For all those comments saying this has to do with how bad the situation is in Egypt, it does not.
This is indicative of the situation in the US where these corporations exist.
Historical record shows that corporate entities have big financial incentives to aid and abet the suppression of human rights in democratic societies that are closing down and turning into dictatorship states.
Naomi Wolf, an award winning feminist writer who used to be part of the Clinton clique has recently written a book about this.
For those who would like to check it out there is an youtube speech she gave recently detailing the main concept of her recent research.
The U.S. is in a downward spiral and predictions can be made for what comes next. The attacks are first directed at the margins of society, then the lines get blurred and everyone becomes fair game. Within a year you will hear this happen to an American blogger and many people will defend the action. Journalists are already being harassed, bloggers will come soon after.
It reminds me of a poem I once heard:
When the Nazis came for the communists,
I remained silent;
I was not a communist.
When they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.
When they came for the trade unionists,
I did not speak out;
I was not a trade unionist.
When they came for the Jews,
I remained silent;
I wasn't a Jew.
When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out.
Martin Niemöller (1892-1984) about the inactivity of German intellectuals following the Nazi rise to power and the purging of their chosen targets, group after group.
You should look at a candidate named Ron Paul. He's a historian, economist, doctor and polititian who is building a very large following. It's just a shame that this newsworthy grass roots movement is ignored in the mainstream media cartel.
What facebook is doing is contemptible. But if you can't take a stand against something like this that requires such a minor inconvenience... Good Lord!
All it takes is for when you're exchanging information that you explain you're against facebook and you give a phone number or email address or domain name or aim name. Anything else they can use to get in touch with you. Most people will admire you for taking a stand, it shows strength. If someone really wants to speak to you in the future they will make the necessary arrangements.
What's going to happen when someone really steps on your civil liberties or wrongs you in some way like, oh I don't know, the governement and you're required to make a real democratic sacrifice in order to fix things?
Are you going to sit there as you do now and cry like a little baby about the inconvenience it would bring into your life?
There was a time students would get out and protest against illegal or amoral wars, now they care more about their latte or facefuckmeintheassbook.
The entire "speeding ticket" nonsense is just a "cover story".
Fascism. What does it mean?
a governmental system led by a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism, regimenting all industry, commerce, etc., and emphasizing an aggressive nationalism and often racism.
Here are some key ingredients of fascism:
Leader passes laws giving himself even more powers
Controls the masses through Fear Mongering
Scapegoating. Certain class of people blamed for the problems the leader faces, justifying new laws and military actions.
Must have an ongoing war to keep people's minds off how fucked their own government is.
No real policy to improve the lives of the average person.
Leader surrounded only by trusted friends and business people who profit handsomely.
Most actions favor insiders, friends and Corporate entities at the expense of the people. Laws that monitor and control business practices are removed.
Constantly preaching morality to the masses (to cover their own immoral actions)
Violates, disrespects or refuses to agree to World Conventions on Human Rights, international norms of conduct, and other laws. All manner of excuses offered.
Spy agencies given broad new powers and funding.
Government increases covert activities against its own citizens. Citizens are urged to spy on citizens.
Many civil liberties restricted or suspended.
Secret prisons
Torture
Rendition
What do you think it means when AT&T is making a copy of all Internet traffic going through it's backbones and giving it to the government? (hint: basically all US Internet traffic goes through AT&T at some point).
What does it mean when we have predator-like spy drones monitoring our cities spying on our own citizens?
Here's the kicker, this will catch all the people who didn't bother to read my post and start calling me a wacko (I assure you I am quite normal, even cool. Please refrain from ad hominems):
I'm not saying we are in a fascist state, please draw your on conclusion. Imagine a sliding scale from the free democracy which our founders intended, free of persecution, with habeas corpus and all our protections, now picture where we are today - Where are we on the road to fascism? Do we have to get to the point where there is a dictator and our citizens are being shot in their homes before we start to think about it?
Unfortunately this patch will never be able to reverse the bastardization they've introduced into the game.
