My question is, when does freedomstart to conflict with privacy. Example, Does the Government have a right to privacy? Do corporations? The same technologies that are conflicting with individuals privacy can arguably be said to be increasing freedom by allowing ordinary citizens to know things that Governments and corporations would very much like you to not know. The Monica Blewclinsky example is a perfect one. Individuals, like Monica, have a right to pricacy, But individuals Like clinton, are no longer Individuals, Clinton is the representative of the government, and therefore should have no privacy, for the good of the nation, or so the media would have us think. If Clinton couldnt keep a simple affair secret, whats going to happen when some future president needs to keep something important a secret? On the other hand, if that important thing could arguable harm the citizens of the US, it might be good if everyone knew about it. The point of having a president, or any leader for that matter, is so they can lead, and millions of people in the back seat driving dont let people lead. Its a conundrum regardless. Just my two bits.
even your door - How many times have you being in a situation where you walk into a door and you don't know whether to push or to pull the handle? (bars are for pushing, handles are for pulling - one way for identifying the correct way to open a door)
Apparently they havent learned this lesson at the University Of Maryland, because there are two buildings, the student union, and the math building, in which there are doors with handles that you have to push, and bars that you have to pull. In fact, one door leading out you have to pull to open, which is a fire hazard ( doors always push out when leaving a building, to allow for the fastest exit). Despite the fact that all the doors are clearly labeled with words as to whether they pull or push, I always do the wrong thing because the handles are wrong, bad user interface.
What does all this mean for the ultimate energy density of the universe. Obviously an expanding universe leads to heat death because the amount of energy remains constant but the volume goes to infinity as time goes to infinity, leading to an ultimate energy density of zero. A contracting Universe on the other hand leads to an infinite energy density as volume goes to zero ( The big crunch). As far as I can tell, the flat universe theory, states that the univeres will eventually reach a constant volume, thus the energy density will remain constant. Unfortunately thermodynamics states that eventually all this energy will be as low grade as possible, i.e. heat. So were all still doomed, or are we? Any thoughts?
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Why dont you replace the word "scientology" with "Jewish" and see how much sense your arguments make. This is how these things get started people, Remember "The Wave"?
I think youre missing the point entirely. What hes saying is that you happen to have an opinion, that guns suck, then dont own them. The whole reason we have a right to bear arms in the first place isnt so people can go off shoting each other, its so that we can go knock off congress if we as a people deem it to be necesary. The price fot that right is several thousand deaths a year. You can make the same argument about automobiles, or cigarettes, both kill lots of people, and at least in the case of automobiles, no one is trying to ban them. Guns serve a purpose too, if only to keep the government in line. Its hard to revolt if you dont have any weapons, Then you get cut down by machine gun fire very easily.
There's a lot more to ideas, writing, art, and music than money. If you choose not to share something, purely out of greed, then why should the resources of the public and the laws of the land be utilitized until the end of time to back up your greed? And even after you are dead and rotting, should your greed feed your grandchildren, at the cost of the public enforcing laws?
No one is truly "original" after all, we all use things that were created by somohe else, or ideas that were first thought by somone else when we create things. Who here has created their own C compiler when they wanted to start writing C code? and even if you did, what you wrote it in was created by someone else, which was derived from something created by somone else, ad infinitum. The only true creativity and originality these days is taking several ideas, modifying them slightly and synthesizing them into a new whole, with a dash of panache thrown in. This is exactly what apples done, and what theyve always done. Kudos to them. As to your comments about open source, the main advantage to open source is speedy security patches, and bug fixes, which have almost nothing to do with creativity.
Someone will surely correct me if I'm wrong about this, but I believe the word Cyber comes from the greek word kyber meaning mind, or to think. In that case, isnt it interesting that ZDNET has a section on thoughtcrime? And isnt it interesting that the government is strongly against thoughtcrime? Big brother is watching.
They can find out who really committed the Simpson murders! But wait, then they would have to throw out all the Simpson DNA evidence, and that would be just plain wacky.
"Star Wars online will be a phenomenon that transforms online gaming for both gamers and casual game players," says Lisa Simpson, president of Sony Online Entertainment.
