I find it odd that trekkies, themselves the laughing stock of the social jock uber-elite, make fun of Wil Wheaton because he's supposedly socially inept and a nerd.
The irony of that, it just boggles the mind.
And the way in which they tried to DESTROY his character by having him help cover up a fatal training accident in that Starfleet Academy scandal/trial episode, was just plain unforgivably LOW.
It was like, Star Trek was now going to piss on the nerds (which comprise a LOT of their fandom, and that included myself), and bow to the jock gods (the Picard image), and sacrifice Wesley Crusher, the very essence of what Star Trek was about. The kid was young, bright, but naive, and making his way in the world. Then they smear his character by mixing him up in that fatal accident coverup mess. Now he's a low down dirty Starfleet Academy disgraced scumbag.
I thank God for Babylon 5. J Michael Straczinsky could whup up on Star Trek any day and twice on Sunday.
Protectionism schmotectionism. Why don't we just allow countries that make toys with prison labor, to compete openly on the market? If we don't allow that, then why do we allow them to piss on other human rights issues and still trade openly with us without restrictons or tariffs?
So when one of these engineered bacteria wipes out the human species, and some alien species comes along and ganders a look, the bacteria will be carrying a precise record of how we humans fscked ourselves.
The blame-the-victim ideology strikes again
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If you leave a $100 bill on the passenger seat of your unlocked car at the mall, there's a slight chance that everyone who passes the car is honest and it will still be there when you get back. If it's taken, you will have been robbed.
If your house is left open and people are kicking it in the back yard and someone comes in and robs your house, oh well, too bad. We used to live in a society where lots of people did live like that. Now our houses are all closed and our doors are locked. And we still have breakins. Because we don't have sentry bots and DNA encoded locks? No, because we have criminals who take advantage of security holes, however huge or minor, and it is their fault, not ours!
Hiding behind the law is the worst kind of security.
Yes, let's all go back to the Wild, Wild West.
and it's up to you to take enough security precautions to make sure that's the case.
Here's a clue. Mother nature always builds a better mouse to circumvent man's best mouse traps. There is absolutely no such thing as enough security precautions in this business. So if someone breaks into something, by your logic, it's always the fault of the victim.
So what do you say I break into your house and we declare it yourfault? After all, you didn't have enough security to keep me out. And hiding behind the law is like totally uncool, so let's keep the cops out of it.
You mean sympathy for being caught in possession of stolen property?
I wonder how you Mitnick defenders would feel if one of those credit card numbers he stole, were yours? Oooooh I can see it now.
"I'm sure no one will actually use my credit card number." "No cause for alarm! They just stole my credit card number to see if they could do it." "My credit card number was traded like bubblegum. Nothing to worry about."
He's like Bonnie and Clyde except his weapon is a keyboard and not a gun. Went on the run from the law. Sheesh. What does he have to do to get some disrespect? Bludgeon a baby penguin?
Free Kevin first..
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..then let's free EVERYONE who commits acts of unauthorized breaking and entering, stealing personal information, etc.
It's amazing how much sympathy has poured out for a guy who stole people's credit card numbers...
IOW an anti-SLAPP lawsuit is like being able to call the cops against a marauding intruder.
The cops will get there pretty much after the fight is over.
Which is to say if you are hit with a strong enough SLAPP type lawsuit, and you can't defend against it, you're toast, they've won, and an anti-SLAPP action would pretty much is useless by then.
There are medium range (10-15 foot) taser guns now that can KO an intruder. No trajectory/windspeed issues, and if some kid shoots his brother with it, you don't have any chance in heck of a dead child - give or take maybe.001%, say if you shot someone who has a pacemaker (but I'm sure a bullet is just as harmful to them).
So why aren't we looking more into these technologies?
Are there other providers who will not take action against a hosted site unless pushed by a court order?
I know newsguy.com is one such provider.
I have a site with Verio. If I know of another site with php3/4, perl and mysql, and which will not take any action without a court order, I'm there and Verio is out another customer.
If you REALLY believe gun control is good, then why not post a sign on your yard:
ATTENTION THIS IS A GUN FREE ZONE NO GUNS ALLOWED IN THIS HOUSE
Make a statement. Take a stand.
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You would not want to try and FORCE people into interacting with others on terms that they do not find desirable. This is already the cause of friction and conflict, hatreds, and violence.
