I always thought people who specificly search for a romantic interest either online or in real life are limiting themselfs. Make a lot of friends, get to know them well, and enjoy life. Let the rest happen on it's own.
Why on earth would you want to control emotions w/ a chip? There is no practical reason that I can see. The argument that it might help manic depressives or other people with emotional unbalances is pure BS. Anyone w/ such unbalances that really wants to change can change. It may be slow but it can be done through nothing but will power. This is even more stupid than using drugs to acheive emotional balance. If someone hasn't the will power or desire to change then how is it my right to give them drugs or chips to force it upon them? Shortcut cures may work quick but the results just aren't the same as toughing it out and forcing yourself to adjust and cope.
I'd be kewl to have big open windows with curtains blowing that looked out over a sea of code and a sky of www. Maybe have that as the image in a penguins eye and show only that 1/2 of it's head. I'd for sure make the penguin the background somehow. I'd go with a Zeus like end user posing at their computer as they play Q3 in the foreground. Maybe splash some Gimp, Gnome, KDE, etc around the edges of the scene.
Nice flamebait.:) I hope you're not serious. Nobody who can count past five actually thinks algorithms should be okay to patent. As long as they didn't release the source code to anybody elses software then of course it's okay to write their own and release it to anybody they want. Just because you can't do something, doesn't mean other people shouldn't. Subversive kids..:)
I'd have to agree. I haven't heard of any way of encrypting a decryption key so that one program can it can be used w/out decrypting the first key. I'm somewhat confused by the idea of stacking encryption keys and assuming that makes it safe. Wouldn't decompiling the program and probing through it let you put together the algorithm to use it anyway? If you encode something in such a way to allow you to decode it without lossing any information then of course someone else can do the same. It's just common sense. Why bother with this encryption shit anyway? It sounds like a waste of effort to me.
There is no ultimate. As long as computers run slower and store less data than reality itself we have at least one step more. Anybody who stops and holds up a sign proclaiming they've found the ultimate smallest piece or similar bullshit is as stupid as those religious nuts that hold up signs proclaiming 'Repent, the End is Near'.
My question is if we find a way to compute more than reality itself then can we jump to a higher plane of being?:)
If it isn't the NSA doing it then someone else is or at least trying to. Trying to legislate out such things is pointless. Personally I wish they'd open the NSA up and turn them into a huge R&D lab (as they are) that releases it's inventions and various other toys to the public sector in some form similar to GPL. As for privacy, you don't have any.. Welcome to the Future(tm). The easier it gets to communicate the harder it becomes to keep communications private. Assume everything you do and say to be on public television every night at 3am and live with it. IMO encryption is primarily useful for letting computers talk to each other in a secure fashion because anything that you want to stay secret more than 3 seconds better stay in your head. Sure I like my privacy as much as the next guy but you can't take back the technology without killing off mankind (without tools we have little ability compared to other predators) so I guess my naked ass is on channel 7 tonight boys!
Myself I'm letting someone else work on the first matter compilers. I'm waiting for them to get the bugs out and then I'll invent a bio-chip that'll let me control one mentally and embed the sucker in my body somehow.:)
I think the whole thing about being warped by video game violence is stupid. I was fairly violent as a young teen as were my friends and we almost never played video games other than Mario and Pac Man and seldom watched movies and myself I really wasn't into music even at that age. Pop media was actually something I was rebeling against and I still wanted to try to blow up a city block by filling the sewer w/ explosives. I figured out how to make the explosives on my own w/out the net or even books. I got the sewer plans from city hall.. again without any media help. Luckily we got bored before we actually blew anything up but realisticly we could have leveled quite a large area with the explosives we had made and the information we had put together on the best places to put them. Maybe the politicians should outlaw teenage boys love of fire and loud noises. Lets just brainwash them all to like lacey pillows.
