Lately I found for Windows a combination of Guidescope and PopUpKiller do a great job of blocking out:
Cookies, popup windows, regular ads, and moost other things I'd rather not see.
It takes some tweaking to get them to play nice together, but they do the job quite well.
"One of the persistent myths about the Net has been that because it costs so little to publish online, and the technology makes it so simple, diversity can flourish in cyberspace no matter how big "Big" media gets. As we're learning, that isn't so."
That's not a myth! The Web is more diverse than ever. Yes, it's true some of the larger and older sites are dying, and more will continue, but really there are a million new small sites wainting to take their place. Becuase a few english majors making $110,000 a year got laid off doesn't mean a damn thing for diversity on the web.
SIZE != QUALITY when it comes to websites.
"Weblogs and blogs can be vibrant and fascinating. So can mailing lists and me-to-me-media media entities. But they don't reach significant numbers of people; "
Sure they do, ever heard of the slashdot effect?
Low barriers to entry ensure there are pleanty of sites waiting to jump in where suck, and maybe salon have failed.
Until it doesn't.
While I like what Katz says here, he is falling into the same trap that has caught folks for years, even decades. The current trend (whatever it may be... stock prices, weather, M$ power, etc...) will continue just as it is.
If he was writing this 80 years ago he would be saying the same thing about Standard Oil, and we all know what happened to them.
Let's just hope the Government will smarten up, and this trend will stop.
Trends do not go on forever, this one won't either.
Though they will be sooner or later, here's a couple stories that paint a less rosy picture.
A couple not so encouraging eBook stories. E-Books Barely a Blip on Publishing Radar says E-book sales barely show up in the $96 billion U.S. consumer electronics or publishing markets.
""Reading an e-book is just like reading a book... but it's just less fun, more expensive and heavier," said Robert Hertzberg, an analyst with Jupiter Research. "That's not much of a marketing motto."
Projects like this are great, they move information to places that are readily accessable to more people.
Do you think libraries like we know them now are going to eventually replaced by stuff like this?
What about paper books, will everything be digitized?
The last line is the scariest "Whatever happens to Actis, the completion of the map is prob-ably the first
big step in the quest to control internet anarchy."
We need control on the internet?
They also cliam more than 20,000 porn sites are added a day, and these sites are all bad, but yet they have "A Map of the Interenet". Is this possible? What about the 20,000 sites added today? They found them already????
I posted the bill at:
http://www.lisnews.com/article.php3?sid=2000101608 3332
Here's Some:
H.R.4577
Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001 (Public Print)
-------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------
TITLE VI--CHILDREN'S INTERNET PROTECTION
SEC. 601. SHORT TITLE. This title may be cited as the `Childrens' Internet Protection Act'.
SEC. 602. REQUIREMENT FOR SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES TO IMPLEMENT FILTERING OR BLOCKING TECHNOLOGY FOR COMPUTERS WITH INTERNET ACCESS AS CONDITION OF UNIVERSAL SERVICE DISCOUNTS. (a) SCHOOLS- Section 254(h) of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 254(h)) is amended--
(1) by redesignating paragraph (5) as paragraph (7); and
(2) by inserting after paragraph (4) the following new paragraph (5):
`(5) REQUIREMENTS FOR CERTAIN SCHOOLS WITH COMPUTERS HAVING INTERNET ACCESS-
`(A) INTERNET FILTERING-
`(i) IN GENERAL- Except as provided in clause (ii), an elementary or secondary school having computers with Internet access may not receive services at discount rates under paragraph (1)(B) unless the school, school board, or other authority with responsibility for administration of the school--
`(I) submits to the Commission a certification described in subparagraph (B); and
`(II) ensures the use of such computers in accordance with the certification.
`(ii) APPLICABILITY- The prohibition in paragraph (1) shall not apply with respect to a school that receives services at discount rates under paragraph (1)(B) only for purposes other than the provision of Internet access, Internet service, or internal connections.
`(B) CERTIFICATION- A certification under this subparagraph is a certification that the school, school board, or other authority with responsibility for administration of the school--
`(i) has selected a technology for its computers with Internet access in order to filter or block Internet access through such computers to--
`(I) material that is obscene; and
`(II) child pornography; and
`(ii) is enforcing a policy to ensure the operation of the technology during any use of such computers by minors.
