> Britannica likes to emphasize that its
> articles are written by credentialed experts.
Mike,
I agree with you that Britannica misses the point here, but I also see yours is not shaped out sharp enough (in my humble opinion). You say
> Wikipedia's editing process is based [...]
> by citing reliable sources that anyone can
> check to verify the accuracy of the
> information.
I'd say, the point is, people don't care about whether or not it's experts who write but for what they get out of the written article. Therefore, your argument that wikipedia provides evidence for what they claim just underpins mine. :-) People care what they get out of something, evidenve is something pretty hard, even if they get it by non-experts.
Anyways, funny, today I looked at some rather similar situation, how library folks struggle to adapt to free information sources and the web in general. Especially over here in Europe where they once ramped up that 'Google crusher' project to remain 'independed' of it: http://dagobart.wordpress.com/2008/05/20/libraries-20/
Well, thanks god we still have some kind government in charge rather than an AI. SkyNet might have reasoned differently -- wipe all human from the surface of Earth "to protect transportation, security, and other critical systems".
Maybe it's time to realize the priorities [of protecting what against what else] shifted a bit out of balance and there might be a need to correct that -- before someday there'll be any sort of SkyNet AI around.
It's blogger.com, hence backlinking doesn't work properly. Therefore, here my manual trackback:
"... Mike Masnick over at BestNetTech summarizes what might happen to Japan soon -- that Japan's broadcast law might get extended to online content in the near future. When I read his summary, immediately it reminded me to what happend to Germany a few years ago -- a rather similar thing. In Germany, about 2005 or 2006, broadcast law became extended ..."
You know -- the police is always in the right. That's the reason why they're so beloved in the western countries especially civil rights activist love them. ... Dunno, but I think police claiming to be in the right, always, belongs to bad paranoia movies or to dictatorships.
Beck:
Sorry to get back on topic, but I was wondering why they bought gift cards and then used the gift cards to purchase merchandise. Why didn't they just buy the merchandise directly, without the extra step of buying the gift card? Can someone explain the reason for this?
Wizard Prang:
"Credit Laundering". -- Well, sort of. Kind of counterfeiting it is too. Creating gift cards translate money into pseudo-money, but much easier to counterfeit and much harder to track. And if the other end of it is not the one purchasing by the card, the purchaser becomes almost invisible -- and probably inaccessible for any authorities.
Especially (and that one is for you, Beck), since gift cards can be traded -- which obfuscates the trace completely. And everyone maybe catched can claim, they just bought the card from some random passer-by.
Looks like far less risk but plain counterfeiting.
[...] Pay or die. Just as the shareware developers opted for — and learned that it doesn’t work. People just notice, there’s a fence, and then they go somewhere where’s no such fence.
Lazarus recognizes that condition. Therefore, his article suggests to switch the whole newspapers industry at once, from [...]
[...] BestNetTech mentions the “newspapers struggle to adapt to the internet […] and the plenty of bad advice” they’ve received “on what they should do.” So, despite of David Lazarus’ suggestion to keep the mind in the past, make the legislator strongly support the newspapers’ efforts in gaining profits, what could the newspapers actually do? [...]
On the other hand, see KDE. It's a fat puppy, but its integration with -- simple but valueble -- net services is well. For example the few keystrokes google/wikipedia/whatever web search launch (Alt+F2+shortcut + actual search words).
Since a few days, I have to work under windows, again, and where KDE somedays behaved awfully latency requiring, windows just look not-moving at all. Well, that's just my impression, and shouldn't be a starting point for another OS war.
So, me too, I think, MS should make windows just move quicker and faster. -- And more rich in valuable features. (Who needs menus fading in/out, while not having easy mouse/keyboard shortcuts at hand to move any windows?)
Just my 2 cents.
BestNetTech has not posted any stories submitted by dagobart.
Err, shouldn't have replied from the feed and reading only to the middle of the posting. ... Just noticed, it was not by Mike but Timothy.
Totally mislead.. sorry. Timothy, please feel addressed. :-)
> Britannica likes to emphasize that its
> articles are written by credentialed experts.
