defined as a severe societal response to a dramatic development that elders and institutions can't control or understand, so therefore demonize and fear.
It is, rather, usually defined as a reaction -- usually out of proportion to the actual severity of the problem -- to a perceived social crisis. Though arguable, the general idea is that the problem is perceived as new and unprecedented (and therefore calling for new and unprecedented measures), while it is actually a long-standing practice/problem/phenomenon that has not previously come to light in mainstream society, and is now being defined as a Bad Thing. Let me reiterate: it is seen as a dramatic development, but is not actually development.
And if I can pick up this distinction with my casual reading of a few (~10) books about social science, why can't Mr. Katz?
Adam Thorpe -- Ulverton and Still are absolute masterpieces. Iain Bank's The Wasp Factory or The Crow Road. Martin Amis' The Rachel Papers or The Information. Even a cretin like yourself should be able to appreciate these books.
BROWARD CO, FLA (AP) -- In a surprise announcement, Saint Aardvark the Carpeted announced that he was unable to come up with a parody of AT&T's freedom-of-speech lawsuit.
"It's just too much," a spokesman said. "He tries real hard to come up with quick satire for quick karma, but then something like this comes along and just defies parody."
"He's feeling pretty bad, as you can imagine," the spokesman added.
Free Software Foundation guru Richard M. Stallman was unavailable for comment. A source close to the programmer said he was "busy frantically trying to think of a punchline."
Odd you should ask...just had ADSL installed today (YES!) and the tech had this neat little laptop. What he told me was that Telus (formerly BCTel) had bought a bunch of these years ago, and were only now thinking of upgrading. Bad: They were running Windows 3.1. Good: It can survive a 6-foot drop with the HD running. He used his to verify my connection...a little slow, but it worked just fine.
I heard about this on CBC's "As It Happens" just as I saw the story on Slashdot. Is there a conspiracy here? Is the Canadian Broadcast Corporation angling for Andover shares? Has Linux finally tipped his hand, preparing his unholy army of undead penguin zombies to roll over on command, crushing everyone in their path? Tune in next week for the stunning conclusion of "A Tux Too Far, or, The More Open-Source They Are, The Harder They Fall!"
Like no one except those born 1945-1959 ever wanted quick profits? Like me and thee will somehow be magically invulnerable to waking up at 55 with $2000, just because we've watched someone else make mistakes planning their retirement?
Booms have always happened. Crashes have always happened. They always will. You and I are just as likely to be caught up in them as anyone else.
(OT, I know, but this "boomers are so stupid and I'm so smart" BS bugs me.)
Three years ago I spent an insane amount of time downloading Slackware 3.5 from ibiblio (ne metalab, ne sunsite) onto all the floppies in the world, using a text-based Dos 'net all-in-one program called Nettamer that was absolutely hideous (small example: the mail menu was displayed in a spreadsheet: obviously the guy had just grabbed the code from some old program and shoved it in). I ended up having to reinstall Slackware a couple times w/the floppies before it finally worked. And I loved it.
I switched to Stormix earlier this year, in a fuzzy attempt to upgrade to libc6 and possibly get a job w/the company (no luck). It's a really slick distro: it configured my sound card, X windows and everything else all in one go; just four clicks and thirty minutes, like you said.
But...truth be told, I miss sitting around with 872 floppies, feeding 'em in one after another. The sense of accomplishment when you made it to the end was sweet.
I could get a CD, and someday I think I will again. But I also think the only thing that would give me the same sense of down-and-dirty hacking would be the roll-your-own option. I think I'll end up doing that sooner than I buy a Slackware CD. If I don't climb mountains, or wrestle bears, or know thirty-two ways to kill a man with a paperclip, I've got to get the testosterone flowing somehow...:-)
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Damn...that got all screwed up. It's this cheap $3 moderator crack...
Ha! Ha ha! Your "glowing head of Rob Malda" is not any match for my Floating Head of Ayn Rand! Dare you think any differently?
Begone with your ineffective demons! Instruct yourself in the proper use of web browing computers! For I am Rational...and approval by Ayn Rand is my metier!
Join our unholy alliance, or perish in shame!
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NEW YORK (AP): AT&T floated a trial balloon today when various "inside sources" announced to trade magazines that it is considering a charge for thinking about phoning someone.
The scheme would involve retrofitting all 250 million Americans with thought-monitoring microchips that would detect whenever someone thought about using a telephone.
[snip] each packet is carved from only the finest oak by third-generation master craftsmen in rural Vermont and comes with a signed certificate of authenticity.
Sydney (AP) -- In a move that signalled a harsh clampdown on non-licensed coverage of the Olympic Games, the International Olympic Committee announced that it would be banning spectators from the Games themselves. The ban is to be put in place immediately.