Hmm, I guess this means that Lisa is no longer on Fox, and has decided to stop doing the Simpsons sitcom. Fox officials said that they were sorry to see her leave the show, but at 18, she was no longer the little girl that america fell in love with. I know that ill be sorry to see her leave, but this just means maggie has to step up.;-)
Well I dont intentinally mean to offend anyone with MS multiple sclerosis that is) obviously my comment was meant to be funny, and I'm sure that people who have MS have a sense of humor. If youve been offended, then I'm sorry, but lighten up, the world is a harsh place, and if you cant laugh every once in awhile, you might as well get off this rock.
This is off topic, but did anyone else notice the unintentionally funny headline at BBC Sci/tech? It says "cannabis helps 'MS' sufferers" I of course, totally agree, If I used Windows I'd have to be smoking pot too;-)
I have a question: If this algae can turn ordinary water into hydrogen through photosynthesis, what happens when/if it escaped into the wild? Will lakes become flammable? or worse, will all our water be converted into hydrogen and oxygen? I know that sounds a bit farfetched, but hydrogen has enough speed to escape earths gravitational pull, so any hydrogen produced in nature will be lost to the earth forever. In theory, this stuff could destroy all the water on the planet, if it lives in seawater. if it lives in freshwater, its a little less dangerous, but as in Jurrassic park, mutations do happen. Just my doomsday two bits.
No, it's not "red." The image on the page is not a visible-spectrum photograph; it's most likely false-color from the lower end of the X-ray spectrum
This is completely wrong. yes, it is "red" in that its very redshifted towards the radio part of the spectrum. since its moving away from the earth, its light wavelength gets "stretched out" and redder depending on how fast its moving. Far away galaxies are moving away from the earth faster, so they are "redder" . If they were moving towards us their light would be shifted in the opposite direction and would be "bluer" since x-rays are way towards the "blue" end of the spectrum, this galaxy cannot be emitting light in the blue end of the spectrum, unless it were moving towards us at a fantastic rate, which in and of itself would be an important discovery. Secondly, since this galaxy was found using earth based telescopes, theres no way in hell it could be in the x-ray part of the spectrum, because the atmosphere acts like about 3 feet of lead to any x-rays trying to get through it. And all you have to wear as an x-ray technician is a quarter inch, you do the math. thats my two bits
yes, this was a new episode, and yes, it did rock. Homer on the bed of pearls? Hilarious. A lot of people seem to be badmouthing this season, but i think it has been one of their best seasons in a long time, its just that people expect so much from the simpsons, that when it isnt the funniest thing they have seen in their entire lives, they're dissapointed. If you look at this season objectively, it has been very good, none of the episodes sucked, and none of them got too preachy ( like Ziggy, foul temptress) The simpsons still are just as funny as they were in the beginning, its just peoples expectations of how funny they should be have changed. Just enjoy the show people, dont compare it to all the other shows.
Ive read the article, and i think the most interesting thing is just how ambitious these guys were, I mean, in 1980, when they started, there wasnt even a processor powerful enough to make all the pretty widgets work. Heh, also from a Mac vs PC chicken or egg debate, they said that the Lisa UI was first introduced at the National Computer Convention in 1980, about 5 years before Windows 1 was released. Shouldn't windows 1 have been released in the year 1? Just a question. At any rate, im sure this will get flamed to hell, but at least now we have evidence to set the record straight. Ironically enough, now we seem to be moving back towards a CLI, simply for the sheer power that comes with CLI. Gui is like putting a blanket over a puzzle and trying to put the puzzle together by moving the blanket around. just my two bits
no, im blaning the banner, and indirectly, slashdot for putting up the banner, and netscape for making such a crappy product. Maybe i should switch to IE;-)
Just because somethings there doesn't mean you HAVE to click on it.
True, but it fills up netscape's memory and causes Navigator to crash. This is obviously not a nice thing to have happen, especially when your etryint to post. Granted, Slashdot readers are generally more techno saavy, and likely to be able to view a banner with java in it, but it wastes my bandwith and hurts my browsing experience.
