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Metroid is gendered. Using this from another comment, here Samus is at the end of the first game: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Samus_at_the_end_of_Metroi... Do you think that appeals to women?

Do you have stats on the popularity of those games compared to other, gendered games? I'd be more than happy to look over them.
"When one man dies it is a tragedy, when thousands die it's statistics." - Stalin (not confirmed).

Empathy is irrational, since it relies on identification with the other being. It's always easier to identify oneself with a living being than to a piece of meat.

On the other hand, it's also very rational; it's a much better strategy than if it was guided by pure knowledge, since it optimizes cooperation: otherwise, you'd either be completely indifferent to someone you can actually help (e.g. injured person near you) or live in mental anguish by the fact that you know that thousands are constantly being killed by wars, curable diseases, etc.
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Before some productions start the studio will put together what's called an animatic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storyboard#Animatics), where the storyboard frames are cut together with rough dialog to give an idea of the final product. It's similar to what you're suggesting -- a comic book that moves and talks. It's essentially a film's MVP.
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Only if the free rat plans to stick around the trapped one. If the free rat wants to go anywhere and still have safety in numbers, he has to free the trapped one.
I think the rats are intelligent or desensitized enough to have learned that the humans are no threat. But it could be something similarly simple. Like an advantage to helping those as a function of distance measured by genetic similarity, when in a foreign environment. Especially as social animals, strength in numbers type thing. So those who helped each other tended to survive to pass on those genes. Still selfish but emerges as empathetic looking. I too think empathy presumes a far higher intentionality and model of the self for the rat.

But their actions should still count as a precursor to empathy. I believe these things are a continuum and divisions along the way are pretty arbitrary. For example does a parrot talk or is it just pattern recognizing? To that I say, what is the difference? Can we say talking is more than simply pattern recognition recursed to the next level?

Consider Searle's Chinese Room, where he argues that since a human following a program to translate Chinese does not understand Chinese then a machine running the same also does not understand and hence is not 'strong AI'. I do not agree with his conclusion as I find such a distinction to be meaningless. You can't define what a mind is, human or not, by whether its aware of its operations. That is too slippery a concept and not necessarily an advantage. You can only observe and enumerate what properties the mind does (not) exhibit.

Read Peter Watts' Blindsight if you want to see this line of thinking handled incredibly well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindsight_(science_fiction_nov...
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You should have read the entire article.

"I believe CS and Web Development currently select for certain masculine qualities that are largely unrelated to someone’s prowess as a coder. I believe it is these tangential code-cowboy qualities women are unable or unwilling to emulate, and not their skill or capacity for abstraction, problem solving, creative thinking, or communication — All of which actually make them better developers."

"Scholarships like the one Google proposes aren’t meant to give women of lower merit something they don’t deserve, they are meant to circumvent the discrimination that extremely talented women still face."

You also pulled your quotes completely out of context.
Because if it identified as feminist they'd have to spend the first two hours of the class installing a custom version of Linux that had politically correct terminology in the the interface, instead of teaching people how to use wordpress.

eg. womyn pages instead of man pages.
Long before there was dropbox, I used to claim my backup solution was to use steganography and place my data inside porn pictures that I would upload.

Then I could just use google to find my backups distributed all across the net.

You might be looking at my 2007 Quicken files even now!
Of course it's not the only possible explanation; however, it's the most realistic explanation given the number of women who have expressed disgust at the level of discrimination present in the tech industry.

Your analogy doesn't make sense to me because, again, I'm not familiar with higher mathematics. I can't say, "Yes, higher mathematics relates to the tech industry like racism against Norwegians relates to racism against black people."
Unlike a comic book an animatic isn't actually a product with end-customers, though, and I thought getting end-customers quickly was the most important part of the MVP doctrine.
Good luck on your project research, then. I don't have any law book recommendations. I still contend you may be better off talking to a lawyer about what you need to know rather than reading law books during your research phase. They can cut through all the company formation, IP, etc. jargon pretty quickly.
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Considering the medium, couldn't the author just have pasted the base-64 encoded data on pastebin?
Well, your money still ends up in the MPAA's hands to be used for nefarious purposes.

I don't think the MPAA will stop no matter how successful online video services are, because they could always be making more, in their minds, if they only had "the tools" to stop online piracy. That these tools amount to sledgehammers that could, whether by accident or abuse of power, stop legitimate uses of the internet is not important to these people. This is what we are protesting.
They may be selling them, but I don't think a lot of people are still using them.

