It takes a long time to accumulate enough knowledge to get the pattern recognition and competent creativity to be an expert in any field. Brains have speed limits. It'd be nice if the valuation of the field lasted long enough to make it worth acquiring and increasing that knowledge.
Fun thought; what's it like to compete directly against 7 billion people? Do all specialized skills become close to worthless if you're not part of a restrictive "guild" (bar exams, medical board exams, etc) or part of a corporation?
Given what it takes to be admitted to the firm, let alone stay in it for 12 years, I wouldn't consider him "pissant". That time guarantees he's survived and gone above probably 100K other bright hires over the years. Can't say that for most companies.
My take, it's just the press milking the point/counterpoint style of argument to attract more eyeballs and ad dollars.
Did DHS specifically say they were banned for their tweets or is it just a newsworthy assumption? Did the two have any kind of criminal history, or was the denial due to their responses?
This could be like the guy who reportedly entered the US because he showed an iPad photo of his passport. Made news for a few days until US customs said "uh, no, we have our own methods and discretion, the ipad pic didn't matter". Big story became a non-story.
Did DHS specifically say they were banned for their tweets or is it just a newsworthy assumption? Did the two have any kind of criminal history? Were they denied
This could be like the guy who reportedly entered the US because he showed an iPad photo of his passport. Made news for a few days until US customs said "uh, no, we have our own methods and discretion, the ipad pic didn't matter". Big story became a non-story.
I don't consider the Yellow Pages to be content, just hard-to-gather data. For this site, the top level is data which points to content. The comments are the content, for me.
Aggregating data is content if the data in aggregate has more value than the pieces do independently. Isn't that essentially what all content is: a new organization of pre-existing data that has more value than the pieces separately? A song is a particular ordered collection of sounds that has more value than its individual pieces.
Can I offer some thoughts that seem to go against the majority opinion so far?
1) Should authorities take reasonable steps to prevent the commission of a crime, or wait until after it's occurred? What if a well-known soccer hooligan has posted that he's looking forward to running amuck?
2) Are threats against an individual allowed as part of free speech? What about against a family? Small business? A neighbourhood? A country? Where do you draw the line?
3) Do you differentiate between personal criminal behaviour and organized criminal behaviour? Or, between explosive threats vs non-explosive threats, like a small bomb vs significant vandalism to public property done for Youtube?
4) How would a third party know the tweeter is joking? (Most people who get called out for saying rude or racist remarks say "oh I was just kidding" afterwards). Do you prefer that all remarks should be ignored completely, or (somehow) checked for credibility? (And I have no idea how one would approach that, btw)
Looking for direct answers to all 4 questions, please. Would like to sample where people stand.
Yes. No. Yes. Due to lack of real proof. If we reacted this way to every aggressive speech, we'd have majority of population in prison for saying they're going to kill someone. (as in - "What did he do? I'm going to kill him!")
Not a good visualization. And it lacks some context too.
Three points
(1) tons of bulk-registered names are NOT hosted on GD's nameservers
(2) People complained that transfers were slow and cancelled some of them. (in the background, GD refused to do transfers or delayed it for days, gambling that people would get frustrated and blame the new registar).
(3) bulk-registered names (think of hundreds of marketers with 1000+ domains each) are usually split over numerous fake names to minimize their footprint and prevent wholesale site copying. GD allows fake name purchases. After the transfers started, GD began a policy of requiring a scanned drivers' licence for transfers. They also seize domains for themselves and resell them. So... many CAN'T transfer their domains out yet.
If it's always the same small group of people, create a gmail/hotmail account and give them all the username and password. Leave messages for each other in the Drafts (no need to send emails). Yes, I do know the downsides.
Or, find a FB messaging or forum app and get your friends to install it.
And all the mainstream messaging services to date have been centralised, at least in the sense that they involve interacting with a third party server.
When each friend can be both a client and/or a server, no third party servers are necessary. In theory (and practice), this is something you can achieve on a small network consisting only of your friends.
What if all your friends want to be online at the same time?
What if they want to share photos and video while online at the same time?
What if they want to play games with each other while online at the same time?
You can currently do these things with the mainstream web-based services like Facebook. But they are recording everything you say and do _and_ selling that information for profit. You don't receive any portion of that profit.
