There is a program out there called Jamming Eschelon that works in conjuction with your email that randomly inserts activating words to flood their computers with crap. Anyone know where we can obtain this program?
As any student of history will tell you, giving the FBI this much more power fares badly for all of us. McCarthyism anyone? The first thing they are going to do is gather up information on anyone who ordered any books on any belief or activity they don't like - including drugs, computer security/hacking, anarchy, libretarianism, free-thinking, etc. So if you frequent any sites of this ilk or bought any nooks from Amazon like this you will be tagged by the FBI as a suspected terrorist.
After a while, these people will be rounded up and questioned, intimidated and possible detained. And if the current set of laws that just passed gets any worse, then you might even get jailed without due process, and incarcerated for life based on these information retrieval practices. Sound ominous so far? It should. This stuff is right in line with Nazi Germany too. Lets just hope they don't start lining us all up and shooting us because we are "terrorists, hackers, druggies", etc. Never forget that it was Orrin Hatch who called for the Death Penalty for anyone caught using drugs.
Would be small enough to be embedded in my clothing or unobtrusive enough to fit in a pocket. It wouldhave to have a HUD-dsiplay, or laser projected retinal display such as the one Microvision Technologies is building. It woudl also allow me to have both audio and video conversation with anyone in the world. It would have real-time GPS updates, so that I could pull up augmented data onto my retinal overlay. I could for example look at a building and know exactly what businesses are there, phone numbers,everything. I could be hiking in the wilderness and it would proeject aheda of me tops maps of the area so I could see exactly where I was and where I was going. Of course, I could listen to any of 10,000 of my favorite tunes while doing any of this.
If you do the math, based on our current understanding of the laws of physics, the fastest computer could attain speeds exceeding 10 to the 70th power! This is mind boggling, as this computer could simulate the entier history of earth, including all human life and civilization. That means (think 'The Matrix') that our entire reality right now could be one of these simulations!!
Excuse me? All of these people were breaking the law in order to exercise their inalienable rights. Since when it is not my inalienable right to experience the divine through sacred herbs, which until this century all cultures on the planet have been exercising for 10's of thousands of years!
Doesn't anybody around here think for themselves?!!!
Thanks for the compliments. I agree with you that the economy is an emergent property. Unfortuantely the entierity of these issue is frought with paradox. On the one hand you have the idealistic free-market of anarho-capitalism, which on the surface sounds great. The idea that everyone and anyone can pursue their goals without impeditiment is an admirable one. On the other extreme you have the idealistic utopia of communism (Soviet Russia was not truly communist). The problem with each of these extremes is that it relies on the false notion that people can be ethically pure to the highest degree.
I've been left with the conclusion that as long as we as a species remain on a one planet and without an increase in the overall maturity and intelligence of humanity, the trend will be towards some kind of totaltarianism. If it's not socialist totaltariansim, it going to be corporate totaltariansim. And so what irks me is that the capitalist idealogues, who so blindly react react against socialist control are ironically advoacting corporate totalarianism. True communism, and true free-markets can not exist with the current maturity of the human species.
Long term solution? We have to migrate to space.;-)
This is equally a non-sequiteur of the highest order becuase it assumes that people, you and me just are - meaning we have no choice in the matter. That is the problem ultimately with anarcho-capitalism, it emphasizes individualism without consequence. I'm an anarchist too, and I even like free markets, but I'm willing to get past the Randian selfishness and help out my fellow human beings.
Since we all have a choice, and that is exactly what this original post was all about, I was advocating that choosing to be loyal to a company is stupid, because by goddess the damn company is rarely loyal to its employees (volunteer slaves).
The economy has never been about companies - its about people. A companies sole reason for exisiting is to act as an adhoc convenience for people to act in concert to produce products and services for other people. The sad part is, the incompetent people at the top have lied to us over the years by promoting the good of the company over that of the people employed by it. Not because they have any company loyalty themselves (thats why CEO's are always bailing), but because keeping the company afloat keeps them employed long enough to gather millions in salaries and stock options. Once they are vested, they bail too.
Which brings me to why I think the current trend in capitalism towards the survival of the corporarations over all other goals is a very bad trend for everyone. The economy exists to bring the state of humanity to higher and higher degrees of prosperity and wealth for everyone. Or at least that should be its goal. Instead, what you have happeing, are larger and larger merged corporations becomeing wealthier and more prosperous, further dividing the haves from the have nots.
This is the most righious reply! Rock on dude! I wrote a letter to congress on Intellectual property a few months back, pointing out the same (obvious?) points. Technology changes things. Let the market decide. I'm getting really sick at these large bloated companies using the strong-arm of the law in order to protect their obsolete business models. Whatever happened to free-enterprise?!!
