ok, i don't know much about computer generated html, but of the little computer generated xhtml i've seen, none of it has ever validated. xhtml is a lot simpler than html, but for some reason people have a hard time doing it. web browsers, even firefox, don't do a lot of the xml stuff that they should do, like xlink embed. ie afaik doesn't do xml at all. this kinda saddens me, since xlink is pretty cool, and could do a lot of the stuff people use javascript for, but without having to use javascript.
personally i think that we should instead give everyone eternal life, so that they live long enough to have their stupid decisions bite them in the rump. if that happens, i think that we'd suddenly have a much wiser and flexible society. the longer someone lives, the greater the chance that they'll experience something to make them change their mind. in order to have a society with eternal life, it is i think most important for people to learn to learn from their mistakes, and that that's not just for kids. there are, um, technological barriers to that currently, but it could change someday.
perhaps developing nations would be a good place to use the tesla wireless power as described recently on/. -- once they've put in more research of course. the benefit of this would be, well, less infrastructure needed to power a region, though i don't know if it would make sense economically.
one problem with a large scale wireless power system though would probably be the free rider / tragedy of the commons problem, so someone setting this up would have to have either some system to prevent this or be willing to really power a whole region. with wired power, we can see how much a particular house uses, and so someone setting up wireless power might want to design a similar thing (like, use cell phone band to communicate usage information while the power band transmits power). one would have to make sure there are no 'pirate' users of power if one were hoping to profit off this.
well, i think one of the goals of the project (don't know if they met it or not) was to make them power efficient enough that they could be reasonably charged with a hand crank generator or some other energy source that is available when without a public energy infrastructure
ok, i don't know the guy, but i can't say whether he needs 'help'. even if he does, i do agree that prison wouldn't be the answer -- but anyway, my point is that what i feel is happening is that free speech is being oppressed. what the guy did was post something that was very offensive, but regardless of the location, i think that what he did does not merit a prison sentence. as far as the child pornography goes, the article does not say how the 33 images were found, other than on his computer.
according to the article, he got more time (2 years + 8 months vs 6 months) for the 'hate speech' than the kiddie porn
and honestly, i know i'm probably going to be disliked for saying this, but as far as child pornography goes, 33 images on a computer is seriously not a whole lot and probably doesn't mean he's a pedophile. in terms of his other actions like pretending to be a young schoolgirl and things, there's still the possibility that he really likes role playing and has an interest in trying to mess with people. maybe you don't believe me, but you guys have spent enough time on the internet to know there are some strange but harmless people out there, and this could be one of them. from the very scant information the article gives, i can't tell.
the main scare i have is not the guy, but that the article, and the people involved (and maybe the guy's lawyer too) all seem to be liking the idea that ideas can be bad, and that ideas led to nazism and slavery and what not and so should be monitored and anyone who thinks differently should be oppressed; which the last sections of the article definitely imply.
also, skype's encryption and how they do it is not viewable to me. thus, there are blatant issues with me talking over skype and hoping that their encryption is 1) strong enough, 2) they won't divulge my key, 3) they will establish the keys well, 4) there aren't hidden back doors. i personally can't really tell what's going on with skype. i use it when i talk to the unenlightened, but i don't talk about anything that requires encryption to them, and really don't use voip much anyway. i tell them that if they want to be able to talk to me about such things via voip, that it'll be through something that shows me some source.
as a bit of a crypto buff, encryption means a lot to me--but the fact that you're trusting skype means that it probably doesn't mean much to you.
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ok, i don't know much about computer generated html, but of the little computer generated xhtml i've seen, none of it has ever validated. xhtml is a lot simpler than html, but for some reason people have a hard time doing it. web browsers, even firefox, don't do a lot of the xml stuff that they should do, like xlink embed. ie afaik doesn't do xml at all. this kinda saddens me, since xlink is pretty cool, and could do a lot of the stuff people use javascript for, but without having to use javascript.
personally i think that we should instead give everyone eternal life, so that they live long enough to have their stupid decisions bite them in the rump. if that happens, i think that we'd suddenly have a much wiser and flexible society. the longer someone lives, the greater the chance that they'll experience something to make them change their mind. in order to have a society with eternal life, it is i think most important for people to learn to learn from their mistakes, and that that's not just for kids.
there are, um, technological barriers to that currently, but it could change someday.
perhaps developing nations would be a good place to use the tesla wireless power as described recently on /. -- once they've put in more research of course. the benefit of this would be, well, less infrastructure needed to power a region, though i don't know if it would make sense economically.
one problem with a large scale wireless power system though would probably be the free rider / tragedy of the commons problem, so someone setting this up would have to have either some system to prevent this or be willing to really power a whole region. with wired power, we can see how much a particular house uses, and so someone setting up wireless power might want to design a similar thing (like, use cell phone band to communicate usage information while the power band transmits power). one would have to make sure there are no 'pirate' users of power if one were hoping to profit off this.
well, i think one of the goals of the project (don't know if they met it or not) was to make them power efficient enough that they could be reasonably charged with a hand crank generator or some other energy source that is available when without a public energy infrastructure
ok, i don't know the guy, but i can't say whether he needs 'help'. even if he does, i do agree that prison wouldn't be the answer -- but anyway, my point is that what i feel is happening is that free speech is being oppressed. what the guy did was post something that was very offensive, but regardless of the location, i think that what he did does not merit a prison sentence. as far as the child pornography goes, the article does not say how the 33 images were found, other than on his computer.
according to the article, he got more time (2 years + 8 months vs 6 months) for the 'hate speech' than the kiddie porn
and honestly, i know i'm probably going to be disliked for saying this, but as far as child pornography goes, 33 images on a computer is seriously not a whole lot and probably doesn't mean he's a pedophile. in terms of his other actions like pretending to be a young schoolgirl and things, there's still the possibility that he really likes role playing and has an interest in trying to mess with people. maybe you don't believe me, but you guys have spent enough time on the internet to know there are some strange but harmless people out there, and this could be one of them. from the very scant information the article gives, i can't tell.
the main scare i have is not the guy, but that the article, and the people involved (and maybe the guy's lawyer too) all seem to be liking the idea that ideas can be bad, and that ideas led to nazism and slavery and what not and so should be monitored and anyone who thinks differently should be oppressed; which the last sections of the article definitely imply.
here's some encryption for ya
http://www.philzimmermann.com/zfoneproject/index.
also, skype's encryption and how they do it is not viewable to me. thus, there are blatant issues with me talking over skype and hoping that their encryption is 1) strong enough, 2) they won't divulge my key, 3) they will establish the keys well, 4) there aren't hidden back doors. i personally can't really tell what's going on with skype. i use it when i talk to the unenlightened, but i don't talk about anything that requires encryption to them, and really don't use voip much anyway. i tell them that if they want to be able to talk to me about such things via voip, that it'll be through something that shows me some source.
as a bit of a crypto buff, encryption means a lot to me--but the fact that you're trusting skype means that it probably doesn't mean much to you.
( um, sorry if that came off a bit harsh... )