Sir, please turn in your nerd card. Real nerds don't get girlfriends (except said girls are nerds too, but we all know that female geeks are sadly about as rare as that unknown space object Hubble just found).
TFA says that the "domain" the RIAA is speaking of is completely unrelated to the "domains" we know from the Internet. And you would know that, if you'd have read TFA.
Uh...wait. What? "Proud" (though misspelled), "respectable", "trolls" and "posting anonymously" in one sentence? Doesn't that mean the world will come to an end, with dogs and cats living together and all that?
Actually, it doesn't bother me, BECAUSE I pirate music. DRM always punishes someone who bought the software/music/whatever legally, but never those who pirate them.
TFA = The f**king article. Comes from "RTFM"; usually, if someone tells you to RTFA, he means that you should read the Slashdot article as well as the off-site articles mentioned in it before posting something that is self-explanatory if you RTFA.
Well, English isn't my native language so I guess it's OK if I make a couple of mistakes here and there. It's not like you can't read what I'm writing.
Free will is just a kind of perception, I think. As long as we do things while thinking we are doing them on our own decisions, we act on our free will, and if someone forces us to do things, we do only partly (as our decision was strongly influenced by someone else). We make countless decisions every day, but we can never change the ones we already made.
Actually, I find the thought of simply ceasing to exist not that bad; although I seriously don't want to die (and thus are transhumanist), believing in no afterlife were you would be judged gives you a nice feeling of freedom - while religious people usually try to avoid a lot of things since they want to reach heaven (or whatever else they believe in how they will be rewarded for a life devoted to their god[s]), I act on my own moral criterias without any pressure, being free to choose what is right and what not on my own.
Probably, though I'm pretty sure that removing memory will be a lot harder than adding it. And also, if that technology would come into the wrong hands - hey, it's still better to have erased parts of your memory than to get killed.
When they can isolate the "Bing" moment (the point at which neurological function gives rise to experiential phenomenon) then we can put down the idea of a soul entirely, not before.
Sadly, not everyone will. While everyone who has a clue about science certainly will, a lot of people rather trust religion than science and will continue to believe that memories are stored in the soul. After all, there are also a lot of people out there who still believe in ID, even with all the overwhelming scientific research against it.
As far I know, not only religious people use the term "soul". Psychologists use it too, although in a a little bit different meaning as the various afterlife-guys.
Maybe you'd like to take a look into the various roleplaying Ultima Online freeshards. There are quite a few pretty nice of them out there, and I've never seen the kind of players you mentioned on those.
Actually, swearing at somebody (other than Microsoft, ID or surveillance, this is Slashdot after all) IS usually considered trolling. But hey, just let the mods decide about this.
Even if, there are other means of spreading around videos. Just use your favorite P2P method. Upload a torrent file on TPB, and the whole thing will simply take care of it's own.
World Wide Web? You certainly never heard of the ARPANET, the predecessor of our modern Internet, which was developed by the US Department of Defense. Vaccinations? Ok, maybe, but civil medicine owes a lot to battlefield medicine. Aeroplanes? Do you really think aircrafts would be as advanced as they are now if it wasn't for military research?
War IS good for technology. While of course a lot of things were developed during peacetime for a peaceful purpose, many more things were developed for military application.
Firefox is open source, so it should be easily possible to deactivate this nagscreen (or at least, download the addon someone else created to disable it).
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Not necessarily. Even if she can't be charged for possible criminal offenses, it could still ruin her image.
Sir, please turn in your nerd card. Real nerds don't get girlfriends (except said girls are nerds too, but we all know that female geeks are sadly about as rare as that unknown space object Hubble just found).
You, Sir, obviously don't get the joke.
Funny? That post should be modded insightful.
TFA says that the "domain" the RIAA is speaking of is completely unrelated to the "domains" we know from the Internet. And you would know that, if you'd have read TFA.
Uh...wait. What? "Proud" (though misspelled), "respectable", "trolls" and "posting anonymously" in one sentence? Doesn't that mean the world will come to an end, with dogs and cats living together and all that?
Actually, it doesn't bother me, BECAUSE I pirate music. DRM always punishes someone who bought the software/music/whatever legally, but never those who pirate them.
TFA = The f**king article. Comes from "RTFM"; usually, if someone tells you to RTFA, he means that you should read the Slashdot article as well as the off-site articles mentioned in it before posting something that is self-explanatory if you RTFA.
That's because the most skilled hackers usually never get known and thus can't be famous.
Well, English isn't my native language so I guess it's OK if I make a couple of mistakes here and there. It's not like you can't read what I'm writing.
Free will is just a kind of perception, I think. As long as we do things while thinking we are doing them on our own decisions, we act on our free will, and if someone forces us to do things, we do only partly (as our decision was strongly influenced by someone else). We make countless decisions every day, but we can never change the ones we already made.
Thinking without a head is pretty difficult, I'd say.
Actually, I find the thought of simply ceasing to exist not that bad; although I seriously don't want to die (and thus are transhumanist), believing in no afterlife were you would be judged gives you a nice feeling of freedom - while religious people usually try to avoid a lot of things since they want to reach heaven (or whatever else they believe in how they will be rewarded for a life devoted to their god[s]), I act on my own moral criterias without any pressure, being free to choose what is right and what not on my own.
Though yes, I fully agree with you.
Probably, though I'm pretty sure that removing memory will be a lot harder than adding it. And also, if that technology would come into the wrong hands - hey, it's still better to have erased parts of your memory than to get killed.
When they can isolate the "Bing" moment (the point at which neurological function gives rise to experiential phenomenon) then we can put down the idea of a soul entirely, not before.
Sadly, not everyone will. While everyone who has a clue about science certainly will, a lot of people rather trust religion than science and will continue to believe that memories are stored in the soul. After all, there are also a lot of people out there who still believe in ID, even with all the overwhelming scientific research against it.
As far I know, not only religious people use the term "soul". Psychologists use it too, although in a a little bit different meaning as the various afterlife-guys.
Hey, come on. On the Internet, we are all 18 year old girls.
Maybe you'd like to take a look into the various roleplaying Ultima Online freeshards. There are quite a few pretty nice of them out there, and I've never seen the kind of players you mentioned on those.
Actually, swearing at somebody (other than Microsoft, ID or surveillance, this is Slashdot after all) IS usually considered trolling. But hey, just let the mods decide about this.
Certainly not, since Chuck Norris stated that he believes in Intelligent Design. Too bad.
Can you compare the art of painting with the art of making a film? Can you compare the art of making a film with the art of making a video game?
Even if, there are other means of spreading around videos. Just use your favorite P2P method. Upload a torrent file on TPB, and the whole thing will simply take care of it's own.
Too bad that most pirates use the corporate edition of WinXP, which comes without the annoying WGA stuff.
World Wide Web? You certainly never heard of the ARPANET, the predecessor of our modern Internet, which was developed by the US Department of Defense. Vaccinations? Ok, maybe, but civil medicine owes a lot to battlefield medicine. Aeroplanes? Do you really think aircrafts would be as advanced as they are now if it wasn't for military research?
War IS good for technology. While of course a lot of things were developed during peacetime for a peaceful purpose, many more things were developed for military application.
Firefox is open source, so it should be easily possible to deactivate this nagscreen (or at least, download the addon someone else created to disable it).