I fully support the cause, but Grayson is a Class A butthole.
I wouldn't give him access to my blog, let alone anything important.
On a different aspect; We've known about Echelon for a long time. That makes the classification of this newest program a total farce. I don't understand why CongressCritters don't merely notify the powers that be, that they are doing a full review of Classification Justification and develop a Special Committee for that.
Yes, I would consider it Misconduct....
that they handed the Jury a 700 question form.
The Judge should have done HIS job of winnowing away the unimportant details and getting down to the meat of the issue. Really? Rounded corners? That should have been thrown out in a heartbeat. Pinch to zoom... Now we have an issue.
At the bare minimum, the case should have been subdivided into separate issues to be found before the court.
The jury was merely confronted and overwhelmed by the enormity of the task. Given the change in the social environment, oversimplification and abstraction is almost a survival skill in today's world of data. You either over think it and sink, or abstract and swim.
This needs a HUGE LOAD of STEAMING MISTRIAL!!!!
I'd lay it at the feet of the Judge.
This is merely an extension of the "Zero Tolerance" mentality.
Critical thinking and decision making can sometimes be as hard as it is essential. Invariably, someone makes a mistake. Instead of calling it a mistake, it is labeled as a "failure", and being polite, what failed is not the person making the decision, but the "System".
That then means that you need a procedural element to remove the decision making aspect to the process. You need a "Certification" or an "Endorsement", or a rule, or a policy, or a (Insert your stupid function here).
This attitude has taken hold in the Educational Domain as it has in many other places.
How about a radical idea: You empower people to make decisions, you back them, and you understand that they will make mistakes from time to time. People take responsibility for their decisions, and organizations both empower and hold accountable those that make decisions.
In such an environment, a principal interviews and accepts a Math Teacher. A Principal talks to a student who has put a frog in Annie's desk. There is no "Zero Tolerance for Pranks" or "Automatic Expel for Bullying", it's just the Principal, the Child, and the Parents.
Ooooohhh. Danger Will Robinson! Such a system would reward Competence and skill, and would punish incompetence.
Is that such a bad thing?
The word "Free" is a very imprecise term here. In English, it conveys a number of ideas that don't necessarily follow.
The open source folks seem to understand, by using the phrases "free as in beer" or "free as in speech". These convey a more specific definition of "free" or sometimes of "freedom". I think that there are many in our culture that confuse "price" with "value". These terms are NEVER interchangable. You can get manure for a certain price, and that price is a function of the value of the manure, the demand for this particular manure, economic conditions, and the parties that are exchanging the manure. Joe gives me some manure for my garden for "free". That means that I don't need to exchange small shiny rocks for this manure! That does not mean that the manure has no value! I get pretty roses, and my neighbor gets my undying devotion and first dibs on the dowry being accumulated for my two year old (many years hence). Let's take this manure to the radio. (Durn! That idea's already taken...) Radio provides a band exposure to a receptive (pre-selected) audience. It provides a community of fans, and buzz about new releases. All valuable commodities. It's not a "Loss Leader", it's an exchange of value. The only difference is that the currency does not resemble small shiny rocks. The currency is mind-share, attention (increasingly valuable today!), and devotion. Question: How much has Metallica's stupidity cost them? They could probably try to quantify it in numbers of shiny rocks.
These facts are all dropped into a cultural bag and shaken handily. In day of old, when knights were bold.... Artists would give away their "ART FOR FREE" (geez..is it that hard to find the CAPS LOCK?) and derived the value of living in a warm castle. Three hots and a cot so to speak. Does that have no value? The problem, all told, are small-minded folks who arn't able to estimate the REAL value of freedom. That's OK I guess. TRex and Flock of Seagulls have outlived their usefulness as well.
Uh... We're talking about stealing here...
The Internet is simply an API for information. The reason for placing an image, a link, or a paragraph on it, is to distribute the information freely to all.
If you wish to encumber that freedom, there are established methods to do so. You can use a robots.txt file to tell search engines that you don't want to be indexed.
You could also use VPN or encryption technologies to prevent the information from being distributed.
The point here is that it is either freely accessible or it isn't. With computers, everything really boils down to being binary. If the judge cannot understand all the elements above, then he should pass the case to someone who does.
... congress is not in session. I think that we should have a three month term for congress in the summer. That means that whatever is important will be taken up and acted upon during the summer. That would either cut out the horse-hockey, or nothing would get done. Either way the taxpayer/citizen wins...
.. and most of what I watch either stars or is narrated by Mike Rowe. I think that he should get a bigger chunk of my $80. I also think that I would rather pay $15 per channel to each of 4 channels than $2 each to thirty channels, 20 of which I never watch.
"But what of the poor special interest channels..." Let'em compete. If they are popular enough, they will survive. If not, it's the law of the jungle.
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Grayson?
I fully support the cause, but Grayson is a Class A butthole.
I wouldn't give him access to my blog, let alone anything important.
