One of the most irritating and dangerous aspects of driving a cab is that they talk on continuously on their cellphones. My vote: equip each cab with a button in the back "jam cellphone" that would abruptly end any and all calls made from the front left seat of the taxi.
The punchline of the original joke was that the slave had never done that sort of thing before...likening the death of the slave to simple disobedience or other unpleasant but recurring behavior a slave might have.
In the monty python sketch....there was no punchline (as they had a distaste for punchlines). And further, the premise is that the bird was dead when it was sold, which should have been obvious at the time...though you also have the shopkeeper insisting that the parrot is still alive even though it is obviously dead.
These two sketches are not related at all, IMO, let alone "the same joke." They are just a bit similar in that one person owns something that is dead, and wants his money back.
if you were smart enough, you would have patented this idea to prevent anyone else from doing some so utterly disrespectful of other people. The best part about patent submission, is that you just have to come up with idea and you don't have to actually make it. Seems like a good fit with/. community.
Public discussion with diverse participants (e.g., partisans of both/many sides and many who don't relate to any party: www.e-thePeople.org (you can add the quorum box mentioned in my tag, it's the same thing.)
Or stated otherwise, a cross between slashdot and a blog.
Shouldn't be news to those who care about hardware hacking, but Ed Felton has a good blog if you don't know about it already called www.freedom-to-tinker.com
Here's a writeup (In-room Chat as a Social Tool) that demonstrates the benefits and problems of wireless computers used in cooperation with a physical conference, run by Clay Shirkey.
I watched the super-bowl with friends on a TiVo. We paused the half-time show in order to serve chili (umm, good!) Miss the half-time show? Commercials? No way! We fast-forwarded through the boring parts--the game!
How aware were the participants that the other players were changing each round? It seems like they were acting as if they were in a repeated-player scenario even though they weren't. In fact, it take an enormous pool of players to ensure that no one ever played with the person twice with multiple rounds.
You get a lot of heat around here, but this article is spot on. Given the roles of commercial and cable TV, what does it mean that the Net is the outlet for public opinion? Does it imply power to the people? What's the rub?
Kudos on creating the most relevant search engine.
My question is, what are you doing to improve the timeliness of searches? Often, there is a conservative bias as older sites have more links to them. As I watch the results from my site get integrated, it seems that your processing cycle is about a month--making google not the SE of choice to research recent news events. I may also add, that this seems like a bigger imperative given the recent acquistion of deja/usenet.
Keep up the good work (and don't ever sell out baby, no matter what riches the VC put in front of your nose).
an interesting discussion started by Scott Reents (an online activist interviewed here on slashdot last year). It asks the question, "Does anyone out there feel the Internet is narrowing your worldview?"
The FBI released this report (sorry, pdf only) on dealing with school violence. The report rejects the notion of a profile for the school shooter and instead advocates standardized monitoring processes to ensure appropriate intervention to threats observed at schools.
According to the study, the extensive media coverage has drawn a portrait of epidemic revenge killings by loners that have easy access to guns. This stereotype is inappropriate and they rebuke the media for often-times being incomplete, inaccurate, or unbalanced. (Are the media part of the problem, rewarding kids for crave attention and unnecessarily alarming citizens?)
They recommend that every school should identify one staff member to be the 'threat assessment' coordinator. (The greatest cause of poor management is the lack of communication across multiple teacher, parents and students who observe threatening behavior.) This person becomes a central repository for information about threats at the school.
Importantly, each threat should be analyzed by their "four pronged" approach to assessing threats. These prongs are mostly situational (Family dynamics, School dynamics and Social dynamics) with a little bit of profiling (Personality of the student). Based on the analysis of these factors, the coordinator can determine whether the threat requires intervention by law enforcement or not.
There is a balance between individual rights (such as privacy rights not to be monitored or profiled) and collective rights (like safety from violence in schools). I am very heartened to see that the FBI advocates an approach based on analyzing the context of the situation, rather than profiling the individual, striking a good balance between the two potentially competing rights.
No, i'm not joking. Users of slashdot think the stories posted there matter more. For example, you are probably more likely to read a cnet story that is posted on slashdot than other stories published on cnet. In another more personal example, my partner Scott Reents was interviewed by Slashdot and that gave our effort more legitimacy in the minds of my friends and former coworkers in the technology community.