Striking up conversations with strangers is becoming more and more hazardous - emotionally and, sometimes, physically - and less and less fulfilling.
The success or failure of this new technology is a direct testament to the dis/satisfaction people have with traditional interpersonal communication.
Rather than try and plug up all new and unexplored methods of coping, why don't we step aside, allow technology to give us new methods, and let the people tell us how they feel about the system, and thus, what they see as proper reform?
Maybe this new system will fail. Maybe it will succeed and we will be forced to re-examine the system of interpersonal communication.
Techno geeks pissing on this new development is as backwater, ignorant, intolerant, and close-minded, as those who screamed about the telegraph, radio and television...... or Luddism going to be the wave of the future...?
If you aren't doing anything wrong, why are you afraid of people knowing what you're doing? We need total information awareness - privacy is only really NECESSARY for criminals.
You've got Monday Night Football. You've got your cheetos. You've even got your lagermeister. What more 'freedoms' do you need?
Big Brother is going to save us from the terrorists! I'll gladly sacrifice freedom for that!
Long live Ashcroft!
(moderators: please spot the sarcasm in this post.)
If all 150 users decide to fight it in court, this will certainly prove to be painfully costly for even an antipiracy organization.
And if they win against all of THESE people, p2p users / pirates are not the type you scare away by making an "example" of. Everyone knows you can't kill 'em all. They'll keep coming - and they already do.
If this "making an example of" strategy worked, dissidents in China would have shut up LONG ago...
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Desktop or Laptop:
RH Linux 8.0
Gnome Meeting (it does video and audio conferencing)
Quickcam 3000
Or a Sharp Zaurus using Zmeeting
@ http://zsi2.stonekeep.com/index.php?v=d&a=696 (I believe it does video, as well as audio conferencing)
(Dear Moderators: this ain't a troll, this is about how to do video conferencing while not putting your WALLET on a diet...)
I find it odd that trekkies, themselves the laughing stock of the social jock uber-elite, make fun of Wil Wheaton because he's supposedly socially inept and a nerd.
The irony of that, it just boggles the mind.
And the way in which they tried to DESTROY his character by having him help cover up a fatal training accident in that Starfleet Academy scandal/trial episode, was just plain unforgivably LOW.
It was like, Star Trek was now going to piss on the nerds (which comprise a LOT of their fandom, and that included myself), and bow to the jock gods (the Picard image), and sacrifice Wesley Crusher, the very essence of what Star Trek was about. The kid was young, bright, but naive, and making his way in the world. Then they smear his character by mixing him up in that fatal accident coverup mess. Now he's a low down dirty Starfleet Academy disgraced scumbag.
I thank God for Babylon 5. J Michael Straczinsky could whup up on Star Trek any day and twice on Sunday.
I thought Jehovah's Witnesses were bad.
We used to use noisy typewriters.
Now it is the traditional keyboard's time to face replacement.
It'll take a whole generation, no doubt, of people who were raised up on projection keyboards, before it becomes accepted the way keyboards now are.
It's a radical new concept and we technocrats should at least have some kind of open mind about it.
Although there are nagging issues.. such as whether or not those keystrokes will be nore easily interfered with or intercepted...
for a priest to come and exorcise this child of satan (DRM support) from an AMI Bios motherboard?
Okay, and how many of you guys look like Pierce Brosnan?
The reason we don't have many women in CS may be the same resaon we don't have many women mechanics - they simply don't want to get into it.
Maybe they don't consider it 'feminine'?
Protectionism schmotectionism.
Why don't we just allow countries that make toys with prison labor, to compete openly on the market?
If we don't allow that, then why do we allow them to piss on other human rights issues and still trade openly with us without restrictons or tariffs?
So when one of these engineered bacteria wipes out the human species, and some alien species comes along and ganders a look, the bacteria will be carrying a precise record of how we humans fscked ourselves.
If your house is left open and people are kicking it in the back yard and someone comes in and robs your house, oh well, too bad. We used to live in a society where lots of people did live like that. Now our houses are all closed and our doors are locked. And we still have breakins. Because we don't have sentry bots and DNA encoded locks? No, because we have criminals who take advantage of security holes, however huge or minor, and it is their fault, not ours!
Yes, let's all go back to the Wild, Wild West.
