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Bullshit! He became a terrorist!

Some hoaxes getting published all over, including Amazon involvement.
See http://search.wikia.com/wiki/search:News

No reference to the first modder that I recall who ran afoul of Fox Studios intellectual property - the Alien TC mod for Doom.

http://doom.wikia.com/wiki/Aliens_TC

And no mention of it here ... am I on crack? I could have sworn he was served with cease-and-desist letters to completely halt his mod given his usage of images/logos/intellectual property.

Oh, here's a reference. Yeah, it coined a phrase for that time period ... getting "Foxed".

http://www.unfetteredblather.com/nucleus/index.php ?itemid=76

That's what I did. For free in a "scratchpad wiki" at http://wikia.com/. If you have to specify sensitive data, network services details, run a wiki yourself or look for specialized hosting.

Of course i'm still the only one reading the wiki :)

There is to my knowledge no way for a person to make a web page easily, free, and anonymously. The wikipedia does give you the option to make a page on anything easily

Make your own damn toy wiki about yourself or whatever: http://scratchpad.wikia.com/

s/wikimedia/wikia perhaps? The company is owned by Jimbo himself, and provides free mediawiki hosting.

It's easier to search Penny Arcade here.

http://campaigns.wikia.com/wiki/MAAs

Here's an article which was written for people who dislike "paedophiles" for their thoughts - http://paedosexuality.blogspot.com/2006/10/fms.htm l

http://campaigns.wikia.com/wiki/MAAs Here's an article which was written for people who dislike "paedophiles" for their thoughts - http://paedosexuality.blogspot.com/2006/10/fms.htm l

http://campaigns.wikia.com/wiki/MAAs

For my information, I personally like Wikihack. It has just about everything.

Of course, I'm still not that great at the game. I've gotten to the quest portion, but only by savescumming. I know it's frowned upon, but savescumming is a good way to learn what the hell you're doing. And when I did get to the quest, I wasn't high enough level to start it, which sucked because there were two liches (a master lich and an arch-lich) on the same level as the quest master. That sucked.

Aero

For my information, I personally like Wikihack. It has just about everything.

Of course, I'm still not that great at the game. I've gotten to the quest portion, but only by savescumming. I know it's frowned upon, but savescumming is a good way to learn what the hell you're doing. And when I did get to the quest, I wasn't high enough level to start it, which sucked because there were two liches (a master lich and an arch-lich) on the same level as the quest master. That sucked.

Aero

For my information, I personally like Wikihack. It has just about everything.

Of course, I'm still not that great at the game. I've gotten to the quest portion, but only by savescumming. I know it's frowned upon, but savescumming is a good way to learn what the hell you're doing. And when I did get to the quest, I wasn't high enough level to start it, which sucked because there were two liches (a master lich and an arch-lich) on the same level as the quest master. That sucked.

Aero

For my information, I personally like Wikihack. It has just about everything.

Of course, I'm still not that great at the game. I've gotten to the quest portion, but only by savescumming. I know it's frowned upon, but savescumming is a good way to learn what the hell you're doing. And when I did get to the quest, I wasn't high enough level to start it, which sucked because there were two liches (a master lich and an arch-lich) on the same level as the quest master. That sucked.

Aero

You can find just about every spoiler at Wikihack, along with a whole lot more than you ever needed to know.

I met Jimbo Wales when he had visited Bangalore recently and he struck me as a very down to earth person. In his own words, "I don't do much for wikipedia. I travel to places and wikipedia makes it into the local papers". I suspect he was oversimplifying his role in wikipedia, but that is the true success of of a founder - to create a self-sutaining system which doesn't need him to stay alive.

I assume he'll be more involved in Wikia, which though probably similar to wikipedia, can probably exist orthogonally.

Any status on the Sonic Movie?

He may be the first nerd in space, but he's definitely not the first pig.

There's already a dedicated wiki like this through the for-profit Wikia, Wikianswers, whereas the Wikipedia reference desk is another well-trafficked (and ad-free) option.

This is really cool news indeed. I should also mention that if you're diabetic and haven't read this collection of 6 articles, you might be able to save your feet and eyes and kidneys. It's non-commercial, just a collection of papers and a diabetic writer who's putting it together.

http://www.phlaunt.com/diabetes/ Most important conclusion: If you can keep blood sugar controlled enough, Type-2 need not deteriorate. Don't reply until you've read the article and references.

I will be on the lookout to see if it works for feline and canine diabetics too (I run the wiki on for diabetic cats & dogs: http://petdiabetes.wikia.com/ )

True. Its fall begins February of next year according to this:

http://scratchpad.wikia.com/wiki/Myspace_95_Thesis

It's hard to know, when you're dealing with something like this, to guage the effects.