Most people that I know that had any of these devices (including me, mines in my closet somewhere), have stopped using them. Not to mention the fact that the merger between XM and sirius messed up many of the channels and functionality.
The only actual source I've ever seen for that Stalin quote was the fictional Stalin from the computer game Command and Conquer: Red Alert. Is this quote actually attributed to the real Stalin? Has the quote been floating around since before 1995 or so, when that game was released?
This will be an unpopular opinion, but in addition to boycotting Hollywood, why not also make it your mission to talk to each of your friends who illegally watch copyrighted films (according to US laws) about the cost of their actions? If the goal is to get hollywood to stop pushing completely absurd and not well thought-out laws through our system of government, then it seems to me that reducing piracy (through education) makes sense as part of a larger strategy.

Of course it is my experience that people who pirate content won't listen, but at least I try. To people who pirate, it's sort of like a single vote in an election... what does it matter if one person does or doesn't do it?

And FYI, I don't work for Hollywood, but my wife is an independent filmmaker (award winning in several major film festivals) and she invested her hard-earned money to complete her film -- as did her producers and their parents, etc.

When people steal her movie instead of watching it on iTunes or Netflix for a minuscule charge (and many people do indeed watch it illegally), then it's not any different than taking money (even if it's pennies per person) out of our pockets. Plus, her value as a director cannot be accurately measured because industry analytics don't include pirated content, and that makes it harder to prove her worth when she tries to line-up investors for her next film.
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One interesting thing about this is the question of what is a file. Depending upon how Twitter stores a tweet, does a file actually exist at their location, or only a stream of information? Under current DMCA what would they be asked to remove X number of tweets in a row? If decoded and a copyright holder (provided there is one) notices, does he have to submit 155 claims/takedown notices? What if that information is broken up, chunked and some agreed upon pattern is used ie every 3rd tweet is garbage etc?
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I'm excited for the fictional game concepts they develop over the course of the show (if it happens). And I hope they release those concepts as real games as a part of the show's marketing.
You could not get certain content in canada a while ago

Canadians should be so lucky. You still cannot get most content in most of the world. No Netflix, no Hulu, no Pandora. iTunes has a meagre selection, and that which is eventually released here, comes half-a-year late and overpriced.

I'm Australian, but this experience is shared by most people who live in not-the-US. The content industry still has a world of distribution failings to address before their customer-hostile anti-piracy flailing becomes justified.
I really don't understand what the author is trying to prove here. Countless sites let people upload and share free-form information (a few that come to mind: Dropbox, Gmail, Facebook) in ways that would be much easier for pirates to use than Twitter, and none of them are going to get shut down any time soon.

Yes, shutting down Megaupload and its kin isn't going to stop piracy. But I don't think that was ever the goal. As long as it reduces piracy by some measurable amount, which I think it will, then the censors will have succeeded.
I could be wrong, but I thing the idea is that Twitter is immune to censorship, so no matter what sites get taken down, file sharing can live on in 300 baud. Or something.

...Yeah, I don't really get it either.
That's only true for people who don't follow the solar industry. They got their loan in March 2009 (http://cleantechnica.com/2009/03/21/fremonts-solyndra-wins-f...), filed for IPO in December (http://gigaom.com/cleantech/solar-tube-maker-solyndra-files-...) and cancelled it in June 2010 (http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/solyndra-ipo-can...), and all three events were relatively well-covered.
No, your article is misinformed. The article does not discuss the total cost of generating power from solar panels, namely, cost of batteries and their regular replacement, panel cleaning, and the cost of the amount of land required for enough panels to generate 50 Kwh (avg) per day. This also does not consider that you need 7 times as many panels to generate the same amount of electricity on a partly cloudy day as you do on a clear summer day. It is much worse in the winter months. I dare you to prove me wrong, not with an article of someone's estimation, but real field work.
The good news is that this only affects physical media. Posting a video on YouTube has the same effect as shipping DVDs across the border, but is out of Customs' reach.

For now, sort of. After all, it's ICE that is seizing domain names. How long before any time your traffic crosses a border, a customs notice is displayed enumerating all the freedoms you are being denied?
The author's motivation is to make an anti-censorship statement, not to provide an easy means of sharing files:

> [Piracy] has always existed and I believe it will always exist. ... Content providers and copyright holders should just acknowledge this and try to find a way to revolutionize the idea of content distribution and its business model.

