Apple back in the 80s and maybe even the late 70s made the notion that users can write programmable code, not just product vendors. This is partly why Activision was allowed to create Atari 2600 games independently. Can you imagine a world where the makers of computer hardware were the only people allowed to write software for them?
I don't actually play SWG anymore. I do remember them giving Jedis to people who completed some quests. I remember hearing Jedis could only die once, and they were no longer a Jedi. But somewhere there is a guy who's jedi never died, and he's probably thinking this. Actually once you become a Master Jedi, I think they allowed you to die and not lose Jedi status.
N-gage thought they could make a mobile phone + gaming...
There's so many features packed into phones now, maybe gaming + phone wasn't ready for the world yet.
The game maker for a cell phone game needs to rely on touch screen, and tilt, or they have no controls.
Nintendo might still go strong on D pad+ buttons, and quality sequels.
I don't see the whole of the phone market going to go D-pad +buttons, and game makers aren't likely gonna make games for a single model of phone. So it makes you wonder...
I voted: Protest E-vote. Will anyone know? No one but who reads this post, but I do protest the things. At any moment, someone could elect anyone they wanted simply by controlling any of the many machines involved. All you need to do is be a programmer, or a manager, and you can elect people at risk of jailtime.
I've always felt for it to be secure, there should be a paper trail which says who you voted for, then you pull a handle, and it gets filtered in the bin. Some bean counters will have the responsibility for checking the paper against the outcome, and viola, you're no longer trusting entirely in Diebold. Live free or Diebold. Oh I heard they changed their name just so people can't make that joke anymore.
I've heard ProtectIP bans any site that links to copyrighted material.
Is it true that ProtectIP could shut down every single forum on the Internet if they wished? Afterall, someone only needs to post a link to copyrighted material
I'm confused on how you're confused. Also your solution is a very bad one.
Your solution is: You can lose if you want to.
I don't walk away from online tables if someone is talking like an idiot, I merely mute him.
It makes me not enjoy the game when someone is talking like an idiot in person. There is no way to mute him.
Hense, I don't like Brick and Mortar Casinos. Where is the confusion at?
Do you want to mine for Bitcoin, and get.0001 Bitcoin per hour?
Or do you want to mine Bitcoin passwords and possibly get tons of Bitcoin per hour?
Seems all you need is people's login name who has a lot of Bitcoin. Oh and you have to be a thief, which precludes anyone who has morals.
Actually it'd be cool if you could level up and when you came back each time, you could learn more information about Dungeons and Dragons. Afterall if someone tries to teach you all about D&D at once, you get overwhelmed. So it'd be a natural tutoring device. Finally if you beat the final boss: Gygax as a Lich, you get to unlock a door which leads into several chambers where you can play actual D&D with some people there. Hey its hard to find a game of PNP D&D nowadays, how cool if people just came on vacation to do some gaming? Ok, I'm being an unrealistic dreamer.
A guy in China if paid well might get 1.25$ per hour. Let us say someone else is willing to do it for 0.25 in some other country. You're looking at a savings of a dollar an hour. That money is worth it just for infrastructure and a skilled labor force(people should be willing to pay 1$/hr just to do business in a country with good infrastructure/workers). China took it from the USA because the wage differential could be like 20$/hr. 20$/hr buys some pretty great infrastructure and training of a labor force so it makes sense USA lost it to China. 1$/hr doesn't buy so much in relation. It just doesn't make sense China will lose it to a country that wants to undercut them. This is just how I look at it. Maybe I don't have all the data.
I'm a good poker player. Online I've increased my initial buyin by over 100000% until they shut em down with no luckboxing a MTT. Live poker has downfalls I don't like. You cannot mute a racist hatemonger at a poker table, and you can't walk away from the table if it is a tournament. Live does not let you play for low buyins if you're not psyched up for medium play. Live rarely has tournaments and sit and gos. Live has a bigger rake than online. There's a lot of reasons why I like online vs casinos. I'll still play live, yes, with friends for fun. But if I'm at a table of people who aren't my friends, it just isn't fun.
Memory is good to have, and it'd be fun to remember all sorts of things instead of having to look them up, but with Internet shock pictures, I want an option to delete stuff from memory too.
Also, is it possible to transplant this device from one rat to another, and give it fake memories? Maybe the way to see is let a rat solve a maze several times over, and then hook it up to another mouse and let it go. If that is the case, put WIFI on it, and let Rats have a communal memory bank too.
If one of you wants to organize with me to make a website like this, let me know. I don't know CGI, but I know Flash. I have another person who would like to do this. We tried this once back in 2007, but we chose Ruby on Rails as our webserver, and it was very difficult to learn.
