don't see much use in looking up old searches frankly.
Are you joking? This will make bookmarks irrelevant. Hell, I used Google for my bookmarks more and more anyway. It's to let google keep track of all the information and links.
This search history thing will likely be smart enough to create your bookmarks for you, just by noticing what you search for and what results you click on.
I made this post warning against censhorship by municipal wi-fi, and the post was ridiculed moderated into oblivion. I used pornography as the most obvious exaple. This article proves I'm right.
An anti-corporate culture (like here on/.) doesn't have to be pro-governmnet. It the case of government provided internet access -- the cure is worse than the disease.
I don't want some government agency handling all the internet traffic.
Do you want the government to be managing all the printing presses? Do you want the government to have managed the printing presses 100 years ago?
The internet is the communication platform of the future. Radio, print, tv -- all are/will be re-invented through the internet. It will be the primary vehicle for every citizen to communicate and be informed.
Do you really want Uncle Sam in charge of that? Do you trust them that much? I sure as hell don't. The potential for abuse is incredible. If the MPAA/RIAA/FBI/CIA/whichever interest with enough influence to press a button any make website inaccessable, don't you think they would?
The problem isn't not enough government, the problem is too much government. Thanks to historical monopolies granted by government licensing schemes , there are exactly two broadband entry points into our home: cable and phone. That's it. Two.
No wonder prices won't come down.
But going from a two-provider service to a single-provider service is NOT the answer. One, service will suck because there will be no reason to improve service (like any bureaucracy) and two, like I said, the certainty of for political abuse.
For example, let's use pornography as an example.
If cities in the southern bible belt start providiing municiple wifi service, and stipulating that they will become the single-provider in the area, how long do you think it will be before religous conservative interest groups start applying political pressure to block traffic to pornographic web site to "protect the community." After all, it is a city-owned, taxpayer funded network.
That's just an obvious example. How many subversive or anti-status-quo web sites will just quietly become available?
How much easier will it be for law enforcement to your monitor traffic if the provider is just another government agency?
If you value freedom, you should definitely oppose the government takeover of the Internet Service Provider industry.
How about going in the opposite direction and actually have LESS government involved -- stop granting local monopolies to cable and telephone companies, and let service providers try to offer a good service at a good price.
...in the commercial community binary managment is critical. For example, someone may be tracking a 1 MB word document that goes through hundreds of revisions resulting in consuming 1 GB of space.
That may be the stupidest things I've ever heard. Clearly, Word-formatted documents are the wrong format to be using.
If you're an extremist (left or right), you should expect that eventually you will receive an extreme response.
People shouldn't have to expect that in a country that supposedly respect free speech.
Dissension should not be a crime.
Freedom of speech means being able to express unpopular points of view that do not fit with the status quo WITHOUT having to fear reprisals by law enforcement agencies.
Or, do we have freedom of speech only when that speech is approved by the government??
Here in Minnesota, I need to provide my SSN now just for fishing and hunting licenses. WTF?
We must verify your information against the Homeland Security Threat Matrix to see if you are a terrorist.
Since you have questioned the need to produce your papers on demand, you have exhibited suspicuous behavior according to our profiling specifications. Your threat rating has been raised three points.
Please report to your nearest Homeland Security office immediately for interrogation and possible re-education.
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Firefly was the best scifi series on tv since Babylon 5.
Firefly was much better than Babylon 5. The show was cancelled to early, but held great promise of being the best scifi show ever.
do GET 'http://www.opera.com/download/get.pl?id=26712 ' >
done
C'mon in, the water's fine.
Over the long term your search history will features thousands of entries. Hardly a bookmark manager.
Unless Google can intelligently organize that information, which is kind of what they do.
don't see much use in looking up old searches frankly.
Are you joking? This will make bookmarks irrelevant. Hell, I used Google for my bookmarks more and more anyway. It's to let google keep track of all the information and links.
This search history thing will likely be smart enough to create your bookmarks for you, just by noticing what you search for and what results you click on.
I think it's cool.
Why are they all the same size?
Even though they are humanoid, they all have different forehead wrinkles! That makes them alien!
Oop, sorry -- wrong sci-fi universe.
My post saying the same thing on a similar thread was modded down too.
/. groupthink.
