Re:It's more about awareness than technology
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One is by offering a viable replacement for radio. The second is by exposing music to the distributed filtering techniques of mass exposure and moderation
This has already started. I don't know if the groups working on this at the moment will win in the end but someone has to.
Take a look at iRate Radio if you want to try this kind of thing out.
All those how many _______ does it take to screw in a light bulb jokes would be gone, too. Could comedy survive without them?
Well at first they can be replaced with jokes like:
Q: How many dyslexic engineers does it take to design a new light blub?
Then we can move onto new jokes such as:
Q: How many pro-choicers does it take to screw in an array of LEDs?
A: Two, one to do it and one to assert that the bulb didn't exist before it was lit up.
They could sell search appliances to companies, run a distributed network of computers (so you're not paying for al the machines).
I'd be surprised if this became a huge and popular search engine but it if it works well and can index content inside popular file formats (pdf, doc etc then I'd be happy to use it in large intranet applications)
More interesting, I thought, is that it stops IE from opening pages in new windows. So all those sites that popup ads and all the pages where the links open in new windows dont work (oh for Mozilla and middle clicking on all computers). Also, drop down combo box menus wont work (which I noticed while trying to use phpMyAdmin).
If nothing else this worm will stop people from having to put up with pop-ups for a few days... Might almost be worth it.
Fortunately, the street lamps are designed so that when you kick them in the right spot, they go off for maybe half an hour without being damaged.
Friends and I uesed to do that here, in Australia, as well. We didn't own telescopes though, it was just something to do at 3am after the pubs closed (walking 2km home on the other side of town).... Come to think about it living in rural Australia was kinda dull a lot of thie time.
But this doesn't work as people wont download songs by bands they have never heard of. Unless someone sets up some kind of iRate Radio for illegal music.
On a side note an in an iRate Radio community with both pirate and legal tracks would the pirate ones be as popular? People might start to find good non RIAA controlled music!
Which is why programs such as iRate radio Need to become popular.
It's legal, its useable and it should scare the shit out of groups such as the RIAA because they cant force people to hear what they want.
For those who don't know, iRate radio matches the ratings you give songs against those of others and tries to come up with new songs you would like. All the songs in the database are available for free and there is some good music to be found this way (it very quickly starts to gather music you'll like).
and see how many "terrorists" suddenly develop stupid grins on their faces and quiet down.
Good idea. We could all then sit back and wait for these people to notice that they were just given a short term solution that doesn't help solve the problem (in the long term).
And if this solution was kept going we could all sit back and wait until some bright spark has the idea of charging these people for the goods (at a cheap price) on the condition that they not build their own farms and what not.
Oh wait! The USA already does this kind of thing ("we'll give you money as long as you buy american goods" or "we'll fund your roads as long as you drive american cars and destroy your rail network")
Since when is it cheaper to use wireless than to plug in a wire?
I could be wrong but as these many of these contries dont already have any existing wire infastructure it may well be cheaper to start with wireless than with wires.
Most first world contries already have power poles to hang wire between or cable trenches to lay more wires into.
I'd expect them to use wireless for the longer links and to join local computers (however many that mat be) together with 'normal' cat5.
Well if its for an English class, get them to do something interesting witht a wiki. Weblogs are all well and good but people get enough practice critiquing others work.
With a Wiki you could see how they go when they have to work together to get something done. Simple wiki software such as UseMod, might not cut the mustard but you could try setting up a PediaWiki based site for them to work with.
I'd imagine that there would be lessons in online anonymity to be learnt here as well....
There are these things called, uh, let me think, they're often connected to wires in the wall,
Bah! Wires indeed, back in my day we had to use a wooden stick to make marks on dead trees and pass those through holes in the walls. We even had to wait for another person to come and move them to other homes, none of this "over wires" stuff.
Yeah, for about 3 weeks before an EDR modchip hits the market that reports whatever you want it to report.
I can see it now: "OK, we'll just download the black box data and..... Gentlemen this car was only ever used once a week to drive to church. Oh, and all you autos are belong to us."
Will the Modchip also let me run linux?
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of Black Boxen!
Did I miss anything?... I think there is a joke with car crashes and Kernel panics but its just not leaping out at me.
Wireless Networks. And the government finds it pretty difficult to argue against them.
Yeah, Melbourne wireless has had quite a few new links come on in the last little while (there is now someone within 2km of me) but it is still no use if you want internet access.
I wouldn't worry much about it happening in other countries, itâ(TM)s partly due to the bad deal on bandwidth Australia gets from other countries (especially the US).
I pay $70 per month (about US$50) for a 3Gig "cap" but when I go over the limit the service is throttled back to 28.8kbps
For a while excess charges and total disconnection were in use but it didn't take long for Optus and Telstra (the two biggest carriers) to realise how unpopular this was.
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One is by offering a viable replacement for radio. The second is by exposing music to the distributed filtering techniques of mass exposure and moderation
This has already started. I don't know if the groups working on this at the moment will win in the end but someone has to.
Take a look at iRate Radio if you want to try this kind of thing out.
I think the most unbelievable thing about the Hulk is that it stars Eric Banner...
I guess that most non-australians never saw Chopper or his talk show.
Well at first they can be replaced with jokes like:
Then we can move onto new jokes such as:
Haha.
Just about all the "classic" games I play on my iBook are old SNES titles.
