You're surely aware that during apartheid in south africa the very term "hate speech" was used to can up Nelson Mandela several times. He was making the public too rowdy and disrupting power.
I'm not saying you are, but never make a distinction between hate-speech and free speech. This PC crap (and political correctness is above politics; it's a life code) is dangerous.
I've done the same thing for local law-enforcement. But since a few cops were bitchy at me years back and thought I stole these cars I choose whether I find something.
Open Source software is likely to come out far ahead on this front, since they are uninhibited by things like slow response time to requests for software features
Oh yes. And that's why slashdot gets so excited over a new browser every five minutes - because open source has provided that*1. I'd agree with you that open source is the best for this type of thing but not due to development time, but because it doesn't matter if powerful local encryption*2 it's made illegal as it's free and will spread like DeCSS if wanted.
*1 not intended as a troll. I haven't seen any full release browsers that compete with IE or Opera on windows.
*2 I do mean allowing powerful encryption as opposed to weak. The 128 bit encryption being too powerful and illegal comes to mind. (you can close the door on your house, but you're not allowed padlocks)
Firstly it's RIPA, not RIP, and you could have at least made a lame `Rest in Peace` joke.
I prefered the olden days when hordes of people with more swords than you ruled commoners like titans. It was so much more clean-cut and thrust.
I just love the wording: "gaining routine access to business communications".... oh, so long as they're business communications and not personal. "[caller consent required bar] activities such as downloading pornography)"... I love pornography and it's a protected right.
You get un-lubbed anal sex forced on you a lot now don't you?
If you consider linking correctly "webdesign" then you'd probably consider having your tray in the upright position flying. The idea of any link is that the link text describes the link. It's really no harder to do, it assists blind people.
The original poster merely said that as no one's said it's true, and it's just easily fakable ASCII, we should fully trust it as of yet. Not that it was a fake, or that it was real, or anything.
That one may "live through it" isn't a reason for not reacting; you are proposing this here. I hear russia is nice this time of year, get some air or something.
For the Record, I agree with you. I don't think the log was falsified and I do think Malda should do some explaining. And if you're reading this Rob - as the King of the World I realise that it's your site and you may do with it what you wish. I grant you that as i'm a nice guy. But your talk of [as it's public moderation] people suffering from the same suggestable and emotive things from politicians and such is avoiding the issue. There are systems that encourage good posting, and systems that don't. Signal 11, despite being an utter dickhead, was a hacker in the truest sense of the term. He manipulated the audience and his karma flew skyward. Slashcode is wonderful but it's meta-meta-meta-bitchslap is an ever decreasing circle that doesn't deal with the core peer-ranking problems.
Anonymous Coward's are pointless and provide an all too easy to troll (again, there's no reason why you can't just make an account with false details like myself to get the same anonymity).
>But anything approaching realism will
>take from now to Christmas to download
>anyway.
I (hereby) agree with the entirity of your post.
I recall a vaporware 3D world press-release several years ago that had some interesting ideas (ones that I believe VRML doesn't incorporate). Treating VRML like any file is a flawed method that wastes bandwidth, whereas this required it's own server to send fitting scene chunks dependant on the viewers position and focus.
I'd disagree about the 3D textures not being suitable for VRML however. 3D textures are space-saving and people often resort to hacks in order to create texture whereas 3D texture allows heavy re-use for little bandwidth.
I have not tried Java3D, I will now. Do you recommend or hate it with bile-ridden passion?
and attempting to send the entire file
Dearest lad, I was raised in the finest schools and ate off tibetan monk bellies cleansed in spring water. I know my pronunciation however rusty the spelling may be.
"F-oh pah"
Anyway, I like the cut of your gib, and knight you Sir Faux Pas.
>MORE TO EXPLORETaking advantage of 3-D
>technology are Web sites like an animated
>nightclub with flashing lights and dancers.
It's like i'm there man!
(well, maybe if I switch to a 14.4k modem and pretend there's some fucked-up strobe light thing going on.)
I played with VRML 1.0 and it was kludgey and awful (I built a church to kill knaves and saints). Ahhh.. but you say VRML has changed, I say I've read the specs and it still appears definately low-fi in terms of the abilities of an OpenGL app or MS-Direct3D (sure they may have been made to deal with different things but they're heading in the same direction - I don't need to tell you the web's slowly bluring location of files and software now do I?). AFAIK there's no bump-mapping, no 3D textures, scripting is klunky and inelegant.
>AFAIK you cannot call COM directly
> from PHP (i may be wrong).
Whoops, you're correct. Coversion for simplistic scripts only. The King of the World is getting old in these shoes and forgets details ever more lately. I'll go attack New Zealand, that's always good for spot of fun. Watch them scatter.
Ahh.. Java Servlets. When you're delivering cross-platform HTML anyway and it really doesn't matter that your backend is also cross-platform does it? Honestly, it's so slow and I haven't seen a unique thing Java Servlets can do in comparason to PHP or ASP.
PHP is relatively cross-platform if you do it right, and ASP can be converted to PHP;)
There are systems that encourage good posting and there are systems that don't. Slashdot is somewhere in the middle and although I am the king of the world i'm not about to storm in there and take control.
Well, not yet.
