Read Rose's complete posting for more information about the release of the book, which he describes as set "in a genre bending alt-future-retro world where mechani-punk technology meets space opera in a blend of the best of Snow Crash and the Baroque Cycle."
Translation of this story: "Hey, let's laugh at that mentally ill person!"
If I was stuck in jail for 10 years, I'd be doing the same thing -- sucking as MUCH money out of the system as possible, just for something to do. Plus they might let him out to shut him up.
What I want to know is how many Viacom owned clips were uploaded by Viacom employees. I bet there were more uploaded by Viacom employees than Google employees.
Sssh, don't let the judge hear you, they might start using common sense, and we all know Common sense just screws up a good lawyerin'.
No, the Government is not above the law. Please do not stop in the Bush droppings.
If you are ordered to do something illegal in the military, you are not held responsible. The OIC is held responsible because there is recourse for not following orders. The same goes for the government. If the government says, "Do this or else." You basically do it. Its considered extenuating circumstances.
Get your liberal Bush hating head out of your ass. We get it, you don't like the guy. Not very many people do like him. Now STFU and go read a book.
The Government broke the law by making the telecoms break the law. The government should be held responsible. Leave the telecoms alone - we don't need to give them any more reason for them to raise prices on us.
The problem is, giving the telecomms immunity without a deal that they will sing like canaries when asked is a bold faced attempt by Bush and company to bury whatever evidence the telecomms might have on him.
There are many who would argue that basically driving someone to kill themselves is illegal. I think you just made your own point. Besides, the terms of service state that you have to register under your real name (which is not a requirement of all sites). She broke the rules, therefore she was not compliant with the terms of use, therefore she wasn't an unauthorized user.
Well, her harassing the young woman is hideous and disgusting, but, I do not see how it was illegal. There is no law against being a jerk to people, is there?
I do thank you for making me aware that this is the Lori Drew that caused the latest MySpace Suicide, however, that was something I missed.
However, it does cement the point in my mind that they were basically trying to think up a way -- ANY WAY -- to get this woman arrested for something.
Like I said, if it was a request then I could understand not granting immunity. If it was demanded by the government, then it would be justifiable to grant them immunity. Of course the government is above the law, but companies should not be punished for government crimes.
No, the Government is not above the law. Please do not stop in the Bush droppings.
... could be used to torture people and leave absolutely no physical evidence behind, ever?
I wonder, would it be any worse torture or any less detectable than, say, blasting regular noise into a prisoner's cell at high volume?
From the article, it sounds like it -- whereas your body has devices in place to stop extremely loud noises (up to and including self-destructing your eardrums if needed), it has no safeguards in play for a voice like this being blasted from inside your head.
Indeed, from above:
MEDUSA involves a microwave auditory effect "loud" enough to cause discomfort or even incapacitation. Sadovnik says that normal audio safety limits do not apply since the sound does not enter through the eardrums.
"The repel effect is a combination of loudness and the irritation factor," he says. "You can't block it out."
So in other words, this is a sound gun that you can't block out, is 4+ TIMES louder than a rocket engine, and causes "disorientation" and "incapacitation".
Sure, the idea is that they'll play this at a crowd (no more WTO Protests in OUR Amerika) and the crowd will have to disperse.
But what if they just do this to some poor non-Person like the illegal detainees at Guantanamo? Lock someone in a room, turn on this device (or that pain gun that supposedly feels like your skin is melting off) and come back in 2-3 days.
By then, they'll be willing to do ANYTHING to get it to stop. And best of all, no nasty evidence to even have to cover up. Bonus!
I saw this last week in New Scientist. You're jumping to some very flase conclusions. It has nothing to do with subliminal messages. From the linked article:
The device - dubbed MEDUSA (Mob Excess Deterrent Using Silent Audio) - exploits the microwave audio effect, in which short microwave pulses rapidly heat tissue, causing a shockwave inside the skull that can be detected by the ears. A series of pulses can be transmitted to produce recognisable sounds. <snip> MEDUSA involves a microwave auditory effect "loud" enough to cause discomfort or even incapacitation. Sadovnik says that normal audio safety limits do not apply since the sound does not enter through the eardrums.
"The repel effect is a combination of loudness and the irritation factor," he says. "You can't block it out."
