You've actually hit the nail on the head. Scientology is pretty much all about PR. To attack them one would need to attack their PR machine. 1. Counter-information and propaganda. Spread the word. Xenu.net is an exact example of attacking Scientology. 2. Identification. Make sure that all their activities are known about by a)you b)the general public. If there's a symposium and it's held by the Scientology Cult then blaze big letters by the entrance: Stop Scientology. Highlight believers in the cult. Doesn't mean they're totally bad people but it will indicate where their priorities lie and you can track their activities. 3. Prevention. Stop their propoganda and recruitment drives. A broad category in which you would use the tools available to counter Scientology's methods. They've got a website? Block it using the DMCA. Contact their ISP. Talk to google. Create sites which rank higher than theirs. They're handing out leaflets? Hand out your own alongside. They're hosting a seminar? Host your own, cheaper, better.
Naturally the biggest problem with all this is the dedication and resources required. The whole system would have to generate it's own revenue. I would recommend running a system similar to Scientology to generate money. Actually the BIGGEST problem is that by doing this you could very easily end up just like them.
Yeah but the problem is that Scientology is INDIRECTLY targeting the content. By taking the search engine (the middle man) out of the loop they can seriously slow and damage the spread of anti-scientology information.
As much as I hate what they have done, it is very sound battle tactics. The best response is twofold. 1. Defend - submit a counter-claim, get xenu listed again. 2. Protect - Spread the information over a wider base so that it's harder for similar tactics to work again. (Also if possible challenge the DMCA to prevent it from happening again)
There is the third option Attack but that requires lots of money and effort for a sustained campaign.
I'm not sure about that. The list of URL's which the Scientology Cult complain about include the xenu.net homepage and I certainly didn't see a result when I searched for www.xenu.net. So if you search for xenu you're not going to get anything and when people are searching for information they're not going to get many links to xenu.net so less chance they go there.
In answer to your question, this is going to be very effective. Mod the parent down and next time read the article.
The list:
www.xenu.net/
www.xenu.net/archive/photoalbum/
www.xenu.net/archive/photoalbum/propaganda/
www.xenu.net/archive/photoalbum/propaganda/index.h tml
www.xenu.net/archive/photoalbum/propaganda/prop1.h tml
and alot more - lameness filter encountered. Sucky lameness filter!
No way! Noel Sharkey was my professor at Sheffield University! He also judges the UK Robot Wars. And that's all the useless information I have for you today.
I still like what they did in Cryptomnicon (sp?) where the door to the server room was ringed with wire with an AC current creating a huge electromagnetic field... just let the feds try to walk out with your hard drive.:-)
... I'm pretty sure that most people would pass out long before the scramjet would even take off - and without the aid of the beverage cart.
And why would they pass out? I assume you're referring to GLOC (Gravity Induced Loss of Consciousness). GLOC occurs when acceleration pushes blood away from the brain. If the acceleration of an aircraft is kept small then GLOC does not occur.
I'm not even going to bother to explain why acceleration does not have to be high to reach Mach 5. Work it out for yourself... and that goes doubly for whoever marked the parent up.
Talking about wierd things happening at the speed of light - the wierdest thing I've heard about is that if you're travelling near the speed of light and you shine a light in the direction of travel, the light would travel away from you at THE SPEED OF LIGHT! Thus the light beam is travelling at almost twice the speed of light! Can anyone confirm this?
My condolences for your losses. I live in England and there is always the threat of terrorist attack from the IRA. I assume the situation is much the same in Spain, Israel and Russia not including war-torn coutries like Macedonia and Palestine.
Tomorrow it may be your country that falls under terrorist attack.
As always your ignorance of the world shines through. Welcome to the real world America.
No one in their right mind would launch a missile attack against the US. Even if they had an accurate 20MT nuke to fire off at NORAD. For the simple reason that doing so pinpoints their exact location, which would then be passed to USAF and/or USN.
Rubbish. These terrorists believe in their cause so much that they have sacraficed themselves. Do you think they would really stop and think twice about hi-jacking an ICBM and launching from a country other than their own? They obviously don't care about 10 - 50 thousand american lives and I suspect anyone who dies in a retaliation would have died for a 'greater cause' and as such it would be alright.
Now, the fact that both of these solutions have existed for a while, but that neither of these have really caught on, should tell you the most important thing:
Nobody really cares about true 3D for most entertainment or gaming applications.
Or it could mean that there is a flaw in the solution. Take for example the first motorcars. They were noisy, clunky and slow. People galloped by on horses laughing at the slow cars. It could be the same situation with 3D. Just because one solution doesn't work well doesn't necessarily mean the idea is flawed, it could be the solution.
