it should be made thinner and integrated into shirts....so when you go out, and someone diggs you, they just..uhhmmm..click your shirt. To prevent spamming it would be based on fingerprints (the biological IP address), a fingerprint can digg you only once in 24 hours.
"So how was it last night" "I got digged 300 times" "idiot it's dugg, not digged" "it's a different word from dig, different rules apply" "I am not so sure, let's ask the slashdotters"
Select pornstar, download_count from porn_stats where slashdot_nickname='NoPantsJim' order by download_count desc limit 5 Jenna Jameson 45831 Ron Jeremy 32535 Sasha Grey 29004 Peter North 28504 Martian_Kyo 21000
that privacy on the internet is a myth!
I am not saying that there is a database with your name and statistics of your favorite porn downloads. However it COULD be made.
Why is blogging more useless, or rather less useful, then participating in slashdot discussion?
If you made an interesting blog entry, resolving a problem or making some interesting point, people will stumble onto it, sometimes days, weeks or even years after you wrote it.
Again I disagree that blogging ranks in near top ten of most useless things. When blogging your giving back something, your opinion and sometimes valuable experiences, and what's better you're giving it back in an unobtrusive manner. If someone wants to read they can, nobody has to, unlike giving a your opinion in physical life (i don't like the term real life) where you have to find a victim who is willing to listen to you. Watching TV far above blogging in it uselessness. Hell, at times pondering and thinking is more useless then writing a blog. Keeping opinions to yourself is useless.
Here is what i think actually: It is ALL useful (in its own way).
if it's ALL useless, then we could also argue that everything is equally useful, right?
I dislike these nihilistic totalitarian statements, that disregard details just so they can sound simple, impressive and definite.
Some say 'Devil is in the details' others say 'God is in the details'
What about saying, 'Life is in the details.'
or 'Second Life is in the details' (just to make this reply connect to the original article..somehow)
they are not that bad really... if these kind of things go into action we'll have geek prisons. Where you'd have no contact with outside world, and you have to play games, and dnd whole day....it'd be like in your room...only your mom wouldn't nag on you all the time to go out and play in the sun.
that an operating system should consume so much resources.
If I buy a Windows Vista Capable computer, it means I can run windows vista.....just as long as I don't run Notepad at the same time.
Operating system should be just a platform to run other programs, it should aim to consume less resources, thus leaving it for applications to consume.
This is not news, I know...but I shouldn't a Gig of Ram just start up my system. OS by itself is a useless thing, I don't use a computer because its OS I use the computer because the applications that can run on a particular OS.
I think computing has become too OS centered. I know bunch of people who have these really neat Opearting systems, with all the widget and gadgets and security policies but when I ask them 'what do you use the computer for?'....the usual answer is 'well I surf...and check e-mail'...
I think there is a Linus (or somebody else) quote about this...which sums it up better then me.
There is a reason why OS isn't called an application....because in all reality it cannot be applied anywhere.
I might sound a little ignorant (and off topic) here, but how does screen reader handle all the internet lingo (with new catchphrases constantly popping up ) , and the general illiteracy on the internet.
Some of the forums, even technical ones, hardly contain 10 real words and properly structured sentences are a myth.
probably the journalist do that, or pr's....just to make their statements more sensational. the word they always carefully leave out is.... OVEREXPOSURE playing violent games for too long will have negative effects just like it's true with everything too much exercise will kill you too much food will kill you
I am sure that if games were all colorful and full of love, they would be just as dangerous, because people would perfer them to reality. Violent games are no less or more dangerous then any other game genre. Have someone play 50 hours of tetris and you will see what will happen. Based on my research, solitaire is dangerous as well. I have found out that 95% of serial killers had solitaire installed on their computer.
I am a non-us citizen, sometimes shopping at amazon.com (cause it cheaper then most of the other amazons).
I might be wrong, but I see no LEGAL or MORAL justification that U.S. government should be able to look into my reading habits.
Now I know, the world is corrupt, and very few things can be legally justified let alone morally.
However I'd like to say that find this appalling and disgusting.
If the government is so eager to know everything about me, I'd be happy send my stool sample to the white house, every day if need be.
The best way to fight this government need to spy on its citizens would probably be to overload them with info, informing them of every little thing you do.
'Dear mr Government
I just lost about 10,000 cells typing this mail, I thought you would like to know that and put in that file about me that you've been keeping.'
I find it a little a strange that the reply is modded as funny, as it's quite insightful, but that's not the point. The above poster makes a good point. I actually think internet is a better meetspace (though i like the parent poster's version, meatspace), through longer communication you can usually judge how crazy the other person is, if you use a little common sense and logic. And you can chat with multiple people at the same time (or chat with one while doing your taxes or whatever), before going out with any of them, so it can save time and money if used properly.
However one should never forget that when meeting (or meating) people on line you really get to see/read one aspect of their personality.
Maybe the problem is not that internet is more dangerous place to meet people, the problem is that a lot people think it's a safer place to meet people. Maybe at one time it was, when only geeks were into it (although geeks can be quite dangerous, but are usually very easily overpowered). However, now when almost everyone has access to it and knowledge to use it (how well, is up for discussion), it is no less (or more) dangerous then meeting someone at the bar/club/yoga class.
