Anybody else notice that now the media is finally telling people what the legislation is all about?
There's the bill that's just been passed in congress - oh, by the way, you know can have your house searched without your knowledge, monitor your banking activity, and the government can read all your emails.
Heaven forbid we would have told people before so they could have acted on it and contacted their legislators. Of course I contacted them three different times and don't think it made a damn bit of difference.
Its different because in this case they don't just recommend another version, they disable anything but their chosen browser. In the past all of their sites and other peoples have said, you need our chosen browser for this to display correctly. If you go on nothing will display right and it will be all fucked up. Do you want to continue? And you still could view the pages, whether it displayed like crap or not.
From MSNBC :
"LINDOWS.COM, a 20-person San Diego company led by former MP3.com chief executive Michael Robertson, plans to sell a preview edition of the software for $99 this quarter, with version 1.0 coming in early 2002."
So we'd have to pay for the buggy preview release? How about testing that with people for free than selling it when (if) it gets to be a good product???
By the way, their web site has nothing on it but their press release. Does this mean that they haven't gotten any farther than conceptualization? It seems time to get it done in 12-18 months unless they're just not showing they've made progress.
Its private property and you are working there voluntarily. I don't think you really have any rights in this case.
Not that I agree with what is happening to you, but you have to understand it comes with the job. In your position for such a high profile place it was probably even addressed in your contract somewhere or in the employee handbook.
I encourage you to peacefully protest it, such as file a complaint and encourage other dissatisfied employees to do likewise, but remember that nothing is likely to happen as a result. I'm sure that the extent of the searches will eventually calm down once things are under controlled with our so called, but not declared, war.
- the ads remain relevant to the site like they are now. I actually click on these. I'd say/. is the probably the only site where I regularly take notice of and even respond to ads.
- the ads stay in one place on the screen so eventually they scroll off. I abhor the new flash ads that float around the screen, make noises, follow your cursor, etc. Ads that scroll with a page are bad enough, but when they take over my computer that's pretty damn unacceptable. For examples of what NOT to do, check out scifi.com, especially on their message boards.
As for the new bar at the top, perfectly fine! Doesn't get in the way, not too ugly, and could even be useful.
As for a subscription, I would pay, but not anything more than a few dollars a month. I would be more responsive to a place where I can donate when I have the money. As one other person mentioned, if you had a pledge drive, like NPR or PBS, I think you may find you'd have enough dough to scrap your new ad plan and even take a nice vacation.
Currently we have the standard banner size on top of all pages, but soon the article pages will instead have those huge square things that you see on CNet or ZD.
Let me repeat - the article pages will have the new ads. This sentence giving the impression that this will not change the layout of the front page.
My husband and I play Baldurs Gate and especially Heroes of Might and Magic. As a girl I can tell you that what I like is games that have some element of thinking and strategy, not just going around shooting stuff. On my own I like to play the same games mentioned above, plus sim games like Zeus.
If after half an hour of trying I still can't figure out what I am supposed to next, I will quit a game. I don't like to guess at what I have to do and explore places to find hidden levers and the like, I just want to know what to do next. When a game is frustrating rather than fun, forget it. The same thing with having to memorize patterns of keystrokes or pressing buttons.
Also, I also have a problem with rich 3-D environments. I get a motion sickness like affect if I play very long. If you introduce with a game like Quake and this happens, which it does with me, it won't take her long to hate playing games all together.
Don't force her into playing games with you if she doesn't want to, especially if she is not comfortable with the computer yet. Like people below have said, if you introduce a person to a computer and show them useful things that they can do, once they are comfortable they will eventually start using it for other things or at least be open to doing so. We did this with my grandmother. She started using the comp we bought her as a replacement for her typewriter and eventually started playing a few games on her own. Things like Tetris and Solitaire.
Unfortunately if you move to Iowa you will get great access at school, but not necesarrily at home.
We have fiber optics cables that run near our house, yet there is apparently NO possible solution for us other than NetINS and our super fast connection of 21.6 - 24.0 on a good day!! Try to do anything at that speed, especially if you are in web development. We have begged local companies to try to set us up with any kind of broadband, offered to pay large amounts of money, and contacted places up to a hundred miles away and we have been told we will just have to wait until our REC comes up with something.
It doesn't bother you that the police can obtain a court order, sneak into your home and not notify you that they had been there??? That "secret search" section currently is part of the USA Act.
Police can obtain a court order, sneak into a suspect's home and not notify that person they had been there. The "secret search" section currently is part of the USA Act.