This seems to me to be a good way to remind people (or introduce them to the idea) that all information on the Internet, whether political speech, a copy of The Origin of Species, mindless Twitter blather, or copyrighted files, is in the end the same stuff, just a bunch of ones and zeroes.

Once you've acknowledged that fact, it's a short step to realizing that you cannot disrupt piracy through technical means without also disrupting communication essential to a free society. I think that's what the author's getting at.
All of the above, and more. For example, in the HBGary hack, they used a combination of SQL injection to expose passwords, got lucky when some of these passwords could be re-used for SSH access, then had to resort to good ol' social engineering for full control of the system. This article provides some good insights:

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/02/anonymous-sp...

There is no magic bullet to stop these types of hackers. It's important that you practice good security culture, since some of these guys do use very advanced techniques.

Your home internet security could be defeated by a cunning hacker with a multimeter claiming he/she is there from Comcast to 'upgrade' your router.
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was a post a day or two ago about creativity being highest in the early AM as well. I do this in spurts but can't maintain it for long stretches...
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They let you subscribe to vouched-for indie films.
Well, except there's lots of content not available on iTunes and friends or only with ridiculous delays. I'm just not waiting 6 months for a movie for no obvious reason when the torrent is a mouse-click away.

When there's no kindle-compatible version of an ebook I want (which sadly happens more often than not) then I grab the torrent.

It may be ignorant and "illegal", but I consider it voting with my wallet.

I can't say I feel bad about it because I happily do buy the content when and if they let me. My first stop for media is always iTunes, amazon and various local eBook sites, and I'm glad every time I don't have to resort to searching a torrent.

I'm sure I'm not the only one with that "shopping strategy".
This seems to kind of tread into the territory of DeCSS haikus [1]; if I can speak (tweet) the file, isn't that expression of my rights to free speech?

[1] http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/DeCSS/Gallery/decss-haiku.txt
Re: spec as calling card.

The thing about tying your script up with Amazon is that it handicaps you social proof-wise. If your script is in development hell, that means someone actually bought it. If your script is on Amazon, that just means you have an Internet connection.

An Amazon script won't work as a calling card because nobody wants to read a script they can't buy -- unless the reason they can't buy it is that someone else already has. When submitting scripts, you want to be able to say either "This amazing script can be yours for the low low price of 1 million dollars," or "Time Warner bought this script for 1 million dollars. I'd love to work with you on my next one."

With Amazon's current terms, there's just a much higher chance that all your work will have been for naught.
It isn't too clear what is going on, but what I've really wanted is Gnome-Terminal integrated with ssh+screen/tmux in such a way that I never need to know or care about how to use screen/tmux. Each "window" should just be a tab in gnome terminal with scrollback and menu commands behaving as appropriate. (I think something like this is what is described but I don't Mac.)

I do use Byobu which makes things a little easier. Of course you can argue that I should learn the ins and outs of configuring, magic keystrokes and using screen/tmux but I'd much rather use my brain for the other stuff (the actual work I'm doing). It should be possible to use something without having to know keystrokes and config files, discovering them from menus. Then when you do something often enough you can start using shortcuts and customization.

In other words combine a graphical terminal emulator and screen/tmux so that it is highly useful to perpetual intermediates: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2004/10/defending-perpetual...
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"""it's not any different than taking money (even if it's pennies per person) out of our pockets"""

I thought you had a good comment until you got to this part. This tripe, shoveled by the mouthful out of Hollywood, is way too simplified to be meaningful. I'm so sick of hearing this without any thought to the other side of the piracy coin: access and exposure; or the side of the coin (people who would not have paid you a penny under any circumstance).

I honestly don't know if piracy reduces or increases film revenue (it appears to have helped the game industry and put Windows on 90+% of desktop computers worldwide), but it is this mantra that has led to crap-feats like SOPA and PIPA. A balanced conversation about it (and not one saying "piracy is all gain thanks to exposure") would be refreshing.

EDIT: And for the record, I don't pirate. If I can watch it legally, I don't watch it.

EDIT2: I don't care about being downvoted, but I feel like there is an argument I'm missing. If you downvoted me (or feel like doing so), let me know why. I Prefer to have my worldview challenged so I can change or expand as needed.
This is awesome! Thank-you for this great improvement!
Some numbers on this:

A standard-quality .avi is about 800MB. Base64 provides 6 bits of information per character, so that movie translates into ~8M tweets. Twitter seems to limit users to 1k messages per day,[0] so that movie would take about 22 years to upload.

