They hunt like spiders, awaiting the arrival of an article from their victims -- usually a hapless news reporter. The second moderators accept a story, they pounce -- pedantry, suspicion and anonymity their weapons of choice.
I know you're just doing it for the laughs, guys, but that's short-sighted. Slashdot is one of the more diverse (in terms of opinions, not genetics and gender) web sites I've run across, much more so than myspace, for example. Libertarian Christians and Mac-using bisexual Buddhists can agree on the necessary traits for any BIND replacement here without much rancor.
If they can't tell a link is sponsored, they might accidentally purchase the wrong brand of toothpaste and die early from cancers. Lords knows, not enough morons are breeding or making it into middle management in this world as it is.
We have problems on earth, but most of them will never be solved. Poverty will always exist. Stupidity will always exist. So will criminality, alcoholism, drug addiction, and failure. We can either spend our time obsessing over the negative, or we can choose to explore space and find a new future. I'm glad that we continue to probe space, to consider sending up ships, and most all, that we keep space exploration alive in our minds as a source of hope.
This is writing by a columnist, not a study or any kind of rigorous analysis. It is written by someone whose job is to celebrate and market sexual neurosis as a way of spicing up Wired's otherwise geek-heavy material. It is not science. It doesn't even pretend.
This reminder brought to you by the people out there who haven't yet succumbed to iPhone-style hype religion about the internet, technology or humanity.
Thank you for reading. You will now be returned to your regular neurotic programming.
We seem to be selling each other services and properties without really adding value. It's something Thomas Pynchon wrote about in "The Crying of Lot 49," where he describes how in a zero-sum game it's false to pretend you can take something away from it. Agriculture, manufacturing and intellectual property (software development) make value, but the rest of this services-based economy just pushes money around.
upload, post, transmit, share, store or otherwise make available any content that we deem to be harmful, threatening, unlawful, defamatory, infringing, abusive, inflammatory, harassing, vulgar, obscene, fraudulent, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable;
Reading the above, criticism of Islam seems valid. As much as I disagree with their message, I support their right to say it and am thankful to FaceBook for holding that line even in the face of public criticism.
The MPAA's acknowledgement is significant because it comes at a time when the group is trying to limit illegal file sharing by imploring movie fans to act ethically and resist the temptation to download pirated movies.
Morality can be a cover story of the vicious and manipulative, who set up rules so they can break them. People who mean well but are unaccustomed to the reality that life is combat, will try to follow the rules that are actually set up to constrain them.
I will always pursue an option where I do not have to be a lying, cheating bastard to succeed because that is not in my design. I try to avoid those situations where psychologically normal people come in line behind the lying, cheating bastards.
But I am sure, in their own press releases, they are "acting ethically."
"I've been criticized for not understanding what Google really means by its content privacy policies. OK. The problem with such common sensical thinking is that it may not carry much weight in the courtroom."
A better idea might be to sell repeaters (and bandwidth) to businesses at a discount rate, so that they can give their customers free public wi-fi. If the City of Houston chipped in for a few of its parks and libraries, we'd be basically complete, since there are almost no public spaces in America that aren't businesses or government institutions.
First we need to know what we want. I wouldn't want a Communist system. It's just like a software project. Can we patch capitalism, or do we need to do extensive modifications, or is it time for an extended re-code with added or changed capabilities? If we know what we want, then we can find out who to ask, how to get VCs involved, and how to popularize it in the mass media.
The F/OSS people make themselves look like ninnies by whining over this. Capitalism is war for the most profit, by any means necessary that aren't illegal. This wasn't illegal. They won. Either change the rules, or stop complaining.
Old relationship: Acer builds computers, Gateway rebrands them, and then trashes its reputation by poor service
New relationship: Acer builds and sells computers as Gateway, avoids trashing its relationship to the same degree by poor service, ???->profit.
It's an incremental upgrade for the consumer. The Gateway brand is still valuable because it's recognized and most people don't think of it as terrible, not in the least part because most people have had problems with their better-rated (Dell, Compaq) brands. The same is true of eMachines and Packard Bell, at least in Europe. Acer's moving ahead but the question is whether they can fix their own spotty performance.