I felt I didn't have time to snail mail my last letters, since the impression was they planned to vote so quickly on this damn anti-terrorism stuff, so I wrote them out and faxed them. What's the chances those will get seen? I'd like to think it would be better than emailing but not quite as good as a postal letter.
I email my senators frequently and always get snail mail responses, most of the time even addressing specific issues in my letters. They always respond, usually a month or so after the email. One even acknowledged that I'd contacted their office on similar issues before. However, my House representative has not yet responded to anything I've sent him. My previous rep on the other side of the state didn't respond either, except with an autoresponder acknowledging my email.
Still the question here doesn't seem to be how you contact the people, but do they really give a damn and consider your opinion?? I think in the case of the recent anti-terrorism legislature that no matter what their constituency said they had their minds made up.
I'd like to know why some congressmen think that hacking is an offense that should be punishable by death, or rather why do they seem to consider computer related offenses more criminal than criminal offenses? Is it because they are so ignorant of the technology that they fear it and its capabilities?
Are they only given examples of worst case senarios of the abuse and misuse of computers? How do we make sure they know the purpose things like hacking serve (sometimes its for good!), how many people do these types of things, how easy it really is in most cases, etc. or even why its done.
Beceause everybody uses it so damn much, to describe all sorts of things, especially if they know nothing about the Internet. At least that's why I don't like it. I went to dictionary.com to look it up and was surprised to find these definitions:
cyberspace (sbr-sps)
n. The electronic medium of computer networks, in which online communication takes place.
cyberspace/si:'br-spays`/ n. 1. Notional `information-space' loaded with visual cues and navigable with brain-computer interfaces called `cyberspace decks'; a characteristic prop of cyberpunk SF. Serious efforts to construct virtual reality interfaces modeled explicitly on Gibsonian cyberspace are under way, using more conventional devices such as glove sensors and binocular TV headsets. Few hackers are prepared to deny outright the possibility of a cyberspace someday evolving out of the network (see the network). 2. The Internet or Matrix (sense #2) as a whole, considered as a crude cyberspace (sense 1). Although this usage became widely popular in the mainstream press during 1994 when the Internet exploded into public awareness, it is strongly deprecated among hackers because the Internet does not meet the high, SF-inspired standards they have for true cyberspace technology. Thus, this use of the term usually tags a wannabee or outsider. Oppose meatspace. 3. Occasionally, the metaphoric location of the mind of a person in hack mode. Some hackers report experiencing strong eidetic imagery when in hack mode; interestingly, independent reports from multiple sources suggest that there are common features to the experience. In particular, the dominant colors of this subjective `cyberspace' are often gray and silver, and the imagery often involves constellations of marching dots, elaborate shifting patterns of lines and angles, or moire patterns.
Turning off popups is ok but then what do you do for sites who have legitimate reasons to open things in a new window? For example when you have a ? next to a word that links to a quick popup definition of that word.
I tried browsing with a popup stopper product in place and there seems to be no differentiation between links you click on that you WANT to open in a new window versus those that just open on their own do to a javascript function of some sort. Is there any way to differentiate between the various kinds of popups or the reason they are coming up? Does anyone know of a popup stopper product that does? I don't want to stop ALL popup windows, but anything with the X-Cam or similar that just shows up under my other windows or things that load upon page load or page unload.
On a side note, I have been trying to switch to using Opera exclusively after using it on and off for awhile and can tell you that it isn't working out as I hoped it would. There are several sites I can't visit even when I identify myself as MSIE 5. One is the site for my online banking. I'm thinking it has to do with SSL or some other security feature. Still for the most part - I love Opera!!
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/howthe.htm
This article certaintly gives a lot of information about Afghanistan, the Taliban and a bit of their history. I can't decide whether or not to believe some of the things it says. It certainly gives an interesting perspective on America's early interaction with the Taliban.
I sometimes get calls to assist people unexperienced with the internet, mostly elderly. I find one of their common mistakes, that adding new TLDs will only exacerbate, is that they want to add.com to whatever address you give them. So say they're told to go to earthlink.net, they go to earthlink.net.com because they think all addresses should end with.com. As the.org and and.net names have caught on and are being advertised more they are learning those are ok to use, but keep adding TLDs and a lot of people will be confused.
Is this related at all to the interview that Steve Carrell of the Daily Show did on his Steve Carrell special? The old guy on there was attempting to talk about creating black holes. Of course you know how Daily Show interviews go.
