(Long-time Internetters will recall that the FBI raid on SJG was one of the first causes celebre of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.)
What does the Internet have to do with it? You mean longtime modemers, because this was a case involving e-mail on SJG's Bulletin Board System (BBS) and the rights entitled to electronic publishers.
Exactly. There is no historical evidence to even suggest kites might have been used. So for all their time, money and sweat, all they've proved is that there's more than one way to raise an obelisk.
They're not even the first to do it! The Discovery Channel (or maybe History Channel?) has aired a show a bazillion times where a researcher raised a larger obelisk. The top half rested on rock, the other half rested on sand enclosed by a wall. They just removed the sand from a small hole and as the sand escaped, the obelisk fell into position. It's similar to the levers used in this PBS Nova show, except it didn't require any heaving or pulling to bring the obelisk upright.
Fraudulent companies only get fined? Big whoop. Fines are not a deterrent. Throw white collar criminals in jail. Give them real reason to fear getting caught.
It's silly for a company to register their own 'sucks' domain. What does it matter if I visit SuperMegaCorpSucks.com or SuperMegaCorpIsEvil.com? Either way I probably already hate Super Mega Corp, or why else would I be visiting? Virtually all of my traffic will come from links on other sites, so the URL doesn't matter. Just pick a domain name that is brief enough that it doesn't wrap when enclosed in an e-mail message.
I'm house shopping right now in a tight housing market. I don't use realtor.com or other national web sites because the good houses are sold before they get published there. Sometimes they're sold the same day they go on the market.
I use a local realtor's web site that publishes new property listings once a day. I then view specific properties in-person. Then I have my realtor fax me detailed spec sheets of the houses that interest me (obtained from the database all the local realtors have access to). Finally, my realtor arranges a walk-through of the houses I want to see. For some strange reason the detailed information in the realty database is not published online by any of the local realtors.
I would love to shop for my house entirely online (except for a walk-through as the last step), but that's not possible yet in my neck of the woods.
From the Unisys History Newsletter : "The first UNIVAC passed its formal acceptance test on March 29-30, 1951 and was turned over to the Census Bureau, which operated it in the factory for nearly a year. A formal dedication ceremony was held on June 14, but coverage in the general press was minimal."
You've obviously never had a pregnant teen, a teen with HIV or other STD, a teen in juvenile hall (jail), etc.
The issue is that children are now exposed to adult behavior at earlier and earlier ages, before their minds fully understand the scope and impact of their behavior. _THAT_ is well established in psychological research.
Yup. The Internet is an adult medium, as is television and most movies these days. Either you trust your child to understand all adult content, or you take parental responsibility by monitoring, restricting, educating, leading by example, etc.
Once you have a genuine RSI injury, you never recover - you live with it. I had wrist, hand and shoulder pain and went through two months of physical therapy, and now work at an ergonomic bi-level table. I'm fine most of the time, but pain can come back if I use my PC improperly (particularly with mousing) or I stop doing certain flexing exercises. A healthy person can do all sorts of "improper" things with their PC use and think RSI is a hoax, but after you sustain an RSI injury it makes all those simple things much more prone to pain. I relish the old days of 6+ hour sessions at the computer, not giving a damn what angle my arm was at, where my wrist was sitting, etc.
It was both a genuine attempt at legislation and a blatantly unconstititutional action in an attempt to appear productive. The two do not cancel themselves out.
We'll throw a whole bunch at the wall. I don't expect any of it to stick, but my constituents see me doing something, and if any of it sticks, then so much the better because hey, what do I care about the constitution and citizen rights?
Don't worry. This is just version 1.0. Future renditions will be much simpler. For example, they know you hate watching commercials. So maybe they'll just save you that step and directly debit your bank account and ship you the products they advertise. These will be products you want because, of course, the corporations will already know everything about your habits, tastes and thought processes.
Just sit back down and relax as we plug this IV into your arm. No need for you to think anymore. We've taken care of that for you.
Every few months were hear about how things are smaller, faster, better, more. Too bad it'll be 10 or 20 years before this stuff filters down to the consumer level.