Slashdot is important because it has become credible within its community. This credibility is built on more than its technology (e.g., cmdrTaco), which is a good platform but not the greatest thing since sliced bread.
lots of folks have been commenting on making the massive amounts of govt info available and accessible, which seems like a 'no duh.'
my question is, should they provide interactivity? should you be able to post questions about documents, forms, legal code, pending legislation, etc.? Should there be spaces for citizens to discuss these things and help each other out?
i agree with everything that you've said, except that there are some who think about "rational" donations. People and corporations often give when it is in their 'enlightened self-interest'. For example, macintosh giving away computers in classrooms to get a greater installed base. good for kids, probably. good for macintosh, absolutely.
btw, please consider giving to the non-profit that I have founded Quorum.org. You may remember reading about it in an interview here on slashdot with my partner, Scott Reents. Happy Holidays all!
It had all the usual rms fireworks. During Eben Moglen introduction, rms started screaming, "Will you stop it! Why don't you go take your cell phone and call someone who cares!" An 1 hr 15 min.s into his 45 minute time slot and still taking about the early 1980's, Yochai Benkler (the conference organizer) started to signal with his hands that the time was up. To which, rms yelled, "Are you kidding me? I'm not even halfway done yet!" Needless to say, his speech was entertaining, informative and one-sided.
Ok, but that's not the point. At this conference, I asked him, "If accept you're notion of freedom, isn't there still a problem with deciding which non-compatable patches and standards to use? How does free software address the issue of control of the agenda?" To which he replied (and I'm paraphrasing here), "There is no agenda in free software! There is only one right way to do things!"
Well, I'm glad to see that he has joined on with a group that understands this problem and wants to address it democratically. I'll be really interested to see if they can pull it off credibly.
electronic tabulation is a pretty neat idea so we can get a fast accurate poll of the will of the people. but internet voting, hold on there! there is civic value to the anonymity offered by curtain in the public polling place. there have been many studies showing that husband and wife more often profess to vote for the same candidate than they do in reality. and how could you stop your boss from watching over your shoulder as you vote? no way, i don't want lose the integrity of the vote. and yes, mail in and telephone voting suffers from the same, well-studied problem.
did anyone else notice that it's nearly impossible to find out where to vote? there is no website and the telephone number in my area (212-nyc-vote) to find out is eternally busy.
Do you think there is a conspiracy that to hide polling locales so that only those who receive official GOTV info from the two official parties can vote? (Yes, I did find where to go and have cast my ballet.)
bush has a pretty keen sense of where we stand, doesn't he? The first sentence is the best, "If elected president I pledge a renewed commitment to fight the war on drugs." Increased copyright enforcement? What do we need a US CIO when we have Uncle Bill? I personally thank dubya for being brave enough to share his views on our home turf.
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One of the most irritating and dangerous aspects of driving a cab is that they talk on continuously on their cellphones. My vote: equip each cab with a button in the back "jam cellphone" that would abruptly end any and all calls made from the front left seat of the taxi.
The punchline of the original joke was that the slave had never done that sort of thing before...likening the death of the slave to simple disobedience or other unpleasant but recurring behavior a slave might have.
In the monty python sketch....there was no punchline (as they had a distaste for punchlines). And further, the premise is that the bird was dead when it was sold, which should have been obvious at the time...though you also have the shopkeeper insisting that the parrot is still alive even though it is obviously dead.
These two sketches are not related at all, IMO, let alone "the same joke." They are just a bit similar in that one person owns something that is dead, and wants his money back.
...now you are going to ruin the joke for me?
if you were smart enough, you would have patented this idea to prevent anyone else from doing some so utterly disrespectful of other people. The best part about patent submission, is that you just have to come up with idea and you don't have to actually make it. Seems like a good fit with
Any ideas for such patent submissions?
Or stated otherwise, a cross between slashdot and a blog.
Oh, and for foreign policy I like the DanDrezner.com
Shouldn't be news to those who care about hardware hacking, but Ed Felton has a good blog if you don't know about it already called www.freedom-to-tinker.com
Well, there's EBAY, perhaps it's only legit use. And then there is online sex and gambling. And online laundering.
At least that's where the actions at. Risky you say? Come on, now, anythingforabuck is the American way....
I watched the super-bowl with friends on a TiVo. We paused the half-time show in order to serve chili (umm, good!) Miss the half-time show? Commercials? No way! We fast-forwarded through the boring parts--the game!
How aware were the participants that the other players were changing each round? It seems like they were acting as if they were in a repeated-player scenario even though they weren't. In fact, it take an enormous pool of players to ensure that no one ever played with the person twice with multiple rounds.