`(C) ADDITIONAL USE OF TECHNOLOGY- A school, school board, or other authority may also use a technology covered by a certification under subparagraph (B) to filter or block Internet access through the computers concerned to any material in addition to the material specified in that subparagraph that the school, school board, or other authority determines to be inappropriate for minors.
`(D) TIMING OF CERTIFICATIONS-
`(i) SCHOOLS WITH COMPUTERS ON EFFECTIVE DATE-
`(I) IN GENERAL- Subject to subclause (II), in the case of any school covered by this paragraph as of the effective date of this paragraph under section 602(h) of the Childrens' Internet Protection Act, the certification under subparagraph (B) shall be made not later than 30 days after such effective date.
`(II) DELAY- A certification for a school covered by subclause (I) may be made at a date that is later than is otherwise required by that subclause if State or local procurement rules or regulations or competitive bidding requirements prevent the making of the certification on the date otherwise required by that subclause. A school, school board, or other authority with responsibility for administration of the school shall notify the Commission of the applicability of this subclause to the school. Such notice shall specify the date on which the certification with respect to the school shall be effective for purposes of this clause.
`(ii) SCHOOLS ACQUIRING COMPUTERS AFTER EFFECTIVE DATE- In the case of any school that first becomes covered by this paragraph after such effective date, the certification under subparagraph (B) shall be made not later than 10 days after the date on which the school first becomes so covered.
`(iii) NO REQUIREMENT FOR ADDITIONAL CERTIFICATIONS- A school that has submitted a certification under subparagraph (B) shall not be required for purposes of this paragraph to submit an additional certification under that subparagraph with respect to any computers having Internet access that are acquired by the school after the submittal of the certification.
`(E) NONCOMPLIANCE-
`(i) FAILURE TO SUBMIT CERTIFICATION- Any school that knowingly fails to submit a certification required by this paragraph shall reimburse each telecommunications carrier that provided such school services at discount rates under paragraph (1)(B) after the effective date of this paragraph under section 602(h) of the Childrens' Internet Protection Act in an amount equal to the amount of the discount provided such school by such carrier for such services during the period beginning on such effective date and ending on the date on which the provision of such services at discount rates under paragraph (1)(B) is determined to cease under subparagraph (F).
`(ii) FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH CERTIFICATION- Any school that knowingly fails to ensure the use of its computers in accordance with a certification under subparagraph (B) shall reimburse each telecommunications carrier that provided such school services at discount rates under paragraph (1)(B) after the date of such certification in an amount equal to the amount of the discount provided such school by such carrier for such services during the period beginning on the date of such certification and ending on the date on which the provision of such services at discount rates under paragraph (1)(B) is determined to cease under subparagraph (F).
`(iii) TREATMENT OF REIMBURSEMENT- The receipt by a telecommunications carrier of any reimbursement under this subparagraph shall not affect the carrier's treatment of the discount on which such reimbursement was based in accordance with the third sentence of paragraph (1)(B).
`(F) CESSATION DATE-
and it aint so bad. If you can get over the silly GUI and colors it's actaully not a bad OS. It shows it's UNIX roots off in path names, and still is easy to use like OS 7-9. Seems very stable, and installed first time no sweat in about 5 minutes. That damn Dock is a PITA though, should autohide like in windows.
Funny how the MAC OS is becoming more 'Windows' like, and Windows is becoming more MAC like, but never the twain shall meet!
He says "The Unix euphoria of the early days was gone by the end of the decade, which had seen vendors choose sides and celebrate the forking of Unix into so many vendor-specific mutants."
I suppose that's what competition does.
Let's not let this happen to linux. Or is it just going to happen naturally? Is it already happening?
as a librarian, and someone who runs a librarian news site that devotes no small part of the news to this subject, I can say that it is not as clear as right and wrong. Librarians in MN have brought legal actions against their own library to install filters. They say they are being sexually harrassesed because of all the porn they see all day on the computers.
Check out lisnews.com for lots of stories on this subject. It is the biggest news in our strange librarian world now.
We have quite a few stories at LISNews.com on Censorship and Filtering that can give you some idea on what's going on around the country in these areas as well. Mostly from the popular press, shows who is for and against and where this is being used and fught against.
It's great when you can make one of these little cuties go faster, but what about making one into an acqarium, has anyone done that yet? I'm just not ready to porr the $1000 down the drain, so to speak.