But I have a hunch (based in my own experience) that SimEarth "worked," and I have a hunch that Spore will work, as well.

I've been exploring a model of the "mass mind" called "Causal Layered Analysis." It makes sense to me. Spore would rest somewhere between "Worldview / Discourse Analysis," and "Myth / Metaphore Analysis," since it largely works unconsciously.

• Possibility to a certain degree of working at home through the use of TV-telephones, telefaxes, etc. (forecast: 1998)
• Acquisition of observation data from unmanned probes around Uranus, Neptune, Pluto and outside the solar system. (1999)
• Development of optical communication technology that can realize substantial savings in the use of copper. (1999)
• Possibility of external fertilization or artificial womb. (2001)
• Widespread use of heart transplant from human being by resolving problems such as transplant immunity, rejection and donor. (2001)
• Practical use of rapid-transit railway using iron rail and iron wheel, which can run at 300 km/h. (2006)
• Development of artificial ear. (2007)

Artificial Intelligence is coming a lot sooner than 2020.

The Singularity Timetable predicts True AI in 2006; an AI landrush in 2007; human-level AI by 2008; and Superintelligent AI by 2012.

AI has been solved in both theory for neuroscience and software for robots.

A theory of artificial intelligence has been implemented in Forth for robots and in JavaScript for tutorial artificial intelligence.

AI in Forth is free, open-source artificial intelligence for robots.

JavaScript for Artificial Intelligence describes how even a simple language like JavaScript is ideal for instructional artificial intelligence tutorials.

The Joint Stewardship of Earth will be in effect long before the year 2020.

Turing Store Books tells you all about the very most important writings by human beings about the coming artificial intelligence.

Mind.html in JavaScript has an enormous installed user base and can no longer be stopped from engendering a global AI Mind by 2020 if not sooner.

Wikia hosts hundreds of wikis on specialist topics. These projects are often controlled by "experts", although it's not explicitly stated that way, and there is not usually an official restriction on editing.

We had a session about it at Wikimania 2006. It confirmed my own experiences as founder of WikiFur. I rarely get the time to make content edits, as "management" issues take priority.

"My heart agrees with you: pedophiles are scum, and as a parent, their mass death wouldn't bother me one bit."

Well it would have to be a mass murder, because there are a lot of us and we aren't going anywhere. You may put a few hundred paedophiles in prison on child porn charges and some of the 10% of child sex abuses which are committed by paedophiles might result in prison sentences (and rightly so if it's sex abuse), however if you think you're going to have the 33% of people who have at least some attraction to children, or the 5-25% who are technically paedophiles killed, you're fooling yourself. It's not illegal to be a paedophile, because it is not illegal to exist, however it is illegal to abuse children and download child porn.

For the record, the huge majority of us spend time with children, without needing sexual relationships. I spend time with my younger brother's friend and I'm going to become a teacher. I don't need sex with young boys, even though I find them sexually attractive; spending time with them is enough.

People won't be able to fight paeds so hard in the future, because we're fighting back. See AN if you want an example.

And, if you're really so terrified of us, maybe you should learn more

~ BLue

And here are a few more realities

On such DRM systems, the signature file depends of a "machine hash". So you reinstall the game on the exact same machine with the file, yes it will work flawlessly. But if you change some piece of hardware or the OS, it won't work, the signature will not match.

I'm a furry. And yes, I play a female character!

Even though Govt of India ordered to restore acess to blogspot, The 18 sites that Govt decided to ban is still banned. But for most of those sites & blogs I cant findout reason to block. Still ministry is silent on it. It again the duty of bloggers community to file Right to information Application to know why this ban. The news came on Indian Express Newspaper addresses this issue in some amount. Are Bloggers are happy after removing the threat to their own blogs? If they can block a blog like http://princesskimberley.blogspot.com/ they can block any of the blog site. Is there Govt have a justification for blocking each & every site? why a website talking about dalit nationalism ( i didn't seen any hate content on http://www.dalitstan.org/ ) is blocked in a country that addreses diversities...? so Indian bloggers must move on this way to ask the reasons for the censorship.

Spore somes a lot like Creatures, except Spore seems a lot more restrictive... more of a traditional game than the simulation Creatures is.

