Actually humans, so far as I have been able to identify, are the only species to brand and then (socially) track themselves. Facebook wasn't even a glimmer of an idea before this was practiced.
It is far too late to stop it. The war was lost with the first pair of Levi's bought because of the stitching and little red tag. Sorry.
Which is a bit insightful. To touch that up a bit: It is the *repetition* of drunk driving deaths, each different in some particulars, that lends a certain tragic inevitability to that class of events. Schneier's point was that it was a particular, *singular*, tragic event that lends itself for this type of resolution. As if we should, somehow, some way regain control of (our) life. The tragic flaw of the Greek dramas, again.
You can guard against this in some way, and the framers of the Constitution did attempt to put some such safeguards from the thundering herd of the majority but it can be overridden and has on occasions too numerous to cite. [I can, endlessly almost, but what's the point.]
"This reminds me of the famous Marcus Brigstocke joke: 'If Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive electronic music.'"
I prefer 'despondent' myself. I didn't vote for any of the turkeys on offer in the primary and unless something radical in the way of propositions is upcoming, I won't vote in November. I've only missed one election in my whole life up until last June. My ballot went to the Persian Gulf while I washed up in Millington, TN.
"... or protect children from serious threats." Who defines serious threats? Aren't serious threats to everyone a better standard? This is right along the lines of what CalOSHA tried to pull when I was stationed in San Diego, CA. They came out and told us that one of our pregnant sailors could not work around the radar equipment as the RF (radio-waves) were too high. When I asked why the standard was different for pregnant females than males, they told me it was a regulation. I told them to show me. (I already knew the regulation as I had incorporated it into a radiation hazard software application I wrote). They couldn't.
I then showed the regulation to my commanding officer and he told them to try again. They finally admitted that their test equipment was out of calibration. (Rather than shut down all San Diego regional air traffic.) After re-calibration, the test results were barely above background, well below limits. BTW, we also checked the RF levels for ourselves and it was fine for everyone.
I've become awfully tired of victim arguments, especially when I see them manipulated again, and again, and again, against written intent.
One point I haven't seen raised is exactly to whom the good here. It's pretty obvious that the Supreme Court has ruled on point that such a requirement is unconstitutional but who knows, perhaps a later court might break the other way. That actually doesn't matter in my view. What does matter is who is going to pay the lawyers to get this thing up in *front* of that court. In this case, it is we the taxpayers who are going to be paying those salaries. So, we get the distinct displeasure of funding a (possible) reduction in our future rights. Sad.
That last comment is noteworthy, because it shows that the copyright industries want to punish general users swapping unauthorized copies with criminal sanctions even if there is no money involved. It confirms that these treaties are not really about fighting organized crime, as they are often presented, but truly a war on online sharing itself, where the aim is to put ordinary people behind bars.
Especially noteworthy is that the United States already has the highest level of incarceration, per capita, in the world. Also prisons, especially in California, are subject to court ordered reductions in prisoners due to overcrowding. Toss in the fact that my state, California, suffers from a severe lack of revenues. What this all adds up to is that there aren't any more beds available and there is no end in sight to this lack due to budget cuts as a result of an eroded tax base.
So what's a state to do? Why they hand their prisoners over to county and municipal jails, which are also overcrowded and unlikely to add new bed space as well, but having the singular advantage of more creative methods of punishment. The overall result is non-violent offenders are the first in line to be dumped on the counties and municipalities which similarly dump them in addition to their over-supply back out on the street often times on probation, community service and perhaps GPS monitoring, tossed into the mix. Some enforcement!
I would be lax in not pointing out that the very industry that shows a bent for creative accounting such that they pay little or no taxes are clamoring for serious criminal enforcement using money extracted for the very citizens they often wish to criminalize. My state has already had one tax revolt which triggered a round of tax revolts around the United States. Pity the (literally, by their lights) poor entertainment industry when the bill comes due on their efforts in criminalization of copyright infringement.
So I ask 'em, where you gonna put 'em?
[Criminalization without enforcement not only breeds contempt for any one particular law but for all laws. Why does the copyright mafia persist in not only annoying their customers but also show a real talent for getting the complete opposite of their goal. Witness for the jury the DDOS attacks on The Pirate Bay, among others. This takes real talent folks!]
