Does anyone know what changes are needed to the current fibre infrastructure to support quantum encryption? can you hook two boxes up at either end of a random cable? what about repeaters, etc, interfering with the signal?
My employer produces a standalone calendar app called eventSherpa that is free (as in beer) to use if you just want to keep your own schedule. (We also have a publishing service which we charge for). It's worth a look if you're a Windows user.
... doesn't this basically lead directly to the US military dropping off Robo-Tanks in foreign countries as they please? We know that a steady diet of wars figure heavily in the plan for the forseeable future. The Robo-Tank cuts down on friendly casualties, thus making conflicts more palatable to the public.
Now I find this as cool as anyone else, from a technological standpoint. And it definitely has civilian applicability. But let's face it, this contest isn't about finding cheaper ways to haul cargo or reach remote locations.
I would have killed for a slashdot story like this 3 or 4 years ago when I was making my calc requirements. One of the best things about using the web for study is the diversity of material out there. You aren't just limited to the dead tree on your desk to help you understand the material.
BTW, Anyone studying math who hasn't been turned on to http://mathworld.wolfram.com should definitely check it out.
eventSherpa is cool. I happened upon this one day while searching for calendar applications.
We need more user-facing semWeb apps like this. The data is now getting out there in a machine-readable format. This opens up lots of cool possibilities for "personal agents" and other things which thrive in a structured environment.
> When Free Software authors are held liable for defects...
Wait a minute... the GPL says:
"Also, for each author's protection and ours, we want to make certain that everyone understands that there is no warranty for this free software."
(emphasis mine)
AFAIK, UCITA has no power to change that.
Given that the vast majority of Free Software is released under licenses with similar terms, I don't see where you're getting that from. Nothing prevents any software maker from releasing code under a license that declaims liability. I think a license should be available upfront, for all software. That, to me, is the real issue. I don't mind purchasing software that's not under warranty (in fact I did that when I bought Red Hat and Mandrake), but I prefer to know about it before hand so I can make an informed choice.
... guaranteed to be readable by anyone: Plain text:). What government-to-public communication requires more than ASCII or maybe ASCII fancied up as HTML? If I'm able to read and connect to the 'net, IMO, I shouldn't require anything else to view government information.
The problem with making a movie about DnD is that it's very open-ended. There isn't a single storyline a la comics (even they don't really have a single story line what with all the cross-overs and such, but I digress). The option would be to take one of the pre-created worlds which generally have a basic plotline and build on it. I haven't seen the movie, but it looks like they didn't do that. So you're stuck with the most obvious plotline suggested by the rulebooks. Baldur's Gate 2 had a better story. Heck my friends and I came up with more inventive plots in our basements as kids.
Once again I agree with some of Jon's ideas and doubt most of them. I'd bet that the current royal court of heavily-trafficked hipster internet companies probably have more in common with the older corporate culture that Katz denigrates than the AOL-chat rooms that he fetes. Good business sense and prudent organization will beat a sloppily organized company, no matter how cool its product is, any day. And business organization and operation isn't something easily grasped when you're a 17-year. And don't tell me that the old model is going to go down the tubes: though the internet lowers the costs of production, it doesn't eliminate them. You still have server/access infrastructure and salaries to contend with. Enter the legion of gray-hairs.
Two things to think about:
Katz thinks that "adolescent and post-adolescent technical expertise... upend[s] the traditional power balance." People over-25 comprise the overwhelming majority of owners in Western society, and that includes common stock in internet companies. I fail to see how it empowers kids to yack about Britney Spears or ignore the issues of "aging, imperious white men." Soundscan registered an increase in music sales last quarter, despite all the flibbertigibet about Napster. People from the under-25 demographic are VERY MUCH still consumers of stuff owned by the over-25 demographic -- and perhaps even more so in this era of cheaply produced and heavily marketed technology. Don't tell me a cellphone empowers teens when they're paying $30 a month to some publicly-traded company.
Kids can somehow reclaim this nebulous "editorial agenda" that was held from them in pre-net times. How long has MTV been around? How long have Seventeen magazine and skateboarding mags been around. Katz seems to think that before 1996 kids were force-fed a steady diet of Wall Street Journal and New Yorker. Blech. What the net has done is shorten the marketing feedback loop to real time. What better way to give kids what they want (and sell more crap) than to give them control over what they see. And if "[t]hey gather almost continuously to discuss movies, TV shows, certain magazines and books" then they're internalizing the marketing themselves. What a wet dream for ad people. Not only will people digest your line, they'll sell it to other people for you. Kind of like the whole world is one big just-got-out-of-the-movie ad.