Am I the only one who finds it very, very scary that the "It's not torture if WE do it" Bush Administration(*) is working on technology that could be used to torture people and leave absolutely no physical evidence behind, ever?
This and the pain gun have me very, very scared for the future of our liberties.
*: To say nothing about the "It's not illegal if WE say it's not" and "You don't have the right to a free trial if WE don't say you do" and "We don't have to give up evidence unless WE want to" crap the retard king has pulled since his daddy's friends put him in power.
Is this a joke? Would you have untrained "doctors" able to prescribe narcotics? Over use antibiotics? Perform surgery?
I would hardly put Joe-College Student reinstalling Windows on par with a trained professional who went to school for 12 years to be able to do, you know, brain surgery or something?
Do we really, really want to live in a society that swapping a CD-ROM drive requires several years of professional training?
Apple and Geek Squad executives, put your freakin' hands down.
Besides that, collecting evidence about crime is very, very definitely not my problem. Child Porn on some pervert's machine? Call the cops, get them to get an engineer out and -- more importantly -- a warrant for the drive. Despite 8 years of lawless Neo-Con rule, you still need a warrant for this kinda stuff. In theory.
Ero-Manga is the proper term for what most clueless US fanboys call "Hentai Manga."
Specifically, he was pointing out that some Ero-Mangaka ("Hentai Artists") draw breasts as if they were morbidly huge helium filled balloons floating on top of a woman's chest.
All this in an attempt to state that you do not know what good breasts look at, having (apparently?) based your opinion on Japanese ero-manga anatomy.
All this in a completely-missing-the-point of the "Heh, Boobs are Round, Scientists are Horny" joke he was replying to.
... Wow, geeky of me, eh? I do however, wish to go on the record that I fully support scientific efforts to find/create the perfect breasts.
They can't block the packets, they sold their users "unlimited" internet. If certain packets are just blocked that's not really unlimited, is it?
At my ISP, "Unlimited" was sold as "Use as much as you want" but if questioned, it *really* meant "go to any website". You have "Unlimited Access" to the web, we don't block websites.
Only came up occasionally with EQ gamers on Dialup, pissed that we disconnected connections every 6 hours. Too many jackasses with secondary lines leaving their connections up for 30-40 days in a row.
Who modded this down? He's got a damn good point, even for an AC. Let one behaviour be the default, but give people the option to switch back. Unless there's a good reason for it (spaghetti code, perpetuating bugs), give them a binary switch to play with.
Spaghetti code is the reason given, yes.
Personally, I think it's a textbook example as to why Open Source isn't taking off on the Desktop.
User: "Hey, you changed this functionality, it's not what I expect anymore, can I change it back?" Developer: "Well, no, cause I changed it, and I'm VASTLY more intelligent than you, so... maybe you should just get used to the new way?"
So in other words, it's like Closed Source but without the PR department keeping the Developers from talking to the users directly. *Rimshot*
Am I the only one who thinks this is quite a few years too late?
I mean, yeah, it might be OK, but... I donno. The hype for this built up and waned all on it's own years ago, before it even existed. Seems to me they should have started work ont his 1-2 years after Lord of Destruction came out.
Also, isn't the entire Diablo 1 and 2 staff "seeking success elsewhere" now?
So, Mozilla didn't upset their most loyal customer, the add-on developers did...
Actually, Mozilla did a fine job upsetting their loyal customers -- just look at the "AwesomeBar" which is anything but.
Protip for Developers: When I type in a place for URIs, I want the AutoComplete to auto complete URIs. Not try to do some hairbrained plaintext search of bookmarks/history/uris. When I type in "Youtube.com" I should be finding the most common Youtube videos I have opened, not bookmarks from 3 years ago talking about YouTube.
They get downright rabid on the Mozilla forums if you mention you don't like the "AwesomeBar". And yes, there's a plugin to undo the GRAPHICAL CHANGES of the AwesomeBar -- but it still searches the history/bookmarks files paintext.
Another BIG annoyance: 4chan has a browse button. Upon hitting browse, you can select a lolcat image, and hit OK. This populates a filename field right next to browse.
Now, say you hit back, and want to post a reply WITHOUT an image. Well, guess what, you can't -- there's no way to click on that field and empty it out by hand, clicking on it opens up the Browse field "for you" and there's no "Select No File" or other such option.