If you are at all familiar with the statutory authority of the various Commanders in Chiefs (CINC's in military parlance, such as CINCPAC, CINCCENT, &c.) and that of, for instance, Supreme Allied Commander, Europe (SACEUR, again in military parlance), they do not have to wait around for civilian authority to pull their thumbs or other appendages out of whatever orifices they have them stuck into to preempt or react to an imminent threat or attack. It's been that way for an awfully long time; no new Pearl Harbors anyone?
Now, why the change in this case if the law was already drawn as to what the DoD, especially the military, can do? It comes down to one non-obvious conclusion. Formerly the law stated that cyber-warfare attacks and threats were to be treated as equivalent to kinetic (bombs, bullets, that kind of thing) weapons. Bits equals bombs. The new law says nothing of the kind. This allows cyber-warfare to be treated as equivalent to a NBC (Nuclear, Biological, Chemical) attack. Bits equals WMD's. That policy question has been bouncing around Washington, D. C., and think-tank set for a while now. Congress has officially gone on paper as to what equivalence, or actually the lack of direct equivalence really, between the various arenas of combat.
So, if Iran, China, Russia, hell North Korea, should engage in this kind of asymmetric warfare, they could wake up to a second sunrise, if they aren't already plasma.
[Note: This is not speculation. I served for well over a decade in the US Navy and from the time I swore my oath of enlistment, I've been interested in exactly what "protecting the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic" and on the nature of a "lawful" order from "those officers appointed above me. Then again, everyone in my extended family has served in one of the branches. It's what we do and have done for generations. Ummm, those that aren't rock-farmers. I can also blame Mom, who corrupted me with many a Robert A. Heinlein novel at an extremely young age.]
I'd say you have it half-right. You also have to look at this from the short/long-term interests of the elected officials. Since they suffer from a serious case of myopia, almost everyone only thinking about their next election, seldom will you see a difference in behavior now, or forever. This is one of the problems for which the Founding Fathers had no solution. Then again, no one else has had one either. Yet.
As an aside, a lot of verbage is spent on the short-sidedness of corporate officers and their appointed officers. They only consider the next quarter's results. We haven't found a solution for that either.
For the marginal benefits/costs measurement you don't really need an economist. We have all too many of those. You need a hungry (reputation-wise) econometrician willing to take on this challenge. They are often maligned (for measuring our woes, such as unemployment or inflation rates), seriously crazy numbers people that really, really like measuring things, often for the first time. I'm no longer in fighting trim so I'll pass on the challenge. [IOW I've become even more crazy, if that is possible, since I retired.]
The study, sadly all too typical today, is for crap. You will always find a measurable, usually statistically significant (non-normative) difference between what anthropologists (and better psychologists or sociologists) call out-group and in-group members while using non-parametric statistical methods. They did a piss-poor job of experimental design here and I should know: I've been teaching statistics, applied maths, and computer science at the UC (University of California) level since the tender age of 13. Working professionally as a consultant since the age of 14. I won't (can't really) say for who as they would have some serious red on their face despite the fact that the model used has saved them more than a few billion. Dollars, that is. And I'm dead serious about it. Best $25,000 or so they've ever spent.
O.k. That out of the way, I can speak anecdotally. Short answer, the US Navy and VA Hospital system have killed one of there rather better employees.
1984, on-board my vessel (a US Navy destroyer) in the graving dock I'm on watch as the roving (armed security) patrol. Bend down to retie my (favorite) paratrooper boots and as I stand up I get hit hard on the top rear of my hard hat and unprotected neck. I go down, paralyzed. Six hours later, three of it paralyzed, I'm discharged bandaged up, a bunch of codeines issued, and oh, a light duty chit. The only thing that I was told is that I shouldn't mix alcohol with them. I have to make my own way back from the hospital and for fun, have to do it in a uniform that is most definitely not EVER worn off base. NAVY (say like F*** and you have it down pat!
1984-1987 report having catatonic seizures, and they really are catatonic as in appear for all intensive purposes dead, loss of feeling in arms, neck and upper back pain. Given tylenol and sent off on my merry weigh (pun intended). Transferred through three commands and all three Naval facilities got to know me as I couldn't complete the physical fitness test which is mandatory. I was waved through since I was a "golden-goose". Admiral's and Captain's careers saved, beta-tests completed, tons of ROI. Whatever. I just love engineering.