"Anything is possible through Imagination and Will".
Pepsi has passed laws by donating millions of dollars and down right bribing (even legally) our so-called elected reps to pass those laws which favor Pepsi's monetary interests. This is not unique to PepsiCo, but all large financially powerful corporations - therby subverting the intent of the democratic process. In the big picture, the power no longer resides within the individual and his/her passions, but large corporations and their greed.
Obi-Wan finally gets annoyed with him and kills him off. This will Obi-Wan's flirtaton with the dark side. But when he consoles with Yoda, he will tell him, "In a galaxy far far away, there is place called Texas - and in Texas they would say, 'Jar Jar be needin killin'."
I'm sure I share many peoples sentiment that Empire Strikes Back is still the best Star Wars Film - not because of its special effects (which were onderous) but becasue of how the whole film flowed. It has a pace that was hard to describe, but very contemplative, yet plenty of action and seat-of-your-pants action. Not only that, it actually had a good plot with some memorable quotes.
Looking back now after more than a year, Episode I reall sucks. Pace was haphazard, quoues were awful, way too cheesy. Effects are great, but not a good file they make.
2) Instantaneous Language Translation and realistic vocie synthesis. Who doesn't want a computer that talks back to them with fully customizable inflections and tone? Sexy Female/Male Computer Voice Anyone?
These two apps alone will make for killer games.
Actually most of the above apps become posible at around 20Ghz.
Assuming that it has adequate performance regardless of processor speed, at just $50 they could very well saturate the market place. At least that many more people will be learning Linux. Can anyone say the youth market - ages 8 -18? $50 computer would make great stocking stuffers.
I think the reson for the meager amount of reaction on this whole carnivore review becasue most everyone I talked to was expecting this so called "un-biased" review team to come out mostly in favor of it.
The fact that the FBI is insisiting on using Carnivore as opposed to the open-source version recently created says volumes about the the FBI's real intentions. If they are not going to be using this for surreptitious purposes, then why not use an open-souce version that everyone cal review?
This is the highet of arroagance and stupidity! If the french don't want there people buying this stuff, then it is THERE responsibility to take care of it. Forcing a company in another country doing something within its borders that is completely legal to not do something is the extreme in absurdity. Since this is what France wants, an international court should force france to bar its users from accessing Yahoo.
If there is one thing I've learned from all this
new economy instant millionaires hoopola, is that
not only are they jaded, but they made their money
by simply having the luck of being at the right place at the right time. And having met some of these instant millionaires they woukd like you to believe its because of their genius, originality, ingenuity and foresight - bullshit! There are plenty of incredibly brilliant people who are still struggling with seeing their ideas accepted in the world.
Assuming I am going to worhip someone, its going to be for their personal integrity and commitment, not becuase they happened to get rich by being at the right place at the right time.
Those of you who think Nader is somehow Libertarian are deluding yourselves-- even Gore is more libertarian than Nader is.
How do you figure? I'm not saying Nader is very libertarian as he is an advocate of some strong centralized governmental regulation. But on issue for issue, Nader comes out more libertarian than Gore, which I admit in some cases is not saying much.
Nader at least is willing to end the drug war and pardon all non-vioelent drug offenders. Nader also supports the right to bear arms. Niether of these libertarian issues has Gore been willing to budge on.
I could care less if Wistler never crashed, the idea of handing over control of my software functions to a remote server house by M$ gives me the willies, as it should for everyone else. This M$ latest maneuver to consolidate control over its customer base. This is a substantial paradigm shift away from effectivel 'owning' your software to leasing it from M$. Just imagine a small company with all its vital financial data housed on some remote M$ server, and now imagine the incentive that small companie to pays M$ monthly service fees to use and access it.
Make no mistake about it - M$ will have all whistler users by the balls!
At 31 miles up, you can definitely see the curvature of the earth. According to my quick napkin calculations, she should hav a horizon of approximate 600 miles in every direction. Meaning that a curvature of approximately 15 degress can be seen.
I like the war on drugs, it allows my friends to make lots of money, both through increased law enforcement budgets and my CIA friends involved in transport.
2) Minority Religions
There is no such thing as a minority religion. You are either Christian or a infidel who is going to hell.
3) Why give a tax cut?
Because my rich friends need to get richer, what a stupid question!
4) Electoral Reform
I like the electoral college just the way it is, because it allows my rich friends to continue to usurp the democratic process in favor of partisan influence.
5) How do you feel about intellectual property?