Freenet's philosophy page states: "Look at the music industry. Who is the primary beneficiary from enforcement of copyright law? Clearly it is those who distribute the music, not those who create it. In fact, it is fantastically difficult for artists to succeed in the music industry, and the quality of their output has little bearing on their chances of success (anyone who is familiar with the music charts can only agree with me on this!). Copyright law has failed to encourage creativity in the music industry." Clearly this was written by someone who did NOT sit alone in a room for thousands of hours listening to, and praticing, learning, reading, studying, and writing music. Someone who spent THOUSANDS of hours recording and practicing, thousands of DOLLARS on instruments, YEARS of time and hard work and sweat would never say this. People become musicians for many reasons, but MONEY is sure a big one, and for the lucky few that do achieve some level of success deserve some sort of payback for the incridible time they put in. They went into this with the hope of big paybacks in some way. The music industry is not open source. Who cares is the beatles or michael jackson misses a few bucks from a ripped off mp3 file. But smaller bands (Thousands of them) that just got signed, and depend on sales of CD's not just for money, but to retain a contract need every single sale, They are the ones being hurt. Spend th3e next 5 years trying to make it and you'll change your tune.
There are two paths an outcast can take, one leads to computers, and the other leads to the stage. Why has no one else made this connection? They are 2 sides of the same coin. Both require long amounts of alone time, just playing, praticing, honing obscure little skills. If you think that burning a CD or copying a song isn;t stealing, then you have NEVER spent HOURS, WEEKS, MONTHS, writing, practicing, and recording a song. It costs money and time to make music!!! Alot of it.
This is retarded. Patents are supposed to be for non-obvious things!!!! I just came up with a great way to dial my phone, and type faster, i am going to patent it. I'm sure I can find a stupid judge to let me!
Comapnies should have copyright on thier own names, but still, why punish the little guys for having the foresight to take a name and use it online. I wish I had a multimillion dollar domain name for sale!
ya'll might want to check out http://www.lisnews.com for librarians views on filtering, along with other stories on filtering. It's slasdot for libarians!
Slashdot Mirror
Lately I found for Windows a combination of Guidescope and PopUpKiller do a great job of blocking out:
Cookies, popup windows, regular ads, and moost other things I'd rather not see.
It takes some tweaking to get them to play nice together, but they do the job quite well.
That's not a myth! The Web is more diverse than ever. Yes, it's true some of the larger and older sites are dying, and more will continue, but really there are a million new small sites wainting to take their place. Becuase a few english majors making $110,000 a year got laid off doesn't mean a damn thing for diversity on the web.
SIZE != QUALITY when it comes to websites.
"Weblogs and blogs can be vibrant and fascinating. So can mailing lists and me-to-me-media media entities. But they don't reach significant numbers of people; "
Sure they do, ever heard of the slashdot effect?
Low barriers to entry ensure there are pleanty of sites waiting to jump in where suck, and maybe salon have failed.
Until it doesn't. While I like what Katz says here, he is falling into the same trap that has caught folks for years, even decades. The current trend (whatever it may be... stock prices, weather, M$ power, etc...) will continue just as it is. If he was writing this 80 years ago he would be saying the same thing about Standard Oil, and we all know what happened to them. Let's just hope the Government will smarten up, and this trend will stop. Trends do not go on forever, this one won't either.
A couple not so encouraging eBook stories.
... but it's just less fun, more expensive and heavier," said Robert Hertzberg, an analyst with Jupiter Research. "That's not much of a marketing motto."
E-Books Barely a Blip on Publishing Radar says E-book sales barely show up in the $96 billion U.S. consumer electronics or publishing markets.
""Reading an e-book is just like reading a book
While Wired asks What if E-Books Cost Less?, one publisher is lowering prices to sell more books.
Projects like this are great, they move information to places that are readily accessable to more people.
Do you think libraries like we know them now are going to eventually replaced by stuff like this?
What about paper books, will everything be digitized?
http://www.ala.org/cipa/FCCRulemaking.pdf
it's a PDF.
We've always got filtering stuff at LISNews.com too, :-)
"Whatever happens to Actis, the completion of the map is prob-ably the first big step in the quest to control internet anarchy."
We need control on the internet?
They also cliam more than 20,000 porn sites are added a day, and these sites are all bad, but yet they have "A Map of the Interenet". Is this possible? What about the 20,000 sites added today? They found them already????