1988 Deferral not forever so sent back to Balboa Naval Hospital (my birthplace) where an EMG (electro-myelogram) was done. LCDR who did the test said I was the first person who did the test that did not scream. Only evaluation he had. No conductivity problems in arms to the spine. [Should have been first red-flag, loss of feeling but problem not in arms.]
1991 Tossed out in the street with some severance pay ($38K) plus $8.1K college fund so I went back home to UC Riverside.
1991-1995 Ate my way through economics, mathematical computing, modeling, experimental design, and techniques courses on the menu there. After US NAVY Nuclear Power Program, college is a joke, grad school (first year already done, too) a walk in the park, and Ph. D. level stimulating. Continue to report problems.
1996-2000. Have to drop out pain so bad I'm in treatment program but they refuse to treat the pain. Finally they do a bone-scan and then after a negative result, an MRI is ordered in 1997. I'm given the neutral result of cervical bone spurs with spinal cord impingement and encroachment. Other than medication eating three holes in my GI tract, nada.
March, 2001, diagnosed inoperable and terminal by best guy on the west coast. Might of taken it back in '97 but still hazardous. Now I just wait. To die.
There are a long list of errors in there. Hubris on the part of "the Docs" is and diagnosticians sure on the list. I am most definitely not your typical patient and take mere minutes to get up to speed on most things as either it is part and partial of something I picked up elsewhere or just a specialized approach. I was born, or somehow learned along the way that all human knowledge is of a piece. With the notable exception of the space program, I have been involved in every area of human knowledge. Period. Even medical research where I validated the experimental design, methods used, statistical controls, and was general nice guy to the poor bunnies. The subject was MRSA, the time was 1998. That's why we can manage it (there is a treatment protocol and we were out looking for it. Still, I miss Thumper. Nothing in medicine took me more than a few minutes. A Few Minutes. To Learn. And Do. Even Improve.
I simply can't comprehend this need for an in-group/out-group distinction. I think it is (y)our need to keep others out, to preserve our self-distinction, blatant discrimination (formally exoist) against others. I can't. I don't seem to be equipped with/for it. Perhaps it's my autism (and yes, I was full-blown before somehow snapping out of it). How hard would it have been to simply discuss my case with me along the way? I'm extremely verbal, mostly socially, and usually not too scruffily, presentable if you can handle the intellectual arrogance.
Let me read my records and diagnostic reports? Speaking in an electrician's terms, if the signal is lost between hand and brain and signal is good from hand to spine, WTF does that tell you??!! I'm a fragging nuclear/electronic/ electrical/network/computer/database/process ... engineer & analyst! I don't even need to think of the next test to do! You have a process/culture problem here. I can recommend a really good Anthropologist to start working on you cultural problem. Sheesh, how many people have to die before you actually realize that the person on the other side of that record is a PERSON.
Sorry. This just shouldn't be. And I am not talking about my case.
Well, I hope they have deeeeep pockets and go after M$ first. I've been using Microsoft Reader pretty much since it came out (2003?) and the first thing you notice on the page after the text is the text to speech reader at the bottom. As these things go, it's not that bad. Mi Amiga was much better, but.... Given that I'm facing total paralysis in the not too distant future, text to speech as well as voice-command and speech to text are important considerations here which is why I now restrict any documentation or literature downloads to something that I can feed to an adequete narrator or convert (thanks MS for the free Word to .LIT converter).
Two final questions. One: I wonder how long the statute of limitations is on copyright infringement if copyright or other infringement this is? Two: If I feed a book to Office (no conversion) and have it narrate it to me, does that violate the DMCA vis-a-vis cirvumvention?
Color me confused by Microsoft's behavior. In this case, unsurprisingly, Microsoft is asserting that it needs patent protection in the Green Energy market. Watching that tussle will be interesting since I've been interested in environmental economics for a very long time (long before I received my Econ degree) so I know what players (IBM, HP, Sun, etc.) are doing. Microsoft is persuing methods of using Group Policy and the like to enforce energy saving practices in the enterprise market segment even though third-party players have already staked it out for quite a while now, in internet time.
