"Astounding Space Thrills" (www.astoundingspacethrills.com) is profitable by using more traditional Internet methods. A satirical science fiction adventure that takes shots at Microsoft with the villainous "Covert Redmond, CEO of Macroshaft," AST takes the format of a daily comic strip, just like those found in a newspaper. Through syndication, it appears on thousands of Web sites, in addition to its own site
Score:5 Funny? Please Explain unless it's the spelling
The last moderation, which took it to 5, was "funny". The other preceeding moderations were not for "funny". Of course, it has been down moderated since then. Now, as to why:
Australia, where there are aussies, sometimes pronounced "auzzies", is sometimes called the land of OZ by Australians.
You then have this line:
This almost sounds like a version of the land of OZ where the wicked witch never died.
which must have tickled someone funny bone. A bit of dry humor which requires a certain amount of familiarity with the venacular given above.
So there were several moderations done, including one for humor, and several by humorless folks who thought that the +5 meant that everyone had said it was funny. Which is a bug in the moderation system
I can see this for certain tasks where you need push data and you need to be mobile. But for most folks, it is nice to get away from the cubicle and the world of the corporate data interface.
most people to not want to be more integrated into the work place, although this would be a dream come true for someone whose has always lived their lives as a manager.
I' e often noticed that those who whine the loudest about an issue are those that have something ing the closet to hide (skeletons maybe)
this is suspiciously like the very statement you criticize, where the government doesn't want to come clean about what is on the black list.
In any case, one typical example are the Government of Helmut Kohl in Germany, who just a few years ago destroyed evidence of illegal actions they had been taking against various scapegoats and organizations they had blacklisted.
much more recently in Australia there is this Sex Scandal coverup
which has possibilities for censorship, dated 10 Jan 2002.
Cheer up. It could be worse. What would happen if the Government lied to us?
Typically, when there is a blacklist like this, the things that are black listed include sites that would be embarresing to the government, having nothing to do with the morality of the public, and everything with the lack of morality of the government officials involved.
Not that this is actually happening, but this is typical of what you can expect.
I suppose that someone could do a distributed computing mapping of the australian black list space, and compare it with as database of the real DNS list from outside of AU.
This almost sounds like a version of the land of OZ where the wicked witch never died.
In other words, the market of potential buyers is growing, but prices are leveling off. Wood postulates that the market "depth" is increasing, meaning the Internet is attracting more -- and more sophisticated -- buyers and sellers. The result is that prices quickly reach the optimal market level, and items rarely go for much above or below that price point.
I can remember a lady at a coffee shop who started selling more cakes of a specific kind when she raised the price. Same product. The perception of the product was that it must not be any good if it was being sold cheaply, but it was alright if it came close to the expected price point.
Of course, with databases, etc, you can quickly find the optimal price point for almost any product online, from a sellers point of view.
HRL Laboratories has developed a unique technology, which we call PackHunter, for identifying cyberspace navigators with similar interests. The novelty comes from the use of "digital scents" left behind as trail markers as users move through the hyperlinked space. The properties and behavior of this scent can be tuned to allow a trail's visibility to decay in time, be reinforced through reuse, and to diffuse in cyberspace. The diffusion in cyberspace occurs through scent being distributed to neighboring links. The overlap between the diffusion-broadened trails can be used to identify people with similar
interests without the requirement that they actually visit the same sites.
Feedback results in improved collaborator discovery performance over time.
There are many other potential applications, relating to both public and private hyperlinked systems. Examples are identifying users of large private databases with common interests such as genealogy or history researchers looking at similar sets of records, corporate R&D personnel investigating competitive analysis databases, and patent or litigation counsel researching large document data repositories. There are also opportunities in situations where knowledge of other users' past presence, frequency of presence, or proximity can be used in real time, such as in multiplayer on-line gaming.
HRL Laboratories is actively seeking commercialization partners, primarily with a view to licensing the technology, but also with the option for more active participation. If you are interested in further discussion please contact Dave Payton at payton@hrl.com or Mike Daily at daily@hrl.com.
Interesting stuff, but nothing to do with the original subject.
Although conventional wisdom has it at the top so that the heat gets sucked out the top. Which raises a whole question of air circulation in the design that is troubling.
recall the SLA and other Marxist paramilitary organizations of the late 60's and early 70's having exactly the same discussion during that period of time when they actually thought their 'revolution' to establish a Marxist government in this country was going to win. Their solution was to create 're-education camps' in the deserts of the Southwest to brainwash those they could, and shoot those they couldn't.
Which begs the question of do you do anything at all, or simply let companies have their way with you?
And how do you exercise any judgement at all, lest you be paralysed by fear that you do something wrong? Is action as bad as in-action? Damned if you do or damned if you don't?