Here's a clue. Mother nature always builds a better mouse to circumvent man's best mouse traps. There is absolutely no such thing as enough security precautions in this business. So if someone breaks into something, by your logic, it's always the fault of the victim.
So what do you say I break into your house and we declare it yourfault? After all, you didn't have enough security to keep me out. And hiding behind the law is like totally uncool, so let's keep the cops out of it.
BTW, nice stereo...
I wonder how you Mitnick defenders would feel if one of those credit card numbers he stole, were yours?
Oooooh I can see it now.
He's like Bonnie and Clyde except his weapon is a keyboard and not a gun. Went on the run from the law. Sheesh. What does he have to do to get some disrespect? Bludgeon a baby penguin?
..then let's free EVERYONE who commits acts of unauthorized breaking and entering, stealing personal information, etc.
It's amazing how much sympathy has poured out for a guy who stole people's credit card numbers...
IOW an anti-SLAPP lawsuit is like being able to call the cops against a marauding intruder.
The cops will get there pretty much after the fight is over.
Which is to say if you are hit with a strong enough SLAPP type lawsuit, and you can't defend against it, you're toast, they've won, and an anti-SLAPP action would pretty much is useless by then.
A gas turbine engine??
Jeez, just what we need, more pollutant-spewing transportation devices.
Why not modify the thing to use hydrogen fuel cells instead?
There are medium range (10-15 foot) taser guns now that can KO an intruder. No trajectory/windspeed issues, and if some kid shoots his brother with it, you don't have any chance in heck of a dead child - give or take maybe .001%, say if you shot someone who has a pacemaker (but I'm sure a bullet is just as harmful to them).
So why aren't we looking more into these technologies?
Are there other providers who will not take action against a hosted site unless pushed by a court order?
I know newsguy.com is one such provider.
I have a site with Verio. If I know of another site with php3/4, perl and mysql, and which will not take any action without a court order, I'm there and Verio is out another customer.
If you REALLY believe gun control is good, then why not post a sign on your yard:
ATTENTION
THIS IS A GUN FREE ZONE
NO GUNS ALLOWED IN THIS HOUSE
Make a statement.
Take a stand.
You would not want to try and FORCE people into interacting with others on terms that they do not find desirable. This is already the cause of friction and conflict, hatreds, and violence.
... or Luddism going to be the wave of the future...?
Striking up conversations with strangers is becoming more and more hazardous - emotionally and, sometimes, physically - and less and less fulfilling.
The success or failure of this new technology is a direct testament to the dis/satisfaction people have with traditional interpersonal communication.
Rather than try and plug up all new and unexplored methods of coping, why don't we step aside, allow technology to give us new methods, and let the people tell us how they feel about the system, and thus, what they see as proper reform?
Maybe this new system will fail. Maybe it will succeed and we will be forced to re-examine the system of interpersonal communication.
Techno geeks pissing on this new development is as backwater, ignorant, intolerant, and close-minded, as those who screamed about the telegraph, radio and television...
Freedom is for kooks.
If you aren't doing anything wrong, why are you afraid of people knowing what you're doing? We need total information awareness - privacy is only really NECESSARY for criminals.
You've got Monday Night Football. You've got your cheetos. You've even got your lagermeister. What more 'freedoms' do you need?
Big Brother is going to save us from the terrorists! I'll gladly sacrifice freedom for that!
Long live Ashcroft!
(moderators: please spot the sarcasm in this post.)
I STILL play and replay this game ad infinitum.
I bet there will come mods GALORE to this game.
I foresee kissing my all traces of Windows good fragging bye, as knockoff mods of this game start to proliferate...
If all 150 users decide to fight it in court, this will certainly prove to be painfully costly for even an antipiracy organization.
And if they win against all of THESE people, p2p users / pirates are not the type you scare away by making an "example" of. Everyone knows you can't kill 'em all. They'll keep coming - and they already do.
If this "making an example of" strategy worked, dissidents in China would have shut up LONG ago...
This is an admonishment against ID's from a religious perspective.
Oh how I'd love to metamod this one...
to a windows-based notebook, instead of a macintosh based one. :)
why not dedicate the other half for some seti@home work? :)
A true capitalist economy would not have these kind of totalitarian corporate policies.
Doesn't anyone read economic theory anymore?