The Library of Congress doesn't use the Dewey Decimal System. They use (surprise) the Library of Congress Classification system.
But on topic, they did the categorical classification thing back in the 90s. Yahoo, Dmoz, etc. They still exist, but search engines are more efficient. Entering a single query is easier than clicking through a hierarchy that may be half a dozen levels each. And they'd be even bigger if they tried to categorize any significant portion of the internet.
Directories are still useful if you want to see the most important sites for a subject, but when you want that specific piece of information you can't beat a search engine.
This is the best post yet in this thread. People need to remember that children grow into adults. If you want to do what's best for your children, make sure they inherit a world that an adult will want to live in.
You might be surprised to learn that not every Geocities page was a shitty teenage home page. Some people actually did neat and useful things, and wanted to share them with the web. Since they were busy doing neat and useful things they used the easiest web host available at the time, Geocities.
In short, sure, we should remember our digital culture, but we should also throw out our digital garbage.
How exactly do you propose we throw out one without the other? People are going to have to comb through the archives and find the stuff worth remembering. In order to do this, we need an archive like this one.
That would seem to make Fermi's paradox even more troubling. My bet is that abiogenesis is vanishingly improbable. It seems pretty reasonable to be fairly optimistic about every other term in Drake's equation.
In order to deal with this, companies are looking at virtualizing IE6 only (instead of a full operating system) so that it can run on Windows 7 -- even though Microsoft says this violates licensing agreements.
Then Microsoft should sue them. That would teach them, right? After all, violating intellectual property licenses is the same as theft.
Perhaps because the last few times we've seen political action to enforce a relative parity of wealth, we've seen Russia and China
Hint, Russia and China are doing it wrong. Hell, their income inequality is barely any better than ours. Fact is you can lower income inequality through policy without becoming a totalitarian hell hole. Look at central Europe.
It hasn't been much of an issue in the past, because most sane web developers know that flash isn't necessarily supported or installed on many desktops. With all this flashy stuff being stuck in HTML proper, there's less of a reason not to use it. I expect browsing the web to become a much busier, bewildering visual experience, and blocking canvas to make very large chunks of the web unusable.
Shit. In the past I've been able to avoid most of the worst web designs just by disabling flash. Now it's part of html itself. This will only encourage web designers to build flashy unusable ones rather than simple, easily read ones. Go progress.
Of course. I never argue a position I don't believe is valid.
Do you actually think anybody with a liberal ideology actually is smarter, better, and less likely to repeat their mistakes?
Oh, no not at all. I didn't mean to say that all liberals are smarter than all conservatives, or that any specific liberal is smarter than any specific conservative. These are admittedly generalizations, frequently wrong but with an element of truth.
Consider the debate between science and religion. Both claim to be ways of finding truth. Now I've met some pretty stupid scientists and some really smart priests. But science on the whole has a much better track record for finding facts and improving the lives of people than religion does.
And yet here we are with arguably the most liberal president and congress ever.
You could argue that, but you'd be wrong. Consider the two biggest things this president has done, passed health care reform, and stimulus spending. His health care plan is more conservative than Nixons, so he's certainly no liberal there. His stimulus policies were just a continuation of Bush's, so that doesn't sound too liberal either.
Guantanamo is still open, the Iraq war is still ongoing, and most of the Patriot act is still in place or is being expanded. The poor will probably become slightly less poor, the middle class will become poor, and the really rich will stay really rich and in power.
And all these things are happening because of insufficient liberalism on the part of our government. Conservatives created the fiction that Guantanamo was outside of US jurisdiction. Conservatives lied their way into the Iraq war. Conservatives wrote the Patriot act (though the Democrats (none of them liberals) who voted for it are not without blame). And the gap between the rich and poor has gotten ever wider in the last 30 years of Conservative rule.
These policies continue because our government can in no way be described as liberal.
Now of course conservatives aren't perfect. But at least they usually aren't willing to force their untested ideologically-based and ridiculously expensive systems on people.
War on Drugs? Don't Ask Don't Tell? The War in Iraq? Border fences? Abstinence only education?
Looking back at Tsarist Russia, I can't say I blame them for making that choice. It turned out badly, but Russia at the time was pretty bad as it was. History is complex. Can we say for certain that in an alternative history Tsarist Russia would not have allied with Germany in WWII? In that case we'd be looking back and wishing the Soviet Revolution had succeeded.
In the end, we at least learned something. Hopefully the next socialist revolution will be a democratic one.
You are absolutely right of course. I tried to intimate that both typically conservative and liberal traits applied to Hitler. Most of all he was a master manipulator, neither side has a monopoly on that.
It makes me too busy to respond to everyone, especially the thoughtful moderates who deserve a thoughtful answer. If you'd check the timestamps, Andrew Cady posted after my last post, after which I was working. But instead you jump to conclusions. What does that make you?
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I'd love to live in Seoul. It's so vibrant, and the newest apartment complexes are ridiculously nice.
There's nothing you could put in an apartment complex that would entice me to give up my own four walls.
Use the same precautions you do when downloading binaries from USENET or P2P and you'll be fine.
The Library of Congress doesn't use the Dewey Decimal System. They use (surprise) the Library of Congress Classification system.
But on topic, they did the categorical classification thing back in the 90s. Yahoo, Dmoz, etc. They still exist, but search engines are more efficient. Entering a single query is easier than clicking through a hierarchy that may be half a dozen levels each. And they'd be even bigger if they tried to categorize any significant portion of the internet.