I posted the bill at: http://www.lisnews.com/article.php3?sid=2000101608 3332
Here's Some:
H.R.4577
Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001 (Public Print)
-------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------
TITLE VI--CHILDREN'S INTERNET PROTECTION
SEC. 601. SHORT TITLE. This title may be cited as the `Childrens' Internet Protection Act'.
SEC. 602. REQUIREMENT FOR SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES TO IMPLEMENT FILTERING OR BLOCKING TECHNOLOGY FOR COMPUTERS WITH INTERNET ACCESS AS CONDITION OF UNIVERSAL SERVICE DISCOUNTS. (a) SCHOOLS- Section 254(h) of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 254(h)) is amended--
(1) by redesignating paragraph (5) as paragraph (7); and
(2) by inserting after paragraph (4) the following new paragraph (5):
`(5) REQUIREMENTS FOR CERTAIN SCHOOLS WITH COMPUTERS HAVING INTERNET ACCESS-
`(A) INTERNET FILTERING-
`(i) IN GENERAL- Except as provided in clause (ii), an elementary or secondary school having computers with Internet access may not receive services at discount rates under paragraph (1)(B) unless the school, school board, or other authority with responsibility for administration of the school--
`(I) submits to the Commission a certification described in subparagraph (B); and
`(II) ensures the use of such computers in accordance with the certification.
`(ii) APPLICABILITY- The prohibition in paragraph (1) shall not apply with respect to a school that receives services at discount rates under paragraph (1)(B) only for purposes other than the provision of Internet access, Internet service, or internal connections.
`(B) CERTIFICATION- A certification under this subparagraph is a certification that the school, school board, or other authority with responsibility for administration of the school--
`(i) has selected a technology for its computers with Internet access in order to filter or block Internet access through such computers to--
`(I) material that is obscene; and
`(II) child pornography; and
`(ii) is enforcing a policy to ensure the operation of the technology during any use of such computers by minors.
`(C) ADDITIONAL USE OF TECHNOLOGY- A school, school board, or other authority may also use a technology covered by a certification under subparagraph (B) to filter or block Internet access through the computers concerned to any material in addition to the material specified in that subparagraph that the school, school board, or other authority determines to be inappropriate for minors.
`(D) TIMING OF CERTIFICATIONS-
`(i) SCHOOLS WITH COMPUTERS ON EFFECTIVE DATE-
`(I) IN GENERAL- Subject to subclause (II), in the case of any school covered by this paragraph as of the effective date of this paragraph under section 602(h) of the Childrens' Internet Protection Act, the certification under subparagraph (B) shall be made not later than 30 days after such effective date.
`(II) DELAY- A certification for a school covered by subclause (I) may be made at a date that is later than is otherwise required by that subclause if State or local procurement rules or regulations or competitive bidding requirements prevent the making of the certification on the date otherwise required by that subclause. A school, school board, or other authority with responsibility for administration of the school shall notify the Commission of the applicability of this subclause to the school. Such notice shall specify the date on which the certification with respect to the school shall be effective for purposes of this clause.
`(ii) SCHOOLS ACQUIRING COMPUTERS AFTER EFFECTIVE DATE- In the case of any school that first becomes covered by this paragraph after such effective date, the certification under subparagraph (B) shall be made not later than 10 days after the date on which the school first becomes so covered.
`(iii) NO REQUIREMENT FOR ADDITIONAL CERTIFICATIONS- A school that has submitted a certification under subparagraph (B) shall not be required for purposes of this paragraph to submit an additional certification under that subparagraph with respect to any computers having Internet access that are acquired by the school after the submittal of the certification.
`(E) NONCOMPLIANCE-
`(i) FAILURE TO SUBMIT CERTIFICATION- Any school that knowingly fails to submit a certification required by this paragraph shall reimburse each telecommunications carrier that provided such school services at discount rates under paragraph (1)(B) after the effective date of this paragraph under section 602(h) of the Childrens' Internet Protection Act in an amount equal to the amount of the discount provided such school by such carrier for such services during the period beginning on such effective date and ending on the date on which the provision of such services at discount rates under paragraph (1)(B) is determined to cease under subparagraph (F).
