As if slashdot isnt enough of an echo chamber, you would like people to be more circle jerky?
How do you know what you want to read? I think the best slashdot comments are the ones you dont expect.
I know what you mean. If it were built correctly, though, you'd get those interesting conflicting viewpoints that shed insight rather than just echoing our preconceptions. Think of recommendation systems like the one Netflix uses.
Here's a recommendation engine that someone set up at SourceForge, but hasn't really done anything with... Would like to see some code I could use in a variety of applications (photo galleries, forum postings, comments, etc.). There's also Vogoo, which I might experiment with.
perhaps slashdot could build comment moderation profiles and then offer a filter of only the type of comments I'm going to want to read.... As it is, the moderation system on slashdot creates one messy big profile for all readers.
Everyone could moderate all the time for this system. Then my profile develops a network of other readers who share my preferences for comments. As I visit Slashdot stories that have been moderated by thousands of readers, my shared-perspective readers would bubble up the comments that will most appeal to me-- not just the popular comments that appeal to the largest number of moderators.
Maybe this doesn't match the topic here. Sorry- the topic made me think of this...
This is a real easy-to-fix interface improvement. From the results list, support right-clicking contextual finder menu. When I want to right-click > Open With > My favorite application, I can't do it directly in Spotlight. I have to right-click > Reveal in Finder > right-click > Open With > My favorite application.
This is not an insightful post. It is a naive question. The post does not contribute any insight or information. Please mod appropriately.
To answer the parent question, security is a feature that business perceives as a competitive advantage. Not to mention the ridiculousness of people from one company taking recommendations from outside programmers on how they should do their jobs.
Templeton later admitted that he knew how the Egyptian security forces operated: "that they had a security service, that their laws are different than ours, that they are probably allowed to do things in that country where they don't advise people of their rights, they don't - yeah, probably about torture, sure."
Don't let this pawn distract you. The US perceives Egypt as rank amateurs in their torture methodology. America's secret prison rendition system sends lower-ranking captives to Egypt for torturing, while using the CIA-operated secret prisons for higher-level suspects.
"A second tier -- which these sources believe includes more than 70 detainees -- is a group considered less important, with less direct involvement in terrorism and having limited intelligence value. These prisoners, some of whom were originally taken to black sites, are delivered to intelligence services in Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Afghanistan and other countries, a process sometimes known as "rendition." While the first-tier black sites are run by CIA officers, the jails in these countries are operated by the host nations, with CIA financial assistance and, sometimes, direction."
Ten years ago, we used to talk about the existence of Black Helicopters and people would laugh at these conspiracy theories. Now people wonder why we're making such a big deal about them.
id's latest game, Enemy Territory: Quake Wars is ramping up in-game advertising. All the levels contain conspicuous billboards and posters that will dynamically update with banners. Currently, they display joke recruiting posters.
When the real ads appear, I plan to script global tells that will promote competitor's products. I've read talk that people will code proxies to filter the ads once they appear. Oh, it's published by Activision, not EA.
Missing the target isn't a problem. You mount a targeting laser next to the microwave transmitter and shoot it first and bounce it off a mirror next to the microwave receiver. When the satellite receives the bounce, it knows it's on target for the microwave.
In response to other posters mulling over the military application of this tech- China already has a satellite killer.
...when the planet is so overpopulated, that the one and only resource the moon has, space, will actually become valuable enough to justify the expense and trouble of living there.
Space is more abundant on Earth than the resources necessary to sustain life. We need: food, water, energy, and air. None of these things are on the moon. We can set up production facilities for these things, but for all the expense, the oceans would be the first candidate. Since the oceans cover 3/4 of Earth's surface and we haven't even begun to colonize them, there's plenty of area available before the moon becomes economically attractive.
Overpopulation isn't about needing more space to build houses. It's a problem of over-taxing the life-sustaining resources nature provides.
If the US doesn't get there before the Chinese, they won't be able to install the flag and make all those foot prints that were supposedly left by the visit in 1969. Then everyone will know the US faked the moonshot.
I agree with your prediction on what people will pay on something speculative is less than if they're bidding on a known-quantity.
I think they're rolling the dice on a business model that doesn't try to squeeze their fans for album sales. I think they're looking at their royalties from all their past albums and figuring that it's chump change compared to their touring income. So with this new album, they're probably thinking it would be nice if it got into the ears of as many people as possible to get them all excited about paying >$100 apiece to go to their concerts. And if they make some money on the downloads, it's icing on the cake.
