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many of these websites people use to freely host photos strips the uploader of copyright privileges in the first place.
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Missing the point. These people simply took their phone, snapped a picture and put it on the internet.

And then after the fact, are reacting this way. They're not shooting for a project, to build their portfolio, etc. They simply took a picture of something they saw.
His native language is English. He's just sloppy. He's been in Sweden for decades and speaks Swedish with a typical English accent.

Source 1: My opinion. I've met him many times.

Source 2: His thesis states that he started at the Ericsson CSLab in 1985. CSLab was in Sweden.

Source 3: This (http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~rjmh/Armstrong/bits.ps) set of slides states that he has a B.Sc. from UCL (London) from 1972 and started at CSLAb in 1986 (not 1985, seems the dates are a bit fluid).
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First thing to pop into my mind is xkcd. Certainly Munroe didn't need professional equipment of any kind when he started the site, still I'd argue that it is a work of art.
By making a distinction between 'professionals' and 'amateurs' you stipulate that nobody can cross this border by chance, it would always require a directed effort; and that's nothing I'd call constructive.
Putting an image onto Twitter or other such services is clearly putting the image for distribution, but under the common terms of that service; you're saying the image is available to see as you posted it.

The issue here is separate, for-profit redistribution in other media, which definitely requires prior consent from the originator.
That's already there. Did you read the linked item?
The irony is,if they had not shared it,it would not be famous, this article would not exist.
You can also rant about the universities in the US, but they are still the best in the world.

I think you would have to elaborate on that quite a bit to make it somewhat true. Lots of foreign students, including some of the brightest, get their higher-education degrees in the US, mainly at the graduate level. That happens because a good chunk of the brightest professionals are professors at these institutions, and the research resources are plentiful. Clearly the research experience for top-level students is outstanding, both at the graduate and undergraduate levels. In this pretty narrow sense US universities are the best in the world.

But… West Civ I? English Comp? College Algebra, including topics such as completing the square? Calc I derivative shortcuts? For the love of Pete, compare this kind of curriculum with what is taught in Europe, Asia and (gasp) Latin America. You will find that your average college graduate knows much less than elsewhere. Granted, the best may be future Nobel laureates, but that doesn’t hide the fact that undergraduate college education in the US has become a years-long remedial program for a disastrous K12 plan.
If the lessons replaced are nothing but teacher-to-student lecturing then little is lost. However, all my best teachers employed more of a Socratic method. That method cannot be substituted with a recording. This program could work well with the Socratic method if students come to class to debate and present the material they studied at home.
Would a returning of a type of 'old' classical education specifically in primary and high school help?
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An engineer's essential desire, after all, is to design and build a
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There is some missing information as under certain conditions the US gov can be sued for damages and you do not have to wait for the gov response as you can ask the court judge to demand the gov to respond.

The question is what information are we missing as google.com at times display links to files on rapidshare, etc and yet its domain names were never seized by ICE but instead a negotiation between Google, ICE, MPAA, etc happend instead??
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No word on whether Goa'uld holding chambers have been found in the new pyramids, I guess.

History repeats itself. I wonder what we can find in our past that will inform our future.

(although, one might say, the main thing that one learns from the study of history is that people do not learn from history)
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Good point. I applied in Canada about a decade ago. I do remember they mentioned at that time that they had toned down the "excellence in athletics" category. They now merely required participation and demonstration of sportsman spirit. This struck me as quite a reasonable decision on the part of the selection committee.

On a separate note, the Rhodes selection process is extremely competitive. While I didn't get in, I felt that just the process of applying forced me to self-reflect on my capabilities and accomplishments. I ended up making some positive changes in my life as a direct result of what I learned during the application process - sounds like the YC application eh? Heh Heh!
I'd argue that playing 200 hours of a mmorpg is more valuable, helps grow more, and is generally way better than watching TV 200 hour.
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Exactly. Why would you always have to build something that other people want?

If you need it yourself, you can build it for yourself ("scratch your own itch"). If it turns out other people need it too, that's great, but it doesn't have to be the aim.
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Is it a form of censorship to not go to a powerful forum about censorship and give your ideas against censorship?

If all those against, lets say "censorship", are silent when a major debate is being heard on it, then who do you think will get all the PR, and win in the end?

I think for Cory it is a privilege that he was invited and it would have been a privilege to take part in the debate. It is an important debate, whatever their motives may be. We are at a turning point, and all voices ought to be heard, lest we, our society, makes an irrational decision because of the silence of some.

Speak louder. That is, after all, what needs to be protected.
the decision to invest the $100M is a business decision. Wanting the laws changed to favour your business decision is understandable I guess but if you extend that line of thinking - why aren't they lobbying for, oh I don't know, people have to go to the cinema once a month? or that there should be a cinema tax. Everyone has to pay $10 a month to the film industry.

see how far you get with any investor if your plan involves changing the law to create more favourable conditions for your profit.

these business models will all eventually die and be replaced by younger people who grew up in this copy and copy alike world and will find new ways of making money but there might be a hell of a lot of collateral damage to the law as they go down.
Also, is it recommendable for startups to apply to places like YC if this scenario is true for them? This has to happen all the time. What's to stop a VC from protecting his investment by giving a heads-up?
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>That last part doesnt seem to have changed that much actually. What changed is that now they try to mess with it anyway.

