From the article: "It will have the ability to do north of 1 trillion mathematical calculations per second, roughly 100 times more than a single Pentium 4 chip running at 2.5GHz"
I apologize for the caps. I was just trying to emphasize how some people think over here in the bible belt where I'm from. Personally, I'm not worried about a national ID, but it scares the shit of of my parents because they feel its the first step on the way to having the mark of the beast.
For those of you who might not know, According to the bible during the end times of the world a symbol or number that is printed on eith your hand or forehead is required to do business. It's denoted as '666' in the bible. The mark of the beast isn't literally going to be 666, but 666 is used because ancient Greeks assigned meanings to their numbers and 6 and the designation for evil. Repeating words or symbols in succession was one of the ways ancient Greeks expressed emphasis in their written language. So literally 666 just means 'evil times three'. It is also written in the bible that anyone with the mark of the beast will not make it into heaven. Add the fact that the vast majority of Americans calls themselves Christians and the table is set for some problems.
You still might not make the connection between the mark of the beast and the national ID system. Being blessed with especially fervent and pious parents, I've heard the logic over and over so here it goes:
1. Population becomes too large and the government decides to assign everyone a number.
2. The ID works out and the government decides that the national ID should be printed in card form to facilitate business transactions.
3. ID card theft becomes rampant and the government steps in and mandates pictures on all ID cards, effectively putting you on the ID
4. ID card theft drops after the addition of pictures to the cards but begins to climb again after ID counterfeiting methods improve, so the government steps in again and mandates that all the ID must be tattooed, impanted, basically permanently attached to the person it belongs to.
And there you have it. I know the above events probably won't come to pass or if they do, probably not in the same way as written. Personally I feel its a bit extreme view to take on this matter but it is the way a lot of people feel about it over here.
I've been reading the arguments for and against a national ID card and came to the conclusion that the Europeans and Americans don't understand each others standpoint because Europeans simply trust their government more than Americans ever will. Seriously, being an American, I trust my government to do nothing but take my money and fill my life with meaningless laws and forms. Americans might seem a bit upitty about defending every little bit of our liberties because the government scares the living bejesus out of us. Granted, im not saying that America is on the verge on anarchy, Its just the way the system works.
While it goes without saying im completely opposed to any form of censorsip on the internet. In the end, this whole filter thing will not work even if somehow it manages to become a reality. My point is this: The kids know more about computers than any crotchetty, horn rimmed glasses wearing, smelling like rotted paper librarian could ever hope to. I should know, I was one of those lil punks running circles around my incopetent elders and did whatever I felt like on the computers. Heck, I even managed to install and run Starsiege: Tribes last year and never get caught. Even if the libraries get professional help in setting these filters up, its still up to the librarians to maintain them and after workinf from my district for two years, I can safely say without the slightest doubt in my mind that they are complete imbeciles and im sure they arent alone in the management world. SO I guess im saying that the government can make all the half-baked laws they want, they really dont have the manpower to implement ones on such a large scale as this.
"I fully expect this to be labeled as flamebait or a troll...I wouldn't expect any less from the in fact, uber-biased Slashdot."
Thats the key word, *label*. Slashdot is not censoring anything, contrary to popular opinion. These karma points are nothing more than labels to help sort through the sometimes massive amounts of comments. Censorship is making something completely unreadable for any reason.
If you don't like the moderation TURN IT OFF. I'm sick of people whining about the mods. Set your threshold to -1 and be done with it already. I feel that this is the best possible system available today and love it to death, and if you don't want to use it, turn it off and please, save us some bandwidth.
This is really an interesting article as Amino has bought basically the name and legacy of Amiga, but in reality I don't think that this will count for much as new Amiga stuff has not been seen in awhile and while I loved messing around with that old tech, its going to take some effort to bring about a new take on a good thing
Yes, there are cartoons that make fun of novice users mercilessly. Is this a wrong thing? Of course not, people do it all the time and I don't think its going to come to an end anytime soon. Kurz likened these 'bad' comic strips to teachers making fun of children for learning how to read. How many of you have ever gotten an email with a subject like "real things kids actually wrote on their reports" or something to the tune of that. Some teachers, while still concerned with the education of the kids, still found some of the things that were turned in funny and decided to compile and pass them around in public. I've never heard anyone say "thats just cruel to the children" after reading that email and I think the same logic applies to these comic strips as well. The authors of these comic strips really aren't making fun of the attempt at learning some people put out. They just are taking a few bizarre instances that come about when people assume that think they know more than they actually do gets in over their head. There is nothing malicious about smiling at an obvious novice mistake, its just human nature. I feel that the point that these authors are trying to make with the jokes about clueless end users is that there is not enough being done to educate the public en masse and is degrading our life as a whole and something must be done about it.
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From the article:
"It will have the ability to do north of 1 trillion mathematical calculations per second, roughly 100 times more than a single Pentium 4 chip running at 2.5GHz"
'Scuse me, I gotta go change my underpants.