Sure M$ is a pyramid scheme as are virtually all tech stocks. Technology actually works in such a way. Why do you think Moore's law works? Will it eventually crash? Doubtlessly but not in the way economists imagine. Before technology can crash in any big way we must have enough technology built up to deflate the cash behind the technology. At this point we should flip over into a gift culture completely as the economics behind technology are crashed. It isn't exactly a bad thing but just a change and changes can hurt even if they are healthy. Now maybe it's true M$ is carrying the whole thing a little to far. It does worry me a little having so many eggs in one shakey basket. I keep watching their spin.. so forward a few years ago but now begining to slow and wobble towards reverse. The people I really pity are their employees that work 50 hour weeks and take it all as stock expecting it to pay for their retirement and childrens education and such. If that bubble bursts they'll be the ones hurt the most. I for one would never put all my investments in any one product. It just isn't smart.:)
IMO the Internet is among the most important things ever to be invented and it's continued development is vital to survival as a society. We have reached a critical mass on development of technology and now need to develop as a society to reduce war and discrimination and similar evils that are at their strongest when people are ill informed and don't communicate with each other. Also the power of the Internet to allow people to learn will cause the general intelligence of future generations to raise allowing even more which will create even more people to drive science & technology forward. I hate to think what I'd have become w/out the Internet. I'd probably be working at Burger King with all my talents wasted. I remember growing up.. knowing I was intelligent and creative but having no idea what to do with it.. I thought of becoming an inventor or engineer but for a kid in a poor neighborhood the idea of buying such a costly education for the off chance of inventing something I got some $ from instead of some rip-off business wasn't much of a hope. And I agree a lot of the average people are rather stupid, even high-level people often are. I once had a manager that had to ask people to add and subtract for him because he couldn't do it. I've heard that we shouldn't count people as stupid because they are specialized in other areas but I have to say many people really are just stupid. My rule is that all smart people need to get laid often to pass their genes around.
I remember hearing of these about four or five years ago. My hope is that this reposting means that they are close to moving them from the lab to a real world product.
I'd rather see them concentrate on making affordable ADSL based modems. That is where the real speed and stability is at. Isn't G.Lite supposed to make it so we can use the same modem on any standard supplier and works by just plugging it into the wall as with a standard modem? *sighs* I miss my T1 when I go home.:)
It'd be my assumption that these feats are achieved by being a hardware based modem rather than the all to standard software based modems. Anyone know if that is anywhere near true?
Myself I think it's a great idea to have government agencies not buy software that is closed source. As ESR points out not having the source takes power out of your hands and gives it to the owner of the source. Maybe it's just me but the idea of having M$ using the government as a puppet scares me. I think passing laws that would phase out use of closed source products for use by government within say 10 years would be a good idea. They could begin to switch over to OSS and where they don't have the needed products as OSS they could fund the coding. I'd also imagine this would be a strong reason for developers of the programs currently used by government to consider making their products opensource. 10 years should be plenty of time to allow agencies and developers to adjust to the situation so nobody is especially stressed out by the situation. Schools especially should make this jump. By using OSS students get hands on experience with the code itself and can add to the code base. Need an OSS clone of Exchange Server? Well it's next weeks homework for all the grad students to work on together. Sounds good to me. I'm sure some interesting stuff would come out of high-schools too. We all know how smart teenagers are and hey they have the time to spare. Elementary I don't know, probably some teachers would begin cranking out some software that was more suitable for their students age groups.:) I'm just not seeing a down side as a tax payer. The government runs better, people become better educated, and I get lots of kewl OSS software added.
Cracking is actually good although right now it may seem bad. If it wasn't for petty crackers showing off or just exploring we'd be vulnerable to a much greater range of attacks. Right now while the net is still young is the time to find out about such problems and fix them.