Directories are still useful if you want to see the most important sites for a subject, but when you want that specific piece of information you can't beat a search engine.
We're more likely to lose public libraries than gain a public search engine.
You're talking about jailing someone for internet comments, right? I don't know what would make anyone think that is acceptable.
So why should customers suffer for the retailers mistake?
Firesheep does Amazon too. Let the wrong person on your Amazon account and you might be in for a surprise when your credit card statement arrives.
Good luck tracking him down.
This is the best post yet in this thread. People need to remember that children grow into adults. If you want to do what's best for your children, make sure they inherit a world that an adult will want to live in.
Then you can go fuck yourself. I don't care about you and your implicit decision.
If you really, really don't want this stuff out there use the DMCA. That's what it's for.
You might be surprised to learn that not every Geocities page was a shitty teenage home page. Some people actually did neat and useful things, and wanted to share them with the web. Since they were busy doing neat and useful things they used the easiest web host available at the time, Geocities.
In short, sure, we should remember our digital culture, but we should also throw out our digital garbage.
How exactly do you propose we throw out one without the other? People are going to have to comb through the archives and find the stuff worth remembering. In order to do this, we need an archive like this one.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
That would seem to make Fermi's paradox even more troubling. My bet is that abiogenesis is vanishingly improbable. It seems pretty reasonable to be fairly optimistic about every other term in Drake's equation.
I went as Captain Obvious one Halloween. No one got it.
Finally how the heck to you just virtualize IE6 any way?
Use Wine?
In order to deal with this, companies are looking at virtualizing IE6 only (instead of a full operating system) so that it can run on Windows 7 -- even though Microsoft says this violates licensing agreements.
Then Microsoft should sue them. That would teach them, right? After all, violating intellectual property licenses is the same as theft.
Perhaps because the last few times we've seen political action to enforce a relative parity of wealth, we've seen Russia and China
Hint, Russia and China are doing it wrong. Hell, their income inequality is barely any better than ours. Fact is you can lower income inequality through policy without becoming a totalitarian hell hole. Look at central Europe.
It hasn't been much of an issue in the past, because most sane web developers know that flash isn't necessarily supported or installed on many desktops. With all this flashy stuff being stuck in HTML proper, there's less of a reason not to use it. I expect browsing the web to become a much busier, bewildering visual experience, and blocking canvas to make very large chunks of the web unusable.
Shit. In the past I've been able to avoid most of the worst web designs just by disabling flash. Now it's part of html itself. This will only encourage web designers to build flashy unusable ones rather than simple, easily read ones. Go progress.
The iPhone screen is just too small for practical use
We're talking about a serial connection here. Is the iphone screen really too small to handle an 80x25 console?
Yes, if I were manipulating markets I wouldn't want that to get out either.
Do you actually buy into what you're saying?
Of course. I never argue a position I don't believe is valid.
Do you actually think anybody with a liberal ideology actually is smarter, better, and less likely to repeat their mistakes?
Oh, no not at all. I didn't mean to say that all liberals are smarter than all conservatives, or that any specific liberal is smarter than any specific conservative. These are admittedly generalizations, frequently wrong but with an element of truth.
Consider the debate between science and religion. Both claim to be ways of finding truth. Now I've met some pretty stupid scientists and some really smart priests. But science on the whole has a much better track record for finding facts and improving the lives of people than religion does.
And yet here we are with arguably the most liberal president and congress ever.
You could argue that, but you'd be wrong. Consider the two biggest things this president has done, passed health care reform, and stimulus spending. His health care plan is more conservative than Nixons, so he's certainly no liberal there. His stimulus policies were just a continuation of Bush's, so that doesn't sound too liberal either.
Guantanamo is still open, the Iraq war is still ongoing, and most of the Patriot act is still in place or is being expanded. The poor will probably become slightly less poor, the middle class will become poor, and the really rich will stay really rich and in power.
And all these things are happening because of insufficient liberalism on the part of our government. Conservatives created the fiction that Guantanamo was outside of US jurisdiction. Conservatives lied their way into the Iraq war. Conservatives wrote the Patriot act (though the Democrats (none of them liberals) who voted for it are not without blame). And the gap between the rich and poor has gotten ever wider in the last 30 years of Conservative rule.
These policies continue because our government can in no way be described as liberal.
Now of course conservatives aren't perfect. But at least they usually aren't willing to force their untested ideologically-based and ridiculously expensive systems on people.
War on Drugs? Don't Ask Don't Tell? The War in Iraq? Border fences? Abstinence only education?
Looking back at Tsarist Russia, I can't say I blame them for making that choice. It turned out badly, but Russia at the time was pretty bad as it was. History is complex. Can we say for certain that in an alternative history Tsarist Russia would not have allied with Germany in WWII? In that case we'd be looking back and wishing the Soviet Revolution had succeeded.
In the end, we at least learned something. Hopefully the next socialist revolution will be a democratic one.
You are absolutely right of course. I tried to intimate that both typically conservative and liberal traits applied to Hitler. Most of all he was a master manipulator, neither side has a monopoly on that.
It makes me too busy to respond to everyone, especially the thoughtful moderates who deserve a thoughtful answer. If you'd check the timestamps, Andrew Cady posted after my last post, after which I was working. But instead you jump to conclusions. What does that make you?