The more they take content and put it into instances, both pve and pvp; the more it becomes a pointless game to play. Why play a Mmorpg which has turned into an Orpg? Does it matter that there can be 2k people on your server when you only ever see a dozen or so every night because the game is all instanced?
Then there's the cottage cheese-y-ness they've done with pvp. It used to take some skill, quick thinking and some organization. Now with resilience , other damage mitigation and overpowered healing that can keep anyone alive things like arena matches turn into long grind fests. The outcome of pvp encounters used to be maybe 50% skill and preparation, 20% luck and 30% gear and class make-up. With all of the changes they've introduced this past year, your typical arena match is determined by 10% skill and preparation, 5% luck, 85% gear and class make-up. Doesn't that sound exhilarating kids?
This happens with a lot of mmorpgs. They are released in a form that is slightly buggy and end up with all of these unplanned and unforeseen novelties in terms of gameplay, strategy, interaction. Then after the corporation that develops it spends a few years tightening the cogs and getting RID of the unplanned and unforseen elements as well as anything that gets complained about by the userbase, voila! You end up with a bland, boring game no one plays anymore.
I was a member of a guild with over 100 people and kept in touch with a former guild of 200. They've both dried up and shrivelled out of existence because every patch slowly turned the game more and more bland. Both 'realms' I used to frequent have died horrible deaths and the main cities are ghost towns.
Bring back the wild west. Bring back the buggy, unforseen, wild, insulting, violent mess that was Ultima Online back in the early years. There were no cookie cutter classes. There was gambling, extortion, confidence tricksters, scammers, spammers, raiders, looters, exploiters, thieves, honorable and dishonorable fighters and gangs. There was somewhat of a safety zone in towns. There were no factions, everyone and everything was fair game. There was no one way to play the game, I'm sure people have so many interesting stories about how they or friends played. I had a friend who liked to spend his time stealing useless items. He was a weird looking fellow and a clepto. He also enjoyed running around town naked. He would yell at the NPCs and get angry at the guards when they caught him and killed him. That was his take of the game.
If I wanted to play around in a world where everything gets regulated and restrained and anything that causes people to whine gets the axe I would... Not go pay $50 bucks + $15 per month to do it on a computer, there's plenty of it in a non-virtual world.
The only reason WOW hasn't collapsed like a house of soggy cards is that there is still an influx of new players and the game does have a great unique feel with LOTS of art and content to discover as you level. But once you're done leveling, the game is over.
I love how in the reply he inserts the word "could" as if he used it the first time around. He did not. He clearly stated it would happen.
Is this how tech articles get written? The writer spews a load of bollocks and then backs out of his own assertions later by saying he merely thought they "could" happen?
When I read the second experiment:
2) Terror in the Skies
Another 1960s experiment, in which ten soldiers on a training flight were told by the pilot that the aircraft was disabled, and about to ditch in the ocean. They were then required to fill in insurance forms before the crash -- ostensibly so the Army was not financially liable for any deaths or injuries.
They were actually unwitting participants in an experiment: the plane was not crippled at all. It revealed that fear of imminent death indeed causes soldiers to make more mistakes than usual when filling in forms.
It immediately reminded me of Stanley Milgram's Experiments. Where the test subjects are 'set up' and are tested on something different than appearances would indicate. They're tested in extreme conditions and caused such a shock at their time that I surely think they should be #1 on this list. I think Milgram started working on a really incredible part of human psychology: the unconscious rules that we live by so that our society can function. The weirdest part of what his research led to, imho, is that these un-knowing rules are so secretive; we hide them from ourselves. They have not been studied before, or since as far as I know. Until recently...
A group of Internet geeks got together on alt.seduction.fast and started working together to combine resources and model these secret behaviour rules in order to improve their success with women. They have had great success at what they call The Game. As these rules emerged they quickly realized that they are useful in all social situations rather then just the art of the 'pick-up'. Consequently several of these previous geeks are now somewhat superstars in their circles. What's ironic to me though, is that knowledge of the built-in secret social rules be it Milgram's or the pick-up artists, does not translate to ease of their manipulation. There seems to be a built-in restraint component that does not go away merely because a subject knows it exists. As anthropologists would say, the system is protecting itself...