There's also an annoying bug about restoring previous sessions, in FF2 you could force quit the process and the next time you opened it, FF2 would ask you to reopen all your tabs. In FF3, it asks, but then reopens the tabs from the FIRST session you ever opened. It does not properly save the tabs you have open as it goes.
The problem right now is not the temperature or the sun, we have some forms of life that could handle Mars right now, as far as I know (Asparagus, for example, as well as plenty of microbes). The problem is the plant just isn't heavy enough to keep gas close to it.
It is very doubtful that you are going to get the kind of exponential explosion of intelligence improvement that the "Singularity" relies on by modifying human brains biologically. You might make a brain 10% smarter with a pill, but your not going to make it 10x smarter without radical redesign, and given realities of genetics and breeding time, that will take decades, if not centuries.
No, but the people who think up that radical redesign will probably be hopped up on mental steroids -- unless the Head-In-The-Sand party tries to outlaw them.
Again, it's not a WHAM, Robot Overlords thing. We'll first see better PDAs, brain interfaces replacing mice and keyboards, lifeblogging, etc. Then someone will get the great idea to allow you to rewind and review your lifeblog at any time using your PDA / Eyepiece "Monitor". That will lead to a rather rigged together augmented memory -- if you can go back to any date and time and review at any time, well, why not?
It'll be a whole lot of little innovations that we won't be expecting now but in 20 years won't think are remarkable at all.
Slashdot Mirror
Read Rose's complete posting for more information about the release of the book, which he describes as set "in a genre bending alt-future-retro world where mechani-punk technology meets space opera in a blend of the best of Snow Crash and the Baroque Cycle."
My god, I've gone cross-eyed.
Surely you mean, "Princess Mononoke".
No kidding. This trailer has been up on Apple's site for quite a while (at least a week). Where has everyone on Slashdot been?
Watching the Dark Knight, then rushing home and watching this trailer on repeat for a week or so. Duh.
Translation of this story: "Hey, let's laugh at that mentally ill person!"
If I was stuck in jail for 10 years, I'd be doing the same thing -- sucking as MUCH money out of the system as possible, just for something to do. Plus they might let him out to shut him up.
What I want to know is how many Viacom owned clips were uploaded by Viacom employees. I bet there were more uploaded by Viacom employees than Google employees.
Sssh, don't let the judge hear you, they might start using common sense, and we all know Common sense just screws up a good lawyerin'.
No, the Government is not above the law. Please do not stop in the Bush droppings.
If you are ordered to do something illegal in the military, you are not held responsible. The OIC is held responsible because there is recourse for not following orders. The same goes for the government. If the government says, "Do this or else." You basically do it. Its considered extenuating circumstances.
Get your liberal Bush hating head out of your ass. We get it, you don't like the guy. Not very many people do like him. Now STFU and go read a book.
The Government broke the law by making the telecoms break the law. The government should be held responsible. Leave the telecoms alone - we don't need to give them any more reason for them to raise prices on us.
The problem is, giving the telecomms immunity without a deal that they will sing like canaries when asked is a bold faced attempt by Bush and company to bury whatever evidence the telecomms might have on him.
Or do you still believe, despite evidence to the contrary, that this warrantless wiretapping only started AFTER 9/11?
There are many who would argue that basically driving someone to kill themselves is illegal. I think you just made your own point. Besides, the terms of service state that you have to register under your real name (which is not a requirement of all sites). She broke the rules, therefore she was not compliant with the terms of use, therefore she wasn't an unauthorized user.
Well, her harassing the young woman is hideous and disgusting, but, I do not see how it was illegal. There is no law against being a jerk to people, is there?
I do thank you for making me aware that this is the Lori Drew that caused the latest MySpace Suicide, however, that was something I missed.
However, it does cement the point in my mind that they were basically trying to think up a way -- ANY WAY -- to get this woman arrested for something.
No, in the case you mention Tom is an abreviation of Thomas and not a nickname.
Actually, by definition, an abbreviation is a nickname.
nickÂname
2. a familiar form of a proper name, as Jim for James and Peg for Margaret.
Like I said, if it was a request then I could understand not granting immunity. If it was demanded by the government, then it would be justifiable to grant them immunity. Of course the government is above the law, but companies should not be punished for government crimes.
