless and until my computer is Samantha from Her, I don't need to talk to it.

What's worse, Cortana has ruined Windows search. Searching from the Start Menu is way less expansive and useful in 10 than was in Windows 7. (I never used 8, so I can't comment there.) It's like it's punishing me for not using something that breaks how I want to work anyway.
>she found out about Getty Images charging for her photos when she was sent a letter from Getty that demanded she pay for her own photo that was being displayed on her own website

Such insolence should be punished hard.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_negligence
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Ha. Overblown. His wife must not owe 100K+ after being kicked out of law school like mine.
A friend still uses my original iPhone, with edge.

He got it off me for cheap back in the day when I upgraded,but now he keeps it going as a fashion statement. Amazing that it still works !
Then there's no criminal intent (mens rea) and the law doesn't apply.
Yep, AllTrails recently went with a dark-pattern, want to see any info on the trail? Sign-up. If you don't you'll get a brief flash of the detail page before redirecting to a sign-up form.
I haven't seen evidence of unions supporting for-profit schools, in fact, quite the opposite [1]. Care to share some evidence of that?

[1] http://forprofitu.org/2013/06/seiu-testimony-at-a-department...
"Customers can expect the same great search experience powered by Bing and Microsoft Edge with the added benefit of Cortana’s personality."

I don't want any of those things. Cortana search doesn't work nearly as well as the plain local search. All I want to do is quickly launch my own applications. I have no use for a builtin search using a subpar search engine with an added delay for getting results.
Wow, such a misleading premise. The majority of readers will come away with the simplistic conclusion that "there is no problem with student loans, unemployment among the educated, etc."

Music to NPR's ears.
This puff peice is so light it's about to eminently float away on the mearest breeze.
The point is to get more tens to even look at the code, not encourage people that have already found vulnerabilities to share them. I also think you vastly overestimate the percentage of criminals.
Much much more concise then the article. Thank you.
does this book contend that there is a thing such as "freedom of speech" which exists outside law? what is the reasoning?
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In France if I broke my leg it's free To fix. I can go to university for 500€ per year. People of USA open your eyes not your assholes.
Or any of the GCC states.

https://www.hrw.org/news/2014/04/26/gcc-joint-security-agree...
Yeah, you're right. If the student was the customer, everyone would get perfect grades and uni would be an amusement park. The student should not be considered the customer.

That reminds me of a first year lecture of discrete mathematics that I took. The professor is pretty renowned and does a good job, but he's also incredibly strict and demanding, especially when it comes to exercises and exams. I still know pretty much all of the stuff we learned there and it's come in handy year after year i.e. in crypto and graph theory. Anyway, we could write anonymous feedbacks for this professor and some students really hated him. He read some of them to us and they contained things like "you are an a * * * ole" etc. I understand the frustration with him, it was one of the toughest courses, and it did cause suffering, but it was also a learning experience and the students left the course with newly acquired knowledge and skills. I'm pretty sure many people who were mad with him were even more mad with themselves and likely dropped out, because among the ones who passed, only few people hated him.
Google is still using XMPP, but not officially for IM.

Goodle Cloud Messaging (GCM)[0] comes to my mind, where you use XMPP to send notifications to your Android/ChromeOS/... clients.

There is also Google Cloud Print [1], where XMPP is used internally by printers (my HP MFP M277dw supports it) to receive print jobs.

[0] https://firebase.google.com/docs/cloud-messaging/server#impl...

[1] https://www.google.com/cloudprint/learn/
That means you already have Chrome or Google Toolbar. McAfee is only second on the list ;-)
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Excellent--that's been my excuse too :-)
It seems reasonably consistent to me. This stuff stops at the borders. If they were employing slave labor in the US, they'd get hit hard. Likewise, when companies produce horrible pollution in foreign countries, we don't really care. I'm not saying this is necessarily a good way to do things, but I don't think it's quite a double standard.
The student loan "bubble" is essentially an attempt to paper over the lack of jobs and serves as a welfare program for youth funded (as are most government programs) with debt.