Your quarrel with the statement "There is a debate within the staff of Radio Free Nation on whether or not it is possible to reform the corrupt, and what to do with them before it is too late" is interesting, but somehow implies that people should never do anything about the problems in their lives or the sources of their discomfit. Somehow I do not think this is what you intended.
Of course, the chinese government is sending people to psych hospitals for disagreeing with the state, among other things. From my original post, you should be able to see that I would not be a fan of that. but you are free to imagine what you want.
Other items include this bit saying we don't need petabit routing anyhow (just wait a few years!). I also spotted this job description from some namesless company.
System Engineering Manager As the System Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for the Petabit/Terabit router prototype system development using the state of the art switch fabrics. You will lead the system design team to perform OC-768, OC-192, OC-48 linecard design, and multi-Terabit switch plane design. Requirements include a BSEE plus 7 years chip design experience or MSEE plus 5 years design experience in router system and high speed board design. Networking and Gigabit line card experience is preferred.
Basically, this job description says to me, "You will invent the products we need so that we can make lots of bucks off your brains". One of those things, go in with eyes open.
Just to provide a link
on the Napsterish trading of Sewing patterns I mentioned above. The industry is not big but there may be a real issue. in one company pattern sales fell 40 percent, or $200,000, over three years (1997 - 2000).
Visions of grannies saying "the patterns want to be free" come to mind.;-)
Communist countries have for years been looking to incorporate what could be considered the best features of fascist governments, at least in their eyes.
In Fact, many governments since WWII and before have incorporated features of fascist and communist government into their structure, although this has been done on a much slower time table than a war or revolution. There is much in both of the philosophiea to attract the petty autocract, the aspiring master of men. And over the years, these have been incorporated into laws.
heck, for decades, you had nazis, for example, acting as advisor to many governments. The most benign of these was a character like Von Braun in the Space Program, former scientist of the V-2 program.
There were many from many fields who lived and breathed and believed the original fascist philosophy, and who continued on in their fields. Some areas would be more problematic than others. Jobs like farmers and dentisits would be one thing, probably benign. Business managers would be another. Law enforcement, lawyers, doctors, and mental health specialists yet another, because of the influence on society. The vast majority were never arrested or put on trial.
The end result is that elements of these philosophies have been incorporated into laws around the world, through the influence of these, their sympathisers, and the children they raised, who probably did not know what the philosophy really meant, and absorbed the ideas under the guise of parental instruction.
and so the monitoring of private communications like email, while at the same time passing laws that make the majority of citizens criminals is commonplace.
As a Side Note: Heck you worry about Napster. Did you know that there is a whole online community of older women trading sewing patterns, sewing geeks who trade their files (sewing and knitting patterns) just like any other geeks do? and they are running into the same issues of trading that Napster did, but with the pattern publishers? a much smaller scale issue, of course. But involves people like the fabled Aunt Minnie. Go ahead, piss off grandma. see what happens;-)
yet another example of an industry trying to achieve too much control over their customers, with all of the usual arguments in both directions.
This is typical of many law enforcment efforts. If they want to save face, even though they know they screwed up, they get you to cop to a lesser plea.
You have seen this in the recent ebook case, as well as in your typical negotiations with other infractions, such as traffic tickets.
You also see the compulsion to save face in death row (and other) cases, where many prosecutors outright refuse to allow DNA testing that might prove a man innocent. It is like pulling teeth to get the tests done. Even though it is often a matter of life and death.
"Saving Face" is obviously more important, even though it makes them look foolish.
''Never in human history has technology allowed the big to crush the small with so little effort, and never have the laws and infrastructure of the world been so set up to expedite this process. [...] In reality, the legal system is a nasty, ugly thing that unless you have a great deal of time, resources and money, you're up the creek.''
He also explores the various myths of how the system works. For example -
Myth #1: What matters is who is right. Sorry, wrong -- it matters who is willing to spend the most money proving they are "right."
Innovative Transportation Technologies - Descriptions of over 40 electric, automated transport technologies, ranging from conceptual to operational. Includes people movers (supported and suspended systems: monorails) and automated freight systems.
Monomobile: Electric Rail Car - Lightweight electric car that attaches to suspended monorail for long trips and can run independently of the rail for local trips.
RUF: Rapid Urban Flexible - Hybrid car/monorail: you drive it on and off roads and monorail tracks as needed.
The last one is one I remember in the newsin the past year. of course, being Danish, it might not get promotion in the British press.;-)
OTOH, alot of search engines use as part of their results inputs from places like Open Directory, and others. The results are going to be uniform in many places. the end result is some sort of consolidation of resources.
Yahoo got started by a couple of college kids building the first big bookmark list into something useful. There would be a distinctly different flavor if this had originated in ussr or china or something.
