Regular guy with problems in the real world enters a fantasy world, where gods and magic rules, becomes super-powerful there, defeats the evil wizard, returns to the real world, and has his problems solved.
Standard fantasy plot, and also the plot to the original Tron movie.
I don't see how this is sci fi in any way. But the gfx where done on the fastest PDP-11 ever built, and that is cool, and I like how they turned Pelota into a computer game, and their variant of of the snake game with motorcycles, and the lightsaber-suits.
For Nicola Macchiavelli, anarchy was bad and tyranny was good. For Michail Bakunin, tyranny was bad and anarchy was good. No matter what definition of anarchy you apply - war of everyone against everyone else, or democracy, both are the opposite of tyranny.
When someone who says "X is violating the freedom of speech rights" and tries to shut him/her/it up as punishment, than that person has not yet grasped the principle of "freedom of speech".
True in principle, but the DDoS-attacks seem to be not about shutting someone up, but shutting someone down. The attacked are still free to voice their mind, if they so choose.
It's like saying "We are facing a supperior enemy, let's make more of them".
The average people in the streets are not enemies, they are innocent bystanders. Fox can only tell them who to cheer and who to jeer.
Those who would oppress the people, however, are making more enemies the more they oppress. Their playbook is not by Sun Tsu or Clausewitz, it is Macchiavelli.
Is there goal beyond "venting frustration"?
It used to be "for teh lulz", but people are so angry by now it isn't even funny.
Furthermore, the various governments of the world are watching this whole affair with intense scrutiny, and the powers that be will be alarmed over the power wielded by these botnets.
Actually when it comes to press freedom, the US still looks better than most countries.
Well, it just below the top 10%. That is still better than most.
I don't know of any other governments
And there are many.
saying "OK, we grant you freedom of speech" is actually fundamentally vastly different to inalienable rights, which are not considered granted, but exist independent of government and cannot morally be taken away.
So you are saying that free speech existing despite government is better than free speech existing because of government.
Why did the sun not set on the British Empire at the start of the 20th?
Colonialism.
Why did the USA emerge powerful out of WWII?
In part because it waited until Russia and the Resistance had done most of the work, then founded the CIA to buy up and coordinate what was left of the Nazi partisans, in part because of the Bomb, but mostly because of the Bretton-Woods system, which was installed in 1944, in which every currency and debt was measured against the US dollar, and which became untenable in 1973.
nationalism
You keep using that word.
Nationalism was a popular movement against monarchism, the idea that people should be separated according to ethnicity, not according to whoever held title of the land at any given moment. It is a kind of Chauvinism in that its imperative is that the own nation is more important than any other, which merely reflects the mercantilism practiced by the aristocracy. It meshed well with Smith's ideas of capitalism, however, and thus became a cornerstone of fascism.
Whether we will emerge fascist, totalitarian, socialist, or something else
Apart from the fact that Twitter isn't censoring, but the topic simply not trending, the US government being behind what PayPal and Amazon did is in fact the simplest explanation, especially considering that the US government is known to censor internet domain names, including but not limited to WikiLeaks.org.
Knowing about some of what the CIA did in Europe, it being involved would at least explain the strange behaviour of the Swedish courts.
The chance that all of those things including the freezing of his assets in Switzerland coinciding coincidentally is rather small, especially given that the next reveal had been announced just shortly before this string of strange occurrences began to be about "a big American bank", no doubt one that only recently had received large amounts of money from the government.
There are people who just don't think and act like the rest of us
You make me curious. How does the rest of you think and act? I have observed you for a long time, and never found much homogeneity except where forced. The remainder are a very small and isolated minority.
When it comes to people caring small arms I think an armed society is a polite society, most of the time.
I imagine the difference will be thus: Unarmed society: "STFU I can't stand your drivel you idiot!" Armed society: "Kindly put a sock in it, please, I don't want be bothered to pick your brains from the wall."
When nations fight 1000s die, and many lives beyond theirs are destroyed. This is much less "tolerable" but fortunately the number of countries numbers in the 100s small enough to keep an eye on them especially so the suspicious characters.
And that is why wars are mostly a thing of the past, because the other countries keep the occasional culprit who would pick a fight in check and take away their nuclear arms before anyone gets hurt. Right?
life would be most likely to exist closer to the core.
In the Unthinking Depths, protected from the meddlers of the Beyond.