The point is that he can keep using Linux for his daily tasks by running it in, say, a VMware window, which I've done in the past and is quite comfortable. Your objections are based on a misinterpretation of what I and others have posted, and probably apply elsewhere.
I knew some ISPs started doing this in the late 1990s after broken mailing lists sending spam from forged addresses generated floods of NDRs in response, smashing the original forged recipient (often some unbelievable sound address like "someone@everywhere.org"). Original NDRs quoted the whole bounced email, but first that changed, then many went to one-liners, and finally, they started disappearing.
He can run Linux in a virtual machine, I hope. That will not only get him back to using his favorite operating system, but might get him around the government's silly monitoring so he can get back to uploading the movies you and I enjoy.
The music industry created simplified music and sold it for a high price. The market is now equalizing. A Beethoven symphony costs the same as a Jay-Z record, but people will not listen to Jay-Z for centuries and find him inspiring. They will listen until the trend is over.
The music that the music industry has pushed upon us is simpler, dumber, and more repetitive than what we would be buying otherwise. Now that people do not have to pay for it, they do not, because they're only going to listen to it for a few weeks until something new comes out. This market force is causing them losses, true, but these are losses from a model of inflated value that they created.
If calabasa squash cost $0.79 and I start selling a calabasa squash with Elvis Presley's face carved into it for $79.00, I have created a model of inflated value. If someone else comes along with a metal stamp that carves Elvis's face into a calabasa squash, they have deflated my inflated value model. It is hard to argue that I lost anything, since the value definition of my product was inflated in the first place.
I distrust any society that measures what is good in economic terms. If we look at the file-sharing debacle through the eyes of an artist, we see a situation where a few overpaid rockers are going to lose out so that many lesser-known artists of quality can have a chance to gain that share of the audience. Although it may ruin the imaginary model of existence in which anything that earns money is important, this change in the music industry will better the lot of real music in a world of plastic fakes.
As I was trying to point out in this post ("0, Troll"), people don't always want our "help." They didn't in Iraq and they didn't in Vietnam. They probably don't in China either.
I've found that any time I travel outside of the comfortable confines of the USA with its mass-media present on every streetcorner, I get shown entirely different views of the world. We have a tendency to think that because our media says something, it is universal, but it's far from the case. We also assume that because we think something is great it doesn't appall the rest of the world, but it might.
We assume a lot of things, and the answers are far from complete. I see a lot of signs of bad things coming in our own empire, and I know that when I've had problems in the past, I always wanted to blame someone else first. Maybe we're doing that here, or maybe we're not, but either way I think it's rude for us to tell the Chinese our way of life is "better" by spamming them with proxies.
Five people with shotguns could virtually isolate a large city from the internet. If someone else managed to blow up a steam tunnel, crash a tanker truck or drop nerve gas into a mall, it would be downright crippling.
In anticipation of the forthcoming shuttle detonation over eastern Texas, eBay has resurrected its "shuttle parts" category and raised its rates. This new category joins other profit centers like impromptu religious artifacts, celebrity bodily fluids and captured jihad munitions.
It's easy to earn a few bucks on the stock market. Have your pet blogger issue forth some credible-sounding FUD against an obviously truthful prediction, then sell like mad and reap the profits. It will be 24 hours before the world catches up with reality and points out that your blogger is incorrect, but what do you care? Your stock went up four bucks a share, and that's enough to send your kid to college.
Slashdot Mirror
They hunt like spiders, awaiting the arrival of an article from their victims -- usually a hapless news reporter. The second moderators accept a story, they pounce -- pedantry, suspicion and anonymity their weapons of choice.
I know you're just doing it for the laughs, guys, but that's short-sighted. Slashdot is one of the more diverse (in terms of opinions, not genetics and gender) web sites I've run across, much more so than myspace, for example. Libertarian Christians and Mac-using bisexual Buddhists can agree on the necessary traits for any BIND replacement here without much rancor.