Intellectual property is being horded by my rich friends, therefore I believe that anybody who steels that property should be to death, in the tradtion of my governance in the great state of Texas.
6) Encryption
Encryption is wonderful, as long has my friend have a monopoly on it (CIA, FBI, NSA).
7) Rising Political Protests
Since they are protesting the increaing power of corporations, and those corporations are my freinds, then those protestors must be stopped! Those damn anarchists!
8) Asteroid Defenses
I love that stuff, reminds me of one of my favorit video games - Asteroids! Shoot em!!
9) The Furture of the Country and Humanity
What do I care as long as my friends are still on the top!
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There is a program out there called Jamming Eschelon that works in conjuction with your email that randomly inserts activating words to flood their computers with crap. Anyone know where we can obtain this program?
After a while, these people will be rounded up and questioned, intimidated and possible detained. And if the current set of laws that just passed gets any worse, then you might even get jailed without due process, and incarcerated for life based on these information retrieval practices. Sound ominous so far? It should. This stuff is right in line with Nazi Germany too. Lets just hope they don't start lining us all up and shooting us because we are "terrorists, hackers, druggies", etc. Never forget that it was Orrin Hatch who called for the Death Penalty for anyone caught using drugs.
Would be small enough to be embedded in my clothing or unobtrusive enough to fit in a pocket. It wouldhave to have a HUD-dsiplay, or laser projected retinal display such as the one Microvision Technologies is building. It woudl also allow me to have both audio and video conversation with anyone in the world. It would have real-time GPS updates, so that I could pull up augmented data onto my retinal overlay. I could for example look at a building and know exactly what businesses are there, phone numbers ,everything. I could be hiking in the wilderness and it would proeject aheda of me tops maps of the area so I could see exactly where I was and where I was going. Of course, I could listen to any of 10,000 of my favorite tunes while doing any of this.
If you do the math, based on our current understanding of the laws of physics, the fastest computer could attain speeds exceeding 10 to the 70th power! This is mind boggling, as this computer could simulate the entier history of earth, including all human life and civilization. That means (think 'The Matrix') that our entire reality right now could be one of these simulations!!
Excuse me? All of these people were breaking the law in order to exercise their inalienable rights. Since when it is not my inalienable right to experience the divine through sacred herbs, which until this century all cultures on the planet have been exercising for 10's of thousands of years! Doesn't anybody around here think for themselves?!!!
You won't get any argument from me because I am in complete agreement with you.
Thanks for the compliments. I agree with you that the economy is an emergent property. Unfortuantely the entierity of these issue is frought with paradox. On the one hand you have the idealistic free-market of anarho-capitalism, which on the surface sounds great. The idea that everyone and anyone can pursue their goals without impeditiment is an admirable one. On the other extreme you have the idealistic utopia of communism (Soviet Russia was not truly communist). The problem with each of these extremes is that it relies on the false notion that people can be ethically pure to the highest degree.
I've been left with the conclusion that as long as we as a species remain on a one planet and without an increase in the overall maturity and intelligence of humanity, the trend will be towards some kind of totaltarianism. If it's not socialist totaltariansim, it going to be corporate totaltariansim. And so what irks me is that the capitalist idealogues, who so blindly react react against socialist control are ironically advoacting corporate totalarianism. True communism, and true free-markets can not exist with the current maturity of the human species.
Long term solution? We have to migrate to space. ;-)
>The economy isn't designed entity, it just is.'
This is equally a non-sequiteur of the highest order becuase it assumes that people, you and me just are - meaning we have no choice in the matter. That is the problem ultimately with anarcho-capitalism, it emphasizes individualism without consequence. I'm an anarchist too, and I even like free markets, but I'm willing to get past the Randian selfishness and help out my fellow human beings.
Since we all have a choice, and that is exactly what this original post was all about, I was advocating that choosing to be loyal to a company is stupid, because by goddess the damn company is rarely loyal to its employees (volunteer slaves).
The economy has never been about companies - its about people . A companies sole reason for exisiting is to act as an adhoc convenience for people to act in concert to produce products and services for other people. The sad part is, the incompetent people at the top have lied to us over the years by promoting the good of the company over that of the people employed by it. Not because they have any company loyalty themselves (thats why CEO's are always bailing), but because keeping the company afloat keeps them employed long enough to gather millions in salaries and stock options. Once they are vested, they bail too.
Which brings me to why I think the current trend in capitalism towards the survival of the corporarations over all other goals is a very bad trend for everyone. The economy exists to bring the state of humanity to higher and higher degrees of prosperity and wealth for everyone. Or at least that should be its goal. Instead, what you have happeing, are larger and larger merged corporations becomeing wealthier and more prosperous, further dividing the haves from the have nots.