No, the Government is not above the law. Please do not stop in the Bush droppings.
I hope slashdotters will be sensitive in this tragic situation and not go for cheap laughs.
You're new to the internet, right?
... could be used to torture people and leave absolutely no physical evidence behind, ever?
I wonder, would it be any worse torture or any less detectable than, say, blasting regular noise into a prisoner's cell at high volume?
From the article, it sounds like it -- whereas your body has devices in place to stop extremely loud noises (up to and including self-destructing your eardrums if needed), it has no safeguards in play for a voice like this being blasted from inside your head.
Indeed, from above:
MEDUSA involves a microwave auditory effect "loud" enough to cause discomfort or even incapacitation. Sadovnik says that normal audio safety limits do not apply since the sound does not enter through the eardrums.
"The repel effect is a combination of loudness and the irritation factor," he says. "You can't block it out."
So in other words, this is a sound gun that you can't block out, is 4+ TIMES louder than a rocket engine, and causes "disorientation" and "incapacitation".
Sure, the idea is that they'll play this at a crowd (no more WTO Protests in OUR Amerika) and the crowd will have to disperse.
But what if they just do this to some poor non-Person like the illegal detainees at Guantanamo? Lock someone in a room, turn on this device (or that pain gun that supposedly feels like your skin is melting off) and come back in 2-3 days.
By then, they'll be willing to do ANYTHING to get it to stop. And best of all, no nasty evidence to even have to cover up. Bonus!
You appear to be using an alias, would like to come with us for a little while. -TLA(Three Letter Agency)
Funny, but it brings up a good point.
I was under the impression that using an Alias is not a crime, unless you are using it to perform an illegal act.
Is this no longer the case?
I saw this last week in New Scientist. You're jumping to some very flase conclusions. It has nothing to do with subliminal messages. From the linked article:
Am I the only one who finds it very, very scary that the "It's not torture if WE do it" Bush Administration(*) is working on technology that could be used to torture people and leave absolutely no physical evidence behind, ever?
This and the pain gun have me very, very scared for the future of our liberties.
*: To say nothing about the "It's not illegal if WE say it's not" and "You don't have the right to a free trial if WE don't say you do" and "We don't have to give up evidence unless WE want to" crap the retard king has pulled since his daddy's friends put him in power.
I agree, 900GB of upload is just huge for a residential account, you're more than just running a personal server at that point.
Actually, at that point you're probably running a Share or Perfect Dark connection.
You know you're talking about Serious P2P when the MINIMUM upload speed is 100KB/sec, and the minimum cache folder size is 40GB.
With connections like that in Japan, though, no freaking wonder.
Is this a joke? Would you have untrained "doctors" able to prescribe narcotics? Over use antibiotics? Perform surgery?
I would hardly put Joe-College Student reinstalling Windows on par with a trained professional who went to school for 12 years to be able to do, you know, brain surgery or something?
Do we really, really want to live in a society that swapping a CD-ROM drive requires several years of professional training?
Apple and Geek Squad executives, put your freakin' hands down.
Besides that, collecting evidence about crime is very, very definitely not my problem. Child Porn on some pervert's machine? Call the cops, get them to get an engineer out and -- more importantly -- a warrant for the drive. Despite 8 years of lawless Neo-Con rule, you still need a warrant for this kinda stuff. In theory.
Fortunately this will be shot down in court.
Only if you are hoity-toity enough to use the word "erotic" instead of "porn".
Or "Otaku" instead of "Anime Fan".
Or "Anime Fan" instead of "Fan of Japanese Cartoons".
Ero-manga?
Ero-Manga is the proper term for what most clueless US fanboys call "Hentai Manga."
Specifically, he was pointing out that some Ero-Mangaka ("Hentai Artists") draw breasts as if they were morbidly huge helium filled balloons floating on top of a woman's chest.
All this in an attempt to state that you do not know what good breasts look at, having (apparently?) based your opinion on Japanese ero-manga anatomy.
All this in a completely-missing-the-point of the "Heh, Boobs are Round, Scientists are Horny" joke he was replying to.
... Wow, geeky of me, eh? I do however, wish to go on the record that I fully support scientific efforts to find/create the perfect breasts.
They can't block the packets, they sold their users "unlimited" internet. If certain packets are just blocked that's not really unlimited, is it?