Re:It really saddens me
on
More WTC News
·
· Score: 3, Insightful
I completely agree. I've been trying to explain this point to my husband. Not all people who are in a country that harbors terrorists are involved. For instance, people want to get rid of Afghanistan and are mad at the Taliban for supporting Bin Laden. Well what about the people that have nothing to do with the Taliban and in fact loathe them but can't do anything about it because they are powerless to do so? They shouldn't be destroyed because they live in the same country as a terrorist. My husband keeps telling me, if you're going after something and things get in the way its perfectly acceptable to mow them down on the way there. How terrible. What's more loss of lives of innocent people going to do to help? He says it will be a detterent. I say that a bloodbath will not be a deterrent but everybody will just get more pissed at the terrible things the US are doing.
Yea right. Firing holes into the thin skin that keeps an airplane together wouldn't hurt would it? Airplanes are pressurized and I think the holes might disrupt that....
However I think the presence of trained security personnel, in plain clothes, would be a good addition. There are lots of ways they can disable terrorists without using firing weapons. They could have stun gun type things couldn't they?
I heard that he wasn't stuck in Australia but was kept there for his safety.
Pilots were trained at Huffman
on
More On Tragedy
·
· Score: 1
On the radio the FBI said the terrorists who were pilots, several of the people in the groups, were trained at Huffman Aviation in Daytona Beach, FL. It sounded like the training had been some time ago and thats why they believe they had been planning this for quite some time.
On the radio the FBI asked us not to belive any reports but the ones that were coming from them and had this new:
-The White House and Air Force one were definite targets and they still had not determined why the plane on target for the WH turned towards the Pentagon
-The terrorists who were pilots, several of the group, were trained at Huffman Aviation in Daytona Beach, FL. Because they signed up for training some time ago and learned to fly probably for this reason, they believe they had planning this for quite some time (http://www.huffman-veniceflying.com/ - I think)
-They positively identified the weapons as box cutters, knives and knife like implements
- They have identified most if not all of the terrorists that were on the planes
- They refuse to associate them with some particular country or ruler
Slashdot Mirror
Anybody else notice that now the media is finally telling people what the legislation is all about?
There's the bill that's just been passed in congress - oh, by the way, you know can have your house searched without your knowledge, monitor your banking activity, and the government can read all your emails.
Heaven forbid we would have told people before so they could have acted on it and contacted their legislators. Of course I contacted them three different times and don't think it made a damn bit of difference.
Its different because in this case they don't just recommend another version, they disable anything but their chosen browser. In the past all of their sites and other peoples have said, you need our chosen browser for this to display correctly. If you go on nothing will display right and it will be all fucked up. Do you want to continue? And you still could view the pages, whether it displayed like crap or not.
From MSNBC :
"LINDOWS.COM, a 20-person San Diego company led by former MP3.com chief executive Michael Robertson, plans to sell a preview edition of the software for $99 this quarter, with version 1.0 coming in early 2002."
So we'd have to pay for the buggy preview release? How about testing that with people for free than selling it when (if) it gets to be a good product???
By the way, their web site has nothing on it but their press release. Does this mean that they haven't gotten any farther than conceptualization? It seems time to get it done in 12-18 months unless they're just not showing they've made progress.
Its private property and you are working there voluntarily. I don't think you really have any rights in this case.
Not that I agree with what is happening to you, but you have to understand it comes with the job. In your position for such a high profile place it was probably even addressed in your contract somewhere or in the employee handbook.
I encourage you to peacefully protest it, such as file a complaint and encourage other dissatisfied employees to do likewise, but remember that nothing is likely to happen as a result. I'm sure that the extent of the searches will eventually calm down once things are under controlled with our so called, but not declared, war.
IMO, the new ads will be no problem as long as:
/. is the probably the only site where I regularly take notice of and even respond to ads.
- the ads remain relevant to the site like they are now. I actually click on these. I'd say
- the ads stay in one place on the screen so eventually they scroll off. I abhor the new flash ads that float around the screen, make noises, follow your cursor, etc. Ads that scroll with a page are bad enough, but when they take over my computer that's pretty damn unacceptable. For examples of what NOT to do, check out scifi.com, especially on their message boards.
As for the new bar at the top, perfectly fine! Doesn't get in the way, not too ugly, and could even be useful.
As for a subscription, I would pay, but not anything more than a few dollars a month. I would be more responsive to a place where I can donate when I have the money. As one other person mentioned, if you had a pledge drive, like NPR or PBS, I think you may find you'd have enough dough to scrap your new ad plan and even take a nice vacation.