First i thought it was an anti-trolling mechanism which would prevent people from submitting very very long comments which would screwup the layout when browsing at -1.
I even wrote a comment but before I posted it I checked one of the comments containing the erronous whitespace. I found that slash inserts a space even if there is a space immediately preceding it.
So I registered with SourceForge and checked the bug list. Couldn't find anything. Eventually I got smart and checked slashcode which provided a possible answer when I did a search for "spaces".
According to Pudge;
"Sounds like a browser "bug". We use WRAP="VIRTUAL" for the TEXTAREA boxes, which means that when the browser wraps text, those "newlines" are not passed to the server when the form is submitted. However, not all browsers support VIRTUAL wraps.
"Let's assume Microsoft could tax everything on the Internet," Torvalds said "You think the U.S. government would give up monopoly status as taxation man? The government would step in and say, 'No, no, that's what we do.'"
a) Why would Microsoft call it a tax? Just because it's called a tax doesn't mean that what MS is doing is the same as what the government does. What happens if microsoft calls it a "Transaction Fee"? Will the banks step in?
b) If you don't want to use.NET then don't use it. It's not as if it's mandatory or a necessity?
Now I wait for the hordes of/. MS bashers to attack.
Unless, of course, the FBI gets a search warrant, raids your house and copies your secret key from your hard drive (or floppy disk, if you've tried to be that careful).
Which is why you want your PC in a room with no windows and heavy duty wires around the door frame with a few thousand volts running through the wires. They try and remove your PC and presto! No data. William Gibson rules.
I've actually thought about this method of acheiving AI for quite a while and the biggest problem I've seen is that while the program can understand sentences, questions and grammar structures, it cannot understand the meaning of descriptive words (uh? - nouns?) so yes it would tell you that the sky was blue but given a picture it would not be able to identify the sky or any colours.
Don't get me wrong. Big big respect for this attempt and the successes so far. A huge step before reaching AI is giving the computer senses even if it's only able to access drive contents and relate the concept of a 'bit' to that pulse of electricity that just hit the AI's 'sense port' for lack of a better word to call it.
A film will remain on a computer's hard drive for 30 days but will erase itself 24 hours after it is first run.
Obviously they're going to develop a proprietry software package used to play the movies and control the copyright. It'll also have to be memory resident (or possibly run on boot) if they want to delete the film after 30 days.
To be really honest it sounds just like a dot-bomb venture:
The studios that will be partners in the service are MGM, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures, Warner Brothers and Universal Pictures. Noticeably absent were Disney and 20th Century Fox, although sources close to Disney said that it intended to announce its own video-on-demand service within 10 days. Fox issued a statement late this afternoon saying that it, too, would announce plans soon for such a service.
...
The real question, though, is how many people really want to download movies onto their personal computers.
"To be really honest, we have no idea," Mr. Waterman said.
To be read: "Oh wow! We're going to put a product on to the internet which'll be really cool and people can buy said product anytime they want. And here's the cool thing! We don't even know if said product is useful!"
Other manufacturers: "Oh I'm going to do that too!"
More manufacturers: "Me three! Me three! Let's sink money into technology just because it's technology and forget all about wether or not we will make money."
Yes I am a cynic.
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What you do then is speak to them about everything but computers while you set theirs up.
I'm sorry you lost me there. There's something besides computers? Nope sorry. I still don't get it. My brain keeps returning an 'Out Of Bounds' error.
vigilante: (n) a member of the Internet community that enforces an unwritten rule or law.
decaffeinate: (v) to notify, help, and/or aid an infected machine.
hacker: (n) cracker.
Looks like they use the word "hacker" in the article for the plebs and the vocabulary bit is kind of like a disclaimer so that professionals won't get irate.
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Shouldn't the parent be marked as +5 INFORMATIVE?
at least it wasn't 'god' or 'sex'
;)
Whoah! Good passwords!
The havoc of losing the A root server would be bad, like Staypuft Marshmallow Man bad.
Psh! I don't care if all DNS servers collapsed! I've got 64.28.67.150 tattoed on the back of my hand.
You've actually hit the nail on the head. Scientology is pretty much all about PR. To attack them one would need to attack their PR machine.
1. Counter-information and propaganda.
Spread the word. Xenu.net is an exact example of attacking Scientology.
2. Identification. Make sure that all their activities are known about by a)you b)the general public. If there's a symposium and it's held by the Scientology Cult then blaze big letters by the entrance: Stop Scientology.