SNES9x works fine under OS X.
I could play Commander Keen on OS X no work would be done around here....
I think that means that millions of people use SCO products but only a few hundred use and like them...
The desk is cool but that table lamp he has sitting on it looks even cooler....
They could sell search appliances to companies, run a distributed network of computers (so you're not paying for al the machines).
I'd be surprised if this became a huge and popular search engine but it if it works well and can index content inside popular file formats (pdf, doc etc then I'd be happy to use it in large intranet applications)
More interesting, I thought, is that it stops IE from opening pages in new windows. So all those sites that popup ads and all the pages where the links open in new windows dont work (oh for Mozilla and middle clicking on all computers). Also, drop down combo box menus wont work (which I noticed while trying to use phpMyAdmin).
If nothing else this worm will stop people from having to put up with pop-ups for a few days... Might almost be worth it.
Fortunately, the street lamps are designed so that when you kick them in the right spot, they go off for maybe half an hour without being damaged.
Friends and I uesed to do that here, in Australia, as well. We didn't own telescopes though, it was just something to do at 3am after the pubs closed (walking 2km home on the other side of town).... Come to think about it living in rural Australia was kinda dull a lot of thie time.
But this doesn't work as people wont download songs by bands they have never heard of. Unless someone sets up some kind of iRate Radio for illegal music.
On a side note an in an iRate Radio community with both pirate and legal tracks would the pirate ones be as popular? People might start to find good non RIAA controlled music!
Which is why programs such as iRate radio Need to become popular.
It's legal, its useable and it should scare the shit out of groups such as the RIAA because they cant force people to hear what they want.
For those who don't know, iRate radio matches the ratings you give songs against those of others and tries to come up with new songs you would like. All the songs in the database are available for free and there is some good music to be found this way (it very quickly starts to gather music you'll like).
I wont be impressed until they have a working difference engine like the British Science museum.
(I'm sure that there is a "back in my day the computers had cogwheels" joke to be had)
and see how many "terrorists" suddenly develop stupid grins on their faces and quiet down.
Good idea. We could all then sit back and wait for these people to notice that they were just given a short term solution that doesn't help solve the problem (in the long term).
And if this solution was kept going we could all sit back and wait until some bright spark has the idea of charging these people for the goods (at a cheap price) on the condition that they not build their own farms and what not.
Oh wait! The USA already does this kind of thing ("we'll give you money as long as you buy american goods" or "we'll fund your roads as long as you drive american cars and destroy your rail network")
Now, where is the metric version?
or maybe I just need another beer.... :)
Actually, I think you've had enough....
Hmmm, its not very often a slashdot story makes you feel like turning your monitor resolution down to 800x600....
And thats a fact I'm very glad of.
Incidentaly, people might like to check out The Lost Chapter for more fan-made adventures in the SQ universe.
Since when is it cheaper to use wireless than to plug in a wire?
I could be wrong but as these many of these contries dont already have any existing wire infastructure it may well be cheaper to start with wireless than with wires.
Most first world contries already have power poles to hang wire between or cable trenches to lay more wires into.
I'd expect them to use wireless for the longer links and to join local computers (however many that mat be) together with 'normal' cat5.
I dont know why projects such as PlaneShift dont receive more publicity.
Perhaps it is just that the people who complain about the cost of these games aren't coders (well, that'd be a surprise wouldn't it...)
Well if its for an English class, get them to do something interesting witht a wiki. Weblogs are all well and good but people get enough practice critiquing others work.
With a Wiki you could see how they go when they have to work together to get something done. Simple wiki software such as UseMod, might not cut the mustard but you could try setting up a PediaWiki based site for them to work with.
I'd imagine that there would be lessons in online anonymity to be learnt here as well....
What stops anybody of scanning a book in plain, good ol' ascii text and releasing it on the internet.
Nothing at all (assuming the book is out of copyright).
The article is by Theodore Gray, creator of the ultra-spiffy Periodic Table Table.
And I thought nothing involving Palladium could be popular on Slashdot.
There are these things called, uh, let me think, they're often connected to wires in the wall,
Bah! Wires indeed, back in my day we had to use a wooden stick to make marks on dead trees and pass those through holes in the walls. We even had to wait for another person to come and move them to other homes, none of this "over wires" stuff.
Yeah, for about 3 weeks before an EDR modchip hits the market that reports whatever you want it to report.
I can see it now: "OK, we'll just download the black box data and..... Gentlemen this car was only ever used once a week to drive to church. Oh, and all you autos are belong to us."
Will the Modchip also let me run linux?
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of Black Boxen!
Did I miss anything?... I think there is a joke with car crashes and Kernel panics but its just not leaping out at me.
Wireless Networks. And the government finds it pretty difficult to argue against them.
Yeah, Melbourne wireless has had quite a few new links come on in the last little while (there is now someone within 2km of me) but it is still no use if you want internet access.
limits on how much you can download per month
I wouldn't worry much about it happening in other countries, itâ(TM)s partly due to the bad deal on bandwidth Australia gets from other countries (especially the US).
I pay $70 per month (about US$50) for a 3Gig "cap" but when I go over the limit the service is throttled back to 28.8kbps
For a while excess charges and total disconnection were in use but it didn't take long for Optus and Telstra (the two biggest carriers) to realise how unpopular this was.