Given the generic rise in Air pollution (though this is being address to some degree), I wonder how much of this is going to be practical or applicable to the science fiction vision of domed cities.
The classical domed city is entirely self contained. But a domed city where it wasn't sealed tight could maintain a better environment inside while not having nearly so many of the hassles. Abundant plants to keep the air clean in the dome, etc.
And there is this old item from a security mailing list:
The reason trusted systems are not being used right is because the way they are written they are UNUSABLE. Only someone who is forced to use them would even consider touching them!
Compensation plans of Microsoft product engineers, such as raises and bonuses, will also be tied to how secure their products are.
Russ Cooper, a security expert with TruSecure Corporation, said the change occurred in part after a new security team assigned to attend every product meeting met resistance from product teams.
I am not very surprised by this
Customers could also see a downside, though. Other than fewer new features, product upgrades could come less frequently or could be pushed back.
Somehow, this is not a drawback, and hopefully this throws the subsription thing out of wack.
Typically, the way that I imagine Bill to handle this is to redifine security according to Microsoft Specs. I am reminded of the old joke of MS defining "Dark" as the new standard when the lightbulb goes out.
Some people think Bill invented the Internet. Now is his chance to invent the Microsoft System for Secure Computing (TM), which will include all of thosde features that MS wants first, and maybe a few that you feeel are important as well.
Slashdot Mirror
Adding that one to my bookmarks right now
The last moderation, which took it to 5, was "funny". The other preceeding moderations were not for "funny". Of course, it has been down moderated since then. Now, as to why:
Australia, where there are aussies, sometimes pronounced "auzzies", is sometimes called the land of OZ by Australians.
You then have this line:
This almost sounds like a version of the land of OZ where the wicked witch never died.
which must have tickled someone funny bone. A bit of dry humor which requires a certain amount of familiarity with the venacular given above.
So there were several moderations done, including one for humor, and several by humorless folks who thought that the +5 meant that everyone had said it was funny. Which is a bug in the moderation system
[shrug]
and now you know.
Sounds like an oxymoron to me ;-)
I can see this for certain tasks where you need push data and you need to be mobile. But for most folks, it is nice to get away from the cubicle and the world of the corporate data interface.
most people to not want to be more integrated into the work place, although this would be a dream come true for someone whose has always lived their lives as a manager.
this is suspiciously like the very statement you criticize, where the government doesn't want to come clean about what is on the black list.
In any case, one typical example are the Government of Helmut Kohl in Germany, who just a few years ago destroyed evidence of illegal actions they had been taking against various scapegoats and organizations they had blacklisted.
much more recently in Australia there is this Sex Scandal coverup which has possibilities for censorship, dated 10 Jan 2002.
Cheer up. It could be worse. What would happen if the Government lied to us?
Not that this is actually happening, but this is typical of what you can expect.
I suppose that someone could do a distributed computing mapping of the australian black list space, and compare it with as database of the real DNS list from outside of AU.
This almost sounds like a version of the land of OZ where the wicked witch never died.
I can remember a lady at a coffee shop who started selling more cakes of a specific kind when she raised the price. Same product. The perception of the product was that it must not be any good if it was being sold cheaply, but it was alright if it came close to the expected price point.
Of course, with databases, etc, you can quickly find the optimal price point for almost any product online, from a sellers point of view.
Of course, experts know how to do better.
Which opponent to frag first often has other implications that can ruin your success in a game. And this is all split second decision making.
Of course, this is not Ancient Philosophy, but modern.
So a study of the history of games, the design of video games, etc, can be valuable.
Although conventional wisdom has it at the top so that the heat gets sucked out the top. Which raises a whole question of air circulation in the design that is troubling.
Which begs the question of do you do anything at all, or simply let companies have their way with you?
And how do you exercise any judgement at all, lest you be paralysed by fear that you do something wrong? Is action as bad as in-action? Damned if you do or damned if you don't?
Your quarrel with the statement "There is a debate within the staff of Radio Free Nation on whether or not it is possible to reform the corrupt, and what to do with them before it is too late" is interesting, but somehow implies that people should never do anything about the problems in their lives or the sources of their discomfit. Somehow I do not think this is what you intended.
Of course, the chinese government is sending people to psych hospitals for disagreeing with the state, among other things. From my original post, you should be able to see that I would not be a fan of that. but you are free to imagine what you want.
Very simiar. CNN had a story when it was in the news a year and a half ago. And yes, there is a certain irony in it when you look at it in that light.
They also have an EETimes story Archived and there is this news item from before the dot-com boom went bust.
Other items include this bit saying we don't need petabit routing anyhow (just wait a few years!). I also spotted this job description from some namesless company.