Now, when one starts to ponder what is often called 'High Level' game. Is it unusual for it to drift into analyses of people in the highest strata of society who use these rules to maintain their already dominant position? I don't want to go all 'AlexJones' on this, but how much truth resides in conspiracy students who aren't content with staring at the surface veneer of the mass propaganda force-fed to us? Zeitgeist would translate more or less to 'spirit of the age'. Is Zeitgeist the true spirit of our age? Be your own judge, but be enlightened by the journey.
Thank you.
Very interesting! I was just thinking that I have some chickens and jelly beans to unload and then you came along.
Great because I was just going to feed the jelly beans to the chickens and sell the poop as jelly beans.
Actually, this is almost impossible to do because your lungs completely filter the air and absorb just about everything the smoke you just inhaled contains. Yes, it is as bad as it looks.
Don't forget the numerous companies who release linux server versions of their application and completely ignore linux when it comes to releasing a client. It irks. I want to use the software or play the game myself, not host lame windows clients so they can play on my server.
Also, companies which promise a linux client is "coming soon!" and then years later still haven't delivered a damn thing. (I'm looking at you ventrilo on both counts).
The copyright owner has spoken."I am speaking up as the author of the code that set the dual license in place. I have the definitive say and I have said that any of my code that is dual-licensed can be made gpl only."
I'm sorry it appears you were wrong on all counts, the original code was ALWAYS dual licensed and it has always been possible to chose either license to the exclusion of the other.
The copyright owner has spoken."I am speaking up as the author of the code that set the dual license in place. I have the definitive say and I have said that any of my code that is dual-licensed can be made gpl only."
It appears you were wrong on all counts. End of discussion. Have a nice day. Please apologize to Alan.
The copyright owner has spoken.I am speaking up as the author of the code that set the dual license in place. I have the definitive say and I have said that any of my code that is dual-licensed can be made gpl only.
How is it clearly the result of someone relicensing BSD code as GPL? Wouldn't that be meaningless since only the copyright holder can license the work?
Also, Alan Cox wrote:
All a bit irrelevant anyway as Ath5K code (not the.h file) say:
* Alternatively, this software may be distributed under the terms of the * GNU General Public License ("GPL") version 2 as published by the Free * Software Foundation.
That makes it sound to me as if it was alwas licenced under both.
You say there is no point in dual licensing BSD/GPL ? Wouldn't that completely avoid the mess they're in now?
All a bit irrelevant anyway as Ath5K code (not the.h file) say:
* Alternatively, this software may be distributed under the terms of the * GNU General Public License ("GPL") version 2 as published by the Free * Software Foundation.
Which means there are two licenses to chose from, who gives a rat's ass if you void one since you can use the other.
Slashdot Mirror
For all those comments saying this has to do with how bad the situation is in Egypt, it does not.
This is indicative of the situation in the US where these corporations exist.
Historical record shows that corporate entities have big financial incentives to aid and abet the suppression of human rights in democratic societies that are closing down and turning into dictatorship states.
Naomi Wolf, an award winning feminist writer who used to be part of the Clinton clique has recently written a book about this. For those who would like to check it out there is an youtube speech she gave recently detailing the main concept of her recent research.
The U.S. is in a downward spiral and predictions can be made for what comes next. The attacks are first directed at the margins of society, then the lines get blurred and everyone becomes fair game. Within a year you will hear this happen to an American blogger and many people will defend the action. Journalists are already being harassed, bloggers will come soon after.
It reminds me of a poem I once heard:
When the Nazis came for the communists,
I remained silent;
I was not a communist.
When they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.
When they came for the trade unionists,
I did not speak out;
I was not a trade unionist.
When they came for the Jews,
I remained silent;
I wasn't a Jew.
When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out.
Martin Niemöller (1892-1984) about the inactivity of German intellectuals following the Nazi rise to power and the purging of their chosen targets, group after group.
When they come to your house with a blanket warrant, arest you and take your stuff. Don't tell me I didn't warn you.
But this is slashdot so i'll never rtfa.