Seriously, I'd love to organize with a few people and make a hyperdemocracy website. I don't know how to start an open source project and stuff. So no matter what you know, we could get together and figure out how we're to do this. There definitely is a market for a dominant political website that organizes information instead of being chaotic or hard to sort through. It is a lot of work to do factional voting and get something like Reddit.com online, but that is just one of many problems involved. How do you solve linking registered voters to online IDs?
So seriously, if you want to get involved, we can have an email think tank. Email: James_Sager_PA@yahoo.com Subject: HyperDemocracy Website
And we'll start an email think tank. Then probably start an open source project. Then we'll see if an open source project could lead into having a website like Reddit.com but with factional voting so the hivemind doesn't run the show. So yeah, email me, even if you just wanna get caught in the flurry of emails that might start up the website which could cause hyperdemocracy to happen in the USA. It'd sure make my buddy encouraged as I haven't done anything in years, but I keep telling him we'll do it again down the road
My theory is Democracy works well, but you need an educated voter, so make a site that educates voters instead of just makes them angry.
On the website do the following:
Allow people the ability to write petitions to the senators.
Allow people to upvote/downvote comments factionally. This means a republican won't be drowned out by a democratic hivemind for example.
Allow people to see their elected official's voting record vs his campaign promises.
Allow people to see the campaign promises and views of the candidates
Verify people online to be registered voters IRL(Biggie)
If you could do even just a subset of the above things, you could force hyperdemocracy upon Washington DC whether it wants it to happen or not. The people who will not listen to your website might get voted out if you have a large enough user base.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not a war monger myself. I just like to know what might be coming down the pipe so I'm prepared. I'm really worried that when AI comes out in the next few decades that the first application will be military. And not just the government based military, but anyone with a large pocketbook could wage war. It is my fear that people with too much money and not enough compassion will wage wars without the need for human cooperation at all.
To be fair, I'm sure plenty of people came up with this idea. This is why I'm against patents so much. What makes someone a special snowflake that they patent an idea that multitudes of other people probably already came up with? Yes, I never heard of Tor before. No I do not feel special for coming up with it. I just like knowing the ideas I come up with are good ones, and not just "Hamburger Earmuffs"
Freenet seems to be pretty on with what I was expecting I'd make so I guess I don't have to worry about it. Hey at least when I come up with ideas, they're good ideas because other people implement them. I remember before windows Instant messaging, that IM would be a good idea. I remember before MMORPGS that they'd dominate the video game market. I remember hearing about the start of ebay on Usenet and said,"If they made a website for that, it would turn into a monopoly monster"
To attract the least suspicion, I think you'd make this software look like a browser itself. Another funny side effect of this is that your ISP would have no clue which sites you visit because you'd be loading up sites for other people all the time too. Someone should just make this software in order to make it harder for governments to control their people and censor the web.
I'm good at P2P, and I already wrote a Gnutella client back in the day. I knew Gnutella was the future when Napster got shutdown even never hearing about the protocol before on my own. I thought I invented it.
Anyway, if any of you guys want to form an organization to write a P2P software that combats censorship, is a webbrower, is a filesharer, and proxies at a whim, I'd like to write this software with you. I can't write this on my own because I'm sort of sheltered in the knowledge of open source. I would think we'd start with an opensource webbrowser. Then we'd code a P2P filesharer to interface with it. Next we'd add proxy ability through using the P2P nodes. I can do all the P2P stuff easy myself. My problem is that I'm not good at web browsers. Is there a good C/C++ open source webbrowser we'd use. I was thinking of using the ASIO C/C++ socket library because I've written different P2P aps there. I'm kinda serious about writing this software, but only if we get a group together to do it. I mean how would we even organize?
P2P has no central server, so there is no way to shut it down, past coming to your house and imprisoning you for using it.
Instead of a central server, you'd hold a list of potential servers which is everyone you connected to last time you were online. Only one out of your list needs to be online, and they'll propogate you a new list of IP addresses and ports(don't use just one port or that can be blocked too, randomize it).
Once on, you could file trade, browse the web through proxies, or chat.
I'd do this, but I don't know the Chinese language. What other goodies would you want to load into this piece of software?
Slashdot Mirror
I've heard of Counting Crows before.
So what you're saying is,"Not only is the stinger a good idea, maybe it needs to be improved and hurt more."
If monkeys can sue to prevent fair use, this means someday human photographers might think they can too.
'zactly. My speed reading leads to major skimmage. I saw that after I hit post.