Exactly. The only thing they have done by intervening is amplified the anarchy. In this, at least, they are fulfilling their role as entertainment providers.

IMO the internet is even MORE of a wild-west type of place right now than it was ten years ago, despite or even because of attempts at regulation and corporate intervention. Whether this is all about to collapse in on itself, well, thats the million dollar question.
Sure. Selling it for cash I can understand the argument against that. But has anyone done that? And why would anyone pay given that it's available anyway?

So you can make the argument that publishing the image forms part of a publisher's content proposition from which they benefit (more viewers, more magazine sales or whatever). But you can make the same argument for twitter itself: twitter's value and the wealth of it's owners is derived exclusively from content it's users post. So can a user claim compensation from twitter for the value it has derived from their posts?

The same argument applies to say StackOverflow. I've spent countless hours answering questions and helping people out. SO sell ads against this content, and my content drives search engine click-throughs. Do I have a claim against SO?
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It is almost funny how the ONLY tangible, precise suggestion made is: Artists "must not be despoiled of the fruit of their talent. That doesn't simply ruin them, but far worse, it enslaves them."

And how this "would somebody PLEASE protect the artists???" lamentation can still be pulled off in 2011 is beyond me - after countless artists spoke up on what is really happening once they signed a deal with the record industry, how little they are actually making on sold CDs and after several artists successfully launched albums on their own.

Especially smug how the internet regulations should PROTECT them from becoming "enslaved".

No matter what they are trying to say: Culture does not NEED Sony BMG Ariola etc... because that is an industry, not (like culture) a substantial part of what we as human beings are.
"Temporary"? 100 years is far from temporary.
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I love Inconsolata, but there's just one thing about it: the curly quotation marks.

If you have that same quibble, good news: Inconsolata-dz[1]. Inconsolata with straight quotes.

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It's not true that no young people care about copyright. Young people have varying opinions too.

One could argue that young people are less supportive of copyright because they don't own anything that can be copyrighted.
It could be used as prototyping tool for now. As long as it has the ability to visually define server side behavior, it could be able to create real web app :-)
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As the discussion from that thread concluded, it all comes down to how you define "turing completeness" with respect to the status of turing machines as necessarily abstract constructs, what with their requirement of infinite time/space. It also depends how you view the need for human interaction to drive computation as being relevant to the definition.

Neither of these things were really central ideas in turing's original work, so its kinda open to interpretation.
I agree it's gotten a bit ridiculous, but I also agree with the substance of the historical correction: copyright was initially about providing a temporary monopoly on copying and distribution, not just for guaranteeing proper attribution. The original monopoly period was considerably shorter, though.
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This is a side project I have been working on while at college to help make it easier to have my favorite web apps, rss feeds, videos, and search engine wherever I go and whatever computer is available.

Right now, I am just looking for feedback on the concept, bugs, etc. I also will apologize for it is still being a little buggy so be gentle and it prefers Webkit browsers.

Also, I am about to graduate in three weeks in a major I don't care for(Business Administration). So am asking for advice on if I get nowhere on this, could this site help me get a job being a web programmer so I don't have to look for a non-tech job?

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You're right about the times changing. But "the industry" has good reason to be concerned - in a world where people don't pay for their product (or certain aspects of it), they won't keep making that product. And I share their concern - I love movies/music/television/etc., and I'd really hate to live in a world without them.
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It's amazing how one can stop reading physics news for a couple of years, and all of a sudden, a neutrino gets mass. I wasn't aware of that.
I don't keep up with sociology/ethics literature but I haven't heard your original thesis before and its an interesting discussion.

I'm sure there were otherwise nice people that were Nazi soldiers. And there are probably a few nasty people who work for Google to create products millions of people love.

As social systems, as you call them, grow larger and more connected it may make the ethical positions of systems more important. The problem is that most corporations are inherently amoral, and governments almost always think they are the good guys.
I'll go with the boring cop-out of, "it depends".

I think it has positive effects, the main one being greater motivation to work on hard problems and see them to completion. It can also have negative effects, such as an unwillingness to do anything that doesn't directly advance one's career, and a tendency to avoid hard problems for quick-win types of problems.

So I guess it depends on how you use it. The stereotypical politician and scientist are each ambitious in a way, but "want to become President" and "want to win a Nobel Prize" are ambitions that manifest themselves somewhat differently. I tend to trust people more if their ambition appears to be somehow tied up with the subject matter rather than purely social status: I'm wary of people whose sole ambition is to become rich/famous/successful, but admire people who are very ambitious when it comes to wanting to revolutionize/advance some field or activity.
>I must resist the temptation to anthropomorphize it

Why? What harm can it do? You don't have to give up or compromise any part of your prized identity as an rationalist and an empiricist in order to indulge your biological imperatives to relate with the world as the squishy meatbag that your are.

