I don't know whether it would be beneficial to have a freedom-of-speech promoting anarchistic sprawling network using addressing based upon location...
all of the old protocols which have been phased out by the sprawling Interweb... Anyone remember Gopher and its Veronica search, WAIS databases, Archie searches?
But how is a fax forced upon an individual? You could just dispose of it without reading it. Such an argument could be applied to unwanted phone calls, people yelling on the street, etc. You answer the phone, you still are not required to listen or internalize what is being said. One could argue that one yelling on public property is similar; you can't deny the sender's raw data from reaching you, but you do not have to accept it as something which makes a message or type of communication.
Not advocating spam, just playing devil's advocate.
I would like to know the outcome, and if you decide to purchase a laptop, where you found or have heard of better prices. I might want to take a trip in a few years. I'm sure prices and such will fluctuate much by then, but hopefully a sweet spot remains a sweet spot...
like it is the beginning of a graphical MOO. After a brief amount of time, people will dislike the rules, admins, players, code, or (insert any factor here), and split off to create a similar project. Whether or not they use the original code is irrelevant, as it will develop into its own code base, with its own array of players, which will grow to dislike the admins, players, code base, etc... It's a never ending cycle known well to the MUD/MOO/MUSH/etc world. I doubt ever seeing something as united as Stephenson's MetaVerse, unless it is introduced to the populace by M$...:-/
I posted this earlier by accident as AC, although this doesn't make much difference since my posts score 0. Heh.
Two channels which I occupy on the openprojects network, #maryland and #md2600 both have complained much since lilo started the beggar act... so far we have endured, but who knows how long mortal will can sustain against the evil SPAM.
The scary thing is, that such a conclusion might be so. If maglev and anti-grav are "just reaching" later stages of development, then something is truely amiss.
Actually, in this time of solid-state storage and single-board/matchbox/thumbtack/whatever-sized web servers and the like, i'm suprised that no one has yet (publically) made a small box with a single ethernet interface and a battery (solar-panel?) for the sole purpose of data collection and the like.
If you want to go that far, why not completely gut it, and place the guts within a custom case of some sort? Think of the possibilities, a PC case, spare room inside a television, a filing cabinet drawer... nearly endless possibilities.
Such stereotyping, by the press and otherwise, leads one to wonder what the popular view of 'hacking' will be in, say, 10 years. Perhaps, somehow, it will become common knowledge that hacking is multi-faceted and more of a way of thought, opposed to the popular view of breaking things and "fucking shit up".
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to say VoIP Cell Phones cloning.
I wonder how long...
Funny... they certainly didn't have a problem with sending checks to Osama in the past...
I don't know whether it would be beneficial to
have a freedom-of-speech promoting anarchistic
sprawling network using addressing based upon
location...
all of the old protocols which have been phased
out by the sprawling Interweb... Anyone remember
Gopher and its Veronica search, WAIS databases, Archie searches?
ah, those were the days.
authentication of digital rights...
all of this can be defeated by a simple cable with two RCA mini-jacks, or a similar cable to adapt from audio-out to audio-in.
Is it really worth the [money|hassle|argument]?
But how is a fax forced upon an individual? You could just dispose of it without reading it. Such an argument could be applied to unwanted phone calls, people yelling on the street, etc. You answer the phone, you still are not required to listen or internalize what is being said.
One could argue that one yelling on public property is similar; you can't deny the sender's raw data from reaching you, but you do not have to accept it as something which makes a message or type of communication.
Not advocating spam, just playing devil's advocate.
a beowulf cluster sending SMS spam!
Perhaps who "me" is... ;)
I would like to know the outcome, and if you decide to purchase a laptop, where you found or have heard of better prices.
I might want to take a trip in a few years. I'm sure prices and such will fluctuate much by then, but hopefully a sweet spot remains a sweet spot...
Why, to play with the source!
My box has a couple storage devices... cd-rw... a couple of hdd's...
And then there's network storage...
like it is the beginning of a graphical MOO. :-/
After a brief amount of time, people will dislike the rules, admins, players, code, or (insert any factor here), and split off to create a similar project.
Whether or not they use the original code is irrelevant, as it will develop into its own code base, with its own array of players, which will grow to dislike the admins, players, code base, etc...
It's a never ending cycle known well to the MUD/MOO/MUSH/etc world.
I doubt ever seeing something as united as Stephenson's MetaVerse, unless it is introduced to the populace by M$...
I posted this earlier by accident as AC, although this doesn't make much difference since my posts score 0. Heh.
Two channels which I occupy on the openprojects network, #maryland and #md2600 both have complained much since lilo started the beggar act... so far we have endured, but who knows how long mortal will can sustain against the evil SPAM.
perhaps one day they will be able to develop one that will allow politicians to talk to normal folks and be understood
I made one of these, it loops and plays a wav file explaining that it doesnt help because it made claims solely for the reason of getting elected...
Although There Are Lots Of People, There's Only One Slashdot(tm)
The scary thing is, that such a conclusion might be so.
If maglev and anti-grav are "just reaching" later stages of development, then something is truely amiss.
just found alt.binaries.e[-]books.*
Remember to change your default configuration. :D
I dunno, that sounds awfully different from the box of my dreams...
Actually, in this time of solid-state storage and single-board/matchbox/thumbtack/whatever-sized web servers and the like, i'm suprised that no one has yet (publically) made a small box with a single ethernet interface and a battery (solar-panel?) for the sole purpose of data collection and the like.
If you want to go that far, why not completely gut it, and place the guts within a custom case of some sort? Think of the possibilities, a PC case, spare room inside a television, a filing cabinet drawer... nearly endless possibilities.
while ironic does describe it, I think "the shit" would be a bit more accurate ;D
Such stereotyping, by the press and otherwise, leads one to wonder what the popular view of 'hacking' will be in, say, 10 years.
Perhaps, somehow, it will become common knowledge that hacking is multi-faceted and more of a way of thought, opposed to the popular view of breaking things and "fucking shit up".
Christ, why do people always assume that people intend to crash things?
There are much more entertaining things to do to a network...
Hah, it's funny because my mind automatically identified this article as spam for a second, until I realized it was Slashdot spam, not e-mail spam. ;)