This is the most righious reply! Rock on dude! I wrote a letter to congress on Intellectual property a few months back, pointing out the same (obvious?) points. Technology changes things. Let the market decide. I'm getting really sick at these large bloated companies using the strong-arm of the law in order to protect their obsolete business models. Whatever happened to free-enterprise?!! "Anything is possible through Imagination and Will".
This article was fascinating. Reminds of of one of thos far-out 'secret facility' scenes from an old six-million dollar man episode.
So, when are they going to start giving public tours?
Obi-Wan finally gets annoyed with him and kills him off. This will Obi-Wan's flirtaton with the dark side. But when he consoles with Yoda, he will tell him, "In a galaxy far far away, there is place called Texas - and in Texas they would say, 'Jar Jar be needin killin'."
Holy cow, my spelling sucks! Slashdot needs a built-in spell checker!
I'm sure I share many peoples sentiment that Empire Strikes Back is still the best Star Wars Film - not because of its special effects (which were onderous) but becasue of how the whole film flowed. It has a pace that was hard to describe, but very contemplative, yet plenty of action and seat-of-your-pants action. Not only that, it actually had a good plot with some memorable quotes.
Looking back now after more than a year, Episode I reall sucks. Pace was haphazard, quoues were awful, way too cheesy. Effects are great, but not a good file they make.
1) Extremely Realistic Real-Time Rendered fully Immersive VR. Who doesn't want that?
2) Instantaneous Language Translation and realistic vocie synthesis. Who doesn't want a computer that talks back to them with fully customizable inflections and tone? Sexy Female/Male Computer Voice Anyone?
These two apps alone will make for killer games.
Actually most of the above apps become posible at around 20Ghz.
Assuming that it has adequate performance regardless of processor speed, at just $50 they could very well saturate the market place. At least that many more people will be learning Linux. Can anyone say the youth market - ages 8 -18? $50 computer would make great stocking stuffers.
I think the reson for the meager amount of reaction on this whole carnivore review becasue most everyone I talked to was expecting this so called "un-biased" review team to come out mostly in favor of it.
The fact that the FBI is insisiting on using Carnivore as opposed to the open-source version recently created says volumes about the the FBI's real intentions. If they are not going to be using this for surreptitious purposes, then why not use an open-souce version that everyone cal review?
Most absurd cyber-ruling of the millenum!
This material in large quantities makes possible Arthur C Clarke's BeanStalk to Geosynchyronous orbit. Want to get to space? Ride an elevator!
Assuming I am going to worhip someone, its going to be for their personal integrity and commitment, not becuase they happened to get rich by being at the right place at the right time.
Instant Millionares - Social Skills = Dr. Evil
How do you figure? I'm not saying Nader is very libertarian as he is an advocate of some strong centralized governmental regulation. But on issue for issue, Nader comes out more libertarian than Gore, which I admit in some cases is not saying much.
Nader at least is willing to end the drug war and pardon all non-vioelent drug offenders. Nader also supports the right to bear arms. Niether of these libertarian issues has Gore been willing to budge on.
Be afraid, be very afraid!
One more very good reason to switch to Linux.
At 31 miles up, you can definitely see the curvature of the earth. According to my quick napkin calculations, she should hav a horizon of approximate 600 miles in every direction. Meaning that a curvature of approximately 15 degress can be seen.
I like the war on drugs, it allows my friends to make lots of money, both through increased law enforcement budgets and my CIA friends involved in transport.
2) Minority Religions
There is no such thing as a minority religion. You are either Christian or a infidel who is going to hell.
3) Why give a tax cut?
Because my rich friends need to get richer, what a stupid question!
4) Electoral Reform
I like the electoral college just the way it is, because it allows my rich friends to continue to usurp the democratic process in favor of partisan influence.
5) How do you feel about intellectual property?
Intellectual property is being horded by my rich friends, therefore I believe that anybody who steels that property should be to death, in the tradtion of my governance in the great state of Texas.
6) Encryption
Encryption is wonderful, as long has my friend have a monopoly on it (CIA, FBI, NSA).
7) Rising Political Protests
Since they are protesting the increaing power of corporations, and those corporations are my freinds, then those protestors must be stopped! Those damn anarchists!
8) Asteroid Defenses
I love that stuff, reminds me of one of my favorit video games - Asteroids! Shoot em!!
9) The Furture of the Country and Humanity
What do I care as long as my friends are still on the top!
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