"It's very simple," said an IOC spokeswoman. "The IOC has an obligation to fulfill the terms of its contracts. And when these spectators -- or 'coverage pirates' as we like to call them -- go home and talk to people about what they saw at the Games that day, they are providing unlicensed coverage -- coverage that should be coming exclusively from NBC. It's up to us to stop this."
She denied that the ban was overly fascistic. "Actually, we will be erecting giant television screens outside the Olympic Stadium, where people can watch licensed NBC coverage of the events inside. What more could people want?"
Free Software Foundation guru Richard M. Stallman could not be reached for comment. A source close to the programmer said he was "busy watching the 400 metre butterfly."
OKLAHOMA CITY, OK (AP) -- In a move that signalled its harsh new stance against Napster and MP3 distribution, the Recording Industry Association of America (NASDAQ: RIAA) announced that a student there is about to have his fingers and eyes seized.
"It's very simple," said an RIAA spokesman. "He was distributing MP3s and violating copyright. And, in line with our new `zero-tolerance' policy, we will be seizing the tools of copyright violation: in this case, the fingers he used to type with, and the eyes he used to confirm his crime with. The surgery is scheduled for next week."
The spokesman denied that this was too harsh a punishment. "Oh, give me a break. It's in the Bible, after all. And don't forget that this is a temporary seizure. We will be keeping the eyes and fingers in cryogenic storage, and after one year we will return them to the student. We even pick up the tab for the surgery. Pretty sweet, if you ask me."
Free Software Foundation guru Richard M. Stallman could not be reached for comment. A source close to him said that he was "frantically trying to uninstall his copy of Gnapster."
Mm, good point. I might argune that pr0n can be set aside as a special case, given that it's essentially indistinguishable for the most part. But commercial sites (as opposed to the hobby/reference sites I had in mind, where I think the law of diminishing returns really would come into play)...you have got a good point.
Perfect example, wouldn't you say? IIRC, Google rates their sites based a good deal on how many other sites link to them. That is going to be non-trivial to hack, and almost certainly a reliable indicator of how valuable people find the resource in question.
Sure, you could pay people to link to your site -- it's done all the time. But only pr0n sites and the Big Portals are gonna have enough coin to make that a factor in a generalized site. If your site is at all focussed or specialized in nature, you're not likely to have the funds or time to pay people to stay linked to your site.
And that brings me to another point: with sophisticated enough keyword ranking algorithms, it'll become more of a pain in the ass to come up with spam that makes it through the filters than to simply put up a good site in the first place. 600 repetions of "sex" are easy to pick out. And if HotGrammar 2.0 can pick through my dangling participles in a reasonable amount of time, then it can't be too much more difficult to point it at a website and say "Does the content match the keywords?"
At that point I think you really would have some reasonably close to a non-hackable search engines: The Google Algorithm to pick out the sites that people have blessed with links, and The Grammar Nazi Algorithm to make sure there's content to match.
Redmond, WA (AP) -- Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) today admitted that Internet Explorer, from version 4.2, has had the capability to phone the user's spouse or parents without warning and inform them of the user's browsing habits, including listing specific sites and the names of image and movie files downloaded.
The capability, described as a "feature" by Microsoft, came to light on the BugTraq mailing list three days ago after an angry user revealed that his copy of IE 5.1 had phoned his wife to tell her about his subscription to hotmonkeylovin.com.
"This is a perfectly standard feature of any web browser," said a Microsoft spokesman. "As with all aspects of life on the internet, there is a tradeoff here between a very valuable capability and a vanishingly small, almost theoretical loss of privacy."
Free Software Foundation guru Richard M. Stallman was unavailable for comment. A source close to the programmer said that Stallman was "busy reformatting his Windows partition."
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ROFL...
It is, rather, usually defined as a reaction -- usually out of proportion to the actual severity of the problem -- to a perceived social crisis. Though arguable, the general idea is that the problem is perceived as new and unprecedented (and therefore calling for new and unprecedented measures), while it is actually a long-standing practice/problem/phenomenon that has not previously come to light in mainstream society, and is now being defined as a Bad Thing. Let me reiterate: it is seen as a dramatic development, but is not actually development.
And if I can pick up this distinction with my casual reading of a few (~10) books about social science, why can't Mr. Katz?
Adam Thorpe -- Ulverton and Still are absolute masterpieces. Iain Bank's The Wasp Factory or The Crow Road. Martin Amis' The Rachel Papers or The Information. Even a cretin like yourself should be able to appreciate these books.
Like, dude.
Lack of falsifiability (ability to prove a theory wrong) is one of the biggest signs that, whatever it is you're talking about, it ain't science.
"It's just too much," a spokesman said. "He tries real hard to come up with quick satire for quick karma, but then something like this comes along and just defies parody."