I think the article sells it short.
If they can't tell a link is sponsored, they might accidentally purchase the wrong brand of toothpaste and die early from cancers. Lords knows, not enough morons are breeding or making it into middle management in this world as it is.
We have problems on earth, but most of them will never be solved. Poverty will always exist. Stupidity will always exist. So will criminality, alcoholism, drug addiction, and failure. We can either spend our time obsessing over the negative, or we can choose to explore space and find a new future. I'm glad that we continue to probe space, to consider sending up ships, and most all, that we keep space exploration alive in our minds as a source of hope.
You can run it on older machines, but the efficiency is impressive.
http://www.editpadlite.com/
http://www.crimsoneditor.com/
And of course Opera
http://www.opera.no/
Can't go back to Firefox or IE after using this wonder.
This is writing by a columnist, not a study or any kind of rigorous analysis. It is written by someone whose job is to celebrate and market sexual neurosis as a way of spicing up Wired's otherwise geek-heavy material. It is not science. It doesn't even pretend.
This reminder brought to you by the people out there who haven't yet succumbed to iPhone-style hype religion about the internet, technology or humanity.
Thank you for reading. You will now be returned to your regular neurotic programming.
Can they make idiots re-grow brains?
We seem to be selling each other services and properties without really adding value. It's something Thomas Pynchon wrote about in "The Crying of Lot 49," where he describes how in a zero-sum game it's false to pretend you can take something away from it. Agriculture, manufacturing and intellectual property (software development) make value, but the rest of this services-based economy just pushes money around.
FaceBook Terms of Use
Just so you can all read it.
upload, post, transmit, share, store or otherwise make available any content that we deem to be harmful, threatening, unlawful, defamatory, infringing, abusive, inflammatory, harassing, vulgar, obscene, fraudulent, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable;
Reading the above, criticism of Islam seems valid. As much as I disagree with their message, I support their right to say it and am thankful to FaceBook for holding that line even in the face of public criticism.
The MPAA's acknowledgement is significant because it comes at a time when the group is trying to limit illegal file sharing by imploring movie fans to act ethically and resist the temptation to download pirated movies.
Morality can be a cover story of the vicious and manipulative, who set up rules so they can break them. People who mean well but are unaccustomed to the reality that life is combat, will try to follow the rules that are actually set up to constrain them.
I will always pursue an option where I do not have to be a lying, cheating bastard to succeed because that is not in my design. I try to avoid those situations where psychologically normal people come in line behind the lying, cheating bastards.
But I am sure, in their own press releases, they are "acting ethically."
"I've been criticized for not understanding what Google really means by its content privacy policies. OK. The problem with such common sensical thinking is that it may not carry much weight in the courtroom."
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http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9769437-7.html?p
(Ripped from Firehose in case it's not worth a front page article.)
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5094200. html
One astute commentator wrote:
A better idea might be to sell repeaters (and bandwidth) to businesses at a discount rate, so that they can give their customers free public wi-fi. If the City of Houston chipped in for a few of its parks and libraries, we'd be basically complete, since there are almost no public spaces in America that aren't businesses or government institutions.
http://blogs.chron.com/techblog/archives/2007/08/t he_earthlink_wifi_saga_waiting_for_the_other.html
Interesting commentary from Houston Chronicle technology writer Dwight Silverman. His suggestion is to socialize municipal Wi-Fi and have the city run it.
First we need to know what we want. I wouldn't want a Communist system. It's just like a software project. Can we patch capitalism, or do we need to do extensive modifications, or is it time for an extended re-code with added or changed capabilities? If we know what we want, then we can find out who to ask, how to get VCs involved, and how to popularize it in the mass media.
The F/OSS people make themselves look like ninnies by whining over this. Capitalism is war for the most profit, by any means necessary that aren't illegal. This wasn't illegal. They won. Either change the rules, or stop complaining.