I don't want the fact that some music is RIAA or not to affect my music choice. As if the whole mainstreem/indie division wasn't enough (and I have fallen victim to that kind of thinking), now we have RIAA/not RIAA music? Neither of these division have anything to do with the music, with its sound. It's horrible, horrible, way to go about choosing music. If I hear music I like, I'll get it, be it mainstream/indie/riaa/not riaa, music is supposed to be a pleasure, buying/acquiring music should be pleasure... a painless carefree experience. I am not buying a car, I don't have to worry that if I buy a wrong album I'll end up in a ditch somewhere.
Lighten up people, just listen to the music, and stop thinking about it.
Citing a recent study conducted in the UK which indicated that consumers overwhelmingly prefer music without copy protection mechanisms was a study for a such a thing, really necessary. It's pretty much common sense. Wander which genius came up with the idea for that study. I swear world is sometimes so full of BS it stops being funny and starts being really frustrating.
However I would also like to say, that games without levels, aren't exactly a revelation of the modern gaming, they have been around as long as....games.
Games without levels were called....adventures..... simple text driven adventures never had levels. Most rpgs had no levels characters had levels but usually stories didn't.
By shutting down napster, file sharing took a harsh blow that is took a while to recover from? I wouldn't really agree there, maybe in the eyes of cnn and official news sources. Personally, I never felt that blow. I switched over to kazaa in matter of days, it was still usable then, later to sheraza, then dc...and so on and so on.
It's almost impossible to deal a harsh blow to file sharing. Even shutting down oink, didn't disrupt things. Though it made a lot of people sad, myself included. In my opinion the only way to deal a harsh blow to file sharing is on the internet provider level, not by shutting down services, because new ones pop up in matter of weeks, or even days.
Once you receive a mail from your isp, saying 'I know what you've been downloading last night', you'd be more careful/paranoid. That sort of monitoring would however anger the privacy advocates.
well at least one, and she(it?) released the following material
1993 Debut
1995 Post
1996 Telegram
1997 Homogenic
2000 Selmasongs
2001 Vespertine
2004 Medúlla
2005 Drawing Restraint 9
2007 Volta
I really appreciate that little personal put down, you snuggled (or maybe smuggled would be the better term) in your reply.
thank you, I want to hug you now.
Slashdot Mirror
it should be made thinner and integrated into shirts....so when you go out, and someone diggs you, they just..uhhmmm..click your shirt.
To prevent spamming it would be based on fingerprints (the biological IP address), a fingerprint can digg you only once in 24 hours.
"So how was it last night"
"I got digged 300 times"
"idiot it's dugg, not digged"
"it's a different word from dig, different rules apply"
"I am not so sure, let's ask the slashdotters"
So is it digged or dugg?
that privacy on the internet is a myth! I am not saying that there is a database with your name and statistics of your favorite porn downloads. However it COULD be made.
Why is blogging more useless, or rather less useful, then participating in slashdot discussion?
If you made an interesting blog entry, resolving a problem or making some interesting point, people will stumble onto it, sometimes days, weeks or even years after you wrote it.
Again I disagree that blogging ranks in near top ten of most useless things. When blogging your giving back something, your opinion and sometimes valuable experiences, and what's better you're giving it back in an unobtrusive manner. If someone wants to read they can, nobody has to, unlike giving a your opinion in physical life (i don't like the term real life) where you have to find a victim who is willing to listen to you. Watching TV far above blogging in it uselessness. Hell, at times pondering and thinking is more useless then writing a blog. Keeping opinions to yourself is useless.
Here is what i think actually:
It is ALL useful (in its own way).
if it's ALL useless, then we could also argue that everything is equally useful, right?
I dislike these nihilistic totalitarian statements, that disregard details just so they can sound simple, impressive and definite.
Some say 'Devil is in the details' others say 'God is in the details'
What about saying, 'Life is in the details.'
or 'Second Life is in the details' (just to make this reply connect to the original article..somehow)
is highly unprofessional
there is no need to be joyful of this bloggers misfortune.
they are not that bad really...
if these kind of things go into action we'll have geek prisons. Where you'd have no contact with outside world, and you have to play games, and dnd whole day....it'd be like in your room...only your mom wouldn't nag on you all the time to go out and play in the sun.
I am tempted to say 'sign me up'....
that an operating system should consume so much resources. If I buy a Windows Vista Capable computer, it means I can run windows vista.....just as long as I don't run Notepad at the same time. Operating system should be just a platform to run other programs, it should aim to consume less resources, thus leaving it for applications to consume. This is not news, I know...but I shouldn't a Gig of Ram just start up my system. OS by itself is a useless thing, I don't use a computer because its OS I use the computer because the applications that can run on a particular OS. I think computing has become too OS centered. I know bunch of people who have these really neat Opearting systems, with all the widget and gadgets and security policies but when I ask them 'what do you use the computer for?'....the usual answer is 'well I surf ...and check e-mail'...