Let's hear it for
I made this post warning against censhorship by municipal wi-fi, and the post was ridiculed moderated into oblivion. I used pornography as the most obvious exaple. This article proves I'm right.
/.) doesn't have to be pro-governmnet. It the case of government provided internet access -- the cure is worse than the disease.
An anti-corporate culture (like here on
I don't want some government agency handling all the internet traffic.
Do you want the government to be managing all the printing presses? Do you want the government to have managed the printing presses 100 years ago?
The internet is the communication platform of the future. Radio, print, tv -- all are/will be re-invented through the internet. It will be the primary vehicle for every citizen to communicate and be informed.
Do you really want Uncle Sam in charge of that? Do you trust them that much? I sure as hell don't. The potential for abuse is incredible. If the MPAA/RIAA/FBI/CIA/whichever interest with enough influence to press a button any make website inaccessable, don't you think they would?
The problem isn't not enough government, the problem is too much government. Thanks to historical monopolies granted by government licensing schemes , there are exactly two broadband entry points into our home: cable and phone. That's it. Two.
No wonder prices won't come down.
But going from a two-provider service to a single-provider service is NOT the answer. One, service will suck because there will be no reason to improve service (like any bureaucracy) and two, like I said, the certainty of for political abuse.
For example, let's use pornography as an example.
If cities in the southern bible belt start providiing municiple wifi service, and stipulating that they will become the single-provider in the area, how long do you think it will be before religous conservative interest groups start applying political pressure to block traffic to pornographic web site to "protect the community." After all, it is a city-owned, taxpayer funded network.
That's just an obvious example. How many subversive or anti-status-quo web sites will just quietly become available?
How much easier will it be for law enforcement to your monitor traffic if the provider is just another government agency?
If you value freedom, you should definitely oppose the government takeover of the Internet Service Provider industry.
How about going in the opposite direction and actually have LESS government involved -- stop granting local monopolies to cable and telephone companies, and let service providers try to offer a good service at a good price.
you can't patent a gathering of like-minded people can you?
Well, that depends on how much you pay your lawyers, doesn't it?
There's nothing in the Constitution that says freedom of the press only applies to professionals.
Ding, ding, ding! You win the grand prize!
Thanks for reminding us of the obvious. The lawyers of the world they to distract us from it.
Caltech has yet to transform an MIT building into a cathedral
Why would they want to? They should tranform Caltech into a Bazaar.
Clearly, many corporations *do* use Word
Yes, and this may be the *second* most stupid thing I've every heard.
...in the commercial community binary managment is critical. For example, someone may be tracking a 1 MB word document that goes through hundreds of revisions resulting in consuming 1 GB of space.
That may be the stupidest things I've ever heard. Clearly, Word-formatted documents are the wrong format to be using.
Fuck it. I'll see you tomorrow. Enjoy the horse shit.
If you're an extremist (left or right), you should expect that eventually you will receive an extreme response.
People shouldn't have to expect that in a country that supposedly respect free speech.
Dissension should not be a crime.
Freedom of speech means being able to express unpopular points of view that do not fit with the status quo WITHOUT having to fear reprisals by law enforcement agencies.
Or, do we have freedom of speech only when that speech is approved by the government??
HA-ha!
Either choose to be subscription-supported or advertising-supported, but not both.
Yeah, like newspapers and magazines.
Here in Minnesota, I need to provide my SSN now just for fishing and hunting licenses. WTF?
We must verify your information against the Homeland Security Threat Matrix to see if you are a terrorist.
Since you have questioned the need to produce your papers on demand, you have exhibited suspicuous behavior according to our profiling specifications. Your threat rating has been raised three points.
Please report to your nearest Homeland Security office immediately for interrogation and possible re-education.
Thank you.
Am I the only one who thinks it a bit much when applications software costs more than the OS?
I have no problem with this. I think it's perfectly fine for each app to charge 100, 1000, or even 1 million times the cost of OS.
So long as they use the price of my OS as a multiplier, I'm all set.
Amazing -- they one-upped Google on the coolness factor. Good for them! Bookmarked.
You nailed it. I could not agree more.
articles are disappearing into the fireball's core and reappearing as thermal radiation
In technical terms, we call that "burning items to generate heat."
parent_mod++
Sharing bomb-making instructions isn't illegal.
I think the Department of Homeland Security calls that "terrorist training."
Somebody knocking at your door?
All Google -- All the time.