You should look at a candidate named Ron Paul. He's a historian, economist, doctor and polititian who is building a very large following. It's just a shame that this newsworthy grass roots movement is ignored in the mainstream media cartel.
Now what?
Arguing on the internet is like the special olympics: even if you win you're still retarded.
Oops! She fell and landed on my dick.
Cry more.
What facebook is doing is contemptible. But if you can't take a stand against something like this that requires such a minor inconvenience... Good Lord! All it takes is for when you're exchanging information that you explain you're against facebook and you give a phone number or email address or domain name or aim name. Anything else they can use to get in touch with you. Most people will admire you for taking a stand, it shows strength. If someone really wants to speak to you in the future they will make the necessary arrangements. What's going to happen when someone really steps on your civil liberties or wrongs you in some way like, oh I don't know, the governement and you're required to make a real democratic sacrifice in order to fix things?
Are you going to sit there as you do now and cry like a little baby about the inconvenience it would bring into your life?
There was a time students would get out and protest against illegal or amoral wars, now they care more about their latte or facefuckmeintheassbook.
Fascism. What does it mean?
Here are some key ingredients of fascism:
What do you think it means when AT&T is making a copy of all Internet traffic going through it's backbones and giving it to the government? (hint: basically all US Internet traffic goes through AT&T at some point).
What does it mean when we have predator-like spy drones monitoring our cities spying on our own citizens?
Here's the kicker, this will catch all the people who didn't bother to read my post and start calling me a wacko (I assure you I am quite normal, even cool. Please refrain from ad hominems):
I'm not saying we are in a fascist state, please draw your on conclusion. Imagine a sliding scale from the free democracy which our founders intended, free of persecution, with habeas corpus and all our protections, now picture where we are today - Where are we on the road to fascism? Do we have to get to the point where there is a dictator and our citizens are being shot in their homes before we start to think about it?
Translation: Yes, please ignore the imminent and proven threat. Lets focus instead on bogus things that make no sense and are not falsifiable.
The rest of the article is written by the same ignoramus and therefore sucks elephant gonads.
Hey, where is BadAnalogyGuy when you need him?
The more they take content and put it into instances, both pve and pvp; the more it becomes a pointless game to play. Why play a Mmorpg which has turned into an Orpg? Does it matter that there can be 2k people on your server when you only ever see a dozen or so every night because the game is all instanced?
Then there's the cottage cheese-y-ness they've done with pvp. It used to take some skill, quick thinking and some organization. Now with resilience , other damage mitigation and overpowered healing that can keep anyone alive things like arena matches turn into long grind fests. The outcome of pvp encounters used to be maybe 50% skill and preparation, 20% luck and 30% gear and class make-up. With all of the changes they've introduced this past year, your typical arena match is determined by 10% skill and preparation, 5% luck, 85% gear and class make-up. Doesn't that sound exhilarating kids?
This happens with a lot of mmorpgs. They are released in a form that is slightly buggy and end up with all of these unplanned and unforeseen novelties in terms of gameplay, strategy, interaction. Then after the corporation that develops it spends a few years tightening the cogs and getting RID of the unplanned and unforseen elements as well as anything that gets complained about by the userbase, voila! You end up with a bland, boring game no one plays anymore.
I was a member of a guild with over 100 people and kept in touch with a former guild of 200. They've both dried up and shrivelled out of existence because every patch slowly turned the game more and more bland. Both 'realms' I used to frequent have died horrible deaths and the main cities are ghost towns.
Bring back the wild west. Bring back the buggy, unforseen, wild, insulting, violent mess that was Ultima Online back in the early years. There were no cookie cutter classes. There was gambling, extortion, confidence tricksters, scammers, spammers, raiders, looters, exploiters, thieves, honorable and dishonorable fighters and gangs. There was somewhat of a safety zone in towns. There were no factions, everyone and everything was fair game. There was no one way to play the game, I'm sure people have so many interesting stories about how they or friends played. I had a friend who liked to spend his time stealing useless items. He was a weird looking fellow and a clepto. He also enjoyed running around town naked. He would yell at the NPCs and get angry at the guards when they caught him and killed him. That was his take of the game.
