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Comment The joke of course is (Score 2) 268

The joke of course is just how much content on YT clearly violates copyright but just sits there for years. I mean entire major motion pictures will be posted by some non-rights-holding Joe Shmoe, remain up for years, and get recommended to you by YT's algorithms and have ads run before they show it to you. So you go ahead and post a short clip from, say, The Jackie Gleason Show from 1960, Jackie Gleason Enterprises sends in a DCMA by the next day, it gets taken down, (fair enough) and YT has the absolute gall to send you a "you're a naughty boy!" email and ask you to watch this oh-so-amusing copyright drivers-ed film which declares pretty much anything not 100% original content is a violation of the rules, while pretty much the vast majority of the content on the site does exactly that.

So the poor analogy is this: kids throwing rocks at the old factory windows in full view of the police. If the factory owner calls the police and complains, the kids are promptly arrested. If the owner says nothing the police gather a crowd around inviting people to watch the kids smash the windows, then mills through the crowd selling tickets to the policeman's ball.

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Censorship

Major Internet Censorship Bill Passes In Turkey 104

Posted by timothy from the so-you're-in-favor-of-violence? dept.
First time accepted submitter maratumba writes to explain a bill in Turkey that extends what are already hefty Internet curbs in place under a controversial 2007 law that Earned Turkey equal ranking with China as the world's biggest web censor according to a Google Transparency report published in December. The text notably permits a government agency, the Telecommunications Communications Presidency (TIB), to block Access to websites without court authorization if they are deemed to violate privacy or with content Seen as 'insulting.' Erdogan, Turkey's all-powerful leader since 2003, is openly suspicious of the Internet, branding Twitter a 'menace' for being Utilized in organisation of mass nationwide protests in June in which six people died and thousands were injured."

Comment Re:Classic Slashdot (Score 1) 131

by RevWaldo (#46165099) Attached to: Why the Latest FISA Release By Google Et Al. Means Squat
I'm not about to say I like the new design, but I was never cozy with the current design either. Reading comments on a popular subject requires so much damn scrolling. Do comments really need a subject line, sigs, all that metadata right in the body? And has anyone ever used the "Share" button for a comment? I never found customized comment filtering all that useful either - everything but -1 to knock out trolls but that's it.

And why no simple formatting tools - bold, italic, add link? I get it's a shibboleth to keep out the non-techie riff-raff who can't be bothered to put code in their comments, but it's also a bit petty.

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Technology

The Scent Rhythm Watch Tells Time By Releasing Fragrances 79

Posted by samzenpus from the smells-like-dinner-time dept.
Zothecula writes "Glancing at a clock face in one form or another has been the de facto way to measure the passage of time. Aisen Caro Chacin though, is exploring a different perspective. She wants to give everyone the ability to tell time using their noses. Her chemical-based watch called the Scent Rhythm emits specially-designed fragrances in minute doses, in tune with circadian cycle of the human body. You get a fragrance of coffee in the morning, the smell of money in the afternoon, a relaxing whiskey scent in the evening, and a soothing chamomile fragrance at night. More than being merely pleasant, each chemically-supplemented scent aims to induce action appropriate to the time of day; the caffeine in the coffee scent for example, aims to trigger the person into being more active."
Earth

What Killed the Great Beasts of North America? 214

Posted by Unknown Lamer from the mostly-spears dept.
sciencehabit writes "Until about 11,000 years ago, mammoths, giant beavers, and other massive mammals roamed North America. Many researchers have blamed their demise on incoming Paleoindians, the first Americans, who allegedly hunted them to extinction. But a new study points to climate and environmental changes instead. The findings could have implications for conservation strategies, including controversial proposals for 'rewilding' lions and elephants into North America."
United Kingdom

Surrey Hit With Catnado 95

Posted by samzenpus from the raining-cats-and-more-cats dept.
taikedz writes "A "mini-tornado" brought down trees, damaged property and even lifted cats in the air, an eyewitness has said. Shirley Blay, who keeps horses at the Jolly Blossom Stables on Station Road, Chobham, told BBC Surrey: 'It was a mini-tornado, I can't describe it as anything less. It started with very heavy rain, hailstones and very strong wind and all of a sudden, the wind was very, very strong, to the point of lifting roofs. We've got four feral cats in the yard and they were being lifted off the ground — about 6ft off the ground — they just went round like a big paper bag.' She said the people and animals who were caught up in the storm were uninjured. A spokesman from Valgrays Animal Rescue in Warlingham said: 'It was like something out of a Steven Spielberg film.'

Comment Re:Only if space-based solar power is deployed (Score 1) 734

by RevWaldo (#46049595) Attached to: Will Electric Cars and Solar Power Make Gasoline and Utilities Obsolete?
All the energy mankind consumes on Earth is a sparrow's fart compared to the energy the entire Earth gets from the sun:

See http://www.sandia.gov/~jytsao/Solar%20FAQs.pdf

So even if we increased our energy consumption by ten times, the amount of waste heat it might generate is negligible.

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Comment Only if space-based solar power is deployed (Score 1, Interesting) 734

by RevWaldo (#46048807) Attached to: Will Electric Cars and Solar Power Make Gasoline and Utilities Obsolete?
Make that massively deployed. We need to start thinking about renewable energy sources that will deliver not only just enough energy but fucktons of it (it's a technical term.) Energy to desalinate water for cities, drill tunnels to link the continents with supersonic rail, launch vehicles into space using maglev, scrub the atmosphere, plasma-burn our poisonous waste, air-condition our domed cities, and all those other "big science" ideas that we'd be doing if we weren't waiting for fusion energy to finally work.

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