At my ISP, "Unlimited" was sold as "Use as much as you want" but if questioned, it *really* meant "go to any website". You have "Unlimited Access" to the web, we don't block websites.
Only came up occasionally with EQ gamers on Dialup, pissed that we disconnected connections every 6 hours. Too many jackasses with secondary lines leaving their connections up for 30-40 days in a row.
Who modded this down? He's got a damn good point, even for an AC. Let one behaviour be the default, but give people the option to switch back. Unless there's a good reason for it (spaghetti code, perpetuating bugs), give them a binary switch to play with.
Spaghetti code is the reason given, yes.
Personally, I think it's a textbook example as to why Open Source isn't taking off on the Desktop.
User: "Hey, you changed this functionality, it's not what I expect anymore, can I change it back?"
Developer: "Well, no, cause I changed it, and I'm VASTLY more intelligent than you, so... maybe you should just get used to the new way?"
So in other words, it's like Closed Source but without the PR department keeping the Developers from talking to the users directly. *Rimshot*
It's a trap!
Am I the only one who thinks this is quite a few years too late?
I mean, yeah, it might be OK, but... I donno. The hype for this built up and waned all on it's own years ago, before it even existed. Seems to me they should have started work ont his 1-2 years after Lord of Destruction came out.
Also, isn't the entire Diablo 1 and 2 staff "seeking success elsewhere" now?
So, Mozilla didn't upset their most loyal customer, the add-on developers did...
Actually, Mozilla did a fine job upsetting their loyal customers -- just look at the "AwesomeBar" which is anything but.
Protip for Developers: When I type in a place for URIs, I want the AutoComplete to auto complete URIs. Not try to do some hairbrained plaintext search of bookmarks/history/uris. When I type in "Youtube.com" I should be finding the most common Youtube videos I have opened, not bookmarks from 3 years ago talking about YouTube.
They get downright rabid on the Mozilla forums if you mention you don't like the "AwesomeBar". And yes, there's a plugin to undo the GRAPHICAL CHANGES of the AwesomeBar -- but it still searches the history/bookmarks files paintext.
Another BIG annoyance: 4chan has a browse button. Upon hitting browse, you can select a lolcat image, and hit OK. This populates a filename field right next to browse.
Now, say you hit back, and want to post a reply WITHOUT an image. Well, guess what, you can't -- there's no way to click on that field and empty it out by hand, clicking on it opens up the Browse field "for you" and there's no "Select No File" or other such option.
There's also an annoying bug about restoring previous sessions, in FF2 you could force quit the process and the next time you opened it, FF2 would ask you to reopen all your tabs. In FF3, it asks, but then reopens the tabs from the FIRST session you ever opened. It does not properly save the tabs you have open as it goes.
You're saying that reading something somebody else wrote counts as augmenting intelligence.
So... the entirety of history counts as a period with augmented intelligence?
Well, no, but if you had a copy of Wikipedia at literally a blink away at all times, it would probably change some things.
(*) I know that's bollocks..
Perhaps enough Gravity to hold down said newfound oxygen?http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?p=1759493
http://www.philforhumanity.com/Terraforming_Mars.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terraforming_of_Mars
The problem right now is not the temperature or the sun, we have some forms of life that could handle Mars right now, as far as I know (Asparagus, for example, as well as plenty of microbes). The problem is the plant just isn't heavy enough to keep gas close to it.
It is very doubtful that you are going to get the kind of exponential explosion of intelligence improvement that the "Singularity" relies on by modifying human brains biologically. You might make a brain 10% smarter with a pill, but your not going to make it 10x smarter without radical redesign, and given realities of genetics and breeding time, that will take decades, if not centuries.
No, but the people who think up that radical redesign will probably be hopped up on mental steroids -- unless the Head-In-The-Sand party tries to outlaw them.
Again, it's not a WHAM, Robot Overlords thing. We'll first see better PDAs, brain interfaces replacing mice and keyboards, lifeblogging, etc. Then someone will get the great idea to allow you to rewind and review your lifeblog at any time using your PDA / Eyepiece "Monitor". That will lead to a rather rigged together augmented memory -- if you can go back to any date and time and review at any time, well, why not?
It'll be a whole lot of little innovations that we won't be expecting now but in 20 years won't think are remarkable at all.