Old relationship: Acer builds computers, Gateway rebrands them, and then trashes its reputation by poor service
New relationship: Acer builds and sells computers as Gateway, avoids trashing its relationship to the same degree by poor service, ???->profit.
It's an incremental upgrade for the consumer. The Gateway brand is still valuable because it's recognized and most people don't think of it as terrible, not in the least part because most people have had problems with their better-rated (Dell, Compaq) brands. The same is true of eMachines and Packard Bell, at least in Europe. Acer's moving ahead but the question is whether they can fix their own spotty performance.
The point is that he can keep using Linux for his daily tasks by running it in, say, a VMware window, which I've done in the past and is quite comfortable. Your objections are based on a misinterpretation of what I and others have posted, and probably apply elsewhere.
I knew some ISPs started doing this in the late 1990s after broken mailing lists sending spam from forged addresses generated floods of NDRs in response, smashing the original forged recipient (often some unbelievable sound address like "someone@everywhere.org"). Original NDRs quoted the whole bounced email, but first that changed, then many went to one-liners, and finally, they started disappearing.
He can run Linux in a virtual machine, I hope. That will not only get him back to using his favorite operating system, but might get him around the government's silly monitoring so he can get back to uploading the movies you and I enjoy.
The music industry created simplified music and sold it for a high price. The market is now equalizing. A Beethoven symphony costs the same as a Jay-Z record, but people will not listen to Jay-Z for centuries and find him inspiring. They will listen until the trend is over.
The music that the music industry has pushed upon us is simpler, dumber, and more repetitive than what we would be buying otherwise. Now that people do not have to pay for it, they do not, because they're only going to listen to it for a few weeks until something new comes out. This market force is causing them losses, true, but these are losses from a model of inflated value that they created.
If calabasa squash cost $0.79 and I start selling a calabasa squash with Elvis Presley's face carved into it for $79.00, I have created a model of inflated value. If someone else comes along with a metal stamp that carves Elvis's face into a calabasa squash, they have deflated my inflated value model. It is hard to argue that I lost anything, since the value definition of my product was inflated in the first place.
I distrust any society that measures what is good in economic terms. If we look at the file-sharing debacle through the eyes of an artist, we see a situation where a few overpaid rockers are going to lose out so that many lesser-known artists of quality can have a chance to gain that share of the audience. Although it may ruin the imaginary model of existence in which anything that earns money is important, this change in the music industry will better the lot of real music in a world of plastic fakes.
It's more secure.
I, for one, welcome our new corporate-governmental Orwellian database overlords.
As I was trying to point out in this post ("0, Troll"), people don't always want our "help." They didn't in Iraq and they didn't in Vietnam. They probably don't in China either.
I've found that any time I travel outside of the comfortable confines of the USA with its mass-media present on every streetcorner, I get shown entirely different views of the world. We have a tendency to think that because our media says something, it is universal, but it's far from the case. We also assume that because we think something is great it doesn't appall the rest of the world, but it might.
We assume a lot of things, and the answers are far from complete. I see a lot of signs of bad things coming in our own empire, and I know that when I've had problems in the past, I always wanted to blame someone else first. Maybe we're doing that here, or maybe we're not, but either way I think it's rude for us to tell the Chinese our way of life is "better" by spamming them with proxies.
Five people with shotguns could virtually isolate a large city from the internet. If someone else managed to blow up a steam tunnel, crash a tanker truck or drop nerve gas into a mall, it would be downright crippling.
We must tell them of our glorious democratic revolution.
In anticipation of the forthcoming shuttle detonation over eastern Texas, eBay has resurrected its "shuttle parts" category and raised its rates. This new category joins other profit centers like impromptu religious artifacts, celebrity bodily fluids and captured jihad munitions.
It's easy to earn a few bucks on the stock market. Have your pet blogger issue forth some credible-sounding FUD against an obviously truthful prediction, then sell like mad and reap the profits. It will be 24 hours before the world catches up with reality and points out that your blogger is incorrect, but what do you care? Your stock went up four bucks a share, and that's enough to send your kid to college.