You get a lot of heat around here, but this article is spot on. Given the roles of commercial and cable TV, what does it mean that the Net is the outlet for public opinion? Does it imply power to the people? What's the rub?
if you replace Disney w/AOL, this article in slate explains why this merger "will benefit consumers".
My question is, what are you doing to improve the timeliness of searches? Often, there is a conservative bias as older sites have more links to them. As I watch the results from my site get integrated, it seems that your processing cycle is about a month--making google not the SE of choice to research recent news events. I may also add, that this seems like a bigger imperative given the recent acquistion of deja/usenet.
Keep up the good work (and don't ever sell out baby, no matter what riches the VC put in front of your nose).
an interesting discussion started by Scott Reents (an online activist interviewed here on slashdot last year). It asks the question, "Does anyone out there feel the Internet is narrowing your worldview?"
According to the study, the extensive media coverage has drawn a portrait of epidemic revenge killings by loners that have easy access to guns. This stereotype is inappropriate and they rebuke the media for often-times being incomplete, inaccurate, or unbalanced. (Are the media part of the problem, rewarding kids for crave attention and unnecessarily alarming citizens?)
They recommend that every school should identify one staff member to be the 'threat assessment' coordinator. (The greatest cause of poor management is the lack of communication across multiple teacher, parents and students who observe threatening behavior.) This person becomes a central repository for information about threats at the school.
Importantly, each threat should be analyzed by their "four pronged" approach to assessing threats. These prongs are mostly situational (Family dynamics, School dynamics and Social dynamics) with a little bit of profiling (Personality of the student). Based on the analysis of these factors, the coordinator can determine whether the threat requires intervention by law enforcement or not.
There is a balance between individual rights (such as privacy rights not to be monitored or profiled) and collective rights (like safety from violence in schools). I am very heartened to see that the FBI advocates an approach based on analyzing the context of the situation, rather than profiling the individual, striking a good balance between the two potentially competing rights.
- Investing "$400 million to create and maintain more than 2,000 community technology centers every year" (georgewbush.com, 9/23)
- a "five year extension of the Internet tax moratorium" (georgewbush.com, 9/23)
- Expanding efforts to bring government services onto the Internet (georgewbush.com, 9/23)
This is what I expect from him, although he is not off to a good start on the third point.So, that is what I mean by credibility.
Slashdot is important because it has become credible within its community. This credibility is built on more than its technology (e.g., cmdrTaco), which is a good platform but not the greatest thing since sliced bread.
my question is, should they provide interactivity? should you be able to post questions about documents, forms, legal code, pending legislation, etc.? Should there be spaces for citizens to discuss these things and help each other out?
just a thought.
btw, please consider giving to the non-profit that I have founded Quorum.org. You may remember reading about it in an interview here on slashdot with my partner, Scott Reents. Happy Holidays all!
It had all the usual rms fireworks. During Eben Moglen introduction, rms started screaming, "Will you stop it! Why don't you go take your cell phone and call someone who cares!" An 1 hr 15 min.s into his 45 minute time slot and still taking about the early 1980's, Yochai Benkler (the conference organizer) started to signal with his hands that the time was up. To which, rms yelled, "Are you kidding me? I'm not even halfway done yet!" Needless to say, his speech was entertaining, informative and one-sided.
Ok, but that's not the point. At this conference, I asked him, "If accept you're notion of freedom, isn't there still a problem with deciding which non-compatable patches and standards to use? How does free software address the issue of control of the agenda?" To which he replied (and I'm paraphrasing here), "There is no agenda in free software! There is only one right way to do things!"
Well, I'm glad to see that he has joined on with a group that understands this problem and wants to address it democratically. I'll be really interested to see if they can pull it off credibly.
electronic tabulation is a pretty neat idea so we can get a fast accurate poll of the will of the people. but internet voting, hold on there! there is civic value to the anonymity offered by curtain in the public polling place. there have been many studies showing that husband and wife more often profess to vote for the same candidate than they do in reality. and how could you stop your boss from watching over your shoulder as you vote? no way, i don't want lose the integrity of the vote. and yes, mail in and telephone voting suffers from the same, well-studied problem.
Do you think there is a conspiracy that to hide polling locales so that only those who receive official GOTV info from the two official parties can vote? (Yes, I did find where to go and have cast my ballet.)
Do you think he'll read our responses?
He's a terrific guy with a great perspective and an engaging presenter. Oh yeah, and I agree w/his perspective.;)