[0] https://support.twitter.com/articles/15364-about-twitter-lim...
Well, in this case the information is a JPEG file, so it should look good as a PNG image ;)

But more to the point, there's a guy who stored JS code in PNG images[1], and any binary string could be used instead.

[1]: http://blog.nihilogic.dk/2008/05/compression-using-canvas-an...
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the extra layers offer some abstractions

Right, I see the browser as a hard wall, while it needs to know all the native implementations, the stack above it does not. So it is technically more complex if one person where to master it all, but for two distinct roles it is far simpler.

I will admit that I did not see the vision in 05 but by 08 I was on-board. When I figured out that JavaScript could be used to entirely replace server pages is when it dawned on me. Before that I just thought AJAX was sprinkled onto server pages and I thought great we are adding even more to the stack. But when someone showed me how to write apps with JavaScript to control all aspects of the view, and call REST services, I was sold. It cleanly separates the separate concerns of web app development, which up until that point was a soup of HTML/CSS/JavaScript/(JSP||ASP||PHP)/ and back end code. Many times web developers would inherit projects that had all of those in a single file. We like to preach discipline but I have inherited more that have had none than that do. So for me the new way of developing web apps is a god send due to the fact that the back end and the front end are now wholly separated. Even if the front end technologies get muddled together it is far simpler to fix than extracting UI logic from business logic. So to me, the new stack from a web app developers perspective is far simpler and enforces better architectural discipline.
I think their only chance to be relevant would be to get our of the hardware business and rush to be a service company. They should start making Blackberry Enterprise Server integration for Android. They should see if they could get Apple to let the iPhone hook in too.

Their phones are a lost cause. Even if they had an amazing phone in the pipeline, I don't think they could stop their slide if it was released tomorrow.

At this point, BES and their patents are the things with any value.
This really is the most level headed and correct response IMHO. Hollywood is responding, not to the internet as a modality of speech, but to the rampant piracy of materials that legally makes them money - they are doing nothing wrong by providing that material for sale. Are they draconian about it? Sure. Are they not innovating? Sure. But it doesn't make them wrong and us right, what it means is that we (as internet citizens) need to promote the act of legitimate value exchange between consumers that are torrenting/downloading material and value creators. Hollywood never started this fight - this was started by people who found out that it costs almost nothing to copy a digital copy of a film or piece of music and put it up for download.

Do I think copyright and rights management are all kinds of messed up? Hell yes I do, but that's why it requires innovation FROM US; Hollywood will die off if we encroach using a legitimate business model - it sucks that it took this long for everyone to realize that Hollywood needs to be disrupted just like every other industry the technology industry has disrupted. I believe Amazon is having a go at it?

It really stinks that this whole thing has come down to us needing to defend our rights on the internet - but I can't help but feel that Hollywood's response is a leveled reaction to something many people are not respecting (that is, paying for the content).

The problem is two-fold here, Hollywood isn't innovating and internet citizenship is not being respectful. It has been Hollywood's shortcoming in not being able to figure out better ways of making content easier to access online over the pirated version; and people aren't respecting the boundaries (due to Hollywood's inability to innovatively respond to distribution on the internet) of fair economic trade in the digital medium.

These next two to five years will define both the internet and the entertainment industry for the next 50-100 years IMHO.
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His point is that it's offensive to prejudge all men in tech as incapable or unwilling to treat women as equal individuals. This sentiment is rooted in the idea that most men are not sexist, chauvinist, assholes. Those individuals who can't even be bothered to endure the torment of a male teacher lest they be patronized or spoken to with a tone of condescension are probably not well balanced people.

From another perspective, would you think it reasonable for black men to avoid tech because of "a thousand previous encounters with [white]men who were abjectly unable to interact with [black individuals] in a way that left them feeling comfortable"?
When the whims of an American special interest group are catered to at the possible expense of the entire global economy, not to mention the entire world's freedom of speech, I consider it only natural and responsible to desire Hollywood's destruction.

Successful business is about finding new ways to create value for your customers. It's not supposed to be about spending every last cent they give you in an attempt to undermine their rights.
Maybe we should start picketing outside of movie theaters also?