Poor reading comprehension. It said:
Currently we have the standard banner size on top of all pages, but soon the article pages will instead have those huge square things that you see on CNet or ZD.
Let me repeat - the article pages will have the new ads. This sentence giving the impression that this will not change the layout of the front page.
My husband and I play Baldurs Gate and especially Heroes of Might and Magic. As a girl I can tell you that what I like is games that have some element of thinking and strategy, not just going around shooting stuff. On my own I like to play the same games mentioned above, plus sim games like Zeus.
If after half an hour of trying I still can't figure out what I am supposed to next, I will quit a game. I don't like to guess at what I have to do and explore places to find hidden levers and the like, I just want to know what to do next. When a game is frustrating rather than fun, forget it. The same thing with having to memorize patterns of keystrokes or pressing buttons.
Also, I also have a problem with rich 3-D environments. I get a motion sickness like affect if I play very long. If you introduce with a game like Quake and this happens, which it does with me, it won't take her long to hate playing games all together.
Don't force her into playing games with you if she doesn't want to, especially if she is not comfortable with the computer yet. Like people below have said, if you introduce a person to a computer and show them useful things that they can do, once they are comfortable they will eventually start using it for other things or at least be open to doing so. We did this with my grandmother. She started using the comp we bought her as a replacement for her typewriter and eventually started playing a few games on her own. Things like Tetris and Solitaire.
I second that. My husband and I play it all the time.
I would take Stephen Hawking's advice and work on a Star Trek style "warp drive" so that we can colonize space before the human race is wiped out.
n g-dc
http://news.excite.com/news/r/011016/09/odd-hawki
Unfortunately if you move to Iowa you will get great access at school, but not necesarrily at home.
We have fiber optics cables that run near our house, yet there is apparently NO possible solution for us other than NetINS and our super fast connection of 21.6 - 24.0 on a good day!! Try to do anything at that speed, especially if you are in web development. We have begged local companies to try to set us up with any kind of broadband, offered to pay large amounts of money, and contacted places up to a hundred miles away and we have been told we will just have to wait until our REC comes up with something.
It doesn't bother you that the police can obtain a court order, sneak into your home and not notify you that they had been there??? That "secret search" section currently is part of the USA Act.
This one doesn't bother you????
Police can obtain a court order, sneak into a suspect's home and not notify that person they had been there. The "secret search" section currently is part of the USA Act.
I felt I didn't have time to snail mail my last letters, since the impression was they planned to vote so quickly on this damn anti-terrorism stuff, so I wrote them out and faxed them. What's the chances those will get seen? I'd like to think it would be better than emailing but not quite as good as a postal letter.
I email my senators frequently and always get snail mail responses, most of the time even addressing specific issues in my letters. They always respond, usually a month or so after the email. One even acknowledged that I'd contacted their office on similar issues before. However, my House representative has not yet responded to anything I've sent him. My previous rep on the other side of the state didn't respond either, except with an autoresponder acknowledging my email.
Still the question here doesn't seem to be how you contact the people, but do they really give a damn and consider your opinion?? I think in the case of the recent anti-terrorism legislature that no matter what their constituency said they had their minds made up.
Can't you just open it with some sort of text reader? I know I did.
I'd like to know why some congressmen think that hacking is an offense that should be punishable by death, or rather why do they seem to consider computer related offenses more criminal than criminal offenses? Is it because they are so ignorant of the technology that they fear it and its capabilities?
Are they only given examples of worst case senarios of the abuse and misuse of computers? How do we make sure they know the purpose things like hacking serve (sometimes its for good!), how many people do these types of things, how easy it really is in most cases, etc. or even why its done.
