I watched the episode last night and I have to say I wasn't too impressed. I figured in the beginning that it was going to be one of those "dying in virtual reality kills you in real life" type of theory, but by the end it just seemed like a confusing bunch of holes and loose ends. No a flame or anything against X-File (I normally enjoy it).
However I do think it was an attempt at one of thier "semi-parody" episodes. Poking fun at gamers, the software company and all that. In the end all that happened was the game was "erased". No possible theories not even some outlandish Mulder-speak theory either. Seems like an episode that Chris Carter just wanted to have fun with.
Open source filters? New domain class?
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Its seems to me that the problem with internet filters is thier blanket approcach searching for words in pages, URLs and of course the ole blacklist. Its the same as WWII blanket bombing. Drop 500 bombs at one target and chances are you'll get it (along with alot of things that weren't targets). Has anyone considered starting a little project to create a simple very easily modified open source internet filtering program? Allowing library officals to decide what tactics would fit thier needs such as a blacklist of the the obvious prono sites. I really wouldn't mind a filtreing system IN public libraries if it could be scutinized BY the public and then changed.
Now another hot topic has come up in that past was making a new domain classification such as dot XXX or something like that. Of course the obvious objection to that is "Who decides what gets placed into.XXX". I personally think it would work great as a strictly volunatry thing. The same way the the X movie rating is purely volunatry. In fact most adult movie producers have taken a serious marketing liking to it even making the imaginary XXX rating to sell thier movies. I can just see the ads now (even though the change was volunatry) "Goto www.hardcoreprono.xxx! So hardcore we got kicked off.com".
If someone writes code and posts it somewhere they are usually going to give themselves credit and hopefully a GPL tag too. Code is kinda your product. Well Apple's sig. for its products is that Apple Logo. Apple is just making sure that when people see that Apple its a clear indication of who made it (like your sig is a clear indication that your code was written by you). You probably wouldn't want me to tag my code with your name (mainly because my code is awful and may diminish your name as an exellent programmer if you don't act quickly). Trademarks must be defended to be kept.
Here in MA bills get proposed in the senate modified and voted on (Majority to pass). Then the bill gets sent to the Hosue of Reps., who can modify it further and vote on it (Majority to pass) and then the modified bill gets sent back to the Senate (who don't get to change anything at this point) and they vote a second time to agree with any changes the Hosu made.(Majority to pass). Hence, there are still alot of votes to be swayed.
Hey Killer, That little blub has been on ALL press releases since the 1930's. In fact most of the blubs say "In accodance with the so and so law of 1930 something...". Its a legal thing. You know always gotta cover your fanny nowadays. -Justin
SlashDotters, Did anyone else notice that IBM is quoted in various LinuxWorld announcements that ViaVoice for Linux was available immediately? I went to IBM's website and could only find vuage refrences and no specific discription, no availibilty info and no pricing info either. Notice on this link, http://www-4.ibm.com/software/speech/, it says "ViaVoice runs on Microsoft® Windows® 95/98, Windows NT® Workstation 4.0 with Service Pack 4, Mac® OS 8.5.1, 8.6, and 9.0 and Linux. Please see individual Edition pages for more details." However there is a link to every other "individual edition" that gives very specific product information and the option to buy online, but nothing about the Linux version. I think its sounds very interesting. Anyone have more information?
Various Peoples, It seems taht everyone seems to take a real lax view of internet tracking because the average user can't even tell its happening. I bet if you ask 100 people in the mall if you could put a traking bug on thier shoe so you could tell where the went and what stores they bought stuff at and then catalog thier names and addresses in a huge database (with nothing in return)you would most likely recieve 100 no's. Now if people found out some place in the mall had secretly placed a tracking device on them and cataloged all of thier daily travels into a database I bet the place would be shutdown simply by the angry mob tearing the place apart.
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I watched the episode last night and I have to say I wasn't too impressed. I figured in the beginning that it was going to be one of those "dying in virtual reality kills you in real life" type of theory, but by the end it just seemed like a confusing bunch of holes and loose ends. No a flame or anything against X-File (I normally enjoy it).