But really anybody who puts critical or highly private data on a web server should be beat with a stupid stick! Sure someone can backtrack through your SQL server (or whatever you use) but it is highly unlikely if you have it set up right that they could use the same hack to get into that server also. The worst they might do is mess w/ your data which if you audit your SQL calls and have a history of old data backed up you should be able to parse out any data entered after a given time. The only data likely to be lost is data entered during or after the attack and we/hope/ that good admins would recognize an attack quickly.:) If your systems are vulnerable to enough attacks to jump from a web server to the SQL server and so on you really need better software and/or a better admin.:)
Ever notice how fucked up our American laws and attitudes are about age? Both the young and old are shunned despite what they contribute. Ageism runs rampant. There should be a single set age to watch R/Adult movies, drive, vote, smoke, drink, get laid, get married, run for office, get a real job, etc. I personally would vote to extend such rights as low as 15yo's even though I'm now 21 myself. Even now I often get snuffed by a lot of jobs and such because of my age. It's really amazing given I work in the tech industry and have been coding and hacking hardware for over ten years. I know many 15yo's that are more intelligant and mature than many 30yo's I know and know many people 50+ that are still as bleeding edge as ever. This is just more government supported discrimination.
Anyone else find it funny that you could get married before you could buy porn? I suppose you're expected to wait for the honeymoon until your 18 (or 21 depending on your area) or maybe just where blindfolds.:P
Okay call me weird but I think the domain system is truely fucked. To me it'd make much more since to allow anyone to register their TLD w/ an open committee of TLD owners. Then instead of having any centralized server for TLD's each TLD's name server could have the links not only to their sub-domains but also all the other registered TLD's. Possibly limit each person, organization, or company from having more than one registered TLD at a time. That way it stays decentralized, nobody controls more than one TLD, each TLD is allowed to set up it's naming scheme anyway it wants, and there is no silly bickering over if we should add additional TLD's or not. I personally am waiting for.oss or.gnu for my domains!:)
I love anything hard and fast to listen to, it just gets my brain really pumping.. but I also love listening to Weird Al when I code as it just whips up my extra creativity and makes me relax. o/ It's all about the Pentiums baby!/o hahaha
Any geeks, male or female, feeling homeless or just traveling through the midwest lemme know and you can sleep on the sofa bed in my living room. I love having visitors from all over.:)
Please release more Commander Keen games! Does anyone know if this source is available? These have always been some of my favorite games! I've been waiting for Keen3D for years now! *shameless beg*
So create some interesting non-Linux technology. I always think of the oh so famous line about 'If you build it they will come.' Stop whining about our so-called dead horse when you don't even have a horse. Nobody made you read it did they? No you decided on your own to do so and it cost you nothing more than your time. Besides any cool thing that is built will most likely be assimilated by Linux. Look at all the fun Linux stuff for Lego Mindstorms!:)
Linux is my personal fav for OS but BeOS is also free to distribute as long as it is the OS that loads on boot. It'd be interesting to see a partnership there and maybe have them port more of the Linux programs to Be, especially drivers. I think $200 PC's is a great idea, especially for computers not using Winmodemish parts. Most people really don't need a lot of speed and without the bloat of Windows the hardware goes a lot further. Heck I still use a 486 w/ Linux to web browse a lot of the time and it preforms better than the PII 333 w/ Win98 that I am using right now. As long as these babies have enough RAM and a decent NIC I'll consider buying a few. I prefer having a dozen lowrange computers over one heartstopper anyway. Now what if they start offering these with GLite ADSL as a package from the phone co?:)
Geeks are always in demand. They may have to change to stay on the ball and stay bleeding edge but this seems to be a geek strongpoint. Sure fakers and those who are to comfortable to stay on the edge will get rolled over one day but as long as there is a 'civilized' world there will be high paid geeks. Look around you, every single thing you own was designed by geeks at some point. Take an aerial view of your city - yes it was all designed by geeks too. Geeks hold all the real power in this world because if we ever went on a mass strike EVERYTHING would grind to a halt. Stop letting managers and politicians push you around. We can live without them but without us they would become savages or die. If anything is going to change the current system it'll be open source.. shifting the money away from the assembly line coding and into the service industry where it belongs. Code should be free but helping someone who can't read a manual is worth $$$.:)
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I always thought people who specificly search for a romantic interest either online or in real life are limiting themselfs. Make a lot of friends, get to know them well, and enjoy life. Let the rest happen on it's own.
