Despite his Nottingham University supervisors insisting the materials were directly relevant to his research, Rizwaan Sabir, 22, was held for nearly a week under the Terrorism Act, accused of downloading the materials for illegal use. The story speaks for itself.
I've got the book in front of me. Nice shot of the Earth, from the Moon, on the back cover.
The layout of the page doesn't make it clear that Kelly was talking about "revolution". The "revolution" quote seems to be an excerpt from one of the two listed newsletters (Windoid/AHUG [Apple Computer, M/S 27AQ, 20525 Mariani Boulevard, Cupertino, CA 95014] or Open Stack [Walking Shadow Press, P.O. Box 2092, Saratoga, CA 95071]).
The full quote is:
Windoid/AHUG Sample copy for SASE from Apple Computer, M/S 27AQ, 20525 Mariani Boulevard, Cupertino, CA 95014
Open Stack Sample copy for SASE from Walking Shadow Press, P.O. Box 2092, Saratoga, CA 95071
Two useful newsletters from Silicon Valley, both with roots in the Apple community and local user groups. Each carries essential information, hot tips, and chatty gossip about HyperCard mania. A courteous SASE will get you a copy of either. Windoid Nos. 1-5 are available in stack form with all the scripts implemented by Team Hackinslash. Amusing and well thought-out! Ask for BMUG Disk Hyper 32, $3 postpaid from BMUG, Inc. 1442A Walnut Street, Berkeley, CA 94709. -Ramón Sender Barayón
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HyperCard is uniquely suited for activist causes. It goes without saying that its great ease of use and flexibility favors the underdog. Activist groups have often relied on people power an maneuverability to counteract the brute economic and political force of various Powers-That-Be; HyperCard can enhance both of these advantages.
Aside from its inherent qualities, the way in which Hyper-Card made its entrance marked it as a paradigm of practical idealism. Bill Atkinson wanted to to give Hyper-Card away because he wanted to make the world a better place. Apple is consenting because they want to sell more computers. The result: free application that may eventually empower millions of people to use computers who may never have done so otherwise.
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The near future will no doubt bring everything Ted Nelson has described, at least as far as education is concerned. It will probably bring much
more. Media labs around the world are experimenting with new ways to "connect" people to computers. For instance, tactile gloves are being developed that allow a person to "feel" objects that appear on CRT's. Masks are being developed that enable a person to see a computer-generated environment. When combined, these new developments point to an age not far off when a person will be able to submerge into an entirely computerized environment and "commune" with information.
You may ask what all this has to do with hypertext, but it is obvious that to drive these new "environments," information will have to be organized in highly interconnected, non-hierarchical, and versatile ways. The data-bases of the future will all be "hypertext" or "hypermedia," or what have you. In fact, information of the future will have to be so connected and layered that it will have a fractal-like quality. It will be viewable on many levels, deep or shallow, each seeming to have as much content as the next. Future databases will reflect reality, and they will share the physical and mathematical characteristics of the real world. -Open Stack
Kelly's review of HyperCard follows:
HyperCard by Kevin Kelly
The model for HyperCard is the 3-by-5 card. A card is represented by a Macintosh screen. As you flip through screens (cards), you read them one after another, as if they were in a stack. Cards can hold any kind of information you want, in any format you designed, including pictures. Rather than rest inertly, as on a Rolodex, information on a HyperCard can be actively linked to any other point on any other card. Those linking spots can be a word, a bunch of words, or a picture. When your cursor touches that spot, it brings forth the card (screen) that it is linked to. The links form a thread through a "stack" of cards. You weave through a stack, jumping from card to card, idea
The agreements funnel thousands and even millions of dollars annually to schools at a time of budget cutbacks and economic slowdown. Which will be pissed away on crap that has no bearing on the education of children.
Personally I can think faster, clearer, and longer with about 300mg of caffeine in me. 300mg? That's all? Do you drink your coffee from a sippycup, too?;)
Anything less than a gram isn't worth talking about.
I hope you realize that this sounds like nothing more than a cheap publicity stunt?
This novel was originally posted online as a rough draft in late 2005. It has made great strides, receiving tens of thousands of reader contributions. It has received good reader reviews, and has been downloaded 6000 times in a two year span. So, do the people that helped you get a cut of the $12.95?
I guess if you're a sysadmin for the Internal Revenue Service then you're really screwed. Yeah, but I'm sure there's the health benefit (ie, less stress) of knowing you'll never be audited!:)
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You: Haha! I've got it encrypted! wooo! You're SOL, ain't cha?! Fascist!
Them: Give us your passwords or we'll confiscate your device.
You: But.. I... I've got to make a flight! I have riii--
Them: That's it, Bob! Tase that fucker and keep his iPod! We'll show this twat what we Canadians are all a-boot!
A hash would be my first thought.
My porn! My precious porn!!
*cough*OLPC*cough*
do the math. Young cat.
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How sad.
Having a gun held to your head is universally understood as a "bad thing".
:)
See Star Trek for proof.
The layout of the page doesn't make it clear that Kelly was talking about "revolution". The "revolution" quote seems to be an excerpt from one of the two listed newsletters (Windoid/AHUG [Apple Computer, M/S 27AQ, 20525 Mariani Boulevard, Cupertino, CA 95014] or Open Stack [Walking Shadow Press, P.O. Box 2092, Saratoga, CA 95071]).
The full quote is:
Kelly's review of HyperCard follows:
Yeah, the Inverse Quality Formula. Well known. Most people realize it after getting burned a few times.
For now, pull a Homer and let people enjoy their short, miserable little lives.
The New Energy Times describes itself as "The leader in news and information on low energy nuclear reactions".
;)
Isn't that like going to a Nationalist Socialist website to learn about the holocaust?
Ah, crap. Godwin. I always do this.
I want to believe!
Never forget the parable of the Vidiians.
Two quick queries - Ayn Rand and Science - yield no results.
:(
It's always a shame when anything book-related goes away.
Anything less than a gram isn't worth talking about.
You have a custome, don't you? ;)
Why use a nuke when a sniper rifle will do the job?