I apologize for the caps. I was just trying to emphasize how some people think over here in the bible belt where I'm from. Personally, I'm not worried about a national ID, but it scares the shit of of my parents because they feel its the first step on the way to having the mark of the beast.
For those of you who might not know, According to the bible during the end times of the world a symbol or number that is printed on eith your hand or forehead is required to do business. It's denoted as '666' in the bible. The mark of the beast isn't literally going to be 666, but 666 is used because ancient Greeks assigned meanings to their numbers and 6 and the designation for evil. Repeating words or symbols in succession was one of the ways ancient Greeks expressed emphasis in their written language. So literally 666 just means 'evil times three'. It is also written in the bible that anyone with the mark of the beast will not make it into heaven. Add the fact that the vast majority of Americans calls themselves Christians and the table is set for some problems.
You still might not make the connection between the mark of the beast and the national ID system. Being blessed with especially fervent and pious parents, I've heard the logic over and over so here it goes:
1. Population becomes too large and the government decides to assign everyone a number.
2. The ID works out and the government decides that the national ID should be printed in card form to facilitate business transactions.
3. ID card theft becomes rampant and the government steps in and mandates pictures on all ID cards, effectively putting you on the ID
4. ID card theft drops after the addition of pictures to the cards but begins to climb again after ID counterfeiting methods improve, so the government steps in again and mandates that all the ID must be tattooed, impanted, basically permanently attached to the person it belongs to.
And there you have it. I know the above events probably won't come to pass or if they do, probably not in the same way as written. Personally I feel its a bit extreme view to take on this matter but it is the way a lot of people feel about it over here.
I've been reading the arguments for and against a national ID card and came to the conclusion that the Europeans and Americans don't understand each others standpoint because Europeans simply trust their government more than Americans ever will. Seriously, being an American, I trust my government to do nothing but take my money and fill my life with meaningless laws and forms. Americans might seem a bit upitty about defending every little bit of our liberties because the government scares the living bejesus out of us. Granted, im not saying that America is on the verge on anarchy, Its just the way the system works.
Check it out. Its from the game summoner and its funny cause its true.f o/0,369 9,220487,00.html
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Scott Evil said it best: "Why don't you just go back in time and kill him when hes on the crapper?"
While it goes without saying im completely opposed to any form of censorsip on the internet. In the end, this whole filter thing will not work even if somehow it manages to become a reality. My point is this: The kids know more about computers than any crotchetty, horn rimmed glasses wearing, smelling like rotted paper librarian could ever hope to. I should know, I was one of those lil punks running circles around my incopetent elders and did whatever I felt like on the computers. Heck, I even managed to install and run Starsiege: Tribes last year and never get caught. Even if the libraries get professional help in setting these filters up, its still up to the librarians to maintain them and after workinf from my district for two years, I can safely say without the slightest doubt in my mind that they are complete imbeciles and im sure they arent alone in the management world. SO I guess im saying that the government can make all the half-baked laws they want, they really dont have the manpower to implement ones on such a large scale as this.
The a qutoe from the secon book in the "Sword of Truth" series written by Terry Goodkind.
And yes, this censorship business is like making a person have surgery for constipation, when the best thing is to just let it work itself out.
"I fully expect this to be labeled as flamebait or a troll...I wouldn't expect any less from the in fact, uber-biased Slashdot."
Thats the key word, *label*. Slashdot is not censoring anything, contrary to popular opinion. These karma points are nothing more than labels to help sort through the sometimes massive amounts of comments. Censorship is making something completely unreadable for any reason.
If you don't like the moderation TURN IT OFF. I'm sick of people whining about the mods. Set your threshold to -1 and be done with it already. I feel that this is the best possible system available today and love it to death, and if you don't want to use it, turn it off and please, save us some bandwidth.
This is really an interesting article as Amino has bought basically the name and legacy of Amiga, but in reality I don't think that this will count for much as new Amiga stuff has not been seen in awhile and while I loved messing around with that old tech, its going to take some effort to bring about a new take on a good thing
Yes, there are cartoons that make fun of novice users mercilessly. Is this a wrong thing? Of course not, people do it all the time and I don't think its going to come to an end anytime soon. Kurz likened these 'bad' comic strips to teachers making fun of children for learning how to read. How many of you have ever gotten an email with a subject like "real things kids actually wrote on their reports" or something to the tune of that. Some teachers, while still concerned with the education of the kids, still found some of the things that were turned in funny and decided to compile and pass them around in public. I've never heard anyone say "thats just cruel to the children" after reading that email and I think the same logic applies to these comic strips as well. The authors of these comic strips really aren't making fun of the attempt at learning some people put out. They just are taking a few bizarre instances that come about when people assume that think they know more than they actually do gets in over their head. There is nothing malicious about smiling at an obvious novice mistake, its just human nature. I feel that the point that these authors are trying to make with the jokes about clueless end users is that there is not enough being done to educate the public en masse and is degrading our life as a whole and something must be done about it.