Highlight believers in the cult. Doesn't mean they're totally bad people but it will indicate where their priorities lie and you can track their activities.
3. Prevention. Stop their propoganda and recruitment drives. A broad category in which you would use the tools available to counter Scientology's methods. They've got a website? Block it using the DMCA. Contact their ISP. Talk to google. Create sites which rank higher than theirs. They're handing out leaflets? Hand out your own alongside. They're hosting a seminar? Host your own, cheaper, better.
Naturally the biggest problem with all this is the dedication and resources required. The whole system would have to generate it's own revenue. I would recommend running a system similar to Scientology to generate money. Actually the BIGGEST problem is that by doing this you could very easily end up just like them.
Yeah but the problem is that Scientology is INDIRECTLY targeting the content. By taking the search engine (the middle man) out of the loop they can seriously slow and damage the spread of anti-scientology information.
As much as I hate what they have done, it is very sound battle tactics. The best response is twofold.
1. Defend - submit a counter-claim, get xenu listed again.
2. Protect - Spread the information over a wider base so that it's harder for similar tactics to work again. (Also if possible challenge the DMCA to prevent it from happening again)
There is the third option Attack but that requires lots of money and effort for a sustained campaign.
That's not such a bad idea actually!
*ponders* I've got about 30 MB of space on my free ntl account. *grins*
I'm not sure about that. The list of URL's which the Scientology Cult complain about include the xenu.net homepage and I certainly didn't see a result when I searched for www.xenu.net. So if you search for xenu you're not going to get anything and when people are searching for information they're not going to get many links to xenu.net so less chance they go there.
h tmlh tml
In answer to your question, this is going to be very effective. Mod the parent down and next time read the article.
The list:
www.xenu.net/
www.xenu.net/archive/photoalbum/
www.xenu.net/archive/photoalbum/propaganda/
www.xenu.net/archive/photoalbum/propaganda/index.
www.xenu.net/archive/photoalbum/propaganda/prop1.
and alot more - lameness filter encountered. Sucky lameness filter!
No way! Noel Sharkey was my professor at Sheffield University! He also judges the UK Robot Wars. And that's all the useless information I have for you today.
;-) Blatant Karma Whoring (suckey, suckey?)
Wahey, I feel famous.
Noel Sharkey
Homepage
Google Cache
I think the Comp Sci web server is down so you should probably check the cache first cause you don't want to slashdot it.
I still like what they did in Cryptomnicon (sp?) where the door to the server room was ringed with wire with an AC current creating a huge electromagnetic field... just let the feds try to walk out with your hard drive. :-)
Run conduit. Big conduit.
OK but don't forget to make it small enough so that hero's can't crawl around your Evil Lair and rescue that damsel in distress.
Hey, it's number 2 in the manual!
That means that as a British citizen I am not bound by American laws! What a novel idea!
I guess I'll just put DeCSS on my website.
... I'm pretty sure that most people would pass out long before the scramjet would even take off - and without the aid of the beverage cart.
And why would they pass out? I assume you're referring to GLOC (Gravity Induced Loss of Consciousness). GLOC occurs when acceleration pushes blood away from the brain. If the acceleration of an aircraft is kept small then GLOC does not occur.
I'm not even going to bother to explain why acceleration does not have to be high to reach Mach 5. Work it out for yourself... and that goes doubly for whoever marked the parent up.
Talking about wierd things happening at the speed of light - the wierdest thing I've heard about is that if you're travelling near the speed of light and you shine a light in the direction of travel, the light would travel away from you at THE SPEED OF LIGHT! Thus the light beam is travelling at almost twice the speed of light! Can anyone confirm this?
Arrrghhh! My head!
Israel has NEVER bombarded an Arab town in the way that you describe.
Oh wait, I forgot - they use helicopters and missiles to bombard Arab towns... and then they leave.
My condolences for your losses. I live in England and there is always the threat of terrorist attack from the IRA. I assume the situation is much the same in Spain, Israel and Russia not including war-torn coutries like Macedonia and Palestine.
Tomorrow it may be your country that falls under terrorist attack.
As always your ignorance of the world shines through. Welcome to the real world America.
No one in their right mind would launch a missile attack against the US. Even if they had an accurate 20MT nuke to fire off at NORAD. For the simple reason that doing so pinpoints their exact location, which would then be passed to USAF and/or USN.
Rubbish. These terrorists believe in their cause so much that they have sacraficed themselves. Do you think they would really stop and think twice about hi-jacking an ICBM and launching from a country other than their own? They obviously don't care about 10 - 50 thousand american lives and I suspect anyone who dies in a retaliation would have died for a 'greater cause' and as such it would be alright.