Life on this planet is absurd, because there is ice on the poles, making the water too frigid for life, the moon is almost a twin planet, causing instability on the surface, too unstable for life to develop, the atmosphere is filled with a deadly reactant, oxygen, certain to destroy any complex chemical bonds in exotherm reactions, it is bathed in deadly radiation from its nearby star, and there are comets and planetoids in the system that often collide with this planet. Therefore, life on Earth is impossible.
And Assange was stupid. He should have controlled his Wiki.
It is not his Wiki. He is just the spokesperson. As you said, the messenger. And its mission is to publish secret documents. The controls that exist, exist to make sure the secrets really are secrets, and not hoaxes and made up trollings.
The scientific one understands rape to be an act of violence meant to hurt and humiliate the victim, especially sexually.
Another is the legal definition: To have sex with someone who does not consent, because he or she does not want to or is not legally able to.
Then there is the idea that every sexual act between a man and a woman is rape. Related to that, the notion than men cannot be raped.
And, of course, that rape is any kind of sex that the woman does not enjoy.
I think the question was serious. The only definition that matters in this case is the legal one. GP probably used the psychological one. They overlap only because what is understood to be sex is different for both.
They would, it the accusation hadn't been withdrawn by the victim.
Everyone knows Assange didn't do anything, but the accusation stands, so the police has to act. It is their job. They don't judge, they don't prosecute, they collect evidence and arrest people.
After the damage is done, the plaintiff will probably be convicted of abuse of the legal system.
do you think that if the whole world lived like the US, that the world could sustain the population?
Never. But if the whole world lived like Europe, it could. The standard of living is about the same, using only a sixth of the ressources. And the birth rates even lower.
A lot of these "I want to live forever" statements lack wisdom which usually comes with aging, at some point.
I think you meant "age", not "aging". Some people are wise beyond their years, then lose their marbles as they get old. And there is Russel's dilemma to contemplate: The more people are stupid, the more they think they are smart.
It's about time. Time is the most valuable currency we have. We have a finite amount of it. It helps define us and give each moment meaning.
You must be trolling, because you are wasting your time on slashdot, talking about how every moment is valuable. Personally, I think there is nothing more valuable than a good sleep.
Hypothetical immortality (think Tolkien's elves) would remove all value in time.
Would not. Time is always what it is. Take as much as you need.
Can you imagine a world where people no longer cared about time any longer?
No. What time is it again?
They no longer cared about change? I don't think we've met a true conservative until we've met someone who is a thousand years old.
Not caring about time is not the same thing as not caring about change. Things always change. That is life.
And personally, I wouldn't take anyone too seriously who hasn't lived for at least a quarter millennium.
Those who say that life is beautiful and people are wonderful
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I think he meant The Legend of Aang - you know, the really bad movie, not the moderately tolerable TV series.
Regular guy with problems in the real world enters a fantasy world, where gods and magic rules, becomes super-powerful there, defeats the evil wizard, returns to the real world, and has his problems solved.
Standard fantasy plot, and also the plot to the original Tron movie.
I don't see how this is sci fi in any way.
But the gfx where done on the fastest PDP-11 ever built, and that is cool,
and I like how they turned Pelota into a computer game,
and their variant of of the snake game with motorcycles,
and the lightsaber-suits.
Choocle (a fictitious Chinese Google)
FYI, the Chinese Google is Baidu.
could drive machines around that could see through the walls of our homes.
You mean like those backscatter X-ray scan vans cruising around in the US and UK? Here's one: http://www.as-e.com/zbv/
That might be perfectly acceptable in their culture and 'legal' here
It is not legal for them to do. Search engine companies are not police looking for pot-smoking terrists.
This isn't the first example of a technology being used in ways not intended by its manufacturer,
Absolutely. The oscilloscope was not intended to be used as a moving picture display either. Nor were integrated circuits intended as toys.
and it won't be the last,
Let's hope so. Hacking is fun. Developers, developers.
Microsoft did not authorize or license its technology for this use.
Is this about hacking the Kinect for use on systems other than XBox?
Xbox is a family friendly games and entertainment console
Well, it is easy to use.
and does not allow Adults Only content to be certified for use on its platform, and would not condone this type of game for Kinect.
The XBox itself might not, but Microsoft sure does.