Really, I guess you don't know what it's like to be treated differently because you're of a different skin color or religion than the white majority. American pop culture is decidely white culture. There is no melting pot. Wake up.
I bet there's a way a natural culture can thrive alongside the one we're force-fed.
Natural culture already exists. I'm not sorry I don't dress like an Old Navy clone, spend my free time watching sitcoms, cast my ballot for a republicrat, have your skin color and pray to your god. Natural culture already exists, but you view us as oddballs, outcasts, nuts, minorities or hermits. We view you, as, well, boring.
I find the idea of having lots of decentralized editors, each responsible for one small area, very appealing. The opportunity for distortion or bias is confined to each editor's individual subject.
Web Marketing 101:
Start a web site to sell widgets
Make yourself editor of "Widgets" category on Dmoz
Give your site preferential treatment in Dmoz rankings
You won't be so smug after your muscles tighten and leave your hand permanently bent in that contorted "ergonomic" position due to prolonged use of your Microsoft Intellimouse.
The "twisted hand" will be the new Gestapo-esque salute in the Microsoft era. Raise your right arm straight toward the sky. "Heil Gates!" The poor souls whose hands are not bent into the sickle-shaped Microsoft position will be easy to spot and haul away to the innovation camps.
Companies already collect an insane amount of personal information and profile me to get inside my pocketbook. So the government is recording all of my online correspondence and/or activity? What's new? I don't see people complaining about everyday privacy intrusions, such as Safeway's club card.
Actually, it was not predictable, except for the part at the very end. They pretty much took the story wherever they wanted, with the end goal being the only waypoint. Sort of like O Brother Where Art Thou.
It's a predictable paint-by-numbers Hollywood flick that relies on the musical score to pretend it's an epic. To count the yawns, flaws and laughable moments would take days. Save yourself the misery and watch Shrek again.
The core problem with Flash is one that Macromedia cannot fight, even with all of their recent usability gimmicks... People prefer familiar interfaces - ones that operate according to their expectations. Those expectations are based on how billions of pre-existing web pages already function.
Flash allows designers to create unique interfaces. Flash designers create what they want, not what people want. People do not want to learn a new interface and new functioning conventions with every site they visit. Flash is doomed unless its implementers conform to some basic communal standards.
No, membership is in fact voluntary for the user. If you don't like your provider using MAPS, or your provider's provider using MAPS, then simply change companies. If MAPS is really a bad idea, it will shrivel due to lack of support. It's one of those pesky times when the principles of capitalism actually work. Providers will not use MAPS if their customers don't want it.
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- Distrust over company's security to ensure my personal info remains private.
- Purchase price is inflated.
- Usability issues with web site prevent me from completing the transaction.
- Exact nature or scope of the information to be purchased is vague. Samples please!
- Unreasonable subscription restrictions.
Read my experience with the Consumer Reports web site when I tried to subscribe to their product reviews.What does the Internet have to do with it? You mean longtime modemers, because this was a case involving e-mail on SJG's Bulletin Board System (BBS) and the rights entitled to electronic publishers.
They're not even the first to do it! The Discovery Channel (or maybe History Channel?) has aired a show a bazillion times where a researcher raised a larger obelisk. The top half rested on rock, the other half rested on sand enclosed by a wall. They just removed the sand from a small hole and as the sand escaped, the obelisk fell into position. It's similar to the levers used in this PBS Nova show, except it didn't require any heaving or pulling to bring the obelisk upright.
Fraudulent companies only get fined? Big whoop. Fines are not a deterrent. Throw white collar criminals in jail. Give them real reason to fear getting caught.
It's silly for a company to register their own 'sucks' domain. What does it matter if I visit SuperMegaCorpSucks.com or SuperMegaCorpIsEvil.com? Either way I probably already hate Super Mega Corp, or why else would I be visiting? Virtually all of my traffic will come from links on other sites, so the URL doesn't matter. Just pick a domain name that is brief enough that it doesn't wrap when enclosed in an e-mail message.
I use a local realtor's web site that publishes new property listings once a day. I then view specific properties in-person. Then I have my realtor fax me detailed spec sheets of the houses that interest me (obtained from the database all the local realtors have access to). Finally, my realtor arranges a walk-through of the houses I want to see. For some strange reason the detailed information in the realty database is not published online by any of the local realtors.