Apple back in the 80s and maybe even the late 70s made the notion that users can write programmable code, not just product vendors. This is partly why Activision was allowed to create Atari 2600 games independently. Can you imagine a world where the makers of computer hardware were the only people allowed to write software for them?
I don't actually play SWG anymore. I do remember them giving Jedis to people who completed some quests. I remember hearing Jedis could only die once, and they were no longer a Jedi. But somewhere there is a guy who's jedi never died, and he's probably thinking this. Actually once you become a Master Jedi, I think they allowed you to die and not lose Jedi status.
N-gage thought they could make a mobile phone + gaming...
There's so many features packed into phones now, maybe gaming + phone wasn't ready for the world yet.
The game maker for a cell phone game needs to rely on touch screen, and tilt, or they have no controls.
Nintendo might still go strong on D pad+ buttons, and quality sequels.
I don't see the whole of the phone market going to go D-pad +buttons, and game makers aren't likely gonna make games for a single model of phone. So it makes you wonder...
Cats have always been important to science. When you make a cation molecule with radioactive atoms, you effectively have 4.5 half lives.
I voted: Protest E-vote. Will anyone know? No one but who reads this post, but I do protest the things. At any moment, someone could elect anyone they wanted simply by controlling any of the many machines involved. All you need to do is be a programmer, or a manager, and you can elect people at risk of jailtime.
I've always felt for it to be secure, there should be a paper trail which says who you voted for, then you pull a handle, and it gets filtered in the bin. Some bean counters will have the responsibility for checking the paper against the outcome, and viola, you're no longer trusting entirely in Diebold. Live free or Diebold. Oh I heard they changed their name just so people can't make that joke anymore.
Thank you. I wrote my Senator again. I think everyone should write their senators who live in the US and explain it.
I've heard ProtectIP bans any site that links to copyrighted material.
Is it true that ProtectIP could shut down every single forum on the Internet if they wished?
Afterall, someone only needs to post a link to copyrighted material
My one friend claims he can get to 85 in a day.
Besides, this really isn't news, its more like an advertisement.
If Slashdot.org got paid for this, great... If not, get this off my Internet.
I'm confused on how you're confused. Also your solution is a very bad one.
Your solution is: You can lose if you want to.
I don't walk away from online tables if someone is talking like an idiot, I merely mute him.
It makes me not enjoy the game when someone is talking like an idiot in person. There is no way to mute him.
Hense, I don't like Brick and Mortar Casinos. Where is the confusion at?
Do you want to mine for Bitcoin, and get .0001 Bitcoin per hour?
Or do you want to mine Bitcoin passwords and possibly get tons of Bitcoin per hour?
Seems all you need is people's login name who has a lot of Bitcoin. Oh and you have to be a thief, which precludes anyone who has morals.
Actually it'd be cool if you could level up and when you came back each time, you could learn more information about Dungeons and Dragons. Afterall if someone tries to teach you all about D&D at once, you get overwhelmed. So it'd be a natural tutoring device. Finally if you beat the final boss: Gygax as a Lich, you get to unlock a door which leads into several chambers where you can play actual D&D with some people there. Hey its hard to find a game of PNP D&D nowadays, how cool if people just came on vacation to do some gaming? Ok, I'm being an unrealistic dreamer.
A guy in China if paid well might get 1.25$ per hour. Let us say someone else is willing to do it for 0.25 in some other country. You're looking at a savings of a dollar an hour. That money is worth it just for infrastructure and a skilled labor force(people should be willing to pay 1$/hr just to do business in a country with good infrastructure/workers). China took it from the USA because the wage differential could be like 20$/hr. 20$/hr buys some pretty great infrastructure and training of a labor force so it makes sense USA lost it to China. 1$/hr doesn't buy so much in relation. It just doesn't make sense China will lose it to a country that wants to undercut them. This is just how I look at it. Maybe I don't have all the data.
I'm a good poker player. Online I've increased my initial buyin by over 100000% until they shut em down with no luckboxing a MTT. Live poker has downfalls I don't like. You cannot mute a racist hatemonger at a poker table, and you can't walk away from the table if it is a tournament. Live does not let you play for low buyins if you're not psyched up for medium play. Live rarely has tournaments and sit and gos. Live has a bigger rake than online. There's a lot of reasons why I like online vs casinos. I'll still play live, yes, with friends for fun. But if I'm at a table of people who aren't my friends, it just isn't fun.
Memory is good to have, and it'd be fun to remember all sorts of things instead of having to look them up, but with Internet shock pictures, I want an option to delete stuff from memory too.