Glad you're a trail of the dead fan. I've been a huge fan since the early days when they played house parties here in Austin. Over the years, I've seen a lot of sensitivity they've had over people pirating their music. At least one of their CD covers carries the phrase, "Please don't steal our music." And now their publishing is called 'Steal our music.' I recall a rumor that one of their close friends was ostracized when a copy of their 2005 album was leaked on the internet before it had even really gotten out of the studio.
Source Tags and Codes is not a bad album, but I highly recommend their previous two. Madonna and their self-titled first album. Those links are supposed to let you see the album on iTunes where you can purchase it legally.
Thanks for your iTunes control-click suggestion. I hadn't tried this before.
The thing is, though, that even with this technique, it requires the recipient of the URL to also have iTunes and be on their own computer, etc. I'm not dissing the iTunes store. I wish they had a web presence in addition to the in-player interface. Getting an iTunes URL in an email would kind of be like when people send a Microsoft Word doc as an attachment.
Someone else posted that they could find "Deep" by TC, but I did the search again and it just isn't there. It's not a substantial survey to draw a conclusion from, but it's nice that if I don't find a song on iTunes, then I can fall back and check Amazon.
The downloader app worked slick. Automagically put the song in my iTunes library and everything.
I'm a Mac fanboy who is saving his pennies for an iPhone. I like the iTunes Store, but Amazon has a few advantages.
1. It's web-based. A friend can email me a URL to a song which I can then buy. Supposedly the same can be done in iTunes, but I don't know how to create such a URL. This is phenomenal.
2. Search is better on Amazon. You can specify song, artist, or album title. In iTunes, it's just one search keyword for all three possible columns. Then you get back a bunch of irrelevant crap to wade through by changing the sort order of the columns.
3. Perhaps the selection is better for more obscure stuff. I've been looking for this song they play on Sirius radio's Boombox channel- 'Deep' by TC featuring MC Jakes. My searches on iTunes has been fruitless. On Amazon I found it right away and now I'm about to buy it.
The iTunes DRM stuff has never bugged me in the least. Easier access to stuff has been an annoyance, though, and the above three reasons are great leaps by Amazon over iTunes.
Perhaps a not-so-expensive feature would be IRdA like the palm has. Then you could run it as a universal TV remote control and also car door unlocker. Oh, if they could partner with the auto companies to have it open your car door and also start your car, well that would be cool. Speaking of cars, if they could stream music from the phone to the car stereo like iTunes can with the Airport Express/Extreme, that would be helpful in getting rid of all these horrible FM transmitter gizmos that always suffer conflicts with existing stations.
So what if the bomber holding a switch *in* is what stops the bomb going off?
Hence, my reference to a dead-man's switch. Check the wikipedia link in my original post where it talks about suicide bombers and the 'fail dead' effect. Down near the bottom.
Better be a clean headshot because if the person is going to detonate something in a suicidal attack, anything less than a headshot will prompt them to ignite. Oh, and while you're lining up the headshot, pray that your prey doesn't have the sophistication to have built a dead man's switch on their device.
Who needs more realistic graphics? I wish these guys would work harder on getting the non-photorealistic sketch mods working better with quake 3 and 4. Doom 3 would be nice as well.
My argument is simply that using force against foreign terrorists is different from using force against domestic opponents of the government.
It's absolutely contrary to the objective of establishing peace. Forget this nonsense about how our soldiers are treated when captured. Torture motivates and emboldens the enemy against you. You'll never win the hearts and minds of your opponent if you're torturing their countrymen. In that scenario, the route to peace is exponentially more bloody because it can only be achieved by pounding them into a submissive surrender. Frustratingly, this isn't an effective strategy against a disorganized population of suicide bombers.
My argument is that if the bad guys win there will be a whole lot more brutality going on
Funny how most of the people who say that the US is a police state are Americans who've never actually been to or met anyone who has lived in a real police states.
You're totally right. Those other repressive regimes operate secret prisons where people are whisked away without being formally charged and then they're tortured for supposed information. Nobody even knows how many of those prisons exist or how many prisoners are in them. And then their own government completely monitors all their 'private' communications without warrants or any reasonable cause to suspect them of wrong-doing.
Fortunately, we've got a constitution that protects Americans from living under such a 'police state.'
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I know what you mean. If it were built correctly, though, you'd get those interesting conflicting viewpoints that shed insight rather than just echoing our preconceptions. Think of recommendation systems like the one Netflix uses.