Basically, this job description says to me, "You will invent the products we need so that we can make lots of bucks off your brains". One of those things, go in with eyes open.Visions of grannies saying "the patterns want to be free" come to mind. ;-)
In Fact, many governments since WWII and before have incorporated features of fascist and communist government into their structure, although this has been done on a much slower time table than a war or revolution. There is much in both of the philosophiea to attract the petty autocract, the aspiring master of men. And over the years, these have been incorporated into laws.
heck, for decades, you had nazis, for example, acting as advisor to many governments. The most benign of these was a character like Von Braun in the Space Program, former scientist of the V-2 program.
There were many from many fields who lived and breathed and believed the original fascist philosophy, and who continued on in their fields. Some areas would be more problematic than others. Jobs like farmers and dentisits would be one thing, probably benign. Business managers would be another. Law enforcement, lawyers, doctors, and mental health specialists yet another, because of the influence on society. The vast majority were never arrested or put on trial.
The end result is that elements of these philosophies have been incorporated into laws around the world, through the influence of these, their sympathisers, and the children they raised, who probably did not know what the philosophy really meant, and absorbed the ideas under the guise of parental instruction.
and so the monitoring of private communications like email, while at the same time passing laws that make the majority of citizens criminals is commonplace.
As a Side Note: Heck you worry about Napster. Did you know that there is a whole online community of older women trading sewing patterns, sewing geeks who trade their files (sewing and knitting patterns) just like any other geeks do? and they are running into the same issues of trading that Napster did, but with the pattern publishers? a much smaller scale issue, of course. But involves people like the fabled Aunt Minnie. Go ahead, piss off grandma. see what happens ;-)
yet another example of an industry trying to achieve too much control over their customers, with all of the usual arguments in both directions.
And also an appropriate level map for a death match of 5,000. Maybe something like downtown LA or Area 51.
;-)
This is typical of many law enforcment efforts. If they want to save face, even though they know they screwed up, they get you to cop to a lesser plea.
You have seen this in the recent ebook case, as well as in your typical negotiations with other infractions, such as traffic tickets.
You also see the compulsion to save face in death row (and other) cases, where many prosecutors outright refuse to allow DNA testing that might prove a man innocent. It is like pulling teeth to get the tests done. Even though it is often a matter of life and death.
"Saving Face" is obviously more important, even though it makes them look foolish.
Cheer up
It coud be worse if the government lied to us
;-)
''Never in human history has technology allowed the big to crush the small with so little effort, and never have the laws and infrastructure of the world been so set up to expedite this process. [...] In reality, the legal system is a nasty, ugly thing that unless you have a great deal of time, resources and money, you're up the creek.''
He also explores the various myths of how the system works. For example -
Myth #1: What matters is who is right. Sorry, wrong -- it matters who is willing to spend the most money proving they are "right."
- and on it goes.
I wish these guys well with their fight
- Innovative Transportation Technologies - Descriptions of over 40 electric, automated transport technologies, ranging from conceptual to operational. Includes people movers (supported and suspended systems: monorails) and automated freight systems.
- Monomobile: Electric Rail Car - Lightweight electric car that attaches to suspended monorail for long trips and can run independently of the rail for local trips.
- RUF: Rapid Urban Flexible - Hybrid car/monorail: you drive it on and off roads and monorail tracks as needed.
The last one is one I remember in the newsin the past year. of course, being Danish, it might not get promotion in the British press.Must work for MS [joke]
OTOH, alot of search engines use as part of their results inputs from places like Open Directory, and others. The results are going to be uniform in many places. the end result is some sort of consolidation of resources.
Yahoo got started by a couple of college kids building the first big bookmark list into something useful. There would be a distinctly different flavor if this had originated in ussr or china or something.
The classical domed city is entirely self contained. But a domed city where it wasn't sealed tight could maintain a better environment inside while not having nearly so many of the hassles. Abundant plants to keep the air clean in the dome, etc.
InfoWorld
And there is this old item from a security mailing list:
The reason trusted systems are not being used right is because the way they are written they are UNUSABLE. Only someone who is forced to use them would even consider touching them!
(seen at: http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/90/1995/7/0/4 18940/ )
Granted, it is old, but is the point still valid?
Russ Cooper, a security expert with TruSecure Corporation, said the change occurred in part after a new security team assigned to attend every product meeting met resistance from product teams.
I am not very surprised by this
Customers could also see a downside, though. Other than fewer new features, product upgrades could come less frequently or could be pushed back.
Somehow, this is not a drawback, and hopefully this throws the subsription thing out of wack.
Some people think Bill invented the Internet. Now is his chance to invent the Microsoft System for Secure Computing (TM), which will include all of thosde features that MS wants first, and maybe a few that you feeel are important as well.
Microsoft Planet here we come! =8~|
Visions of the Microsoft Exoskelotors come flooding into my mind.
Reboot!