There are lots of "Ages 18+" titles for XBox.
They are just pissed about the Kinect being used for PC games, apparently.
That is the only sense I can make from this statement.
The reality is if you want an internet suitable for children is has to be a children only internet,
The reality is, children on the internet are NSFW.
The global code to shut down all chips at once is 666, and can be sent from any cell phone.
Welcome to the stone age.
why keep secrets at all, as a government?
Because we need the military to protect us.
The government is the military?
anarchy and rule of the corrupt
Those are direct opposites.
For Nicola Macchiavelli, anarchy was bad and tyranny was good.
For Michail Bakunin, tyranny was bad and anarchy was good.
No matter what definition of anarchy you apply - war of everyone against everyone else, or democracy, both are the opposite of tyranny.
Movies just lack the complexity that a game requires.
It is a limitation of the medium.
The Wandals moved into Carthago to live there.
At times like these, I am reminded of the Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace,
and Mentor's Last Words.
When someone who says "X is violating the freedom of speech rights" and tries to shut him/her/it up as punishment, than that person has not yet grasped the principle of "freedom of speech".
True in principle, but the DDoS-attacks seem to be not about shutting someone up, but shutting someone down.
The attacked are still free to voice their mind, if they so choose.
It's like saying "We are facing a supperior enemy, let's make more of them".
The average people in the streets are not enemies, they are innocent bystanders.
Fox can only tell them who to cheer and who to jeer.
Those who would oppress the people, however, are making more enemies the more they oppress.
Their playbook is not by Sun Tsu or Clausewitz, it is Macchiavelli.
Is there goal beyond "venting frustration"?
It used to be "for teh lulz", but people are so angry by now it isn't even funny.
Furthermore, the various governments of the world are watching this whole affair with intense scrutiny, and the powers that be will be alarmed over the power wielded by these botnets.
Even more alarmed than over Stuxnet?
Actually when it comes to press freedom, the US still looks better than most countries.
Well, it just below the top 10%. That is still better than most.
I don't know of any other governments
And there are many.
saying "OK, we grant you freedom of speech" is actually fundamentally vastly different to inalienable rights, which are not considered granted, but exist independent of government and cannot morally be taken away.
So you are saying that free speech existing despite government is better than free speech existing because of government.
Why did the sun not set on the British Empire at the start of the 20th?
Colonialism.
Why did the USA emerge powerful out of WWII?
In part because it waited until Russia and the Resistance had done most of the work, then founded the CIA to buy up and coordinate what was left of the Nazi partisans,
in part because of the Bomb,
but mostly because of the Bretton-Woods system, which was installed in 1944, in which every currency and debt was measured against the US dollar, and which became untenable in 1973.
nationalism
You keep using that word.
Nationalism was a popular movement against monarchism, the idea that people should be separated according to ethnicity, not according to whoever held title of the land at any given moment. It is a kind of Chauvinism in that its imperative is that the own nation is more important than any other, which merely reflects the mercantilism practiced by the aristocracy. It meshed well with Smith's ideas of capitalism, however, and thus became a cornerstone of fascism.
Whether we will emerge fascist, totalitarian, socialist, or something else
it will be a state of emergency either way.
New Boss = Old Boss
Looks like a shallow copy to me.
Apart from the fact that Twitter isn't censoring, but the topic simply not trending,
the US government being behind what PayPal and Amazon did is in fact the simplest explanation,
especially considering that the US government is known to censor internet domain names,
including but not limited to WikiLeaks.org.
Knowing about some of what the CIA did in Europe, it being involved would at least explain the strange behaviour of the Swedish courts.
The chance that all of those things including the freezing of his assets in Switzerland coinciding coincidentally is rather small,
especially given that the next reveal had been announced just shortly before this string of strange occurrences began to be about "a big American bank", no doubt one that only recently had received large amounts of money from the government.
Occams Razor.
1. get clean energy to people in the developing world.
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/12/02/1431211/Sahara-Solar-To-Power-Half-the-World-By-2050
2. getting rid of people who oppose nuclear power in the developed world.
That is one big ?????? step.
2. build nuclear plants.
Done. Profit.
3. synthesising gasoline and diesel fuel with nuclear power.