"He's feeling pretty bad, as you can imagine," the spokesman added.
Free Software Foundation guru Richard M. Stallman was unavailable for comment. A source close to the programmer said he was "busy frantically trying to think of a punchline."
Booms have always happened. Crashes have always happened. They always will. You and I are just as likely to be caught up in them as anyone else.
(OT, I know, but this "boomers are so stupid and I'm so smart" BS bugs me.)
ROFLMAO...
Three years ago I spent an insane amount of time downloading Slackware 3.5 from ibiblio (ne metalab, ne sunsite) onto all the floppies in the world, using a text-based Dos 'net all-in-one program called Nettamer that was absolutely hideous (small example: the mail menu was displayed in a spreadsheet: obviously the guy had just grabbed the code from some old program and shoved it in). I ended up having to reinstall Slackware a couple times w/the floppies before it finally worked. And I loved it.
I switched to Stormix earlier this year, in a fuzzy attempt to upgrade to libc6 and possibly get a job w/the company (no luck). It's a really slick distro: it configured my sound card, X windows and everything else all in one go; just four clicks and thirty minutes, like you said.
But...truth be told, I miss sitting around with 872 floppies, feeding 'em in one after another. The sense of accomplishment when you made it to the end was sweet.
I could get a CD, and someday I think I will again. But I also think the only thing that would give me the same sense of down-and-dirty hacking would be the roll-your-own option. I think I'll end up doing that sooner than I buy a Slackware CD. If I don't climb mountains, or wrestle bears, or know thirty-two ways to kill a man with a paperclip, I've got to get the testosterone flowing somehow...:-)
Begone with your ineffective demons! Instruct yourself in the proper use of web browing computers! For I am Rational...and approval by Ayn Rand is my metier!
Join our unholy alliance, or perish in shame!
The scheme would involve retrofitting all 250 million Americans with thought-monitoring microchips that would detect whenever someone thought about using a telephone.
ROFLMAO...
"It's very simple," said an IOC spokeswoman. "The IOC has an obligation to fulfill the terms of its contracts. And when these spectators -- or 'coverage pirates' as we like to call them -- go home and talk to people about what they saw at the Games that day, they are providing unlicensed coverage -- coverage that should be coming exclusively from NBC. It's up to us to stop this."
She denied that the ban was overly fascistic. "Actually, we will be erecting giant television screens outside the Olympic Stadium, where people can watch licensed NBC coverage of the events inside. What more could people want?"
Free Software Foundation guru Richard M. Stallman could not be reached for comment. A source close to the programmer said he was "busy watching the 400 metre butterfly."
"It's very simple," said an RIAA spokesman. "He was distributing MP3s and violating copyright. And, in line with our new `zero-tolerance' policy, we will be seizing the tools of copyright violation: in this case, the fingers he used to type with, and the eyes he used to confirm his crime with. The surgery is scheduled for next week."
The spokesman denied that this was too harsh a punishment. "Oh, give me a break. It's in the Bible, after all. And don't forget that this is a temporary seizure. We will be keeping the eyes and fingers in cryogenic storage, and after one year we will return them to the student. We even pick up the tab for the surgery. Pretty sweet, if you ask me."
Free Software Foundation guru Richard M. Stallman could not be reached for comment. A source close to him said that he was "frantically trying to uninstall his copy of Gnapster."
Any ideas on how to thwart that?
Sure, you could pay people to link to your site -- it's done all the time. But only pr0n sites and the Big Portals are gonna have enough coin to make that a factor in a generalized site. If your site is at all focussed or specialized in nature, you're not likely to have the funds or time to pay people to stay linked to your site.
And that brings me to another point: with sophisticated enough keyword ranking algorithms, it'll become more of a pain in the ass to come up with spam that makes it through the filters than to simply put up a good site in the first place. 600 repetions of "sex" are easy to pick out. And if HotGrammar 2.0 can pick through my dangling participles in a reasonable amount of time, then it can't be too much more difficult to point it at a website and say "Does the content match the keywords?"
At that point I think you really would have some reasonably close to a non-hackable search engines: The Google Algorithm to pick out the sites that people have blessed with links, and The Grammar Nazi Algorithm to make sure there's content to match.
The capability, described as a "feature" by Microsoft, came to light on the BugTraq mailing list three days ago after an angry user revealed that his copy of IE 5.1 had phoned his wife to tell her about his subscription to hotmonkeylovin.com.
"This is a perfectly standard feature of any web browser," said a Microsoft spokesman. "As with all aspects of life on the internet, there is a tradeoff here between a very valuable capability and a vanishingly small, almost theoretical loss of privacy."
Free Software Foundation guru Richard M. Stallman was unavailable for comment. A source close to the programmer said that Stallman was "busy reformatting his Windows partition."