Now, the fact that both of these solutions have existed for a while, but that neither of these have really caught on, should tell you the most important thing:
Nobody really cares about true 3D for most entertainment or gaming applications.
Or it could mean that there is a flaw in the solution. Take for example the first motorcars. They were noisy, clunky and slow. People galloped by on horses laughing at the slow cars. It could be the same situation with 3D. Just because one solution doesn't work well doesn't necessarily mean the idea is flawed, it could be the solution.
First i thought it was an anti-trolling mechanism which would prevent people from submitting very very long comments which would screwup the layout when browsing at -1.
;)
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I even wrote a comment but before I posted it I checked one of the comments containing the erronous whitespace. I found that slash inserts a space even if there is a space immediately preceding it.
So I registered with SourceForge and checked the bug list. Couldn't find anything. Eventually I got smart and checked slashcode which provided a possible answer when I did a search for "spaces".
According to Pudge;
"Sounds like a browser "bug". We use WRAP="VIRTUAL" for the TEXTAREA boxes, which means that when the browser wraps text, those "newlines" are not passed to the server when the form is submitted. However, not all browsers support VIRTUAL wraps.
Here's the URL (probably has whitespace
http://slashcode.com/article.pl?sid=00/10/24/17
"Let's assume Microsoft could tax everything on the Internet," Torvalds said "You think the U.S. government would give up monopoly status as taxation man? The government would step in and say, 'No, no, that's what we do.'"
.NET then don't use it. It's not as if it's mandatory or a necessity?
/. MS bashers to attack.
a) Why would Microsoft call it a tax? Just because it's called a tax doesn't mean that what MS is doing is the same as what the government does. What happens if microsoft calls it a "Transaction Fee"? Will the banks step in?
b) If you don't want to use
Now I wait for the hordes of
(Score:-1, Linus Questioner)
Unless, of course, the FBI gets a search warrant, raids your house and copies your secret key from your hard drive (or floppy disk, if you've tried to be that careful).
Which is why you want your PC in a room with no windows and heavy duty wires around the door frame with a few thousand volts running through the wires. They try and remove your PC and presto! No data. William Gibson rules.
I've actually thought about this method of acheiving AI for quite a while and the biggest problem I've seen is that while the program can understand sentences, questions and grammar structures, it cannot understand the meaning of descriptive words (uh? - nouns?) so yes it would tell you that the sky was blue but given a picture it would not be able to identify the sky or any colours.
Don't get me wrong. Big big respect for this attempt and the successes so far. A huge step before reaching AI is giving the computer senses even if it's only able to access drive contents and relate the concept of a 'bit' to that pulse of electricity that just hit the AI's 'sense port' for lack of a better word to call it.
A film will remain on a computer's hard drive for 30 days but will erase itself 24 hours after it is first run.
Obviously they're going to develop a proprietry software package used to play the movies and control the copyright. It'll also have to be memory resident (or possibly run on boot) if they want to delete the film after 30 days.
To be really honest it sounds just like a dot-bomb venture:
The studios that will be partners in the service are MGM, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures, Warner Brothers and Universal Pictures. Noticeably absent were Disney and 20th Century Fox, although sources close to Disney said that it intended to announce its own video-on-demand service within 10 days. Fox issued a statement late this afternoon saying that it, too, would announce plans soon for such a service.
...
The real question, though, is how many people really want to download movies onto their personal computers.
"To be really honest, we have no idea," Mr. Waterman said.
To be read: "Oh wow! We're going to put a product on to the internet which'll be really cool and people can buy said product anytime they want. And here's the cool thing! We don't even know if said product is useful!"
Other manufacturers: "Oh I'm going to do that too!"
More manufacturers: "Me three! Me three! Let's sink money into technology just because it's technology and forget all about wether or not we will make money."
Yes I am a cynic.
What you do then is speak to them about everything but computers while you set theirs up.
I'm sorry you lost me there. There's something besides computers? Nope sorry. I still don't get it. My brain keeps returning an 'Out Of Bounds' error.
From the Code Red Vigilante website:
VOCABULARY
(in the context of Code Red Vigilante)
vigilante: (n) a member of the Internet community that enforces an unwritten rule or law.
decaffeinate: (v) to notify, help, and/or aid an infected machine.
hacker: (n) cracker.
Looks like they use the word "hacker" in the article for the plebs and the vocabulary bit is kind of like a disclaimer so that professionals won't get irate.
They won't be able to get a pattent if it was already developed in recent history.
;-)
I dunno. With the current state of affairs regarding patenting, it should be entirely possible.