To deny your social instincts when you yourself admit that to do so does not come naturally is also irrational. Embrace your emotional drives and know thyself! We haven't hit the singularity yet ;)

EDIT: also calling it a rover wasn't a great help was it.
He forgot my favorite programming font, Terminus. It's pretty popular in Linux development.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminus_%28typeface%29
I've been happy with Mensch: http://robey.lag.net/2010/06/21/mensch-font.html , A font based of Apple's Menlo.
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I used to use Menlo, now trying Consolas.
Public profiles can be automatically harvested? Curl and wget should be classified as munitions and access to those tools restricted in at least 45 states. Shut. Down. Everything.
Keyword/directive spelling is British and any resemblance of C style conventions is a coincidence, because nobody cares about them in the Erlang world. Yes, Erlang has a weird syntax. Get over it.

I do agree to the point that standard libraries could have a more unified style. But the language is simple and concise.
Agreed. I use this font in vim at work because (believe or not) it seems to be the sharpest on my crappy LCD monitor at work. I was using Bitstream Vera Sans Mono before though which I love.
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+1 for DSM.

I use the solarized vim/terminal color scheme so from syntax highlighting I can tell the difference between the O and 0 but I can see why it would be a problem.
"Meanwhile none of these pig-fuckers are interested their arguments being challenged on their merits."

I love how you talk about challenging people on their merits, right after calling them "pig-fuckers".

"They know what they are about, and it is decidedly not the best interests of society, or even creative expression."

I'm sure they're after profit first and foremost (like many people), but that doesn't mean what they're advocating isn't in the best interests of society as well.

Why not try making an actual argument instead of name calling and saying that it's not use reasoning with them?
Given that you can achieve 12x return on equity within YC, the obvious follow-on is: can YC itself scale, or does it depend on the few individuals currently running it for its success?

I know other YC-a-like organisations have started up elsewhere: have any of them been running long enough to get any idea of long term success yet?
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From the article: "Expression is not like that. The notion that expression is like that is entirely a consequence of taking a system of expression and transporting it around, which was necessary before there was the Internet, which has the capacity to do this infinitely at almost no cost."

Is that accurate? I thought copyright was invented specifically to give a monopoly to creators, in order to encourage innovation/creation.

I think that statement is conflating two separate issues in order to confuse people (the logic being, we needed copyright before mass distribution was possible; it's possible now; therefore, we don't need copyright).
I say this every time this discussion comes up but I do feel it bears repeating: I switched away from monospaced a while ago and I am never going back.

I encourage you to try something like Verdana for a week just to see how it feels.
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I remember an almost identical post somewhere else some time ago, so people programming finance must have some sort of deeper sense of morality and pursuit for happiness, or (more probably) somebody is trolling around.
I don't believe that's true. Can you cite one service that does this?
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Thanks a lot for the feedback. About the name: yes, it was related to a previous idea, which I then just simplified because I was finding the social part hard to sell.

I'm adding some helper text ("handwritten" style text and arrows) when the users first log in to make it easier for them for find their way. Perhaps I could do the same for the slider window, or perhaps add a tooltip.

Again, thanks a lot for the feedback.
You're right, that is annoying. Thanks for the link.
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Pak called generator users dismissive, not baloney. "Steps users can take to mitigate the effects of a website's security failure" is arguably off-topic in a discussion about that website's security hole. It can be interpreted as minimizing the unnacceptable failure of the site.
A system to reward the photo taker would be nice. In one minute, photo is taken and published. It sould take no more than another minute for news companies use the photo by paying a small standard fee to the person who made it available. It could be like a 'donate' button or a more serious fee just to provide some benefit to the person who was in the right place/time. Usually, they don't expect anything. Maybe a Flattr like system?
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Whether the youth give a shit about copyright - or indeed any other issue - is neither here nor there. Policy should most definitely not be drawn up in accordance with what the young give a shit about. That would be disastrous.
That's exactly what great photojournalism is, simply being there. Being in the right place at the right time often pays very well. The idea that great photos are meticulously planned is, generally, incorrect. Most of the iconic photos of the 20th century were not in any way planned. John Filo, a photo j student at Kent State, won a Pulitzer for essentially being in the 'right place at the right time:'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Filo

Another example: the Zapruder film of JFK's assassination, shot by a private citizen on a spring-wound Bell & Howell. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zapruder_film
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Which could be described as "driven".
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He stressed several times that the owner should file their copyright within 90 days as if after 90 they lose out on the ability to claim their rights but I don't believe that's true. Copyrights are instantly granted to the creator. There is no requirement that you file with the fed, it's just a service offered. By uploading to the web, she created a public record that she was claiming to be the owner.

The only issue i see here, in terms of copyrights, is if someone else would try and step in to claim ownership. Of course, that isn't the case here.

So why is the copyright office brought up with such urgency? What does it matter if she does or doesn't file?
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> It's strange syntax if you take something seriously.

It did feel like some sort of jibe, and to date they haven't mentioned much about coming IPv6 support.

Either way, their post could have done without it IMHO.