Here's a recommendation engine that someone set up at SourceForge, but hasn't really done anything with... Would like to see some code I could use in a variety of applications (photo galleries, forum postings, comments, etc.). There's also Vogoo, which I might experiment with.
Seth
perhaps slashdot could build comment moderation profiles and then offer a filter of only the type of comments I'm going to want to read.... As it is, the moderation system on slashdot creates one messy big profile for all readers.
Everyone could moderate all the time for this system. Then my profile develops a network of other readers who share my preferences for comments. As I visit Slashdot stories that have been moderated by thousands of readers, my shared-perspective readers would bubble up the comments that will most appeal to me-- not just the popular comments that appeal to the largest number of moderators.
Maybe this doesn't match the topic here. Sorry- the topic made me think of this...
Seth
This is a real easy-to-fix interface improvement. From the results list, support right-clicking contextual finder menu. When I want to right-click > Open With > My favorite application, I can't do it directly in Spotlight. I have to right-click > Reveal in Finder > right-click > Open With > My favorite application.
Seth
Glad to hear linux AGP support is getting attention. The AGP support for Direct 3D in Catalyst 7.8, 7.9, and 7.10 is broke.
Seth
This is not an insightful post. It is a naive question. The post does not contribute any insight or information. Please mod appropriately.
To answer the parent question, security is a feature that business perceives as a competitive advantage. Not to mention the ridiculousness of people from one company taking recommendations from outside programmers on how they should do their jobs.
Seth
Templeton later admitted that he knew how the Egyptian security forces operated: "that they had a security service, that their laws are different than ours, that they are probably allowed to do things in that country where they don't advise people of their rights, they don't - yeah, probably about torture, sure."
Don't let this pawn distract you. The US perceives Egypt as rank amateurs in their torture methodology. America's secret prison rendition system sends lower-ranking captives to Egypt for torturing, while using the CIA-operated secret prisons for higher-level suspects.
From the Washington Post:
Ten years ago, we used to talk about the existence of Black Helicopters and people would laugh at these conspiracy theories. Now people wonder why we're making such a big deal about them.
Seth
id's latest game, Enemy Territory: Quake Wars is ramping up in-game advertising. All the levels contain conspicuous billboards and posters that will dynamically update with banners. Currently, they display joke recruiting posters.
When the real ads appear, I plan to script global tells that will promote competitor's products. I've read talk that people will code proxies to filter the ads once they appear. Oh, it's published by Activision, not EA.
Seth
The *ONLY* purpose of something like this would be to get around the no space based weapons deal
Or how about a source of energy after the entire surface of the planet is scorched by nuclear weapons?
Seth
Missing the target isn't a problem. You mount a targeting laser next to the microwave transmitter and shoot it first and bounce it off a mirror next to the microwave receiver. When the satellite receives the bounce, it knows it's on target for the microwave.
In response to other posters mulling over the military application of this tech- China already has a satellite killer.
Seth
unless of course, you're willing to send SEALs to test how "bulletproof" the rogue servers are.
This activity has been outsourced to Blackwater USA security contractors.
Seth
Space is more abundant on Earth than the resources necessary to sustain life. We need: food, water, energy, and air. None of these things are on the moon. We can set up production facilities for these things, but for all the expense, the oceans would be the first candidate. Since the oceans cover 3/4 of Earth's surface and we haven't even begun to colonize them, there's plenty of area available before the moon becomes economically attractive.
Overpopulation isn't about needing more space to build houses. It's a problem of over-taxing the life-sustaining resources nature provides.
Seth
If the US doesn't get there before the Chinese, they won't be able to install the flag and make all those foot prints that were supposedly left by the visit in 1969. Then everyone will know the US faked the moonshot.
Seth
If people wanted Really Good Privacy, they should have purchase encryption from a company called RGP, not Pretty Good Privacy.
Seth
I agree with your prediction on what people will pay on something speculative is less than if they're bidding on a known-quantity.
I think they're rolling the dice on a business model that doesn't try to squeeze their fans for album sales. I think they're looking at their royalties from all their past albums and figuring that it's chump change compared to their touring income. So with this new album, they're probably thinking it would be nice if it got into the ears of as many people as possible to get them all excited about paying >$100 apiece to go to their concerts. And if they make some money on the downloads, it's icing on the cake.