Mind you, I don't hate the internet:P. I think it's done some way cool stuff that is unique to the medium and ultra-empowering (ie linux and OSS). I just think that as net-connected machines achieve greater and greater penetration it will more and more reflect the real-world cultural situation in terms of quality, volume and type of information desired.
Slashdot Mirror
Pope is accused of defecating in forested areas
Jackie Treehorn: Refill?
The Dude: Does the Pope shit in the woods?
It's Bill O'Reilly, I think. Though if we sent Tim it could lead to a nice "Re-Entry Annoyances" book.
Does anyone know what changes are needed to the current fibre infrastructure to support quantum encryption? can you hook two boxes up at either end of a random cable? what about repeaters, etc, interfering with the signal?
My employer produces a standalone calendar app called eventSherpa that is free (as in beer) to use if you just want to keep your own schedule. (We also have a publishing service which we charge for). It's worth a look if you're a Windows user.
... doesn't this basically lead directly to the US military dropping off Robo-Tanks in foreign countries as they please? We know that a steady diet of wars figure heavily in the plan for the forseeable future. The Robo-Tank cuts down on friendly casualties, thus making conflicts more palatable to the public.
Now I find this as cool as anyone else, from a technological standpoint. And it definitely has civilian applicability. But let's face it, this contest isn't about finding cheaper ways to haul cargo or reach remote locations.
I would have killed for a slashdot story like this 3 or 4 years ago when I was making my calc requirements. One of the best things about using the web for study is the diversity of material out there. You aren't just limited to the dead tree on your desk to help you understand the material.
BTW, Anyone studying math who hasn't been turned on to http://mathworld.wolfram.com should definitely check it out.
eventSherpa is cool. I happened upon this one day while searching for calendar applications.
We need more user-facing semWeb apps like this. The data is now getting out there in a machine-readable format. This opens up lots of cool possibilities for "personal agents" and other things which thrive in a structured environment.
> When Free Software authors are held liable for defects ...
... the GPL says:
Wait a minute
"Also, for each author's protection and ours, we want to make certain that everyone understands that there is no warranty for this free software."
(emphasis mine)
AFAIK, UCITA has no power to change that.
Given that the vast majority of Free Software is released under licenses with similar terms, I don't see where you're getting that from. Nothing prevents any software maker from releasing code under a license that declaims liability. I think a license should be available upfront, for all software. That, to me, is the real issue. I don't mind purchasing software that's not under warranty (in fact I did that when I bought Red Hat and Mandrake), but I prefer to know about it before hand so I can make an informed choice.
... guaranteed to be readable by anyone: Plain text :). What government-to-public communication requires more than ASCII or maybe ASCII fancied up as HTML? If I'm able to read and connect to the 'net, IMO, I shouldn't require anything else to view government information.
I always wondered why one of the default backgrounds was called "Pile of AK-47s"
... is that according to this screen, Windows (a) is still around and (b) has the same fscking logo.
maybe you should demand your money back
The problem with making a movie about DnD is that it's very open-ended. There isn't a single storyline a la comics (even they don't really have a single story line what with all the cross-overs and such, but I digress). The option would be to take one of the pre-created worlds which generally have a basic plotline and build on it. I haven't seen the movie, but it looks like they didn't do that. So you're stuck with the most obvious plotline suggested by the rulebooks. Baldur's Gate 2 had a better story. Heck my friends and I came up with more inventive plots in our basements as kids.
Once again I agree with some of Jon's ideas and doubt most of them. I'd bet that the current royal court of heavily-trafficked hipster internet companies probably have more in common with the older corporate culture that Katz denigrates than the AOL-chat rooms that he fetes. Good business sense and prudent organization will beat a sloppily organized company, no matter how cool its product is, any day. And business organization and operation isn't something easily grasped when you're a 17-year. And don't tell me that the old model is going to go down the tubes: though the internet lowers the costs of production, it doesn't eliminate them. You still have server/access infrastructure and salaries to contend with. Enter the legion of gray-hairs.
Two things to think about:
Mind you, I don't hate the internet :P. I think it's done some way cool stuff that is unique to the medium and ultra-empowering (ie linux and OSS). I just think that as net-connected machines achieve greater and greater penetration it will more and more reflect the real-world cultural situation in terms of quality, volume and type of information desired.
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