We cant do a damn thing about this people, corporations march to the beat of a different drummer. Corporations dont have to follow the bill of rights, or the constitution, or anything else, except for the laws of the country we are in. If there arent any laws that say corporations cannot suppress any and all speech, about them or not, then they can do whatever they want, they can require that you let them into your house and search your computer, or you will be fired, its as simple as that. We need somone with power, most likely the government to step in and say, hey you cant do that. just my two cents
Look at the OS X aqua interface. Look at an iMac. All of them are pure eye candy.
Thats the point, you have eye candy to entice the masses to purcase your product. the average american wants style, they dont care how long your box will run without a restart, if its longer than a day, thats good enough, since most consumers shut their boxen down at night. apples strategy is: eye candy to lure them in, then spring at them with power and ease of use underneath. sure it would still work as well, look at linux, it works great, but is it easy to use? is it beautiful to look at? were working on it, but apple is light years ahead.
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Apparently they havent learned this lesson at the University Of Maryland, because there are two buildings, the student union, and the math building, in which there are doors with handles that you have to push, and bars that you have to pull. In fact, one door leading out you have to pull to open, which is a fire hazard ( doors always push out when leaving a building, to allow for the fastest exit). Despite the fact that all the doors are clearly labeled with words as to whether they pull or push, I always do the wrong thing because the handles are wrong, bad user interface.
Theres a very simple solution to the whole copyright problem, simply have copyrights be free for the first 10 years, then 1000$ for the next 10, then 2000$ for the next ten, 4000$ for the next ten and so on. If youre really making tons of money off of something, then you should be able to pay for a good long time, plus the govenment gets money for enforcing the laws. And all we need is somone like Disney to try to keep Mickey Mouse ©(TM)® copyrighted for say 210 years, or 20 doubling periods, and its a billion dollars for another ten years of copyright enforcement. That starts to be some serious change in the govts pocket, granted, it takes 210 years, but maybe after the first ten doubling periods the doubling period changes to 1 year or 2 years or something. This is a more capitalist free market way towards copyright enfocement. Everybody wins. The govt makes money, copyrights that dont produce large amounts of cash become public domain automatically, and it allows giant corporations to keep their copyrights forever, as long as the copyright they hold is more profitable than allowing it to expire. Of course itll never pass, because right now Corporations get copyright enforcement for free, and screw everyone else, but hey, thats what revolutions are for
Maybe yours cant, but My mac has been able to talk since about 1995, anything i type i can have my computer say, including Linux ;-)
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So it looks like they did tag it.
Hmm, I guess this means that Lisa is no longer on Fox, and has decided to stop doing the Simpsons sitcom. Fox officials said that they were sorry to see her leave the show, but at 18, she was no longer the little girl that america fell in love with. I know that ill be sorry to see her leave, but this just means maggie has to step up. ;-)
This is completely wrong. yes, it is "red" in that its very redshifted towards the radio part of the spectrum. since its moving away from the earth, its light wavelength gets "stretched out" and redder depending on how fast its moving. Far away galaxies are moving away from the earth faster, so they are "redder" . If they were moving towards us their light would be shifted in the opposite direction and would be "bluer" since x-rays are way towards the "blue" end of the spectrum, this galaxy cannot be emitting light in the blue end of the spectrum, unless it were moving towards us at a fantastic rate, which in and of itself would be an important discovery. Secondly, since this galaxy was found using earth based telescopes, theres no way in hell it could be in the x-ray part of the spectrum, because the atmosphere acts like about 3 feet of lead to any x-rays trying to get through it. And all you have to wear as an x-ray technician is a quarter inch, you do the math. thats my two bits
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True, but it fills up netscape's memory and causes Navigator to crash. This is obviously not a nice thing to have happen, especially when your etryint to post. Granted, Slashdot readers are generally more techno saavy, and likely to be able to view a banner with java in it, but it wastes my bandwith and hurts my browsing experience.
Thats the point, you have eye candy to entice the masses to purcase your product. the average american wants style, they dont care how long your box will run without a restart, if its longer than a day, thats good enough, since most consumers shut their boxen down at night. apples strategy is: eye candy to lure them in, then spring at them with power and ease of use underneath. sure it would still work as well, look at linux, it works great, but is it easy to use? is it beautiful to look at? were working on it, but apple is light years ahead.