No, the confusion arises from another recent article posted on several news sites. Specifically: "The IEEE has brought together an alliance of anti-virus vendors in an industry group that aims to improve and better organise collaboration, with an initial focus on better standards for malware sample sharing."
"Vendors including AVG, McAfee, Microsoft, Sophos, Symantec and Trend Micro have signed up to the newly newly-formed Industry Connections Security Group (ICSG). Anti-virus researchers at these firms (and others such as Kaspersky and F-secure yet to sign up to ICSG) have been sharing virus samples for years. What the ICSG wants to bring to the party is better organisation and standardisation to this process...."
In order to even make this work, everyone had to work under an IEEE working group (ICSG) to sidestep the anti-trust legal framework. Now imagine what could happen if all the green energy companies could agree to a similar IEEE framework. I don't have to imagine due to my involvement in the energy sector. If you follow the research papers, we are only beginning to scratch the surface of green energy production. While I don't subscribe to the environmental catastrophe model of the 'global warming' crowd, green is simple common sense, in my not so humble opinion. Don't mess with the world around you if you can avoid it (create externalities). Consequences, of some sort, may follow. Duh!
>>Work of US government employees can not be copyrighted,...
And that is not strictly true either. I was granted copyright on several applications and application suites that I developed while working for the US government. I did explicitly state in the code and documentation that I granted full rights to use and modify to their heart's content so long as the copyright notice remained in place.
Frankly, aside from one GM-14, I don't think they had a clue what I was doing, how I was doing it, nor why it worked. They just loved the money they were saving, and their future fitness reports ;-).
Thirty-five years of doing exactly this and it's nice to see someone else waking up to the fact that you do have to put in place the ability to rapidly detect and respond to outlier behaviors. Where he falls short, IMNSHO, is in the anticipated detection and response time. Twenty-four hours, in more than a few cases (epidemiology or financial markets anyone?), is insufficient. Toss in lead times required with JIT manufacturing (J. Crew), and this isn't fast enough by far.
Actually, it would be kind of cute to incorporate Social Web content into the data warehouse for social trend analysis (and I'm fiddling with this right now: ECMI) but that would almost certainly get stomped on by everyone (EFF, ACLU, ...). I've done autonomous models of this type before. In any case, the standard predictive model is so well entrenched that it will take quite a while, or a few extremely successful players, to change the playing field. The compute cloud may also change this, especially for smaller players.
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Re: Where does it stop?
It is far too late to stop it. The war was lost with the first pair of Levi's bought because of the stitching and little red tag. Sorry.
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Tragic flaws
You can guard against this in some way, and the framers of the Constitution did attempt to put some such safeguards from the thundering herd of the majority but it can be overridden and has on occasions too numerous to cite. [I can, endlessly almost, but what's the point.]
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This reminds me of ...
... It's called a Rave.
So it skipped a generation.
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Re: Re: I'm reminded of a book . . .
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I was sort of okay right up too...
I then showed the regulation to my commanding officer and he told them to try again. They finally admitted that their test equipment was out of calibration. (Rather than shut down all San Diego regional air traffic.) After re-calibration, the test results were barely above background, well below limits. BTW, we also checked the RF levels for ourselves and it was fine for everyone.
I've become awfully tired of victim arguments, especially when I see them manipulated again, and again, and again, against written intent.
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Intro to Ca. Law
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Cui bono
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Where you gonna put 'em?
Especially noteworthy is that the United States already has the highest level of incarceration, per capita, in the world. Also prisons, especially in California, are subject to court ordered reductions in prisoners due to overcrowding. Toss in the fact that my state, California, suffers from a severe lack of revenues. What this all adds up to is that there aren't any more beds available and there is no end in sight to this lack due to budget cuts as a result of an eroded tax base.
So what's a state to do? Why they hand their prisoners over to county and municipal jails, which are also overcrowded and unlikely to add new bed space as well, but having the singular advantage of more creative methods of punishment. The overall result is non-violent offenders are the first in line to be dumped on the counties and municipalities which similarly dump them in addition to their over-supply back out on the street often times on probation, community service and perhaps GPS monitoring, tossed into the mix. Some enforcement!