If I wanted to play around in a world where everything gets regulated and restrained and anything that causes people to whine gets the axe I would... Not go pay $50 bucks + $15 per month to do it on a computer, there's plenty of it in a non-virtual world.
The only reason WOW hasn't collapsed like a house of soggy cards is that there is still an influx of new players and the game does have a great unique feel with LOTS of art and content to discover as you level. But once you're done leveling, the game is over.
lol: oops! the line broke.
I love how in the reply he inserts the word "could" as if he used it the first time around. He did not. He clearly stated it would happen.
Is this how tech articles get written? The writer spews a load of bollocks and then backs out of his own assertions later by saying he merely thought they "could" happen?
No you wouldn't.
Another 1960s experiment, in which ten soldiers on a training flight were told by the pilot that the aircraft was disabled, and about to ditch in the ocean. They were then required to fill in insurance forms before the crash -- ostensibly so the Army was not financially liable for any deaths or injuries.
They were actually unwitting participants in an experiment: the plane was not crippled at all. It revealed that fear of imminent death indeed causes soldiers to make more mistakes than usual when filling in forms.
It immediately reminded me of Stanley Milgram's Experiments. Where the test subjects are 'set up' and are tested on something different than appearances would indicate. They're tested in extreme conditions and caused such a shock at their time that I surely think they should be #1 on this list. I think Milgram started working on a really incredible part of human psychology: the unconscious rules that we live by so that our society can function. The weirdest part of what his research led to, imho, is that these un-knowing rules are so secretive; we hide them from ourselves. They have not been studied before, or since as far as I know. Until recently...
A group of Internet geeks got together on alt.seduction.fast and started working together to combine resources and model these secret behaviour rules in order to improve their success with women. They have had great success at what they call The Game. As these rules emerged they quickly realized that they are useful in all social situations rather then just the art of the 'pick-up'. Consequently several of these previous geeks are now somewhat superstars in their circles.
What's ironic to me though, is that knowledge of the built-in secret social rules be it Milgram's or the pick-up artists, does not translate to ease of their manipulation. There seems to be a built-in restraint component that does not go away merely because a subject knows it exists. As anthropologists would say, the system is protecting itself...
Now, when one starts to ponder what is often called 'High Level' game. Is it unusual for it to drift into analyses of people in the highest strata of society who use these rules to maintain their already dominant position? I don't want to go all 'Alex Jones' on this, but how much truth resides in conspiracy students who aren't content with staring at the surface veneer of the mass propaganda force-fed to us? Zeitgeist would translate more or less to 'spirit of the age'. Is Zeitgeist the true spirit of our age? Be your own judge, but be enlightened by the journey.
Thank you.
Very interesting! I was just thinking that I have some chickens and jelly beans to unload and then you came along.
Great because I was just going to feed the jelly beans to the chickens and sell the poop as jelly beans.
I'd say they're wearing both. Notice how the trailer has lots of animated sequences rather than in-game ones.
Actually, this is almost impossible to do because your lungs completely filter the air and absorb just about everything the smoke you just inhaled contains. Yes, it is as bad as it looks.
Also, companies which promise a linux client is "coming soon!" and then years later still haven't delivered a damn thing. (I'm looking at you ventrilo on both counts).
Maybe someone should try to be less argumentative and more polite. Because...
I'm sorry it appears you were wrong on all counts, the original code was ALWAYS dual licensed and it has always been possible to chose either license to the exclusion of the other.
It appears you were wrong on all counts. End of discussion. Have a nice day. Please apologize to Alan.
The copyright owner has spoken. I am speaking up as the author of the code that set the dual license in place. I have the definitive say and I have said that any of my code that is dual-licensed can be made gpl only.
Also, Alan Cox wrote:
That makes it sound to me as if it was alwas licenced under both.
You say there is no point in dual licensing BSD/GPL ? Wouldn't that completely avoid the mess they're in now?
Secondly, Alan cox wrote:
Which means there are two licenses to chose from, who gives a rat's ass if you void one since you can use the other.