I would love to shop for my house entirely online (except for a walk-through as the last step), but that's not possible yet in my neck of the woods.
From the Unisys History Newsletter : "The first UNIVAC passed its formal acceptance test on March 29-30, 1951 and was turned over to the Census Bureau, which operated it in the factory for nearly a year. A formal dedication ceremony was held on June 14, but coverage in the general press was minimal."
The issue is that children are now exposed to adult behavior at earlier and earlier ages, before their minds fully understand the scope and impact of their behavior. _THAT_ is well established in psychological research.
Yup. The Internet is an adult medium, as is television and most movies these days. Either you trust your child to understand all adult content, or you take parental responsibility by monitoring, restricting, educating, leading by example, etc.
Once you have a genuine RSI injury, you never recover - you live with it. I had wrist, hand and shoulder pain and went through two months of physical therapy, and now work at an ergonomic bi-level table. I'm fine most of the time, but pain can come back if I use my PC improperly (particularly with mousing) or I stop doing certain flexing exercises. A healthy person can do all sorts of "improper" things with their PC use and think RSI is a hoax, but after you sustain an RSI injury it makes all those simple things much more prone to pain. I relish the old days of 6+ hour sessions at the computer, not giving a damn what angle my arm was at, where my wrist was sitting, etc.
We'll throw a whole bunch at the wall. I don't expect any of it to stick, but my constituents see me doing something, and if any of it sticks, then so much the better because hey, what do I care about the constitution and citizen rights?
Just sit back down and relax as we plug this IV into your arm. No need for you to think anymore. We've taken care of that for you.
Every few months were hear about how things are smaller, faster, better, more. Too bad it'll be 10 or 20 years before this stuff filters down to the consumer level.
Amusing assumptions. They're all wrong.
Really, I guess you don't know what it's like to be treated differently because you're of a different skin color or religion than the white majority. American pop culture is decidely white culture. There is no melting pot. Wake up.
Natural culture already exists. I'm not sorry I don't dress like an Old Navy clone, spend my free time watching sitcoms, cast my ballot for a republicrat, have your skin color and pray to your god. Natural culture already exists, but you view us as oddballs, outcasts, nuts, minorities or hermits. We view you, as, well, boring.
Web Marketing 101:
- Start a web site to sell widgets
- Make yourself editor of "Widgets" category on Dmoz
- Give your site preferential treatment in Dmoz rankings
Who is watching the gatekeepers?Did you use school computers or software to design or manage the site? If so, they might lay claim.
Does school policy cover intellectual property pertaining to data stored on school servers? If so, they might lay claim.
Hardly. This was a joke, not me likening a /.er to being a Nazi. Get a grip.
The "twisted hand" will be the new Gestapo-esque salute in the Microsoft era. Raise your right arm straight toward the sky. "Heil Gates!" The poor souls whose hands are not bent into the sickle-shaped Microsoft position will be easy to spot and haul away to the innovation camps.
Companies already collect an insane amount of personal information and profile me to get inside my pocketbook. So the government is recording all of my online correspondence and/or activity? What's new? I don't see people complaining about everyday privacy intrusions, such as Safeway's club card.
Actually, it was not predictable, except for the part at the very end. They pretty much took the story wherever they wanted, with the end goal being the only waypoint. Sort of like O Brother Where Art Thou.
It's a predictable paint-by-numbers Hollywood flick that relies on the musical score to pretend it's an epic. To count the yawns, flaws and laughable moments would take days. Save yourself the misery and watch Shrek again.
Flash allows designers to create unique interfaces. Flash designers create what they want, not what people want. People do not want to learn a new interface and new functioning conventions with every site they visit. Flash is doomed unless its implementers conform to some basic communal standards.
No, membership is in fact voluntary for the user. If you don't like your provider using MAPS, or your provider's provider using MAPS, then simply change companies. If MAPS is really a bad idea, it will shrivel due to lack of support. It's one of those pesky times when the principles of capitalism actually work. Providers will not use MAPS if their customers don't want it.