Also, is it possible to transplant this device from one rat to another, and give it fake memories? Maybe the way to see is let a rat solve a maze several times over, and then hook it up to another mouse and let it go. If that is the case, put WIFI on it, and let Rats have a communal memory bank too.
If one of you wants to organize with me to make a website like this, let me know. I don't know CGI, but I know Flash. I have another person who would like to do this. We tried this once back in 2007, but we chose Ruby on Rails as our webserver, and it was very difficult to learn.
Seriously, I'd love to organize with a few people and make a hyperdemocracy website. I don't know how to start an open source project and stuff. So no matter what you know, we could get together and figure out how we're to do this. There definitely is a market for a dominant political website that organizes information instead of being chaotic or hard to sort through. It is a lot of work to do factional voting and get something like Reddit.com online, but that is just one of many problems involved. How do you solve linking registered voters to online IDs?
So seriously, if you want to get involved, we can have an email think tank. Email: James_Sager_PA@yahoo.com Subject: HyperDemocracy Website
And we'll start an email think tank. Then probably start an open source project. Then we'll see if an open source project could lead into having a website like Reddit.com but with factional voting so the hivemind doesn't run the show. So yeah, email me, even if you just wanna get caught in the flurry of emails that might start up the website which could cause hyperdemocracy to happen in the USA. It'd sure make my buddy encouraged as I haven't done anything in years, but I keep telling him we'll do it again down the road
My theory is Democracy works well, but you need an educated voter, so make a site that educates voters instead of just makes them angry.
On the website do the following:
Allow people the ability to write petitions to the senators.
Allow people to upvote/downvote comments factionally. This means a republican won't be drowned out by a democratic hivemind for example.
Allow people to see their elected official's voting record vs his campaign promises.
Allow people to see the campaign promises and views of the candidates
Verify people online to be registered voters IRL(Biggie)
If you could do even just a subset of the above things, you could force hyperdemocracy upon Washington DC whether it wants it to happen or not. The people who will not listen to your website might get voted out if you have a large enough user base.
1) Use Kinect to ID human target
2) Shoot at it.
It'd make a devastating minefield.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not a war monger myself. I just like to know what might be coming down the pipe so I'm prepared. I'm really worried that when AI comes out in the next few decades that the first application will be military. And not just the government based military, but anyone with a large pocketbook could wage war. It is my fear that people with too much money and not enough compassion will wage wars without the need for human cooperation at all.
To be fair, I'm sure plenty of people came up with this idea. This is why I'm against patents so much. What makes someone a special snowflake that they patent an idea that multitudes of other people probably already came up with? Yes, I never heard of Tor before. No I do not feel special for coming up with it. I just like knowing the ideas I come up with are good ones, and not just "Hamburger Earmuffs"
Freenet seems to be pretty on with what I was expecting I'd make so I guess I don't have to worry about it. Hey at least when I come up with ideas, they're good ideas because other people implement them. I remember before windows Instant messaging, that IM would be a good idea. I remember before MMORPGS that they'd dominate the video game market. I remember hearing about the start of ebay on Usenet and said,"If they made a website for that, it would turn into a monopoly monster"
To attract the least suspicion, I think you'd make this software look like a browser itself. Another funny side effect of this is that your ISP would have no clue which sites you visit because you'd be loading up sites for other people all the time too. Someone should just make this software in order to make it harder for governments to control their people and censor the web. I'm good at P2P, and I already wrote a Gnutella client back in the day. I knew Gnutella was the future when Napster got shutdown even never hearing about the protocol before on my own. I thought I invented it. Anyway, if any of you guys want to form an organization to write a P2P software that combats censorship, is a webbrower, is a filesharer, and proxies at a whim, I'd like to write this software with you. I can't write this on my own because I'm sort of sheltered in the knowledge of open source. I would think we'd start with an opensource webbrowser. Then we'd code a P2P filesharer to interface with it. Next we'd add proxy ability through using the P2P nodes. I can do all the P2P stuff easy myself. My problem is that I'm not good at web browsers. Is there a good C/C++ open source webbrowser we'd use. I was thinking of using the ASIO C/C++ socket library because I've written different P2P aps there. I'm kinda serious about writing this software, but only if we get a group together to do it. I mean how would we even organize?
P2P has no central server, so there is no way to shut it down, past coming to your house and imprisoning you for using it.
Instead of a central server, you'd hold a list of potential servers which is everyone you connected to last time you were online. Only one out of your list needs to be online, and they'll propogate you a new list of IP addresses and ports(don't use just one port or that can be blocked too, randomize it).
Once on, you could file trade, browse the web through proxies, or chat.
I'd do this, but I don't know the Chinese language. What other goodies would you want to load into this piece of software?