Bravo! I'm glad to see that underground newspapers have not been completed squashed by the post-columbine "everyone-needs-to-belong" hysteria.
When I was in High School, we started an underground newspaper because the local school paper would not allow comics, poetry or stories/articles if you did not work for the paper (or had a friend that did) or if was the slightest bit "risky". Talk about censorship...geesh. And yes, just like every other case, we were threatened with expulsion unless we stopped distribution of our paper.
I'm glad to see students are utilizing their new medium (and with a much bigger audience!)
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It didn't work. When they tried to feed the LN2 into the block and boot, everything went wrong. "Somehow the CMOS was damaged by the extreme temperature." If you've interested to read what finally happened, go here
Gaming has been moving towards exclusive multiplayer for quite some time now. It won't be long until we see RTS games where you actually build up your base and then defend it from potentially thousands of other users, not just 8 or 16. Actually, I've read that there are already several games like this in the works.
The scary part is when you jump into a game like Asherons Call or Everquest and see people displaying patterns of behavior as if the world was real: rioting, stealing, etc. It takes the whole 'online identitiy' one step further by allowing people not only to voice their opinions anonymously (like/.) but also act them out with an avatar. ie: I'm not really evil in real life, but I can be in this game or I'm not really a leader in real life, but I am in this game.
Just wait until the cults start to form...(hillpeople?)
Thank you so much for posting that! I know that this is way off topic, but it's about time I saw what all the fuss is about.
It's very clear that the whole 'rats' thing was blown out of proportion by the media. The text was an effect and was not intended to be a subliminal message.
*sigh* I guess that's what you get when you're the republican candidate and the press is in the democrat's back pocket. [Not that I support either campaign at this moment. It's worse than Clinton and Dole. ugh]
What's interesting is that sometimes people look for the robots.txt file to find hidden directories on a server. Hmmm.../journal,/naked_school_girls,/personal_finances...
A woman came up to me and said, 'I'd like to change your mind'
'By hitting it with a rock,' she said, 'but I am not unkind'
She looked at me, I looked at something she had written across her scalp, and these are the words that it faintly said as I tried to call for help:
There's only one thing that I know how to do well, and I've often been told that you only can do what you know how to do well and that's be you. Be what you're like. Be like yourself. And so I'm having a wonderful time, but I'd rather be whistling in the dark.
But really, they're all great, except that I started losing interest after John Henry.
Every other question in the technology section is how to get free email, free ISP, or free DSL. People are cheap.
People are cheap -- which equates to: People don't want to spend money. That's why I think over-saturation isn't working. People will tolerate a blinking ad if it means that it's going to save them $10/month.
So why advertise at all? Who's making the money here, advertisers or the websites that host the ads?
Why is it that marketing companies are so eager to force advertising down our throats through the PC? They've talked about putting ads in everything from your BIOS to your DSL connection. Don't they realize that over-saturation is going to turn people off to Internet advertising?
Because internet ads were so annoying, I took to blocking them. When I see an advertisement (even on top of/.) that isn't blocked, my mind automatically switches it off. I don't feel compelled to go buy the product, check out the website, or punch the monkey to win prizes. Hmmm, perhaps it's the lack of subliminals...
Wow, I actually remember calling the Dial-A-Song service! Perhaps they can bring that back on an 800 number, or maybe streaming audio. But wait, would I have the have a license to listen to that?
They want to stop the one's who want prosthetic foreheads on their heads, but everybody wants prosthetic foreheads on their real heads.
But remember, there are more uses for e-books than trying to sell to the masses. You can download Edgar Alan Poe and William Shakespear for free and read them directly on your computer or handheld without even leaving the comfort of your home. Thank you, Mr. OCR Scanner.
Microsoft is taking a blind stab at a problem that really isn't clearly defined yet. First off, there is no set format for e-books. If I want to read a book on my Palm, it usually has to be in PDB or PRC format (although I could always use a converter) and if I want to read a book on my PC, it can be in HTML, PDF, TXT, DOC or RTF. None of the listed formats have any sort of built-in copy protection.
Second, there is no widely-used personal identification system in place to keep e-books in the hands of those who purchased them. Plus, in the 'real-world', it's not exactly wrong to lend a book to a friend to use (or a thousand friends for that matter.) Who's going to stop me, the copyright police?
The bottom line is that there are always going to be those who pirate software/music/ebooks. And any attempt to thwart piracy will be in turn subverted. Take a look at alt.binaries.ebooks and you'll see what I mean. Just give it a few years...e-books will slowly become mainstream and a larger percentage of the electronic population will not know how to illegally obtain e-books and everyone will be happy once again. The end.
Very odd indeed, but no reason to think a conspiracy is at hand. Both myself and my close friend received our snail-mail activation letters within about 2-3 weeks of signing up online.