I think you mean "without nuclear fuel":
http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/07/16/2027230/Novel-Algae-Fuel-Farming-Method-Gets-Big-Backing
http://slashdot.org/story/09/07/27/1747237/Company-Claims-Potential-Magnification-In-Bio-Fuel-Production
4. no more CO2!!! profit!
By which I hope you mean fossil CO2.
There are people who just don't think and act like the rest of us
You make me curious. How does the rest of you think and act?
I have observed you for a long time, and never found much homogeneity except where forced.
The remainder are a very small and isolated minority.
When it comes to people caring small arms I think an armed society is a polite society, most of the time.
I imagine the difference will be thus:
Unarmed society: "STFU I can't stand your drivel you idiot!"
Armed society: "Kindly put a sock in it, please, I don't want be bothered to pick your brains from the wall."
When nations fight 1000s die, and many lives beyond theirs are destroyed. This is much less "tolerable" but fortunately the number of countries numbers in the 100s small enough to keep an eye on them especially so the suspicious characters.
And that is why wars are mostly a thing of the past, because the other countries keep the occasional culprit who would pick a fight in check and take away their nuclear arms before anyone gets hurt. Right?
life would be most likely to exist closer to the core.
In the Unthinking Depths, protected from the meddlers of the Beyond.
Life on this planet is absurd, because
there is ice on the poles, making the water too frigid for life,
the moon is almost a twin planet, causing instability on the surface, too unstable for life to develop,
the atmosphere is filled with a deadly reactant, oxygen, certain to destroy any complex chemical bonds in exotherm reactions,
it is bathed in deadly radiation from its nearby star,
and there are comets and planetoids in the system that often collide with this planet.
Therefore, life on Earth is impossible.
And Assange was stupid. He should have controlled his Wiki.
It is not his Wiki.
He is just the spokesperson. As you said, the messenger.
And its mission is to publish secret documents. The controls that exist, exist to make sure the secrets really are secrets, and not hoaxes and made up trollings.
There are several definitions of rape.
The scientific one understands rape to be an act of violence meant to hurt and humiliate the victim, especially sexually.
Another is the legal definition: To have sex with someone who does not consent, because he or she does not want to or is not legally able to.
Then there is the idea that every sexual act between a man and a woman is rape.
Related to that, the notion than men cannot be raped.
And, of course, that rape is any kind of sex that the woman does not enjoy.
I think the question was serious. The only definition that matters in this case is the legal one. GP probably used the psychological one. They overlap only because what is understood to be sex is different for both.
They would, it the accusation hadn't been withdrawn by the victim.
Everyone knows Assange didn't do anything, but the accusation stands, so the police has to act. It is their job.
They don't judge, they don't prosecute, they collect evidence and arrest people.
After the damage is done, the plaintiff will probably be convicted of abuse of the legal system.
Captcha: ethics
do you think that if the whole world lived like the US, that the world could sustain the population?
Never. But if the whole world lived like Europe, it could.
The standard of living is about the same, using only a sixth of the ressources.
And the birth rates even lower.
A lot of these "I want to live forever" statements lack wisdom which usually comes with aging, at some point.
I think you meant "age", not "aging".
Some people are wise beyond their years, then lose their marbles as they get old.
And there is Russel's dilemma to contemplate: The more people are stupid, the more they think they are smart.
It's about time. Time is the most valuable currency we have. We have a finite amount of it. It helps define us and give each moment meaning.
You must be trolling, because you are wasting your time on slashdot, talking about how every moment is valuable. Personally, I think there is nothing more valuable than a good sleep.
Hypothetical immortality (think Tolkien's elves) would remove all value in time.
Would not. Time is always what it is. Take as much as you need.
Can you imagine a world where people no longer cared about time any longer?
No. What time is it again?
They no longer cared about change? I don't think we've met a true conservative until we've met someone who is a thousand years old.
Not caring about time is not the same thing as not caring about change.
Things always change. That is life.
And personally, I wouldn't take anyone too seriously who hasn't lived for at least a quarter millennium.
Those who say that life is beautiful and people are wonderful
are not afraid of death?
When you've done everything there is to do,
that is when your midlife crisis begins.
Sounds like hell, to me.
There is always suicide.
You all think of ressources as money.
Those are not the same.
For example: There is enough food to feed the world twice over, but people are starving because they cannot afford it.
The ressources are there, as is unemployment. Apparently money is an inadequate tool for distribution.
(Captcha: unrest. How apt.)