Why on earth would you want to control emotions w/ a chip? There is no practical reason that I can see. The argument that it might help manic depressives or other people with emotional unbalances is pure BS. Anyone w/ such unbalances that really wants to change can change. It may be slow but it can be done through nothing but will power. This is even more stupid than using drugs to acheive emotional balance. If someone hasn't the will power or desire to change then how is it my right to give them drugs or chips to force it upon them? Shortcut cures may work quick but the results just aren't the same as toughing it out and forcing yourself to adjust and cope.
Is there a programable IR interface w/ Mindstorms? (I haven't bought any yet.. bills :P) It'd be fun to have a remote that was made of legos. :)
I'd be kewl to have big open windows with curtains blowing that looked out over a sea of code and a sky of www. Maybe have that as the image in a penguins eye and show only that 1/2 of it's head. I'd for sure make the penguin the background somehow. I'd go with a Zeus like end user posing at their computer as they play Q3 in the foreground. Maybe splash some Gimp, Gnome, KDE, etc around the edges of the scene.
Nice flamebait. :) I hope you're not serious. Nobody who can count past five actually thinks algorithms should be okay to patent. As long as they didn't release the source code to anybody elses software then of course it's okay to write their own and release it to anybody they want. Just because you can't do something, doesn't mean other people shouldn't. Subversive kids.. :)
I'd have to agree. I haven't heard of any way of encrypting a decryption key so that one program can it can be used w/out decrypting the first key. I'm somewhat confused by the idea of stacking encryption keys and assuming that makes it safe. Wouldn't decompiling the program and probing through it let you put together the algorithm to use it anyway? If you encode something in such a way to allow you to decode it without lossing any information then of course someone else can do the same. It's just common sense. Why bother with this encryption shit anyway? It sounds like a waste of effort to me.
There is no ultimate. As long as computers run slower and store less data than reality itself we have at least one step more. Anybody who stops and holds up a sign proclaiming they've found the ultimate smallest piece or similar bullshit is as stupid as those religious nuts that hold up signs proclaiming 'Repent, the End is Near'.
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My question is if we find a way to compute more than reality itself then can we jump to a higher plane of being?
If it isn't the NSA doing it then someone else is or at least trying to. Trying to legislate out such things is pointless. Personally I wish they'd open the NSA up and turn them into a huge R&D lab (as they are) that releases it's inventions and various other toys to the public sector in some form similar to GPL. As for privacy, you don't have any.. Welcome to the Future(tm). The easier it gets to communicate the harder it becomes to keep communications private. Assume everything you do and say to be on public television every night at 3am and live with it. IMO encryption is primarily useful for letting computers talk to each other in a secure fashion because anything that you want to stay secret more than 3 seconds better stay in your head. Sure I like my privacy as much as the next guy but you can't take back the technology without killing off mankind (without tools we have little ability compared to other predators) so I guess my naked ass is on channel 7 tonight boys!
Myself I'm letting someone else work on the first matter compilers. I'm waiting for them to get the bugs out and then I'll invent a bio-chip that'll let me control one mentally and embed the sucker in my body somehow. :)
I think the whole thing about being warped by video game violence is stupid. I was fairly violent as a young teen as were my friends and we almost never played video games other than Mario and Pac Man and seldom watched movies and myself I really wasn't into music even at that age. Pop media was actually something I was rebeling against and I still wanted to try to blow up a city block by filling the sewer w/ explosives. I figured out how to make the explosives on my own w/out the net or even books. I got the sewer plans from city hall.. again without any media help. Luckily we got bored before we actually blew anything up but realisticly we could have leveled quite a large area with the explosives we had made and the information we had put together on the best places to put them. Maybe the politicians should outlaw teenage boys love of fire and loud noises. Lets just brainwash them all to like lacey pillows.
