Just so you can keep this in mind, the first field of the period-delimited response returned by the CueCat is a -unique tracking number- used to provide statistical analysis for targeted advertising.
Memories of the Pentium serial number fiasco, anyone?
If you're writing Perl scripts (or whatever) to do lookups on the cuecat site for UPC information, replace the first field (.C3SDJFH2E......) with a null, or with garbage. Then you're not being tracked by Digital:Convergence on whatever you brush against this thing.
I choose to believe that my love and my hate, and even my mortality, are those things that make me alive. Had I not my love, my hate, my fear... would I not be a robot? A complex, learning robot, but a robot just the same. Our emotions are what separate us from every other living thing and every creation humans have made to date.
Manifest destiny my arse. It can take a flying leap - if things like love are petty, what is really worth the effort?
--Bistromath
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It seems to me as though materialism is the primary outlet for society's "disenchanted", right? So it's only natural that many choose to turn to technology. It's also a power trip - everyone either has to know more than their neighbor, since information is a medium in the information society with which to practice materialism, or must have the most hard-core hardware on the block. Thus, the "testosterone-filled" technocrats. The author is right, though: one need only look at the ratio of women to men in these high-technology arguments to see the reasons behind the problem - in general women feel less need to assert themselves through bravado and bluster.
Microbes surviving solar and Van Allen radiation is one thing; surviving re-entry in a flaming meteor instead of a nice, cushy spacecraft is another. Most rocks don't make it to the ground, never mind microbes. The impact into Earth at several thousand miles per hour would probably have some detrimental effect, too.
So, exactly when did/. become an infallible forum of knowledge? So a hoax or two made it here. That's why we have a discussion forum. To -discuss- the news stories, and if one turns out to be a hoax, it usually gets discovered pretty quickly. With such a large audience, what better way to expose the truth?
either SILC (go look on Freshmeat) for encrypted chat or GPG/PGP for email can be used for secure online communications. both are entirely private. if possession of cryptographic tools is against the law, however, you're screwed. there's no encryption tool that can stop Big Brother if he's really out to get you.
...especially considering that, what with the controversy surrounding NEA grants and all, many people have trouble making the distinction as well. Just when does art become pornography? Is Robert Mapplethorpe's photography pornography? It isn't, but you probably wouldn't want your six-year-old exposed to it. You can't program a computer with moral issues.
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Just so you can keep this in mind, the first field of the period-delimited response returned by the CueCat is a -unique tracking number- used to provide statistical analysis for targeted advertising.
... ...) with a null, or with garbage. Then you're not being tracked by Digital:Convergence on whatever you brush against this thing.
Memories of the Pentium serial number fiasco, anyone?
If you're writing Perl scripts (or whatever) to do lookups on the cuecat site for UPC information, replace the first field (.C3SDJFH2E
I choose to believe that my love and my hate, and even my mortality, are those things that make me alive. Had I not my love, my hate, my fear... would I not be a robot? A complex, learning robot, but a robot just the same. Our emotions are what separate us from every other living thing and every creation humans have made to date.
Manifest destiny my arse. It can take a flying leap - if things like love are petty, what is really worth the effort?
--Bistromath
It seems to me as though materialism is the primary outlet for society's "disenchanted", right? So it's only natural that many choose to turn to technology. It's also a power trip - everyone either has to know more than their neighbor, since information is a medium in the information society with which to practice materialism, or must have the most hard-core hardware on the block. Thus, the "testosterone-filled" technocrats. The author is right, though: one need only look at the ratio of women to men in these high-technology arguments to see the reasons behind the problem - in general women feel less need to assert themselves through bravado and bluster.
Microbes surviving solar and Van Allen radiation is one thing; surviving re-entry in a flaming meteor instead of a nice, cushy spacecraft is another. Most rocks don't make it to the ground, never mind microbes. The impact into Earth at several thousand miles per hour would probably have some detrimental effect, too.
So, exactly when did /. become an infallible forum of knowledge? So a hoax or two made it here. That's why we have a discussion forum. To -discuss- the news stories, and if one turns out to be a hoax, it usually gets discovered pretty quickly. With such a large audience, what better way to expose the truth?
either SILC (go look on Freshmeat) for encrypted chat or GPG/PGP for email can be used for secure online communications. both are entirely private. if possession of cryptographic tools is against the law, however, you're screwed. there's no encryption tool that can stop Big Brother if he's really out to get you.
...especially considering that, what with the controversy surrounding NEA grants and all, many people have trouble making the distinction as well. Just when does art become pornography? Is Robert Mapplethorpe's photography pornography? It isn't, but you probably wouldn't want your six-year-old exposed to it. You can't program a computer with moral issues.