Beceause everybody uses it so damn much, to describe all sorts of things, especially if they know nothing about the Internet. At least that's why I don't like it. I went to dictionary.com to look it up and was surprised to find these definitions:
/si:'br-spays`/ n. 1. Notional `information-space' loaded with visual cues and navigable with brain-computer interfaces called `cyberspace decks'; a characteristic prop of cyberpunk SF. Serious efforts to construct virtual reality interfaces modeled explicitly on Gibsonian cyberspace are under way, using more conventional devices such as glove sensors and binocular TV headsets. Few hackers are prepared to deny outright the possibility of a cyberspace someday evolving out of the network (see the network). 2. The Internet or Matrix (sense #2) as a whole, considered as a crude cyberspace (sense 1). Although this usage became widely popular in the mainstream press during 1994 when the Internet exploded into public awareness, it is strongly deprecated among hackers because the Internet does not meet the high, SF-inspired standards they have for true cyberspace technology. Thus, this use of the term usually tags a wannabee or outsider. Oppose meatspace. 3. Occasionally, the metaphoric location of the mind of a person in hack mode. Some hackers report experiencing strong eidetic imagery when in hack mode; interestingly, independent reports from multiple sources suggest that there are common features to the experience. In particular, the dominant colors of this subjective `cyberspace' are often gray and silver, and the imagery often involves constellations of marching dots, elaborate shifting patterns of lines and angles, or moire patterns.
cyberspace (sbr-sps)
n. The electronic medium of computer networks, in which online communication takes place.
cyberspace
Turning off popups is ok but then what do you do for sites who have legitimate reasons to open things in a new window? For example when you have a ? next to a word that links to a quick popup definition of that word.
I tried browsing with a popup stopper product in place and there seems to be no differentiation between links you click on that you WANT to open in a new window versus those that just open on their own do to a javascript function of some sort. Is there any way to differentiate between the various kinds of popups or the reason they are coming up? Does anyone know of a popup stopper product that does? I don't want to stop ALL popup windows, but anything with the X-Cam or similar that just shows up under my other windows or things that load upon page load or page unload.
On a side note, I have been trying to switch to using Opera exclusively after using it on and off for awhile and can tell you that it isn't working out as I hoped it would. There are several sites I can't visit even when I identify myself as MSIE 5. One is the site for my online banking. I'm thinking it has to do with SSL or some other security feature. Still for the most part - I love Opera!!
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/howthe.htm This article certaintly gives a lot of information about Afghanistan, the Taliban and a bit of their history. I can't decide whether or not to believe some of the things it says. It certainly gives an interesting perspective on America's early interaction with the Taliban.
I sometimes get calls to assist people unexperienced with the internet, mostly elderly. I find one of their common mistakes, that adding new TLDs will only exacerbate, is that they want to add .com to whatever address you give them. So say they're told to go to earthlink.net, they go to earthlink.net.com because they think all addresses should end with .com. As the .org and and .net names have caught on and are being advertised more they are learning those are ok to use, but keep adding TLDs and a lot of people will be confused.
Is this related at all to the interview that Steve Carrell of the Daily Show did on his Steve Carrell special? The old guy on there was attempting to talk about creating black holes. Of course you know how Daily Show interviews go.
I completely agree. I've been trying to explain this point to my husband. Not all people who are in a country that harbors terrorists are involved. For instance, people want to get rid of Afghanistan and are mad at the Taliban for supporting Bin Laden. Well what about the people that have nothing to do with the Taliban and in fact loathe them but can't do anything about it because they are powerless to do so? They shouldn't be destroyed because they live in the same country as a terrorist. My husband keeps telling me, if you're going after something and things get in the way its perfectly acceptable to mow them down on the way there. How terrible. What's more loss of lives of innocent people going to do to help? He says it will be a detterent. I say that a bloodbath will not be a deterrent but everybody will just get more pissed at the terrible things the US are doing.
Yea right. Firing holes into the thin skin that keeps an airplane together wouldn't hurt would it? Airplanes are pressurized and I think the holes might disrupt that....
However I think the presence of trained security personnel, in plain clothes, would be a good addition. There are lots of ways they can disable terrorists without using firing weapons. They could have stun gun type things couldn't they?
I heard that he wasn't stuck in Australia but was kept there for his safety.
On the radio the FBI said the terrorists who were pilots, several of the people in the groups, were trained at Huffman Aviation in Daytona Beach, FL. It sounded like the training had been some time ago and thats why they believe they had been planning this for quite some time.
http://www.huffmanaviation.com
On the radio the FBI asked us not to belive any reports but the ones that were coming from them and had this new:
-The White House and Air Force one were definite targets and they still had not determined why the plane on target for the WH turned towards the Pentagon
-The terrorists who were pilots, several of the group, were trained at Huffman Aviation in Daytona Beach, FL. Because they signed up for training some time ago and learned to fly probably for this reason, they believe they had planning this for quite some time (http://www.huffman-veniceflying.com/ - I think)
-They positively identified the weapons as box cutters, knives and knife like implements
- They have identified most if not all of the terrorists that were on the planes
- They refuse to associate them with some particular country or ruler