I use a filter to make sure my mailing list posts stay in my Inbox and are autotagged with which mailing list they came from, and everything else can be chucked straight in the bin.
Of course, this is for my side account that is used solely for mailing lists. For everything else, hey, look up. After all, Slashdot's munging technique is pretty good, too.
I'd like to just spin off some sort of society where the "best practices" can be pursued, current government be damned.
Problem 1: You can't get a society of 1 person. Who's going with me? Problem 2: Easiest way out is to pilot a ship into international waters and then ground it, Sealand-style, but nobody makes that sort of platform that *I* know of. Problem 3: Internet connectivity is a must. Attracting the attention of one of those big fiber-optic-cable-laying companies will be nigh impossible for a micronation. Problem 4: How do you make a sea platform expandable?
If the exit node is in one of those willingly-paying-through-the-nose ISPs, probably. (Q: Does Tor let you pick where your exit node is?)
The problem is that the (in this case, not grandmas, but) Grandpas who were sent a link to the site by the grandchildren can't see what they're supposed to be seeing, and, simultaneously, people who don't *want* to access the content (like me and mine) are forced to pay for it anyway.
I think a little pod with a touchscreen, bearing buttons for "Store", "Home", "Visiting Susie", etc. which would stay highlighted when one pressed them (and show when you pressed them), just-press-them-again-to-deactivate would work. Heck, it could be an iPhone app...
A search for "sex" would return sexually explicit content? Duh. If you wanted to search for something that wasn't explicit, you wouldn't plug in the term "sex", would you?
They *should* do that, but they probably don't because it's "too expensive" or some such nonsense. As tragic as this is, there's the definite possibility that *this* is what spurs regulators to require continuously-broadcasting black boxes.
I *already* compute in the cloud. Except for the stuff that needs high security (like stuff I'd like to actually claim as intellectual property someday) - uploading that to a website that in its EULA claims the right to read your data is just stupid.
Then again, the reason I *do* do so is because I use five different computers and if it isn't the cloud, it's the sneakernet and I'm notorious for losing USB-flashdrives.
I see the promise but would rather that my user-entered values be accessible like the GoogleSearchWiki. This could be described as a "curated table". (Much more useful than the utterly random data given - when I search for Fruit, I want to see a picture of an apple, not an Apple.) Obviously I'm taking half the pages from Wikipedia's book and throwing them at Google, but the idea's there I think.
Here's the thing. People don't *want* to be tracked across websites. (Just like they don't *want* to see ads at all... but I digress.) The equivalent is the local store providing a small button-sticker, without your permission, at the door that not only lets their associates direct you to sections you might actually be interested in, but track you via GPS into other stores to see what you buy. And I mean you can take them off later (delete the cookies and all that), but then every other store provides the exact same sticker and some require you to present the sticker at every counter for service. It's something that a paranoid would probably say already happens, but the fact is, that this is turning us *all* paranoid. I don't like being paranoid.
On the other hand, Mr. President Obama has kept quiet on privacy, so we don't even know what his stances are on this issue...
If that big ol' earthquake that's been threatening to unseat us humans actually happens, it'll tear up the infrastructure out here in SoCal. Very easily.
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I use a filter to make sure my mailing list posts stay in my Inbox and are autotagged with which mailing list they came from, and everything else can be chucked straight in the bin.
Of course, this is for my side account that is used solely for mailing lists. For everything else, hey, look up. After all, Slashdot's munging technique is pretty good, too.
a spelling/grammar/punctuation-Nazi.
Of course! Semantically speaking, there shouldn't be a hyphen there.
*ducks*
That would be "____'s Funniest Home Videos" shows here in North America.
Look down. Girl #3, and 16 years old at the moment to boot.
I've always said there were twenty girls on the Internet. Now I know 22. Thanks guys! :P
To not charge battery: Use the switches and pull the entire battery pack out of the back of the computer.
FWIW, I have a VAIO laptop where I fried the battery (literally) by getting it too hot (oops). But that doesn't matter, I just plug the thing in.