I would be lax in not pointing out that the very industry that shows a bent for creative accounting such that they pay little or no taxes are clamoring for serious criminal enforcement using money extracted for the very citizens they often wish to criminalize. My state has already had one tax revolt which triggered a round of tax revolts around the United States. Pity the (literally, by their lights) poor entertainment industry when the bill comes due on their efforts in criminalization of copyright infringement.
So I ask 'em, where you gonna put 'em?
[Criminalization without enforcement not only breeds contempt for any one particular law but for all laws. Why does the copyright mafia persist in not only annoying their customers but also show a real talent for getting the complete opposite of their goal. Witness for the jury the DDOS attacks on The Pirate Bay, among others. This takes real talent folks!]
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Late to the party, sorry!
Now, why the change in this case if the law was already drawn as to what the DoD, especially the military, can do? It comes down to one non-obvious conclusion. Formerly the law stated that cyber-warfare attacks and threats were to be treated as equivalent to kinetic (bombs, bullets, that kind of thing) weapons. Bits equals bombs. The new law says nothing of the kind. This allows cyber-warfare to be treated as equivalent to a NBC (Nuclear, Biological, Chemical) attack. Bits equals WMD's. That policy question has been bouncing around Washington, D. C., and think-tank set for a while now. Congress has officially gone on paper as to what equivalence, or actually the lack of direct equivalence really, between the various arenas of combat.
So, if Iran, China, Russia, hell North Korea, should engage in this kind of asymmetric warfare, they could wake up to a second sunrise, if they aren't already plasma.
[Note: This is not speculation. I served for well over a decade in the US Navy and from the time I swore my oath of enlistment, I've been interested in exactly what "protecting the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic" and on the nature of a "lawful" order from "those officers appointed above me. Then again, everyone in my extended family has served in one of the branches. It's what we do and have done for generations. Ummm, those that aren't rock-farmers. I can also blame Mom, who corrupted me with many a Robert A. Heinlein novel at an extremely young age.]
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Re:
As an aside, a lot of verbage is spent on the short-sidedness of corporate officers and their appointed officers. They only consider the next quarter's results. We haven't found a solution for that either.
Same problem, different social groups.
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You really need an ecometrician
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From a terminal, service connected, disabled Vet
O.k. That out of the way, I can speak anecdotally. Short answer, the US Navy and VA Hospital system have killed one of there rather better employees.
1984, on-board my vessel (a US Navy destroyer) in the graving dock I'm on watch as the roving (armed security) patrol. Bend down to retie my (favorite) paratrooper boots and as I stand up I get hit hard on the top rear of my hard hat and unprotected neck. I go down, paralyzed. Six hours later, three of it paralyzed, I'm discharged bandaged up, a bunch of codeines issued, and oh, a light duty chit. The only thing that I was told is that I shouldn't mix alcohol with them. I have to make my own way back from the hospital and for fun, have to do it in a uniform that is most definitely not EVER worn off base. NAVY (say like F*** and you have it down pat!
1984-1987 report having catatonic seizures, and they really are catatonic as in appear for all intensive purposes dead, loss of feeling in arms, neck and upper back pain. Given tylenol and sent off on my merry weigh (pun intended). Transferred through three commands and all three Naval facilities got to know me as I couldn't complete the physical fitness test which is mandatory. I was waved through since I was a "golden-goose". Admiral's and Captain's careers saved, beta-tests completed, tons of ROI. Whatever. I just love engineering.
1988 Deferral not forever so sent back to Balboa Naval Hospital (my birthplace) where an EMG (electro-myelogram) was done. LCDR who did the test said I was the first person who did the test that did not scream. Only evaluation he had. No conductivity problems in arms to the spine. [Should have been first red-flag, loss of feeling but problem not in arms.]
1991 Tossed out in the street with some severance pay ($38K) plus $8.1K college fund so I went back home to UC Riverside.
1991-1995 Ate my way through economics, mathematical computing, modeling, experimental design, and techniques courses on the menu there. After US NAVY Nuclear Power Program, college is a joke, grad school (first year already done, too) a walk in the park, and Ph. D. level stimulating. Continue to report problems.
1996-2000. Have to drop out pain so bad I'm in treatment program but they refuse to treat the pain. Finally they do a bone-scan and then after a negative result, an MRI is ordered in 1997. I'm given the neutral result of cervical bone spurs with spinal cord impingement and encroachment. Other than medication eating three holes in my GI tract, nada.