Seth
Glad you're a trail of the dead fan. I've been a huge fan since the early days when they played house parties here in Austin. Over the years, I've seen a lot of sensitivity they've had over people pirating their music. At least one of their CD covers carries the phrase, "Please don't steal our music." And now their publishing is called 'Steal our music.' I recall a rumor that one of their close friends was ostracized when a copy of their 2005 album was leaked on the internet before it had even really gotten out of the studio.
Source Tags and Codes is not a bad album, but I highly recommend their previous two. Madonna and their self-titled first album. Those links are supposed to let you see the album on iTunes where you can purchase it legally.
Seth
Thanks for your iTunes control-click suggestion. I hadn't tried this before.
The thing is, though, that even with this technique, it requires the recipient of the URL to also have iTunes and be on their own computer, etc. I'm not dissing the iTunes store. I wish they had a web presence in addition to the in-player interface. Getting an iTunes URL in an email would kind of be like when people send a Microsoft Word doc as an attachment.
Someone else posted that they could find "Deep" by TC, but I did the search again and it just isn't there. It's not a substantial survey to draw a conclusion from, but it's nice that if I don't find a song on iTunes, then I can fall back and check Amazon.
The downloader app worked slick. Automagically put the song in my iTunes library and everything.
Seth
I'm a Mac fanboy who is saving his pennies for an iPhone. I like the iTunes Store, but Amazon has a few advantages.
1. It's web-based. A friend can email me a URL to a song which I can then buy. Supposedly the same can be done in iTunes, but I don't know how to create such a URL. This is phenomenal.
2. Search is better on Amazon. You can specify song, artist, or album title. In iTunes, it's just one search keyword for all three possible columns. Then you get back a bunch of irrelevant crap to wade through by changing the sort order of the columns.
3. Perhaps the selection is better for more obscure stuff. I've been looking for this song they play on Sirius radio's Boombox channel- 'Deep' by TC featuring MC Jakes. My searches on iTunes has been fruitless. On Amazon I found it right away and now I'm about to buy it.
The iTunes DRM stuff has never bugged me in the least. Easier access to stuff has been an annoyance, though, and the above three reasons are great leaps by Amazon over iTunes.
Seth
Or you could build a nuclear-powered rail gun that would shoot the spent uranium pellets into space. Aim them at the sun.
Seth
Perhaps a not-so-expensive feature would be IRdA like the palm has. Then you could run it as a universal TV remote control and also car door unlocker. Oh, if they could partner with the auto companies to have it open your car door and also start your car, well that would be cool. Speaking of cars, if they could stream music from the phone to the car stereo like iTunes can with the Airport Express/Extreme, that would be helpful in getting rid of all these horrible FM transmitter gizmos that always suffer conflicts with existing stations.
Seth
So what if the bomber holding a switch *in* is what stops the bomb going off?
Hence, my reference to a dead-man's switch. Check the wikipedia link in my original post where it talks about suicide bombers and the 'fail dead' effect. Down near the bottom.
Seth
have the girl arrested (or shot if needed)
Better be a clean headshot because if the person is going to detonate something in a suicidal attack, anything less than a headshot will prompt them to ignite. Oh, and while you're lining up the headshot, pray that your prey doesn't have the sophistication to have built a dead man's switch on their device.
Seth
If its strapped to your chest and has some putty on it (which looks like C4), then yes
Since it didn't have some putty on it, then no.
Seth
Who needs more realistic graphics? I wish these guys would work harder on getting the non-photorealistic sketch mods working better with quake 3 and 4. Doom 3 would be nice as well.
Seth
My argument is simply that using force against foreign terrorists is different from using force against domestic opponents of the government.
It's absolutely contrary to the objective of establishing peace. Forget this nonsense about how our soldiers are treated when captured. Torture motivates and emboldens the enemy against you. You'll never win the hearts and minds of your opponent if you're torturing their countrymen. In that scenario, the route to peace is exponentially more bloody because it can only be achieved by pounding them into a submissive surrender. Frustratingly, this isn't an effective strategy against a disorganized population of suicide bombers.
My argument is that if the bad guys win there will be a whole lot more brutality going on
This is the same argument of the suicide bombers.
Seth
Funny how most of the people who say that the US is a police state are Americans who've never actually been to or met anyone who has lived in a real police states.
You're totally right. Those other repressive regimes operate secret prisons where people are whisked away without being formally charged and then they're tortured for supposed information. Nobody even knows how many of those prisons exist or how many prisoners are in them. And then their own government completely monitors all their 'private' communications without warrants or any reasonable cause to suspect them of wrong-doing.
Fortunately, we've got a constitution that protects Americans from living under such a 'police state.'
Seth