`(ii) FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH CERTIFICATION- Any school that knowingly fails to ensure the use of its computers in accordance with a certification under subparagraph (B) shall reimburse each telecommunications carrier that provided such school services at discount rates under paragraph (1)(B) after the date of such certification in an amount equal to the amount of the discount provided such school by such carrier for such services during the period beginning on the date of such certification and ending on the date on which the provision of such services at discount rates under paragraph (1)(B) is determined to cease under subparagraph (F).
`(iii) TREATMENT OF REIMBURSEMENT- The receipt by a telecommunications carrier of any reimbursement under this subparagraph shall not affect the carrier's treatment of the discount on which such reimbursement was based in accordance with the third sentence of paragraph (1)(B).
`(F) CESSATION DATE-
Ah yes, so it is! Blind as a bat I guess
and it aint so bad. If you can get over the silly GUI and colors it's actaully not a bad OS. It shows it's UNIX roots off in path names, and still is easy to use like OS 7-9. Seems very stable, and installed first time no sweat in about 5 minutes. That damn Dock is a PITA though, should autohide like in windows. Funny how the MAC OS is becoming more 'Windows' like, and Windows is becoming more MAC like, but never the twain shall meet!
He says "The Unix euphoria of the early days was gone by the end of the decade, which had seen vendors choose sides and celebrate the forking of Unix into so many vendor-specific mutants."
I suppose that's what competition does. Let's not let this happen to linux. Or is it just going to happen naturally? Is it already happening?
as a librarian, and someone who runs a librarian news site that devotes no small part of the news to this subject, I can say that it is not as clear as right and wrong. Librarians in MN have brought legal actions against their own library to install filters. They say they are being sexually harrassesed because of all the porn they see all day on the computers. Check out lisnews.com for lots of stories on this subject. It is the biggest news in our strange librarian world now.
We have quite a few stories at LISNews.com on Censorship and Filtering that can give you some idea on what's going on around the country in these areas as well. Mostly from the popular press, shows who is for and against and where this is being used and fught against.
It's great when you can make one of these little cuties go faster, but what about making one into an acqarium, has anyone done that yet? I'm just not ready to porr the $1000 down the drain, so to speak.
check out http://www.lisnews.com/search.php3?topic=EPublicat ions We have about 100 articles from all over on the pros and cons of epublishing.
Freenet's philosophy page states: "Look at the music industry. Who is the primary beneficiary from enforcement of copyright law? Clearly it is those who distribute the music, not those who create it. In fact, it is fantastically difficult for artists to succeed in the music industry, and the quality of their output has little bearing on their chances of success (anyone who is familiar with the music charts can only agree with me on this!). Copyright law has failed to encourage creativity in the music industry." Clearly this was written by someone who did NOT sit alone in a room for thousands of hours listening to, and praticing, learning, reading, studying, and writing music. Someone who spent THOUSANDS of hours recording and practicing, thousands of DOLLARS on instruments, YEARS of time and hard work and sweat would never say this. People become musicians for many reasons, but MONEY is sure a big one, and for the lucky few that do achieve some level of success deserve some sort of payback for the incridible time they put in. They went into this with the hope of big paybacks in some way. The music industry is not open source. Who cares is the beatles or michael jackson misses a few bucks from a ripped off mp3 file. But smaller bands (Thousands of them) that just got signed, and depend on sales of CD's not just for money, but to retain a contract need every single sale, They are the ones being hurt. Spend th3e next 5 years trying to make it and you'll change your tune.
There are two paths an outcast can take, one leads to computers, and the other leads to the stage. Why has no one else made this connection? They are 2 sides of the same coin. Both require long amounts of alone time, just playing, praticing, honing obscure little skills. If you think that burning a CD or copying a song isn;t stealing, then you have NEVER spent HOURS, WEEKS, MONTHS, writing, practicing, and recording a song. It costs money and time to make music!!! Alot of it.
AMD still is at such a disadvantage, let's hope this helps AMD!
This weeks Barrons has a cool little blurb on cable and what deregulation has done to help decrease prices and increase competition.
This is retarded. Patents are supposed to be for non-obvious things!!!! I just came up with a great way to dial my phone, and type faster, i am going to patent it. I'm sure I can find a stupid judge to let me!
Comapnies should have copyright on thier own names, but still, why punish the little guys for having the foresight to take a name and use it online. I wish I had a multimillion dollar domain name for sale!
ya'll might want to check out http://www.lisnews.com for librarians views on filtering, along with other stories on filtering. It's slasdot for libarians!