I think there is a Linus (or somebody else) quote about this...which sums it up better then me.
There is a reason why OS isn't called an application....because in all reality it cannot be applied anywhere.
Shouldn't be this in the women's self-help section of slashdot?
I might sound a little ignorant (and off topic) here, but how does screen reader handle all the internet lingo (with new catchphrases constantly popping up ) , and the general illiteracy on the internet.
Some of the forums, even technical ones, hardly contain 10 real words and properly structured sentences are a myth.
probably the journalist do that, or pr's ....just to make their statements more sensational.
the word they always carefully leave out is.... OVEREXPOSURE
playing violent games for too long will have negative effects
just like it's true with everything
too much exercise will kill you
too much food will kill you
I am sure that if games were all colorful and full of love, they would be just as dangerous, because people would perfer them to reality. Violent games are no less or more dangerous then any other game genre. Have someone play 50 hours of tetris and you will see what will happen. Based on my research, solitaire is dangerous as well. I have found out that 95% of serial killers had solitaire installed on their computer.
another reason to blame your parents in therapy. My parents were....horrible to me....they told ...they told ...me...i was smart.*sob**sob*sob*
or even better getting a clue
get closed
I am a non-us citizen, sometimes shopping at amazon.com (cause it cheaper then most of the other amazons). I might be wrong, but I see no LEGAL or MORAL justification that U.S. government should be able to look into my reading habits.
Now I know, the world is corrupt, and very few things can be legally justified let alone morally. However I'd like to say that find this appalling and disgusting. If the government is so eager to know everything about me, I'd be happy send my stool sample to the white house, every day if need be.
The best way to fight this government need to spy on its citizens would probably be to overload them with info, informing them of every little thing you do.
'Dear mr Government
I just lost about 10,000 cells typing this mail, I thought you would like to know that and put in that file about me that you've been keeping.'
I find it a little a strange that the reply is modded as funny, as it's quite insightful, but that's not the point. The above poster makes a good point. I actually think internet is a better meetspace (though i like the parent poster's version, meatspace), through longer communication you can usually judge how crazy the other person is, if you use a little common sense and logic. And you can chat with multiple people at the same time (or chat with one while doing your taxes or whatever), before going out with any of them, so it can save time and money if used properly.
However one should never forget that when meeting (or meating) people on line you really get to see/read one aspect of their personality.
Maybe the problem is not that internet is more dangerous place to meet people, the problem is that a lot people think it's a safer place to meet people. Maybe at one time it was, when only geeks were into it (although geeks can be quite dangerous, but are usually very easily overpowered). However, now when almost everyone has access to it and knowledge to use it (how well, is up for discussion), it is no less (or more) dangerous then meeting someone at the bar/club/yoga class.
I love your use of parentheses.
Also the proper usage of bold
and quotes
and bullet points
and italics
actually this might be the best written reply I've read in a while.
I'd stick to calling it p2p...which would in this case stand for porn-2-porn network ...or perv-2-perv network.
chances are that my next door neighbor needs the bandwidth to do the exact same thing, download gig of porn.
same here, isn't dyslexia fun?1
I don't want the fact that some music is RIAA or not to affect my music choice. As if the whole mainstreem/indie division wasn't enough (and I have fallen victim to that kind of thinking), now we have RIAA/not RIAA music? Neither of these division have anything to do with the music, with its sound. It's horrible, horrible, way to go about choosing music. If I hear music I like, I'll get it, be it mainstream/indie/riaa/not riaa, music is supposed to be a pleasure, buying/acquiring music should be pleasure... a painless carefree experience. I am not buying a car, I don't have to worry that if I buy a wrong album I'll end up in a ditch somewhere.
Lighten up people, just listen to the music, and stop thinking about it.
must've used excel when he was multiplying that
so true.
....games.
....adventures..... simple text driven adventures never had levels. Most rpgs had no levels characters had levels but usually stories didn't.
However I would also like to say, that games without levels, aren't exactly a revelation of the modern gaming, they have been around as long as
Games without levels were called
Let's not confuse loading screens and levels.
By shutting down napster, file sharing took a harsh blow that is took a while to recover from? I wouldn't really agree there, maybe in the eyes of cnn and official news sources. Personally, I never felt that blow. I switched over to kazaa in matter of days, it was still usable then, later to sheraza, then dc...and so on and so on.
It's almost impossible to deal a harsh blow to file sharing. Even shutting down oink, didn't disrupt things. Though it made a lot of people sad, myself included. In my opinion the only way to deal a harsh blow to file sharing is on the internet provider level, not by shutting down services, because new ones pop up in matter of weeks, or even days.
Once you receive a mail from your isp, saying 'I know what you've been downloading last night', you'd be more careful/paranoid. That sort of monitoring would however anger the privacy advocates.
well at least one, and she(it?) released the following material
1993 Debut
1995 Post
1996 Telegram
1997 Homogenic
2000 Selmasongs
2001 Vespertine
2004 Medúlla
2005 Drawing Restraint 9
2007 Volta
I really appreciate that little personal put down, you snuggled (or maybe smuggled would be the better term) in your reply. thank you, I want to hug you now.