Sure M$ is a pyramid scheme as are virtually all tech stocks. Technology actually works in such a way. Why do you think Moore's law works? Will it eventually crash? Doubtlessly but not in the way economists imagine. Before technology can crash in any big way we must have enough technology built up to deflate the cash behind the technology. At this point we should flip over into a gift culture completely as the economics behind technology are crashed. It isn't exactly a bad thing but just a change and changes can hurt even if they are healthy. Now maybe it's true M$ is carrying the whole thing a little to far. It does worry me a little having so many eggs in one shakey basket. I keep watching their spin.. so forward a few years ago but now begining to slow and wobble towards reverse. The people I really pity are their employees that work 50 hour weeks and take it all as stock expecting it to pay for their retirement and childrens education and such. If that bubble bursts they'll be the ones hurt the most. I for one would never put all my investments in any one product. It just isn't smart. :)
IMO the Internet is among the most important things ever to be invented and it's continued development is vital to survival as a society. We have reached a critical mass on development of technology and now need to develop as a society to reduce war and discrimination and similar evils that are at their strongest when people are ill informed and don't communicate with each other. Also the power of the Internet to allow people to learn will cause the general intelligence of future generations to raise allowing even more which will create even more people to drive science & technology forward. I hate to think what I'd have become w/out the Internet. I'd probably be working at Burger King with all my talents wasted. I remember growing up.. knowing I was intelligent and creative but having no idea what to do with it.. I thought of becoming an inventor or engineer but for a kid in a poor neighborhood the idea of buying such a costly education for the off chance of inventing something I got some $ from instead of some rip-off business wasn't much of a hope. And I agree a lot of the average people are rather stupid, even high-level people often are. I once had a manager that had to ask people to add and subtract for him because he couldn't do it. I've heard that we shouldn't count people as stupid because they are specialized in other areas but I have to say many people really are just stupid. My rule is that all smart people need to get laid often to pass their genes around.
I remember hearing of these about four or five years ago. My hope is that this reposting means that they are close to moving them from the lab to a real world product.
I'd rather see them concentrate on making affordable ADSL based modems. That is where the real speed and stability is at. Isn't G.Lite supposed to make it so we can use the same modem on any standard supplier and works by just plugging it into the wall as with a standard modem? *sighs* I miss my T1 when I go home. :)
It'd be my assumption that these feats are achieved by being a hardware based modem rather than the all to standard software based modems. Anyone know if that is anywhere near true?
Myself I think it's a great idea to have government agencies not buy software that is closed source. As ESR points out not having the source takes power out of your hands and gives it to the owner of the source. Maybe it's just me but the idea of having M$ using the government as a puppet scares me. I think passing laws that would phase out use of closed source products for use by government within say 10 years would be a good idea. They could begin to switch over to OSS and where they don't have the needed products as OSS they could fund the coding. I'd also imagine this would be a strong reason for developers of the programs currently used by government to consider making their products opensource. 10 years should be plenty of time to allow agencies and developers to adjust to the situation so nobody is especially stressed out by the situation. Schools especially should make this jump. By using OSS students get hands on experience with the code itself and can add to the code base. Need an OSS clone of Exchange Server? Well it's next weeks homework for all the grad students to work on together. Sounds good to me. I'm sure some interesting stuff would come out of high-schools too. We all know how smart teenagers are and hey they have the time to spare. Elementary I don't know, probably some teachers would begin cranking out some software that was more suitable for their students age groups. :) I'm just not seeing a down side as a tax payer. The government runs better, people become better educated, and I get lots of kewl OSS software added.
Cracking is actually good although right now it may seem bad. If it wasn't for petty crackers showing off or just exploring we'd be vulnerable to a much greater range of attacks. Right now while the net is still young is the time to find out about such problems and fix them.