March, 2001, diagnosed inoperable and terminal by best guy on the west coast. Might of taken it back in '97 but still hazardous. Now I just wait. To die.
There are a long list of errors in there. Hubris on the part of "the Docs" is and diagnosticians sure on the list. I am most definitely not your typical patient and take mere minutes to get up to speed on most things as either it is part and partial of something I picked up elsewhere or just a specialized approach. I was born, or somehow learned along the way that all human knowledge is of a piece. With the notable exception of the space program, I have been involved in every area of human knowledge. Period. Even medical research where I validated the experimental design, methods used, statistical controls, and was general nice guy to the poor bunnies. The subject was MRSA, the time was 1998. That's why we can manage it (there is a treatment protocol and we were out looking for it. Still, I miss Thumper. Nothing in medicine took me more than a few minutes. A Few Minutes. To Learn. And Do. Even Improve.
I simply can't comprehend this need for an in-group/out-group distinction. I think it is (y)our need to keep others out, to preserve our self-distinction, blatant discrimination (formally exoist) against others. I can't. I don't seem to be equipped with/for it. Perhaps it's my autism (and yes, I was full-blown before somehow snapping out of it). How hard would it have been to simply discuss my case with me along the way? I'm extremely verbal, mostly socially, and usually not too scruffily, presentable if you can handle the intellectual arrogance.
Let me read my records and diagnostic reports? Speaking in an electrician's terms, if the signal is lost between hand and brain and signal is good from hand to spine, WTF does that tell you??!! I'm a fragging nuclear/electronic/ electrical/network/computer/database/process ... engineer & analyst! I don't even need to think of the next test to do! You have a process/culture problem here. I can recommend a really good Anthropologist to start working on you cultural problem. Sheesh, how many people have to die before you actually realize that the person on the other side of that record is a PERSON.
Sorry. This just shouldn't be. And I am not talking about my case.
Brian J. Bartlett, ex-ET1, USN.
[Insert job here]
brian.bartlett@gmail.com
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Hilarious!
Two final questions. One: I wonder how long the statute of limitations is on copyright infringement if copyright or other infringement this is? Two: If I feed a book to Office (no conversion) and have it narrate it to me, does that violate the DMCA vis-a-vis cirvumvention?
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Sorry about the late post...
No, the confusion arises from another recent article posted on several news sites. Specifically: "The IEEE has brought together an alliance of anti-virus vendors in an industry group that aims to improve and better organise collaboration, with an initial focus on better standards for malware sample sharing."
"Vendors including AVG, McAfee, Microsoft, Sophos, Symantec and Trend Micro have signed up to the newly newly-formed Industry Connections Security Group (ICSG). Anti-virus researchers at these firms (and others such as Kaspersky and F-secure yet to sign up to ICSG) have been sharing virus samples for years. What the ICSG wants to bring to the party is better organisation and standardisation to this process...."
In order to even make this work, everyone had to work under an IEEE working group (ICSG) to sidestep the anti-trust legal framework. Now imagine what could happen if all the green energy companies could agree to a similar IEEE framework. I don't have to imagine due to my involvement in the energy sector. If you follow the research papers, we are only beginning to scratch the surface of green energy production. While I don't subscribe to the environmental catastrophe model of the 'global warming' crowd, green is simple common sense, in my not so humble opinion. Don't mess with the world around you if you can avoid it (create externalities). Consequences, of some sort, may follow. Duh!
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Re: Re: Crown copyright
And that is not strictly true either. I was granted copyright on several applications and application suites that I developed while working for the US government. I did explicitly state in the code and documentation that I granted full rights to use and modify to their heart's content so long as the copyright notice remained in place.
Frankly, aside from one GM-14, I don't think they had a clue what I was doing, how I was doing it, nor why it worked. They just loved the money they were saving, and their future fitness reports ;-).
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Yawn
Actually, it would be kind of cute to incorporate Social Web content into the data warehouse for social trend analysis (and I'm fiddling with this right now: ECMI) but that would almost certainly get stomped on by everyone (EFF, ACLU, ...). I've done autonomous models of this type before. In any case, the standard predictive model is so well entrenched that it will take quite a while, or a few extremely successful players, to change the playing field. The compute cloud may also change this, especially for smaller players.
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