Mike,
I agree with you that Britannica misses the point here, but I also see yours is not shaped out sharp enough (in my humble opinion). You say
> Wikipedia's editing process is based [...]
> by citing reliable sources that anyone can
> check to verify the accuracy of the
> information.
I'd say, the point is, people don't care about whether or not it's experts who write but for what they get out of the written article. Therefore, your argument that wikipedia provides evidence for what they claim just underpins mine. :-) People care what they get out of something, evidenve is something pretty hard, even if they get it by non-experts.
Anyways, funny, today I looked at some rather similar situation, how library folks struggle to adapt to free information sources and the web in general. Especially over here in Europe where they once ramped up that 'Google crusher' project to remain 'independed' of it: http://dagobart.wordpress.com/2008/05/20/libraries-20/
I'm rather sure lots of people would allow for wearing such a bracelet, simply because security became similar to some kind of religion.
scary
"the only way"
Well, thanks god we still have some kind government in charge rather than an AI. SkyNet might have reasoned differently -- wipe all human from the surface of Earth "to protect transportation, security, and other critical systems".
Maybe it's time to realize the priorities [of protecting what against what else] shifted a bit out of balance and there might be a need to correct that -- before someday there'll be any sort of SkyNet AI around.
A Suspected Benefit of Extending Broadcast Law to
It's blogger.com, hence backlinking doesn't work properly. Therefore, here my manual trackback:
"... Mike Masnick over at BestNetTech summarizes what might happen to Japan soon -- that Japan's broadcast law might get extended to online content in the near future. When I read his summary, immediately it reminded me to what happend to Germany a few years ago -- a rather similar thing. In Germany, about 2005 or 2006, broadcast law became extended ..."
Re: Re:
> ...the individual digital would get...
typo. I meant individual digital _medium_/gadget
You know -- the police is always in the right. That's the reason why they're so beloved in the western countries especially civil rights activist love them. ... Dunno, but I think police claiming to be in the right, always, belongs to bad paranoia movies or to dictatorships.
Looks like they revamped counterfeiting
Beck:
Sorry to get back on topic, but I was wondering why they bought gift cards and then used the gift cards to purchase merchandise. Why didn't they just buy the merchandise directly, without the extra step of buying the gift card? Can someone explain the reason for this?
Wizard Prang:
"Credit Laundering". -- Well, sort of. Kind of counterfeiting it is too. Creating gift cards translate money into pseudo-money, but much easier to counterfeit and much harder to track. And if the other end of it is not the one purchasing by the card, the purchaser becomes almost invisible -- and probably inaccessible for any authorities.
Especially (and that one is for you, Beck), since gift cards can be traded -- which obfuscates the trace completely. And everyone maybe catched can claim, they just bought the card from some random passer-by.
Looks like far less risk but plain counterfeiting.
Re: Re: Re: Ah the modern age
The word looks German. Since I am from Germany, I'd spell it "Rumspringer". But your approach was quite well. :-)
Re:
[...] Pay or die. Just as the shareware developers opted for — and learned that it doesn’t work. People just notice, there’s a fence, and then they go somewhere where’s no such fence. Lazarus recognizes that condition. Therefore, his article suggests to switch the whole newspapers industry at once, from [...]
how to fight the competition from the net
[...] BestNetTech mentions the “newspapers struggle to adapt to the internet […] and the plenty of bad advice” they’ve received “on what they should do.” So, despite of David Lazarus’ suggestion to keep the mind in the past, make the legislator strongly support the newspapers’ efforts in gaining profits, what could the newspapers actually do? [...]
On the other hand, see KDE. It's a fat puppy, but its integration with -- simple but valueble -- net services is well. For example the few keystrokes google/wikipedia/whatever web search launch (Alt+F2+shortcut + actual search words).
Since a few days, I have to work under windows, again, and where KDE somedays behaved awfully latency requiring, windows just look not-moving at all. Well, that's just my impression, and shouldn't be a starting point for another OS war.
So, me too, I think, MS should make windows just move quicker and faster. -- And more rich in valuable features. (Who needs menus fading in/out, while not having easy mouse/keyboard shortcuts at hand to move any windows?)
Just my 2 cents.