I'd like to just spin off some sort of society where the "best practices" can be pursued, current government be damned.
Problem 1: You can't get a society of 1 person. Who's going with me?
Problem 2: Easiest way out is to pilot a ship into international waters and then ground it, Sealand-style, but nobody makes that sort of platform that *I* know of.
Problem 3: Internet connectivity is a must. Attracting the attention of one of those big fiber-optic-cable-laying companies will be nigh impossible for a micronation.
Problem 4: How do you make a sea platform expandable?
tl;dr: I want to fork society. Who's with me?
Fork Firefox, then.
OK, who else is with me?
(Just FYI - I can't program. I'm better at doing community managing, which is what this project, from the parent's POV, desperately needs.)
Yeah, but it'd be buried under feet of magma and ash.
Yeah, you can have it, but good luck finding it. :P
If the exit node is in one of those willingly-paying-through-the-nose ISPs, probably. (Q: Does Tor let you pick where your exit node is?)
The problem is that the (in this case, not grandmas, but) Grandpas who were sent a link to the site by the grandchildren can't see what they're supposed to be seeing, and, simultaneously, people who don't *want* to access the content (like me and mine) are forced to pay for it anyway.
I think a little pod with a touchscreen, bearing buttons for "Store", "Home", "Visiting Susie", etc. which would stay highlighted when one pressed them (and show when you pressed them), just-press-them-again-to-deactivate would work. Heck, it could be an iPhone app...
A search for "sex" would return sexually explicit content? Duh. If you wanted to search for something that wasn't explicit, you wouldn't plug in the term "sex", would you?
They *should* do that, but they probably don't because it's "too expensive" or some such nonsense. As tragic as this is, there's the definite possibility that *this* is what spurs regulators to require continuously-broadcasting black boxes.
You forget air resistance. ;)
It's called microgravity, not zero gravity. Someone needs to take their head out of the outdated books sections.
I *already* compute in the cloud. Except for the stuff that needs high security (like stuff I'd like to actually claim as intellectual property someday) - uploading that to a website that in its EULA claims the right to read your data is just stupid.
Then again, the reason I *do* do so is because I use five different computers and if it isn't the cloud, it's the sneakernet and I'm notorious for losing USB-flashdrives.
I'd noticed that the DVDs given out as school yearbooks (this was 2 or 3 years ago) smelled strongly of brown sugar. Same idea, different products.
I see the promise but would rather that my user-entered values be accessible like the GoogleSearchWiki. This could be described as a "curated table". (Much more useful than the utterly random data given - when I search for Fruit, I want to see a picture of an apple, not an Apple.) Obviously I'm taking half the pages from Wikipedia's book and throwing them at Google, but the idea's there I think.
Here's the thing. People don't *want* to be tracked across websites. (Just like they don't *want* to see ads at all... but I digress.) The equivalent is the local store providing a small button-sticker, without your permission, at the door that not only lets their associates direct you to sections you might actually be interested in, but track you via GPS into other stores to see what you buy. And I mean you can take them off later (delete the cookies and all that), but then every other store provides the exact same sticker and some require you to present the sticker at every counter for service. It's something that a paranoid would probably say already happens, but the fact is, that this is turning us *all* paranoid. I don't like being paranoid.
On the other hand, Mr. President Obama has kept quiet on privacy, so we don't even know what his stances are on this issue...
I've actually pulled the *Windows* key off my keyboards out of frustration.
Occasionally it's handy, but mostly it just randomly pops up when I reach for the Alt key.
I think they got /.'d.
If that big ol' earthquake that's been threatening to unseat us humans actually happens, it'll tear up the infrastructure out here in SoCal. Very easily.
FYI, he's talkin' about the Red Ring of Death.
A DVD *is* a laser disk, technically speaking. It's read by a laser.
Decoding the information on the disc, on the other hand...
why didn't they just encrypt the disks? If it's supposed to be sensitive information, store it securely!
For one, you can actually edit the 'pedia...