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Don't forget the referrer tags. C|Net: "hey look, Slashdot posted another privacy story!" ;^)
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tee hee...522666
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When I was in High School, we started an underground newspaper because the local school paper would not allow comics, poetry or stories/articles if you did not work for the paper (or had a friend that did) or if was the slightest bit "risky". Talk about censorship...geesh. And yes, just like every other case, we were threatened with expulsion unless we stopped distribution of our paper.
I'm glad to see students are utilizing their new medium (and with a much bigger audience!)
Don, co-founder of The Daily Llama and Under The Asphalt.
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It seems that the BIOS failed...interesting that the video card still worked, though.
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It didn't work. When they tried to feed the LN2 into the block and boot, everything went wrong. "Somehow the CMOS was damaged by the extreme temperature." If you've interested to read what finally happened, go here
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The scary part is when you jump into a game like Asherons Call or Everquest and see people displaying patterns of behavior as if the world was real: rioting, stealing, etc. It takes the whole 'online identitiy' one step further by allowing people not only to voice their opinions anonymously (like /.) but also act them out with an avatar. ie: I'm not really evil in real life, but I can be in this game or I'm not really a leader in real life, but I am in this game.
Just wait until the cults start to form...(hillpeople?)
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It's very clear that the whole 'rats' thing was blown out of proportion by the media. The text was an effect and was not intended to be a subliminal message.
*sigh* I guess that's what you get when you're the republican candidate and the press is in the democrat's back pocket. [Not that I support either campaign at this moment. It's worse than Clinton and Dole. ugh]
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Sorry for the offtopic post, but it just bothers me how easily the media can mislead the public.
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Yeah...the problem with geek coders is that they keep wandering off to get a good post into slashdot! 8^)
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See this link for more information.
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What's interesting is that sometimes people look for the robots.txt file to find hidden directories on a server. Hmmm... /journal, /naked_school_girls, /personal_finances...
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Or was it the sub[rats]liminal message?
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...didn't Al Gore invent the mouse?
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Carnivore has finally made it to the island of misfit stories and will soon join Echelon, Napster, DeCSS singing "I'm just such a mis-fit..."
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'By hitting it with a rock,' she said, 'but I am not unkind'
She looked at me, I looked at something she had written across her scalp, and these are the words that it faintly said as I tried to call for help:
There's only one thing that I know how to do well, and I've often been told that you only can do what you know how to do well and that's be you. Be what you're like. Be like yourself. And so I'm having a wonderful time, but I'd rather be whistling in the dark.
But really, they're all great, except that I started losing interest after John Henry.
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People are cheap -- which equates to: People don't want to spend money. That's why I think over-saturation isn't working. People will tolerate a blinking ad if it means that it's going to save them $10/month.
So why advertise at all? Who's making the money here, advertisers or the websites that host the ads?
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My brain hurts. I need to buy from Amazon.com.
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Because internet ads were so annoying, I took to blocking them. When I see an advertisement (even on top of /.) that isn't blocked, my mind automatically switches it off. I don't feel compelled to go buy the product, check out the website, or punch the monkey to win prizes. Hmmm, perhaps it's the lack of subliminals...
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I don't know, how about:
"Where your eyes don't go a filthy scarecrow waves his broomstick arms and does a parody of each unconscious thing you do.
When you turn around to look, he's gone, behind you on his face he's wearing your confused expression where your eyes don't go."
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They want to stop the one's who want prosthetic foreheads on their heads, but everybody wants prosthetic foreheads on their real heads.
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Metallica versus They Might Be Giants! I'd like to see Lars get an accordian over the head!
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I wonder if anyone owns fuckedcompay.com. Spell checker, anyone?
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But remember, there are more uses for e-books than trying to sell to the masses. You can download Edgar Alan Poe and William Shakespear for free and read them directly on your computer or handheld without even leaving the comfort of your home. Thank you, Mr. OCR Scanner.
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Second, there is no widely-used personal identification system in place to keep e-books in the hands of those who purchased them. Plus, in the 'real-world', it's not exactly wrong to lend a book to a friend to use (or a thousand friends for that matter.) Who's going to stop me, the copyright police?
The bottom line is that there are always going to be those who pirate software/music/ebooks. And any attempt to thwart piracy will be in turn subverted. Take a look at alt.binaries.ebooks and you'll see what I mean. Just give it a few years...e-books will slowly become mainstream and a larger percentage of the electronic population will not know how to illegally obtain e-books and everyone will be happy once again. The end.
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Very odd indeed, but no reason to think a conspiracy is at hand. Both myself and my close friend received our snail-mail activation letters within about 2-3 weeks of signing up online.
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