Some improvements. I see little point in anonymous cowarding. It's no more anonymous that a user account with fake sign-up details, and you can't have a two-way conversation with a faceless user. You never know who you're talking to. Anonymous coward is a dickhead.
Meta moderation is silly. What do we do to deal with bad meta-moderation? meta-meta-moderation? then meta-meta-meta.. oh please. You're putting more sellotape on your dyke*1.
Yeah, because getting an advert for OSS Hats and Training could really mess a guy up.
I don't understand what the problem is with targeted advertisements - especially when you're going to get ads anyway. It's not like TiVo don't collect your viewing information anyway - and if so then it's that most people should be offended at, not targeted adverts, right?
Anyway, as the King of the World, I should know about these things. What am I missing? Why are people so against targeted advertising?
Slashdot Mirror
Now if slashdot had a king...
About.com are on The Roseanne Show.
You're surely aware that during apartheid in south africa the very term "hate speech" was used to can up Nelson Mandela several times. He was making the public too rowdy and disrupting power.
I'm not saying you are, but never make a distinction between hate-speech and free speech. This PC crap (and political correctness is above politics; it's a life code) is dangerous.
Aww really? That's no fun.
Makes me feel like a big man.
Originally slashdot authors linked to nytimes.com, then a few stories later to partners.nytimes.com, then they haven't done it since.
Methinks they got told off.
Do you want AC here with his finger on The Button?
What is this "hate speech", define, peasant?
*1 not intended as a troll. I haven't seen any full release browsers that compete with IE or Opera on windows.
*2 I do mean allowing powerful encryption as opposed to weak. The 128 bit encryption being too powerful and illegal comes to mind. (you can close the door on your house, but you're not allowed padlocks)
Firstly it's RIPA, not RIP, and you could have at least made a lame `Rest in Peace` joke.
I prefered the olden days when hordes of people with more swords than you ruled commoners like titans. It was so much more clean-cut and thrust.
I just love the wording: "gaining routine access to business communications".... oh, so long as they're business communications and not personal. "[caller consent required bar] activities such as downloading pornography)"... I love pornography and it's a protected right.
Honestly, this Kuro5hin article summed up the points better than I ever could.
I would like a browser to disallow OnLoad though.
>take from now to Christmas to download >anyway. I (hereby) agree with the entirity of your post.
I recall a vaporware 3D world press-release several years ago that had some interesting ideas (ones that I believe VRML doesn't incorporate). Treating VRML like any file is a flawed method that wastes bandwidth, whereas this required it's own server to send fitting scene chunks dependant on the viewers position and focus.
I'd disagree about the 3D textures not being suitable for VRML however. 3D textures are space-saving and people often resort to hacks in order to create texture whereas 3D texture allows heavy re-use for little bandwidth.
I have not tried Java3D, I will now. Do you recommend or hate it with bile-ridden passion? and attempting to send the entire file
"F-oh pah"
Anyway, I like the cut of your gib, and knight you Sir Faux Pas.
Rise Sir Faux Pas.
No no, it's too obvious.
>technology are Web sites like an animated
>nightclub with flashing lights and dancers.
It's like i'm there man!
(well, maybe if I switch to a 14.4k modem and pretend there's some fucked-up strobe light thing going on.)
I played with VRML 1.0 and it was kludgey and awful (I built a church to kill knaves and saints). Ahhh.. but you say VRML has changed, I say I've read the specs and it still appears definately low-fi in terms of the abilities of an OpenGL app or MS-Direct3D (sure they may have been made to deal with different things but they're heading in the same direction - I don't need to tell you the web's slowly bluring location of files and software now do I?). AFAIK there's no bump-mapping, no 3D textures, scripting is klunky and inelegant.
VRML, it was still-born.
>AFAIK you cannot call COM directly
> from PHP (i may be wrong). Whoops, you're correct. Coversion for simplistic scripts only. The King of the World is getting old in these shoes and forgets details ever more lately. I'll go attack New Zealand, that's always good for spot of fun. Watch them scatter.
Is there any talk of putting this on backbones or just ISPs? ie, being an international jetsetting playboy was there any talk of watching the world?
There's little need for your "matter of fact"
PHP is relatively cross-platform if you do it right, and ASP can be converted to PHP ;)
What's the point, eh lad?
He robbed me of three shipments of gold, the giddy-legged swine.
Well, not yet.
Some improvements. I see little point in anonymous cowarding. It's no more anonymous that a user account with fake sign-up details, and you can't have a two-way conversation with a faceless user. You never know who you're talking to. Anonymous coward is a dickhead.
Meta moderation is silly. What do we do to deal with bad meta-moderation? meta-meta-moderation? then meta-meta-meta.. oh please. You're putting more sellotape on your dyke*1.
*1 no, wait, I mean dam.
As this is Microsoft's boy they build the OS itself around it and gain speed speed speed.
I'm sorry if you wanted a longer answer, that's about it - really.
Microsoft's local transparency pseudo-CORBA thing has been done in Java; and everything else listed there has been done in Java too.
kew-ro-shun
ka-row-shun
I don't understand what the problem is with targeted advertisements - especially when you're going to get ads anyway. It's not like TiVo don't collect your viewing information anyway - and if so then it's that most people should be offended at, not targeted adverts, right?
Anyway, as the King of the World, I should know about these things. What am I missing? Why are people so against targeted advertising?