(If you don't know about Creatures, Wikipedia a decent overview.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creatures
(And then there's the Creatures wiki... no overview but more detail.)
http://creatures.wikia.com/wiki/Creatures_Wiki_Hom epage

...and it's come in quick time.
http://scratchpad.wikia.com/wiki/Bloggers_Against_ Censorship
http://groups.google.com/group/BloggersCollective

Bypassing the Ban

The government once again tries to make a fool of itself. They tried it in 2003, failed and now this. Also not all ISP's are blocking the sites. Btw, the new congress government is no longer any diffrent from the BJP. Yeah, they reacted POTO (equivalent to the US Patriot act) ...But they are not keeping up their word regarding freedom of speech etc ...They have become the represive govt that they promised to replace in the last election!

It requires a visionary to come up with something new. Sure, many people, often the same people every time, will say it isn't going to work. It won't happen. It's just another blog / forum, etc, etc. Booring. Can't you come up with something new?

It's hillarious how quick people are to grab onto the negative, when everybody really wants to be happy.. So you have to fight for your cause and ignoring the negativity.

Someone who started Wikipedia.. That speaks volumes to me. I remember when I was a kid 15-20 years ago, and saw a show on Discovery how our society would turn into an "information based economy", or some such phrase.

To be short: I was completely turned off! In my mind, I thought "If we will be able to share all information with everybody, store collections of books online, meet anyone on the planet, virtual tourism, etc, etc. Why shouldn't it be free? Why wouldn't people collaborate to make up information about every concept known to man?

The show touched that subject, but insisted somehow that there had to be money involved, that our society would value information more. Brokers would buy- and sell bits of information, as if it was a scarcity. That can only happen with DRM and stifling IP-laws, and is not natural at all. I just don't understand this way of reasoning. Sharing is very natural I feel.

Jimmy Wales has clearly understood the real power of the internet and how to tame it. To take on such a project and succeed where everybody else has failed, takes talents in many areas.

Yes, information can be shared indefinately. However, doing so, increases the value of the information to humankind. While if you share a bread with everybody, everybody will die of hunger.. unless you have special connections ;)

To avoid bias, ways of moderating and collaborating on changes are also needed. I'm not saying Wikipedia meets the highest vision of automatizing that, but it does a very fine job because of dilligent and serious editors (hats off). Maybe automatizing is, like K5 and /., are not optimal for that job anyways. It is more important that experts are making the calls, than voting on a topic for something like Wikipedia.

To get the project known, used and collaboration started, is an enormous feat which is hard to quantify, wether it's luck, PR or good looks ;)

What immediately comes up in my mind why a Wiki for political discussions is a good idea:

Wiki's are made to make a consensus. The further in time you get, the articles should become more and more correct, brushed-up and representative.

Democracy also has an interest in making a consensus, with both majority and minority interests in mind. This is solved today by representative democracy.

Politics is today far removed from the actual people. Also, topics tend to gravitate towards the scandalous, superficial, sex or fear-full, rather than important topics.

Forums do NOT make a concensus. They have many conflicting opinions, but moves very quickly on the next topic disregarding the work that has been put in previous topics. Such a waste of time and effort, so MUCH goes into the drain!

Blogs are also limited to just one author, and the commenters. They gravitate towards news and hot topics, but are not trying to systematically cover everything.

Wiki's on the other hand are supposed to converge into one piece of information, or many collaborated articles, about the whole topic.

I am very interested in how to portray conflicting views though. Maybe each article should have links to the related discussions? Or you could use DHTML to hide much of the discussion behind every paragraph, then choose the view you want to see.

Just see here: http://campaigns.wikia.com/wiki/Terrorism

After reading this, don't you feel compelled to fill in the blanks, or further the argumentation. The idea is to make the articles more whole

from the how-long-until-the-religion-wiki dept.

What, like this? Or this?

Would it kill them to give a few examples of 'words'?

I'm guessing it'll be something like Droidspeak.

Why do we have to start with humans in space, isn't it a much better idea to start making colonies with animals?
Like ... maybe ...

pigs?

Anyway, gmencoder, konverter, iriverter, movieconvert, and a load of other stuff.

And since you mentioned SVCD specifically, here is Tovid (screenshot)

a collection of video disc authoring tools; it can help you create your own DVDs, VCDs, and SVCDs for playback on your home DVD player.

Don't know if any of that stuff is right though... Good luck!

Well, the article is "since November." Let's see the big releases which have come out since then...

- A Game of Thrones
- Racer Knights of Falconus
- World of Darkness: Chicago
- Vampire: Prince of the City (boardgame)
- Exalted Second Edition

Except for Exalted 2, there really hasn't been much worth mentioning. But yes, Exalted definitely deserved a mention.

One can argue that there's already a Homeworld TV show, since Homeworld was heavily influenced by the original Battlestar Galactica series. Of couse, there are many other influences in Homeworld. Yes, it would make a good movie, though it would probably take a trilogy of films to do right.