/hope/ that good admins would recognize an attack quickly. :) If your systems are vulnerable to enough attacks to jump from a web server to the SQL server and so on you really need better software and/or a better admin. :)
But really anybody who puts critical or highly private data on a web server should be beat with a stupid stick! Sure someone can backtrack through your SQL server (or whatever you use) but it is highly unlikely if you have it set up right that they could use the same hack to get into that server also. The worst they might do is mess w/ your data which if you audit your SQL calls and have a history of old data backed up you should be able to parse out any data entered after a given time. The only data likely to be lost is data entered during or after the attack and we
Ever notice how fucked up our American laws and attitudes are about age? Both the young and old are shunned despite what they contribute. Ageism runs rampant. There should be a single set age to watch R/Adult movies, drive, vote, smoke, drink, get laid, get married, run for office, get a real job, etc. I personally would vote to extend such rights as low as 15yo's even though I'm now 21 myself. Even now I often get snuffed by a lot of jobs and such because of my age. It's really amazing given I work in the tech industry and have been coding and hacking hardware for over ten years. I know many 15yo's that are more intelligant and mature than many 30yo's I know and know many people 50+ that are still as bleeding edge as ever. This is just more government supported discrimination.
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Anyone else find it funny that you could get married before you could buy porn? I suppose you're expected to wait for the honeymoon until your 18 (or 21 depending on your area) or maybe just where blindfolds.
Okay call me weird but I think the domain system is truely fucked. To me it'd make much more since to allow anyone to register their TLD w/ an open committee of TLD owners. Then instead of having any centralized server for TLD's each TLD's name server could have the links not only to their sub-domains but also all the other registered TLD's. Possibly limit each person, organization, or company from having more than one registered TLD at a time. That way it stays decentralized, nobody controls more than one TLD, each TLD is allowed to set up it's naming scheme anyway it wants, and there is no silly bickering over if we should add additional TLD's or not. I personally am waiting for .oss or .gnu for my domains! :)
I love anything hard and fast to listen to, it just gets my brain really pumping.. but I also love listening to Weird Al when I code as it just whips up my extra creativity and makes me relax. o/ It's all about the Pentiums baby! /o hahaha
Any geeks, male or female, feeling homeless or just traveling through the midwest lemme know and you can sleep on the sofa bed in my living room. I love having visitors from all over. :)
Please release more Commander Keen games! Does anyone know if this source is available? These have always been some of my favorite games! I've been waiting for Keen3D for years now! *shameless beg*
So create some interesting non-Linux technology. I always think of the oh so famous line about 'If you build it they will come.' Stop whining about our so-called dead horse when you don't even have a horse. Nobody made you read it did they? No you decided on your own to do so and it cost you nothing more than your time. Besides any cool thing that is built will most likely be assimilated by Linux. Look at all the fun Linux stuff for Lego Mindstorms! :)
Linux is my personal fav for OS but BeOS is also free to distribute as long as it is the OS that loads on boot. It'd be interesting to see a partnership there and maybe have them port more of the Linux programs to Be, especially drivers. I think $200 PC's is a great idea, especially for computers not using Winmodemish parts. Most people really don't need a lot of speed and without the bloat of Windows the hardware goes a lot further. Heck I still use a 486 w/ Linux to web browse a lot of the time and it preforms better than the PII 333 w/ Win98 that I am using right now. As long as these babies have enough RAM and a decent NIC I'll consider buying a few. I prefer having a dozen lowrange computers over one heartstopper anyway. Now what if they start offering these with GLite ADSL as a package from the phone co? :)
Geeks are always in demand. They may have to change to stay on the ball and stay bleeding edge but this seems to be a geek strongpoint. Sure fakers and those who are to comfortable to stay on the edge will get rolled over one day but as long as there is a 'civilized' world there will be high paid geeks. Look around you, every single thing you own was designed by geeks at some point. Take an aerial view of your city - yes it was all designed by geeks too. Geeks hold all the real power in this world because if we ever went on a mass strike EVERYTHING would grind to a halt. Stop letting managers and politicians push you around. We can live without them but without us they would become savages or die. If anything is going to change the current system it'll be open source.. shifting the money away from the assembly line coding and into the service industry where it belongs. Code should be free but helping someone who can't read a manual is worth $$$. :)