On a different aspect; We've known about Echelon for a long time. That makes the classification of this newest program a total farce. I don't understand why CongressCritters don't merely notify the powers that be, that they are doing a full review of Classification Justification and develop a Special Committee for that.
Gullible
So, you actually believed that drivel about "Transparency"? Looks like you got snookered too! Imagine that!
Misconduct?
Yes, I would consider it Misconduct....
that they handed the Jury a 700 question form.
The Judge should have done HIS job of winnowing away the unimportant details and getting down to the meat of the issue. Really? Rounded corners? That should have been thrown out in a heartbeat. Pinch to zoom... Now we have an issue.
At the bare minimum, the case should have been subdivided into separate issues to be found before the court.
The jury was merely confronted and overwhelmed by the enormity of the task. Given the change in the social environment, oversimplification and abstraction is almost a survival skill in today's world of data. You either over think it and sink, or abstract and swim.
This needs a HUGE LOAD of STEAMING MISTRIAL!!!!
I'd lay it at the feet of the Judge.
Teachers
This is merely an extension of the "Zero Tolerance" mentality.
Critical thinking and decision making can sometimes be as hard as it is essential. Invariably, someone makes a mistake. Instead of calling it a mistake, it is labeled as a "failure", and being polite, what failed is not the person making the decision, but the "System".
That then means that you need a procedural element to remove the decision making aspect to the process. You need a "Certification" or an "Endorsement", or a rule, or a policy, or a (Insert your stupid function here).
This attitude has taken hold in the Educational Domain as it has in many other places.
How about a radical idea: You empower people to make decisions, you back them, and you understand that they will make mistakes from time to time. People take responsibility for their decisions, and organizations both empower and hold accountable those that make decisions.
In such an environment, a principal interviews and accepts a Math Teacher. A Principal talks to a student who has put a frog in Annie's desk. There is no "Zero Tolerance for Pranks" or "Automatic Expel for Bullying", it's just the Principal, the Child, and the Parents.
Ooooohhh. Danger Will Robinson! Such a system would reward Competence and skill, and would punish incompetence.
Is that such a bad thing?
Perhaps another way to look at it
The word "Free" is a very imprecise term here. In English, it conveys a number of ideas that don't necessarily follow.
The open source folks seem to understand, by using the phrases "free as in beer" or "free as in speech". These convey a more specific definition of "free" or sometimes of "freedom". I think that there are many in our culture that confuse "price" with "value". These terms are NEVER interchangable. You can get manure for a certain price, and that price is a function of the value of the manure, the demand for this particular manure, economic conditions, and the parties that are exchanging the manure. Joe gives me some manure for my garden for "free". That means that I don't need to exchange small shiny rocks for this manure! That does not mean that the manure has no value! I get pretty roses, and my neighbor gets my undying devotion and first dibs on the dowry being accumulated for my two year old (many years hence). Let's take this manure to the radio. (Durn! That idea's already taken...) Radio provides a band exposure to a receptive (pre-selected) audience. It provides a community of fans, and buzz about new releases. All valuable commodities. It's not a "Loss Leader", it's an exchange of value. The only difference is that the currency does not resemble small shiny rocks. The currency is mind-share, attention (increasingly valuable today!), and devotion. Question: How much has Metallica's stupidity cost them? They could probably try to quantify it in numbers of shiny rocks.
These facts are all dropped into a cultural bag and shaken handily. In day of old, when knights were bold.... Artists would give away their "ART FOR FREE" (geez..is it that hard to find the CAPS LOCK?) and derived the value of living in a warm castle. Three hots and a cot so to speak. Does that have no value? The problem, all told, are small-minded folks who arn't able to estimate the REAL value of freedom. That's OK I guess. TRex and Flock of Seagulls have outlived their usefulness as well.
The court's logic IS flawed...
Uh... We're talking about stealing here...
The Internet is simply an API for information. The reason for placing an image, a link, or a paragraph on it, is to distribute the information freely to all.
If you wish to encumber that freedom, there are established methods to do so. You can use a robots.txt file to tell search engines that you don't want to be indexed.
You could also use VPN or encryption technologies to prevent the information from being distributed.
The point here is that it is either freely accessible or it isn't. With computers, everything really boils down to being binary. If the judge cannot understand all the elements above, then he should pass the case to someone who does.
I like it when...
... congress is not in session. I think that we should have a three month term for congress in the summer. That means that whatever is important will be taken up and acted upon during the summer. That would either cut out the horse-hockey, or nothing would get done. Either way the taxpayer/citizen wins...
I pay $80 a month...
.. and most of what I watch either stars or is narrated by Mike Rowe. I think that he should get a bigger chunk of my $80. I also think that I would rather pay $15 per channel to each of 4 channels than $2 each to thirty channels, 20 of which I never watch.
"But what of the poor special interest channels..." Let'em compete. If they are popular enough, they will survive. If not, it's the law of the jungle.