However I do think it was an attempt at one of thier "semi-parody" episodes. Poking fun at gamers, the software company and all that. In the end all that happened was the game was "erased". No possible theories not even some outlandish Mulder-speak theory either. Seems like an episode that Chris Carter just wanted to have fun with.
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Its seems to me that the problem with internet filters is thier blanket approcach searching for words in pages, URLs and of course the ole blacklist. Its the same as WWII blanket bombing. Drop 500 bombs at one target and chances are you'll get it (along with alot of things that weren't targets). Has anyone considered starting a little project to create a simple very easily modified open source internet filtering program? Allowing library officals to decide what tactics would fit thier needs such as a blacklist of the the obvious prono sites. I really wouldn't mind a filtreing system IN public libraries if it could be scutinized BY the public and then changed.
Now another hot topic has come up in that past was making a new domain classification such as dot XXX or something like that. Of course the obvious objection to that is "Who decides what gets placed into .XXX". I personally think it would work great as a strictly volunatry thing. The same way the the X movie rating is purely volunatry. In fact most adult movie producers have taken a serious marketing liking to it even making the imaginary XXX rating to sell thier movies. I can just see the ads now (even though the change was volunatry) "Goto www.hardcoreprono.xxx! So hardcore we got kicked off .com".
How does the /. feel about these iniatives?
For apps based on ViaVoice SDK try
Xvoice - Dictation in X
http://www.compapp.dcu.ie/~tdoris/Xvoice/
GVoice - Voice Commands for Gnome
http://www.cse.ogi.edu/~omega/gnome/gvoice/
KVoiceControl - Voice Comands for KDE
http://www.kiecza.de/daniel/kde/index.html
Peoples,
If someone writes code and posts it somewhere they are usually going to give themselves credit and hopefully a GPL tag too. Code is kinda your product. Well Apple's sig. for its products is that Apple Logo. Apple is just making sure that when people see that Apple its a clear indication of who made it (like your sig is a clear indication that your code was written by you). You probably wouldn't want me to tag my code with your name (mainly because my code is awful and may diminish your name as an exellent programmer if you don't act quickly). Trademarks must be defended to be kept.
Slashdotters,
Here in MA bills get proposed in the senate modified and voted on (Majority to pass). Then the bill gets sent to the Hosue of Reps., who can modify it further and vote on it (Majority to pass) and then the modified bill gets sent back to the Senate (who don't get to change anything at this point) and they vote a second time to agree with any changes the Hosu made.(Majority to pass). Hence, there are still alot of votes to be swayed.
Hey Killer, That little blub has been on ALL press releases since the 1930's. In fact most of the blubs say "In accodance with the so and so law of 1930 something...". Its a legal thing. You know always gotta cover your fanny nowadays. -Justin
SlashDotters, Did anyone else notice that IBM is quoted in various LinuxWorld announcements that ViaVoice for Linux was available immediately? I went to IBM's website and could only find vuage refrences and no specific discription, no availibilty info and no pricing info either. Notice on this link, http://www-4.ibm.com/software/speech/, it says "ViaVoice runs on Microsoft® Windows® 95/98, Windows NT® Workstation 4.0 with Service Pack 4, Mac® OS 8.5.1, 8.6, and 9.0 and Linux. Please see individual Edition pages for more details." However there is a link to every other "individual edition" that gives very specific product information and the option to buy online, but nothing about the Linux version. I think its sounds very interesting. Anyone have more information?
Various Peoples, It seems taht everyone seems to take a real lax view of internet tracking because the average user can't even tell its happening. I bet if you ask 100 people in the mall if you could put a traking bug on thier shoe so you could tell where the went and what stores they bought stuff at and then catalog thier names and addresses in a huge database (with nothing in return)you would most likely recieve 100 no's. Now if people found out some place in the mall had secretly placed a tracking device on them and cataloged all of thier daily travels into a database I bet the place would be shutdown simply by the angry mob tearing the place apart.